Chapter 269 News
Chapter 269 News
To be honest, An Rushong didn't know whether Jenny was trustworthy. Although he had saved her life and could be considered her savior, there were many cases of ingratitude in this world. What's more, this woman was not only an American, but also an NSA employee. She had the "gene" of betrayal in her roots. If An Rushong really gave her full trust just because he had saved her, then he would be really stupid.
But then again, at least so far, An Rushong has not noticed that Jenny has done anything to harm him. Strictly speaking, introducing the NSA's monitoring mechanism into NGN is not a bad thing, at least not for An Rushong, the president of NGN.
An Rushong's attitude is to cooperate with Jenny and the NSA while remaining vigilant, and the premise of everything is that it is beneficial to him and NGN, or at least harmless.
According to Jenny's plan, her working group will first arrange three people in NGN. These three people are all Korean, or more precisely, Korean Americans. They will apply for network security personnel and join NGN's server maintenance team. Their identities are kept secret, and only An Rusong knows the truth.
After NGN's data center is established, especially its overseas data center, relevant NSA staff will gradually join in.
Of course, these intelligence personnel who joined NGN would only focus on the user communications of NGN software and would not intervene in the daily operations of NGN. According to Jenny, when An Rushong met with Leonard later, the two sides could sign a confidentiality agreement. She even hinted to An Rushong that almost all major Internet companies in the United States have such a cooperative relationship with the NSA.
After introducing the first three network security personnel to An Rusong, Jenny began to arrange the follow-up work. The dozen people who came with her began to work in the company's server room. In the boxes they brought with them, there were some electronic devices that An Rusong had never seen before. These people worked for more than two hours, installing some hardware into the company's server, and it seemed that they also installed some software.
After they completed the installation, An Rushong started the company's server self-check program, but failed to find any problems. It was obvious that the NSA's monitoring methods were much more sophisticated than NGN's firewall and network security strategies.
It was already late at night when Jenny and her group left NGN. After sending them to the car and watching the taillights of four Chevrolet cars slowly disappear into the snowy night, An Rushong knew in his heart that even though he had not yet formally met with Leonard, he had already been completely on the NSA's pirate ship.
The reason why he boarded this pirate ship so happily was, on the one hand, because of his ambition, and on the other hand, he had no choice.
The so-called Republic of Korea is one of the two vicious dogs that the United States has let loose in East Asia. In the eyes of ordinary Koreans, the United States seems to be the patron saint of South Korea. The torch in the hand of the Statue of Liberty illuminates the night sky of the Republic of Korea, and the bright light of Washington protects the safety of Seoul.
Only Koreans who have reached a certain level of status and position can truly feel that the United States is not the patron saint of Korea, but the master of Korea. The Statue of Liberty not only holds a torch, but also a dog leash. A sneeze from Washington can blow up a storm in the political circle of Seoul.
Therefore, Koreans who cannot feel the presence of the United States are just ordinary people at the bottom of society. The reason why they cannot feel the exploitation from the United States is that they themselves do not have enough value, so that their American masters simply look down on them.
But today An Rushong is no longer an ordinary person. To Americans, he has a certain value. Therefore, he either joins the Americans' "circle of friends" or is included in the Americans' "menu". There is no other way.
The heavy snow fell all night long and did not stop until the next morning. Although the snow was not as heavy, there were still small snowflakes falling from time to time.
At the Songquan-dong mansion, An Rushong had breakfast with Sun Manzhu and Li Caicao. He first called Bai Jinjun to inform him that he had returned to Seoul. No matter what Bai Jinjun's purpose was, at least he was quite nice to him. Therefore, as a matter of courtesy, he should tell him as soon as possible when he returned to Seoul from Yuantongli.
Xinzheng’s holiday is only one day, and NGN company should officially go back to work today. At the same time, Rubin’s school also officially starts today, so An Rushong has to send Rubin to school and then go to work at the company.
Of course, he only said to the women at home that he was going to work. Today, NGN Company did start work, but he, the chairman, did not plan to go to work. He planned to go to Dogok-dong to see the Yuanya sisters, and if he had enough time, he would go to Han Mi-yeon to see them. After all, it was a holiday, and even if he could not spend the holiday with the women, he had to let them know that he had not forgotten them.
Before leaving, An Rusong talked to Sun Manzhu about investing in building a factory in Wontongli, and the latter naturally had no objection. To be honest, building a factory in Wontongli might increase logistics costs, but after all, it is only a three or four hour drive between Seoul and Wontongli. Even if the logistics costs increase, how much can they increase?
More importantly, the labor cost in Yuantong is much lower than that in Seoul. If the salary of 10 workers is reduced by 3000 won each, million won can be saved in wages every month. This saved money is more than enough to cover the logistics expenses.
An Rushong only mentioned the matter of investing in building a toy factory in Yuantongli to Sun Manzhu, and then handed all matters over to her. Although the current "DreamToys" toy factory is not large in scale, its personnel structure has been enriched. Under the president Sun Manzhu, there is also a formally hired president. Matters like this can naturally be handed over to the president to handle.
Nearing eight o'clock, An Rushong called Luo Minzhi and drove Rubin to school.
The snow last night was really heavy, and the thickness of the snow on the sidewalk was more than ten centimeters. Fortunately, the municipal department responded quickly enough, and the snow on the city roads had been cleared, but the snow on the sidewalk was still silted up and had not been dealt with in time. Luo Minzhi drove very steadily, driving all the way from Songquandong to Anyandong, and An Rusong even took a nap on the way.
The car stopped in front of the gate of Korea University Senior High School. As usual, An Rushong got out of the car and watched Rubin enter the campus. Then he stood outside the car and smoked half a cigarette before getting back into the car.
As I said, school bullying in South Korea is no joke. As a child from the countryside, Rubin is most likely to become a target of school bullying. Therefore, in order to prevent her from becoming a target of bullying, An Rushong, as her brother, must support her.
There is no doubt that those bullies are the most discerning. When they bully others, they know how to make choices. They dare not provoke those who seem to have a relatively strong family background, unless they really have made a mistake.
After smoking half a cigarette, An Rushong returned to the car. He wrapped the collar of his coat and was thinking about telling Luo Minzhi to go to Daogudong when the cell phone in his coat pocket suddenly rang.
He motioned to Luo Minzhi to roll down the window, then threw the remaining half of the cigarette out of the window, then took out the mobile phone from his pocket and looked at the screen.
The name displayed on the phone screen was Bai Jinjun. An Rushong was a little curious. You know, he had just talked to the other party forty minutes ago.
Although he felt surprised, he immediately pressed the answer button and put the phone to his ear.
"Rushong, where are you?" The call was connected, and Bai Jinjun's gentle voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Uncle Jin Jun, I'm on my way to the company," An Rusong didn't tell the truth, "What's the matter?"
"That's perfect," Bai Jinjun didn't answer his question, but said directly, "When you get to the company, remember to do one thing right away. Adjust the hot news in the NGN software pop-up window and cancel the one about Samsung. It's best to block it."
"Oh?" An Rusong was stunned for a moment, then said, "I haven't seen today's hot news recommendations yet. Okay, I understand, Uncle Jin Jun, I'll call the company's technical staff and ask them to get things done."
"Okay, hurry up," Bai Jinjun reminded again.
An Rushong responded again and then hung up the phone.
Because he returned to the Songquandong mansion very late yesterday and got up late in the morning, An Rushong did not pay attention to the newspaper, so he did not know what the hot news about Samsung that Bai Jinjun mentioned was.
Of course, the biggest possibility is that even if he read the newspaper, he would not see anything related to the hot topic that Bai Jinjun mentioned. Since someone wants to block this news, it will most likely not have a chance to appear in the newspaper.
As for the pop-up windows of NGN software, although they have been very effective in the operation of volunteer activities before, their attributes as a news dissemination medium have not been firmly remembered by people. Therefore, those who block news have probably forgotten about the pop-up windows of NGN software.
The reason why Bai Jinjun made this call was probably because the person who tried to block the news found him and found An Rushong through him.
Out of curiosity, An Rushong changed his previous plan and asked Luo Minzhi to drive the car to the company directly.
(End of this chapter)