Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 457 Corporate Anti-Corruption and Leakage of Information

During the Spring Festival, Xu Shenxue also had a rare holiday. He stayed at home with his family for several consecutive days. Of course, it was a holiday, but in fact it was more like working from home.

After all, he has so many companies under his control, and a lot of things happen every day.

At the same time, different countries have different holidays. For example, during the Spring Festival, domestic companies are on long vacation, but many overseas branches are still working as usual.

So almost every day a large number of things come to Xu Shenxue from all over the world, and many of them are important and urgent matters that need to be dealt with by Xu Shenxue in a timely manner.

However, current communication technology is also convenient. Xu Shenxue can handle many things directly at home through the use of additional work notebooks and even tablet computers and other devices. He does not have to go to the company headquarters to handle them in person.

Xu Shenxue rested at home for many days and did not reappear at the company headquarters until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. At this time, Zhiyun Group had not resumed work yet, and a large number of employees would not come to work until tomorrow.

Of course, this is only limited to ordinary employees. Some senior managers have already arrived at the company to work early, and many of them even only take a short break for two or three days during the New Year.

These senior managers are also very busy. At the same time, as senior managers of the company, there is actually no such thing as vacation. If there is anything, they have to deal with it in a timely manner, even if it is late at night.

It’s just that they usually take turns on duty.

By today, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, those who were on leave had returned. At the same time, while a large number of middle and low-level employees had not yet returned to the company, Xu Shenxue also convened a relatively large-scale high-level meeting.

In addition to the group's senior vice president and vice president, senior managers at the executive president and executive vice president levels were also called in.

Of course, this kind of expanded high-level meeting is mainly for everyone to meet, and then Xu Shenxue and several senior vice presidents will give speeches. They don’t talk about specific business or strategy, but more about some more macro things, company culture, and management issues.

It is worth noting that one thing was also reported in this expanded management meeting. That is, during the Spring Festival, a group executive president was investigated by the company's internal anti-corruption agency. After the facts were ascertained, the labor contract was terminated and civil liability was pursued, and the case was handed over to the judicial authorities.

In addition to the crime of bribery of non-public officials, the charges also include crimes such as infringement of commercial secrets!

If nothing unexpected happens, the fate that awaits this former executive will be years in prison, fines and sky-high civil compensation.

Over the past few years, Zhiyun Group or other companies under Xu Shenxue have sent a number of managers who illegally infringed on the company's interests to jail every year.

The reason why this was specifically mentioned in the expanded meeting before resuming work this year was mainly because the former managers who committed the crime this time were of a relatively high level, all of them were executive presidents of the group, and one level above them were vice presidents of the group, who could travel in private jets, and if sent overseas, they would appear in local financial news every few days.

This heavyweight executive, who was already a candidate for the group's core executives, accepted huge bribes and leaked business secrets, causing the company to suffer huge losses. Xu Shenxue believed that this was a very serious matter.

He thought it was necessary to teach a lesson to the "CEOs" present, to let them know how serious the consequences of damaging the interests of the company would be... Don't think that just because you are not a public official, but just a private company manager, you can do whatever you want and have thoughts that you shouldn't have.

In fact, the investigation and execution capabilities of the companies under his control are stronger than those of institutional companies...

The internal anti-corruption department and security department of the company under Xu Shenxue are actually brother departments and cooperate closely with each other.

They also have a large number of experienced judicial transferees and can use a variety of advanced technologies.

In particular, it is connected to the 'Group Security Big Data Analysis System' built by the security department.

The system will analyze all employees to a certain extent. Based on the employees' income level, family background, consumption level, and movement trajectory, it can easily screen out some potential suspects and then conduct in-depth investigations.

This time, the traitor of the group's executive president was caught with the help of this big data analysis system. The system found that the target's consumption level had increased significantly in the past year. Although the other party had done a lot of cover-ups and did not have too many large expenses, the big data analysis still showed that the other party's consumption level in the past year was abnormal compared with previous years.

After handing the money over to investigators for in-depth investigation, it was discovered that this man actually had a large amount of assets abroad, which obviously exceeded his income level.

What else is there to say? Just investigate and collect evidence.

A few years ago, after collecting enough evidence, we called the police and handed the case over to the judiciary.

Although the person was caught, Xu Shenxue also became more vigilant. As the many companies under his name grew larger and longer in time, some problems of many large companies have gradually been exposed. Xu Shenxue could tolerate the problems of other large companies, such as their numerous degrees of efficiency and reduced focus.

There is no way. A large enterprise like Zhiyun Group with hundreds of thousands of employees cannot be as flexible as ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises. It also has all the bad habits that other large companies have.

All Xu Shenxue could do was to make regular adjustments and sort out things, try his best to improve and maintain a barely acceptable efficiency.

However, corruption and the disclosure of business secrets cannot be tolerated, and these things are also the main targets of Xu Shenxue's anti-corruption agency.

But Xu Shenxue also knew that it was impossible to completely prevent such things. After all, no one is perfect... What's more, Zhiyun Group is a huge company with an annual revenue of more than 400 billion US dollars, and its various expenses are also huge.

Many of the seemingly insignificant projects that cannot even be included in high-level discussion meetings are actually worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even millions of dollars.

A huge enterprise with huge revenue and expenditure is bound to be full of various interests. Even though Zhiyun Group has a very efficient management and financial management system, there are always some problems. There will always be people who find loopholes and try to use their power for their own benefit.

Zhiyun Group transfers a large number of employees who have committed crimes to judicial institutions every year. However, in the past, they were concentrated on grassroots employees and middle and low-level management staff. As for senior management personnel, there were relatively few of them because of their extremely high income and high social status.

For example, people like Gu Zhiming and Ji Chenghe have a net worth of hundreds of billions. Let alone achieving financial freedom, they have so much money that they cannot spend it all in ten lifetimes. These top executives pursue more things like the value of life.

Of course, there is no chance to cause trouble... All senior managers who are truly in the decision-making level are the key "protection" targets of the security department.

If you are a senior manager involved in some sensitive projects, not only will the company's security department protect you, but external secret agencies will also keep an eye on you. They don't care what kind of company you are involved in corruption, but they are afraid that you will leak state secrets...

Yes, that’s right. Many corporate secrets within Zhiyun Group are also state secrets… Sometimes some people think they are only leaking information about the business entities within Zhiyun Group, but they don’t know that they are also committing the crime of leaking state secrets.

For example, the core underlying algorithm of the artificial intelligence used by Zhiyun Group is classified as a state secret. Even Zhiyun Group itself has no right to disclose it to foreign countries without approval. Another example is Project X, which is an artificial intelligence platform for the sixth-generation manned and unmanned fighter jets. Even among state secrets, it belongs to the top few. Not to mention the specific technology, even the existence of the project itself is a top secret.

There are also some other defense projects, etc., each and every one of them is top secret.

This is also the reason why so many spies are keeping an eye on Zhiyun Group... Ordinary people only know that Zhiyun Group is a company that makes mobile phones and chips, but people at the top basically know that Zhiyun Group also undertakes a large number of research and development tasks for national defense projects.

Of course, everyone tacitly agreed not to say anything about this...it would have a bad impact.

For example, if the other party announced this kind of news, well, the grassroots people in foreign countries also know that Zhiyun Group is involved in a large number of national defense projects, so should it be sanctioned?

If we don’t impose sanctions, those fools will clamor... Especially in the past two years, various sanctions have been very popular. Once it is revealed that Zhiyun Group is engaged in various national defense projects, there will definitely be many people clamoring for sanctions against Zhiyun.

But sanctions... Do you think Xu Shenxue is dead? All kinds of counterattacks will come in minutes, and then the conflict will be further intensified.

Xu Shenxue and the American consortiums have been fighting and quarreling over the years, but they were always talking and fighting at the same time, and they did reach agreements in some areas. The mutual compromise in the field of EUV lithography machines is a typical example.

So you can fight, but you can't completely tear each other apart and bring the conflict to the surface, because that won't end well...

If a fight takes place in private, the impact and scope can be controlled, but if it takes place in public... the impact will be too bad, and it is easy for uncontrollable situations to occur.

So the other consortium had known what Xu Shenxue was doing for a long time, but had never announced it to the public.

As for Xu Shenxue, he naturally wouldn't look for trouble, and he was also secretive for the sake of confidentiality.

In the end, the current situation has arisen. Xu Shenxue's companies, such as Zhiyun Group, Hailan Automobile, and Xiannvshan Holdings, appear to be ordinary commercial companies that sell civilian products. This is also the perception of ordinary people.

But in fact, these companies are heavily involved in various national defense projects!

Xiannvshan Holdings even provides core components for military engines and core body materials for the sixth-generation UAV and manned aircraft projects.

HaiLan Automobile provides a lot of sensors, especially laser radar and ultrasonic radar sensors for many low-altitude small UAV projects. HaiLan Automobile's technical level in these sensor fields is world-class.

Not to mention Zhiyun Group, which is responsible for the entire X project and is also responsible for the research and development of many other core systems, such as the "battlefield artificial intelligence analysis and decision-making system", which has entered the small-scale trial deployment stage.

This thing is actually an oversized artificial intelligence system. On the surface, it seems to be just a combat commander and some monitors, but in fact the main body of the system is a server array deployed with tens of thousands of AI series graphics cards.

It feels a bit like Skynet in science fiction novels... Of course, not that sci-fi.

The design goal of this system is to combine the main system and the frontier distributed system to command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of basic combat units... and this kind of command is to issue orders directly to the most basic combat units: a tank, an aircraft, an artillery piece, an infantry squad, or even a certain infantryman!
If necessary, it can even guide a self-propelled artillery to continue fighting, instructing the self-propelled artillery to constantly change its route for maneuvering, and then fire and fight, as well as replenish, repair, etc. The artillerymen only need to listen directly to the mission orders, go where you are told to go, wait when you are told to wait, and fire when you are told to fire.

Even during the mission, they didn't know what targets they had hit, how many crises they had avoided, or how many enemies the air defense units or fighter jets in the computer room had intercepted.

They just have to follow orders.

Of course, the prerequisite is that these combat units are also equipped with corresponding subsystems that can receive and report information.

All of the above are still simple.

Most importantly, if you want this system to fully unleash its capabilities, you must have extremely powerful information collection capabilities.

Information is the core factor that determines the capabilities of the system!

The reason why this system is still in the trial deployment stage is that the system exists, but the information collection and perception capabilities are not enough... According to the plan, this thing belongs to the next generation of battlefield analysis and decision-making system, which requires the support of a large number of various AI unmanned combat units and tens of thousands of earth-orbit communication satellites in the sky, and a sixth-generation fighter system with high stealth and strong reconnaissance and strike capabilities.

An artificial intelligence model and server hardware alone are actually of little use!

This battlefield analysis and decision-making system, like the sixth-generation aircraft system, is a strategic-level project for future wars and has a very high level of confidentiality.

There are many similar projects, and today's Zhiyun Group is naturally highly wary of possible leaks.

At today's meeting, Xu Shenxue specifically mentioned the relevant cases to remind the senior management present not to treat Zhiyun as an ordinary company and think they can do whatever they want... otherwise they will easily be sent to jail.

After a high-level meeting before the start of work, a large number of companies resumed work in full the next day.

Zhiyun Group is no exception. Xu Shenxue and many other senior executives are distributing red envelopes to employees who have returned from vacation at the foot of each office building.

Although the red envelope is not a large amount, receiving a red envelope is a good thing in itself and can make people happy!

After receiving the red envelopes, a large number of employees started to work.

Xu Shenxue also discussed the spring press conference with senior managers including Gu Zhiming and Ji Chenghe in a small conference room outside his office.

It is now late February, and next month Zhiyun Group will hold its annual spring press conference.

The spring conference is also a very important conference. Zhiyun Group will release A series mobile phones, C series mobile phones, SX series mobile phones, tablets, smart watches and other smart terminal products at the spring conference.

If all these smart terminal products are added together, their revenue and profits will not be a small amount, so Xu Shenxue and others must pay attention to it!

The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss and finalize some matters regarding the spring press conference!
(End of this chapter)