Break out of the courtyard

Zhang Heping likened Euro-Magnesium Capital to a pack of wolves, but did not specify what the wolves were targeting, leaving a group of leading Hong Kong businessmen very curious. However, Zhang Heping smiled but remained silent, refusing to say anything.

Ma Xiuzhen's birthday banquet was originally planned as a family dinner, and San Sheng did not intend to invite outsiders. However, there were quite a few uninvited guests, such as Tang Ren and Chairman He, so it was finally decided to hold it at the Capital Hotel.

On Ma Xiuzhen's birthday, Zhang Bing was a little jealous.

Because Zhang Heping never paid attention to his birthday, nor did he ever come back to celebrate it with him.

Zhang Bing knew why his third son treated him this way, but he couldn't bring himself to sever ties with those people back home.

As a result, the conflict between the father and son has remained between them for a long time.

After Ma Xiuzhen's birthday, Zhang Heping did not rush back.

It wasn't until the 863 Program Working Conference was held in the capital that Zhang Heping, along with representatives from some factories under the Heping Group and research team representatives, went to receive commendation at the conference before returning to Shenzhen.

Because of this delay, Zhang Heping missed another week of declining Japanese stocks.

In the past week, Tang Qiang also joined forces with some Hong Kong businessmen to continue shorting Japanese stocks, but they encountered great help, as if a large hand was lying in wait at the bottom, waiting for them to short Japanese stocks.

Zhang Heping checked the bank's electronic trading system and found that the funds used for bottom-fishing came from a large number of offshore accounts, which were related to the funds that had previously withdrawn from OMG.

In other words, those European and American capital firms are buying up some Japanese company stocks at low prices, not simply withdrawing, but have already begun the process of acquiring relevant Japanese companies.

Given Omega Capital's clandestine acquisition of Japanese company stocks, Zhang Heping has reason to believe that Omega Capital has not yet finalized the acquisition price with the Japanese government or the Japanese companies.

As for why Euromag Capital no longer directly shorts Japanese stocks, Zhang Heping didn't know much about it, but he guessed it was either a threat from the Japanese government or a threat from Euromag Capital's own countries.

Zhang Heping once shared this view with Tang Qiang, who came to him for advice.

After that, Zhang Heping heard the news that Hong Kong capital was gradually withdrawing from Japan, which meant that they were no longer willing to work for foreign capital.

Upon hearing this news, Zhang Heping hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should withdraw the Japanese yen from the accounts of Heping Group, Heping Investment, and Stepmother Investment.

After attending the 863 Program working meeting and listening to the representatives report on the research progress, Zhang Heping hesitated about whether to continue acquiring Japanese companies and then transfer their production to the mainland, thus hollowing out Japan's industries.

If China ceases acquiring Japanese companies and chooses to withdraw its investment from Japan, it can still compete in the Japanese market with cheaper, similar products and seize trade share from other countries.
However, while this saved Zhang Heping the trouble of acquiring Japanese companies, it also cost him control over the rapid hollowing out of Japan's industries.

Not long after, a phone call brought Zhang Heping back to reality a matter he had almost forgotten, forcing him to make a choice.

"Heavy rain warning?" When Zhang Heping received the call, he didn't think much of it at first. He casually told the head of the satellite monitoring center on the other end of the line, "Just report the data directly to the Capital TV station."

"No, Teacher Zhang!" came a hurried voice from the other end of the phone. "We expect this rainstorm to cover 18 provinces, and the rainfall may be very heavy."

"We are worried that the prediction is wrong. Could you please come over now and take a look at the cloud map transmitted by the satellite?"

"Torrential rain! 18 provinces!" Zhang Heping was shocked. His distant memories from his past life were awakened. He recalled the concert organized by Hong Kong artists to raise money for disaster relief, and the movie "The Banquet".

"I'm coming right away!" Zhang Heping said, then abandoned the experiment in the space capsule.

Finally, Zhang Heping also called Hua Lao and Director Wang to arrange a meeting at Heping Aerospace Company.

Zhang Heping's brief explanation on the phone led Elder Hua, Director Wang, and others to believe that something serious had happened at Heping Aerospace Company. They hurriedly dropped what they were doing and rushed over.

As a result, Mr. Hua and Director Wang arrived at Heping Aerospace Company even before Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping, who had been delayed on the road, had already notified Heping Group, Heping Investment, and Houma Investment to urgently withdraw their funds from Japan Island, leaving only 2000 billion yen to repurchase the remaining shares of Heping Motors.

"The plum rain season in East China started more than 20 days earlier than usual, coupled with our predicted heavy rainfall..."

When Zhang Heping arrived at the satellite monitoring center, the person in charge there was explaining the weather problems they had discovered to Mr. Hua, Mr. Li, Mrs. Zheng, and others.

Upon seeing Zhang Heping's arrival, the group greeted him, but Zhang Heping waved and said, "You can continue!"

Then Zhang Heping arrived at the main control console of the satellite monitoring center and asked the IT maintenance engineer to make way for him.

With Zhang Heping taking over the computer access to the satellite monitoring center, the space-based early warning system, which had been secretly built and improved, was once again activated in public by Zhang Heping.

"Notify the communications, navigation, surveying, and spacecraft monitoring teams that I am taking over control of them!"

As soon as Zhang Heping uttered these words, someone behind him immediately responded.

"I'll notify Pigeon Communications!"

"I'm informing BeiDou Navigation!"

Before they could finish speaking, Zhang Heping gave another order, "Contact the Capital Space Administration. I will temporarily take over control of all their satellites. Tell them not to panic!"

"Please inform the authorities in the capital that I will temporarily restrict satellite access to other countries. Ask them to prepare for the necessary diplomatic responses and simply not to acknowledge it!"

Contacting the space agency is fine, since it's our own business.

But what's with this temporary control over other countries' satellite access?

While everyone else was still in a daze, the large screen in the hall immediately split into hundreds of small squares, with Chinese characters, Angkor script, Russian, Japanese and other codes constantly refreshing on each small square screen.

At the same time, space agencies in Japan, the United States, Europe, the Soviet Union, and other countries immediately discovered anomalies in their respective satellites. It wasn't that they had lost control of their satellites, but rather that their satellites were abnormally consuming processor computing power and memory!
Even though they hadn't lost control of the satellite, it still shocked them greatly!
In particular, after the space agencies of several European countries communicated with each other that day, they immediately targeted Peace Space as the suspect.

However, this anomaly came quickly and disappeared just as quickly.

The space agencies of these countries had just reported the incident, and before they even received any instructions from higher authorities, they discovered that the satellite had returned to normal!
Most importantly, after checking the satellite's logs and the memory of various devices, the space agencies of these countries found no trace of intrusion.

Once the seeds of doubt are sown, countries like Japan, Europe, and the United States don't need any evidence to pinpoint Peace Space as the instigator.

They also firmly believe that this satellite anomaly is definitely related to Zhang Heping.

However, when deciding whether to disclose this satellite anomaly, these countries all chose to keep it secret. This was because, not long ago, during the Middle East conflict, these allied forces had mocked the inferior Chinese-made goods purchased by Iran and Iraq.

If we were to make baseless accusations that Peace Space has "occupied" the satellite resources of several countries at the same time, wouldn't that be gilding Peace Space's reputation?

Leaving aside the reactions of foreign space agencies, the domestic space agency's reaction was quite strong.

They weren't blaming Peace Space for intruding on their launched satellites, but rather they were demanding to borrow BeiDou navigation satellite resources because they hadn't been able to last time.

"Don't waste your breath on them!" Zhang Heping said impatiently. "Notify them to organize an expert group to participate in the video conference."

"This is a serious matter!" Zhang Heping said, while highlighting the real-time cloud monitoring images of East Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and Southeast Asia on the large screen in the lobby. "The monitoring center's prediction was correct; the torrential rain that is about to form inland..."

Zhang Heping gave a long explanation, but Hua Lao's focus was still on Zhang Heping's actions in controlling global satellites. He thought that if war broke out in the future, as long as Zhang Heping was stationed here, other countries' satellites would be rendered ineffective.

When Zhang Heping didn't get a response from Elder Hua, he turned around and realized that Elder Hua was daydreaming. He then looked at Elder Li, Elder Zheng, and the others and said, "We must contact the capital authorities about this matter and urgently convene a meeting to discuss flood prevention and control!"

Old Li frowned and said, "Peace, it's not that we don't believe your and the monitoring center's judgment, but it's just too unbelievable that 18 provinces would suffer from torrential rain and floods!"

"This is probably unprecedented in the history of China!"

Zhang Heping turned around and, while moving the mouse, explained, "I just used the still-developing space-based early warning system and, with the help of domestic and international satellites, calculated the probability of weather and geological disasters occurring in East Asia."

"The Pinatu volcano in the Philippines is showing signs of unusual activity and could erupt at any time; if it does erupt, it will disrupt the atmospheric circulation in southern Philippines, thereby intensifying the heavy rainfall previously predicted by the monitoring center and leading to extreme precipitation!"

"In addition..." Zhang Heping said, zooming in on the upper reaches of the Yellow River estuary, and continued, "After the Yellow River changed its course and seized the Huai River's passage to the sea, the lower reaches of the Huai River suffered severe siltation, and its flood discharge capacity decreased significantly."

"Although some efforts have been made to manage the situation over the years, the problem of disordered river channels has not yet been fundamentally resolved."

The camera pans down to the mouth of the Yangtze River, showing that "the lower reaches of the Yangtze River have also been affected by previous land reclamation around lakes and siltation in the riverbed, which has led to a shrinking of the lake area, a rise in the riverbed, and a significant reduction in the natural water storage and flood discharge capacity."

"Water that could have been diverted to major lakes was forced to be concentrated and dumped downstream."

"Furthermore, once the predicted rainfall area and amount are reached, where will they release the floodwaters to protect critical infrastructure such as railways?"

As Zhang Heping finished speaking, the satellite map settled on the East China region!
Seeing that Elder Hua, Elder Li, and the others remained silent, the people at the satellite monitoring center exchanged glances and then focused their attention on the person in charge.

The head of the satellite monitoring center pursed his lips, about to say something, when an elderly woman with gray hair spoke up: "Mr. Zheng, you may not believe our monitoring center's predictions, but actually we don't want to believe them either."

"However, I think the issue with Teacher Zhang's judgment is not whether to believe it or not, but rather that it needs your attention so that more people can believe that such a thing exists. Only then can we organize an expert team to make a comprehensive judgment on whether or not to organize flood prevention and control in advance!"

"Yes! Professor Zheng, Professor Hua, Professor Li!" Another elderly expert with gray hair stepped forward and said, "Now it's not a matter of whether you believe it or not, but rather that we need to organize a video conference as soon as possible and come up with a solution!"

The head of the satellite monitoring center echoed, "The rainfall area is large, and the eruption of the Philippine volcano has exacerbated the rainfall. Even if there is only the slightest possibility, for the sake of people's lives and property, we must report this matter!"

Old Li and Old Lady Zheng exchanged a glance, and then Old Li said, "Report this matter in the name of Peace Aerospace Company, not in the name of your satellite monitoring center."

Old Hua slowly came to his senses and nodded, saying, "Your satellite monitoring center's security level has been raised to the highest level. When you participate in video conferences to report, remember to wear a mask."

Judging from what Mr. Hua said, he meant that the satellite monitoring center was linked with the space-based early warning system, and was elevated to a strategic-level classified department.

Grandma Zheng looked at Zhang Heping and said, "Heping, you go back and do your research first. You can leave the reports here to Lao Sun and the others."

Grandma Zheng clearly knew the experts at the monitoring center; otherwise, those senior experts wouldn't have approached her when Grandpa Li remained silent.

“Okay! You guys contact the capital, and I’ll go over the details of the report with the others.” Zhang Heping replied casually, then beckoned the experts from the monitoring center to come closer and explained his forecasting methods and the relevant data he had just retrieved from a number of satellites.

Grandma Zheng asked Zhang Heping to leave because she was worried that foreign spies might target him or his family since he had just temporarily taken control of a foreign satellite.

Zhang Heping understood this. In fact, he didn't want to reveal his ability to control foreign satellites too early, but with such a large-scale rainfall and amount, he had to provide sufficient data to prove that their weather forecast had a high probability of occurring.

"Those drones can be used for search and rescue, or to drop lifebuoys and food," Zhang Heping said to Hua Lao, who was frowning, before leaving.

Zhang Heping knew what Elder Hua was worried about!
In fact, when the Peace Group was preparing to build aircraft carriers and airplanes, Zhang Heping knew that he and the Peace Group would become a thorn in the side of foreigners, and the danger from both domestic and foreign countries would skyrocket!
But so what!

After the Lifespan 160 drug leaves the spacecraft and returns to Earth for several clinical trials, he and the Peace Group will still receive worldwide attention.

A person’s name is like a tree’s shadow!
Zhang Heping's reputation over the years is no joke!

No matter how outlandish the extreme weather warning issued by Peace Space was, the capital city took it seriously and immediately mobilized meteorological stations across the country to provide timely weather updates from various regions.

While they were discussing in a video conference how many manpower the organization had for flood prevention and control, the Peace Charitable Foundation directly transferred 20 billion US dollars to the capital with the note: Flood Prevention and Control!
Money makes things easier!
The current exchange rate in mainland China is 1 US dollar: 5.32 RMB.

The Peace Group directly donated 100 billion RMB to endorse Peace Aerospace's extreme weather warnings.

Even if the warning was wrong, it was still money donated by the Peace Group.

Moreover, if the warning comes true, things will be in serious trouble!
Just thinking about the losses involved, even tens of billions wouldn't be enough to stop it!

~
The Grand Steward's Office in the capital of the United States.

Due to time zone differences and reporting procedures, the US's top administrator was not informed immediately of the brief intrusion and control of satellites belonging to various countries.

However, after the mainland launched its flood prevention and control efforts overnight, this anomaly was immediately brought to the attention of the US's top brass.

"Unusual troop movements on the mainland?" The US's top executive looked at the large stack of satellite photos that had just been handed to him. Although the images were a bit blurry, he could see large trucks loaded with people.

"The satellite also captured images of them moving food and supplies up the mountain, which we find very puzzling," said the blond, buzz-cut middle-aged man who delivered the military intelligence report, his brow furrowed.

"If they wanted to fight, they should have hidden their food and supplies underground or in caves."

The US's top executive pointed to a photo and said, "Aren't these vehicles transporting supplies into the cave?"

...(End of chapter)