My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 995 Adjustments to the Preview Server
Even when Wei Dong first met the president, his initial assumptions were wrong.

The other party cares about making a name for themselves in history or putting on an air of supreme authority. They don't actually want to go into politics and become a leader. Rather, they have realized that Chrysler, or rather Citibank, is in deep trouble and have to use their internal strength to forcefully suppress their aura.

This can be abbreviated as "outwardly fierce but inwardly weak" or "outwardly strong but inwardly weak

He tried to extort money from the Economic Commission that time, but it turned out that the mainland really didn't have the money to buy it. Then, Volkswagen Hans Volkswagen gave him a complete industrial chain for free, and he panicked a bit.

That's why Wei Dong got the advantage.

Now, he doesn't care at all about losing the competition to the car city: "You should finish the project plan as soon as possible. I will also discuss and verify it with friends from all walks of life. Since others can't imitate or plagiarize it, we are not afraid to publicize it."

Wei Dong pressed on to the point: "It's not me, I don't understand. I just have the ability to cooperate with your company's plan to form a supply chain. As for Professor Di, he has the qualifications and status to win the Nobel Prize. I still need to talk to him."

The president smiled, a rare occurrence for him: "If you had been born in Citibank, you would have had a very bright future."

Wei Dong shook his head: "Not necessarily. Then I won't get any regulatory benefits either. Besides, my face means I can only give it to you. You'll be the supporting character to Steve, and you guys are the main characters."

The CEO smiled and shook hands with him to say goodbye: "I need to see substantial progress before I announce the start of the business."

Wei Dong nodded: "According to an investor on the West Coast, it should be Wall Street investment banks and consortia investing in this unicorn company. We'll need to ask them to take care of my production qualifications..."

With such a professional and reliable approach, the president was completely at ease, because the financial professional he was dealing with was likely someone he knew, which eliminated any potential risks.

All these actions are simply aimed at evading surveillance and maximizing profits.

This is something that capitalists tacitly agree on.

He laughed and gave his wife his phone number, and that was it.

Weidong is using the thunderous cheers of its home fans to overshadow the historical significance of this industry's beginning.

The wife, however, put away the business card and said, "Then... we won't give this deal to Detroit..."

All of Wei Dong's inner thoughts vanished: "Shut up!"

Let's go back to the hotel and unpack properly!

Of course, Qin Yuye did his best to convey the president's reactions that he had observed.

This will surely please Wei Dong.

This is also full of passion.

The next day, when they went to Yale University, Yu Xiaoqiu glanced at the two of them sideways. They were making a lot of noise all night long, and even the soundproofing of a five-star hotel couldn't block out their commotion!
The fact that the 24-year-old and 21-year-old billionaire couple didn't drag her into the fun shows they have a high moral standard.

Youth means abundant energy; you don't show any signs of fatigue.

Wei Dong was allowed to drive the rented Cadillac sports car, which was the best car they could find. They first drove around the basketball court during the day, taking many photos inside, just like they had the night before. After snapping two rolls of film, they set off with a van full of bodyguards.

The other teams of athletes, led by employees of the software company Citibank, spent two days touring Boston, a famous city on the East Coast. After all, prestigious universities like Harvard University are located in Boston, so it's worth a visit.

To avoid the peak fan season, I took a flight back to Los Angeles.

The Eastern Conference Finals have moved to Detroit again these past few days, with a third game played after the score was tied 1-1.

Looking at the stadium surrounded by various players' portraits and colorful flags, Wei Dong could only say that they had truly mastered the art of commercial sports.

The real purpose is to conduct business under the guise of sports.

Although it was a two-door sports car, the American-style wide car of the 1980s only had a shortened wheelbase, and there were still comfortable seats in the back that were almost too big to put your feet down, which was just right for a slender girl like Yu Xiaoqiu to lean back in the back with plenty of room.

Aside from holding up her camera and letting Wei Dong point out where to take pictures, she would listen to the couple's discussions.

"Is the basketball court at Binhai Sports City also like this? With flags flying all the time?"

"Yes, if we treat the players like movie stars and hype them up, find them a female celebrity to be their wife, and keep promoting and talking about their gossip, wouldn't that generate buzz and traffic?"

"Hehe, then I'll take care of it when I get back. Vivian, are you willing to let her go? Yao Shuzhen, Lina, and Zhang Min all have to get married. Hey, Xiaoyuer, are you going to get married?"

Yu Xiaoqiu didn't dare roll her eyes at her anymore, and instead, relying on her Beijing girl spirit, she asked directly, "Is this popularity and traffic really that important?"

Wei Dong instructed her to teach him as well: "After you go back, while arranging for people to go to Hong Kong to learn film and television technology, you should also promote several exemplary universities. At this time, don't talk about contributions, talk about gains. Who settled down in Shenzhen and made R&D income, who went to North America to study architecture along the Shanghai-Haikou border, and who is the sales champion. A major doesn't necessarily have to be locked into a career..."

Yu Xiaoqiu has been fighting alongside him for many years: "Is it what you said about university life teaching us to learn more professional skills, so that we can attract more people to Dongsheng?"

Let Wei Dong teach her to be more open-minded: "You can organize so many job opportunities for enterprises and promote them in universities. You don't have to come to Dong Sheng. There are innovative optical drives, innovative sound cards, Apple computers, electronic vacuum factories, shipyards... Damn, there are also anti-aircraft gun factories. What am I supposed to do with these factories? There are thousands of old, weak, sick, disabled, and lazy people who can't be reformed."

It gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Yu Xiaoqiu's previous emotions vanished. She quietly curled up behind the passenger seat, took a photo of the driver from the side, and then hid in the corner, gazing into the distance.

This is indeed Qin Yuye's weakness; she just doesn't understand why you insist on caring about these people.

The fact that the TV station is trying to keep its employees from being laid off can be seen as a gesture by capitalists.
Winning over the South Asian legions means having a loyal following;

Attracting fans and motivating the entire Hong Kong population can also help the city gain a stronger position in Hong Kong. The mainland is so vast, and Shangzhou can be considered a hometown, which is worth promoting. Furthermore, it can continuously export labor.
Engaging university students is also a way to build up technical reserves.
Jiangzhou has already done enough; why go to such lengths for that marginal factory?

Wei Dong didn't bother explaining to her and pondered as he drove.

It's more than 200 kilometers from Boston to the small town where Yale is located. As the northeastern region closest to the British Isles, many place names are similar to those in Da Ying.

It is estimated that they were among the earliest European immigrants to arrive in the area.

Therefore, the route is filled with ancient stone buildings and a tranquil rural atmosphere.

The journey, which normally takes more than two hours, made Wei Dong slow down.

After all, the modern civilization built up over two hundred years has accumulated a rich heritage here.

The top universities in North America, such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, are all concentrated in this northeastern region.

It's definitely the kind of cultural atmosphere that mainlanders aspire to, a place where they can retire and enjoy life after a hard-earned life.

What Wei Dong wanted was to take advantage of the situation and transform the vocational college in Shangzhou into the most practical technical school after the reform.

He'd rather spend money on schools than invest in any particular industry.

Moreover, no matter how big or successful you are at running a school, no one will say anything.

Unlike large corporations, it doesn't attract as much attention.

He just laughed to himself.

Yu Xiaoqiu vaguely saw herself chuckling softly, though she didn't know why.

While helping him look at the map as usual, Qin Yuye also flipped through his own work faxes.

In the days before mobile phone roaming, or even before mobile phones existed, big bosses would call out to others as they went.

The secretary is required to keep the headquarters informed of their location at all times, and the headquarters will also send a brief summary of various work information to the hotel's business center via fax.

She liked to sit cross-legged, with her legs to the side, or with her knees drawn up in the spacious passenger seat, flipping through documents. Her pale legs often hindered Wei Dong's train of thought. If it weren't for the secretary and bodyguards following in the car, it would have been a problem.

I pulled over to refill my water tank a long time ago.

But she wasn't trying to seduce him: "Oh, your insurance company CEO is in Hartford, the largest insurance hub in North America, where many large insurance companies have their headquarters. He left a message saying you'd definitely like to visit."

I asked Wei Dong to look at the map. According to the signs along the highway, we got off the highway a few dozen kilometers away and turned into this... very strange city.

Even while still on the elevated road, I noticed that it was typical of North American cities, with neat rows of small bungalows around the perimeter, gradually transitioning to a bustling commercial atmosphere with high-rise buildings as I approached the city center.

However, this not-so-large downtown area is a "hollowed-out" neighborhood composed of various buildings and large parking lots.

In the blocks between the buildings, a large area of ​​land that was clearly left after the buildings were demolished has been transformed into a large block parking lot.

There are so many that they're like black and white soccer balls, interspersed with buildings—absolutely outrageous.

The advantage is that parking is extremely convenient, but the city looks sparse and not very prosperous.

Ron Wai-tung, who had been paying attention to neighborhood development since his first trip to Hong Kong and then to Japan, was indeed very interested.

Following the agreed-upon location, they found the hotel where Xiong Guoming and his group were staying. The receptionist left them their contact information for visiting the insurance company.

After finding the place, while having lunch at the agreed-upon restaurant, the insurance company CEO said he had also noticed it and had inquired with the locals.

The explanation is simple: "After the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s, many Black people from the South moved here to live, and white people moved away from this area, resulting in a population increase of more than double. Eventually, except for the insurance industry, almost all other industries moved away. So, in order to save the city's industry and commerce, the authorities began to require the demolition and relocation of various illegal buildings, shantytowns, and self-built houses. Over the past decade, various real estate developments have failed, leaving large areas of such vacant land after the demolition of shantytowns."

Wei Dong immediately felt that the "fake time travel" he had experienced with Chi Shiming a few years ago had reappeared here.

Pengzhen later became a huge, modern city, with all sorts of self-built houses and urban villages crammed together like bald heads.

When they were developing the West District Industrial Park, Wei Dong and his team encountered a few villages with dozens or even hundreds of households. Before the villagers could react, they swapped houses for houses in high-rise buildings, giving them similar sizes or even ground-floor shops, but they did demolish the village houses and old houses.

This resulted in the industrial zone spanning the Dongsheng Peninsula being completely free of urban villages.

However, in cases like Yuezhou and Pengzhen, the situation can deteriorate to an appalling degree after thirty or forty years, making demolition and relocation virtually impossible.

Unexpectedly, in Citibank Northeast, Wei Dong was able to see the future ahead of time once again.

Moreover, Xiong Guoming had been here for about a week and learned that the entire northeastern part of Citibank had entered a period of economic slowdown and stagnation over the past ten years, and all people of insight were heading south.

Isn't this exactly the same as the later migration of people from Northeast China to the South?

It really is like making a sample in advance.

(End of this chapter)