Training

The young ladies in the HR department of Future Technology had been exceptionally busy these past few days. Ever since Li Zhou posted the recruitment notice, the department had received a massive pile of personal resumes.

Fortunately, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they discovered that the Intelligent Assistant could perform preliminary screening of resumes according to the requirements. Even so, after being filtered three times by the Intelligent Assistant, there were still 1,000 personal resumes left.

These 1,000 people had preliminarily passed the first round. After taking the interview questions personally set by the boss, only 500 passed the written test. From then on, the interview phase kept the young ladies in HR busy from morning till night, with nothing but remote video interviews for the candidates who had passed the written test, except for meals and bathroom breaks. There were only three interview questions, also provided by the boss.

As for the intern slots, Li Zhou clapped his hands and settled on 50 spots. As for how these 50 slots would be allocated to various schools, Li Zhou let Xiong Kexuan decide on her own.

After all, unlike regular employees, if the interns ultimately failed to satisfy Li Zhou, they could simply not be hired. With no lingering worries, giving these 50 slots to Xiong Kexuan to build good relations with prestigious universities was also a worthwhile investment.

Time quietly slipped to mid-August. Even deep in the mountains, it was scorching hot. Fortunately, Future Technology had equipped every room with air conditioning since moving into this temporary headquarters, especially the server cluster on the first floor, which had the highest temperatures.

In a large conference room, Li Zhou was lecturing a group of 100 new employees and 50 intern students on work placement. Interestingly, the majority of those studying literature were female, which further tipped Future Technology's gender balance toward women.

Li Zhou looked at the 150 heads before him and patted the chalk dust off his hands.

"Alright, the current phase of the course ends here. Starting tomorrow, I'll have you try programming with Han Language. I'll upload the development tools to the internal network tomorrow, and you can download and install them yourselves."

Li Zhou knocked on the table and sternly warned everyone seated below.

"I remind you again here: before the company's press conference is held, you are strictly forbidden from leaking any information about Han Language to the outside world, let alone passing along any related materials. If anyone has such thoughts, you can walk to the main entrance, look up, and think it over."

That's right, this shameless guy Li Zhou had moved the stainless steel plaque from his home to the company and stuck it at the most conspicuous spot by the main entrance.

In the conference room, it instantly fell so silent that only the noise of the air conditioner's outdoor unit could be heard.

Not until everyone watched the boss leave did many realize their palms were sweating. A few were even drenched in sweat, looking somewhat guilty—clearly, some had entertained the idea.

But recalling the plaque at the entrance, these people couldn't help shivering and cast aside their unrealistic thoughts.

Gradually, the atmosphere in the conference room began to liven up.

"Hey, even now, I'm still in shock—Han Language! Who would've thought Future Technology developed the Intelligent Assistant using Han Language?"

"No, we should be grateful. Have you thought about it? As the first batch to learn Han Language, as long as everyone here puts in a little effort, we can achieve financial freedom. This is our greatest opportunity."

The speaker's voice was loud. Everyone who heard it fell silent. No one sitting here was a fool; from the start, everyone had considered this, but no one spoke up—they all chose silence.

At that moment, a small girl with loose hair, barely 150 centimeters tall, stood up.

"Everyone, barring any surprises, most of the people in this conference room now will end up at the top of the IT industry. So why don't we form an alliance?"

"According to the boss's intent, Han Language will be released to the public. As the youngest generation with the deepest research and understanding of Chinese literature, most of the elites are right here in this room. If I'm not mistaken, after Han Language is announced, some of us will become specialized educators. So no matter where any of us ends up, we are a natural alliance."

In the office, Li Zhou watched the short girl through the camera and smiled slightly.

"Old Zhou, I'm very optimistic about this intern who hasn't even graduated yet. What do you think?"

Zhou Song looked at the screen and shook his head slightly. "She's too impulsive. Who doesn't understand the logic? Why didn't anyone say it? Why did it have to be her turn?"

Li Zhou shrugged and said with a smile, "That's exactly why I'm optimistic about her. Just watch—she'll go higher and higher."

The next day, in the same conference room, everyone had brought the computers the company had issued to them.

Fortunately, the installation of the Han Language development tools was foolproof. By the time Li Zhou arrived, everyone had already installed the tools.

Li Zhou quickly walked around the room, glancing at some people's computers.

"I notice that the smart ones have already taught themselves to write the simplest Han Language programs, while some are still foolishly waiting for me to teach them."

"What did I say yesterday? The current training phase is over! So I'm only here today to watch you learn to develop your first Han Language program on your own. Whether you've just written the simplest output statement, that's still progress."

"I've taught you the syntax, functions, and interfaces of Han Language over this past month. Theoretically, if you can understand it thoroughly, you could develop intelligent software like the Intelligent Assistant on your own."

"I see some doubtful looks from a few classmates. Let me tell you, I'm not exaggerating—every function inside the Intelligent Assistant can be implemented with the existing Han Language knowledge."

Seeing the stunned expressions below, Li Zhou smiled slightly.

"How about this: within this week, as long as most of you can develop a small program that satisfies me, or you can choose to collaborate in groups to develop a complete small system with full functionality, I'll take you to the Grand Canyon for rafting next Monday to enjoy the summer cool."

After Li Zhou left, the male colleagues in the conference room let out howls and shouts, vowing to work hard.

The summer sun beat down unbearably. Through several days of self-study and sharing learning experiences with colleagues, the crowd crammed into the conference room grew rapidly. But the more they understood Han Language programming, the more their scalps tingled—could you imagine that the same piece of Han Language code could have completely different meanings in different modules?

Han Language was just like Chinese itself: the deeper you went, the harder it was to grasp.

For example, what exactly does "hehe" mean?