Chapter 392: The World's Biggest Lie
Of course, the Wallenbergs are well aware of the level of cyber and intelligence technology that has come in times like 2012, and they have their own security companies and cyber protection systems, but the old tricks always work. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are ghosts within the family, it could be a family member, it could be the most trustworthy housekeeper they consider, or it could be some executive of a security company.
MI5 has wanted to plant spies in The-ShunFamliy more than once, and it is understandable that Xu Teng and the Silver Shield agency behind him have not always been able to find out, and The-ShunFamliy has invested more in the UK than any other family, and has tried to monopolize the UK's nuclear power business, and has taken over 1/3 of the market in which BT operates.
Sweden, France, Germany, the intelligence agencies of every country are trying to determine one thing, how much money The-ShunFamliy really has, and whether their money is coming from government support.
The hardest-working intelligence agencies are, of course, the CIA and SNA.
That's why, the only people who know about the entire Silver Charm Project are Xu Teng and Dr. Lu, and he doesn't even trust that the Silver Shield Agency is infallible.
Xu Teng scattered Dr. Lu's technical service team and research centers in five countries around the world, 7 AI labs, and only the 14th lab knew all about Dr. Lu, and no one knew where they were.
Except for Xu Teng.
The truth may surprise everyone, there are two Dr. Lu AI systems in this world at the same time, one is in charge of the AI research headquarters of Huateng Science Center, and the other is in charge of the 14th laboratory.
The one that the public knows the most, Dr. Lu, is very similar to the DeepMind prototype bought by Google, the difference between the two is very simple, if Google's DeepMind is a 3-year-old childhood AI, which is limited to more safety rules, the "public version of Dr. Lu" is equivalent to a 15-year-old adolescent AI, with fewer restrictions and faster growth.
As Xu Teng said, he is much more radical than Google.
He had to do that, and when he became chairman of Tencent Group in 2003 and began to invest in Dr. Lu, he was targeting the Prism Project, and for this reason, he asked to design the first version of Dr. Lu that was very suitable for cyber attacks and defenses, and this version 1.0 was the prototype of the Great Wall system and witches.
Google's AI department thought they had designed the prototype alpha of the witch, but it wasn't, and the earliest reference version they bought from the AI Science Lab at the University of Cambridge in the UK was actually the prototype of Dr. Lu's version 1.0.
Xu Teng was not particularly smart, but he still completed most of the courses in computer systems and neuronal reflex systems, and he was in addition to leading the entire Huayin consortium.
To this day, he is not qualified to claim to be an expert in AI disciplines and computer systems, but at least he is knowledgeable.
It all came from the time of the Dragon Slaying Laboratory, when Xu Teng encountered the first intelligence case in his life, an investigator within the intelligence industry helped him solve the problem.
Teacher Tu.
This is a very special person recommended to Mr. Xu by the leadership, who cannot be regarded as a first-class expert in the field of computers, but is indeed an expert in the intelligence system.
Xu Teng realized from that moment that The-ShunFamliy possessed the most special secret in the world, and that one day there would be countless people who wanted to solve the mystery.
This means that when he becomes the richest man in the world, this surveillance and spying will be unscrupulous.
This is a real world, not a comic, not a movie, and today, the intelligence agencies of all the major powers in the world are trying their best to infiltrate the Huayin Consortium, infiltrate the periphery of The-ShunFamliy, and get first-hand information.
There is a female accountant of Korean nationality in the third audit department of Huateng Company, who has a doctorate degree in accounting from Jiangzhou University...... The dual intelligence officers of the Samsung Group and the South Korean National Intelligence Service, they like to play this set of national identity tricks and drag each other into the water.
The CIA has worked very hard to have intelligence officers in many companies under the Huayin Consortium, and there are only 4 people detected by Dr. Lu and the Silver Shield Agency.
The old tricks always work.
They bribed a man to install a spy device in the company's computer room, which could bypass firewalls and surveillance systems and automatically download a Trojan to detect all the email systems of Huateng Electronics Group's chip division.
These things happen a few times a month.
When Xu Teng's A340 special plane was assembled at the Airbus main plant, Yindun Agency and Huateng Company sent 15 commissioners to supervise it to prevent anyone from installing spy devices in the special plane...... As you can't imagine, the NSA spent $4 million to build 30 screws and nuts for the plane.
Xu Teng can only say that without the full support of Intel Group, they would not be able to do this kind of thing.
In the past, spy devices were used for eavesdropping, but now they are more advanced, centralizing all fiber optic cables, aligning computer rooms and servers.
You can't believe how good humans are at inventing.
Most of the time, Xu Teng will not expose those intelligence officers, and the Silver Shield Agency and Dr. Lu will only supervise each other 24 hours a day to ensure that important information will not be leaked.
As for some small information, it is still necessary to let them get a little bit of it, so that they can spend money to buy peace of mind, so as not to realize that the strength of the Silver Shield Agency is not at the level of the commercial counterintelligence team at all.
Of course, it is not so simple, the Huayin Consortium is China's lethal weapon of soft destruction, and whoever it hurts, the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan will already hurt.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Even the heads of state of Britain, Germany and France are invincible, and the Wallenberg family of the Yinruida consortium is powerless, what else can Xu Teng say?
He continued to pretend that he knew little about everything and that he could concentrate on his business.
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Xu Teng's first visit to Sweden was accompanied by a total of 14 co-partners of the Huayin Consortium, and the nine major industrial groups under the consortium, including network technology, pharmaceuticals, finance and media, have basically arrived.
The two-week visit and business talks were very close, and more than 50 preliminary cooperation frameworks were soon reached.
Time is of the essence.
If the Swedish Prime Minister accepts the proposal of the Yinruida consortium to visit China in July and September, the details of these cooperation negotiations must be completed in the first half of the year, and the results of the Prime Minister's visit to China will finally be shown to the Swedish people and the media.
Politics and economics have always been such a relationship.
If the Prime Minister is finally willing to take the initiative to mention an "innovative comprehensive partnership" and agree to negotiate a broad framework for cooperation at the government level, with the two major consortia driving the whole thing behind the scenes, it will be important to provide the Prime Minister with an excellent answer sheet and ensure that the other side's approval ratings rise.
In Europe, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium...... All of them are old developed countries with their own unique characteristics, and they have their own world-leading fields.
However, the carrier of technology is always people.
At Huateng's optical research center in Germany, almost the entire team comes from Zeiss and Leica, and they have acquired an old-fashioned, but not so good, medium-sized optical mirror manufacturing company in France at the same time.
Even if the NATO Wassenaar agreement never disappears, and the technology transfer from Europe to China never stops, the Silver Charm Project not only wants the best level of optical manufacturing, but also tries to have the best optical equipment manufacturing and R&D technology.
A united, weakened and divided EU will always be the best EU and the best source of technology.
At the same time, the planned economy is actually a good thing, but it needs to be compensated for by the principles of the market economy.
You need to do a good job of market research, have the best executive team, have the best scientific research team, have the most stable production management team, have the best marketing personnel, and finally, you must design a better incentive system.
You need to see and use human nature, not ignore it.
Finally, you want to make the most of human greed.
Greed is good.
This is the force of human progress.
At the same time, you must understand a very simple truth, the free market economy is the biggest lie in the history of mankind, and there is no real free market economy in this world.
Sweden's strength in the fields of machinery, alloys, and bearings has never been the result of the free choice of the market economy, but the inevitable result of Sweden's use of its own production of iron ore and rare earth metals, and the use of World War I and World War II.
Switzerland's strength in the financial sector and its leading position in the field of machine tools were also an inevitable consequence of the Second World War.
Germany's economic prosperity after the Cold War, surpassing Britain and France in terms of comprehensive national strength, is not the result of a free market economy at all, and the German government is very clever to promote the policy of free movement of people within the European Union, so as to absorb a large number of high-quality labor from Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.
France's boom in nuclear power and aviation is not the result of a free-market economy.
The fact that the United States was able to beat Japan and Europe in the semiconductor industry is also not the result of a free market economy.
Japan's prosperity in the field of semiconductor materials, South Korea and Taiwan's prosperity in the field of semiconductor manufacturing, is not the result of a free market economy.
Therefore, when Xu Teng formulated the Silver Charm Plan, he did not have any guilt, he paid a generous enough commission, he just ignored the NATO Wassenaar agreement and took away the technology and materials he spent money on.
He won't pay an extra penny for it.
The year 2012 is history.
Xu Teng spent the 2013 New Year's celebration in Sweden, where he spent two weeks discussing various issues with the Wallenberg family and the Yinruida consortium, and the two sides reached a framework for cooperation at the consortium level in 16 areas, but only the last one could not be agreed upon.
The fierce competition between China Control Group, Huateng Hi-Tech and ABB.
In 2011, ABB's business in China's electricity market fell by 23%, and in 2012, it continued to decline by 17%, and the tragedy is that from 2008 to 2012, China's power equipment and automation market demand increased by more than 10% every year.
In the field of industrial robots, the joint venture subsidiary of SUPCON Group and Huateng Hi-Tech is overwhelming ABB, occupying an absolute advantage in the Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets, and also in the European market.
This is China's industrial upgrading.
SUPCON has acquired dozens of branches of supporting enterprises in Europe, and has achieved industrial upgrading ahead of schedule, with very close technical indicators and cheaper prices, which make it difficult for ABB and Siemens to parry.
In fact, after Xu Teng eliminated Professor Chu, who should have been convicted of embezzlement of state assets, the new chairman of the board of directors for the central control group was Gu Shengyuan, the former president of ABB China.
This person was a public international student who graduated from Jiaotong University, a doctor of engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, the year before 1990, he chose to stay in Sweden to work, joined ABB to engage in scientific research business, transferred to China as a senior vice president in 2002, and at the end of 2004, he officially led a team of dozens of people to parachute into the Central Control Group, of which 4 were alumni of Jiaotong University who went to Europe to study in the 80s.
In 2012, the market share of ZPCON in domestic power and automation technology and equipment exceeded 63%, exceeding the sum of the three major competitors of ABB, General Electric and Siemens, and the market share in the field of automation control and protection of chemical, petrochemical and transportation systems exceeded 50%, far exceeding the main competitors Honeywell and Siemens, and leaving ABB and GE behind the two marginal players.
At the same time, ABB Group suffered consecutive losses in the 2011 and 2012 fiscal years, totaling about 750 million euros, which is not very good, and much better than General Electric Group.
The board of directors of ABB, led by the Yinruida consortium and the Swiss Arrowstreet Asset Group, transferred the overseas assets held by ABB Group for a long time in exchange for profits through clever asset transactions, and used special calculation rules in finances to continue to maintain the "normal level of profitability" of ABB Group in the listing statements.
Xu Teng is very clear about this.
That's the beauty of a business intelligence job.
Over the past two weeks, Chairman Pete Wallenberg has used a variety of very kind gestures to convince Xu Teng that he can be trusted...... All this is to persuade Xu Teng to accept a generous offer of up to $34 billion from ABB Group for ABB to merge with China Control Group.
This price is 140% of the market capitalization of ZKTeco.
This is a very good price, you know, the net profit of the Central Control Group in 2012 was actually only 1.358 billion US dollars...... On the one hand, in the process of catching up, the huge amount of scientific research funds and mergers and acquisitions invested by the central control group have weakened the overall profitability, and on the other hand, it can also show that the global manufacturing industry is sluggish, and the real economy is so miserable.
SUPCON is a high-tech industry in the true sense, and in the next ten years, it will continue to expand its share in overseas markets, and Siemens and GE will have a more difficult time, and ABB Group is no exception.
In the past two weeks, Xu Teng and Chairman Pete have held three consultations on the conflict of interest issue between ZPCG and ABB, but have not reached any effective agreement.
The two sides easily negotiated a technology alliance agreement between Ericsson and Huateng Electronics Group to jointly reduce costs and make profits through mutual shareholding, joint research and development, and cross-patent rights.
On the issue of the Central Control Group and ABB, Xu Teng did not consider backing down at all, which was really beyond the expectations of Chairman Peter Wallenberg, who proposed 3 different plans, all of which were vetoed by Xu Teng.
The free market economy will always be the biggest lie in the world.
The advantage of international capital has led to foreign consortia, which are in an advantageous position in the financing of industrialization projects in most countries around the world, and they provide financing for projects, controlling the most important technical parameters by exerting influence on government officials, technocrats, and design agencies.
In all international tenders, most of the winning bidders are predictable, because there are often only two or three companies that can really meet the standards.
They continue to raise the technical standards of their products and international design specifications, forcing enterprises in developing countries to fail to meet the standards, and eventually turning the market into a capital and technology game between all the giants, selling high-tech products at several times the price and at a high price.
That is why developing countries have repeatedly fallen into the trap of moderately developed countries.
That is why South Korea has been able to jump out of the trap of a moderately developed country, and in addition to the support of the United States, they also have the best model for dealing with this game - the BIG consortium.
Now, an even more powerful player has entered the market - the Huayin Consortium and its alliance of central enterprises.
The Huayin Consortium will not debunk the truth of this game, because the Huayin Consortium is becoming one of the high-end players in this game, they can adapt to the norms and standards set by international giants, participate in the game with better cost performance, and can provide owners with more favorable loans.
Now, you can imagine why Western societies are afraid of the rise of China, because China is the terminator of this game.
They set the rules for all the games, and then in 2001 they officially invited China to join the game, believing that they would monopolize all profits in the Chinese market, and in 2005 they still thought they still had a chance, and they still welcomed China's economic growth, and it was not until 2012 that they realized that they had upgraded the game to nightmare mode themselves.
In China's local market, every industry is brewing a new terminator, and Huayin Consortium is the first to awaken the terminator, stronger, faster, it is simply an alien awakened in an ancient spaceship, with incredible growth speed and evolutionary ability.
The Central Control Group is simply a model among these aliens, which has forcibly turned a high-tech industry of automation system monopolized by a developed country into a sunset industry with small profits and quick turnover.
Of course, Xu Teng will not get along with money, and he will not stop until he kills half of the four giants of Siemens, ABB, General Electric, and Honeywell.
When Xu Teng rejected the latest offer, Chairman Pete Wallenberg realized that the goal of the Huayin consortium was not ABB or Siemens, but the entire European economy, constantly weakening the European economy's ability to invest in scientific research.
At this moment, the chairman of Pitt even began to suspect that the rumors in the international capital market were true, and that the Huayin Consortium and The-ShunFamliy might really be the agents of China's state capital.
Of the 17 consortium cooperation topics, only 1 topic could not be agreed, Xu Teng did not think this was a big problem, not to mention that in the past two weeks, the other 14 joint partners of the Huayin consortium and more than 70 domestic entrepreneurs who arrived in Sweden for a visit have signed a number of preliminary cooperation frameworks.
The results are still remarkable, and the effect on the promotion of the entire Silver Charm plan is also significant.
On January 12, 2013, after the completion of the visit and coordination with the German side, Xu Teng officially led this huge business delegation to Berlin.
Soon after the two planes took off from Stockholm International Airport, Xu Teng received an email from Chairman Peter Wallenberg from the headquarters of the Yinruida consortium.
"Dear Shun, President, first of all, I would like to thank you once again for your visit to Sweden and wish you all the best for your visit to Germany. ”
"In Europe, among us, there is a baseless and worrying rumor that you and your family, as well as your company, are a special consortium backed by the Chinese government and tasked with challenging the entire world economic order. ”
"But over the past two weeks, my colleagues and I have become more and more aware of what a ridiculous and ignorant rumor this is. As our Prime Minister complimented you, I have met Shunten, who is undoubtedly the smartest entrepreneur in the world, whose ability to collect and analyze global economic data is amazing, and whose talent for anticipating the future is unparalleled, which is why, on most issues, I have great respect for your decisions and am willing to work with you to do so. ”
"Our only disagreement is about the competitive relationship between ABB and ZPCG, and although you rejected our two offers to acquire ZPCG, I firmly believe that just as my uncle pushed for the merger of ASEA and BrownBoveri, which led to the birth of today's ABB Group, the merger of ABB and ZPCON Group will be a very wise choice, and this merger will give us better capabilities and technology to cope with future changes." ”
"So, as you are about to leave Sweden, I would like to propose again a new way of trading, a real merger, where the Huayin consortium will continue to control the majority shareholder of the new company, and the shareholders of ABB will have the opportunity to continue their investment and return in the industry. ”
"At the same time, I assure you that we are not looking for a very high M&A price, because we are convinced that this is still the best industry in the world for long-term investment, and the good news is that both companies have a good share structure and we can merge quickly and strongly. ”
"Finally, I would like to wish you once again all the best for your business visit to Europe and, sincerely, I hope that you will give me a brief answer before you arrive in Germany, your old friend, Peter Wallenberg. ”
Dr. Lu annotated the email with a note that the email had been intercepted by a witch.
This is to clearly tell Xu Teng that the reply will definitely be discovered by the NSA and the prism system, and maybe, there will be a commissioner sitting in front of the computer now, waiting for Xu Teng to reply.
Dr. Lu has completely deciphered the witch's source code, modifying part of the witch's kernel code, but has not immediately used this ability, nor has he intercepted any information from the witch.
In fact, every country's cyber defense project must have intelligent technology content, because there are not so many professional and credible intelligence personnel.
Taking Project Prism as an example, if the NSA wants to reconnoiter and monitor tens of millions of people, hundreds of thousands of agencies, and hundreds of thousands of enterprises through network systems, if it relies on traditional intelligence methods and simply uses network technology, how many computer programmers, intelligence analysts, agents, and intelligence system bureaucrats will it need?
Through the computer system, writing a huge system program can effectively reduce the number of participants in the entire program, and the fewer people involved, the lower the probability of leakage.
What is the difference between ordinary intelligent technology and artificial intelligence technology?
Quite simply, the deep learning ability of the neuron-like system, the biggest advantage of this ability is that with the accumulation of work experience, the system can constantly correct itself, reduce errors, and work more and more accurately.
This is Dr. Lu, Alpha, Witch, DeepMind, Great Wall, ...... The biggest difference with the Microsoft operating system is that in the workload of millions of times a day, they can constantly correct and add their own code, making themselves more knowledgeable, smarter, more accurate, faster and better to complete tasks.
Therefore, when an agent of the NSA searches the database of a criminal in the prism system, only 10% of the information may be entered by intelligence officers, and the rest is added by the "witch" in the prism system.
It analyzes the criminals' data on its own, adds new suspicious lists based on the targets that criminals frequently come into contact with, and uses a network and surveillance systems around the world to add intelligence data on suspicious people on its own.
This makes Project Prism very terrifying, probably in the United States, 30% of citizens are under the surveillance range of "witches".
With "Witch", the NSA only needs a few thousand employees and a few professional computer security system contractors to complete a huge amount of surveillance and intelligence gathering work, and they themselves do not know how many people the "Witch" is spying on, anyway, when they need to find information about a suspicious person, they can basically search for enough detailed information and intelligence in the database of the Prism system.
Of course, The-ShunFamliy and the key employees of the Huayin Consortium are also under the surveillance of witches.
Dr. Lu can control witches, but it will not use this ability lightly unless it threatens the safety of Xu Teng and The-ShunFamliy.
For Xu Teng, all he had to do was ignore the Prism Project and the existence of the witch.
Ten minutes later, Xu Teng wrote a very detailed reply.
"Dear old friend, Chairman Pitt. ”
"Thank you for your appreciation, I am deeply honored by your evaluation, and I deeply regret the conflict of interest between SUPCON and ABB. ”
"First of all, I must tell you a very important information, about the internal system of the Huayin Consortium, the Huayin Consortium is not a simple family business, here, in the board of directors of the consortium, all the joint partners are completely equal. The consortium has two kinds of subsidiaries, one is a first-class industrial group, similar to Huateng Electronics and Central Control Group, and the other is a first-class independent company. When you're a co-partner and you're also responsible for leading a Tier 1 conglomerate, it's a very different story. ”
"The reason why I tell you this is because I have to say sorry to you, the Central Control Group is a first-class industrial group of the consortium, and it has a joint partner, which means that I have no authority to sell the Central Control Group. It is only when all the joint partners are present collectively that we can decide such a significant matter by voting, which is simply not possible. You can understand that when we vote on whether to sell a company for which one of the joint partners is fully responsible, the other joint partners know that if they choose to vote for it, their business may be sold next. ”
"I don't think it's an institutional drawback, because that's our strength, it's our democracy and grace. ”
"The other very bad problem is that not only can't we give up our controlling stake in ZPCG, but we don't have enough cash and performance to support our acquisition of ABB, and if we have to talk about it, then, you're right, we can choose to merge. ”
"I can't give my exact idea for the time being, but if you have a precise and effective merger plan, I'd be happy to discuss it with the other co-partners. ”
"Thank you for your greetings, your friend, Xu Teng. ”
Xu Teng sent the email.
A few seconds later.
Dr. Lu typed a line on Xu Teng's laptop: Congratulations, the email has been intercepted.
If it had been before, Dr. Lu would have reminded him that the mail had been intercepted.
This time, Dr. Lu used "congratulations" because it judged Xu Teng's intentions and was convinced that Xu Teng consciously let the NSA get the reply letter and analyze the reply.
Xu Teng looked at the sky outside through the porthole and smiled, glad that Dr. Lu had made a slight improvement.