Chapter 638: Escape to the Ganges

In the calendar, the year is about to pass, and on the occasion of New Year's Day, the Star Group has upgraded the Star OS system, and from this generation, the Star OS system will be upgraded to the Star Cloud system.

The Star Cloud system is an intelligent system that relies on the network, and in the case of disconnecting the network, a large number of new functions will be lost.

Through several major data centers around the world, the Star Cloud system includes a personal 500G permanent free cloud space, starting from the Star Galaxy S2, you only need to pay 30 Chinese dollars (6.99 US dollars, 9.99 silver dollars) per month to enjoy 3.1M network.

After negotiations with operators in some countries, a new network function was launched, 3.1M low-latency network speed, which is basically not much different from 3G networks, especially the signal strength, thanks to the superiority of quantum communication signals, many developed countries in Europe and the Americas are actually not keen on the popularization of domestic communication networks, but are only popularized in population gathering places.

The communication technology cooperation between Star Group, Huawei and ZTE, the new generation of 4G technology, and the various communication equipment developed by the Star Group are effortlessly purchased by most communication companies.

Without the smartphone revolution that has been set off in recent years, the increase in network speed from 3G to 4G would not make much sense.

In addition, the content also has a great impact, in the first two years, people held a mobile phone that could only play a few dozen M mini-games at most, and the screen could only watch 480p SD video at most, so even if you have a mobile network with a speed of 100M, it doesn't make sense.

In the past two years, with the complete rise of various entertainment such as mobile payment, short videos, and mobile online games, these things that cannot be realized on feature phones have promoted the upgrading of technology.

4G and the smart phone revolution, not two independent events, but fused together, simply put, if there is a smart machine revolution and no 4G, then the network development will be a few years late, after all, the improvement of communication technology also takes time.

It is the demand that people use smart phones to drive the development of 4G, and the development of 4G technology has pushed back the improvement of smart machine hardware.

Therefore, in just a few years, the strength and performance of smart phones have reached the point where they are surplus to the vast majority of people; Because of the limitations of communication technology, the vast majority of people can't give full play to one-tenth of the performance of high-end smart phones, which is the fundamental reason for the development of the Internet and communication industry.

People of insight also see that this is an opportunity, especially for China, which is an opportunity to widen the gap with the United States and European countries, fully popularize 4G communication technology, and promote the improvement of the relevant Internet industry.

Although Chen Guo also saw this opportunity, he did not have the courage to carry out a major upgrade, but Yang Yi used quantum communication technology to fool around, concealing the network speed limit and the number of equipment limitations, and in the middle of the plan, he could only invest in it.

With a network speed of 3.1M and 500 million devices, Chen Guo and Sulawesi will use a maximum of 200 million units, and the rest will be provided to global operators.

The monthly cost is not expensive, only 30 Chinese dollars, and the Star Group can earn half of the 30 Chinese dollars, basically billions of income every month, and the meaning for the Star Group is that Sulawesi's infrastructure funds do not have to worry.

The whole set of quantum communication technology is not only 36 satellites in the sky, but also equipment on the ground, ground receiving systems located in various regions of the world, Canada, Brazil, Antarctica, Africa, Sulawesi, Nepal, Iceland, Madagascar, Alaska a total of eight receiving centers.

This is also the limitation of the first generation of quantum communication satellites, which were specially built by Star Group to buy land or islands.

Without these ground-based reception centers, the functionality of this quantum communication system would be reduced by 60%.

These ground centers are built with separate energy equipment, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, etc., for example, a hydropower station was built in Nepal.

The Karnali River, the third largest river in Nepal, is located in western Nepal and is also the upper reaches of the Kagra River, a tributary of the Ganges River in India, and originates in the territory of Puran County in southwestern Tibet.

The Ganges River originates in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and flows from west to east through northern India before empiring into the Bay of Bengal.

This great river nourishes the past and present civilizations of South Asia, and is considered a "holy river" by Hindus, and Hindus believe that it is a clean river, that bathing in the Ganges River during life can wash away all sinful karma, and that after death, ashes are sprinkled into the river to avoid the suffering of reincarnation and go straight to heaven.

To be precise, the "Ganges" refers specifically to the section of the Vlennasi River in the middle reaches, where most of the photos of bathing in sewage and queuing up dead bodies come from.

The Ganges River, which flows from northwest to southeast, briefly flows north in a crescent-like C-shaped bend in front of the ancient city of Varlenasi, giving this thousand-year-old city a layer of mystery, where Shakyamuni first preached and founded Buddhism at the Wild Deer Park on the outskirts of Varlenasi, which is also regarded by Hindus as "the closest city to heaven".

Hinduism believes that human beings are born with karma, and there is less karma for good skin, and more karma for poor skin, and it takes more good deeds to gradually wash away karma, and only after death can a good rebirth be reincarnated, and after many reincarnations, they will finally ascend to heaven and enjoy eternal peace.

Compared with Buddhism, which became a Buddha on the spot, and Catholicism that bought coupons to atone for sins, such a paradise is undoubtedly a little far away, in this case, the western section of the Ganges River with "holy power" and can wash away the karma of sins has a special significance, and countless believers have been instilled with the concept of going to Vallennasi to bathe at least for the rest of their lives, and then there is the world-famous "Ganges morning bath".

Whenever the morning light is faint, countless men and women come out of their dwellings, calling friends and companions, groups of three or five, and walking down the river with their sacred cows along the steps on the west bank of the river, the men take off only their shorts, and the women wrap themselves in the sari, soak their bodies in the waist-deep water, first bury their heads in the water three times, and then pray sincerely to the rising sun.

When the sun rises and the prayers are over, some people begin to take a bath, brush their teeth, wash their hair and wash their clothes, and their faith and life are seamlessly integrated without any sense of disobedience.

Even more disobedient is the crematorium by the river, where countless elderly people have traveled thousands of miles to be able to die in the holy city and be burned by the crematorium here, and finally scatter their ashes into the Ganges.

The black smoke curling on the banks of the river, the dense cramps of humble rented houses, the atmosphere of devout faith, and the abundant water of the Ganges River are the most vivid impressions of the city, which is known as "the city of half heaven and half hell".

According to religious tradition, cremating the corpses of believers requires a lot of wood, and India, an ancient civilization with a rich population, is obviously not a country rich in forestry resources, and those poor people who cannot afford to buy wood have to throw them directly into the Ganges without cremation, hoping that the river water will take away the corpses.

The Ganges water burial has lasted for thousands of years, and people and the environment have formed a certain "harmony", people who are not adapted to the river water die of disease and corpses return to the river water, people who adapt to the bacterial pollutants in the river water survive, and at the same time, the animal and plant microorganisms in the Ganges River have also adapted to the river water rich in organic pollutants and developed a strong self-purification ability.

However, there is no doubt that there is a limit to this self-purification ability, and the pollution of modern industrial and mining enterprises is obviously not something that can be easily absorbed by the "holy river", but the religious packaging that has lasted for thousands of years has long formed a stubborn inertia that is deeply convinced.

After the gradual upgrading of modern industry, the factories that moved from Europe to the Americas later moved to China, and now they have moved to Southeast Asia and South Asia, especially the paper industry, because of the low threshold and low quality requirements for workers, there are many factories that have migrated to India.

While the Indians calmly discharged the sewage from the paper mills into the Ganges, they were convinced that the sacred and clean water of the Ganges River was pumped into the tap water towers after simple treatment, where it was used for bathing, laundry, boiling water for cooking.

India's government has also tried to tackle pollution, but has been prevented by too much investment, religious opposition, and official problems, and has to sit back and watch, just as they sit back and watch slums and train tickets.

Because of thousands of years of colonial tradition, India has developed a deep-rooted caste system that binds skin color, birth and social status to occupation.

In modern times, the low-caste rich can change their social status, but if they can't, they can emigrate abroad, and those who have no money and are numerous, "untouchables", can only hang outside the train and live in slums.

Looking at the statistics of the upper castes in India alone, it is natural to see all kinds of prosperity and civilization progress, but if you look at the lower castes, which make up the majority of the population, it is a different kind of recent situation, and Indians live together so strangely.

This bizarre scene makes the crooked nuts all kinds of puzzled, can only sigh in addition to the sigh, after the various encounters of tourists from all over the world to India, Indian hotels also left in the travel brochure "The tap water in the hotel along the Ganges River is only for bathing and laundry, please drink bottled water for daily drinking", after all, other countries do not have "Delhi stomach" and "Delhi lungs".

With a population of more than 20 million, Delhi, the capital of India, is currently the fifth largest metropolitan area in the world (the top four are the Central Plains Urban Area of China (37 million), the Dongying Tokyo Metropolitan Area (33 million), the Tran Guotian Capital Urban Area (29 million), and the Shanghai Urban Area of China (28 million)), but the environmental quality is at the other extreme compared with other metropolitan areas.

Delhi and Mumbai, another megacity with a large population, have long competed for the dirtiest cities in the world, and air quality can only be described as frequent and occasionally normal.

Every year in October and November, when Diwali is held, the air quality breaks through the sky.

Compared with air pollution, the Karnali River, a tributary of the Ganges River, has a relatively good water source security, which is also the location of Nepal after the Star Group considered, although the Indian side provides better conditions, but the staff of the Star Group are not adaptable.

Most of the Chinese engineers and even construction workers, when they arrive in the Indian area, must be lying down in the rhythm of entering the hospital.

Amazingly, tens of millions of people live in the lower reaches of such a polluted river, which shows the resilience of human beings.

The People's Republic of Bangladesh, a country with a population of nearly 200 million, also with a third of its population living in the Ganges River basin, has waged an unrelenting struggle against India to keep the dirty water.

Bangladesh was originally part of the British Indian colony, and after World War II, South Asia became independent, and Britain withdrew from South Asia, dividing the Indian colony into several parts, basically relying on race, religion, etc.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and other countries, among which India has always been a regional power, and even fought with China with the support of the United States.

However, China's Indian Ocean Fleet was formed, and the fleet located in the port of Jeddah directly dissipated India's arrogance.

Unable to do anything militarily, the Indians began to use some shady tricks, such as the Faraka dam project in the middle reaches of the Ganges; The dam was built in 71 years and put into trial operation in 75 years to intercept water, blocking most of the Ganges water during the dry season to irrigate India's farmland, with serious consequences for Bangladesh further downstream.

Poor Bangladeshis were also helpless, first holding a border march of 500,000 people to "march on Farakka", and then to the United Nations General Assembly, but the result was of no avail.

Later, although the agreement on dividing the water in half in the dry season was reluctantly reached, how to implement it also depends on the mood of the Indian grandfather.

As a green agricultural country, Bangladesh can only resort to the hegemonic behavior of India's neighbors in the face of the hegemonic behavior of its neighbors, and connived at the smuggling of people to India, the number of which has reached tens of millions.

These refugees have a special affection for the Ganges, so they naturally go to the slums of India, but there are also some far-sighted people who want to go east to China, which has caused great trouble to China.

There are 100,000 refugees in the tens of millions, even one percent, and 100,000 refugees have also made China's southwest border very dangerous, and they have no choice but to provide economic assistance to Bangladesh.

As a result, some labor-intensive enterprises have set up factories in Bangladesh, and low-threshold industries such as paper industry and garment industry have been established.

Bangladesh has also become one of the unilateral visa-free countries to China, Tang Zichen had considered entering Bangladesh to go to India, but considering that he might not be able to bear the poison of the Ganges, he gave up.

However, Ivan, the supreme mage of Mingzhou, traveled thousands of miles here, and after a series of events, he lost his peaceful study life and could only flee abroad.

Through a chance encounter at an Internet café, Ivan met a student at the University of Minnesota University, and by the way, Ivan helped the student solve an obstacle on his path to a career in League of Legends, that is, the problem of student grades.

The exam for undergraduates is not difficult, but the results of Minnesota University still have to be counted as usual scores, and if there is more absenteeism, the usual points will naturally be gone, and Ivan is just going to study, so he successfully solved the problems of the two people.

A few months of study passed quickly, and with the study, Ivan also had a deeper understanding of this world, but this was not a good thing, all kinds of science and technology in this world, gave him a sense of crisis, he wanted to build a mage tower, but after understanding the land price of the city, this plan had to be abandoned, and he found that his money was too small.