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Chapter 93 Friendly Americans

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    The plane landed at San Francisco International Airport in the United States.  This is the first time Guan Fei has set foot on American soil since time travel, and he is very interested in this place.  People naively think that in the interstellar era, there will be no concept of country anymore and all human beings will be united under the same government. In fact, this is just people's beautiful imagination.  Just as differences in distribution create classes, the needs of different interests allow humans to form tribes and develop into countries.  The great abundance of materials will not allow everyone to take it at will. Those who control the resources will always be at the top of the food chain. People who have nothing can only sell their physical strength, intelligence, and even their lives in exchange for various things necessary for survival.  A need - in other words, money!  But one good thing about the interstellar age is that the vast universe is so big that if you want, you can never have any contact with people from another country.  When humans entered the universe, in addition to the limited number of early colonized planets, there were also some conflicts.  Later, after the development of long-distance interstellar fast navigation capabilities, frictions and disputes between various countries became increasingly reduced.  In the past, several major powers on the earth: the United States, China, Russia, and Europe, each chose a direction to expand their territory and exploit resources. They no longer wanted to fight with their opponents for the sake of ownership of a small planet.  All countries are trying their best to expand space in the universe. If anyone continues to fight with each other and fight to the end, it will only lead to a continuous decline in their own strength, and they will be eaten up by their opponents who have grown stronger!  In Guan Fei¡¯s memory, the American Interstellar Federation is just a noun, and there are not many people and things associated with it, so it doesn¡¯t mean much to him.  But in this era, although it has reached its final stage, the United States and the Soviet Union are still in the Cold War, the international situation is still tense, and there is the danger of a full-scale war breaking out at any time.  In particular, the United States has consumed its national power through a series of wars such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War, but it has not achieved the goal of obliterating the global common movement and squeezing the living space of its competitors.  After decades of development, the Soviet Union's national power has gradually increased, and it is trying to further expand its power around the world.  The war in Afghanistan is an example, and Vietnam¡¯s recent increasing voice of war against Cambodia is also an example.  Facing the Soviet Union¡¯s growing muscle and ferocious aggressive intentions, both China and the United States felt a real threat, and the two sides began to move closer quickly.  In order to win over China, the United States even withdrew its US troops stationed in Taiwan.  According to memory, at the end of this year, the two countries will formally sign the "Joint Communique between China and the United States on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations," ending decades of confrontation. Economic, trade, technological, and cultural exchanges between the two sides will also begin to become increasingly frequent.  Perhaps due to this factor, the immigration inspection that Guan Fei and others received was very relaxed. The airport guards responsible for the inspection all had smiles on their faces and were very polite to them.  When they came out of the entry gate, they met the airport pick-up personnel from Sagitar Trading San Francisco Branch who came to greet them.  Jiang Zeshui and Yu Dehai are both veterans in the business world. After signing the terms of joining with the head office, they have already started the preliminary work.  Yu Dehai had a sales network in San Francisco and had chosen the store address early. After receiving a check of one million from the head office, he immediately rented the space and started decorating the mall with great fanfare.  As a holding franchisee, Sagitar store logos and store signs around the world have the same design, and are collectively called Sagitar to the outside world.  Thirty percent of the space on the left side of the store is exclusively owned by Sagitar Corporation.  The decoration of this part is also in a global style, with a separate entrance and unified shelves.  It is divided into three groups by the front two and the back. The first two exhibition areas are the Toy City and Home Appliance City, and the latter area is the display area for several arcade machines.  These are also the three development directions set by Guan Fei for the military division¡¯s future foreign economy.  ?To sum up, it is culture (toys, games) and electronics!  He never tried to introduce Eastern culture to the West. The two sides are not the same system. There is appreciation, but acceptance is difficult.  Culture is a kind of soft power, the penetration of strong civilization into weak civilization.  "In this era, Eastern civilization is a weak civilization, and there is nothing to hide it.  This weakness stems from the gap between the country's overall strength and the West, and its influence on the world's political landscape.  How can such a civilization, which has to worry about being beaten by itself at any time, and whose products are all developed and manufactured by itself, and whose only thing to be proud of is the past thousands of years ago, can make the arrogant Westerners look at it seriously.  So whether it¡¯s a toy or a game, he¡¯ll do what he likes.?The kind that Westerners like.  Of course, we will also try to export a little bit of products with oriental elements. We are not seeking to make money. We just hope that through long-term subtle influence, we can make others appreciate it and cultivate a small number of fans of oriental culture. That is enough.  This time, people arriving on the same plane as Guan Fei were Zeng Shuxian, Wang Yihong and others from Hongtai Advertising, and they randomly brought a shooting team of more than a dozen people.  Guan Fei did not seek good reception conditions, so he rented a hotel in Chinatown.  Although the living environment is a bit cramped, he is satisfied if Chinese food is provided for every meal.  The store leased by Jiang Zeshui and others is located at the right end of Market Street, just at the intersection with Chinatown.  Market Street is the most prosperous area in the city, stretching diagonally from the city center to the northeast end, with many high-rise buildings near Golden Gate Road.  The store is facing Market Street, and a hundred meters away on the right is the entrance to Financial Street. As far as the eye can see, there are all buildings.  Li Qing, the guard who came with Guan Fei, was dumbfounded.  He followed Guan Fei. After arriving in Hong Kong, although he also looked at some buildings, compared with the 12-story small high-rise buildings in the Xincheng community of the Military Division, he didn't think it was anything special. He always felt that as long as the Military Division was given enough time, they could build  It is not that difficult to build a city more prosperous than Hong Kong.  But when he saw the countless high-rise buildings in San Francisco, including dozens of skyscrapers with dozens of floors, his confidence was somewhat shaken.  Skyscrapers not only give people an imposing impact, they are also a symbol of wealth.  The cost of building ten seven-story buildings is only a fraction of the cost of building one seventy-story skyscraper.  A city can be called a landmark if it has one or two skyscrapers, but in San Francisco, such buildings abound!  This is an architectural miracle that can only be completed by the richest country on earth in this era!  And when citizens of such a country go out, even if they see the same prosperous cities in other countries, at most they will nod and say "not bad", more often they will point and laugh at the other country's poverty.  This is their national pride!  Different from the later arrogance after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dominance of the United States, although Americans in this era were full of confidence in their own country, they faced powerful enemies that were no weaker than themselves. After experiencing heavy casualties in foreign wars such as North Korea and Vietnam,  After the war, I did not dare to be arrogant.  The country's elite are not fools. They know that the United States at this time is in great need of more helpers. News about China on TV and newspapers is basically positive, and when introduced to Chinese people, most of it is positive.  China and its people are full of goodwill.  This also made Guan Fei and others' activities in San Francisco smoother. As long as the Americans they met knew that they were from mainland China, they were full of a sense of curiosity without malicious intent, and they were often pulled away.  Asked if it was really possible to see the Great Wall from space.  And one benefit is that Taiyu Technology¡¯s arcade machines can easily land in the United States without any difficulty.  In the early stage of the piracy lawsuits, because the legal team also selected some small pirates, the several lawsuits were fought smoothly, and there were basically no setbacks before Taiyu was declared the winner.  Of course, the lawsuit was won, but the compensation was not much.  It is one thing that the United States needs China, but it does not use its own money to please outsiders.  Admitting that you invented this thing is already extra generous for the United States. If you want to make a fortune from various pirates, just dream on it!  But Guan Fei doesn¡¯t care.  ??We are all empty-handed, the cost is basically the same, who is afraid of who!  His request is very simple: you admit that this thing is mine, not stolen from you, and don't not only refuse to pay the patent fee, but also blackmail me in turn, this is very good.  As for a few big companies blatantly pirating arcade machines and selling them all over the United States, then go ahead and pirate them.  My production capacity is only so high. If the market cannot digest it, I will not give it to anyone, just treat it as the admission fee to enter this market.  His attitude of pretending to be confused also satisfied American businessmen.  ¡°If one of them invented this kind of game, they might fight with other companies to the bitter end in order to monopolize the market.  But since someone else is the first to develop it, and the developer is so ambitious, the business is very happy. Everyone makes money by harmonious and each makes money based on production capacity, quality, and cost. How wonderful!  It¡¯s not that there isn¡¯t a big company that wants to say that ¡°Space Invaders¡± was developed by itself and take this hot business into its arms.  However, with the popularity of arcade machines, the world knew that this was the first developed by Hong Kong Taiyu Technology Company, and it has long been famous.  Besides, other big companies also have ideas. If you monopolize it, then who can I steal? Do you still expect me to hand it over to you?Right?  It¡¯s better to just hold it in the hands of Taiyu Technology, and everyone can make a fortune from it.  Therefore, under the constraints of all parties, Taiyu Technology¡¯s patent application in the United States was unusually smooth, with almost a green light all the way.  Over the past year, as "Space Invaders" has been marketed around the world, various manufacturers have gone to full throttle, and the market has gradually become saturated.  By the beginning of this year, this arcade machine was no longer available for sale.  It¡¯s not that the players are tired of this game, but that the entertainment venue owners who should buy it have bought it.  There are about two to three million units in the global market, but due to loose copyright restrictions, many manufacturers gobbled them up, quickly meeting market demand in various places.  Therefore, no one even paid attention to Taiyu Technology¡¯s patent application. All the applied design patents such as arcade style patents, keyboard patents, etc. were obtained.  Based on this experience, various patents such as portable recorders and walkmans have also been recognized in Europe and the United States with the tacit approval of many manufacturing giants, and no one has come out to cause trouble.  Everyone is waiting to see whether Taiyu Technology's attempt at civilian electronics can once again set off a global sales wave.  Guan Fei spent a few days inspecting the construction of the San Francisco store of Sagitar Commerce. After learning about the latest patent applications, he also welcomed Columbia Records and their Michael Band who flew over from New York.
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