Chapter 4 The joining of new people
The interview process that started on the second day was not as smooth as the recruitment of ordinary units. There were only more than 40 candidates from all over the world, and it took the organizing committee three full days. This is because the cross-scoring principle set by the Preparatory Committee has greatly increased the workload of each reviewer and the corresponding time. The second reason is that taking into account the principle of confidentiality, the Preparatory Committee Is it possible to show the candidates evidence from another time and space during this interview? It is indeed a technical job to fool people into lameness purely by relying on words. What's more, it is not just a lameness problem now, it is You want to trick people into rebelling in another world. Fortunately, the five-member organizing committee is full of talkers. Whether they are businessmen Tao Donglai and Bai Kesi, university lecturer Ning Qi, or American lawyer Gu Kai, they are all very good at talking. Even Yan Chujie was in I have also worked part-time as a company instructor in the army for two years, and my ability to do ideological work is not limited.
It is also worth mentioning that during the interview process, the organizing committee noticed that nearly 90% of the candidates almost asked the same question with different attitudes: After time travel, will the organizing committee interfere with one's marital status?
Everyone knows the subtext of this question, so no matter whether the questioner is secretive or upright, the organizing committee, which has already prepared for this and unified its approach, made a solemn promise to all candidates who participated in the interview: A wife will have it, and a concubine will have it too, like loli training and maid training, these things can be had when they should be!
Of course, there are also some serious people wearing masks who have expressed doubts about this, and the organizing committee also made a corresponding explanation: Although the purpose of our time travel is to overthrow the old society and build a new life, the older generation has also taught us a long time ago , the foreign is used for China, the past is used for the present, take its essence and discard its dross. For some old systems that are beneficial to maintaining social stability and unity, and beneficial to the physical and mental health of the people across the country, what should be preserved should be preserved, and overthrowing everything is not the preparatory committee the real purpose of the meeting.
Perhaps thanks to this boost, the final interview result was much better than the organizing committee expected. Twenty-three of the forty-seven candidates who came to Guangzhou for the interview decided directly. Twelve people expressed their intention to participate in the plan, while another twelve people said they would make a decision after careful consideration, and seven people chose to withdraw due to personal reasons. The remaining few people insisted that the organizing committee was simply a liar, and that the time-travel plan without any evidence might be a new brainwashing trick created by the MLM group. Had Tao Donglai not told the candidates early on that the organizing committee would not charge anyone any fees, and that all candidates who came to participate in the interview would be fully reimbursed for their round-trip travel expenses, the few who were skeptical would have It’s hard to say whether the candidate will choose to call the police.
After the interview activities, Ning Qi, Yan Chujie and several candidates who passed the interview left Guangzhou and returned to their own cities to complete the resignation procedures. Bai Kesi suggested that those who are qualified should temporarily take a leave of absence without pay, so as to minimize the social attention caused by leaving the job. There are still about a year left before the time travel operation. One of the most important things for all participants is to avoid attracting the attention of others during this period. The lower profile the better. Even if you want to sell your house or car after you go back, don't make it public. After discussion by the Preparatory Committee, Bai Kesi's suggestion was confirmed as standard operating procedure. Even Yan Chujie, who initially wanted to go back and resign directly, finally agreed to obey the organization's decision.
After the interview, the Preparatory Committee immediately tasted the benefits of adding new people to share the work, and candidates with excellent abilities began to come into the Preparatory Committee's sight, such as the IT man Meng He who had recently joined the Preparatory Committee.
Some of the candidates who participated in the interview chose to take the initiative to send their personal information to the organizing committee via email before coming, and Meng He was one of them. The content is as follows:
Meng He, male, 27 years old
Current occupation and marital status: Professional coder
Personal expertise: flashing mobile phones, disassembling computers, installing systems, photos, cutting videos, and hacking routers. Winner of three consecutive titles as the most popular male master in a certain city's Pacific Computer City.
Hopes and suggestions for time travel: Kill all the boar skins! Rebuild the Han Dynasty!
After the organizing committee saw this very brief self-introduction, they almost all concluded that this was a funny person with a strong imperial-Han ideological tendency and a habit of self-complaining. For such a person with obvious political leanings, the organizing committee The committee didn't like it very much, but the appearance of Meng He gave them a moderate surprise.
The entire interview process was actually lackluster. Menghe seized every opportunity to try to persuade the organizing committee to accept his imperial-Han ideological propaganda. However, perhaps because of the otaku nature of the profession of coder, Menghe’s verbal expression ability was really limited and he was unable to do so. Comparing himself with the five-man group of preparatory committee's verbal abusers, it wasn't until the end of the interview that Menghe showed two things that made the preparatory committee look at him with admiration again.
The first is a standardized database. Menghe wrote a data collection program that allows the server to automatically collect specified data from the Internet and organize and archive it according to certain classification rules. This is undoubtedly the same as Ningqi's previous suggestion. Coincidentally, this method of automatically collecting data can also greatly reduce the workload of relevant people when collecting and organizing data. Moreover, with the foundation of this database, material preparation work can also be combined with it, and the progress of preparation work in a certain industry can be easily queried through the database, which can greatly improve work efficiency despite the current shortage of manpower. This is also The issues that the Preparatory Committee urgently needs to solve at the moment.
But according to Menghe's own introduction, in fact, his starting point for creating this database was not that great and upright. He made this database when he had nothing to do. The original purpose was to build a database of special film and television works that was as complete as possible, so that people who traveled through time could continue to learn from teachers conveniently when they arrived in another time and space. posture, there is no need to worry about the lack of information in your hard drive affecting the improvement of theoretical knowledge. This obscene reason was naturally criticized by the members of the preparatory committee who pride themselves on their integrity. However, the members also said that considering the overall situation and the physical and mental health of single people, the establishment of such a special data category is still very important. Necessarily, this work must be effectively grasped and put into practical application as soon as possible. Gu Kai, the fake foreign devil, even said that he could provide hundreds of original copies of European and American works in his collection to enrich the content of the database.
The second work Meng He presented was an encrypted forum. To enter the forum, one must be a member of the organizing committee or a candidate who has passed the interview and decided to join the time-travel operation. The layout of the forum is mainly composed of several major sections: announcement of resolutions of the preparatory committee, arrangements and progress of preparatory work, opinions and suggestions, and chatting. This can effectively solve some shortcomings in the communication link of the QQ group, and at the same time It can greatly improve the efficiency of preparatory work and also provide ordinary members with a public opinion channel to express their opinions publicly. It can be said that this is a measure that achieves multiple goals with one stone. Meng He said that if this forum works well, then you can consider continuing to use this method on the server of the main base after time travel to serve as a public opinion bridge for time travelers to exchange opinions.
These two works are not very difficult from a professional point of view, but what the organizing committee is interested in is the subjective initiative shown by Menghe. You must know that the organizing committee has never asked the candidates to make any decisions before the interview. Pre-class homework like this. Such a positive work attitude is exactly what the preparatory committee, which is currently short of major generals, needs, so Menghe also joined in like Ning Qi a few days ago and became a glorious member of the preparatory committee. Tao Donglai even asked Meng He to take the lead in setting up a new department to be responsible for information and data collection. Of course, Meng He was mainly responsible for technology, while Ning Qi was responsible for policy control. Menghe insisted on bargaining with the Preparatory Committee. In addition to the scope of work defined by the Preparatory Committee, he also won the communications department under his command. In the end, he forced the Preparatory Committee to pass his decision to name the new department " The bad taste of "Ministry of Information Industry" gave up. This ambition that was revealed from the beginning made Tao Donglai's hard-earned good impression of him plummet a lot. Menghe immediately posted the announcement of the grand establishment of the "Ministry of Information Industry" on an encryption forum that he called "the home of complainers."
The naming of this forum made other people in the organizing committee a little worried that after time travel, the bored people in time travel would turn this place into a paradise for trolls and sunspots, but as an IT expert, Meng He was interested in them. Poor internet knowledge expresses serious disdain. In a small local area network with less than a thousand users, nothing can escape the eyes of the administrator. As long as the administrator is willing to spend a little time, users actually have no secrets in this network. Even if the forum does not adopt a real-name system, Each user's access IP address also completely exposes their identity. When necessary, administrators can completely ban the permissions of certain users or block the ability to speak.
The strict network control described by Menghe reminded several people on the Preparatory Committee of a certain large country in East Asia in this time and space, which also used strict network control methods to monitor domestic public opinion and did not allow citizens to freely roam around. It makes its voice heard on the Internet and cannot even connect to foreign websites. Yes, that’s right, this crazy country is Beibang.
Yan Chujie, who originally expected to be able to recruit a few veterans to his command, was a little disappointed this time, because among the candidates who decided to join, only one had ever served in the military, named Wu Zhuo. This Wu Zhuo was originally a reader of Bai Kesi. After going through several screenings, he came to Guangzhou to participate in this interview. Wu Zhuo probably originally had the intention to meet the author in person and then go home, but during the interview process Yan Chujie discovered that this guy was actually from an orthodox major, and immediately made up his mind to keep him.
Wu Zhuo graduated from the Chongqing Communications College of the People's Liberation Army majoring in wireless communication technology. He was later assigned to a radar unit in the CD Military Region. He just returned from the army last year and returned home. His current occupation is a vagrant, but it is said that he will soon go to work in the local telecommunications department. For such talents who understand technology and have formal military training, the organizing committee will never let them go. Under the double offensive of Yan Chujie and Bai Kesi, Wu Zhuo, who is also a bachelor, finally decided to join.
But the matter did not end there. Menghe, who had just established the department and was still the polished commander, immediately targeted Wu Zhuo and asked the preparatory committee to "immediately transfer Comrade Wu Zhuo to the Communications Engineering Preparatory Office of the Ministry of Information Industry." Yan Chujie quit. It took a lot of effort to have such a soldier. Although he was a technical soldier and not a combat soldier, he couldn't let Meng He, a guy who had never even touched a gun, snatch him away. The lawsuit continued until Tao Dong came here, and finally a mediation was made with great difficulty: As a technical talent, Wu Zhuo was assigned work by the Ministry of Information Industry in peacetime, but as a military personnel, he was placed under the command of Yan Chujie during wartime. After receiving this result, Yan Chujie flew home angrily to go through the resignation procedures, while Tao Donglai needed to quickly approve the "Ministry of Information Industry Materials Procurement Planning and Budget List" jointly submitted by Meng He and Wu Zhuo.
The IT part that Menghe is responsible for planning is mainly based on the construction of server units. According to Menghe, all the data controlled by the Transcendence Group must be stored in the server, which can be regarded as the brain of the Transmitter Group. In order to protect these servers In order to extend the service life as much as possible in another time and space, all components must be of the best quality, so the total price quoted for the server unit actually exceeded three million.
Tao Donglai said to himself that even though I have money, I don't spend money like this. He immediately criticized Meng He severely: "This five-unit intelligent constant temperature server cabinet is more expensive, so I will admit it, but it contains You don’t need to buy a server, okay? This Inspur Tissot server costs more than 600,000 yuan and has eight CPUs. Are you sure it is used for data databases and not for launching a spacecraft to Mars? Don’t fool me because I don’t have enough knowledge. ! ”
Menghe answered him seriously: "If you don't use it now, it doesn't mean you won't use it in the future. What if our descendants plan to engage in the aerospace industry in a few decades? I am also going to suggest that you buy a few IBM minicomputers and store them for future use." For future generations, the price is not very expensive, only more than 800,000 yuan per unit..."
"Stop, stop, stop, there is also the plan listed below to purchase military-standard three-proof notebooks. The per capita investment is more than 20,000. Have you calculated the return on investment?" Tao Donglai, seeing that the situation was not good, quickly changed the subject. .
"This is because of the high temperature and high humidity in Hainan. Military-standard rugged notebooks have great advantages in service life, and unified specifications are easy to maintain. In fact, it reduces the cost of use in disguise." Meng He still said nothing. Don't give in.
"No, your procurement plan must be changed! Our procurement must focus on practicality, and there is no need to highlight the functionality! As for rugged notebooks... they can only be purchased on a small scale, no more than twenty units. There are also unified computers Regarding specifications, we can suggest brands and models to participants, but there is no need to impose anything. In short, this budget must be cut for me!" Unable to convince Meng He from a technical point of view, Tao Donglai had no choice but to take this step. Administrative measures.
Meng He went out angrily, leaving only Wu Zhuo who looked harmless. After Tao Donglai calmed down for a while, he said to Wu Zhuo: "I have also read your purchase plan. I understand that you need to purchase a large number of transmitters, radio stations and walkie-talkies. I think you can also have several sets of wireless local telephone systems." , but what’s the situation with a budget of around 500,000 yuan listed in this ‘unfinished business’?”
"Then let me explain that the items clearly listed in the procurement list are all products with civilian specifications, and the budget of 500,000 yuan is for military supplies, which are obviously better than civilian products in terms of invulnerability and environmental adaptability, but the problem It is the procurement channels for military supplies that are more difficult, so I will temporarily use unfinished matters instead. Considering that we may face a large number of naval battles, field battles, siege battles and special operations in the future, information-based combat methods are very important to us. It is a very important advantage. Of course, this number is only a temporary estimate and may need to be further adjusted later based on our actual number of people." Having learned the lesson from Meng He just now, Wu Zhuo did not speak too harshly to avoid anger. The other party's other purpose is of course to give Tao Donglai a vaccination in advance.
Tao Donglai thought for a moment this time, and finally took out his checkbook and signed: "There is no urgent need for military-standard products at the moment. We will slowly think of a way. If it doesn't work, we will just let Gu Kai purchase from abroad."
(End of chapter)