Riding the wind of rebirth

The journey will take thirteen hours, and electronic devices are not allowed on the plane. Zhou Zhi can use this time to polish his thesis.

Although it is called a thesis, it was not actually written by Zhou Zhi himself. The thesis itself is more like a technical solution specification. To be more precise, it should be called "Technical Solution Specification for Multimedia Database of Chinese Dialect Phonetics and Rhymes".

According to the requirements for information systems in the ISO certification system, this thing is actually second only to the requirements specification. Only with it can system development begin, so it is something that has been formulated a long time ago.

Zhou Zhi is now a manager, so of course it is impossible for him to handle this project personally as he did with the Hanwen Font Library. Clover has many employees who are already familiar with this set of management standards and can do things carefully and thoroughly.

On the contrary, Zhou Zhi participated more in the initial requirements design. After all, this database has too strong liberal arts characteristics. It is really too much to ask a group of science and engineering men who don’t even know that a vowel is composed of three parts: initial, middle, and final rhyme to write the requirements.

Originally, this part of the work could be done by liberal arts students from the Chinese Department, but the requirements they wrote were very difficult for science students to understand. Therefore, a person who was proficient in both sides was needed to be responsible for communication between the party proposing the requirements and the party implementing the technology. This person could only be Zhou Zhi.

Therefore, although Zhou Zhi is quite familiar with this system, he is definitely not as familiar with it as the Hanwen large character library. Many details are done by others, and he mainly controls the progress.

Therefore, in order to complete the thesis, there are still many things that need to be reviewed, and he also took the opportunity to improve his knowledge structure. In addition to the master's thesis defense, he is also making solid preparations for the next stage of working out the phonetic and rhyme inference of Medieval Chinese and even ancient Chinese.

The fun of knowledge lies in those who don't like it. They fear it like the plague and scorpion, feel creepy at the sight of it, and feel that if they waste their whole life on it, they might as well die now.

But for those who like it, they enjoy it very much. The pleasure they get from swimming in the ocean of thoughts is irreplaceable.

Therefore, Yan Hui in history, "with only a bowl of rice and a jug of water, living in a humble alley, and people could not bear the worry, but Hui did not change his happiness", was revered as the first of the 72 sages of Confucius by all dynasties. In Zhou Zhi's view, this was actually a very common behavior of a true scholar.

Birds of a feather flock together. There are so many people like him around him, including his fourth cousins, his aunt and godfather, old man Yu, several seniors from the Gu family whom he met later, two senior brothers from Peking University, Mr. Wang and his wife, and many military workers whom he met later.

In Zhou Zhi's opinion, it cannot be said that everyone is so great. It's just that they have truly found their own interests and are not so concerned about external things.

For example, Mai Xiaomiao, although the girl is very pretty, she has never paid attention to dressing up, and she is careless about what she eats and uses. If she hadn't followed Zhou Zhi, she might have just lived her life in T-shirts, sports jackets, sandwiches, burgers and salads.

He looked at Mai Xiaomiao beside him, who happened to be holding a mathematics monograph with a black cover in her hand. Mai Xiaomiao also looked at him and smiled sweetly at him.

"It's going to take a long time." Zhou Zhi smiled at Mai Xiaomiao and said, "Xiao Miao, you didn't seem to mention that you wanted to go home before?"

"My home is boring. I'm often alone." Mai Xiaomiao whispered, "If it were like your home, I would definitely go back more often."

"I haven't heard you talk about your parents yet." Zhou Zhi asked, "When we go to New York this time, are we going to visit them?" "It depends." Mai Xiaomiao said, "They are all busy, so you should be busy too, right?"

Zhou Zhi didn't have to come at all, but thinking that he was coming, Mai Xiaomiao would definitely come with him. It would be bad to go back to the United States without visiting home, right? It would be bad to go home without bringing himself with him, right? Wouldn't it be natural for both parties to meet each other's parents? Wouldn't it be possible for many things to go a step further naturally?

As a result, Mai Xiaomiao didn't respond at all. I don't know whether what she said was the truth or whether she still didn't understand the ways of the world after being in China for so long.

"I really don't plan to be too busy." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Why don't we arrange it and see when they are free. We will follow their arrangements. It doesn't matter."

“Okay then.” Mai Xiaomiao said, “But my dad is a bit old-fashioned, and my mom is a bit snobbish, so just don’t get angry with them when the time comes.”

"I don't really believe this." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "If someone as outstanding as you can be trained, it won't be like what you said. Besides, I get along well with everyone, so there's no need to worry about this."

Listening to Zhou Zhi patiently counselling Mai Xiaomiao in the front, Ikeda Qiu and Zhang Siluo in the back were almost laughing.

However, after listening to only half of it, the two people in front fell silent again and started their own research, which made the two people behind them feel itchy.

For long trips, first class is indeed much more friendly than business class. You can get up and move around from time to time, and there are also relatively spacious seats for rest.

Most people were either reading or sleeping. After Zhou Zhi finished reading the technical proposal in his hand, he pulled Mai Xiaomiao up to do some simple activities and drink some beverages. Then he took out the relevant information about this trip that Ikeda Qiu gave him and started reading.

The information is all in English, and includes the historical background of the Musicians Association of America, its current development status, its influence in the world and in the industry, its famous leaders, their backgrounds and resumes, the key points of their negotiations with the Digital Alliance, the other party's demands and reasons, the response strategies prepared by the Digital Alliance, and the reasons for such responses, etc.

Of course, there is also more important market analysis, the impact and influence that the Digital Alliance has brought to the pop music industry, as well as some confidential data, including the number of music that the alliance obtains shared copyrights each year, the number of signed individuals, influence, the number of music that is on the charts each year, and the profits brought in through marketing methods such as advertising and shared profits, etc.

It can be seen from the negotiation timetable and major events in the information that the Digital Alliance was caught off guard by the Practitioners Association in the beginning, mainly because the Practitioners Association has a broad traditional base and supporters in the United States. It can even be said to be the only organization that can compete with capital. It has also played many positive roles in history. For example, in opposing the excessive exploitation of stars by record companies, unreasonable and predatory contracts, and the exploitation of composers and arrangers, the Practitioners Association has done many well-known major events and even represented some stars, authors and record companies in lawsuits, and achieved many impressive results.

But as the association continued to grow, the dragon slayer turned into the evil dragon. For many free creators, the association kidnapped them through "political correctness". Not only did they force them to join, but they also charged various fees, making the creators, whose income was already unstable, miserable.

They also began to coerce record companies, forcing them to provide resources, and then used these resources to coerce practitioners, and finally reached the point where record companies dared not recruit or package people who were not members of the Practitioners Association. (End of this chapter)