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Chapter 253 Very Professional
Under normal circumstances, a sudden update of news on Yanbei University’s official website would not cause any waves on the Internet.

After all, apart from Yanbei University students, few people would pay attention to Yanbei University's official website during non-enrollment season. Even students wouldn't stare at the school's official website every day.

You should know that in a first-class university like Yanbei University, each college has its own official website. Various activities, class schedules and news of each college are also mostly updated on the college's official website.

But this time it was a little different. The three major exchanges suddenly issued an announcement at the same time, inviting Dr. Qiao Yu's team to conduct transaction security testing.

When Microsoft suddenly released a new quantum chip, the three major exchanges made such statements at the same time. Different people will naturally have different interpretations.

Although ordinary people don't pay attention to this, there is still a small number of people in China who keep an eye on cryptocurrencies every day. China happens to be a country with a large population, and no matter how small the proportion of this group of people is, the population base of China is there, and there are always millions of people.

So the news naturally spread back to China through these people. But even so, it is difficult for the public to notice millions of cryptocurrency investors.

But Qiao Yu actually has a Weibo account.

Although Qiao Yu does not use this Weibo account often, he has successfully exceeded one million followers after winning the Fields Medal.

For a big Weibo user, a million followers is not actually a lot. Compared with others who have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of fans, it is just a small number.

But one thing is that these fans who follow Qiao Yu are real, and it can be said that there is not a single zombie fan.

In other words, Qiao Yu's Weibo posts can truly influence millions of Weibo users.

Before going to bed, Qiao Yu happened to think that his Weibo account seemed to have not been maintained for a long time and no messages had been posted.

So I logged in and posted a Weibo.

"At 10 o'clock this morning, we will do something big, which will be broadcast live around the world. For details, please visit the official website of Yanbei University!"

Although he may be suspected of helping Yanbei University's official website to attract traffic, I think Weibo will not mind. After all, the university's official website is completely different from Weibo.

The official website of Yanbei University does not need traffic. More importantly, at this critical moment, Weibo is unlikely to cause trouble for him.

It was five in the morning when I posted the post, so naturally no one would pay attention to it immediately. But by eight in the morning, the topic began to ferment.

The first to be affected was the official website of Yanbei University.

The sudden surge in traffic directly overwhelmed the official website of Yanbei University.

From 8:30 to 8:40, in just ten minutes, the number of visits directly exceeded the total number of visits to Yanbei University in the past five years.

The senior from the School of Computer Science who is responsible for maintaining the official website never thought that his school’s shabby official website would one day become a popular check-in spot.

But we can't apply for capacity expansion just for this wave of traffic, right? We'll be scolded.

Fortunately, the traffic surge gradually improved after 9 o'clock. Although the traffic is still much larger than usual, it is at least within controllable range.

After all, people’s curiosity only lasts for a short time. And in this information-rich era, the first wave of visitors to the official website are mostly those self-media people and bloggers.

After seeing the news on the official website, these people took screenshots immediately and started forwarding it.

This ensures that even if other spectators cannot log into the official website of Yanbei University, they can still see first-hand information through their screenshots.

All we can say is that the Internet can truly leave traces behind, and these hardworking self-media people have made an indelible contribution.

As for how to interpret it, it is naturally a matter of opinion for these self-media people.

But one thing is beyond doubt. No matter from which angle you look at it, this matter is closely related to the new quantum chip released by Microsoft. There are many angles to look at.

For example, the self-media people who previously praised Microsoft’s new quantum chip can see from it the unparalleled deterrent power of Microsoft’s new technology.

Look, Microsoft's new technology has scared all the cryptocurrency exchanges. They immediately invited the Huaxia technical team, which is also doing quantum simulation computing, to do security verification.

Of course, these self-media people are divided into two groups. Some of them praised Microsoft and made some metaphors.

After all, the fact that they invited Qiao Yu's technical team is enough to show that China's technology in quantum computing is also leading.

Another group of self-media people ridiculed these cryptocurrency exchanges for being desperate and trying all kinds of methods.

What Microsoft released was hardware technology. As we all know, Qiao Yu is a mathematician and has no serious scientific research experience at all. He knows nothing about quantum computing.

The two groups of self-media people each have their own audience.

After all, there are always some people in China who cannot stand seeing their own country doing well. If these self-media people want to capture this audience, they naturally have to cater to their preferences.

However, more self-media people still saw a more interesting connection.

Microsoft announced at 5 a.m. Eastern Time yesterday that it would release new quantum chip technology at 10 a.m.

Qiao Yu released the message at 5 a.m. China time, saying that he would help the three most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States find trading loopholes by 10 a.m.

And these are all games in the era of quantum computing. The quantum chip released by Microsoft is just a quantum hardware.

Through searching the data, I found that Qiao Yu recently announced that he used classical electronic computers to perform quantum simulation calculations. This should fall into the category of software.

The feeling of confrontation emerged immediately.

It’s nothing more than that before Yanbei University officially issued a statement, the three major exchanges in the United States suddenly issued an announcement, saying that they had actively invited Qiao Yu’s team to conduct security testing in the quantum era.

But this doesn't stand up to scrutiny!

It is well known that China has never recognized that cryptocurrency belongs to the legal financial market.

Therefore, the three US exchanges did not go to Microsoft, which had just released a quantum chip, nor did they go to Google, which has always claimed that it has mastered quantum supremacy, or IBM, which has been engaged in a war of words with Google and refused to admit that Google has achieved quantum supremacy...

However, they went far away and found a technical team from a country that has never recognized the legality of cryptocurrency.

What picture?

It's impossible that these financial tycoons are just trying to slap their own high-tech companies in the face? A casual analysis will show that there must be something fishy going on.

So all kinds of analysis came out.

When Qiao Yu got up, if he checked his phone, he could see that the texts that he was familiar with were beginning to circulate on major platforms and short video apps.

There are actually people who can give a decent analysis.

It’s a pity that Qiao Yu doesn’t have time to do these.

He didn't even sleep until nine o'clock, because it was not the alarm clock that woke him up, but Zheng Xiwen.

Qiao Yu was originally in a bad mood when he woke up. Especially since he stayed up until five in the morning last night, and was sleeping soundly at this time. However, when he saw Zheng Xiwen's dark circles that were almost comparable to those of a national treasure, he held back.

Picking up the phone and checking it, it was only half past eight. Qiao Yu looked at Zheng Xiwen aggrievedly and said, "Uncle Zheng, it's still so early. I set the alarm."

"It's getting late. Character Leap has sent someone here, hoping to sign an exclusive global live broadcast agreement with you before today's live broadcast."

"Exclusive global live broadcast agreement?" Qiao Yu rubbed his face. When it came to business, he needed to sober himself up.

"Well, have you told them? I can't do the live broadcast the way they designed it."

"It's all settled. Just a one-time cooperation agreement. There are no additional requirements. All the revenue generated by the live broadcast will be used for your project research."

"Can live streaming still generate revenue? Should I open a reward function? Uncle Zheng, who do you think I am? What do they think of serious scientific tests?"

Zheng Xiwen ignored Qiao Yu's pretentiousness and said, "It doesn't matter whether you turn on the reward function or not. The signing fee is three million yuan anyway. In addition, there is also a share of the traffic.

To put it simply, several time slots are set, and when the number of online viewers reaches each different level, there will be additional monetary rewards to be used for your quantum simulation scientific research projects.

So if you decide to sign, get up quickly, the people with the letters are already waiting in your office. If you don’t want to sign, I will go over and reject them now.”

After listening to Zheng Xiwen's introduction, Qiao Yu suddenly felt not so sleepy anymore and climbed out of bed.

"No, I've thought about it, why not sign it. I don't care about the money, but I don't want to hurt the sincere desire of our Chinese companies to sponsor the development of Chinese scientific research. Can you understand?"

"I'll go over first. You can just come to the office later." After saying that, Zheng Xiwen turned around and left.

……

After quickly washing up, Qiao Yu rushed to the office and signed a contract at an extremely fast speed.

After roughly understanding the situation, Qiao Yu found that he could actually sign the contract even if ZiFuLeap did not pay him this time.

After all, he wasn't very professional in live streaming, but they were professional and brought a team and equipment with them. It can be said that he didn't need to worry about anything other than technology.

Of course, Qiao Yu still felt that he should thank Zheng Xiwen.

He still remembered that he just told Lao Zheng a few words last night and then went to sleep. The fact that they were so well prepared must have been because Lao Zheng had considered all these and took the initiative to ask for it.

His subjective initiative was fully utilized. He had thought of everything he could and could not think of, especially those messy things outside of scientific research. It was really convenient to have such a person to help him fill in the gaps.

The only thing that made Qiao Yu a little bit uneasy was that Zheng Xiwen was currently serving him for free. It wasn't that free services were bad, but it was mainly because he felt insecure.

If Zheng Xiwen is assigned another task one day, he will have to get used to having another person by his side again.

Of course, I'm just a little worried.

After all, Qiao Yu felt that his value in all aspects was still very high. If he really needed to replace someone, he could just say a word and it would probably be difficult for Lao Zheng to leave.

No matter from which perspective, Qiao Yu felt that serving him should be easy, after all, he usually stayed on the campus of Yanbei University.

The food is good, there is not much to do, and most importantly, being with energetic young people can make your mindset younger.

But he wasn't the only one who said this, the cameramen who saw the characters jumping also said this.

After signing the contract, there was still some time left until ten o'clock. The cameraman who was on duty was busy there, and the female team leader who was in charge of the live broadcast business was chatting with Qiao Yu nearby.

"Teacher Qiao, will you be on camera later to give us some relevant knowledge? From the perspective of live broadcast, it won't be boring if someone explains it."

“Do I have to appear on camera?”

"It's not necessary. We have also sent teams to the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Chenlong Chaoyun Company. If there is a need for explanation, the main engineer there can also give the explanation.

But anyway, if you tell the story, netizens will be more convinced. And from the perspective of attracting traffic, your explanation will definitely be more effective.”

Qiao Yu thought for a moment, and considering that the contract he had just signed was based on traffic, he nodded and agreed.

"That's fine. When necessary, I can also appear on camera to talk to you about theoretical things and do some simple popular science."

He didn't quite understand the professional terms in the background, but according to the explanation of the person jumping characters, the number of people online at the same time and the average online time are the two most important indicators.

Or it can be said that these are the most important indicators of this live broadcast, because when it comes to the final settlement of how much to pay, only these two will be considered.

As for other indicators such as interaction volume, playback rate, conversion rate, etc., since it is a one-time deal, they are not specifically emphasized in the contract.

Moreover, Qiao Yu felt that he was not ugly, and videos and photos of him had already appeared on the Internet, so there was no need to maintain any mystery.

Anyway, it’s not because of money. After all, he is actually quite rich now.

"That's great. Teacher Qiao, when you feel it's necessary to popularize science to netizens during the live broadcast, you only need to give our director a signal, or do you think we need a host? Generally speaking, if there is a host to guide the atmosphere, it will have a greater impact on the average online time..."

"Forget about the host. If I need anything, I can just communicate with the director directly." Qiao Yu flatly refused.

He discovered that when dealing with these guys who had experience in live streaming, his bottom line would be broken little by little.

At least there is a bottom line for adding one more host, and he must stick to it.

"Okay, I'll do whatever you say. I have one last request. Mr. Qiao, the live broadcast is about to begin. How about you promote this exclusive live broadcast on Weibo?"

really……

Qiao Yu knew that there was no free lunch in this world, and the three million signing fee was not so easy to get.

But thinking about it carefully, these requests did not seem excessive, at least they did not make him feel disgusted.

All I can say is that the leader in front of me really treats his brain as an everyday necessity rather than a decoration.

"Okay, Weibo mainly wants to highlight that this global live broadcast can only be viewed on character-based video software, right?"

"You can choose any wording you like. In fact, you just need to put two live broadcast addresses on it."

"Two live broadcast addresses?"

"One is for Chinese Internet, and the other is for the international market. Because they are on different software, the live broadcast addresses are also slightly different."

After listening, Qiao Yubi gave a thumbs up: "Professional!"

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(End of this chapter)