Amid the most prosperous steel forest in Shanghai's eastern district stood a uniquely designed building.
This was Tesla's Huaxia regional headquarters. After the completion of Tesla's Gigafactory, it was the second landmark building the Tesla Group had invested in and built on this land.
Overlooking one of the Western Pacific's busiest river estuaries, it was like a lighthouse at the mouth of the Nile River, guiding merchants and international capital passing through toward this vast market...
Of course, there were many similar lighthouses.
Ever since clean, nearly limitless energy had lit up the Pacific Ocean's West Coast, more and more international capital had poured in, hoping to share in the profits brought by this energy revolution. Elon Musk was merely one of the more astute businessmen among them.
At this moment, in the boardroom on the building's top floor.
Tesla Huaxia's general manager, Bevis, was receiving an extraordinary client—he came from the Boston area of the United States, and his name was David Lawrence.
In the United States, Lawrence was a very common surname. But when that surname was linked to the Boston area and the banking industry, it carried an unusual significance.
As one of the region's renowned old-money families, the Lawrence family, which was engaged in finance, was often mentioned alongside their three old friends—the Lowell, Adams, and Lodge families.
Back when North America was still a colony, these farsighted prominent families had been among the first to grow wealthy. They invested the enormous funds accumulated through overseas colonial plunder into banking, then used those financial institutions to supply capital to the light and heavy industrial chains they directly or indirectly controlled, rising rapidly amid the waves of the two Industrial Revolutions.
Having risen rapidly through the two Industrial Revolutions, they clearly had not been content with the