Silicon Valley

Henry immediately sent someone to contact DEC, but it may take a while to negotiate. On the other hand, the proposal to acquire Hughes Aerospace and Communications from General Motors soon came to an end.

GM specializes in selling cars, and he owns Hughes Aerospace \u0026 Communications mostly as an investment. Of course, some technology is also required. If someone makes the right bid, of course they don't mind selling the company. After five rounds of negotiations, SpaceX and General Motors finally acquired Hughes Aerospace and Communications for $6 billion, including Hughes Laboratory!

SpaceX could have bought Hughes Aerospace \u0026 Communications for $5 billion and shared ownership of Hughes Labs with General Motors. But to take full control of Hughes Lab, SpaceX added an extra $1 billion!

Just as the "Weasel Studio" is the core asset of Lockheed, the Hughes Laboratory is also the core asset of Hughes, where countless advanced technologies are born. And the most outstanding and most talented people in the entire company are gathered in Hughes Lab.

For high-tech companies, talent and technology are the vitality of the company!

Henry attaches great importance to Hughes Laboratory. In addition to advanced aerospace technology, Hughes Laboratory is also the earliest research and strongest technology institution in the laser field!

Think about it, a laser weapon is installed on the satellite, and whoever is unhappy will give it to him, at this speed of light, who can stop it?

Build 1,800 satellites, each with ten laser weapons, and the whole world will be afraid!

The intercontinental missile wanted to hit it, but it was destroyed by the laser weapon halfway.

The most effective way to deal with a party with a laser weapon is to do it the same way.

Henry developed laser technology just in case, maybe it will be used in the future, and in his lifetime, it may open the era of interstellar sailing, and more weapons. More security.

In "Independence Day", the White House of the United States was used by aliens with laser weapons, and it was gone all of a sudden...

That power. It's so scary!

At present, there are four institutions or companies with the highest technological content under Henry's name: WilliamsX Laboratory, Weasel Studio, SpaceX, and Hughes Laboratory.

Unconsciously. Henry is fascinated by the acquisition of high-tech laboratories or studios. If he acquires the world's first-class laboratories or studios, he will have the strongest technology.

Henry looked into the distance, there was a Bell Lab in the faraway state of New Jersey...

Bell Labs is the inventor of many major inventions such as transistors, lasers, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, digital switches, communication satellites, electronic digital computers, cellular mobile communication equipment, long-distance television transmission, analog language, sound movies, stereo recording, and communication networks. The birthplace of more than 25,000 patents.

Originally Bell Labs was jointly owned by AT\u0026amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;T and Western Electronics. It is not easy to acquire it. But soon. That is, in 1996, on the basis of AT\u0026amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;T and Western Electronics, a new company, Lucent, will be established, and Bell Labs belongs to Lucent. As long as Lucent is acquired, it is equivalent to owning Bell Labs!

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At 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995, a magnitude 7.2 direct earthquake occurred in Kobe, Japan!

The news of the earthquake quickly spread all over the world. Henry immediately reacted when he heard the news. This was the famous Hanshin Earthquake in Japan. More than 5,400 people were killed, more than 34,000 injured, more than 190,000 houses collapsed and damaged, and the direct economic loss reached 100 billion US dollars! In Kobe City, due to gas leakage and dense wooden houses, it caused a rapid chain fire. For example, in Nagata District, Kobe, all the wooden houses were burnt down. It was the biggest disaster in Japan after World War II!

Because of this incident, it even led to the collapse of the British Barings Bank! As the Nikkei plummeted due to the earthquake, Barings bought a lot and lost billions of dollars!

Henry had seen some pictures of the Hanshin earthquake. It was appalling!

A week later, Japan announced the casualty data and various losses in the earthquake, which immediately shocked the world!

Many countries, companies, institutions or individuals have donated money. Henry expressed his most sincere condolences to the victims in Japan, but donating money is exempted. As the world's super richest man, the donation is less, others have to say; the donation is more. , and cheaper the Japanese government. It's not easy to make money, and money doesn't come from strong winds, so don't just donate! Moreover, isn't the Japanese government very rich, and does it need other people to donate money? However, Henry did not donate at all. Henry asked the Japanese company under his name to be a little more interesting and donate some money. After all, the company has grown a lot, and it is a Japanese company. If you don't donate any money, after the earthquake, others will not be allowed to gossip and spit?

If this reputation is too bad, Japanese companies will not be easy to mix...

Japan's economy is just recovering after the 1990 real estate crash. However, the Great Hanshin Earthquake this time dealt a heavy blow to Japan, causing the Japanese economy to go backwards for several years! And in 1997 the Asian financial crisis, Japan will suffer another severe blow!

Henry thought about it and felt that Japan was a little scary. The successive blows could not stop its speed of development. The economic and technological strengths were also developing very powerfully!

Henry murmured to himself: "It seems that during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, it was necessary to deal ruthlessly with Japan..."

In this disaster, only more than 200 companies in Japan went bankrupt. Most of these companies are retail stores, supermarkets, or production factories, but the impact on technology companies is very small, and the scope of the attack is not wide enough. And Henry reached out to buy those companies, it didn't make much sense.

Time passed, and the Hanshin Earthquake gradually faded out of people's sight.

On January 26, 1995, Karina invited Henry to China to celebrate Chinese New Year with her parents, in fact, to meet them.

Henry thought about it and agreed. He and Kaelina had already established a relationship, but for many years, Henry had never seen Kaelina's parents. First, Henry was a little shy about meeting his parents; second, Kaelina's parents moved to Beijing and it was not easy to meet each other. This time, although Kaelina invited her, her parents probably forced her to ask her to meet. If that's the case, then it's no big deal to see each other. Henry thought to himself that he hadn't returned to China for a long time, this time to Beijing, and then to his hometown in his previous life...

Henry has never dared to send someone to investigate whether there is another self in the hometown where he lived in his previous life. He is afraid of the changes caused by the butterfly effect! He would rather not know than hear news that disappoints him. He is alone now, with no parents, no relatives, and even though he has hundreds of billions of huge sums of money, he still often feels extremely lonely at night. Sometimes he would stare at the vast starry sky in a daze, and tears would rain down; sometimes he would be extremely eager to fly to China, to see that land with his own eyes, and to find his relatives in his previous life!

At this moment, Henry felt that he could no longer escape!

(To be continued ~^~)