Chapter 429 I Want to Give Birth to You
The conflict between Hadi and Indonesia has been ongoing. It has not escalated, but it has not stopped either. HD mercenary warships cruise in the Strait of Malacca every day, and fighter jets fly over Indonesia every day.
The verbal battle never stopped.
August 1953.
A car accident occurred in Jakarta. A military officer named Suharto was on his way home from get off work when he was hit and crushed by a large truck. When people found him, his head was already rotten beyond recognition.
The truck that caused the accident fled and it is unknown who did it.
This Suharto is now a mid-level officer in the Indonesian Military Staff. He studied at the Royal Dutch-Indonesian Army School in Kobang, Central Java, and later joined the Dutch Colonial Army. During the Japanese occupation, he joined the Japanese occupation army's "National Defense Army" and became a staff officer at the Japanese "National Defense Army" headquarters.
After Japan surrendered in 1945, the August Revolution broke out in Indonesia. Suharto joined the People's Security Army and is now a lieutenant colonel staff officer in the Army General Staff.
This incident was not a big deal and people did not pay much attention to it. Afterwards, Suharto's family buried him hastily.
After Hardy got the news, he chuckled and nodded.
Although he didn't know whether this guy would continue to climb to that position and do those things in the future, Hardy was in no mood to explore it. Wouldn't it be easier to just get rid of him?
Maybe a second monkey will appear, or a third one.
That is a matter for the future. Anyway, I am not happy to hear this name now. I can just kill him. It is not a big deal. Just sending two intelligence assassins will be enough.
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During this time,
Hardy returned to the United States.
He can just leave Penang and Malacca to his subordinates. He also has to take care of the business in the United States. Only by making more money can he support more troops.
Not long after,
Hardy received a call from the White House, and Eisenhower asked him to go to the White House to discuss matters concerning Indonesia.
Now the situation with Hardy is interesting.
His main identity is an American businessman.
He is also the husband of a British princess.
Governor of the Cayman Islands.
and the Governor-General of the Hardy Dominion.
Therefore, even Eisenhower could not regard him as a simple businessman or British aristocrat. According to diplomatic etiquette, Hardy was equivalent to the supreme leader of a region.
The White House,
Eisenhower and Hardy had dinner together and then took a walk in the garden and talked a lot.
About the situation in Southeast Asia, the Malayan Question, Hadi Dominion's economic investment, its role in regional control, political inclinations, etc.
Finally, we talked about the conflict with Indonesia.
Eisenhower meant that someone was planning to mediate between the two sides and asked Hardy what he thought.
The think tank has already thought about these issues.
It is impossible to keep on clashing.
After all, stability is the key to development.
But through this war, on the one hand, the Hadi Autonomous Region demonstrated its military strength and determination to fight, and on the other hand, it served as a warning to the Indonesian government.
Hardy doesn't ask for much.
First, all troublemakers must be punished. Those who participated in looting, smashing and burning must be severely punished. Second, apologies and compensation must be made to those who were killed and injured. Third, unreasonable regulations that hinder free trade must be stopped. Fourth, Hardy must be compensated for its losses.
It’s not a lot, just 500 million US dollars.
When Indonesia heard the news, it was so angry that it almost jumped up. This is naked blackmail. The first and second points can be barely accepted, but the third point is a naked attempt to interfere in other countries' internal affairs and try to knock on other countries' doors with economic means. This makes Indonesia feel like it is being colonized again.
As for the last one, US$500 million in compensation, this is definitely a huge ask from the Lion.
500 million,
Where did they get 500 million dollars?
The mediation reached a stalemate.
Anyway, Hardy is not in a hurry. He goes about his business every day and lets the army go out when there is nothing to do, just treating it as training.
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September.
French girl Irena hugged Hardy and said happily: "Hady, I went for a check-up today and the doctor said I am pregnant."
"Really? That's great." Hardy kissed Iliana happily.
For children,
He is the more the better.
No matter whether they are born in marriage or out of wedlock, they are all his children. He had planned long ago to set up a family fund in Cayman, and all the women and children would be included in it. He could receive a certain amount of money every year.
As for inheritance,
That depends on the situation.
However, the family fund is enough to ensure that they can live a happy life without worries about food and clothing.
"The doctor said that you shouldn't do high-intensity exercise in the first two months of pregnancy," Iliana said.
"It's okay, the child is important." Hardy patted Iliana's face caringly.
Iliana licked her lips with her tongue. "The doctor said there's nothing wrong with it."
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During this time,
Princess Margaret of Great Britain was very happy.
Since she married Hardy and was no longer bound by the royal family, she has become more relaxed.
When the child is born, she can take the child out to play.
Hardy also gave her a job, which was to be responsible for managing the Hardy Group's global luxury goods industry. Of course, she had a professional management team under her.
But even so,
There are many things that require her concern.
Hardy asked her to do this for the sole purpose of making her feel fulfilled in life.
Hardy's secret to dealing with women is,
Keep them busy.
Idleness breeds trouble. As long as they are kept busy, and each of them has her own business and money to make a living, they will feel secure, and when they are secure, they will not be so combative.
Your mind will also become more open-minded.
Once a woman has nothing to do, her only goal will be to focus on men, and then she will come up with all kinds of things to fill her time and make her feel busy and fulfilled, and she will no longer just focus on you.
Margaret herself likes luxury goods.
As a royal princess, she usually wears luxury goods, so she knows a lot about these things. In addition, with her status, no matter what event she attends, such as a clothing launch or a cosmetics launch, she will become the focus and bring in a huge amount of traffic.
This can also play a great role in promoting the luxury brands in hand.
This is called making the best use of things.
The Hardy Group has published a special magazine for luxury goods, which is now the most popular luxury goods magazine in the world. The cover of the latest issue of the magazine is a photo of Margaret attending a jewelry launch event.
In the photo, the princess is holding a beautiful child in her arms.
It's Hardy's son, David Hardy.
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This day,
Hardy came to the Santa Clara Valley in San Francisco.
There are already some research laboratories and technology factories here. Hardy's idea is simple: buy as much land as possible and then start an investment company.
Because this is the location of the famous "Silicon Valley" in later generations.
In 1933, this place became a naval research and development base, and a number of technology companies serving the navy emerged around it. Later, the naval research and development base moved away, and the United States Aerospace Commission occupied the original naval research and development base for aerospace research, and some technology companies serving the aviation research and development base emerged.
Later, the aerospace industry also moved away, but many private technology laboratories remained.
There is also another advantage in the surrounding area. Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and several other universities in the University of California system are all nearby. This is one of the main reasons why this place later became Silicon Valley.
A gathering place for talents.
Hardy sent people to negotiate with the state government to purchase a large amount of land from the government. At the same time, he ordered people to set up a high-tech venture capital company on the road next to Stanford University.
'Hardy Technology Investments'.
The main investment direction is technology research and development and team.
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William Shockley was a researcher at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey at the time. A few years ago, Shockley and two colleagues invented the transistor and applied for a patent. Two years ago, he developed a new type of junction transistor.
William Shockley was later known as the father of the transistor.
During this time,
He had a new idea.
Bell Labs made a lot of money with his invention patents, but he could only get a small bonus and a research fund. This research fund was still used for research, and the research results would continue to make money for Bell Labs.
He wanted to make more money and become a millionaire.
This day,
He saw an article in the Global Times that said, "Hardy Group has established a 'high-tech research venture capital company' in Silicon Valley to provide financial support, venue support, and future market support for talents, creating an incubator for future technology companies."
William Shockley was instantly attracted.
Another coincidence is that Santa Clara Valley is the hometown of William Shockley. He grew up here, graduated from Caltech, went to MIT for a doctorate, and was later poached by Bell Labs.
Why not ask?
With a tentative mentality, William Shockley called Hardy High-Tech Investment Company. The other end was a reception manager. After chatting with William Shockley for a while, he learned that William Shockley was a researcher at Bell Laboratories and had mature products. The manager was very interested in him and invited him to the company for a detailed discussion.
The two sides have a good feeling about the contact.
Subsequently, the company agreed to invest in William Shockley, who received the first investment of US$1.6 million and established the Shockley Laboratory.
As for the interests of the investment company, they were naturally divided according to the results of the negotiation. William Shockley accounted for 40% of the laboratory's research results and patent profits, but the management rights belonged to the investment company. In other words, William Shockley's main job was still research, but if something was produced, the patent would be held by Hardy Company, and the profits generated would be divided according to shares.
In this way, Shockley Laboratory was established and began to do research in newspapers. Because of his research on transistors, he had a certain reputation in the electronic technology industry and soon attracted many talents, including young people such as Noyce, Moore, Blank, Klein, Horney, Last, Roberts and Grinick.
These young people,
He was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and later founded Intel, AMD and other companies.
The laboratory's main focus is still transistors, but now it has gone a step further and is preparing to study silicon chips and silicon chip-based transistors.
In fact, Shockley had already been conducting research in these areas at Bell Laboratories and had relatively mature ideas and goals.
Now that we have a laboratory and received a large investment, all that remains is to conduct experiments.
After seeing the report submitted by the investment company, Hardy was immediately attracted by the news. It was his decision to invest in Silicon Valley because he knew that this was the future core of high technology and the sooner he got involved, the better.
I didn't expect to attract these people.
But it is not surprising if you think about it. They are all scientific and technological talents, but they often have no funds. They need capital support. Now that there is such a venture capital company willing to invest in high-tech research and development, it will naturally attract many talents in this area.
But now that it's in my bowl,
Then don't even think about running away.
Hardy decided to keep them. In fact, these young people went out to start their own businesses because they wanted to achieve greater success and wealth.
That's totally fine.
I can continue to invest in them. They started out in their previous life and developed gradually after receiving investment.
And the technology companies of later generations,
He believed that the success of Silicon Valley's research companies would attract more talent here, and by then, Hardy would own a large number of shares in technology companies.
This is the greatest wealth in the future.
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Time flies and it is 1955.
Under the mediation of the United States, Britain and other countries, the Hadi Dominion and Indonesia reached a reconciliation agreement, mainly because Indonesia could no longer bear it.
The Hadi Autonomous Region has continuously carried out armed harassment on the Indonesian mainland, making it impossible for Indonesians to live and work in peace, causing huge losses.
Finally had to give in.
Indonesia promised to thoroughly investigate the looting, smashing and burning incidents, arrested more than 200 core members, compensated the damaged businesses, apologized to the dead and injured, and offered compensation.
Regarding Hadi's investment in Indonesia, the Indonesian government promised to purchase it at the market price. Hadi refused to sell it. The Indonesian government had no choice but to promise to protect any foreign investment and treat these companies equally.
Finally, Indonesia made war compensation, but it certainly could not come up with 500 million, so it finally agreed to pay 120 million US dollars in installments.
The matter between Hadi and Indonesia has come to an end.
In fact, although Indonesia today oppresses the Chinese economically and controls them politically, it has not yet developed to the point of massacre in later generations. That was after Suharto came to power.
In order to avoid that situation, Hadi had already killed Suharto in advance and let the Chinese spread within Indonesia that Hadi's autonomous region gave equal rights to all citizens and welcomed them to immigrate.
Later,
There is a large-scale influx of Chinese immigrants into Indonesia.
The population of Penang, Malacca and Singapore increased significantly, and also brought a large amount of wealth, because many of these immigrants were people with some assets.
March 1955.
Elena gave Hardy a daughter, a beautiful little girl who looked like a porcelain doll, with golden hair and sky-blue eyes.
Hardy smiled and said, "My child, in the future there will be people with different hair colors and different eye pupils. It will be very interesting to see them all gathered together."
Hardy named the little girl Anna, which is a common English and Chinese name, the same as his daughter Annie, born to him by Han Ye-jin.
And this daughter,
However, his household registration is not in the United States, but in the Cayman Islands.
Not only Anna, but Irena's household registration was also moved to the Cayman Islands for the convenience of transferring property and inheriting inheritance in the future.
At this time in Cayman,
There are already more than 3,000 citizens, and those who can register their household registration in the Cayman Islands are almost all wealthy or noble or children of family members, and some are employees of Hardy Company. It is not easy for ordinary people to join the Cayman Islands.
After Elizabeth Taylor learned that Irena had given birth, she flirted with Hardy when they met, "Hady, I want to give you a child, too. No, I want to give you several children."
"Of course."
"now."
"You are only 22 years old. Aren't you afraid that having a baby will affect your career? And it may also cause your body to become deformed?" Hardy advised.
"Don't be afraid, I want it now, give it to me~~~!"