Chapter 1196 The True Intention

It has to be said that Mr. Wang's efficiency in handling affairs is indeed quite high.

Almost on the second day after meeting Lu Zhou, he circled all the people in his circle of friends who met the standard of "excellent entrepreneurs", and boarded the "thief ship" without any escape. .

In this way, you invested 100 million, I invested 200 million, and finally raised 10 billion abruptly, which really shocked Lu Zhou.

His original plan was to raise 5 billion, and then he would ask the bank for a 5 billion loan, issue billions of corporate bonds, and get more than 10 billion, enough to repair this submarine cable. Woke up.

It's all right now, and I don't need to issue corporate bonds. I can just ask the bank for a loan of more than two billion yuan, and all the project funds will be collected.

In this way, a company named East Asia Communications, with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan and numerous big boss platforms behind it, was quietly established in Shanghai.

If it keeps keeping a low profile like this, maybe no one will notice this company.

However, not long after the company was established, it did an earth-shattering event.

At the moment when the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine cable project was stranded and the entire industry fell into a downturn, this spoiler who suddenly appeared waved his banknotes and spent 5 billion RMB to acquire almost 80% of domestic companies operating submarine cable business .

Such a big handwriting has the potential to sweep the world and dominate the world, not only alarmed the China Securities Regulatory Commission, but even alarmed the X Reform Commission.

However, because of the advance greetings, this did not have any impact on the dozen or so acquisitions of East Asia Communications.

In order to compete with the dominant foreign monopoly giants, the necessary monopoly is also to facilitate the integration of resources.

What's more, part of it is.

It's just that because the communication industry is relatively sensitive, in order to prevent overseas business from being affected, this part is not very high.

The emergence of East Asia Communications has disturbed the submarine cable market, which was originally stagnant.

Whether it is NEC in Japan, Alcatel-Lucent in Europe, or SubCom in the United States, they all feel a little bit of pressure from it.

Although East Asia Communications is still far behind those pioneers who have been leading for half a century in terms of scale and technical background.

But who is to say what will happen in the future?

What's more, according to past experience, as long as it is a project that is targeted by the people of Huaguo, the price will be hit on the floor without exception.

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

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Just when East Asia Communications was completing the resource integration of the domestic submarine optical cable business in a high-profile manner and entered the international market aggressively, the work on changing the national encryption algorithm and the bench to promote the update of the international encryption algorithm were also in the information department. Steady progress with support.

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

Shortly after the U.S. representatives missed the Asia-Pacific Network Information Security Summit held in Beijing, the Pience Laboratory of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a research report.

Although it was just a harmless risk warning, it still caused quite a stir in the industry.

After all, this Pierce laboratory is not an unknown person. Its founder is Dr. Alex Pierce, the founder of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance technology.

Since the establishment of Pience Laboratory, its research scope has involved quantum information, quantum computing, chemistry, structural biology, medicine and other fields. Especially in multiple research directions such as quantum encryption algorithms, it is in a leading position in the world.

Therefore, the weight of this risk warning report cannot be ignored.

"It seems that Americans don't want to lock their own safes," Academician Gao Junwen, who put down the newspaper in his hands, said with emotion, "Not only do they not want to lock their own safes, they also don't want to lock their own safes." Let other people buy our locks."

Since he came back from Jinling last time, he finally understood the difficulties of his old friend Academician Xue Jinhui, and finally understood the good intentions of the high-level officials and why they 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 preparation, the financial and communication security of the whole world will be seriously threatened. In front of a 500-qubit quantum computer, it is no exaggeration to say that still using the current encryption algorithm is no different from running naked on the street naked.

"If you refuse, just refuse," Academician Xue squinted his eyes and smiled, sipped his tea indifferently and said, "We have already reminded them, they are the ones who don't appreciate it, so no wonder we are."

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

However……

If you insist, there is no obligation to ask them to use it.

But relatively, if the Yankees insist on running naked on the street, they have to deal with the possible risks in advance...

"That's what I said, but it's obviously not just about the encryption algorithm. They probably won't let us pass through their territory with this submarine optical cable."

Facing his old friend's concerns, Academician Xue smiled nonchalantly.

"The Pacific Ocean is so big, and the US is not the only country on the east coast. If they don't plan, then they should give this opportunity to other countries."

Academician Gao Junwen had a surprised expression on his face.

"You mean...bypassing the United States directly? But this—"

Academician Xue said with a smile: "In this way, our optical cable will lose its meaning... Is this what you want to say?"

Academician Gao nodded.

This is the obvious thing.

What's more, the center of the Internet is there. If this optical cable does not land in North America, it will lose its meaning of existence. With the size of small countries in Central America and South America, it is simply not worthwhile to build a submarine optical cable to their doorstep alone.

Seeing Academician Gao nodded, Academician Xue had such an expression on his face, he shook his head with a smile and said.

"You, you still have to take a long-term view. Quantum computer technology has only developed to 500 qubits. What about in the future? They have to make a choice between safety and pride. Besides..."

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

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

This line starts from Shanghai in the west, goes straight to Central America, passes through the Panama Canal, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, goes straight into the Strait of Gibraltar, enters the Red Sea from the Suez Canal, and finally returns to East Asia through the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca.

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 was standing in the laboratory of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

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

"This is too..."

Looking at the old friend whose face was full of shock, Academician Xue said with a smile.

"Very surprised?"

Academician Gao nodded honestly.

"...It's quite surprising."

Academician Xue smiled, and his gaze outside the window was gradually tinged with memories.

"Last time I talked with Academician Lu for a long time. We agreed that, whether it is a quantum encryption algorithm or a traditional encryption algorithm, any asymmetric encryption algorithm based on a difficult problem has serious limitations. In our limited computing power It is useful when it is used, but as our information technology continues to develop and computing power continues to increase, especially after entering the quantum era, it is no longer so effective."

"It is always more difficult to come up with a solutionable problem than to solve the problem itself. Today we need NP problems, and tomorrow we need n^2P problems. If things go on like this, one day we will not be able to fill this gap."

"An unconditionally secure communication method 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 is not we who choose the future in this matter, but the future chooses us."

"For us, it might not be a good thing."

The trans-Pacific submarine cable is just the beginning, and Central America is just a springboard. The submarine optical cable of East Asia Power is not only heading east, but the four directions of east, west, north and south are all on the blueprint of information strategy.

When this blueprint is realized, not only the Trans-Pacific Optical Cable Management Committee, but also the Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Mediterranean, and Trans-Indian Ocean...etc. Management committees will be established.

Or simply set up a global submarine cable management committee.

And this is their ultimate goal...