Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

Manhattan.

42nd Street, above Wildfire Bar.

"Bell bell~"

A crisp alarm sound woke David up from his deep sleep~

While rubbing his eyes, he pressed the stop button on the alarm clock, got dressed, quickly took a hot bath, finished washing up, and walked out of the bedroom.

in the kitchen.

Susan and Cui Yingying, who were wearing the same aprons, saw David getting up and coming out. They stopped what they were doing and smiled at him.

"You're up~"

"Yingying is asking me to do what you like..."

"Oh?"

"Haha~ Yingying, does Susan have any talent in cooking?"

"She is great! She learns very quickly~"

"Wow~"

David opened his arms to Susan, carried her to the dining table, let her sit on his lap, and teased.

"Come on, tell me, fried eggs...have you learned it?"

Susan rolled her eyes, pinched David's nose with her fingers, and said with a tigerish face.

"If you look down on me again... I'll put you in a frying pan and fry you!"

"Forehead.."

"Hahaha~ OK!"

"I just happened to take a shower, I'm white and tender..."

"Hahaha~"

. . .

Breakfast hour.

Elena and Cui Yingying sat on one side of the table, watching David as if coaxing a child to let Susan eat breakfast for him. .

I couldn’t help but laugh~

But these two guys who "showed affection" in front of them had no intention of restraining themselves. .

On the contrary, it got worse. . Be "unbridled"~

Elena couldn't see David's hands that were blocked by the dining table, but Susan's face slowly turned rosy. .

She turned around and glanced at Cui Yingying, who also had her head lowered and her face flushed. She put down the tableware and coughed lightly.

"cough~"

"You're not going to let us watch you two every day at breakfast..."

"After eating... go to the bedroom, can't you?"

"Hahaha~"

David smiled, raised his hands that were just blocked by the table, and teased Elena with a face full of teasing.

"We didn't do anything~"

"You are overthinking it..."

"Cut~"

Elena rolled her eyes nicely, stared at Susan, who was blushing and biting her lip without saying a word, and pretended to sigh.

"You can't spoil him like this anymore~"

"Oh..." A sweet smile appeared at the corner of Susan's mouth, and she responded, but her hands were "honestly" wrapped around David's neck, and her whole body got into his arms~

"..."

"Forget it~ I finally figured it out..."

"You are completely hopeless~"

"Right, Yingying."

"..."

Cui Yingying didn't answer, she still blushed, lowered her head, and ate the breakfast on her plate. .

David smiled and kissed Susan on her rosy cheek, thought for a while, and asked in her ear.

Susan held her head in his arms and nodded gently~

David smiled and shrugged at Elena, then turned to Cui Yingying and said.

"I will be very busy today~maybe...I won't even have time to eat~"

"At noon, you and Susan go to the company together and bring me food~"

"Okay?"

"...Okay!" Cui Yingying nodded in response. Unintentionally, everyone saw that her neck had turned pink. .

Elena covered her forehead with her hands, pretending to be completely speechless, and sighed.

"It's over~ Another idiot!"

"Hehe~"

"Aren't you willing to be a fool?"

"..."

Elena stopped talking and picked up the tableware again. She seemed to think of breakfast as her enemy and ate it with big mouthfuls~

"Hahaha~"

The three people in the restaurant couldn't help laughing when they saw her like this~

----

Manhattan.

In front of the Stanley Building.

Polly, leading Rosenlot, Alto, the younger generation of Sidrich, and Asti Sidrich, Ludy's eldest son, walked into the Stanley Building in a hurry.

in the elevator.

It was his first time to come to Wall Street, and it was also his first time to walk into a large Wall Street company wearing a crisp suit and tie. Asty stood in the corner of the elevator, raised his hands and loosened his collar. .

His cousin Alto turned his head and glanced at Asti, who had a shy face and curious eyes, and smiled.

"The shirt doesn't fit?"

"..Um!"

"Hehe~"

"After you get used to wearing a suit, you will feel uncomfortable if you try to wear other clothes~"

Asti tilted his head and thought for a while, but before he could say anything, the elevator door opened.

Polly, who was standing at the door, glanced back at Asti and said.

"We're already late..."

"Just stay with Rosenlot and Artaud, listen more, see more, and talk less!"

"Okay!" Asti straightened his chest and responded.

Polly nodded and stepped out of the elevator.

"Hehe~"

Alto hugged "little brother" Asti's shoulders, glanced at "little wooden brother" Rosenlow, deliberately slowed down and whispered.

"You are nineteen and David is twenty-one."

"He's only two years older than you!"

Alto hugged his "little brother" Asti, stood at the door of David's company, pointed at the busy employees inside, and said.

"This is David's company."

"It only took him a few months to do this..."

"Perhaps, you will feel very annoyed by your father Ludy and your mother nagging you in your ears..."

"But the facts are already in front of you~"

"What...have you been doing all day? What have you been thinking about?"

"Where is David? What is he thinking and doing?"

"..." Asti glanced around at the busy employees in the company, lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

Alto patted his shoulder hard and smiled.

"There are not many geniuses like David Coleman in New York~"

"How successful he can be, I can't imagine, and I don't bother to guess~"

"But your smart brain shouldn't be wasted on you like this!"

"If I had met David at your age..."

Alto closed his mouth, shrugged rather sadly, and strode towards the company's conference room.

Asti looked at his retreating back, clenched and released his fists, took a few deep breaths, then turned to look at a large circle of busy employees in the company, and quickly followed him.

. . .

meeting room.

Asti followed his cousin Alto and quickly walked into the conference room and came to a corner. After finding a seat and sitting down, he realized that the people in the conference room seemed to be invisibly divided into two worlds.

. . .

Near the door.

David sat in a chair with a pile of various folders in front of him.

Beside him stood Maggie and Sam~

Sam pointed to the document in his hand and explained the question he raised to David in a low voice~

Maggie held a notebook in her hand. While listening to the conversation between the two, she wrote down all the important points that she thought~

After a few minutes.

David took a deep breath, picked up his notebook and thought for a while, then asked Sam a few more questions.

Sam didn't have any answers to the questions he asked for a moment. He could only turn his head and look at the hill of documents on the table. .

. . .

David, who felt that his "recharging" was over, put down his notebook, stood up and walked to Polly, hugged her affectionately and whispered a few words to her.

Polly smiled and nodded, pointing to the other side of the conference room and whispering something.

David suddenly slapped his forehead, let go of Polly, and walked towards the crowd.

"Hi~ guys!"

"I'm sorry~ I called everyone here in such a hurry and made you wait for a long time."

"Hehe~"

Everyone laughed kindly and waved their hands to him, indicating that it was okay.

David glanced across everyone's faces and continued with a smile.

"I have a very important party to attend today~"

"But I have very little confidence in my abilities and knowledge reserves."

"You are all my colleagues at work and friends in life~ You also saw the scene just now~"

"That's right!"

"I am temporarily adding some knowledge points about my blind spots, so that I can be more rational, confident, and perfect when dealing with various difficulties that I will encounter~"

"So, I asked you to come here today. It was only after I went to Chase Manhattan Bank a few days ago and personally experienced their regular knowledge training for company executives that I remembered..."

"Every time you and I meet, we just talk about the problems we are facing, but never talk about...how we can fundamentally solve the problems we always encounter!"

David raised his wrist, glanced at his watch, and then motioned to Polly, who was following him, to sit down first and said.

"I know today is Monday and everyone is very busy~"

"So, I will make a story short and take up ten minutes of your time to talk about the question that you may be most curious about and least understand."

"How can I, a former bartender at Wildfire Bar, stand in front of you and be called the boss?"

"I'll tell you a little secret!"

"Everyone of you here occupies an irreplaceable position in my success to a greater or lesser extent!"

"I also gained a lot of life insights and experience knowledge from my acquaintance and contact with you."

David turned his head and glanced at the table, took a step back, sat directly on the conference table, smiled at everyone, and started his impromptu "one-man show".

"Just now, I mentioned that I went to Chase Bank and participated in one of their executive trainings..."

"Actually... I didn't hear the complete content of their training. Instead, I was put in front of everyone and told them a few short stories~"

"Today, let me share a little story with you~"

"One day some time ago, I suddenly remembered some past events from my childhood before going to bed."

"The closest thing to my home is a small river. It's neither too far nor too close."

"Every summer before the summer vacation, the school teachers and my parents would remind us little naughty guys with their ears: Don't secretly go to the river to frolic and play..."

"But when I was a kid, even though I didn't talk much... I was as courageous as a basketball~"

"I almost never heard the words my mother said to me..."

"So, in the summer when I was in eighth grade, several of my classmates and I rode bicycles and secretly went to the small river to play a few times. We felt very happy~"

"As a result, only about ten days later, I heard the bad news~"

"One of my classmates in school drowned when he went to fish and play in that river!"

"This incident has caused a great psychological shadow on me..."

"In the next few years, I never went to play by the river that swallowed up the lives of my classmates."

David spread his hands with regret and continued.

"I don't know why I suddenly remembered this past incident that day..."

"It kept me from sleeping well, tossing and turning~"

"I kept thinking in my mind... What would have happened if I had drowned at that time?"

"I will definitely struggle towards the shore, and I will definitely shout for help to my classmates..."

"But...will that work?"

"uncertain!"

"Then, I simply got up and stopped sleeping. I played a little game by myself and tried to use it to help me solve the problem of insomnia."

"Q&A!"

"Questions&Answers, ask and answer your own questions."

"I first asked myself a few questions~"

"Suppose: I am drowning, will it be useful to fight desperately?"

"There is a high probability that it won't be useful, but there is a small probability... that it will be useful ~ because I can't swim at all!"

"I shouted for help to my classmates, is it helpful?"

"It might work, but there's a greater chance...it won't work!"

"Because I know they can't swim either~"

"What if they bring themselves in to save me?"

"If they drowned me, they would have no choice but to stand on the shore and worry... leaving something they will never forget..."

"Hehe~"

"Then...what should I do to solve the drowning problem?"

David put his hand on the top of his head, made an exaggerated grabbing motion, and smiled.

"In this hand of mine, it's like another me who is more rational and calm~"

"This little game of Q&A was completed by me and him together!"

"He gave me the most important life guide..."

"To solve this drowning problem, the first thing to do is... don't let yourself get close to danger!"

"The drowning problem I pose to myself is almost unsolvable~"

"Then I will keep myself away from those small rivers that may swallow my life, and find myself a qualified teacher to learn swimming skills from him to ensure that I will not be in danger of accidental drowning anywhere. "

David raised a finger to everyone: "Here, I mentioned another little secret that I can continue to gain recognition from people."

"study!"

"Continuous learning can enrich my brain and make me stronger, faster and more competitive!"

"In addition, the many advantages I have learned from all of you and the insights I have summarized are the biggest factors that enable me to sit here and tell you stories."

"Hahaha~"

Everyone laughed.

. . .

at the door.

Lilith and Laura, who walked in behind Pine, quietly came to sit next to Polly.

Laura leaned into Polly's ear with a curious face and asked in a low voice.

"What are they doing?"

"..tell a story!"

"Forehead.."

Laura glanced at Lilith who was holding back her laughter, closed her mouth, and looked at David's back patiently, wanting to hear what else he could say~

. . .

David, for his part, jumped off the table, pointed at the crowd and laughed.

"For example...Tangtang!"

Tangtang, one of the leaders of Da Film and Television Company who was called by David, pointed to the tip of her nose in surprise and asked with a smile.

"I?"

"Yes, it's you!"

David took a deep breath, looked at her seriously and said, "You faced this shitty life, and you didn't choose to retreat and endure it silently~"

"But I bravely launched challenges to it and myself again and again!"

"Tangtang, your brave and unwilling attitude allows me to see different life choices!"

"The jaws of your men who don't think highly of you are all shocked!"

"You succeed, so can I!"

"So, I want to say thank you!"

"It was you who made me make the choice that brings me to where I am today!"

Tangtang wiped her nose with her hand, mentally ignoring the looks of people around her, and smiled.

"I don't need men's approval!"

"I have my own hands, that's enough!"

"...Hahahaha~"

"Papa papa~"

People with extremely fast brain circuit responses were the first to respond to Tangtang’s “pun” and gave their own applause~

David also smiled and gave her a thumbs up and said, "Nice!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

After the laughter.

David spoke a few words to everyone and then sent everyone away~

Paige Olson, the head of the advertising agency, and Rendley Norris did not leave immediately.

The two of them looked at David, and after seeing off several groups of people, they walked up to David and said.

"Is the slogan you gave us this morning related to today's party?"

"Correct!"

"It shouldn't be hard to do, right?"

"It's not difficult!"

"We have asked Joan Harris for help and arranged models to prepare for the shoot~"

"It's just... the quality may not be very good."

David smiled and shrugged: "It's okay ~ I can understand."

"As long as this commercial has a rough look~"

"It will be a gift, given today."

"deliver?"

Page and Norris looked at each other, both speechless at David's "willful" behavior~

David smiled and waved his hands to them and said.

"After the commercial is finished, you can give the videotape to my secretary Maggie."

"I'll invite you to dinner another day and have a nice chat~ ok!?"

"Ok!"

Page and the two nodded "knowingly" and walked out of the conference room.

. . .

After everyone left, David said hello to Bob, Yuri, Rosenlow, Alto, Asti and others who stayed behind.

"Hey~ guys."

"I kept you here specially because I wanted you to see my normal working status~"

"If you feel bored, you can leave at any time without saying hello to me~ ok?"

"Ok!"

Bob was the first to smile and nod to David.

The other people also nodded, telling David not to pay attention to them anymore.

David smiled at them, turned to look at Laura who was following Lilith, and said.

"Aren't you also curious about what I do all day?"

"I don't have it~"

"Hehe~"

"You stay behind Maggie today and learn from her!"

Laura's eyes widened, and just when she was about to refuse, Lilith held her back. .

"obedient!"

"Hey~?"

"you..?"

"Hahaha~"

David pinched Laura's nose with his hand, leaned in front of her, and whispered.

"Give me back that Laura who is crying behind me!"

"..go to hell, asshole!"

Laura's face turned red, and she was about to show her "real" side and let this bastard have a good taste. .

Lilith hugged her shoulders firmly and whispered.

"What are you going to do?"

"I... uh... you!?"

Lilith watched David slip away with a "satisfied" smile on his face, nodded to Polly beside him, pulled Laura aside, and asked.

"Do you want to go?"

"Um...where do you want me to go?"

"You already have a vacation~ You can go anywhere you want for a vacation~"

Laura blinked her big eyes, looked at Lilith with a serious expression, scratched her head with her hands, and said.

"I'm not going anywhere~"

"Wherever you are, I will be there too!"

"Um.."

Lilith nodded with satisfaction, smoothed the broken hair around Laura's ears with her hand, and smiled.

"Giles' fiancée, Leslie's sister, Kylena Rockefeller, is also coming back from London~"

"She has changed a lot...how about you?"

"You still have to follow your own little temper when it comes to dealing with people. Do you still have to continue...?"

"Kylena, she..."

Laura was speechless~

It turned out that her "best partner" Kylena, after going to London to go to school, the two became friends. . "Not in tune"~

Laura knew very well in her heart that it was not she who had changed, but her childhood friend Kylena who had matured~

"Alright then~"

"I will follow Maggie today and study~"

"Ok!"

Lilith kissed Laura's forehead gently and smiled.

"Don't pay attention to David's bastard joke~ He means no harm..."

"I do not have.."

"Okay, okay~"

"Let's go!"

"Oh~"

. . .

David's side.

He was holding documents in his hand and asked Pine, who had just arrived.

"What is this VLSI you are talking about?"

Pine lowered his head and flipped through the information in his hand, quickly found an introduction, and replied.

"VLSI, its full name: Very Large Scale Integration Research Institute."

"In March 1976, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry under the government of the island country organized the strongest semiconductor companies in the country, such as nec, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, etc., to form an open, creative, cooperative research, and new technology association~"

"It was planned by the island country's government in 1974. After more than a year, it held regular symposiums and discussions~"

“Under the leadership of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, most of the country’s scientific research talents have been gathered to integrate existing semiconductor knowledge from the entire process of design, production, and testing, and coordinate conflicts between various companies and technologies being tackled, etc. "

"It allowed the island country's most authoritative group of semiconductor research experts to form... probably the strongest semiconductor R&D team in the world today..."

"The main goal is to develop the basic technologies necessary to manufacture the most advanced VLSI memory chips, especially 64K and 256K dynamic random access memories (DRAM)."

(DRAM, the most commonly used type of computer memory; it typically uses a transistor and a capacitor to represent a bit.)

“还有，1K的DRAM和4K的DRAM，是米国最先于1970年和1972年研制出来的；16K的DRAM是米国和岛国，同时在1976年研制出来的。”

"Currently, the United States is tackling key problems. The island country has begun mass production of 64kDRAM, which contains about 15 components and is already a VLSI ultra-large-scale integrated circuit product."

"After its successful mass production and launch, it means that the island country has entered the VLSI era earlier than the United States!"

David took the folder from Pine, looked at it for a while, repeated it silently, then nodded slowly and asked.

"In other words, the island country has entered the 64kVLSI era, but we are still in the final step of technological research..."

"Then... if our first step is slow, every subsequent step will be a whole step slower?"

"That's right!"

Pine pointed to the documents, shrugged and said: "Based on the public reports they published, we got some information."

"The island government is expected to spend nearly 300 billion yen + major companies will spend more than 400 billion yen to invest in the research and development association of this project."

"The VLSI Research Association, from 76 to now, has obtained nearly 1000 international patent rights."

"This can no longer be surpassed by relying on the R&D capabilities of a certain company."

David nodded in understanding, put down the document in his hand, and sighed: "The island country's government has made a huge bet in the semiconductor research industry~"

"Full of gambling spirit!"

"But it also exposed their character weaknesses~"

Pine smiled, looked around at the people around him, and nodded.

"Yes~"

"In the 60s, more than ten years ago, when we in the United States were broadcasting live broadcasts of rockets taking off and manned landings on the moon, many American families had Sony TV sets..."

“Later, although the U.S. government took action and smashed the island country’s trade protection~”

"It allowed companies such as IBM and Texas Instruments to successfully enter the island market..."

"But the treaty signed between the island country and the United States stipulates that only joint ventures can be established, core technologies will be handed over, all patents will be disclosed, and the market share cannot exceed 10%~"

"Forehead..?"

"And this thing?"

"Yes~"

Pine continued with a hint of amusement in his smile.

"More than a year after the treaty was signed, IBM took away 40% of the market share from the island country's major semiconductor companies."

"What's more, what makes them even more uncomfortable is that 20% of the key raw materials for the production of semiconductor products can only be imported from companies here in the United States."

David narrowed his eyes slightly and continued: "It was this kind of neck-stuck situation that made the island government and these semiconductor companies put aside their competition and conflicts and formed the VLSI Research Association. (VLSI).”

"Ok!"

Pine took the folder from David, looked down at it a few times, and sighed.

"I didn't know much about the development of VLSI before~"

"VLSI has now established a strong technological research and development advantage for itself. If we want to catch up, it will take at least five years, or even more than ten years."

David frowned, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, and asked.

"Where is IBM's R&D department?"

"They... can only watch and there is nothing they can do?"

"Hehe~"

"IBM's products and R&D direction are mainly focused on large computers."

"Large computers have very high quality requirements and require a long replacement cycle~"

David interrupted him again, and then asked: "So, IBM seems to be less active in continuous rapid technological innovation?"

"..." Pain smiled bitterly and said nothing, spreading his hands.

"Okay~"

David also shook his head, picked up a pen and wrote down some key points of this information in his notebook.

After he finished writing, he thought about it, turned to Lilith and asked.

"Where is Toshiba's information?"

"Did you get it?"

Lilith nodded, opened the information in her hand, and said.

"One of the founders of Toshiba, Hisashige Tanaka, came to New York to learn from Edison how to make incandescent lamps."

"After Tanaka returned to Japan, he founded Shibaura Company and produced the island country's first dual tungsten filament incandescent light bulb."

"Subsequently, Shibaura Corporation merged with Tokyo Electric Corporation founded by Fujioka Ichiba, and was renamed Tokyo Shibaura Electric Corporation in 1939, which is still used today - referred to as Toshiba Corporation."

"In 1942, Toshiba acquired a home appliance company and entered the home appliance market."

“In 1943, they successively acquired several companies, shifting the company’s main business to construction materials, communication equipment, military weapons and equipment production and other industries.”

"During World War II, Toshiba produced a large number of Type 95/97 tanks, air defense radars, various types of artillery and other military weapons and equipment for the island nation's military."

"Toshiba, relying on these arms orders, has become one of the five major military industrial companies in the island country."

"After the defeat of the island nation in 1945, Toshiba began to fully transition into the field of civilian products, and successively acquired automobile companies, engine companies, steam turbine companies, etc."

"After the 50s, Toshiba launched transistor TVs, microwave ovens, color video phones and other consumer appliances."

"After the 60s, Toshiba began to spin off its parent company, establishing Toshiba EMI (1960), Toshiba Electronic Equipment (1974), Toshiba Chemical (1974) and other companies."

"Furthermore, Toshiba also has the most advanced scientific research level in the world in terms of R&D and production of precision machine tools."

"This year, Toshiba Group Corporation has established a new department specializing in investment, called the Industrial Investment Department."

Lilith closed the folder in her hand, handed it to David, and smiled.

"I guess they may have made too much money in the past few years and want to invest the spare money in the financial field... just for fun~"

David also smiled and took the folder and said with a smile: "The international financial market is not easy to deal with!"

"I wonder if they are mentally prepared to lose their pants!"

"Hahaha~"

Everyone laughed at him~