Break out of the courtyard

"Cruise business..." Zhang Heping thought for a moment and shook his head, "The charter kings are not optimistic about this business. Coupled with the oil crisis, if I take over now, I'm afraid I will have to lose money for several years before I can make a profit."

"If Chairman Shen wants me to spend money, he can ask Huifeng Bank's shareholders if any of them want to transfer their shares."

"Or ask if there are any banks in Dongdu willing to transfer. I need to control a multinational bank to handle the withdrawal of funds from Dongdu in a few years!"

"To respond to the withdrawal of funds?" Shen Bi never expected that Zhang Heping really intended to take control of Huifeng Bank, and he never expected that the reason he took control was actually for the funds from Dongdu.

Seeing that Shen Bi was silent, Wei Daban smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, our bank has some assets such as food factories and beverage factories. Would you like to consider it?"

"No!" Zhang Heping stood up and said, "I have invested enough in real estate and land in Hong Kong Island. If the mainland takes back Hong Kong Island and wants to nationalize the company and land, this little investment will not hurt me too much."

After Zhang Heping left, Wei Daban looked at Shen Bi, who was thinking, and said, "Chairman, should we recommend those mortgage assets to him next?"

"Not for now!" Shen Bi shook his head and said, "I'll go out for a while."

Mr. Wei said hurriedly: "If the chairman is worried that he will control our bank, he can ask Sumitomo Bank of Japan. Since they are willing to give up the controlling rights of Japan Electric to Mr. Zhang, they may also be willing to give up the controlling rights of Sumitomo Bank!"

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On the way back, Zhang Heping recalled Shen Bi's reaction just now.

The cruise business of Wheelock is now worth at most HK$20 billion, which is only more than 3 million Mg yuan. This old guy Shen Bi is becoming more and more dishonest!

However, Zhang Heping's refusal of the cruise business did not cause Shen Bi to lose his mind.

"Is he worried that I will take control of Huifeng Bank?" Zhang Heping thought belatedly.

After returning home, at the reminder of his concubine Chen Shuting, Zhang Heping looked at the newspaper on the coffee table.

There was an article in the South China Morning Post that reported the robbery of Liang Wansong and six others in the capital, and clearly stated the time, place, and the reason why the case had not been closed.

There is also a sentence at the end of the article reminding readers to be careful with their belongings and personal safety when returning to the mainland.

There was no exaggeration or rhetoric to smear the mainland, and a robbery case was described in a realistic manner. A week later, the mainland still had not solved the case.

The article did not contain much content, but it caught the attention of the American people. Most newspapers reprinted the article in their evening editions that afternoon, and attached some comments from critics, which began to disparage the security problems in the mainland in various ways.

When Huang Wenli came over for dinner, she rarely talked about this matter. She probably saw some real-life stories in the capital and didn't have the confidence to refute it.

On the next day, on the 8th, Tang Wei, manager of the technical department of Umbrella, called and said that the LCD TVs of the five college students had been recovered; but Liang Wansong said that they were not asked to identify the robbers, and the cartons of the five TVs were intact, and they had used the TV cartons to block the knife on the day they were robbed.

After hearing what was said next, Zhang Heping immediately understood the trickery behind this. Most likely, some people were afraid of external public opinion and bought five LCD TVs for the victims with their own money.

The mainland had not yet introduced identity cards, and with just a letter of introduction, one could travel around the country. Zhang Heping did just that in the past.

So, it’s difficult to catch those robbers!

Zhang Heping asked about the system construction status of Harmonious Hospital and the Stock Exchange. After learning that the network test could be carried out in two days, he did not ask any more questions.

Taking advantage of the two days of free time, Zhang Heping took his family out for a walk and bought a lot of New Year goods, half of which were fireworks.

Ever since Jardine Matheson sponsored the fireworks show during the Spring Festival last year, there have been no restrictions on the sale of fireworks on Hong Kong Island. Many Hong Kong businessmen have set their sights on this business and imported a lot of fireworks and firecrackers from the mainland.

The Hong Kong government has only symbolically asked television stations to remind the public to pay attention to cleanliness and fire prevention when broadcasting news.

Zhang Heping accompanied the children on Pingba and set off fireworks for two nights. Then he went to the three stock exchanges to check on Tang's work for them during that time.

In order to advertise the Heping laptop, Zhang Heping always took his laptop with him when he went to test the electronic stock trading systems of the three stock exchanges.

Because the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has already been connected to the Internet with Huifeng Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and others for trial operation, before testing the other three stock exchanges, it is necessary to set up a virtual bank server for them and then test the relevant transactions.

Finally, during the Chinese New Year closure, the four stock exchanges were connected to the Internet for simulated trading, and the stock trading data before the closure was entered.

For this reason, people in the Umbrella Technical Department can only work overtime during the Spring Festival and take a day off after the festival.

Fortunately, the big boss Zhang Heping paid enough overtime pay, so no one complained.

In those years of oil crisis, economic recession, and plummeting housing prices and stock markets, Zhang Heping considered himself a conscientious capitalist, and there was no one else like him in the whole of Hong Kong Island.

On the afternoon of February 2, Liang Wansong brought two technicians, Lai Yongqing and Ni Bosong, back to Hong Kong Island. After dinner, they ran to the Gold and Silver Exchange to report, received testing tasks, and joined the Spring Festival overtime team.

Zhang Heping briefly instructed Liang Wansong and the other two on how to use software to conduct batch stock transactions and use attack software to stress test the stock exchange's servers, and then asked about the situation at Harmonious Hospital.

"Boss, don't worry!" Liang Wansong said with a smile, "Those old doctors are slow to learn computers, so we first teach the young doctors and nurses. They learn pinyin typing faster than us."

The young man named Lai Yongqing laughed and joked: "There is also a young nurse who likes our Brother Liang, but unfortunately our Brother Liang is too heartless and just made up a girlfriend."

"It's just that we two can't speak Mandarin, so we can't hook up with the young nurse over there." The young man named Ni Bosong sighed with regret.

"Humph..." Zhang Heping sneered, "You should be glad that you can't speak Mandarin. There is a crime called hooliganism in the mainland. Do you know what the sentence will be if you urinate on the street in the mainland and a woman sees you and calls the police to arrest you?"

"How to judge?" Ni Bosong asked tactfully.

"Life sentence!" Zhang Heping had an expression that said, "You go and try it, kid."

"what?"

The young people who were eavesdropping nearby all looked over in surprise.

"No way!"

"Just for peeing, you're sentenced to life imprisonment? No way!"

Everyone showed an expression of disbelief.

"There's nothing wrong with urinating anywhere, but the mistake is that a woman passing by saw you and called the police to arrest you." Zhang Heping sneered, "What do you think will happen if you peek at a woman bathing and get caught?"

The young man next to him responded, "You'll get a life sentence for peeing, but if you peek at a woman bathing, won't you be dragged out and chopped into pieces?"

"There are also people kissing on the street, taking nude photos, and drawing nude paintings." Zhang Heping glanced at the young people around him and reminded them, "When you go to the mainland in the future, be careful and don't fall for women."

Ni Bosong said with some fear: "Boss, after hearing what you said, I am a little afraid to go to the mainland."

Zhang Heping said with a smile: "If you can't control yourself, just marry a woman to control you. It's better than being caught and shot at."

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