Seryosha found that his preferences for women had changed a lot since he crossed over. Seryosha liked quiet and lovely girls before the crossing, but now he prefers powerful and strong women. From the earliest acquaintance of Tonya, the daughter of a rebel; to Karim, the daughter of a fallen king; Finally, there's Eva, a former CIA temporary worker. All three women have one thing in common, that is, they never bow to fate. And Yulia, who is now asleep in Seryosha's arms, is the same.

Yulia was born in the countryside of Dnepropetrovsk and was a country girl in the truest sense of the word. And because her mother is Armenian, Yulia has been discriminated against since she was a child. These things were all learned little by little by Seryosha in his daily work. Maybe it's because of the love over time, maybe it's because Yulia does have an irresistible attraction. Anyway, Seryosha finally submitted this charming little goblin.

With a few days to go before the real New Year's holiday, Seryosha plans to reunite with his loved ones in the Czech Republic this year. At present, the central government has very strict control over the visits of senior cadres, and Seryosha has to remotely direct protests in the country. So it was inconvenient for him to go far from Moscow.

In the days leading up to the start of the New Year's holidays, Seryosha took Yulia to sea during the day and enjoyed the world of the two at night. The relationship between the two is a little strange to say, Seryosha once asked Yulia if she would like to leave the Shenko family at the end of the season, and Yulia smiled and politely declined the suggestion.

"Why don't you leave the Shenko family at the end of the season, if you follow me, I can give you a better ......," Seryosha asked puzzled.

"Are you asking me as Minister Ulyanov, or are you asking me as Seryosha?" Yulia asked Seryosha.

"Of course it's Seryosha's identity, I want to ask lovely Yulia, why can't you stay by my side all the time?" Seryosha asked in a different tone, in fact, when he asked this question, he was thinking about how to explain to his current women.

"Seryosha, although I love you, I don't want to belong to anyone, not the Timshchenko family, nor you, Minister Ulyanov. I don't like the way you men are on top......" At the end of the season, Shenko changed his usual gentle appearance and suddenly became stronger.

"So, Seryosha, now it's your turn down there......" Yulia said in a playful and flirtatious voice, and then rode on Seryosha's waist.

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Before the arrival of the Christian Christmas holiday in the West, the fledgling Iridium announced the big news that Iridium has completed the construction of communication cables in the New York and Boston areas, and all universities in the two cities will be connected to NSFNet, which is advocated by the National Wildlife Fund, and at the same time, another commercial network UUNet has begun to operate between New York and Boston.

These two pieces of news became the hottest topic in the US tech circle before Christmas, and many users who were eager to try the new technology submitted UUNet access requests through AT&T.

Although this is only a test network, but because the technology of Yota communication is stable and reliable, and the initial users are still very scarce, so UUNet and NSFNet users are full of praise for Iridium's communication services, at the last press conference before the arrival of Christmas Eve, Eva on behalf of Iridium's board of directors revealed two major good news to the media, one is that Iridium's fiber optic cable project linking the east and west coasts of the United States has been launched, The second is the decision of the NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States to use Iridium's UUNet for data exchange. As soon as the news came out, Iridium blew up the front page of the American financial media.

Seryosha, who was on vacation with Yulia in Sochi at this time, immediately called Mikhail after learning the news and asked him to order a newest, most powerful mainframe computer from IBM.

"Seryosha, what do you want this thing for, not to mention the few engineers who can operate this kind of thing, the price of this thing is not cheap...... Mikhail asked puzzled on the phone.

"Mikhail, this is the future of technology, and I want to plug all our money transactions into the computer, and I also want Eva to find a way to convince the board of directors of the NYSE to also use our UUNet to exchange transaction data after the holidays." Seryosha said impatiently on the other side of the phone.

"Come on, Seryosha, did you think of any ideas to make a lot of money?" Mikhail doesn't believe that spending hundreds of millions of dollars just for that purpose is a luxury for Columbia Bank.

"Mikhail, Iridium's network technology is in our hands, right?" Seryosha asked.

"Of course, then you still need to ask?" Mikhail replied.

"Then we can make Bank of Colombia's packets travel faster than other companies' packets, right?" Seryosha asked again.

"Although I don't know this very well, I think it should not be difficult to achieve!" Mikhail still did not understand what Seryosha was trying to do.

Seryosha continued: "I'll give you an example of Mikhail, let's say there is a stock in the market that is placed a sell order for $5.05, but because of the communication delay, most of the trading machines have not had time to display, someone unknowingly places a buy order for $5.06. If our transfer rate and calculation rate are twice as fast as the other counterparties on the exchange, and our computer knows about the existence of these two orders before all traders notice them, then ......"

"Then our computer can take a $5.05 sell order and sell it to the fool who bids $5.06......" Mikhail finally understood that as long as you are faster than everyone else, then you can grab both deals before all the traders make a move.

What Seryosha had to do was to use Yota's communication technology and IBM's computing speed to get a head start in securities trading, as Mikhail had in mind. This kind of behavior is strictly prohibited by the regulatory authorities in the future, and it has a special name, called high-frequency trading.

Although the future of high-frequency trading will not be invented by some unruly financial institutions until a long time after online trading, but now that even the network is Iridium, Eva only needs to secretly increase the data priority of Bank of Columbia.