Chapter 1455: Christmas Gift
The East Coast of the United States.
Also on December 21, the western suburbs of Princefield, south-central Massachusetts, held a grand groundbreaking ceremony on Monday morning.
The large-scale Tokamak device, which is fully supported by the Westeros system, has officially begun construction.
In addition to the young female CEO of FusionTimes, Emmanuel Brandt, who will lead the program, Bill Richardson, Clinton Cabinet Energy Secretary, Massachusetts Governor William Weld, who will step down next year, and Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, and other heavyweight guests also attended.
From Simon's first view of the ITER project data in 1995, to the later determination of the Westeros family's own 3G plan and the introduction of the controlled nuclear fusion project research, and then the FusionTimes, which had completely emerged from the ITER plan, led the construction of the large Tokamak experimental device, three years have passed.
However, it is no exaggeration to say that whether it is relative to the long-term plan of mankind's future or the slow progress that similar projects often delay for more than ten years, the project has entered the formal implementation stage in only three years, which is already very fast.
This naturally also means investing huge human and financial resources to operate.
It is impossible for a project like controlled nuclear fusion research to completely break away from government support and control. Simon did not want to follow the planned ITER model to make a failed project that not only the United States but also many countries around the world may eventually fall into bureaucratic stagnation. Instead, the Westeros system is completely controlled by itself, so negotiations in various aspects lasted for more than a year.
Simon's requirements are not high.
Focusing on this project, the Westeros system hopes to freely hire relevant talents from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia, and also have corresponding technical accumulation and support from various countries. In exchange, after the project is completed, countries can not only receive certain technical sharing, but also send teams to use this device to conduct controlled nuclear fusion-related experiments.
What seems simple requirements are not easy to implement.
This is how human nature is. Even if the research on controlled nuclear fusion in countries around the world is basically at a stagnation, with the end of the Cold War, there is no sharp confrontation, and the investment in related fields of various countries continues to shrink, but even if I can't do it, you don't want to do it easily.
Therefore, you can imagine the obstacles encountered in the negotiation process: talent recruitment and technical support.
Even now that the project has begun to break ground, the negotiations between the FusionTimes team and France and Japan have not been completed.
Of course, I won't wait for this place.
Since we can't handle it, let's talk about it slowly, and Simon won't be impatient about it. After all, the areas involved in the 3G plan really require close cooperation among all mankind to be able to be smoothly promoted.
In fact, this is also the contradiction between the whole thing.
Simon wanted the Westeros system to lead, and was also very clear that the Westeros system must effectively utilize all available resources, but neither the US government nor other countries around the world would want the related projects to be controlled by the Westeros system, which is a mess.
On the other hand, Simon's minimum demand is actually very simple.
Just don't make trouble.
If you are unwilling to provide help, you can also watch it coldly. Of course, if you have any results in the future, you will not expect to share the Westeros system.
Simon insisted on fighting for dominance, of course, for the benefit of the Westeros system, but not all of this.
The key is to hope to get things done.
Otherwise, if you only pay for the money and allow the inefficient government departments and legal teams to execute the work, the result will inevitably be nothing.
The project was finally selected in Princefield, which is far from being famous in southern Massachusetts compared with Boston. It was also the result of repeated consideration by relevant teams in Westeros system and negotiations with stakeholders.
Princefield is only more than 100 kilometers away from Boston in the northeast and New York in the southwest, and it is a considerable city itself.
This is something Simon is very interested in.
If you want to make a group of the smartest minds in the world work for a great project that concerns the future of mankind, if you only talk about life, ideals, and future, regardless of treatment, you are a hooligan.
Just like there was a complaint later that the smartest minds in the 21st century went to finance and IT. The problem was that a few young people went to study physics and chemistry with all their hearts and then did basic scientific research. As a result, they earned several thousand yuan a month, and a year's salary may not be able to buy a square house in big cities, and even the heat of the blood will cool down.
Therefore, related to the 3G plan, Simon's most basic starting salary is $100,000. After joining the company, all of them have a special and most complete guarantee system. As for the top talents, there is no upper limit on salary. If anyone can prove that they are worth $1 billion, Simon will dare to give $1 billion.
And affordable.
Besides, Simon has purchased 3,000 hectares of land in advance, except for Tokamak installation land and research institutes and other facilities, the rest will be used to build villas, hospitals, schools, parks and other supporting facilities for researchers.
Everything is made sure that as long as someone can successfully join the job, he will never envy any job on Wall Street or Silicon Valley.
This is heaven.
The groundbreaking ceremony lasted until noon, followed by a luncheon reception on the Field State University campus.
After the project was officially finalized, the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation signed a huge donation plan of up to $1 billion with Field State University, which will be paid in ten years, and plans to establish and fund professional and peripheral research projects related to the projects here.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the cocktail party ended. After Ulyana Meretskova, who also came to participate in the event, said goodbye to Boston, more than 100 kilometers away, helicoptered.
Meletskova attended the groundbreaking ceremony not to join in the fun. The foundation she and Maria Bezruk will also participate in the project construction. It is expected that the hospitals and schools will have two foundations under their charge, which will be led by two women.
This is also the general operating model of Western foundations.
It seems to be a non-profit charitable nature, but as long as it is operated properly, it is basically spent on your own. As for going further and making money directly from the foundation, it depends on your character.
Arriving at the mansion in the wealthy area of Weston, western suburbs of Boston, Meretskova was taken to the main villa by the greeted waiter.
This is the residence of Maria Bezrook and several children.
Meretskova came here directly, not to visit her little guy who was taken care of by Maria, but to Simon's housekeeper Angel Davis, who sent her Christmas gifts.
When two women talk about religious customs, they should have celebrated Orthodox Christmas on January 7, but now they are following the local customs.
There are a few days left on Christmas, and Simon is in Australia. It is impossible for him to come and spend the two women with him, but the gift will not be forgotten. Of course, it will not be a gift box placed under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve in ordinary people.
Angre directly brought a small van truck over, and each person was one. The waiters were already unloading the villa of Meretskova. Two women, two little guys, and two girls’ children, one of them was not left, and a truck full of gifts was full of everything.
Although this is not the first time, after greeting the butler, Meretskova was still moved by sitting on the sofa and taking the exquisitely bound gift catalog that Maria had placed at hand.
Still a little curious.
How many women can receive gifts like a man?
When testing a tight-lipped female housekeeper against this question, she naturally won't get the answer.
Seeing Meretskova return, Angre, who had been waiting for some time, chatted with the woman for a while, then stood up and said goodbye.
Go back to New York.
The festival is approaching, and the butler has been very busy in recent days.
It was still a helicopter, from Boston to New York, a distance of 300 kilometers. Even if it was a highway, it would take three or four hours to drive. The butler arrived at his destination in half an hour. It was not Manhattan, but East Hampton on Long Island.
Or give a gift.
In the East Hampton side, the first thing is the National Style Art Troupe.
The little girls who completed another round of tours returned to China for vacation, and most of them returned directly to the United States. In addition, there were Shirley and Miao Miao and her mother, as well as the beautiful Chou cousin.
Of course, these women's gifts will no longer be considered as trucks, but they are also very generous.
After sending the National Style Art Troupe, there is also the last stop in the afternoon.
When he arrived at the Linhai Manor in the southwest of East Hampton, not far from the National Style Art Troupe's residence, the female housekeeper got off from the black Mercedes-Benz and looked at the two van trucks that were slowly following in, and he couldn't help but sigh.
My boss really likes the group of women he just got some time ago.
But, thinking about it, too.
How could such a group of women, with the thoughts of men in their bones, not like them?
The female housekeeper occasionally has some thoughts: If she knows so many little secrets that are not worthy of being told by outsiders, will she be silenced one day in the future?
Of course, I just thought about it and smiled it.
As that man, these things are just trivial matters. Even if they are really exposed, even if they are not simply exposed or even involve higher-level games as bargaining chips, it is unlikely that any substantial harm will be caused.
Even if people who fantasize about equality are unwilling to believe it, in fact, people in this world, the upper pyramids always have privileges.
The higher you go, the more privileges you have.
Seeing the beautiful short-haired woman who even the butler was envious after knowing her age, she brought a daughter and two other waiters out of the villa. The butler put away her thoughts, smiled and greeted her in Chinese: "Good afternoon, Ms. Yu, and Miss Tinglan, I didn't admit my mistake, did I?"
Luo Tinglan, the youngest of the four sisters behind her mother, shook her head with a little smile, glanced at her side, and did not dare to speak rashly.
The female housekeeper also withdrew her gaze, signaled to the two trucks behind her, and said to Yu Caisang: "The boss asked me to send me the Christmas gift, and the purchase list that Ms. Yu gave me last time, happened to be shipped from China."
Without waiting for Yu Caisang to answer, the female housekeeper signaled her followers to hand over the two catalog lists, and then directly ordered the two Eastern Kong Wei maids behind Yu Caisang, "Zhao, Qin, you two call out and direct them to move the gifts in."
Yu Caisang, who had just received two exquisite catalog lists, saw Angry directly ordering his followers, and some unpleasantness flashed in his expression. He didn't dare to say anything, and he politely invited the female butler to come in.
Of course, Angeli was intentional.
She will never have any prejudice in front of her boss for this job. However, for other women, even if they still do their duty and responsibility on the surface, their attitudes will be different.
Just like this one.
Since the group of women in this villa are very fond of their own boss, they are destined to be impossible to last long, and they cannot reach the level of two Ukrainian women with children in Boston. Perhaps, it is faster, and the man will forget them behind him in a few months.
In this case, the female housekeeper's attitude is to fight for the initiative without any trace to prevent them from gaining more and more ambitions from themselves.
After all, if she was just asked to do things, the butler would not refuse, but if she had other thoughts, she would definitely be careful.
Angeli knew very well that the more a man was at the top of the pyramid, the more he was, the more he was. The reason why the female housekeeper was able to maintain her position in recent years was even more respected, in addition to doing her job to the extreme, she actually took a lot of other thoughts.
Otherwise, if you think of the group of little goblins who are following the man, maybe she has been forgotten.
Obviously in response to Angry's actions just now, Yu Caisang did not take the butler to the more private living room, but sat down on the sofa in a corner of the main villa hall. At the same time, he also quietly tried to take the initiative to signal the waiters to put the gifts in the hall, and she would have someone to organize them later.
The waiter team brought by the villa and the female butler to unload boxes of carefully packaged gifts, while Yu Caisang browsed two catalog lists by himself.
Unfortunately, the two little girls who had been posing for a while, who had been very skilled in the official lady, interrupted the atmosphere with some eager steps.
Looking at the two little girls who were casually renamed Xiangxiang Ruolou who were almost embarrassed to pounce on the gift pile, Yu Caisang whispered: "What are you doing, come here!"
The two little girls dared not disobey and walked over together, but their expressions were obviously different.
Hu Xiangxiang, who is actually the youngest but is designated as her sister, looks respectful on the surface, but her eyes are lively and continues to look at the gifts. However, the "sister" who has been changed to Hu Ruol's name is obviously absent-minded. If she hadn't noticed that the butler was there, she might have to talk back a few words.
no way.
Chapter completed!