Break out of the courtyard

Villa 118 Peak Road, The Peak, Hong Kong Island.

"Honey, what are you going to do with classmate Huang?" The concubine Chen Shuting brought a cup of wolfberry chrysanthemum tea to Zhang Heping's desk, and then sat next to him.

"First, let her study at the South China Morning Post for three months, and arrange for a female bodyguard to accompany her to and from get off work, and teach her Cantonese by the way." Zhang Heping talked about the arrangement he had made in front of Director Wang.

"Um..." Chen Shuting hesitated for a moment and asked, "How is your relationship with her?"

"She and I are just ordinary classmates, and the main reason is that I owed her father a favor in the past." Zhang Heping explained half of it, but did not elaborate on the past event of finding a job for his mother Ma Xiuzhen.

Chen Shuting suddenly realized, "This is returning a favor."

"Ha..." Zhang Heping laughed, "It's not that simple!"

Zhang Heping leaned back in his chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip. He looked deeply at the dim light at the other end of the study and said calmly, "Her father is now the head of the Civil Affairs Department of Beihu Province, but he is willing to send his daughter to Hong Kong Island, and he is not afraid of affecting his career. There must be something fishy going on!"

"Take good care of this classmate Huang. After a year, her father will owe us a favor!"

"Department level?" Chen Shuting murmured, then nodded and said, "I understand!"

Zhang Heping put down his teacup and tapped the table with his left index finger. "She is probably here to inquire about the nuclear power plant. This construction project will have to wait until Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. merges with Island Electric and Towngas, and is reorganized and listed, and then it can be started with the capital raised from the private placement."

"After three months, we can tie her up with Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. and let her see the merger and reorganization of a listed company."

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On New Year’s Day 1983, Zhang Heping was 33 years old!

On this day, Tingmei Trading Company's computer hardware and accessories bidding was handed over to the employees below to organize.

That morning, Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting spent 7.5 million yuan to buy 1100 square meters of reclaimed land north of Gloucester Road, 36.4 meters east-west of Central Plaza, as well as several small dilapidated buildings that were ready to be demolished.

Because there is a subway on the west side of the land connecting to Victoria Harbour on the other side, high-rise buildings cannot be built on the west side of the land of more than 7 square meters.

In the future, when reclaiming land, this subway line must be avoided.

Of course, these are minor problems. He can't use the entire land to build buildings. Sports fields and green spaces still need to be built.

According to the agreement with the Eagle Country guys, although the land was bought by Zhang Heping, it had to be kept secret for half a year.

During the past six months, if Zhang Heping wanted to build the campus in advance, he could only ask the real estate company to do it on his behalf.

After half a year, there will be no requirements or restrictions.

In response, Zhang Heping took his concubine Chen Shuting on a helicopter and flew over the land twice. Then, they signed a house demolition agreement and a land reclamation agreement with the real estate company, with a total price of 1.7 million yuan.

"That piece of land can only be sold for 5.6 million magnesium yuan now!" On the way back, the concubine Chen Shuting said indignantly: "The Eagle country guys are cheating us!"

"You're wrong!" Zhang Heping leaned against the back seat of the car and laughed, "They are cheating the entire Hong Kong Island! If they didn't need money to buy land and were afraid that we would buy Hong Kong Island real estate at the bottom like Dongdu did, and then drive up the land price, why would they sell the Central Plaza to us!"

"Honey, how do you plan to use this land?" Chen Shuting hesitated and said, "It would be such a waste if we build a university here!"

"I'm still thinking about this!" Zhang Heping pondered, "This school should give priority to training talents for our company and eliminate the inferior ones. We also need to consider the issue of future resale, otherwise it will become a public welfare project."

Although he said he was considering it, Zhang Heping actually had a rough plan in his mind: a vocational training college!

Targeted training, survival of the fittest!

Zhang Heping had not originally planned to hold a birthday party that day.

However, the group of women from the wives' circle of Heping Real Estate refused to leave the Renheyi community and kept urging Tang Xin to hold a birthday party. After the concubine Chen Shuting returned home, she spread the story.

When Zhang Heping was thinking in his study on the second floor about how to combine the vocational college, hospital, research institute, economics and trade department, computer department, and all the companies of the Heping Group, colorful lights, tables and chairs had been set up on the flat ground outside the villa.

In the evening, the youngest daughter Zhang Nuo rode on Zhang Heping's shoulders and covered his eyes with her two little hands. Then, led by a group of children, Zhang Heping followed them out of the villa.

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"The villa on the left belongs to Tang Xin's elder brother Tang Ren. Their main business is the sales of mobile phones, hard drives, and optical discs. The sales of LCD monitors are done in cooperation with several other Hong Kong businessmen." Director Wang and Huang Wenli stood on the edge of the plain, watching the hustle and bustle of the Zhang family like bystanders.

"The villa on the right..." Director Wang raised his chin and motioned Huang Wenli to look over there. "It's the villa of Tang Xin's second brother Tang Yi. This family has a grudge against Zhang Heping. You should pay attention to it in the future."

Huang Wenli looked at Villa No. 119 on the right and asked in confusion: "There are no lights on the second floor and above in this villa. Is there no one living there?"

Director Wang sneered, "They felt that Hong Kong Island was too dangerous, so they moved the company's headquarters to the new island."

"Oh!" Huang Wenli looked at Zhang Heping who was being led out by a group of children, "Director Wang, do you know how much money Zhang Heping has now?"

"I don't know the exact amount, but outsiders speculate that his net worth is over 100 billion yuan." Director Wang also looked at Zhang Heping, "I think it's at least over 250 billion."

"250 billion?" Huang Wenli looked at Director Wang's profile in disbelief. "How is that possible? The richest man in Magnesium announced last year was worth only 20 billion magnesium yuan!"

"Nothing is impossible. The profit from the computers he gave us last year alone was as high as 30 billion magnesium yuan." Director Wang said quietly:

"Based on the shipment volume of OEM products and the pricing of his products, we estimate that his revenue last year was more than 50 billion magnesium yuan!"

"30 billion! 50 billion!" Huang Wenli felt it was unreal because her monthly salary was less than 100 yuan!

In the middle of the plain, a group of people surrounded Zhang Heping and sang a birthday song.

After Zhang Heping had divided the cake and was dealing with outsiders boredly, he suddenly heard his concubine Chen Shuting calling out.

"It's about to begin!"

Then, Chen Shuting and the children ran to the edge of the plain.

Bang!

A firework exploded in the sky above Victoria Harbour, followed by two or three, and then three or four fireworks.

"From now on, all New Year's Day fireworks shows in Hong Kong Island will be sponsored by our family!" Chen Shuting made a bold statement on the edge of Pingba, but she didn't notice how much envy and jealousy there was under the flickering light and shadow.

Zhang Heping did sense some disdainful and indignant murmurs, but he ignored them. Holding the hand of his first wife Tang Xin, who will turn 40 this year, he stood behind the children and overlooked the fireworks below the mountain.

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The next day, the 2nd, the bidding meeting of Tingmei Trading was still going on, but Zhang Heping sent his mother Ma Xiuzhen back to the capital.

Because the trial patients at Harmony Hospital have entered the third phase of chemotherapy, some adverse reactions have occurred, and there are some new drug experimental data that need to be checked by Zhang Heping, which cannot be explained clearly over the phone.

In addition, the Oncology Department has applied for three computers and would like to ask Zhang Heping to develop some internal application software for the hospital.

To this end, Zhang Heping brought the five Mizuki University students stranded in Hong Kong Island back to the capital and asked them to build the hospital's internal LAN. He himself was only responsible for writing software in assembly language.

When operating the computer connected to the 3.0T MRI equipment in the imaging room, Zhang Heping saw the imaging doctors here leading students and teaching them practical operations on the spot.

Then, a flash of inspiration came to Zhang Heping's mind, and he thought of how the vocational training college should be integrated with the Heping Group!

Three days later, Zhang Heping returned to his home in Hong Kong Island with a few sheets of draft paper. He was just about to continue to perfect his idea of ​​a vocational training college in his study when his third daughter Zhang Nian came running to say that she had successfully passed the Super Girl audition.

Immediately afterwards, the concubine Chen Shuting brought the winning results of the bidding conference a few days ago.

Because the Japanese pushed the price of 16M memory and 256MHz CPU low enough, they successfully signed a supply order for 30 sets.

The domestic 32M memory and 512MHz central processing unit successfully signed a supply order of 70 sets due to its performance advantages.

Tang Lie and his team were still supplying monitors and hard drives, while motherboards, computer cases, laptop cases and other accessories were won by other Hong Kong businessmen with low bids.

"The price of a low-end computer with 16M memory and 256MHz CPU has been reduced to 5000 yuan. We will not make low-end laptops." Zhang Heping answered his concubine Chen Shuting's question about pricing without thinking too much. He continued:

"A 32M memory configuration, whether it's a desktop or a notebook, still costs 1 yuan per set."

"For computer orders that were not delivered last year, we will first ask the customer whether they want last year's low-end configuration at a 5% discount or this year's new configuration."

After Chen Shuting took a note in her notebook, she asked, "Honey, Nichima Electric and Nichima Telecom sent us a fax, wanting to invite us to the year-end shareholders' meeting. How do you think we should handle this?"

"The equity holder of those two companies is Huayingxiong Company. Just let Teacher Ou handle it." Zhang Heping answered casually.

"There's one more thing!" Chen Shuting saw her husband Zhang Heping took out a pen and paper and said hurriedly, "The Japanese want to buy 32M memory and 512MHz CPU technology."

"Let them negotiate patent authorization with mainland factories themselves. We cannot provide it." Zhang Heping said as he drew a plan for the Heping Vocational Training College on paper.

Two days later, Zhang Heping went to Central Plaza and found that all the workers were Chinese, with only two American workers supervising the work. He gave up the idea of ​​letting the American workers' land company build the school and decided to wait until July to discuss building the school and first decide on the teaching materials and teachers.

According to Zhang Heping's plan, the land reclaimed from the sea at a cost of 1.7 million yuan will be used to build the Peace Healthcare Research Institute and the Peace Computer Research Center.

The Medical Research Institute will be Zhang Heping's key investment project. Whether aging can be slowed down in the future depends on this Medical Research Institute and whether he can obtain relevant anti-aging and longevity technologies.

The Peace Computer Research Center is designed to serve as a server center, computing power center, etc.

Compared with medical knowledge, Zhang Heping actually has more knowledge and technology in computers.

On the north side of Gloucester Road, from west to east, the library, economic and trade building, computer building, building 3, as well as the Peace Hospital and media building will be built in sequence.

Further north, some apartment buildings and dormitory buildings will be built, and the land on the west side where the subway passes and is not suitable for building high-rise buildings will be used to build an open-air stadium.

If it is built like this, it is not a school in the conventional sense.

The Economic and Trade Building, Computer Building, Building 3 and Media Building are all office buildings. After completion, they will serve as office buildings for the Heping Group and its subordinate companies.

However, some open classroom areas will be set aside on these office floors for students from vocational training colleges to clock in and out according to their get off work hours to study, intern, and do odd jobs. Those who excel will be retained!

At the Heping Hospital, an open classroom area is set up in the doctor's office, and students are also required to punch in and out. The only difference is that students do not have to work night shifts during the first two years of study, but they have to work night shifts during the internship period.

As a result, Zhang Heping will have a lot of things to do in the next six months.

The teaching materials are easy to find, including finance, trade, management, computer software, computer hardware, medicine, media, performance...

As for teachers, because it is combined with practice and needs to improve the overall quality of employees under Heping Group, Zhang Heping plans to recruit training instructors from employees.

There is nothing we can do about the doctors and nurses at the hospital, we have to recruit them from scratch.

The key is to let them see the hospital, the equipment, and the patients!

As for students, we can actually now recruit and train interns by charging training fees.

However, Zhang Heping has not yet merged and reorganized his subsidiaries. There is no need to expand or build branches for the time being, so he can take it slow.

Office equipment is easy to get, but the equipment for the research institute still needs to be accumulated slowly.

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Thursday, October 1th.

At the invitation of Director Wu of the Guangdong Special Economic Zone, Zhang Heping went to Shenzhen to attend a "Shenzhen University Preparatory Meeting".

In addition to Hong Kong businessmen such as Zhang Heping, some vice-presidents of universities also attended the meeting.

Asking Zhang Heping and others to come over is nothing more than asking for donations.

Asking the heads of those universities to come here is nothing more than to help build academic disciplines and provide early lectures and teaching.

I heard from the middle-aged man who presided over the meeting that the land allocated to Shenzhen University in advance was 1500 acres!

Zhang Heping's Central Plaza land, including the 1.7 million acres of future land for land reclamation, barely reaches about 720 acres.

This is the difference between having a backer and working alone like Zhang Heping.

However, Zhang Heping had been a school principal in China before and had long been fed up with all the restrictions from above.

Therefore, when Zhang Heping heard that Shenzhen University would build a branch in the future and allocate new land, Zhang Heping was not very moved.

However, Shenzhen University is going to start recruiting students in August this year and officially start classes in September, which makes Zhang Heping itchy.

After a brief exchange with other Hong Kong businessmen, Zhang Heping followed their advice and donated only 1000 million yuan, which did not distance him much from other Hong Kong businessmen. It was just the same as the donations made by Chairman He and the ship charter king.

"Mr. Zhang, when will the hospital and medical school you mentioned last time be built?" The boat charterer left the scene side by side with Zhang Heping, and said with a smile: "When the groundbreaking ceremony begins, please notify us to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony!"

"Soon!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "I am thinking about innovating the teaching model. Teaching in schools like ordinary universities does is too inefficient, and I will have to worry about their employment in the future."

"Now that you mention it, Mr. Zhang, I am really looking forward to the school you founded." The boat charter king smiled and led Zhang Heping to the door, motioning him to go first.

"Wait a moment, I'll ask if there are any preferential land policies for building a school in Shenzhen." Zhang Heping said, and walked towards Director Wu who was shaking hands and saying goodbye to everyone.

Director Wu held Zhang Heping's right hand and said with a smile: "Thank you for your donation, Boss Zhang. When the school breaks ground, please take out your precious time to come and attend the school's groundbreaking ceremony."

"Okay, I'll wait for Director Wu's notice." Zhang Heping shook hands with the other party and said with a smile: "Director Wu, does Shenzhen City welcome us to come and build a vocational training school? Are there any preferential policies for land?"

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