April 20th, weekend.

Yankel spent almost 300,000 Swiss francs, half a year of publicity, and finally achieved results.

After two days of voting, he was elected to the city councillor of Lucerne by a majority of the votes.

This is arguably the lowest level of councillors in Switzerland, just one level higher than the town councillors. Above the city councillors, there are also state councilors, and then the senators and representatives above are all members of Congress.

But no matter how low it is, it means that Yankel has begun to enter politics.

Swiss parliamentarians don't really have any benefits, even if they are members of parliament, they don't have a salary except for a day of stipend.

After the meeting, you are the businessman who continues to do business, and it is the farmer who continues to farm.

In addition, even for the Speaker, the total amount of the annual meeting day allowance cannot exceed four times the average salary.

In the whole country, only employees of the executive branch have a fixed salary, such as diplomats, policemen, mayors, etc.

So, it's normal for you to meet the president (president of the Federation Council) and the speaker on the bus.

Jonas remembers that in the new century, the news reported that the president of Switzerland took his family to play on Lake Lugano, which borders with Italy, and without bringing guards, got into an argument with a young Italian and was slapped by the other party.

For the sake of fame, the president could only swallow his anger and generously forgive the young man.

Of course, this is not to say that the president is not guaranteed at all, Switzerland has a special guard that acts as a guard for the speaker of parliament and the seven members of the federal council.

None of the others will be equipped with special guards except for these eight people. Moreover, the eight of them, during off-duty, basically do not bring guards.

Yankel was elected to the city council not because of his financial advantages, but because he had political experience.

He had previously worked as a director and lawyer at the United Nations Labour Organization, which surpassed his opponents.

On 23 April, Yankel hosted a reception at his home to entertain Lucerne's official class.

Jonas also participated in the reception, during the reception, the most talked about is the Huaxia Garden that is currently being built overtime, and one by one admires the hard-working Chinese people.

Construction in Switzerland is a very troublesome thing. Like Jonas, they live in the suburbs, fortunately, and the neighbors are basically two hundred meters away, so they are not afraid of disturbing the people.

If you live in an apartment or a house in the city that is close to your neighbors, even if you change the door of your home, you must report it.

If you don't report it, because the noise is too loud, you will be reported by a neighbor, and you will go to jail.

Even if it is reported, it can only be carried out between 9 o'clock and 5 o'clock in the afternoon every day, and the sound cannot exceed 100 decibels.

So when building a house in Switzerland, it's not uncommon to build a house for a year. The renovation of the railway station in Geneva took five years to complete.

In the plan of the Lucerne City Hall, the Huaxia Park was established last year, and the construction will start in March this year, and it will be completed soon next year.

This is still thanks to the blessing that there are no houses around Huaxia Garden, otherwise, the construction period will be extended.

But when the Chinese construction workers arrived in Lucerne in March, they were able to work day and night, fifteen or sixteen hours a day.

Fearing mistreatment of the workers, the Swiss Ministry of Labor sent commissioners to find out what was going on, only to find out that they were voluntary.

The Ministry of Labor supervised the scene and found that these workers basically did not stop except for eating and sleeping.

It has been almost two months since March, and the work has hardly stopped except for a few days when it rained heavily, and then the workers waited for the stones and timber from the Huaxia Sea to come from China for two days.

The project, which was originally planned for a year, now looks like it will be completed in three months.

When it comes to the progress of the Chinese project, these officials in Lucerne are full of praise.

Of course, that's all.

Officials would not think of giving jobs to Chinese people because Chinese workers were more hard-working, because Switzerland has labor protection, and foreigners are only allowed to do it if it is proved that the Swiss cannot do the work.

They want votes and don't ask for foreign workers to work in order to save money.

The Huaxia Garden, which was originally planned to be completed only next year, now looks like it will be completed in June or July, and the most important thing these officials ask is to communicate with the Huaxia authorities to see if they can open the park before August.

August is the time of the opening of the Lucerne Festival, one of the world's three largest classical music festivals, and Lucerne receives at least 300,000 more visitors than usual during the month-long festival.

If the park is opened before that, it will be better to spread the fame of Huaxia Garden.

Although the area of the Huaxia Garden donated by Jonas is not large, the economic benefits are not necessarily much, and at most it can help solve about 20 jobs in the local area.

However, Lucerne City Hall did not cost a penny and fell into such a big reputation. In particular, it is of great political significance, so it has also become a merit.

The 80s was an era when Western countries were actively courting China, and foreign advanced technology and aid were constantly entering China.

But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a 180-degree turn immediately, and this is not to be mentioned.

The point is that the construction of Huaxia Park at this time is absolutely politically correct.

Friday, April 25.

It was the day Jonas applied for early completion and thesis defense, and Dean Schwarch made a special trip back from the Czech Republic just to support him.

He had read Jonas's paper in advance, and at first, he didn't understand why Jonas, an economist, would pay attention to the now popular local area network.

And with the economic impact of the LAN on the world as the central argument, write a risky paper.

In his opinion, Jonas has so many investment cases in his hands, and he can write a paper with detailed data by picking out any one of them.

But when he saw Jonas's vision of the local area network, the Internet, and the fact that Switzerland was a small country and a widow that could bring Switzerland to an important position in the world if it was one step ahead in the Internet age, he was silent.

On the day of the dissertation defense, Dean Schwarzers used his connections to invite Tim Berners Lee, a computer expert from the European Particle Physics Laboratory, to join Jonas's defense team.

When Jonas saw Tim Berners Lee, he couldn't wait to hug Schwarzers and kiss him, this is the famous father of the Internet!

In fact, the technical aspects of his thesis were borrowed from Tim Berners-Lee's experience, but he leaned towards business in the back, rather than completely abandoning commercial development and focusing on academic research, as Tim Berners-Lee did.

The head of the defense team was Gloponte, a professor of investment economics, who was pushed to this position because he was a substitute professor at Jonas.

Everyone knows that Jonas is the darling of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zurich, and Jonas's achievements are worthy of his honor.

In any school, students who can succeed in society will be given special attention, which means that the school's knowledge can be applied to the test.

In particular, successful people like Jonas can bring great honor to the school.

Like Professor Schwartz, they were dumbfounded when they got Jonas's paper, wondering why Jonas gave up his advantage and chose an unpopular new technology for future economic analysis.

Computers, starting with Turing, have been developing for forty years.

In the sixties, people started sharing content between computers.

However, due to the development of technology, these shared content is very monotonous, and the permissions of the network are also very clear.

For example, a picture computer can only share content with a picture computer, and a digital computer can only share content with a digital computer, and cannot coordinate with each other.

In his paper, Jonas proposed the creation of a hypertext method that organically combines information from different computers on the network.

Information can also be retrieved from one server to another via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which transmits useful information to the computer.

In later generations, this was the basic knowledge of the web, but in this era, it is a groundbreaking idea.

That's why Schwarzers invited Tim Berners-Lee to analyze the technical feasibility of the ideas in Jonas's paper.

The dissertation defense went very well, and from an economic point of view, Jonas gave a comprehensive explanation of the future development of computers, believing that the Internet will become a second world in the future.

In the real world, Switzerland is a small country and has no chance of becoming a strong country, but in the online world, as long as Switzerland is ahead of the curve, it can become a major country.

That's what really impressed Schwarch.

When it was Tim Berners-Lee's turn, he suppressed his excitement and asked, "Jonas, hypertext connections are currently the hottest computer topic, but how to achieve it, no one has come up with a useful way so far.

Using a dedicated server for computers has opened a world of doors, and I can't even wait to go back to the office to do some research right now.

But do you have any suggestions on how to decode on your computer?"

It's not about judging Jonas at all, it's a bit of a flattery.

Jonas shook his head and said, "I'm not a computer professional, and I don't know much about the technical side of things. But I don't think it would be very difficult to develop a set of specialized browsers, develop specialized software support, and decode pictures and texts. ”

Tim Berners-Lee turned to Gloponte, who was sitting in the middle, and said, "Professor Gloponte, I personally think that there is a great possibility that Jonas's idea of computing can be realized, and I have no other opinion on it. ”

Groponte nodded, looked at Jonas and smiled, "Jonas, apply for graduation in advance, I'm afraid we won't be able to organize a graduation celebration for you." ”

This meant that Jonas had passed, and Jonas laughed. "Perhaps, next year, with my classmates, the graduation celebration should be even more lively. ”

At the end of the defense, Jonas stopped Tim Berners-Lee, who was about to leave. "Professor Li, I am very interested in the development of computer science, and I also have enough funds to support my research. If...... If there are any difficulties in this regard in the future, I am willing to provide financial support. ”

Tim Berners-Lee didn't think too much about it, and said with a smile: "Let's leave a phone call for each other, I also have a lot of questions to communicate with you about some forward-looking ideas." ”

(There will be ...... in the afternoon ）