Behind him was a blonde loli. Jiang Chen, who walked into the lobby on the first floor of the Future Building, felt like he had become the focus of all eyes.
Usually, when he came to the company, the eyes of the employees would coincidentally focus on him.
But today, he always felt that in addition to the respect from the bottom of their hearts, there was also a strange … or perhaps it was a hint of gossip?
After all, Jiang Chen's affairs were no longer news in Xin and the world, and the employees of Future Group were even more accustomed to it. However, the age of the person behind him, as a lover, seemed to be a bit too young, right?
Could it be …
An illegitimate daughter?!
The two beauties sitting at the front desk in the lobby suddenly had the flame of gossip in their eyes as they secretly whispered to each other.
In less than half a minute, the blonde, blue-eyed lolita had been imagined by them as a mistake made by someone when he was young, and they had added an emotional entanglement that was as bizarre as a Korean drama. As for the loopholes in the logic, they selectively ignored them.
For example, Jiang Chen was only in his twenties …
Fortunately, it was not rush hour, and there were not many people in the lobby.
Speechless, Jiang Chen took Lilith to the elevator. He finally felt relieved when he was out of the line of sight.
On the other hand, Lilith's expression didn't change at all, as if she didn't care at all.
And after she stood in the elevator, her eyes stayed outside the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the outline of Coro City in the distance.
The elevator ascended, and the scenery outside the window became more and more open.
Just then, she suddenly said out of the blue.
"A beautiful city."
Slightly taken aback, Jiang Chen glanced at her in surprise.
Sensing his gaze, Lilith sighed, as if she had guessed what he was thinking, and she said, "Don't worry about it.
"You don't have to treat me like a monster. I still have aesthetics."
"I didn't mean that," Jiang Chen smiled, "I just feel a little surprised."
Lilith didn't respond, she just quietly looked at the outline of Coro City.
After a while, until the elevator stopped on the top floor, she said.
"I understand your surprise."
…
The first meeting was the report of the various departments of Celestial Trade and the use of the budget. Just like before, everyone only had ten minutes to speak. Everyone followed Jiang Chen's request and removed unnecessary bureaucratic language and tried to be as concise as possible in their reports.
Unlike Future Group, except for the three major projects of the space elevator business, quantum communication satellite, and global power grid, most of Celestial Trade's departments were basically losing money or barely maintaining a balance of payments.
But none of that mattered.
After all, Jiang Chen's positioning for Celestial Trade was never a money-making tool, and he never used KPI as a standard to evaluate the work of each department. For most non-profit departments of Celestial Trade, compared to a glamorous financial report, he valued results in other aspects more.
The second meeting was the Mars Colony Development Planning Seminar. The attendees were mainly from the Celestial Trade Space Department, especially the executives of the Mars Project Department.
The reason why this meeting was arranged together with the previous one was mainly to make it convenient for executives like Calvin, who were stationed in Celestial City, to avoid having to travel twice for two meetings.
At the meeting, the colony expansion plan and the space elevator were discussed as key topics.
However, after the start of the meeting, Jiang Chen added a temporary item in front of these two topics that were discussed.
That was …
"… building new monuments and schools for Earth civilization in the colony? I don't doubt whether this is necessary, but I think this … is it too early? " After listening to the president's speech, Calvin was confused as to why Jiang Chen would suddenly bring up this seemingly minor issue for discussion at this time, so he asked in confusion.
"It's not early at all." Jiang Chen looked around at the executives of the Mars Project Department and said in a serious tone, "To strengthen the cultural bond between the colonial society and the mainstream society, the foundation must be laid from the beginning, otherwise it may bury hidden dangers for future social stability."
After hearing Jiang Chen's words, the executives of the Mars Project Department looked at each other.
There was no doubt that from their point of view, the president's words were undoubtedly a bit alarmist.
Jiang Chen was not surprised by such a situation.
After all, they did not have the ability to go to that world, so they would naturally think the problems he worried about were ridiculous.
The reason why Celestial Trade was developing on the shoulders of giants was not just that it possessed technology from the 22nd century. In addition to technology, the mistakes made by the superpower of that world in their exploration were also a great asset for Jiang Chen as a leader.
He did not intend to explain anything. As the president of Celestial Trade, he had the highest decision-making power. When his order was issued, there was no need for a vote at all. Other people only had the power to make suggestions and did not have the power to veto.
The proposal was directly passed, and the next step was to discuss how to implement it.
According to Jiang Chen's proposal, the Mars Project Department would allocate 2 billion Xin New dollars from the budget to build a new monument and a junior high school in the Mars colony. At the same time, in the next group of colonists, forty educators and two hundred students of different ages would be brought.
"Is there any meaning in sending teachers and students to the Mars colony?" One of the executives asked, "And, how do we convince parents to send their children to Mars?"
"In order to prevent the age gap in the Mars colony, we need a relatively smooth and stable population age distribution curve to stabilize the social structure of our colony. We don't need them to do anything there. We just need them to stay there and finish their studies, then decide whether to stay in the colony or return to Earth. "
After emphasizing this problem, Jiang Chen continued, "As for the latter problem, this is also very easy to solve. Attending high school in the Mars colony can provide a certain degree of bonus points for students in the college entrance exam. I believe there will be many families willing to send their children there. "
As long as Celestial Trade was willing to reimburse the round-trip "air tickets", maybe the entire family would emigrate.
"In the next year, we will open flights to and from Mars, and at the same time, we will increase the population limit of the Mars colony to 5,000. Compared to the current population size, this number has undoubtedly increased several times. For the future development of the colony, I hope you can pay attention to the issues I just emphasized. "
Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction as he watched the expressions on everyone's faces gradually become serious.
After a pause, he then said.
"Another is the space elevator."
"To turn Mars into our heavy industrial base, a convenient means of transportation is essential. I believe you know this better than I do, and you have more intuitive data, so I won't emphasize it again and again."
"I only have one requirement. Flights to Mars will open 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!"
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