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

Yan Jiefang didn't take signing Joe Yung (Big Head Shrimp) to heart and forgot about it in the blink of an eye.

She continued her inspection of school buildings in various locations.

While inspecting the site, they also helped resolve some thorny issues.

Each teaching building, valued at over a million, was an absolute lucrative opportunity in those days.

From the initial planning to the topping-out and decoration stage, there are many opportunities to get a share of the pie.

In these impoverished areas, many wolves will inevitably be watching, and anything can happen.

Therefore, many construction sites are not going well from the start.

In these places, Yan Jiefang would use swift and decisive measures from the outset to deter or directly resolve the problems.

Otherwise, the construction site simply cannot proceed.

In his mind, poverty is a reality, but it cannot be used as a reason for evil.

...

In the blink of an eye, the weather has turned cold.

The year 1997 has arrived.

After discussing where to spend this year's Spring Festival, the whole family decided to go to the villa on Baibi Mountain in Hong Kong.

Moreover, many family members had only heard of this place but had never been there before, so this was a good opportunity to come and see it for themselves.

At this time, it was impossible to take the train from the Special Administrative Region to Hong Kong because the trains did not stop when passing through this area.

Another reason is that the immigration procedures for this train were handled centrally at Changping Station in Dongguan, which is not far from Shenzhen.

So everyone took the company car to Dongguan, and then took train No. 97 from Dongguan directly to the final stop, Kowloon Hung Hom Station.

Nearly an hour later, the train arrived at its final stop.

The whole family got off at the train station and took a car arranged by the security company to Baibishan.

Because we don't have many relatives here, during the Spring Festival, everyone either stays at home or goes for a stroll in the city.

Overall, with almost no social engagements, this Spring Festival was quite leisurely.

The only downside is that the environment is still a bit chaotic.

Like the "Baole Lane Karaoke Arson Case" a few years ago, which was set on fire by a group seeking revenge and was attacked with petrol bombs, ultimately resulting in 17 deaths and 13 injuries.

This case shocked the entire city of Hong Kong, and several suspects were later sentenced to life imprisonment.

In Hong Kong, the death penalty was abolished in April 1993, through legislation.

In fact, no executions have been carried out in Hong Kong since November 1966.

All prisoners sentenced to death were automatically pardoned by the then Governor of Hong Kong (later the Chief Executive) and their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

If this happened in the country, at the very least, several people would be "brought down" for such a big incident.

Other incidents include the "fatal accident during the float parade" and the "mother-killing case in Shek Pai Wan Estate."

These days, Hong Kong, a place of relatively small size, always manages to create legends.

Especially in popular music, film and television dramas.

Of course, Hong Kong's strength in the economic and financial fields should not be underestimated.

In the 90s, Hong Kong's financial market developed rapidly and was widely regarded as an important international financial center on par with New York and London.

...

Speaking of the economy, Yan Jiefang recalled that something big happened here this year: the Asian financial crisis!

It's already February 1997, and international speculative capital has already begun to tentatively attack these small Southeast Asian countries?

There's been no movement yet; it's probably just the calm before the storm.

How about we pull off a big one here?

Yan Jiefang's eyes were resolute: We must do it!

Although Laozi's capital is not much, with less than $5 million in liquid funds, it is still not to be underestimated in this day and age.

Moreover, it's not a good thing for so much money to just sit in the bank and get moldy.

This is a good opportunity to raise more working capital so that we can build more teaching buildings later.

An annual construction budget of 5000 million is no small amount, so we must make preparations well in advance.

Of course, he wouldn't just throw money in and rush in; otherwise, no amount of money would be enough for him to squander.

Necessary preparations are still needed.

Yan Jiefang decided to hone his stock trading skills to the highest level before the storm hit.

In addition, company matters also need to be arranged.

In another two or three months, the car factory and the new wafer fab will be completed. I will definitely be quite busy then, and I may not have time to come to Southeast Asia to do anything.

Or he could let his engineers do the work first, and then he could take over later. It would just take a little time, but he could afford to wait.

This opportunity to strike at those small, volatile Southeast Asian countries is rare and cannot be missed.

However, there's no rush. With his skills, he can hone his abilities quickly by investing a little money in the Hong Kong stock market.

...

After the Lantern Festival, the entire Yan family did not stay in Hong Kong for long and returned to the Special Administrative Region together.

Then everyone went their separate ways, doing whatever they wanted to do.

As usual, Yan Jiefang only had time to rest after inspecting all the factories.

At this moment, a message began to spread wildly on the internet and various media.

Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, was born.

Of course, it was actually created last year, but the Roslin Institute in Scotland kept it strictly confidential for several months, and it was only published in Nature this year.

This achievement was named the most important scientific breakthrough of 1997 by the journal Science.

Dolly's birth sparked a global "Dolly craze," with an impact far exceeding that of the scientific community.

Many ordinary people wonder if they could get a clone of themselves if this technology were applied to them.

Some people even wonder if this technology could help them achieve immortality.

Whenever a body is about to die, cultivate a younger version of yourself and live another life.

Yan Jiefang glanced at the news article and the photos in it, shook his head, and indicated that he wasn't interested.

As someone who came later, he remembered that this kind of news only seemed to have some popularity in the last ten or twenty years. After 2015, this kind of news stopped circulating on a large scale.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person who occasionally saw a news report that Japanese scientists had conducted tests on laboratory mice and found that "genetic collapse" would occur after multiple clonings.

All of the 57th or 58th generation laboratory mice died within a day of birth.

After regaining his composure, he boarded a plane bound for Hong Kong.