One day in April 1986.

San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Wang'an Computer Company Headquarters.

A 66-year-old old man sat hunched in a bright office with large floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the desk in front of me is the 2200 word processing computer produced by my own home.

He is Wang An, the founder of Wang An Computer, and the boss of a company that has gone through more than 30 years of ups and downs in the field of electronics/integrated circuits/calculators/functional computers.

He was wearing round glasses, his hair was so bald that the only half circle was already gray. The wrinkles and gullies on his cheeks were more obvious than in previous years.

Last month, Forbes magazine just released the list of American rich people last year.

Because of the company's stable sales performance last year, the growth in profits, and the general rise in US stocks since September last year, Wang An climbed to fifth place in the U.S. rich list without any effort.

But he was not happy.

Because he had just found cancer, the doctor said that if he gave up all his work immediately, he would be in a happy mood and rest, and he might be able to live for 5 years or even longer - his cancer is considered to be mid-stage, not late-stage. But it is not the kind of extremely early detection and can be removed and cured.

Death is bound to die. It’s just that if you have better care and live for five or six years, and if you have a high mentality and anxiety and pressure, it may only be two or three years.

Life is rare in seventy years, and he will live for another three or four years and seventy years. In terms of lifespan, it is enough, but he can't let go of this big business.

He only has one son, named Wang Lie, who is 35 years old this year and has no other workplace resume.

Wang Lie was arranged throughout his life, and he received not bad education. He studied at the top business school in the league. After graduating at the age of 30, he started to work as middle-level management in the company. Under the guidance of his father, he managed the business for four or five years.

Wang An is a person with a very avant-garde view of technology but a very traditional business view.

He has always said that he should use family-style enterprise inheritance to deal with Wang'an Computer Company, that is, to let his son take over as the general manager and chairman in the future.

However, this cannot be blamed on Wang An, because Chinese entrepreneurs in the United States are so autistic and group. Large companies created by Chinese rarely trust white people to manage after death, so that their sons can only eat dividends from the shareholding foundation.

This is not a problem unique to Chinese people. The people of Nanba and Japanese who do big business in the United States are also like this.

How many white people can there be for a lot of presidents of Samsung’s foreign subsidiaries?

In history, Sony (USA) president Shulhof (of course, this time and space have become the president of Tiankun Entertainment), when Akio Morita was alive, how much was he valued by Akio Morita and Nobuo Oga? But when he finally arrived at Akio Morita and Oga, he finally chose to take over the unexpected promotion of Nobuyuki Oga.

It’s not that Nobuyuki Izumi’s achievements and ability to show in Sony in the 1980s were better than Schulhov, but it was just that Nobuyuki Izumi was a Japanese man, while Schulhov was a white man.

Bangzi and the Japanese are all like the Chinese in their bones. They believe that "their hearts will be different if they are not my race." At this point, East Asian civilization will never be as relaxed as Americans without an ontological nation.

Originally, Wang An was planning to let his son experience it slowly. But since he was diagnosed with cancer during the Chinese New Year, he finally had to speed up the process of personnel arrangements.

Wang An decided to let his son take over as the company's general manager this year, and then transfer the position of chairman within one or two years.

Cancer does not wait for people.

However, many white executives within the company are very dissatisfied with this trend.

Including the vice president Cningham, who had followed Wang An to conquer the world since he started his business, and John Chambers, the marketing department director. They could obey the far-sighted Wang An, but were unwilling to serve his son who had no courage.

Wang An knew that if he forced the throne to his son, a group of key executives would definitely leave in anger, but there was nothing he could do about it.

He now urgently needs some events that can further enhance his personal prestige to alleviate the rebound when he was in a mess.

He racked his brains to find opportunities, but his body in the middle stage of cancer made his brain a little overwhelmed.

...

"Boss, former merchant chief Mr. Peterson wants to invite you to have lunch tomorrow at noon."

When Wang An was depressed in the office, his secretary knocked in and conveyed an appointment that he had just received and listened to the boss' instructions to arrange for this reception.

"Mr. Peterson? Former Shangshang?" Wang An trembled his hands, knocked a painkiller tablet, and sent it with warm water, but it seemed that he had not turned around yet.

"It's Mr. Peterson, the boss of Blackstone Investment Fund." The secretary added.

She didn't want to introduce it like that just now, but when the customer called to make an appointment, she claimed the title, so she could only follow it.

"Oh, Peterson of Blackstone, is the speculator who makes trouble with Texas Instruments' stock price." Wang An showed a complicated smile that was contemptuous but did not dare to ignore the other party, then thought for a while and asked:

"Our company's shares in the circulating stock market have not been maliciously absorbed by Blackstone Fund recently, right?"

"It shouldn't be. The transaction volume has been very small in recent months, and no one has raised a sign." The female secretary is very familiar with these daily life and is capable of "sending the job".

Wang An nodded, and his guard was a little relieved: "Did he have any purpose?"

Female Secretary: "He said there is something about asking you to visit an industrial exchange seminar abroad, and you may be welcomed by some major power politicians, which will help you enhance your international prestige."

Wang An was shocked.

This Peterson is very good at believing in others' favors, and he should have investigated his current situation very clearly.

If you can take your son out for a long experience, it will be more convenient to pass the throne.

"I agree, and arrange tomorrow's lunch and treat it well." Wang An made the decision.

At noon the next day, at the highest-end business club in San Francisco, Wang An invited Peter Peterson, president of Blackstone Investment Fund.

"Mr. Peterson, lucky to know." Wang An took the initiative to show politeness as soon as he met. "I have long admired you. I didn't expect that Blackstone Fund is so interested in the technology industry in the past two years."

"Mr. Wang is the fifth richest man in the United States. It is my honor to be able to cooperate with you." Peterson praised.

Wang An originally wanted to maintain a slightly arrogant attitude to win a better negotiation atmosphere, but his body couldn't hold on, so he couldn't help coughing lightly, and then said decisively with a slight panting:

"I've been feeling unwell recently, so I'd better tell me a long story. Is this time... entrusted by Akio Morita or Gu Ao? It's not that the Galvin family of Motorola, right?"

Obviously, Wang An has also investigated Peterson's movements in the past year and two years.

Peterson started Blackstone Fund, which left Lehman Brothers in 1984. So far, the three major entrusted clients of Blackstone Fund are Sony, Tiankun and Motorola.

Before September last year, Gu Ao was the one who asked Peterson for the most. From speculating on Texas Instruments' shares, from the poaching of Texas Instruments, to the subsequent defensive investments that protected the development of Xiangji Electric, Peterson was trading and earning tens of millions of dollars in commissions.

(Don’t feel reluctant to let go. If Gu Ao is reluctant to spend this tens of millions of dollars in commission, he will not be able to hire a former US Secretary of Commerce to help him buy so many resources from sensitive technology companies)

At the same time, Sony's Akio Morita was also one of Peterson's major customers. However, before September 1985, Akio Morita made the commissions and acquisition projects that Peterson earned were not as large as Gu Ao's investment.

But in just half a year from October 1985 to the present, Akio Morita suddenly exerted his strength.

The reason is also very simple, the yen has appreciated wildly.

Most of Sony's assets are denominated in Japanese yen. At this time, Sony can raise a large amount of cash flow by pledging equity.

Moreover, Japan feels that overseas assets are suddenly cheaper by several%, which means that the more you buy, the more you earn.

Akio Morita even directly told Peterson: I will give you a $2 billion acquisition budget, and you will find a publisher of one of the top eight Hollywood filmmakers and buy it. We, Japan, also have to have a top Hollywood filmmaker that we control.

From 1986 to 1990, the four years when Japan's most rampant carnival were clamoring to "buy the United States", and Sony was the pioneer among them.

This background made Wang An unable to guess at the first time, who was entrusted by Peterson’s purpose?

Is Prime Minister Nakasone who wants to see him? Let him sit together with Akio Morita to discuss and provide some advice on Japan's strategic layout of the computer industry?

Or... the head of an Eastern country that is older than Japan wants to see him?

Chinese viewers in later generations may find this misunderstanding incredible, because the Chinese only know the "863 Plan".

But in fact, after Li Gen teased out a "Star Wars" plan the year before yesterday, major economies or economic alliances around the world had similar plans to concentrate their efforts on automation technology and aerospace technology.

For example, the European Community, the predecessor of the EU, was led by France in 1985 and introduced the "Eureka Plan".

The Soviets also had their own countermeasures.

So are Japanese people.

So back to the international perspective at that time, the Chinese people's "863 Plan" was actually not very eye-catching and did not attract international hatred.

Just like the "Four trillion" proposed by later generations in 2008, it is very conspicuous among Chinese people, but looking at the international community, at the same time, Japan's "28 trillion yen plan" and the EU's "700 billion euro plan", both of which are similar economic stimulus plans.

So, from Peterson's standpoint, there is nothing to hide: "It's not Akio Morita and Prime Minister Nakasone, it's Gu Ao who wants to ask you to go to China."

"Chinese? Do Chinese have any big plans?" Wang Anliu was slightly alert.

He still treats himself as an American at heart, but if the Chinese look for him, it will be a little better than if the Japanese look for him.

"Don't worry, what big plans can Chinese people have - it's just a vigilant mentality for the weak. It's a minimizing defensive layout of the "Star Wars Plan" and the "Eureka Plan" and there's no threat. They just want to not be pulled too far by the mainstream international society."

Peterson controlled his words with the tone of Gu Ao's explanation and said temptingly.

It seems that Chinese people are harmless.
Chapter completed!