Chapter 936 Tang’s Richest Man and "The Road to the Future"
The minutes of the meeting revealed a detail - after a brief speech by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers was asked to elaborate on Mexico's economic crisis in more detail and make recommendations for aid.
Lawrence Summers believes that - aid funds need at least 25billion.
Before Bill Clinton could speak, one of his political advisers took the line and asked Lawrence Summers—did you mean 25 million?
Lawrence Summers emphasized again - he meant 25billion.
The meeting room fell silent until another political adviser said——Mr. President, if you give this money to Mexico, not only will you not be able to get it back before 1996, but you will not even be able to get it back after 1996.
The subtext here naturally refers to - if Bill Clinton spends a huge amount of money to aid Mexico, which is in economic crisis, it may become a major reason for opponents to attack when they run for re-election.
However, Bill Clinton still decided to work with Lawrence Summers to formulate a plan to aid Mexico and seek Congressional approval.
It is not difficult to see from this that Bill Clinton is determined to make a move.
The main content of the 1995 Mexican Debt Disclosure Act first emphasized that Mexico is an important neighbor and trading partner of the United States, which is of great significance to the export of American products; It is to use the money of American taxpayers to help the Mexican government stabilize the Mexican peso.
However, in terms of specific numbers, Bill Clinton did not fully adopt Lawrence Summers' $25 billion, but $20 billion.
As for the shortfall, Bill Clinton enlisted help—$17.8 billion from the International Monetary Fund, $10 billion from the Bank for International Settlements, $1 billion from Latin American countries, and Canadian dollars from Canada.
In total, the aid funds raised by Bill Clinton led to $50 billion.
Of course, if the Mexican government wants to get aid, it must make various reforms in accordance with the meaning of the United States, and it must also deposit Mexican oil revenues with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In short, although Mexico is a bit miserable, it finally has big legs to hug.
In Tang Huan's view, even if there are opposition voices in Congress, it will not be a problem to pass the "1995 Mexican Debt Disclosure Act". Because the political, economic and other risks caused by the mess in Mexico are becoming more and more obvious, the United States is also afraid.
"There are so many powerful receivers, so you can rest assured." Looking at the figure of 50 billion US dollars, Tang Huan couldn't help smiling slightly.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and my little cousin Meng Jing walked in, "Brother, all the matters have been arranged for your old masterpiece-"Road to the Future", which is prepaid by the publisher." A check for $3.2 million."
Tang Huan ordered without looking at it, "Just donate it to the National Education Association."
Meng Jing nodded in agreement, and then added: "The first batch of "Road to the Future" has printed 1 million copies, and the publisher has also formulated a luxurious marketing plan of 1 million US dollars. When the time comes, you have to cooperate with the publicity."
"I've already guessed that this will happen." Tang Huan put down the document, nodded slightly and said, "Reply to them, and I will try my best to cooperate."
Meng Jing glanced at the document with bright eyes, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother, how did you get such important information?"
"I have my own way." Tang Huan laughed dumbly, "If you want to read it, watch it quickly. Why do you ask so many questions?"
Meng Jing sniffed the smell of ink on the document, turned her eyes from the printer to the computer, and suddenly realized: "I guessed the way—it's the mail door."
Tang Huan was dragging the mouse's hand, trembling for a moment, then he cursed angrily: "Little girl, don't be crazy; if you don't watch it,
Throw both documents in the shredder immediately. "
Meng Jing stuck out her tongue, put on a well-behaved look, stood in front of the shredder, quickly scanned the two documents, and then exclaimed, "50 billion dollars, the treatment of Mexico is better than that of Russia. How many times."
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As a superior, Tang Huan has basically completed his tasks, and he will not do the remaining "hard work" and "tired work". As for earning hundreds of millions of dollars, it is still more than a billion dollars Worry about it yourself - the structure has long been mature, if you do it yourself, just find a piece of tofu and kill it.
The richest man temporarily put aside those "mundane affairs" and began to rush about the elegant matter of publishing a book.
Tang Wenhao's industriousness is absolutely apt to be described in terms of continuous writing—basically, on average every year, he publishes a book on computer technology, many of which have even become university textbooks.
In contrast, Tang Wenhao's popular works are much less—so far, there are mainly three.
The first one was "The Rise of Great Powers" written by Tang Huan in 1980 when he was 25 years old. It explained the significance of technology to national power and demonstrated the importance of his Fangyuan computer.
The second one was "The Fantasy Journey of Chan Wu Juvenile" written by Tang Huan in 1985 when he was 30 years old. He was in his thirties, and he carried forward his romanticism.
The third is "The Road to the Future" in 1995, which is this year, when Tang Huan was 40 years old.
This book belongs to the richest man in his forties. Looking back on his more than ten years of experience in the IT field and looking forward to the future of the Internet, he released a work with richer practical significance. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has painstakingly worked hard.
The publishing world is very optimistic about "The Road to the Future", otherwise it would not have made a $1 million marketing plan.
The appeal of Tang Huan's products is indeed no small matter.
Just as "Newsweek" predicted-the most luxurious smart promotion ever, coupled with Don's signature, it is believed that "The Road to the Future" will grab the first position on all best-seller lists.
Once "Road to the Future" was released, it directly rushed to the "New York Times" bestseller list like "The Rise of the Great Power" and "The Fantasy Journey of Chanwu Youth", and stayed at the number one position for a longer time , reached 11 consecutive weeks, and sales exceeded 3.5 million copies.
Such a grand occasion made the publisher continue to increase the printing volume and launch the hardcover edition, and quickly turned its attention to markets outside the United States.
The reason why he is so full of confidence is naturally that the sales volume is extremely satisfactory and the word of mouth is also very good.
For example, the "New York Times" commented that - we can be sure that "The Road to the Future", which is very interesting to read, has not been censored by companies such as Fangyuan, Zheru, and EA out of commercial interests. This book reviews the personal computer revolution in the past ten years very well, giving us a comprehensive understanding of how this product has influenced the entire era, and has brought an immersive and fierce competition picture.
For another example, "Time" magazine preached that every aspiring billionaire is transforming society in his own way, towards the most ideal and beautiful direction. While fully embracing the Internet, "The Road to the Future" also releases dreams, discussing its influence on all aspects of human society.
The "Los Angeles Times" also pointed out that although "The Road to the Future" is not an autobiography, as Don denies, some of the content still reflects how he pioneered the personal computer, and even the microcomputer, starting in the early 1980s. The direction of industry development has created a business empire spanning the three major fields of hardware, software, and entertainment. Looking back on the gains and losses in the past, looking forward to grasping the opportunities in the future, the gains in these two aspects alone are worth buying a book for all those who expect success. If you are lucky enough, a hardcover "Road to the Future" with Tang's autograph will be a pretty good collection.
The influence of "Road to the Future", the first stop to spread from North America, is naturally the United Kingdom across the Atlantic. There is only half a step behind to get the book - after all, there is no language barrier.
The "Sunday Times" was not affected by the discord between the bosses Murdoch and Tang Huan, and enthusiastically praised that you only need to read a few pages of "The Road to the Future" before going to bed to understand the current situation. All authoritative information on the hottest IT industry.
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Tang Huan did specifically point out that "The Road to the Future" is not an autobiography, nor is it chicken soup for the soul, but those who are eager to succeed have analyzed this book in a utilitarian way, and even summed up a lot of things. The so-called incisive sentences were widely circulated, which made "The Road to the Future" a bit hot.
It is undeniable that the reason why "The Road to the Future" has been reprinted time and time again has a lot to do with the powerful sales promotion activities with great skills.
Cooperating with the issuer's publicity plan, the richest man has traveled to major cities in the United States such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, Atlanta, New York, Watson Shield, Boston, Chicago, London and Paris in Europe, and is also on the next trip Arranging.
Even, like ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, MTV, NBC's Fresh_Air, NBC's The "PBS News Hour" has been disliked by Tang Huan in recent years. The talk shows that are too long-winded and too contrived, and Mr. Richest Man also went through them patiently.
Tang Huan's competitors believed that this willingness to do whatever he wanted was a fancy promotion for Zheru Software before it went public.
However, no matter how much they despised him, they bought a copy of "The Road to the Future" and read it carefully, hoping to deeply understand Tang Huan's thoughts and find opportunities that are beneficial to them.
Unsurprisingly, Gates is one of them—the "Road to the Future" has been crumpled, and it is estimated that if there is a photo of Tang Huan on the cover, it will also be graffitied.
The best-selling of "The Road to the Future" has invisibly made all the concepts about the Internet further heated up in a directly palpable way.
I don't know that Gates, who has read "The Road to the Future" several times, is getting more and more afraid.
Before, Microsoft was too obsessed with the operating system battle. Even though it noticed the rise of the Internet, it still failed to grasp the essence.
Now, the development results of Windows have given Gates full of confidence to compete, but he suddenly realized that he had missed one of the most important links.
In Windows, there must be a browser product that can fully keep up with the trend, and the sooner the service time, the better.
Thinking of this, Gates was extremely anxious. He immediately called Jim Alchian and asked about the development progress of the browser.
"A version with basic functions can be completed this year and added to the Windows patch upgrade package." Jim Alchin replied.
"In this way, even if the development goes well, we will be left farther and farther apart in space and time." Gates muttered to himself in disappointment.
"There's no way around that." Jim Alchian shrugged, "Now, the three carriages of World Wide Web implementation technologies - HTML, CSS, and PascalScript, their specifications have been upgraded to the official version 2.0. Powerful functions naturally accompany development. increased complexity."
"Text, picture, animation, audio, video and other elements need a powerful renderer if they are to be accurately positioned and formatted perfectly on the screen; and the dynamic page effect brought by the scripting language also requires a performance Excellent PascalScript interpreter."
"This is only the front-end browser side; if you want to form your own product ecosystem, the back-end website server side is even more important."
"In terms of hosting the performance of the web server, the consumer-grade Windows_95, due to structural reasons, cannot have too high expectations. We can only let Windows_NT take the heavy responsibility."
"In this case, the workload of developing Windows_NT_4.0 is even more heavy."
Just as he was talking, Steve Ballmer came back from Silicon Valley. He said grimly, "I'm sure Netscape has no interest in the acquisition—Jim Clark is playing us down."
"Why?" Gates frowned even tighter, "Are they not satisfied with the terms of the acquisition?"
Steve Ballmer replied sullenly: "Jim Clark said he didn't trust us and was worried that Netscape would become the next Novell—after the trade secrets were taken away, it finally came to nothing."
Gates opened his mouth wide open for reasoning, and just happened to glance at the content on the page of "The Road to the Future"-politicians must have morality, writers must have bottom lines, scientists must have humanity, and entrepreneurs must have credibility.
As if his heart had been stabbed severely by an awl, Gates could no longer control his emotions, slammed the table heavily, and roared: "Microsoft will have a usable browser now! Tell me, what should I do?"