Break out of the courtyard

Capital, a certain sea office.

"Mr. Hua, have you developed the extended-range 2.0 electric car?"

"No!" Mr. Hua, the head of Zhang Heping's secret department, shook his head. "The 2 million magnesium yuan research and development funds have not been approved yet, and the extended-range 2.0 electric vehicle is still just a concept."

Mr. Li, who was pacing in the office with a teacup in hand, asked in confusion: "The new car has not been developed yet, but Leader is advertising the extended-range 2.0 electric car all over the world. What is his intention in throwing out this smokescreen?"

Mr. Hua frowned and said, "The geese have received news that the representatives of the two electric car manufacturers in Meide have already contacted the leader, and seem to be interested in further cooperation. In addition, Peace Investment Company is currently the third and fourth largest shareholder of the Japanese car companies."

Seeing that Mr. Hua seemed to be hesitant to speak, Mr. Li sat back on the sofa, put down his teacup, and asked, "What do you mean..."

Mr. Hua thought for a moment and said, "The leader first opened the electric car production line. It was not until the electric car production line of the Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant was accepted that he proposed to let the Peace Automobile Plant be listed on Hong Kong Island. I think we can let the Peace Automobile Plant go public to test the waters."

Mr. Li frowned and said, "You should fully understand the difficulties involved!"

Mr. Hua pondered and said, "Since other car manufacturers can also produce electric cars, we might as well withdraw from the Peace Automobile Factory! According to the original agreement, if we transfer the shares of the Peace Automobile Factory to the Peace Group, they will need to spend 400 to 500 million magnesium dollars to buy them back."

"So much money?" Mr. Li was a little surprised, because the initial investment in this car factory was only about 2 million magnesium yuan.

"Yes!" Mr. Hua nodded. "The Foreign-Invested Enterprises Law is about to be voted on at the meeting. I think we can give it a try."

...

The reason why Zhang Heping advertised the new electric car all over the world when the extended-range 2.0 electric car has not yet been developed is that he has a related battery capacity expansion plan, which only requires slight changes to the existing automobile production line to quickly put the extended-range 2.0 electric car into production.

Second, he wanted the Heping Automobile Factory to use 2 million magnesium yuan to develop extended-range technology, but was rejected by the factory director Sha Zhixiang, who said that he had to submit an application!

Zhang Heping's original intention was to get this money and transfer some funds to the three military factories that cooperated with the Heping Precision Instrument Factory.

What he never expected was that as a major shareholder, his words were useless when it came to allocating profits at the end of the year!

The third point is to force the Meide Automobile Factory and the Heping Automobile Factory to merge, reorganize and go public, and then seize the overseas market for Nissan cars!

Zhang Heping had easily agreed to sell electric production lines to the two countries in the United States. He was waiting for them with the extended-range 2.0 version, using the new technology to force the two electric car factories in the United States to comply.

Otherwise, the money they invested in the electric car factory in the early stage will be wasted!

Unfortunately, the equipment for the electric vehicle factories on both sides of the border has not yet arrived, and the extended-range 2.0 electric vehicles have not yet been produced, so both sides of the border have not yet relented and are still bargaining with the representatives of the Peace Group.

As for the Japanese, Zhang Heping ignored the representatives of Japanese car companies because the Aso couple did not speak up for them.

Time is quietly approaching the end of the year...

Because another group of medical staff came to Heping Hospital last year, Zhang Heping, after soliciting opinions from the two groups of medical staff, let them decide freely whether to stay or go during the Spring Festival holiday.

In order to allow those experts who wanted to go home for the New Year to go back earlier and avoid delays on the road, Zhang Heping released them on February 2 and set the working time on February 1.

For those medical staff who remain on duty in the hospitals, as well as experts and workers on duty in other companies and factories, they can still invite two family members to Hong Kong Island to celebrate the New Year at public expense, just like last year.

Since Hong Kong Island opened tourist visas and business visas to mainland China, more and more people have come to Hong Kong Island from the mainland, especially after the China Eagle Declaration officially came into effect.

Therefore, only less than one-sixth of mainland experts and employees are planning to go home for the Spring Festival this year. Most people are willing to bring their families to Hong Kong Island to broaden their horizons, and some even pay out of their own pockets to invite their parents, wives and children to come.

As for their accommodation, it was booked at the Peace Hotel to the east of the Peace Hospital, where they could get a room at a discounted employee rate with their employee ID, which was very cheap.

February 2th, the beginning of spring.

After the Heping Group's companies paid out their year-end bonuses, the Heping Audit checked the entire group. After finding no major problems, Zhang Heping gave himself a vacation, returned to the capital with his wife and children, and put the matter of Japan Island aside.

After getting off the plane, I paid the tax for the daily necessities in my luggage, then left the airport and got into an old Hongqi car and two Heping electric cars that came to pick me up.

When the car drove into the north bank of Houhai Lake, Zhang Heping was a little surprised, "Xiao Li, are the roadside stalls here banned?"

"We did some rectification last month and stalls are no longer allowed on the main roads!" Driver Xiao Li responded by tilting his head slightly.

没多久，3辆轿车来到了后海北岸6、7、8、9、10号联排三层小楼前。

The style of this townhouse with blue bricks and black tiles is similar to the roofs of the surrounding courtyard houses, except that the tiles are not gray. The blue bricks are only used to pave the exterior walls, while the interior is mainly reinforced concrete.

The first floor is a street-facing shop, and the second and third floors are divided into two rows of houses in the north and south. There is no shop built in the middle courtyard No. 8, but there are two large doors with a patio at the back, kitchens under the two concrete stairs on the left and right, and a large living room on the north side of the patio.

For this reason, my cousin Ma Lili and her family moved to Building 10 on the westernmost side, with a large dormitory room downstairs, 6 rooms on the second floor, and 6 rooms on the third floor.

If Zhang Heping came to distribute the rooms, he would give the 12 rooms on the west side of the second or third floor to my eldest cousin, instead of dividing them into 6 rooms on the upper and lower floors.

However, when Zhang Heping found out that Zhou Laoer's family lived on the second floor of Building 10 on the west side, and his eldest cousin Ma Lili's family lived on the third floor of Building 2 on the west side, he felt uncomfortable.

"Brother Heping, I've put your luggage upstairs!" After the second brother Zhou Chengwu came down the stairs, he said to Zhang Heping with a smile on his face, "You guys take a rest first, I'm going to go look after the store."

The shop that Zhou Laoer was in charge of was naturally the large shop on the first floor of Building 10, with the front facing the street and the long space at the back used as a warehouse.

Because he had a store and there was little competition around him, Zhou Laoer also upgraded his products. In addition to socks, he also put some clothes and shoes on sale in the store.

"You go upstairs and choose a room first. I'll go to the boiler room to take a look." Zhang Heping said, and walked towards the boiler room to the east of the living room.

This boiler room was built on the open space behind the public toilet built by Lou Jiaxiu, so it did not occupy the land of Yard No. 6.

Father Zhang Bing was adding water to the boiler at this time. Zhang Heping went in and greeted him, glanced at the instrument needle on the boiler, then picked up the shovel on the ground, shoveled a shovel of coal under the boiler, and then closed the boiler lid.

Zhang Heping asked with a smile: "Dad, is the room warm after the boiler is turned on?"

When Zhang Heping first proposed laying floor heating pipes instead of building a kang, Old Zhang was very dissatisfied, but unfortunately Zhang Heping did not listen to him.

"It's warm, but it consumes too much coal," Zhang Bing replied.

Judging from his tone, he seemed a little upset about not having the earthen kang built.

"Our family is not short of that little money for coal. Burning more coal can generate income for the coal yard and drive the country's economic development." Zhang Heping put down the shovel and glanced at the pile of coal in the corner. He estimated that it could last for more than ten days, so he would have to buy some more another day.

Zhang Heping clapped his hands, prepared to go back to the living room, and asked casually: "Dad, where is my mom?"

"I went out to buy groceries with your Aunt Chen." Zhang Bing said, and followed Zhang Heping out of the boiler room.

The back walls of the four street-facing shops on the left and right sides do not reach the courtyard wall directly, but leave a 4-meter-wide gap connecting to the living room in the middle. There are no doors in the two spaces and they are usually used to store sundries. The space on the east side is the boiler room.

As for the toilet, each room upstairs has an independent toilet, but the shop on the first floor does not have one, so you need to go to the public toilet next to it.

Zhang Heping's parents and his second and third sisters lived on the second floor of buildings 6 and 7 on the east side. The third floor was reserved for Zhang Heping and his family, while a total of 9 rooms on the upper and lower floors of building 12 on the west side were left empty.

Ma Xiuzhen and others wanted to rename Building No. 9 under another name of Zhang Heping, but Zhang Heping refused. He even deceived his mother Ma Xiuzhen, saying that the name Zhang Pingan must be kept secret and not let anyone know, otherwise something big would happen. Ma Xiuzhen was stunned.

In the end, the property certificate of Building No. 9 was under the name of mother Ma Xiuzhen. As for Lao Zhang, she had never considered him.

Going up to the third floor, looking down at the small patio below through the melted snow drops from the eaves, it has a unique sense of quaintness. Zhang Heping, who is used to seeing high-rise buildings, stood in this square circular corridor for a while.

"These are the chrysanthemums I planted, but unfortunately the flowers have all withered." The second daughter, Zhang Nan, pointed to the flower pots hanging in wire baskets on the corridor handrail and introduced to her mother and sisters the interesting things she did last year.

Zhang Heping turned and walked into the east corridor. In the first room on the right facing Houhai, he saw his eldest son Zhang Bei and his nephews Zhang Yi hiding inside and tinkering with the computer.

"Chang Le, you're already in the second semester of senior year, and you haven't gone to review your lessons yet. Be careful or your mother will come back and beat you!" Zhang Heping threatened him, but he really scared the boy back to his room on the second floor.

Eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi has four children in her family, and together with the couple, they only occupy five rooms, so the six rooms on the second floor are enough for them.

The second sister, Zhang Pandi, had only two children, and together with her parents they occupied only four rooms.

Zhang Heping has seven children. Even if he and his two wives sleep in one room each, they only take up 7 rooms, leaving two empty.

Therefore, it is enough for the Zhang family to live in buildings 6 and 7. The 9 rooms in building 12 may be rented out later.

Zhang Heping glanced at the two computers and four cabinet-type servers in Zhang Bei's bedroom, touched the heads of his nephews Chang Xing and Chang Qing, and went out to check other rooms.

The room was warm and the corridor was not cold either. Zhang Heping had already taken off his coat.

The patio was originally built in the middle of Courtyard No. 8 to release the heat and moisture in the corridors on both sides.

If you just want more rooms, the corridors on the second and third floors will not only be stuffy but also dark, just like the tube-shaped buildings that the Northern Soviet Union had previously aided, which will make people feel dark and cramped.

Of course, there are windows at the east and west ends of the corridor. They provide good ventilation in the summer, but if they are opened in the winter, the corridor will not be able to retain heat.

Because at this time the hot air is pushed upwards into the skylight, resisting the cold air pressing down from the outside and preventing it from coming in.

Zhang Heping found that his and Tang Xin's luggage was on the north side of the innermost end of the corridor. Outside the window were roofs covered with snow, and downstairs were noisy street stalls and pedestrians.

It turns out that these self-employed street vendors were driven into these alleys.

The luggage of the concubine Chen Shuting is at the opposite door. She lives with her youngest daughter Zhang Nuo. Outside the window is the gleaming white frozen Houhai Lake and the much deserted streets.

Taking into account those noisy self-employed people who would also set up stalls at night, Zhang Heping moved his third daughter Zhang Nian and fourth daughter Zhang Feng into one room, and moved his fifth son Zhang Long and sixth son Zhang Hu into one room. The whole family lived in the six rooms near Houhai.

After arranging the room, Zhang Heping went to the public activity space on the third floor, which is above the living room on the north side of the patio. This location on the second floor is also a public activity space.

However, in the public activity space on the second floor, there are ping-pong tables and billiard tables; on the third floor, there are four mahjong machines custom-made by Zhang Heping.

From the living room on the first floor to the public activity space on the second and third floors, there are also furniture and appliances such as televisions, refrigerators, and sofas. At this time, the youngest daughter Zhang Nuo is sitting on the sofa in the public activity space on the third floor, watching the Calabash Brothers cartoon on TV.

Zhang Heping called his father Zhang Bing and taught him to play two rounds of billiards in the public activity space on the second floor before waiting for his mother Ma Xiuzhen and Zhou's aunt Chen Liqin to come back.

Ma Xiuzhen heard the noise upstairs and shouted from the patio, "Are San'er and the others back?"

Zhang Heping was holding a pool cue, with his upper body exposed on the second floor. He smiled and said, "Mom, let's go to the restaurant tonight. Ah Xin's parents are still at the Capital Hotel."

After saying that, Zhang Heping greeted Chen Liqin again before turning back to play billiard.

Mother Ma Xiuzhen put down the food and hurried upstairs to see her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.

After it got dark, all the energy-saving lights inside and outside the building were turned on.

Not long after, an electric mini car drove into the courtyard and stopped in front of the patio. The second sister Zhang Pandi got out of the car.

After a while, my eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi drove in an electric mini car. My eldest brother-in-law Chang Sheng was sitting in the passenger seat, and my second brother-in-law Zhang Yong was squeezed in the narrow seat in the back.

As for the eldest cousin Ma Lili and her husband Zhou Chengwen who came back by bicycle at the end, Zhang Heping was too lazy to say anything to them. The electric mini car that he gave to his cousin Ma Lili was left by them at the No. 5 courtyard of Wanshou Road. They didn't even want it!

Now, the two electric mini cars were parked right between the gate and the patio, leaving no room for the third electric mini car.

Regarding the electric mini car given to his eldest cousin, Zhang Heping had already advised her over the phone, but Ma Lili wanted to stick to her dignity, so Zhang Heping didn't want to persuade her anymore, as he was not idle.

Seeing that everyone had returned, Zhang Heping asked his second brother-in-law Zhang Yong, who was standing aside watching the billiard game, to call a taxi and prepare to go to the restaurant for dinner.

He called the people upstairs to come down and prepared to go out.

"Heping, we won't go," Chen Liqin said hurriedly when she saw Zhang Heping coming downstairs, then went to the stove under the west stairs and brought two bowls of noodles to the table on the west side of the living room.

Zhang Heping glanced at the bowls of noodles on the table. There were only four bowls. She probably thought they were for her and Zhou Laoer's family's dinner, so she casually said, "Aunt Chen, we'll pack the food for you later."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping called his nephew Zhou Xiaopeng and asked him to get four aluminum lunch boxes and pack them up at the restaurant later.

When Chen Liqin saw Zhou Xiaopeng going to get the lunch box, she did not stop him. She just responded with a smile, making her intention of not allowing the second son Zhou Chengwu and his family to go to the restaurant to eat very obvious.

My eldest cousin Ma Lili wanted to say something, but was pulled out by her husband Zhou Chengwen.

"Heping, the taxi has been called. It will pick us up at the door in 5 minutes." My second brother-in-law Zhang Yong said and went downstairs.

Just as Zhang Heping led his family out the door, and his eldest and second sisters drove their electric cars to take some children to the restaurant first, Qin Huairu suddenly came out.

"Heping, I heard you're back, hehe..."