Chapter 256 Return

Outside a three-story, antique-looking restaurant, luxury cars were parked on both sides of the road. This place is the most famous restaurant in the entire city, but there are not so many luxury cars on weekdays. Those who are brave stop to look at the luxury cars that they would never dare to dream of.

Gathered beside the car were a group of people wearing neat suits, ties and large leather shoes, and a group of people wearing colorful casual clothes. They were still some distance apart from each other. It was obvious that they were divided into several groups. It was obvious that those guys in suits and leather shoes were more powerful, but their outward aura was far inferior.

This is the northern part of Wandao, the provincial capital Beishi.

The restaurant was booked, and only the large private room on the top floor was occupied.

In the private room, there were only seven people sitting at the dining table, and four or five people standing behind, watching the people at the table eating and drinking, pushing glasses and changing glasses.

Naturally, those on the table were Wang Yan, Long Jiwen, Long Chengbang, Zhou Jisheng, and other gangster leaders who came to keep them company. And these three accompanying gangsters are not simple either. They are the heads of three families, namely 'Bamboo Alliance', 'Sihai' and 'Tiandao'. Standing behind him is the second in command of their gang. In front of Mr. Wang, of course there is not enough space, so he can only stand behind him.

Wang Yan wiped his mouth: "Okay, everyone, we have met each other, and the meal is almost done. If you have anything to say, just say it." This group of people had already praised him for the whole meal, and they never stopped praising him. It’s hard to blame a bunch of uneducated hooligans.

As soon as he got off the plane, he was led here by Long Chengbang and Zhou Jisheng. Zhou Jisheng could ignore it, but because of Long Jiwen's relationship, Longcheng State would still have to give him three points of face.

But if you really want to talk about it, Longcheng State is also a bit embarrassed and troubled. Most probably it was Zhou Jisheng who used his old face to intercede for him, and accepted the job with some pretentiousness and some benefits.

"Okay, Brother Yan is happy, so let's not go around in circles." One person said: "It's not easy for everyone to make money these days. I think Brother Yan knows the principle of making money by being friendly. As long as Long Teng stops, Brother Yan can just say whatever the conditions are."

"Brother Yan, as long as we can do it, we have nothing to say."

The people from the three major gangs expressed their stance together. At today's dinner, they represented the majority of the local forces in Wandao.

In fact, if we really talk about it, in terms of number of people, none of them is worse than Long Teng. After all, Hong Kong Island is only a small place, but its population is much worse than that of Bend Island. But even so, they still haven't done anything to the Soaring Dragon. It can be said that Gao Shi was unprepared and had his home stolen by Long Teng, but Nan Shi also lost it, so there was no reason to be harsh.

It’s not their fault, it’s just that Mr. Wang is too cruel. The staff of Longteng Security have been practicing for so long, and their personal physical fitness is still above the standard line. Coupled with his battle skills that he had practiced in a fierce battle, he was really professional in stick fights between gangsters. That won't work if you go to the United States, because there are small-scale gunfights all over there, and it depends on whose quality the person is.

"What's the condition? Just say it?"

"As long as we can do it!"

Wang Yan smiled and said: "What do you think of the Gaoshi and Nanshi that we have now occupied?"

"What Long Teng takes based on his strength will naturally belong to Long Teng. Taking the current possession of Long Teng as the boundary, I just hope that everyone will live in peace in the future."

"Hmm..." Wang Yan nodded and said thoughtfully: "Inspector Long and Brother Ji are here today. Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face. Three hundred million US dollars."

"no problem."

They were all stunned for a moment because they didn't expect Wang Yan to be so easy to talk to. It would be difficult for one family to pay for this money alone, but it would definitely be more than enough for all the forces in Wan Island to pay for their lives together. But they were hesitant in agreeing. After all, Long Chengbang and Zhou Jisheng together did not have such a big reputation. They were unsure for a moment, but they didn't dare to ask Wang Yan what he meant...

After a meal, the gangster leaders got a guarantee with some money. Zhou Jisheng and Long Chengbang gained face, and with Wang Yan's support, they were really safe on Wandao. Long Jiwen was safe because the man kissed him. My father was extremely happy, and all parties were satisfied, which was very good.

After the group broke up, Wang Yan followed Long Jiwen to rest for a night at Longcheng State's hilltop villa. After listening to Longcheng State's talk for a long time, he left Long Jiwen here to raise his baby the next day and returned directly to Hong Kong Island.

Although there was quite a bit of criticism about Long Jiwen making trouble for Wang Yan, Longcheng State didn't have the nerve to say anything. Moreover, Wang Yan is so powerful, so it would be nice to give him face, but he would be unhappy if he gave him face.

As for letting those gangsters go gently, it was mainly because Zheng Zhi didn't want to cause too much trouble for himself. And if he wants to say that these people can't afford it, it's meaningless.

Now Long Teng has taken over two southern cities and is slowly running the business. His people will definitely be included in the next change of leadership. As time goes by, it may not be impossible for the two cities in the south to develop into stronger ones than those in the north. After all, Long Teng has a large number of votes and money. It is not a big problem to elect two legislators. As for the municipal affairs, after a long time, they will all belong to Long Teng.

After all, Wandao's glory was only in the past two years. After entering the 1990s, it went downhill little by little. And with Longteng's strength, it is not impossible to penetrate into every aspect of the two cities and influence or even control the municipal administration.

Three months later, Fang Ting returned to Hong Kong Island with her child in her arms. She gave birth to a son, whom Wang Yan named Fan. In the same month, Wang Yan and Ruan Mei moved to the newly built hilltop manor in the North District with their old lady and two one-year-old children. Ruan Mei can't sit still, so of course she has to think about work.

Not to mention the excellence of Hilltop Manor, some residences in the North District have been built and purchased by Longteng employees. Of course there are supporting schools nearby, and most of the students studying there are the children of Longteng employees. Ruan Mei still goes there to teach primary school students.

Nine months later, Long Jiwen took his daughter back to Hong Kong Island, and Wang Yan named her Xin.

By this time, Wang Yan had completely settled down, and basically wandered around a few places on Hong Kong Island. In addition to grasping the development direction of Longteng from time to time, he was either accompanying women and children, or participating in research in the laboratory.

In terms of company development, Longteng is a three-high enterprise with high profits, high liabilities, and high investment. The main money-grabbing business, the body-building pills, makes money desperately. Taking advantage of this, he constantly borrows from banks to leverage, then invests in expanding various industries, and continuously increases research and development funds.

Although he was besieged by Western capital, it caused a lot of troubles and made it difficult for him to spend money. But on the other hand, they are the staunchest supporters of health pills. For the health of themselves and their families, whether they should buy it or not, it must be the official version. Because it has developed so far, there are already counterfeit medicine dealers who specialize in defrauding foreign devils...

Of course, being besieged must have been a lot of inconvenience, but this situation changed when the most beloved old brother Su left.

Any major event does not happen suddenly. There must be many inevitable events before it. In 1990, Longteng had already begun to make troubles with old Brother Su, with advanced equipment, scientific research personnel, etc. This was the most that Wang Yan had taken over in so many years. After all, it had been prepared for several years, and the supplies were abundant. In addition, Longteng itself did not need to make money by reselling things, so it kept everything that was not available.

The most amazing thing is that in 1991, when the situation was chaotic, after all the efforts of all parties and spending money, Wang Yan bought back a "Kuznetsov" ship at a high price, which had its armaments and some key items dismantled. After that, at the end of 1992, I drove back and parked near Tuen Mun Port along with a bunch of design drawings and so on. Just treat it like a big yacht. When nothing happens, he will take his wife and children out to sea to go fishing. The maintenance of a large ship is also a big job. Not to mention the cost, there are hundreds of people working on the ship all day long...

This ship was supposed to be the one that Lao Maozi later owned. Due to the chaos of the current situation and the economic difficulties, there was no money left. Even if he stayed, he would just eat dust at the base. The price offered by Long Tong was really irresistible, so it came into Wang Yan's hands. .

In fact, with Long Teng's strength, building a ship of 100,000 tons is not a problem at all, and of course it only refers to financial resources. Even if they built it themselves, the money they spent to buy the ship could be enough to save some weapons. The process is really too laborious, and the cost of buying the boat is just a little higher than the normal value, and the rest of the money for transportation is the bulk. I have no choice but to think about it. They have no technology and it’s useless just because they have money.

In fact, what Wang Yan was initially eyeing was the large nuclear-powered ship being built in the Wukelan Shipyard, but it was not completed. It took too long and there were too many variables. After talking about it, he couldn't get it done. The main reason is that if someone dares to sell it, he will also dare to buy it, but whether he can drive it back is another question. After all, in the current situation, he was knocked down into the deep sea halfway, and he didn't say anything...

In terms of other research, the main new materials and the balanced ternary system are just that.

The research on new materials is not a matter of urgency. The experts under Longteng have published quite a few cutting-edge papers, but they are not at all practical.

In fact, those papers were not published at the request of Wang Yan. It was those people who regarded the papers as achievements. After all, it was hard to explain that it was just money spent but without results. On the other hand, it also meant fame and fortune. But Wang Yan didn't care about these things, just study them slowly.

His main research is on carbon-based materials to replace silicon-based materials. The main thing is that looking at it thirty years later, all countries are studying carbon-based materials and have made certain progress. If they follow suit, they will be finished. Maybe one day they will succeed.

As for the ternary system, at the turn of the millennium, after fifteen years of research, the first prototype of a small computer was actually produced. Wang Yan named it "Chaos". All parts on the computer are developed by Longteng itself. No matter how you say it, it is the first generation. Compared with the binary computers of the same period, it is still inferior. Of course, Wang Yan's purpose is not to compare with computers of the same period, but to comprehensively look at the advancement of ternary over binary and whether it is possible to surpass it.

Discussions about binary and ternary systems have always been on paper. Without physical comparison, it is almost meaningless. Now that we have the finished product, we compared the two and found that it is indeed better than binary in terms of energy consumption and computing efficiency. It is not yet known whether it will benefit artificial intelligence.

Because the computer they created is not the same as binary. This finished product is not built on the basis of 'Yi' as the underlying 'Yin and Yang Wu' he thought before, nor is it another one that contains binary as he thought. Rather, it is a stand-alone, brand new, unpolished computer. The system is newly developed, there is no visualization, and the programming language has not been finalized. Everything needs to be improved.

Of course, the ternary system does not use chips. After all, it is also an integrated circuit. However, because of their performance advantages, the chip requirements they require are indeed much lower than those of binary computers. After so many years, I spent a lot of money buying things here and there, and with my own research, I was able to produce chips myself. Although the accuracy is far inferior to that of Western countries, it is enough for you to use it yourself and to be able to iterate.

After all, he is not trying to make money by selling computers, so even if the chip accuracy is not enough, he can still enlarge the chip and carve more circuits. Anyway, those things are all designed by myself, and there is no cost to talk about, so anything will work.

It was not until 2005 that, after nearly two decades of research and development, and technological progress iterations, the first truly finished machine was considered a success. Hundreds of finished machines were produced, supporting servers were built, and a super machine was built. After doing the math, Wang Yan took the No. 1 machine himself, and handed over the rest to a group of people from the artificial intelligence research project team to re-learn and develop.

After he adapted to the new computer and learned the new programming language, he reorganized the underlying codes he had memorized based on their functions and logic, and continued to adjust and adapt, as well as a lot of research and development. It took seven years to re-develop it with the help of personnel.

Because there is no way to connect to the Internet to capture network information and start self-study, many aspects of testing are not in place. But judging from the overall performance, the upper limit is higher than binary, but it is still far from being able to break through to the level of strong artificial intelligence, and it is still weak. Maybe it's a hardware limitation, or maybe it's a software limitation, but there's still a long way to go.

Artificial intelligence, as the name suggests, thinks independently like humans, summarizes learning, has abstract thinking, etc. To achieve this, a 'spirit' similar to the human soul is the key.

Even if Wang Yan's technology has reached the point where human-computer interaction is seamless, talking to real people is generally useless. Because in the final analysis, it comes from information retrieval feedback accumulated from big data, but it is more efficient and has almost no delay.

With the real finished product, although the next development is still trying to cross the river by feeling for stones, there are not even any stones to touch, but the direction is set. Just pursue higher efficiency, higher processing speed, and better system. High efficiency and high processing speed are high-precision, high-performance chips and other hardware. It is better to study this aspect slowly. What is more important is to continuously iterate the system and seek breakthroughs.

As for the ternary system he envisioned including the binary system, it was only realized after one or four years, that is, after twenty-eight years of research. But just as he thought, it was of little use and tasteless.

And in 18 years, after thirty-two years of research, the first computer based on "Yin and Yang Wu" and "Yi" was finally developed. Of course, it is said to be 'yin and yang without', but it is actually '-1, 0, 1'. Further up, there is a set of simplified characters developed by masters of Chinese studies and masters of Yi Xue, which changed the storage method and operation logic. Wait for a series.

Because everything was different from before, it took another two years, and it was not until the middle of 2000 that this system was initially completed. Although artificial intelligence has not been redeveloped, the performance of this computer is much higher when the configuration parameters are the same as that of 'Chaos' that has been iterated many times. So, of course, the name ‘Chaos’ is owned by the new computer.

It was this point that made Wang Yan determined to create this new 'chaos'.

The main reason why the artificial intelligence was not re-developed and tested was because there was too little time. He thought he was leaving in 2019, but he didn't receive a notification from the system on New Year's Eve. Probably because one year had passed in reality, he guessed that New Year's Eve in 2020 would be the end, so he didn't bother with it anymore. Do artificial intelligence again.

It took seven years to build the previous set that was not very complicated. The difficulty of building the current computer is definitely not something that can be completed in ten or eight years. There is really no need to bother.

After so many years, the fate of other people has naturally changed a lot.

With Wang Yan's strength, Ruan Mei had never thought of becoming a Longteng teacher, and she has been working as a primary school teacher until now.

The old lady passed away at the turn of the millennium and lived for fifteen more years. She saw her granddaughter get married and her great-grandson and great-granddaughter grow up, so she had no regrets.

Luo Huiling opened a flower shop, looking after flowers and reading books every day. She occasionally took care of her grandchildren. She was in her fifties and lived a very comfortable life.

Fang Ting used the money given by Wang Yan to open her own company, and now she is a strong woman.

Long Jiwen has been doing business for a long time, so naturally. But when her daughter grew up, she handed over the company to her daughter. It was good to take a walk and take a look when she had nothing to do.

As for Wang Yan and Ruan Mei's children, they all work in Longteng. They have already gotten married and had children, so their appearance is not bad.

Fang Zhanbo and Chen Taotao worked well together, but they fell apart during the financial crisis in the 1990s. Later, after twenty years of hard work, they were considered to be successful and wealthy, with a net worth of hundreds of millions.

Fang Fang married an honest colleague at work and lived in a house in Longteng, North District, living a happy life.

Fang Min joined Longteng after graduation. This girl is very good. She reached the eleventh level in Longteng. She married a college classmate and had children, which is not bad.

As for the Ding family father and son, they were long dead.

The old lady of the Ding family had disappeared in 1995, and Wang Yan had someone break the news. They didn't say anything when they heard the news. They were already numb and were walking like zombies.

It wasn't until the winter of 1998 that Xu had really had enough, or maybe he had awakened. In short, Ding Xiao was still ruthless. On a rainy morning, a pot of porridge mixed with poison was cooked, and the family was reunited, which was a relief.

In fact, after the old lady's death, Wang Yan stopped sending people to monitor the Ding family and his son. Because at that time, their lives were long gone and they were just alive.

Other business developments and changes in society are of course the norm and will not be discussed in detail.

On the New Year's Eve of 2020, it was on the top floor of the Longteng headquarters building in the North District of Hong Kong Island.

Wang Yan stood in front of the large French window and looked at the lights outside, speechless for a long time.

Fifty-six-year-old Ruan Mei walked to her side and stood still: "Why aren't you sleeping yet? Are you worried?"

Turning his head to look at Ruan Mei, whose face was wrinkled, her skin was sagging, and her youth was no longer there, but her youth could still be vaguely seen, Wang Yan said: "What's on my mind? I just remembered some research things, and I'm thinking about it. Don't worry about it. I’m so old, go to bed now.”

"You sound like you are very young." Ruan Mei glanced at Wang Yan and greeted him with a skillful punch: "You should go to bed early. I know you are in good health, but you are already sixty, do you know that?"

Wang Yan smiled and held Ruan Mei's shoulders and turned her around: "Yes, yes, I'll sleep in a while. Come on, please go."

"Damn old man, you still say I'm old..."

Ruan Mei thought to herself as she had for many years, and walked back to the bedroom.

Wang Yan shook his head, confirmed that Ruan Mei was gone, turned around and looked outside condescendingly again,

Pull out the panel and operate the selection,

A soft blue light flashed...

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