Break out of the courtyard

"Brother Zhou, are you really not going to Western Xinjiang this time?"

"I'm not going! At 67, I'm still occupying that position. The young people down there are very dissatisfied."

"It's better not to go. After working for so many years, it's time to enjoy some peace and quiet!"

When Zhang Bing returned home, the old ladies at the door had already left. His wife was cooking dinner by the patio in the yard while talking to Chen Liqin, the old maid from the Zhou family.

"The tax department seconded some people to our department, including a deputy director. Since I have a full-time position, I couldn't go this time."

"Well, it's a survey of local revenue and expenditure. The tax reform you mentioned earlier should be coming soon!"

"Third Uncle, financial system reform is coming soon. If Xiao Nian still wants to open an insurance company, you can ask her to pay attention to the relevant news!"

The voices of the eldest daughter Zhang Zhaodi and the eldest granddaughter Chang Wen came from upstairs. They must be talking to the third son Zhang Heping on the phone.

"What are you standing there for?" Ma Xiuzhen looked at Zhang Bing, who seemed to be distracted by the patio, and said, "Go see if Yuanzi has kicked the quilt!"

Yuanzi is the nickname of Zhang Bo, the great-grandson of Zhang Bing.

Feeling the homely atmosphere, Zhang Bing put aside his messy thoughts, held onto the handrail of the stairs, and walked towards the second floor.

"Grandma, this is a gift from someone else. Please pack it up when you have time. I'll eat out tonight!" Chang Xing came back with a sack and put it under the big round table in the restaurant.

"Stop!" Zhang Zhaodi poked her head out from the second floor and called out to her third son, Chang Xing, who was about to run out. "What did you take from someone else again?"

Chang Xing stood there awkwardly, looking at his mother who hurried downstairs, "Just some sausages and bacon!"

Zhang Zhaodi went to the dining table and checked the contents of the sack. She frowned and said, "How many times have I told you not to take other people's things? Don't take other people's things!"

"Do you think our family lacks this little something, or do you think it's fun to owe people a favor?"

"Do you know how many people are watching our family's every move?"

"Oh! Mom!" Chang Xing said impatiently, "This was given to our director by someone else, and our director gave it to me and the other section chiefs!"

"The other section chiefs have all accepted it, how can I refuse?"

"Throw it back into your car and distribute it to your subordinates!" Zhang Zhaodi frowned at her foolish son who didn't know the seriousness of the matter. "You don't know how to be flexible in your work. If you try to take advantage of this little thing, you might end up in jail one day!"

Chang Wen went downstairs and took a look at the cured meat in the sack. Seeing her third brother still standing there, she frowned and said, "Xiaoxing, if you think Mom is wrong, go back to your bureau tomorrow and ask around to see how other section chiefs deal with those things."

Chang Xing lowered his head under his mother's gaze and walked slowly to the dining table. "My third uncle still buys mountain products from Banna every year..."

Zhang Zhaodi's anger flared up when she heard her son dare to talk back. "Your third uncle helped boost the economy there, and he took it with a clear conscience. What have you done?"

"How did you get to be a section chief? Don't you have any idea how many people gossip about you and how many people dislike you?"

"You have to rush into it and hand the handle to others, and send yourself to jail, before you know where you are wrong, right?"

"Chang Xing!" Chang Wen frowned and said, "Last time we went to Shenzhen, my third uncle told us that if we want to make money, we should go to work at my aunt's company. Don't be greedy for outsiders' things and don't affect my parents and second aunt's chances of promotion."

"I got it!" Chang Xing dragged the sack unwillingly and walked towards the gate in a huff.

Zhang Zhaodi frowned and warned, "Don't drink and drive!"

Chang Xing didn't reply, so Zhang Zhaodi asked her eldest daughter Chang Wen to go out and keep an eye on him and not allow Chang Xing to drive out for social events.

Just at this moment, Zhang Yi and his wife Roy also came back and comforted Chang Xing at the door.

Aunt Zhou Chen Liqin and Ma Xiuzhen could not get a word in. Like Zhou Jinyi who came out to watch the fun, they could only watch silently from the side.

Old Zhang, holding his great-grandson who was woken up, could only watch from the second floor without saying a word.

……

Zhang Pandi and Zhang Yong, who are far away in Hong Kong Island, are currently attending a dinner organized by Tang Ren on the 2nd floor of the Peace Hotel.

The brother-in-law also knew that if he invited Zhang Pandi alone, the other party might refuse for fear of bad influence.

So he simply invited all the members of the special mission team stationed in Hong Kong, and also called in many celebrities from Hong Kong Island.

Those celebrities in Hong Kong all wanted the longevity potion, but none of them could afford to buy the potion that could extend their lifespan to 120 years.

They can afford foreign generic drugs that can prolong life to 100 years, but they are unwilling to use the first-generation drugs that have serious side effects and weak life-extending effects.

In particular, after they saw the changes in the elderly couple Tang Ming and Xu Jiefeng, they were even less willing to use the generic drug Shouyuan 100.

So, when they heard that Zhang Heping's second sister was going to attend the dinner, these Hong Kong celebrities arrived early and dressed very modestly, without the jewels and gems they usually wore.

Look, a rich lady in a plain dress wearing only a small pearl necklace is standing opposite Zhang Pandi, asking when Tang Xin will return to Hong Kong Island, saying that she hasn't seen her for a long time and misses her very much.

By the way, ever since the security around Shenzhen Peace College was strengthened, not only those rich ladies, but even Tang Ren's family can't get in.

The Tang family can't get in, and they can only blame themselves for not listening to advice and not letting go of their business in Magnesium.

Although Tang Ming could understand the actions of Zhang Heping and the guards over there, he could not accept such a distant reality and lost his desire to go to Shenzhen.

If Zhang Bing had not been hospitalized last time and his fourth daughter Tang Xin had not called him, Tang Ming would not have gone to Shenzhen.

Tonight, at the request of his eldest son Tang Ren, he came over reluctantly to deal with those who kept asking questions about the 120 Lifespan Potion.

Tang Ren organized this dinner not only to inquire about the domestic chip and mobile phone production, but also to find out the experimental progress of the regeneration repair fluid and the subsequent commercialization plan.

There is a word called "old and confused", and Tang Ren is in that situation now.

He called Tang Xin and asked about this matter.

Tang Xin followed what Zhang Heping had taught him in advance and advised the elder brother not to inquire about the regeneration repair fluid or get involved in any business, and just be a rich man.

But this guy is just like his father. The older he gets, the more he wants to do something to prove himself. As a result, he was targeted and suspected of colluding with the Mexicans.

If you want to blame someone, just blame their business in Magnesium for being too big and him for being too active in Hong Kong Island!
……

Zhang Heping did not bring his wife and children to Western Shaanxi this time, mainly because he was going to participate in a test flight and did not want to worry his family too much.

Of course, many things would be more convenient if I didn’t bring my family along.

Just like that night, he flew to Nanhu Province on a domestically-produced experimental passenger plane, and went to Factory 300, Factory 310, and Factory 330 in succession to evaluate whether they had the ability to mass-produce aircraft engines.

The external names of these three factories are May 1st Machinery Factory, May 2nd Machinery Factory and May 3rd Machinery Factory.

Its business involves precision gears, rotating devices, engine blades, etc.

Zhang Heping inspected the mountain factory for three days without saying a word. When he returned to the Star City Galaxy Hotel to rest, he expressed his views in a subsequent video conference.

“The mountainous area has poor transportation!” Zhang Heping didn’t immediately discuss whether mass production was possible, but instead raised existing problems. “Although the engine parts are made of alloys and composite materials, which have strong impact resistance, no one can guarantee that there won’t be any problems during transportation.” “Therefore, I suggest strengthening the protective packaging of the parts before transportation. In addition, build an asphalt road for the three factories to connect to the expressway from Nanhu to Xi’an.”

After Zhang Heping said this, the Nanhu staff who were attending the meeting nearby all breathed a sigh of relief.

Before this, they had been worried that Zhang Heping would propose to relocate the factory, especially from Nanhu.

Although relocating the factory is very expensive, Nanhu can still accept it if it moves to other places in the province.

If those three third-tier factories that are clearly on the verge of taking off are relocated, the local people will not be able to accept it.

"There is no problem with the asphalt road. We will try to come up with a road construction plan within three days!" said the old man from Nanhu who led the meeting, and smiled at Zhang Heping, as if to express his gratitude.

Zhang Heping nodded and continued, "The personnel of the three factories need to be adjusted!"

"I was only there for three days and I discovered the personnel issues. I don't believe others couldn't see them."

"If this problem cannot be solved, the manufacturing task will be handed over to other military factories."

Although Zhang Heping did not say it explicitly, most of the people attending the meeting knew what issue he was talking about, especially the representatives sent by the three machinery factories.

"Then there's the issue of the factory building!" Zhang Heping frowned as he looked at the representatives from the three machinery factories. "I've previously discussed the relevant standards for factory buildings with your engineers, and even had them visit the workshop at the Shenzhen Heping Automobile Factory."

The representatives from the three machinery factories didn't dare meet Zhang Heping's gaze. Just as their eyes wandered, a serious voice came over the speakers, "The construction funds for the new factory have been allocated. Consultant Zhang, please rest assured. We will follow up on this factory issue and will also seriously discuss and handle the personnel issues."

Zhang Heping nodded again, not bothering to know who the construction funds were allocated to. He continued, "Inform the engineers at each factory to conduct self-inspections. There are problems with several pieces of processing equipment. This is the main reason I came here in person!"

"I need to remind you that due to the defective parts produced by those machines, the mass production plan of our domestically produced large passenger aircraft has been delayed!"

"Although the equipment in question was not manufactured by you, you were not careful when accepting the equipment and did not strictly control the quality during the quality inspection. This seriously affected the service life of the test aircraft engine and left a safety hazard!"

The problems Zhang Heping mentioned are more serious than each other.

In particular, the product quality problem caused by the last equipment problem is a fatal problem.

"Don't worry, Consultant Zhang. We will send an inspection team to the factory tomorrow to supervise and ensure that the relevant issues are dealt with as soon as possible." The voice came from the speaker again. The person who spoke was a serious middle-aged man.

"These are the problems I have found. Next, please let Manager Yan introduce the market prospects of large passenger aircraft!" After Zhang Heping said this, he moved the table microphone to the right.

The performance of these three third-line factories has always been poor, especially during the years when military spending was cut.

They were about to convert their military equipment to civilian use, but Zhang Heping took out a bunch of aircraft information.

In order to realize the aircraft in the data as quickly as possible, the country distributed production tasks on a large scale, and these three factories were therefore included in the national team.

Like many other state-owned factories, these three factories have also had problems in recent years with children replacing their parents' jobs, resulting in uneven quality of technical personnel in the factories and a chaotic management team.

After Zhang Heping finished his business in Nanhu, he went straight back to Shenzhen.

The exploration satellites named Chang'e 1 and 2 by Peace Aerospace engineers have reached the lunar orbit and sent back clear images of the moon.

Next is the launch mission of the lunar rover and Mars rover.

This mission is crucial. Success will further prove that Peace Aerospace possesses space technology that is not inferior to that of Europe and the United States.

During this period, someone suggested sending people back and forth to the Shouyuan Space Capsule, but Zhang Heping did not agree because he did not want to delay the related experiments of the Shouyuan Space Capsule.

They have already sent experimental monkeys to verify the Longevity Space Capsule and the Dragon Egg Spacecraft. There is no need to rush for manned experiments. Success is only a matter of time.

Of course, what foreigners are most concerned about at the moment is the 120-year lifespan potion and the regeneration and repair fluid.

Because the space technology of Peace Aerospace and the mainland is only catching up with that of Europe and America, and has not yet reached the point of completely surpassing it.

On the other hand, the two biological and genetic technologies, longevity potion and regeneration repair fluid, have left European Magnesium behind by decades.

Even though Zhang Heping has repeatedly explained the research and development logic of the 120-year-old life potion and regeneration and repair fluid to domestic biological and genetic experts, they still cannot understand the most basic preparation process, not to mention foreigners who have no idea.

Therefore, foreigners are still trying to win over the Peace Group, while at the same time they have not given up on developing relevant biological and genetic cooperation with the mainland.

Just as foreigners were making requests, and before Hua Lao and his team announced that the regeneration and repair fluid would not be exported, a news report about a nuclear leak in Japan overshadowed the regeneration and repair fluid.

The news was first posted on the World Internet Forum and initially did not attract much attention.

After all, there was a lot of fake news flying around on the forum, and the incident only happened in the inland area of ​​​​Japan, not on the coast.

However, after this post was published, many Japanese people left comments under the post, and what they said was the same thing: the poster was a liar!

You know, ever since Japan was blacklisted by the Peace Group, it has been unable to log in to the World Internet Forum directly.

If they want to view the World Internet Forum, they can only use Taiwan or New Zealand as a springboard, or log in to the forum online outside of Japan and Magnesium.

Therefore, there are very few Japanese people posting or leaving messages on the World Internet Forum recently. As a result, the nuclear leak post that was pushed up by many Japanese people was exposed to the public.

Combined with the real-time satellite map function in the Peace Navigation software, someone quickly locked onto the location of the problematic nuclear power plant through satellite maps.

As screenshots of satellite maps were posted for comparison, and as fearless people went to the scene to take photos, netizens quickly confirmed one thing: something definitely happened at the nuclear power plant on Rijima Island!
Otherwise, why would the Japanese relocate the residents around the nuclear power plant and even fill it with cement?

When the whole world was paying attention to the nuclear leakage in Japan and waiting for an explanation from the Japanese, a nuclear power plant in Magnesium also had problems!
This incident originated from a group of netizens who wanted to organize themselves and mark the locations of nuclear power plants in countries around the world on satellite maps.

Then, they discovered the abnormality in Magnesium.

The same problem is to relocate residents around the nuclear power plant and to fill the nuclear power plant with cement. Isn't it the same problem as on the Japanese island?

Nippon Magnesium subsequently responded that the old nuclear power plants were being scrapped and that safer nuclear power plants would be built in the future.

How could other countries possibly believe such a clearly unified statement, and they all asked the UN to send an inspection team to verify it.

However, before the UN General Assembly made a decision, Japan-Madison broke the news that several nuclear power plants had problems, and posted screenshots of satellite maps as evidence.

These news were passed to Zhang Heping intermittently, and he knew that the big gift given to Japan and Magnesium through an insider many years ago had finally been exposed!
This bomb was hidden in a hard drive containing bidding documents for nuclear power plant construction nine years ago.

Although the nuclear power plant information on the hard drive is incomplete, 95% of it is true. Only one of the alloy material ratios has a slight flaw.
This defect may not be visible in the short term, but under certain specific conditions, it will cause the alloy to undergo gradual structural changes over time.

Affected by the nuclear leak in Japan, nuclear power plants in other countries have attracted attention.

Therefore, the country also sent inspection teams to inspect the operation of thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plants and Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant.

Zhang Heping, who indirectly caused this turmoil, attended the annual meeting of the Heping Group as if nothing had happened after sending the lunar rover and Mars rover into space.

At the annual meeting, Zhang Heping announced a benefit to the entire group: employees who have been with the company for three years or more can apply for free trials of longevity potions and regeneration and repair fluids for their immediate family members.

Although Zhang Heping didn't explicitly state whether the "Lifespan Potion" referred to Lifespan 100 or Lifespan 120, all the employees knew that even the cheapest generic version of Lifespan 100 cost 100 million magnesium dollars per vial—something ordinary people simply couldn't afford! (End of Chapter)