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

In recent years, Lao Zhao has actually started construction on large-scale, high-standard communities and landmark buildings such as squares in several major cities, including Guangzhou and Shanghai.

With Yan Jiefang's financial support, they don't need to worry about insufficient capital at all.

Moreover, he doesn't have to worry about recovering funds, and he doesn't need to rush to sell the property after it's built.

Most importantly, it allows for easy competition for prime commercial land in various locations.

In an industry where high leverage and tight cash flow are common, this advantage is simply too great.

It's like "going to pioneer new lands in an aircraft carrier"!

Taking advantage of Lao Zhao's development opportunities in various places, Yan Jiefang asked him to also acquire some fixed assets for his family, namely villas, resorts, mountain villas and other projects.

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While large-scale construction projects were underway across the country, the domestic entertainment industry was not idle either.

The TV series "Princess Pearl," co-produced by Taiwan's Yi Ren Media Co., Ltd. and mainland China's Hunan Huaxia Film & Television Media Co., Ltd. (affiliated with Hunan Economic Television), became a huge hit.

A large number of people with nothing better to do watch this show on TV every day, and it is said that its average viewership rating exceeds 42%.

In addition, a large number of TV dramas praising the Qing Dynasty, such as "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "Kangxi's Private Visits", have sprung up all at once.

Correspondingly, while there are TV dramas about the War of Resistance against Japan, the Anti-Japanese War, the Armed Police, and drug enforcement, they are almost non-existent.

Overall, 98 can be considered the "explosion year" for Qing Dynasty dramas.

In the years that followed, these Qing Dynasty dramas continued to gain momentum.

A significant amount of capital has been concentrated there.

It will not be until the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television continues to deepen its supervision more than ten or twenty years later that it will be truly restricted.

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In January, Yan Jiefang went to the US stock market again and secretly amassed more than 10 billion US dollars in a month.

This sum of over 10 billion US dollars may seem like a lot, and it is indeed a considerable amount, but for the US stock market, which has a total market capitalization of approximately 12.9 trillion US dollars, it is just a drop in the ocean.

In addition, his actions were covert and took a considerable amount of time, so they went largely unnoticed by anyone.

In the long run, this is nothing more than an unknown history of capital flows, leaving almost no trace on the market.

Including the more than 5 billion he amassed last year, his foreign exchange cash deposits are now close to 20 billion US dollars.

If this amount of money were made public, it would barely rank fifth on Forbes' list of billionaires at that time (excluding monarchs and dictators).

Of course, while others have total assets, he only has cash deposits.

It's not a good idea to keep so much money in someone else's bank account.

To this end, he specifically instructed an investment company to acquire a small bank in Hong Kong and then deposit all the money into his own bank.

Thus, this small bank easily rose to become one of the wealthiest licensed banks in Hong Kong...

Under a capitalist system, the saying "money makes the world go round" is not just an empty phrase.

As a time traveler, Yan Jiefang was able to do whatever he wanted.

As the Lunar New Year approached, he pondered for a moment and used his super critical hit chances this year to win 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones.

This is a consumable item, and now it's not just him using it; his three sons are using it as well.

With four people working together, the speed of use is quite fast, and it's always good to have extra supplies.

Moreover, his two grandsons are growing up, and in a decade or so, there will definitely be many more descendants.

If they also need to consume spirit stones at that time, it's not certain that they can withstand more than 10,000 of them.

In this world, apart from him, spirit stones are a non-renewable resource.

Once he dies and returns to his original, crumbling world, this place will be powerless to continue.

However, this is not something he should worry about, nor does he have the ability to worry about it.

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As a former semi-military enthusiast, Yan Jiefang remembers that this fighter jet should have only just started its test flight in early 98.

The news that has just been released is that it has already entered service?

The test flight must have taken place 5 or 6 years ago, right?

He was a little confused: Could it be that I remembered it wrong?

Or perhaps it was his arrival that had some unknown impact on certain aspects of the country.

He always believed that his greatest influence was in the fields of radio and microelectronics, since he was most deeply involved in these two areas.

But now it seems that the impact in other aspects is certainly not insignificant either.

But this is a good thing!

When a country's military strength is strong, foreigners will not dare to provoke it.

In the past, enemy reconnaissance planes would often come over to the coast to spy on us.

Since the two "big ships" sank, these planes have become noticeably quieter and rarely come to the beach to "buzz" anymore.

With the J-10, a third-generation fighter jet, China now has a certain ability to fight back.

Moreover, if they could upgrade the J-10 to the J-10C, it's estimated that almost no fighter jet would be their match.

It's just unknown when it will be possible, but Yan Jiefang believes that with the current level of technology and national strength in the world, it shouldn't take too long.

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During the Spring Festival of 99, no one from the Yan family participated in the Spring Festival Gala activities.

The program originally invited Xiao Youzi, but she declined the invitation due to her pregnancy.

Yes, Little Jude is pregnant again; this is her third child.

Thanks to the pregnancy-preserving pills she took, her health is excellent now. Although she is over 30 years old, she still looks radiant and as beautiful as ever.

Because of her pregnancy, her family decided not to travel back to the capital for the New Year.

This year, we'll still be spending the Lunar New Year in the Special Administrative Region and Hong Kong.

On the contrary, Louis Koo, the top male singer of E-TV, and Joey Yung, a new generation of top female singer, were invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala program.

Bai Gu sang "I Believe" from an album that Yan Jiefang gave him with a quirky sense of humor.

This song was originally supposed to appear in South Korea a few years later, but he snatched it away again.

By 2000, he would also be the one to sing the wildly popular "Gangnam Style" and the horse-riding dance.

I believe this song will bring you a different kind of shock.

As for Psy, all I can say is sorry.

Joey Yung sang her signature song, "The Girl with Wings".

This young girl became an instant sensation across Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with just one album, instantly becoming a top-tier female singer in Hong Kong.

Several record companies that had previously refused to sign her because of her appearance felt a little regretful.

I initially thought it was a stubborn rock, but it turned out to be a gem whose brilliance had been obscured.

After Hong Kong's return to China, the security situation improved slightly.

Data shows that there are approximately 1,121.9 crimes per 10 people, with a violent crime rate of 229.5.

However, this proportion is still at a relatively low level.

Serious crimes have continued to decline compared to previous years, and the overall public security situation is good.

Cheung Tze-keung, known as the "King of Thieves of the Century," was also arrested by mainland police before the Lunar New Year. On December 5, he and four accomplices were arrested.

I heard that this group kidnapped Li Ka-shing's eldest son and extorted a ransom of HK$10 billion.

Why don't you, with so much money, go to Southeast Asia and become a local tyrant?

Why insist on going into the mainland? Isn't that just courting death?

Or perhaps they knew that entering Southeast Asia would make them easy prey for others?

As the year 99 approached, with less than a year until the 21st century, the internet in Hong Kong finally began to improve.

After Yan Jiefang discovered this, he felt that the construction of a world-class ICQ server headquarters could begin.