For people in small towns in the central and western regions, every visitor from the eastern and western metropolises is a "protected rich man".

Fortunately, Utah is not Idaho, so it is still very accepting of outsiders. The latter is completely a holy land for Christians. 40% of Protestants and 30% of the end-of-age believers occupy most of the world in the state, while only one-tenth of the atheists. You can imagine what would happen if international students from non-Christian worlds passed by by chance.

Utah is located in northeastern California, separated by Nevada by mountains. On the way to and from the west coast, self-driving passengers can choose whether to go to Las Vegas for a walk. It is dominated by the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau and the Great Salt Lake Desert. Eighty percent of the population of more than 2 million gather in the capital Salt Lake City. You can imagine how desolate and lonely the outer world is.

At the foot of the Akrey Mountains in the Rocky Mountains, there is a small town called Lakun with a total population of only 3,000. With mining as the main source of income, 60% of the male labor force in the city are engaged in this profession. Of course, in the Salt Lake Desert a distance from Lakun, many military bases, rocket engine factories and even uranium mines built during World War II are also standing, but that has nothing to do with them.

Alice and Wang's family came to this city through a long journey. After pulling out of Boeing's cargo hold, they immediately flew into the sky. I saw that the small town stood alone on the plateau at the foot of the vast forest mountains. There was a rare abundant water system around it. It was just that countless complex reasons were piled up, which made the small town not on the road of expansion for many years.

The arrival of the family was naturally warmly welcomed by the mayor, and also included a few entrepreneurs' hospitality. As shown in the collection of information, 99% of these entrepreneurs were large mine owners. It was amazing that some municipal officials recommended representatives of water plants, power plants and other figures. They didn't even need to read their financial statements carefully. On the dining table, Sophie gently scratched a number on Alice's thigh, which was the highest amount to acquire the entire small town.

"Our group has a lot of experience in the operation of the Chief Electric Power and Water Conservancy Company." Alice smiled and said, "I personally occupy a very high stake in the Hong Kong Electric Power Company, and the water conservancy company is of course not a problem. As long as I take over, I can definitely expand the infrastructure construction of Laken City by more than five times as fast as possible. In one project period, this gentleman, I can give the power plant the ability to provide electricity to 100,000 residents, instead of the current three thousand."

When talking about business with a rich man, the most important thing to avoid is to completely take away his property. The reason why many such people stay at a mu of land and are unwilling to enter big cities no matter how much money they make, is because of the local concept. So at this time, they are often not impressed by a huge purchase fee. They need to see whether outsiders do practical things for locals.

"So Miss Wang hopes that we will develop into a big city quickly." The mayor said to Flour slowly: "But the increase in the number of people is closely related to the economy and employment. The current main industry in our Laken City is mining. You shouldn't want to create tens of thousands of mining workers in an instant? That will attract protests from the environmental protection department, haha."

"If mining, of course, you have to do what you can, unless we are going to set up a large multinational company, haha, but that has nothing to do with the local population." Alice said: "Mayor, and everyone, you all know where my main abilities are. So my plan is to build us Laqun into an inland high-tech city. There is no need for too many people, but everyone is a well-known intellectual. What do you think?"

As early as when I received a letter from Alice Building, everyone in the Laken Municipal Government could guess Alice’s idea, but of course it could only be part of it. The concept of an inland technology city is very clear to the people of Silicon Valley, but it would be too difficult to understand a group of industrial and mining owners at the foot of the mountain.

"The Internet is developing at an extremely fast speed, there is no doubt about this? Just like Microsoft, it is just a pure technology enterprise that only owns seven or eight buildings in Redmond, and a pure technology enterprise that does not have direct factories, but its products can be spread all over the world and have nothing to do with local transportation capabilities. This is how technology enterprises are. They are based on the increasingly developed Internet and can completely ignore local transportation conditions and easily send products to the world."

"Laqun City has a very bad geographical location. You know better than me. You are all locals. Why has the city been mainly mining for many years? I believe I don't have to talk too much. 80% of Utah's residents are in Salt Lake City. You are backed by the Acre Mountains. Although it is rare to have a green tree-shaded area and abundant water resources, you can only develop livestock and aquaculture in a small amount. The main economy must rely on mining."

"So, the problem is here. There are only so many local minerals. Unless you do not consider the people's livelihood and employment in the next few decades and have to dig out everything in one go, the local population will only be so large. Even if you have developed the company to a larger scale, as we said, you can only go to other places to look for minerals and have no relationship with locals."

"So, Mayor. If we really want to develop the economy on a large scale in Laken, which has a worrying geographical location, increase the urban population, and take the high-tech route. With the Internet, customers will not care about where the merchant's registered address is. For example, my Cisco company is headquartered in San Jose, but processing plants are all over the world, which has a lot to do with San Jose's logistics and transportation capacity?"

The Silicon Valley upstart from the West Coast came to invest, and it was the famous young girl. It is hard to describe what the locals were thinking. Instinctively, they should be full of doubts and underestimation, but Alice is not the lucky one who just broke out with stocks yesterday. Her ability has long been proven by the world. What's the turn of them to speculate on themselves?

Therefore, this welcoming banquet and talks ended with a good atmosphere. Of course, Alice did not intend to impact the local original industry. Although there would be any shareholding, it would not directly seize the operating rights of the original business owner. Her main territory was in the technology area.

The investment plan is simple.

First of all, since all the purposes are actually for the "hive", power plants and water conservancy companies must still acquire full amounts. Fortunately, they all belong to the municipal field and are not difficult to talk about.

It is precisely because there are beehives underground that there must be an umbrella on the ground, so a hospital with part-time scientific research functions is essential. The hospital itself serves residents and wins favorable feelings. What institutions like scientific research institutes need most is by no means convenient transportation, but a complete research environment. Alice is even considering whether to go to the Acre Mountains District to gai?

Replicating the second Silicon Valley is completely unnecessary. Considering the materials that the Hive needs in the future, the production of technology products hardware is even more important. So here, what she needs is Draken to invest in a high-tech industrial processing plant, Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, HP, ib, or self-produced electronic products subsidiary, which is produced nearby, used nearby, the product source and production channels are trustworthy and convenient to control, and also help the economic development of the local town.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the fact that you want to win the trust of Yu Min and promise to the mayor and others that Internet companies also need to be established. In fact, this is really simple. To be honest, although Silicon Valley is a holy land in the IT industry, this type of company is really everywhere in the United States. After all, everything can be operated by the Internet? As long as Alice's related companies settle down, are you still afraid that no programmers will come to find a job on their own or invest in a business?

"Mom, make some preparations, let's invest in Kingston."

Alice said to Sophie: "Those two founders are both Chinese, so they must be easy to talk to. It is now the time to expand its product line, so it also needs more processing plants, all of which are essential hardware on computers. How can they not let them join in Laken for fun?"

"With the additional output value of computer hardware, it is worth transporting even by airplanes. Moreover, when the economy develops, it is OK to build an intercontinental expressway directly to Salt Lake City. It is worthy of being my daughter, and I am really smart."
Chapter completed!