Rebirth of the Tech Madman

For a long time, in the U.S. political structure in which the Republican Party and the Democratic Party took turns in charge, the distribution direction of Tang Huan’s political contributions has always been maintained at more than 40% to more than 50%. The ratio of betting between the two ends-whoever gives the most benefits will receive more.

Now Tang Huan directly points out the mystery, Jerry Brown can only nod his head to recognize the strength of the richest man, but he still advises conservatively: "In any case, the variables in this party dispute should not be underestimated."

California's high-speed rail is mainly impacted by the civil aviation industry and road transportation industry, as well as related manufacturers. The Republican Party has always been closely related to such traditional capitalists, so it has naturally become the spokesperson of the anti-wave.

This is also the main reason why Tang Huan chose Jerry Brown as the partner of the California high-speed rail. Not only was he "one department and two governors", he had a deep network in California, and he also showed great interest in the California high-speed rail project. , Or a senior member of the Democratic Party.

You know, although the current Governor of California, George Dockmejian, and President Reagan are Republicans, and the Republicans currently control the Senate of the U.S. Congress, the Senate and House of Representatives in California have been since the 1970s. , Was controlled by the Democratic Party. As for the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, it lasted longer, starting in the mid-1950s.

If the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the President of the United States belong to a different party, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives is the leader of the opposition party in the U.S. Congress, and because of his prominent status, he has become a political opponent with the President of the United States.

This is how the current speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thor O’Neill, of the Democratic Party background, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan have a relationship. His domestic popularity and limelight are completely comparable to Reagan.

Jerry Brown, the chairman of the California High-Speed ​​Rail Authority, can just use these resources of the Democratic Party to pass the construction bill more smoothly.

However, when the California high-speed rail project caught up with this year’s U.S. midterm elections and became a bargaining chip between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, the taste began to change and gradually reduced to "opposition for opposition." How the project benefits the country and the people is useless. The only way to determine the outcome is to play each other's cards until the opponent has no cards to play, and bow their heads to admit defeat.

"As far as I know, your successor, George Dockmejian, is a moderate Republican conservative and intends to be re-elected to the post of governor of California. But when I look around, there are democratic leaders. In the case of a party member, he had to be cautious in his position as governor."

Tang Huan pondered: "Affected by Reagan Economics, California's unemployment rate used to be as high as 11.2%, that is, the economy has recovered in the past two years and has entered a new round of growth, and the situation has not deteriorated. After the launch of the California high-speed rail project. Of course, some unemployment will be caused by the impact of the original economic system, but after the project is started and put into use, it will create more employment opportunities. He will not fail to understand this."

"After the completion of the California high-speed rail, George Dockmejian, the current governor, will naturally receive some credit." Jerry Brown nodded, "The really unpredictable offensive and defensive position is still the Congress and the federal government that determine federal funding. Government, it depends on the results of this year’s midterm elections. By the way, you and the White House have had a close relationship. What attitude did President Reagan show on this?"

"I won't object." Tang Huan replied vaguely.

Although Reagan belonged to the Republican Party, he was governor of California for two terms, and his family also fell there. In two more years, he would retreat from the presidency. He would naturally consider giving There is a political asset left in the pension area, but it’s not easy to declare it. Tang Huan is also not suitable for speaking too bluntly in front of Jerry Brown, who belongs to the Democratic Party.

Jerry Brown was a veteran of politics, and he immediately knew the elegance of the piano. With a light expression on his face, he said, "Then only the Senate controlled by the Republican Party will remain."

"Whether it can continue to be controlled is not certain." Tang Huan smiled playfully.

The Republican Party, a bunch of guys who don’t remember, are directing another Nixon Watergate incident. Such a scandal may be exposed at a sensitive moment of the party dispute.

Jerry Brown was overjoyed and asked tentatively: "Are you optimistic that the Democratic Party will win in the Senate?"

"That said, whoever approves of the California high-speed rail, I will support whoever!" Tang Huan waved his hand non-committal, and then said: "I have prepared a new promotional video for the California high-speed rail, waiting for your next speech. It can come in handy at that time."

"Then I have to take a look at it right away." Jerry Brown suddenly became interested, and Gein could think of it. Tang Huan drew some resources from his Hollywood company to create a unique To help the California high-speed rail project win more supporters.

"The slow launch of this promotional film is mainly because it contains some high-tech elements that need to be carefully considered." Tang Huan explained while instructing his assistant to show the film.

Although the commercials have to talk about the effect of publicity, they can't be as mysterious as a science fiction film. Therefore, the high-tech elements it contains are all research and development results that are expected to be put into commercial use within three years at the latest.

For example, consumer-grade vcd.

The sales of broadcast and television-grade VCDs are very satisfactory, but the market promotion of consumer-grade VCDs is progressing slowly.

Compared with the current booming home video recorders, the advantages of consumer-grade VCDs are not decisive, and entertainment content providers, including Hollywood, have insufficient motivation to adopt. What they are more interested in is the digital copyright protection mechanism of consumer VCDs, which is a key function that all similar products, including home video recorders, have not provided.

Tang Huan has no intention of trying to forcefully promote consumer-grade VCDs in the North American market to replace home video recorders. If he does that, he will also lose his job. After all, he also spent a lot of effort on the vhs video recorder. It will take time for the entire society to move closer to the digital age.

However, Tang Huan’s brilliance is that he can often find a place for new products without touching his existing interests. This is the case for the California high-speed rail for consumer VCDs.

One of the themes of the commercial is: traveling through the California high-speed rail, that is, time to drink a cup of coffee, watch the scenery outside the window, and then enjoy a wonderful movie.

With the help of consumer-grade VCD's unique functions such as flexible multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitles, menu navigation, etc., works of art can break through the boundaries including language, etc., making travel seem extraordinarily romantic.

Of course, there are many ways of entertainment, and there are ea game consoles to choose from.

It must be pointed out that, to a large extent, the goal of California's high-speed rail is to meet the needs of business travelers. This group can use thinkpad and ideapad laptops to work on the train.

In addition, the California High Speed ​​Rail will provide a wireless communication network to allow passengers to maintain personal contact with the outside world.

"In my opinion, the sci-fi flavor in it is already very strong." Jerry Brown smiled and pointed to the screen, and asked curiously, "What is that small device? A calculator? A mobile phone? It doesn't look like it. what."

"——Personal digital assistant is pda, you can also call it a handheld computer, pocket computer. Give you one for fun." Tang Huan waved his hand and asked the assistant to bring a sample.

The size of the square pda is about 150 mm x 80 mm x 30 mm, and the weight is about 230 grams. It is equipped with a plastic protective shell. The main body on the front, the upper part is an LCD display, and the lower part is a special keyboard.

In terms of hardware architecture, Fangyuan pda uses a 16-bit low-power microprocessor developed by Wang Xuehong’s team with a maximum operating frequency of 2mhz; the memory is 128kb eeprom, which contains an independent operating system, input method, micro-database, schedule, and name card book. , Notepads, scientific calculators, alarm clocks, dictionaries and other built-in software; use 4kb staticrandom-static random access memory, namely sram and battery, to save user data; it can also communicate with Fangyuan computer through the usb interface.

This little thing is certainly not comparable to the smartphone that was decades later in the original time and space, but the functional model is roughly the same, and in the current era, it is amazing enough.

"It's quite easy to use." As soon as Jerry Brown got the Fangyuan PDA, he immediately liked it. While fiddling with it, he said: "By the way, it's not as expensive as a mobile phone, right?"

"Of course not. The retail price should be US$299." Tang Huan shrugged. "In fact, what is really worrying is the positioning of this product. The current target users are mainly business people, as well as specific industries and industries. Commercial application scenarios."

"Such a humble tone is not like the style of a leader in Silicon Valley." Jerry Brown, who laughed at this cutting-edge product, joked.

"Seeking truth from facts is a virtue." Tang Huan smiled frankly, "Only by facing the actual situation, can the work be carried out to the ground."

Jerry Brown took out a document from his briefcase and asked casually: "Can I put its contents in a square pda?"

"Of course there is no problem. It's just that, for convenience, it's better to use Fangyuan computer for data transmission." Tang Huan nodded, "However, one of the limitations of Fangyuan pda is this. The LCD display needs to be improved continuously."

"I believe that Fangyuan's products will become more and more perfect." Jerry Brown complimented.

After watching the technologically-savoury promotional video and mixing up a pda with a radius, he brought the topic back to the California high-speed rail project, pointed to the document and said: "This is the transcript of my speech in the parliament and other public occasions. It has been revised many times, and you can see where there are still deficiencies that need to be improved and supplemented."

Tang Huan took the document and looked at it. The content on it was nothing more than expounding the value and significance of the California high-speed rail to demonstrate the necessity of its construction.

First, California's high-speed rail has an extraordinary strategic positioning.

The decline of U.S. rail passenger transportation is obvious to all. Of course, the U.S. economy has developed to a very high level, enjoying the filial piety of global resources, and then being able to use convenient civil aviation and highway methods, as well as sparsely populated areas and previous attempts to speed up railways. Accident interruptions and other practical reasons, but if American rail passenger transport is really allowed to disappear in the American transportation system, it will be good or bad, no one can tell.

Just like the two world energy crises in 1970, many Americans realized that it is quite necessary to stay vigilant to prevent rain on cloudy days.

In this case, high-speed rail has become a breakthrough for American railroad passenger transportation to get rid of the current predicament. California high-speed rail is an extremely important attempt, but based on more realistic interest considerations, it has been met by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Suppression of external civil aviation industry and road transportation.

In addition, after both Japan and Europe have high-speed railways, the United States, the world's number one power, has been inactive, and its face is still a bit embarrassing.

Secondly, the world is paying more and more attention to environmental protection, and the United States, a major resource use and even wasteful resource ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, can never be left alone. Compared with civil aviation and highways, high-speed railways are very effective in saving energy. ⑧±妙(.*)pen ⑧± Pavilion ⑧±, o

Jerry Brown eloquently enumerated all the benefits of this kind, and the outline was very comprehensive. Tang Huan really couldn't find out the omissions, so he could only make some suggestions on the point of distinguishing the priorities.

Finally, Tang Huan put down the document and slowly said: "In the final analysis, the progress of California high-speed rail has to be implemented in money. As long as the source of construction funds is satisfied with everyone, some clamors will be meaningless and the problem will be solved."

"Then we must increase the proportion of private financing as much as possible." Jerry Brown glanced at Tang Huan and asked, "Does the richest man plan to increase investment? This year's Forbes richest list of the first place, almost still It’s up to you to continue sitting."

Tang Huan laughed loudly, "Then I will give you a bottom line. The investment amount will be increased to 3 billion U.S. dollars, and the upper limit is 5 billion U.S. dollars. In this way, when you negotiate with the parties, you will be more comfortable. Right."

The richest man is keen on the California high-speed rail project. In addition to considering many benefits including personal merits and business interests, he is also to digest the huge profits made from speculation such as the appreciation of the yen. Just like the warrior in the game, the anger value overflows, you must vent your anger, it is best to find the opportunity to release the "kill" big move to maximize the output.

Although Tang Huan has many places to spend money in Asia, in line with the principle that eggs cannot be placed in one basket and more practical asset preservation, the United States still has to maintain a sufficient investment ratio.

"Five billion dollars!" Jerry Brown, who was joking, couldn't help but breathe a cold breath and smiled bitterly, "If this is the case, you can completely take over the dominance of the California high-speed rail."