I have to say that Mr. Wang's efficiency is indeed quite high.

Almost the day after I met Lu Zhou, I circled all the people in my circle of friends who met the criteria of "excellent entrepreneurs", and flickered on the "thief ship", and none of them ran away.

In this way, you invested 100 million, I invested 200 million, and in the end, I raised 10 billion yuan, which really scared Lu Zhou.

Originally, his plan was to raise 5 billion yuan, and then find a bank to get a loan of 5 billion yuan, issue a few billion yuan of enterprise bonds, and get more than 10 billion yuan enough to repair this submarine optical fiber cable.

Now, there is no need to issue corporate bonds, and you can directly find a bank loan of more than 2 billion yuan, and all the project funds will be completed.

In this way, a company with a registered capital of up to 10 billion yuan, countless bigwigs behind it, and a company called East Asia Communications was quietly established in Shanghai.

If you keep a low profile like this, maybe no one will notice this company.

However, the company had just been founded and had done something earth-shattering.

At the moment when the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine optical cable project ran aground and the entire industry fell into a downturn, this suddenly killer waved the money in his hand and spent 5 billion yuan to acquire almost more than eighty percent of the domestic companies operating submarine optical cable business.

With such a big stroke, there is a great sweep of Liuhe and the trend of dominating the rivers and lakes, not only alarming the China Securities Regulatory Commission, but even the X Development and Reform Commission.

However, because they had already said hello in advance, this did not have any impact on more than a dozen acquisitions of East Asia Communications.

In order to compete with the dominant monopoly giants in foreign countries, the necessary monopoly is also to promote the integration of resources, and this is also an act of acquiescence by the state.

What's more, some of them are also shares of state-owned W.

It's just that because the communications industry is more sensitive, in order not to affect overseas business, this part is not very high.

The emergence of East Asia Communications has stirred up the submarine cable market, which was originally a backwater.

Whether it is Japan's NEC, Europe's Alcatel-Lucent, or the United States' SubCom, they all feel a trace of pressure from this.

Although East Asia Power is still far behind in terms of scale and technical background, compared with its pioneers who have been leading the way for half a century.

But who says what's next?

What's more, according to past experience, as long as it is a project targeted by Chinese people, the price has been hit to the floor without exception.

This is also the most headache for East Asia Communication's international counterparts......

……

At a time when East Asia Electric Power is completing the resource integration of the domestic submarine optical cable business in a high-profile manner and entering the international market with great momentum, the work on changing the national cryptography encryption algorithm and the bench to promote the update of the international encryption algorithm are also steadily promoted with the support of the information department of China.

Of course, compared to the smooth sailing of the former, the latter is not so smooth sailing.

Shortly after the U.S. delegates were absent from the Asia-Pacific Cyber Security Summit in Beijing, Lawrence Berkeley's Pines Lab published a research report claiming that the QN2000 quantum encryption algorithm displayed by China at the Asia-Pacific Cyber Security Summit may have major security risks, and suggested that the financial industry should use it with caution.

Although it is only a painless risk warning, it still caused a lot of waves in the industry.

After all, the Pines lab is no small nobody, and its founder is Dr. Alex Pines, the founder of solid-state NMR technology.

Since the establishment of the Pines Lab, its research scope covers quantum informatics, quantum computing, chemistry, structural biology, medicine and other fields. Especially in many research directions such as quantum encryption algorithms, it is in the leading position in the world.

Therefore, the weight of this risk warning report is a bit impossible to ignore.

"It seems that Americans don't want to lock their safes," Academician Gao Junwen, who put down the newspaper in his hand and crossed Erlang's legs, said with emotion, "And not only do they not plan to lock their safes, but they also don't let others buy our locks." ”

Since he came back from Jinling last time, he finally understood the hardships of his old friend Academician Xue Jinhui, and finally understood the good intentions of the high-level and why he made this series of arrangements.

If the computing power of a quantum computer really reaches more than 500 qubits.

If these technologies are introduced to the market without any buffer preparations, the financial and communication security of the world will be seriously threatened. In front of a 500-qubit quantum computer, it's no exaggeration to say that still using today's encryption algorithms is no different from stripping naked and running naked on the street.

"If you refuse, just refuse," Academician Xue squinted his eyes and smiled, took a sip of tea and said, "We have already reminded them, it is they who do not appreciate it, so it's no wonder that we are." ”

A stable international market environment is conducive to China's development, whether it is out of basic morality or its own interests, China hopes that the United States can adopt more secure encryption algorithms.

However......

If the White House insists on resisting in this way, China has no obligation to ask them to use it.

On the other hand, if the Yankees insist on running naked on the streets, they will have to deal with the risks that may arise in advance......

Especially on the central bank's side.

"That being said, it's obviously not just about encryption, and they probably won't let us go over their territory with this submarine cable."

Facing the concerns of his old friend, Academician Xue smiled absently.

"The Pacific Ocean is so big, and the East Coast is not just the United States, if they don't plan to let our quantum fiber optic cable land on their coastline, then give this opportunity to other countries."

Academician Gao Junwen's face showed an expression of surprise.

"What do you mean...... Bypass the United States directly? But so—"

Academician Xue said with a smile: "In this way, our fiber optic cable loses its meaning...... That's what you're trying to say, right? ”

Academician Gao nodded.

It's something obvious.

Even though there is confrontation in cooperation, North America is still a market that China cannot give up.

What's more, the center of the Internet is there, and if this fiber optic cable does not land in North America, it will lose its meaning of existence. With the size of those small countries in Central America and South America, there is no way to build a submarine fiber optic cable to their doorstep alone.

Seeing Academician Gao nodding, Academician Xue's face showed an expression that was really like this, and he shook his head with a smile and said.

"You, you still have to take a long-term view, now quantum computer technology has only developed to 500 qubits, what about the future? They have to choose between safety and pride. What's more......"

As he spoke, he stood up from his chair with a thud as he put his hands on the armrests.

Walking to the world map hanging on the wall of his office, Academician Xue reached out and picked up a red pen and drew a line along the trajectory of the Tropic of Cancer.

The line runs from Shanghai to Central America, through the Panama Canal, across the Atlantic, into the Strait of Gibraltar, through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, and finally through the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca back to East Asia.

Looking at this red line across the world, the expression on Academician Gao's face gradually became shocked.

This shock was even stronger than when he stood in the laboratory of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

It wasn't until Academician Xue threw the pen back on the table that he opened his mouth and spoke.

"It's too ......"

Looking at the old friend with shock written on his face, Academician Xue said with a smile.

"Surprised?"

Academician Gao nodded honestly.

“…… I was surprised. ”

Academician Xue smiled, cast his gaze out the window, and gradually dyed a little bit of memories.

"Last time, I had a long talk with Academician Lu, and we agreed that whether it is a quantum encryption algorithm or a traditional encryption algorithm, any asymmetric encryption algorithm based on difficult problems has serious limitations. It works when our computing power is limited, but with the continuous development of our information technology, the computing power continues to increase, especially after entering the quantum age, it is not so effective. ”

"It's always more difficult to come up with a solution to a problem than to solve it itself. What we need today is the NP problem, tomorrow we need the n^2P problem, and in the long run, one day we will not be able to fill this gap. ”

"Unconditionally secure communication is the only solution, and only this communication method can adapt to the exponential growth of computing power and the needs of future communication."

"It's not that we choose the future on this issue, it's that the future chooses us."

"Their resistance is not a good thing for us."

The Transpacific submarine cable is just the beginning, and Central America is just a springboard. East Asia Power's submarine fiber optic cable is not only heading east, but also in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and northwest, all of which are on the blueprint of China's national information strategy.

When this blueprint is realized, it will not only be the Transpacific Fiber Optic Cable Management Committee, but also the Transatlantic, Transmediterranean, and TransIndian Ocean...... And so on, the management committee will be set up.

Or simply set up a global submarine cable management committee.

And that's their ultimate goal......

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