Break out of the courtyard

“Mr. Zhang, excuse me for asking, have you applied for a patent for your LED lights?” The head of the Wu family asked this because they have several electronics factories that have ordered LED lights from Tingmei Trading before.

"No need!" Zhang Heping said nonchalantly as he sat behind his desk, "If anyone registers my technology patent and causes me trouble, I will make the technology public."

The people in the study looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never expected this kind of answer, and they didn't know what to say.

As Zhang Heping was busy writing his work, everyone looked at each other, said goodbye and went downstairs.

The shareholders of Duocai Investment Company discussed for a while on Pingba and decided to order motherboards, drivers, casings and other accessories from the mainland. In the end, they only needed to build an assembly workshop in Shenzhen.

After discussing the LCD TV, these shareholders did not leave in a hurry. Instead, they talked about Hong Kong Telecom and mobile phone business, implicitly testing whether they could get involved.

Tang Ren was at home today, and the group of rich ladies from Heping Real Estate gathered in Renheyi Community again. Everyone cheered together, and Tang Ren agreed to the party in the evening.

As for money, you can keep a record of it first!

……

In the afternoon, when Zhang Heping and his concubine Chen Shuting were counting how much tax they had to pay last year, the director of Shenchengsha Factory called and said that Zhang Heping's parents had boarded a plane at the Capital Airport and brought their three nephews with them.

Not hearing any other news, Zhang Heping couldn't help but frown and made some wild guesses.

Zhang Heping handed the information about Dior daily chemicals to his concubine Chen Shuting, and he took three black Land Cruiser bulletproof vehicles to pick people up.

The three nephews who were brought here were nieces Chang Wen, Zhang Ting, and little nephew Chang Qing.

"Where are the others?" Zhang Heping asked casually as he took the two bags from his mother's hands and her backpack.

"The average scores of those three guys were less than 80. Xiaochun and Xiaopeng did well in the exam, but they were taken back to Majiatun by your eldest cousin to celebrate the New Year." Ma Xiuzhen replied, and was a little disappointed to see that there were only bodyguards behind Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping saw his mother looking around and explained, "There were a lot of guests at home, so I didn't let Ah Xin and the others come over."

After getting on the bus, the mother Ma Xiuzhen took back her backpack and took out a cowhide envelope and handed it to Zhang Heping. "This is for you by Director Wang. She is in a meeting recently. She said it was about the work of children's education."

Zhang Heping tore open the envelope and took a look at the letter inside. There were only two words on it: Don’t move!

Compared with what Zhang Heping said in Shenzhen before, the meaning was to tell him not to immigrate.

With his identity in Hong Kong, Zhang Heping cannot immigrate to Hong Kong, so he cannot touch some businesses.

For example, you cannot invest in European Magnesium Corporation, minerals, etc., as they may shamelessly freeze your assets in the future.

With this understanding, Zhang Heping became more determined to make a fortune by going to Japan and the islands while the North Soviet Union was still around and the cross-strait relations in the Pacific had been relaxed over the past decade.

When they returned to Taiping Mountain, the outside of the villa was already decorated with lights and the buffet table, food and drinks were still being set up, causing the three nephews to swallow their saliva as they entered the villa.

After the mother Ma Xiuzhen, the father Zhang Bing and the three children went upstairs to take a bath and change clothes, the concubine Chen Shuting came over and said:

"Honey, I just communicated with the Tingmei Health Care Factory. There is still vacant land around their factory, so they can expand the factory."

"I plan to distribute the packaging bags, boxes, eyebrow pencils and the like to the factories in the homes of the wives outside. Tingmei Health Factory will make the raw materials and pack them, just like Viagra tablets."

Zhang Heping nodded and replied, "You can handle the production as you wish, and the sales strategy will be based on the information."

"Yes! I have asked people to find out about the stores on Champs Elysees and Fifth Avenue. We will launch Dior products at the same time as Ginza." Chen Shuting said excitedly:

"Sakura Series, Fragrance Series, The Fifth Element! Honey, I can't wait to use those products!"

"Don't embezzle!" Zhang Heping joked.

Chen Shuting smiled and said, "Honey, are you still going to make the Audi car and Aoligei diet you mentioned before?"

"Let's talk about it after the New Year!" Zhang Heping frowned and said, "I plan to make electric bicycles and electric motorcycles first. If they sell well, I will make electric cars. By then, it may affect the business of buses, taxis, and human-powered tricycles."

"Honey, can't we just not sell it in Hong Kong Island?"

Zhang Heping did not comment on Chen Shuting's suggestion, because electric vehicles combined with Hong Kong Electric's rate reduction strategy can have a strong impact on China Light and Power Company.

"Oh, right!" Chen Shuting pulled Zhang Heping to the window next to the gate, pointed at a group of women on the platform, and said, "Zhang Jianing from Jianing Company is here today, too!"

"After rising to $17 last year, Jianing's stock price has been slowly falling."

"I asked her about it. After they sold the Golden Gate Building for HK$10 billion last October, they have been buying land. It is said that they have already acquired 16.8 commercial sites in Kowloon."

"Next, they are going to acquire overseas companies. They just asked me if I could sell them some shares of Hong Kong Island Telecom."

"These are just superficial things!" Zhang Heping looked at the woman who looked like Ah Sa in the crowd, "You have to see where they got the money to buy the land and the company, and how they spent it."

"Zhang Jianing likes to say 'spend stocks as money'." Chen Shuting thought for a while, "I think they pledged Jianing's shares, but the banks in Hong Kong Island have no information on this."

"Trust your instincts. Just because Hong Kong Island banks don't have it doesn't mean that foreign banks don't have it!" Zhang Heping sneered, "Once their funding chain is broken, those banks will come out to look for losses!"

"uncle!"

The 10-year-old nephew Chang Qing ran down first. Zhang Heping took him to the first floor of the basement and found Zhang Long, Zhang Hu and other little kids who were playing games. He asked his eldest son Zhang Bei, who was sitting in front of the computer, to take care of his cousin.

……

Outside the villa, Rong Zhi, the eldest son of the Rong family, came up to Tang Lie with a glass of wine.

"Brother Alie, have the production volumes of your CD players and optical discs increased?" Rong Zhi raised his glass with a smile and clinked it with Tang Lie's.

"CD discs, CD players, CD game consoles, CD burners, how many do you need, Brother Rong?" Tang Lie smiled and took a sip of wine.

Rong Zhi approached Tang Lie and asked quietly, "I heard that your cousin's LCD TV was sold out? Does he intend to sell it at a low price?"

"Why, Brother Rong wants to sell LCD color TVs to the mainland?" Tang Lie said in surprise: "I have to remind Brother Rong that the signal receivers of those color TVs cannot receive domestic TV signals."

"Hey!" Rong Zhi looked at the people who were talking to themselves and whispered to Tang Lie, "Did you forget that your uncle took out a satellite TV receiver that was slightly larger than a human head."

"You plan to pay for the manufacturing technology of that receiver?" Tang Lie looked at him in surprise. "As far as I know, it is not allowed to watch foreign satellite TV channels in the mainland. Do you want to sell those TVs abroad?"

Rong Zhi gave Tang Lie a thumbs up and laughed softly, "To be honest, I heard from a few friends that Japanese LCD TVs are selling very well in Europe and the United States. So, I want to try to sell the batch of LCD TVs from Mr. Hai."

Tang Lie looked at Tang Hai who was standing next to a crowd of people and said with a smile, "If you go to my uncle to buy satellite TV receiver manufacturing technology because of Ah Hai's batch of LCD TVs, I guess he won't agree to it!"

"What do you mean?" Rong Zhi was puzzled.

"You have to ask Ah Hai about this!" Tang Lie said, looking at the other guests, "Brother Rong, if you don't buy my CD products, I'll leave now."

Rong Zhi was still worried about the batch of LCD TVs. Just a moment of hesitation, and the CD business that was originally promised slipped away from him.

Tang Lie has recently been helping his third brother get a mobile phone. He was still thinking about what Zhang Heping said, that mobile phones will replace handheld game consoles and replace CD players. He has no time to expand production.

Therefore, Tang Lie only tentatively asked Rong Zhi how much goods he needed. If it was not much, he could just give him some to sell. As a result, this man took a fancy to the batch of LCD TVs with gray screens.

Rong Zhi has limited funds, although he knows that he can make money by selling Tang Lie's CD products to the mainland.

However, they don’t make as much money by reselling LCD TVs to Europe and the United States!

As for why he didn't resell his CD products to Europe and the United States, it was mainly because his friends thought the profit was too little.

What they don't know is that although a blank CD is cheap, its price can increase ten or twenty times if it is burned with a CD recorder to copy some short movies.

Unfortunately, those outsiders have not yet discovered the money-making model of pirated discs.

"Mr. Hai!" Rong Zhi was indeed a man who had been trained in the vast world. He shamelessly praised the frustrated Tang Hai, then pulled the impatient Tang Hai aside and asked him about the LCD color TV.

……

While Rong Zhi was busy looking for people to discuss business on Pingba, Chen Shuting called a dozen rich ladies she was looking for to the study on the second floor and talked about Dior's packaging, accessories and other processing business.

As for Zhang Heping, after having dinner at home with his parents and mother-in-law, he read the newspaper on the sofa and had no intention of going out for social events.

Although he has little influence in the country, his children were beaten in the capital for such a long time without even an apology.

However, in Hong Kong Island, he was a Chinese businessman whom even the Governor could not ignore, and he did not need to care about those so-called social interactions at all.

Because, those old guys who could communicate with him on an equal footing were now at his eldest brother-in-law Tang Ren's house, chatting about family matters with his father-in-law Tang Ming.

"Uncle, I've thought about it!" Tang Qiang, who was taking a break in the Zhang family villa, sat up straight on the sofa and said, "Only those who can help me expand the overseas communications market and take over the communications company will be qualified to invest in our Hong Kong Island Telecom Company."

"Most of the people you're talking about are the second-generation officials of the local government!" Zhang Heping flipped through the newspaper and asked in a calm tone, "If those people have money to invest in your company, it's probably their family's gray income."

"Instead of accepting that kind of money and getting into trouble, it's better to recruit him into the company and share the profits according to performance. There's no need to divide the shares, and there won't be much trouble later."

"Okay!" Tang Qiang stood up, his expression much more resolute, "I'll go back and reject those people!"

"Why reject them?" Zhang Heping glanced at the content of the newspaper and said distractedly: "Aren't you short of money? Your company will not hire technicians to develop mobile phones in the future. Do you still want me to draw technical drawings for you?"

"This..." Tang Qiang slumped down on the sofa somewhat dejectedly, doubting whether he should have come here.

Because he proposed several financing methods, but none of them were approved by his uncle.

"Have you forgotten that I asked you to get a telecommunications company license?" Zhang Heping had already given up on teaching his slow-witted nephew. "Can you be a little greedy? Make it bigger!"

"Go and tell them that whoever can help you get a foreign telecommunications company license will be able to partner with you to set up a telecommunications company locally. Then Hong Kong Island Telecom will supply mobile phones to your partner telecommunications company at a low price and hold a promotion to give away mobile phones for prepaid phone bills."

"In this way, not only do you not have to give up your shares in Hong Kong Island Telecom, but you can also use the prepaid phone bills to build local base stations, so it doesn't cost much to start a communications company."

"I understand!" Tang Qiang stood up excitedly.

“Cherish every opportunity to raise funds, because every time you raise funds, the shares you hold will become less and less!” Zhang Heping reminded:

"Also, the Japanese have probably cracked our phone hardware, and are probably increasing the number of people working on cracking the phone's system software and lithium-ion batteries. The time left for you to exclusively sell the phone is running out!"

When Tang Qiang heard this, his heart tightened and he hurried out to find his brother to discuss financing to expand production.

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The next day, New Year's Eve.

In the morning, the Tang family's Hongqi bulletproof car, the six Land Cruiser bulletproof cars, and some other cars all drove to Kai Tak Airport.

Then, they brought back Tang Zhi, the eldest uncle of the Tang family whom Zhang Heping knew, and his family, as well as Tang Xin's third sister Tang Si and her family.

This was a rare big reunion for the Tang family, and all the guest rooms in Zhang Heping's house were occupied.

In order to have a reunion dinner, the Renheyi community and the flat land in front of the villa were filled with tables and benches.

The dozen or so chefs and kitchen helpers who were invited have been busy preparing dinner since the morning.

Because, people in the umbrella community below will also participate in this year’s New Year’s Eve dinner!

Zhang Heping guessed that Tang Zhi and Tang Si came here for the mobile phone business, but he underestimated Taiwan’s intelligence capabilities.

The third sister, Tang Si, who is 54 years old this year, actually wanted to incite Zhang Heping to defect and invite him to Taiwan to develop. She also talked about the development vision of the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park which was started last year.

Before his father-in-law Tang Ming could get mad, Zhang Heping said with a smile: "Third sister may not know that I don't get along with the people of Magnesium..."

"The group of Magnesium people who attacked the No. 10 laboratory building in Kowloon Tong were the garrison troops of Dongdu. After leaving Hong Kong Island, they were directly sent back to the hospital in Newtown, Magnesium for treatment. They are still in a coma." The third sister Tang Si said, glanced at her father Tang Ming, and then said:

"If you set up a company in Taiwan and accept investment from the people of Magnesium, such attacks will not happen again."

Zhang Heping looked at his uncle Tang Zhi in surprise. The uncle did not tell his third niece what he did last time he went to Taiwan.

Tang Zhi smiled at Zhang Heping and put his right hand on the shoulder of his fourth brother Tang Ming, stopping Tang Ming from speaking.

"Third sister may have misunderstood what I meant. I deliberately let those Magnesium vegetative patients go." Zhang Heping stood up and walked out while saying, "What I meant was that I don't get along with the Magnesium people!"

After Zhang Heping left his brother-in-law Tang Ren's house, he went straight back to his own home, making Tang Xin feel a little awkward staying next door.

Zhang Heping walked around the house and didn't see his father Zhang Bing, so he went out to ask the bodyguard. It turned out that Lao Zhang was taken to the shooting range by Wei Chunqiao, the head of the Umbrella Company, to practice shooting.

Mother Ma Xiuzhen and young daughter-in-law Chen Shuting were making dumplings while chatting with a group of aunties at the dining table in front of the apartment building.

When Zhang Heping saw Chen Shuting looking at him, he just smiled at her and had no intention of going over to listen to the gossip.

Looking around, Zhang Heping saw his second daughter Zhang Nan, her younger sister Zhang Nuo, Chang Wen, Zhang Ting and others playing with other girls in the community, so he went straight to the shooting range in the south of the community.

Zhang Heping said that he didn't get along with the Magnesian people; not only did he dislike the Magnesian people in his previous life, but he also had a blood feud with Lao Zhang and his people in this life.

Instead, they are from a few unconscious little thieves in the Magnesium Country!

However, after hearing what Tang Xin's third sister said, Zhang Heping finally understood why her third sister was in Taiwan instead of following Tang Ren and the others.

Uncle Tang’s stance, however, is somewhat intriguing.

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