Special forces soldier demobilization: Starting from the county government compound, a meteoric rise

In late autumn in the city, fallen leaves carpeted the streets outside the red walls with gold.

In that ancient and solemn council hall, an appointment ceremony that would change the fate of the nation for the next century was underway, without media flashes or lengthy speeches from leaders.

Only the leaders, and dozens of top figures from the military, government, and scientific research systems.

Liu Ming, dressed in a sharp dark Zhongshan suit, stood before the enormous Nine Provinces Star River Map. His excessively youthful face formed a striking visual contrast with the white-haired bigwigs present. However, the composure and domineering aura emanating from his deep, abyss-like eyes made everyone understand that this young man was truly deserving of his position.

"Comrade Liu Ming."

The leader personally handed him a document stamped with a top-secret seal, his tone more solemn than ever before.

"From today onwards, you are the chief commander of the national science and technology strategy. You will not be subject to any department's control and will be accountable only to the council. The technological breakthrough battle for this land of Kyushu is entrusted to you."

Liu Ming accepted the documents with both hands, without saying any of the usual high-sounding polite words.

He simply straightened his back and, like a soldier about to enter the battlefield, gave a crisp and clean military salute.

"We guarantee the mission will be completed."

……

The first day of the new official's term.

Liu Ming didn't inspect those luxurious national-level laboratories, nor did he attend the welcome banquets attended by high-ranking officials. Instead, he locked himself in a top-secret underground command center without even windows.

Forty-eight hours in total.

When he pushed open the door to the command center, his eyes were bloodshot, but a fanatical smile curled at the corners of his mouth.

He was holding an encrypted USB drive in his hand. It contained what he, Ghost Hand, and several national treasure-level academicians had spent two sleepless nights compiling.

"Notify all heads of private and state-owned enterprises nationwide that possess chip fabrication capabilities, lithography machine R&D foundations, and related materials science expertise," Liu Ming ordered his exhausted secretary, Chen Momo, his voice hoarse yet full of strength.

"I have a meeting tomorrow morning at nine o'clock in the east lobby of the conference room."

"Director... oh no, Commander-in-Chief."

Chen swallowed hard, somewhat hesitant. "So urgent? Many of those big shots are out of town, or even overseas..."

I don't care where they are.

Liu Ming's eyes instantly turned cold. "Tell them that anyone who leaves before nine o'clock tomorrow morning is no longer in this line of work. I'd rather feed this piece of cake to dogs than give it to those good-for-nothings who can't even walk at night."

……

The next day, in the east lobby of the conference room.

This place brought together almost half of China's scientific and technological circles. Hundreds of well-dressed CEOs with assets of billions and white-haired research luminaries whispered among themselves, their expressions a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

They all knew that "Crazy Liu," who had ruthlessly purged the comprador class in the city, was definitely planning something big by summoning them here today.

At nine o'clock sharp, Liu Ming entered the venue on time, without any pleasantries or opening remarks.

He walked directly onto the stage and inserted the encrypted USB drive into the main control computer.

The huge screen lit up instantly.

At that moment, the hundreds of people in the audience seemed to be frozen in place, all gasping in unison. Several elderly academicians were so excited that they stood up from their chairs, their hands trembling uncontrollably, not even noticing their reading glasses fall to the ground.

The screen displays densely packed code, extremely complex circuit topology diagrams, and a complete set of technical drawings for the "Longyuan Chip," from its underlying logic to its manufacturing process!

"This...this is..."

Zhang Yiming, the head of China's largest chip foundry, pointed at the screen, his voice trembling with extreme shock.

"Commander Liu! Could this be... that legendary top-secret blueprint that bypassed all Western patent pools?"

"That's right."

Liu Ming stood on the stage, looking down at the group of elites who represented the future of Chinese technology, and slowly began to speak.

"This is 'Longyuan'."

"It was through countless efforts, and some even sacrificed their lives, that we managed to carve out a spark from a pile of corpses."

He pressed the mouse, and the blueprints on the big screen were instantly broken down into thousands of tiny modules.

"Today, I've called everyone here to announce just one thing."

Liu Ming took a deep breath, and his voice boomed like a great bell in the empty hall!

"I have decided to fully open-source the core underlying architecture of 'Dragon Abyss'!"

"boom--!!!"

One stone caused a thousand waves!

The entire audience erupted in cheers!

Open source?

Why would you give them this national treasure, which is powerful enough to change the world order and worth trillions of dollars, or even beyond monetary value, directly and free of charge?

Is this guy fucking insane?

You see, in the West, even a patented technology that's five years behind is tightly guarded, used to control China and reap huge profits. And Liu Ming is actually going to give them this top-of-the-line technology for free?

"Commander-in-Chief Liu! This won't do!"

A seasoned and composed academician from the Chinese Academy of Sciences was so anxious that he slapped his thigh repeatedly, exclaiming, "This is a core national secret! If it's made open source, what if it gets leaked..."

"Give way?"

Liu Ming sneered, interrupting the old academician, his eyes revealing an air of domineering arrogance.

"Even if we leaked it to them, would they understand it? Could they build it?"

"The underlying logic of this architecture is based on our unique Eastern I Ching algorithm, which is completely different from their binary Western thinking! If they want to copy it, they'll have to completely destroy their own foundation and start over!"

Liu Ming placed his hands on the podium, his gaze piercing.

"Comrades! Forefathers!"

"Why can the West strangle us? It's not because they have a genius, but because they have a vast, interconnected ecosystem of shared interests!"

"They have a hundred companies doing design, a thousand companies doing materials, and ten thousand companies doing packaging and testing!"

"And what about us? We're fighting alone!"

He pointed to the disassembled modules on the screen.

"No matter how powerful 'Longyuan' is, if it is just locked in a safe or handed over to a state-owned enterprise to build, it will forever remain just an exhibit."

"What I want is not just an exhibit. What I want is a forest! A vibrant and sustainable technological ecosystem that belongs to the people of our Dragon Kingdom!"

Liu Ming's voice grew increasingly passionate, inspiring everyone present.

"Zhang Yiming!"

He suddenly called out names.

"Here!" The billionaire CEO stood at attention instinctively, like a new recruit.

"You'll be in charge of the front-end wafer foundry. I'll license your technology, grant you tax exemptions, and whatever funding you need, I'll have Nangong Group's digital bank approve it directly! Within six months, I want to see an 80% yield rate! Can you do it?!"

"I guarantee I'll complete the mission! If I fail, I'll offer my head as punishment!" Zhang Yiming roared, his eyes red.

"Mr. Li Jianguo!" Liu Ming looked at another leading figure in materials science.

"exist!"

"The task of domestically producing photoresist is yours. You can choose any lab you like, and use any personnel you want. I want results in three months!"

"No problem! Even if I, an old man, were to die in the lab, I absolutely wouldn't hold anyone back!"

……

A task allocation process, which resembled a spoils-sharing ceremony but was also incredibly exciting, unfolded in the conference room.

Hundreds of companies, hundreds of sub-sectors.

From lithography machine light sources to etching solutions, from chip packaging to instruction set architecture.

Liu Ming was like a commander with unlimited firepower, disassembling the top-secret "Dragon Abyss" technology into countless ammunition and precisely distributing them to every "soldier" present.

No patent fees are charged.

Only military orders are accepted.

He used these extremely crazy and illogical methods to forcefully create a huge and resilient technology alliance on this land.

It's a big gamble.

A high-stakes gamble where fortune is at stake.

When the meeting ended, everyone left the hall in a hurry, carrying encrypted hard drives containing copied data, like generals who had received imperial edicts.

Liu Ming stood alone on the empty platform, looking at the "Longyuan" logo shimmering with golden light on the screen.

His back was soaked with sweat.

"Boss."

Ghost Hand came out from backstage and handed him a bottle of water.

"This move is too risky. What if some of these hundreds of companies are completely incompetent, or someone sells the technology privately..."

"There's no 'what if'."

Liu Ming unscrewed the bottle cap, took a big gulp of water, and looked cold and resolute.

"Those who dare to sign this pledge are all smart people; they know what the consequences of betraying me will be."

"Longya and Guoan personnel have already fully moved into these companies. Anyone who dares to make a move at this time will not even have a chance to regret it."

Liu Ming walked to the window and looked at the five-star red flag fluttering in the wind in the square outside.

"Besides, I don't have time to wait for them to grow up slowly."

"The winds from the West are getting stronger. The trade war is just the beginning. A real technology blockade will soon fall like an iron curtain. If we can't break through before they shut the door on us..."

"We would suffocate inside."

……

Six months later, a miracle worthy of being recorded in the annals of human technological history was born on the land of Kyushu.

In the past six months, China's entire semiconductor industry chain has been like an engine whose nuclear power has been completely ignited, bursting out at a terrifying speed.

With the open-source support of the "Longyuan" underlying architecture.

Add to that the massive, bottomless pool of funds that Nangong Yao was pouring into the company.

And Liu Ming's unreasonable, iron-fisted supervision.

Hundreds of technology companies and tens of thousands of researchers worked day and night in the labs. They broke down traditional competitive barriers and achieved unprecedented technology sharing and collaborative research.

On the very day that a certain Western hegemonic power officially announced that it would cut off the supply of all advanced chips below 14 nanometers to China, and was ready to see China make a fool of itself.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of China held a press conference open to the world.

Liu Ming did not appear at the press conference.

The person who came forward was an elderly academician with a full head of white hair.

With trembling hands, he held up a silicon wafer no bigger than a fingernail, shimmering with a ghostly blue light.

"Today, we announce to the world."

The old academician's voice was choked with emotion, but it was filled with a sense of triumphant pride.

"Based on the 'Longyuan' architecture, a 3-nanometer carbon-based wafer, entirely independently developed and manufactured in my country, has officially entered mass production!"

"Its computing speed and energy efficiency surpass those of the most advanced silicon-based chips currently on the market by 40%!"

"At the same time, the domestically produced extreme ultraviolet lithography machine has also been successfully lit up and rolled off the production line."

……

boom!

This news, like a Category 12 hurricane, swept across the globe in an instant!

Western media have fallen silent.

Tech stocks on Wall Street experienced a complete circuit breaker halt in the first minute of trading!

Those multinational giants who attempted to strangle China with technological blockades looked ashen-faced as they stared at the carbon-based chip on the screen that represented the future.

They know.

That era of their monopoly has come to a complete end.

Meanwhile, in that quiet office on the upper floor...

Liu Ming was holding an enamel teacup, watching the news broadcast.

The leader sat opposite him, looking at the young man who had single-handedly created this miracle, and laughed with satisfaction.

"Good job, kid! That's a real 'cornering overtake'!"

Liu Ming took a sip of tea, a faint smile playing on her lips.

"Boss, this is nothing."

He put down his teacup and looked out the window at the vast sky.

"Overtaking on a curve is just following behind someone else."

"What we need to do now is... change lanes and overtake."

"I want them to follow behind our cars and inhale our exhaust fumes for the rest of their lives."