After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 261 The Number One in the Nation

Zhou Haoran finally understood.

Director Dou tried to win him over.

They wanted to give him honors, a halo, and a status, to associate him with the national team, and to keep him in the country.

It would be such a pity if such a technological genius were to lose his way abroad.

However, it is impossible to entrust him with such an important task in such a crucial financial project.

That's understandable.

He is too young.

If we give him a high position, where will we place those highly respected experts and professors?
And the most crucial point is the accountability mechanism for these public projects.

If you employ the most prestigious academicians and professors and fail, you can blame it on their incompetence. But if you employ an 18-year-old and fail, that's a mistake in personnel selection.

This is the core difference between national-level scientific research and private scientific research.

The people are individuals.

Entrepreneurs can take full responsibility and act decisively!

As long as you have the courage, you'll dare to fight and charge forward.

At worst, the business fails, and we start from scratch.

Therefore, private enterprises prefer to hire young people for R&D. People over 35 years old may even face elimination. In the field of innovation and R&D, "experience" is more often a side effect.

The best age for human intelligence to develop is between 25 and 35 years old, which is also the most suitable time for research and development.

The national team is different.

You need to be qualified and experienced... to put it bluntly, you need to be someone who can take responsibility for themselves.

If something goes wrong, whoever did it should take responsibility.

Instead of whoever hires the person should bear the responsibility.

Zhou Haoran is so young. If he fails in a national project, he certainly won't be able to take the responsibility, and no one will be willing to take the responsibility for him.

This is truly regrettable.

In his view, the problems with the current payment system of the banking system are far too simple!

He's someone who's seen super platforms like Alipay and WeChat Pay.

It withstands hundreds of millions of hacker attacks and hundreds of millions of small transactions every day... It handles them with unwavering stability, making it a top-tier product worldwide.

The domestic financial system is not the internet.

It belongs to the financial intranet.

An intranet means isolation from the outside world, which means it doesn't have to withstand hacker attacks from the outside world. It's also simpler, as it doesn't require a lot of computing and storage resources to be wasted on ineffective attacks.

A single branch has a small machine and only needs a few hundred transfer transactions per day.

The province has a large-scale computer, which can only process a few hundred thousand transactions per day.

Even on such a small scale, it was extremely difficult to handle; the electronic processing system frequently malfunctioned, requiring constant human intervention and telephone communication to relay information...

"Dean Cheng, if my judgment is correct, the current predicament of the financial system is mainly a predicament of information transmission."

Zhou Haoran went to school with him, still muttering to himself.

Dean Cheng nodded. "Yes, the biggest problem is the transmission of information. Do you know how postal money orders are processed?"

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "I know. It's just going to the post office to fill out the form, indicating how much money you want to transfer. Then the post office mails the relevant form to the recipient's bank. Once the recipient receives the form and verifies it, they can write the amount on their passbook, and the money is considered deposited."

"Even today, postal money orders still take seven or eight days to process."

"Ah."

"Do you know how to make a bank transfer?"

"I don't know." Zhou Haoran wasn't interested in these old-fashioned methods of information transmission at all. "The post office has a mail delivery system, so money orders are convenient. Banks can't just mail things too."

Dean Cheng said, "In the past, banks sent telegrams."

"Oh!"

Zhou Haoran has come to understand how the banking system used to operate.

Dean Cheng continued, "Later, telephones became more widespread, and remittances were mostly communicated by phone, all done manually. Eight years ago, our country finally began its informatization construction and approved a major project."

"What project?"

"Establish a dedicated satellite financial communication network."

"No wonder!" Zhou Haoran realized what was going on and couldn't help but laugh. "No wonder I saw a small pot lid on the top of each bank's roof."

Dean Cheng nodded. "Yes, currently, information transmission between banks relies on satellites."

Satellites can transmit information.

For example, mobile phones.

For example, television. The reason why Red Star TV can be watched by audiences across the country is that Red Star TV transmits television signals to satellites through signal towers, and then the satellites transmit them back to the ground.

Zhou Haoran said, "A satellite communication network dedicated to the financial system, that's great!"

Dean Cheng shook his head and said, "No, there's also satellite technology involved. my country has a small number of satellites, and the technology isn't advanced enough to achieve full coverage, which means we can't transmit information in real time. Generally speaking, if a bank wants to send information to another bank, there are only two or three specific times each day."

Zhou Haoran suddenly realized, "If we miss it, we'll have to wait until the next day to deliver it."

Dean Cheng said, "Yes, that's why we've wasted a day."

Zhou Haoran said, "Sending a message will take a day, and receiving a message will take another day."

"If that were all, the transfer speed would be quite fast. However, the banking system attaches great importance to security, so the People's Bank of China is required to act as an intermediary, playing a supervisory and backup role."

The major national projects in the port area are primarily financial engineering. Dean Cheng, as a local academician, has been involved in these projects as an expert group member for seven or eight years, so he is very knowledgeable about them.

Zhou Haoran chuckled and said, "That adds an extra intermediary, requiring two transmissions and two receptions. If there's also a feedback signal, then it's four transmissions and four receptions. Bank transfers often take several days, all wasted on the information transmission route."

Because information transmission often fails, it is necessary to make a phone call to explain.

Therefore, current bank transfer systems combine manual and electronic methods.

It's very slow.

Dean Cheng looked at him. "So you understand now? The core of restricting information transmission has nothing to do with computers; it's satellite technology. Satellites are all controlled by the military industry. What can we do about this?"

“There’s a way.” Zhou Haoran uttered a phrase he often used in the internet industry in his previous life: “If you encounter a red light and are not allowed to proceed, turn right, then make a U-turn and turn right again. You’re still following the same road, but you’ve legally and compliantly bypassed the red light.”

"what?"

Dean Cheng was slightly taken aback.

Zhou Haoran said with a smile, "Since we don't have enough satellite technology and can't get involved in military projects, we'll just bypass them and stop using satellite communication networks. The financial system will build its own dedicated terrestrial network."

"A private terrestrial network?"

Dean Cheng's expression changed slightly.

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "Lay fiber optic cables on the ground to connect all the banks and financial systems in the country. This way, we won't have to worry about the military industry's attitude, and the financial industry can have a controllable information transmission network."

Dean Cheng said in a deep voice, "All financial communication projects around the world use satellites."

Zhou Haoran said, "Because their financial engineering all comes from the United States, why should they learn from the United States?"

"You're too young."

Dean Cheng Dechang understood that laying fiber optic cables on the ground to connect the banks and transmitting information via fiber optics was much better than satellite transmission.

It offers stable quality and fast delivery.

It can greatly solve the difficulties encountered in information transmission.

However, such a large-scale national strategic project cannot be solved simply from a technical perspective. There is a major premise behind it: national security.

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Then tell me? To be honest, as for the technical problems in those systems right now, as long as the fiber optic cables are laid, I can easily handle them. Even cross-bank transfers between different locations will only take a few minutes."

Dean Cheng ignored the kid's boasting and said calmly, "Director Dou once said that finance is the atomic bomb of peacetime."

"Ah."

"Since it's an atomic bomb, who should have control over it? Are you trying to circumvent the rules?"

"This……"

Zhou Haoran opened his eyes wide and suddenly realized that this was indeed not a technical project.

Is this the underlying logic of national team projects?
Dean Cheng said, "If you want to turn right at a red light, it's fine if it's in some less important civilian areas. But if it's a project like the atomic bomb, you absolutely cannot detour."

“That’s true.” Zhou Haoran took a deep breath. “If that’s the case, then I’ll just be the straight man in the expert group. I’m only good at technical work. Whatever task you’re given, I’ll do it. I’ll make sure I don’t overstep my bounds.”

Dean Cheng Dechang breathed a sigh of relief.

He was very reluctant to smooth out the rough edges of a talented young man.

But we have to do it.

Only in this way can we best protect him.

Just then, someone knocked on the door.

It turned out to be Professor Tan Mingliang.

"Dean, you really are here! I was wondering why I thought I saw you two great experts coming back together."

"Who do you call me an expert?"

Zhou Haoran repeatedly expressed his humility.

Tan Mingliang said, "Don't be modest, you have a chance to become the number one in the country!"

"What?"

Zhou Haoran didn't understand.

Tan Mingliang said excitedly, "Your two papers will be published within half a month at the earliest!"

"Really?"

Zhou Haoran was pleasantly surprised.

Tan Mingliang said, "My advisor at Stanford, who is very authoritative in the American computer industry and is a member of the editorial board of several top journals, personally introduced me to JOOP magazine! Do you know JOOP?"

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "I know it, it's Object-Oriented Programming Magazine, the world's top programming magazine."

"Yes, this magazine is definitely in the top 10 of the global computer science publications!"

Tan Mingliang felt very proud.

Because no Chinese person had ever published a paper in such a top-tier journal before.

He previously pursued his master's and doctoral degrees in the United States and published more than ten papers, mostly in second- or third-tier newspapers and magazines, with no chance of being featured in JOOP.

Especially now!
With the global popularity of the Java language, object-oriented technology has become a hot trend among developers worldwide, and JOOP is the most authoritative journal in this field globally.

This is just great.

Really hammered.

This kid is a true tech genius!
Number one in China!

Who would dare object to inviting him to write the textbook?

(End of this chapter)