The first day of May.
China's workers were celebrating the Labor Day holiday.
However, for the telecommunications industry, it was like an earthquake.
The No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine optical cable project, which was originally favored by the industry, was stalled due to the lack of cooperation from the three major telecommunications companies in China. On the other hand, SubCom's stock price plummeted because the order worth tens of billions of yuan couldn't be fulfilled.
No one understood why the three major telecommunications companies in China would make such a decision.
Actually, it wasn't just outsiders who didn't understand. Most of the people in the three major telecommunications companies didn't understand why either …
Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
Lu Zhou was sitting at his desk in the dean's office. He was meticulously drawing something on a piece of white paper.
Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door.
Lu Zhou stopped writing and put the unfinished blueprint into his drawer. He then looked at the door and spoke.
"The door is unlocked, come in."
The door opened, and a very distinctive face with crisscrossed wrinkles appeared behind the door.
"Academician Lu is still so dedicated." Wang Zhengfei walked into the office and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to take a break for a few days?"
"When I'm not busy, I rest every day. When I'm busy, it's the same." Lu Zhou looked at Wang Zhengfei, who was sitting on the sofa in the office. He smiled and said, "Aren't you the same?"
Wang Zhengfei smiled and waved his hand.
"Me? Haha, I'm not as ignorant as you. I'm much more relaxed now. I might even retire in a few years. "
Compared to a few years ago, Huawei was facing a much better situation.
From carbon-based chips to HV-1 helmets, to the popularity of 5G technology, Huawei's 1 + N strategy had begun to show results. From the upstream of the industry chain to the end of the downstream, this semiconductor giant had almost completed the entire industry chain. There was nothing that could stop its rise.
At this point, even without Lu Zhou, Huawei could continue to develop steadily. It could even be said that after he left, the entire group might shine with greater vitality and go further on the road to becoming stronger.
Because of this, he had been planning to find a suitable opportunity to retire from the frontline.
If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to show his respect for Academician Lu, he would have left this meeting to his chosen successor.
"I originally planned to go on vacation today, but I heard from my secretary that you had something to discuss with me, so I immediately took the maglev train from Shanghai." Wang Zhengfei poured himself a cup of tea and said with a smile, "I wonder what kind of project it is that made Academician Lu, who has never been interested in business, so interested."
Hearing Wang Zhengfei's words, Lu Zhou's face made a helpless expression.
In fact, even now, he still had little interest in business matters. He was too lazy to get involved in this matter.
However, this task was personally ordered by the Great Elder, so he had no choice but to shoulder this task.
Actually, judging from the envious expressions on other people's faces, Lu Zhou could guess that this mission was definitely not as simple as it seemed. There was no doubt that this mission would bring him a lot of benefits.
In a sense, this was a reward from the country for his meritorious service, just like the stock of East Asia Power.
For the country, money was just a number. The development of society could not be measured by the amount of money. Anyway, this money was going to be earned by whoever earned it, so it was better to let the people who earned it earn the money.
However, Lu Zhou didn't want to earn that much money himself. After all, the patents of quantum computers and quantum communication technology were enough for him. Running a submarine optical cable was not attractive to him.
Therefore, he thought of a compromise, which was to get more people on board.
On the one hand, he could leave the troublesome work to others.
On the other hand, he could avoid being hated by others.
After all, this was a trans-Pacific submarine optical cable, the lifeblood of the future global information network.
It was too dangerous for one person to have this kind of thing in his hands …
"CEO Wang, are you interested in the submarine optical cable project?"
"Submarine optical cable?"
Wang Zhengfei paused for a second. His first reaction was a little strange.
However, he quickly realized that there might be some incredible news behind this sentence. Therefore, he looked at Lu Zhou and asked curiously.
"Is there any news from Academician Lu?"
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and picked something that he could say.
"We plan on building a trans-Pacific submarine optical cable."
Hearing this, Wang Zhengfei frowned.
"Didn't you say we're not going to build it?"
"That's not accurate enough." Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "Accurately speaking, we're not going to build a backward one. Instead, we're going to build a more advanced one. "
Wang Zhengfei rubbed his chin and spoke.
"I don't quite understand what you mean, how about … you be more direct? What do you need us to do? "
Seeing the confused expression on CEO Wang's face, Lu Zhou couldn't help but have a headache. He didn't know how to explain this matter.
However, just as he was having a headache, he suddenly realized something.
Wait a minute, why do I have to worry about this?
This is like picking up money from the ground, it shouldn't be!
Why would I ask someone to pick up money from the ground?
Lu Zhou was too lazy to explain. He spoke straightforwardly.
"In recent years, our country has launched a marine power strategy and set the development goal of building a marine economic power. With this goal in mind, strengthening the submarine optical cable industry plays a pivotal role. "
Wang Zhengfei: "…?"
Lu Zhou didn't care about the dumbfounded expression on the old man's face. He continued to speak.
He continued, "However, because of the high technical threshold of the industry and the high degree of capital concentration, the global submarine cable market is basically monopolized by America's SubCom, Japan's NEC, and Europe's Alcatel-Lucent. There are only a few domestic companies competing. If this continues, it will be difficult for us to establish our own advantage in the information industry.
"Therefore, the Central Government hopes that outstanding private entrepreneurs like us can set an example —"
"I understand." Wang Zhengfei immediately interrupted Lu Zhou and said, "How much do you want?"
Lu Zhou looked at the nervous expression on the old man's face and paused for a second.
His intuition told him that this guy most likely misunderstood the meaning of his words. However, because things were going too smoothly, even though he knew this guy might have misunderstood, he didn't have the heart to correct him …
Lu Zhou decided to pretend that he didn't notice and continued to speak.
"The budget hasn't been worked out yet. In short, the Central Government hopes that we will pay our own money to integrate the small and medium-sized domestic companies operating in the submarine optical cable business and build a submarine optical cable from the east coast of China to the west coast of the United States. "
Originally, Lu Zhou thought that if he wanted to pull Boss Wang onto his side without revealing his secrets, he would have to spend a lot of time and effort.
However, he did not expect that Wang Zhengfei would wave his hand and speak without the slightest hesitation as soon as he finished speaking.
"Don't worry, money is not a problem! Is there anything else you need? "
This guy …
He must have misunderstood something, right?
"Uh, one more thing … Mr. Wang should know a lot of outstanding entrepreneurs. I feel that if there are more people sharing the burden, everyone will have to fork out less money. "
"Don't worry! Leave this to me, I'll contact them! "
Lu Zhou couldn't help but laugh when he saw that CEO Wang was acting like he was going to hell.
I'm making money with him, but why does it feel like … I'm fleecing CEO Wang?
I can't talk about quantum computers for the time being.
It's not like I can't talk about quantum communication. Anyway, it will be made public in two days, but it doesn't seem to make any sense. Most people didn't know about quantum computers, and only a few people knew that network information security was facing serious challenges.
To put it bluntly, without the threat of quantum computers, there would be no need for quantum communication.
Even though he didn't have to explain anything, out of his conscience, Lu Zhou thought for a bit and comforted him.
"Don't worry too much, we definitely won't lose money. The technology and initiative are in our hands. I promise this is a profitable business."
Wang Zhengfei smiled bitterly at Lu Zhou's words. Obviously, he didn't take Lu Zhou's words to heart.
In fact, losing money wasn't a big deal. Making so much money wasn't a big deal at all.
However, compared to the problem of whether or not it was a loss, he was more worried about whether or not the optical cable across the Pacific Ocean could be repaired.
Huawei had been in the submarine optical cable business before, and he knew better than anyone how big this thing was.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have sold Huawei Ocean along with the submarine optical cable business a few years ago.
"Can you tell me the truth? Just how confident are we?"
Lu Zhou raised two fingers.
Wang Zhengfei had a dignified look on his face.
"Only 20%?"
Lu Zhou shook his head.
"I mean, the technology generation gap.
"We're about two generations ahead."
Almost instantly.
The entire office went quiet …
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