"Brother?" Cang Yue was startled. "I'm only about ten centimeters tall right now, how can I rub your shoulders?"
Jing Mingqiu stretched out his finger again and stroked Cang Yue's small head: "That's easy. I can make you a life-sized body, what do you want to look like?"
Cang Yue hesitated, then reached out and projected a picture of Qiong Mei in front of Jing Mingqiu.
"Having a sister, one wishes she were Qiong; having no sister, one wishes Qiong were a sister." After reciting half a nonsensical poem, Jing Mingqiu gently tapped Cang Yue on the cheek. "Yue'er, when did you start watching anime?"
Cang Yue lowered her head, her cheeks slightly flushed, and remained silent.
Seeing her shy reaction, Jing Mingqiu didn't press further and changed the subject to answer the question she had just asked.
"Yue'er, by making the ancient Chinese programming method freely available, I'm not helping the West. On the contrary, I'm digging up the roots of the West."
"Because computers were invented by the West in the first place, and programming also uses English letters, this has given the West a significant lead in the field of programming. Not only have they accumulated a large number of talents, but all the various rules within it were formulated by them personally."
"It's like playing soccer, where the referee, linesmen, and spectators are all on their side. No matter how well you play, you can't win. It's different with ancient Chinese programming. Their past accumulated experience and talent would be basically rendered obsolete."
"Moreover, I proposed this programming method. As the founder, I exclusively hold the right to set the rules. If they want to use ancient Chinese programming, they will have to bow down to me."
"Wait a minute," Cang Yue interrupted Jing Mingqiu. "Brother, the West has always been shameless and only abides by rules that benefit them. What if they push you aside and simply claim the ancient Chinese programming method as their own?"
Jing Mingqiu's lips curved into a subtle smile: "They can't escape. Let's not even mention how complex ancient Chinese itself is."
"Even if they research it independently, do you think that from scratch, a group of people who don't speak Chinese can be opponents to our programmers in Long Country under my leadership?"
"This is like how Long Country used to pay a heavy price to send outstanding talents abroad to study. Many things seem to offer you many choices, but in reality, you have no choice."
"But," Cang Yue interrupted Jing Mingqiu again, "Brother, the programming methods the West uses now still have a lot of room for improvement. They can completely ban the use of ancient Chinese programming in their country!"
Hearing this, Jing Mingqiu smiled even more happily. "If they ban its use, what's the difference if I teach it or not? This would be equivalent to them wasting a month of time for nothing."
"Moreover, to not use something that is clearly better, what is the difference between that and the Qing Dynasty's closed-door policy? If they don't want to suffer the same fate as the Qing Dynasty, they can only accept the ancient Chinese programming method and will need to spend significant effort promoting it nationwide."
"I am not a politician, nor am I a warlord. I am not skilled in those conspiracies and schemes. I prefer to ride the tide of the era, with open and unstoppable stratagems, and directly slap them in the face!"
Meanwhile, at the White House in the United States of America.
Andrew Forté, having just reconciled with the President of the United States, stood before the conference table, roaring.
"A great man of Long Country once said: The general trend of the world is irresistible; he who conforms to it will prosper, and he who resists it will perish."
"Jing Mingqiu's live broadcast teaching ancient Chinese programming is a blatant stratagem, but we have no choice. We must abandon all our existing programming languages and switch to Long Country's ancient Chinese programming, otherwise, we will be completely abandoned by this era!"
"But," John Lance, the Secretary of Information for the United States, stood up unwillingly, "If we comprehensively change our programming languages, we will face enormous economic losses, and the top programmers we've trained will also be largely rendered useless."
This was not an incorrect statement. Younger programmers still had a chance to learn new programming languages, but those who had already reached the pinnacle of the industry were mostly older and had neither the time nor the energy to learn a new programming language.
John Lance continued to argue: "Andrew, I admit that this new programming method from Long Country is very powerful, but our C+++ is not bad either. If we continue to develop, it's still uncertain who will win and who will lose!"
Someone chimed in: "That's right, you can't inflate others' morale while crushing our own!"
...
"I'm just stating facts!" Andrew Forté was sweating profusely. "We've tested it many times. For the same function, using Long Country's ancient Chinese programming increases the computation speed by at least ten times compared to traditional programming."
"I strongly suspect that the recent surge in various scientific research products in Long Country is due to their adoption of this new programming method."
"Therefore, if we don't want to be left behind by the times, we not only need to fully sinicize, but we also need to send a large number of students to Long Country to learn their advanced programming methods."
John Lance sneered: "Heh, you speak more eloquently than you sing. If ancient Chinese programming were truly that powerful, Long Country wouldn't have allowed Jing Mingqiu to teach it publicly!"
"As I said before, this is a stratagem, and he is forcing us to abandon what we have accumulated..."
Andrew Forté's rebuttal was halfway through when it was forcefully interrupted by US President Joseph Biden.
"Alright, enough. No one knows if this is indeed a conspiracy by Long Country. If Andrew believes we should fully sinicize, then he should lead those who believe him to learn Long Country's ancient Chinese programming."
"John, if you believe that the programming languages we are currently using can compete with Long Country's ancient Chinese programming, then you lead your people to continue researching and prove the strength of Western programming languages with results."
"Our great United States is large enough to pursue both paths simultaneously."
After forcibly suppressing the conflict between the two, Joseph Biden raised his voice.
"Now, the most important thing for us is not to discuss whether to learn Long Country's ancient Chinese programming. Instead, we need to discuss how to respond to Long Country's rise, especially now that Long Country's industrial software has already had a tremendous impact on our existing market!"
"If we allow them to continue developing, what we did in the Qing Dynasty back then might happen to us again. At that time, we will become sinners of the nation, nailed to the pillar of historical shame."
Upon hearing Joseph Biden's words, the expressions of most people present did not change much. They were not politicians tied to the nation.
Moreover, businessmen pursue profit, and capitalists are even more ruthless. They are not very concerned about their reputation. On the contrary, many of them had a glint in their eyes, already contemplating whether to defect to Long Country in advance.
Joseph Biden sensed the wavering sentiment and snorted, "It's not that easy to defect to Long Country!"
Before his words could even fully settle, someone immediately stood up: "What? Mr. President, are you planning to use force?"