Break out of the courtyard

"Why! Those people have objections to my coming?"

As soon as he walked out of Japan's Tohoku International Airport, Zhang Heping keenly spotted three suspicious people across the street.

Miss Suzuki, who was accompanying the pick-up, hurriedly explained: "They are from the Special Investigation Department of the Dongdu District Prosecutor's Office. My father is helpless against them! However, my father has already communicated with them, and those people will not get close to Zhang Sang!"

"I hope so, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!" Zhang Heping left a meaningful remark, and then got on the black Land Cruiser bulletproof car sent by the Umbrella Dongdu Branch.

Soon after, Miss Suzuki, the daughter of the head of the Japanese island, also got into the car, as if she were a hostage.

Unfortunately, it was not her fourth brother who came, so this sincerity was dispensable.

……

The news that Zhang Heping went to Toto, Japan, was reported back to China on October 10, but there was no response at all in the country.

What the Zhang family didn’t know was that the first suspect in the country regarding the source of Zhang Heping’s technology was Japan!

Because Zhang Heping has only been to Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Japan, and has huge amounts of suspicious assets in Japan.

At present, people in China who know Zhang Heping’s identity can be divided into three categories.

First, most people in the secret department where Director Wang and his colleagues worked believed that Zhang Heping had real skills, and although they had suspicions, they did not reveal them.

The second group is conspiracy theorists, who suspect that Zhang Heping, a fugitive from Hong Kong, has been recruited by some foreign force, which wants to first provide the technology to China and then achieve the ultimate goal of stealing some advanced technology from China.

For example, the secret base under Sanxingdui.

The third group is bystanders, like the Zhuang family and the Zhao family who were investigated last year. They knew Zhang Heping’s background and vaguely knew that Zhang Heping was doing well in Hong Kong Island. They just stopped associating with the Zhang family to avoid suspicion.

Therefore, the trip to Japan that Zhang Heping was worried about was seen by the second type of people in the country as an opportunity to investigate the forces behind Zhang Heping.

……

In Hong Kong Island, as soon as Zhang Heping left by plane, various TV stations, newspapers and magazines received a message that a reward of 1000 million magnesium yuan was offered for news related to Hong Kong Island Telecom’s technical exchange with Japan. The reward would be given according to the importance of the news, and there would be no duplicate news.

Then, the official news that Hong Kong Island Telecom was preparing to go public was publicized on television and in newspapers, and the reasons given were:

Although Hong Kong Telecom has more than 50 billion yuan in its account, that is prepaid phone bills for which no services have been used. It can only be used for maintenance and upgrades of local communication equipment in Hong Kong Island, and cannot be used for the company's daily expenses or investment in expanding overseas markets.

Therefore, it is necessary to go public to attract some funds to develop overseas business, such as telecommunications business in Japan!

When the journalists who received the reward heard the news that Hong Kong Island Telecom was preparing to go public, they thought that the reward was for discovering the secrets that had to be told between Hong Kong Island Telecom and Japan Island Telecom.

Little did they know that Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting just wanted the paparazzi to mobilize their gossip spirit and stake out the area.

In addition, the eldest wife Tang Xin was also busy with one thing: asking the circle of rich wives in Heping Real Estate who had business dealings with Ridaodong, preferably those who had stores or offices there.

Although not many, I still counted 25 addresses and contacts and told Zhang Heping who was far away in Japan.

At the same time, Tang Xin also asked those rich ladies to tell their contacts in Dongdu that if they met Zhang Heping and asked them for help in the future, they must lend a helping hand.

To this end, Tang Xin also gave each of the 21 rich ladies who agreed to this matter a limited edition handbag with a constellation or zodiac sign priced at 10001 magnesium yuan.

……

"Tomorrow morning we will visit the semiconductor factories of Mitsubishi and Toshiba, in the afternoon we will visit the Nichima Electric factory in Kawasaki City, and the day after tomorrow morning we will go to ..." Miss Suzuki looked at Zhang Heping, who was resting with his eyes closed, and told him a lot of schedules. During this time, he only saw that the other party answered a phone call, said "hmm" and hung up.

"Mr. Zhang, do you think I need to adjust my schedule for the next three days?" Miss Suzuki looked anxiously at this man who was the same age as her but looked ten years younger than her. She was thinking in her heart whether she should buy a set of Dior skin care products to try out the effects.

Little did people know that the rich wives in Hong Kong Island also had such thoughts.

"This afternoon, I'm going to check on the business of Huayingxiong Company. You can arrange for the staff of Hong Kong Island Telecom to visit Japan Island Telecom Company to promote cooperation between the two companies." Zhang Heping closed his eyes and said casually:

"Tomorrow morning, choose a golf course and ask the heads of five semiconductor companies, including Nichima Electric and Fujitsu, to come and play golf with 5 technicians each. We will go to the factory of the company with the best technology."

"The day after tomorrow morning, can I visit your VLSI National Institute of Technology? With your 1-micron chip manufacturing process, it shouldn't be difficult to make 8-megabyte DRAM memory. If not, I will return to Hong Kong Island the day after tomorrow afternoon."

"Hey! I'll communicate with them right away!" Miss Suzuki said, took out a flip phone, and then chattered into the phone, repeating Zhang Heping's three requests just now.

After the call was hung up, the car was quiet for a long time, until the convoy was about to drive to Ginza, Miss Suzuki's cell phone rang again.

After Miss Suzuki hung up the phone again, she replied to Zhang Heping: "Mr. Zhang, I have arranged the schedule for this afternoon, tomorrow morning, and the morning after tomorrow according to your request. Do you think there is anything else you need to add?"

"In that case, I can wait until the morning of the 6th before returning to Hong Kong Island."

"Boss, today is Saturday, and vehicles are restricted from entering and leaving Ginza." The driver suddenly interrupted, "Shall we go to the hotel over at 1-chome first?"

"Ok!"

After the group arrived at the hotel, Zhang Heping arranged two bodyguards who had learned Japanese to accompany the Hong Kong Island Telecom staff to visit the Japan Island Telecom Company, while he went to the Harumi-dori intersection on 2-chome.

At this time, the office of Huayingxiong Co., Ltd. is still the three small buildings that were purchased for 4375 million magnesium yuan. One is used for office and the other two are used as employee dormitories.

When Zhang Heping came over with a group of bodyguards, Ou Yanzi, the vice president of Huayingxiong Company, was already waiting outside the door with his employees.

"Teacher Ou, thank you for taking me out to see our company's land this afternoon." Zhang Heping smiled and shook hands with Ou Yanzi.

"It's my duty!" Ou Yanzi turned sideways and extended her hand to lead the way to the office building. "Mr. Zhang, please come in and take a seat. I'll get a map and plan the route for later."

Zhang Heping walked in front without hesitation. The security manager Ah Hu who came with them asked the other nine veterans and bodyguards from the Umbrella Dongdu branch to stay downstairs, and only he followed in.

"The properties and land under the company's name are very scattered. I'm afraid I won't be able to see them all this afternoon." Ou Yanzi took out a map, spread it on the tatami in the reception room, and then pointed at the map and introduced it to Zhang Heping:

"There are 23 districts in the eastern part of the city, and our company has properties and land in each district. There are only a small number of properties in the three central districts and the four sub-central districts, and most of the properties and land are distributed in the seven eastern districts and the nine western districts."

Zhang Heping glanced at the red dots marked on the map and said with a smile, "I won't look at real estate. This afternoon I will only look at land suitable for building apartments and office buildings."

"Mr. Zhang, I have been paying attention to the construction costs of various Japanese construction companies in the past two years. This year's steel bars and cement have not been affected by the oil crisis, thanks to the coal shipped from the mainland. The prices are the same as last year." Ou Yanzi looked at Zhang Heping and said seriously:

"If you want to build a building, you can consider qualified small and medium-sized construction companies in cities surrounding Dongdu. They have very little business this year, and their quotes will be 30% to 40% cheaper than those of Dongdu's construction companies!"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping nodded, then pointed to the Jiangdong District in the east and said, "After lunch, we will start from the east. We will not visit the factories in the outer Edogawa and Adachi districts for now; then we will go around to the Shinagawa District in the southwest."

……

After Miss Suzuki went home to get her lunch box, she rushed to Nagatacho to meet her father, the mayor.

"Are you here?" Mayor Suzuki, leaning over his desk, greeted without raising his head.

"Well, he's in Ginza now." Miss Suzuki put the lunch box on the desk and asked in confusion, "Father, I don't quite understand!"

"Aren't you worried that our export trade will provoke countermeasures from the Magnesium Country? Why do you still ask Mr. Zhang to help us improve the semiconductor industry? Do you still want to surpass the Magnesium Country in the semiconductor field?"

"Not Magnesium!" Mayor Suzuki put down his pen, closed the document, leaned back in his chair, and enjoyed his third daughter's shoulder massage. "We can lag behind Magnesium, but we cannot lag behind the continent to the west. Otherwise, once a dispute breaks out between China and Magnesium, our Japanese island will be caught in the middle and become their weapons testing ground."

Miss Suzuki asked puzzledly: "With the North Soviet Union, China and Magnesium can only make friends to resist the pressure from the north. How could they have a dispute?"

"No flower lasts forever!" Mayor Suzuki patted his third daughter's hand, then opened the lunch box on the table. "You should do your accompanying work in the next few days. Regardless of whether Mr. Zhang agrees to cooperate this time, his coming here today is a good start."

"The total market value of his real estate in Touto has exceeded 1.3 trillion yen. If I give him some shares in semiconductor companies, I believe he will accept it."

"Remember, there must be no trouble this time! When you travel with us, bring some extra cell phone batteries so you can stay in touch at all times!"

"Hey!"

……

Director Wang, who was far away in the capital, was picked up by a black car and taken to a villa, where a meeting about Zhang Heping began.

"The news we have received so far is that the management of Hong Kong Island Telecom went to Japan Island Telecom this afternoon. The specific details of the matter are unknown." The flat-headed old man who presided over the meeting glanced at Wang Sumei and continued:

"After Zhang Heping went to his Huayingxiong company, he took a car to check the land under his company's name. It was said that he was going to build apartment buildings and office buildings in Dongdu."

"I've always wondered where he got so much money from?" An old man in military uniform interrupted, "He's only been in Hong Kong for a few years, how could he be worth tens of billions of dollars? Our entire country's foreign exchange added up to less than 20 billion dollars!"

The old man presiding over the meeting glanced at the old man in military uniform and asked in a cold voice: "In the 1973 college entrance examination, he scored full marks in mathematics, physics and chemistry, 95 points in Chinese and 90 points in politics, the best score in the country. Why do you think he fled to Hong Kong Island?"

"At the 1975 Spring Canton Fair, the anti-malarial capsules produced by the Nanla Town Pharmaceutical Factory earned 1430 million yuan in foreign exchange."

"At the 1976 Spring Canton Fair, the Nanla Pharmaceutical Factory was suppressed by other pharmaceutical factories. It was supposed to earn 2400 million magnesium yuan, but in the end it was reduced by 8%, resulting in a loss of 480 million magnesium yuan!"

“1976年秋季广交会，南腊镇制药厂在打8折的情况下，创汇1亿2千5百万镁元！”

"Who forced him to leave Nanla Town? Who forced him to leave Jingcheng? And who forced him to stay in Hong Kong Island and not dare to return to the capital?"

Snapped!

The old man with a flat head who presided over the meeting shouted angrily: "It's us!"

"You keep saying flee to Hong Kong! Escape to Hong Kong! Isn't Hong Kong our territory? Do you still want to force him to emigrate abroad?"

"Putting aside the matter of fleeing to Hong Kong, even if he has the ability to make money, how do we explain the source of his technology?" Another old man in military uniform questioned, "He doesn't have a laboratory, and he doesn't have an experimental team. It's impossible that he came up with those technologies out of thin air!"

"What if it is?"

Wang Sumei, a junior director, finally couldn't help but speak up when she saw her boss getting angry, even though she had no right to speak. "I've seen Zhang Heping reply to those technical consultation letters. Just from the accumulation of knowledge, there is no one smarter than him in the whole country or even the whole world. Do you have any objection to this?"

"From a personal perspective, I watched Zhang Heping grow up. Although this child is a bit naughty and doesn't follow the rules, he has a good heart." Director Wang's face showed a look of reminiscence, and continued:

"Since he learned to fish and hunt at the age of 12, he has often sent fish and meat to the neighborhood office. Although he asked the neighborhood office to only distribute the fish and meat to the families of military martyrs, his starting point was good!"

"Do you think he doesn't know how to sell fish and meat?" Director Wang sneered, "The kitchen staff at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill never get tickets to eat in the kitchen."

"They exchanged their saved meal and vegetable coupons for fish and meat from Heping, and then sold the fish and meat to the buyers, who then sold them to the steel mills, providing free food and drink for those parasites!"

"There is one more thing!" Director Wang looked seriously at the old men in military uniforms who always doubted Zhang Heping. "It is clearly recorded in the archives that Zhang Heping learned Chinese medicine at the age of 12 to save his father. He not only saved his father, but also saved Mr. Zhuang who had hemiplegia due to a stroke."

"Why do you doubt Zhang Heping's learning ability?" Director Wang stared at the old men and said coldly, "The textbooks written by Zhang Heping in Jingcheng and handed over by Governor Dao of Banna Prefecture, as well as his expectations for the university, are not something you can't see, but you dare not say it!"

"You are afraid!" Director Wang sneered, "Such a smart child was forced to go to Hong Kong Island by you. You are afraid that he will immigrate abroad! So, you keep suspecting this and that!"

"Now it's all right. He's gone to Japan!" Director Wang leaned back in his chair with his arms folded across his chest, and said indifferently:

"I can tell you responsibly that Zhang Heping owns more than 50 billion yuan worth of real estate and land in East Ridao. If he builds apartment buildings and office buildings in East Ridao, their value will only be higher."

"Also, the Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company, which he controls, still has 50 billion US dollars of idle cash in its account. I'm sure everyone knows that."

"As for whether the LCD TV and mobile phone business he handed over to the Tang family is profitable, I don't think I need to explain it in detail."

"And the battery and LED light business he gave up!" Director Wang sneered, "I want to ask you, which force is willing to give so much technology and money to Zhang Heping? Eagle Country? Magnesium Country? Japan Island? Or North Sudan?"

"Or, in other words, which country do you want Zhang Heping to immigrate to?"

"I know what you're thinking. It's just that his father, Zhang Bing, is not from the same mountain as you..."

"Xiao Wang, that's enough!" The old man with a flat head who presided over the meeting said calmly:

"Putting aside all doubts, the technology Zhang Heping has brought back is genuine, and the technical consultation letters we responded to have been unanimously recognized by the technical staff. This is something that no hostile force wants to see, and they will not give it to us selflessly!"

"Let's seek common ground while reserving differences and first determine whether Zhang Heping is still our good comrade!"

"Now, here comes the question! Before this comrade went to Japan, he told his superior that if he was detained by the Japanese, he hoped that the country could lend a helping hand. What do you think he is afraid of?"

……

"Sir. The mysterious Mr. Zhang from Hong Kong Island has really come to our Dongdu!"

"Hey! We will keep an eye on his whereabouts! However, Mayor Suzuki sternly warned our District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Investigation Department that if we dare to disrupt his plan, we will be..."

"Understood! We only follow the orders of the CIA and are not afraid of threats from anyone!"

"Hey! Make sure you complete the mission!"