Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Being able to cooperate with Jerry Brown to this extent can be regarded as a very close relationship, so it is natural to show sincerity.

Tang Huan waved his hand and explained solemnly: I, like you, am very optimistic about the California high-speed rail. But my financial resources are gradually developed, and it is impossible to promise an investment amount that reaches the level of a leading project at the beginning. Now I am talking to The amount you mentioned is a very responsible figure that can be realized. However, I still hope that you and the California High Speed ​​Rail Authority will lead the project.”

Do you think it would be too troublesome and too risky for private individuals to lead such a large-scale public service project? Having dealt with Tang Huan for so many years, Jerry Brown could more or less guess the mind of the richest man.

There are indeed considerations in this regard. Tang Huan nodded slightly.

In the United States, private individuals can of course use high-speed rail. This is determined by the difference between the two game rules of you can do it without breaking the law and you can only act within the legal scope.

However, just like the Western Express high-speed railway project was stranded decades later in the original time and space, there will always be some obstacles that make private investors retreat and be discouraged.

Tang Huan sincerely hoped that the California high-speed rail would be put in place as soon as possible, so he naturally chose the solution with the least resistance.

He smiled sarcastically, There must always be a limit to human greed. The current decline of American railway passenger transportation may not be unrelated to the fact that the railway tycoons were too aggressive. It has reached the point where it cannot continue without making changes. However, the federal government still holds the idea that it is a profiteering industry, and refuses to relax control. While continuing to levy heavy taxes, it ignores the investment in maintenance resources, and even heavily subsidizes Competitors of railways are civil aviation and highways. It can be seen how disgusting private railway companies have become! Therefore, I am very satisfied with the current operating structure of California High Speed ​​Rail. It has explained to all parties and is in a rare balanced state. There is a need to change.

Jerry Brown nodded suddenly, and then breathed a sigh of relief, Since Tang Huan doesn't stretch out his hand indiscriminately, then I won't be embarrassed, and the work will be much easier to carry out.

In fact, the reason why Tang Huan delegated power so much was because he had his own confidence. For example, the other eight members of the California High Speed ​​Rail Authority are almost all relationship households, and they can't play tricks at all.

Of course, I also have some additional suggestions. I hope you can win the terms during the negotiation. Tang Huan said suddenly.

Please tell me. Jerry Brown deliberately took a pen and paper and recorded it himself.

After the California high-speed rail is completed and put into operation in the future, it is difficult to be 100% sure how long it will take to make a profit. Therefore, we can ask for some financial resources that many people are not aware of or pay attention to as subsidies. Tang Huan said while Indicated that Jerry Brown didn't need to be so formal, and he was just chatting casually.

Seeing Tang Huan look so far, Jerry Brown couldn't help asking curiously, Can such a good thing happen?

Last year, the Vienna Convention aimed at protecting the atmospheric ozone layer was signed and entered into force; the next focus of environmental protection is likely to be the limitation of greenhouse gas emissions. The pressure of all parties to meet the standards must be very different, and some quota transactions will inevitably occur, and then To generate financial resources, California must have at least hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

Tang Huan smiled slightly, California's high-speed rail plays an important role in energy conservation and environmental protection. The neglected source of income I'm talking about is related to this field, and it's justifiable to fight for it.

If you really don't want it for nothing, then you have to carefully design the terms of the negotiation. Jerry Brown frowned and used his brains.

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Tang Huan asked Jerry Brown to cooperate with the California high-speed rail project in order not to be dragged down by this time-consuming and troublesome project. He had other things to be busy with. For example, another company's IPO.

From receiving the National Technology Award at the beginning of this year and formally establishing the Hundreds of Chinese elite groups to now,

As long as Tang Huan is in the United States, he almost stays on the east coast.

The reason for this is to a large extent that the past few years have been the golden age of the American economy created by Reagan economics. And Tang Huan wants to take advantage of the rare good market to launch some assets that need to be listed at an appropriate time-after PeopleSoft, which provides enterprise IT solutions, it is the turn of R\u0026D, manufacturing and sales of telecommunications equipment-Yong It's a circle of money.

The company started from private branch exchange - user-level exchange or pbx. This product is a new type of digital program-controlled exchange using the risc microprocessor holder-l developed by Tang Huan. It is mainly used to connect the internal telephone network of hotels and large and medium-sized enterprises And the public telephone network of the telecommunications company can greatly reduce the communication cost, and provide internal special services such as digital fax.

Not surprisingly, Tang Huan found the most suitable entry point in this field that has been divided up by major manufacturers, and quickly opened up the situation with one blow, especially in emerging Asian markets such as Baodao and Xiangjiang. trend.

On this basis, Yongtong's product line has successfully extended to high-end, and after Tang Huan acquired Pacific Bell, it became the main equipment supplier of Pacific Telecom, and made great contributions to the launch of new services such as caller ID.

In particular, the reason why Pacific Telecom can start from 300bps and continue to increase the Internet service speed of modem connection to 1200bps, 2400bps, 4800bps, and even 9600bps step by step, leaving other peers behind is the solution of Yongtong.

In addition, Yongtong's product line also includes adsl, which began to become popular this year, and cablemodem, a cable modem that uses cable TV networks to provide Internet services.

With the rapid development of Yongtong, some people have begun to combine it with Pacific Telecom, describing it as a monopoly alliance between AT\u0026T and Western Electronics before the split.

This is not a good sign, because of the changes in the rules of the game brought by digital technology to the entire communication industry, the sudden emergence of Yongtong has indeed come to the forefront in emerging fields, especially frontier positions such as adsl and cablemodem, which have monopolized a large number of companies. Patents, in turn, have set a threshold for many established companies, which has the meaning of provoking public outrage and hatred.

Anyway, according to the established plan, Yongtong will also take advantage of this wave of market conditions to become a public listed company. Tang Huan took the opportunity to distance itself from Pacific Telecom and become a neutral communication technology solution provider with greater independence and wide acceptance of customers from all over the world. business.

The ipos of Yongtong and PeopleSoft are separate and parallel, the latter is in charge of Goldman Sachs, and the former is handed over to Morgan Stanley. According to the plan, the time is tentatively set for September to October this year.

Everyone is a professional, and Goldman Sachs made PeopleSoft's IPO so successful, Morgan Stanley can't ruin its name, Tang Huan doesn't need to worry about trivial matters.

Seeing that the business at hand was almost done, and the time to go to the Soviet Union was approaching, he was about to leave, so he asked if the accompanying team members had arrived.

Going to the Soviet Union was not that simple. Tang Huan prepared some experts for himself, such as Condoleezza Rice who was still teaching at Stanford University. In addition, Masako Wada, who was born in a family of senior diplomats and is proficient in English, French, Russian and German, became the chief secretary of the trip.

Everyone has already gathered at the hotel in New York, and we are waiting for your order. After Masako Wada answered, he hesitated to speak.

Masako, who has always been cheerful, why is she suddenly twitching? Tang Huan joked.

There is one thing, I don't know if I should report it to you. Masako Wada blushed, still showing a bit of annoyance.

Say it boldly, Tang Huan encouraged.

It turned out that what Masako Wada wanted to report was still related to the California high-speed rail. It is not difficult to understand that a project of this scale, and it is still located in the United States, naturally affects the nerves of all parties.

Obviously, the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed rail system put into commercial operation, makes the Japanese very proud and confident.

But for such a long time, Mr. Richest has only researched in Europe, and seems to have forgotten that Japan is the first successful person to turn high-speed railway technology from theory into practice. Is there any misunderstanding in communication?

Waiting and waiting until Tang Huan publicly showed interest, the Japanese finally couldn't sit still, so Hiroshi Mitsuka, Minister of Transport of the Japanese Cabinet, decided to interview him in person.

However, some preparatory work still needs to be carefully considered, and Masako Wada has naturally become the first public relations target.

Tang Huan's industries are all over the world, so his scope of activities is also very large, he can be called a trapeze.

Under such circumstances, the richest man has been repeatedly rumored in the United States, Baodao, Xiangjiang, Europe and other places, but he fell to Japan, which made the Japanese media feel sour. Could it be that the outstanding women of the Yamato nation are not included in others? Fayan?

Fortunately, this situation has changed since last year. Masako Wada, a graduate of Harvard University who practiced at the Pebble Beach Golf Course, has entered the field of vision of the Japanese elite who come here for leisure. Because she is Tang Huan's secretary, this is a very close For the position of dealing with distance, for the Japanese, it is an extra channel of communication.

Seeing the majestic Japanese Minister of Transport Mitsuka Hiroki approaching him, Wada Masako was secretly vain about this kind of power, but at the same time felt quite pressured, and didn't know how to raise it in front of Tang Huan.

After listening to the report from the Japanese female secretary he carefully selected, Tang Huan couldn't help laughing to himself. The reason why he snubbed the Japanese side was because he knew the Shinkansen very well, so naturally there was no need to waste time.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese were the first to lose their temper. Could it be that oil and water can be squeezed out of it?

Of course there is no problem to meet, but I have to wait until I finish my trip to the Soviet Union. Tang Huan gave Masako Wada a positive answer.

But Mr. Mitsuka has come to New York and wants to visit you as soon as possible. Wada Masako glanced at Tang Huan secretly and said in a low voice.

She couldn't help but think of Hiroshi Mitsuka's instructions before, We can't wait until the trip to the Soviet Union to meet again, because in that case, Tang Huan will inevitably contact European high-speed railway operators and manufacturing companies, and Japan will be too passive.

So impatient. Tang Huan shook his head with a smile, Then you can ask him, why don't you go to the Soviet Union with me, and we'll talk on the plane.

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In fact, Tang Huan just said it casually, but Hiroshi Mitsuka hurriedly followed him regardless of his status.

Why are the Japanese so impatient?

Because the Japanese state-owned railways, the developer and operator of the Shinkansen, are now suffering serious losses, so that the Nakasone Yasuhiro Cabinet has listed it as a key privatization target.

Originally, although there were adverse effects such as the increase in automobile popularity, the increase in costs, and the government's suppression of price increases, the Tokaido Shinkansen, as the main east-west traffic artery and burdened with repayment of construction debts, was still profitable.

However, when Kakuei Tanaka came to power in 1972, the situation began to change subtly.

Kakuei Tanaka was elected as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in the presidential election in July 1972 and became the Prime Minister of Japan. Before that, he served as the Minister of Trade and Industry of Japan. The book——On the Transformation of the Japanese Archipelago was extremely successful. According to the statistics of the Japan Publishing Science Research Institute, it ranked fourth among the best-selling books of the year. It even published a simplified Chinese version in China in September of that year.

The meaning of this book is roughly: connect the Japanese archipelago with expressways, Shinkansen and other high-speed transportation networks to promote the industrialization of various parts of Japan and solve public problems such as uneven urban and rural development and overpopulation.

In particular, he cites the successful examples of adjusting the economic layout of Italy and the United States, and advocates turning the northern part of Japan into an industrial belt and the southern part into an agricultural belt, which is the opposite of Japan's industrial distribution at that time.

These expositions have become one of the important contents of Kakuei Tanaka's administration. In November 1972, 11 new routes were added to the Shinkansen expansion plan, which is the central pillar of the Japanese archipelago reform theory.

The Islands Reconstruction Boom began to appear in various parts of Japan. As long as it is regarded as a candidate area for the implementation of the Japanese Archipelago Reconstruction Theory, there will be an upsurge of land buying in the local area, and the land price will start to rise rapidly, which will affect prices and form inflation. Coupled with the fact that it happened to catch up with the world oil crisis, it worsened and became an actual social problem that the Tanaka cabinet had to face.

By 1975, these new constructions were frozen, and the Japanese National Railways, which was forced to undertake many local railway construction projects, was miserable and fell into a quagmire of losses because it could not recover the cost.

Now the California high-speed rail is being actively prepared, but there is no ready-made package solution in the United States, and it must be imported. It can be described as an excellent business opportunity. How could the Japanese National Railways and the Ministry of Transport not be tempted?

Tang Huan listened to Hiroshi Mitsuka's gracious introduction, and glanced at the newly delivered documents on the coffee table from time to time. It was an advance notice that the Soviet Union was going to award him the Lenin Peace Prize and the Order of Lenin in recognition of his contributions.

This is too enthusiastic, and two of them came at once. It seems that this year is not only the International Year of Peace, but also the year of receiving awards. Tang Huan couldn't help being a little embarrassed, should he accept it or not?