A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Bang! A square iron box covered the group of flamboyant "seaweed".

Secretary Liu quickly inserted a thin metal plate from the bottom: "Heh, now we can move it?"

Jiang Xia, having posed enough, was freezing cold. She huddled in her military green coat, shivering, and gave Secretary Liu a thumbs-up.

First, I called my senior brother in Yunnan and Guizhou and asked him to prepare two "Big Yellow Doppelgangers" as backups. Then I went to the factory manager to ask for leave and get a pass.

Unfortunately, after wandering around for a while, I still couldn't find anyone.

Following instructions from relevant personnel in the office, Jiang Xia even went to the toilet and stubbornly blocked it so he couldn't poop. Yang Youning, who was groaning from holding it in, signed several documents.

"Why did you go through all this trouble? With your position, you could have just signed it yourself." Secretary Liu scoffed at Jiang Xia's pointless and unnecessary approach.

"You know the process is correct!"

Jiang Xia didn't want to leave any loopholes for some idle people to report over such a trivial matter. Didn't you see how a cafeteria worker got a reprimand for bringing his own lunchbox? Making a mountain out of a molehill—a mere research and development department head's position wasn't enough to quell those crazy people.

Just like a poor author who is forced to revise their work again today.

Speechless all the way.

When they arrived at the old place where the senior brothers from Yunnan and Guizhou were staying, Minister Wang of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications had already set up telephone lines in the two underground offices.

"Uncle Wang, you're here so early?"

"Hey, as people get older, they sleep less. Instead of lying on the kang (heated brick bed), it's better to move around a bit. People just can't be idle!" Minister Wang stretched his arms and legs.

"Just like your Uncle Wang, he stretched his muscles yesterday and felt so good!" As he spoke, Minister Wang glanced at his unfilial son, who was sticking his butt out.

Old Wang stood cautiously to the side, listening to Minister Wang speak: "Ah, yes, yes, yes!"

Jiang Xia glanced curiously at the obedient Old Wang, his hands still busy. In no time, he took the modem out of the metal box and plugged it into the telephone line.

"Junior brother, what's this?"

The senior disciple from Yunnan and Guizhou looked at the circuit board he took out of the iron box and thought, "It's really ugly!"

"A device for direct data communication between computers based on telephone lines"

Computer data communication!

Senior Brother Yungui immediately became excited: "No wonder you asked us to prepare two Big Yellow computers. By the way, that computer communication port that I didn't understand earlier, was it for this? I thought it was for the keyboard."

"That's right! By the way, we should keep more of these general-purpose interfaces in the future; who knows what we can add to them later."

The other comrades standing nearby were also abuzz with excitement upon hearing Jiang Xia's words, and they couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"Wow, is this the thing we were thinking about a while ago? Engineer Jiang has already made a physical prototype?"

Ignoring the murmurs of the crowd, Jiang Xia scratched his chin.

"Senior brother? Where else in Beijing can Big Yellow's clone be found?"

Senior Brother Yungui scratched his head: "That's all. All the newly manufactured units have been allocated. Even the one you requested, someone will come to transport it this afternoon."

"Huh... production hasn't increased yet?"

Jiang Xia was a little dissatisfied with the progress, and the senior brother looked distressed: "It's improved, but there are more requirements now, there's nothing I can do..."

Yes! I have another one over there!

A voice came from outside the crowd, and everyone made way. The Minister of the External Affairs Department took off his hat, smiling broadly, clearly in a good mood.

"Have you forgotten that you provided one to our department yesterday so we could demonstrate it to those arrogant guys?"

"If needed, I'll have someone send it over. This kind of high-tech stuff is just sitting there, and we're a bunch of roughnecks who can't figure it out—what a waste!"

Jiang Xia nodded. That's perfect. The outer section is quite a distance from here. The farther away it is, the more impressive the results will be!

Asking Minister Wang to come and pull the cable is just a preliminary test.

"No need to move here, a little distance is even better!"

"Brother Yungui, copy the program in first, copy it to both machines, then take the remaining modems to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shall we?"

The little guy tossed out two cassette tapes containing pre-prepared telnet client programs.

"Okay! Is there anything I need to be careful about when connecting?"

"It's simple, just pay attention to these pins. I didn't solder them properly, and the clumps are a bit too big..."

Wow, this isn't just big, it's covered up even the components!

Seeing that the solder joint was actually a lump of cow dung, Senior Brother Yungui took out a small iron nail, preparing to free the component lead from the solder paste.

It's really so pitiful...

The Minister of the External Coking Department was asked to sit in front of the No. 1 "Big Yellow" clone, and then Minister Wang from the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, who had just arrived, was asked to go to another office where "Big Yellow" was deployed.

So, we'll call the one on the side of the Minister of the Outer Coking Department "Machine No. 1" and the one on the side of Minister Wang of the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry "Machine No. 2".

"Huh? Why are you making me sit here?"

The old man was a little confused. "You want me to type? Hey, don't underestimate me. When I was the mayor of Shanghai, I used to tinker with this thing!"

The head of the external department touched the keyboard, which was still a typewriter, with a nostalgic look, and joked with everyone.

"Don't rush, wait until this indicator light turns into a line. But before that, do you want to say something?" Jiang Xia pointed to the vacuum tube light on the tape drive used to display the copying progress and answered with a grin.

In fact, the data copying process of the tape drive was not slow, but people's inexplicable anxiety could not be stopped.

Finally, the flashing light from the vacuum tube became a straight line.

"Senior Brother! Is your connection working properly on your end?"

"Alright! The modem is installed and the program has been copied. We've improved the tape drive circuitry on this machine; its transfer speed is much faster than the old model..."

Wow, if it weren't for the fact that our researchers are so amazing, as long as you help them find the right approach, their research speed would be absolutely phenomenal!

Everything is ready, let's get started!

After Jiangxia started the modem's connection program, the screen immediately responded.

Because the telephone line was directly connected, a line of text appeared on the monitor after a short while.

"Signal established."

The Minister of the External Coking Department read it out word by word.

"Huh? What did you connect to? Another computer?"

"OK!"

Jiang Xia squeezed in front of the Minister of the External Affairs Department and started running the telnet main program.

While called the main program, it's really just a server-side monitoring program. Jiang Xia simply added some features, making it similar to the management programs used in internet cafes in later generations. It can send messages to clients, and the server can receive responses from specified connection objects.

However, this small change is just right for the current computer environment!

As for the login interface and password required for later login clients, Little Doppelganger completely omitted them. There aren't many computers now, so why would he need a password? It would be a waste of precious memory space.

"Boss, have you decided what message to send?"

The Minister of the External Affairs Department patted Jiang Xia's head and gently pushed him aside.

"I've made up my mind! I'm going to type it out myself!"

Thus, the old man's "one-finger Zen" was revealed to the world.

Although the speed was extremely slow, the appearance of Chinese characters unmistakably revealed the old man's domineering presence.

"forever"

"Far"

……

"Never harbor the slightest illusions about the enemy!"

Hmm... Looks like the old man is still holding a grudge!

Jiang Xia gasped. Could this really be reported by the Daily News?

The world's first online message was, "Never harbor even the slightest illusions about the enemy?"

But it was really awesome!