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

During his trip to Europe, Yan Jiefang also brought back over 10 billion US dollars worth of local specialties.

Besides the money, he also took a trip to Poland and brought back four new PAS5500/750E lithography machines.

These lithography machines are not actually fully completed yet, but fortunately all the related equipment has been prepared. Yan Jiefang can take them back and assemble them himself to get the complete version.

In addition, he discovered that ASML already had a new lithography platform.

TWINSCAN platform.

This is a dual-stage architecture that can increase the productivity of lithography machines by more than 50%.

It is much more advanced than other existing lithography platforms.

Based on his current knowledge, Yan Jiefang believes this is one of the key reasons why ASML later dominated the world's lithography machine industry.

Therefore, he made a copy of all the blueprints for this lithography machine and took them with him.

In addition, he also brought back tens of thousands of Chinese cultural relics.

Among the more precious items are Buddhist statues, kesi (silk tapestry) textiles, enamelware, bronzes, a Tang Dynasty copy of the "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies," and Dunhuang murals.

These cultural relics are of little use to him, but he will not donate them to domestic museums anytime soon.

After all, at this point in time, regulation is still too outdated.

This has led to a large number of cultural relics being lost overseas.

"I own one of the items in the Forbidden City, and I have one that the Forbidden City doesn't have."

"I have everything the Forbidden City has, and I also have things the Forbidden City doesn't have."

Yan Jiefang had also heard of this kind of "national treasure gang" mentality in later generations. He didn't want to donate his treasures to domestic museums only to have them end up back in the British Museum.

If this happens, then someone really is going to kill you.

For the sake of some people's safety, it's better to keep it in your own hands first.

...

The loss of museum artifacts and lithography machines naturally attracts a lot of attention.

This incident has once again sparked a considerable wave of public opinion around the world.

Spokespersons from several Western countries stated:

"We will be closely monitoring this matter and have jointly issued an $8 million reward to encourage people around the world to join hands in finding that master thief gang!"

It's no wonder they were so angry; anyone would be annoyed if something went missing from their home every few days.

After learning about the incident, many netizens left comments online.

"Hey, dog seller! Are those bandits up and about again? Take me with you next time! My ultimate dream is to be one of those ancient pirates!"

"Shit, why are they targeting our British Empire this time?!"

"I heard that the Vatican Cathedral was also robbed. Has our Lord abandoned us?"

"Eighty million US dollars! Give me that money, I want to travel the world!"

"What country do you think these pirates are from?"

"Great America! Only they have this power!"

"No, I think it should be the people of the empire on which the sun never sets! They want to regain their former glory!"

"The Taliban! They are the real danger!"

"Is it possible that they came from a mysterious ancient Eastern country?"

...

Yan Jiefang returned to China in late March.

One of the biggest events in the world this month was actually the crash of the Heping space station.

A huge number of people around the world are watching this event.

Even international thieves have not generated as much public attention as this incident.

Because the crash occurred at night, some people who were not too far away saw the space station debris streak across the sky.

A photographer in Fiji described it as follows:

"A huge beam of light streaked across the sky, flashing with a silvery-blue hue, leaving a trail of smoke or steam in its wake."

Another person described it as follows:

"Five or six pieces of debris, trailing huge plumes of smoke, fell, and the whole process lasted 10 to 15 seconds before a series of splashes were heard."

Because of the great distance from China, no scenery can be seen at all.

At that time, mobile phones did not have camera functions, otherwise there would have been more images and videos uploaded to the Internet.

At his home in the special economic zone, Yan Jiefang had some free time and was resting at home.

The eldest grandson, Yan Wenhan, has already started primary school, while the rest of the children are still staying at home.

Yan Wenfeng, the third grandson, sat on the instep of Yan Jiefang's crossed legs and swayed back and forth.

He watched the news on TV about the crash of the "Heping" space station and felt somewhat curious:

"Grandpa, does our country have a space station?"

Yan Jiefang looked into his eyes and shook his head:

"No."

"Why? Why doesn't our country have a space station?"

Yan Jiefang thought for a moment. Although his grandson was very smart, he was still young, so he naturally wouldn't understand those theoretical things when he was told them.

He looked around and spotted the building blocks piled in a box in the corner, then pointed to the pile of blocks:

"Do you see that pile of blocks?"

Yan Wenfeng looked in the direction his grandfather pointed and immediately saw the building blocks, so he nodded:

"I saw it."

"If I asked you to build a castle out of blocks, how would you do it?"

"Of course, you just stack the corresponding blocks in the corresponding places, and you'll gradually build it up."

Yan Jiefang gave a thumbs up:

"Yes, building a space station is like building with blocks. You send each component into space and assemble them to form a complete space station."

"Is our country sending spare parts into space?"

Yan Jiefang shook his head:

"No, our country is just like your youngest brother. Your brother doesn't have the strength to move building blocks, and our country doesn't have the strength to move parts either."

"When your younger brother grows up, he'll be strong enough to move building blocks, and our country also needs to grow up before it can send components into space."

Yan Wenfeng nodded knowingly:

"I see, so that's how it is. When will our country grow up?"

Yan Jiefang thought for a moment. The core module of the "Tiangong" space station was launched in 21. Given the scientific research level of this world, it would definitely have been launched earlier. So he gave a rough timeframe:

"About ten or twenty years."

"Does it really take that long? Then when I grow up, I'll learn how to build and launch space stations!"

Hearing this, Yan Jiefang was somewhat shaken.

He never expected that his third grandson, at such a young age, would aspire to participate in the great cause of aerospace.

Patting his grandson's head, Yan Jiefang smiled and made a promise:

"Good grandson! Grandpa will support you in the future!"

With his grandfather's support, Yan Wenfeng was overjoyed and clapped his hands with a broad smile.

"Grandpa, then it's settled!"

"What's making you so happy? Tell us so we can hear it too."

Liu Ruyan's voice came from the entrance hall.

It turned out that these women had gone to pick up the children from elementary school and kindergarten.

"Third brother, did you wet your pants?"

Yan Wenhan, wearing slippers, walked briskly towards this side.

Yan Wenfeng's face fell:

"Brother, you're the one who wets your pants! Your whole family wets their pants!"