Chapter: 6527

Having witnessed industrial revolutions and global wars, she is very clear that as long as the world continues to develop, coal, oil, and natural gas will still be the main energy sources. Whether the world's technology advances or regresses, iron ore, precious metals, and non-ferrous metals are always crucial in an industrial society.

Even if the whole world were to collapse into ruins and all global tech companies went bankrupt, energy and resources would still stand tall.

That's why oil fields and mines occupy a large proportion of the Ba Qing faction's assets accumulated over hundreds of years.

Of course, there is another very important factor: regardless of where in the world you are, oil fields and mines can more easily conduct clandestine construction and hide large populations.

The copper mine in Cyprus, for example, has expanded its internal passageways and working faces to build an underground community beneath the mining site itself. This massive project can also be done completely undercover.

Yuan Chengze probably understood Wu Shouzhang's perspective and lamented, "After hearing what the grand tutor said, I finally realized that it was my own foolishness."

Wu Shouzhang smiled lightly, looking at the endless rows of oil pumps, sighed, "The simpler the business model, the more reliable it is. Look at these oil pumps - each rotation brings out a large amount of oil that can be exchanged for dollars. These machines run 24/7, and all we need to do is connect the extracted crude oil to the pipeline and transport it to the port, where those oil traders will use tankers to ship oil around the world. We just sit here waiting to count our money, without worrying about what's popular today or tomorrow, or who might come up with a technology that disrupts our livelihood - as long as scientists haven't figured out controlled nuclear fusion, we'll never worry about running out of money."

Yuan Chengze nodded heavily, lamented, "The Ba Qing faction can stand for 400 years without the oversight and foresight of previous leaders."

As he finished speaking, Yuan Chengze asked Wu Shouzhang again: "Sir, even if there's no guarantee of success yet, should we arrange for someone to create a suitable living environment for you here?"

Wu Shouzhang thought for a moment and waved his hand, saying: "There's no need. The lord is very concerned about this matter, and it's possible that other eyes are watching. Before the mysterious enemy appears, you and I must do our best to impress the lord, without leaving any awkward impressions behind."

Leaf left Lin Wan'er walking in Bergen, strolling along the streets until nightfall before returning to Os City.

On their way back, Lin Wan'er proposed to Leaf: "Since you want to wait for the three elders of the Bai Qing faction to leave Nigeria after they depart, why not accelerate the process and cover the entire region with surveillance equipment? They will probably take flights out, so let's prepare in advance and maybe we can pinpoint their identities from those leaving."

Leaf nodded, saying: "This task needs to be divided into two parts. First, send someone to Nigeria to acquire the existing automatic vending machine company. Second, quickly design a batch of hardware for the surveillance equipment, as African countries operating similar machines do not necessarily have monitoring devices."

Lin Wan'er agreed, saying: "Designing hardware can also be done in two steps. The first step is to design a batch of network-enabled surveillance equipment that can directly replace their old equipment and be quickly put into use. The second step is to design entirely new vending machines with all the desired functions integrated inside."

Leaf thought for a moment, asking her: "Shouldn't designing network-enabled surveillance equipment be easy?"

"It's very simple," Lin Wan'er explained, seeing many things and knowing much more than Leaf. "To achieve this requirement, it's just two modules - monitoring and communication. The largest global monitoring companies are all in China, so we can find whatever monitoring devices we need. As for communication, we also have many top-tier global companies with good hardware solutions. Once we think about the demand, we can quickly match up with hardware suppliers. Some monitoring companies even have wireless surveillance equipment based on local operators' data services, some using WIFI, and others don't even need WIFI - they can achieve real-time transmission based on local data services."

"If we use these companies' solution, won't all monitoring videos be uploaded to their servers first?" Leaf asked her.

"That's right," Lin Wan'er nodded. "Based on their solutions, we'll need to use their cloud services. It's just a matter of real-time video transmission from the surveillance cameras through the network to their servers, and then from their servers to the terminals for customers to view anytime. We can first implement monitoring using this method and then let our technology synchronize all video data from their servers to our AI model's database. The only drawback is that the monitored images cannot be kept absolutely private, but this isn't a problem because these companies want to provide data services for massive equipment and won't actively save customers' video data. It would cost money to get them to help with saving data, which is basically no risk of leakage."

"Alright!" Leaf exclaimed. "I'll go ahead and buy all the Nigerian automatic vending machine companies, and at the same time find hardware solutions in China to quickly implement monitoring for all major airports and ports in Nigeria!"

...Madagascar is Africa's largest island nation located in Southeastern Africa.

The western coast of Madagascar has a long coastline and vast plains. Grandfather Su Chengfeng's estate, also known as a large African savannah with towering monkey trees everywhere, sits on this land.

Although it was called an estate, it was actually a vast expanse of the African wilderness that you couldn't see from one end to the other.

When Su Chengfeng first arrived in Madagascar, he found many things unsuitable for him. Luckily, Leaf didn't expect to torture him to death and allowed Su Chengfeng to invest some capital to improve his conditions. As a result, Su Chengfeng bought more land and built a grand mansion-like estate, truly becoming the lord of Madagascar.

Currently, the mansion is still under construction because he wants an enormous scale that even the best construction team would take at least a year and a half to complete. Many building materials are not available in this globally undeveloped country, so he had to spare no expense by flying them in from all over the world.

Su Chengfeng now spends most of his days, apart from eating and drinking, intensely focused on two things: monitoring the construction of the mansion and taking helicopter tours over his vast territory. His territory is indeed too large, exceeding 4,000 square kilometers, with almost no paved roads. He wants to survey it, except by horseback or helicopter." JrNovels.com