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   Chapter 809 Borrowing chickens to lay eggs

   Holding the wine glass and taking a sip, Adrian couldn't help thinking of the scene when he first met Song Yang.

At that time, Adrian, just like this time, was going to enter the Houston municipality to compete for the position of Houston's boss, while Song Yang was just a fledgling, just got a tens of millions of venture capital, and became a new thousand-year-old. millionaire.

   Adrian would never have imagined that this unintentional meeting would completely change Adrian's career.

   "Yes, I remember, Kenneth was sitting there..."

  Song Yang also remembered some past events. When he came to this club for the first time, he was just an unimportant person. Enron President Kenneth and others called Song Yang lucky.

But now, everything has changed. Song Yang is here today, and his status is the same as that of Kenneth, or even better. If Song Yang and Kenneth are sitting here now, those who tout Song Yang will probably still have more. A few more points.

   "The director of the Houston Space Center will be here today, Song, do you really want to do that space exploration or something?"

   Adrian asked Song Yang with a bit of curiosity, incomprehension, and a bit of doubt.

  Space and the aerospace industry are really too expensive. In the 1960s and 1970s, America burned for ten years regardless of the cost, and finally died because there was no income.

   Even the American Space Agency was messing up. Song Yang wanted to play a private space exploration company, and Adrian was really skeptical.

Of course, it's just that he can't figure it out. Adrian will not question Song Yang's decision. Just like the former richest man Bill Gates likes to collect the periodic table of elements, those rich people always like to do things that ordinary people can't imagine. Adrian also attributed Song Yang's space exploration to that category.

   Facing Adrian's answer, Song Yang's righteous words were still the same as those he answered in front of the TV station.

   "Sure, why not?"

The fat and water do not flow to outsiders, and there is no cheap but no bastard. Song Yang has no interest in building a rocket launch base by himself, at least not now, until someday when space tourism, satellite launches, and supplies for the space station are stabilized. , Song Yang will build one, but before that, Song Yang will not invest too much money in it.

  The title of any city has its own origin. Houston is called the Space City, not for no reason. The Houston Space Center is the largest R&D and control center for rockets and spaceships in America.

   No matter if NASA is willing to cooperate with Song Yang or not, but as a local snake in Houston, with such a big piece of fat in the space center in front of him, if you don't rub some oil and water, it is really unreasonable!

   "Before the airplane became a new means of transport, no one thought that it could be the same means of transport as a carriage, a car, or a train.

   In the same way, maybe there will be countless people in the future who choose space tourism, or even go to Mars, the moon…”

Song Yang is not a boss Ma after all. He is bragging, but he is still a little cautious. He doesn't dare to talk about colonizing Mars, establishing a permanent residence on Mars. The tool logically explains everything perfectly, but as for the difficulty, as long as the PPT is well written, there will always be leeks delivered to your door!

Listening to this lofty answer, Adrian rubbed his head. These things were too illusory to him. Adrian felt that these things seemed to be very powerful, but those things that happened decades later, What does it have to do with him now? What he needs most now is votes and campaign funds.

   "If I win this time, I will let the Texas State Legislature pass the bill to support the space industry. At that time, your space exploration company, Song, will be the first company to receive support funds!"

   Adrian didn't know much about SpaceX, but he was familiar with other things, so he gave Song Yang a wave of returns without concealment.

This is the advantage of having one's own people. The so-called support of the space industry is to support Song Yang's space exploration company, and to set up a special project. Of course, when it is announced to the public, Adrian's slogan should be loudly shouted, for example, "Heavy" To shake up America's aerospace industry, reasons can always be found...

No more or less every year, subsidy of 200-300 million US dollars, and then hand over the business of rocket launch in Texas to Song Yang's Space Exploration Company, these are basic operations, other industries, also Most of them play that way.

This is the current rules of the game in America, and no one will say anything. After all, every state has a budget every year, and a considerable part of the budget is used for "special" expenditures. Otherwise, how will everyone's good days come? , The money in the budget, which company to give subsidies to, must have been arranged long ago.

  Song Yang had a glass of wine with Adrian and said with a smile, "I think, Adrian, your decision has saved America's space exploration industry!

  I will put the headquarters of SpaceX in Texas. It is expected to provide about 1,000 high-paying jobs in Texas at the beginning, and 6,000, 10,000 or even higher jobs in the future! "

Adrian readily accepted Song Yang's proposal. He knew that Song Yang was giving him performance. In America, if a congressman could get a job and earn a high salary of more than $200,000 a year, then He can attract a large number of supporters.

   "Adrian, the Bruno family will support you in the Texas election next month!"

  Song Yang said to Adrian that after Christmas, the battle for the top spot in Texas is about to heat up. Whoever wins will be able to ascend to the throne of governor before February after Christmas.

If Adrian becomes, Texas will enter the Adrian era. As one of the most special states in America, the governor of Texas has no term limit, that is, as long as Adrian If he can do it, and if he wants to, he can do it to the death in this position.

But at Adrian's age, he obviously won't stop there. I'm afraid he wants to follow in the footsteps of the little cowboy. After accumulating fame, contacts and experience in Texas, he will directly attack the position of the commander. Second, he also wants to enter Capitol Hill to become one of the top 100 elders!

   "Tom DeLay and the little cowboy family have all endorsed me, and with your support, Song, this election in Texas, if nothing else happens, I…"

Adrian also said confidently, Tom DeLay is now the party whip of the elephant party, and the little cowboy is the elephant party who will launch it next year to play the big commanding arena. Both of them publicly endorsed Adrian. big.

Song Yang is now one of the biggest sponsors of the Xiang Party. It is very likely that in the next ten years, Song Yang will also support Adrian. Any member of the Party with a little brain will not jump out and talk to Ai Dian. Derian fought to the death, otherwise there will be too many people offended. In the future, do you want to hang on?

   As for the Donkey Party, Texas is a red-necked state with strong roots. Whoever comes from the Donkey Party will probably not work well.

   Sending Adrian up is also what Song Yang needs. With Adrian on it, Song Yang can do more things in Houston and Texas, and reach out to more industries!

   "This is Lori Javier, the director of the Houston Space Center. NASA has sent an invitation to Javier. He is likely to be the deputy director of the Federal Space Agency!"

   While Song Yang and Adrian were talking, a person was brought into the club. When he saw the person coming, Adrian whispered to Song Yang.

   But before Adrian finished speaking, Lori Javier came to Song Yang excitedly, "Song, I heard that you got the RD180 rocket engine!"

   "funk, this is the best Christmas present I've received this year. I've said it before, why does America's spaceship rely on the rocket engine of the old Maozi!

  Song, don’t worry, as long as your space exploration company can produce a qualified RD180 rocket engine, the price…”

  Lori Javier hesitated, but still said, "If the price is right, I will personally purchase rocket engines from the Federal Space Agency of America and your SpaceX!"

   As soon as they met, before Song Yang could speak, Lori Javier smashed the cake directly. For a while, Song Yang couldn't figure out what kind of routine he was using.

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