Riding the wind of rebirth

The famous joke about the tycoon who came to China to buy missiles with a piece of cloth on his head and said, "I am the richest man in the world," was not as funny as the one who stretched out a finger and asked for 100 million yuan on one side and the other side said, "OK, 100 million US dollars is 100 million US dollars," but according to the crown prince's private notes, 10 billion US dollars were indeed prepared at that time, and if the Chinese offer was less than 8 billion, it would be taken directly, and if it exceeded 8 billion, the king would be asked for permission.

As a result, the Chinese side offered a price of 100 million US dollars per coin, which surprised the Crown Prince.

What also surprised the Chinese side was that the crown prince agreed immediately and purchased 35 missiles at one time, for a total of 3.5 billion US dollars, which exceeded China's total foreign exchange reserves at the time.

The cost for China to produce one coin at that time was said to be only two million RMB.

The current situation was somewhat similar. After getting out of the base and into the car, Li Laosan couldn't help but laugh wildly, "Hahahahahahaha... Forty-five million US dollars to build a global satellite communication system! Such a good thing can actually happen!"

"It's a private global satellite communication system." Zhou Zhi emphasized to Li Laosan: "If we need the International Satellite Communication Organization to provide relay services, the annual tolls will be very expensive."

"That's why we have to do it ourselves!" Li Laosan waved his fist. "We should build our own receivers and adapters in the place closest to the computer rooms of major securities markets around the world, and then send them directly to our satellite system, which can save dozens of milliseconds!"

This is indeed true. The quantitative trading system of later generations once had poor communications, which meant that information systems in the same city as the securities market system could respond faster than those in other places.

Although the speed difference is only in milliseconds, it directly determines the first-mover advantage.

Although Zhouzhi is not as fast as the mainframes in the same city through satellite system transfer, it can react to the London stock market faster than the seats far away in New York, and respond to New York much faster than the seats in London.

Although information is transmitted at the speed of electric current, the process of switching, encrypting and decrypting among various devices also requires program processing time.

Therefore, the transmission of information is not determined by the speed of electric current or the speed of light, but by the switching links in the transmission.

In theory, the fewer links, the faster the speed.

Satellite communication is undoubtedly the communication method with the least intermediate links today, and has also become the fastest communication method.

The premise is that the bandwidth is not occupied by other users, that is, when multiple users share it, there is delay caused by the time-division mode.

Private satellites do not have this problem.

Their current quantization system is more than 40 milliseconds faster than conventional communications. If private satellites are used, the speed can be increased to more than 100 milliseconds.

It is equivalent to seeing the trading trends around the world one hundred milliseconds ahead of others, and then making arrangements in advance through the quantitative trading system, and triggering high-frequency order-grabbing transactions through automatic trading. If you play exclusively, it is almost like picking up money.

It was no wonder that Li Laosan laughed out loud with joy when he achieved this goal with only 45 million US dollars.

But Zhou Zhi wanted more.

That is to say, now, the International Satellite Communications Organization still allows such "waste of resources", but in another 20 years, it will be "a lot of gold for every frequency band".

Let's take this frequency band first, and when the communication means are upgraded in the future, we can replace the old satellites and activate new ones.

This is equivalent to transforming rural roads into super information highways. The future is an era where information is king. With this highway in hand, the benefits that can be converted will undoubtedly be huge. "Why is the third brother so happy?" The sun in Lianhe Township in early summer is a bit strong, and it is impossible to stay outside during the day, but under the eaves, you can't feel the heat at all, and you can feel dry, especially in a place like the grain station where earthen buildings are the main ones. It can be described as a summer resort.

Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao were preparing jelly for the children. Li Laosan took a bowl and sat on the rocking chair under the eaves, eating while rocking, looking very leisurely and comfortable.

This season is also the season for a lot of delicious food, with fruits, fish and shrimps in abundance.

The kids were all tanned like charcoal. The boys were excited because they could exchange the fish and shrimp they caught with Zhou Zhi for food so that the girls could enjoy it too.

The food is simple. Zhou Zhi will prepare it every afternoon before school is over. It is usually jelly and cold cake.

The method of making Lianggao is very simple. First, soak the rice in spring water to make it swell and grind it into a paste. Pour it into a boiling water pot and stir it constantly. After it becomes a paste, add clear lime water and stir it evenly. Pour it into a clean bowl and let it cool naturally.

Use a bamboo knife to cut the cooled rice cake horizontally and vertically, cut it into four pieces and put it into a tank of clean water to remove excess alkali. Soak it in cold water and wait until the children get home from school before taking it out, pouring red sugar syrup on it and enjoying a delicious meal.

The method of making jelly is even simpler than that of jelly. It is similar to jelly, but no lime water is needed. Put one part of starch in a large bowl, then use the same container to take two parts of water and add them in. Stir until the starch has no granules. Then add four parts of water to the pot, boil the water, pour in the stirred starch water, and stir constantly. Stir until the sticky starch paste in the pot begins to bubble and then turn off the heat.

Take a container, run clean water over the inner wall of the container, then pour the starch paste into the container. Shake it after pouring to shake out the bubbles inside and make the surface smoother. After the paste cools down completely, the jelly is ready.

Many starches in Lianhe Township can be made into jelly, including potato flour, sweet potato flour, pea flour, and mung bean flour, and there are subtle differences in taste and texture.

The seasoning of jelly is similar to that of cold noodles and tofu pudding, with soy sauce, sesame oil, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper powder, sweet and sour sauce, fried peas, crushed peanuts, fried soybeans, pickled vegetables, cucumber shreds...

Anyway, you can add any seasoning you can find, but don’t add sauce. The main purpose of jelly is to eat fresh, so don’t use paste as seasoning.

Now when Zhou Zhi makes jelly for the children, Mai Xiaomiao likes to participate because there is a tool for scraping jelly called a swirl, which she plays with as a toy.

Turn the large bowl containing the jelly upside down and remove the bowl. The jelly will be placed on the table like a small hill.

The scraper is a small stainless steel disc with some round holes chiseled on it at a certain angle. Put it on the jelly and scrape it. A thin and long piece of jelly will be scraped out of each round hole, like noodles.

Grab it and put it in a bowl, and it becomes a bowl of "Xuanzi jelly".

The jelly used to make spiral jelly should be tough and it is best to use pea flour and mung bean flour to make the spiral jelly.

In fact, the taste is the same as if it were cut with a knife, but everyone, including Li Laosan, thinks that the jelly made with a spiralizer tastes better.

"I found a big project that cost me money these days," Zhou Zhi teased, "I think we should get rid of him."

"You're talking nonsense again." Mai Xiaomiao put a portion of jelly into the bowl and gently bumped Zhou Zhi with his shoulder: "Even if we have to hurry, we should wait until Renzhong or A Zi comes back, otherwise it will be boring for us."

“Hahaha…” Zhou Zhi laughed softly: “Xiao Miao, you’ve also learned to be naughty.” (End of this chapter)