The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

The year 2002 has arrived as scheduled. January has come, and this year's Lunar New Year's Eve is February 11th, later than last year.

In early January, Wang Duoyu convened the Want Want Group's year-end summary meeting in Harbin.

This conference was held at a reservoir farm on the outskirts of Harbin and lasted for three days.

Wang Duoyu also invited Liu Xiaoli and the others to the farm to participate in ice fishing activities and hold a large meeting.

Of course, Liu Xiaoli and the others didn't hold a meeting; it was just Wang Duoyu who held the big meeting.

At the conference, Wang Duoyu was most concerned about spaceships.

A new element has been discovered on the moon: armor!
This led Want Want Group to create a miniature solar device, prompting the spacecraft to undergo a modification program to ensure it could accommodate the miniature solar device.

In order to properly modify the spacecraft, Want Want Group has gone through a lot of trouble over the past year.

The modification has been completed, or rather, a new spacecraft has been rebuilt, and it will conduct its maiden flight test in March.

This was the first space mission for a controlled nuclear fusion device, so several experiments were conducted in strict accordance with the previous lunar landing plan.

After all, while controlled nuclear fusion may not cause any serious nuclear radiation accidents, who knows?
Because that's space, where all kinds of gamma rays and cosmic rays coexist, who knows what kind of accident might happen.
In short, try it a few more times, and you're sure to get it right.

"So, if I want to go to space, I can't this year, I have to wait until next year, right?"

Wang Duoyu raised a question, and all the executives in the meeting room immediately fell silent, no one daring to utter a sound.

Everyone present knew that Wang Duoyu had been preparing for his mission to the moon since the beginning of 2001, and had been preparing for a year now.

However, his lunar landing plan will have to wait another year because he needs to test the spacecraft.

You have to understand, Wang Duoyu was born in 1956. If he waits year after year, he will be almost fifty years old. He doesn't have that much time to wait.

As for using the previous chemical fuels as an energy source for the moon landing, Wang Duoyu was naturally unwilling.

Why not use such a good clean energy source as the small solar power device?
This is a controlled nuclear fusion device, which is not just a clean energy source, but more importantly, it has an unlimited supply.

The spacecraft we build now travel at speeds close to Mach 5 within planets, and when they reach space, their speeds will definitely exceed Mach 30, and may even reach speeds of Mach 40 or higher.

The distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 360,000 to 400,000 kilometers. If we calculate based on an average distance of 380,000 kilometers, and at an average speed of Mach 35, that would be 44,000 kilometers per hour.

In this way, it would take only nine hours to fly from Earth to the Moon.

If the speed is above Mach 40, then he could travel to the moon in eight hours, or even less than seven hours.

That's incredibly fast!

Absolutely perfect!

Compared to the snail's pace of chemical fuels, Wang Duoyu certainly couldn't stand it.

The slower the speed, the more likely an accident will occur.

Therefore, Wang Duoyu would naturally choose the small solar device rather than chemical fuel.

Zheng Baoyin forced himself to speak:

"Uncle, the little sun device has just started testing, so it will definitely take a while. It will definitely be fine next year."

"Don't talk, what do you know!" Wang Duoyu said irritably. Zheng Baoyin was immediately embarrassed and had no choice but to keep quiet.

No one else dared to say anything, and the topic was dropped.

The three-day conference ended quickly.

Want Want Group's annual profit is not much different from previous years, and it is increasing slowly.

Today, Want Want Group's global financial power is terrifying. Among the Fortune Global 500 companies, Want Want Group holds more than 30% of the shares in 89 of them.

There are more than 20 unlisted unicorn companies, of which more than 10 are valued at over 30 billion US dollars.

The group's assets have already exceeded three trillion US dollars and are moving towards even higher levels.

Of course, if the crude oil reserves in major cities are included, the group's assets would naturally be even greater.

However, since the small solar device has already been put into use, it will be exposed sooner or later. Once it is exposed, global crude oil prices will definitely plummet.

Building a financial system is difficult, but destroying it is very easy.

The previous Nine Demons incident proved this point.

After the conference ended, 2001 vanished from Wang Duoyu's life like smoke in the blink of an eye.

Lunar New Year's Eve is fast approaching.

This Spring Festival, Wang Duoyu and his family returned to Dahonggou Village to celebrate the New Year.

The house in my hometown is no longer the wooden house that was originally built, but a courtyard built with blue bricks and green tiles.

Winters in the north are exceptionally cold, so the walls of all the rooms in the courtyard are extremely thick, reaching a meter in width, which is quite exaggerated.

The windows are all triple-paned; only in this way can they keep out the severe cold.

Now that there are many people in the family, there are many beautiful buildings in Dahonggou Village, most of which were built by the descendants of the Wang family.

After all, more than 20 years have passed, and almost all of Wang's descendants have grown up, started their own families, and built their own houses.

Anyway, Wang Duoyu stood at the entrance of Dahonggou Village and could no longer see any trace of what it used to be. He guessed that only the big trees on the hill behind his house were still the same as before.

Bang bang bang!
On New Year's Eve, fireworks and firecrackers resounded throughout the village.

The little kids, including Bai Doufu, were the most excited, screaming and covering their ears while staring intently at the beautiful fireworks in the night sky.

The noisy New Year's Eve passed quickly. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Duoyu met many old people, such as Tang Jianhong, his old classmate and nemesis from junior high school.

The other person was clearly in his forties, but he looked no different from a man in his fifties, with a full head of white hair and hardly any black hair left.

Time is the greatest magician; in just over twenty years, a young man has become an old man.

Wang Duoyu also met his classmates Liang Jinfa, Liang Kangmin, Du Jianping, and Li Dongwu.

Everyone's circumstances are different, but none of them are like Wang Duoyu, who still looks like a young man in his late twenties, with almost no changes.

More than 20 years have passed, from 1978 to 2002, a full 24 years.

Wang Duoyu met with these people and chatted for a few words, but the meeting ended rather dull.

Time flies, and these people are no longer the classmates they once were. Talking with them gave Wang Duoyu a sense of the vicissitudes of life. Sigh!
After the Spring Festival, Wang Duoyu returned to Harbin Institute of Technology and resumed his normal life.

On the EU side, it seems unaffected by the counterfeit currency. After the New Year, the EU completed negotiations with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, and Cyprus, all of which will join the EU in two years.

Upon seeing this news, Wang Duoyu was quite surprised.

To be fair, the EU is indeed quite powerful and resourceful, but unfortunately, with the US watching from above, this period of glory won't last long.

In South America, Argentina is also mired in crisis.

Of course, Want Want Group got a share of the profits. If they didn't participate in such profits, they would be struck by lightning.

Wang Duoyu knew that Argentina would face an economic crisis that would last for a whole year, and that their country would fall into the worst economic depression in its history.

Furthermore, Argentina's economic crisis triggered a widespread crash in Latin American stock and currency markets, leading to an increase in the financial risk index.

It can be said that Latin America became the only region in the world to experience negative economic growth in 2002.

At Harbin Institute of Technology, in a study villa, Zheng Baoyin is giving a presentation on a huge monitor:
"Since Enron declared bankruptcy in early December last year, a series of scandals involving accounting fraud and corruption have plagued the top ten companies, including Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch, WorldCom, and Xerox. The hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent accounting has caused investors to lose confidence in large companies, with stock values ​​falling to their lowest point in four years and foreign capital withdrawing en masse."

"We started preparations in late November last year, and have already made profits exceeding 20 billion US dollars."

The legitimate profits in the stock market, though only a little over 20 billion US dollars, seem far less than the hundreds of billions of US dollars that super-dollar factories make.

But don't forget, this is a legitimate gain, which is better than anything else.

Several months have passed since last December, and many people and things have changed drastically.

"Okay, I understand." Wang Duoyu nodded silently and said:

"It's already March, and next week is the first test of the spacecraft, so everyone should pay close attention!"

This test flight was conducted at a satellite launch site on the Somali peninsula. It wasn't that the Ali camp couldn't launch, but rather that Wang Duoyu wanted to give it one last try.

"Yes, Professor (Uncle, Ninth Brother, Ninth Uncle)!"

Everyone responded in unison.

After the meeting ended, Wang Duoyu hung up the video call and stood up to look at the large lake outside the window.

Today happens to be Friday. After class, Wang Yifei took Bai Doufu and her two younger siblings to the lake to fish. Liu Xiaoli and Huang Huiru were also there.

Wang Duoyu didn't go out, but stood by the window watching the scene before him.

"Big fish!"

On the lakeside, Wang Yifei's fishing rod suddenly bent into a bow, indicating that she had definitely caught a big fish.

The artificial lake at Harbin Institute of Technology has been around for nearly twenty years. After it was built, Wang Duoyu put a lot of sturgeon into it.

Species like sturgeon can grow to hundreds or even thousands of kilograms, or even a ton!
Such a huge creature, the sturgeon that is thirty or forty centimeters long is just a juvenile.

Bai Doufu was quite excited and rushed to help. Liu Xiaoli was also taken aback and went to help as well.

The bodyguards nearby also stepped forward to ask if they needed help.

"No need to help me, I can manage on my own!" Wang Yifei shouted.

She certainly understood the joy of fishing.

She is currently a senior in high school, and doesn't have much time to rest each week. When she can't sing or record albums, Wang Yifei has very limited ways to relax and have fun.

Fishing became one of her few forms of entertainment.

Just because a fish has taken the bait doesn't mean you can pull it ashore. The key is to engage in a battle with the fish, which is also where the fun of fishing lies.

Therefore, she could not possibly delegate the task to someone else.

"This little girl just loves to show off!"

Wang Duoyu shook his head and chuckled. He could tell at a glance that the big fish his eldest daughter had just caught was definitely a super giant weighing over 300 pounds.

With Wang Yifei's physical strength, it would be impossible for her to pull this giant object ashore!

So after muttering something to himself, he walked out of the villa.

"Big Fish Bro, I don't need your help. This is the big fish I caught."

"If you keep going like this, I'm telling you, your arm is probably going to be ruined. You have class tomorrow, so listen to me and give me the fishing rod."

Forced into a corner, Wang Yifei had no choice but to give up her fishing rod and let her father help pull the big fish up.

More than half an hour later, the sturgeon in the lake was finally exhausted and was pulled ashore by Wang Duoyu.

On the opposite bank in the distance, many students had already taken out their Huachen phones to record videos or take photos, after all, the sturgeon that Wang Yifei pulled up today was indeed quite large.

It is over three meters long and weighs over 400 kilograms, making it a super-sized creature.

After Wang Duoyu pulled the big fish ashore, he originally wanted to let it go, but the fish had lost a lot of blood and probably wouldn't survive, so he had to give up the idea and could only kill it and eat it.

He knew he couldn't possibly eat such a big fish by himself, so he planned to keep some for his family and give the rest away.

However, Wang Yifei wanted to take photos and post them on her WeChat Moments.

She is currently a senior in high school, and her daily life consists of nothing but doing practice problems.

In a few months, she will take the college entrance examination and become a real college student.

It's so boring on weekdays, and today I finally caught a big fish, so I definitely have to sunbathe it.

"Sissi, move aside, let me take a picture too~"

Liu Xiaoli chimed in, and Wang Yifei, upon hearing this, became very displeased:

"Liu Xiaoli, it's not like you caught the fish, why are you taking pictures? You're not allowed to post this on WeChat Moments. If you want to post it, go catch your own fish."

Wang Yifei addressed her mother by her full name, showing absolutely no respect for elders. Wang Duoyu, annoyed, slapped her on the back of the head.
"What should I call your mom? Hurry up and take the picture and post it on WeChat Moments, what are you showing off for?"

Bai Doufu followed suit: "Yeah, big sister, don't be so smug. After you finish taking the photos, hurry up and start studying. You'll be taking the college entrance exam in a few months, so you need to be more careful."

"Wang Chuyue!!!" Wang Yifei immediately exploded and stormed forward, but Bai Doufu quickly ran away.

Only Wang Junxian and Wang Sixin remained, staring blankly at the enormous sturgeon on the ground. Then, with a flick of its tail, water droplets appeared on their little faces, instantly frightening them into loud cries. (End of Chapter)