Chapter 152 Blackburn, the Great Philanthropist

Milo sat up from the bed with a smug smile on his face. He glanced at Haley who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, and a feeling of joy filled his heart.

He threw back the quilt and got out of bed, looking at the shirts and suits, an evening gown, and stockings scattered around him.

I couldn't help but think of last night.

At first, she was very resistant, but when she heard that she would be going to Asia in a few days, or maybe even a few months later.

Haley went from resisting to half-heartedly giving in, and thus let the monk eat dog meat for the second time.

As for the evening gown and stockings, they were what Haley Blackburn wore to a campaign appreciation party in the Bay Area last night.

After he came back, it turned out to be a good thing for his brother-in-law.

He bent down and picked up his robe from the carpet.

"hiss……"

Milo gasped.

It's just that Hailey's habit of scratching her back when she can't help it is really unbearable.

But Milo guessed that she must have done it on purpose, deliberately punishing herself for breaking her moral bottom line!

It doesn’t matter. Even a monk can be beaten for eating dog meat.

Besides, he was only caught a few times, so he could only comfort himself in this way.

As June approaches in the Bay Area, there will be more sunshine, but the climate will be a little drier.

Milo didn't rush to work today. After breakfast, he read the newspaper.

He went to the gym to work out, sweating all over. His perfect and strong body looked like a marble sculpture under the sunlight coming in through the window.

Gulp gulp…

“Ah~”

After drinking a whole bottle of iced mineral water, I let out a refreshing sigh stimulated by the cold mineral water.

"Why haven't you left yet?"

A clear voice suddenly came from above.

Milo looked up and saw Haley in her nightgown, leaning on the second-floor railing, looking down at him.

"Hi, good morning, Haley. You're awake." Milo smiled and stretched out his hand to greet her.

Haley's gaze lingered for a few seconds on his sunny and handsome face, which was very similar to her late husband's.

Then he moved down and looked at his angular and muscular body.

Paladin had a nice figure, too, she thought.

But looking at it now, his figure is still worse than his brother's.

She felt that she could prove this, but the part about proving it was a little difficult for her to talk about.

"Good morning."

Haley responded and walked down the spiral staircase on the second floor.

The sunlight at the turning point of the stairs, shining through the huge windows, stretched her figure very long.

It also revealed her perfect figure hidden in her white silk nightgown, which seemed almost transparent in Milo's eyes.

He was wearing shorts because he was exercising, so the big lump in the middle of his boxer briefs was particularly obvious.

Haley, who was walking down, obviously noticed this as well.

Her face flushed, but she said calmly:

"I have to go to Campbell this afternoon and give two speeches there. I don't have enough time, so I have to go there now."

Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, established in 1952, adjacent to the county seat, San Jose.

eBay, one of Milo's many Internet companies, currently has its headquarters there.

Milo feigned disappointment: "Oh, I thought we still had some time."

If there is still time, then we should continue...

Hailey shook her head at him seriously, "You promised me! Not outside, absolutely not!"

"Okay. I'll do it."

He replied in the same way: "But you also promised me that anything is fine in the room!"

Haley looked at him for a long time, maybe ten seconds.

"Um."

Then she turned away to eat breakfast and get ready.

Milo smiled smugly behind her, thinking that things like this happen step by step.

At first, she refused to even stay in the room overnight.

Wouldn't it be possible to sleep until you wake up naturally the second time? Wait until next time, hehe...

And so, Milo happily went out and headed for Mountain View.

Although I said I would go to Neon in a while, there is no need to rush.

It's not like he was going on vacation.

He wanted to get 80% of Universal Pictures Group's shares from the Japanese.

Therefore, someone has to contact the Japanese in advance, and he himself must also make relevant preparations.

Calculating the time, we should be able to set off around the beginning of next month.

Before that, he also had to make sure that important matters at the headquarters were dealt with first.

For example, in Silicon Valley, find a piece of land that is large enough to build the headquarters of various Internet companies and technology companies under its future umbrella.

I went to Mountain View today to look at the land.

Mountain View, like Campbell, is a city in Santa Clara County, the core of Silicon Valley.

Mountain View, along with nearby Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose, makes up the largest area of ​​Silicon Valley.

It was almost noon.

“It’s still a little small.”

Standing on the rooftop of a five-story building, Milo looked around and commented:

"I don't expect thousands of acres, because I know Silicon Valley is so small. But dear Michael, you have to give me at least 100 or 200 acres, right? The information shows that you don't even have 75 acres here!"

His name is Michael, and he is fighting next to Milo at this time.

It was Michael Jones, the current mayor of Mountain View.

The United States is a highly self-governed place. States have governors, counties have county governors, and cities, of course, have mayors.

Mountain View is not big, only about 30 square kilometers, with a population of more than 50,000.

But it still has its own city council, city police chief, and a high degree of autonomy.

For example, the mayor can only be elected in the city, and various positions including the city police department can all be appointed by the mayor.

In addition to paying a certain amount of taxes to the state each year, they must also abide by federal, state, and county laws and not violate the U.S. Constitution.

These cities and towns in the United States can even make their own laws.

So sometimes it comes up, it's legal for me to do this in this town.

But if you go to the next town or city and do the same thing, you may violate local laws.

For example, in Ocean City, New Jersey, it is illegal to make noises while eating soup.

But not in New York next door.

For example, in Gainesville, Georgia, people can only eat chicken legs with their hands. It is illegal to eat fried chicken in any other way.

There are too many similar examples, so it is really not easy for lawyers in the United States.

They have more laws to memorize and learn than all other countries in the world combined.

Moreover, the number is increasing every year and is not uniform across the country.

In California alone, an average of more than 200 new laws are passed each year.

Although many of them seem a bit funny and insignificant.

For example, among the laws added in California last year, there is a provision that prohibits eating oranges in the bathtub.

Another prohibits animals from publicly mating within 1,500 feet of a liquor store, school or place of worship.

And women can't drive in their pajamas.

You can imagine how difficult it is to be a lawyer in such a place.

At this time, Mountain View Mayor Michael Jones heard Milo say this.

The old white man laughed and said:

"Hey, Mr. Blackburn. As you know, Silicon Valley is very hot right now. Very, very hot. And Mountain View is right in the middle of Silicon Valley."

“There are so many people who want to buy land in Mountain View. Many of them are eyeing public land.”

"It's only because you are Mr. Blackburn that Mountain View is willing to give you such a large piece of land. If it were someone else, even Bill Gates, he wouldn't be able to get more than ten acres of land in Mountain View!"

Michael's voice was reasonable and convincing.

I have to say that this person has strong professional skills and is a good candidate to be a politician.

"That's because Bill Gates put his headquarters, Fuck the Shelters, in Washington State!"

Milo said bluntly:

"If he were to come to California, I'm sure you would give him more land than anyone else! Unfortunately, he has already bought 500,000 acres of land in Redmond, and there's no way he'd leave his territory!"

Microsoft's headquarters was originally just a basement.

Later it developed into a fifteen-storey building.

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Later, Bill Gates bought two thousand square kilometers of land in Redmond.

Nearly the entire city of Redmond was built on his personal land.

Microsoft has now moved in there too.

Michael Jones seemed to want to say something, but Milo waved his hand.

"That's it, Michael. You're being disingenuous, even though I'm the first one to come here in Mountain View."

"But now that you're like this, I'm too lazy to continue communicating with you."

"I will go to Robert or Jeff. I think they will be happy for me to move all the top ten companies in Silicon Valley to their city!"

Jeff's name is Jeff Smith, and he is the mayor of Saratoga.

Robert's name is Robert Neal, and he is the mayor of Los Gastos.

These two cities, like Mountain View, are in Santa Clara County.

But they are all close to the edge of the mountains.

Unlike Mountain View, which is flat and located in the middle of the valley.

And Milo is now in the company of Michael Jones.

Looking for a suitable piece of land in Mountain View to be used as the headquarters park for many Internet companies under Milo's name in the future.

Michael Jones showed him the land.

The location is very good, only 2 kilometers away from Castro Street in the center of Mountain View.

It can be said to be on the central axis of the entire Silicon Valley.

But it's a bit small, only about 170,000 square meters.

Less than seventy-five acres.

Milo remembered that the headquarters of Google in the parallel universe was about this size.

What I want to place now include Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, and even Twitter, Facebook, etc. in the future.

Just seventy-five acres, who are you looking down on?

Since Mountain View is unwilling to give away cheap public land.

Milo then told Michael Jones that he would look for two other cities.

Los Gatos and Saratoga are two places that developed more slowly than Mountain View and San Jose because they are close to the mountains.

It is also less attractive to those Internet companies that have become famous.

If Milo wanted to move there, the mayors of both places would certainly welcome him.

And it was still 1996, and the Internet giants had not yet taken shape.

It is not yet time for Internet giants to start carving up territory in Silicon Valley.

So at this time, the land in Silicon Valley is not only relatively cheap.

Moreover, the governments of various cities still controlled a large amount of public land at this time.

You'd be a fool not to rip them off at this point.

Milo’s idea is simple, to take advantage of the fact that he is now the so-called godfather of Silicon Valley.

And then there's Yahoo's growing influence.

He plans to threaten local governments in Silicon Valley and try to get more land reserves from them.

By then, when other giants in Silicon Valley have developed.

They will find out, Fake the Sheet.

It turns out that the Godfather of Silicon Valley is not only the Godfather of Silicon Valley, but he is also the largest landlord in Silicon Valley! "Oh, please, don't do this to me. Dear Milo, you will make me sad and the whole city of Mountain View will be sad too!"

Michael Jones quickly tried to comfort Milo, gritting his teeth and pointing to another piece of land on the left. "This piece and this piece, these two pieces add up to more than 150 acres! As long as you put your headquarters campus in Mountain View, they will be yours!"

It is said that it belongs to Milo, but it still needs to go through the auction process.

Public land in the United States is also called original land and can only be obtained through the auction process.

However, at that time, there will only be two buyers at the auction of these two pieces of land.

One is Milo's representative, and it doesn't matter who the other is.

All I know is that this representative will offer a price a few hundred dollars lower than what Milo wanted to offer.

In the end, he was defeated by the auction representative sent by Milo.

“And this one.”

Milo pointed to a large piece of empty land in the other direction. "If that's the case, I'll start construction right away and move the headquarters of Yahoo and eBay here."

These two companies are also the most famous and highly valued companies among the many Internet companies currently under Milo.

Yahoo's valuation on Wall Street has exceeded $3 billion.

eBay is much worse, but it is now valued at nearly one billion dollars.

Even if these two companies come here, the total number of employees they have now is less than a thousand.

But it is also obvious that it can enhance the reputation of Mountain View and attract the attention of a large number of real estate developers.

Michael Jones showed an embarrassment on his face.

He saw Milo suddenly turn around and say to a fat man:

"Wendy, I remember that the Blackburn Foundation has a fund of two million dollars available as a charity fund this year?"

"Yes, 2.05 million to be exact," Wendy replied with a smile.

"Oh, I'm more concerned about whether African children have clothes to wear."

Milo smiled and said, "Please help me find out if there is a charity foundation in San Francisco that focuses on the clothing problem of African children. If there is, please donate it to me."

"OK, no problem." Wendy answered affirmatively with a smile.

2.05 million dollars! Michael Jones took a deep breath and smiled almost a second later. "Mr. Blackburn is really a very caring person. Philanthropists like you are exactly the type that Mountain View welcomes most."

Michael Jones waved his hand and took in the three pieces of land on the left, right and middle.

"There are three hundred acres of land in total, all of which are public land. As long as Mr. Blackburn is willing to build the campus in Mountain View, these lands will be yours."

Difficulty?

What a difficulty.

That's Yahoo and eBay, that's Blackburn!

There are so many cities in Silicon Valley, and it is not easy for me to invite them to invest in our Mountain View!

Look at Saratoga and San Jose; they would give five hundred acres if Mr. Blackburn wanted to!

Seeing Milo Blackburn being so charitable.

Michael Jones felt that he was moved by him.

So in an instant, Michael was confident that he could convince the parliament and his colleagues.

He believed that everyone would understand him.

Well, that's it!

Not because his wife, Miriam Jones, happened to be from San Francisco—

The initiator of the Charity Advisory Committee Fund for the Problem of Naked Children in Poor Africa.

(End of this chapter)