On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Lanshi Evening News published a piece of news.

The news said: After the news that Wang Cuiping mistakenly took pesticides spread, it aroused widespread heated discussion in the society and attracted the attention of many caring people. The Blue City Charity Association received an anonymous donation of 50,000 yuan.

This donation was specifically stated to be used exclusively to alleviate Wang Cuiping's financial situation and help her family overcome difficulties.

In order to send love and warmth to Wang Cuiping, staff from the Lan City Women's Organization and Charity Association went to Sunji Town, Binhai County, to visit Wang Cuiping, the main character in the story.

The staff went deep into Wang Cuiping's home, learned about the current situation of the family, had a cordial conversation with Wang Cuiping, asked about her welfare, and finally sent all the donations to Wang Cuiping.

The staff also learned that Wang Cuiping was instigated by some people some time ago to deliberately discredit the local government and relevant enterprises, causing a negative impact on the local society.

Wang Cuiping expressed remorse for her actions, and was even more indignant towards those who took advantage of others' danger to instigate trouble. She will assist relevant departments in investigating the facts and restore social fairness and justice.

Interested people couldn't help but laugh when they saw it. Donghua was really willing to give up 50,000 yuan to make Wang Cuiping switch sides. Now it was exciting again.

Soon, South China Business Daily reporter Zhao Wei in Lan City was summoned by relevant departments, asking him to give a statement on how he paid 6,000 yuan in favors to Wang Cuiping, instructing her to spread rumors and cause trouble, commit suicide by taking medicine, and smear the local government.

Zhao Wei wanted to push back at first, but the police told him very sternly that Wang Cuiping had already confessed everything.

Zhao Wei asked: "What does it have to do with me whether she confesses or not? Is this how your Blue City police handle cases?"

The policeman handling the case said: "Okay, that's what you're doing.

We have obtained the call record between you and Wang Cuiping, do you want to share it with you?"

Zhao Wei asked: "Call record? You are conducting an illegal investigation! Besides, Wang Cuiping is the person I interviewed, so it is not illegal for me to talk to her."

The policeman said: "Not only that, she also recorded the words you told him to smear Donghua."

Zhao Wei asked: "Recording?"

The policeman said: "Yes."

Zhao Wei asked: "What was she recording? Why did she record it?"

The policeman said: "Here, let me listen to you."

After Zhao Wei heard Wang Cuiping's last sentence: "This guy is not a good guy, Yingzi, please record it." After that, Zhao Wei collapsed. This rural woman is so cunning, how can she still record it?

The policeman seemed to understand his suspicion and said: "Wang Cuiping's son is learning English and bought a tape recorder. The day you went to encourage her to frame Donghua, he used it for you. Tell me, how much did you give Wang Cuiping?"

Zhao Wei argued: "I didn't give any money."

The policeman said with some boredom: "I didn't give you any money at that time, but you later made a payment, 6,000 yuan, right?"

Zhao Wei was about to collapse: "How did you know?"

The policeman chuckled and asked the auxiliary policeman on the side: "Did you record it?"

Zhao Wei was anxious: "What are you recording?"

The policeman still smiled and said, "Just record what you just said."

Zhao Wei said angrily: "If I say this, can it be considered evidence?"

The policeman said with a straight face: "I won't tease you anymore. Let me tell you that it was Wang Cuiping who said you paid the money. The bank has already provided us with the information."

Zhao Wei cried: "Which law have I broken?"

The police threatened him: "Anyone who organizes, plans, incites, coerces, and instigates others to commit suicide or self-injury shall be charged with intentional homicide or intentional injury in accordance with the provisions of Articles 232 and 234 of the Criminal Law."

Convicted and punished.”

Zhao Wei shouted: "Didn't I let him commit suicide?"

The policeman said word by word: "The South China Business News published it that Wang Cuiping committed suicide by drinking pesticide. Tell me, where did the 6,000 yuan come from?"

Zhao Wei: "I!!! I'm wronged!"

...

Before the Lantern Festival, Li Enhong went to Sam's again. He would interview a group of people on the spot. At the same time, he also accepted Chen Lidong's commission to bring the network model of scarf abroad.

In the eyes of experts, the word "scarf" is a homophone for "web". Isn't it strange?

Web, full name world wide web, is called the Internet in China, and is also translated as the World Wide Web.

The three letters "web" often appear mixed in text, sometimes specifically referring to the web pages of the website.

Using the word "bib" to build a website only uses homophones, and the Chinese meaning cannot be reflected.

If you look at "blogger", the literal translation is an online diary, but people have given it a nice name: blog.

Bo means wide knowledge; Ke means hospitality. Welcome to browse. This name has a profound meaning and is much higher than Chen Lidong's naming skills.

And in Li Enhong’s view, this scarf net couldn’t be simpler. What’s the point of having it with just such a thing?

When he went to Sam's this time, his main task was to interview a person in charge of supercomputing. He was also pushed hard by Chen Lidong. On the first day of the new year, Chen Lidong chanted a mantra to him, asking him to seize the time to form a team of supercomputing engineers.

Since last year, the Internet bubble in Sam's country has burst and many companies have gone bankrupt. Internet companies not only have people who write code, but also need hardware engineers.

Hardware engineers are mainly responsible for formulating computer assembly plans, purchasing hardware equipment required for assembly, and being able to reasonably configure, install, and maintain computer equipment, and install and configure computer software systems.

Li Enhong has studied and worked at Sam's for 10 years, so he has no shortage of contacts. Last year, when Sam was traveling with him, he collected information about engineers in this field and interviewed some people. However, those people were making do with small service base stations and could not find anyone who had done supercomputing.

of personnel.

This time someone recommended a master named Eugene Crumb Mingo.

Judging from the photo on his resume, this Mingo is an African American. He obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering more than ten years ago. He has been working as a senior researcher at the IBM Hardware Development Laboratory. In 1995, he participated in the Sam National ASCI program and once worked at SNL.

In the laboratory, he served as the leader of the SGI1200 development team. In 2000, he jumped out of IBM and went to San Francisco as the manager of the Global Telecommunications Engineering Department.

Ming Ge has indeed had a smooth ride in the past few years. Last year, he was able to become the engineering manager of a region of Global Telecom, which definitely earned him a lucrative job.

Unexpectedly, it was going well when it came, but one year later Global Telecom would go bankrupt.

Global Telecom was established in 1997. Its telecommunications network connects more than 200 cities in 27 countries around the world, and it has been leading the trend of blue star high-speed communication network construction.

The company has been promoting a project, which is to invest $15 billion in five years to build global high-speed Internet and phone lines.

No one could have imagined that Global Telecom’s stock price was still above 60 dollars last year, but after the new year it had dropped to 0.13 dollars, a drop of more than 99%.

Currently, Global Telecom's $15 billion investment is about to be completed, but it has to file for bankruptcy protection.

Before bankruptcy, Global Telecom had already carried out a major layoff, with more than 3,000 employees being eliminated. Mingo was also eliminated because he had only been in the company for a short period of time.

What's worse is that Mingo once used all the balance of his family's property to buy shares of Global Telecom, and now he is like a piece of waste paper.

Fortunately, one of his friends called him and told him: "Hurry up and bring your job application materials to Amerson Technology. They are recruiting hardware engineers there. With your level, the annual salary can reach 100,000 U.S. dollars."

Li Enhong chose this black engineer from a pile of application materials because he was interested in Mingo's work manager at IBM.

After meeting the person, Li Enhong asked Ming Ge: "Can I go to work in China?"

Mingo replied: "No problem. I worked in China for a period of time in 1993. Oh, because it was only 6 months, it was not included in the information."

Li Enhong said: "If you form a team and set up a supercomputer, can you complete it?"

Mingo asked: "Supercomputing? Is it a new project?"

Li Enhong shook his head: "No, its level is equivalent to ASCI red."

Mingo thought for a moment and replied, "I think I can do it."

Li Enhong handed over an agreement and a contract: "Take a look, and if there is no problem, sign your name."

Ming Ge found two pieces of information, one was the employment contract and the other was the confidentiality agreement.

After accepting the confidentiality agreement, Mingo asked: "Are you serving the military?"

Li Enhong said with a smile: "No, it is for civilian use. I plan to use it as a search engine, but we don't want the outside world to know the specific architecture of this supercomputer, so it will take some time to close the news about it."

Mingo also smiled, thinking that he was almost bankrupt, why bother with that, so he picked up a pen and signed his name.

Li Enhong put away the two contracts and said: "Welcome to join. From now on, you will be the manager of the supercomputing operation department of Baidu Company. From what you just said, you should need a sum of money to pay the bill. No, this

It is a settlement allowance and is not within the agreed salary. If you still have difficulties, please contact me again."

When Ming Ge saw the check, it was twenty thousand dollars. He was immediately elated and said quickly: "Thank you, boss."

Li Enhong stood up and said: "If you can take up the post now, I will leave it to you to review the files in front of me, select the personnel you need, and then form a team to go to China to take over the supercomputer

Get it running."

Mingo also stood up and said: "Thank you. I can work now. Oh... I want to confirm, can my former colleagues also join in?"

Li Enhong nodded and said: "This is no problem, but they also need to sign a confidentiality agreement. We hope that the sooner the better, you have to find enough manpower.

Oh, by the way, you have to tell the recruiting staff that after that project, you will continue with new projects."

Mingo's eyes lit up. It would be great if he had a job. He asked smoothly: "What project is that?"

Li Enhong said: "We are going to build a website. Its name is 'Twitter'. According to a certain boss's idea, it needs to be deployed globally, build data centers, and install a large number of servers. Is this okay?"

Mingo opened his mouth happily, revealing his white teeth: "Of course, don't worry."

Data center, referred to as IDC in English, is a network of specific equipment that collaborates globally. The purpose of building a data center is to deliver user content or application services to users faster, more securely, and more stably. What Ming Ge does in Global Network

That's it.

In the more than a year since China's first commercial Internet data center operated by Century Internet was officially put into operation in Yanjing at the end of 1999, more than 30 IDC companies across the country have entered the market operation, and there are more than 20 companies in Yanjing alone

Related to idc.
To be continued...