Break out of the courtyard

"Auntie Wang!" Zhang Heping stood up with a smile, "You know, I've been good at fishing since I was a kid."

"Now, even you are anxious to ask me about the situation in Magnesium. Do you think the Magnesium people are in a hurry?"

"Instead of asking me what I want to do, why don't you analyze what the Magnesium people are anxious about?" Zhang Heping withdrew from the two women's pincer attack, jumped off the podium, turned around and looked at the blank walls on the left and right of the podium, "Also, will the Magnesium people really cooperate with you to manufacture aircraft?"

...

Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong Island.

"POS!" A blond man pointed at a small round sign with the word POS hanging outside a store and called out to his two companions who were looking around, "That cake shop accepts credit cards. Let's go there."

After a burst of chatter, three men from the country walked to the door of the cake shop. One of them took out a savings card from Huifeng Bank and asked the person inside, "Can I pay by card here?"

"Yes!" The clerk showed a black bank card terminal that was as big as two mobile phones, and asked in Eagle language with a smile, "What do you need?"

The man holding his bank savings card randomly selected three snacks, and then impatiently handed over his bank card.

After the clerk took the other party's bank card, he confirmed the front and back of the bank card somewhat unfamiliarly, then inserted it into their store's POS terminal. Then, according to the instruction manual on the side, he entered the amount and the payment password of this POS machine.

Then, the clerk handed the POS machine with the bank card inserted to the man from China and said with a smile, "Please enter your transaction password."

After the customer entered his password and the POS machine printed out a transaction receipt, the clerk gave the snack to him.

The man pointed at the transaction slip with black words on a white background that was torn off by the clerk and asked, "Can you give me this transaction slip?"

"Sorry, sir! We need to keep this transaction slip for bank reconciliation." The clerk said as he took down a stack of transaction slips from the wall, clipped it together with the transaction slip he had just torn off, and hung it back on a nail on the wall.

It seems that the man from Magnesium was not simply asking for the transaction slip. He and his companions were eating the snacks they had just bought while asking, "If your transaction slip is lost, how do you reconcile with the bank?"

"Our boss's computer account has the transaction details!" The clerk explained with a smile: "The bank card and POS machine are still in the testing stage. The transaction documents are kept only to make our boss feel at ease when reconciling the account. The bank said that when it enters the formal use stage, the transaction documents can be retained for the card user."

The three guys looked at each other and walked towards other shops.

A Taiwanese man said confidently: "I think the Hong Kong Island banks did not allow us to participate in the test, and did not even tell us the content of the test, because we threatened to suppress them before!"

The fat man from the country of Magnesium who was walking in the middle frowned and said, "The banks on Hong Kong Island are united to resist us. Isn't it suppressing us? We need to get the electronic transaction system and the bank card joint transaction system as soon as possible!"

"This is a difficult matter!" Another bearded man from China finished his cake and took out a tissue while saying:

"It took more than a dozen investment banks working together to pressure the Special Intelligence Agency to hand over six agents whose families had given up on treatment, and to lift sanctions on the Peace Group. But Mr. Zhang did not forgive us."

The fat man from Magnesium patted the cake crumbs on his hands and said, "An analyst from our bank said that the Peace Group lost at least 100 billion magnesium yuan last year because of our sanctions! With such a huge loss, how could they stop just because of a few agents!"

"There is no official announcement on lifting sanctions on Peace Group. If I were the boss of Peace Group, I would suspect that Magnesium will sanction Peace Group in the future. Therefore, I will continue to boycott Magnesium!"

"This peace group only boycotts our country, Magnesium, but allows people from China, the Soviet Union, Japan, Europe and Africa to study and work in its company, ignoring our sanctions and isolating us!"

"I can understand why Northern Soviet Union doesn't want to exchange computer technology with us. But people from Japan, Europe and other countries actually use the excuse that they haven't learned it yet to refuse to teach us. This is really abominable!"

"The military-industrial complex sent people to the mainland's capital to lobby for the mainland's industrial software through cooperation in aircraft manufacturing."

"What kind of industrial software could make them exchange it for aircraft manufacturing technology?"

"It should be semiconductor-related design software! I heard that the military-industrial complex has not yet developed 128MB of memory, and the mainland has already mass-produced 256MB of memory for the Peace Group in the second half of last year!"

"If this Peace Group didn't have connections with the mainland, it would have been wiped out by our agents long ago!"

"That's not necessarily true! Look at the bodyguards of the Umbrella Company. Their equipment is better than that of the Hong Kong police. Plus with the financial support of the Peace Group, unless we send troops over, we will have no chance of seizing their technology."

...

Wang Sumei followed Zhang Heping out of the hospital. Because she didn't know what Zhang Heping was going to do to the magnesium people, she wanted to go to Zhang's house to find out.

However, when she and Liu Yuan came out, they were shocked to find that the people who called Zhang Heping and asked him to come out were actually a group of Eagle people and reporters!

"Mr. Zhang, this is the Commander's Medal awarded to you by the Queen in recognition of..."

Amid the sound of Western drums and trumpets, Zhang Heping took a palm-sized box from the Governor of Hong Kong with both hands. After opening it, he found a cross-shaped medal with a gold border lying on the white satin.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the third of the five levels of knighthood, CBE title!

After Huifeng Bank Chairman Shen Bi received this honor two years ago, Zhang Heping went to his home to attend a party and learned that the head of the Shaw family had received this medal as early as 74.

However, this Commander's Medal is similar to a Model Worker Award, it is just an honorary award and there is no title.

Zhang Heping is not qualified to use titles like "Sir" and "Jazz" that are often mentioned in Hong Kong films.

If he wanted to be called Zhang Sir or Sir Zhang, he must first join the Eagle nationality, then obtain the first two levels of knighthood, or directly obtain the Eagle nationality title.

After exchanging pleasantries with the Eagle people, Zhang Heping started talking about the establishment of London's bank card association and computer security center.

After the Eagle people knew that Zhang Heping was only willing to sell software and hardware and was unwilling to send employees to London, they changed their cooperation method and asked Zhang Heping to help them train computer technicians, that is, to teach the group of Eagle experts and students.

In response, Zhang Heping readily agreed.

Isn't it just teaching them how to use security software and repair computers and servers? What's the need to keep it secret?

It was because he had agreed to this matter before that London had the potential to become the headquarters of the European UnionPay and enhance the Eagle Country's voice, which led to his receiving the Queen's New Year's Honors.

After hearing what happened here, the concubine Chen Shuting rushed over to Heping Hospital and saw Zhang Heping saying goodbye to a group of Eagle people.

"Honey, I heard that the Queen awarded you an honor?" Chen Shuting ran over excitedly.

This woman is a native of Hong Kong Island and has received Western education since childhood. In fact, she has a stronger sense of identity with the Eagle Country than with the mainland, but she just doesn't show it in her daily life.

In fact, many Hong Kong people have the same mentality as her. This is why so many Hong Kong people protested after the Eagle Country classified Hong Kong people as colonists and clearly told them that they were not citizens of the Eagle Country.

After Zhang Heping gave the box containing the medal to Chen Shuting, he chatted with Shen Bi, the chairman of Huifeng Bank who was standing nearby. Finally, he decided to listen to Shen Bi's advice and hold a party at home tonight to celebrate to show his importance of the medal.

After Director Wang Sumei learned the reason why Zhang Heping was awarded the Commander's Medal, she used the excuse of going to the restroom and made a phone call to report the matter.

With the technology that Zhang Heping has contributed over the years, he actually deserves domestic awards. It was only for reasons of confidentiality and to protect Zhang Heping that it was kept secret. Unexpectedly, the American people got there first.

Zhang Heping asked his concubine Chen Shuting to arrange the party in the evening, while he went to the Heping Computer Research Center.

The first floor of the Computer Research Center is the computer development history exhibition hall; all the previous ones were foreigners, but when it comes to the Internet and computer systems, all of them are Zhang Heping's work, which has a sense of self-promotion. However, these were all done by Tang Wei, and Zhang Heping just didn't object.

The second floor is the server for the World Internet Forum and other websites.

Because servers were relatively expensive, Zhang Heping asked the technical department of Umbrella Company to start a server rental service and posted a tutorial on how to build a website on the World Internet Forum.

The 3rd floor is the Electronic Transaction Security Monitoring Center, which has an independent server and currently serves Hong Kong Island’s banks and securities companies.

The futures negotiations failed, and neither did Japan, New Zealand, Thailand and other countries. They all wanted to establish their own electronic transaction security monitoring centers and control the security of their own systems.

The 4th floor is the server of Hong Kong UnionPay.

To be honest, UnionPay's inter-bank transaction system could be moved to the third floor for merger and processing, but Zhang Heping felt that the banks had a lot of money and it would be unfair for him not to rip them off.

If he had followed his previous idea and led the global UnionPay, the annual commission from UnionPay alone would have allowed him to secure his position as the world's richest man.

Unfortunately, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. No country is willing to hand over UnionPay to a private company.

Even between countries, no country is willing to give up UnionPay's dominant position.

The ownership of the 5th floor has not been announced to the public. After the elevator opens, one can only see a white cloud logo on the opposite glass, and then a densely packed black server with flashing indicator lights!

There is no ban on visiting the 5th floor. Anyone who is an employee or student of the Computer Research Center can come up and look through the glass.

The only ones who can enter are the old employees of the Umbrella Corporation’s technical department and the big boss Zhang Heping.

At this time, Zhang Heping took Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan to the fifth floor. Zhang Heping's laughter rang out in the corridor. "Hong Kong Island is now the capital of spies. Spies from most countries gather here. However, as long as I don't tell them what the servers on this floor are used for, they can only watch helplessly."

As Zhang Heping spoke, he stood in front of the two glass doors and looked up at the cameras above.

Two seconds later, the facial recognition was passed and the two glass doors opened.

But the next second, a sharp alarm sounded throughout the entire floor.

"Warning! Warning! Warning! Unable to identify intruder! Unable to identify ..."

Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan, who were following Zhang Heping, froze in place, having never expected this to happen.

With the security guards and staff rushing out from both sides, Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan were even more afraid to move.

"You guys step out for a moment and look up at the camera above." Zhang Heping was behind a computer facing the main door, operating the identity recognition system while saying, "Turn your head slowly to look at the camera on the upper left, then slowly look at the camera on the upper right."

"Okay, you can come in now!"

As Zhang Heping's teasing voice died down, the alarm that was ringing throughout the building stopped.

Zhang Heping left the computer facing the gate and said to the security captain beside him: "The alarm is lifted, let them return to their respective posts!"

Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan glanced around. In just a short while, dozens of bodyguards in black gathered in the corridors. Judging from the noise coming from the corridor, it seemed that someone was rushing over from downstairs.

"Attention all teams, the alarm on Level 5 has been cleared. Please return to your posts! Please return to your posts!"

Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan felt relieved for no reason. It wasn't because of the big scene just now, but because it happened too suddenly and caught them off guard.

After the two women followed Zhang Heping into the server room, they couldn't help but tighten their clothes to resist the sudden drop in temperature, and frowned as they listened to the buzzing noise of the wind inside.

Tang Wei, the technical manager of the Umbrella Company, led the way. "Master, the three cloud servers in the mainland have all been tested for power outages. They reported that the network connection is normal. The only thing left is a shutdown test on our side!"

"Don't worry. There are two cloud servers being built in the mainland. We will follow the plan and cut off power for testing on New Year's Eve." Zhang Heping said, and then he entered the computer control room, sat in front of a computer, and checked the server logs.

"Master, if we develop a cloud server, won't it be difficult to sell the servers your wife has?" Tang Wei asked in confusion.

"On the contrary!" Zhang Heping quickly flipped through the abnormal logs in the server and explained casually: "In order to protect personal data on the server and prevent us from spying on their intelligence, foreigners will pay more attention to their own servers."

"You have to remember that technology may have no borders, but the people who control technology do have borders!"

"But, Master!" Tang Wei scratched his head, glanced at Wang Sumei and the others, and then continued to ask: "Why do you want us to teach technology to those foreigners?"

"What we play among ourselves is called LAN game. Only when it is promoted and everyone plays together can it be called the world Internet." Zhang Heping patiently explained Tang Wei's question, and actually he also wanted to explain it to Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan.

Wang Sumei and Liu Yuan knew about the existence of cloud servers, but they didn’t understand what they were used for. In addition, due to confidentiality regulations, they couldn’t ask more questions.

Even though they came to the cloud server center in Hong Kong Island today and stood in the computer control room, they still didn't understand and couldn't ask more questions.

"There are several anomalies in your province's cloud server. Please call them and ask them to check if there are any faults in the lines and machines. I think you have encountered a defective server."

"Okay, Master!"

"You guys continue, remember to eat on time!"

After saying this, Zhang Heping took the two silent women and left the 5th floor, going down to the 4th floor to check the server logs of Hong Kong UnionPay.

Then came the 3rd floor and the 2nd floor. By the time Zhang Heping looked down, it was already time for lunch.

As for the two women who lingered behind him, Zhang Heping just calmly took them to pick up Chen Shuting, and then went back to the Peak for lunch.

Seeing that Zhang Heping didn't want to explain, Wang Sumei tried to throw the question to Chen Shuting, "Shuting, what are your plans for Magnesium?"

"Magnesium?" Chen Shuting put down her chopsticks, looked at Wang Sumei and Zhang Heping in confusion, and said puzzledly: "After the magnesium country sanctioned us, we have no plans to sell magnesium."

Seeing that Zhang Heping did not stop her, Wang Sumei continued, "I heard that recently a wholesaler sold your products to Magnesium, and it seems that the sanctions against you have been lifted there."

"Oh!" Chen Shuting responded lightly, and when she found that her husband Zhang Heping didn't say anything, she didn't say much.

However, Wang Sumei came here with a mission this time, which was to find out Zhang Heping's attitude towards the country of magnesium, or its follow-up plans, so as to avoid conflicts between the actions taken in the country and the plans of this brat.

"You don't plan to increase trade in magnesium?"

Facing Wang Sumei's question, Chen Shuting couldn't help but respond. She felt helpless but looked calm. "Our current sales are all placed in Peace Plaza. We only do business in Hong Kong Island. Overseas business is the business of those wholesalers and has nothing to do with us."

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