Break out of the courtyard

An office in the capital.

"Report, Consultant Zhang and his family have just returned to Villa No. 1 of Shenzhen Peace College."

Mr. Yang, who was processing documents on his desk, put down his pen, took off his glasses, looked up at the secretary standing in front of the desk, picked up the large teacup beside him with his left hand, and said with a smile, "I'm glad you're back!"

"Recently, in order to assign jobs to graduates of Shenzhen Peace College, people have been blocking my house every evening, demanding to be released. But is this something I can handle?"

The middle-aged male secretary, who had been standing upright, noticed that Mr. Yang had raised his teacup a little too high. He hurriedly picked up the rattan kettle beside him and, while bending over to fill it for Mr. Yang, he smiled and agreed, "Looking at the Heping Group's investment in coastal areas, I'm afraid they'll assign those graduates there."

Elder Yang stood up and did chest expansion exercises while saying, "Some people come to me every day because they are worried about this kind of situation."

The male secretary put down the kettle and placed the teacup in the left hand position that Mr. Yang used to. Then he responded, "I heard that the companies and factories that accepted shares from the Heping Group received not only financial support but also technical support."

"They are probably worried that if those companies and factories develop, they will squeeze the living space of other companies and factories."

"Science and technology are the primary productive forces!" Old Yang walked around the desk, patted his secretary on the shoulder, and ignored his secretary's subtle intention of speaking in favor of the mechanical and electrical people, and walked straight out the door.

The male secretary followed closely behind, and then heard Mr. Yang speak again, "This is market competition. Without solid technology, you will be eliminated by the market!"

"However, I have already asked Mr. Hua to communicate with him, and I am sure that Consultant Zhang will not let us down."

Seeing Mr. Yang doing his radio calisthenics, the male secretary stood a little behind him and followed along, laughing, "Speaking of which, Consultant Zhang is truly remarkable. He actually managed to get that guy to agree to come over and apologize in person!"

Yang Lao changed his posture and glanced at his secretary casually. "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. A pile that stands out on the shore will be swept away by the current. A person who stands out from others will be criticized by the crowd."

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Shenzhen Peace College, Villa No. 1.

"Heping, Brigade Commander Chu needs to see you about something. Are you available right now?" Old Hua came over with a burly man with a square face and called out to Zhang Heping, who had just come out.

Zhang Heping walked over to a black bulletproof car and casually responded, "I'm going to the remote control center. Should we talk in the car or while we're walking?"

Hua Lao looked at the burly man beside him but did not answer Zhang Heping.

This sturdy man known as Brigade Commander Chu is Chu Bei, the brigade commander of three regiments stationed around Shenzhen Peace College who was urgently transferred after the January 1th bombing.

There was only one battalion of troops stationed on Nanshan Mountain before, and it was originally thought that it was enough, but no one expected that the Japanese-Magnesium spies would be so rampant.

The key point is that those spies also paid money to bribe the locals!
In addition, as Shenzhen Heping Hospital receives more and more retirees, the security level has been raised.

"Hello, Advisor Zhang!" Brigade Commander Chu Bei saluted, then shook hands with Zhang Heping, who extended his right hand. Then he explained his intention, "Look, we want to transform the three regiments stationed here into an electronic information-based force."

"Cooperate with Shenzhen's smart city system and the high-tech weapons in the underground base to better protect the security here."

Zhang Heping looked at Elder Hua and asked in confusion, "Elder Hua can just agree to this, why ask me?"

Hua Lao looked at the burly brigade commander Chu and said with a smile, "I already told you, get straight to the point, don't waste Advisor Zhang's time."

Brigadier General Chu raised his right hand and scratched his head, then smiled sheepishly and said, "Then I'll be frank. We want to recruit some graduates from here to join our army and help us..."

"Sure!" Without waiting for the other party to finish, Zhang Heping said while looking at the watch on his left wrist, "Talk to Vice Deans Qian and Deng about this. Ask them to give me a copy of the graduate job placement plan."

"Is there anything else?" Zhang Heping asked, glancing at Brigade Commander Chu and Elder Hua.

The much younger-looking Mr. Hua asked with slight surprise, "Peace, do you mean to let the college arrange job placements for those graduates on its own? Aren't you considering having them work for the Peace Group?"

"I've told Mr. Qian and the others before to let them make the arrangements first. If they can't finish all the work, I'll take over and arrange the work." Zhang Heping said, his hand already resting on the car door. "The Heping Group has their own recruitment and training plans, so I don't need it for now."

"If nothing else, I'll go to the lab first!"

"It's alright!" Old Hua laughed. "Go ahead and do your work, I'll take care of things here!"

As soon as Zhang Heping left, the smile on Old Hua's face vanished, replaced by a worried expression.

"This is troublesome!" Old Hua looked at Commander Chu and said, "So many departments and units are blocking the intersection demanding people, how can we possibly have enough students to go around?"

"Hehe!" Brigade Commander Chu seemed not to understand and said with a smile: "Advisor Zhang just promised me, I will go to the two vice presidents to ask for someone."

Seeing that Brigade Commander Chu Bei was about to leave, Elder Hua hurriedly grabbed the burly man and, without mincing words, said directly, "I'll give you a maximum of 30 students!"

“Thirty students are not enough!” Brigade Commander Chu knew that this was the last hurdle for Elder Hua, so he immediately feigned weakness and complained, “The combined number of our three regiments is less than 4000!”

"Old Hua, look around. With so few of us working in three shifts to guard such a large area, we're under a lot of pressure!"

"You just told me to ask Consultant Zhang directly for as much as I can get!"

"Just 30!" After Hua Lao was able to make the decision on the allocation of graduates, he seemed like a different person. "Advisor Zhang didn't promise you how many graduates you would get. If you don't believe me, go ask Vice Dean Qian and the others. They'll probably give you even fewer."

"Old Hua, 30 students are really too few!" Commander Chu scratched his buzz cut with both hands in his anxiety, when a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

"How about this? After you assign tasks to those students, lend them to me for a few months." Brigade Commander Chu said, counting on his right fingers. "Start lending them this month, and then in June, July, and August, have them teach my soldiers how to use computers before September."

Hua Lao patted Commander Chu's burly shoulder and laughed, "Alright, there are only 30 students. You don't need to borrow graduates to teach your soldiers."

"I'm in charge. You are allowed to audit all classes at the academy during your free time. You can also enter the library and computer lab freely."

"Also, we can find some professors and students to give you lessons in the evenings or during holidays."

"As for the secret weapons of the underground base, those graduates don't know either. We can only ask the assistants in the laboratory to explain them to you."

Brigade Commander Chu naturally agreed to this arrangement.

As for how Hua Lao would allocate the remaining few hundred students, that was none of the soldiers' concern.

Zhang Heping spent three days finishing up the work at the space capsule remote control center and stored his experimental samples in the Dragon Egg Spacecraft No. 3.

Next, we just need to wait for the completion of other experimental projects before we can recover the spacecraft.

It is worth mentioning that there is still an experimental monkey in the space capsule. In a few days, it will have stayed in space for 100 days.

Once we bring this monkey back to the ground, we will be close to conducting manned space experiments, which is really exciting.

On the other side, Old Bush used these few days to persuade some financial groups and families to temporarily suppress his impeachment.

In addition, this guy also took the time to issue a decree to increase the security personnel and treatment of the outgoing general manager.

Old Bush originally wanted to delay it for a few more days, but after seeing Eagle King being interviewed in the ward on TV and criticizing the explosion, he asked someone to communicate with the mainland about the relevant time.

Zhang Heping paid no attention to the procrastinating Old Bu. After finishing his space experiment, he went to Dapeng Peninsula to inspect the space computers and servers made there using 10-nanometer silicon carbide chips.

Zhang Heping dared to launch the electromagnetic pulse bomb and provoke a new round of space race, so he naturally had a backup plan.

Otherwise, the country would have stopped him first.

Silicon carbide, as a third-generation semiconductor material, has significant advantages in resisting electromagnetic pulses. Its material properties, combined with device design, can effectively improve the electromagnetic compatibility protection capabilities of electronic systems, which is one of the reasons why Peace Chip Factory was able to secure a large military contract. The three brothers, Zhang Bei, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu, are preparing to build a drone manufacturing plant in Shenzhen. Because construction will take some time, the production line needs to be custom-made, and personnel need to be recruited and trained, they are not in a hurry to use 28-nanometer chips.

Just because you’re not in a hurry to use it doesn’t mean you don’t need to order it.

After Zhang Bei and his team used the back door, paid the money and placed the order, they found out that the order was scheduled until April of next year, which was a huge delay.

However, this is already the excess production squeezed out by the chip factory working overtime. Who told them not to place the order earlier?
...

Although the free trade agreement was first proposed by the United States, it was the Americans from the United States who actually initiated the negotiations on the free trade agreement!

As the Eagle King got through the low fever caused by the medicine, large areas of his skin began to peel off, and his appearance changed significantly, returning to that of a man in his fifties.

If she follows the doctor's advice and continues to exercise after returning home, she can maintain this appearance for another 20 to 30 years.

Because of the negotiations initiated by the Eagle Country, Zhang Zhaodi, who had just returned to the capital not long ago, came to Hong Kong Island with the delegation as the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to participate in the negotiations on relevant terms.

After this news spread, various capitals that were originally hesitant about whether to invest in the mainland gave up most of their concerns, brought funds to Hong Kong Island, first established an offshore company, and then rushed into the mainland's business world.

The reason why they registered the company in Hong Kong Island before going to the mainland to look for business opportunities is that Hong Kong Island companies only need to pay 5% offshore tax to the mainland for the money they earn in the mainland, and the Hong Kong government does not impose taxes on the companies' off-island income.

In fact, only 5% tax needs to be paid for this inflow and outflow. Such a low tax will naturally attract the favor of various capitals.

The only thing that makes them hesitate is the mainland’s system!
If they are given public ownership in the future, it will not be a question of whether the taxes are low or not, but a big question of whether the principal can be recovered!

Fortunately, the mainland has improved relevant foreign investment laws in recent years and has actively participated in many international affairs, allowing various capitals to see the mainland's changes.

Of course, the most critical factor is that Peace Group’s investment in the mainland is increasing.

With the Peace Group having achieved hundreds of billions of dollars in business in Japan, other capitalists who want to make money have to study in depth the logic behind the Peace Group's investment in the mainland in order to make money.

Now, the Eagle Americans have officially initiated free trade agreement negotiations with the mainland, and the Magnesium Country is also about to negotiate this agreement with the mainland.

Driven by many favorable factors, foreign capital that has entered the mainland for investigation will not be willing to leave.

The problem that is bothering them now is also the most troubling problem for economists in the mainland: foreign exchange!

The mainland is currently still implementing foreign exchange adjustment business, that is, under the supervision of management departments, foreign-invested enterprises and relevant units adjust the exchange rate between foreign exchange and RMB based on the guidance price of the management department and the exchange rate negotiated by themselves.

There is definitely a price difference between the "self-negotiated exchange rate" and the exchange rate guided by the management department, which has spawned a group of people with connections who operate in the gray area.

However, these people with connections also have the ability to limit their spending, so it is no problem for them to take tens of millions of magnesium yuan in a single transaction. As long as the frequency is controlled, the local banks can also handle it.

The problem is that nowadays, large amounts of foreign capital are lining up to enter the market, often amounting to hundreds of millions of US dollars.

Most importantly, these foreign investors are guided by the Peace Group and have local investment promotion departments responsible for making contacts. Who would dare to profit from the difference?
He's probably tired of living too well and wants to go back to jail to work on a sewing machine!

Therefore, after the United States sent a negotiating team to the mainland to start free trade agreement negotiations and set the time for Old Bush to come to the capital, the capital extended a meeting invitation to Zhang Heping.

They plan to invite this financial tycoon, who has plundered nearly 200 billion US dollars in the Japanese foreign exchange, real estate, and stock markets, to join the Blue Team and fill the gaps in the foreign exchange reform system proposed by the Red Team.

Zhang Heping agreed without the slightest hesitation.

The improvement of the domestic and international foreign exchange system has also benefited the Peace Group's capital inflows and outflows.

In addition, free trade agreements between mainland China and the United States and the United States are also stalled in the area of ​​foreign exchange!

Previously, there was no RMB exchange in the foreign exchange market; to put it bluntly, they didn't recognize that currency!

But now the situation is beyond our control. Without RMB, you can't buy the Lifespan 120 potion. Whether they are about to die or in their prime, European and American billionaires are all demanding that the RMB exchange market be opened up.

Moreover, Zhang Heping's trip to the capital also includes receiving an apology from Lao Bu, so he has no choice but to go.

Zhang Heping returned to the capital with his family and was taken to a meeting on foreign exchange system improvement that very evening.

Zhang Heping did not disappoint the economists, immediately rejecting their proposal of a "single, managed floating exchange rate system based on market supply and demand" for the magnesium dollar.

To prove that his denial was not due to prejudice against the United States, Zhang Heping immediately analyzed the international situation for everyone and the underlying logic behind foreign investment from various countries lining up to invest in the mainland.

Finally, Zhang Heping proposed a "basket of currencies reference mechanism," which still relies on market supply and demand to determine the base exchange rate, but dynamically adjusts it with reference to a basket of currencies such as the US dollar, Japanese yen, and American pound, thereby reducing dependence on a single currency and diversifying exchange rate risks.

At the same time, the central bank must retain the right to intervene in order to prevent abnormal fluctuations.

Finally, Zhang Heping also used a computer to build a mathematical calculation model on the spot and proposed a three-factor pricing model.

The market supply and demand are reflected by the "previous day's closing price", the trade-weighted exchange rate is stabilized by the "changes in the exchange rate of a basket of currencies", and the "counter-cyclical factor" is used to smooth out short-term abnormal fluctuations.

Finally, Zhang Heping also had a brief discussion with a group of economists about the future issuance policy of the RMB.

With the introduction of this mechanism to enhance exchange rate stability and its support from most economists, the free trade agreement negotiations came to a close.

In order to ensure stable economic development and steadily advance reform and opening up, the country ultimately decided to first establish a free trade zone in Shanghai and Huadu.

Originally, some people proposed building a free trade port on the island, but given the abnormal housing prices in Haicheng and their criminal record of reselling cars, it was opposed by many people.

Later, some people from Haicheng contacted Tang Xin through Heping Real Estate Co., Ltd., and then met Zhang Heping, hoping to ask him to help the island secure a free trade port.

Considering his family's real estate business on the island, Zhang Heping did not directly reject the group from Haicheng. Instead, he wrote a "Feasibility Analysis Report on the Free Trade Port of the Island" for them, asking them to submit it after the housing bubble in Haicheng burst.

In this report, Zhang Heping mentioned the transit trade and financial business of Hong Kong Island and New Island, and suggested that the islands explore more distinctive free trade ports.

Unfortunately, those few idiots were too eager for political achievements. They submitted Zhang Heping's report in less than two days, and then it was left unpublished without any follow-up.

The reform of the RMB exchange rate still needs careful discussion and prudent research, and will ultimately be decided by vote.

After all, it involves too much and has a significant impact on international trade and investment.

However, the free trade agreement with Eagle Magnesium was signed on June 12, and the construction of free trade zones in Shanghai and Huadu was also put on the agenda.

Shekou, next to the Shenzhen Peace College, has been designated as a free trade zone, and is considered part of the Huadu Free Trade Zone.

For reasons unknown, after the free trade agreement was signed, Bush came up with a flimsy excuse that his private jet had a problem and needed maintenance, and then used a "pending" statement to postpone his trip to the mainland indefinitely!

Zhang Heping naturally didn't take this kind of pretentious tactic seriously, nor could he wait for the other party to come to the capital indefinitely.

Therefore, upon learning of this, Zhang Heping immediately left the capital with his family and went to Shaanxi Aircraft Industry Corporation to inspect the new fighter jets manufactured there.

With Zhang Heping gone, the American conglomerates and powerful families who were eagerly waiting to ease tensions with the Heping Group became restless.

As a result, someone shot themselves in the foot, and soon called back to say that the private jet had been repaired and the time remained the same.

On June 16, Lao Bu and his party arrived in the capital, but they did not meet Zhang Heping.

He only received a notification after two days of sightseeing in the capital, instructing him to wait at the airport in the western suburbs of the capital… (End of Chapter)