Never overestimate the integrity of a country, especially the United States. This is a country that prides itself on cheating and abduction. They admire victory and only victory. As for the means used, they don’t care at all. Don’t look at these guys. We are shouting about Sanchi Chiyou all day long, but in fact, the United States is the country that supports the most dictators and warlords, and it is also the country that subverts the most regimes. Look at South America. Once a strong man appears in any country and wants to save his country, the United States They will use dirty means such as coups and assassinations to overthrow the strong man.
It is not unusual for the US government to hack Tony Stark's patents in order to obtain reactor technology. As for the means, there really shouldn’t be too many!
Even Tony Stark can't fight the US government on this.
"Rod! That bastard! No wonder he wanted to take the Russian back to the United States himself! I thought..." Tony was very smart, but he didn't expect that the U.S. government would be so unrestrained at first. But after being reminded by Kai... 99% of the time, the US government will definitely do this.
"And...have you really forgotten who that Russian is?"
"Who?" Tony asked confused.
"Tsk..." Kai has always been troubled by Tony's bad character... "Have you forgotten? The last time we were in Los Angeles, at the premiere of a movie you invested in... it was this guy who attacked you! How much did you give Would you like people to have a little respect?!!”
"Los Angeles...wait! Fuck! Shouldn't that guy be in jail?" Tony finally remembered who that guy was...
The Russian also attacked him last time, but Batman took away the reactor on his chest, leaving the government with no excuse. As for later, he was naturally thrown into prison, and Tony completely forgot about it. thing! I really don’t know what he was thinking. Maybe he thought the reactor at that time was too rubbish? Not worthy of his attention?
"I don't remember that guy looking like this! By the way... I forgot what he looked like, Fake! Fake! Someone is definitely messing with me!"
The Russian, Kai remembered, was called Anton Vanko. Kai didn't follow up on what happened after that. He thought Tony would solve it...
"Wait, I have to come back quickly! I can't let these people ruin my invention!" Tony immediately thought that the Russian would come out of prison, and it would definitely not be that simple.
"It's useless." Kai was very calm. The moment the Russians fell to the U.S. government, Tony lost: "You'd better reach an agreement with the U.S. government now, at least don't lose the energy industry, which is related to the stock price. .”
"Since when have you cared about stock prices?" Tony shouted angrily.
"Nonsense! I'm the second largest shareholder of Stark Group!" Kai hung up the phone casually.
Tony then remembered that although Wayne Group was nominally the second largest shareholder of Stark Group, in fact the controller of Wayne Group had always been Kai.
Sure enough, the day after Tony rushed back to China, he couldn't see the Russian.
Then the US government sent a broker to find Tony, and Rhodes came with the broker.
I don't know what kind of conversation they had, but when they came out, Rod's face was full of guilt, Tony's face was expressionless, and the broker was as humble as ever. To put it bluntly, a broker is a middleman, and he is not qualified to show off in front of a predator like Tony, because Tony may not be able to do anything to the US government, but he has no problem taking action against individuals, even those behind him!
There is an essential difference between the whole and the individual. It's not that the government can't function without one person. On the contrary, the higher-ups in the government are actually quite happy to see Tony directing his anger at someone, because it makes it easier to talk, which is a comfort.
Anyway, depending on the situation, Tony gave in.
There is no way, others have already mastered the technical key, it doesn't matter whether Tony agrees or not, the difference lies in whether everyone's face looks good or not.
After all, he really broke up with him and forcibly hacked Tony's patent... It looked too ugly.
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On the second day of this incident, another US military arms contractor, Hammer Group, announced that they had officially signed a contract with the military, and the military would inject funds to officially launch the Iron Warrior project.
This news immediately set off a huge wave in the stock market and public opinion circles. This time the military directly signed a 13 billion contract with the Hammer Group.
At the same time, the idea of Iron Warrior is also a copycat of Tony Stark's invention, which is also a hot topic.
Although the Hammer Group continues to emphasize that they are independently developed and are fundamentally different from Tony's mecha... but no one is a fool. Everyone who understands understands it, even those who don’t understand it very well. After all, Hammer Group is famous for copying Stark Group products.
On the contrary, Stark Group did not express an opinion on this, which is equivalent to acquiescence.
Instead, Stark Group focused its promotion on the upcoming expo.
The expo has been talked about for several years and is finally going to be held. The Stark Industrial Park in the Clinton District was used as a branch venue for private invention demonstrations. There was no way, the standards of the expo were too high, and the construction in the Clinton District had only started more than a year ago, so it was not possible to come up with such high standards so quickly. Specification conditions. The supporting facilities are not perfect at all.
So I was only allocated a 'Private Invention Exhibition'.
This private invention exhibition is, to put it bluntly, a stage for those civil sciences to display.
What's more, for the sake of excitement and novelty, truly shocking inventions will not appear here. The exhibits of large companies will be in the old Stark Group campus in New York, which has been renovated a month ago. Delivery completed.
That's where Tony's father held the first fair.
It can also be regarded as a kind of commemoration.
The first industrial expo was held by Tony's father in 1974, and the second was in Chicago. The third event was originally planned to be held in Los Angeles, but as a result of the Battle of Los Angeles, the Stark Group's Los Angeles headquarters was abandoned, so they had to move back to New York. It happened that New York City wanted to host the third event and gave many discounts. conditions, so Pepper decided to hold the third session in New York.
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More than a month later, in July, the expo officially started.
After the successful promotion in Chicago, the Stark Industry Expo has made a name for itself, with more exhibitors, all high-tech companies from all over the world, and it has become a world-class platform. To describe it as martial arts, this is a technological version of the World Martial Arts Conference, where everyone competes for attention based on their abilities. During the one-and-a-half-month exhibition, most venues will also be adjusted as exhibiting companies change.
This time the exhibition time has been extended. The previous one was only held for one week.
However, because the communication effect was very good, more companies and more products were willing to be released at the expo, so the exhibition time had to be extended.
This made the New York City Government extremely happy. They wished that the exhibition could be longer, preferably for a whole year.
The Clinton District is a paradise for self-employed people.
It can even be said to be the Grand Prize for Funny Inventions.
In the "Self-employed" exhibition area, as long as they pass the inspection by the expo management department, those individual inventors can also put their weird gadgets on this world-class stage for a day. If many people have time, they go to this self-employed exhibition area and maybe they can meet interesting little inventions. It’s more like an amusement park. Unlike those big exhibitions that require invitations or even tickets, you only need to buy one outside the gate. For a two-dollar ticket, you can play as much as you want.
So many local New Yorkers are happy to come here.
This made the merchants in Clinton District couldn't help but wonder. When had they ever experienced such a large flow of people?
Many people came to attend the Stark Industry Expo, including top experts, scholars, technicians and so on from all over the world. These people basically will not appear here among self-employed people, but many middle- and low-level related personnel come here to hang out and pick up leaks with the mentality of picking up leaks.
The 'self-employed' people are also very happy. In any case, they have got a stage to show off. Many technologies are useless to inventors because they are difficult to monetize. If they do not monetize, they will have no money to continue researching, and if they don’t have money to research, it will be even harder to monetize. And the biggest problem is promotion!
Where do 'self-employed' people get resources to promote? Without promotion, there will naturally be no business opportunities.
Don't think that those inventions in civilian science are all funny things, some of them are quite practical. For example, Kai saw a powerful deodorant! The effect of this thing is very obvious, but unfortunately no one promotes it, so naturally no one pays attention to it. As a result, the Stark Group took a fancy to this invention and directly bought the patent!
In the past two days, more than 30 self-employed people have sold their patents. Although these are small transactions, with the highest amount being only one million US dollars, this is also an unparalleled attraction for those 'self-employed' inventors.
It is also because of the success of these people that the exhibition area in Clinton District has attracted unprecedented attention. Not only inventors, but ordinary people also like to come here. After all, those high-end technology releases, except for enthusiasts and practitioners, rarely attract ordinary people. Pay attention, they pay most attention to new smartphones and so on. Ordinary people still prefer down-to-earth inventions, regardless of whether they are useful or not, as long as they are interesting.
Therefore, within two days of the exhibition, the Clinton exhibition area became one of the leisure places for many New Yorkers to spend their free time. Coupled with some quite professional enthusiasts, it can be said that the self-employed stalls are crowded. Compared with the reserve and arrogance of those top bosses, visitors here have less scruples. Many people are typical technical geeks. As long as they talk about technology, they don't care if this is an individual booth and just start talking.
Can't stand it? If you can't stand it, just close the stall and go home. If you are a man, you have to be tough. The thinking of most technical geeks is so simple and crude. Saving face, depending on the situation, and talking about interests are things that the big guys consider, and they only use one word - quarrel. Therefore, all kinds of technical work are being carried out at the self-employed stalls all the time.
Some people may suddenly point out the problem in front of the stall, such as the inexplicable super fertilizer gold carat, new energy with astonishing conversion ratio, and all kinds of weird products modified by individuals. In the end, both sides became impatient and resorted to physical persuasion.
And this is also a scene that many people like to see. People all over the world love it just to watch the excitement.
After noticing this situation, Kai also asked the policemen of the 15th Precinct to be more careful and not to stop them too much. At the very least, they should wait until they have finished their "performance" before taking action. Of course, if they go too far, they need to be stopped and no lives will be lost. He couldn't even be seriously injured, but smiled and watched both sides bruised and swollen, and then came out to catch both sides after the evidence was conclusive. This way the 'performance' effect will be better! Don't think this is too much, after all... more people flow is good for everyone.
Most technical geeks are quite timid, and it's not difficult to deal with it. Just scare them a few times, and the two parties will basically let go. If you really have the courage, you won't be a technical geek, and you won't cause any big trouble anyway. And it will add a lot of fun, especially those nerds who don't know how to fight and will make a lot of jokes from time to time. Anyway, it is very fun.
Even if there are really those who are upright and stubborn, it doesn't matter. Detention does not require any court trial anyway. Those who are caught causing trouble can be sent to the police station to cool down for 24 hours. This is the power of the police. It costs nothing at all.
So the police officers were also happy to 'join in the performance'.
On the contrary, the police over there in Stark Park were not so comfortable. The NYPD over there sent some police officers and a large number of auxiliary police officers to maintain order. There's no need to worry about salary. The Stark Group has provided money and donated a large amount of money to the NYPD.
But the problem is that all the people here are from big companies, and the people who come to visit are not as casual as those at the self-employed venue. Most of them are quite reserved, maybe because of the atmosphere. In short, it is quite difficult here. There are a lot of things that need to be paid attention to, for fear of being complained. After all, it is impossible for the police to know whether there will be some hidden boss among the visitors. It would be very troublesome to be complained about.
Especially for those popular exhibitions, there are a lot of problems.
Such as the opening ceremony!
The opening ceremony of the expo was not held on the first day of the expo, but on the third day... As for why, it was said to be Tony's idea. He feels that the opening ceremony is very important. It needs to be warmed up in advance to get people into the mood. Then there will be a big party... No, it is a big show, which will be more attractive.
After all, the opening ceremony was to be broadcast live, and the live broadcast rights were sold for a sky-high price!
As for the real reason...it was actually because Tony drank too much when he held a party for Rhodes more than a month ago and agreed to too many people's requests to perform at the opening ceremony...there were too many beauties that day. , or maybe it was too long without wine and meat... which made him a little drifting. As a result, the scheduled opening ceremony performance seriously exceeded the time limit... a choice must be made.
Who to take and who to give up is a troublesome matter.
This does not mean that the opening ceremony has been delayed again and again.
However, this aroused the curiosity of many people, leading to increasing attention to the opening ceremony!
