Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 805: First Strong Support

"Honey, I want to sell some stocks!" Chen Shuting saw that the atmosphere was not good, so she changed the subject and said, "Hong Kong stocks have been doing well recently. I want to sell some. What do you think?"

Zhang Heping sensed that his brother-in-law Tang Ren had gone to the next door, and he said casually, "The stocks in Europe can also be sold."

Chen Shuting glanced at Zhang Bei who was concentrating on eating and said with a smile: "Sell some stocks so that some people won't think we are trying to steal their company."

The eldest wife Tang Xin next to her was tactful and didn't say anything.

Tang Xin is not fond of her second brother Tang Yi's family, but Tang Ming is her father and there are many things she cannot change. Keeping silent is her best choice.

As for the eldest son Zhang Bei, Tang Xin couldn't help but glance at him. She didn't know what he was thinking today. He actually dared to lecture his father...

Tang Ren tried to persuade his father Tang Ming from the next room for a while, but when he saw that his father Tang Ming was unmoved, he spoke more bluntly.

"I'm telling you the truth, but you may not like it." Tang Ren looked at his father's serious face and said in a deep voice, "Our Tang family can be in this situation now, thanks to my brother-in-law's help before."

"He doesn't owe us the Tang family anything. Instead, we owe him a lot."

What Tang Ren meant was that the Tang family had no right to ask Zhang Heping to do anything.

Seeing that his old father was silent, Tang Ren simply spoke out, "During the Chinese New Year, you asked us to come back to celebrate the New Year together, simply because you wanted us to take care of your second son's children and grandchildren in the future."

"You're right. I can stop arguing with Lao Er about the Hutchison Whampoa incident. But the problem is that you don't have the final say with me!"

"Let's not talk about whether my brother-in-law's family will forgive the good things that Lao Er and his family did before. Take A Lie and A Qiang for example. Call them and ask if they are willing to help Lao Er's family!"

"How big of a grudge can a family have?" Tang Ming frowned and said, "Let's all get together, sit down and talk it out."

"Dad, are you really confused, or are you pretending to be confused?" Tang Ren stood up angrily, "How did Tang Lu from the second son's family die?"

"Why doesn't Tang Hai go to the hospital to see his father?"

"After Tangning failed to steal the surveillance video from this neighborhood, who killed him?"

"Enough!" Tang Ming slapped the armrest of the sofa angrily, but he couldn't say anything in rebuttal, so he could only sit there and sulk.

Tang Ren left his spot and walked to the edge of the sofa. He turned his back to his old father and said, "If you really want to do good for the second son's family, you'd better put away your temper and get along well with your fourth son-in-law."

"When the second child is critically ill, perhaps I can ask him to personally treat him."

After saying this, Tang Ren went straight away and left the second brother's villa.

Seeing that the old father and son had dispersed, Xu Jiefeng walked to the sofa, added some hot water to her husband Tang Ming's teacup, and then sat quietly aside and read the newspaper.

After a long while, Tang Ming sighed, picked up the teacup and thought for a while, then said to his wife beside him: "Did I really do something wrong in this matter?"

"It's not wrong for parents to think about their children's long-term future." Xu Jiefeng put down the newspaper and smiled faintly: "But Ah Ren and Heping are also parents, they also have to consider their own children."

These words left Tang Ming speechless again.

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Tang Ren sat on the flat ground outside the villa for a while before waiting for Zhang Heping to come back from a walk to digest his food.

"Brother-in-law, let me ask you for some advice on behalf of Ali!" Tang Ren greeted him with a smile. He originally wanted to follow Zhang Heping and his party to the Zhang family villa, but he did not expect that Zhang Heping took him back to the plastic chair on the flat ground.

After Zhang Heping sat down, he asked casually, "I heard that Aqiang also went to Magnesium. Are the two brothers planning to take root in Magnesium and do finance?"

"I was just about to tell you this!" Tang Ren said with a smile, "Aqiang wants to continue working in finance, but Alie thinks that the risks of working in finance are too great and wants to allocate some of his funds to do real business."

"He heard that the Peace Group is planning to invest in Pudong, the Magic City, and wants to ask for your opinion on whether he can also invest in Pudong?"

"You can invest in real estate projects in the capital, Shanghai, and Shenzhen!" Zhang Heping leaned back, looked at the afterglow in the sky, and said:

"Shanghai and Shenzhen are both preparing to set up stock exchanges. The mainland's capital market will soon open up, and relevant policies and laws will follow suit."

"However, I am investing for the long term, and I won't see much return in the short term. If you want to invest with me, you'd better be mentally prepared for this."

Tang Ren responded with a smile: "Of course, when you invested in Ridao Real Estate ten years ago, I and many Hong Kong businessmen didn't understand it!"

"We waited until the Japanese real estate market picked up before jumping in, and we regretted it so much!"

"Don't they want to make smartphones?" Zhang Heping asked in return. "Hong Kong Island Telecom has never contacted companies from Magnesium. I thought they would take the initiative to find them."

Snapped!
Tang Ren slapped his forehead and laughed awkwardly, "How could I have overlooked such a big business? Mistake! Mistake!"

"Wait a minute. I'll call A Lie and ask them what's going on with their Datang Telecom Company."

As Tang Ren spoke, he took out an old-fashioned cell phone from his pocket.

Zhang Heping took out his smartphone and prepared to check the World Internet Forum.

"Alie, your uncle asked you why Datang Communications Company didn't contact Hong Kong Island Telecom for cooperation, and also asked you if you would make smart phones?" Tang Ren deliberately spoke loudly, as if the cell phone signal was bad.

It was still dark in Magnesium Country. Tang Ren spoke briefly to his eldest son and then hung up the phone.

Then, Tang Ren smiled at Zhang Heping and said, "Those two brats have been so busy speculating in stocks these years that they forgot they have a telecommunications company in Magnesium!"

"I told A Lie that he will contact Datang Telecom to have a meeting later, and will contact Hong Kong Island Telecom to discuss cooperation later."

Zhang Heping nodded slightly, put away his phone and said, "If you want to work in finance in Magnesium, it's best to find a way to join the board of directors of one or two Magnesium investment banks, so as not to be slaughtered by the Magnesium guys!"

Tang Ren was slightly stunned because his family had never considered entering the banking industry.

But when he thought of Huifeng Bank, which is controlled by Heping Group, Tang Ren felt relieved.

"Brother-in-law, if you have nothing else to say, I'll go back first!" Zhang Heping stood up, and after making sure that Tang Ren had nothing else to talk to him about, he walked towards his villa.

He thought Tang Ren wanted to talk to Tang Xin about Tang Lao Er, so he didn't let Tang Ren go to his living room to talk, to avoid him saying unpleasant words and making Tang Xin feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, it was just a business matter and did not cause any trouble for Zhang Heping.

The next morning, Zhang Heping and his concubine Chen Shuting drove down the mountain, then separated downstairs of the Heping Group and started their respective work.

A lot of foreigners have recently left the Peace Medical Research Institute. Zhang Heping guessed that they were lured by the high price paid by the Magnesium people to reverse engineer the 100-year life potion, but there was no evidence and no need to pursue it. Fortunately, the main work of the Medical Research Institute recently is to map the human genome, and it is harmless for some foreigners to leave other projects. At most, those projects can be stopped.

As for the research in the laboratory on the top floor, it had been stopped by Zhang Heping long ago. Now he just asked six laboratory assistants to do the research in front of foreigners and explain why the Hong Kong Island Pharmaceutical Factory had not yet started production.

The reason why Zhang Heping did this was, first, to make those who tried the Life 100 potion in advance stand out as a highlight, so that all parties would pay attention to their quality of life after trying the medicine.

Secondly, it is a rare commodity that can be sold at a high price, or it can be used as a bargaining chip to exchange benefits!

Anyway, the right to interpret the longevity potion now lies with Zhang Heping. He has the final say on whether it can be mass-produced, when to produce it, and whether there is any stock on hand.

After receiving the news of the cooperation on smartphones, brothers Tang Lie and Tang Qiang rushed back to Hong Kong Island the next afternoon to show their importance to this cooperation.

Of course, thanking you in person is also indispensable.

After Tang Lie and Tang Qiang left their gifts, they were called over by their grandfather. Finally, they went to Heping Hospital to visit their second uncle Tang Yi who had been staying in the hospital for another half a year.

It was said to be a visit, but he just bought some fruits and greeted people inside the ward door wearing a mask.

Tang Ming wanted to let his two grandsons into the ward, but was rejected by Tang Lie and Tang Qiang, who bluntly told him that their second uncle Tang Yi had an infectious disease and they did not want to be infected.

After being told so by Tang Lie and Tang Qiang, if Tang Ming insisted on asking them to enter the ward again, even if he succeeded temporarily, they would become disloyal and his two grandsons would probably avoid him in the future.

It was not until this moment that Tang Ming finally understood that even the two children of the eldest family disliked the second child, Tang Yi. This family was really broken up!
That evening, when Tang Ren and his family were having dinner at Zhang's house, Tang Ming took advantage of Tang Lie's invitation to find a way out and stopped worrying about the New Year's Day.

Zhang Heping did not comment on this matter out of consideration for his first wife Tang Xin, and let his second wife Chen Shuting smooth things over.

"Uncle!" Tang Qiang asked after he finished his bowl of noodles, "I heard that you opened the top floor laboratory. Did you get any results from the research there?"

"Still waiting for new equipment!" Zhang Heping answered without commenting. It seemed like he was answering a question that was irrelevant, but it made people think that he was waiting for the new equipment to arrive and that he would continue his research.

Because his father-in-law Tang Ming had been stubborn with him before, Zhang Heping didn't bother to talk about his new product.

He even thought about giving this stubborn old man a potion that would extend his life by 100 years, so that he wouldn't live too long and cause him trouble.

Seeing that Zhang Heping was unwilling to talk, Tang Qiang gave up asking further questions and glanced at his father unnoticeably, as if to say, I have already asked.

"Uncle!" Tang Lie changed the subject and said, "The country of Magnesium launched a space telescope last month, boasting that their space technology is far ahead."

"I wonder if Peace Space Corporation has any projects like space telescopes?"

"No!" Zhang Heping answered this question very straightforwardly, "The main task of Heping Aerospace Company at present is to launch communication satellites."

Speaking of communication satellites, Tang Lie asked hurriedly: "Uncle, after your communication satellite is connected to the Internet, how will you charge for satellite calls? Will it squeeze out the 4G communication business?"

"Ideally, all smartphones around the world will be able to make and receive satellite calls and access the Internet anytime, anywhere." Zhang Heping put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and continued:

"However, in order to prevent war damage, communication satellites cannot replace the terrestrial communication status of 4G communication networks."

"So, 4G communications are currently targeting mid- and low-end consumer customers, while communications satellites are targeting high-end customers and military use."

After hearing this explanation, Tang Lie felt relieved and had many new ideas about 4G communication cooperation and smartphone production.

Datang Communications' business is not yet worthy of Chen Shuting's personal attention.

So, Tang Lie and Tang Qiang went straight to the Bao family that night to inquire about the details of the cooperation.

After Zhang Heping inquired about the job assignments for graduates of the Hong Kong Peace College and the enrollment plan for the second half of the year, he moved to the Shenzhen Peace College.

This time, father-in-law Tang Ming did not act stubbornly. When Tang Xin asked them if they wanted to go together, he followed them.

When he arrived at Shenzhen Peace College, Tang Ming saw a group of old men and old ladies, and then he suddenly realized that the longevity potion developed by his fourth son-in-law was very attractive to these retired elderly people.

Zhang Heping didn't care about his father-in-law Tang Ming dealing with those old men and women. He returned to Shenzhen Peace College this time because the freshmen here are about to take exams and their summer internships have not been arranged yet.

In addition, Mr. Hua called him several times and asked him many times about recruiting new students in the second half of the year and whether to add a biological genetics major since there are ready-made professors.

Although Mr. Hua did not say it explicitly, his meaning was very clear. He was under pressure from his superiors and hoped that a biological genetics major would be added here.

In addition, the school is next to the Peace Hospital, and many people believe that this place has advantages in adding a biological genetics major.

Another purpose of Zhang Heping's return to Shenzhen was to interview mainland professors who were willing to come here to teach and do research.

Mr. Hua waited until the last biology professor left the principal's office before entering. "Heping, what do you think of this group of professors?"

"Master Hua!" Zhang Heping tore a piece of paper from his notebook and stood up. When he walked to Master Hua, he handed the paper to him. "They want to copy my longevity potion, but they are reluctant to send a real expert over."

"They don't think that they can steal the core technology of the longevity potion from me with just these professors!"

Mr. Hua smiled awkwardly, and when he looked down at the paper in his hand, he couldn't help but feel happy.

There was a column of names written on the paper, and to the right of the names were the schools, units, and professional fields of these people.

Mr. Hua simply glanced at the list and said with a smile, "Heping, are you going to recruit these experts and professors?"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping walked out of the room first and said casually, "The technology related to the Life 100 Potion can be passed on to them, but I don't recommend that this medicine be promoted and used in China. Just let foreigners use it."

When Mr. Hua heard about the foreigner using the 100-year longevity potion again, he couldn't help but think of the various inquiry calls he had received during this period.

When the 100-year longevity potion was tested before, those people were all waiting and watching.

Now that there are no more medicines to try, some people are getting anxious, fearing that they will not be able to use the medicine that can really delay aging.

The reason why Mr. Hua was willing to facilitate the imitation of the 100-year life potion this time was, firstly, he felt that Zhang Heping would not care about it, and secondly, it was a rare opportunity to have such a united effort to ask him to do this, and they also promised him that he could just ask for whatever he needed!
"The support from above is very strong!" Mr. Hua handed over the paper and said with a smile, "Do you think we should add some more experts and professors? I see there are only three chemistry experts here, isn't that a little too little?"

Zhang Heping was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that Mr. Hua didn't seem to be joking, he realized what Mr. Hua was saying.

"Then add some more. It just so happens that the experts in our academy don't like to attend classes, hehe!"

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(End of this chapter)