Chapter 664

The success of the imperial city also let Yang Qihang breathe a sigh of relief.

That's not just a few million, it's a few hundred billion; although the Yang Family is generous, they're not stupid.

This time supporting Wang Lin, the principle is to not lose money, making a profit is even better.

Indeed, I didn't expect the presale effect to be this good.

The Sci-Fi Residence was also under construction; for this, Yang Qihang had Gangdao Telecom directly run fiber into the residences.

At that time, the fiber's transmission capacity wasn't large, only a few hundred megabits or so.

But in an era where only a few tens of kilobits were common, this was practically a dimensional strike.

The initial layout of the backbone network greatly accelerated the development of information technology in Gangdao.

Much of the software in the Youlong system was developed in Gangdao.

Moreover, the many game companies that came with the Youlong game console were also very satisfied with Gangdao's development environment.

Gangdao's network technology developed extremely fast.

Since Gangdao's backbone network developed so well, naturally the root servers naturally settled in Gangdao.

(The significance of the backbone network is right here; we've already completed the network setup here—if you don't let it join the root servers, it will just play by itself.)

Rather than in history, where there was only one little Japan.

But all of this didn't come without a cost.

Gangdao Telecom originally had telegraph service, managing many telegraph lines across East Asia.

Now, Gangdao Telecom, because of the root servers, must bear the important role of a network node.

Yang Qihang could only invest another five billion into Gangdao Telecom, centering on Gangdao and laying fiber outward to complete regional networking, allowing the root servers to function.

Yingjiang and Ouluoba, the little Japans, placed great importance on the fiber-optic construction between them.

Because these countries have money, their support for the network is also the greatest.

After interconnection, profits will come quickly.

Meanwhile, in East Asia many places are economically backward, with low demand for networking—even less than the Mainland? So profitability is low; low profits mean no one wants to do it for now, which is why Gangdao got the opportunity.

The Mainland values networking more than in history, so fiber technology hasn't lagged too far behind.

Construction of the network is also very proactive, and even talent cultivation is emphasized more than in history.

(In history we already valued networking and computer technology highly; otherwise we wouldn't have had Kingsoft, Yonyou, Lenovo and other tech companies established, and we wouldn't have become the most advanced place in network technology two thousand years later.)

(In the 1980s we began promoting information technology, leading to various plans later………

(Otherwise Shi Yuzhu couldn't have started his business in 1988; HanKa is not just a simple font file, it's a whole invocation system.)

However, doing this isn't without benefits; Gangdao Telecom thereby gained early control of East Asia's information channel.

In a few years, Gangdao Telecom will become the king of East Asian telecom, providing the opportunity for Gangdao Telecom to enter East Asia.

For example, places like Brunei and Singapore—these small locales—can only be controlled by Gangdao Telecom.

With the laying of submarine fiber-optic cables, Gangdao Telecom's business also began to rapidly expand into these places.

The person in charge of Gangdao Telecom is someone named Xu Xiangqian.

He was also promoted by Yang Qing.

The main reason is that when Yang Qing strongly advocated building the backbone network, he was the only one who saw through Yang Qing's plan.

Yang Qing's plan has left Gangdao Telecom losing money to this day.

Now he is even more strongly advocating GSM mobile communications construction, promoting fiber-optic network construction, advancing the Pan-Asian network world construction, and pushing for Pan-Asian fiber-optic cable laying.

Money flows out like water, and there's still no sign of profitability.

For the Sci-Fi Residence, he put in great effort, designing a full set of wiring plans, providing strong support for the residence's functional development.

This is also to make up for such losses.

However, although he feels guilty inside, when it comes to spending money he is not at all polite.

After buying Wang Lin's house and showing off a bit, he came to the group office, ready to continue spending money.

Yang Qihang gets a headache upon seeing him.

Indeed, he spends too much money; even he can't bear it.

"Director Xu, did you come today with any good news?"

Xu Xiangqian paused for a moment, then continued walking over with a smile.

Seeing Yang Qihang's teasing expression, he felt not the slightest embarrassment, as he had long grown accustomed to it.

He smiled apologetically and pulled a box out of his briefcase.

"Director Yang, you can't think that because we spend a lot we have objections to us."

"The money has been spent, but the results are also astonishing."

"Let's not even mention that Gangdao now has the world's fastest network."

"Moreover, we have a large number of companies that rely on computers and networks to survive."

"This has given Gangdao a second supporting industry besides its financial center."

"Now we are further laying out the entire East Asia."

"Gangdao is so small that it's hard for these companies to develop."

"But if we connect the whole East Asian network world, these companies' living space will greatly expand."

"In the future we might even cultivate a few world-class companies."

"And there's the GSM network."

"If we complete the layout of East Asia, communication throughout East Asia will become much simpler."

"Moreover, mobile network construction, landline network construction, and backbone network construction actually overlap."

"Even a television network can exist relying on fiber-optic communication."

The more comprehensive our layout, the stronger our competitiveness in this area will be.

When the entire East Asian network—telephone, television, and mobile communications—is unified into a single whole.

Plus these network content development companies in Gangdao.

He said softly.

"Director Yang, we can indirectly control the public opinion of all of East Asia."

Yang Qihang was instantly stunned.

Damn, that ambition is too huge.

"Can we do this?"

"Rely on Gangdao?"

His heart pounded with fear.

"Yingjiang will likely tie us from Gangdao to their side."

"This is too dangerous; afterwards we should leave it to each country's own companies."

We only serve as a channel service provider.

Xu Xiangqian nodded, speaking solemnly.

"Yes, that's too obvious."

We can proceed covertly, supporting locals on the ground.

We can adopt market means to control these companies.

Yang Qihang listened, speechless, yet his heart was also excited.

Just the thought of being an invisible network overlord is exciting.

However, we need to bring in other benefit parties, such as local forces, squids, plus our own few hidden investment companies, dispersing them to indirectly control through investment; plus the influence of Gangdao Telecom as a main trunk service provider, directly or indirectly, the Yang Family can easily become the invisible overlord of the network.

Most importantly, with these influences, our own content-providing company can more easily enter various countries' markets.

Hehe, by then we can even wrestle with Yingjiang's company.

Awesome, awesome—the information superhighway will surely spawn more commercial activities.

The money involved will be enormous.

Yang Qihang thought and thought, almost drooling.