Chapter 152: “People” Are Not the Same as People

“Did he really say that?”

Hao Ren’s father, Mu Weini, listened to his son’s report on the latest progress of the weapons improvement plan, and was somewhat surprised by Du Qiu’s new idea.

“Yeah, Dad, my master is now a weapons expert. Improving the equipment on the warships isn’t a difficult task for him.”

Mu Weini sighed, “I’m afraid he’s oversimplifying things. We do not have a shipyard, which means there’s no dry dock to modify the warships.”

The Tanga Federation was too weak, lacking any substantial industry. Otherwise, would he have agreed to help Du Qiu escape from the United States after hearing that Du Qiu was willing to invest 200 million dollars to build an industrial park?

The GDP of the Tanga Federation was only a few tens of billions of dollars a year. An investment of 200 million dollars would be a massive political achievement, wouldn’t it?

Although Mu Weini held the position of Minister of National Defense, his political ambitions were not small.

Although they did not end up using the Tanga Federation’s cargo ships for smuggling, the fact was that the person was now staying in the federation.

If exposed, the Americans definitely would not let it go easily.

Therefore, Mu Weini was very satisfied with Du Qiu’s disguise and change of identity in the Tanga Federation and went to great lengths to help him conceal his secret.

Now, everything had proven his vision correct, and he had smoothly become the second most important person in his party. It seemed that he could be the next president.

“Dad, my master said there’s no need for dry docks. He only wants to improve the anti-ship missiles, air defense missile systems, and radar systems on the warships. These things can be modified without entering a shipyard.”

“Really?” Mu Weini was overjoyed, stood up, and paced back and forth in the room before saying to Hao Ren, “If it’s possible to modify without a drydock, then let him make the improvements. However, ask him to modify just one warship first.”

Although Mu Weini trusted Du Qiu’s technology, these were warships, the precious assets of the federal defense forces. What if the missiles didn’t work after the modification?

Anyway, things had to be done cautiously.

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In the underworld, inside a mansion.

Liu Yaofeng, known as Liu Yaofeng, slouched unceremoniously on the sofa, patting his belly, “Boss, the Chinese food here is too delicious.”

Before coming to the Tanga Federation this time, Liu Yaofeng had made a detour to Europe and stayed for almost ten days.

Although the United States had sanctioned Dream Technology, some European countries had not followed, which represented an international market that Dream Technology had fought for.

Coming to the Tanga Federation under the guise of inspecting the African factory of Dream Technology, Liu Yaofeng had had his fill of dark bread in Berlin, where the headquarters of Dream Technology in Germany was located.

Now that he could enjoy delightful Chinese cuisine, it was natural for him to lose his image.

“The home-use robots here indeed have a better cooking function than ‘Xiaobai’; after all, they use the new chips from Zhexi Technology.”

Liu Yaofeng said, “I didn’t expect Zhexi Technology to come up with a completely new architecture for chips. They’re truly our own Tang Country’s chips.

However, the online public opinion is divided into two camps, one relentlessly vilifying and the other lavishly praising, making it difficult to discern the true quality of the chips.

Zhexi Technology’s chips claim to be usable in both computers and smartphones, but currently, computer and smartphone manufacturers are still just observing. You sure are brave to use it.”

Du Qiu smiled and said, “Yu Donghua, the chairman of Zhexi Technology, is my childhood friend. Haven’t you met him before?

He said he bought a lab in the United States that was a small team of people of Tang descent, who had come up with a new type of chip, so he invested money into it.

I visited and felt it had potential. I remember setting up a research team at the R&D center to develop applications based on their chips.

Didn’t you take over that later? I heard there have already been some results, so how come you don’t dare to use their chips?”

Scratching his head, Liu Yaofeng replied, “Boss, without your instructions, I wouldn’t dare make such a decision on such a big matter.

However, if Xiaobai switches to using chips from Zhexi Technology, wouldn’t the control software have to be rewritten?”

Du Qiu said, “There’s very little that needs to be rewritten; I’ve already handled that. After you go back, arrange to switch to chips from Zhexi Technology, consider it Xiaobai’s second generation.

But don’t further enhance the realism of its appearance. Keep a distinction between it and the blue-collar robots here to avoid causing potential concerns among people, which could lead others to attack us.

This way, we can also give a boost to Zhexi Technology and break the current market stalemate. Actually, the current situation was all stirred up by Intel and Qualcomm.

When you go back, find Yu Donghua and sign a strategic alliance. From now on, use Zhexi Technology’s chips for all of Dream Technology’s products that need chips.”

“Alright, I’ll take care of it when I get back. But make sure you put a good word in with Yu Donghua.”

“You’re offering help at his time of need, are you still worried that Yu Donghua won’t deal with you?”

Liu Yaofeng nodded and then suddenly asked, “Boss, aren’t you worried that Hao Ren will tell his father everything about those weapons and equipment you showcased today? What if they covet this base?”

Du Qiu smiled calmly and said, “Hao Ren is trustworthy; he has not told his father anything about the base.

In fact, I’m not worried at all about the Tanga Federation being against me. To put it bluntly, this country is already under my control.”

After the crisis over a year ago, Du Qiu had changed his worldview; he had indeed been taught a lesson by Sun Hongming’s actions and had grown to trust people much less than before.

With the advent of Star Ocean, Du Qiu had intensified his monitoring of the world.

Hao Ren and his son, as well as all the key officials of the Tanga Federation, were under Du Qiu’s surveillance; any move they made against his interests would be known to Star Ocean.

Even Liu Yaofeng and all the executives of Dream Technology, whom he had always trusted, were under the comprehensive surveillance of Star Ocean.

Whether a person will betray is not just a question of their loyalty, but the price of their betrayal.

But Du Qiu wouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. He naturally shared secrets that he needed to with his core personnel. With Star Ocean’s surveillance, he felt even more secure and bold.

Hearing Du Qiu’s words, Liu Yaofeng was taken back and, looking at Du Qiu’s smiling face, he realized he probably wasn’t exaggerating.

Liu Yaofeng couldn’t help but think: “In just over a year, the boss has actually managed to control a country.”

Apart from Star Ocean’s surveillance, Du Qiu had even more astounding findings from the keeper’s database.

“Have you seen Secretary Leng? What do you think of her?” Du Qiu suddenly asked.

Liu Yaofeng was taken aback and said, “I didn’t pay much attention. At first, I even speculated that she was a robot, but later realized that all her movements, expressions, and eyes did not seem like those of a robot.

Now that you’re asking this way, it seems she really isn’t a robot. Where did you find such a professional secretary?”

Du Qiu laughed and said, “People’ and people aren’t the same. Actually, she is a robot.”

“Ah?!” Liu Yaofeng was startled and exclaimed, “Really a robot? They’ve managed to achieve such a level of realism for robots?”

Having seen those blue-collar robots had already amazed Liu Yaofeng, but if you observed closely, you could still tell they were robots.

But as for Secretary Leng, he really hadn’t noticed.

Du Qiu stated, “You can consider her a high-end high-fidelity robot, compared to the blue-collar lifelike robots here, there is a clear generational difference, far superior to the slow-moving Xiaobai.

You should be able to tell, it’s all much more refined in every aspect. The most important thing is that its intelligence level is so high that it can be an expert in a certain field.”

After talking for an afternoon, the two set some major development plans for Dream Technology.

When Liu Yaofeng returns to the country, Secretary Leng will accompany him, leading a group of high-fidelity intelligent robots as technical experts.

In addition, Du Qiu specially arranged for 20 high-fidelity security robots to be prepared for the senior executives of Dream Technology, as well as Yu Donghua.

Dream Technology needs to release new products soon. With a series of follow-up actions by Dream Technology and Zhexi Technology, it will inevitably draw the ire of certain forces, so precautions must be taken for the security of senior executives.