Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 725: The Underground Base is Initially Completed
"Professor Zhou!"

Outside the cafeteria of Shenzhen Peace College, an outside expert shouted to the crowd who had just got off the bus, which attracted several experts named Zhou to look over.

Then, an old professor with half-white hair walked out of the crowd and walked towards the outside expert. "Professor Tang, I'm sorry! I received a sudden notice this morning and didn't have time to tell you. How about this, I will take you around the college now."

"Don't worry! Don't worry!" The old man called Professor Tang waved his hand and said, "Go have dinner first. We'll wait for you at the basketball court."

"I have one hour to eat..." Professor Zhou in the hospital looked at his watch and said carefully, "Wait for me. I'll go get some food and eat with you while we walk."

There were more than a dozen people like Professor Zhou who were stopped by experts from outside the hospital.

The domestic academic circle is so small that even if experts in the same field have never met each other, they have at least heard of each other’s names and research directions.

...

On the other side, not long after Zhang Heping returned home, he was visited by Mr. Hua.

However, Mr. Hua just said that he would take the outside experts to visit the college laboratory today, and then went home.

The experts outside the hospital have already taken the bait, and the rest depends on the performance of Zhang Heping and a group of experts and professors within the hospital.

After dinner, Zhang Heping just rested for a short while and then went out to the large classroom in the teaching building.

There are a lot of equipment shipped this time, and it is impossible for Zhang Heping to run back and forth between multiple laboratories.

For the safety of the underground laboratories, the laboratories were originally located far apart from each other.

Therefore, in order to set up the equipment as quickly as possible, Zhang Heping could only give a general explanation to the experts, professors, assistants, and engineers in the institute.

The reason why we need to tell the engineers is because they will play a big role in the subsequent equipment assembly and installation process.

To put it bluntly, it is impossible to deploy those equipments relying on experts and professors who are powerless.

When Zhang Heping arrived at the lecture hall, it was already full of people.

"You! And you..." Zhang Heping suddenly raised his right hand and pointed at a dozen old men and women, "Please get out!"

The people pointed out by Zhang Heping are all experts from outside the hospital.

"Comrade, we are just here to listen in and will never disturb your meeting!" An old expert from outside the hospital stood up and tried to stay.

But Zhang Heping was very determined, as if he was still upset about the equipment being stolen. "We are a confidential unit here. We are about to deploy a top-secret research project. You have no right to stay here and listen. If you don't leave, I will call the guards!"

When a group of outside experts heard the words "confidential" and "top secret", they naturally knew what was more important than anything else, so they stood up reluctantly and walked towards the door.

"If you are not a staff member of our college, please get out immediately!" Zhang Heping looked indifferently in one direction, "Don't delay our work!"

The old man outside the yard who was hiding behind the crowd and trying to get away with it never expected that the other party could recognize him, a stranger, at a glance among hundreds of people.

Facing dozens of pairs of eyes looking at him, the last outside expert stood up and left.

After the thin old expert left the classroom, Zhang Heping began to explain the equipment assembly and installation location in the corresponding laboratories according to the laboratory numbers.

The thin old expert tried to eavesdrop at the classroom door, but he only saw Zhang Heping drawing a square on the mobile blackboard. The classroom door was closed by a bodyguard, so he couldn't hear clearly.

"I'm just confused!" A tall outside expert said to other outside experts, "We have tried our best to reduce the number of people who come here to listen. How did Zhang Heping find us?"

The other experts from outside the hospital who were eavesdropping on the noise in the classroom listened for a while but couldn't make out anything, and then someone responded to the tall expert.

"We were discovered, maybe because we stood up ourselves." The old man in the blue polyester shirt pointed at the thin expert who came out last and said, "But Lao Li was discovered even though he was hiding behind a few tall guys. It's a bit unbelievable."

"Be quiet!" an old lady outside the courtyard said dissatisfiedly, "Just listen to what he is saying."

...

On the fourth day after Chen Shuting gave birth, Huang Wenli, who was in the capital discussing investment cooperation, rushed over to congratulate her.

When Huang Wenli was rotating and studying in a company under the Peace Group, she did not have much contact with Chen Shuting, but after she was transferred to the Peace Group, Chen Shuting paid more attention to her and gave her more guidance.

In addition, Huang Wenli has lived in Hong Kong Island in recent years and often visits the Zhang family villa on the hill. She has a good relationship with Chen Shuting and Tang Xin, otherwise they would not be able to let her manage the Shenzhen branch of Heping Investment.

What's more, the cooperation between Heping Investment Shenzhen Branch and State Grid has been almost concluded, and the final decision needs to be made by Zhang Heping, the big boss behind the scenes.

Therefore, it was only natural for Huang Wenli to rush over to visit and congratulate.

However, after Huang Wenli followed Director Wang to the villa area, she found that there were many old men and old women surrounding Villa No. 4.

"Director Wang, who are those people? Why are they blocking outside Mr. Hua's villa? Don't the guards care?" Huang Wenli was extremely confused and asked a series of questions.

Director Wang smiled and said, "Those are the experts from outside the hospital brought back by Professor Hua. Heping did not allow them to visit the underground laboratory, so they went to make trouble with Professor Hua. They said that Professor Hua had promised them before, and they demanded that he fulfill his promise."

"Underground laboratory?" Huang Wenli was stunned for a moment, then she leaned close to Director Wang and asked in a low voice, "Are you going to return the equipment? If you don't return it, I'm afraid Heping won't let it go given his temper."

Director Wang raised his chin towards the group of outside experts and said, "They are the ones who stole the equipment! At first, Professor Hua also couldn't get the equipment, so he made some promises to these people and brought them back with the equipment."

Huang Wenli said "oh" and felt that there was something fishy going on, but she didn't ask any more questions.

When she wanted to go directly to Zhang's house on the left, Director Wang pulled her to Villa No. 2 on the right.

"Take a shower and change your clothes first." Director Wang said helplessly, "There are babies over there. Don't bring any germs from outside."

Director Wang actually had some opinions about the Zhang family's recent practice of spraying alcohol on guests for disinfection and sterilization, but since there were not many outsiders visiting the Zhang family recently, Director Wang kept those opinions to himself.

After all, even if Ma Xiuzhen wanted to hold her grandson, she had to dress neatly.

Wang Sumei heard from Ma Xiuzhen that she had not even touched vegetables or raw meat recently for fear of getting parasite eggs on her.

...

When Zhang Heping returned home after a busy day, he saw Mr. Hua, Director Wang, Huang Wenli and others in the living room.

"You sit for a while. I'll go change my clothes and come down!" Zhang Heping waved his pitch-black hands towards Mr. Hua and the others, then quickly ran up the stairs.

Huang Wenli had long known from Director Wang that Zhang Heping had gone to the basement to direct the installation of the equipment, but she had not expected him to do it himself. Zhang Heping had no other choice. Although he had explained to the various groups how to install the equipment and had drawn a schematic diagram on the blackboard, there were inevitably problems during the actual installation process.

Although he did not run back and forth between several laboratories, he still took a car all the way down and guided the installation of equipment in some laboratories one by one. He could not avoid doing things himself, after all he had so much strength!

After washing up, Zhang Heping first looked at his concubine Chen Shuting and his younger son Zhang Hao, and then called his mother Ma Xiuzhen and his first wife Tang Xin to come downstairs for dinner.

Although Mr. Hua and his friends came here after dinner, they reluctantly sat at the table at Zhang Heping's invitation in order to talk to him about something.

"Heping, the cooperation with the State Grid has been almost completed. Here is the agreement..."

Before Huang Wenli could finish, Zhang Heping raised his left hand and waved, "Let a lawyer review the terms of the agreement. You decide the result."

Huang Wenli said hurriedly: "State Grid is willing to give us 20% of the shares in exchange for 150 billion magnesium yuan, and promises that the dividend income every year after 10 years will not be less than..."

When Zhang Heping heard that State Grid was going to divide up shares, he frowned, waved for the agreement, and briefly flipped through it.

"They don't want to pay the interest on the national debt, so they proposed to divide the shares and give us dividends in the future." Huang Wenli saw that Zhang Heping looked unhappy, and explained weakly: "I told them that the national debt interest can be reduced to 1% per year, but they still want to exchange shares for funds."

"Add an exit mechanism to the agreement, and make it clear that State Grid has the right to repurchase our shares based on the principal we invested, multiplied by the number of years of investment, and then multiplied by an annual interest rate of 2%, without any other additional conditions." Zhang Heping handed the agreement back and continued, "In addition, the investment amount can be raised to 300 billion magnesium yuan."

"300 billion?" Huang Wenli thought to herself. There was only 150 billion magnesium yuan left in the company's account. Could it be that the remaining 250 billion magnesium yuan of the Peace Prize Trust Fund would also be allocated?

"When the stock market crashed last month, Heping Investment exchanged some magnesium dollars, so funding is not a problem." Zhang Heping explained casually without asking about the cooperation and communication with the Nuclear Industry Group to avoid expressing his dissatisfaction.

Mr. Hua and Director Wang looked at each other and did not interrupt at this time. It seemed that they agreed with the share withdrawal mechanism proposed by Zhang Heping.

"Heping, isn't 300 billion yuan too much?" Huang Wenli said worriedly, "I'm afraid the State Grid will not be willing to give up 40% of the shares."

"It's just 20% of the shares!" Zhang Heping said indifferently: "Even though they are willing to exchange their shares for money now, after a few years when the leadership changes, these shares will be hot potatoes!"

Zhang Heping glanced at the silent Mr. Hua and continued, "The State Grid is not suitable for shareholding. It is related to the national economy. Introducing external capital will easily disrupt the regulation of electricity prices, which is not worth the loss!"

Huang Wenli was relieved when she heard that Zhang Heping didn't want more shares. "Okay, I'll call the capital later and ask the representatives of the State Grid if they dare to ask for so much money."

When Mr. Hua saw that Huang Wenli had stopped talking, he spoke up, "We received a piece of news about Japan today. Someone in Japan's Ministry of Finance suggested raising bank interest rates to cool down Japan's stock market, property market, and foreign exchange market."

Zhang Heping took two bites of the food and didn't hear what Mr. Hua said next. He knew that the other party wanted to hear his opinion.

"European and American countries will not agree!" Zhang Heping replied calmly.

"What's the reason?" Mr. Hua's original intention was to ask his stepmother to withdraw the funds from Japan Island, but he didn't expect Zhang Heping to be so sure.

"Although Japan's stock market has quickly gotten rid of the impact of the stock market crash, Europe and the United States are still consolidating at the bottom. They will not let Japanese stocks fall now." Zhang Heping explained, then took a bite of the food and waited for Mr. Hua and the others to digest the news.

"In addition, the appreciation of the yen has attracted a lot of foreign capital to Japan; if the yen savings rate increases, it will inevitably attract more foreign capital to Japan." Zhang Heping continued to explain:
"In order to prevent capital outflow from the European and magnesium stock markets, which would cause further turmoil, and to allow foreign capital to flow back into the European and magnesium markets, European and magnesium countries will not allow Japan to raise interest rates."

"In addition, raising interest rates to attract more foreign investment into Japan will inevitably continue to push up the yen, thereby reducing the competitiveness of Japan's foreign trade products."

"In addition, Japan is implementing a strategy to expand domestic demand, which requires low interest rates to reduce savings and promote domestic consumption and investment."

"Besides, the rise of Japan's stock and property markets involves the interests of many Japanese people and companies, and the vast majority of Japanese people will not agree to an interest rate hike."

Mr. Hua nodded and said in agreement: "You are really insightful in this regard!"

"If God wants someone to die, he will make him crazy!" Zhang Heping's tone remained calm. "Let's see how the Japanese economy will develop in the future."

Director Wang interrupted and said, "I heard that most of the flowers exported from Banna to Hong Kong Island are resold to Japan. If Japan's economy has problems later, will Banna's flower export business be affected?"

Zhang Heping did not answer this obvious question, but changed the subject: "I heard that the Chameleon condoms produced in Jingcheng are selling well."

Director Wang was dissatisfied and said, "The lion's share has been taken by your Tingmei Trading Company, and you still have the nerve to say that!"

"I told them to buy at 10 mg a box, but they were too embarrassed to accept it. They insisted that the cost price was less than 1 mg a box, so I just had to give them 2 mg a box." Zhang Ping smiled calmly.
"Although the Chameleon condoms are sold at 100 mg per box, the wholesale price of Tingmei Trade is only 80 mg. In addition, the money spent on the acquisition of Durex in the United States and the subsequent advertising fees are not taken into account."

"I'm just confused!" Director Wang asked, puzzled, "Why can you sell your condoms for 100 US dollars a box when you change the box to Durex brand? Condoms produced by other domestic factories can't even sell for 1 US dollar a box."

Zhang Heping didn't want to explain too much to the old lady about this question, so he just said casually: "This is the brand effect, or you can call it brand added value."

Huang Wenli was also a little confused as to why Chameleon condoms were so expensive, and she planned to take some time to buy a box to study them.

By the way, she hadn't seen her boyfriend for many days. This time she came back to visit Chen Shuting and report her work to Zhang Heping. Another purpose was to go to Hong Kong Island to see her boyfriend.

After a brief chat, Zhang Heping went to the large lecture hall in the teaching building on time.

Similar to last night, Zhang Heping called together experts, professors, assistants, and engineers in the college to discuss the assembly and installation of laboratory equipment.

Because the assembly and installation methods of many devices have similarities, discussing them together makes it easier for everyone to learn together and communicate with each other privately.

After all, Zhang Heping is only one person and cannot take care of all the installation tasks of the laboratories in a short period of time.

More than a dozen experts from outside the hospital came tonight and stood at the door of the lecture hall to eavesdrop.

Other outside experts were allowed to enter the college laboratory and play with the 3D printer that Zhang Heping and his team built by hand.

Finding something for them to do is to give them something to think about, so as to avoid sending them directly back to their original units in anger.

In fact, Zhang Heping had a rough idea about the arrival of these experts.

The fact that Mr. Hua was able to bring these people here shows that his superiors have agreed, otherwise those confidential units would not have allowed them to come to Shenzhen.

However, whether the underground base of Shenzhen Peace College can retain these experts depends on Zhang Heping's ability.

So, Zhang Heping played hard to get and used the time difference to build the underground laboratory.

This is to prevent these outside experts from seeing the empty caves and turning back.

After a week of hard work, just when those outside experts were about to lose their patience, Zhang Heping finally gave Mr. Hua the correct answer.

They can be allowed to visit...

(End of this chapter)