Break out of the courtyard

Tuesday, October 1985, 1.

New products are launched at Peace Plaza, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Island.

Director Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan arrived early in the morning and watched others draw lots in the square.

A lottery ticket costs HK$2.

The special prize is a Peace brand electric car, Feiyue 1.0, with a suggested retail price of HK$38.8.

The first prize is a Peace brand electric off-road vehicle, Benfang 1.0, with a suggested retail price of HK$18.8.

The second prize is a Peace brand electric mini car, exquisite 1.0, with a suggested retail price of HK$8.8.

The third prize is HK$1.

The fourth prize is HK$1.

The fifth prize is HK$100.

The sixth prize is HK$10.

The lottery will be held for 6 consecutive days. Among the 10 lottery tickets every day, there will be 1 special prize, first prize and second prize.

This means that even if you use HK$20 to buy all the lottery tickets, you will definitely win 3 models of Heping brand electric cars, which is definitely a huge profit!

This is what was advertised on TV advertisements a few days ago, making countless Hong Kong people eager to show off their skills today and demonstrate that all those years of buying Mark Six lottery tickets were not in vain!

Unfortunately, when they arrived at the scene, not to mention how long they had to wait in line, the fact that each person was limited to buying only five tickets dampened most of their enthusiasm.

"Won! I won the second prize!" A little girl about twelve or thirteen years old excitedly held up the lottery ticket in her right hand.

Soon, the little girl and her family of five gathered around an orange two-seater mini electric car, and the family members took turns to get on the car and try it out.

The family was happy for a while, then they looked at the electric SUVs and cars next to them and felt melancholy!

"It would be great if we could win the first prize. It would be perfect for our family to ride on it!"

As soon as the words were spoken, a family of four was taken to the Heping brand electric off-road vehicle by the award-giving staff in the square.

Then, a security guard drove the new SUV, carrying the family out of Peace Square and going straight to handle the procedures for the new car.

After two families won cars in succession, the people queuing in the crowd became even more excited and took out their mobile phones to call others.

If each person gets 5 lottery tickets, wouldn’t that mean dozens of tickets for a whole family?

Because the number of raffle tickets was limited to 10, some people with particularly quick minds, after seeing the large number of people queuing, simply stood in front and collected the tickets at 5 to 10 times the price, and then sold them to people in the back who didn't buy tickets at 20 times the price.

Near eleven o'clock, when the grand prize was finally announced, the scalper who sold the grand prize ticket was even more excited than the middle-aged woman who won the prize. She was so excited that she kept slapping herself in the face.

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! The only prize left is the grand prize, and I actually sold the lottery ticket to someone else. What the hell…"

When the people around heard what the scalper said, they all laughed out loud.

After watching the farce outside, Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan went into the commercial building in Peace Square.

This commercial building occupies the same area as the square outside, but it has 2 underground floors and 5 above-ground floors, and its overall area is 7 times that of the square outside.

The first floor of the commercial building is an exhibition hall related to automobiles, medical equipment, computers, and servers.

The second floor is the exhibition hall related to tiger penis wine, Viagra delay spray, Tingmei slimming tea, Taitai oral liquid, and Dior.

The 3rd floor is an outsourced restaurant.

There is an Internet cafe, arcade, and CD game consoles on the 4th floor.

The 5th floor is for karaoke and a cinema.

Half of the underground level 1 is used as warehouses and offices, and the remaining half is used as parking spaces, just like the underground level 2.

Wang Sumei stood outside the car dealership for a long time. She only saw many people going to try out the cars, but she didn't see anyone going to the counter to pay and order a car.

Liu Yuan seemed to see Wang Sumei's worry and couldn't help but smile and said, "Director Wang, sales here are not good, don't we still have domestic orders?"

Wang Sumei sighed and whispered, "You know that there is not much profit in domestic orders. I am worried that Heping will not appreciate this little profit and will not want the car factory after a while."

Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment. "Such a large factory, he spent so much time to build it, why would he not want it?"

"He doesn't want the Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park!" Wang Sumei stopped talking halfway, and could not reveal that the new technology at the Computer Industrial Park was guided by Zhang Heping.

If Zhang Heping had not placed an order for high-configuration hardware with the Computer Industrial Park, which was still engaged in a price war with Nissan Computer, it is hard to say whether it could have made a profit last year.

Liu Yuan had heard of the Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park, but she had not personally experienced the construction period of the factory, so she did not connect it to this matter immediately.

Because she didn't know what Zhang Heping was thinking, Liu Yuan changed the subject, "Director Wang, I noticed that there are many foreigners in the exhibition halls of medicines and medical equipment. Do you want to go and see the sales there?"

"Let's go!" Wang Sumei said, suppressing her worries and walking towards other stores.

Liu Yuan pointed to a store with many LCD monitors, leaned over to Wang Sumei, and said, "Over there are Duocai brand LCD TVs. Should we ask Zhang Heping to send LCD TVs from the mainland over here for display and sale?"

Wang Sumei shook her head, "I asked before, and he didn't agree."

The two women walked over to the medical equipment and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw foreigners signing the order.

Little did they know that the wholesalers who frequently dealt with Tingmei Trading Company were now crowded in an office on the basement floor, bargaining with the marketing manager of Tingmei Trading Company.

"Manager Dai, although we have fewer cars this time, there is a reason!" A wealthy middle-aged man said with a red face, "Your cars have not been declared for customs or inspected in any foreign country. Most of the cars we took out are for public relations. You have to understand our difficulties!"

"Our CEO Chen said that wholesalers who are buying cars for the first time will get 8% off the retail price!" Dai Ze, the marketing manager of Tingmei Trading Company, said seriously: "Whoever opens up the overseas market first will come to negotiate the wholesale price in the contract with us!"

A tall and thin man asked with a smile: "Manager Dai, can you tell us how much discount we can get on the contract price?"

"Do I need to ask how much discount I'm going to give?" Marketing Manager Dai Ze glanced at the wholesalers and said seriously, "You have cooperated with our company for so many years, and you have never suffered a loss! When we sign a contract, we have always considered your transportation costs and profits. Do you have to haggle over this?"

"Please don't blame me, Manager Dai. The main reason we are anxious is that the electric cars you launched this time have a long range and are likely to drive those fuel-powered cars out of the city."

"Manager Dai, I would like to ask you a question! If a foreigner wants to buy your automobile production line, will you sell it to him?"

...

When Chen Shuting received a call from her subordinates asking whether the car production line was for sale, she was stunned for a moment. She had not thought about this issue at all.

Chen Shuting tried to call her husband Zhang Heping but no one answered, so she took her bodyguards out of the Economic and Trade Building and went straight to the Heping Hospital next door. In a glass-partitioned classroom, she saw Zhang Heping giving a lecture.

The classrooms and most of the office areas of Peace Vocational Training College are separated by glass partitions that are transparent above 1 meter and frosted below 1 meter.

According to Zhang Heping, firstly, it is convenient for students to observe the daily work content and way of doing things of office staff; secondly, it can exercise students' attention; and thirdly, it can avoid some of the filthiness in the office.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Heping came out of the classroom after class and sat on the lounge chair in the corridor next to his concubine Chen Shuting.

Chen Shuting was startled for a moment, then she realized that it was her husband sitting next to her. She immediately took Zhang Heping's right arm and said with a smile, "I'm calculating how much money we made last year, hehe."

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "The 52 billion magnesium yuan in the Tingmei Trading account will be transferred to the group's two accounts."

"Do you still need to transfer money from the Bank of China account?" Chen Shuting frowned, worried that Zhang Heping would spend money lavishly in the mainland.

Zhang Heping explained, "Auntie Wang told me last night that many factories in the mainland are seeking foreign investment. I guess the mainland's independent foreign-invested enterprise law is about to be released. Let's prepare the money first. In addition, we should send more public relations personnel to Shenzhen to maintain relations and prepare for the establishment of a group branch in the future."

"Oh, by the way, husband!" When Chen Shuting heard that the money was to be used for investment in the mainland, she stopped worrying about the transfer and asked, "There was news from the square, asking if we can sell the car production line to foreigners?"

Zhang Heping casually said: "The car production line can be considered, but the car battery production line cannot be sold. It belongs to other factories."

Chen Shuting said "Oh", took out her cell phone from her bag and called the marketing manager at the square.

Zhang Heping doesn't care much about the sales at the plaza, because all the new products launched today are ahead of the times. If they really can't be sold, he will accept it, because the profits of Tingmei Trading have increased!

This is his confidence!

"Honey, can you accompany us to watch the movie Ghost Blows Out the Light tonight?" After Chen Shuting finished the call, she hugged Zhang Heping's right arm tightly again, "I didn't have the chance to watch it last night."

Zhang Heping asked: "Do you want to watch it at home or in the community?"

Chen Shuting smiled and said, "We just watch the CD video at home, so that people watching movies in the community won't see us being too relaxed."

Zhang Heping didn't care about the sales at Peace Plaza, but he had reviewed the marketing plan there earlier, so his concern was already in place.

Just as Zhang Heping was leaving the hospital, Tang Wei, the technical manager of the Umbrella Company, who was waiting next to the bulletproof car, opened the back door. After Zhang Heping and his wife got in the car, he eagerly sat in the passenger seat.

"Master, the number of clicks on the car advertisement in the lower right corner of Personal Security Guard has exceeded 100 million today!" Tang Wei said excitedly: "I am contacting other companies for advertisements. This year..."

"Wouldn't it be more efficient if you put an advertising investment link on the ad page?" Zhang Heping glanced at the stunned Tang Wei and said calmly, "Leave this kind of investment promotion matter to the marketing department. Otherwise, why keep them around?"

"Okay, Master!" Tang Wei responded hurriedly, then took out his mobile phone, asked his subordinates to add an advertising investment link, and left the contact number of the marketing department.

"Master, there is one more thing!" Tang Wei turned around again and frowned, saying, "Those foreigners are offering better and better conditions to recruit employees from our technical department. Should we warn them?"

"What warning?" Zhang Heping's tone remained calm. "It's a good opportunity to let those foreigners help us test the loyalty of our employees."

...

"Mrs. Aso, Mr. Zhang is still using our Nissan bulletproof car. Should we use this to disparage their electric cars?"

"Don't you want to establish the East Asian Bank Card Joint Organization?" Miss Suzuki frowned as she looked at the black convoy going farther and farther downstairs. "Send those electric cars back to China as soon as possible for analysis. Analyze them thoroughly from the inside out to see how far the mainland's industry has developed!"

"The three electric cars have a maximum range of only 3 kilometers and can only be driven in the city. They are not a threat to our Nissan cars!"

"Idiot! This isn't the car's fault!"

Miss Suzuki pondered for a while and said, "Prepare a pot of Clivia with good appearance for me. I still need to go to Zhang's house!"

...

When Zhang Heping returned to the gate of Renheyi Community, he found that Shen Bi, chairman of Huifeng Bank, had just gotten out of the car.

"Mr. Zhang!"

"Chairman Shen!"

The two men shook hands, and before Zhang Heping invited the other party to come in and sit down, Shen Bi explained his purpose.

"Mr. Zhang, many overseas banks have recently applied to open branches on Hong Kong Island. I want to build a new Huifeng Head Office Building to suppress their momentum."

Hearing Shen Bi's words, Zhang Heping's mind immediately flashed the appearance of Huifeng Bank's current head office building, and he nodded and said, "It is indeed time to build a new and imposing head office building. I have no objection."

Huifeng Chairman Shen Bi said excitedly: "Mr. Zhang, the construction budget of the new building is about 7 million magnesium yuan. Do you think there is any problem?"

"Repair!" Zhang Heping said without hesitation, "We can't let other banks steal our limelight!"

Last year, Huifeng Bank paid only 7100 million yuan in dividends to Heping Group, but this year it is spending so much money to build a new building. It is estimated that it is transferring profits to Yingzi Real Estate Company.

However, it was only 7 million magnesium yuan, plus there was a new building, so Zhang Heping didn't feel like he was losing out.

"In addition, the Magnesium Ocean Bank plans to transfer 51% of its equity to our bank for only 31 billion magnesium yuan." When Shen Bi said this, he was very nervous because this was a political task assigned by the higher-ups.

The point is, there’s too much money involved!

Zhang Heping pondered, "Do you want to promote bank savings cards and credit cards to Magnesium through Ocean Bank? Or do you have other plans for Ocean Bank?"

Shen Bi didn't say anything, but pointed to the sky with a helpless look on his face.

Zhang Heping stretched out his right hand, pressed down Shen Bi's finger, and approached and said, "After acquiring Ocean Bank, Huifeng Bank's branch in Magnesium must be careful of the Magnesium people investigating money laundering there! When the time comes, no matter how much the Magnesium people say the fine is, we must first consider the 31 billion magnesium investment in Ocean Bank!"

Shen Bi was silent. He didn't know how to make this happen because the young man in front of him saw things too clearly.

"You decide for yourself!" Zhang Heping patted Shen Bi on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You know, I control Huifeng Bank only to ensure that Ridao's investment can be safely withdrawn. I don't want to interfere in the management of Huifeng Bank."

"If you decide to acquire the company, I will support your decision. If you oppose the acquisition, you can say that it is me who opposes it. You just need to call me in advance to let me know."

Shen Bi nodded and said, "I'll think about it again when I get back. The money laundering problem in Magnesium is like a landmine. I really shouldn't have taken their money in the first place!"

"Don't worry!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "This bomb will definitely not explode before you retire. But, speaking of that, have you considered what I said before, that after you retire next year, I will hire you back as the chairman?"

"This..." Shen Bi hesitated, many thoughts flashing through his mind!

"Chairman Shen!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "The bank's electronic trading system has just started to emerge. Currently, it is only connected to Hong Kong's securities trading system, not even Hong Kong's futures trading system."

"As for bank savings cards and credit cards, UnionPay has not yet been officially established."

"Do you want to retire and go home to raise dogs, grow flowers and drink tea on your estate before the banking industry takes off?"

"Think about Hong Kong Island now. Foreign capital continues to flow in, and all kinds of foreign companies come here to seek their fortunes. It looks like an international financial center."

"You are in charge of the No. 1 Bank in Hong Kong, Huifeng Bank!"

“The first banker of the international financial center, just think about this title, how wonderful it is!”

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