Chapter 153 Being Targeted

The call in the early hours of the morning not only showed that the person was generous, but also showed that the matter was urgent.

The matter is definitely not a trivial matter. Cao Shen is also a CEO of a large company, so if you want to lead general business or routine work, you won't go to him directly.

Therefore, Cao Shen on the other end of the phone was ready.

After listening to what the other party said, Cao Shen thanked him repeatedly.

After hanging up the phone, I took a long breath.

I was targeted.

To be precise, he was targeted by the country.

This time it was not just the department in charge that was targeting Cao Shen last time, but several departments together.

Scientific and technological information, news, public opinion, finance...

What's more important is that this time someone is more dangerous than the key department.

An indescribable department in charge of "security".

Generally speaking, large companies will have public relations departments within them, including a group dedicated to government relations.

Cao Shen's company will obviously have such a department after it grows bigger. However, of course, this level of attention now cannot be solved by the people below.

Just as he was about to put the phone in his pocket, the phone rang again. This time it was Zhang Fei, an old friend.

Zhang Fei is now the leader of the department directly under Cao Shen, so it is probably inevitable that he called so late.

Cao Shen answered the phone, and sure enough, Zhang Fei had also received the news and asked Cao Shen to prepare for it.

Although it is the same thing, the positions and concerns of each department are different.

Everyone said their own things, Cao Shen couldn't put together the whole picture and had a headache.

At this moment, the phone rang again.

Cao Shen took a look and saw that it was an encrypted phone call!

Xiao Gang!

He picked up the answer decisively: "Boss Xiao!"

Yes, at this time, the one who has the ability to piece together complete information is Boss Xiao!

There was some noise on the other end of the phone, and Xiao Gang was a little depressed when he spoke:

"I'm on the plane back from the United States. You get ready and I'll take you there tomorrow.

I have already understood the matter first and coordinated it.

Each department has different interests in you now. I have evaluated their needs and they should be within the range that you can accept.

However, I suggest that you can also mention some conditions that are beneficial to the company's development and technological progress.

Although your proposal may not be approved, it is a strategy. "

Of course Cao Shen understood Xiao Gang's strategy. If Cao Shen met the other party's request but did not mention conditions, it would be considered "obeying the organization's arrangements."

If the conditions are set, the degree and the overall rhythm are well grasped, it will naturally be a good thing if the other party agrees. If there is no promise, then it is just a favor.

This favor has weight!

Cao Shen responded. Of course Xiao Gang knew that with Cao Shen's intelligence, he would be able to figure it out naturally, so he continued:

"The more troublesome thing is that the department responsible for security, your search engine, YouXin, image recognition, these technologies involve a large amount of data, and they believe that the technology itself is also uncontrollable.

So you should understand what their concerns are.

Also, some of your technologies are open source, which will also become the focus of this interview. "Xiao Gang's tone was also very helpless. It can be imagined that he must have spent a lot of effort to mediate.

Cao Shen understood.

First of all, he does have a lot of data in his hands. Search engines run all over the Internet, Youxin data is close to individuals, and Tongfubao also has payment data.

Frankly speaking, the higher-ups definitely want this data.

Before these tools existed, the higher-ups didn’t know what everyone was doing. The Internet has made everything more convenient and more transparent for everyone.

Then, when the technologies in Cao Shen's hands, such as recognition, search engines, and NLP, are developed to the extreme, a large number of applications will be born.

Cao Shen's search engine is just the tip of the iceberg.

The development direction of these technologies, to be precise, the application direction must be controllable.

Technology ownership must be controllable.

To put it more bluntly, Cao Shen's behavior must be controllable.

Therefore, Xiao just said that the trouble is this "security" department.

Finally reaching this point, Cao Shen sighed silently.

This was something he expected, and that was why he made friends with key departments, Zhang Fei, and relied on Boss Xiao.

Cao Shen knew that if he was engaged in technology, whatever he wanted to do would come to this step sooner or later.

But when things happen, I still have some emotions.

After all, in his previous life, he had been "controllable" for the rest of his life.

Cao Shen continued to discuss countermeasures with Xiao Gang for a long time on the phone, mainly because Xiao Gang was saying that Cao Shen was listening.

This time, Xiao Gang seemed to be a little different. He briefly talked about things that Cao Shen found sensitive in the past.

The internal situation, structure, respective strategies, goals, relationships, etc.

Let Cao Shen finally have a general understanding of the real core senior management of Dongguo.

Although Cao Shen is still a little confused, why did Xiao Gang reveal so much at this time?

The voice sounded very tired. Could it be a catharsis of physical and mental exhaustion?

It’s not like that. Boss Xiao doesn’t look like this kind of person...

After returning home with the system, Mr. Cao sat alone in the room again and carefully reviewed the situations he might encounter after dawn.

Beiji is now in ambush, and the weather is extremely sultry.

It rained at noon, but it didn't rain thoroughly. The steaming heat on the ground was wrapped in humidity and made people feel stuffy.

Before going out today, Cao Shen read today's important news as he did every day.

This is his "vigilance" to this world. He always pays attention to what is happening. The mastery of information is an indispensable "sense of security" for Cao Shen.

Unless he is very busy, this is his daily routine "homework".

The most eye-catching news for Cao Shen today is that "Neumann" was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason and will be taken to Lanlisia Prison to spend the rest of his life.

In this regard, "Neumann" did not appeal.

Because this trial involves major secrets of the United States, it is not an open trial.

According to the news, "Neumann" himself did not even hire a lawyer, and applied for "self-defense".

Too fast!

It was only ten days before "Neumann" was extradited from Russia to the United States, and he was sentenced!

This shows how eager the US authorities are to deal with "Neumann".

"Neumann" is a legendary figure, and Cao Shen is very interested in this world.

He is the founder of this world's version of "WikiLeaks", but here it is not called WikiLeaks, but "Landing Secrets".

In addition, "Neumann" has also exposed the secrets of the United States on public surveillance and revealed the high-level "email gate" incident. He can be said to be the "Snowden" of this world.

In addition, it is rumored that he is also the originator of the "dark web" peer-to-peer encryption routing technology and the founder of "computing power currency".

When "Neumann" was captured in Russia, everyone expressed serious doubts about his true identity.

It is believed that the US authorities could not catch the real person at all, so they just made a fool of themselves. And all the "crimes" were blamed on this person.

It can be said that almost no one in the public believes that the real "Neumann" has been arrested.

It is even believed that "Neumann" is not a person, but an organization.

There are indeed many doubts about this matter. For example, "Neumann" has never shown his face since his arrest. Even when he was extradited back to the United States a few days ago and the media reported it extensively, he was covered from head to toe with black cloth.

This caused more ridicule, and people believed that the United States was directing and acting by itself.

What is somewhat puzzling is that Russia regarded "Neumann" as a "secret criminal" and had already "asylum" him and arranged citizenship. It is unknown how the two major countries negotiated, but in the end "Neumann" was extradited back to the United States.

This is a big case, and it has also caused many "international human rights" lawyers who want to gain reputation to volunteer to represent for free.

But "Neumann" did not hire anyone, perhaps because he knew that the US authorities were very determined to catch him, and it would be of little use to hire him.

And Lanlisia Prison is where the United States detains super-serious criminals and special criminals. It can be said to be the prison with the strictest security level in the United States.

Cao Shen shook his head. It was just a report claim. Who knows where such a "talent" will be taken.

Technically speaking, "Neumann" is undoubtedly a top bull.

And being able to design something like "computing power coin" is not only about technical depth and breadth, but also requires a lot of economics, finance and sociology knowledge.

Frankly speaking, if Cao Shen had not seen "Bitcoin", such a product would really not be figured out.

The research on Bitcoin has undoubtedly brought Cao Shen a major breakthrough in technology and products.

For Cao Shen, it is the door to a new world.

Even if the "computing power coin" was not made by "Neumann", just because he can break through the layers of security in the United States and get all kinds of information, this guy's information security attack and defense level is second to none.

What a pity...

The driver opened the door of the back seat and Cao Shen got in.

The last time I saw Boss Xiao was a year ago.

After a year, Boss Xiao's hair has turned a lot whiter.

His head was resting on the headrest of the seat, closing his eyes to rest.

Seeing Cao Shen coming in, he raised his eyelids and smiled:

"You are here, and you are quite energetic. You have changed a lot."

As he said that, he sat up straight, stretched out his hand and patted Cao Shen on the back:

"Young man, you are very motivated!"

Xiao Gang's original aura was extremely tough and compelling. This time, Cao Shen actually felt more "kind".

Or to be more precise, Xiao Gang originally had a kind of spirit, but at this moment this support seemed to have been lost a lot.

It was as if the top pole supporting the tent was cut off, and all the curtains fell loose.

I don’t know if it was because of the increase in white hair on his head and the fatigue on his face, but at this moment Cao Shen felt more that the other party was not Boss Xiao, but an elder, gentle and warm.

Well, it can’t be said to be an elder. Although Cao Shen is only in his early twenties, Cao Shen is a few years older.

So, like an elder brother!

“Not bad!” Cao Shen also grinned: “Thanks to Boss Xiao for helping.”

Xiao Gang waved his hand a little slowly: “It should be, as long as it is useful.”

The car drove west and drove into an inconspicuous residential area after leaving the fifth ring road.

The buildings are all two-story and three-story buildings. They look a bit old and look very ordinary.

But the layers of security checks are not covered. Even if Boss Xiao has a special pass, he still did a routine check.

Presumably, without a pass, this place can’t be entered at all.

Cao Shen opened his phone and saw that the navigation software showed that this was just a residential area, with Guangming Community Building 102 and 103 written on it.

But when he asked the system to open the high-precision map, he saw the exact markings.

Including the name, and details of each floor of each office building, and what each room is used for.

After getting off the car, Cao Shen and Xiao Gang were led into a two-story building and sat in the meeting room on the first floor.

Drinking tea, people have not arrived yet.

After half an hour, people finally came in one after another, followed by assistants holding tea cups, which were really the old-fashioned tea cups with handles and lids.

A spacious meeting room finally sat 26 people.

This time, no one introduced themselves.

Fortunately, Cao Shen has a system with built-in recognition and search, which allows people to match the information mentioned by Xiao Gang one by one.

At this glance, almost all key departments about national economy and people's livelihood, economic development, finance, national security, science and technology, information... are here today.

Cao Shen also sighed that this time, the lineup is really big.

The apparent host of this meeting is still the old man Cao Shen met last time. After all, in terms of the industry, he is Cao Shen's direct leader.

He was the only one who smiled at Cao Shen and nodded to Cao Shen as a greeting when he sat down.

On the other hand, everyone's attitude was different when they saw Xiao Gang and when they met Cao Shen. They all greeted Xiao Gang and some even exchanged a few words.

This made Cao Shen more certain that Xiao Gang was an insider and his superior had a higher position than those present.

Xiao Gang patted Cao Shen's hand, indicating that he should be relieved.

Cao Shen nodded in response.

The old man glanced around the conference room last time, as if to confirm that everyone was present, and slowly spoke to Cao Shen:

"This time, I invited Mr. Cao to come here mainly to learn more about your products and technologies, especially the future development direction. In addition, there are some key things to discuss to see if we can cooperate in development."

This is a subtle statement, Cao Shen nodded:

"Thank you for the country's attention to our company, especially the attention to new technologies.

In fact, I have always wanted to report to the leaders, but I have been preparing new products recently, and the time is really tight. Moreover, the new products are still in the development process and have not yet taken shape. I am embarrassed to report to everyone with a semi-finished product."

The old man sat up straight when he heard it:

"New product? Isn't it the search engine? Or have you made something new!"

Cao Shen received: "Search engine, that has been released. Although it will continue to be developed and maintained in the future, it is already a finished product.

The current one is still in the stage of technical research and preliminary verification."

The old man's eyes lit up, this kid!

He is so fast in technology!

This wave after wave, it is really a rare talent!

Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a middle-aged man with a square face and dark nasolabial folds:

"Minister Yu! Don't focus on the new ones, let's talk about the ones that have already come out first.

There are so many of us here just to sort out the current problems first."

Old man Yu nodded and raised his hand to him: "Okay, ask! Ask!"