Break out of the courtyard

After seeing off the outsiders at the gate of the community, Zhang Heping turned around and glanced at his third nephew Tang Qiang, asked a casual question, and then walked towards the villa with his concubine Chen Shuting.

"Uncle, that..." Tang Qiang hurriedly followed Zhang Heping and said:

"Morgan Investment Bank told me that if my uncle is willing to cooperate with them in chip production, they can help unfreeze the securities account of Peace Investment Company in Japan."

Zhang Heping tilted his head towards his mistress and asked, "Have the five investment banks in Magnesium paid the penalty for breach of contract?"

Chen Shuting shook her head. "Last year, the Hong Kong court ordered them to pay us 5 million magnesium dollars, but it has not been enforced yet."

Tang Qiang opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.

The breach of trust by the Peace Group, one of the five largest investment banks in the country, caused quite a stir in Hong Kong last year, and he knew the details.

Zhang Heping brought up the matter again, obviously telling Tang Qiang indirectly that Morgan Investment Bank had no credibility. Zhang Heping didn't believe it!

Tang Qiang followed into the Zhang family villa. After Zhang Heping had arranged things for Wei Chunqiao, Tang Hu, Tang Wei and others from the Umbrella Company, he spoke again, "Uncle, people from MBI and Intel also want to cooperate with you, and they have promised..."

Zhang Heping interrupted coldly, "Do you think that I have no other choice but to cooperate with the Magnesium guys?"

"Or do you think I will bow down to the Magnesium guy for that little bit of money?"

"Uncle, that's not what I meant!" Tang Qiang explained hurriedly, "I just want to help you unfreeze Ridao's securities account as soon as possible."

Chen Shuting changed the subject and said, "Aqiang, I heard that you founded a Datang Investment Company. Are you planning to invest in magnesium stocks in the two funds you recently launched?"

"Yeah!" Tang Qiang responded, and then explained: "The price of Japanese stocks has been hyped up too high, and magnesium stocks are now in a low price. I plan to ambush magnesium stocks in advance. Once the Japanese stock market is over, it will be the turn of magnesium stocks to rise."

Zhang Heping remembers that in his previous life in the 90s, there was an Internet bubble in the country of Magnesium.

However, once all the cloud servers in the mainland are launched, will the Peace Group rent the server resources to the Chinese?

Zhang Heping didn't respond to Tang Qiang. Tang Qiang sighed and went back to the villa next door.

The next morning, Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting flew back to the capital.

This year's New Year's goods were sent from Shenzhen by rail and were received by my eldest sister Zhang Pandidi at the Capital Railway Station.

When Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting walked out of the Capital Airport with only two suitcases, the eldest wife Tang Xin was still worried about the New Year's goods.

"Sister Xin!" Chen Shuting said with a smile, "In previous years, when we brought back New Year's goods from Hong Kong Island, we had to spend a long time at the security check. This year, we shipped directly from the Shenzhen factory, so it won't be so troublesome!"

Tang Xin suddenly realized and stopped worrying about New Year's goods.

Zhang Heping sat in the passenger seat and asked Tang Xin in the back seat, "Where are Xiaofeng and the others?"

"They are taking extra classes at home. I didn't ask them to come with me." Tang Xin replied, and then asked, "Honey, have you finished dealing with the issues in Japan and Magnesium?"

"Not yet!" Zhang Heping turned around, frowned and asked, "Did someone from Japan come to see you?"

Tang Xin shook her head. "No, Director Wang came over this morning and said that Xiaofeng can choose a university to study for half a year in the preparatory course. Xiaolong, Xiaohu, and Xiaonuo can also consider going to Yuying School."

Zhang Heping turned around and sat up straight, looking at the increasing number of cars and trucks on the road, and said calmly: "Let's talk about this after the New Year. There is no rush to decide now."

Zhang Long and Zhang Hu came back rashly to go to high school, and Zhang Heping was worried that they wouldn't even be able to get into university.

As for the threat from the magnesium guys, Zhang Heping has been on guard against it, and he is not only guarding against the magnesium guys, but also those gangsters who cannot resist the temptation of money.

Zhang Heping returned to the north bank of Houhai Lake, glanced at his children and nephew who were taking extra classes, and went straight upstairs with his suitcase.

Director Wang followed him upstairs and briefly talked about the cooperation intentions of the nuclear engineering, electric power, post and telecommunications, and aerospace departments, and asked Zhang Heping when he would send someone to formally discuss the investment.

Zhang Heping put the suitcase in the bedroom, closed the door, walked to the public hall on the third floor, and asked Director Wang to sit down.

"It will take several months for Heping Investment Company to withdraw its funds." Zhang Heping lowered his voice so as not to affect the make-up class on the second floor. "In addition, this money is not invested in a certain department, but in a mainland company!"

Director Wang frowned and said, "You mean, now we are only investing in the Aerospace Group?"

Zhang Heping said softly: "There are still a few months left, I think we can add another nuclear industry group! As for the construction funds involved in the power grid, the Internet, and the mobile communication network, there are too many, I am not in a hurry!"

"You little brat!" Director Wang said angrily, "You've been waiting here for so long!"

"Clear property rights are the prerequisite for market transactions!" Zhang Heping spread his hands, "I don't want my money to be misappropriated by some departments for other places after I invest it!"

"I will report this to the higher-ups!" Director Wang nodded, then lowered his voice and asked, "Can you tell me first how much money has been frozen at Heping Investment Company this time?"

Zhang Heping said indifferently: "6 trillion yen!"

Director Wang Sumei opened her mouth, looking a little dazed by such a huge amount of money.

"It is equivalent to 375 billion magnesium yuan, 1300 billion RMB."

Following Zhang Heping's addition, Wang Sumei stood up suddenly and her face became very serious.

"Auntie Wang, you don't have to worry too much!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "The principal of Heping Investment Company has been withdrawn. The money that was frozen was all earned by Heping Investment in Japan last year."

"No!" Director Wang looked at Zhang Heping with sharp eyes, "As long as it's the money of Heping Investment Company, we can't let the Japanese take it away!"

"I'm going to find Mr. Hua now!"

After saying this, Wang Sumei quickly walked towards the stairs.

"Slow down!" Zhang Heping followed closely behind and sent Director Wang outside. "Auntie Wang, the longer this matter is delayed, the more the credibility of the Japanese government will be damaged. There is really no need to rush!"

"We, the generation that we are, know best how evil the Japanese are!" Director Wang Sumei motioned to the driver, Xiao Zhou, to drive, and said in a serious tone, "Besides, this time there is so much money involved!"

"Auntie Wang!" Zhang Heping leaned closer and said with a smile, "Don't forget, this is an economic war without the smoke of gunpowder!"

Wang Sumei has never understood the so-called economic war, and she is still confused when she hears the term again.

Zhang Heping continued to persuade: "Japan's GDP last year was about 1.8 trillion magnesium yuan. If you can use 375 billion magnesium yuan to buy their government credibility, their export trade will inevitably be seriously affected, and their GDP will decline year by year!"

Director Wang frowned and said, "You mean, there's no rush to put pressure on the Japanese?"

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "You can put pressure on me, but don't rush me!"

After seeing Director Wang off, Zhang Heping turned and went to Shop No. 6 on the right. He and two idle men wearing military coats, dog-skin hats, and with their hands in their sleeves, stood in front of the glass window and looked inside.

"It's so cold, what are you looking at here?" Zhang Heping asked the person next to him meaningfully.

The two idlers looked at each other and hesitated for a few seconds. The young man with a red nose said stiffly, "Deputy Director Zhang, we are the guards of No. 5 Wanshou Road. The company commander sent us to guard this place."

Ok!

When Zhang Heping came back just now, he felt that something was wrong with these two people. It turned out that they were sent here to do protection work.

Zhang Heping patted the snow off the young man's shoulder and said in a gentle tone, "Come with me in and have some hot water. I'll call your company commander to confirm this matter!"

Zhang Heping was not very satisfied with their security work. They did not encounter any enemy, but instead their own people were frozen to death.

The key point is that they came to guard without communicating in advance, which made Zhang Heping subconsciously think that it was a street urchin who targeted the computers in the store.

After confirmation, it was found that these two people were indeed guards sent from No. 5 Wanshou Road.

Zhang Heping arranged a room for the two of them on the second floor so that they didn't have to run back and forth.

During lunch, Zhang Heping introduced the two guards and asked them to communicate more with the four bodyguards.

The Spring Festival is just two weeks away. Zhang Heping plans to buy some New Year's goods and give some to his cram school teachers and bodyguards to take back to Hong Kong Island.

Of course, the guards from No. 5 Wanshou Road also need to be sent there.

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It would be fine if they didn't show any expression at other times, but they still had to show some expression during important festivals like the Spring Festival, otherwise who would be willing to work for the Zhang family!

So, after dinner, Zhang Heping took his two wives out for a walk, but they hadn't decided what to buy as gifts.

Time flies. Zhang Heping spent a week traveling around most of the capital with his two wives. In the end, he only picked out some handicrafts to give to his cram school teacher and bodyguard.

Giving gifts to the guards was simple, just an Omega watch for each of them. Watches didn't require a ticket these days anyway.

As for the New Year goods sent from Shenzhen, they have already been shipped back from the Capital Railway Station and are ready to be sent out during the New Year.

...

January 1, Tuesday, big cold.

Just like the previous few days, Zhang Heping wanted to take his two wives out shopping after breakfast to see the newly built apartment buildings in the capital.

As a result, the rhythm was disrupted by a phone call from Hong Kong Island.

"Have all the securities accounts been unfrozen?" Zhang Heping frowned and thought for a moment, then said to Wei Chunqiao on the other end of the phone, "Got it. I'll contact those fund managers."

"Boss, there's one more thing!" Wei Chunqiao's voice sounded a little more serious, "This morning, a Japanese passenger plane flew close above our community and triggered the air defense alarm. I suspect they did it on purpose!"

Zhang Heping was silent for a while after hearing the news, and then he said into the microphone: "Let the person in charge of Kai Tak Airport tell all airlines again not to fly within 1000 meters above our community."

"Also, find out the captain and co-pilot of the Japanese plane this morning, and notify their airline company to permanently ground those two captains. Otherwise, I will buy out their airline company and make all their management members get out!"

The plan to go out was disrupted, so Zhang Heping found his laptop computer that had not been used for many days, opened the Heping financial software, and checked the Japanese and magnesium stock prices.

You won’t know until you see it. You will understand immediately why the Japanese unfroze the securities account of Heping Investment Company today!

Magnesium stocks fell more and more last week!

By checking the electronic trading data of magnesium stocks in the background, Zhang Heping found that there were more and more accounts shorting magnesium stocks, and the leverage was getting bigger and bigger.

Last night, magnesium stocks opened on Monday the 19th. The downward trend that lasted for two weeks finally broke out last night, triggering a panic sell-off of stocks!

Five minutes before the opening of magnesium stocks last night, only 5% of magnesium stocks triggered a trading suspension with a drop of 20%.

但到了开市30分钟时，就有70%的镁股触发了1次停牌交易，其中有30%镁股触发了跌幅13%的2次停牌交易！

In the 37th minute after the market opened, semiconductor companies such as MBI and Intel again triggered three trading suspensions with a drop of 20%.

Subsequently, the decline of magnesium stocks became unstoppable!

In just half a day, the Dow Jones Index fell 20.2%. If magnesium stocks had not copied the circuit breaker mechanism proposed by Zhang Heping, the decline would probably have doubled!

Last night, magnesium stocks plummeted and were all suspended. Japanese people were afraid of repeating the same mistake, so they held a meeting overnight to discuss how to prevent Japanese stocks from falling today.

Miss Suzuki knew that the sharp drop in magnesium stocks was related to Zhang Heping, so the Suzuki family and the Aso family requested that the securities account of Heping Investment Company be unfrozen as soon as possible.

Even if Peace Investment Company will sell its stocks immediately after unfreezing the account, causing greater panic, it must be unfrozen.

The Japanese islanders argued for a long time about the thawing issue.

It was not until the Japanese stock market opened and experienced a large-scale suspension of trading like in Magnesium that Japanese people agreed to unfreeze the securities account of Peace Investment Company.

This is because, if the decline is too large and the Japanese Ministry of Finance cannot produce evidence that Peace Investment Company manipulated the stock, then all the losses of Peace Investment Company in this round of stock market crash will be counted on the Japanese Ministry of Finance!

Then, the Peace Group’s legal team will sue the island!

"Honey, this...this..." Chen Shuting, who was unable to go out shopping, was also holding a laptop and watching stocks beside him.

You know, when she met Zhang Heping, she was a stock trader.

This is the first time she has seen such a severe stock market crash in all these years.

The key is that their family holds a large number of Japanese stocks and Hong Kong stocks!

Zhang Heping picked up his phone and called the head of the Umbrella Technology Department. "Awei, notify the East Capital Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange that the electronic trading system we provide will be undergoing maintenance and upgrades in 5 minutes!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Heping selected several springboards, hacked into the magnesium stock exchange system, and deleted the few lines of code he had previously added.

Now that the purpose of unfreezing the securities account of Heping Investment Company has been achieved, it is natural to clean up the mess.

After cleaning up all traces on the Internet, Zhang Heping sent an internal email to the fund manager of Heping Investment Company. The entire content of the email meant only one thing: take a holiday!

Chen Shuting next to him opened her mouth wide, looking at Zhang Heping, then at the Heping financial software on the laptop.

The electronic trading system maintenance and upgrade notice that Zhang Heping just mentioned has occupied two-thirds of the computer screen in the form of pop-up windows.

After a long 5 minutes, the Nikkei index's decline stopped at 11.8%!

Hong Kong time is one hour behind Japan, and the market opens one hour later, so the Hong Kong stock index only fell by 1%!

At this time, the London Stock Exchange has not yet opened and has not started to fall today. As long as the Americans are not stupid, they will accept the so-called maintenance and upgrade of the electronic trading system!

In other words, the Umbrella Technology Department can only provide upgrade patches for the electronic trading system. Whether to shut down the electronic trading system for upgrades must be decided by the stock exchanges and banks.

At this time, the Dongdu Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange wisely listened to Zhang Heping's advice, thinking that the responsibility for system maintenance and upgrades could still be placed on the Umbrella Company afterwards.

The question is, as long as we avoid this magnesium stock crash, won’t this global stock crash pass smoothly?

Who will blame the Umbrella Company afterwards?

Of course, even if someone wants to hold someone accountable, the Umbrella Company will not take responsibility.

Because they only notify the system to upgrade, and the choice of whether to upgrade or not lies in the hands of the stock exchanges and banks.

Anyway, there is something to argue about...