Break out of the courtyard

If you ask what the most pressing issue in China right now is, it's not whether or not we can join the WTO, but when the production of Shouyuan 120 drug will be able to increase!

Therefore, after Secretary Chen reported Zhang Heping's opinion to Elder Hua, Elder Li, and others, a relevant video conference was held not long afterward.

"If blood collection can be distributed to hospitals in various provinces, the monthly reception work in Shenzhen will be much easier!" Old Yang's voice rang out in the conference room of the capital.

The host in the Shenfu conference room hurriedly stated, "Leader, as long as we can ensure the normal production of Shouyuan 120 medicine, any hard work in receiving guests is worthwhile!"

The host in the conference room of the Capital Harmony Hospital did not give Shen Fu a chance to continue to boast, and interrupted, "The five steps of blood collection, blood testing, storage, air transport, and handover were discussed and agreed upon beforehand."

"The current question is whether the blood collection and testing work should be handled by major hospitals, or by blood banks or Red Cross hospitals?"

"Standards for blood storage and air transport timeliness also need to be formulated as soon as possible!"

The host in the conference room of West China Hospital in Chengdu spoke up, saying, "I suggest that the blood be collected and tested by hospitals in the provincial capital first, and then handed over to the local blood bank for testing to ensure the blood is healthy before sending it to Shenzhen for handover!"

This suggestion was immediately endorsed by three hospitals.

However, after the microphone was turned on in the conference room of Shenzhen Peace Academy, Secretary Chen raised an objection: "The blood bank's blood testing step can be skipped. They only need to ensure the safety of blood storage!"

"After the blood is delivered to Shenzhen, our staff will test it again. Only if the blood composition and activity meet the standards and there are no infectious diseases can it be sent to the production line."

……

Unlike the heated discussions in the video conference, only 13 boys and girls participated in the second assessment of the second talent training camp recruitment plan.

Even with the teachers, parents, and Zhang Bei, Zhang Yi, and others, the huge Shenzhen Library still couldn't gather a hundred people.

Although the assessment required each teenager to independently create a communication tool, it did not restrict their communication with each other.

Therefore, the library was not as quiet as one might imagine. Every now and then, one or two teenagers could be heard asking the teachers outside the room for drinks or food.

Compared to the continuity of the first assessment, the second assessment only stipulated a 24-hour period and did not require that the candidate must remain in the virtual dream world the entire time, thus creating a much more relaxed atmosphere.

According to the parents who were watching the commotion, since these 13 children are all family, there's no need to be so strict.

In fact, Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi thought the same thing.

Even if the telegraph machines made by these 13 teenagers were almost identical and simple, they were still considered to have passed the test.

The entire process took less than 4 hours, which translates to less than two days spent in the virtual learning dream world.

If they had been familiar with the warehouses and factories in the virtual learning dream from the beginning, they could have cut the time in half again.

The third assessment the following day was a closed-book exam conducted in a virtual learning dream world.

Of the 24 hours allotted for answering the questions, a significant portion was spent by Li Tong, a researcher from the brain-computer interface team, giving ideological lessons to the teenagers.

The rest of the time is left to them to arrange as they see fit.

The assessment rules state that once one of the 13 teenagers proposes to start the exam, the other teenagers must also take the exam and are no longer allowed to look at the political and ideological books on the first floor of the Dream Library.

Therefore, these 13 teenagers persisted until the last hour before taking the exam together.

Friday, July 1th.

Thirteen boys and girls who successfully passed the recruitment assessment for the second Genius Training Camp were sent to Shenzhen Peace Academy. In front of a group of reporters, they received their reward for passing the test: a lifespan potion advance card for each of them!

After the prizes were distributed, Zhang Heping had someone take the kids to the neighboring hospital for checkups and treatment to prevent any long-term effects from their recent intense mental exertion.

"Mr. Zhang, I am a reporter from Oriental Daily. What are your views on Eastern metaphysics and Western theology?"

"I don't have any opinion, I haven't paid attention to those things!"

"Mr. Zhang, I am a reporter from the Capital Daily. What was your original intention in publishing the paper 'Feasibility Analysis of Interstellar Jump'?"

"I felt it was highly feasible, so I expressed my opinion."

"Mr. Zhang, I am a reporter from the Hong Kong Island Economic Daily. What are your views on Hong Kong's economic development since the handover?"

"I won't go into detail about this, but I'll just mention two points. First, the overseas market remains intact, and second, the domestic market of over a billion people will expand to Hong Kong Island."

Reporters from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau were invited to report on the recruitment results of the second talent training camp. Zhang Heping took the opportunity to have them ask a few questions to clear up the negative news about his research on metaphysics and theology, so as to avoid failing to recruit foreign scientists in the future.

Considering that the 31st of this month is the first day of the Lunar New Year, those teenagers cannot go back now and will come back on the first or second day of the Lunar New Year.

于是，张和平便听取张北、张逸他们的意见，让那13个少年在1月21号至1月27号进行一阶段训练。

After they return home for the Chinese New Year, they will undergo the second phase of training from February 6th to February 26th.

The training Zhang Heping arranged for the 13 teenagers was simple: he had them train their mental strength by following Zhang Yi's brain-computer interface research team.

After this news was leaked, the foreigners who hadn't returned yet were in an uproar, mainly because they also wanted to send people to participate in the training.

After receiving the opinions and protests from those foreigners, the Peace Group's customer service responded consistently, stating that the technology was confidential and that those who wanted it could exchange it for technology of equal value.

Those foreigners complained to the mainland authorities, but received no effective response.

After all, China hasn't even mastered Zhang Heping's brain-computer interface technology yet, so how could we let foreigners get involved?

In particular, after Zhang Heping returned from the Sanxingdui underground base, relevant personnel wanted to know what inspiration he had gained there, whether there were any new research directions, or any achievements.

To facilitate communication between Zhang Heping and his experts and professors, the experiential exhibition at the Shenzhen Library has come to an end. The virtual learning dream regeneration brain server has been moved to the Shenzhen Heping Academy Library and installed in the black iron server room that Qian Lao and his team had prepared long ago.

Considering the health of those senior experts and professors, Qian Xuesen originally wanted to set up several hundred learning pods to connect to the virtual learning dream regeneration brain server, but Zhang Heping rejected this idea.

Tests conducted at the Hong Kong Island Peace College Library showed that using the learning pod to intervene in the virtual learning dream was unable to immediately detect people who had fainted due to mental exhaustion.

Therefore, the game helmet is used to connect with the regenerative brain for external use, and users can stop and rest when their bodies can no longer keep up.

After the brain-computer interface devices were installed in the library of Shenzhen Peace Academy, Zhang Heping did not rush to use them to communicate with his experts and professors. Instead, he gave the experts and researchers who had completed their research projects ahead of schedule a vacation so that they could spend time with their families.

Finally, they were also allowed to bring their families to the Shenzhen Peace Academy Library to experience a virtual learning dream world.

Those experts and researchers living off-campus, in order to have more time to experience the facilities, not only stayed at the Peace Hotel across the street at a 5% discount for employees, but also used various connections to buy brain-boosting liquid from the neurology department of the Peace Hospital next door.

Because of this, Qian Lao said to Zhang Heping more than once that Vice President Deng was stingy.

Despite Zhang Heping having instructed Vice President Deng to arrange medical staff and provide brain-boosting liquid free of charge, Vice President Deng deliberately kept it a secret, causing many senior experts to have to sit down and rest after only about an hour of treatment.

Vice President Deng explained that it was for the sake of the health of the senior experts. Zhang Heping would just laugh it off each time he heard it.

He hasn't publicly announced his interstellar spacecraft research plan yet. First, a prerequisite for this plan is having an outer space base; second, the entire plan is too expensive, so he has to find a way to carry it out in batches.

To put it simply, he is indeed short of money!

With the Lunar New Year approaching, Zhang Heping had many things on his mind, wanting everyone to relax and spend the holiday with their families before discussing anything else.

Zhang Heping wanted to make others feel at ease, but actually he also wanted to relax himself.

I have indeed put aside matters related to scientific research.

After all, with the help of Qian Lao and Deng Lao, who knew that Zhang Heping had been busy at the Sanxingdui underground base for three months and needed a rest.

However, when it comes to business and personal relationships, Zhang Heping cannot rely on others.

Just like the matter that Company Commander Zhao recently came to him, Zhang Heping felt somewhat helpless.

The Capital Smart City Management Center wanted to transfer Zhao Jianguo to be the director, but Zhao Jianguo refused.

Then, Company Commander Zhao and his wife came to Shenzhen, hoping that Zhang Heping could help persuade Zhao Jianguo, the sixth brother.

On the evening of the 25th, Zhang Heping got an oven, set up a barbecue grill, and invited Zhao Jianguo, who had been avoiding him for several days, back.

"Hey Heping, let me tell you something!" Zhao Jianguo opened two bottles of beer, handed one to Zhang Heping who was grilling skewers, and then continued:

"If you're a brother, don't try to persuade me to go back to the capital. I know you need me to keep an eye on things for you at the management center!"

"Have you ever thought about learning mental control?" Zhang Heping stood up, moved his plastic chair back, sat down next to Zhao Jianguo, and took a sip of beer.

Zhao Jianguo looked at the skewers of meat that were flipping in mid-air on the grill, which were being held by no one, the brush for brushing oil, and the small bottle for pouring chili powder, and then took a big gulp of beer.

Then, the sixth brother leaned close to Zhang Heping's ear and whispered, "I've always wanted to ask, but I didn't dare."

"Where did you learn this skill?"

Zhang Heping laughed and said, "Have you forgotten what you gave me?"

"Me?" Zhao Jianguo, the sixth brother, was somewhat surprised. He looked around nervously and found that they were all Zhang Heping's bodyguards. He then asked in a low voice, "What did I give you? It allows you to control objects remotely!"

Zhang Heping used his mental power to extract some liquor from the beer bottle in his hand, then formed it into a fragment shape in front of him and asked, "The yellow one, remember?"

Zhao Jianguo was stunned for a while, and then, with a large handful of meat skewers in his hand, he asked in confusion, "Just such a small piece... is that enough?"

Since it involved leaking secrets, even though Zhang Heping's men were all around, Zhao Jianguo didn't dare to say anything completely.

"The hardest part of research is going from zero to one!" Zhang Heping smiled and handed a bunch of grilled meat skewers to the bodyguard captain, asking him to distribute them to the surrounding bodyguards. Then he continued speaking to Zhao Jianguo:

"Even if it's just a breakthrough from 0 to 0.1, as long as you have the right research direction, the rest is easy."

Zhao Jianguo still found it hard to believe, so he gave half of the meat skewers to Zhang Heping and started eating them.

The two quietly finished their skewers, clinked their beer bottles together, and took a swig.

“My dad pulled some strings and wants me transferred back to the capital; he thinks it’s easier to get promoted there,” Zhao Jianguo said, staring at the tofu skin and potato slices on the grill, which seemed to be controlled by some unseen force.
“He did this without consulting me, and I feel that he did not respect my opinion.”

"Furthermore, he didn't arrange a job for Ding Ning, nor did he get Xing Bang's household registration sorted out!"

Zhao Xingbang is the child of Zhao Jianguo and Ding Ning, and he will be 4 years old in two months.

Zhang Heping picked up the beer bottle, took another gulp, and said jokingly, "Tell me, is it possible that some people wanted to transfer you out of Shenzhen, and after you refused, they came after your dad?"

Zhao Jianguo frowned and thought for a moment. Just as he got up, intending to go home and ask his father, Zhang Heping grabbed his clothes.

"Where are you going?" Zhang Heping let go of his hand and said, "I'll go after I finish eating the barbecue!"

Zhao Jianguo stood in front of the chair, lowered his voice and frowned, "I'll go ask who's behind this!"

"What's the use of finding out the truth about this? They didn't harm us!" Zhang Heping raised his beer bottle, clinked it against Lao Liu's bottle, and then downed the rest of the beer in his bottle.

After finishing the beer in the bottle, Zhao Jianguo grabbed two more bottles of beer, pried them open, and sat back down in his chair.

"You just asked me about mental strength..." Zhao Jianguo handed the beer to Zhang Heping and asked, "What did you mean? Do you have other plans?"

Zhang Heping took the beer bottle and said with a smile, "I see you've almost recovered, so I wanted to find you something to do!"

"You should have heard what I did in Western Shu before. There's some new equipment research going on after the New Year, which you should be interested in."

"Of course, if you want to live a quiet life, then just consider this as me advising you to return to the capital."

As Zhang Heping said, Zhao Jianguo has recovered quite well in the past few years, and the wounds he suffered on the battlefield have been healed.

When Zhao Jianguo, who was in the prime of his life, suddenly heard that Zhang Heping had something else to ask him, how could he not be curious?

……

Just as Zhang Heping had calmed down Zhao Jianguo, his old classmate Huang Wenli arrived with her father.

Huang Wenli was doing well at the Shenzhen branch of HSBC Bank. Zhang Heping originally wanted to transfer her to Hong Kong Island, but this female classmate seemed determined to stay in Shenzhen.

I later found out that she had a boyfriend here and they were now entangled.

Unfortunately, her boyfriend has been dating her for four years and has no plans to get married yet, so it's hard to say!
Her father, Huang Xuemin, as an advisor to the Shenzhen branch of Heping Investment, was responsible for investments in Beihu and the capital region. He bears some responsibility for the Wucheng chip factory's failure to go public and distribute dividends, but it's really not a major one.

After all, he wasn't the one making the decision.

Huang Xuemin's purpose in coming here was not only to explain the Wucheng chip factory, but also to help Wucheng's investment promotion personnel schedule a time to visit Zhang Heping in person and explain the intricacies of the situation.

After Zhang Heping agreed to the matter, the people from Wucheng arrived that evening, leading Zhang Heping to guess that they had already arrived in Shencheng.

After dealing with matters in Wucheng, Liu Yuan brought her husband Liang Kai over to discuss investment projects in Shenzhen.

To the couple's surprise, Zhang Heping became concerned about whether or not they wanted to have children.

"If you two can get pregnant this year, then the Peace Group will invest in the three projects Secretary Liang just mentioned!"

...(End of chapter)