Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 222 Homecoming

On the evening of January 2044, 1, a plane landed on the runway of Beiping Daxing International Airport.After a while, Xiang Shan and another old man left through the exit.

Xiang Shan restarted the AR smart glasses hanging in his breast pocket.Soon, the glasses searched for the target position among the crowd, and displayed a prompt icon.

This locking system is said to be created by a top game designer hired by the R&D team of this generation, and it fits human instincts to a considerable extent.With the help of his glasses, Xiang Shan locked the assistant who came to pick him up from the crowd—this was probably the first time he had seen this logistician.But he doesn't need to be familiar with this subordinate either.The APP in the assistant's mobile phone is linked with Xiangshan's AR smart glasses.

The company sends the task to the assistant's phone.As long as he stands at the airport, Xiang Shan's glasses will show his presence.

It can be said that this system, to some extent, has replaced Xiangshan's brain's facial recognition mechanism to build another interpersonal relationship.

"Boss, you are really impersonal." The old man said: "At any rate, you are also staff members who often come into contact with. It is not difficult to remember their personal situation."

"It's a very evil thing to win over an employee with feelings that go beyond the labor contract." Xiang Shan said while waving to the employee.The employee also saw the two of them and waved his hands high.

Other assistants are responsible for picking up the luggage of the two of them.Under the leadership of the assistant, Xiang Shan and the old man boarded an extended commercial vehicle.This car has been given special treatment.When necessary, the transmission of electromagnetic waves inside and outside can be shielded to form a relatively private space to prevent eavesdropping.His driver's seat is also isolated from the rear row, and sound insulation has been done in the middle.The back seat of this car is four seats facing each other, with a small coffee table in the middle.

It's just that Xiang Shan and the old man didn't intend to discuss any commercial secrets, so those advanced functions were not activated.

The assistant asked through the intercom in the car: "Mr. Xiang, should we go back to the company or go directly to your home?"

"Company." There was a hint of fatigue in Xiang Shan's tone.

"Aren't you going home? Boss." The old man was a little surprised: "Today is the Lunar New Year's Eve of the Republic. I thought you were in a hurry to go back to the country just to reunite with your family."

"My family is in Beiping, and there is no shortage of time to get together." Xiang Shan said, "And now when I go home, my family hasn't prepared my dinner."

The commercial vehicle slowly left the airport.The old man skillfully took out a bottle of sweet sherry from the small refrigerator below, and poured himself a small glass.He raised another empty cup and gestured towards the mountain.Xiang Shan shook his head.

"What a waste. Everyone thinks that you can't appreciate sour, astringent, and bitter wine, so they put a bunch of sweet wine here." The old man put the wine bottle back, and slowly drank half a glass.He put down his wine glass, looked at the approaching city of Beiping on the side of the expressway, and said, "Hey, I didn't expect that after seeing this scene, I would feel a sense of 'relieved'—even though I just returned from my motherland. Come back. I suspect a few more trips to the United States and I'm going to be a public enemy."

"How is that possible." Xiang Shan smiled.

"Sometimes I suspect that you never go online, boss." The old man took another sip of wine: "What is my image over there now? The spokesperson of the devil, the careerist who destroys the world, the destroyer of the medical industry... If I appeared in public with a dignitary, and I even risked being thrown an egg!"

"That's just a small group of extremists." Xiang Shan didn't take it seriously: "Here, I'm the official pillar of the country. There are still a group of idiots who go online to greet my whole family every day, saying that I'm trying to pollute human blood. ', the 'great sinner of the nation'. A minority."

"It's really different. There's a lot of idiots out there—you don't forget the guys from Silicon Valley who throw stones at us, do you?"

Xiang Shan smiled: "Yes, but you called a whole team of riot police with one phone call. I think the other side is more pitiful."

"Hey...you are really..." The old man shook his head again: "Again, I advise you to pay more attention to your business reputation and corporate image..."

"Our enterprise is centered on R&D. All activities exist to support R&D institutions." Xiang Shan blocked the old man's words back.

The old man's name was Bernard Dubois.In the Republic, he gave himself a localized name called "Di Bernard".Sometimes Xiang Shan also called him "Lao Di".

Old Dee is an out-and-out United Statesman, a standard "old white man"-that is, old, white, and male.Just as there are homeless people with the surname "Fujiwara" in Japan, there are also poor and downcast people among the "old white men".However, a wealthy old white man like Bernard means deep-rooted social relationships and extensive network resources.

Bernard, a professional manager, was hired to join Xiang Shan's company two years ago and became one of several senior managers of the company.Prior to this, he served as an executive in many high-tech companies and has extensive experience in the industry.

However, few people know Bernard's other identity - power broker.He had personal acquaintance with numerous politicians and knew which institutions were closely connected with the civil servants of the United States.He knows how to properly use "donations" to maintain friendly relations between his company and the political forces of the United States.

Although it may sound a bit "bad," it's actually a high art.After all, it is also a science to spend money reasonably, legally and efficiently.Even on Wall Street, there are a large number of managers who don't understand the morals here, and companies that are swept out of the free market because they don't understand these morals.

For more than half of the 43 years, he has been traveling in the United States for the company under the name of Xiang Shan and others, striving for bills or policies that are more beneficial to this company.

Among other things, he was also responsible for acquiring equity interests in specific technology companies for the enterprise.

According to Bernard's understanding, the R&D team headed by Yawgmoth is working on a huge project.There are many "pre-technologies" in this project-and what is more embarrassing is that some parts of these pre-technologies have already been developed and patented.

Some companies that are extremely confident in the confidentiality work have not even applied for a patent, but secretly use it in the production process.

However, what Bernard couldn't understand was that the Xiangshan team seemed to have a perverted obsession with this matter.They do not intend to purchase licenses, nor do they intend to sign a sharing agreement in the form of "technology shares".

To the manager, Xiang Shan's train of thought was shaky and unreasonable.

This uncle either buys the patent he likes, and then licenses it to the world for free.

Either through compulsory acquisition first, the company of the patent holder will be swallowed up, and then the patent will be licensed to the world for free.

Of course, the financial resources of enterprises are not endless.Therefore, this is the chance for Bernard to play.

Bernard's task is to promote legislation to limit the upper limit of the benefits that medical prosthesis patents can bring.

To put it simply, it is to use legislation to set an upper limit on the profit margin of medical prosthetics, and even lower this upper limit as much as possible.

For Xiang Shan, this legislation means that some medical technology companies have lower expected income.He can lower the price as much as possible in the negotiation of patent acquisition or compulsory equity acquisition.

Of course, there are supporting policies.For example, some medical prosthesis companies are given high subsidies to compensate them for their research and development expenses.

However, in the eyes of discerning practitioners, this is just a "soft knife".After all, the uncertainty of "subsidy objects" and "subsidy scope" is too great - far greater than their behavior of analyzing demand and manufacturing demand from market research.

To conservatives, this line of thinking seems unreasonable.They believe that such behavior will undoubtedly affect the enthusiasm of R&D personnel for the medical industry and hinder the progress of medical technology.

It is precisely because of this that Bernard, who was active in the dark, was also picked out by conservative reporters and branded as the "Satan of the medical industry".

"Believers in the free market." Xiang Shan didn't care: "Don't bother with them. And as a research and development personnel, I have to tell you the truth, this approach will not hinder the enthusiasm of the research and development personnel to improve medical technology. It will only hinder the capitalists. Invest in related industries."

"Although it doesn't sound very 'liberal', it's very leaning towards 'equality'. You said it yourself, just do a little searching, and you can find a lot of politicians from the donkey party who are counting on making this a political achievement. .”

"Boss, I can hear the sarcasm in your tone." Bernard sighed: "Do you know how the Kingdom of France completely lost the competition with the Empire of Brittany in the early 18th century?"

"Huh? Now is the time to discuss the topic of history?"

Laodi shook his head: "The Kingdom established a 'Mississippi Company' to compete with the Empire's 'East India Company'. However, the King of France did not respect the objective laws of finance at all, and blew a huge bubble in his own country. .This led to the entire eighteenth century, France was in a state of decay, and a whole century was missed-and then there was the well-known Revolution.”

"Their opponents respect the general laws of economics."

"Your respected Mr. Carl believes that economics is a very objective law. It is stupid to challenge the laws of nature. Although our company's R&D team is the greatest in the world, it should not exceed the objective laws .You have to respect a little bit of objective law. If you insist on destroying it, you will be beaten to death one day."

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