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

With the Yan family's current capital, if they want to get into e-commerce, their starting point is already a whole level higher than many people's finish line.

There's nothing you can't do if you put your heart into it.

No matter how many competitors there are, we are not afraid.

First, the domestic Internet is about to enter a relatively long "ice age".

Even well-known e-commerce platforms like 8848 might not be able to withstand it.

They will almost all die during this long, cold period.

What's more, other companies with less capital?

Yan Xueheng, on the other hand, had absolutely no worries.

Leaving aside the Yan family's involvement in the microelectronics industry, the meager investments that his father, Yan Jiefang, made are enough for him to live comfortably.

He can live a carefree life as he pleases.

Moreover, he could, like the ride-hailing and short video companies that will emerge later, build his company and become one of the leaders simply by throwing money at subsidies.

All of these things are essentially just a game of capital.

Throughout history, ordinary people who have been able to stand out from a crowd of competitors have been extremely rare.

There are hardly any.

Those who can even drink a little soup are truly exceptional!

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Unlike his second brother, who is involved in cross-border e-commerce, the third brother, Yan Xueyuan, has recently focused his main efforts on the battery factory.

Currently, he is working hard to develop both lithium iron phosphate and ternary lithium batteries, as requested by his elderly father.

With Yan Jiefang's blueprints in hand, they have been trying to produce the products recently and have applied for a large number of related patents.

In just over a year, they built up a thick patent barrier.

They not only produce batteries, but they've also set up a factory next door to research battery-related equipment.

This is entirely due to the fact that the relevant equipment is blocked by foreign countries.

Just getting the microelectronics equipment and materials from the alms-gathering department would take Yan Jiefang a lot of time.

Does he have to solve the problem of the advanced equipment at the battery factory?

Yan Jiefang shook his head directly.

To reduce his own burden, he simply designed the relevant blueprints and then had his third son build the new factory.

Why not just produce the equipment that needs to be imported ourselves?

In the future, these devices will not only be used by our own company, but can also be sold to our neighboring battery manufacturers and exported overseas.

Because of these things, the third brother will probably have to spend most of his time in Dongguan for the next few days.

Fortunately, they have partnerships with universities, so their development has been very rapid.

As for the car manufacturers, while continuing to produce two models based on market demand, they are also upgrading and improving the cars' appearance and some electronic components.

In addition, the development of military off-road vehicles is progressing steadily.

It is said that the comrades in the army couldn't wait and took two test vehicles back to experience them in August.

The result was an extraordinary experience.

They played with those two cars like crazy, driving them through all sorts of complex terrains and environments to test them.

Although they were test vehicles, these two cars truly amazed everyone.

Many comrades who have driven this vehicle are so fond of it that they no longer want to drive the regular vehicles that were originally in the military.

Two months later, some comrades in the troops even submitted reports to directly purchase this experimental vehicle to replace the original vehicles.

This left many higher-level leaders and the car factory staff somewhat at a loss for words.

However, most people have given this military off-road vehicle a near-perfect approval.

This car is expensive, but its performance is truly outstanding, far surpassing even the military Hummer!

In November, Yan Jiefang prepared to travel to remote areas in Sichuan again.

That night, the couple lay in bed, and Liu Ruyan looked up at his face:

"Jiefang, are you going to check on the construction progress of the teaching building again this year?"

"Um."

"When are you leaving?"

"tomorrow."

Liu Ruyan seemed to be thinking of something, and then she took his hand:

"How about we go together? I'd like to see those places too."

Yan Jiefang thought for a moment, then nodded:

"Okay, let's go together tomorrow morning."

Traveling to remote areas with someone is not very convenient and will waste a lot of travel time, but it's nice to have someone by your side.

At least the journey won't be so lonely.

Moreover, the couple has spent little time together over the past ten years, so I should spend more time with her.

The next morning, the two said goodbye to their families and then flew to Chengdu.

Yan Jiefang took her to the villa he had bought earlier.

"Jiefang, when did you buy a villa here too?"

As she stepped through the spacious villa gate, Liu Ruyan looked at the slightly aged furniture and appliances and asked curiously.

"It's been several years, probably bought in '96 or '97, I can't quite remember."

"Why did you buy houses here? And so many, especially since no one in our family lives here."

Faced with this problem, Yan Jiefang was quite indifferent:

"I'll just buy some things here for fun when I'm passing by. It'll also give us a place to stay when our whole family comes here for vacation in the future."

"Fine, whatever makes you happy."

Liu Ruyan also knew that her husband had more money than he could ever spend, and that he gave her tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan in pocket money every year.

For houses like these, once you've bought them, it's fine; it doesn't really matter.

"There are quite a few attractions around here, should we stay for a couple of days?"

Liu Ruyan hesitated for a moment, then shook her head:

"Next time, let's all come together as a family. It's not fun for just the two of us to come alone."

"Okay, whatever you say."

Yan Jiefang nodded upon seeing this.

After having a son and grandson, this woman devoted most of her attention to her children, and she has worried about them a lot over the years.

The two did not stay at the villa for long; they set off in their military off-road vehicle in the afternoon.

These days, although the country has been building various highways over a long period of time, the benefits to some impoverished counties are still slower to be realized.

The roads in many places are still very difficult to travel.

Although the Tian Shu off-road vehicle is quite good, it is still far inferior to military off-road vehicles.

After all, military off-road vehicles often travel through places where there are no roads at all.

This time, they are going to Wangcang County.

This county is a long-standing impoverished county with a very poor economic level. It seems that it will not be able to achieve poverty alleviation and be removed from the list of impoverished counties until around 2020.

According to the satellite navigation system that Yan Jiefang specially installed in the car, the journey was about 340 kilometers.

The journey ahead, via the Chengdu-Mianyang Expressway and the Mianyang-Guangyuan Expressway, was relatively easy, but the mountain roads that followed were much worse.

Of course, this kind of road situation is nothing special for military off-road vehicles.

"Honey, if you encounter highway robbers or anything like that on the road, don't worry about it. It's quite common in these remote areas."

After entering the national highway, Yan Jiefang specifically told his wife something.

"Yes, I understand."

Liu Ruyan nodded, indicating that she understood.

These days, news about highway robbers and bandits frequently appears in news reports from various places, and they can hardly even be considered news anymore.