Break out of the courtyard

On January 1985, 1, Capital Daily published an article titled "Why is Clivia so popular in Jichun?" on the upper part of the second page.

The article calls "Clivia trading" a "virtual industry" and proposes that "the four modernizations require us to do more practical work."

At noon that day, the newspaper was delivered to the Zhang family on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong Island by plane.

Zhang Heping glanced at the article and handed the newspaper to his concubine Chen Shuting, asking her to take it upstairs to read it to his mother Ma Xiuzhen, and to ask her if she had lent money to Zhou Laoer to trade Clivia last time.

Not long after, Ma Xiuzhen came down from upstairs.

"Mistress!" Ma Xiuzhen sat on the sofa next to the phone and asked anxiously, "Are the higher-ups going to crack down on the Clivia trade?"

Zhang Heping looked at the newspaper and said casually, "The Capital Daily has asked about this matter. If Jichun doesn't take action, someone will be in trouble!"

After getting confirmation from her son, Ma Xiuzhen immediately picked up the landline phone next to her and called her home in the capital.

The person who answered the phone was Zhang Pandi, the second child. After listening to her mother Ma Xiuzhen's retelling, she said, "Mom, after I saw the article in the Capital Daily this morning, I called home and asked my dad to go next door to remind them. However, Zhou Laoer went to Jichun on the 2nd and hasn't returned yet."

"Go next door and talk to your Aunt Chen and the others." Ma Xiuzhen said seriously, "Since the higher-ups are concerned about this matter, they will probably arrest a group of typical examples for negative education."

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Jichun City, flower and bird market.

Zhou Chengwu was holding a large foam box and running around the market excitedly, asking passers-by if they wanted to buy the Clivia in his box.

That morning, somehow, many people like him, carrying foam boxes containing a pot of Clivia and an infusion bottle filled with hot water, broke into this snowy land.

Zhou Chengwu has been in Jichun City for a week. This is the most torturous week of his stay, as he has invested all his assets and borrowed 1 yuan in foreign debt.

He had been reselling Clivia for half a year, making more than 3,000 yuan. He also bought a gold watch, whose authenticity was unknown, and two gold rings, which was a huge profit in those days.

However, human nature is never satisfied, and greed makes him want to earn more!

Years ago, many factories and units in Jichun joined the army of speculating in Clivia, and hundreds of thousands of public funds were poured into the market, which was really lively for a while.

It usually takes 4 years for Clivia to enter its flowering period, which results in few finished Clivias on the market, creating a situation where scarcity makes them valuable, and then the game of passing the flower has been successfully started.

Zhou Chengwu ran around for the whole morning. Although he met many people, no one was willing to take over his Clivia. This gave him a bad feeling and he remembered Zhang Heping's words, "Whoever fails to sell this pot of Clivia will lose money!"

Zhou Chengwu walked into a restaurant carrying a foam box with a nervous mood.

While eating, he overheard a conversation between two people at the next table.

"Just wait and see! At the latest tomorrow, the higher-ups will issue a notice to stop this!"

"This time, thanks to Brother Liu's reminder, otherwise I would have lost everything!"

"Look at the market this morning. Most people clearly knew the news in the Capital Daily and wanted to sell as soon as possible, but they were reluctant to lower the price. They will regret it and cry later."

"If Brother Liu hadn't reminded me, I would have been one of those fools who was reluctant to lower the price. Brother Liu, I toast to you!"

The more Zhou Chengwu listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He glanced at the diners in the restaurant and found that except for two people at the next table who did not bring foam boxes, all other tables with people had one or two foam boxes placed next to them.

"Brother, what's the news from the Capital Daily that you just mentioned?" Zhou Chengwu couldn't help but pass two cigarettes to the next room.

The middle-aged man called Brother Liu took the cigarette after glancing at the Daqianmen cigarette box in Zhou Chengwu's hand. Then he pointed at the foam box Zhou Chengwu placed on the table and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid to tell you. Anyway, the Clivia we have in our hands has been sold."

Seeing other diners looking over, the middle-aged man surnamed Liu couldn't help but say proudly, "There's an article in today's Capital Daily criticizing Clivia as a false industry, hehe!"

...

Zhang Heping did not ask his mother Ma Xiuzhen in person whether she had lent money to the Zhou family. Since the money had been given to his mother, she could spend it however she wanted. It was just a small amount of money after all.

What Zhang Heping didn't expect was that just after the Capital Daily criticized the Clivia transaction, Miss Suzuki was waiting at the Heping Hospital in the afternoon with a pot of Clivia.

Miss Suzuki spent a lot of effort these days to find out the news from the crew of the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie that the secret fortress in Kanto was built with money.

It was only after she had figured this out that she had the confidence to come find Zhang Heping. Otherwise, she would have to wait for a while until Zhang Heping had calmed down before coming.

The reason why she thought so was mainly because Zhang Heping had taught history courses at Dongdu University, and she knew that Zhang Heping had some grudges against modern history.

Zhang Heping was instructing students this afternoon on how to hurt each other with silver needles, and the teaching time was relatively flexible.

So, when he saw Miss Suzuki coming through the glass, he let the group of medical students move freely.

These medical students in gray coats go to school strictly according to the hospital's working hours. They do not have to work night shifts and have two days off a week, but they cannot leave the work area of ​​their respective professional departments during working hours.

Therefore, these medical students only have three places to go for free activities.

One is to stay in the classroom and read, the second is to go to the toilet, and the third is to go to the doctor's office next door to observe or ask questions.

Miss Suzuki saw Zhang Heping coming over and handed the pot of Clivia to him with both hands. She smiled and said, "I heard that many Hong Kong businessmen like Clivia, so I specially picked one for Zhang."

"This pot of Clivia is in good condition!" Zhang Heping took the pot with a smile. While looking at the pot of Clivia, he asked casually, "What does Miss San want to see me about?"

Miss Suzuki also looked at the pot of Clivia and smiled, "Mr. Zhang, do you want to sell your car to Magnesium?"

"I don't want to!" Zhang Heping handed the Clivia to the bodyguard who came over and asked him to put it in the classroom.

Miss Suzuki saw that her plan had failed, so she changed her words. "In order to protect the jobs of workers in the local automobile-related industries, the people of Magnesium forced us to sign a 'voluntary export restraint' agreement. Later, we broke this restriction in disguise by setting up an automobile factory in Magnesium."

At this point, Miss Suzuki looked at Zhang Heping and said, "If Mr. Zhang wants to make money from the people of Magnesium, he can cooperate with our Japanese car companies and build a car factory in Magnesium."

"If Miss Third is here for the Heping Automobile production line, you can ask the relevant company to send someone to Tingmei Trading Company to discuss the sale of the automobile production line. There is no need to use Magnesium as a buffer. I don't have a good impression of Magnesium!" After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he glanced at the watch on his left hand.

When Miss Suzuki heard that she could introduce a car production line, she immediately became excited and even ignored Zhang Heping's move of looking at his watch and trying to get rid of him.

"Mr. Zhang, I heard that the production line of Heping Automobile Factory uses a lot of advanced technology. Can you really sell it to us?" "If you want to buy, Tingmei Trading Company can send people to the mainland to help you communicate." Zhang Heping said calmly: "However, you have sold a lot of defective equipment to the mainland in recent years. I guess they would rather sell it to the people of Magnesium than to you."

Miss Suzuki remained silent. Although it was not her or the Japanese car companies that sold the defective equipment, as a Japanese, she had to bear the blame when helping the Japanese car companies negotiate the introduction of technology.

Otherwise, how could she be qualified to negotiate with Zhang Heping on behalf of other industries in Japan in the future!

"Go back and organize the people from the Japanese car companies first, and ask Tingmei Trading Company to take you to Shenzhen to visit the Heping Automobile Factory, and then discuss the introduction of the automobile production line. I'm going to class!"

After speaking, Zhang Heping walked towards the classroom.

Japan's automobile industry is very developed. In 1979, Japan's automobile exports to magnesium amounted to 82.4 billion magnesium yuan. Last year, although resources were limited, 230 million Nissan cars were exported to magnesium, but the total export value exceeded 250 billion magnesium yuan!

Last year's data does not include the sales of Japanese car factories in Magnesium, which shows how difficult it is for Magnesium's automobile companies.

Due to the restrictions imposed by the magnesium country on the products of the Peace Group, Zhang Heping never thought of allowing Peace Auto to enter the magnesium country, because the magnesium automobile industry could not afford it and magnesium would definitely cheat at that time.

Therefore, he planned to act as an intermediary to sell automobile production lines and help those factories in the mainland to earn foreign exchange.

Of course, the main reason is that he wants Magnesium's allies to produce electric vehicles to impact Magnesium's automobile industry and oil which is linked to the magnesium dollar!

In addition to automobile trade, Magnesium has also failed in color TV trade.

The main thing is that after they got the LED LCD display that Zhang Heping had rubbed through the Middle Eastern people, they invested a lot of money and manpower in the LED field, but it didn't work out.

LCD color TVs produced in mainland China, Japan and Niijima took the opportunity to sweep the entire world color TV market.

However, the mainland's export trade was subject to many restrictions, and the LCD color TV factory built by Tang Hai in Xindao was not large in scale, which allowed Japanese LCD color TVs to take the lead.

The key point is that the Japanese shamelessly started a price war on color TVs.

As for the semiconductor trade, the people of Magnesium have already felt the deep malice from the Japanese!

The Chinese can buy equipment and raw materials such as lithography machines and etching machines from the mainland, but the production orders are arranged in order, so they have to queue up!

It was precisely because of the long queues that at last year's spring Canton Fair, the Chinese people sought help from the Japanese people to purchase the computer production lines that had been eliminated from the Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park.

As a result, after the Japanese bought the production line, they were unwilling to sell it. Instead, they took the production line to Magnesium and built a computer production plant.

The most abominable thing is that in the second half of last year, the Japanese imitated the mainland's lithography machines, etching machines and other equipment, and began mass production, but postponed the orders from the Magnesium people to three years later, which was two years later than the mainland's delivery time!

As the saying goes, you can tolerate your uncle, but you can’t tolerate your aunt!

After the companies under the Peace Group started using new computers with 256M memory, 2GHz processors, 1G graphics cards, and the server performance of the Computer Research Center tripled, the magnesium guys finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Acquire MBI Company in Magnesium?" Zhang Heping was stunned by the news brought by his concubine Chen Shuting as soon as he got off work.

"Miss Suzuki just came over to ask about the car production line. When she left, she told me that MBI might file for bankruptcy." Chen Shuting said with a smile:

"I sent someone to check. MBI only sold more than 5000 computers last year. I don't know how many computers are piled up in their warehouse."

"No acquisition!" Zhang Heping said as he walked out of the hospital, "Once we invest money in Magnesium, we will be controlled by the Magnesium people. Unless we make a bold move and don't want Magnesium's assets."

"MBI Company!" Chen Shuting said with some regret: "It was the most profitable company in the country of Magnesium in the past 20 years. If we can acquire this company, we can absorb its sales channels, and then..."

"And then wait for bankruptcy!" Zhang Heping retorted unhappily.

"Hehe!" Chen Shuting hugged her husband's right arm tightly and stopped talking about magnesium.

...

Huadu, Magnesium Country, corner tower conference room.

"Last year's fiscal data is out, and our trade deficit last year was as high as 1700 billion magnesium yuan! Among them, the trade deficit with Japan was 1000 billion magnesium yuan!"

"Why are there so many?"

"Japan's products can be sold to us without any hindrance, but our products cannot be sold to Japan. Don't you know this problem?"

"We must put pressure on Japan again to make them voluntarily restrict the export of other goods!"

"We also need them to promote market opening and liberalization, and encourage Japanese people to buy our products!"

"I suggest that we investigate Japan's semiconductor industry and ask them to disclose their semiconductor patents!"

"In addition, we also need to find a way to devalue the magnesium dollar and increase our trade export advantages!"

"Have you checked the background of the Peace Group? Are they supported by the mainland?"

...

Zhang Heping did not communicate with Director Wang in advance about the sale of the automobile production line.

So, after Tingmei Trading Company informed the director of the Heping Automobile Factory, Sha Zhixiang, that the Japanese wanted to buy the automobile production line and were preparing to send a business delegation to visit the Heping Automobile Factory this afternoon, the director Wang Sumei rushed from Shenzhen to Zhang Heping's home.

Just then, when Zhang Heping returned home, he saw Wang Sumei chatting with Ma Xiuzhen on the sofa in the living room.

"Heping, there's news from the capital that the speculation of Clivia has been listed as profiteering, and a working group has been sent to investigate this afternoon." Wang Sumei looked at Zhang Heping who had just entered the room and said with a smile:

"In addition, a working group was sent to Hainan to investigate the smuggling of cars."

Zhang Heping asked in confusion, "The higher-ups didn't take care of the issue of the meeting and the fake medicine?"

"These two things have been verified, and we are letting the local authorities handle them on their own." Wang Sumei briefly explained, and then turned to the issue of the car factory. "Heping, what do you think about selling the car production line to the Japanese? Aren't you afraid that Nissan will compete with us?"

"Auntie Wang, you might as well raise your perspective." Zhang Heping sat on the sofa, picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water, and said slowly: "The Heping Automobile Factory cannot be expanded in a short period of time, let alone expanding production."

"As a result, the factories in the mainland that help us produce parts and equipment will not be able to monetize their newly acquired technology."

"So, why not let those factories in the mainland earn some foreign exchange by selling automobile production lines? At the same time, let the Japanese and Europeans use electric cars to open up the automobile market in Magnesium, and impact the international crude oil market at the same time!"

Wang Sumei frowned and thought for a while, then asked doubtfully, "Are you trying to retaliate against the Middle East because they cut off your natural gas supply?"

"Haha!" He picked up the teacup and laughed, "That depends on what outsiders think. When I registered the name of Renewable Energy Co., Ltd., I was going against those oil tycoons!"

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