Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Xiangjiang.

Shek O Manor.

In the meeting room of the guest building.

Xu Cun shook hands with Bai Teng with a smile on his face, and then the two sides sat down respectively.

Speaking of Baiteng, ordinary people may not know it, but when it comes to his other name, anyone who knows Xiangjiang can say that there is no one who doesn't know it.

Bai Teng's other name is Patten, a senior politician of the British Conservative Party. He was the Minister of the Environment, the Chairman of the Conservative Party and the last Governor of Hong Kong.

Baiteng is the translated name of Patten before he became Governor of Hong Kong.

Today's British Prime Minister John Major and Berten have a very good friendship, so after Major took office, he immediately appointed Berten as the president of the Duchy of Lancaster and the chairman of the Conservative Party.

Under Botten's planning, the Conservative Party was able to win unexpectedly in this year's general election, but ironically, Botten himself was defeated by the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster and lost his seat in the House of Commons in the Bath constituency. This quit the House of Commons.

According to Major's autobiography in the previous life, if Baiteng could keep his seat, he would have the opportunity to serve as the British Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Secretary.

In addition, Bo Teng was one of the three cabinet ministers who urged Mrs Thatcher to resign in 1990.

Different from previous Hong Kong governors, Bo Teng is the only Hong Kong governor who believes in Catholicism, and he is also one of the few Hong Kong governors who are not from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but from the Parliament.

In addition, Bai Teng did not accept any honors before taking office, nor did he wear traditional colonial official uniforms when he took office.

but--

Xu Cun will never underestimate Bai Teng because of this!

On the contrary, Xu Cun paid even more attention to Bai Teng than Youde, Zhong Yijie, and Wei Yixin!

In the previous life, Bo Teng fell into a bad relationship with the Mainland shortly after he took office——In the previous life, in October 1992, Bo Teng, who should have been called Patten at that time, published his first policy address during his tenure , the report mentioned the political reform plan, saying that the electoral system of the Legislative Council will be reformed soon. In addition to separation of the two councils, all appointed seats will be abolished, and nine new functional group seats (new nine groups) will be added to make all incumbents All are eligible to vote (this in disguise makes these nine seats directly elected seats), so as to speed up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong. The Mainland is of course dissatisfied with this, pointing out that the central government has not been consulted about the reform, and has declared that it will cancel the relevant reform after the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty. At that time, many central government officials accused Patten of being a poisonous snake, a thief, a prostitute and dancing the last tango for the democrats. .

but--

Despite strong opposition from the central government in the previous life, Patten's political reform plan was successfully passed by the Legislative Council on June 30, 1994, and implemented in the 1995 Hong Kong Legislative Council election.

Later, the central government stated that it would abandon the through train and would not allow members of the Legislative Council elected in 1995 to transition to the SAR Legislative Council.

Since Patten announced his political reform plan, he was never invited to meet with mainland leaders again during his tenure.

Patten ignored the mainland's attitude, and continued to plan the future of Xiangjiang in the way he had envisioned long ago.

Don't think that Patten is acting recklessly against the mainland. Patten also has certain rules:

Patten knew that it was inevitable for the British to get out of Xiangjiang. Based on this, he actively appointed Chinese to take up key positions, euphemistically saying: In order to bridge the handover of Xiangjiang's sovereignty.

Don't think that what Patten did was really for the smooth return of Xiangjiang, but in fact it was the opposite. What Patten did was to set up obstacles for the return of Xiangjiang and help some selfish Xiangjiang people to establish the establishment of Xiangjiang.

in addition--

During his term of office, Chris Patten made great efforts to be close to the people - for example, he went to the Tai Cheong Bakery in Central to taste egg tarts, and maintained correspondence with the owner of the bakery in the days to come. He will personally attend radio programs to answer questions from the audience, and host public question-and-answer meetings to face public inquiries, thus establishing an image of being open and responsible to the public.

During his term of office, Patten also actively improved various benefits for Hong Kong people—Paten even proposed to increase social welfare expenditures at a rate five times higher than the GDP for five consecutive years, and will continue to increase by this rate after 1997. Five years of social welfare, for this reason, education, large-scale infrastructure and other expenditures have been greatly reduced.

Don't think that Patten is out of good intentions. It's not his own money that Patten spends on these things, but Xiangjiang's financial reserves. Patten's real purpose is not to improve the lives of Xiangjiang people, but to spend all of Xiangjiang's financial reserves. They were not given to the inland where the British expelled them, nor were they left to the later SAR government.

Moreover, Patten's tenure was only five short years. Once the time passed, he patted his ass and returned to the UK. Whether Xiangjiang and Xiangjiang people live or die is none of his business.

In the previous life, because Xiangjiang's welfare expenditure was too high, the mainland paid a great economic price for it.

It would be a big mistake to think that this only endangers the mainland, and Xiangjiang and Xiangjiang people suffer the most. All of this is one of the important reasons for Xiangjiang's car crash and death.

Ironically, what Patten has done has also earned him an excellent reputation in Hong Kong—in the last life, according to a poll conducted by Hong Kong Baptist University on March 13, 1997, , 62% of the interviewees approved of PATTEN's performance, while only 53% of the approval rate for the then Chief Executive was Lao Dong. Later, countless people who supported Xiangjiang Duli used the name of Patten.

The reason why Major was able to defeat other competitors to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was largely due to the support of Xu Cun (with money), and Bai Teng was one of Major's important staff, so Xu Cun and Bai Teng could be regarded as He is an ally, which is why Bai Teng came to visit Xu Cun before taking office.

After the two parties sat down, Bai Teng said politely: I'm so sorry, Mr. Xu, but I'll trouble you to come back from the mainland!

Xu Cun said with a smile: It's okay, it's just a three-hour flight, and I have something to come back to deal with.

Bai Teng said with a smile: Xiangjiang, a land of freedom, is really close to China. You can reach the capital of China in three hours.

Politicians have always seldom talk nonsense, and like to beat around the bush. Although Xu Cun is not a politician, he has dealt with politicians, especially the world's top politicians, for more than ten years. Naturally, he has long been accustomed to the way politicians speak. When Teng said land of freedom and the capital of China, Xu Cun immediately understood that Bai Teng was testing his attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang. At the same time, Bai Teng also faintly expressed his own attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang— — To make Xiangjiang a free land, Xiangjiang should be Xiangjiang and China should be China.

Seeing Bai Teng's smiling face, Xu Cun's smile slowly disappeared...

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