Chapter 225 Secretary Zheng's Good Deeds
On Saturday afternoon, Gao Zhendong arrived at the conference room according to the time notified by the 12th Ministry of Machine Building.

A lot of people came, including those from the Defense Work Committee, the Postal and Communications Committee, the Education Department, and the Propaganda Department. Among them were Gao Zhendong's acquaintances, such as the leaders of the Defense Work Committee, as well as Director Li and Chief Engineer Chi of the Operations Institute.

Interestingly, the other ministries had deputies coming, but he was the only one who came in person.

Only one person came from the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, but his identity was quite interesting. He was the secretary of the leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, Secretary Zheng.

It seems that good things may happen to him. In addition, at this meeting, the Ministry of Machine Building only needs to express its attitude. The specific matters have little to do with the ministry, so they just send him here to gild his reputation.

The meeting hadn't started yet. The two men were not that far apart in age and knew each other well, so Gao Zhendong sat down and chatted with him first. Secretary Zheng was also very enthusiastic.

Gao Zhendong laughed softly and said, "Secretary Zheng, it looks like you're going to have more responsibilities soon, right?"

Secretary Zheng looked pleased. If it were someone else, he might have kept it secret. He would not want to make it public until the matter was settled.

But Gao Zhendong's case is a little different. Once he is sent out, he will need the support of powerful people, and Gao Zhendong happens to be such a person.

His rank is not far from his, they are director and deputy director, which means that in actual work, both of them are basically handling work at the same level. For Secretary Zheng, who was born as a secretary and was sent out to do practical work and lay a solid foundation, this is just the level that can get things done.

In this regard, Secretary Zheng does not really need someone of a higher level. It is enough for him to have 17 leaders of the Ministry of Machine Building to check behind the scenes. If there are too many high-level people, even if they cooperate, who will be responsible for the work done?
Gao Zhendong is a person who has strength, power, ability, good character, and no competition at work. For Secretary Zheng, he is a God-given partner.

In addition, the leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building had always been concerned about Gao Zhendong, so he and Gao Zhendong were naturally close. Therefore, seeing that Gao Zhendong had guessed it, there was nothing to hide.

He smiled and nodded: "It should be in the next few months, but the direction has not been decided yet. Director Gao will have to help me when the time comes."

This is a heartfelt statement. For him, he must achieve results, and there are two directions for achieving results: organizational and business.

For him, who originally started out as a secretary, his organizational work experience is sufficient for the time being. If he wants to go further in the future, he will need to make up for the weaknesses and gaps in his business work, so that his resume will be rich and comprehensive enough.

To make up for the shortfall in business work, in their system there are only two directions: production and scientific research.

However, achieving results in production is uncontrollable. Secondly, for the fledgling Secretary Zheng, it takes some time to adapt and improve, and the effects will be slow to show.

But scientific research is different. He knows Gao Zhendong's abilities too well. He is basically certain that as long as he has the opportunity to cooperate with Gao Zhendong on one or two projects, the matter will be settled!
Then build on this as a foundation and slowly fill in the gaps in production experience, and everything will fall into place.

So he did not hesitate and immediately asked Gao Zhendong for help. As for the olive branch, there was no need to extend it because the two of them had a close relationship for a long time.

Gao Zhendong probably understood what he meant, nodded and smiled, "Don't forget to let me know when it's settled, I'll go and congratulate you."

Secretary Zheng was certain in his heart that although he knew Gao Zhendong's character and knew he would definitely be willing to help, he still felt relieved to hear these words with his own ears.

The two of them laughed and chatted casually while waiting for the meeting to begin.

Soon, everyone arrived and the leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building announced the start of the meeting.

The meeting focused on one topic: how to use computer communications at this stage.

First, Gao Zhendong gave an introduction to the current status of computer-to-computer communication.

Gao Zhendong introduced the current status, functions, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of modems, message transmission and file transmission.

After listening to this, Secretary Zheng realized that what Gao Zhendong had in his hands was even far beyond what he knew. He couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he had made the right move, as half of the matter was already done.

Others were even more interested, especially those from the Defense Work Committee and the Postal and Communications Committee.

The person from the Postal and Communications Commission said with a smile: "Although Director Gao's modem relies on the telephone network, its application prospects and technical essence far exceed the telephone network. The prospects are very bright."

As expected of a member of the Postal and Communications Commission, he saw through the nature of the Internet at a glance.

If the current long-distance network relies on the telephone network, then in the future, the situation will be the opposite, and the telephone network will rely on the construction of the Internet.

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "The leader is right. The essence of a modem is a data communication network. For a data communication network, telephones and telegrams are all data on it. However, due to current technological limitations, long-distance data communication networks need to be carried on the physical carrier of the telephone network." In fact, modems in a broad sense have been widely used to this day, for example in mobile phones, regenerative repeaters or switches, fiber optic communication equipment, etc. As long as the equipment involves digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion in communication, it is essentially inseparable from modulation and demodulation technology.

The Postal and Communications Commission asked, "Can this technology replace the telegraph to a certain extent?"

Gao Zhendong said: "Technically, it is possible. The information transmission speed, transmission cost, and personnel threshold of this technology are far superior to telegraph technology. However, due to cost issues, there are actually some difficulties for the time being."

The comrades from the Postal and Communications Commission felt a little regretful. After all, the high price of sending telegrams now is still not very convenient for the masses.

In addition to the telegraph, at this time and in the next 20 to 30 years, the postal system actually also made extensive use of teletypewriters as a means of communication. However, the only thing that thing actually solved was the technical threshold of sending messages. The coding, copying, and translation of messages were still similar to those of the telegraph.

The reason is very simple. The teletype machine can only transmit numbers, punctuation marks and English letters. Chinese characters still have to be converted into four-digit telegraph codes for sending, receiving and translating. The only difference is that there is one less step of converting the telegraph codes into Morse code and sending them out.

He said, "What a pity! If it were possible, we could lower the price of telegrams and make them even more convenient."

After hearing this, the leader of the Defense Work Committee roughly understood the benefits of this technology: "Zhendong, do you mean that this technology can send all kinds of files and data at any time, not necessarily in text?"

Gao Zhendong nodded and said, "Yes, in fact, all texts, pictures, sounds, etc. are data, and one advantage of the data sent by this technology is that it can be processed automatically, unlike making a phone call or communicating, which requires human intervention. If you have an accent, you often can't hear it clearly."

The leader of the Defense Work Committee was a little excited when he heard this: "Automatically handle? For example?"

Gao Zhendong didn't explain it in detail, but only mentioned it vaguely: "For example, the 'chess competition' in the United States."

"Chess competition"? What kind of chess competition? The leader was about to ask, but suddenly realized that what Gao Zhendong wanted to say was "chess competition"!
Saiqi is actually a transliteration. The original name is SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), which is the semi-automatic ground-based air defense system of the United States. It is something similar to the "Air" automatic air defense guidance system of the Russians in the north.

People in China only know about this thing sporadically, and they know roughly what it is used for, but they don’t know more specific details. At a certain level, at least they know that it exists. For example, Gao Zhendong learned about the existence of this thing through some basic exchanges with the Defense Work Committee.

Thinking of this answer, the leader of the Defense Work Committee was shocked, and then overjoyed. Automatic command system? If you say this, I won't be sleepy at all!

However, he also knew that this thing could not be discussed openly here, otherwise Gao Zhendong would not have played dumb with him.

He laughed and said, "Come to the committee some other day and we'll talk it over!"

Gao Zhendong nodded, then turned to the person from the Postal and Communications Commission and said with a smile: "Leader, it is not impossible to reduce costs. I am working on this, but it will take some time."

The so-called related work is the single-board computer. The price of the single-board computer is even cheaper than that of DJS-59. Although it cannot be widely used, it should be able to be gradually rolled out at the county level and above.

There are only a few thousand counties in the whole country, but the actual number of teletypewriters is more than 30,000 for just one model. A single-board computer with a keyboard and a monitor is actually not much more expensive than a teletypewriter.

At the same time, the speed of the single-board computer, let alone other things, is more than enough for sending text or something, at least for civilian use.

The leader of the Postal and Communications Commission was delighted: "Really? Then I'll wait for your good news. If you need any support, just let me know. I'll send a letter to the Communications Institute when I get back, asking them to be ready to cooperate with you at any time."

Gao Zhendong, who had accidentally gotten a lot of benefits, said happily: "Okay, thank you, boss."

At this time, the propaganda staff raised a question to the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building: "These are all good things, so why do we need to hold this special meeting? Can't we just promote them directly?"

The leader of the 12th Ministry of Machinery said with a smile: "This question should be answered by Director Gao."

Gao Zhendong smiled bitterly and said, "One problem with this thing is that it is too convenient and can be easily exploited."

No one quite understood, so Gao Zhendong added: "This thing transmits information very quickly, that's the first point. It cannot be monitored manually because people can't understand the data, that's the second point. If the transmitted information is encrypted, then data monitoring is also very difficult, that's the third point."

Who were the people present? As soon as Gao Zhendong said this half-said and half-hidden thing, everything became clear.

The speed at which this thing spreads information far exceeds the response speed of existing management methods!

(End of this chapter)