After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 374 BBS
Zhou Haoran was called over by Dean Cheng.

Signed several documents.

Some of these were specially approved by the Ministry of Education.

This means that, starting today, he is officially a doctoral student in the Computer Science Department of Fudan University, and his doctoral supervisor is Dean Cheng himself.

After signing the documents, Zhou Haoran officially became Dean Cheng's student.

However, Dean Cheng still gave him a lot of freedom, asking, "When you become a doctoral student under me, will you work on projects with me, or will you do them on your own?"

Zhou Haoran asked, "Old Dean, what projects do you have here?"

Dean Cheng, an expert in the field of high-performance computing, said, "The Dawning high-performance computer."

"That's it..."

Zhou Haoran lacks interest in this field, nor is it his forte.

Dean Cheng sighed, "This direction is indeed a bit boring, and its application is also narrow. You should change your direction and find a research topic that you are good at."

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "Dean Cheng, the school is going to purchase 1000 computers this time and vigorously promote the construction of campus computer labs."

Dean Cheng assumed he was referring to the orders, and waved his hand, "Go ask Guo Yikun about this. He's temporarily taking over the logistics work. He's in charge of the bidding... Go see him in a bit, he should be able to give you some face."

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Old Dean, I wasn't talking about orders."

"Ok?"

Dean Cheng raised an eyebrow.

Zhou Haoran said, "I'm talking about the internet. The computer labs have been built, so we need to build the campus network too."

Dean Cheng's eyes lit up. "You want to build a campus network for the school?"

Zhou Haoran nodded. "Using the dial-up network from telecommunications companies results in poor signal and high costs, which is not suitable for university research. We should create a dedicated campus network and connect it to the national education network system."

The networks of telecommunications companies like China Telecom and China Netcom are connected to the Internet.

This is a public website.

Slow internet speed and high cost.

The education network is different.

This is a private network.

It is not open to the public and is only accessible to the fields of education and scientific research... It is like a super-large local area network, which is high-speed, stable, and inexpensive, and only research institutions and universities can access it.

At the same time, the education network is also connected to the Internet.

Dean Cheng said happily, "This is a great direction! You've just got the campus card up and running. Next, let's set up our school's campus network!"

Zhou Haoran said, "A while ago, I saw someone using Tsinghua University's Shuimu Tsinghua BBS in the lab. I was surprised that Tsinghua University acted so quickly! Later, I went to Tsinghua and asked their professors, and then I realized that it wasn't like that at all!"

"Ok?"

Dean Cheng did not understand what he meant.

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Shuimu Tsinghua BBS was created by Tsinghua students who took a BBS system from Taiwan and modified it. It's just like how Vice President Zhang Xuezhen wanted to import the University of Tokyo's campus card and pretend it was our own product."

"There are many such cases."

Dean Cheng was not surprised by this.

This practice of bringing back overseas research products, repackaging them, and disguising them as domestically developed products... is often not unstoppable, but rather welcomed from top to bottom.

This is, after all, a demonstration of national strength.

Just like sports.

Some sports are weak, so they spend exorbitant sums to naturalize foreigners to represent our country in world competitions... Everyone knows they are foreigners, fake, and they are just paying money to participate.

But we still have to change their appearance and disguise them to create a good image for the country.

Whether it's true or false doesn't matter.

National image is what matters.

The truth doesn't matter.

It's important to please the public.

Fortunately, Zhou Haoran proved himself in the campus card controversy; his product was excellent and his technology was powerful, allowing him to defeat the University of Tokyo's campus card. If he had lost… then neither the city leaders nor the university leaders would have been able to turn a blind eye to research fraud.

To demonstrate our strength as a major power, we cannot afford to lose face in front of our compatriots in Hong Kong.

“Tsinghua University has Shuimu Tsinghua BBS, which is the most popular BBS among universities, with tens of thousands of users. However, it seems that most of them are universities in the north.” Zhou Haoran already had a plan. “It’s also related to the internet. The country is so big, and the north and south are too far apart. Southern universities don’t have a very good experience when accessing Shuimu Tsinghua BBS.”

Dean Cheng immediately discerned his ambition: "So you want to create a BBS targeting universities in the south!"

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Dean, it's not that I want to do it, it's that Fudan University wants to launch such an online forum to command the South, just like Tsinghua University commands the North. I think Fudan is no worse than Tsinghua!"

After hearing what he said, Dean Cheng understood the situation.

Become!

With just this one reason, the school's project funding can be easily secured.

Zhou Haoran bluntly stated, "The Tsinghua University BBS is terrible. It doesn't even have the function of blocking or deleting posts... That system is obviously from the United States, promoting freedom of speech, but it's completely unsuitable for the national conditions." Dean Cheng didn't understand this kind of thing very well, saying, "Just keep it in mind."

"It's just a campus forum, this is too simple." Zhou Haoran was a master at handling such small projects. "Shuimu Tsinghua BBS follows the American style, no wonder it's been strictly censored and banned by the authorities. I'll go and teach them how to run a forum in China!"

Tsinghua University BBS has been established for over a year.

But it's very immature.

The system is poor, frequently crashes and disconnects, and lacks even a backup mechanism, which means that if the server fails, all the content on the site may be wiped out... Not only that, content management is also very poor.

Some shocking posts often appear.

As a result, it was shut down by the government on multiple occasions.

They've rectified things several times, shutting down multiple sections including military, history, salon, and time and space reports.

The recent return of Hong Kong Island to China and the Asian financial crisis led to the suspension of the Tsinghua University BBS again to prevent the emergence of subversive viewpoints.

Dean Cheng praised this, saying, "It's good that you have an idea! It seems that Fudan University's digitalization project will all depend on you!"

In Zhou Haoran's opinion, creating a campus forum is much easier than creating a campus card!
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“Minmin!”

Zhou Haoran met Professor Jiang, who was wearing a white dress, downstairs in the School of Literature building.

Jiang Minsi turned around and smiled, "Let's go eat at the cafeteria!"

"Only one cafeteria is open this summer..." Zhou Haoran rejected the suggestion. "My car is over there. Let's go get a big meal. Your master's application has been approved, right?"

Jiang Minsi nodded slightly. "Yes, it's approved. Professor Xu said I can join the group to study tomorrow. She's doing research on harbor dialect literature."

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "I approved it too."

"you?"

"I'm a PhD!"

"You're really something."

Jiang Minsi sat in the passenger seat, her eyes sparkling with admiration, and smiled.

Zhou Haoran winked and said, "You're a master's student, and I'm a doctoral student. I'm your senior!"

Jiang Minsi said sweetly, "Hello, senior!"

"Good girl, junior."

Zhou Haoran laughed heartily.

Jiang Minsi's eyes sparkled with a thousand charms. "Senior Haoran, could you do me a favor?"

"Say!"

Zhou Haoran is very generous.

Jiang Minsi said, "Give me some money."

"Huh?" Zhou Haoran turned to look at her. "How much do you want?"

Jiang Minsi sighed softly, "A few days ago, I told my mother that I have a man. My mother said that so-and-so in the village gave a bride price of five thousand yuan. I know what she meant."

Zhou Haoran snorted, "It's alright, I'll give you a dowry of 500,000! I have money now!"

"Pfft!" Jiang Minsi smiled, slightly coquettish, "What do I need so much money for? You can't spend that much in the countryside."

Zhou Haoran said with a smile, "The bride price is a token of our appreciation."

“I think… I only need 50,000. One share for my parents, one share for my eldest brother, his family needs to build a new house. One share for my younger brother, he needs to get married. One share for my second sister and fourth sister. And one share for my youngest sister, I want to support her education, I want her to leave the village.”

Jiang Minsi comes from a rural area in southern Anhui.

It's not like the big cities on this side of the harbor.

Zhou Haoran said with empathy, "Teacher Jiang, it wasn't easy for your family to send you to study in a big city. Now that conditions are better, your family is doing their best to help."

Jiang Minsi glanced at him timidly, "That's what I think."

"what?"

Zhou Haoran smiled.

Jiang Minsi blushed slightly and said frankly, "I have nothing to be ashamed of admitting. Over the years, many wealthy men have pursued me. The reason I'm willing to be with you is because you are responsible and can accept my family's situation."

Zhou Haoran cleared his throat and said, "Teacher Jiang, there's only so much I can do. I can give you money, but if you want me to visit relatives in southern Anhui or something, I probably can't do that either."

"The money is enough."

Jiang Minsi never expected that he would act like a son-in-law and accompany her back to her hometown to visit relatives.

If I actually go, it will be awkward.

I won't get married if I don't have a formal marriage certificate.

People in the village will gossip about it.

(End of this chapter)