God of Rebirth Trader

Chapter 298 California Log Cabin

"We did lose too many talents in those years."

There was a wry smile on Chen Weidong's face, unable to defend this incident at all.

Those who are employed face the front, those who are not employed face the rear.

If it hadn't been for the outflow of a large number of our talents overseas, which caused technological gaps in many industries, it would not have been so difficult to catch up in the following decades.

"Mr. Ma, have you ever considered returning to China and continuing to contribute to the country? Now that the country has opened up and adopted a market-oriented economy, it is completely different." Li Yun's throat slid a few times, and he finally plucked up the courage to take a step forward.

asked.

"Haha, I'm used to it here..."

Ma Jiancheng shook his head slightly, with a half-smiling expression that made Li Yun completely confused as to how to continue.

"Mr. Ma, can you show us your office? We want to know more about Silicon Valley." Seeing that he didn't want to talk about it, Chen Weidong could only change the topic.

"Of course." Ma Jiancheng nodded and led them away.

Through a short exchange, he had already figured out that Chen Weidong and the others were most likely not ordinary people. The clothes they wore could not find any nameplates, and they were very decent. They were most likely hand-customized and worth a lot of money.

Including the three people who followed them behind, their calm yet sharp temperament made him feel vaguely familiar.

About ten years ago, when he was working in a domestic research unit, he once saw a high-level leader followed by two similar bodyguards.

So, a lot of things are self-evident.

Chen Weidong didn't know that their identities had been guessed by the other party, and he looked at the environment along the way with great interest.

According to Ma Jiancheng's introduction, the area they saw in front of them was home to more than 300 small companies.

Moreover, many companies are semi-open to facilitate investors to visit, and it is very common for acquaintances to visit each other to discuss some technical issues.

Although there are entrepreneurial companies everywhere, the average survival life of most of them does not exceed five years.

However, as long as a company can be based in Silicon Valley for a long time, no matter how small it is, it must have some advantages.

They all have their own way of survival.

Maybe it depends on the licensing fee of a certain patented technology, or maybe it has a mature commercial product.

Here, what you most often hear is that a certain small company has been sought after by venture capital because it has developed a certain new technology or product.

Then, through a series of capital operations, it was successfully listed on NASDAQ and became a hot favorite in the financial market.

The founders and shareholders of the company have also become very rich.

After walking for a while, I turned a corner.

They finally arrived at Ma Jiancheng's residence and office.

A detached cabin.

Excluding the garage next to it, it looks like it only has an area of ​​about 100 square meters from the outside.

The exterior wall of the house is painted with white paint, which has probably turned slightly yellow over the years. It is paired with a gray pointed roof, which is a very common architectural style in the United States.

"Why are there so many wooden houses in California? Could it be that the quality is very poor..." Chen Jie looked around and found that almost all of them were this kind of houses. He couldn't help but muttered.

Compared with the reinforced concrete buildings that can be seen everywhere in New York, California is too shabby and feels inferior to the red brick houses in China.

Chen Weidong almost laughed out loud. Before he could explain to him, Ma Jiancheng said, "Ahem, actually, there are large expanses of fast-growing poplar forests growing in many areas of North America, providing people with plenty of wood."

“Since the last century, the United States has built a complete industrial chain from logging to housing construction.”

"Many technical issues have developed extremely maturely, which has greatly reduced the cost of building houses in the United States. Even people who are not rich can own a beautiful small villa."

"Wouldn't there be serious safety and quality problems when building a house with wood?" Chen Jie immediately thought of the key points.

When he was in Xiangjiang, he had been engaged in real estate and knew that even commercial housing made of reinforced concrete could theoretically be used for 50-80 years according to design standards.

However, in fact, the situation of cutting corners in commercial housing is very serious.

Many houses will become dilapidated in less than fifty years.

In order to save costs, most houses will start to develop various problems before they are more than 30 years old, such as aging pipes, aging wiring, alkaline reflection on the walls, etc.

Only self-built houses that are willing to spend real materials will have a longer service life.

Especially in some commercial high-rise residential buildings, you can clearly feel that the quality of the house has deteriorated significantly after you have lived there for more than ten years.

How long can you live in a wooden house like the one in the United States?

Shouldn't maintenance and decoration be carried out every three days?

"There are indeed some problems, but they are not as serious as you think. It can also be said that the worries are unfounded."

"Ignore the American houses for now, but look at the many buildings in our Forbidden City, all of which are made of wood and have been preserved to this day."

"In fact, many wooden villas in the United States are well preserved."

"There are still many second-hand houses in California from the 1920s, all with wooden structures. They are still in good condition now. Americans are not stupid. If the houses are easy to break down, no one will buy them. Those poor people have long been sleeping rough because of real estate problems.

It's on the street." Ma Jiancheng smiled and patiently explained to Chen Jie.

"But now that we have entered the 21st century, why do American builders still use wood as building materials instead of reinforced concrete?"

Chen Jie still refused to give up and asked another question.

"This reason is more complicated."

"I just mentioned the cost issue. The construction of a wooden house is lower than that of reinforced concrete. Another advantage is that the construction of a wooden house is simple, fast, and the technology is mature."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You may not know that labor costs in the United States are very expensive. The wages of construction site workers are not at the same level as those of Chinese migrant workers, and American workers are always

If you are not happy, go on strike to defend your rights, which is totally difficult to manage."

"If there are one or two black people among them, then many things are not issues of employment rights. If you are not careful, the label of racial discrimination will be slapped on, which will make the builders suffer. So, do you understand?"

As Ma Jiancheng spoke, he led Chen Weidong and the others into the villa. The living room here was very small, and it could even be said that there was no living room.

There is only a large brown old-fashioned sofa and a small glass coffee table.

The remaining space has been transformed into workbench and storage shelves, where countless electronic components and memory sticks are piled, but most of them are covered with dust.

The entire living room is almost like a small warehouse.

However, what surprised Chen Weidong was that in a small room on the right, there was a small computer produced by IBM!

Several of the interfaces are connected to five personal computers with different numbers.

On the expansion rack on the wall, the yellow signal light flashes at a high frequency, indicating that a data flow is passing through, and it should be a computing activity for a certain project.

Ma Jiancheng worked for a while and made a cup of hot coffee for all six of them. Then he said with some embarrassment: "To make you laugh, I usually work here. I also have a friend who teaches at Stanford University and occasionally works here."

I will come here, but two grown men are not so particular, so it’s a bit messy..."

Chen Weidong and others nodded repeatedly to express their understanding.

Men are like this. When they are busy, they don’t care about these little things. Only when they really can’t stand it anymore, they will take the time to clean it up.

Only some women would chatter for a long time if a few hairs fell out or a footprint was left on the floor.

This is also an important reason why many scientific researchers never marry.

It's really troublesome.

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