The plane landed at San Francisco International Airport in the United States.

This is the first time Guan Fei has stepped onto American territory since he traveled through time and is very interested in this place.

People naively think that in the interstellar era, there will be no concept of a country, and that all human beings will be united under the same government. In fact, this is just a beautiful imagination of people.

Just as the difference in distribution creates classes, the needs of different interests allow humans to begin to have tribes and develop into countries.

The material richness will not allow everyone to take it at will. Those who master resources will always be at the top of the food chain. People with nothing can only sell their physical strength, intelligence, and even life in exchange for the various needs necessary for survival - in other words, money!

However, there is one advantage of the interstellar era, that is, the vast universe is too big, so big that if you want, you can never interact with people from another country.

When humans entered the universe, in addition to the limited early colonial planets, there were some conflicts. Later, after the development of long-range interstellar rapid navigation capabilities, frictions and disputes between various countries were increasingly reduced.

In the past, several major powers on the earth: the United States, China, Russia, and Europe, each chose one direction to expand their territory and mine resources. They no longer wanted to play with their opponents for the sake of ownership of a small planet. All countries are desperately expanding space in the universe. If anyone still fights with the other party to the end and gets entangled, it will eventually lead to their continued decline in strength and be able to be turned around and eat it in one bite!

In Guan Fei's memory, the American Interstellar Federation is just a noun, and there are not many people and things related to it, and it does not mean much to him.

But in this era, although it has reached its end, the United States and the Soviet Union are still in a Cold War, the international situation is still tense, and there is a danger of a full-scale war breaking out at any time.

In particular, the United States consumed its national strength after a series of wars such as the Korean War and Vietnam War, but failed to achieve the goal of erasing global communist movements and squeezing the survival space of competitors. However, after decades of development, the Soviet Union's national strength gradually increased and tried to further expand their power around the world.

The Afghan War is an example, and Vietnam's increasingly high voice in war against Cambodia is also an example.

Faced with the Soviet Union's increasing muscles and fierce aggression intentions, both China and the United States felt a real threat, and both sides began to quickly get closer.

In order to win over China, the United States even withdrew the US troops stationed in Taiwan.

According to memory, at the end of this year, the two countries will officially sign the "Joint Communiqué of China-US on Establishing Diplomatic Relations", ending their decades of confrontation, and economic, trade, scientific and cultural exchanges between the two sides have also begun to become increasingly frequent.

Perhaps due to this factor, the entry inspections received by Guan Fei and others were very relaxed, and the airport guards responsible for the inspection were all smiling and very polite to them.

After leaving the entrance, they met the pick-up staff of the San Francisco branch of Sagitar Trading who came to greet him.

Jiang Zeshui and Yu Dehai are both veterans in the business world. They signed the franchise conditions with the head office, and they had already started their preliminary work. Yu Dehai has a sales network in San Francisco and chose the store address early. After getting the one million checks delivered by the head office, he immediately rented the venue and started the mall decoration with great fanfare.

As a holding franchisee, the Sagitar store logos and store signs around the world are all the same design, and are uniformly called Sagitar to the outside world.

Among them, 30% of the venue on the left side of the store is exclusively owned by Sagitar Corporation.

The decoration of this part is also a global style, with a separate entrance and a unified shelf. It is divided into three groups by the front two and the back one. The first two exhibition areas are the Anti-Fight Toy City and the Home Appliance City, and the latter exhibition area is the display area of ​​several arcade machines.

These are also the three development directions set by Guan Fei for the future foreign economy of the Military Sub-district.

To sum it up, it is culture (toys, games) and electronics!

He never tries to promote Eastern culture to the West, and both sides are not the same system. Appreciate it, but accept it... it is difficult.

Culture is a kind of soft power, and it is the infiltration of strong civilizations into weak civilizations.

In this era, Eastern civilization is a weak civilization, and there is nothing to hide from. This weakness comes from the gap between the overall strength of the country and the West and its influence on the world's political territory.

Anyone who has to worry about fighting over it at any time, all the products he uses are developed and manufactured by himself. The only thing he is proud of is the past thousands of years ago. How can such a civilization be seen by arrogant Westerners?

So whether it is toys or games, he will also serve the types that Westerners like. Of course, he will also try to output a little product with oriental elements, not seeking to make money, but only hope that through long-term subtle influence, he can make the other party understand and cultivate some likings of oriental culture in a small amount. That is enough.

This time, Zeng Shuxian, Wang Yihong and others from Hongtai Advertising came on the same plane, and randomly brought a shooting team of more than a dozen people.

Guan Fei did not seek good reception conditions, so he rented a hotel in Chinatown. Although the living environment was a little narrower, he was satisfied with the Chinese food for each meal.

The store rented by Jiang Zeshui and others is located at the right end of Markey Street, which is just at the intersection with Chinatown. Markey Street is the most prosperous area in the city, extending from the city center to the northeast end, close to the Kinmen Road area.

The store is facing Makit Street, and the entrance to Financial Street is a hundred meters away on the right. Looking around, there are buildings.

The guard Li Qing, who came with Guan Fei, was stunned.

He followed Guan Fei and after arriving in Hong Kong, although he also looked at some buildings, compared with the twelve-story tall buildings in the new city of the Military Sub-district, he didn't think it was anything great. He always felt that it would not be difficult to build a more prosperous city than Hong Kong as long as he gave the Military Sub-district enough time.

But seeing countless tall buildings in San Francisco, including dozens of skyscrapers that are dozens of dozens of stories high, his confidence was a little shaken.

Skyscrapers not only give people a powerful impact, but also a symbol of wealth. The money to build ten seven-story buildings is less than one-score than a seventy-story skyscraper. A city can have one or two skyscrapers, but in San Francisco, there are many such buildings!

This is the architectural miracle that can only be accomplished by the richest country on earth in this era!

After going out, even if the citizens of such a country see the same prosperous city in other countries, they will nod at most and say "good" and more, pointing fingers and mocking the other country for its poor and weakness.

This is their national pride!

Unlike the later collapse of the Soviet Union and the United States' dominance, the Americans in this era are full of confidence in their own country, but they face strong enemies that are not weaker than themselves. After experiencing heavy casualties such as North Korea and Vietnam, they did not dare to be arrogant. The country's elites are not fools, and they know that at this time, the United States needs more helpers. In TV, newspapers and media, the news about China is basically positive. When it comes to Chinese people, most of them are positive and full of kindness to China and its people.

This also made Guan Fei and others' activities in San Francisco smoother. As long as the Americans they met knew they were from mainland China, they were full of curiosity without malice. They were often pulled by people to ask if they could really see the Great Wall in space.

And one advantage is that Taiyu Technology's arcade machine can easily land in the United States without any difficulties.

In the early stage, due to the piracy lawsuit, and because the lawyer team also selected some small pirates, the lawsuits were also smooth, and there were basically no twists and turns, Taiyu was sentenced to win.

Of course, the lawsuit was won, but I didn’t get much compensation.

It is one thing that the United States needs China, but it has not used its own money to please outsiders. It is already an extra generous thing for the United States to use this to make a fortune from various pirated merchants. Let’s dream!

But Guan Fei doesn't care.

Everyone makes money by making money, and the cost is basically the same. Who is afraid of Who!

His request is very simple: you admit that this thing is mine, not stolen from you, and don’t not only not give patent fees, but also blackmail me in turn. This is great.

As for several large companies that are blatantly pirating arcades and selling them all over the United States, then pirated them. My production capacity is so high that I can’t digest. If anyone is not given, just treat the entry fee you pay to enter this market.

His attitude of pretending to be confused also satisfies American businessmen.

If one of them invented this kind of game, in order to monopolize the market, he might get hurt all over with other companies. But since it was the first to develop it, and the R&D people were so dedicated, the business would be done well. Everyone makes money with their own production capacity, quality, and cost. How great is it!

It’s not that there is a big company that wants to say that "Space Invaders" was developed by themselves and brought this popular business into their arms. However, with the popularity of arcades, the world knows that this is the first research and development of Hong Kong Taiyu Technology Company and has long been famous. Moreover, other big companies also have ideas. If you own it, then who will I steal? Do you still have to submit copyright to you?

It’s better to just take it in Taiyu Technology, so that everyone can make a fortune by using it.

So under the restraint of all parties, Taiyu Technology's patent application in the United States was also extremely smooth, almost giving the green light all the way.

Over the past year, with the global marketing of "Space Invaders", various manufacturers are working hard and the market is becoming saturated.

By the beginning of this year, this arcade was no longer sold.

It’s not that the players are tired of this game, but that the owners of the entertainment venues they should buy. There are about two or three million units in the global market, but due to the loose copyright restrictions, many manufacturers have swallowed it up together, which quickly met the market demand in various places.

Therefore, no one paid more attention to Taiyu Technology's patent application, and all the arcade style patents, keyboard patents and other appearance design patents have been obtained.

Under this precedent, various patents such as portable audio recorders and walkmans have also been recognized in Europe and the United States with the acquiesce of many manufacturing giants, and no one has come out to cause trouble. Everyone is waiting to see if Taiyu Technology's attempt on civil electronics can set off a wave of global sales again.
Chapter completed!