Break out of the courtyard

With the arrival of his two sisters, brother-in-law, and nephew Chang Xing, Zhang Heping's family is complete.

The old men and women who had been staying at Shenzhen Peace College went back home one after another to celebrate the New Year, as they had received the recuperation prescriptions prescribed by Zhang Heping, and were preparing to return to Shenzhen to make contributions after the New Year.

Several childless elderly people still live in Mr. Hua’s Villa No. 4, and seem to be very familiar with Mr. Hua’s family.

Yes, the families of Mr. Hua and Director Wang also came to Shenzhen for the New Year reunion, but only Mrs. Zheng did not allow her nephews and nieces to come.

Zhang Heping didn't mind the many gossips at Shenzhen Peace College, and was happy for people there to introduce Zhang Bei and Zhang Nan to potential partners. Unfortunately, the two kids didn't like any of them.

Logically speaking, celebrating the New Year in Hong Kong Island would provide a much richer array of options in terms of food, drink, shopping, and entertainment, but Zhang Heping did not choose Hong Kong Island.

The reason was that the father-in-law Tang Ming did not listen to the advice and took his second son Tang Yi from the hospital back to Renheyi Community. By the way, Tang Laoer's whole family was also called to Hong Kong Island by Tang Ming.

Tang Ming wanted his family to spend the New Year together. His intention was good, but the result was very realistic.

Not only did his son-in-law Zhang Heping not respond to his call, but even his eldest son Tang Ren stayed in Magnesium on the grounds that he was too busy to leave.

In fact, Tang Ren could get away.

It's because his eldest son Tang Lie and third son Tang Qiang are busy shorting Japanese stocks in Magnesium, involving more than 10 billion magnesium yuan of family funds, and he can't bear to leave.

What's more, Tang Ren had received news in advance that Zhang Heping was going to Shenzhen to celebrate the New Year, which made him even less willing to return to Hong Kong Island.

The second son, Tang Yi, ended up in such an unwelcome situation, not only because of the internal diseases he and some of his family members had, but also because he refused to give in to Hutchison and was pro-Mg.

Tang Xin felt uncomfortable being caught in the middle, but she knew why Zhang Heping disliked Tang Laoer's family.

So, when her father Tang Ming proposed to invite the Zhang family to Hong Kong Island to celebrate the New Year, Tang Xin said bluntly that she would not go as long as Tang Yi's family was there!
Zhang Bing and his relative Tang Ming have the same troubles!
Zhang Bing originally wanted Zhang Heping and his family to return to the capital to celebrate the New Year and get closer to the Zhang family's relatives.

However, Zhang Heping just said "no reply" and hung up Zhang Bing's phone.

Afterwards, if Ma Xiuzhen had not insisted on coming to Shenzhen to celebrate the New Year, Zhang Bing would still be reluctant to leave those relatives from his hometown who stayed in the capital.

Just as the Zhang family had just finished dinner and were taking a walk outside to digest their food, Zhang Bing found their eldest daughter and asked, "Zhao Di, has your second aunt's fourth son found a job?"

The group of relatives from Zhang Bing's hometown who were left behind were finally sent away by the two sisters Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandyi.

At this time, Zhang Zhaodi heard his father mention the work of his fourth cousin Li Cuihua, and he couldn't help but frowned and said, "Dad, I've already told you that it's not convenient to arrange a job for me in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. The academic qualifications required there are very high!"

Zhang Bing frowned and said, "You have acquaintances at the train station. It shouldn't be difficult to ask them to help arrange it."

Before Zhang Zhaodi could refute, her second sister Zhang Pandi came over with her mother Ma Xiuzhen.

"Dad, next time if you agree to arrange a job for someone, please tell my brother directly. His family has many companies and factories, and he can just give a simple order and it will be more effective than us little directors!" There was resentment in Zhang Pandi's words.

After Ma Xiuzhen brought Zhang Bing and the children to Shenzhen, the troublesome relatives at home were left to the two sisters Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandyi to deal with.

Many times, dealing with outsiders is easier than dealing with those distant and shameless relatives.

This time, if it weren’t for my eldest brother-in-law Chang Sheng’s idea of ​​“throwing the electronic watch to catch the thief”, it might not have been possible to drive away those relatives who stayed at home.

Chang Xing, who was walking in front, was now next to his third uncle Zhang Heping, telling him about how his father planned to catch the thief in the house.

"My dad said that if those people really had any shame, they wouldn't have stayed in our house for so long." Chang Xing said with disdain:

"My dad put all the electronic watches with alarms set on the coffee table in the lounge area on the second floor. When he came back at night, he found that there was not a single electronic watch left."

"The relatives who stole the electronic watches denied it at first, but when the alarms of all the stolen electronic watches went off at 6 a.m. the next day, they could no longer deny it."

Chang Xing put it simply because he was not at the scene at the time and did not know that some people were shameless enough to use their status as elders to act like scoundrels after being caught stealing a watch.

If Chang Sheng hadn't called a few colleagues in uniform for help, it would have been difficult to drive those people away.

Zhang Heping did not comment on this, because those rogue relatives were not good enough in his eyes and could not arouse his interest.

Just like this year's Spring Festival, when Zhang Heping heard that a lot of relatives had stayed at home in the capital and had not left, he immediately lost the desire to go back to the capital.

As for the feelings of his adoptive father Zhang Bing, Zhang Heping has never considered it and has not spoken to Zhang Bing recently.

Although it was irrational to do so, because Zhang Heping also had children, he did not pay attention to those trivial matters so as not to waste brain cells.

"Heping Aerospace Company has a resource survey satellite." Zhang Heping said to his nephew Chang Xing, who did not receive much emotional value feedback:

"In the next few days, follow your brother to the Peace Aerospace Company to learn about and become familiar with that kind of satellite."

"Satellite surveys will replace manual surveys and will also be the first step for mankind to explore the universe."

"Raise your sights a little higher and don't pay attention to the trivial matters."

Chang Xing understood that Zhang Heping was not interested in those relatives' troubles, so he replied, "Okay, Third Uncle!"

Not far away, Mr. Hua, who was waiting on the roadside, found Zhang Heping and talked to him about the changes in the Magic City.

Ma Xiuzhen watched her son Zhang Heping walking with a few old men, and couldn't help pinching Zhang Bing's waist. "Look carefully! My son is doing important things now. If you bother him with those relatives' trivial matters again, I will never let you go!"

As Ma Xiuzhen let go and left, Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi immediately followed, leaving Lao Zhang alone behind.

However, not long after Lao Zhang limped along, he met several disabled veterans from the Shenzhen Peace College.

When Ma Xiuzhen turned around to look at her man, she saw that Lao Zhang had already walked away with a few people.

"Xiaobei, do you know where your grandfather is going with those people?" Ma Xiuzhen asked somewhat worriedly.

Zhang Bei was thinking about the company's development plan after the new year. When his grandmother Ma Xiuzhen interrupted his thoughts, he didn't get angry. He looked back and said casually, "There is a veterans' activity room over there."

When she heard the word "veteran", Ma Xiuzhen immediately forgot about Zhang Bing and went to look for her grandson Zhang Hao.

~
New York, Wall Street.

Different from the Zhang family's dull after-dinner walk, after the Japanese stock market experienced another day of volatile downward trend, it was time for the stock market in Magnesium to perform well.

The "Nikkei Index Put Warrant" launched by Goldman Sachs has undergone more than ten days of market testing and has won the trust and popularity of many investors!
Other investment banks have followed suit and launched their own put warrants, preparing to gather more funds to short Japanese stocks!
As soon as Tang Qiang got off the plane, he ran to Wall Street to find his elder brother and asked him about his recent profits from shorting Japanese stocks.

"The Japanese stock market's decline this time was not as bad as my uncle said." Tang Lie took his third brother into the general manager's office and called the blonde secretary to pour coffee. Tang Qiang looked at the curvy blonde secretary and did not respond for a while.

It was not until the blonde secretary left and closed the office door that Tang Qiang frowned and asked, "Brother, are you doubting my uncle's judgment? Or have you heard some news?"

Tang Lie sat in his boss chair, holding a cigar and a golden gun-shaped lighter, slowly roasting the cigar.

"It's not doubt!" Tang Lie said slowly, "It's just that the current downward trend of Japanese stocks can easily rebound, which makes me dare not bet all my positions on the decline of Japanese stocks!"

"To put it bluntly, you are still skeptical!" Tang Qiang chuckled and said, "I told you on the phone before that Japan will raise interest rates for the fourth time."

"In addition, I also heard that the United States is also preparing to raise interest rates."

"The magnesium country is raising interest rates?" Tang Lie frowned, threw down his cigar and lighter, stood up and waved, calling his third brother Tang Qiang to the window, then leaned in and whispered:

"Where did you hear this news? I've been on Wall Street for so long, but I didn't hear a single word about it!"

"Money makes the world go round!" Tang Qiang said, glancing at the tightly closed door. "Where did that blonde secretary come from? Don't fall for the honey trap of the Magnesian guy and tell everything to others."

"Don't worry, I didn't touch that woman!" Tang Lie stood by the window, frowned and said, "If Magnesium also raises interest rates, the foreign capital withdrawn from Japan will likely flow into Magnesium, further exacerbating the outflow of funds from Japanese stocks."

"Not necessarily!" Tang Qiang turned his head and looked out the window, saying faintly: "It may also flow into Hong Kong Island!"

~
Because the Peace Group did not sell off the various Hong Kong stocks it held, and with the entry of foreign capital, the Hong Kong Island stock market has the potential to become a bull market that will replace the Japanese and Taiwanese stocks.

Unfortunately, the Hong Kong stock market was closed on the afternoon of January 1, leaving a lot of room for imagination in the Hong Kong stock market.

Zhang Heping also took a year off on New Year's Eve. He did not go to the Medical Research Institute in Hong Kong Island. Instead, he stayed with his twin sons, Zhang Long and Zhang Hu, tinkering with their drone fleet and preparing for the evening drone light show.

The Zhang family, along with the families of Mr. Hua and Director Wang, are getting together and preparing for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner.

The sixth brother Zhao Jianguo, Liu Yuan, and Huang Wenli all went home to celebrate the New Year. They did not stay in Shenzhen as light bulbs to hinder Elder Hua and Director Wang from winning over the Zhang family.

As thousands of drones took off and began to rehearse according to the scheduled procedures, the young people who came to help became excited.

While they were looking up at the sky, Zhang Heping quietly walked to the dining table outside the villa and grabbed a handful of white-skinned spiced melon seeds from the large plate on the table.

"If these drones can be equipped with grenades and thrown in the air, they can at least kill half of the infantry regiment!" An old soldier with a broken right arm said to Zhang Bing with a smile: "One day, let your two grandsons try to use drones to drop balloons filled with water."

"We've tried it. Those drones can drop grenades." Zhang Heping smiled as he walked behind Zhang Bing and said to the veterans:

"However, the drone's grenade dropping accuracy is not good enough, we need to switch to special air-dropped bombs!"

An old soldier who was peeling peanuts turned around in surprise, looked at Zhang Heping and asked, "Principal Zhang, has our army been equipped with this kind of small drone for combat?"

"That's just your guess. I didn't say anything!" Zhang Heping walked away with a smile, leaving a military topic for the veterans to discuss.

"Give it to me, if our company had these drones dropping grenades from high altitude, we wouldn't have needed to charge!"

"Even if those drones can't drop grenades, the cameras on them alone are enough to power a reconnaissance company!"

“I wonder if we can shoot down those drones with a rifle?”

"Within 200 meters, Lao Li should be able to take it down."

"It's not easy to fight them. Those drones can fly thousands of meters high and there are so many of them."

"How much does a drone cost? If it's too expensive, it's not suitable for dropping bombs!"

"I just checked, the outer shells of those drones are all made of plastic, they shouldn't be worth much."

"Mr. Zhang, why don't you ask your grandson? How much does a drone cost?"

Zhang Bing is quite popular among those disabled veterans.

Compared with those annoying relatives, Zhang Heping actually hopes that Lao Zhang can stay in Shenzhen.

When Zhang Heping was recuperating and giving medicine to these veterans, he would take Lao Zhang with him.

But Zhang Bing was also a stubborn person. He was unwilling to accept Zhang Heping's proposal and insisted on returning to the capital to look after his shoe shop. However, he secretly gave money to his relatives in his hometown to help them out of poverty.

In fact, Zhang Heping can also understand Zhang Bing’s current mentality.

After all, Zhang Bing's relatives in his hometown of Zhangjiakou have been his emotional support since he was a child, so he naturally feels closer to and more tolerant of them.

This is the local sentiment formed by the Chinese over thousands of years!

However, as material wealth increases and people become more realistic, the little bit of nostalgia for their hometown is gone, and only the older generation still misses it from time to time.

"Heping!" Seeing that Zhang Heping was free, Mr. Hua greeted him.

After Zhang Heping approached and sat on the plastic chair next to Mr. Hua, Mr. Hua leaned in and whispered, "I just received news that the Magic City is also going to be opened up. The Pudong investment you mentioned before can be put on the agenda."

Zhang Heping nodded, munching on some melon seeds and said with a smile, "When I asked them before, they were vague and didn't make any statement. This time, I'm going to wait for the investment promotion team over there to come over before sending someone to talk to them."

"Whatever you want!" Mr. Hua put away his smile and lowered his voice, saying, "We have received important intelligence that Northern Sudan is preparing to abandon the one-party system in the near future. What do you think of this?"

Zhang Heping frowned, trying hard to recall his memories from his previous life. He completely forgot that before the dissolution of the Northern Soviet Union, there was such an operation to abandon the one-party system!

"Northern Soviet Union is going to fall apart!" Zhang Heping's tone was calm, but his attitude was firm. "The one-party system is the foundation of Northern Soviet Union. Once it is abandoned, Northern Soviet Union will lose its soul and will soon be torn apart!"

“I used to think that North Sudan would fail because of economic problems, but now it seems that they have been fooled by the Taiwanese and have even given up on basic national policies!”

Mr. Hua nodded seriously, "We will not give up, this will never change!"

"Of course!" Zhang Heping said with a bit of ease, "Look at those European and American countries. A new wave of people comes to power, and then they abandon the policies of the previous wave and adopt the policies that their own people want, in order to prove that their current wave is correct."

"However, the end result of doing so is that their policies are incoherent, lacking subsequent corrections and improvements, and they can only use their mouths to criticize the mistakes of the previous wave of people."

...(End of chapter)