Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 679 Money and Power

"Omei invented artificial diamonds 30 years ago!" Zhang Heping looked at his excited wife Chen Shuting and said with a smile: "Only women like you still treasure diamonds!"

"How dare you say that? Last year you gave two diamond necklaces to me and Sister Xin!" Chen Shuting was not happy. "I'll tell Sister Xin about this when I get home. I'll say you cheated us with artificial diamonds. Humph..."

Zhang Heping smiled but said nothing, silently figuring out whether to outsource the production of mobile phone screens or build his own factory to produce them.

There are too many magnesium dollars in the Peace Group’s account. If it is not spent quickly, the magnesium countrymen will print more magnesium dollars and then wait for the magnesium dollar to depreciate.

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Run! Proud boy!
There is a firm belief in the young heart!

Burn! The blood of pride!

I want to sing the song of victory again!
“I didn’t expect this song would spread to Hong Kong Island!” Deputy Director Sun of the 3rd Bureau of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said with a smile.

Qin, the section chief of the Hong Kong team sitting next to him, laughed and said, "This song was written by the rich man Zhang. It became popular in China after his daughter sang it once."

Deputy Director Sun laughed and said, "No wonder the radio stations at Hong Kong Island train stations and on trains are playing this song. It turns out that Mr. Zhang wrote it."

"This song is played so frequently not because of the identity of the composer, but because it is the theme song of this year's Super Girl singing talent show," said Section Chief Qin of the Hong Kong team with a smile:
"Speaking of this show, I have to sigh at the rich man Zhang's attainments in music. He is truly a man of many talents and wealth!"

"By the way, that Deputy Director Zhang just now must be the second sister of the richest man Zhang!"

"Yes!" Deputy Director Sun of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office's 3rd Bureau nodded and asked in confusion, "Lao Qin, you specifically asked her to come here this time. What's the matter?"

Section Chief Qin said sternly: "Old Sun, it is not convenient to tell you about this for the time being. I will tell you later."

After he finished speaking, the car fell into silence.

Deputy Director Sun guessed that Zhang Pandi was called over this time because he might need to contact the richest man Zhang through Zhang Pandi.

As for other details, Deputy Director Sun couldn't think of any. For matters involving confidentiality regulations, it was useless for him to ask his old classmates next to him.

Two black Peace electric cars stopped in front of the Peace Hotel in Central, Hong Kong Island. Section Chief Qin of the Hong Kong team brought Director Sun Fu, Zhang Pandi and two young people from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office into the hotel to check in.

"Director Zhang, are you really not staying at the hotel?" Chief Qin of the Hong Kong team asked politely, "Do you want me to open a vacant room for you?"

Zhang Pandi smiled and responded, "Not for now. I live with my brother, so it's easier to communicate."

Section Chief Qin looked at the people from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office's 3rd Bureau and said with a smile, "Director Sun, why don't you go upstairs and put your luggage away first? I just want to talk to Director Zhang about something."

After Deputy Director Sun and the two young men entered the elevator, Section Chief Qin led Zhang Pandi to sit in the empty sofa rest area nearby.

Section Chief Qin put away his smile and said seriously, "Director Zhang, before you came here, Director Hou should have told you that we need your help with something."

"Yeah!" Zhang Pandi nodded and waited for the other party to continue.

Section Chief Qin looked around and confirmed that no one was around before he whispered, "We are planning to sell a batch of weapons overseas. We have been discussing this for almost four months. I wanted to ask Mr. Zhang to help translate and communicate with us, but he refused."

Zhang Pandi frowned slightly, "What was his reason for refusing?"

"He asked us to pay for an interpreter." Section Chief Qin said with a wry smile, "There were other Hong Kong businessmen present at the time, so we didn't explain it clearly. This batch of weapons is worth billions of dollars and is very important to us. I hope you can help us invite him again. Also, please remember to keep it confidential."

"Oh!" Zhang Pandi responded lightly. After a brief thought, she asked, "How long will your negotiation last? If it takes too long, I'm not sure if he will agree."

Section Chief Qin said awkwardly: "I don't know about this either. Only the people in the negotiation team know the specific details."

Zhang Pandi agreed casually, "Then I'll talk to him about this first and see what he decides."

Section Chief Qin hastily added: "It would be fine if Mr. Zhang only attends one negotiation. The leader of the negotiation team seems to have something urgent to discuss with him."

"Okay, I'll try to get him to come once." After hearing Zhang Pandi's answer, Section Chief Qin of the Hong Kong team breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, the pretty receptionist answered a phone call, looked around, nodded, hung up the phone, and walked towards Zhang Pandi.

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Zhang Pandi?" The beautiful receptionist came to the sofa lounge area and asked politely.

Zhang Pandi turned sideways to look at the little girl in a white shirt and black trousers, and replied with some doubt: "It is me!"

"Our boss asked me to ask if you have any social engagements tonight?" The pretty receptionist smiled and said, "If not, he will send someone to pick you up later."

When Section Chief Qin saw Zhang Pandi looking at her, he smiled and said, "It's okay, go ahead!"

Zhang Pandi thought about the purpose of her visit, then nodded to the girl at the front desk and said, "I don't have any social engagements."

"Then please sit for a while. I'll call the boss right away." After saying this, the beautiful receptionist quickly walked back.

Not long after, the girl who had finished the phone call brought two bottles of soda to Zhang Pandi.

By the time Deputy Director Sun from the 3rd Bureau of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office came down, Zhang Pandi had already followed a bodyguard to the Economic and Trade Building diagonally opposite.

"Mr. Zhang's intelligence is very fast. As soon as we arrived, he knew his sister was here." Deputy Director Sun sighed and stopped talking.

Section Chief Qin also didn't want to talk about Mr. Zhang in public, for fear that there might be eavesdropping devices nearby.

"Let's go! I'll take you for a walk around the area. There are quite a few people from the mainland here, and maybe there are some acquaintances of yours." Section Chief Qin greeted them and walked towards the hotel gate first.

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After Zhang Pandi followed the bodyguard into the Economic and Trade Building, she went straight to the top floor, passed the front desk with four large golden characters "Heping Group" on it, and then entered a relatively quiet large office.

Passing through the partitioned office areas one by one, Zhang Pandi quickly arrived at the innermost office with a sign reading "Chairman".

"Sister-in-law!" Zhang Pandi smiled and walked towards the big desk, asking doubtfully, "Isn't Heping here?"

Chen Shuting held onto the edge of the table, slowly stood up, and said with a smile, "He just went to the conference room to arrange tasks, and will be here soon. Second sister, take a seat wherever you want!"

Zhang Pandi walked over quickly, held the right arm of Chen Shuting, the mother-in-law, and asked with a smile: "Our mother said that when the children are on summer vacation, we will bring them here, and then we can take care of your diet."

"Okay!" Chen Shuting said with a smile, "When they come over, help me drink some chicken soup and pig's trotter soup. I drink the soup made by Sister Xin every day now, and I have gained a lot of weight. I wonder if my mother will still recognize me when she comes over."

Zhang Pandi comforted her, "It's okay. After you give birth, exercise more and you will lose weight."

The two women sat down on the sofa and chatted for a while, then Zhang Heping pushed the door open and came in. "I heard from Huang Wenli this morning that the negotiations in Shenzhen were not going well, so I guess you should come over." Zhang Heping walked to the refrigerator, opened the refrigerator door, and casually asked, "Would you like milk or juice, second sister?"

"The girl at the hotel front desk just gave me a bottle of soda to drink. I'm not thirsty now." Zhang Pandi replied with a smile, and mentioned the kindness the girl at the front desk had just shown her.

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Then help Shu Ting drink some chicken soup."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping took out a cylindrical insulated lunch box from the refrigerator, poured the chicken soup in the lunch box into a porcelain bowl on the small table next to him, and then put the soup bowl into the microwave next to him.

Zhang Pandi saw the helpless look on Chen Shuting's face and thought of what she had just said about drinking soup every day. She couldn't help but smile and comforted her: "When my elder sister and I were pregnant, we wanted to eat meat and drink soup, but the conditions at that time didn't allow it."

"We were thinking at the time, how nice it would be if Heping hadn't gone to the countryside. He would definitely go out hunting and fishing every day, hehe!"

"So! Don't be ungrateful for the blessings you have!" Zhang Heping helped his second sister to express the implied meaning.

"How could I?" The concubine Chen Shuting compromised unwillingly.

Two minutes later, Zhang Heping brought out the soup bowl and placed it on the coffee table with a smile.

Then, he found two more cups, shared some soup, and said to his second sister Zhang Pandi with a smile: "Let's help her drink some and share the joys and sorrows with her."

Chen Shuting picked up her soup bowl and said with a smile, "Don't tell Sister Xin when we go back later."

Zhang Pandi looked at her brother and sister-in-law who were blowing the soup, and couldn't help but smile as she picked up the cup in front of her. She first took a small sip to taste the temperature of the soup, and then drank up the limited chicken soup in one gulp.

Seeing her third brother Zhang Heping picking up a fruit knife and sitting aside to peel fruit, Zhang Pandi then told him the purpose of her visit.

"Brother, do you have to hold 51% of the shares in your cooperation with the Aerospace Group and the Nuclear Industry Group?" Zhang Pandi looked at Zhang Heping's profile and said, "If you only hold 49%, what impact will it have on you?"

Zhang Heping gave half of the peeled fruit to his concubine Chen Shuting and the other half to his second sister. Then he replied, "I invested money and technology in the mainland to build several factories. At that time, I had 49% of the shares. Now it is not ours."

Zhang Pandi was stunned for a moment. She really didn't know about this.

Zhang Heping was talking about the battery factory in Shenzhen and the Computer Industrial Park in Zhuhai. These are all things of the past, and Zhang Heping didn't want to bring up the past again.

President He has also encountered a situation like his. The hotel they jointly built in Huadu in the early years was also given away for various reasons.

"In addition, there is another benefit of holding the shares. I have the final say on the salaries of the employees, and it is easier to retain technical personnel by offering high salaries." Zhang Heping took another piece of fruit and began to peel it, saying calmly:

"With the low salary in China, how many people who study abroad are willing to come back after completing their studies?"

"This is a very real problem, but some people just turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to it."

"Not to mention those far away, at least half of the mainland medical staff who came to Hong Kong Peace Hospital for exchange and study don't want to go back to the mainland!"

Chen Shuting chimed in, "Second sister, our conditions are not harsh. We provide money and technology, and only want controlling rights, not management rights, but those people are not satisfied!"

Zhang Heping distributed the peeled fruits and said calmly, "Don't worry about this. I'm forcing the country to accept capital operations!"

"Before, they gave up 49% of the shares of Peace Automobile Factory, thinking that 60 billion yen was a lot. But they didn't know that after Peace Automobile was listed on the Japanese island of Dongdu, its market value had reached 4.6 trillion yen."

When Zhang Pandi heard this, she quickly calculated the market value of Peace Auto in her mind, which was approximately 330 billion magnesium yuan!
Compared with the previous half of the shares worth 60 billion magnesium yuan, the domestic losses seem to be huge!

Considering that Peace Group holds about one-third of the shares of Peace Auto, with a market value of around 110 billion magnesium yuan, the profit is almost doubled!
Seeing that Zhang Pandi didn't say anything, Zhang Heping stopped talking too.

What Zhang Pandi didn't know was that before Heping Auto went public, Heping Group cashed out 30% of its shares, raising 54 billion magnesium yuan, which almost made up for the 60 billion magnesium yuan it had previously paid to the domestic market for share repurchases.

As for whether Peace Auto's stock price will plummet after the Japanese economic bubble bursts, that is inevitable.

Zhang Heping is still waiting for the Heping Auto stock price to plummet, then he will buy back some shares at a low price, and then wait for the Japanese government to release a rescue policy, so that he can buy low and sell high to make some money from the Japanese.

"Brother, there is one more thing!" After finishing her fruit, Zhang Pandi started talking about Section Chief Qin.

"Section Chief Qin of the Hong Kong team just told me that the country is going to sell a batch of weapons abroad, involving billions of dollars in funds. He hopes you can help the negotiation team as an interpreter." Zhang Pandi took the tissue handed to her by Chen Shuting and continued:

"He didn't say how long the negotiations would take, nor did he know the specific content. He only said that the leader of the negotiation team wanted to see you for something urgent. So I promised him that I would try my best to get you to go."

"Section Chief Qin told me about the translation before, but he didn't mention it as an arms export, so I didn't take it seriously." Zhang Heping nodded and said, "I have time this weekend, but not today or tomorrow. I'm not sure about next week."

Zhang Pandi smiled and said, "Okay, I'll tell Chief Qin about this when I see him tomorrow morning. Also, Deputy Director Sun from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office's 3rd Bureau may come to visit the Heping Group tomorrow morning."

"Just bring him to see Shu Ting when the time comes. When you're done with things here, go back to the capital as soon as possible to help Ou Yanzi with the donation." Zhang Heping put down the fruit knife and said seriously, "8000 billion yen can now be exchanged for 57 billion magnesium dollars. Don't let this money go to waste!"

"Don't worry!" Zhang Pandi said with a smile, "I understand your intention. Get along well with those veterans and their children who are in need and expand your network."

Zhang Heping nodded again and smiled faintly: "This morning, when I heard Huang Wenli talk about the three options she proposed, I felt that this old classmate had grown up."

"So, I asked her to contact her father Huang Xuemin and plan to invest 10 billion magnesium yuan in Wucheng to build two factories."

"Uncle Huang may retire in November next year. If he can transfer his son to take over before he retires, or if someone can help him change his age, he can continue to work in Wucheng..."

Zhang Pandi thought for a while, and when she saw her third brother Zhang Heping staring at her, she said, "There are many stories about the War of Resistance in Wucheng. I will try to go there and get closer to Uncle Huang's family."

"Ou Yanzi has a heavy task ahead of her. She needs to spend the 8000 billion yen this year." Zhang Heping said with a smile, "If she can't spend it all this year, we can only ask her to invest the money in the Japanese stock market before the New Year. We can't let the Japanese take the opportunity to collect taxes!"

"Oh!" Zhang Pandi didn't know the reason, so she didn't respond.

The three of them took a rest, then left the company together and took a car back to Zhang’s house on the top of Taiping Mountain.

After dinner, Zhang Heping took his family and eight bodyguards down the mountain to go shopping, preparing to buy some gifts for his second sister Zhang Pandi to take back to the capital.

"Brother, what does this 'No entry, aunt' mean?" Zhang Pandi pointed at a sign outside a shopping mall in confusion.

"Second aunt, the old women from Japan don't want them to go in." The fourth daughter Zhang Feng explained.

Zhang Heping laughed and said, "After the yen appreciated, these Japanese people went abroad to shop everywhere. Not long ago, a hotel put up a sign prohibiting Japanese people from entering. Guess what happened?"

Seeing Zhang Pandi's bewildered expression, Tang Xin smiled and told her about the interesting story she had heard. "As a result, the Japanese bought the hotel at a high price, and then they became the scapegoats in the eyes of others."

"And this sign prohibiting Japanese people from entering is actually meant to attract those who are taking advantage of it, it does not really mean that Japanese people are not allowed to enter."

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(End of this chapter)