Break out of the courtyard

After Shenzhen Peace College was renamed World Advanced Technology Research Institute, security guards tightened control over College Road outside the school gate.

To be precise, the section of the road north of the intersection of Heping Hospital and the college is under strict control.

Although the section of Xueyuan Road heading south is also under traffic control, it is the same as before and will not affect the operation of Heping Hospital and Heping Hotel.

Therefore, when a group of soldiers in black led a line of black robots at the school gate, some observant people hiding in the Peace Hospital and Peace Hotel immediately noticed the anomaly.

Unfortunately, the soldiers took the robots and ran north, denying them the chance to continue spying.

"Peace!" Zhao Jianguo looked at the two lines of people and machines ahead, jogging as he asked Zhang Heping beside him, "How long are you planning to keep those foreign spies in the restaurant?"

Zhang Heping casually remarked, "They're still finalizing the camera setup on Hong Kong Island. Once they're done there, we can find an excuse to expel them and then track their detailed movements on Hong Kong Island!"

Zhao Jianguo was silent for a moment, then continued to ask, "What if they don't go to Hong Kong Island and continue to stay in Shenzhen? Do you think Shenzhen should also install more security cameras?"

Zhang Heping laughed and said, "That depends on whether you can get funding!"

Zhao Jianguo thought about it for a long time this time. It wasn't until the two groups of people ran up Nanshan with their respective robots that he heard him say to Zhang Heping: "I'll find a way to first get the various government agencies, factories, and residential communities in Shenzhen to install cameras on their own, and then integrate their cameras into the smart city management system."

"After that, we'll persuade the police system to connect with businesses, shops, and residential communities. That's about all the cameras our center will need to install!"

"Good idea!" Zhang Heping agreed, then led his pairing robot forward quickly to check on the fallen robot and collect feedback data from the machine and its operator.

……

Peace Aerospace Company, Northwest Space Exploration Base.

"Chang Le-san! I heard you've been transferred to the Guanghan Palace base construction project. Congratulations!" A little old Japanese man stopped Chang Le and his group, his wrinkled face beaming like a chrysanthemum.

"Thank you! I have other things to attend to, so I won't talk to Mr. Matsuo any longer. Excuse me!" Chang Le replied with a smile without stopping.

With China having completed the first phase of the Tiangong space station program's launch mission, the aerospace expert teams from Japan, Europe, and the United States no longer had a reason to remain there.

Therefore, they have been looking for opportunities to join other research projects here, such as the Moon Palace Base project mentioned by the Japanese from the Sun Island.

"Chang Le!" Zhang Cuishan suddenly appeared at the corner, nodding to the people around Chang Le with a big smile.

Chang Le frowned instantly, said something to his colleague, and then parted ways with the others.

"Eldest Uncle, did you need something?" Chang Le approached, frowning as he looked at this relative who was not well-liked by his third uncle.

Chang Le frowned not because he had any prejudice against Zhang Cuishan, after all, they rarely interacted.

At the beginning of this year, Zhang Heping instructed Chang Le that if he returned to the Northwest Base and encountered Zhang Cuishan asking him to help the Japanese islanders enter the lunar base project, he should be fired immediately!
Chang Le was stopped by the Japanese islanders just now, and not long after, he was blocked by Zhang Cuishan. It's hard not to suspect Zhang Cuishan's motives.

Zhang Cuishan asked expectantly, "I heard you were transferred to the Guanghan Palace base construction project. Is that true?"

"I just received the notification this morning." Chang Le's heart sank, wondering if he really had to report to his third uncle and then have this eldest uncle dismissed.

Regarding the conflict between his third uncle Zhang Heping and his eldest cousin, Chang Le had previously asked his mother Zhang Zhaodi. Although he did not receive a detailed answer, he knew that it was not some deep-seated hatred that could not be resolved, otherwise Zhang Cuishan would not have appeared here!
"Wasn't I an experimenter in the lunar base simulation laboratory before?" Zhang Cuishan asked with some worry, his hands clenched nervously in front of his lower abdomen. "Once the Guanghan Palace base construction project starts, I won't have anything to do. Do you think the base will fire me?"

Hearing that Zhang Cuishan wasn't there to speak on behalf of outsiders, Chang Le felt inexplicably relieved.

After all, they were relatives whom his maternal grandfather and mother had instructed him to take care of.

Even though he usually ignored his eldest cousin out of consideration for his third uncle's feelings, he did not want to fire him because of his report.

“You’re overthinking it. There are only two simulation experimenters your age in the entire base,” Chang Le said calmly. “As long as you don’t contact those foreigners and cause unnecessary misunderstandings, no one will fire you.”

"I still need to hand over my work, so I can't chat with you anymore!"

Chang Le gave a hint and quickly chased after his colleague, leaving Zhang Cuishan standing there, seemingly wanting to say something but unable to, wondering what he was thinking.

……

Wucheng, Yellow Crane Tower.

"Dear viewers, I am currently standing at the Yellow Crane Tower in Wucheng. On the Yangtze River to my side, there is the Heping, my country's first domestically developed aircraft carrier..."

Zhou Xiaochun spoke eloquently to the camera, while Huang Xuemin, Huang Wenyu, and the others from the Wu family stood to the side, smiling broadly as they watched the aircraft carrier on the river.

To ensure the aircraft carrier could move smoothly in the preceding section of the river, Wucheng specifically maintained the water depth in that area.

The water depth of the Yangtze River section near Wucheng is generally maintained at around 7 meters, which is sufficient to allow container ships to enter Wucheng Port.

The Mir aircraft carrier's draft is between 10 and 16 meters, and its length of over 300 meters means that it cannot sail out to sea.

Unless, of course, a huge sum of money is spent to deepen the waterway downstream, widen the sharp bends, and demolish the bridges across the river along the way.

With that money, we could build two aircraft carriers; why go through all that trouble?

Therefore, from the day construction of the Peace aircraft carrier began, it was destined that it would never sail out of Wucheng.

It never left Wucheng, never went out to sea, never participated in wars, and only served as a technology demonstration vessel, hence the name "Peace".

Zhou Xiaochun is here today on behalf of CCTV to record the official test of carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing on China's first aircraft carrier.

The reason for choosing the Yellow Crane Tower, a place that is neither too high nor too low, was naturally at the suggestion of the Wu family, who wanted to take the opportunity to promote the famous historical sites of Wu City.

Otherwise, Zhou Xiaochun would have chosen the rooftops of high-rise buildings on both sides of the Yangtze River, just like other media outlets.

Zhou Xiaochun gave a presentation for more than ten minutes and interviewed some people from the Wu family. About an hour later, a roaring sound came from high above.

"Dear viewers, the three carrier-based aircraft that took off from the Xishan Aircraft Manufacturing Plant have now arrived over Wucheng."

"According to the test plan, after successfully landing on the Mir aircraft carrier, these three carrier-based aircraft will complete tasks such as airframe inspection, maintenance, and refueling on the carrier before taking off and returning to the Xi'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant."

While reporters like Zhou Xiaochun were busy explaining, problems arose with the radar on the aircraft carrier, the ground-based Dove Eye air defense system, and the roadside vehicle-mounted God's Eye defense system!
This issue was reported in real time to both the capital and Shenzhen.

"Report: Shipborne radar has not detected any suspicious targets. Requesting connection to the space-based early warning system!"

"Report: Ground radar has not detected any suspicious targets. Requesting connection to the space-based early warning system!" The Xi'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant encountered a major problem while developing stealth coatings for fighter jets: how to achieve stealth within the existing domestic air defense system!

This is a very contradictory question!
Because they want both the best stealth technology and the best air defense system.

Saying that the Pigeon Eye air defense system is the strongest ground-based air defense equipment might be a bit of an exaggeration, because Zhang Heping casually brought out three stealth coating technologies that rendered the Pigeon Eye air defense system blind when it was not connected to the network!
But after connecting to the space-based computing center and accessing the space-based early warning system, the blind man became a man of divine vision.

Sure enough, once the higher-ups agreed to let Wucheng connect to the space-based early warning system, the three unknown carrier-based aircraft that had been undetectable earlier appeared on their monitoring screens and were successfully locked onto by the air defense system.

Of course, this stealth and anti-stealth test was not made public.

Reporters and citizens outside could only see three gray planes of different shapes circling in the sky for a while before landing one by one.

It is worth noting that the third carrier-based aircraft landed vertically on the deck of the Mir aircraft carrier.

Zhou Xiaochun's interview team was the only official media outlet allowed to board the aircraft carrier. Even local TV reporters from Wucheng were not permitted to do so, because interviews on and inside the ship had to be kept confidential and could only be viewed internally.

Zhang Heping, who was far away at the Shenzhen Space-Based Computing Center, stopped paying attention to the aircraft carrier in Wucheng, which shared the same name as him, after confirming that the three carrier-based aircraft had successfully landed.

The reason he was so carefree was that, firstly, the most difficult part of carrier-based aircraft takeoff and landing tests was landing.

However, there is a detail here: the waves of the Yangtze River do not have the same thrust as ocean waves, so the take-off and landing test of the carrier-based aircraft was not very difficult.

This is also one of the reasons why all parties agreed to test carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing in the Yangtze River section of Wucheng City.

Secondly, after the aircraft carrier completes its testing, it will be used for teaching and research.

Wucheng Shipbuilding Industry School and Wucheng University of Technology have both added new majors for this aircraft carrier. They are just waiting for the tests to pass before they will recruit students for the new majors after this year's college entrance examination.

As for Wucheng Shipbuilding Company's subsequent business, it will shift to manufacturing river-sea direct container ships adapted to the Yangtze River waterway and maritime transport.

Meanwhile, the business of aircraft carriers, cruisers, and other vessels has been transferred to shipyards by the sea.

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After leaving the Space-Based Computing Center, Zhang Heping went straight to the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Experiment Base.

After more than two months of dismantling, the controllable nuclear fusion device, which was built at a huge cost and could operate for 100,000 seconds at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, has been reduced to a pile of parts and has been removed from the empty laboratory.

What we are currently developing here are two controllable nuclear fusion power device designs proposed by Zhang Heping: one for high-power military use and one for desktop civilian use.

Zhang Heping inquired about the research progress and discussed the problems encountered in the development process before leaving.

Despite having all the technical skills he used, there were many other techniques that needed to be perfected during the actual production process; otherwise, he could have built it by himself.

After all, reality is not a virtual dream; you can't conjure up any object just by imagining it.

The controlled nuclear fusion power device was not deliberately kept secret; at least those former North Soviet experts were involved in related peripheral research.

Coupled with the economic problems of the former Northern Soviet Union and the infiltration of European and American capitalists there, the news that Shenzhen's Dapeng Peninsula was developing a controlled nuclear fusion power device was quietly transmitted to the Northern Soviet Union and then to European and American intelligence agencies.

Logically speaking, if this side wants to keep things secret, it can at least guarantee that no information will be leaked before the finished product is completed in the next few years, if not for decades.

However, after finalizing the research in this area, Zhang Heping specifically selected five former experts from the Northern Soviet Union to join the peripheral research.

Although Zhang Heping cannot currently determine which of the five people leaked the information, he is certain that the Americans knew about this.

Because the US consortium has been frequently contacting the Peace Group recently, hoping to cooperate with renewable energy companies to jointly invest in and build US power facilities.

The renewable energy company has a stake in the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant, which is the world's first commercial thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant.

The US consortium did not invite renewable energy companies to cooperate because they believed that their existing nuclear power plants could compete with thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plants.

However, once the Peace Group truly develops a controlled nuclear fusion power device and puts it into commercial use, Euromag's existing nuclear power plants will be like coal-fired boilers, far too outdated and completely unable to compete.

Therefore, those Americans thought that they might be able to take advantage of the opportunity to cooperate with renewable energy companies and get a head start on the cooperation opportunities for controlled nuclear fusion power devices.

Zhang Heping knew the nature of the Americans, so he naturally wouldn't waste money in the US.

It's important to understand that the US failed to sanction the Peace Corps because the Peace Corps had very few assets overseas, especially in the US, where they were practically nonexistent!

If the Peace Group invests too much money in the United States, being controlled by others is secondary; it's not impossible that the Americans could directly seize it!

Therefore, the Peace Group's current investments in the United States, apart from its Umbrella Security subsidiary used for deterrence, consist only of shares in some US media outlets.

The US branch of HSBC cannot be considered an investment; more accurately, it should be seen as the money bag or cash flow station for the Peace Group.

Because Peace Group, Peace Investment, and Stepmother Investment frequently use funds from their overseas branches when engaging in overseas futures and stocks.

Of course, there was a reason why Zhang Heping deliberately leaked information about the controlled nuclear fusion power device.

In recent years, the US has invested heavily in research in aerospace, biomedicine, semiconductors, nuclear power plants, and other fields, and has also issued a lot of government bonds.

The biggest sucker on US Treasury bonds right now is Japan!

Zhang Heping's leak of information about a controlled nuclear fusion power device, his demonstration of carrier-based aircraft testing, and his push for the lunar base project are nothing more than attempts to get the US to continue investing in scientific research, then pass the costs on to Japan, further dragging down Japan's economy.

As for how long the US economy can hold on, that depends on whether wealthy foreigners will immigrate to mainland China for the Lifespan 120 potion!
After wandering around outside, Zhang Heping returned to the World Advanced Technology Research Institute to continue his brain-computer interface research.

When the mental training methods were leaked to the older generation of brain-computer interface (BCI) experts through Zhang Yi's Brain-Computer Interface Research Institute, many of them had to give up frontline BCI research due to physical limitations and became assistants at the institute.

Zhang Heping currently has many brain-computer interface research projects underway, such as regenerating brain dream replication, enhancing regenerating brain mental capacity, amplifying and improving brain-computer mental capacity, mental capacity identification, and nutrient solution for game pods, etc.

Many of these research projects were assigned to Zhang Bei, Zhang Feng, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu.

Zhang Yi and his wife lacked mental strength. Although they participated in these studies, they often had to stop and withdraw due to the excessive mental exertion, making it difficult for them to keep up with the research progress.

If Zhang Yi and Luo Yi are like this, then their researchers are even more so.

Even so, Professor Hua and Professor Qian were still quite satisfied, at least Zhang Heping had opened up some brain-computer interface technology to them... (End of Chapter)