Chapter 572: Founding Cangjie

"These," Li Mingyuan said softly, "are our most precious nodes. Through them, we can understand the world's most core strategic movements. And, if necessary..."

He did not finish, but Minister Zhang understood his meaning instantly—if necessary, these systems could become key points that influence or even interfere with the operations of these countries.

"Lao Li," Minister Zhang's tone suddenly became serious, "this kind of power... is too terrifying. Can we really control it?"

Li Mingyuan turned around and looked into Minister Zhang's eyes: "This is why I insist that the 'Pangu Guardian' must be elites who have undergone the strictest screening. We hold the power to change the world's landscape, and we must use it carefully."

He walked back to the screen and looked at the flickering light points representing global information nodes: "Our goal is not to control the world, but to change the rules of the game. To let Long Country occupy its rightful place in the new world order."

At the same time, in laboratories around the world, thousands of scientists and engineers are working day and night to crack the mysteries of Longxin technology. Governments have invested unprecedented resources, and linguists and computer experts are working side by side, trying to understand the logical structure of the Chinese programming system.

The Star-Spangled Country's "Prometheus Project" has been upgraded to a national top-priority project, and Beijixiong Guo's "Red Star Project" has likewise invested a massive amount of resources. Every country has realized that getting rid of their dependence on Longxin technology has become an urgent task concerning national security.

However, progress is despairingly slow. The structural logic of Chinese is completely different from Western languages, and coupled with the technical terminology and programming paradigms created by the people of Long Country, this work is as difficult as ascending to heaven. Even the most optimistic estimates believe that it will take at least five to ten years to achieve a true technological breakthrough.

And during this time, Long Country will use the massive foreign exchange income and strategic resource exchanges brought by maintenance services to further accelerate its own technological development. According to intelligence, Penglai Base has already begun early research into Quantum Computers, while simultaneously achieving breakthrough progress in hypersonic flight platforms.

For the countries of the world, this is an unprecedented technological catch-up race, and the gap at the starting point is already suffocatingly large.

Penglai Base, late at night.

Li Mingyuan stood alone in the command center, watching the real-time data flow of the global information network. A complex light flickered in his eyes—as a transmigrator, he knew deeply that he was rewriting history and creating a brand-new future.

He pulled up a special interface showing the deep access records of various countries' Longxin Systems. These records would never appear in any public report, and even most members of the "Pangu Guardian" team did not know of their existence.

This is the most core secret of the entire system—every Longxin device has a hidden "backdoor" built in, allowing the core system of Penglai Base to remotely access and control it when necessary. This is not just for maintenance or monitoring, but a deep-level strategic safeguard.

"Everything is under control," Li Mingyuan whispered to himself, closing the secret interface, "now, it is time to start the next phase."

He picked up the notebook on the table, opened a new blank page, and wrote down a title: "Pangu Eye"—this will be the codename for the next generation of global information monitoring and analysis systems, built on the foundation of the already deployed Longxin network, capable of integrating and processing massive amounts of data from all over the world to provide Long Country's strategic decision-making with an unprecedented information advantage.

And all of this is proceeding quietly under the close surveillance of countless eyes from various countries' intelligence agencies. What they see is only the surface—the work of technical teams, the maintenance of equipment, the upgrading of systems. No one knows that behind these seemingly ordinary technical activities, an information empire covering the globe is taking shape.

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Penglai Base, top-secret conference hall, 3:17 AM.

Outside the window, the wind and rain are raging; the roar of Nature forms a strange symphony with the human voices inside. Before the brightly lit circular conference table, the faces of over a dozen high-level decision-makers and technological elites of Long Country appear exceptionally grave under the lights. Li Mingyuan has just finished reporting on the latest progress of the "Pangu Eye" global information monitoring system; logically, the meeting should be over, but he stands where he is, motionless, as if he still has something to say.

Minister Zhang is the first to sense the abnormality; he has known Li Mingyuan for too long, and every time that special light flashes in this guy's eyes, it is never a good thing. Sure enough, Li Mingyuan clears his throat:

"Leaders, comrades, before we adjourn, I have one more new strategic proposal."

The air in the conference room tightens instantly. Everyone thought this meeting was already exciting enough—"Pangu Eye" itself is a massive move that shocked the world, so what kind of trouble is Li Mingyuan trying to stir up now?

"I suggest that Long Country take the lead in founding a top-tier global scientific journal, named 'Cangjie'," Li Mingyuan says calmly, his tone as natural as if he were discussing today's meal.

Once these words are out, there is first a deathly silence in the conference room, followed by an uproar.

"What? Start a scientific journal?" Minister Wu of the Ministry of Industry is stunned for a moment, unable to react, "Isn't our current focus to consolidate Longxin technology and expand the 'Pangu Net'?"

"Chief Engineer Li, we are the Military Industry Commission, not a publishing house." General Wang, the Military representative, frowns, his tone carrying dissatisfaction, "Why start some scientific journal? If we have this spare time, we might as well build more Longxin-III units and train more 'Pangu Guardian' teams."

Academician Chen of the Academy of Sciences also shakes his head repeatedly: "Chief Engineer Li, forgive my bluntness, but the path of academic journals is too difficult to walk. The West has already established a deep-rooted journal system; top journals like 'Nature' and 'Science' have a history of over a hundred years, and the academic world only recognizes these 'foreign scripts'. If we rashly start a new publication, I fear no one will pay attention to it."

Li Mingyuan seems to have anticipated these reactions; his face remains calm, and he just listens quietly to everyone speaking.

"Look," Professor Liu, a technical expert from the Military Industry Commission, interjects, "in those top Western journals, almost all the editors-in-chief and reviewers are Western scholars, and you know their attitude toward us—contempt, exclusion, and even hostility. Even if the papers we submit are of high quality, they are often deliberately made difficult or delayed in publication. But this is reality, and we can only accept it."

"That's right," another scientist echoes, "we have indeed made breakthroughs in certain fields, but in most basic science fields, the international academic community still views us as laggards. If we run a journal, people won't submit to it, let alone cite it."