From the Island Owner to the King

After finally squeezing out the enthusiastic crowd, Chen Rui left.

Carrying a backpack, I headed west along Route 66, ready to walk along the road, take a ride through New Mexico, Arizona, California, and arrive at a city most familiar to Chinese, San Francisco.

Chen Rui will be in San Francisco for a week off.

American roads are very vast and wild, forming a special road culture.

On the highway, after walking for less than an hour, I easily caught a family self-driving car.

\u0026nbs "Pig", "Pig" and "Island" novels www.zhuzud.omp; This is a family of three, a young couple around 30 years old, a beautiful and lovely little girl aged 8 or 9, and the family of three are all American-Chinese. I live in San Francisco Chinatown. I speak Chinese very smoothly, with some Taiwanese accents. The accent is softer, faster, and there are more words. The pronunciation is very different from the mainland, and you can hear it.

When Chen Rui asked, he realized that they were the second generation from Taiwan Island. They grew up in Taiwan Island when they were children. In the primary and middle schools on Taiwan Island, they accepted traditional Chinese culture. More than ten years ago, their parents who were engaged in business followed Moved to San Francisco, USA.

I have lived in the United States for more than ten years and have adapted to life in the United States. I have a very stable job in the United States. The husband and wife work in Silicon Valley, a program engineer in an IT company, and the wife works in a law firm.

Very happy family.

Like all Americans, they don't take work as their whole life and enjoy life very much.

The family is traveling by car.

Chen Rui and the little girl Andy sat behind the car and drove.

The little girl happily told Chen Rui about the place she had just been to.

Texas prairie, Nevada desert, Utah saline. Snow Mountains in Wyoming

Sitting in the car. The wheels were rolling on the road. Chen Rui turned his head and looked out the window. Looking around, he could see cornfields, Indian reservations, and the endless desert.

In the vast loess, during the sporadic distribution of cacti, it is full of western cowboy style, pubs selling sparkling water next to the highway town, neon motels, old-fashioned and old gas stations, listening to nostalgic western cowboys Chen Rui's thoughts drifted away. As the scenery outside the car window continued to rewind, his eyes lost focus, as if he had fallen into a time tunnel, returning to the era of western cowboys.

The legendary anecdotes of the west unfolded before our eyes.

Route 66 isn't just America's 'mother road'. It also witnesses the spirit of freedom, bravery and enterprising of Americans

Farewell to a family full of happiness and enthusiasm.

Chen Rui continued to move along Route 66.

January 18.

Enter California.

California is what everyone calls California.

California belonged to Mexico before 1848. After the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired 2.3 million square kilometers of land, including California, through a small-scale war.

Chen Rui has always believed that Americans are very lucky. God has opened the door for the United States. The United States not only has rich land, rich minerals, excellent harbors, long and narrow coastlines, and intertwined river networks.

The expansion of American territory is the history of God. In 1803, Louisiana, a huge and fertile plain with an area of ​​2.15 million square kilometers from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, was purchased from France for only $15 million. 3 cents per acre, a godsend windfall, opened the history of American territorial expansion! !

From 1810 to 1811, Florida, acquired from the Spaniards, cost only $5 million.

In 1846, the northern Oregon region was acquired from the British.

From 1846 to 1848, including California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, only $15 million in 'compensation' was spent.

In 1876, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands were purchased from Russia for $7.2 million.

In 1889, the United States acquired the Hawaiian Islands, the Pearl of the Pacific, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam

In more than 100 years, the United States has seized nearly 7 million square kilometers of territory with only 87 million US dollars of so-called "compensation funds". A country as big as China has only 9.6 million. If the earth is a game server, the United States will The plug-in is too big, and it abuses other game partners too badly.

Off topic not to say.

The most familiar images of California to Chinese people are the California Gold Rush, San Francisco, Chinatown, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.

Silicon Valley is located between San Jose and San Francisco.

Chen Rui's destination, San Francisco, happened to pass through Silicon Valley.

Chen Rui also took a look at Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is very quiet, the whole Silicon Valley is like a huge resort, quiet and beautiful.

In Silicon Valley, Chen Rui also felt the American culture. Those IT companies that are famous all over the world do not have the usual skyscrapers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. They are all small two- and three-story buildings. There are no big signs, no neon lights, only one by one. Simply tell us where this place is.

Here are headquarters, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Intel,

These companies are not open to the public, and tourists can only take pictures with the signs outside. Of course, if you have friends who work in these companies, you can ask your friends to bring them into the company to visit.

Chen Rui was fortunate enough to visit these companies by brushing his face.

Of course, the pictures of the visit are also transmitted to TVs, mobile phones, and computer screens around the world through live broadcast.

Many people use Apple's mobile phones, become die-hard Apple fans, and see Apple's internal workplace for the first time, where every iPhone is designed, like a 'pilgrimage'

Chen Rui's face brushing also directly saved money for meals.

Hearing that Chen Rui was visiting Microsoft, as the host, Bill Gatz invited Chen Rui to have a sumptuous dinner in the company's cafeteria.

Chen Rui left Silicon Valley.

I went to Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Napa Valley and other places to present the culture, humanities, and attractions of these places to the audience watching live broadcasts all over the world. This is also part of Chen Rui's journey around the world.

Chen Rui's trip around the world not only has thrilling and exciting adventures, treasures that people look forward to, the secrets of ancient civilizations, the ultimate secrets of the earth, but also different cultures, humanities, customs and so on in various places. (To be continued.)