Chapter 318

Henry immediately sent someone to contact the DEC company, but I'm afraid it will take some time to talk about it. Instead, it started with the acquisition of Hughes aerospace and communications by general motors.

General Motors specializes in selling cars, and he owns Hughes aerospace and communications mostly for investment. Of course, part of the technology is also needed. If someone offers the right price, they don't mind selling the company. After five rounds of negotiations, SpaceX and General Motors finally acquired Hughes aerospace and communications company with a total capital of 6 billion US dollars, including Hughes laboratory!

SpaceX could have bought Hughes aerospace and communications for $5 billion and owned Hughes labs with general motors. But in order to take full control of Hughes lab, SpaceX added an extra $1 billion!

Just as "weasel studio" is the core asset of Lockheed, Hughes laboratory is also the core asset of Hughes. Countless advanced technologies are born here. And the most outstanding talents of the whole company are all gathered in Hughes laboratory.

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

Henry attached great importance to Hughes laboratory. In addition to advanced aerospace technology, Hughes laboratory is also the earliest and most technologically advanced organization in the laser field!

If you think about it, a laser weapon will be installed on the satellite. If you don't like it, give it to him. Who can stop it at this speed of light?

If we build 800 satellites and each satellite is equipped with 10 laser weapons, the whole world will have to fear!

The intercontinental missile wanted to hit, but it was killed by laser weapons in the middle of the way.

The most effective way to deal with the party who has laser weapons is to use the other way to do the other. Yes, it is to use laser to fight laser!

Henry developed laser technology just in case, maybe it will be used in the future, and in his lifetime, maybe it will start the era of interstellar navigation, with more weapons and more security.

In independence day, the White House of the United States was used by aliens with laser weapons, and it was lost all of a sudden

That power is really terrible!

Now, there are four institutions or companies with the highest technology content under Henry's name: Williams x laboratory, weasel studio, SpaceX and Hughes laboratory.

Before he knew it, Henry fell in love with the acquisition of high-tech laboratories or studios. If he acquired world-class laboratories or studios, he would have the strongest technology.

Henry looked into the distance. There was a Bell laboratory in New Jersey

Bell laboratory is the birthplace of many important inventions, such as transistor, laser, solar cell, light-emitting diode, digital switch, communication satellite, electronic digital computer, cellular mobile communication equipment, long-distance TV transmission, simulation language, audio film, stereo recording, communication network, etc., and has obtained more than 25000 patents.

Originally, Bell Labs was jointly owned by at & T and Western Electronics, so it is not easy to acquire it. But soon, in 1996, a new company, Lucent, will be established on the basis of at & & T and Western Electronics, and Bell Labs belongs to Lucent. As long as the acquisition of Lucent, it is equivalent to having Bell Labs!

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At 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995, Kobe, Japan, experienced a 7.2-magnitude earthquake!

The news of the earthquake soon spread all over the world. As soon as Henry heard the news, he immediately reflected that it was the famous Hanshin earthquake in Japan, which killed more than 5400 people, injured more than 34000 people, collapsed and damaged more than 190000 houses, and caused a direct economic loss of $100 billion! In Kobe City, because of gas leakage and dense wooden houses, it caused rapid chain fires. For example, in Nagata District of Kobe, all the wooden houses were burned, which was the biggest disaster in Japan after World War II!

Because of this incident, it even led to the closure of the British Baring Bank! Because of the earthquake, the Nikkei index plummeted, while Barings Bank bought a lot more, resulting in a loss of billions of dollars!

Henry has seen some pictures about the Hanshin earthquake. It's terrible!

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

Many countries, companies, institutions or individuals donated money one after another. In his heart, Henry expressed his most sincere sympathy to the Japanese victims, but the donation was free. As the world's richest man, he donated less, others have to say; The Japanese government donated more and got a lower price. It's not easy to make money. Money doesn't come from strong winds. How can we say to donate! What's more, the Japanese government has a lot of money. Does it need others to donate money? However, Henry did not donate at all. Henry asked his Japanese company to be a little more interesting and donate some money. After all, the company has developed greatly, and it is also a Japanese company. If it doesn't donate any money, after the earthquake, others will have to gossip and spit?

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

Japan's economy has just recovered after the 1990 real estate crash. However, the Hanshin Earthquake gave Japan a heavy blow, making the Japanese economy back a few years! By the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Japan will suffer another severe blow!

Henry thought about it, and felt that Japan was a bit of a terror. Successive attacks could not stop its development speed. Its economic and technological strength also developed very strongly!

Henry muttered to himself: "it seems that when the Asian financial crisis happened in 1997, we had to be tough on 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 their impact on technology companies is very small, and the scope of attack is not wide enough. And Henry reached out to buy those companies, it didn't mean much.

Little by little, the Hanshin earthquake has faded out of people's sight.

On January 26, 1995, kailinna invited Henry to China to spend the Chinese New Year with her parents, which is actually to see their parents.

Henry thought about it and agreed. He and kailinna have long established a relationship, but for many years, Henry has never met kailinna's parents. For one thing, Henry was shy of meeting his parents; Second, her parents have moved to Beijing, so it's not easy to see each other. This time, although kailinna invited herself, most of her parents forced her to meet her. In that case, it's not a big deal to meet. Henry thought that he hadn't returned to China for a long time. This time, he went to Beijing, and then to his hometown in his previous life

Henry has been afraid to send someone to investigate whether there is another self in his hometown. He is afraid of the change caused by the butterfly effect! He would rather not know than hear the news that disappointed him. He is now alone, no parents, no relatives, despite hundreds of billions of dollars, but still often feel very lonely at night. Sometimes he would be in a daze, looking at the vast starry sky, tears streaming rain; Sometimes he would be extremely eager to fly to China, to see the land with his own eyes, to find his relatives in the past life!

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