Break out of the courtyard

"Miss Huang, what do you want from me?"

"Editor-in-chief, this article in Eagle Country Daily maliciously speculates on domestic policies, slandering that the country will nationalize Hong Kong companies and factories, and inciting Hong Kong businessmen to emigrate. This kind of unfounded article cannot be reprinted!"

"Ms. Huang, can you ensure that after Hong Kong's return, the companies and factories in Hong Kong will not be nationalized? Do you have any legal basis to support your judgment?"

"Well... I don't have it, but..."

"Well, our South China Morning Post is just reprinting the views of a journalist from the United States. If you have different opinions, you can also write an article to refute it. This is our right to press freedom."

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No. 118 Zhang Family Villa, dinner time.

"Husband, you went to Shenzhen today and only donated 1000 million magnesium yuan?" The concubine Chen Shuting asked at the dinner table, puzzled, "Didn't they invite you to be a teacher?"

Zhang Heping laughed and said, "Their first task now is to build the school, and then find a way to keep the professors from Capital University, Shuimu University, and Renmin University. How can they have the energy to invite me to be a teacher?"

"That's a pity!" Chen Shuting said with a smile, "After our vocational training college is built, they won't have the chance to hire my husband as a teacher!"

"There is still a chance!" Zhang Heping said after taking a bite of the dish, "Today I had a brief discussion with Director Wu about our college's vocational training ideas, and he said he would help us obtain preferential land policies."

"If Shenzhen's preferential policies are suitable, our branch campus and branch building will be planned in Shenzhen. In the future, exchanges and learning between schools will be inevitable."

"Shenzhen Urban Construction Branch?" Chen Shuting was slightly surprised and felt a little embarrassed.

"First, we will acquire the land, and then slowly build office buildings and apartment buildings. Once the mainland allows foreign companies like us to enter the mainland as wholly-owned enterprises, we can officially build a branch in Shenzhen!" Zhang Heping said, looking at Huang Wenli who was silent at the side, and asked casually:

"Captain Huang, can you adapt to the working environment at the South China Morning Post? Do you want to change to another newspaper?"

"Well, you only need to stay for three months and there's no need to change it!" Huang Wenli shook her head hurriedly.

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "The news reported by the South China Morning Post covers a wide range of global politics, economy, culture and society. It will help you broaden your horizons and break through the ideological constraints of China."

Huang Wenli frowned and asked, "Heping, do you also think there is something wrong with the domestic system?"

"Both rural and urban areas should allow some people to become wealthy first. It is legitimate to get rich through hard work." Zhang Heping did not directly answer Huang Wenli's question, but repeated a sentence that appeared in a mainland newspaper a few days ago.

"I approve of the current reforms!" Zhang Heping continued, "Let some places and people become prosperous first, and then drive backward places and others to become prosperous together. This will help the country prosper."

After Huang Wenli moved into the home of the female bodyguard in the Protection Umbrella Community, she ate out in the morning and at noon, and only had dinner at Zhang Heping's home at his request.

After dinner, Huang Wenli would sit on the sofa in the living room or in the study on the second floor to read newspapers and books.

So, she had read the article "Let some people get rich first".

However, she didn't expect that Zhang Heping would extend from people to places.

Seeing Huang Wenli's bewildered expression, Zhang Heping continued:

"From the perspective of economic development, only when the coastal cities in China become rich first through import and export trade can they drive the development of the central and western regions under national regulation and achieve common development."

"From a global perspective, only when our domestic economy develops can we drive the development of underdeveloped third world countries. Otherwise, a bunch of poor guys will get together and talk about how to have enough food every day!"

"At the newspaper office, you should read more, listen more, think more and talk less. If you have any questions, you can come back and ask me. Not everything abroad is right, and there are problems in China too."

"The key is that you have to learn to think, collect examples of both advantages and disadvantages, and go back to promote reform and opening up."

Huang Wenli was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Zhang Heping's perspective on the issue was completely different from hers.

Huang Wenli didn't say anything, but Zhang Heping turned around and started talking to his two wives.

"Once the policies in the mainland are relaxed, the housing prices in the capital, Shanghai, Huadu, and other coastal cities will inevitably rise." Zhang Heping said with a smile: "When the time comes, the speculation of houses and land will be left to Ah Xin."

"Me?" The first wife Tang Xin shook her head. "I can't do that. I don't understand mainland policies."

"Sister Xin, you can do it!" The concubine Chen Shuting encouraged her: "When the time comes, when your husband asks you to buy, you can ask Xiaoyun and Xiaojiang to take the employees of Heping Real Estate to buy it in China and that's it."

"We can also bring along those rich wives!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "If domestic cities want to develop rapidly, renting land like Shenzhen is one of the easiest and fastest ways to obtain funds."

"The main thing is that the more buildings are built and the bigger the city is, the more it can show the achievements of the managers. Why not do it?"

The mother-in-law, Xu Jiefeng, smiled and said, "I think that instead of having your father go to the capital for meetings every few days, it would be better to have them all come to Hong Kong Island and listen to Heping's suggestions."

"I can't do that!" Zhang Heping said self-deprecatingly, "I don't even have the right to speak in meetings."

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"Brother, believe me, if the mainland wanted to attack Hong Kong Island, they would have sent troops long ago, and would not have waited until now!" Lou Xiao'e stood in the lobby of the restaurant, frowning at her second brother Lou Wenjun, "Besides, we bought this restaurant at a high price. If we sell it now, we will lose at least 6%!"

"What do you mean by 'we'?" Lou Lao Er looked at Lou Xiao'e coldly, "We agreed at the beginning that if this restaurant loses money, you will be the one who borrowed my share of the money from selling the house!"

"Let me ask you, have you made any money in the past few months?" The second brother, Lou Wenjun, looked at Lou Xiao'e and said sternly, "I have waited for you for so long. If you don't sell the restaurant, what will you give me in return?"

"Even if I believe you, the mainland will not attack us, but do other people believe you? Go to the Hong Kong Eagle Immigration Bureau and see how many people are queuing up there every day waiting to immigrate! When all the rich people run away, who will eat your Tan family dishes?"

"Let's stop talking nonsense. Either you give me the money now, or sell this restaurant and pay me back!"

……

After dinner on Friday, Huang Wenli approached Zhang Heping and asked, "Heping, I don't quite understand. Why did the editor-in-chief of the newspaper allow the reprint of articles that anyone with a discerning eye could see were fake news?"

"For example, in this article, the mainland clearly said that it would not use force to retake Hong Kong Island. Why did the South China Morning Post reprint it?"

Zhang Heping glanced at the newspaper Huang Wenli handed over and said with a smile: "You said it all, only discerning people can tell it's fake news. But do you know how many discerning people there are in Hong Kong Island?"

Huang Wenli frowned and said, "You are the major shareholder of the South China Morning Post, can't you take charge?"

"Freedom of speech! Freedom of the press! These are protected by law in Hong Kong Island!" Zhang Heping said calmly:

"Besides, just because China will not take the initiative to use force to retake Hong Kong Island does not mean that Eagle Country will not send the same fleet that was sent to retake the Falkland Islands."

"What if the Eagles go crazy and prepare to deploy bombs to Hong Kong Island? At that time, will the country use force to retake Hong Kong Island in advance?"

"This..." Huang Wenli was stunned again. She had never thought about the reaction of the Eagle Country.

"In addition, when their newspaper reposts foreign articles, there is an unspoken rule: if you repost 'fake news', you have to pay!"

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