Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 750 Peace and Confrontation

While most coastal cities are pursuing economic openness, Shanghai's economy has not been liberalized.

Even so, Shanghai's GDP still ranks second in the country, having surpassed the 600 billion RMB mark.

As for the city of Shenzhen, which has the largest GDP in Shanghai, many people in Shanghai know that the Heping Group played a big role in it.

Therefore, when Zhang Heping arrived in Shanghai with his wife, daughter and bodyguards, he was once again given a high-level reception.

Following the same rhythm as in Wucheng, Zhang Heping first went to the nuclear power plant being built in Modu to guide the work, and then was taken to visit major factories in Modu in the hope of obtaining his investment.

Tang Xin, Chen Shuting, Zhang Feng and others were taken to various places to travel and taste all the famous delicacies in Magic City.

At that time, Pudong had not yet been developed in Shanghai, and even the Bund's image as a metropolis was reduced by the weeds on the shore.

Zhang Heping walked around and stopped here and there, and made many suggestions for improvement to the factories in Shanghai that he visited, but he never invested any money in any of the factories.

The reason why he didn't invest money was not because Zhang Heping didn't like any of the factories, but because the factories in Shanghai were hard to come by.

The higher-ups don't allow Shanghai to liberalize its economy because they are afraid that Shanghai will lower the efficiency of related factories, thus affecting the income of both upper and lower levels.

Zhang Heping is confident that he can increase the revenue of those factories in Shanghai, but he doesn't want to go against his superiors, and he doesn't have the time to do it.

However, Zhang Heping still gained something from this trip.

To be precise, it was Tang Xin's gain.

As early as 8 years ago, when Zhang Heping was planning the real estate market in Tokyo, he had set his sights on houses in Shanghai.

To this end, Zhang Heping used 3.72 boxes of Manliest tablets to offset the non-performing assets such as textiles, chemical fibers, alchemy, and metal processing equipment that Huifeng Bank purchased from Ridao Bank.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping used this batch of non-performing assets to exchange for RMB 19 billion of -year government bonds from CITIC, and promised the principal and interest of the bonds to the Ministry of Education for infrastructure construction in the central and western regions.

The condition of the donation is that when the Shanghai Peace Hotel is involved in joint ventures, leased or sold in the future, Zhang Heping will have priority under the same conditions!

Tang Xin's reward was that he rented the Shanghai Peace Hotel where they were temporarily staying and handed it over to the Peace Real Estate Company for management.

Its management model is similar to that of the Peace Hotel in Hong Kong Island and Shenzhen, so there is no need to invest too much energy in it.

The concubine Chen Shuting became interested in Yunjin and Songjin, and wanted to use them on Dior bags to enhance the style, taste, and intrinsic value of Dior bags.

Therefore, after leaving Shanghai, Zhang Heping and his team went to Nanjing and Suzhou and reached a verbal supply cooperation agreement with the two places.

When they returned to their home in Shenzhen, Zhang Feng and Zhang Nuo had already taken leave from school for a month!
Zhang Feng’s philosophy course is simple, and rote memorization is enough to ensure that you will not fail at the end of the semester.

But little Zhang Nuo was not so lucky. She hired two more tutors to take turns to help her with the knowledge she had not learned in the past month.

Zhang Heping and his two wives also have their own things to do. Tang Xin is better off, as she has the management of Heping Real Estate Company to support her, so there are not many things she needs to decide.

Chen Shuting was facing the entire Heping Group and had been making phone calls since returning home.

As for Zhang Heping, he went on a long journey again the next day.

He first took a car to experience the first expressway in the mainland, which runs from Shenzhen to Huadu and then to Zhuhai.

According to the secretary of Huafu who was accompanying the car, the completion time of Shanghai-Jiaxing Expressway was 6 days later than that of Huadu Expressway, otherwise the first place would have been snatched away by them!

After arriving in Zhuhai, Zhang Heping first went to the nuclear power plant under construction there.

This thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant in Zhuhai is designed to ensure the power supply to the chip factories here, and the excess power is sent to Shenzhen on the other side of the river.

Because Zhang Heping was in a hurry to build a nuclear power plant, he was asked to check the construction quality of the nuclear power plant more often and ensure that every link met the standards!

After all, the construction of the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant was completed under Zhang Heping's frequent supervision, and no major problems have occurred so far.

If there had not been two earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above in the southwest, which had also affected Banna, Zhang Heping might have gone to the Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park to take a look and ask about their chip development progress.

November 11th is the beginning of winter.

Zhang Heping took a boat to the Shekou Port opposite, and then returned to Shenzhen Peace College at the foot of Nanshan Mountain not far away.

Seeing Zhang Heping coming back so early, Chen Shuting hurriedly reported the earthquake situation she knew: "Husband, no houses collapsed in Nanla Town, the villagers were just frightened. There are some brick and tile houses in Jingcheng and Mengla that have problems."

"I think Nanla Town doesn't need our help. We just need to donate to Yundu to support its later construction. There's no need to buy supplies and send them over."

The folks in Nanla Town would send mountain products to Zhang Heping’s home in the capital at the end of every year. Although Zhang Heping gave them a lot in return, the bond had never been broken.

So, when Zhang Heping heard that everything was fine in Nanla Town, he nodded, went upstairs to wash up, changed his clothes and went to Heping Hospital.

The reason he came back this time was, first, to judge whether to transfer medical staff from the Hong Kong Peace Hospital to the southwest for support based on the disaster situation in the southwest; second, to consider whether he should go to the disaster area in person to watch some surgical teaching videos on reattaching severed limbs.

"Teacher Zhang!" Dean Lu of Shenzhen Peace Hospital saw Zhang Heping rushing back and hurriedly stood up and said, "Our hospital's rescue team set out last night and arrived at Yundu Airport at 5 a.m. this morning."

"At present, they have been sent to Gengma County, which was the worst hit by the disaster. The communication there has been cut off, and I can't contact them for the time being."

Zhang Heping nodded to President Lu, whose eyes were bloodshot, then took out his cell phone and called Lu Zhongsheng, the head of Heping Aerospace Company.

"Manager Lu, has the satellite communication equipment been delivered to the disaster area? Has today's satellite launch mission been confirmed?" Zhang Heping's tone sounded very solemn.

If there were more communication satellites, he would be able to better judge the damage caused by the two consecutive earthquakes that occurred last night.

It was a pity that in order to reduce the weight of the satellite, the communication satellites were not equipped with high-power detection lenses. Lu Zhongsheng on the other end of the phone also did not sleep all night. Since he received the task from Zhang Heping, the Heping Aerospace Company has been urgently mobilized.

Rockets and satellites are loaded onto ground launch pads and underwater launch platforms, and then they are inspected repeatedly.

"Teacher Zhang, the Southwest Military Region has sent a batch of satellite communication equipment to the disaster area, and the satellite communication equipment we sent over has been left in Yundu." After Lu Zhongsheng finished speaking, he said angrily:
“The launch mission of 60 low-Earth orbit communication satellites has not been approved. We are required to continue to apply to the International Telecommunication Union for low-Earth orbit resources!”

When Zhang Heping heard the word "ITU", he immediately thought of what Mr. Hua said last time: don't engage in unilateral confrontation.

"You should call Mr. Hua to report this matter." Zhang Heping said coldly: "If they are not in a hurry, I will not care. Don't come to me for anything related to aerospace in the future. Do whatever you want!"

Currently, Peace Space Company has only six pigeon communication satellites in the sky, and these six communication satellites have not been recognized by the International Telecommunication Union. They were launched into space by Zhang Heping on his own initiative.

Because Zhang Heping made a harsh statement at the Peace Prize award ceremony that he would no longer cooperate with the ITU.

Coupled with the laser weapons in the Eye of God defense system, the magnesium people are even more reluctant to see the Peace Space Company's satellite go into space.

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Heping could ignore the operation of Heping Aerospace Company and let them communicate with domestic and foreign parties as they wish. Zhang Heping only needed to look at the results.

But at this critical juncture, one more communication satellite means one more hope...

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Heping frowned and looked at Dean Lu. After calming down, he asked, "Which departments have been sent over?"

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Shenzhen Dapeng Peninsula, Peace Aerospace Corporation rocket launch command center.

As soon as the person in charge, Lu Zhongsheng, hung up the phone, he saw Mr. Hua, Director Wang, Secretary Chen and others walked in.

When Mr. Hua arrived, he asked anxiously, "Xiao Lu, have your six pigeon communication satellites been successfully networked with the two experimental communication satellites of the Aerospace Group? Can they cover the satellite communication of the disaster area?"

"Report: The network has been successfully established, but it cannot provide full coverage. Each satellite communication can only last for 3 minutes at most, and then it will be interrupted for 8 minutes."

"Also, Mr. Zhang just called and was very angry about the satellite launch being blocked. He said that if you guys aren't in a hurry, he won't be involved in aerospace affairs anymore."

"This brat!" Director Wang complained, "It's a matter of life and death, how can we not be anxious!"

Elder Hua waved his hand and frowned, saying, "Xiao Lu, you should first establish communication channels with Yundu and the disaster area, and make the most efficient use of the three minutes of interrupted communication time to determine the disaster situation in the southwest and the required relief supplies as soon as possible."

"Xiao Wang, go back and appease that brat, find him something to do, and divert his attention. Don't always think about confronting the guys from Magnesium. We should focus on economic development now!"

"Xiao Chen, call the foreign affairs department and ask them how their communication with the ITU is going? And as for the Aerospace Corporation, have they applied for satellite orbital resources?"

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When Director Wang approached Zhang Heping and explained the communication satellite networking issue, he invited him to the Cancer Treatment Research Institute of Shenzhen Hospital.

The proton accelerator, which was built in March 1986 with an investment of 3 billion magnesium yuan, has been running for a total of 10 minutes in testing. Zhang Heping needs to check it and start animal experiments at the same time.

After Zhang Heping went to the Shenzhen Cancer Treatment Institute, he no longer cared about earthquakes and communication satellites.

A week later, when Director Wang relayed the damage figures of the disaster area to Zhang Heping, Zhang Heping acted very indifferent, as if he was listening to a bunch of financial report figures.

Two days later, after Zhang Heping checked the proton accelerator and left some corrections, he went to the underground base of Peace College to concentrate on his biological auxiliary research equipment.

During this period, Mr. Hua and Director Wang approached Zhang Heping several times, but Zhang Heping's expression was too cold.

At first they thought Zhang Heping was just throwing a tantrum, but as one device after another with unknown functions was transported out of the underground base and escorted directly to the Peace Healthcare Research Institute in Central, Hong Kong Island by Zhang Heping's bodyguards, they began to get restless.

"Teacher Zhang, what equipment are you going to make today?" An old expert in a white coat took over the task from Hua Laopai and came to inquire what Zhang Heping was doing.

"Mr. Li, if you have nothing to do, just go home and have a rest. Don't disturb me!" Zhang Heping said without turning his head, and then continued to fiddle with the freshly printed parts alone.

The expert called Mr. Li silently looked at the laboratory inside through the glass. After Zhang Heping assembled the equipment, he did not debug it and directly packed it into boxes and asked the bodyguards to take it out of the laboratory, obviously to send it to Hong Kong Island again.

Whenever Zhang Heping debugged his new equipment, these old experts could more or less guess what he was making.

However, every time Zhang Heping assembled a bunch of spare parts and electronic components, he would not allow anyone to enter the laboratory to watch, and he was not as enthusiastic about answering various questions as before.

More than a month passed like this. Just as Mr. Hua, Director Wang and others were becoming more and more panicked, Zhang Heping stopped going to the laboratory in the underground base and instead stayed in his study on the second floor of his house without going out.

This time, Zhang Heping did not allow anyone to watch like he did in the underground base laboratory.

However, when Mr. Hua and Director Wang went to the study on the second floor of Zhang's house to visit Zhang Heping recently, they couldn't understand the software code that Zhang Heping typed on the monitor at all!
Even though the codes were all in Chinese characters, they knew each character, but they had no idea how to put them together!
After Zhang Heping finished typing the code, he started commuting between Hong Kong Island and Shenzhen every day.

After he had been leaving home early and coming back late for five days, Mr. Hua and Director Wang learned through information sent back from Hong Kong that the equipment Zhang Heping made on his own was used to assist medical research.

On the morning of December 12, Mr. Hua and Director Wang once again watched in silence as Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting got into the car and left. The sense of crisis in their hearts grew stronger!

"News came back from Hong Kong that the Peace Healthcare Institute hired two more French, three Japanese, and five British people yesterday." Director Wang turned around, frowned at Mr. Hua, and asked:

"Mr. Hua, if this continues, peace will no longer be so coldly opposed to us. We must break the current deadlock!"

Mr. Hua remained silent, not because he couldn't think of a good solution at the moment, but because he had been thinking about it for more than a month and still couldn't break the current deadlock.

Director Wang paused for a moment and then spoke again, "Heping's 39th birthday is coming up. I asked his parents and they are both coming over. When the time comes, I will ask his mother Ma Xiuzhen to ask him what he really thinks."

"The current situation is caused by the fact that Peace Space Company cannot sell satellites wholesale!" Mr. Hua said in a deep voice: "The ITU is blocking his satellite, and we are also preventing him from launching satellites. Sigh..."

Mr. Hua sighed, looked at the Peace Hospital in the distance, and said with a frown: "Recently, I have been wondering if we have done something wrong!"

"The young people who used to be so energetic are now engaging in a cold war with us..."

(End of this chapter)