April flew by, and at the beginning of the May Day holiday, the military image processing system of Jiang Chen’s team passed countless experiments, and finally entered the army for small-scale trials. If the system operated without any problems, it would soon be included into the national public security system.
As a non-staff member who was temporarily given leadership and caused a lot of controversy due to his young age, Jiang Chen and his team achieved such an achievement in just half a year, which really surprised many people. On the first day of the system loading experiment, Major General Wu and the top leaders of the institute attended the signing meeting.
In the conference room, Jiang Chen sat on the left side of the main seat, looking calmly at a group of military experts who often appear in various academic journals and national news.
“Young people are terrifying.”
Directly opposite Jiang Chen, the gray-haired old man pushed the silver-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and gave a faint compliment. The corners of the old man’s mouth were cast naturally downward, and the deep nasolabial folds on both sides made him look extremely solemn and difficult to get along with. His tone of praise also proved this point.
“Thank you, Professor Yang.”
Jiang Chen got up, bowed lightly, and sat down calmly, without arrogance or rashness, appearing calm and mature.
The appreciation in the eyes of the old man flashed by, and when he spoke, his tone was more solemn than before: “I heard that you are not going to fully authorize the ownership of the system to the country, but hope to start a company by yourself, apply for a patent and put into the market.”
“That’s right.” Jiang Chen nodded slightly, looked straight into the eyes of the old man, his eyes still calm and respectful: “I hope that the research institute can divide the intellectual property rights and transfer part of the patents to the research institute. After the company is established, the research institute will own part of the profits of the image processing system according to the shareholding ratio, and these profits can be invested in the research institute as a research fund.”
The old man looked at him probingly, and with a touch of intimidation, he said: “This seems to be a contract that is completely beneficial to the research institute. Without spending a cent, a relatively large amount of funding is received.”
Jiang Chen’s eyes curved, and his tone was the clearness of a young man’s: “Professor Yang, why bother to make fun of me? My plan is entirely to get the protection of the research institute. When the company is first established, it will inevitably encounter various troubles. I just want to concentrate on research. That’s all.”
“Since you are afraid of trouble, why go out and start a company.” Professor Yang said lightly: “Stay in the research institute directly, and I will make an exception for you to become a formal researcher. I can also speak with Hua University. As long as you finish all your credit requirements and maintain excellent grades, the school will not pursue your class attendance rate.”
Jiang Chen: “How does Professor Yang know that I can remain outstanding even if I don’t go to school? Hua University is full of talents. If I can’t keep up with the class, won’t it be a waste of the previous ten years of hard study.”
“Will you not be able to keep up with the class?”
“No.”
The corners of Jiang Chen’s mouth were curved slightly, but the slightly raised brows could not hide the youthful spirit, which was clear and confident.
“Then why bother to talk nonsense to me.” The tone seemed to be scolding, but a smile flashed across his eyes. Professor Yang brought up the previous topic, and said in a deep voice: “Tell me about your thoughts, doing research and starting a company are not the same thing.”
Jiang Chen was already prepared. He got up and turned on the computer and the projector at the same time.
The PPT background on the screen was simple, and the text was concise and to the point.
“Changjiang Image Processing System, our team is currently developing a military version, but the original version in my hand was originally positioned for home use, it…” Jiang Chen calmly introduced the feasibility of putting the image processing system on the market and the various functions it can develop in the future, “Not only military, image processing systems are also used in medicine and even radar, and our company’s products are only for home use. If other fields want to use the Changjiang Image Processing System, we can authorize them to carry out research and development on other aspects of the processing system, and the authorization fee will also be divided between the research institute and the company I will establish according to equity.”
The meeting room was very quiet, and the faces of the several bigwigs did not fluctuate much, including Professor Yang who was sitting opposite Jiang Chen.
However, after Jiang Chen finished speaking and sat down, the middle-aged man next to Professor Yang said, “Your idea is very good and very commercial. If you put this idea in front of those investors, they will probably provide funds to build a research laboratory for you, or even provide you with a large amount of start-up funds, the research institute should not be your first choice.”
“The research institute has always been my first choice.” Jiang Chen shifted his gaze slightly, and nodded politely to the middle-aged man, but what he said caused everyone present to change their expressions slightly. He said, “I don’t just want to cooperate with the institute, but also the government and country.”
“Young man, what a bold tone.” Sitting near the center, a man with extremely high cheekbones laughed, and raised his chin slightly to look at Jiang Chen: “Do you think that if you just come up with some results and make a small achievement, you will be able to get the full backing of the country, so that you can have smooth sailing in the future?”
He didn’t say the last two words, but Jiang Chen could hear them.
—How ridiculous.
Whether it was ridiculous or not, Jiang Chen slightly curled his lips, one would not know until they saw for themselves.
“Professor Xu, although I’m young, I don’t think that my image processing system alone is enough to be recognized by everyone.” Jiang Chen quickly tapped his fingers on the keyboard a few times, and said, “This is another system I developed independently, the Changjiang Image Processing System is only a part of it, I call it——Changjiang.”
“Changjiang?”
Everyone looked up at the front, and an image made of blue dotted lines resembling an asteroid appeared on the background of the Milky Way.
Jiang Chen tapped the keyboard with his fingers, and the slowly rotating dotted line on the screen condensed, and then shrunk little by little, turning into a star and blending into the background of the Milky Way.
“Please allow me to introduce this system.” Jiang Chen got up, and the Changjiang system that drove the galaxy to rotate on the screen was shining brightly, and part of it reflected into his eyes: “Changjiang, an artificial intelligence protection system, has its own firewall and the ability to attack and invade other networks, in terms of home use and other aspects I will not elaborate here. In terms of military affairs, its powerful algorithms and databases enable it to have a strong ability to analyze, which is equivalent to the brainstorming of hundreds of military strategic deployment experts. When foreign enemies invade, not only can it automatically turn on the protection system, it can also adjust the strategy according to the battlefield situation during the battle. When all the weapons in the military library are implanted into the Changjiang database, it can complete a warfare by itself.”
Jiang Chen turned his head, his eyes swept over the people with different expressions one by one, and the corners of his mouth curled up confidently.
“And it will be a definite victory.”
It was undeniable that Jiang Chen’s words moved them deeply, and they couldn’t help but start to imagine that if such a system really existed, it would not take many years for their country to become a world superpower. This image was too grand and too exaggerated.
Someone came back to themselves, and the middle-aged man with high cheekbones said coldly: “What you said is simply nonsense. Have you ever fought a war? Yet you talk about a definite victory, how ignorant.”
Jiang Chen was not infuriated by his words, but calmly looked at everyone present: “The research and development of hot weapons is just for deterrence, and the real confrontation of hot weapons, at least in our country, has been impossible in the past few decades, but I can assert that it will not take ten years for network technology to develop to an incredible level. By then, the war will be transformed into an information war. Whoever occupies the high ground of the information war will be invincible. The Changjiang system is the glass ceiling of information warfare.”
The confidence in these words was not insignificant, even those who were shaken by the blueprint he drew before shook their heads at his words, and even Major General Wu sighed in his heart.
After all, he was still a young man, thinking so naively.
Professor Yang’s gaze was heavy: “How do you prove that your system has the ability you said?”
Jiang Chen pursed his lips and smiled slightly: “If possible, I hope everyone will allow me to show my ability.”
Major General Wu said in a deep voice, “Go ahead.”
After these words were uttered, the scientific research institute suddenly issued an alarm that the network was being attacked, and the blue light began to flicker on the wall. Several people present subconsciously got up and wanted to go out to check the situation, but the blue light stopped blinking as soon as the door was opened.
Only Professor Yang, with surprise in his eyes, was as motionless as a mountain.
“Major General…..”
A young researcher ran over in a hurry, just when someone in the meeting room opened the door to go out to check the situation, and without even having time to say hello, he panted and said: “Someone just invaded our system and left immediately before we found out, only a word was left behind…..”
Major General Wu hurriedly asked, “What word?”
“‘Ability’.”
Everyone present was taken aback for a moment, and at the same time came back to their senses and looked at Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen got up, and Major General Wu hurriedly sent the young researcher to go out, closed the door and said, “Was it you just now?”
“It was Changjiang.”
Someone speculated: “You had it hack into the firewall of the institute before the meeting started?”
Jiang Chen smiled and shook his head: “It only started to invade when I said to show ability.”
“How is it possible!” Someone said directly: “The firewall of the research institute is the latest researched version by the Security Bureau, not to mention the firewall, even the most powerful hacker, it will take at least half an hour to overcome it, yet you just finished talking and it successfully invaded? How long was it, two seconds or three seconds?”
“Not even one second.” Jiang Chen corrected: “The alarm device of the research institute seems to be delayed.”
“How, how is it possible?”
Silence spread in the conference room, and the middle-aged man next to Professor Yang said: “How can we believe that you didn’t prepare well from the beginning, but really used your system to invade the firewall of the research institute in a second?”
“I can continue to prove it.” Jiang Chen said: “If the leaders here guarantee that I will not be held accountable, Changjiang can even enter the national arsenal system, obtain the secret key of nuclear weapons, and check the code. Naturally, the role of Changjiang can be determined.”
Jiang Chen’s words clearly sounded like blatant nonsense, but don’t know if his tone was too firm or what, shaking their disbelief from the bottom of their hearts. This system might really be as powerful as he said?
It didn’t even need to be like what he said, even if it could only achieve one or two percent of what he said, it could have an inestimable impact on the country.
However, how could they know the secret key of the country’s nuclear weapons? This was something that was only in the hands of the leaders above. This kid wouldn’t happen to know this, so he is bluffing them, right?
Someone looked at Jiang Chen suspiciously, and Jiang Chen didn’t dodge or avoid, he let him look at him, and even the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed in a smile, the dimple on his left cheek showing faintly.
Very sweet and well behaved.
He didn’t look like he could deceive people.
He looked like a good boy.
The man withdrew his gaze, telling himself not to be confused by this kid’s appearance. When he said all of that just now, his tone was so arrogant, even if he didn’t lie, he was too young.
Jiang Chen didn’t know what was going on in the mind of the person who was looking at him, he just felt that the middle-aged man was quite amiable, and smiled back. He also knew that what he just said had no possibility of being implemented, at least not now.
He smiled and said, “However you want to gain proof, Changjiang is willing to accept the challenge.”
“Including military exercises and an information war with the National Cyber Security Agency?”
Jiang Chen’s expression didn’t change, he smiled and said, “Anytime.”
