My Age of Investment

Time unknowingly entered September.

The temperature in the Bay Area has not changed much, and it still maintains a comfortable temperature of more than 20 degrees Celsius during the day and more than 10 degrees Celsius at night.

After the matter with Tesla came to an end, Xia Jingxing suddenly became idle.

When he had nothing to do, he planted flowers with foreign girls at home, went swimming, played games that young people liked to play, and occasionally visited the construction site on the barren hills of Los Altos.

His first "Twenty-Four Palaces" finally started construction.

Bai Lizhong attached great importance to his list and wanted to establish a good relationship with him, so he made it a benchmark case. After changing the draft three times, he finally came up with a design that satisfied both him and the foreign girl.

In the new design plan, the entire manor will cover an astonishing 50.21 acres, five times the area of ​​the original plan, equivalent to about 203,193 square meters.

A little image expression is a piece of land with a length of 500 meters and a width of 400 meters.

Because it is a mountainous area, the shape is very irregular, so the length and width will not be so uniform.

Before the official start of construction, Xia Jingxing took a low-altitude helicopter flight to inspect his homestead. It was a vertical oval piece of land with a long depth and a short width. The detailed data of length and width was about 700 meters x 300 meters. Rice, very similar to a lady's supplies.

In Bailey's design plan, the front hill will be filled with various precious flowers and trees, and the main building built on the flat hillside will be wrapped in green hills and green bushes to achieve excellent privacy.

A viewing path paved with stone steps can lead directly to the private zoo and organic farm in the back mountain.

It is equivalent to separating the living environment from the living environment of animals, which not only meets the needs of having a zoo at home, but also will not be disturbed by various strange smells.

Xia Jingxing was extremely satisfied with this.

Of course, the price behind the extreme satisfaction is an extremely expensive monetary expenditure.

He spent an additional US$70 million to buy other land in the barren hills. If the US$12 million he paid for the land was added, the total cost for this barren mountain was nearly US$100 million.

He currently has different plans for the funds in his hands, and if he can't afford the more than 70 million US dollars, it is Goldman Sachs who arranged a bridge land mortgage loan to solve this problem.

Xia Jingxing and Zhang Chenguang stood side by side, looking at the construction site not far away where the mud was flying.

Dozens of brown-skinned construction workers in hard hats and work vests are getting to work.

They occasionally stop to drink water, smoke a cigarette, and chat with the workers in twos and threes in Spanish.

But it won't take too long to rest, and these people will soon put themselves into work consciously.

"Jing Xing, isn't the work efficiency of these construction workers too low?"

Zhang Chenguang shook his head, thinking that Americans are so lazy.

"Is this inefficient? These Latin American migrant workers are much more diligent than white Americans."

"Ah, they are not Americans?" Zhang Chenguang asked in surprise.

"Who told you they were Americans? This work is too tiring and prone to work-related injuries, and Americans can't do it.

Many low-skilled positions are filled by foreign workers, basically people from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico who came to the United States to make a living. "

Xia Jingxing introduced: "These Latin American countries are all rotten to the root, and they all rely on the little local products for their livelihood, and the local economy is terrible.

The U.S. dollars remitted home by these foreign workers are the main source of foreign exchange for many countries, and the export of labor is also a pillar industry in many countries, and the same is true for Filipino maids. "

Zhang Chenguang suddenly realized, "So it is like this, it is similar to our country's farmers going to work in cities."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "When I arrived in the "city", I found that life here is much better than my hometown, it's almost like heaven, so many Hispanics launched the "City" movement vigorously.

Just look at it, in a few decades, Hispanics should turn into serfs and sing! "

The two were talking,

Liu Xiaoduo, who was wearing business attire, walked over with her mobile phone.

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Andy Rubin is calling."

"Alright, give me the phone!" Xia Jingxing took the phone.

"Andy, let me guess, there must be some good news for me, right?"

"Hahaha~, Daren, I can't hide anything from you. Our system has basically taken shape, and we have developed some interesting software. I would like to invite you to come and experience it, and then give us some advice."

"Okay, I see, see you later!"

Xia Jingxing hung up the phone and handed the phone back to Liu Xiaoduo.

Zhang Chenguang strode forward and opened the rear door. Xia Jingxing got in first, and then Liu Xiaoduo got into the co-pilot.

Zhang Chenguang was the last to get in the car. He quickly started the car, turned around, and drove from the mountainside to Palo Alto.

After a while, the car drove into a park.

After the car was parked, Xia Jing walked down and took the elevator up to the third floor.

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he saw a green robot logo with two antennas on its head, which was very conspicuous.

Andy Rubin was standing at the front desk, and when he saw Xia Jingxing appearing, he rushed up to greet him.

Behind him are Lin Bing, Zhou Guangping, Huang Jiangji and other middle and high-level executives of the mobile phone company.

"Daren~"

"President Xia~"

...

A group of people greeted Xia Jingxing with smiles.

Zhou Guangping, Lin Bing and others arrived in the United States with Xia Jingxing for two months. They did not return to China during the journey and stayed in the United States.

During this period, in addition to establishing a US branch, they are also continuing to cooperate with Android.

So seeing them appear here, Xia Jingxing was not surprised at all.

Xia Jingxing and Andy Rubin touched their fists, and exchanged a few words with others.

Then, surrounded by a large group of people, he walked into the company.

Walking through the open office area, Xia Jingxing found a mass of people's heads in the dark, and the androids had grown a lot compared to last year.

Andy Rubin led the way and introduced as he walked: "Daren, in this year, the size of our R\u0026D team has expanded by more than ten times. Now there are 150 R\u0026D personnel in the entire company."

Xia Jingxing nodded, pointed to the office area and said, "Last year, this office felt very empty, but now it looks a bit small. If we expand the number of staff in the future, we can consider renting out the entire park, or renting out the entire park."

"Daren, we haven't produced any benefits yet, so let's just make do with the office. When the company makes money in the future, consider renting a whole park."

Andy Rubin has gone through a lot of hard times before starting a business, and he is very satisfied with the current office environment, so he speaks very sincerely.

Xia Jingxing glanced at Andy Rubin, smiled and nodded, "Okay, let's make do with it first, and then buy the land and build an office building by myself."

The reason why Tesla rents an entire campus is because there are a large number of workshops and laboratories, and Android mainly makes software, and it does not need a large office.

Xia Jingxing understood this, so he didn't bother to worry about these small problems.

Andy Rubin is a bit stingy, just save him some money, this kind of treasure should be cherished by employees.

Passing through the open office area, a group of people walked into a meeting room.

After taking their seats, Xia Jingxing looked at Andy Rubin, "Where are the things?"

Andy Rubin clapped his hands with a smile, and a strong man wearing black sunglasses and a suit walked in at the door carrying a small lockbox.

Under Xia Jingxing's surprised gaze, the strong man gently placed the box on the table, put on a pair of white gloves, and opened the box without haste.

A small and exquisite baby was quietly lying in the pit in the password box, and the surroundings were tightly fixed.

The strong man took a lot of effort to dig out the thing, and handed it to Xia Jingxing with both hands.