Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 825 The Beginning of 1991

Tuesday, April 1991, 1.

Shenzhen City, Dapeng Peninsula.

Just as the Japanese were celebrating the New Year and the Americans were deploying their military forces in the Middle East, Zhang Heping and a group of guests stood in the wasteland and held a simple groundbreaking ceremony for the Heping Chip Factory.

Although the ceremony was simple, the necessary opening speech was still included.

What's more, Zhang Heping and Mr. Hua were in a hurry to start construction today, and they also wanted to introduce the significance of establishing the chip factory and its future vision to the Hong Kong businessmen and representatives of the investment promotion group.

"I recently heard some people talking about how great Magnesium is!" Zhang Heping, who was surrounded by celebrities and sitting on a small mound, glanced at Tang Ren's second concubine. These days, she was the one who loved to show off life in Magnesium the most.

"Apart from having more buildings and villas, more cars and airplanes, I really can't think of anything good about them." Zhang Heping looked at the others and asked with a smile:

“Do they have good medical care?”

"maybe!"

Zhang Heping asked himself and answered: "One quarter of the medical devices, equipment, and medicines sold by Tingmei Trade last year went to Magnesium. From this perspective, Magnesium's medical level has indeed improved!"

When Zhang Heping said this, everyone around him started laughing.

Tang Qiang glanced at his mother, who was all embarrassed, and the other aunts, feeling somewhat helpless. They knew clearly that his uncle's family disliked the Mexicans, yet they were still making trouble these days.

"Some people may say that the social welfare in the country of Magnesium is good!" Zhang Heping said with a faint smile: "Social security, medical insurance, free education for children under 18, these benefits are indeed very good, but it's a pity that I and many people present here can't use them."

When the rich ladies who came from Hong Kong Island heard this, they all looked at Tang Ren's concubines with smiles.

A few days ago, they heard those concubines bragging about how great Magnesium is, but they all overlooked a big premise: as long as you have money, you can be anywhere.

Without money, no matter how good the social welfare is, how good can it be?

Ignoring the embarrassed Tang family, Zhang Heping looked at the media from Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen and said solemnly, "The new chip factory that started construction today will produce 28-nanometer process chips, mainly for electronic devices in the fields of mobile phones, tablets, televisions, air conditioners, and automobiles..."

Although Zhang Heping did not mention military equipment, the people present knew from the sight of the armed guards standing guard that once this kind of high-end chip came out, it would definitely be supplied to military factories first.

Who has the most complicated psychology in the field?

It’s not the concubines of the Tang family, but the only two foreigners in the crowd, the Aso couple!

They wanted to send Japanese experts and students to Shenzhen Peace College, but Zhang Heping only asked them one question: Have the Japanese history textbooks been revised?

Some people may find it difficult to understand the mentality of the Japanese. Since they have already lost the war, why don’t they admit their mistakes and face up to their history of aggression?

Is it difficult to admit your mistakes like Deguo did?

It is indeed difficult!

This involves multiple factors such as Japanese cultural psychology, political games, international structure, and education system!

The most crucial thing is that the Taiwanese did not thoroughly settle accounts with the upper echelons of the Japanese island after the war, and allowed the descendants of those war criminals to continue to dominate the Japanese government!

Let me ask you, will that kind of person admit his mistake?

What's more, once they admit their mistakes like Deguo did, they will have to face huge compensations!

Speech, ribbon cutting, groundbreaking...

After the groundbreaking ceremony, Zhang Heping took these people to visit the Heping Aerospace Company.

What was unbelievable to the Aso couple was that there were foreigners with blond and brown hair in several factories here!

No need to ask Zhang Heping!

The question is, have Japan’s history textbooks been revised?

The foreigners working in the rocket, satellite, space station and other manufacturing plants here are actually experts from Northern Soviet Union who have brought their families with them and have been maintained by Zhang Heping over the years.

The Nande Group even had to exchange train cars for airplanes, which shows how bad the economy in Northern Jiangsu is.

In addition, the faith over there is collapsing like dominoes, so it has become much easier to recruit these North Soviet experts since last year.

What's more, Zhang Heping was willing to take in their families and arrange jobs for them.

However, there is no free lunch in this world, and Zhang Heping also has a requirement for them: they must become Hong Kong Island citizens!

Compared with directly joining the mainland nationality, the increasingly internationalized Hong Kong Island is obviously more acceptable to those Northern Soviet experts.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang!"

A group of young boys and girls saw Zhang Heping and his men coming, said hello, and quickly stepped aside.

"This bunch of bad students!" Zhang Heping pointed at the group of boys and girls, turned around and smiled at Director Wang and Liu Yuan behind him, "Remember their names. The masters here were not allowed to rest during the New Year's Day holiday! During the Spring Festival holiday this year, let them come over to take over the night shifts for those masters."

An old man in a Zhongshan suit at the back asked in confusion, "How did these students get in? Didn't the security guards at the door stop them?"

The old man in a suit who was accompanying him smiled and replied, "Students from Shenzhen Peace College can come here for internships or visits with their student ID cards."

“This will not only encourage them to study hard, but also allow them to put what they learn into practice; they won’t end up learning knowledge without knowing what to do in the future.”

Liu Yuan walked out of the visiting group, waved to the group of nervous boys and girls, called them aside, and said something to them, which made the students run out of the manufacturing plant happily.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping led everyone to climb up the mountain and took a far look at the controlled nuclear fusion device site under construction below.

Just as he was about to lead everyone away, someone pointed to a cylindrical building on a hill and asked, "What is that house over there used for?"

"The astronaut training base is temporarily closed to the public." Zhang Heping explained casually and walked down the mountain first.

The others looked at the buildings on the mountain with a little curiosity, then left.

Only the Aso couple looked for a while longer, as if they had memorized all the buildings and roads on the mountain and then followed the team down the mountain.

After leaving Dapeng Peninsula, Zhang Heping took everyone to visit factories such as Tingmei Luggage, Tingmei Daily Chemicals, and Heping Health Products.

When the group returned to the Peace Hotel, it was already past 6pm.

Because each of them was dragging a newly-acquired Tingmei suitcase with various products inside, they took some time to go through security check at the hotel.

By the time these people entered the banquet hall on the third floor one after another, the shows on the stage had already been performed five or six times, making the people performing in front very depressed, and secretly sighing that they had missed the opportunity to show themselves.

After the previous few days of interaction, the Hong Kong businessmen and the representatives of the mainland investment promotion delegation have met many times.

In addition, after going out for a visit together today, we have deepened our understanding of each other, so there are fewer people who need Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting to act as matchmakers.

However, due to transportation problems and the lack of pillar industries in several northwestern provinces, very few Hong Kong businessmen are willing to invest there.

Even if a Hong Kong businessman agrees, it is only a verbal promise and he says he will conduct an on-site inspection later.

After Zhang Heping and his family arrived at the banquet hall, representatives of investment promotion groups from several provinces came to Zhang Heping to complain. Unfortunately, Zhang Heping only agreed to build a highway and had no interest in other projects for the time being.

Fortunately, the main purpose of the representatives of the investment promotion groups from various provinces coming here was to discuss the construction of the second phase of the expressway with the Heping Group. The failure to attract additional investment did not have much impact on their mission, so they did not have to chase after Zhang Heping, the birthday boy.

Putting aside business matters, tonight’s birthday party actually has an important mission, which is to allow young people to get to know each other and interact with each other.

For this reason, when Zhang Heping went to Heping Aerospace Company today, he also called his nephew Chang Le over.

"Oh! I'll just take a sip to taste what a bottle of 8 yuan red wine tastes like."

"Wait until you have a baby before drinking it. If you don't believe me, I'll hide a bottle of red wine for you to keep."

"Zhao Laoliu, are you really that serious? Ding Ning can't even drink a sip of red wine!"

Zhang Heping took a glass of orange juice and walked to the corner where Liu Yuan, Huang Wenli, and Zhao Jianguo were, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong with you?"

"Peace comes just in time!" Huang Wenli said a little excitedly: "Old Six doesn't allow Ding Ning to drink red wine. You are a doctor, do you think it's okay to drink it?"

Zhang Heping stretched out his right hand and reached out to Ding Ning, who was already six months pregnant.

Ding Ning cooperated by raising her left wrist, waiting for Zhang Heping to feel her pulse.

Zhao Jianguo stood behind and blinked at Zhang Heping, as if to say, you have to help your brother maintain his status in the family.

"The alcohol content of the red wine tonight is a bit high. I didn't dare to drink it. What do you think?" Zhang Heping withdrew his hand with a hint of complaint, looked at Huang Wenli and Liu Yuan and said, "You are so stupid to let Huai'erpo drink!"

"Do you know that alcohol can cross the placenta barrier and enter the fetus, affecting the normal development of the fetus? What if it causes neurological defects or facial deformities?"

Seeing that Zhang Heping gave him so much face, Zhao Jianguo secretly gave Zhang Heping a thumbs up.

As a result, Zhang Heping looked at him the next second, "Sixth Brother, if you want to take the red wine, just take it openly. Do you need to hide it on your body and take it back?"

Zhang Heping teased Zhao Jianguo, then clinked glasses with them, took a sip, chatted briefly for a few words, and then went to greet other people.

When his father-in-law Tang Ming and his elder brother-in-law Tang Ren were talking to the ship charter king, Zhang Heping walked over and interrupted their negotiations on the sale of Hutchison Group shares.

Tang Ren smiled and said, "Heping, we were just discussing with the shipping king the possibility of the Air-Land-Sea Company acquiring the port business of the Hutchison Group. Do you have any plans in this regard?"

"You have to ask the board of directors of Hailukong Company about this. You know that I usually don't ask about the affairs of the companies below." Zhang Heping replied casually, then raised his orange juice and clinked it with the people here.

After Zhang Heping asked the charter king how many tankers he had bought, he contacted another group of people.

Before acquiring shares in Hutchison Whampoa Group, the chartering king had asked Zhang Heping in advance.

He contacted other families to acquire the Hutchison Group only after Zhang Heping made it clear that he had no interest in the Hutchison Group.

What the chartering king did not expect was that the Hutchison shares that Tang Yi did not want to sell were like a hot potato to his children and grandchildren, who were all eager to sell them.

If it weren't for the fact that the charter king and his men were having trouble cash flow at the time, they wouldn't have even left 4% of Hutchison shares for Tang Yi.

Otherwise, Tang Ming and Tang Ren would not be here to discuss with him how to sell Hutchison shares.

As for those words that Zhang Heping had just said that seemed to be an excuse, the charter king understood them.

Will Land, Sea and Air Corporation acquire Hutchison Whampoa Group’s port business?

Zhang Heping said that this matter should be asked to the board of directors of the Air, Land and Sea Company, and he usually does not ask about it.

But the problem is that Hutchison Whampoa Group’s port business involves funds amounting to tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars. How could Zhang Heping not care about it?

Therefore, Zhang Heping said this to save face for the Tang family and to tell them tactfully not to talk nonsense in his name!

At the same time, I am also telling the charter king that I will not ask about this matter and I really have no interest in the Hutchison Group, and this matter will not be reported to him.

If Tang Ren had just been selling his Hutchison shares, even if Zhang Heping had sensed it, he would have turned a blind eye and let them get away with it.

However, all of Tang Ren’s Hutchison Whampoa shares had been sold out a few years ago when he entered the Japanese stock market!

What they just talked about was the 4% Hutchison shares under Tang Yi's name, which made Zhang Heping unhappy!

Even if Tang Yi died, he could not use Zhang Heping's name to benefit Tang Yi's descendants!

Compared with the social engagements of Zhang Heping, Tang Xin and Chen Shuting, the ones of Ma Xiuzhen, Zhang Bing and Zhang Pandi were much simpler. They sat with Mr. Hua and Director Wang, eating fruit and whispering from time to time, discussing who was the person who had just chatted with Zhang Bei, Zhang Nan and Zhang Nian.

But Zhang Feng, that girl, was asked to participate in the Super Girl competition on ATV, but she was too shy to go for two consecutive times.

Tonight, she went to the stage to play the accompaniment as a pianist, and two little guys, Zhang Nuo and Zhang Hao, sat next to her.

As for the brother and sister Chang Wen and Chang Le, no one knows where they got the notebooks and pens from. Now they are gathered at the edge of the stage, asking for autographs from the stars who have just finished their performance.

I have to say that some celebrities have a really poor sense of prevention. Not only do they dare to sign on a blank piece of paper, but they also sign their real names instead of stage names.

Zhang Heping took a look at the signature on the notebook, then took his niece and nephew to the lounge next door.

"Zhou Hye-min!"

The sudden arrival of Zhang Heping, the low-key richest man, already surprised these artists.

At this time, they heard him calling the name of a beautiful female artist, and everyone in the room looked at Zhou Huimin who was named.

Qu Zhouping, the person in charge of ATV who organized tonight's program, and Zheng Lijun, who had already finished singing, came up to Zhang Heping, who was writing something on his notebook, with confusion.

"I'm sorry to tell you that because you just signed your real name, you now owe my nephew 520 million!" Zhang Heping said, holding up what he had just written in the notebook in front of the frightened little girl, letting her take a quick look.

Then, Zhang Heping grabbed Chang Le's neck, who looked stunned, and brought him to the front to face Zhou Huimin who was at a loss.

"What do you think? Should we write 'kiss' or 'blowing kiss' after 520 million?" Zhang Heping put away his notebook and asked Zheng Lijun beside him with a smile.

Zheng Lijun has a lively personality and likes to tease people. She asked right away, "Why not 'hug'?"

"It's okay. The idiot has signed his real name on it. I'll use 'hugs' as the unit of measure when writing the IOU." Zhang Heping said with a smile, and handed the IOU with the unit of measure just written to Zhou Huimin who was at a loss, "Come on, stamp it!"

Seeing that the pretty girl didn't react, Zheng Lijun walked over and whispered something to Zhou Huimin.

Then, Zhou Huimin blushed, brought the notebook to her lips and kissed it.

"I won't tease you anymore!" Zhang Heping handed the pen to Zhou Huimin, who was slow to realize it, and then said to the others, "Those who signed their real names instead of their stage names on the white paper just now, come over and write the IOUs, so that you can remember this lesson."

"Thank you for your hard work tonight. If you don't have any scandals with the people in the banquet hall next door, you can go over and have a seat."

"Let's go! You two!" Zhang Heping glanced at Qu Zhouping and Zheng Lijun and said with a smile: "I just looked around the banquet hall and didn't see you two. It turns out that you hid here."

Qu Zhouping responded with a smile: "Boss, I'll talk to them about the autograph, and I'll come over to toast you later!"

Zheng Lijun happily followed, while Chang Wen and Chang Le were surrounded by those stars. No one knew what they felt afterwards.

As the banquet was coming to an end, the brothers Zhang Long and Zhang Hu, who had been fiddling with a drone outside for a long time, finally ran into the banquet hall and grabbed some food.

Then, I heard them calling everyone and their fathers to go outside to watch their drone light show.

After Zhang Heping led everyone downstairs, they heard the sound of a motor rising into the air.

Not long after, a circular red light group with a diameter of more than 100 meters appeared in the sky.

The next second, bunches of yellow and white fireworks fell from the circle of red light, causing everyone to exclaim in surprise.

"This is the first time I've seen fireworks being set off upside down from the sky. This should be called a rain of fireworks!"

"Look, the red circle has disappeared and there is a yellow five-pointed star in the middle!"

"Five five-pointed stars, this is..."

As the people around them exclaimed, the sky suddenly turned red, and there were five yellow five-pointed stars in the upper left corner...