Break out of the courtyard

On September 9, Zhang Heping stayed in Kowloon Tong until 30 o'clock in the evening, completed the advertising shooting, and then returned to Victoria Peak with his family.

"Boss, today there are 23 Chinese businessmen and the old man taking a plane to the capital." Wei Chunqiao said to Zhang Heping who just got off the car, "Also, there are no calls today, and no one is looking for the boss."

Zhang Heping nodded without comment, then held his youngest daughter Zhang Nuo and walked towards the villa without saying a word.

The eldest wife Tang Xin noticed Zhang Heping's abnormality, but did not think too much about it. Instead, she asked the children to make up for today's homework.

The concubine Chen Shuting lingered at the gate for a while, and after asking Wei Chunqiao which Chinese businessmen had gone to the capital, she complained indignantly:

"All the speculators who resell clothing export quotas were called to the capital, but our family was not invited. Humph!"

Chen Shuting walked towards the villa with dissatisfaction. When she arrived outside the door, she rubbed her cheeks, put on a smiling face and went home.

Last night's party was held by Tang Ren for Hong Kong businessmen who were going to participate in the National Day. They had received invitations from the mainland a week ago.

But the Zhang family didn’t!

Chen Shuting guessed that the reason why her husband Zhang Heping took time off to spend a day with his family today was actually because he was waiting for...

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Capital, north bank of Houhai Lake.

Wang Sumei walked past the public toilet and found a group of men and women sitting outside Yard No. 6, watching a black and white TV outside the window.

Because the TV volume was low, the audience seemed very quiet, with only the sound of people cracking melon seeds.

When Wang Sumei walked through the doorway and entered Courtyard No. 7, she was somewhat surprised to find that the main room with the door open was as bright as day, and several little kids were doing their homework at the dining table, looking particularly serious.

"Mom, Director Wang is here!"

Zhang Pandi, who was guiding the children with their homework, said something casually, and then saw her mother Ma Xiuzhen getting off the kang and going out to greet her.

"When did Director Wang come back?" Ma Xiuzhen invited Wang Sumei into the main room with a smile on her face.

Wang Sumei looked at the three round plastic lights emitting bright white light above the dining table, then looked at the six children who were not disturbed, and then pulled Ma Xiuzhen out to talk.

"When did your grandchildren change their personalities? They now know how to study hard." Wang Sumei asked with a smile, and walked north along the lakeshore with Ma Xiuzhen.

Ma Xiuzhen was guessing what Director Wang was up to, but she smiled and said, "After the summer vacation, I took these kids to Hong Kong Island for two months. When we came back, Heping told them that if their average score for the next semester was not above 80, they would not be allowed to go to Hong Kong Island during the winter vacation. Only then did they start to study hard."

Ma Xiuzhen only revealed a little bit. The real situation was that the eight little guys were completely shocked after seeing the high-intensity tutoring of Zhang Bei and Zhang Nan.

Learn music, learn painting, learn Eagle language, learn programming, learn dancing, learn Kung Fu...

During the nearly two-month summer vacation, the eight of them only took make-up classes in cultural subjects and Eagle Language. The martial arts classes in the morning and evening could only be considered as appropriate exercise and were completely incomparable to the courses of Zhang Bei and Zhang Nan.

Zhang Heping didn't have any requirements for them, but just reminded them that people who are better than you work harder than you because they know what they want.

"Xiuzhen, when you and your husband Zhang went there this time, didn't Heping let you live in Hong Kong Island for a long time?" Wang Sumei asked casually.

In fact, this was the purpose of her trip, to understand Zhang Heping's family's thoughts and whether they would go abroad. This was what the higher-ups were most worried about.

After she flew back to the capital from Xishu this morning, she went straight to Old Lady Zheng to find out what had happened during the time she was away from the capital.

"My daughter-in-law mentioned it to me, but we don't have any acquaintances there, and Heping often leaves early and comes back late, so we're not used to it and didn't agree."

Ma Xiuzhen's words made Wang Sumei secretly feel fortunate.

If Ma Xiuzhen and her husband live in Hong Kong Island for a long time, it is hard to say whether Zhang Heping will return to China.

"I have been handling the Hope Primary School in the west. Someone told me about the incident in which the children from the compound brought people to beat up your child when I came back today." Wang Sumei briefly explained and then said:

"In this case, those who beat people should have apologized and accepted punishment. However, Heping retaliated against them with radical means. Mr. Zheng can't speak for you. He can only suppress this matter behind the scenes and prevent it from expanding its impact."

"Yeah!" Ma Xiuzhen responded without comment.

When she returned with her children at the end of August, people from the police station came to her house to question her where she had been during the summer vacation; but when she said she had been to Hong Kong Island, those people left in anger.

This reminded her of what her son said, that people nowadays dare not offend Hong Kong Islanders or foreigners, and only dare to act arrogantly in the Mainland!

"Also, do you think you should transfer your grandchildren to Yuying School? You can keep Villa No. 5, Building No. 11, Yard No. 1 to Heping."

"No!" Ma Xiuzhen shook her head and said, "Heping said that he didn't want to live there and be monitored."

Hearing this, Wang Sumei sighed inwardly. If the beating had not happened, Zhang Heping would have been willing to send the child back to receive ideological education even though he knew he was under surveillance. As a result...

"Okay!" Wang Sumei changed the subject and said, "I'm going to Shenzhen in a few days, and maybe Hong Kong Island. Do you have anything to bring to Heping?"

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The next morning, people holding red flags could be seen in many places on Hong Kong Island. The Eagle Americans promote freedom in Hong Kong Island, so normally there are no restrictions on red flags, portraits, etc., but this is not allowed for large-scale marches.

Zhang Heping sat in the car today and wandered around the city aimlessly for a long time before finally deciding to set up the battery factory in Shenzhen and continue to do processing of imported materials.

After lunch, Zhang Heping asked his concubine Chen Shuting to call Director Wu in Shenzhen to discuss the matter of building a "new energy battery processing plant" in the Shenzhen granary.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Heping went to the study on the second floor and took down a stack of documents. Then he rode a motorcycle and took his concubine Chen Shuting to Tingmei Trading Company. Then he took the contract and official seal to Shenzhen. His efficiency was so fast!

A few days ago, an article in a foreign newspaper mentioned lithium cobalt oxide batteries. In addition, Japan's NAMTS medium-scale mobile phone system has been developed for a year, so Zhang Heping didn't want to waste time with those inefficient people in China.

The day after a signboard of a new energy battery processing plant was hung outside the Shenzhen granary, Tang Qiang, the third nephew of my eldest brother-in-law, rushed back from Wall Street.

Magnesium has had brick-sized wireless phones since 1973, and the mobile phone spectrum was determined in 1975. How could the Magnesian people believe in an offshore shell company that wants to raise 10 billion magnesium dollars without even producing a physical mobile phone?

Therefore, my nephew Tang Qiang went to Magnesium for more than a year and spent a lot of money, but he didn't get even a penny of financing.

The only benefit is that the reputation of Shunfenger Company has been spread, although this reputation is not very good at present!

Tang Qiang’s first task after returning to Hong Kong Island was to use the “Shun Feng Er” offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands to register the “Hong Kong Telecom” company in Hong Kong Island, whose business was mobile phone communication services.

Then, he took the relevant manufacturing information of a set of small keypad mobile phones given to him by Zhang Heping and went to Hong Kong Chinese businessmen to raise money.

Thanks to his internship experience at the top five investment banks on Wall Street, the thick skin he developed from being rejected countless times in Magnesium, and the network of contacts his father, Tang Ren, has as the chairman of Hong Kong Island Colorful Investment Co., Ltd.

Of course, the key point is that Tang Qiang tells everyone that the technical information of his mobile phone comes from his uncle.

All these things allowed this guy to easily raise 3000 million magnesium dollars, about 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars.

With the start-up capital, Tang Qiang successfully secured a purchase contract for mobile phone spare parts with the introduction of his elder brother Tang Lie.

The design drawings of the memory, hard disk, audio and other chips also saved Tang Qiang 100 million magnesium yuan in parts procurement fees.

It was mainly those chip design drawings that were of great inspiration to the Japanese. In order to obtain more design drawings, they generously waived some processing fees.

When Tang Lie and Tang Qiang were working hard, Tang Hai, the second son of his second uncle, shamelessly approached Zhang Heping and asked about the production arrangements of LCD monitors.

This time, Zhang Heping did not reject him directly. Instead, in front of his father-in-law Tang Ming, his two uncles and other members of the Tang family, he handed a set of LCD monitor information to his nephew Tang Hai.

"I'm giving you the information, but you only have one chance. If you mess it up, don't even think about getting any information from me in the future, do you understand?" Zhang Heping held the stack of information until Tang Hai nodded excitedly, then he let go.

After Tang Hai got the information, he was immediately surrounded by his family members. They were all curiously looking at the drawings because they couldn't understand the text contents.

"Brother-in-law, thank you!" Second uncle Tang Yi rarely smiled, because the ultra-thin color TV represented too many benefits.

"Don't thank me yet!" Zhang Heping sat on the sofa, propping up his chin with his right arm and said, "I just can't stand the inefficiency of the mainland."

"You should think about who to find to process circuit boards, main control boards and other parts, and how to deal with those leading Chinese businessmen."

"Before, our family was adjusting the business, and they took advantage of the loopholes, so they suppressed our family and we had no choice but to open a joint venture with them!" Second uncle Tang Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "But now is different, I..."

"Second brother, the market for ultra-thin color TVs is huge!" Brother-in-law Tang Ren reminded:

"What's more, we can't produce all the parts ourselves. If the Japanese and the Magnesians crack the ultra-thin color TV technology in the future and stop providing us with processed parts, not only will our family become a laughing stock, but we will also become enemies with all the Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong."

Father-in-law Tang Ming looked at Zhang Heping who was in deep thought and said, "It would be best to raise funds from other Chinese businessmen like Ah Qiang did. Heping, what do you think?"

"I've already said it, there's only one chance!" Zhang Heping said, looking at his nephew Tang Lie standing beside him, "You need to increase the production of CD products over there, sell at a low profit but high volume to occupy the market. You can only sell that thing for 7 years at most. I will let Aqiang use a mobile phone and eliminate CDs, cassettes, videotapes and other things."

"Seven years?" Tang Lie was stunned for a moment. "Uncle, what will I sell after seven years?"

Zhang Heping said unhappily: "Think for yourself!"

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The Tang family purchased electronic components such as CDs, keypad machines, and LCD displays from the Japanese islanders.

When the Japanese got the chip design drawings drawn by Zhang Heping, they would probably wake up laughing in their dreams, mainly because the design concept was several years ahead of the others, which made them realize it all at once!

Of course, if Zhang Heping drew a design that was 10 years ahead of the times, they might not be able to understand it.

Tang Yi, the second uncle, finally listened to the advice of his father and brother and asked Tang Hai to raise funds from a group of Chinese businessmen, about 1500 million magnesium yuan.

In this case, we cannot blame the Tang family for not notifying other Chinese businessmen, but only blame them for being short-sighted and not daring to invest.

By the way, recently everyone has been speculating in real estate, hotels, stocks, houses, and land. Who has the time to invest in manufacturing?

The point is, they invested in the ultra-thin color screen factory in Shenzhen, but now there is no result.

While others were busy making money, Zhang Heping was still waiting for the renovation of the factory building of the new energy battery processing plant in Shenzhen.

Because we need to produce lithium-ion batteries that can be recharged repeatedly, we must take environmental protection into consideration.

Besides, the raw materials and production lines are still on the way, so there is no point in being anxious.

On October 10, Zhang Heping heard that Guangming Lighting had signed an order worth 16 million magnesium yuan yesterday and had cleared out its inventory.

For this reason, he originally did not want to go to the Huadu Canton Fair, but the employees of Tingmei Trading who were exhibiting at the fair reported that a man named He Zijiang was looking for him, so he got on the train and went to Huadu with his concubine Chen Shuting.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they checked into Baiyun Hotel, Aunt Wang Sumei came to their door with Sha Zhixiang.

"That stupid old man showed the technical consultation letter to the Japanese?" Zhang Heping looked at Sha Zhixiang in surprise, "Didn't you keep the letter?"

Sha Zhixiang had a helpless expression, "Lao Jie was my superior. He removed my custody rights and took away all the top-secret letters. I couldn't do anything about it. However, after I found out that he showed the top-secret letters to outsiders, I immediately reported him."

Zhang Heping felt that Factory Director Sha definitely did it on purpose, but he had no evidence and had not seen it with his own eyes, so he could not make any comment.

Then, Zhang Heping looked at Wang Sumei, who was smiling, and said, "Auntie Wang, it's already halfway through October. If you don't spend the money in the Hope Project Fund account as soon as possible, I won't help you organize a charity auction next year!"

Wang Sumei smiled calmly and said, "I am no longer the manager of the Project Hope Fund."

"Huh?" Zhang Heping frowned, "Who has so much power that dares to take away your manager position?"

Zhang Heping made up his mind to expose this matter using the Hong Kong media!

"It's all because of you, kid!" Wang Sumei put away her smile and said seriously:

"This time, it was Mr. Zheng who came forward and specially recruited me, a retired person, to temporarily serve as the director of the liaison office and be responsible for the confidentiality of Tingmei Health Care Factory, Science Printing Factory, Guangming Lighting Factory, Color Screen Joint Venture Factory, and New Energy Battery Factory."

Zhang Heping looked at Wang Sumei with a serious face, blinked his eyes and asked, "You can only be the director after receiving 3 million yuan in donations?"

"You little brat, this isn't buying an official position!" Wang Sumei was serious for less than half a minute before she smiled and said, "You really got it right about the Hope Project Fund."

"In mid-June, when Mr. Zheng and I returned to the capital, people from various departments came to beg for alms. People I didn't know also came to me to complain about my poverty. I simply went to Western Sichuan to investigate while being a money-giving boy."

"We'll talk about Xishu later!"

Wang Sumei said as she took out the ID of "Zhang Ping'an" from her pocket, handed it to Zhang Heping and said, "You are not allowed to have two nationalities, but we who work in confidentiality can have multiple identities. You only have a Hong Kong identity, not an Eagle nationality, so don't take the previous things too seriously."

Zhang Heping took the ID and looked at it, then smiled and returned it. "I just can't stand that stupid old man who made me choose between two identities. I chose Hong Kong identity. When I wait until July 1997, 7, won't I still be a citizen of our country?"

Director Wang did not say much about the previous one. He put away Zhang Heping's domestic ID card and asked casually, "I heard that the Tang family ordered a batch of electronic components from the Japanese islanders to make mobile phones and LCD monitors?"

"Hmm!" Zhang Heping frowned and asked, "Auntie Wang, since you are here, please track down the Shenzhen Ultra-Thin Color Screen Joint Venture Factory."

"I originally provided a full set of LED display technology information to China, and agreed to rely on this technology in exchange for relevant technical support from Japanese people, and then help us lay the foundation for semiconductor manufacturing."

"In the first half of the year, I went to the joint venture factory to provide guidance. How come the ultra-thin color screen factory hasn't even built a factory building yet?"

"This matter..." Wang Sumei weighed it for a moment before saying, "You may have guessed it! They borrowed the magnesium yuan from the Ultra-Thin Color Screen Factory's account!"

Wang Sumei saw Zhang Heping's frown and dropped another bombshell, "The magnesium dollars in the Hope Project Fund account were also borrowed to buy disaster relief supplies!"

As Director Wang said, although Zhang Heping had anticipated this situation, he still frowned, "Next year, I'm afraid there will be trouble because of the fiscal deficit."

Wang Sumei didn't want to change the subject, so she reminded him seriously, "You haven't mentioned yet that the Tang family ordered electronic components from the Japanese islanders."

Zhang Heping glanced at Sha Zhixiang, who just smiled and did not get up and leave.

"Comrade Sha Zhixiang can be trusted!" Wang Sumei explained beside him, "Otherwise, he would not be your superior."

Zhang Heping nodded without comment, and then asked his silent concubine Chen Shuting to check outside the door. After confirming that no one was there, he said, "This is an open conspiracy against the Japanese!"

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