Break out of the courtyard

Hello, it's me.

Hello, it's me.

I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet.

I wonder if you would like to meet me after all these years.

To go over everything.

Relive the past.

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"Dad, I also want to advertise for LCD TV!" Tang Hai listened to the Eagle song "Hello" which was played three times this morning, and did not watch the advertisement on the gray LCD TV.

Tang Yi glanced at the TV cartons piled in the living room and frowned, "You decide for yourself."

"Dad, I have no money now, can you lend me..."

【Dear viewers, here's a piece of news! Hong Kong Island Telecom and Hong Kong Island Telecom jointly issued an announcement: From now on, if you deposit HK$1999 in Hong Kong Island Telecom, you will receive a Hong Kong Island brand leisure mobile phone. If you deposit a minimum of HK$39999, you will receive a Hong Kong Island brand business mobile phone, and you can choose the mobile phone number. The minimum monthly rental for the mobile phone is HK$9, and the monthly rental is...】

"How is this possible!" Tang Hai stared blankly at the 30-inch LCD TV in the living room, muttering, "That idiot Tang Qiang actually gave away mobile phones for free!"

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“Friends in Kowloon Bay, do you know who I am?”

"Boss Qiang!"

"Boss Qiang, I love you! I want your...cell phone!"

Tang Qiang was wearing a floral jacket today, holding a red lottery box in a showy manner. He was on the stage at the Kowloon Bay audition site, talking about the functions of their Hong Kong Island Telecom's Hong Kong Island brand mobile phones, and how Hong Kong Island Telecom was prepaying phone bills and pre-selling mobile phones.

After the lottery was over, most of the audience had left. The three judges at the audition were in tears and looked at Tang Qiang's departing back with resentment.

He said he was here to attract people, but he ended up tricking half of the audience into becoming scalpers...

Yes, scalpers!

When Tang Qiang was drawing the lottery on the stage, he mentioned the lucky girl who was one in a million the day before and how she sold her mobile phone for HK$101 million, but he didn't mention the phone number.

Then, many people were possessed by the scalper and instantly understood the ultimate secret of making money by reselling mobile phones!

By the way, ever since Air-Land-Sea Limited exchanged a Nissan car worth HK$10 for a taxi license, some people have started speculating on taxi licenses.

Hai Lu Kong Co., Ltd. has 3000 taxi licenses in its hands. With the addition of 5115 taxi licenses that have been replaced over time, there are only more than 1400 taxi licenses on the market.

As the number of taxi licenses available for trading on the market decreases, their prices naturally skyrocket.

"Boss, there are more than 200 taxi drivers making trouble in front of the Hailukong Company, demanding the return of their licenses."

Zhang Heping glanced at Wei Chunqiao, the general manager of the Umbrella Company, and frowned, "For this matter, you can just talk to the Hong Kong police and lawyers. Why are you looking for me?"

"I understand!" Wei Chunqiao said, turning around and leaving.

"How much is a taxi license?" Zhang Heping asked casually.

"55 million!"

……

Zhang Heping did not go out to build the cellular base station today. He left it all to the Umbrella Technical Department. Because this was the business assigned to them, Zhang Heping was only there to teach them for a few days.

Of course, another reason is that he met with Director Liao of Shenzhen New Energy Battery Factory this morning to sign a lithium-ion battery processing and warehousing agreement.

Nearing 11 o'clock, Zhang Heping drove a black Mercedes-Benz out alone, went to Tingmei Trading Company to pick up his concubine Chen Shuting, and then went to the train station to pick someone up.

As soon as Chen Shuting got in the car, she said happily: "Honey, Hong Kong Island Telecom said that the number of people who have paid to reserve leisure machines has exceeded 3. After get off work in the afternoon, it is estimated that it will exceed 20."

Zhang Heping said casually: "It's just a small amount of money, don't spend too much energy on it."

"Yeah!" Chen Shuting responded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Sister Xin called me this morning and wanted me to help Tang Hai with selling LCD TVs, but I didn't reply."

"Her sisters-in-law came back this morning." Zhang Heping explained the reason lightly, implying that I was at home this morning.

Chen Shuting understood Zhang Heping's meaning almost immediately and told her not to reply.

After picking up Factory Managers Sha and Liao at Kowloon Railway Station, Zhang Heping found a barbecued pork restaurant and treated them to a simple meal. Then, on the shiny wooden table, he signed a processing agreement with a guaranteed minimum of 2 million magnesium yuan.

"I still say that in the first half of this year, at least 2000 million lithium-ion batteries must be delivered!" Zhang Heping emphasized before handing the deposit check of 2000 million magnesium yuan signed by Chen Shuting to the factory director Liao Changjie.

After receiving the check excitedly, Director Liao whispered, "Deputy Director Zhang, please rest assured. We will complete the task!"

"Let's go!" Zhang Heping stood up. "I'll take you to the Bank of China to transfer the money to the battery factory's account."

Chen Shuting paid the bill and said to Zhang Heping with a smile, "I haven't eaten at a food stall for a long time. The prices have increased seven or eight times!"

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "This is to remind you that it's time to raise the wages of employees!"

"The performance evaluation of each company is being compiled. Last year's year-end bonus is expected to be 8 million yuan." Chen Shuting took Zhang Heping's left arm and whispered, "Once the bonus is paid out, let Heping Audit come in to check the accounts, hehe!"

"The monthly employee questionnaire should be conducted continuously to let the management of each company know that employees have a reporting channel. At the same time, the problems reported by employees should be taken seriously but not believed blindly. Everything should be based on investigation."

"Ok!"

Once Director Liao and Director Sha are sent to the Bank of China to cash their checks, the processing contract will officially take effect.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping drove the two of them around the city before taking them to the train station.

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Tang Qiang was standing on the flat ground outside the villa. When he saw Zhang Heping coming back, he immediately ran over and said anxiously, "Uncle, 25 mobile phones have been ordered from Hong Kong Island!"

It was such a simple sentence, but Zhang Heping heard multiple meanings in it.

First, this number is 2.5 times Tang Qiang’s mobile phone inventory, and his warehouse is bankrupt!

Second, Tang Qiang does not have enough commercial computers to flash mobile phones.

Third, Tang Qiang needed money to continue ordering various electronic components from the Japanese.

"Don't bother me about financing!" Zhang Heping said mercilessly: "You couldn't get even a penny before, and now you don't even dare to ask for a penny. What's the point of having you?"

Chen Shuting, who was walking behind, gave Tang Qiang and Tang Lie a helpless look.

"A Qiang!" Tang Lie said seriously, "This financing is obviously a test from your uncle. Whether you can get your uncle's support in the future depends on your choice!"

"I know!" Tang Qiang walked back and forth on the flat ground several times, frowning and saying, "Brother! I want Hong Kong Island Telecom to suspend the reservation of mobile phones!"

"Tell me about it!" Tang Lie did not comment.

"Today, we ordered 20 leisure mobile phones and more than 5 business mobile phones. Hong Kong Island Telecom must give me a deposit of at least 1200 million magnesium yuan!" In Tang Qiang's mind, the abacus was moving the beads quickly, and he said seriously:

"With this money, I can first buy a batch of commercial computers, write the 10 leisure and business mobile phones in the warehouse into the mobile phone system, and then get about 6500 million magnesium yuan back."

"With this payment, I can order another 17 sets of leisure mobile phone parts, and then complete the mobile phones that were pre-ordered today! After completing the order, then ..."

"No!" Tang Lie shook his head. "If you do as you want, not to mention how much time you will waste, you will also waste the good situation that your uncle has helped you to maintain!"

"We can't stop taking orders from Hong Kong Island Telecom!" Tang Lie stroked his stubble, "The more orders we get, the more leverage you'll have when you negotiate for financing!"

"Also, you need to order new mobile phone parts quickly. If you can buy on credit, place more orders. Otherwise, borrow money and order less. After the 10 mobile phones in your warehouse are delivered, you will have money to pay the balance of the new mobile phone parts order."

"As long as Hong Kong Island Telecom demonstrates sufficient profitability, you will have the confidence to ask for more money when discussing financing!"

"Brother!" Tang Qiang hammered his swollen head, "How about I give you 50% of the shares of Hong Kong Telecom Company, you pay some money, and then merge the CD player and game console into it, and we can do it together?"

"This is not good! My uncle..."

"Didn't you say this was a test? Maybe it's a test for us two brothers?" Tang Qiang hit his head, as if he had become smarter. "Tang Lu and Tang Hai are self-righteous. I can feel that my uncle is alienated from them."

"Brother! Although my uncle doesn't think highly of the mobile phone business, I think this is a big business that is no less than the ultra-thin color TV business. I can't do it alone!" Tang Qiang put down his hands and said to Tang Lie seriously:

"Instead of letting outsiders take advantage of it, why can't we brothers work together to do it!"

Tang Lie thought about it and nodded, "Let's go call Dad first. If we work together as a family, we will definitely be able to take over the mobile phone market in Hong Kong Island. As for the overseas market, that will come later!"

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Zhang Heping stood behind the living room window, holding a cup of tea, silently listening to the conversation between his eldest nephew and his third nephew at the edge of Pingba.

If Tang Ming hadn't been in the Tang family, the family would have broken up long ago.

Even with the presence of father-in-law Tang Ming, the two brothers Tang Ren and Tang Yi had actually split into two forces after they separated in Xindao.

Previously, Zhang Heping also tried to use Hutchison Whampoa to connect with the Tang family. The combined Tang family would naturally be more helpful.

Unfortunately, my second uncle Tang Yi's family has lived in Xindao for several years, and although they still have feelings for Tang Ren's family, they have faded a lot.

As for Zhang Heping's family and Tang Yi's family, they didn't have much affection for each other and had little contact with each other. Now that Tang Hai's incident happened, the relationship between the two sides has become delicate.

Now, it all depends on whether Tang Lie, the eldest nephew, can unite his brothers and sisters.

Speaking of money, my brother-in-law has been reselling Xiongqi liquor for so long, so he naturally has some money.

Add to that the private money of his sixth wife, as well as Tang Lie and Tang Qiang's other brothers and sisters, how could he be short of money?

Compared with the coveting of various external forces, Zhang Heping actually cares more about how Tang Lie and Tang Qiang will deal with this huge wealth!

If they can't even tolerate their own brothers and sisters, how could they treat the so-called cousins ​​of the Zhang family well?

You know, Tang Xin and their father Tang Ren are only half-sisters!

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It was five days later when Tang Ren received the news and rushed back to his villa on the Peak on the afternoon of January 1.

Brothers Tang Lie and Tang Qiang have used the 1200 million magnesium deposit paid by Hong Kong Island Telecom to order 30 sets of mobile phone parts.

Then, they wrote IOUs to their mother and aunt at home, using an annual interest rate of 20% to raise 2000 million magnesium yuan to buy commercial computers and speed up the flashing of bare metal computers.

When the brothers Tang Lie and Tang Qiang wanted to install commercial computers on the third underground floor of the community, Zhang Heping gave them a suggestion: to put them in the Shenzhen mobile phone processing factory so that outsiders would not think that there was a laboratory in the community.

After listening to his two sons' stories, Tang Ren couldn't help but ask, "Where is your uncle now?"

Ever since the shareholders of Colorful Investment Company thought about withdrawing their investment, Tang Ren has not returned to Hong Kong Island. Instead, he has visited the joint venture factories under the Ultra-Thin Color Screen Factory in the Mainland to confirm their authenticity.

In Tang Ren's opinion, the LED ultra-thin display developed by Zhang Heping is real, and the technology he provided must be correct. So the problem must be with the Shenzhen Ultra-thin Color Screen Factory!

At the insistence of Tang Ren, chairman of Duocai Investment, the ultra-thin color screen factory made him sign a confidentiality agreement, and then, starting in late November, sent a driver and a 11 bus to take him to check out the joint venture factory registered under its name.

As he visited each joint venture factory, Tang Ren was surprised to find that many equipment and materials had already been produced but had not been shipped to Shenzhen.

It was not until January 1rd that he and his father Tang Ming were invited to a small town by the Yangtze River and found a completed ultra-thin color screen factory. Only then did he suddenly realize why Zhang Heping had always been pessimistic about the ultra-thin color screen factory...

wrong!

You shouldn’t say “not optimistic”!

This brother-in-law had intended to invest solely in this project from the beginning, but those top Hong Kong businessmen with Chinese capital relied on their numbers to force him to send money in and be the scapegoats!

"My uncle is currently in the concert hall of the Hong Kong Island City Hall, discussing with members of the ITU International Telecommunication Union and the ISO International Organization for Standardization about using Hong Kong Island Telecom's 1G communication protocol and equipment as the standard, and then opening up this technology for free." Tang Qiang said excitedly, "It is said that people from 116 countries are participating today."

Tang Lie added, "My uncle only said that he would make the communication technology available for free, but he did not say whether the mobile phone technology would be made public. He just reminded us that we need to rely on financing and cooperate with foreign communication companies to sell mobile phones to foreign countries."

"We must first stabilize the country before we can resist foreign aggression!" Tang Ren said seriously, "Based on what you just said, I think you two brothers are making the right move by jointly operating the Hong Kong Island Telecom Company!"

"The next step is how to deal with the communications market outside of Hong Kong Island! In addition, most of your mobile phone parts come from Japan, so be careful that they may suddenly run out of stock!"

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"Mr. Zhang, I would like to ask whether the relevant technologies of the central office, remote units, user terminals and other equipment you purchased before will be made public." A blonde woman with some freckles stood up and asked.

Zhang Heping, holding a microphone in the middle of the concert hall stage, answered: "The central office, remote office, and user terminal that this lady mentioned are actually telephone line capacity expansion transmission systems, which you also have in your country."

"Back to the question just now, as long as ISO confirms to use Hong Kong Island Telecom's 1G communication protocol as a standard, Hong Kong Island Telecom will open up the relevant systems, equipment and technology for free."

Zhang Heping looked around the audience with a smile on his face, and added in his mind: "If you can't learn the technology, you can directly purchase our equipment and technical support."

A shameless man from China held up a white old-fashioned phone and asked, "Mr. Zhang, will this small phone manufacturing technology be made available to the public for free?"

"That is the technology of Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company. I am talking about Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company now. These are two different companies. Therefore, mobile phone technology is not within the scope of Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company's technology openness." Zhang Heping smiled faintly:

"If you are interested in their technology, you can go find the person in charge of their company. I heard that he went to Wall Street to raise funds two years ago, but he didn't get a cent."

"Mr. Zhang, the 1G communication network you just introduced uses analog signals." Another blond foreigner asked, "But this time you purchased digital switches, quartz optical fibers, digital terminals, optical transceivers, etc. Does this mean that you are going to switch to digital signal communication?"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping said without reservation: "We are studying the 2G digital signal system. By then, mobile phones will not only be able to make calls, but also transmit text messages. Of course, there are some other envisioned functions."

"Mr. Zhang, can we visit your laboratory and research team?" asked a short and thin man with a wretched look.

"NO!" Zhang Heping looked at the islander jokingly, "After you failed to rob my laboratory, I moved the laboratory to the mainland. Isn't it a surprise?"

As soon as Zhang Heping said this, there was an uproar in the concert hall. Everyone looked at the Chinese representatives. They didn't expect that this backward country would get there first!

As a result, Hong Kong Island Telecom must obtain the communication technology, otherwise it will fall behind.

The director of the mainland's Standardization Management Committee was a little confused at this. He only had a vague idea about Zhang Heping's identity, so how could he know what the situation was like in Zhang Heping's laboratory? He could only remain silent and let outsiders speculate.

Seeing that he had frightened a bunch of foreigners, Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Let's get back to the point. Today we're only talking about the standards of communication technology! Hong Kong Telecom is opening up its technology for free just to allow the world to have more communication and fewer wars!"

"Will you open up 2G communication technology for free?"

"Yes! But not now, lest Europe and the United States use patent law to block 2G communication technology."

"You don't agree with patent law?"

When Zhang Heping heard this question, he immediately became alert.

He stood on the stage for two seconds, preparing his attitude, and then said loudly:

"denied!"

"I think patents are a cage for the weak and will only hinder the development of human technology!"

“So, I don’t apply for patents anymore.”

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