Break out of the courtyard

The questions designed by Zhang Heping were not simple problems in a single subject, but complex situational questions that required knowledge from multiple disciplines.

Therefore, Zhang Heping could guess that most people wouldn't be able to answer the questions without even looking at how the participants answered them.

As he expected, after the grand selection meeting ended, the people in each venue did not disperse, but instead gathered together to continue studying the set of questions set by Zhang Heping.

In fact, this is true not only for the external departments, but also within the World Advanced Technology Research Institute.

After Zhang Heping left the meeting room, the meeting in Shenzhen was still going on, with a group of researchers discussing the answers.

They have one advantage over experts and scholars from other departments: they had attended Zhang Heping's public lecture on space locking technology a few days ago and knew some mathematical formulas related to space technology.

In addition to screening researchers going to the United States, Zhang Heping also had the underground base laboratory make some miniature testing equipment, which he planned to have someone take to the United States to assist in research.

Zhang Heping felt that things were going quite smoothly, both in scientific research and business.

However, the career of the second sister, Zhang Pandi, was not so smooth.

Zhang Pandi returned from the capital with one message: "Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong!"

Zhang Heping didn't know what Zhang Pandi had discussed in the capital. As soon as Zhang Pandi returned, she told Zhang Heping that she could only serve as a deputy in the Department of Justice on Hong Kong Island, and that the full-time position could only be held by a Hong Kong Island resident.

In addition, Zhang Pandi also tried to persuade Zhang Heping to plan Zhang Nian's promotion path in the Hong Kong government.

Two days later, Tang Weiguo made a special trip to Shenzhen to explain the follow-up arrangements for Zhang Pandi to Zhang Heping.

However, this old classmate had previously told his former boss with certainty that once Zhang Pandi was promoted to the position of Secretary, she could advance even further in Hong Kong Island.

It now seems that these two people completely misunderstood the personnel arrangement rules in Hong Kong and were just spouting nonsense.

Out of consideration for their past as classmates, Zhang Heping invited Zhao Jianguo, Liu Yuan, and Huang Wenli to have a meal with Tang Weiguo, giving him no chance to explain privately.

The news of Tang Weiguo's small gathering with Zhang Heping and others in Shenzhen quickly spread among their classmates.

Those classmates who weren't involved in classified technology or weapons development were all discussing in the group chat how to get together for the Chinese New Year.

Those classmates who didn't speak in the group basically knew what kind of brain-computer interface device had been added at the Dalian Naval Academy, and that Peace Shipbuilding Company had changed its name and moved to Dalian, with classmate Xu Huizhi becoming the general manager of Peace Shipbuilding Company.

So, with the help of some people, these students who had been silent in the group started contacting Zhang Heping privately one by one, asking if their workplaces could also be equipped with a brain-computer interface device like the one in Dalian.

Zhang Heping neither agreed nor refused, only saying that he was too busy lately and would talk about it later.

Zhang Heping has indeed been quite busy lately. After selecting a group of experts, scholars, and assistants, he also needs to bring them to Shenzhen for intensive training so that they can study the levitating hammer in Area 51 of the United States.

However, while he was busy lecturing and teaching people how to use the miniature testing tools, Tang Weiguo was active in Huadu and Shenzhen, trying to transfer Zhang Zhaodi to the Ministry of Health to promote and oversee the distribution of Shouyuan 120 medicine to hospitals in various provinces for self-administration.

With the blood collection and testing of users of Shouyuan 120 medication being decentralized to hospitals in various provincial capitals, the workload of Shenzhen Heping Hospital in this regard has been greatly reduced.

However, in recent months, the production of Lifespan 120 potion has been increasing by several thousand each month.

This month, nearly 6 people have received injections of the Life 120 drug, and the number is expected to reach 6.2 by the end of the month. The expected production of the Life 120 drug next month is as high as 7.78 doses!

This output is actually not much for a country with a population of over one billion.

But for the existing medical staff at Shenzhen Peace Hospital, it is becoming an increasingly heavy burden!
Even if all the hospitals in Guangdong Province send medical staff to support and share some of the injection work, the gathering of so many people raises another problem: not enough beds!

For people over 90 years old, medication is not a big problem; they can stay in hotels with their families, which can also boost related consumption in Shenzhen.

After all, the Lifespan 120 potion was free, so it's reasonable to ask them to cover some transportation, accommodation, and food expenses.

If they can't even afford this much money, then it's up to fate. Zhang Heping isn't so merciful as to cover that kind of expense.

The problem is that many of these people are cancer patients who need to be hospitalized for observation after taking the medication.

Currently, hospitals in Shenzhen and surrounding cities are helping to receive these cancer patients, relieving most of the pressure on Shenzhen Peace Hospital, but this is not a long-term solution.

It's important to know that the Life 120 drug production line at the World Advanced Technology Research Institute only has a monthly output of 100,000 vials!

Such production capacity cannot meet the national demand, let alone generate foreign exchange through exports!
In December of this year, the expected production of Shouyuan 120 medicine will reach 97685 doses.

In other words, by the end of the year, the monthly production capacity of the Shouyuan 120 pharmaceutical production line will be nearing its limit!

If the production line is not expanded in January next year, there will only be 1 doses of Life Essence 120 medicine per month thereafter.

This kind of thing would not be accepted by the whole country, and even foreigners who did not receive the free Lifespan 120 potion would not agree to it!
Conventional thinking suggests that once the production volume of a certain product increases significantly, the product price will decrease accordingly.

But in Zhang Heping's case, this cannot be deduced using normal logic.

Back in January of this year, when Zhang Heping agreed to decentralize blood collection and testing to hospitals in various provincial capitals, he mentioned to Secretary Chen that he planned to pilot the decentralized injection of Shouyuan 120 in Guangdong Province.

Why hasn't this pilot program been implemented yet?

Was it because Secretary Chen and his team forgot? Or was it because the hospitals in Guangdong Province were unwilling? Or perhaps the capital city disagreed?

Obviously not!
Currently, only Zhang Heping has the authority to make decisions regarding this pilot program!

Why didn't Zhang Heping agree?

Then you should ask his older sister why she's still stuck there even though she was transferred to the Shenzhen Municipal Health Bureau more than a year ago!

Hua Lao, Secretary Chen, Director Wang, and others knew the crux of the matter, so they didn't bother Zhang Heping with the pilot project or the increase in production lines. They also wanted to see how those who were interfering would get out of it!

Tang Weiguo and his old boss had a simple idea: since they couldn't help Zhang Pandi get promoted, they would help Zhang Zhaodi get transferred!
With the production of Lifespan 120 potion nearing the 100,000 mark, those who initially obstructed the personnel transfer of Zhang Zhaodi in Huadu and Shenzhen are now in a difficult position!

Tang Weiguo and his team seized upon this mentality, intending to provide a ladder for those people and take the opportunity to solve the problem of distributing the Shouyuan 120 drug to hospitals in various provincial capitals for self-administration.

In this way, not only was Zhang Zhaodi's promotion problem solved, but the problem of having to go to Shenzhen to get injections of the Longevity 120 drug was also solved.

The key point is that it also gave some people the opportunity to inject the Longevity 120 drug privately and secretly, thus avoiding the risk of being relegated to the second line, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone!
The reason why Tang Weiguo and his colleagues didn't propose this solution from the beginning was mainly because it was quite difficult. After all, even Elder Hua, Elder Li, and Old Madam Zheng could only wait and see.

For example, Zhang Heping sent experts, scholars, and assistants abroad to study the levitation hammer in magnesium, but Tang Weiguo and his team still couldn't persuade people from Huadu and Shenzhen.

joke!

If Zhang Zhaodi is transferred to the capital to carry out the distribution of Shouyuan 120 medicine to hospitals in various provincial capitals for self-administration, whose achievement will it ultimately be attributed to?

According to the original plan, as early as January when Secretary Chen proposed to distribute the blood collection and testing work, Huadu was preparing to transfer Zhang Zhaodi to the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention to take up a senior position, because someone there was about to retire!
Unfortunately, after submitting the report, I was met with a barrage of criticism!
They thoroughly criticized Zhang Zhaodi's qualifications, education, experience, family background, and so on. Huadu and Shenzhen later considered other options for Zhang Zhaodi, because Secretary Chen had told them that Zhang Heping planned to first pilot the decentralized injection of the Shouyuan 120 drug in hospitals under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province.

Isn't piloting this in Guangdong province just a way to give them political achievements?

Unfortunately, there were always people watching Zhang Zhaodi's personnel transfers, and they could always find various reasons to stop it, as if they wanted to nail Zhang Zhaodi to the deputy position in the Shenzhen Health Bureau.

This back-and-forth trivial matter had long since infuriated Zhang Heping!
Back in June, Zhang Heping added someone to the blacklist in the Shouyuan 120 drug application database on the official website of Shenzhen Heping Hospital!

Among them were not only the names of those who prevented Zhang Zhaodi from being promoted, but also the names of people from No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, the Capital City Bureau, and some people from the former government offices.

After Secretary Chen reported this matter to Elder Hua, they could only shake their heads and smile wryly at the situation.

You can't say Zhang Heping is petty or narrow-minded about this!
Although Zhang Heping had to review the list of medications for Shouyuan 120, at that time he only focused on whether the proportion of scientific and technical personnel, administrative personnel, and ordinary people was reasonable, and did not specifically target any particular group of people.

Later, Zhang Heping stopped even conducting a formal review and directly handed the case over to Elder Hua and Secretary Chen for review.

It's clear that Zhang Heping initially didn't intend to add anyone to the blacklist!
Zhang Heping pulled this stunt simply to tell those who oppose him to die!

Hua Lao issued a gag order regarding this matter, so very few people know about the blacklist.

In addition, Zhang Heping was not in a hurry to promote his eldest sister, so the matter was treated as if it had never happened and was gradually forgotten.

In this way, it will only be discovered that those people cannot apply for the Life 120 drug when they are diagnosed with late-stage cancer, paralyzed and unable to take care of themselves, or have lived to the age of 90 and need to apply for it!

Compared to Tang Weiguo's setbacks, Wu Yuanchao and Chu Chuan, who were close to Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo during their student days, had much smoother lives.

At least he was living in Zhao Jianguo's villa, and he could see the busy Zhang Heping every day in the newly established space technology laboratory of the college.

Brain-computer interfaces are not like cabbages; even cabbages need a growth process.

Therefore, neither of Zhang Heping's old classmates, Wu Yuanchao and Chu Chuan, urged him to build a virtual dream world.

The fact that they moved into Zhao Jian's house already speaks volumes about Zhang Heping's attitude.

Just take the hovering hammer that Zhang Heping and his team are currently busy researching, for example. It's not something the two of them can disturb them, because this research is receiving too much attention!

It's important to know that this newly established space laboratory not only connects to the laboratory in Area 51 of the United States, but also to 35 laboratories of all sizes in China, and consumes 30% of the computing power of the space-based computing center every day!
However, just as Zhang Heping and several hundred experts were preparing to make a big splash, the Americans shut down their laboratory, saying they would return to continue their research after they had learned the space-locking technology.

There was nothing we could do; it was something Zhang Heping had promised!
Moreover, Zhang Heping's space technology laboratory is located on the ground, and even family members within the compound can come in and visit through the glass, which shows that he was well-prepared.

While domestic experts were complaining that the Americans were too cunning, Wu Yuanchao and Chu Chuan were actually thanking the Americans.

During the lull before the group of American experts and assistants researching the levitation hammer arrived, Zhang Heping built a virtual dream regeneration brain server for each of them.

Then, he arranged for his eldest son Zhang Bei and fifth son Zhang Long to accompany Wu Yuanchao and Chu Chuan to a certain air force unit and a certain artillery unit, respectively, with people from the Brain-Computer Research Institute, bodyguards, and brain-computer equipment.

Zhang Hu wanted to go too, but Zhang Heping didn't let him. Instead, he left Zhang Hu at the villa to guard the house.

With the Americans coming, we need to be on guard against many things.

To Zhang Heping's dismay, Hua Lao brought another 5 tons of gold and asked Zhang Heping to also procure a virtual dream system for the weapons arsenal at the Southwest Wind Tunnel Laboratory.

Equipment that can be sent to a wind tunnel laboratory for testing is basically aircraft or high-end equipment that requires precise measurement of aerodynamic performance, stability, or environmental adaptability.

The wind tunnel laboratory wants to verify the authenticity of the technology in the weapons arsenal's virtual dream. If the technology in the weapons arsenal's virtual dream is real, then many real-world laboratories can be transferred to the virtual dream for testing.

This not only saves on related research funding but also avoids many experimental risks.

Of course, these are all high-sounding excuses given by Mr. Hua.

Zhang Heping later learned from his sixth son, Zhang Hu, that they had not sent the weapons arsenal virtual dream system to the wind tunnel laboratory at all, but to an unknown underground laboratory in the mountainside.

With Zhang Hu going to the southwest, the heavy responsibility of staying at home fell on the shoulders of the fourth daughter, Zhang Feng.

At the same time, Zhang Heping also paid attention to the mental training of Tang Xin, Chen Shuting, Zhang Nan, and Zhang Nian, because the four of them had not yet reached the standard for embedding the gold micro-brain machine.

On November 13th, the exchange delegation from the United States arrived in the capital.

After arriving in the capital, these guys, under the guise of exchange and learning, first visited a number of universities in the capital, and did not rush to Shenzhen.

However, after He Zheng from the Brain-Computer Interaction Research Institute and other experts who had gone to the US returned to the World Advanced Technology Research Institute, Zhang Heping quickly learned the intentions of those Americans.

They actually wanted to use the pretext of promoting China's accession to the WTO to get other members of the exchange group to study at the World Advanced Technology Research Institute.

The so-called other personnel are ostensibly management personnel from some American universities, but whether they are actually secret agents is hard to say.

However, none of that matters. What matters is what these researchers saw and heard during their trip to Area 51 in the United States, and their written reports!

For example, in his report, He Zheng, a researcher at the Brain-Computer Interaction Research Institute, wrote about his experience of using his mental power to probe the levitating hammer.

dong dong!

He Zheng stood in the open doorway of the dean's office, knocked twice, and asked with a smile, "Dean Zhang, you wanted to see me?"

"Come sit down, I have a few questions I need to confirm with you!" Zhang Heping said without looking up from He Zheng's paper report:
"Your report says that when you used your mental power to contact that floating hammer, you encountered a barrier, which almost exhausted all your mental energy to break through. Afterwards, you drank three bottles of brain-boosting liquid."

He Zheng stood upright in front of the desk and said, "Yes, Dean!"

"Sit down!" Zhang Heping said, pouring a cup of tea with his mental power, and then placing the teacup in front of He Zheng in mid-air. "How many grams of weight could you lift with your mental power back then?"

How many grams?
He Zheng was taken aback when he heard the question. "Our research institute doesn't use grams as a unit to test mental strength!"

"However, before I went to the United States, I tested my limits while packing my luggage using my mental power."

"After I go back and reconstruct the test, weigh the clothes, and then report the accurate data to Dean Zhang!"

“Okay!” Zhang Heping put down the paper report, then picked up his teacup and gestured to He Zheng.

After the two of them took a sip of tea, Zhang Heping continued, "Can you recall the thickness of that barrier?"

"And what about the space inside the barrier that you mentioned in your report? How big is that space?"

...(End of this chapter)