Break out of the courtyard

"The military budget has been cutting in recent years. The data on naval, land and air equipment you provided will probably not be put into production in the short term." Mr. Hua changed the subject, with a hint of worry on his face.

"It's as expected!" Zhang Heping said with a faint smile, "As long as the information is not leaked, it doesn't matter if we put it into production two years later."

"On the contrary, the military is not allowed to engage in business. It will definitely be completely banned in the future. You should think of countermeasures in advance."

The reason why Zhang Heping gave this extra reminder was because in order to allow the shell company to go public in Japan for the second time, the Heping Group split the Tingmei Health Factory into several small factories and gave up two percentage points, allowing the secret department headed by Mr. Hua to hold 51% of the shares and become the largest shareholder.

In addition, the controlling rights of the Peace Optical Card Factory under the Peace Memory Company and the Precision Instrument Factory under the Peace Precision Industry Company also passed to Mr. Hua.

These two factories involve a lot of semiconductor technologies and are the focus of attention of the magnesium industry.

When Zhang Heping specifically gave up 2% of the shares of these two factories, he had considered the current situation of being coveted by outsiders.

However, Zhang Heping’s original idea was that if the technology of these two factories was leaked, Heping Group’s controlling rights over other joint ventures and factories would be more secure.

For example, Southern Power Grid Company, China Telecommunications Co., Ltd., Peace Aerospace Co., Ltd., Peace Battery Factory, etc.

Mr. Hua hesitated and said, "Otherwise, we can cancel the two equity transfer agreements we signed earlier and let the Peace Group control the 2% of the shares, thus achieving the goal of controlling the company."

"There's no need to give people a chance to talk!" Zhang Heping stood up and picked up the kettle. He first added some hot water to the cups of Old Lady Zheng and Old Mr. Hua, and finally poured himself a glass of water.

Mr. Hua picked up the water cup and thought for a moment, "Then we can only withdraw the guards and let your umbrella company send people to take charge of security."

"This way, we won't be involved in the issue of the military doing business."

Zhang Heping took a sip of water, put the cup on the coffee table in front of him, and said slowly: "If the fundamental problem is not solved, there will be other troubles in the future."

What is the root problem?
First, the Heping Group made too much money by reselling the goods produced by the joint venture factories!
Second, some people think that the Peace Group is too big to be eliminated and difficult to control!
When Mrs. Zheng saw that Mr. Hua had stopped talking, she started talking to Zhang Heping about the development of the Hope Project over the years.

Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi, who returned home one after another, were a little surprised when they saw Old Lady Zheng and Old Man Hua, but they were not as stunned as Chang Sheng.

Although my second brother-in-law Zhang Yong was a little surprised, he was able to treat these two special guests with a normal attitude because he had no intention of getting promoted.

Zhang Heping's children, nephews and cousins ​​often saw Mr. Hua when they were in Shenzhen. They were used to it and just greeted him politely.

Relatives from Zhang and Ma’s hometowns are still in the Harmonious Hospital. They said they would be there to keep watch, and would eat and sleep in the hospital.

If they saw the relationship between Zhang Heping and Mr. Hua, they would probably not dare to talk to Zhang Heping in the future.

However, it is hard to say whether they will brag about their relationship with Zhang Heping to other villagers after they return to their hometown!
After dinner, Zhang Heping accompanied Mr. Hua out, took a walk around Houhai, and talked about the joint venture factories alone.

Finally, they agreed on a meeting time for tomorrow morning. Mr. Hua took Mrs. Zheng and Director Wang into the car, ready to find other people to discuss the matter further.

The interests involved in the joint ventures and factories of the Heping Group are getting bigger and bigger. Even if General Hua handed over most of the profits, he still couldn't escape the covetousness of outsiders.

Zhang Heping is not worried about his own interests being damaged unless the mainland reverses course and brutally seizes the shares invested and owned by the Heping Group.

If that time really comes, not to mention how the media under the Heping Group will fight back, the immigration issue that the Zhang family has always been concerned about will definitely be put on the agenda by Zhang Heping.

As for whether the mainland would reverse course for that little bit of profit, Zhang Heping received a definite answer from the host of the economic meeting the next day, insisting on reform and opening up without wavering!
This meeting discussed a lot, from the risk of international isolation to domestic inflation; from overcapacity in state-owned enterprises to tax evasion by private enterprises; and finally, there were issues such as triangular debts and bribery.

Zhang Heping was listening the whole time, and the host did not give him a chance to speak because the old issue of capital and society was also being discussed at the meeting, and Zhang Heping's identity did not make him suitable to be a conspicuous person.

However, during the meal after the meeting, many familiar economics experts and professors approached Zhang Heping and asked about the secondary listing of a subsidiary of the Heping Group in Japan.

In order to allow Japanese stocks to expand further, Zhang Heping did not truthfully tell Chen Shuting that he did not want to go public for the second time, but only gave an ambiguous reply.

Because the celebration party was performed last night, only two meals were prepared in the Great Hall.

After dinner, the participants dispersed in twos and threes.

Mr. Hua, who had not been seen all day, was now waiting for Zhang Heping outside the Great Hall.

"Have you eaten?" Zhang Heping walked over and greeted him with a smile.

"Eat it!" Mr. Hua said, pointing his right hand in the direction of the lake, "Let's talk while we walk."

The old man and the young man left the square, crossed Chang'an Street, and walked to the palace wall before they made any sound.

"After discussion, the joint ventures and factories under our department's management will remain as they are. The guards will be incorporated into the security teams of the corresponding joint ventures and factories, and their military status will be cancelled..."

Zhang Heping and Mr. Hua finished their talk slowly before nodding and saying, "That's good. We can legitimately raise the guards' salaries and arrange welfare housing for them."

Mr. Hua hummed, and walked forward with Zhang Heping for a distance before speaking again, "At present, although our department's management rights over the joint venture and factory have not been taken away, we will definitely hand them over one by one in the future. You must be mentally prepared for this!"

"We'll talk about the future later!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "It's rare for me to have two days of free time, so I don't want to worry about those annoying things."

"By the way, are we really not going to celebrate the fortieth anniversary in the Grand Plaza tomorrow?"

Mr. Hua raised his right hand, wiped it from his forehead to the back of his head, and said helplessly: "I only found out today that the 40th anniversary celebration was held last night!"

"What a mess!" Zhang Heping's tone also sounded helpless, "We came back specifically to attend the celebration meeting, but in the end we couldn't attend, and no one reminded us."

"Your elder sister and second sister should know!" General Hua put his hands behind his back and continued to move forward, "Didn't they tell you?"

Zhang Heping thought for a moment and said, "On the day we came back, someone told us that there was a celebration party at the Capital Gymnasium last night. We thought it was a performance organized by a TV station, so we didn't go to watch it because there were too many people. As a result..."

The two walked along the way with regret, and finally parted at Yinding Bridge.

Only after Mr. Hua, Secretary Chen, and driver Xiao Qin walked away did Zhang Heping wave to the two bodyguards who were following behind him and went straight home.

~
Yan Jiekuang ran across the Yinding Bridge and came to the stall selling small red flags. He said to his family behind the stall: "The man who just passed by was Zhang Heping. I saw him enter the Zhang family."

Yan Bugui had already engraved Zhang Heping's appearance and figure in his mind. When he saw Zhang Heping and an old man walking from the south just now, he recognized Zhang Heping at a glance.

But what if I recognize it?

Back then, when Zhang Heping and he split the fish money 50-50, he was not satisfied and insisted on working alone with his son, leaving Zhang Heping aside. It seems that the words "abandoning after having sex" do not express the meaning, but that is how things turned out.

The originally close relationship of interests was ruined by his momentary calculation!

Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang did not think as much as Yan Bugui. They were still discussing the simulated space station and simulated base built by Heping Aerospace Company in the northwest desert, as well as the salary and benefits there.

Only the fourth child, Yan Jiedi, did the same as her father, quietly using a small stick to stick red paper together to make small red flags to sell in order to supplement the family income.

When Yan Jiedi was a sent-down youth in the Second Water Regiment of Banna, she met Zhang Heping several times, but was ignored by Zhang Heping every time.

From then on, Yan Jiedi knew that Zhang Heping would no longer have any contact with their family.

Looking back on the past, Yan Jie Di still remembers the scene when Zhang Heping cooked fish porridge and distributed it to the children in the yard when she was a child.

Unfortunately, ever since the Zhang family moved out of No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, they have no longer interacted with the people there.

Of course, Zhou Laoer, who moved in later, is not considered a member of the courtyard.

"Where are you going?" Yan Jiecheng, who was standing nearby and eating melon seeds, suddenly spoke up.

Then, Yan Bugui and Yan Jiedi discovered that Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang were arm in arm, walking onto the Yinding Bridge with excitement on their faces.

"Let's go to the Zhang family and ask Zhang Heping!" Yan Jiefang replied loudly.

Yan Jiekuang added, "As long as Zhang Heping is willing to give us a note, we will have a job at Heping Aerospace Company!"

"Puff!" Yan Jiecheng spat out the melon seed shells and cursed in a low voice, "You two idiots, it's strange that Zhang Heping would pay attention to you!"

Yan Bugui seemed not to hear his eldest son's curse. His eyes behind his glasses followed his two sons to the other side of Houhai Lake. It was not until they were stopped by two men in black at the gate of Zhang's house that he retracted his dim gaze and gave up his unrealistic fantasy.

Once you miss some people, you can never go back to the past!
When Yan Jiecheng saw his second and third brothers coming back, he did not forget to ridicule them, "Why don't you look in the mirror? With your ugly appearance, how can you meet the big capitalists in Hong Kong Island?"

The second brother, Yan Jiefang, said in dissatisfaction: "You are capable. You are the boss of the restaurant. Only you can see Zhang Heping, right?"

The third brother, Yan Jiekuang, was also indignant. "Boss, you don't look like a bear. Go to the Zhang family and ask if you can let your two bear brothers go to work at the Peace Aerospace Company!"

"Can you?" The second brother Yan Jiefang was so angry that he couldn't find a place to vent his anger. He said loudly to Yan Jiecheng, "If you can't, then don't talk shit in front of us."

"That's enough!" Yan Bugui lowered his voice and scolded, "If you want to argue, go back and argue. Don't delay my business!"

~
After Zhang Heping returned home, he told his family that there would only be a flag-raising ceremony the next morning and no parade or celebration. However, his family already knew about it.

The eldest son Zhang Bei suggested going back tomorrow, but Zhang Bing wanted Zhang Heping to go to the Harmonious Hospital to check on the pulses of several uncles who were hospitalized there.

Seeing that Zhang Heping was unmoved, Zhang Bing could not help but frown and lecture him: "Heping, it is your uncle's family who offended you. You should not vent your anger on other relatives."

Zhang Heping stood up and frowned, saying, "It's good enough that they can be admitted to the Harmonious Hospital. Don't push your luck!"

Seeing Zhang Heping was about to leave, Zhang Bing also stood up and said loudly to Zhang Heping's back, "You have the ability, so what's wrong with helping your relatives?"

"If you count several generations back, we all have the same ancestor! Why... are you pinching me?"

Just as Ma Xiuzhen pinched Zhang Bing's waist, Zhang Heping, who had walked to the stairs, turned around and walked down.

"Pack your luggage, stay in a hotel tonight, and return to Hong Kong Island tomorrow!" Zhang Heping said and walked out the door.

Snapped!
Ma Xiuzhen raised her hand and slapped Zhang Bing on the back, angrily saying, "Every time your shitty relatives from the Zhang family come over, they never even give us a sweet potato!"

"When they go back, they always bring back large and small bags. Didn't we help them? When your uncles were being picked up and asked Heping for the experimental drug, did Heping agree? How else do you want Heping to help you?"

"Ah Xin, wait a minute!" Ma Xiuzhen saw Tang Xin and Chen Shuting both stood up, and hurriedly advised: "I'll go talk to Heping first, you two don't leave yet!"

"Dad, we went to Harmony Hospital the night before yesterday!" Chen Shuting frowned and said, "The doctors there, for Heping's sake, naturally knew to take good care of the relatives who were hospitalized."

"Besides, Harmony Hospital is someone else's hospital. The doctors there didn't ask Heping to help, so it's not right for Heping to take over."

"Otherwise, why not just take those people to Heping Hospital? Why trouble them?"

Zhang Bing, who was originally a little indignant, finally understood why Zhang Heping went to Harmony Hospital the night before after hearing what Chen Shuting said.

After all this time, my son has already made arrangements with the hospital!
Just as Ma Xiuzhen went out to dissuade her son, and Tang Xin and Chen Shuting went upstairs to pack their luggage, Zhang Bei walked up to Old Zhang and said slowly, "Grandpa, this is not the way you help your relatives!"

"Just giving them money and things is not helping them, it's harming them!"

"Believe it or not, next time they come over, if you don't give them anything, they will turn their backs on you and say bad things about you, such as you are ungrateful, rich and unkind, and you despise the poor and love the rich."

"It's not that my dad didn't help, he just didn't want those relatives to know that my dad helped them, lest they get used to it and stop supporting themselves."

After Zhang Bei left, the Zhou family members who were originally watching TV nearby saw Zhang Bing standing by the sofa in a daze, so they quietly left.

"Lili, tell your dad later about Heping's intention of taking you to Harmony Hospital the night before yesterday, in case the relatives of the Ma family don't understand the human feelings involved."

The voice of Zhou's aunt Chen Liqin came from the corridor. Although the voice was not loud, it reached Zhang Bing's ears clearly and hit his dull brain hard!
Not long after Ma Xiuzhen went out, she came back in a hurry and went upstairs to find her two daughters-in-law, telling them not to pack their luggage for the time being.

It turned out that Zhang Heping had just gone out and met the former dean of the Capital Academy of Drama and several teachers he was familiar with.

When Ma Xiuzhen went over, Zhang Heping was talking to them.

Then, Ma Xiuzhen came over, hugged her son's arm, and looked at her son eagerly.

As a result, Zhang Heping had to give up the idea of ​​going to the restaurant because there were outsiders present, and sent his mother away.

...(End of chapter)