Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

The next day, when Lou Bingcheng came to the office, he saw a document on his desk. He picked it up and found that it was a report on Hong Kong's tap water supply that he had asked his secretary Li Wenfeng to compile, so he hurriedly sat down and started reading it.

You won’t know until you read it. It’s really infuriating! After reading the report, Lou Bingcheng slammed his head on the table and said angrily: “This is outrageous. They don’t treat the people as human beings.” It turned out that in the report compiled by Li Wenfeng, there had been severe droughts in Hong Kong since 1902, with water supply only for one hour a day. During the severe drought in 1929, five of the six reservoirs in Hong Kong dried up. The Hong Kong government at that time raised the water restriction from level 6 to level 5 (no more water supply from street pipes, and people had to go to water supply stations to get water). That year, more than 7 people had to return to the mainland for refuge due to the water shortage in Hong Kong.

After the years of unrest in the mainland ended and a new government was established, the Chinese entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, for the sake of Hong Kong's future development and the survival of ordinary people, proposed to seek help from the mainland to supply water to Hong Kong, so as to completely solve the problem of water shortage in Hong Kong. The central government of the mainland naturally approved Hong Kong's request very smoothly. Unfortunately, when the Lingnan Provincial Government surveyed the route and built a reservoir in Pengcheng to supply water to Hong Kong, it turned out to be wishful thinking.

Just when the mainland was ready to supply water to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government was afraid. First, the Hong Kong government was worried that the lending of drinking water would cause the colonial government to change the power boundary of Hong Kong, and subjectively insisted on advocating "drinking water independence". Second, it wanted to diversify the water diversion. In order to maintain "drinking water independence", the Hong Kong government at that time looked not only to the north but also to the east.

America actively participated in Hong Kong's desalination project and even offered to provide funds for the desalination project, hoping that the Hong Kong government would contract the construction project to America. On the one hand, it was due to strategic considerations: it did not want Hong Kong to become increasingly friendly to the mainland because of water use; on the other hand, it was due to commercial considerations. America hoped to seize the opportunity of the global desalination market, and Hong Kong was an important step. Therefore, for the Hong Kong John Bull government, there was no objective level to immediately agree to the urgency of the mainland. As a result, the water diversion project was delayed again and again, and the people of Hong Kong were still struggling in the days of no water.

If this is the case, it will not be so easy to promote the supply of water from the mainland to the Xiangjiang River. We need to plan it carefully. Thinking of this, Lou Bingcheng shouted to the outside of the room: "Secretary Li, come in."

"Boss, you called me." Li Wenfeng walked into Lou Bingcheng's office and said respectfully.

"Please help me contact the president of the Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions. I would like to invite you two to dinner. The time depends on what is convenient for the two presidents!" Lou Bingcheng gave the order without raising his head while sitting in his office chair.

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Li Wenfeng responded and quickly walked out of Lou Bingcheng's office.

After a while, Li Wenfeng walked into Lou Bingcheng's office again and reported: "Boss, I have called the secretaries of the two presidents. They are available at noon today. Do you think I should arrange for someone to send the invitations to the two presidents now?"

Lou Bingcheng nodded and said, "Well, let's do it at noon today. Let's book the restaurant at the one I often go to before. You go down and make the arrangements!"

Li Wenfeng nodded to show that he understood, then turned and left the office to arrange related matters.

Lou Bingcheng leaned back in his chair, feeling proud in his heart. He had not expected that it would be so easy to invite the president of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions. It seemed that he still had some influence in Hong Kong. He was more confident in promoting the supply of water from the mainland to Hong Kong. As long as he could convince the president of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and use the influence of these two chambers of commerce to put pressure on the John Bull Hong Kong government, he would definitely be able to get the John Bull Hong Kong government to agree to the supply of water from the mainland to Hong Kong. If necessary, he could give some gifts to those foreign devils.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look forward to the lunch banquet.