Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 578 Galaxy Security was reported...

The latest surge in the stock price of Zhuyun Group has attracted significant attention from the financial and securities industries, as well as ordinary people!
Even ordinary people who don't trade stocks will more or less learn about the soaring stock price of Zhiyun Group through various channels.

In less than a month, the market value of Zhuyun Group soared from more than four trillion US dollars to more than six trillion US dollars... This increase is too frightening.

If we move the timeline back a few months, we'll find that in March, Zhuyun Group's market value was only a little over three trillion US dollars, less than four trillion!
It was after the spring launch event that Zhuyun Group released its new generation of virtual equipment, which significantly boosted Zhuyun Group's stock price to break through the four trillion dollar mark.

In the following months, Zhuyun Group's stock price fluctuated around the $4 trillion mark, sometimes falling to $4.3 or $4.4 trillion and sometimes rising to $4.7 or $4.8 trillion.

However, in July, after Zhiyun Group officially released the APO6000 graphics card, Zhiyun Group's stock price experienced another surge, reaching a total market capitalization of around US$6.3 trillion in Hong Kong.

In just six months, Zhuyun Group's market value rose from $3.78 trillion to $6.3 trillion, an increase of about 70%.

If a 70% increase is in the value of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) with a market capitalization of several billion or even hundreds of billions of dollars, then it's nothing... Many companies' stocks can double after several consecutive limit-up days.

However... Zhiyun Group is not a small or medium-sized enterprise with a scale of several billion or tens of billions; it is a super giant enterprise with a market value of several trillion US dollars!

The stock price fluctuations of such companies are actually very low in normal circumstances. A few percentage points of stock price fluctuation can make global financial news headlines on a daily basis. Domestic financial news reporters will be eager to use headlines such as "Zhiyun's stock price plummets, losing trillions of market value overnight" to attract traffic.

A super-corporation like Zhiyun Group should, in normal circumstances, have a fairly stable stock price. Even if it does rise, it's impossible for it to rise so quickly in such a short period of time... This is actually closely related to the fierce competition among global capital markets!

Even when stock prices rise, not everyone makes money... on the contrary, many people lose money.

Because for every investor who goes long, there will be someone who goes short. Over the past month, a large amount of global financial capital has been fighting repeatedly in the Hong Kong stock market, with Zhuyun Group's stock as the battleground!

Meanwhile, some investment institutions that shorted Zhuyun Group's stock in Hong Kong have lost everything in the past month... This is not a small loss of tens of millions of US dollars, but a huge loss of hundreds of millions or even billions of US dollars.

Of course, where there are losses, there are also profits. A large number of investment institutions that were bullish on Zhiyun Group's stock and firmly held long positions happily took away the money from their short-selling counterparties... Many of these paper profits were in the billions of dollars.

Several offshore securities and fund companies under Xu Shenxue also secretly participated in the dramatic fluctuations in the stock price of Zhiyun Group by dispersing their funds, and as one of the parties involved, they reaped considerable profits.

To date, preliminary estimates suggest that the company's profits have reached over $50 billion...

Of course, short-selling investment institutions are not stupid either. After suffering losses in the early stages, they quickly cut their losses and then reversed their direction to go long... The large influx of original short sellers was also an important reason for the continued rise in the stock price of Zhuyun Group in the subsequent stages.

As more and more people bought shares and fewer and fewer people sold them, the stock price of Zhiyun Group began to rise continuously!
In early August, some experienced financial professionals shared a brief account through social media of the financial story of how global capital battled over the stock price of Zhuyun Group over the past month, with the bulls ultimately emerging victorious.

This veteran revealed that at least hundreds of top financial and securities institutions worldwide have participated in the process over the past month, with newly raised funds amounting to at least $500 billion.

Among the top-ranked financial institutions in terms of trading volume are all top-tier global financial institutions, including many heavyweight funds from various countries... Every single one of the top-ranked financial institutions on Wall Street is involved.

Domestic capital is also participating wildly in the domestic stock market and Hong Kong stock market.

The most outrageous thing is that, in the end, all the capital forces turned into a joint effort to buy Zhuyun stock... This is an important reason for the subsequent continuous and significant rise in Zhuyun Group's stock price.

This financial battle surrounding Zhiyun stock, while primarily waged by large investment institutions, also involved a large number of retail investors, some of whom made profits while others suffered losses.

Leaving aside the Hong Kong stock market, in the past month, almost every stock investor in mainland China has participated in the trading of Zhuyun stock to some extent, either by increasing or decreasing their holdings.

Most retail investors who held their shares for the long term have achieved very good returns.

However, there are some people who think they are really good at short-term trading, and these people usually lose a lot of money!
Although the stock price of Zhiyun Group has been rising in the long term, it does not mean that it will rise indefinitely; there will be sharp fluctuations in between. Many people with a strong speculative mentality think that they can outmaneuver professional investment institutions after reading a few overused books on economics and securities.

However, most of these people are foolish enough to buy at the high point and sell at the low point, ultimately losing a lot of money.

An amateur enthusiast trying to gamble against a professional... isn't that just foolish?

A prestigious professional team comprised of mathematics PhDs, financial experts, and professional traders at a financial investment institution... can't possibly outmaneuver an ordinary retail investor like you?
What an international joke!
In this frenzied surge accompanied by dramatic fluctuations, the retail investors who truly made money were all value investors who firmly believed in the potential of Zhuyun Group.

Or perhaps it's those who don't understand stocks, treat buying Zhiyun Group shares like a savings account, and never look at their stock accounts.

Of course, retail investors are too small... those who participate in the trading of Zhuyun Group's stock are mainly investment institutions!
The Zhuyun Group is too big, with a market value of several trillion dollars. Even if only a portion of its shares are listed, it is still beyond the reach of individual investors.

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Xu Shenxue has been paying close attention to his company's dramatic stock market fluctuations and rapid growth.

However, he only keeps an eye on things; Xu Shenxue has not made any public statements... There are many things he cannot say!

Given Xu Shenxue's status and immense influence in the high-tech field, even a single inappropriate remark could trigger drastic fluctuations in an industry.

At the same time, many of Xu Shenxue's companies are quite large and operate in the global market, often involving situations in other countries... Speaking carelessly can easily lead to controversy.

Because there are many things that cannot be said, this is why Xu Shenxue doesn't like to express his opinions in public and rarely gives interviews!
Since I can't say anything anyway, I might as well not say anything!
Of course, sometimes they also say some empty, meaningless nonsense.

In early August, Xu Shenxue was invited to participate in an economic forum, where he shared his views on several high-tech fields in recent years and the future, especially semiconductors, intelligent electric vehicles, robots, virtual industries, and the core field of artificial intelligence.

These are all positive views, expressing continued optimism about the development of various high-tech industries centered on artificial intelligence.

He also stated that the development of a series of new industries centered on artificial intelligence signifies the full arrival of the fourth industrial revolution.

He also briefly expressed his continued optimism about the domestic and even global economy, believing that although many traditional industries are currently in decline, this is an inevitable trend of the times, and a large number of new industries are gradually replacing old industries.

Now, a large number of new industries are emerging, creating a large number of high-quality jobs and bringing people a better and more convenient life!

In the coming decades, people's living standards will inevitably rise significantly!

These are all old clichés, mostly positive and optimistic platitudes... Xu Shenxue never expresses any pessimistic views in public.

Of course, he would also say things that he considered practical, and even reveal some of his industrial strategic plans... Of course, many times these words were taken as bragging!
At this economic forum, Xu Shenxue shared his new overall views on the space economy!
It is believed that with the continuous development of space technology, the current level of human technology has initially reached the point of leaving Earth and traveling to nearby planets. With further development in the future, it is expected that with the cooperation of unmanned and automated extraterrestrial mining and refining plants with artificial intelligence as the core, a large amount of resources from outside Earth can be continuously imported into Earth, further promoting the supply of Earth's resources.

This is actually referring to the lunar base plan... and the Mars base plan, which is currently being planned and will continue to be promoted in the future.

However, many people took Xu Shenxue's words as just his usual boasting.

After all, many people know that Xu Shenxue yearns for the starry sky and often advocates for humanity to venture into the stars...

After hearing this so many times, you stop taking it seriously.

But few people know that Xu Shenxue actually did this... and the technical preparations were almost complete.

While the technology in the aerospace field is still relatively basic, it can meet the basic needs. In the more critical energy field, Xinghai Energy's controlled nuclear fusion project is making steady progress.

Professor Wang Binyao reported that the research and experimental reactor is expected to be completed within three years...

If the experimental reactor succeeds, it will prove the correctness of the technical approach, and then the rest will be simple...

By investing heavily in infrastructure and manpower to build commercial power plants, driving down energy costs and significantly increasing the total amount of energy available to humanity, we can bring tremendous benefits to industries, agriculture, and other sectors.

For example, the biggest problem currently hindering the field of artificial intelligence will be greatly alleviated by then!
If we further promote the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion and then put it on interstellar spacecraft or even bases on other planets, then human spaceflight, especially in the field of extraterrestrial resource extraction, will be greatly improved!

In the future, there may even be projects like lunar tourism and Mars tourism... These will not only be exclusive to the wealthy, but will also be affordable for the average high-income earner.

This is one of Xu Shenxue's future plans... but nobody believes it now.

After the economic forum concluded, as Xu Shenxue left the venue, dozens of reporters surrounded him, taking photos and asking questions... but all of them were about the recent rise in the stock price of Zhuyun Group.

Xu Shenxue smiled throughout, and was escorted out by security personnel before getting into a car and leaving.

Whenever Xu Shenxue attends a public event, he is surrounded by a group of reporters. Xu Shenxue is already used to it. He used to be uncomfortable when faced with a lot of flashing lights, but now he doesn't even blink!

However, these reporters couldn't really get close to him... Xu Shenxue had plenty of security personnel, so it wasn't too much of a hassle.

The convoy set off and then returned to Zhihaiyuan. After a day's work, Xu Shenxue became like an ordinary person, teaching children in their study.

Xu Shenxue and Lin Yaxian's first child, Xu Mingyuan, is also their eldest son. He is currently seven years old and will officially start school next month.

Although a tutor had been providing him with some basic preschool education for a year, Xu Shenxue would also set aside some time to teach him personally.

During the year of preschool education, the child demonstrated excellent learning talent, with outstanding memory, cognitive abilities, and logical thinking skills.

This made Lin Yaxian very happy, feeling that she had given birth to a genius son... saying that the child had inherited his father's brain and was very smart!

But only Xu Shenxue knew that since the little boy was three or four years old, Xu Shenxue had arranged for him to be nominally employed by a shell company and given a research position. Initially, it was a low-level research position, but last year, when he started receiving preschool education, it was upgraded to an A-level research position…

With the support of research opportunities, one can gain a comprehensive enhancement of intelligence... one can remember things after seeing them a few times, learn things very quickly, and understand them as soon as they are explained, so others will see one as a little genius.

This is what it truly means to win at the starting line!
However, Xu Shenxue didn't really care much about his child's studies. He didn't need his child to become a great scientist or a master in a certain field. He just wanted his child to grow up healthy, with a normal personality and normal values...

In Xu Shenxue's view, personality and values ​​are far more important than academic performance!

Of course, when you reach the appropriate age, you should go to school!

The school is simple; they can just attend the primary school at Zhiyun's headquarters. Zhiyun's headquarters primary school has excellent teachers, easy security, and won't affect the normal lives of ordinary children outside!

However, considering the child's personality development, Xu Shenxue does not plan to let him go to school with his identity revealed... because, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the child's classmates will all be the children of employees of various companies under Xu Shenxue's control!

It wouldn't be good if the employees' children and the boss's children went to school together and their identities were made public... The children are too young to say anything, but what the parents think is another matter.

Xu Shenxue still hopes that his child can have a normal, somewhat ordinary growth environment... rather than growing up in an environment where a group of people praise, flatter, or are hostile and wary of him.

Therefore, it is necessary to conceal one's identity to attend school.

Xu Shenxue owns so many companies, but not all employees know about Xu Shenxue's children... In fact, very few employees have actually seen Xu Shenxue's children. Among them are a very small number of high-level management and core scientists living in Zhihaiyuan, as well as some assistants in the board of directors' offices and some staff members in the logistics department of Liuhe Investment.

Therefore, keeping one's identity confidential is relatively easy!
It's easy to keep the identities confidential, and since it's our own school, security is also easy to do, making it quite convenient to carry out.

However, Xu Shenxue focuses on character and values ​​in his children's education, while Lin Yaxian is a bit different, with a tendency to push her child too hard... She tries to guide her child's learning every few days.

Like many parents, Lin Yaxian hopes that her child will be able to get into a prestigious university in the future.

Xu Shenxue didn't have any objections to this. As long as it wasn't too outrageous, it was always good to do well in studies.

After spending time with his eldest son, and then playing with his second son and youngest daughter for a while, Xu Shenxue received a message on his phone. After seeing the message, Xu Shenxue got up and returned to his study, then turned on a customized Zhiyun tablet computer.

Then a video of drone warfare appeared on the screen!
This is a combat video of security personnel from Galaxy Security carrying out a mission in Africa. The main characters in the video are Black Swallow drones and swarm drones.

This Black Swallow drone is a branch version of the Swift drone developed by Dongning Technology, and is currently exclusively supplied to Galaxy Security... mainly for various practical tests.

Data is obtained through various tests, then improvements are made, and the mature technology is applied to upgraded models of the Swift reconnaissance drone system... The Swift stealth reconnaissance drone is a version specifically for the military. Currently, this AI stealth reconnaissance drone has been procured in large numbers and put into service, and its performance is said to be excellent!
Galaxy Security has equipped itself with a number of Black Swallow drones, and this stealth reconnaissance drone has brought great advantages to Galaxy Security's series of overseas operations.

It has been used very frequently in the last two years and the results have been excellent.

Today's video shows Galaxy Security taking proactive action against a local warlord who was obstinate and didn't know what was good for him, while protecting a mine owned by a sister company in Africa!
The Black Swallow reconnaissance drone used its own camera to record this small-scale drone attack in detail, and the results were quite good.

After briefly watching the video, Xu Shenxue also reviewed some of Galaxy Security's recent operational records.

Then he discovered that Galaxy Security had been conducting more operations recently... He deals with all kinds of data every day and is very sensitive to it. He quickly estimated from the recent records that the number of operations in the last three months had increased by about 100% compared to before.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a custom-made phone and dialed the number of the person in charge of Galaxy Security to inquire about some recent situations!
It took him quite a while to hang up the phone!
Galaxy Security reported that recently, numerous armed groups have attacked some of the companies that provide security services to Galaxy Security, mainly mining companies.

It was also discovered that many people had infiltrated several bases of the Galactic Life.

Even several of Galaxy Security's own small outposts were attacked by unidentified armed men.

Xu Shenxue flipped through some more reports, then tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

The recent attacks are unusual. On the surface, they seem to be attacks on some companies and Galaxy Life, but upon closer inspection, Xu Shenxue believes that the attacks are actually targeting Galaxy Security itself!
Someone's up to no good!
It's common knowledge in the world's top circles that Galaxy Security is Xu Shenxue's core security force and one of the key forces maintaining the safety of Xu Shenxue's conglomerate's overseas assets and businesses!

In the early years, Galaxy Security and the security teams under several American conglomerates were engaged in global competition in the semiconductor field.

Therefore, their activities are very frequent, especially in Europe and the Americas, which are key areas of activity for Galaxy Security...

However, after both sides developed EUV lithography machines, they ceased their competition in the semiconductor field, resulting in a significant reduction in their actions in the security field as well…

Simply put, Galaxy Security has become much more disciplined in recent years!
In Africa, the focus is mainly on routine operations, with training new recruits as a side activity. In Europe, the Americas, and ASEAN regions, deployments have entered a more covert mode.

Their daily operations consist of stealing technical data, transporting special supplies, and incidentally cracking down on potential enemies' attempts to steal their technology. These are commonplace and not worth mentioning; they are all routine business for Galaxy Security.

The only thing that's out in the open is the protection of VIPs.

When Xu Shenxue's senior management members are working overseas or traveling abroad on business, their security is usually handled by the VIP protection department under Galaxy Security.
This kind of protection doesn't mean protecting senior management from being bullied by petty thugs... it means protecting them from assassination attempts by competitors and legal entrapment!
If anything unexpected happens, escort the senior management team to safety!

Back then, Gu Zhiming almost got into trouble in Europe. The other party even tried to detain him under the guise of the law. At that time, it was Galaxy Security personnel who forcibly escorted him to the airport and then took off on their own private jet to escape... By the time the other party realized what was happening, Gu Zhiming had already fled on a plane!
Of course, this level of protection for key personnel is generally limited to senior vice presidents or vice presidents who undertake special tasks... ordinary senior executives do not have this treatment.

Therefore, over the years, some senior executives of the Xu Group who held positions overseas have fallen into legal traps and been imprisoned, although the overall number is relatively small...

This kind of thing is always something you do on the first day of the month, and I do it on the fifteenth...

If the other party does this, Xu Shenxue will retaliate!

So it was just a minor incident, nothing too serious.

Overall, Galaxy Security has been relatively peaceful in recent years... At most, they've had a few routine skirmishes with some clueless mercenaries and minor warlords, but these are mostly limited to Africa and other relatively chaotic regions.

From all this, it becomes clear that Galaxy Security, this security company hidden beneath the surface, is actually very important...

Now, it seems that unidentified individuals have taken action against Galaxy Security.

As Xu Shenxue had guessed, a few days later, he received the following news:
Galaxy Security's branch in a South American country was suddenly reported for allegedly smuggling weapons through a local smuggling company and possessing a large quantity of weapons!

Local low- to mid-level judicial officers had no idea about the power struggles between the world's top conglomerates. When they discovered a group of suspected heavily armed illegal militants hiding in their jurisdiction, they were terrified... thinking they were terrorists, they hastily launched a raid...

However, Galaxy Security's intelligence network was quite good, as they received advance notice and carried out an emergency evacuation. Only a few logistics personnel who were unable to evacuate in time were blocked.

However, an hour later, the local high-level conglomerate received the report and belatedly realized, "Damn it, these are Galaxy Security personnel... Damn it, what the hell are you arresting? Release them immediately and then escort them out of the country."

You're always causing me trouble. You take action whenever someone reports you, but couldn't you have reported it beforehand? You're trying to kill me!
Then those who needed to keep quiet shut up, and the news was completely blocked; not a single word could be leaked out...

From now on, everyone should pretend nothing happened!

This kind of thing is obviously a fight between top conglomerates; they're too small and weak to even get involved...

Do you really think Galaxy Security is easy to mess with? If you piss them off, you won't even know how you died... Besides, any force that can fight Galaxy Security is obviously no good either!
Neither side can be offended, so pretending not to see anything is the best course of action!

After this incident, Xu Shenxue was certain... someone was up to something!

Otherwise, no one would be so bored as to report a secret outpost of Galaxy Security... What would they be after?

After all, these secret outposts don't usually do anything; they just maintain a state of infiltration and are only used when there's trouble.

They even went out of their way to find it and report it... What a waste of time!

Who's stirring up trouble? Xu Shenxue's first instinct was probably the American conglomerate!
After all, on Earth, only they have the reason and the power to go against Xu Shenxue!
But this is only a possibility...

There are many conglomerates on Earth, including many in the United States. It's not just one conglomerate, and not all of these conglomerates are Xu Shenxue's enemies.

Some of them actually had a decent relationship with Xu Shenxue, and some even had cooperative relationships with him.

Some, however, simply keep to themselves, with no conflict of interest or cooperation.

Some are direct competitors, a fight to the death!
At the same time, there is competition and conflict of interest among these conglomerates... It's hard to say that someone might want to use Xu Shenxue as a tool to kill someone else or to fish in troubled waters.

When faced with such a situation, if you retaliate against the obvious enemy without clarifying the facts, you are very likely to be tricked and foolishly used as a pawn!

Therefore, upon receiving the news, Xu Shenxue did not get angry and immediately order a full-scale retaliation. Instead, he gave instructions to Galaxy Security to conduct an in-depth investigation!
Find out who the other party is and what they want!
If the enemy is planning something big and has made some preliminary deployments, then retaliate directly to disrupt their deployments and sabotage their operations.

If a conglomerate wants to play a game of using someone else to do their dirty work, they should retaliate on a large scale... They should think twice before trying to use Xu Shenxue as a pawn.

Following this incident, Galaxy Security launched a large-scale operation...

Galaxy Security's operation could not be kept secret. Soon, many people in the top circles on Earth found out: someone had angered Xu Shenxue!
(End of this chapter)