Riding the wind of rebirth

Zhou Zhi was very quiet tonight. While Mai Xiaomiao was chattering, Zhou Zhi was in charge of grilling meat, adding wine and milk tea. It took Wu Renzhong a while to notice and he felt strange: "Eh? It seems like you two have switched roles today. In the past, you were talking and Xiaomiao was listening, but today it's Xiaomiao talking and you are listening."

"I'm still worried that I won't be able to report to your brother-in-law." Zhou Zhi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I did bring back the Portrait of Lady Shexiang, but with my ability I could only bring it to Shudu. It's now in the Shu Provincial Museum. I feel guilty..."

"Actually..." Wu Renzhong said with a smile, "Maybe you are worrying too much? My brother-in-law and his family may not think much of this painting."

Seeing Zhou Zhi glaring, Wu Renzhong quickly explained: "It's not that I don't value it, but my perspective may be a little different from yours."

"What they value is the influence of this painting and the benefits it can bring to the state." Wu Renzhong said: "Putting this painting in the provincial museum is a great contribution made by the region to the provincial cultural heritage protection work. If the real god is really invited back, you will know how professional maintenance is needed when you play with the painting, and how strict the preservation conditions are, which will be troublesome."

Zhou Zhi was speechless. Maybe the local authorities really thought so! The capital has the best conditions, but there are too many good things in the Palace Museum and the National Museum, and the "Lady Shexiang" is not as outstanding as it is. If it is placed in the autonomous prefecture, it will take manpower and material resources to maintain and preserve it. It is just right to place it in the provincial capital. It will definitely be placed in an important display position, and when it is mentioned, it will be introduced that it was found in Liangshan.

Therefore, this result may still make the state leaders very satisfied, and I just brought them into my own cognition, thinking that they would feel sorry because this painting did not remain in the local area.

Little did I know that I was just overthinking it.

After letting go of the burden in his heart, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel relaxed and poured a glass of hot beer: "Hey! Then what should I worry about? Come on, Ah Zi, Renzhong Shama, let's go first!"

"Where's Xiao Miao? Let's go together!" Shama raised his glass and greeted him.

Zhou Zhi then realized that he had grouped himself and Xiao Miao together, and quickly made amends: "We drank together a lot this time when we went out. Xiao Miao, let's toast to everyone together. Thank you for your hard work during our absence."

"You don't have to be so polite." After everyone drank together, Wu Renzhong asked Zhou Zhi, "But Sha Ma and I will be busy with the wedding in the city. You two will have to cooperate with Grandpa Chi Ri and Uncle Tu in the village before the festival."

"When will A Zi have her holiday?" Zhou Zhi handed Mai Xiaomiao a string of grilled small intestines and A Zi a string of chicken wings.

"Tomorrow we have the last two exams. You can go back after you finish them."

"That's perfect." Zhou Zhi nodded. "Our consignment will arrive tomorrow. Once it's loaded, we'll come pick you up and go home together."

"I heard that we can go watch a rocket launch?" A Zi asked excitedly.

"Actually, this matter...we were a little immature, but it was also because the navy uncle had a lot of face and Captain Zhou did a lot of work for us that we got this matter."

Speaking of it, the launch center has not had an easy time in recent years. The year before last, last year, and especially in January of this year, a Chinese Long March 2E rocket carrying a communications satellite from the U.S. Hughes Corporation exploded and disintegrated after launch. These three consecutive accidents have put the center under tremendous pressure.

The center concentrated on large-scale and extensive technical reforms and conducted an investigation of the incident. In July, experts from the two countries announced that the investigation into the cause of the Asia-Pacific II explosion had been completed and issued a joint communiqué to the press. The communiqué gave two possible causes of the failure. One was that under the winter high-altitude shear wind conditions, the special connection between the satellite and the upper stage and the carrier rocket resonated, causing local structural damage to the satellite. The other was that under the winter high-altitude shear wind conditions, the local structure of the carrier rocket fairing was damaged.

Although Great Wall and Hughes reaffirmed their long-term friendly cooperative relationship and remained confident in continuing to expand areas of cooperation that were in the commercial interests of both parties, Zhou Zhi knew that the two companies had never cooperated again since then.

In this context, Zhou Zhi's proposal to let the children visit the satellite base was actually a bit "immature". Qin Haifeng told Zhou Zhi about this afterwards, but the words had already been said and could not be taken back.

Unexpectedly, after the New Year, Captain Zhou informed everyone that there would be a launch of the Chang Zheng 2 rocket recently, and the base leaders had agreed to allow the children of Lianhe Township Primary School to visit.

Zhou Zhi now deeply understands the difficulties of China's space industry. He is no longer as excited as Ah Zi, but he doesn't want to affect everyone's mood. He smiled and said, "Yes, the base also said that they will arrange a bus to pick us up the day before the launch. It's very thoughtful. I think when the pomegranates and cherries in Lianhe Township are available on the market, I must send some to the base. Return this favor."

Nothing happened that night. The next day, Zhou Zhi went to the train station to pick up the car, and then went to the bus station to pick up the kitchen utensils, seasonings, stationery and books that were shipped from the Wukuaishi Market. He went to the medical school to pick up Jike Azi, who was officially on vacation, and returned to Lianhe Township together.

The trip took almost two weeks. By the time we returned to Lianhe Township, we had already started the year-end summary and finalization work. The next step was to wait for the Spring Festival.

Although Wu Renzhong left, Jike Azi returned. With a copywriting expert like Zhou Zhi, he led Jike Azi to write various summary reports for Tu Liangzhi. Tu Liangzhi read those flowery articles and cried out that Zhou Zhi was wasting his talent and using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Now that Mai Xiaomiao and Zhou Zhi have confirmed their relationship, the two have become even closer. However, before this, Mai Xiaomiao had always been used to being with Zhou Zhi, and no one noticed anything unusual.

Or maybe everyone had already known in their minds that the two were a couple a long time ago, and by the time they officially confirmed their relationship, it was no longer surprising.

After a long delay, Mai Xiaomiao's sword was finally delivered. It was one size smaller than Zhou Zhi's sword. Zhou Zhi assembled it with a red sword and showed it to Mai Xiaomiao. Mai Xiaomiao liked it very much, but still asked Zhou Zhi to take it apart and replace it with an ordinary brass sword for daily exercise.

So now, every morning there are two figures, one big and one small, practicing Tai Chi sword on the wire lawn by the Meigu River.

The days are like the rushing water of the Meigu River, which never looks back. After the New Year, the Spring Festival will soon be here.

After the turn of the Gregorian New Year, the country announced several major events in succession.

At the Central Economic Work Conference, the Central Committee stressed that the transformation of the economic system and economic growth mode should be the key link. At the same time, it was decided to increase the grain order price as an important measure to develop grain production. It was announced that this year is a big year for foreign-related tax system reform, and the tariff rate should be significantly reduced, the preferential policy of import tax reduction and exemption should be abolished; and the tax rebate rate for exported goods should be further reduced.

This last measure has a significant impact on the Clover Group, which has a large amount of import and export trade, but the group has already had a response plan, and it is not a company that relies on preferential policies and tax rebates to survive, so it is not worried. (End of this chapter)