Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 734: The Mandarins Must Apologize

"Heping, can you give me some advice and think about whether it's worth it to exchange our new two-bedroom house in West City for an east wing?" Ma Xiuzhen's voice rang through the phone.

Zhang Heping stood on the podium of the large lecture hall, waiting for the participants who had not yet arrived, and whispered into the phone:

"Mom, let me tell you this! In 20 years, a two-bedroom apartment in Xicheng will sell for to million yuan, and a courtyard house with one entrance in the capital will sell for at least million yuan. A courtyard house with two or three entrances will sell for over million yuan. Do you think it's worth it?"

"House prices will rise so much?" Ma Xiuzhen on the other end of the phone couldn't believe it.

Zhang Heping said with a smile: "I gave you two pocket money, but you are reluctant to spend it. Why don't you just buy more new houses and courtyard houses? Then 20 years later, compare which house price has increased the most."

"Mom, let's stop here for now. I have to go to a meeting."

After Zhang Heping hung up the phone, he extended his right hand towards Mr. Hua, Mr. Lu and others who were walking towards him.

Lu Zhongsheng, general manager of Heping Aerospace Co., Ltd., shook Zhang Heping's hand and said excitedly, "Teacher Zhang, the first-stage rocket has been sent to the rocket manufacturing plant, and the relevant test data will be sent to your email tomorrow morning."

Zhang Heping stretched out his left hand, patted the back of Lu Zhongsheng's right hand, and said with a smile: "From now on, the Heping Aerospace Company will be handed over to you for full management."

"I lack management experience, and I will need Teacher Zhang's guidance in the future!" Lu Zhongsheng kept a low profile, mainly because Zhang Heping had conquered everyone in the Heping Aerospace Company with his knowledge over the past six months.

Zhang Heping smiled and said politely, "You can always consult Mr. Hua. I don't want to be involved in trivial matters in the company."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping extended his right hand to the director of the rocket manufacturing plant, as well as the three directors of the hydrogen production plant, the seawater desalination plant, and the seawater refinery.

After everyone was seated, Zhang Heping opened the PPT on his laptop and pointed to the projection screen behind him. He said, "Let's make some work arrangements tonight. The summary meeting will be chaired by Mr. Hua after you finish testing the first-stage rocket. I may not have time to attend by then."

"First, the Precision Instrument Factory will provide the satellites, and the Peace Space Company will be responsible for sending them. We will send at least 1 low-Earth orbit satellites into space next year, and the number will increase to 5 the year after."

Mr. Hua, who was sitting in the first row, interrupted and said, "Heping, aren't these too many satellites?"

Zhang Heping did not answer, but looked at Director Zhou and Manager Lu in the audience, "Do you two have any questions?"

Director Zhou nodded and said, "As long as Mr. Zhang can keep up with the funds, our precision instrument factory will arrange assembly line production and guarantee the number of satellites."

Mr. Hua and the others were all shocked. When could satellites be produced on an assembly line?
Thinking of this, Mr. Hua secretly blamed himself. As the head of the secret department, he actually ignored the production capacity of the factories under his jurisdiction and only had a rough understanding of what they could produce.

"Where is Manager Lu?" Seeing that the general manager of Heping Aerospace Company did not speak, Zhang Heping directly called out his name.

Lu Zhongsheng hesitated and said, "Even if the size of the new batch of satellites is reduced by three times, there is still a great demand for rocket launches. I am worried that the hydrogen production plant will not be able to supply liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. After all, the hydrogen production plant consumes a lot of electricity!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Heping, General Manager Lu, Director Zhou and others all looked at Mr. Hua, as if to say, it's up to you now.

Mr. Hua coughed and said awkwardly, "I will discuss the issue of power supply with Huadu."

When Zhang Heping saw Mr. Hua's expression, he knew that he had understood the situation of the Southern Power Grid Company.

The Southern Power Utilities Company was established in August last year. So far, it has only started construction of three thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plants. Three more are in the site selection stage, and there is no news on the other 8.

The site selection work could obviously have been started simultaneously, but Southern Power Grid was restricted. Not only did they finish selecting the site, but they also had to send people to review it. It's really speechless!

"The second thing is, at 7pm on July 7, I will announce the winners of the first Peace Prize. Those who have not yet published papers and research directions should submit them as soon as possible."

wow...

When Zhang Heping said this, the experts and professors present were all excited, because most of the papers in the "Peace Prize" section of the World Internet Forum were published by foreigners.

Among them, many papers received comments and corrections from Zhang Heping.

Due to work confidentiality and reluctance to share, the people present rarely posted papers on the forum. They just kept peeking at the screens and absorbing relevant technologies.

Boom!

Zhang Heping knocked on the podium and continued, "After the 4G communication network in the capital, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong Island is put into trial operation, everyone here will receive a smartphone."

"By then, it will be very convenient to use mobile phones to browse the World Internet Forum. When smart phones become more popular, it will be convenient for students to use their mobile phones to study the teaching videos on the forum."

"I have said so much just to tell you that the era of knowledge explosion is coming. Those who stick to their old ways will be eliminated by the times..."

4G communication!

Smartphone!

Two familiar yet unfamiliar words were placed in front of a group of experts and professors, making everyone uneasy. They didn't even pay much attention to the next few things Zhang Heping said.

...

The next day, early in the morning.

The Aso couple from Japan Island, the director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Bureau hidden in the ITU International Telecommunication Union, and the visiting team from the European Space Agency that came with Huifeng Chairman Shen Bi, all stood in front of the gate of Shenzhen Peace College.

As a result, Zhang Heping did not meet any of them, citing the recent review of the Peace Prize as an excuse. Instead, he asked a team of guards to take them to the Dapeng Peninsula to visit the Peace Aerospace Company and the site where the rocket was launched and recovered yesterday.

Also going on the visit with them were a group of Hong Kong businessmen who shamelessly came over to toast them at the celebration banquet last night.

The reason why they were allowed to visit was, first, because the defense there was tight enough, second, Peace Aerospace Company would recruit foreign experts and professors in the future, third, to obtain more low-Earth orbit resources, and fourth, to respond to the Star Wars plan initiated by the Magnesium guys before, to kill those Magnesium Su guys!

The "Anti-Ballistic Missile Military Strategic Plan" proposed by the US is composed of two parts: the "Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Defense Plan" and the "Anti-Satellite Plan".

If the low-Earth orbit satellite developed by Zhang Heping is equipped with space-based directional weapons, electromagnetic kinetic weapons, and laser weapons as envisioned by the Chinese, it will most likely be able to intercept intercontinental missiles flying into the atmosphere.

After all, Zhang Heping's bodyguards have already exposed electromagnetic kinetic energy weapons such as stun guns, and it is not difficult to equip satellites with weapons.

Furthermore, the Magnesium people verbally said that they would invest 1 trillion magnesium dollars in the so-called Star Wars plan, but the actual investment did not even reach 1 million magnesium dollars, and they only paid a little for publicity and promotion costs.

Therefore, the Taiwanese are very afraid that Zhang Heping will install weapons on the satellite!
Because the anti-satellite plan of the US military mentions the use of anti-satellite weapons to destroy enemy military satellites.

And Zhang Heping has sufficient reasons to destroy the satellite of Magnesium Country!

Who asked the magnesium guys to assassinate Zhang Heping?
Under the promotion of CITIC Rong Lao, Peace Space Company and Asia Satellite Company reached a verbal cooperation intention. Asia Satellite Company would sign the cooperation agreement as soon as Peace Space Company's near-Earth satellite network was completed. Compared with Asia Satellite Company's empty talk, Hong Kong Island Telecom Company showed its wealth. General Manager Bao Wujun publicly stated that he would invest 20 billion yuan in Peace Space Company to win the satellite communication business in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

In recent months, Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company has been reducing its holdings of Japan Island Telecommunications Company shares, and has already recovered 200 billion magnesium yuan in funds. It is expected to recover more than 300 billion magnesium yuan by the end of the year.

Faced with such a huge cash flow, even Zhongxin Rong had to retreat, unwilling to offend the Bao family boss who was in high spirits.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that the huge profits that Hong Kong Island Telecom can achieve today are all thanks to Zhang Heping's guidance behind the scenes.

Among the Hong Kong businessmen who came to visit Peace Aerospace Company this time, more than half of them have invested in telecommunications companies in Southeast Asian countries.

However, after they followed Hong Kong Telecom's example and gave away mobile phones for free with prepaid phone bills, which allowed the communications companies to quickly recoup a large amount of funds, they were eager to divide the money without considering the future development of those communications companies.

Some foreign telecommunications companies were even forced to go bankrupt due to broken capital chains, thus harming customers who had recharged their phone bills in advance.

Zhang Heping's move to strongly stop Hong Kong Telecom from distributing dividends based on prepaid phone bills now seems so wise.

"Stainless steel?"

When the tour guide sent by Peace Aerospace Company mentioned that the rocket launched yesterday had a stainless steel shell, the foreigners around him all showed expressions of disbelief.

On the contrary, those complicated Hong Kong businessmen have not yet realized what it means for the rocket to be made of stainless steel.

"Impossible!" The director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Bureau, who was hiding in the team, accused loudly: "If you don't want to tell us the truth, you can choose not to tell us! But please don't treat us like children. Even a fool knows that the shell of a rocket must be made of aluminum alloy."

A green-clad guard captain nearby jokingly said, "Chief Weber, please don't speak so loudly! Otherwise, we can only ask you to leave now!"

The director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Agency named Weber was suddenly exposed, and the hairs on his body stood on end!
I don’t know if it was because of the heat or because he was scared, but the back of Chief Weber’s black T-shirt suddenly turned completely black!
The Aso couple from Japan Island looked at each other and saw surprise and confusion in each other's eyes. They couldn't understand why the mainlanders let Weber enter the Dapeng Peninsula when they knew that he was the director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Bureau.

Just as the Japanese, Magnesium and Europeans were visiting the Peace Space Company, the North Soviets, who own the Mir Space Station, congratulated the Peace Group and expressed the hope that they could send people to the Peace Space Company for exchanges and study in the future.

After Zhang Heping learned about this, he asked Chen Shuting to call back and tell those people in North Jiangsu that the director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Bureau was visiting the Dapeng Peninsula and they could also send people over.

So, when a group of Hong Kong businessmen and Japanese, Magnesium and European people finished visiting the Peace Aerospace Company and were about to get on the bus to leave, the North Soviet people got off the bus and had a head-on confrontation with the Japanese, Magnesium and European people.

The director of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Bureau was suspicious to begin with, and he didn't even believe in the stainless steel rocket shell. When he saw more than 30 North Soviet men and women getting off the car, he couldn't help but make many more bad guesses.

A bearded man, under the instruction of Director Weber, asked the tour guide next to him, "Excuse me, can we still bring people to visit?"

"No!" The guide shook his head and said in standard Mandarin: "We still have a lot of work to do and we don't have time to receive outsiders for visits."

...

Magnesium country, Huadu.

When Director Weber of the Magnesium Special Intelligence Agency rushed back to the palace, it was already the next morning in Magnesium.

"What?" The chief steward of the Magnesium Palace held a coffee cup in his right hand and half a piece of bread in his left hand, staring at Director Weber as if he was looking at a fool. "You said that their rocket shell is made of stainless steel?"

Boom!
The butler smashed the coffee cup on the table, and the coffee spilled everywhere, but no one dared to wipe it up.

"It's puzzling that you and five elite agents were allowed to visit Peace Aerospace Company! And now you're saying that the rocket that was recovered yesterday was made of stainless steel!"

The chief steward stared at the director of the Special Intelligence Bureau, his voice sounding very depressed, "Do you think I'm a fool, or do you think everyone here is a fool?"

Director Weber of the Special Intelligence Bureau thought for a moment and did not respond to the chief steward's words. Instead, he continued, "When we left the Peace Aerospace Company, we saw 35 North Soviet people get off the bus and enter the Peace Aerospace Company. We don't know yet whether they are going there for a visit or for any cooperation."

"35 people from Northern Soviet Union went to visit Peace Aerospace Company?" The butler, who was wiping the coffee off his hands with a white handkerchief, got angry again when he heard this. "Idiot, do you think that's a zoo? You let so many people from Northern Soviet Union go in to visit! Don't tell me you didn't leave people in Hong Kong Island and Shenzhen to find out the real purpose of those people from Northern Soviet Union!"

"I kept it!" Chief Weber explained hastily, "I have doubts about the stainless steel rocket shell and the intentions of those Northern Soviets."

When the chief steward heard what Director Weber said, the anger on his face subsided a little.

Then, the chief steward took the bread to the window and began to eat it silently.

Seeing this, the female secretary hurried forward to wipe the coffee off the desk.

It was not until the female secretary brought the second cup of coffee and handed it to the chief steward that the chief steward turned his back to everyone and said, "The Peace Group is a company involved in arms manufacturing. It is classified as highly dangerous!"

When they heard the word "arms", all the think tanks and politicians in the office frowned.

These people were still thinking yesterday about how to ease the relationship between Magnesium and the Peace Group.

The word "arms" raised by the general manager at this time directly dispelled the idea of ​​easing relations, because the military-industrial complex to which they belonged would not allow new arms dealers to enter the country of Magnesium!

Especially, foreign ones! Third world ones!
A fat middle-aged man suddenly spoke up, "Robert said yesterday that he and some people would take a plane to Eagle Country this afternoon to handle immigration, and then go to Hong Kong Island Peace Vocational Training College!"

...

On the third day after Peace Space Company recovered the rocket, media from various countries were still reporting on the recovery of the rocket. In addition, foreigners from Japan, magnesium, Europe and the Soviet Union visited the Dapeng Peninsula yesterday, and the stainless steel rocket shell became big news again.

The media in Hong Kong and Macau continue to hype the situation, firstly to flatter Mr. Zhang, the richest man in China, and secondly to publicize the communication satellite cooperation between Hong Kong Island Telecom and Peace Aerospace, thus releasing good news for the stock market tomorrow, Monday the 4th.

The media in Japan became polarized. Some media insisted on reporting the truth, reporting the launch of the rocket by the Peace Space Company with facts, and questioned the stainless steel rocket shell. Some TV stations even invited experts to analyze the feasibility of using stainless steel for the rocket shell.

But some Japanese journalists do their jobs for money. They take the news releases drafted by someone hired by their financial sponsors, polish them up a bit, and then send them out.

Then, Japan Island will be lively this weekend.

There were rumors that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyota Motor provided rocket engines to Peace Aerospace Corporation, and that Sumitomo Metal and Kobe Steel provided stainless steel casings for the Peace 1 rocket, as well as false news that some Nippon Chemical Plants provided rocket fuel.

Anyway, as long as the news is good for a Japanese stock, Japanese people are willing to believe it and just wait for the stock market to open the next day.

However, on that day, the news that an Iran-Iraq flight was shot down by a missile from a magnesium warship appeared on the World Internet Forum and was pinned to the top by Zhang Heping himself, who even took the lead in commenting on it!
The comment reads:

This time, the Chinese must apologize!
Otherwise, there are consequences at your own risk!
(End of this chapter)