I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

It could be said that as long as he is willing to seek the truth, there are not many secrets in this world for Yan Jiefang.

He could freely see the rows of gold bars stored in the underground vault.

These gold bars are stored separately in different warehouses, and the number of gold bars in each warehouse is not the same.

In addition, there were bundles of US dollar cash in other warehouses, the amount of which was difficult to count.

He didn't linger there, lest he attract anyone's attention.

Although he wasn't afraid, he didn't want to cause himself any trouble.

He ate lunch and dinner at two different Chinese restaurants.

Besides being relatively expensive, the dishes served in these Chinese restaurants have largely lost their authentic Chinese flavor.

Even the methods used have been Westernized, and are very different from those used in China.

They are just restaurants with Chinese names, but they no longer serve Chinese food.

After returning to the hotel that night, he locked himself in his suite and refused to come out.

In the early hours of the morning, Yan Jiefang, who had been sitting in the room, turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared.

The wisp of smoke headed straight for No. 33, Liberty Street.

The various gates, which were originally extremely secure, were rendered useless in the face of the green smoke, and could not block it in the slightest.

The security personnel guarding the vault immediately fainted.

Then, the gold bars inside disappeared one by one.

In less than a minute, the vault was empty.

A few minutes later, Yan Jiefang appeared in his suite, as if he had never moved.

He scanned his space with his divine sense, and found that the gold bricks inside were neatly stacked one by one.

According to the inscriptions above, these large gold bars each weigh 400 ounces.

Iron Tower mentally calculated that each piece weighed approximately 12.4 kilograms.

It's still a bit short of the standard 12.5 kg.

He then roughly calculated the amount of gold bars he had obtained, which came to approximately 8500 tons!

It's more than ten times his original inventory!

The total weight of both sides is close to 9300 tons.

I didn't expect this vault to have such a large gold reserve.

He heard that besides this place, there was another place where a lot of gold was stored.

But he was too lazy to look for it.

He has so much of this stuff in stock that he doesn't even realize it anymore.

He wouldn't have gone out of his way to find this metal if it hadn't been just a coincidence.

In addition to gold, there were also two to three hundred million US dollars in cash collected from other banks, some of which were neither new nor old.

Cash is a troublesome thing; each bill has a corresponding serial number.

If Yan Jiefang was holding newly issued banknotes from the Federal Reserve, there would certainly be a record of it.

Once the serial numbers of the corresponding banknotes are blacklisted, these banknotes will be unable to be deposited in banks across the country.

Even if you save it, it will leave a trace and be investigated and tracked.

Therefore, he took a small amount of cash, about two or three hundred million, which was neither brand new nor old.

These banknotes have been circulating in the market for some time and have long since become scattered and disorganized.

In this era before advanced computers, there was simply no way to investigate.

There were originally tens of billions of dollars in cash in the vault.

Yan Jiefang transferred all the cash, burying it dozens of meters underground.

As for when they will see the light of day again, that remains to be seen.

Anyway, the money he gained this time, plus the more than 200 million he had left over from last time, totaled more than 500 million in cash, enough for him to use until after 2000.

The next morning, he boarded a plane to Los Angeles.

Due to time zone differences, although the flight time was more than six hours, we arrived in Los Angeles at around 9 a.m.

These days, there are only two types of direct passenger flights from Los Angeles to Hong Kong: those that depart in the early morning or late at night, or those that depart in the middle or late afternoon.

There are no direct passenger flights to Hong Kong from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (morning to noon).

Yan Jiefang sat in the waiting hall for several hours before finally boarding the 14:45 flight.

He had originally planned to visit IBM, but then he thought better of it.

After all, his factory in Jiangcheng hasn't been established yet, and even if he gets the current lithography machine, it will become outdated in a few years.

It would be better to wait until the factory is built and then install the latest machines.

To avoid ending up like the machines he acquired recently, most of which are still gathering dust in the warehouse!

Once we get back, we can gradually replace the lithography machines in the special economic zone factory.

The PAS2500 is outdated.

It would be better to sell it to other interested people in mainland China while it's still somewhat useful and recoup some of the funds.

After all, there is some meat inside a grasshopper's leg.

Although the lithography machine factory in Jiangcheng has started shipping, the queue is so long that it's unclear when the orders will be fulfilled.

It would be better to just buy the PAS2500s that Yan Jiefang has on hand.

It's a bit old, but it's still perfectly adequate for making chips for current educational devices, televisions, and related fields.

Moreover, it is a mainstream model in China.

As these home appliances become more and more common, you can still make a lot of money for at least the next few years.

October is already autumn, and as I flew back to Hong Kong from Los Angeles, the westerly jet stream in the upper atmosphere of the North Pacific began to strengthen.

Flying westward involves headwinds and takes approximately fifteen to sixteen hours.

The summer months are slightly shorter, but as winter approaches in November, the headwinds become stronger, and the duration will be even longer.

It took nearly 16 hours to land at Kai Tak Airport this time.

It was a little after nine in the morning in Hong Kong when Yan Jiefang left the airport with the flow of people.

He did not linger in Hong Kong and returned directly to the company in the Special Administrative Region.

For the next month or two, he stayed at the company, focusing on adding, replacing, and fabricating equipment.

Incidentally, it also "trains" all the workers in the company.

In the special economic zone, the factory area is relatively small, so it's impossible to operate at full capacity if you want to produce DRAM memory.

Even with equipment upgrades, it can still only produce simple chips such as ASICs and microcontrollers.

It's just that the chips produced are more advanced.

After all, this time their company's chips will be upgraded directly to the 0.5μm level.

This level of ASIC can already be applied to more advanced communication equipment, audio and video consumer electronics, next-generation computers (586) and peripherals.

However, he didn't replace all of the PAS2500s at once; he only replaced half of them.

After all, electronics factories still need these low-end chips for educational machines and game consoles, which can significantly reduce costs.

Even the low-end chips are more advanced than many domestic learning machines on the market.

They are basically in the top tier.

During this period, the second and third oldest players led the national football team to easily defeat the other five Asian opponents and advance to one of the 24 teams in the World Cup finals.

This is the first time the national team has entered the finals, and it has been widely reported by the media.

Following their appearance at the Olympics two years ago, they once again caused a national sensation, and their fame increased significantly once again.

Meanwhile, Yan Xueqian also brought good news: Xiao Youzi finally found out she was pregnant.

Yan Jiefang took a moment to check on her, nodded, and gave her the congenital pregnancy-preserving pills that he had obtained at the beginning of the year.