Break out of the courtyard

January 1993, 1, New Year's Eve.

Shenzhen, Peace College.

Zhang Heping waited outside the villa until 4:30 p.m. before going out with Mr. Hua and Mrs. Zheng.

They first went to the cafeteria to check on the preparations for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Many experts and professors in the institute do not know how to cook, and many assistants and students have not gone home. In addition, there are many experts and professors from other institutes in the laboratory building. Vice President Deng organized a family reunion dinner and some programs in the cafeteria.

Zhang Heping originally wanted to come here because not only are there more dishes here, but it is also more lively with more people, and it will also save a lot of trouble at home.

But mother Ma Xiuzhen insisted on making dumplings at home for good luck!

According to the old lady, Zhang Heping had a bad start to last year. He got involved in the Sha Zhu incident for no apparent reason, and was later attacked by Japanese-Magnesium spies.

If it weren't for Zhang Heping's good luck and the fact that he was researching new drugs, the old lady would have died at the age of old age.

At this point, what else could Zhang Heping say? He could only do as the old lady wanted. Anyway, he didn't need to roll out the dough or make the dumplings.

Then, they went to check out several laboratory buildings in the college. On the grounds that they could not delay the guards outside from having their New Year's Eve dinner, they drove out all the people who were still doing experiments inside, and then asked the guards to lock the door.

There were more people in the biological genetic laboratory building, so Zhang Heping and his team wasted a lot of time there.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping and Hua Lao went to the canteens of Heping Hospital and Nanshan Military Camp to check on the food. After confirming that the food was good, they went back to celebrate the New Year.

Compared with the food in the cafeteria and the restaurant, the dumpling banquet in the villa area seems too simple.

Fortunately, there were a lot of fruits, dried goods and other snacks on the big round table, and there was also the Spring Festival Gala projected on the big screen, as well as card tables scattered around. Dozens of people gathered outside the villa and it was not boring.

While Mr. Hua, Director Wang, Zhang Heping, Chen Shuting, and others were busy answering New Year's greetings calls and replying to New Year's greetings text messages, Zhang Long and Zhang Hu were leading a group of little kids to watch their drone light show, which elicited a burst of surprised cheers.

It’s a pity that fireworks are banned here for safety reasons.

It was not until the New Year’s bell rang that huge fireworks exploded in the direction of the city and Shekou, and the New Year atmosphere was fully accumulated.

The next morning, after several families in the villa area greeted each other for the New Year, they welcomed other people to pay their respects.

Zhang Heping left Tang Xin and Chen Shuting at home for social events, and he went to the hospital with his bodyguards. One was to conduct routine ward rounds, and the other was to distribute New Year's red envelopes to the medical staff on duty.

Those employees who go to work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year naturally cannot receive this kind of New Year's red envelope.

However, employees who work overtime during the Spring Festival can receive red envelopes on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year!
After the hospital distributed the red envelopes, the staff of the Peace Hotel across the street naturally did not miss out.

As the number of clinical trials for regenerative repair fluid expanded, many patients' families moved into the Peace Hotel.

Because those veterans were sent by higher authorities, the food and lodging expenses at the Peace Hotel were not in vain.

After all, the Peace Hotel is open to the public and is not a charity organization. It is good enough that the cost of the regeneration and repair fluid can be waived.

Zhang Heping originally wanted to give out red envelopes to the guards, but Hua Lao disagreed, so in the end he changed it to improving the food during the Spring Festival.

After finishing his work at Heping College, Zhang Heping went to Dapeng Peninsula, an area severely affected by overtime work.

He wanted to let the people here take a vacation, but the previously rushed missions to explore the moon and Mars were still in progress, and other factories were also rushing to work. Most of the people here refused to take a vacation, and the few remaining people were embarrassed to refuse. Those experts from Northern Jiangsu did not celebrate the Spring Festival, so they all stayed.

Fortunately, Zhang Heping is not a stingy person. Not only did he pay them three times the overtime pay, he also promised that they could save the Spring Festival holiday for later adjustment.

After Zhang Heping visited the employees of Heping Aerospace and Chip Factory, before he could go to other factories, he was stopped by the head of the Southern Power Grid Company, the head of the controlled nuclear fusion device, and a group of nuclear physics experts.

After more than three years of construction, the controlled nuclear fusion device on the Dapeng Peninsula has been preliminarily built according to the information provided by Zhang Heping and has entered the final debugging stage.

They stopped Zhang Heping today mainly to report the acceptance results of the controlled nuclear fusion device.

"Boss, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. We want to ignite a test to get a good start. Do you think it's okay?" Lu Yun, the general manager of the Southern Power Grid Company, was not as anxious as the engineers next to him. It seemed that he was just pushed out to make suggestions.

The other engineers were looking at Zhang Heping expectantly. Although some of them had participated in the research of the Sanxingdui underground base, this was their first time participating in the construction of a controlled nuclear fusion device.

Zhang Heping only thought about it for a moment before nodding in agreement. "You guys go to Heping Aerospace first and invite the media over. Then, make all the necessary preparations. I'll go to the other factories to hand out red envelopes, then I'll go to yours."

When these road-blocking engineers and experts heard Zhang Heping's answer, they all seemed very excited.

After parting ways with Zhang Heping, they split into two groups: one went to Heping Aerospace to invite the media, while the other rushed back to prepare for a final check of the relevant equipment. No one expected that the controlled nuclear fusion device developed by Heping Group would announce its successful first ignition test at noon on January 23rd, and that it had operated continuously for 1993 seconds at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius.

This operating time obviously does not reach the limit of the controlled nuclear fusion device. It is only to commemorate this year that the time is precisely controlled at 1993 seconds.

Even so, after this news was publicized through Hong Kong and Macao media, it still attracted the attention of various countries.

Japan, which was under the shadow of a nuclear leak, first expressed disbelief and wanted to send experts to confirm it.

Unfortunately, the Peace Group directly shattered the foreigners' plans by claiming that it did not participate in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.

Naturally, those foreigners would not give up easily. They quickly organized a negotiation team and rushed to the capital of the mainland, hoping that the mainland would join the ITER project. Then, through the mainland's controlled nuclear fusion research, they would spy on the controlled nuclear fusion device of the Peace Group located in the Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen.

Although China has technical reserves for artificial suns, it has no intention of developing them in isolation. It still wants to speed up the research progress of the Sanxingdui underground base through international exchanges and learning.

However, foreigners are clearly at a disadvantage in controlled nuclear fusion, and in order to gain more benefits, the domestic government naturally did not rush to agree.

What's more, Zhang Heping had previously revealed that the maximum operating time of the controlled nuclear fusion device on the Dapeng Peninsula is as high as 10 seconds!

Vice President Qian and Vice President Deng were a little confused before. They knew that Zhang Heping could obviously build a better and more durable controlled nuclear fusion device, so why did he waste money to build a semi-finished product that could only run for 10 seconds?

Now when they hear people from Japan, Europe, magnesium, South Korea and other countries coming to seek cooperation, they know what Zhang Heping is up to.

I can only say that the bait Zhang Heping set was too tempting!
The key point is that before the successful ignition test of the controlled nuclear fusion device, Peace Space also took the time to complete the initial lunar exploration mission, and the Mars exploration mission is also underway.

Sure enough, while they were talking in the capital, they suddenly invited Mr. Hua to participate in a video conference.

Subsequently, Mr. Hua found Zhang Heping.

"Peace, we've run into a little trouble negotiating international cooperation with foreigners in the capital. We'd like to ask for your help!" Old Hua said with a smile as he stood outside the automated production workshop of Shouyuan 120 medicine, speaking into it through the glass.

Zhang Heping was wearing protective clothing and debugging equipment in the dust-free workshop, so he just nodded and didn't rush to ask what was going on.

Hua Lao wasn't in a hurry. He smiled and waited outside with his hands behind his back, watching Zhang Heping and several other biological experts, also wearing protective suits, busy inside.

这条寿元120药剂自动生产线有些大，占了这栋名为1号生产楼的6、7、8层。

The reason why the top floor of the 9th floor was not occupied was because the 9th and 5th floors were equipped with auxiliary equipment to ensure the normal operation of the production lines on the three middle floors.

In addition, floors 2, 3 and 4 are divided into areas for testing, storage, security, and rest.

As for the first floor and the three basements below, it is another stronghold of the Guard Brigade within the Peace College.

After Zhang Heping and several experts who would be in charge of the production of the Shouyuan 120 medicine came out, Elder Hua hurriedly went up to them, said thank you for your hard work, and then invited everyone to go downstairs to the canteen for lunch.

"Mr. Hua, what did you just say you were planning to do in the capital?" Zhang Heping asked casually as he entered the elevator, in front of the others.

These experts had all passed rigorous screenings, and their families were all at the Peace Academy, so Hua Lao didn't hide anything from them. He smiled and said, "Foreigners say that since our lunar rover and lander haven't been recovered, it can't be considered a successful lunar exploration."

"The implication is that their aerospace technology is still superior to ours, and they want to use this as an excuse to negotiate terms with us."

"The capital is asking if you can have Peace Space recover a lander in the near future?"

When Zhang Heping was eager to advance the lunar and Mars exploration plans, he thought of the situation where foreigners would refuse to admit it.

So, he refused directly.

"Peace Space's space experiments have established missions, and we won't terminate them prematurely because of foreigners' opinions," Zhang Heping said slowly.

"Besides, those foreigners are right. Their space technology is ahead of ours. They have not only sent people to the space station, but also to the moon."

"We only sent monkeys up, and they are indeed inferior in skills."

General Manager Hua felt that Zhang Heping's words were a bit strange. After leaving the production building and parting ways with the experts, he finally asked the question that had been bothering him, "Heping, are you serious? Or are you being sarcastic?"

"What do you think?" Without the outsiders around, Zhang Heping spoke without so much hesitation. "I'm not inferior to the foreigners in technology. Why should I accommodate their opinions?"

"Could you please tell the people in charge of the negotiations to clarify the situation? Who is it that's asking for help?"

...(End of chapter)