I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 196 Top-Tier Business War
Asking Zhang Da'an for help was a last resort. If the upright officials in the court could help with the debate, there would be no need to ask a self-taught person to cause such a commotion.

Fortunately, the transaction was completed on a cash-on-delivery basis, and the result was still very good.

Industry media outlets began to speculate, mainly summarizing Zhang Da'an's proposed path to becoming a "world factory," rather than discussing whether or not to become a "world factory," but rather how to become one.

A significant background to this is that before 1946, a considerable number of intellectuals proposed to vigorously develop the tertiary industry. Going back even further, some intellectuals proposed to learn from India's development path in the electronics and information industry and accelerate integration into the international trade system.

The "Science and Education Revitalizing the Nation Strategy" was truly promoted in a positive direction because a flood in 1946-1995 strengthened some of its forces.

The test flight of the J-10, an advanced aircraft, is itself a product of strategic maneuvering, a challenge rarely encountered by any major power.

Conflicts are everywhere in society, and various public security problems are just one form of these conflicts.

Just one of them.

It's rare these days for someone like Zhang Da'an to have a significant influence on a particular group across a wide area. So, even though the "World Factory" themed symposium had guests from the political, business, and cultural spheres, the articles published in the media were all aimed at young people.

Positive propaganda should prioritize "inspiration," but it cannot be baseless. Simply stating "the West is invincible" is purely laughable. When "inspiring" is presented with reason and evidence, young people with generally higher levels of education will be able to discern the truth and then divide into different ideological communities.

The reverse propaganda campaign aims to create a sense of crisis. It uses the concept of "world factory" again, with the good cop talking about the development history of old powers such as Britain, the United States, and Germany; the bad cop also talks about technology. They can't just say "imperialism will never give up its desire to destroy us." Too much of that will make people immune. They still need to present data and facts.

"...Zhang An stated at the symposium: Among industrial products with large trade deficits, integrated circuits are another example. In 1946, the deficit reached a staggering $10.5 billion. This means that although a large number of electronic products are produced and exported, their core components, high-value-added integrated circuits, are mainly imported..."

"...In the interview, Zhang An stated that the main reason for the low quality of industrial products is the poor industrial research and development capabilities and weak independent innovation capabilities. Although the economy has developed significantly in the past two decades, truly original products created by domestic enterprises are extremely rare. Only by continuing to increase investment in basic scientific research, improving the treatment of technical and research personnel, and broadly increasing the remuneration of all workers can we achieve a leapfrog development..."

Watching the news on TV boasting about himself, Chief Instructor Zhang was very satisfied. Then he opened a document, which was a form listing all the science, education, culture and health institutions in six provinces and one municipality in East China, plus Central China, that were slated to be closed, merged or transformed.

It includes not only schools, but also research institutes, laboratories, various centers, and so on.

And of course, there are hospitals.

It's not just some township hospitals that are planning to sell; many county hospitals are also running out of money and are planning to close down and sell.

Many people came to grab the food, including the Hu family.

In Yuzhang Province, the Hu family had a special "Children's Education Company" that oversaw more than 30 kindergartens and 128 nurseries.

The Hu family originally planned to replicate this model in the urban-rural fringe areas of Jiangkou Province, but now it has all been stopped. After all, to put it bluntly, most kindergartens these days, as long as they are privately run, do not have a license.

It's only because the people genuinely have that need that we turn a blind eye.

Zhang Da'an had no intention of getting involved in children's education or preschool education. Now, in order to destroy the Hu family, he has specially set up a "Children's Education Division" and recruited people from the "Labor Force Development Division".

Based on the general principle of "public-private partnership", at least some subsidies are inevitable, and there is also a high degree of flexibility in terms of fees.

Private schools charge higher fees than public schools, which is unavoidable, since public schools receive comprehensive subsidies.

Even the cafeteria offers subsidies.

Small-scale businesses can only make a profit by raising their fees.

The situation is different here with Zhang Da'an. He doesn't plan to open them one by one. Originally, the Hu family planned to open sixteen kindergartens in the urban-rural fringe areas of Jiangkou Province, specifically targeting rural residents and migrant workers.

The total investment was less than five million, and now it's all gone. Zhang Da'an spent more than two million to acquire it, because he could get the same piece of land for a lower price.

There have been a lot of lawsuits in the short term, with five or six hundred lawsuits filed all at once, concerning issues such as kindergarten buildings, land, facilities, qualifications, and enrollment procedures.

This is more than twenty times more than the total number of legal disputes involving "Zhang An Education" in the past few years.

However, since it involved the Hu family, Chief Instructor Zhang was quite enthusiastic about it and also uncovered some outrageous cases along the way.

For example, the scale of human trafficking was quite staggering. Even the departments in Jiangkou Province, which didn't have a very good relationship with Chief Instructor Zhang, unusually performed their function of protecting the rights and interests of women and children.

However, aside from those involving illegal matters, within the legal scope, if the courts can't handle something, you can only rely on the hospital.

The fierce competition between "Zhang An Education" and companies such as "Gu Yue Culture", "Gu Yue Education", and "Hongdu Pioneer Culture" has not diminished due to the college entrance examination season. On the contrary, in almost every district and county, it is a battle between "outsiders" and "locals".

Taking Puzikou District of Jiangning City as an example, the Hu family has a close relationship with a local place called "Brahman". When Zhang Da'an was doing engineering equipment skills training for second-hand engineering equipment, there was a second-hand equipment dealer named Hou Dewen, who was a childhood friend of Hu Xianda.

Don't let his status as a suburban "Brahmin" fool you; he has quite a background. His father ate salted vegetable pancakes and wild vegetable dumplings for many years in the Dabie Mountains.

The Hu family runs a "one-stop shop" service in Puzikou District, covering everything from kindergarten to high school. Although the procedures are not complete, it is enough to solve the schooling problem for the children of migrant workers in Jiangning.

In this school registered as "Shitoucheng School" and filed as Shitoucheng Primary and Secondary School in Puzikou District, the Hou family actually took the lion's share, investing nearly 12 million yuan. The Hu family mainly provided teachers and students, as well as facilitating connections in the city.

Normally, recruitment can be prepared during the summer vacation. However, due to Hu Xianda's death, the entire Jiangkou Province is conducting a strict investigation. Although everyone knows it's just a passing fad, if someone secretly exerts effort, the situation will be very different.

Zhang Da'an wasn't interested in this kind of business; what he wanted now was to take over "Stone City School."

Hou Dewen's eldest sister, Hou Xiaojun, and brother-in-law, Zhao Chunsheng, had staked their entire fortune on the deal, and now that it's been halted, it's like a bolt from the blue.

And don't even think about waiting for the storm to pass. Zhang Da'an specifically asked "Dangyang Talk" to comment on the chaos of these "wild schools," and he even wrote the copy himself.

When the people from the former Ministry of Electronics Industry came to Jiangning to hold a conference on the development of the mobile communication terminal industry, Zhang Da'an personally oversaw the meeting in the morning, in order to see how much trouble the Hou family could cause.

In the previous list, this "Stone City School" was on Coach Zhang's must-eat list.

The Hou family invested their money honestly, but the risks came from the Hu family. Although the Hou family was just an ordinary "Brahmin" in a district, it didn't mean they wouldn't sneer.

At the same time, Zhang Da'an didn't intend to just run this one business; if he was going to do it, he wanted to do it big.

The World Cup reports are coming again. Brazil is still on a winning streak and looks set to win the championship. However, European bookmakers are still secretly hyping up Germany, and biographies of "Lion King" Kahn are frequently appearing in major media outlets.

Some German betting companies still use gold marks or German marks for pricing, so they can still earn some gold marks instead of euros at this time.

This month, "Zhang An Education" also opened an office or store in a grand manner, located on the same street as "Shitoucheng School", with a straight-line distance of no more than 500 meters.

The event included gongs, drums, and firecrackers, and a lion dance troupe from Jianghuai Province was invited to perform a ball-grabbing game. During the "grabbing the green" segment, various red envelopes were distributed, but they were small, only one or five yuan each, purely for fun.

This infuriated the Hou family, who were unable to communicate with Zhang Da'an, and ultimately led to the decision not to allow the "Zhang An Education" store to open smoothly.

Hou Dewen was now at a loss. The men were people his sister had asked him to call; they were all key personnel in the engineering and secondhand equipment business. Now that they were surrounded, he was terrified that his men would lose their minds and resort to violence.

His brother-in-law, Zhao Chunsheng, was an educated man after all. After much effort, he finally found Fang Daqiao to help deliver a message. Fang Daqiao's reply shocked both Zhao Chunsheng and Hou Dewen.

"The boss went to Puzikou in person."

"Ah?! Mr. Zhang is here?!"

"Correct."

Fang Daqiao didn't have much of a relationship with Zhao Chunsheng, but he did have connections, so there were some things he needed to tell him: "The boss is determined to fight the Hu family to the end, so you're just out of luck. Of course, if you have a way to bring down the boss, that's fine too. But let me remind you, everyone under the boss is clean."

"..."

"..."

Zhao Chunsheng was speechless, while Hou Dewen was struck dumb, knowing that he had been taken down along with them.

The sirens blared loudly, and as they drew nearer, it was like a signal to surround the Hou family's residence.

There will be blood, but it will only splatter blood on other people's faces.

The officers got out of the police car intending to call for backup, but instead found the streets orderly. The three or four hundred people were like three or four hundred sheep, all tied up and squatting down. Some were unruly and defiant, so they were swung at in the face with batons, breaking their noses and brow bones. If someone said something offensive, they were beaten again.

"Stop! Stop!"

"Don't move!"

Amidst the commotion, Zhang Da'an arrived with his men. Hou Dewen also appeared at this moment and hurriedly shouted, "President Zhang! President Zhang! It's all a misunderstanding! Give us a chance! Give us a chance—"

Zhang Da'an smiled and asked, "Who is Hou Xiaojun?"

"Mr. Zhang, my older sister..."

"Where is she?" "My older sister isn't in Jiangning, she's running a business in Luzhou..."

I need to see her within a minute.

“Mr. Zhang, my older sister is a woman…”

"Fifty seconds left."

Zhang Da'an ignored Hou Dewen, looked at the strange-looking guy, and said with a smile, "Check them all. They should all have criminal records. They look like idle people in society."

"Sir, we..."

A young man was about to speak when he was stopped by the middle-aged man. At that moment, the young man recognized Zhang Da'an.

"Holy crap, he even got a 'dragon over his shoulder' tattoo. Is it going to be a threat, bro? Go get it washed off right away, you're going to clash with the local bully."

"Who are you being forced by your mother... Ha!"

He kicked him directly in the throat, causing his eyes to roll back in his head. Zhang Da'an looked around and waved to one of his "cousins".

"Brother Da'an".

Give me the stick.

He took the specially made rubber baton and started smashing.

The first blow broke the "over-the-shoulder dragon" which was already curled up on the ground.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Because his throat had been kicked, he couldn't scream at all, only making hoarse "hoarse" sounds. After all his limbs were broken, Zhang Da'an returned the stick to his "cousin" and then said to Hou Dewen with a smile, "President Hou, how did you recruit your underlings? They have no respect for elders and will easily suffer losses in the future."

"..."

"Twenty seconds left."

Suddenly, Zhang Da'an gave Hou Dewen a meaningful look.

At this moment, Hou Dewen was trembling all over. His older sister was inside the gatehouse of "Stone City School". She had already come out, but she was too scared to come out. She hoped that her younger brother could hold on.

"Big sister! Big sister—"

Hou Dewen finally couldn't help but shout. Zhang Da'an chuckled and didn't say much. He took out a pack of "Little Scholar Smart Candy" from his pocket. This was a new type of fruit-flavored hard candy added to the original soft candy.

I took one and popped it into my mouth; it tasted like grapes.

when……

The small gate of the school, which had not yet opened for business, was opened at this moment, and a woman and a man walked out with frightened expressions.

The man, wearing glasses, had a look of fear mixed with anger in his eyes. Finally, anger and his defense of his wife compelled him to step forward: "Do you have no respect for the law?! You...you're trying to rebel—"

"Don't think you can control everything! I'm going to the capital to report you! I refuse to believe there's no place to seek justice—"

Seeing the man's roar, Zhang Da'an raised his hand and clapped, smiling admiringly, "Teacher Zhao, right? Your courage is commendable, not bad. I admire men who are willing to stand up for their wives; they can be considered a kind of tough guy. However, don't be in such a hurry. I believe that in a few minutes, your feelings for your wife may not be as touching or moving as they are now."

Then the sirens started blaring again.

The young man tried to step forward to warn him, but was deterred by Zhang Da'an's cold glance.

"Hou Xiaojun, right?"

"What do you want?"

Hou Xiaojun had calmed down a bit by now. The "five giants" of Chengguan Town were all similar "local bully" families. When things were going well, they felt invincible; when things were going badly, they harbored all sorts of fantasies.

Snapped.

With a swift movement, Zhang Da'an slapped her to the ground. "I'm taking over your school because I think highly of you. How dare you resist? You're even willing to put your own brother in jail to fight back. You're so ungrateful."

"stop!!"

When Zhao Chunsheng saw his wife being beaten, he quickly squatted down to protect Hou Xiaojun.

At this moment, Zhang Da'an waved his hand, and a secretary brought over a file folder. Zhang Da'an casually tossed it onto the ground not far from Zhao Chunsheng. Several photos and scraps of some documents slipped out of the folder.

"Teacher Zhao, we are all in the education field. For the sake of being colleagues, I personally suggest that you go back and get a paternity test done with your son."

Watching Zhao Chunsheng's expression shift from anger to shock, and then back to anger, Zhang Da'an felt a strange and absurd sense of pleasure.

So perverted...

"Teacher Zhao, your wife and her childhood sweetheart have a happy family in the provincial capital of Yuzhang Province. At your age... tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to have been so carefree back then."

"What's going on?! What's going on—"

Zhao Chunsheng grabbed two photos, his face turning a deep purplish-red, because they weren't recent photos; some were even black and white, with dates on the back, some dating back twenty years.

"You motherfucker, talk! Talk! You motherfucker, talk! Whose child is Yangyang?! Talk! Whose son is Yangyang—"

From one misfortune to another, and then another, these twists and turns were nothing to Zhang Da'an, but for Zhao Chunsheng, it was like the sky had fallen.

At first, he was only worried about the difficulties of "Stone City School". After all, it was his entire fortune of more than 12 million yuan. If he did it well, it would leave a foundation for his son Zhao Xiangyang, enough to live on for ten or twenty years and several generations.

Later, after the Hu family couldn't manage their relationships in Jiangning City, he worried that the Hu family would back down and end up fighting with "Zhang An Education." Even if they could keep at it by leveraging their local advantage, it would be torture for them if it dragged on for five, six, seven, or eight years.

Later, the situation changed drastically. Zhao Chunsheng was no longer worried about whether the "Stone City School" could be opened; he was afraid that Zhang Da'an would be ruthless and domineering.

Because he had heard that Hou Dewen's childhood friend, Hu Xianda, had been roasted to death in Japan.

Just five minutes earlier, he was worried that this crisis would cause his wife a lot of trouble, and he was already thinking about leaving at a loss, just leaving some money for his son.

Just a minute ago, he was still worried about whether his wife had been injured, whether her face was hurt, whether she was bleeding, and whether she could get away unscathed...

"Honey, it's all fake, you don't want it..."

"Fuck your mother, you son of a bitch, you cheated on me! Do you even know how much I've helped your Hou family all these years, how many things I've done?! And this is how you treat me?! This is how you treat me—"

"Honey, it's all fake, these are all..."

"You bitch, open your eyes and look carefully! This photo was taken at a place we went to together! Who are you with? Hu Xianru, right?! Your mother forced you to play around, you really know how to have fun! You two were taking photos in the same room we spent our honeymoon in, huh?! You bitch, say something—"

Snapped!
Zhao Chunsheng finally lost his temper and slapped his wife. Zhang Da'an smiled with satisfaction, then, with a business card between his fingers, handed it to the nearly insane Zhao Chunsheng as the police took over the scene. "Teacher Zhao, remember to take this business card to the East District when things are over."

"Oh right."

Seeing Zhao Chunsheng grabbing Hou Xiaojun's hair and about to beat her to death, Zhang Da'an kindly reminded him, "Your young master Zhao Xiangyang also has a household registration in Hongdu, and his name is Hu Xiangyang."

"what!!!!!!"

When Zhao Chunsheng finally erupted, he probably gathered up all the doubts in his life's memories, and all the past questions were resolved.

Although the blade came from a psychopath, Zhao Chunsheng now only wanted to beat the wretched woman next to him to death.

Unlike Hou Xiaojun, Zhao Chunsheng has only ever loved his wife.

He worked very hard and was among the first batch of outstanding teachers. In order to improve his life, he also went into business very early. His wealth of 12 million yuan was built up little by little by Zhao Chunsheng in this era through his own abilities.

He's not some "phoenix man" who flew out of a remote mountain village; he's a phoenix born and raised in Jiangning City. But now someone comes and tells him, "You're a phoenix, how come you found a chicken and had a duck?"
It's a bit messy, Teacher Zhao.

Beep!!!
Accompanied by whistles, some people wearing "Zhang An Education" uniforms left after taking off their clothes, while others left with their clothes on.

Those who were dressed were all "cousins," while those who were undressed were a mixed bag: there were fellow villagers, students, workers... in short, all sorts of people.

(End of this chapter)