When the plane was about to land at the San Francisco Airport, Dong Qianqian, who had been observing Ning Zimo from the side and rear, curiously asked Tang Ruiwen beside her: "Wenwen, what happened to Zimo?"

"The boss?~~~Maybe~~encountered some difficult things?"

Tang Ruiwen followed Dong Qianqian's line of sight and glanced at the dazed back, and after thinking about it, she answered ambiguously.

She has worked with Dong Qianqian for nearly five years, so she is naturally very familiar with Dong Qianqian's words. When she calls the boss "Zimo", she often puts herself into the role of a sister to care.

But even if Tang Ruiwen knew what her partner wanted to ask, her mind immediately recalled that day when she vaguely saw the pair of figures standing close together in the office through the frosted glass.

The blush on Miss Sima's face when they went out and the wrinkles on the boss's clothes all indicated that something "special" happened in the chairman's office after Lin Changxin and the others left that day.

But how could I explain this matter clearly to her? Emotional matters are the most complicated things in the world, not to mention that Miss Sima is too special. The first deep impression she made on me can be traced back to Christmas 2003.

The days before the festival.

At that time, the Emperor Penguin was not as famous as it is now, and that month the Emperor Penguin also encountered the most difficult moment. Someone in China sealed the office of the Emperor Penguin at the time, and the foreign negotiations for the sale of Skype were stuck at a critical point.

It's difficult to move even an inch.

At that moment when internal and external troubles broke out together, making the usually calm leader feel impetuous, that girl Sima traveled thousands of miles from China to Luxembourg.

Long time no see,

A warm hug.

She used the simplest way to calm him down. From that time on, Tang Ruiwen knew that she would definitely have a bond with the boss. But who can tell clearly about feelings, five years passed and they often stayed together.

Being together is a "bizarre" state of being more than friendship but not enough to be lovers.

Tang Ruiwen has never been in love, so she naturally doesn't know what happened between them that day and what the outcome will be.

She couldn't tell Dong Qianqian that the "brother" she cared about was having relationship problems, right?

As these miscellaneous thoughts swirled in her mind, Tang Ruiwen frowned unconsciously. Dong Qianqian looked at her strange expression and was even more curious, but she didn't know how to proceed with the topic just now.

Perhaps he is worried about the difficult things he encountered this time?

After all, this is the first time Emperor Penguin has encountered pressure outside the mall.

…

Ning Zimo finally came back to his senses when the plane's wheels and the runway made friction and vibration. However, during the short period of time when the plane was parked, something that had made him feel confused recently came to his mind unconsciously.

The afternoon before yesterday, Sima Lin suddenly and boldly said those three words to herself, but at that moment, the shadows of Sima Lin and Ling Shengnan were confused together in his mind. So much so that whenever his mind was free in the past two days, he would not

Consciously remember the chaos of that moment.

He couldn't figure out why the two people overlapped at that moment, and he even couldn't figure out how he had no idea how to deal with feelings in two lifetimes!

If he hadn't been flying to the United States in just one day, he almost didn't know how to face Sima Lin.

Fortunately,

Come and keep distance,

Maybe there is still time to think...

"Master~~ San Francisco has arrived."

Tang Ruiwen's voice came from beside him. Ning Zimo looked back and saw Dong Qianqian's curious eyes. He quickly put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, stood up and threw his bag behind him.

"Well, let's go."

Looking at his hastily dodging back, Tang Ruiwen's doubts deepened.

***+***

"rather!!!"

"Peter..."

At the airport exit, Peter Thiel personally came to pick him up and gave Ning Zimo a big hug as soon as they met.

After the two of them let go of their arms, Peter took a good look at the secretarial team behind Ning Zimo. After all, he was a person who had been dealing with people for a long time. His expression was as usual when he glanced at Tang Ruiwen, as if he didn't care about the look on Tang Ruiwen's face at all.

Scar on half face.

"I have long heard from Hoffman and the others that you Emperor Penguins have a group of secretaries with great temperament and excellent abilities. Today I finally got to see them. It's really better to meet in person than to be famous."

"Emmmm, your English translation into Chinese really makes my head hurt." Ning Zimo smiled bitterly.

Ning Zimo secretly met Peter Thiel once in the first half of the year. At that time, it was to prepare for Bing's listing in the United States, so he did not bring Tang Ruiwen and others with him.

Even if we include that meeting, Ning Zimo only had a few meetings with Peter Thiel, his former boss, after 2001.

But fortunately, I had established a profound revolutionary friendship while working at PayPal, so the foundation of trust with him was still very deep.

After a pause, Ning Zimo said, "When I come here this time, in addition to me following your arrangements, everyone in the secretarial team also has to go out and collect some key information. After all, the iPhone Zero product has been planned for many years, and there is really no room for it.

accident."

"Yes, for such a disruptive product, I can't bear to see it gather dust." Peter raised the iPhone zero in his hand.

iPhone Zero has started formal production since the Antarctic chip was successfully taped out. As of this time today, the monthly production volume of iPhone Zero has risen to 2 million units per month in June.

Including the 150,000 units trial-produced in batches in May, a total of 215,000 units have been produced now. According to the cost of 1,100 yuan per unit, just this batch of goods will cost 2.5 billion yuan, totaling 368 million US dollars.

Emperor Penguin has never been short of money since 2004, but the ambitious Emperor Penguin cannot always let these funds idle, but must fully mobilize them. If Apple's ZZ public relations is really achieved, it will reach 300 million per month.

Many dollars of cost will be wasted on your hands.

Ning Zimo shrugged, "So this time I have to rely on you to help deal with it."

"No problem, I will take you to meet someone first tomorrow morning." Peter Thiel opened his arms and smiled, "But before going, you need to read the information I prepared so that you can have an understanding of the political situation in the United States.

OK."

"no problem……"

…

Not long after Li Ying bought the villa, Ning Zimo also bought one across the street from Li Ying, and the group quickly returned to the villa in Mountain View City. After a simple settlement, Ning Zimo went first with Peter

living room.

While handing over a piece of information, Peter praised, "I didn't expect you to have such a stronghold in Mountain View. The surrounding environment looks pretty good."

Ning Zimo smiled when he took the information, "It's not a problem to stay in a hotel all the time when you come to the United States, so I just bought a house like this for the convenience of working."

After a simple introduction, Ning Zimo focused on the information handed over by Peter.

He also explained on the side, "The use of ZZ donations by American companies to suppress Chinese companies has happened before. I had people sort out the previous information, and this one is the knowledge between Cisco and Huawei from 2003 to 2004.

Information on property rights litigation.

I don’t know, but after learning more about it, I realized that this time you are actually facing a big hurdle in the launch of iPhone Zero. In fact, the giants of the American computer and Internet industries invest huge sums of money in lobbying Congress every year, thus affecting the

Policy formulation seeks interests.

According to statistics from the U.S. Political Contribution Database (), Cisco began lobbying Congress in 1998, and the cumulative amount in the past 10 years has been as high as 10 million U.S. dollars.

From 2002 to 2004, Cisco's lobbying expenses doubled year by year. Echoing this, Cisco formally sued Huawei in January 2003. In June, the U.S. District Court ruled that Huawei should stop using the controversial code, but it held that Cisco

There was not enough evidence to prove that Huawei plagiarized. In 2004, Cisco and Huawei reached a settlement, and the court terminated Cisco's lawsuit against Huawei..."

Ning Zimo frowned and read the information prepared by Peter. With Peter's analysis, he realized the seriousness of the problem. When he thought of the Prism Project that was exposed in his previous life, he paid more and more attention to it.

PRISM is a top-secret electronic surveillance program implemented by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007. The official name of the program is "US-984XN".

In previous lives, the British "Guardian" and the American "Washington Post" reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a secret surveillance project code-named "Prism" in 2007, directly accessing the U.S. Internet.

Internet companies mine data and collect intelligence in their central servers, and nine international Internet giants, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Apple, are involved.

Therefore, the so-called freedom is nothing but bullshit!

"It seems that if multinational companies want to grow bigger, they cannot be so simple at some point." Ning Zimo frowned.

Peter nodded, "Yes, the so-called elites always like to control everything when they do things. This country is an elite-oriented country, and naturally it must do its best to protect the interests of the elites."

"This is the main reason why I hate politics. On the one hand, it is a game for a small number of people. On the other hand, as long as the consciousness is wrong, they will wrongly represent the majority of people." Ning Zimo curled his lips and said, "On the other hand, I am also easy to

Got 404."

Peter shrugged, "But you don't have to worry too much. After all, they have created a set of rules, and as long as you follow this set of rules, you can play games with them."
Chapter completed!