Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 703: The unrest caused by smartphone ads

After Zhang Heping saw Director Wang off, he returned to the study on the second floor and turned on his computer to watch the smartphone advertising sample in the email.

Although the cooperation mode proposed by the Aerospace Group exceeded Zhang Heping's expectations, it was within his acceptable range. He just needed to spend more energy and time on satellites and rockets.

What Masike was able to accomplish in his previous life, Zhang Heping, who is both powerful and rich, doesn’t believe that he can’t do it himself!
Zhang Heping picked up his mobile phone and called Qu Zhouping in Hong Kong Island, asking him to send a batch of advertising samples to Tingmei Trading Company in preparation for a global simultaneous advertising.

The reason why Tingmei Trading has such huge profits is not only because of its good products, but also because of its huge annual advertising investment!

"Heping, how about bringing your second uncle to Shenzhen Heping Hospital for treatment?" Father-in-law Tang Ming went to the hospital next door for a long time during the day today and found that there were many medical staff and very few patients. He felt that he could get better care here.

Unfortunately, Zhang Heping rejected the father-in-law who had been waiting for a long time. "Dad, my medical research institute is in Hong Kong Island, and the HIV research laboratory is also there."

"Besides, the medical staff at Shenzhen Peace Hospital are still undergoing training and are not on the same level as the medical staff in Hong Kong Island."

When Tang Ming heard that there was an HIV research laboratory in Hong Kong Island, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

When he wanted to ask more questions, Zhang Heping had already gone to the other side of the study to talk to Chen Shuting about the advertisement.

...

The next day, the 28th, was Tuesday morning.

Huang Wenli took the cooperation and communication team to Hong Kong Island by train and began a two-day inspection.

However, when they arrived in Central, Hong Kong Island and found a large group of foreign journalists gathered outside the Economic and Trade Building, they gave up their plan to go to the Peace Group on the rooftop of the Economic and Trade Building first.

"Captain Shi, what happened over there?" Huang Wenli frowned as she looked at the group of foreigners, somewhat worried that it was because the water and electricity had been cut off at the Magnesium Embassy.

The bodyguard captain who was assigned to be responsible for the safety of Huang Wenli and the cooperation communication team responded with a smile: "Tingmei Trading put up a smartphone advertisement this morning, and it attracted these reporters."

Smartphone advertising?

More than half of the people in the cooperation and communication team did not have mobile phones. They seemed very confused at this time and had no idea what so many foreign reporters were doing!

Huang Wenli had watched Zhang Bei, Zhang Nan and others shooting a smartphone commercial a few days ago. She also took the opportunity to try out the phone, so she knew why those foreign reporters were so excited.

Because once this smartphone comes out, it will affect many industries, especially the semiconductor industry that the Chinese care about the most!

Since she couldn't visit the Economic and Trade Building for the time being, Huang Wenli took out her cell phone and made a few calls to adjust the order of the visit.

Then, she took the group to the nearby Energy and Transportation Building to visit the renewable energy company first.

...

Datang Investment Company, Central, Hong Kong Island.

A tall, thin young female secretary knocked on the door of the general manager's office and said to the middle-aged man behind the desk, "Boss Tang, the advertising sample is coming!"

"So fast?" Tang Qiang, who was looking at Japanese stock data behind his desk, looked at the female secretary in surprise and found that she was indeed holding a CD in a transparent plastic box in her hand, so he waved for her to take it.

Tang Lie, who was originally standing in front of the window, silently watching the busy traffic below, now walked behind Tang Qiang, wanting to take a closer look at this smart phone to see how it was different from current mobile phones.

The young female secretary stepped forward in high heels and twisted her hip skirt, smiling, "When I went to the Media Building, the general manager's secretary of Rediffusion Television was handing out samples. I got a CD and came back!"

After Tang Qiang got the CD, he put it into the computer's CD drive and said, "Okay, go do your thing."

Tang Lie looked at the computer screen and chuckled, "That Manager Qu is really smart. He has already prepared the ad sample and is waiting for us to come to him for it!"

"My uncle asked us to sell our mobile phone manufacturing plant last year. At that time, I couldn't believe how to combine camera, video recording, game and other functions into a small mobile phone!" Tang Qiang stopped talking after clicking on the advertising video.

After watching the three ads, which were less than three minutes long, Tang Qiang clicked on the replay button and then he spoke again, "Brother, do you think this smartphone is real?"

"It's true!" Tang Lie said in a deep voice, "When I went to Shenzhen, Xiaobei, Xiaolong and the others told me about this phone, but after they finished filming the commercial, the smartphone was sent back to the laboratory by my uncle."

"This is going to be really fun!" Tang Qiang stared at the advertisement he had seen twice. "Let's not talk about whether those mobile phone manufacturers will go bankrupt. I'm sure that more than half of those camera manufacturers, VCR manufacturers, and game console manufacturers will definitely go bankrupt!"

"Not good!" Tang Qiang stood up suddenly, rushed to the door, opened it and shouted to the fund managers and traders outside the office: "Sell all Sony, Nikon, Nintendo, and Sega stocks! Sell all stocks related to cameras, video recorders, and game consoles!"

As Tang Qiang finished his words, various voices of doubt immediately arose outside.

Tang Qiang went out and suppressed a few troublemakers, and only returned to the office after getting confirmation from a group of fund managers.

After Tang Qiang closed the door and walked back to his desk, Tang Lie had already sat down at his seat, playing the commercial sample frame by frame.

"Did you notice?" Tang Lie pointed at the phone on the display and frowned, saying, "This smartphone is not big or thick. I don't think my uncle is using a CD for storage."

"It can't be a CD!" Tang Qiang put his hands on the desk, stared at the monitor closely, and said: "My uncle has an optical card factory in Shenzhen. I think the storage device in the mobile phone should be similar to an optical card."

Tang Lie frowned and asked, "So, do you think we should sell our CD factory?"

...

After Huang Wenli took the members of the cooperation and communication team to visit the renewable energy company's office and the equipment monitoring and command center, it was already noon in a blink of an eye.

"I originally planned to take you to the computer building next door to visit Hong Kong Island Telecom in the afternoon, but that place has also been surrounded by foreign reporters." Huang Wenli said helplessly: "I will take you to see the power station of the renewable energy company, as well as the hydrogen production plant, seawater desalination plant, and seawater refinery in the afternoon."

"Manager Huang!" Old classmate Tang Weiguo was pushed out as a liaison. "We all have a question. Why are all the journalists from foreign countries here? Why are there no journalists from Hong Kong and Macau reporting on the news about smartphones?"

Huang Wenli led the way and explained, "The Peace Group controls most of the media in Hong Kong and Macau, and even has indirect stakes in foreign media, so the journalists who came here are mostly foreign journalists that we are not familiar with."

After Huang Wenli's explanation, most of the accompanying personnel understood that the Hong Kong and Macao media had already obtained the internal news about smartphones and there was no need for them to come here to wait.

After everyone left the Energy and Transportation Building, Huang Wenli pointed to the large cylindrical building in the east and said with a smile, "That's the Media Building. Hong Kong's TV and radio stations, as well as well-known newspapers and magazines are all inside."

"In recent years, China has sent more than a thousand people there for exchange and study. If you are interested, we can go in and visit during the lunch break."

Old classmate Liu Qiangjun asked happily: "Manager Huang, are there any movie shoots there?"

Huang Wenli explained: "Movies are generally not shot there. Only the post-production editing of movies is done in the machine room inside. Some variety shows are filmed there, but I don't know if there will be any at noon today."

The leader of the cooperation and communication team said seriously: "We won't go today. Let's finish the inspection task first. It won't be too late to go and have a look tomorrow afternoon when we have some spare time."

Huang Wenli said indifferently, "Okay, I'll take everyone to the Peace Hotel for dinner first, and then arrange rooms for everyone to rest. We'll have lunch until two o'clock before leaving!" "Manager Huang!" The leader of the cooperation and communication team spoke again, "Can you please trouble us a little? We'll leave an hour earlier so we can go earlier and come back earlier!"

Huang Wenli just heard someone in the cooperation and communication group say that the security in Hong Kong Island is not good. She roughly guessed that the purpose of the team leader going to and coming back early was for the safety of the team members.

"Okay!" Huang Wenli nodded and said, "After dinner, I will invite some bodyguards from the Umbrella Company to come over and take everyone to Yau Tsim Mong to have a look around, so that everyone won't come to Hong Kong Island in vain."

When they heard that they were going shopping at night and that they were accompanied by bodyguards, the people in the cooperation and communication team became very excited. Some of them regretted not bringing much money with them, some asked others to borrow money, and some asked if RMB could be exchanged for Hong Kong dollars...

"Manager Huang!"

As soon as Huang Wenli walked into the restaurant of the Peace Hotel, she met Bao Jiajun, the public relations manager of the Peace Group, her former boss and suitor.

Bao Jiajun walked over quickly, shook hands with Huang Wenli, and said with a smile: "Long time no see, is the investment project in the mainland going well?"

Huang Wenli pulled her hand back, stepped aside to let the members of the cooperation and communication team behind her go, and said with a smile: "We are still communicating with these mainland leaders."

Bao Jiajun didn't know the ranks of these people, and seeing that Huang Wenli had no intention of introducing them, he nodded and smiled, "Then I won't disturb you from having a meal!"

Huang Wenli responded with a smile. As soon as Bao Jiajun left, she called the waiter next to her, told him her name, and then followed the waiter to the private room.

However, when she passed by the private room where Bao Jiajun was, Huang Wenli couldn't help but frowned the moment the door of the room closed.

There were some blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in that private room, some of them looked like Taiwanese!
But considering Bao Jiajun's public relations nature, Huang Wenli couldn't tell why they were getting together and hesitated whether to mention it to Zhang Heping.

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It is 12 o'clock in Hong Kong Island, but it is still 27 o'clock on the evening of the 11th in Waldo, Magnesium.

After the Magnesium TV stations simultaneously released the smartphone advertisements, the Magnesium intelligence department has been working overtime, waiting for the investigation report on smartphone advertisements from the Magnesium Embassy in Hong Kong.

However, the advertising sample obtained by Director Tom of the Chinese Embassy in Hong Kong was also obtained by Huadu in Magnesium from the local TV station!

The Magnesium side wants more intelligence, such as assembly drawings of smartphones, information on various internal parts, etc., but the intelligence chief in the Magnesium Embassy in Hong Kong cannot provide it!
The landline phone outside Director Tom's office kept ringing and someone was always answering it, but the landline on his desk didn't ring because he had told his secretary in advance to forward all calls from smartphones to the CIA.

He is not an agent of the CIA, but as the director of the embassy in Hong Kong, he needs to cover up for these agents and even give them verbal protection.

As for the rest of the work of the CIA, he had the right to pretend he knew nothing about it, which was why he had bothered to mention the smartphone to his boss, Old Sam, last Saturday night.

Because his boss, Old Sam, told him that this was the CIA's business and let the CIA worry about it, we don't need to worry about it!
Director Tom felt that he only needed to wait patiently until someone asked him to apologize to the Peace Group and ease the relationship in order to obtain smartphone intelligence, and then send magnesium technicians to cooperate with the Peace Group!

Director Tom doesn't care whether other Magnesians can cooperate with the Peace Group. He just wants the Peace Group to restore the water, electricity and gas supply to their embassy.

It was really frustrating. Director Tom originally wanted to ask China Light and Power Company to connect the power lines to their embassy, ​​but he didn't see their general manager, nor even any of the managers below. Only a clerk came to explain that the power facilities on Hong Kong Island did not belong to China Light and Power and they had no right to interfere.

Hong Kong Island's tap water and gas come from mainland China. Curator Tom originally wanted to start from here and let the mainland put pressure on renewable energy companies to supply gas and water.

As a result, after this matter was reported to the mainland's capital, there was no further news.

Director Tom sent someone to ask yesterday, and the reply he got was that they were still communicating.

I asked again this morning and got the answer that since you Chinese in Hong Kong haven't been able to communicate well, it would be even more difficult for us who are far away in the capital, so we have to wait a little longer.

...

Compared to the different thoughts among the people of Magnesium, the people of Japan are much more proactive!

When Zhang Heping was having lunch at home, he received a call from the college security guard, saying that two Japanese people named Aso Taro and Aso Yuriko were looking for him.

The couple had originally returned to Higashima, Japan, and handed over the entrance examination matters of Heping Vocational Training College to their subordinates. After all, their task was only to connect with Zhang Heping.

As long as Zhang Heping agrees that students from Rijima can take part in the entrance examination of Heping Hospital this year, the Aso couple's mission will be accomplished.

How many Japanese students can be admitted in the end will depend on how the entrance examination questions are set this year.

In order to cope with the questions about World War II given by the Peace Vocational Training College, this group of Japanese students who went to Hong Kong to study Chinese also specially studied the history textbooks of the mainland.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm really sorry to bother you!" As soon as Aso Dalang saw Zhang Heping getting off the car, he bowed 110 degrees through the iron gate and lowered his head.

Zhang Heping walked out of the small door of the guard room and said with a faint smile: "Vice Minister Aso, has Mrs. Aso had lunch?"

Zhang Heping knew exactly what the two Japanese people were here for.

The news about the smartphone was first spread for a few days by the guys involved in the commercial shooting. Now that it was confirmed by a TV commercial today, how can these foreigners who advocate semiconductor technology sit still?
Not to mention foreigners, this morning dozens of Hong Kong businessmen alone called Tang Xin and Chen Shuting to verify the authenticity of the smartphone.

Miss Suzuki pretended to take out a white cell phone from her Dior handbag, took a look at it, and apologized hastily: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, our time in Japan is one hour ahead of Shenzhen. We thought you had finished your meal. We are so sorry!"

"Hey! Sorry, Mr. Zhang!" Aso Dalang bowed and apologized again.

As soon as the two Japanese people arrived at the school gate, they asked the guard to help contact Zhang Heping.

In order to get in touch with Zhang Heping as soon as possible and discuss smartphone cooperation, why would they care about such trivial matters as whether Zhang Heping had finished his lunch.

Zhang Heping glanced at the watch on his left hand, put away the smile on his lips, and said lightly: "No need to apologize, what are you doing here today? Be direct, I still have to teach the medical staff later."

"Mr. Zhang!" Miss Suzuki stepped forward and asked sincerely, "We saw your company's advertisement about smartphones today. May I ask if this Peace College in Shenzhen is training employees for smartphone factories?"

Zhang Heping casually said, "Not all of them. Some machinery factories and electronics factories are also short of people."

Vice Minister Aso thought to himself that this was indeed the case, and he stepped forward eagerly and said, "Mr. Zhang, we have first-class factories, employees, and management systems in Ridao. If you let our factory in Ridao process your smartphone, it will save you a lot of training time. What do you think?"

"You can't do it!" Zhang Heping frowned and said, "Your semiconductor industry has been suppressed by the magnesium countrymen. You can't even make the most critical mobile phone chips!"

"The second is mobile phone batteries, mobile phone memory cards, etc. Not to mention you, even the Taiwanese can't do it."

"Besides, the cost of production in your Ri Island is many times higher than that in Shenzhen!"

Miss Suzuki stopped her man and said slowly, "Mr. Zhang, do you think the production of smartphones requires a factory to produce accessories such as lenses? We can contact Ridao's company to set up a factory in Shenzhen and supply you with them."

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(End of this chapter)