Riding the wind of rebirth

"How come he's so young?" Zhou Zhi knew that almost everyone who saw Mai Xiaomiao would ask this question, and he also knew that Mai Xiaomiao was a little too lazy to answer this question, so he quickly answered for him: "Euler taught himself algebra when he was less than ten years old, entered university at the age of thirteen, graduated at the age of fifteen, got a master's degree at the age of sixteen, switched from mathematics to physics at the age of twenty-four, and became a professor. So in front of talent, no effort can compare with it."

"How about... Elbow, you cook first, and Xiao Miao and I will find a place to chat?"

“No need, just talk about it here.” Mai Xiaomiao opened the cupboard and took out a set of tea sets with familiarity: “We can also make dumplings later!”

"Ah, this..." Li Laosan had never been to such a place before. He was full of curiosity about this kitchen full of smoke, but he really didn't feel it was a place to chat.

This kitchen is quite large, with a stove at the back and an octagonal table, four benches and a fire pit on one side in the front. It is a combination of Han and Yi styles. The only difference is that there is no bacon, which is common in Sichuan farmers' homes, on the stove. Because the climate here is relatively dry, the bacon is too dry, so Gillie Abi and Zhou Zhi have made it into oily meat and put it in a jar behind the house.

"Help me!" Seeing that Mai Xiaomiao still wanted to drag the round table by herself and Li Laosan was staring at her stupidly, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but kick Li Laosan.

"Oh!" Li Laosan finally reacted: "I'll do it, where are we moving to?"

"Move over to the fire, I'll treat you to some roasted chestnuts!" Mai Xiaomiao smiled and turned around to rummage through the cabinet, looking like a little girl who loves to show off treasures.

"Third brother likes to drink Oolong and Dongding. Oh, by the way, take out our Pu'er to entertain him. You can also add some dried tangerine peel." Zhou Zhi gave the remote control command.

"Yes!" Mai Xiaomiao followed suit, took the fire from the stove and put it in the fire pit, put some charcoal on it, set up the iron net, put small sweet potatoes, potatoes, chestnuts, and oranges on it, and brewed tea: "Third brother, have some tea!"

"This cup is interesting..." Luncheng is an important distribution center for the exchange of ancient artworks. Li Laosan has been to several auctions with Lin Wanqiu and now has a good eye. After taking a sip of tea, he said: "Hey, this tea is good! Pork elbow..."

"I'll prepare it for you!" Zhou Zhi knew what Li Laosan was going to say next: "There are many good Yunnan teas and Tibetan teas, but unfortunately they are not known to the outside world. You should promote them well when you take them out."

"The tea sets were given to me by Elbow. He said they were from Hutian Kiln, but I don't understand." Mai Xiaomiao smiled and shared a cup of tea: "What did Third Brother want to talk to us about?"

"Someone recently proposed an idea for a financial tool, which I think is very valuable." Li Laosan took out a laptop from his bag and opened it: "So I brought it here. Oh, by the way, you haven't found an application project for the neural network system you developed yet, right?"

"I'm sorry, the project is actually available. Resources are quite tight right now."

"Eh? Didn't they say there was only an automatic chess-playing project?" Li Laosan was confused.

"That was before." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "It's different now, but the project is confidential, so I can't tell you."

"Is that so..." Li Laosan gritted his teeth, and Zhou Zhi couldn't help but smile. This action was a bit "unseemly". Li Laosan, who had received strict family education, was infected by his cousin Anxin. However, when cousin Anxin made this expression, it was very cute, but when Li Laosan made it, it really didn't look good.

"Tell me what's going on first." Zhou Zhi said, "Xiaozhi can be big or small, and the bigger the better. If there is a real need, we will continue to expand."

"Seeing you like this makes me worried about the business capabilities of the Ansheng Information Industry Intelligence Center." Zhou Zhi joked: "You don't even know Xiao Miao, and you don't know much about Xiao Zhi's system functions..."

"Get lost! I was careless and missed the point!" Li Laosan said angrily, "This was something that was done by your Clover Group, and Ansheng has always focused on collecting external intelligence. Its work has never been directed at Clover. Otherwise, I wouldn't have rushed here just now."

"Yes, yes, thank you very much, Brother Li San, for your kindness." Zhou Zhi actually just liked to see Li San get angry, and now he was satisfied: "Let's get on with the business, let's get on with the business..."

"That's right." Li Laosan turned on his computer and clicked on a document. "Here is an article that discusses the possibility of arbitrage trading after the launch of the Luncheng Financial Platform by using the reaction speed of the satellite network platform and the time difference between the limited network and the videophone network. I think it's feasible!"

Mai Xiaomiao rolled the small sweet potatoes and potatoes on the fire. These two things were originally cooked and could be eaten after the skin was charred. Now they were emitting a sweet fragrance. He picked out a small potato and handed it to Li Laosan: "But Third Brother, we don't understand finance either, right?"

"This really has nothing to do with finance." Li Laosan: "The principle is very simple. The financial platform of London will collect buy and sell order information from all over the world, and then form a bidding system, which will be displayed in the trading system. As long as we can get this information in advance, we can determine in advance whether the stock will rise or fall in the short term."

“Although this time is very short, only a few tens of milliseconds, as long as we seize this foresight advantage, we can grasp the timing of buying and selling, such as buying one point more than the high order and selling one point less than the low order, and get the opportunity to trade first.”

Mai Xiaomiao still didn't understand: "It's just a few dozen milliseconds. Even if I grab the opportunity, I can only earn a penny?"

Zhou Zhi came over with a basin in his hand, and said as he kneaded the dough, "What a good idea! Xiao Miao, these tens of milliseconds can last for a whole day, which means there will be countless opportunities. In addition, we must not use manual operations to grab time, but use the computer system to make predictions based on pending orders, and then automatically trigger transactions. The system can carry out multi-user, large-scale, high-frequency transactions, and can carry out thousands of transactions a day. With many transactions each time, a small amount can make a lot of money, and the profit can be considerable."

"That's the truth!" Li Laosan slapped the table and took the initiative to pick up the teapot to add more tea for Mai Xiaomiao and himself: "Elbow, have you also paid attention to this aspect?"

"Haha, I'm always interested in ways to make money with information technology." Zhou Zhi didn't dare to say that this thing was the famous quantitative trading model in later generations. He could only explain it this way: "But let's not talk about anything else. China's network conditions are far worse than London. How can you guarantee this time difference?"

"It's easier to do it in China!" Li Laosan said, "Don't you have a satellite system here? Except for London, you can receive information through the satellite system here, as well as New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong Island, and New York Island."

"No, ours is faster." Mai Xiaomiao corrected, "Because there are still very few satellite users in Greater China, no one is competing with us for the channel, and the satellite provides us with a large bandwidth. I have compared the data transmission speed with that in the United States, and it is more than ten milliseconds faster than there."

"That's even better!" Li Laosan was very excited: "In this case, apart from the internal trading seats in Lun City, we are the place with the fastest information transmission speed in the world!" (End of this chapter)