Break out of the courtyard

Zhang Heping went upstairs to the bedroom and saw his concubine Chen Shuting drinking soup. He then went to check on his youngest son Zhang Hao in the crib.

"Get ready to go downstairs for dinner!" Zhang Heping called Tang Xin, Zhang Nan, Zhang Nian and others, then walked to the bedside and felt Chen Shuting's pulse.

Ma Xiuzhen asked with concern: "Heping, how is it?"

Zhang Heping met Chen Shuting's pleading gaze and said with a smile, "There's nothing unusual. You can get up and walk around in the bedroom."

"Mom, look! I really didn't lie to you!" Chen Shuting said happily: "When I gave birth to Xiaonuo, I was allowed to go out the next day. It was really okay!"

Chen Shuting was confined to bed by her mother-in-law Ma Xiuzhen, who personally brought meals upstairs for her.

If Chen Shuting hadn't insisted, Ma Xiuzhen would have fed her herself.

Facing Ma Xiuzhen's inquiring gaze, Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Mom, the room has the air conditioner on, and this is in the south, so it's okay to get out of bed and walk a few steps. On the contrary, lying in bed all the time is not good for your health."

"Okay!" Ma Xiuzhen found that her ideas were out of date and said helplessly, "You guys go eat first, I'll walk with Shu Ting."

Zhang Heping took away his first wife Tang Xin, who was looking envious. This woman had given birth to four children, six in total, but had never enjoyed the care of her mother-in-law Ma Xiuzhen. Seeing how caring Ma Xiuzhen was, she couldn't help but feel moved.

Zhang Heping approached his first wife and teased, "How about we have another child so that you can experience the feeling of confinement again?"

"Damn it! The kids heard it!" Tang Xin hugged Zhang Heping's right arm tightly, her mind drifting somewhere else.

Zhang Nian laughed from behind: "Mom, we didn't hear it, hehe!"

Zhang Nan walked to the front, pressed the down button of the elevator, and then turned to look at Zhang Heping. "Dad, it was inconvenient to ask you on the phone last time. You asked us to reveal in the lecture hall that you helped the Japanese people short magnesium stocks. Did you want to spread it through the students of Capital University to sow discord between Japan and magnesium?"

"If the Japanese do it on the first day of the month, the Chinese can do it on the fifteenth." Zhang Heping smiled calmly, "Let's see how the Japanese real estate and stock markets will be hyped up."

"Dad!" Zhang Nian followed him into the elevator. "From what you said, you are not optimistic about the real estate and stock markets in Japan now?"

Zhang Heping did not answer but asked, "After the Japanese were defeated in the war, how did they restore their post-war economy, and how did they achieve such prosperity today?"

"They..." Zhang Nian was about to answer when he saw his father Zhang Heping raise his left hand.

"Don't rush to answer!" Zhang Heping interrupted, "Think about it carefully before going to bed. It won't be too late to talk about it tomorrow."

Zhang Nan was still thinking about what her father had just said, wondering what Zhang Heping wanted to achieve by provoking relations between Japan and Magnesium.

...

At the Shenzhen Railway Station, in front of a group of engineers standing in a neat line, Wang Sumei glanced at her watch on her right hand from time to time, appearing a little anxious.

Uh...

A train whistle sounded from the north, followed by a white light, and then a black train came out of the bend and drove over.

Under the watchful eyes of Director Wang Sumei, the train slowly approached, passed the fork, and went directly to the unloading area.

"Mr. Hua!" Wang Sumei, Liu Yuan and others went to greet the old man in gray who had just got off the train.

According to previous calls, Mr. Hua and his team should have arrived yesterday afternoon, but due to a motorcycle breakdown, they were delayed on the road for a day.

"Director Wang, let me introduce them to you. This is Engineer Zheng, Engineer Li, Engineer Qin..." Old Hua smiled and introduced the old man and old woman who got off the car at the back.

Soon, these people were invited to get on a bus nearby.

Before getting in the car, Mr. Hua turned to Wang Sumei and whispered, "Didn't you tell Heping?"

"No!" Wang Sumei said with a smile, "But I can see that the brat is very dissatisfied with this batch of equipment. If you don't take this batch of equipment back, he might do something."

"This batch of equipment is not easy to get!" Mr. Hua said with a smile: "Later, I remembered what Heping once said: If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem. So, I will get rid of all these experts who refused to return the equipment!"

Wang Sumei gave him a thumbs up and praised him, "You are really good!"

Mr. Hua smiled and nodded, "Okay! I'll leave this batch of equipment to you. I'll take these experts to the Peace Hotel for dinner first."

After saying this, Mr. Hua got on the first bus and then drove out of the unloading area with eight buses.

A moment later, a number of large Jiefang trucks drove in and began to load the large wooden boxes that the engineers had moved from the train.

...

The next day, on the 5th, Zhang Heping accompanied Zhang Bei, Zhang Nan, and Zhang Nian out early in the morning and went for a stroll around the Canton Fair in Huadu which was about to end.

Zhang Nan's Global Trading Co., Ltd. exhibited prototypes of MP3 and MP4 players and digital cameras, and has signed contracts for 63 items so far, but the profits are not very high.

In the afternoon, after Zhang Heping sent Zhang Bei and his two siblings on a flight to the capital, he returned to Shenzhen with his bodyguards.

As a result, as soon as he returned to the college, he saw dozens of strange old men and women wandering around the college.

"Go ask these people what they do!" Zhang Heping said indifferently.

The bodyguard captain in the passenger seat took out a walkie-talkie and gave instructions to the bodyguard in the car behind.

Then the car behind braked, and two bodyguards got out, walking towards a few strange old men, one on the left and one on the right.

But when Zhang Heping returned to the villa area and got off the car, he didn't get a response from the two bodyguards. The bodyguard captain couldn't help but take out the walkie-talkie to ask.

Then, the bodyguard captain caught up with Zhang Heping and said, "Boss, those people said they wanted to keep it a secret and refused to tell us their purpose. I have asked Xiao Hu and the others to ask the guard."

"Hmm!" Zhang Heping responded indifferently. He guessed in his heart that those old men and women were newly recruited experts and professors, so he didn't say anything more and prepared to ask Director Wang later.

Not long after Zhang Heping had this idea, he saw his father-in-law Tang Ming sitting outside the villa, drinking tea and chatting with Mr. Hua.

"Dad!" Zhang Heping walked over and asked, "When did Mr. Hua come back?"

Mr. Hua sat in a large plastic chair and responded with a smile, "I came back last night. I was planning to look for you this morning, but you ran off to Huadu early in the morning."

"What were you talking about just now?" Zhang Heping didn't ask why Mr. Hua wanted to see him that morning. He deliberately changed the subject and asked, "I noticed that you all looked very serious!"

Father-in-law Tang Ming seemed to have sensed Zhang Heping's intention and continued, "The higher-ups have agreed to Shenzhen City's land use rights being sold through auction. We are discussing the impacts of doing so!"

Zhang Heping pondered, "Shenzhen now has many factories supporting it. Piloting the land transfer policy here will help Shenzhen build more public infrastructure, thereby attracting more factories and companies to Shenzhen."

"Plus, everyone is paying attention to this, so most of the feedback from the pilot project in Shenzhen will be good news."

Tang Ming asked, "You mean, those bad effects will only be exposed after the nationwide rollout?"

"Tell me, what bad influences do you think there are?" Mr. Hua was interested.

"In fact, the ancients have already summarized it for us, such as: eating the food of the next year and exhausting the pond to catch fish." Zhang Heping nodded to the bodyguard who brought him a chair to show his gratitude. Mr. Hua frowned and asked, "You are not optimistic about the land transfer policy?"

"On the contrary, I am very optimistic about this policy." Zhang Heping leaned back in his chair, stretched out his legs, and responded with a smile: "As far as we can see now, the development of the special economic zones is faster and better than other regions."

"It is foreseeable that in many years, these coastal special economic zones will be supported by various industries, and will be the best regions in the country in terms of local taxation, employment, education, etc."

"Then the problem arises. Other underdeveloped cities and areas without industrial support have to transfer land use rights to maintain local fiscal expenditures."

"Solely relying on land use rights transfer fees to maintain finances is obviously not a long-term solution..."

Zhang Heping talked about land finance, real estate development, and then cement, steel bars, construction, decoration, furniture, home appliances and other industries that were driven.

As they chatted, it was already dinner time before they knew it.

Just when his mother-in-law Xu Jiefeng came out to greet them and asked Zhang Heping and the others to go back for dinner, Mr. Hua, who was in the middle of a lively conversation, suddenly remembered those equipment and experts.

"Oh no! I forgot something!" Mr. Hua slapped his forehead and said with a smile: "Heping, I'll take you to see something. We'll have dinner in the cafeteria later."

When Zhang Heping saw this, he immediately thought of what Mr. Hua had said before, that he had something to discuss with him in the morning.

I didn't expect that after all the talking I did, I failed to confuse the other party.

With no other options, Zhang Heping had to follow Mr. Hua into his black electric car.

However, when the car carrying Zhang Heping drove to the foot of Nanshan Mountain and entered the tunnel of the underground base, Zhang Heping's heart sank.

"Mr. Hua, did you get the equipment back?" Zhang Heping asked with a little anticipation.

Mr. Hua smiled and said, "Most of it has been returned. The remaining equipment is being rushed. I will try to send it to you by the end of the year."

After the car drove a few hundred meters, Zhang Heping saw a row of large trucks parked in the right lane ahead.

Zhang Heping got out of the truck and looked at the large wooden boxes neatly stacked in the truck bed. He turned to Mr. Hua and asked, "Do you have a list of equipment? I need to distribute these equipment to the corresponding laboratories."

"Yes!" Hua Lao smiled and stretched out his hand, holding Zhang Heping's shoulders and walking towards the car. "Don't worry, the engineers have gone to eat. We will come over to share later."

"In addition to these equipment, I also brought the experts who stole your equipment with me. Show some of your real skills later to scare those old men and women and try to keep them to help you."

Zhang Heping was stunned for a moment. One could imagine how authoritative those old experts were to be able to snatch away his custom-made equipment.

"Why, are you worried that you can't control them?" Mr. Hua provoked him without even thinking.

"No!" Zhang Heping shook his head, got into the car, and said to Elder Hua who followed closely behind him: "If they stay with us, will they give up their original research projects?"

"I don't care. It's their fault that they stole our equipment first and then refused to return it!" Mr. Hua said with a wicked smile, "Try to keep these experts here for a while and see if those companies are anxious enough!"

Zhang Heping understood that Mr. Hua wanted to help him vent his anger!

The Yu Lei that had been accumulating for several months was instantly dissipated by Zhang Heping after what Mr. Hua did.

"Actually, there's no need to shock them." Zhang Heping also showed a sly smile. "Let them sign a confidentiality agreement and watch some research projects through the glass. Don't explain to them. Just whet their appetite."

"Playing hard to get!" Elder Hua nodded. "When the time comes, we'll just let them watch. No matter what they ask, we'll just keep it a secret, unless they're willing to stay and join us, hehe!"

"Hehe!" Zhang Heping also started laughing.

The old man and the young boy were like two foxes stealing chickens, and they laughed so hard that the driver and secretary in the front row couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror.

That night, Zhang Heping had a simple meal with the old experts in the college cafeteria.

Zhang Heping acted indifferent throughout the whole process, as if he did not welcome their arrival.

The next morning, Zhang Heping stopped all laboratories on the ground floor of the college and summoned all the college's experts, professors, and laboratory assistants to the entrance of the cafeteria.

The reason why it is at the entrance of the cafeteria is not because the experts summoned by Professor Hua are having breakfast here, but because the experts, professors, and laboratory assistants of the college are having breakfast here.

The foreign experts are staying at the Peace Hotel opposite. It is still unknown how many of them have gotten up and how many have not.

Zhang Heping did not deliberately perform in front of the group of foreign experts, but chose to ignore them directly.

After Zhang Heping divided the experts, professors, and laboratory assistants of Shenzhen Peace College into groups according to their research projects, he distributed a list of equipment that had been divided the night before to each group. Then he took them on a bus that had just arrived and headed for the entrance of the underground base tunnel under Nanshan Mountain.

After this group of experts, professors, and laboratory assistants got on the car and left, Professor Hua brought a group of foreign experts into the college and began to visit the college laboratory building that they were stopped from entering by two guards yesterday.

"Mr. Hua, why are there no people in these laboratories?" An old man in blue work clothes adjusted his glasses and leaned close to the glass wall to look inside. "The mechanical parts on the ground are arranged in an orderly manner. That semi-finished equipment is only half assembled. Why is no one assembling it?"

Mr. Hua smiled and said, "I heard from the guards that they went to place the equipment."

"Oh?" An old man wearing a blue work suit and two gray sleeves asked anxiously, "Mr. Hua, can we go see the lab where the equipment is?"

"That won't work for now!" Elder Hua shook his head. "This is also a confidential unit, especially the laboratory where the equipment is located. It is even more confidential than confidential."

"Mr. Hua, you can't go back on your word!" A sixty-year-old lady was not happy. "At the beginning, you said that we should come here to learn how to use the equipment."

"He also said that once the second batch of equipment is produced, it will be delivered to us immediately."

Mr. Hua stretched out his right hand and pressed it, explaining: "Didn't I just say it? It's just not possible for the time being!"

"How can such a confidential project be visited casually just by asking for permission?" Mr. Hua looked around at everyone and asked, "Can your unit allow outsiders to visit casually?"

The old man wearing two gray sleeves asked, "Mr. Hua, what do you think we should do to allow us to visit and learn?"

"We are all comrades in a confidentiality unit, so we need to sign the most basic confidentiality agreement!" Mr. Hua said seriously, "Do we need to go through the relevant application procedures? Do we need to verify our identities?"

While Mr. Hua was fooling a group of experts from outside the hospital, Zhang Heping had already come to the back of the truck with the experts, professors and assistants from the hospital.

After a brief exchange with the engineering battalion commander, Zhang Heping took over his command.

Then, Zhang Heping was seen walking in the middle of the lane, pointing at the wooden boxes that had been unloaded last night and stacked on the left lane, and loudly directing the engineers standing next to the truck on the right to move the boxes with the corresponding codes.

"S10503, move to car number 5!"

"A51109, move to car number 3!"

"N62201, move to car number 7!"

...(End of chapter)