Chapter 1,292 On the Shoulders of Giants

Followed by a blond and blue-eyed little girl, Jiang Chen walked into the lobby on the first floor of the Future Man Building. He always felt as if he had become the focus of everyone's attention.

Although when he usually comes to the company, the employees' eyes will invariably focus on him.

But today, he always felt that in addition to the sincere respect in those eyes, there was also something strange... or should I say gossip?

After all, Jiang Chen's romantic affairs are not news in New Zealand or even the world, and employees of Futureman Group are even more accustomed to it. But the age of the person behind him seems a bit too young for a lover, right?

Could it be...

An illegitimate daughter? !

The two beauties sitting at the front desk of the hall suddenly had the flames of gossip in their eyes, and they started whispering secretly.

In less than half a minute, this little blond loli was imagined to be a mistake made by someone when she was young, and an emotional entanglement with twists and turns comparable to that of a Korean drama was added to it. As for those logical loopholes, they were selectively ignored.

For example, Jiang Chen is only in his twenties now...

Fortunately, it is not the peak working period, and there are not many people in the hall.

With black streaks all over his head, he led Lilith to the elevator. Jiang Chen, who was out of sight, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at Lilith next to her, her expression didn't change at all, as if she didn't care about those eyes at all.

And after getting on the elevator, her eyes stayed on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the elevator, looking at the outline of Coro City in the distance.

As the elevator rises, the scenery outside the window becomes wider and wider.

At this moment, she suddenly said something coldly.

“A beautiful city.”

After being slightly stunned, Jiang Chen glanced at her in surprise.

Sensing his gaze, Lilith sighed, as if she guessed what he was thinking, and spoke.

"You don't have to think of me as a monster, I still have such a thing as aesthetics."

"I didn't mean that,

Jiang Chen smiled, "I just feel a little surprised." "

Lilith didn't answer, just quietly looking at the outline of Koro City.

It took a while, until the elevator stopped at the top floor, before she spoke.

"I understand your surprise."

…

The first meeting was for each department of Star Trading to report on their work and budget usage. As before, everyone only had ten minutes to speak. Everyone followed Jiang Chen's request, deleted unnecessary officialese, and made their reports as concise and comprehensive as possible.

Different from Future Man Group, except for the three major projects of space elevator business, quantum communication satellite, and global power grid, which can produce eye-catching financial reports, most departments of Star Ring Trading are basically losing money or barely maintaining their income and expenses. state of balance.

But these are nothing.

After all, Jiang Chen's positioning of Xinghuan Trading was not a money-making tool, and he had never used KPIs as a standard to evaluate the work of each department. For most of the non-profit departments of Star Ring Trading, he values ​​other results more than a good-looking financial report.

The second meeting was a Mars colony development planning seminar. The attendees were mainly executives from the Halo Trade and Space Department, especially the Mars Project Department.

The reason why this meeting was arranged together with the previous one was mainly to facilitate executives like Kerwin who were stationed in Star Circle City so that they would not have to travel twice for two meetings.

At the meeting, the colony expansion plan and the space elevator were discussed as key issues.

However, after the meeting started, Jiang Chen temporarily added an additional item in front of these two discussed topics.

That is...

"...Building new earth civilization monuments and schools in the colonies? I don't doubt whether this is necessary, but I think this...is it a little too early?" After listening to the chairman's speech, Jiang Chen was puzzled by Jiang Chen's sudden change at this time. After bringing up this seemingly trivial issue for discussion, Kerwin asked in a confused voice.

"It's not too early at all," Jiang Chen said in a serious tone after looking around at the Mars Project Department executives present, "To strengthen the cultural ties between colonial society and mainstream society, we must lay the foundation from the beginning, otherwise it may There are hidden dangers for future social stability."

After hearing Jiang Chen's words, the executives of the Mars Project Department present looked at each other.

There is no doubt that from their perspective, the chairman's words are undoubtedly a bit alarmist.

Jiang Chen was not surprised by this situation.

After all, they don't have the ability to go to that world, so they will naturally feel fanciful about the problems he worries about.

The reason why Star Ring Trade is developing on the shoulders of giants does not just mean that it possesses technology from the 22nd century. In addition to technology, the mistakes made by the world's superpower in its exploration of progress are also a big fortune for Jiang Chen, the leader.

He was not going to explain anything. As the chairman of Star Ring Trading, he had the highest decision-making power. When his order is issued, there is no need to vote at all. Others only have suggestions and do not have the power to vote veto.

The proposal was passed directly, and the next step was to discuss how to implement it.

According to Jiang Chen's proposal, the Mars Project Department will use 2 billion new dollars from the budget to build a new earth civilization monument and junior high school in the Mars colony. At the same time, the next group of colonists will also bring with them forty educators and two hundred students of different ages.

“Does it make sense to send teachers and students to a Mars colony?” one of the executives asked. “And, how do we convince parents to send their children to Mars?”

"In order to prevent age gaps in the Mars colony, we need a relatively smooth and stable population age distribution curve to stabilize the social structure of our colony. They don't need to do anything there, they just need to stay there to finish their studies. Then decide whether to stay in the colonies or return to Earth."

After emphasizing this problem, Jiang Chen continued, "As for the latter problem, this is also easy to solve. Studying high school in a Mars colony can provide students with a certain degree of extra points in the college entrance examination. I believe there will be many Families, are willing to send their children there.”

Not to mention sending the children there, I believe that as long as Xinghuan Trading is willing to reimburse the round-trip "air tickets", the whole family may be able to immigrate there.

"In the next year, we will launch flights to and from Mars, and at the same time increase the population limit of the Mars colony to 5,000. Compared with the current population size, this number will undoubtedly increase several times. For the future development of the colony, I hope you can pay attention to the issues I just highlighted."

Seeing the expressions on the faces of everyone present gradually becoming serious, Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction.

After a pause, he continued.

"The other one is the space elevator."

"To turn Mars into our heavy industrial base, a convenient transportation tool is essential. I believe you know this better than me and have more intuitive data, so I won't reiterate it again."

"My only request is that flights to Mars will be launched next year. Before November this year, I hope to see you put the Mars space elevator plan from paper to reality."

"Ensure quality, the sooner the better!"