Break out of the courtyard

Annoyed by the negotiations and consultations in the capital, Zhang Heping directly instructed Heping Aerospace and Heping Smart Technology Company to issue a joint announcement, citing equipment failure as the reason for suspending free navigation services in the North Magnesium region one hour later.

When this announcement was issued, it was 3 a.m. in North America. Few planes in the air were affected, but that doesn't mean none were affected, such as those long-haul flights.

The ships that reacted the most were actually those near North America.

After discovering the pop-up announcement from Peace Navigation, these captains not only bombarded Peace Smart Technology Company's customer service hotline with calls, but also Peace Group's customer service hotline!
However, the customer service representatives kept giving the same answer: the equipment was malfunctioning and was under repair.

Anyone in the know would immediately recognize that this excuse is problematic.

Because Peace Space Corporation has hundreds of navigation satellites in orbit, even if some of them malfunction, other satellites will fill the gap.

Even if we assume that there are so many malfunctioning navigation satellites that they can no longer cover a certain area of ​​the Earth, the affected area would not be a fixed region, but rather a mobile one.

When it was morning in Beijing, and people at Beijing Meizhou gradually discovered that their mobile phone navigation was malfunctioning, the navigation service interruption incident reached its climax.

Countless complaint calls were made to Hong Kong Island, and countless complaint posts flooded relevant websites in Hong Kong Island and mainland China.

Unfortunately, the daytime in North America is the nighttime in Hong Kong Island and mainland China, and not many people pay them any attention.

Logically speaking, if people from the North Magnesium Group can't use Peace Navigation, they can still use the Magnesium-Suzhou Navigation System.

However, in recent years, due to the free operation of Peace Navigation, Magnesium's navigation business has been squeezed into the military field.

Even if someone still has the receiver for the Magnesium Navigation system, it won't be able to be delivered to those blind ships at sea anytime soon.

The interruption lasted for three days before being restored at Zhang Heping's behest.

The Americans have launched a navigation defense campaign, first by lowering licensing fees in hopes of finding manufacturers to produce dedicated GPS chips and modules; and second by increasing their R&D budget to continue improving their global positioning system.

Many people don't know why Peace Aerospace and Peace Wisdom Technology Company are doing this. Even people inside Peace Aerospace and Peace Wisdom Technology Company don't know Zhang Heping's intentions.

But the foreign affairs negotiators at the state guesthouse in the capital had already guessed something.

Because the representatives of the magnesium company no longer insist on semiconductor R&D cooperation, but instead agree to purchase a batch of less advanced lithography machines, etching machines, ion implanters, etc. from mainland China, in order to produce chips themselves.

At the same time, the magnesium representatives also cancelled research cooperation projects worth approximately 100 billion magnesium dollars, showing less greed than they had a few days ago!
As a result, many people in the capital speculated that the Americans were planning to invest the money they saved in their navigation system.

As if to support the US in improving their global positioning system, Peace Aerospace and Peace Smart Technology have successively suspended navigation services to WTO countries such as Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

What infuriated the Japanese people was that Peace Aerospace and Peace Wisdom Technology Company directly cut off Peace Navigation and satellite phone services to the Japanese mainland and surrounding waters at midnight on August 15th, under the pretext of commemorating the 50th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender!

The actions of companies like Peace Aerospace and Peace Smart Technology have even prompted the European Union to discuss building its own navigation satellite system, while Japan is clamoring to fully support the United States in improving its global positioning system. This demonstrates the significant impact of these initiatives.

There were also people in the capital who had strong opinions about Zhang Heping's reckless behavior, but Hua Lao temporarily stopped them.

As the navigation service outage incident escalated, Peace Group finally issued an incident statement, offering some sophistry regarding the course of events.

The general meaning of this notice is:

Peace Aerospace and Peace Smart Technology Company have had some internal disputes due to some issues of interest.

Starting today, Peace Navigation Service will charge licensing fees to relevant chip and module manufacturers in order to resolve internal disputes over interests.

The navigation services provided by chips and modules produced previously will lose their navigation information receiving permissions after one year.

The Peace Group attributed the disruption to an internal dispute, directly acknowledging that it was a man-made incident, but made no mention of any legal responsibility.

Because the free navigation service provided initially included a long list of disclaimers.

Since users dare to use Peace Navigation, it means they have accepted those disclaimers.

As for the matter of collecting licensing fees, internal conflicts of interest are certainly a pretext, but it's not entirely unfounded.

Because the licensing fee is indeed charged to companies within the Peace Group!

The targets of the fees were the stingy Wucheng and Xiamen chip factories!

Zhang Heping didn't initially pay much attention to these two small factories that could only produce 28-nanometer chips, since Heping Chip Factory was already building a 5-nanometer chip production line.

If Zhang Heping were willing, he could directly expand the production scale of 10-nanometer and 5-nanometer chips and snatch all the orders from those two small factories.

As it turned out, Huang Xuemin revealed that due to the influence of certain individuals, Wucheng Chip Factory did not plan to distribute dividends this year and instead intended to invest the profits in some loss-making enterprises in Wucheng.

Zhang Heping had someone inquire at a chip factory in Xiamen. It seemed to be doing better there; they didn't invest in loss-making companies, but rather in land and real estate.

Zhang Heping wouldn't object if they used the money to expand production.

The larger the chip factory, the greater the value of the shares held by the stepmother investment company.

Unfortunately, they used the factory's money for other despicable things!

In response, the Peace Group not only issued a notice to collect licensing fees from them, but also issued a share transfer invitation, demanding that the two factories take away the 20% technology shares held by the stepmother investment company.

Both chip manufacturers had orders booked up for four years ahead, and were in a position of great financial strength. Upon hearing that the stepmother investment company was giving up its shares, those who had been influencing the chip manufacturers' decision not to distribute dividends agreed without a second thought!

Because Tingmei Trading also holds controlling stakes in several large factories in Wucheng, some people, not wanting to appear too greedy, had Wucheng Chip Factory pay a transfer fee of 7 million RMB to acquire the 20% technology shares held by the stepmother investment company.

The Xiamen chip factory is only willing to pay 5 million RMB, and also wants to use inflated land and real estate as collateral.

The stepmother investment company did not argue with them further, but clearly demanded a cash transfer of 5 million RMB, otherwise it would sell its shares to the outside world.

Because the stepmother investment company did not ask for the 7 million yuan transfer fee demanded by Wucheng Chip Factory, Xiamen Chip Factory only consulted with the relevant authorities before agreeing to the cash transfer.

Because the two chip manufacturers had many orders and their financial reports looked good, and with someone behind them giving instructions, the bank quickly granted them loans and paid the transfer fee to the stepmother investment company.

This amount of money is nothing in the chip industry, let alone the 28-nanometer chip manufacturing technology provided by the Peace Group! The Peace Group suffered such a huge loss, so naturally they wanted to get back at them. They were willing to forgo the 9 million RMB chip deposit they had previously paid and cancel the orders from the Wucheng and Xiamen chip factories.

Meanwhile, Heping Chip Factory, which had been supplying 10-nanometer process chips to the military industry for three years, began to expand its production, internally undertaking the chip needs of mobile phones, tablets, computers, televisions, air conditioners, automobiles, and other products.

Since 5-nanometer process chips entered production, the demand for 10-nanometer process chips from the military industry has shrunk significantly.

Just as things were getting chaotic in Wucheng and Xiamen, we decided to produce and sell our own products to improve the group's business ecosystem.

If the Peace Group ends like this, it will have no impact on those who are hiding behind the scenes and stealing benefits; on the contrary, it will help their political achievements.

Starting in September, the Heping Group began withdrawing its investment from Wucheng and Xiamen, and publicly transferred its shares in Heping Diamond Factory, Heping Battery Factory, Heping Display Factory, Wucheng Shipbuilding Company, and Heping Automobile Wucheng Branch.

This has attracted attention from all sides, and the problems of Wucheng Chip Factory and Xiamen Chip Factory have been exposed one after another!

The Heping Diamond Factory, Heping Battery Factory, Heping Display Factory, Wucheng Shipbuilding Company, and Heping Automobile Branch Factory were not affected like the two chip factories because the other half of the shareholders of these factories had no connection with the local government, so those people could not get involved.

The Peace Group transferred its shares in these factories as a form of retaliation!

Let's not even mention the lessons learned from the Wucheng and Xiamen chip factories, which lost most of their orders after losing their stepmother investment company as a shareholder.

Just considering Zhang Heping's technical guidance to Wucheng Shipbuilding Company, it is unacceptable for Heping Group to withdraw from Wucheng through share transfer, or at least not from those factories.

With the encouragement of Elder Hua, Elder Li, and others, the capital quickly dispatched people to conduct a relevant investigation.

While Heping Group has temporarily suspended the share transfer, it has acquired land in Shenzhen to build Heping Diamond Factory, Heping Battery Factory, and Heping Display Factory, and it holds 100% control of the company. Its intentions are self-evident.

Wucheng Shipbuilding Company, in which Umbrella Security Company holds a 49% stake, moved to Dalian in October, changed its name to Heping Shipbuilding Company, and increased its stake to 51%.

The series of unexpected events led Wu Cheng to release his investigation results first, uncovering a group of people corrupted by money.

The investigation in Xiamen has been much slower, mainly because the Peace Group has nothing left to withdraw from there and doesn't have much influence.

However, they still managed to arrest a group of people before the anti-corruption bureau was established.

Zhang Heping wasn't interested in those who were exposed; it was just a result of casual retaliation.

On the contrary, Peace Ship, which had moved to Dalian and was essentially a shell company, became Zhang Heping's main focus.

In fact, after the Peace aircraft carrier in Wucheng passed the carrier-based aircraft test, the capital wanted Zhang Heping to go to the Bohai Sea area to guide the ship-related work. However, Zhang Heping had not been able to find the time, nor had he decided on what role to go in.

Following the chip factory's withdrawal of investment, Zhang Heping decided to relocate Wucheng Shipbuilding Company to Dalian and rename it Heping Shipbuilding Company in order to further enhance the reputation of Heping Group.

He did this for two reasons: first, to proactively demonstrate that companies under the Peace Group were involved in the development of domestic warships, thereby enhancing its military industrial attributes; and second, to go there as a collaborator, maintaining a distance that would prevent him from being controlled by others.

Therefore, Peace Shipbuilding Company in Dalian is more like a ship design company.

Zhang Heping was simply demonstrating his ship designs using a brain-computer interface!
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Monday, April 10th.

On the top floor of the library at Dalian Naval Academy, Zhang Heping checked the state of the regenerating brain again before allowing nearly three thousand experts and technicians to put on gaming helmets and enter the virtual dream world he named "Arsenal".

In fact, the fact that this brain-computer interface device, which can support 3,000 people online at the same time, is installed in the library makes it clear that its purpose is for learning.

Similar to the virtual learning dreamscapes in libraries in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, this armory virtual dreamscape also features libraries, warehouses, factories, and laboratories.

In addition, there are airports, seaports, and exercise grounds including the sea, grasslands, mountains, and snow-capped mountains.

Today was the first time Zhang Heping brought everyone in for a tour, mainly to explain the various facilities inside. They would receive ideological education from the teachers of School D in the evening.

"This contains not only naval equipment data, but also data on army and air force equipment," Zhang Heping said slowly, hovering above the circular library and watching the crowd searching for information.

"Therefore, you should cherish the window of opportunity before the arrival of the Army and Air Force equipment experts and make the most of your time to learn!"

"The perception acceleration in this virtual dream is 10 times. There is no additional acceleration upstairs. Just make sure to replenish your nutrition."

"Alright, we'll have plenty of time to look at the materials in the library later. Now, let's go to the factory area and get familiar with the equipment there."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping flew rapidly downwards.

Zhang Yi and his researchers and ideological teachers also flew skillfully, closely following Zhang Heping as they flew out of the first-floor door.

The remaining two thousand-plus people were not as adept as Zhang Heping and his group. Their flight was erratic, and they would occasionally collide with each other in twos and threes, causing the people around them to burst into laughter.

With Director Zhang of the World Institute of Advanced Technology bringing such a treasure trove, it's hard for them not to be happy!
"These machines in the factory can all be made with existing technology!" Zhang Heping and the others entered the first factory building and began to introduce the equipment there. "The manufacturing information for the relevant machines can be found in the library. I will only explain how to use them now."

After Zhang Heping finished explaining the machines in the first workshop, he led his men to the port and the shipyard.

Five hours passed in the virtual dream, which is half an hour in reality, before Zhang Heping ended everyone's first virtual dream experience of the armory.

"Everyone!" Zhang Heping looked at the experts and technicians who were still in a daze and hadn't come back to their senses, and said loudly, "I told you all before that virtual dreams have a characteristic: the things you experience in them are easy to forget when you return to reality."

"Do you guys not quite remember what I just said?"

"It's alright, I'll go over it again here to make sure everyone remembers it. After you've studied in the virtual dream world, it would be best if you also reviewed it in real life."

"First, there's the information in the Dream Library..."

Zhang Heping stood beside the black iron machine room, talking eloquently, while Zhang Yi secretly observed the reactions of the group of experts and technicians.

As Zhang Bei previously stated, elderly people who expend too much mental energy in virtual dreams are easily distracted when they return to reality.

For example, even now, with his third uncle Zhang Heping speaking so loudly, many of the experts and technicians are still staring at the gaming helmet above, seemingly trying to figure out why this helmet can allow people to enter a virtual dream world… (End of Chapter)