Seriosha discovered that since time traveling, her preference for women has changed a lot. Before traveling, Seriosha liked quiet and cute girls, but now she prefers powerful and strong women. From Tonya, who first met, the daughter of an anti-counterman; to Kalim, the daughter of a king of a fallen country; and finally Eva, a former temporary worker in CIA. The three women all have one common characteristic, that is, they never bow to fate. The same is true for Yulia, who is sleeping soundly in Seriosha's arms.

Yulia was born in the countryside of Dneprpetrovsk and was an absolute country girl. Moreover, because her mother is an Armenian, Yulia has been discriminated against since childhood. These things are learned little by little in her daily work. Perhaps it is because of the love over time, or perhaps it is because Yulia does have irresistible attraction. Anyway, Seriosha finally surrendered this charming little fairy.

There are still a few days left before the real New Year holiday. This year, Seriosha plans to reunite with his relatives in the Czech Republic. Now the central government has very strict control over the visits of senior cadres, and Seriosha also has to remotely control the domestic protests. Therefore, it is not convenient for him to go to a place far away from Moscow.

During the days before the New Year's holiday, Seriosha took Yulia out to sea during the day and enjoyed the world of the two at her residence at night. The relationship between the two is a bit strange. Seriosha once asked Yulia if she was willing to leave the Shishiko family, and Yulia smiled and declined the suggestion.

"Why don't you leave the Shishenko family in Ji Hou? If you follow me, I can give you something better..." Selyosha asked in confusion.

"Are you asking me as Minister Ulyanov, or are you asking me as Selyosha?" Yulia asked Selyosha.

"Of course it's Selyosha's identity. I want to ask the cute Yulia, why can't you stay by my side all the time?" Selyosha asked in a different tone. In fact, when he asked this question, he was thinking about how to explain to his current women.

"Seryosha, although I love you, I don't want to belong to anyone, whether it is the Shishenko family or you Minister Ulyanov. I don't like the way you men are arrogant..." Shishenko changed his usual gentle appearance and suddenly became stronger.

"So, Seryosha, it's your turn to be down..." Yulia changed her tone and suddenly said playfully and frivolously, then rode on Seryosha's waist.

...

Before the Western Christian Christmas holiday, the fledgling Iridium announced a major good news that the communication cable laid by Iridium in New York and Boston has been completed, and all universities in both cities will be connected to the NSFNet advocated by the American Foundation for Nature. At the same time, another commercial network, UUNet, has begun operations between New York and Boston.

These two news became the hottest topic in the US technology circle before Christmas, and many users who are eager to try new technologies have made UUNet access requests through AT&T.

Although this is just a test network, because Yota communication technology is stable and reliable, and the initial users are still very rare, UUNet and NSFNet users praised Iridium's communication services. At the last press conference before Christmas Eve, Eva, on behalf of the board of directors of Iridium, revealed two major positive news to the media. One is that the optical cable project of Iridium connecting the east and west coasts of the United States has been started, and the second is that the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the United States decided to use Iridium's UUNet for data exchange. As soon as the news came out, Iridium broke the front page of the American financial media.

At this time, Seriosha, who was on vacation in Sochi and Yulia, heard the news and immediately called Mikhail and asked him to order the latest and most powerful mainframe computer from IBM.

"Seryosha, what do you want this thing for? Not to mention that there are very few engineers who can operate this thing, the price of this thing is not cheap..." Mikhail asked in confusion on the phone.

"Mikhail, this is the future technological development trend. I want to connect all our funds to the computer. In addition, I also want Eva to find a way to convince the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange to use our UUNet to exchange transaction data after the holiday." Seriosha said impatiently on the other side of the phone.

"Come on, Seriosha, have you come up with some ideas for making a lot of money?" Mikhail didn't believe that he had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase the giant computer used by the U.S. Department of Energy to study nuclear bomb explosions. That thing is simply too luxurious for Columbia Bank.

"Mikhail, Iridium's network technology is in our hands, right?" Selyosha asked.

"Of course, then you still need to ask?" Mikhail replied.

"Then we can make Colombia Bank's data packets transmit faster on the network than other companies' data packets, right?" Selyosha asked again.

"Although I'm not very clear about this, I think it should not be difficult to achieve!" Mikhail still didn't understand what Selyosha wanted to do.

Selyosha continued in a temptation: "Let me give an example Mikhail. Suppose a stock in the market has a sell order of $5.05, but because of the communication delay, most trading machines have not had time to show it, someone has posted a buy order of $5.06 without knowing it. If our transmission rate and calculation rate are twice as high as other trading parties on the exchange, and our computer knows that all traders have found these two orders before they find them, then..."

"Then our computer can earn a $5.05 sell order and then resell it to the fool who bid 5.06..." Mikhail finally understood that as long as you are faster than everyone, you can grab these two businesses before all traders take action.

What Seriosha had to do was to use Yota's communication technology and IBM's computing speed as Mikhail thought to take the lead in securities trading. This behavior will be strictly prohibited by regulatory authorities in the future. It has a special name called high-frequency trading.

Although high-frequency trading will be invented by some unruly financial institutions in the future after a long time of online trading, even the Internet is now owned by Iridium, and Eva just needs to secretly raise the data priority of Columbia Bank.
Chapter completed!