Chapter 710 Cognitive Error
Although Snyder has put a lot of energy into Duke after he set his sights on Duke, he has spent a lot of effort on Duke's background and Duke's experiences on the CIA and has also obtained a lot of material.
In Snyder's view, this is a typical Chinese-style bitter child. Before his development, his family was poor. Although he was not short of food and clothing, his life was not easy. In Snyder's view, this experience and background led to Duke's unusual emphasis on wealth and even desire.
So Snyder saw that after Duke had extraordinary technological capabilities, his pursuit of wealth seemed to be endless. Even during his studies in the United States, Duke devoted a lot of energy to developing new products that could make money one after another, and then established a series of subsidiaries to market these products. He even participated in an entrepreneurial competition in the United States and continued to pursue wealth.
These behaviors are not as if they were done by a top scientist, so Snyder believes that Duke, like many Chinese, pursues wealth more than anything else. After all, in that magical country, there was a surprising saying that "it is better to sell tea eggs than to build an atomic bomb". Achievement scientists are far less respected than those of powerful entrepreneurs. People are much more enthusiastic about chasing the wealthy people on the Fortune 500 list than chasing the top scientists who won the National Science and Technology Award. According to the information collected by Snyder, this is a society that generally focuses on money.
Therefore, in the eyes of many top Western scientists, it is difficult to understand that Duke is obsessed with commercial product development. For them, wealth is also important, but it is enough. 100 million US dollars is not much different from 100 billion US dollars. Compared with the pursuit of top scientific and technological achievements, such as scientific and technological theoretical achievements such as being able to win the Nobel Prize, money is even less worth mentioning. If they win the Nobel Prize and become famous, they are not worried about food and clothing at all. They can find a job that can do both scientific research work they like and maintain a prosperous life.
Not being moved by external affairs like money is the way a scientist is.
But Duke seems to be not like this. Although many of the things he developed are very outstanding in industry and consumer electronics, theoretically speaking, these specific consumer products of Duke rarely achieve great achievements that are as good as the Nobel Prize level. Except for the fact that in nuclear physics, Duke explores a new theory of influence and control of nuclear fission, Duke has never produced a truly heavyweight scientific and technological achievement.
This even disappointed the Western science and technology community. Many of them were originally very excited about Duke, a genius physics community. After all, they were able to win the Nobel Prize in their 20s. Many people compared Duke with a master scientist like Einstein, hoping that Duke could make more new breakthroughs in theory.
But now these people are disappointed. Duke seems to have no intention of putting his energy into this aspect at all. Instead, he is obsessed with developing practical products and transforming his genius into more and more wealth. In their opinion, Duke's doing so is simply a waste of resources.
Although Duke has now achieved unbelievable business success with these products and has a huge wealth comparable to the world's richest man, some people have studied the extremely complex equity structure of Duke's companies. Information obtained through public channels pointed out that with the shares owned by Duke in their own companies, as long as Duke lists its own companies, Duke will immediately become the world's richest man, and the amount of wealth is definitely far more than the second place, and he is truly a rich country.
But for the technology world, they would rather have one richest man named Duke in the world and one new generation of physics masters named Duke to push world physics into a new era. Because this world will never lack rich people who are too rich to spend, but they are extremely scarce with technology masters like Newton and Einstein.
Therefore, when analyzing Duke, many people in the outside world also mentioned that Duke is extraordinary in his obsession with wealth. Rather than saying that Duke is a scientist, Duke is an industrialist with super technological genius and a slave-like character.
These external analyses deeply influenced Snyder's judgment of Duke's character, so when Snyder couldn't defeat the strong attack, he thought of attacking Duke's weaknesses to achieve his goal, and attempted to shake Duke's most concerned industries by attacking Duke's secret financial assets, making him busy trying to find ways to save his huge financial wealth.
If Duke really takes money seriously, Duke will obviously be very nervous about overseas financial assets worth more than $20 billion. In addition, he is facing a behemoth like the FBI, and ordinary Chinese people have long been trembling as if they were walking on thin ice.
In Snyder's view, Duke had only been in the United States for a few years and should not be able to escape the shackles of thought in China. He should have a natural fear of the government doing things. So he sorted out some of the materials he had at hand, put an insider trading suspect on Duke and other overseas funds, and used the FBI's killer to do this, to win the blame first and put Duke in panic that the wealth he had worked hard to earn is at risk of losing at any time.
All this is just the beginning. Snyder will not only attack Duke's financial industry, but will also launch wave after wave of attacks on various industries under Duke. According to Snyder's new strategy, since Duke is so greedy, then launching an attack on its industry and causing Duke to suffer heavy losses in business will definitely make Duke busy and have no intention of doing anything else.
However, Snyder never expected that Duke was indeed racking his brains to make money in the early stage, but that was not because Duke was born to love money, but to complete the difficult trading plan of Bileme. Duke really needed funds to support his nuclear energy expansion plan. However, when the nuclear energy industry completely embarked on another unexpected route, Duke often paid attention to following the trend in his work and no longer aimed at pursuing wealth, including the subsequent cooperation with the two Li families.
Duke's energy was unconsciously guided to bet on improving China's domestic military industry, so Duke had almost no heavyweight scientific and technological paper published during this period. Most of his time was spent solving various specific and difficult engineering and technical problems in the military industry, and making great contributions to the leapfrog development and informatization of the basic industry of the People's Liberation Army's main combat equipment, and making great contributions to the leapfrog development and informatization of intelligent development of the PLA's main combat equipment basic industry.
However, these achievements are simply unaware of by most ordinary people, because many of Duke's contributions to military industry are highly confidential projects. Not to mention that ordinary people cannot feel them, even most people in the People's Liberation Army do not know that the weapon systems they are constantly updating are contributions from Duke.
Duke's most important invention during this period was two important new products with extremely far-reaching influence, although not many of the ordinary people could understand it.
One is a new remote wireless communication system, but now it is only for military purposes. The simplified version of the civilized process is still in SAL's highly confidential laboratory, waiting for the right time to launch as a new standard for the next generation of communication products. Before large-scale civil use, most people didn't even know its existence. However, this thing is not only a key technology for the PLA's informatization and networking, but also a new standard for the next generation of wireless communications, because it can provide better networks at lower costs and can push wireless communications to an era where it is truly ubiquitous and ready-to-use.
In contrast, another major product invented by Duke, the Lotus Reactor nuclear energy system, is also of great significance in the field of energy. Although it has a certain popularity due to its large-scale construction at home and abroad, since this thing has little to do with ordinary people, its reputation among the people is not very significant.
However, Duke's invention and improvement of the Lotus Reactor nuclear reactor technology has become the main technology of a global new nuclear power warfare construction standard. It begins to contribute tens of millions of kilowatts of newly built efficient clean energy to the world every year, and at the same time it has become a reliable source of power for large ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy. In the future, it may even become a new power for ocean-going giant ships, and has a very far-reaching impact in the civil and military fields of energy.
Compared with the unknown new remote communication technology, although the Lotus Reactor nuclear energy technology has not brought much reputation to Duke, it has brought real wealth to Duke. In the domestic and international Lotus Reactor construction boom, it has increased its business revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars per year for the nuclear energy industry chain composed of core enterprises such as Duke's Oriental Nuclear Power, Oriental New Energy, Oriental Power, and Duca Heavy Industry.
It can be said that although Duke has long since stepped out of the stage of racking his brains to make money, he has not delayed making money at all. Instead, after SAL cooperated with the old Li family and Vice Chairman Li's family, it has a trend of further acceleration. The Oriental nuclear energy industry chain, automobile industry chain, and financial industry chain have all been booming and have become an important new force in the industry.
It is precisely because Duke's wealth is constantly expanding that Snyder mistakenly believes that Duke's pursuit of wealth is endless. This cognitive error has caused Snyder to have huge errors from the starting point when he conceived a new attack plan. This has caused Duke to face the attack of overseas financial assets, which has a very different effect from Snyder's expectations. Duke prepared a fierce counterattack strategy for the financial attack planned by Snyder.
But Snyder doesn't know this now. After completing the first wave of strikes, he began to implement the second round of strikes, pointing directly at Duke's core consumer electronics industry, and finally pushing things to a new stage that is even more uncontrollable.
Chapter completed!