Video Game Empire - Chapter 684
“Let’s go, there’s a cool wind blowing, and my mind is much clearer. If I don’t leave, it will affect the boss’s business!” Li Xuan smiled at the secretaries and bodyguards beside him. He was in a daze for himself. Explain, and then get ready.
The roof of this Cai Kee Seafood Building was transformed into an open-air lounge by the owner. It’s almost half past ten now, and it will be the lunch rush in a while. It is said that the seafood in this restaurant is good and cheap, and many diners in Yuen Long will drive here to eat. The seat on the roof is naturally the first choice for everyone. You can enjoy the sea breeze and enjoy the sea view while eating.
In fact, the owner of the restaurant doesn’t know yet that the beach one or two hundred meters to the left of his restaurant is likely to become a large construction site in the next three to five years.
In October last year, in the annual policy address submitted to the Legislative Council by the Governor of Hong Kong, David Wilson, there were two major projects that were very eye-catching. One of them is to cooperate with the Deep Sea Special Zone to build a sea-crossing bridge from the side of Shajiang Village in Tin Shui Wai to Shekou Peninsula opposite Deep Bay. After the bridge is completed, it will connect the electronics industries on both sides of the Deep Bay, which is also an important part of Li Xuan’s vision of the integration of China, Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Another major project is that the Hong Kong-Government is preparing to build a rapid light rail railway linking the urban area with the western New Territories. The Mass Transit Railway Corporation and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation need to submit their respective proposals to the Hong Kong government before October this year. The Hong Kong government will organize a panel of experts to review and review, and select the best proposal for employment.
The western railway line will connect from Hung Hom in West Kowloon, along Sham Shui Po, Tsuen Wan, and then open a tunnel across Tai Mo Shan to Yuen Long. Then a branch line continues west to Tuen Mun. The other branch goes north to the Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint, which has been in use for nearly five years.
Before the Lok Ma Chau Port is put into use, freight traffic between Hong Kong and Shenzhen must bypass the Man Kam To Port in the northern New Territories. With the deepening of the synergy between the electronics industries in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the freight logistics between the two places has begun to grow rapidly. The customs clearance capacity of the Man Kam To Port began to fail to keep up with the demand, so the Sino-British negotiation in 1984 had just settled, and the Hong Kong-British government began to negotiate with the Deep Sea Special Administrative Region on the construction of the Lok Ma Chau Port.
The new customs clearance port project started in 1985 and was successfully put into use in 1987. The Lok Ma Chau Port was opened only a month ago, and it immediately replaced Man Kam To as the largest cargo vehicle entry and exit port between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
In another time and space, the Lok Ma Chau Port will actually be opened two years later. As for the West Rail Line, if there were no butterflies like Li Xuan, the light rail linking the New Territories West and the urban area would not be designed and planned until 1995.
Of course, these huge changes are naturally inseparable from the cooperation of the Hong Kong-British authorities. Although Li Xuan has bombarded Wilson before, the current Hong Kong governor is not a difficult figure to deal with. But at least he did not come to Hong Kong with the intention of fighting against China like his successor Patten in another time and space!
The relationship between Li Xuan and the other party really began to get closer and closer, after Prime Minister Major visited China at the end of 1990.
Normally, after the first term of office, the governor of Hong Kong is usually re-elected by the British government as a sign of affirmation of the governor’s achievements. Therefore, Wilson has always believed that he will stand for Her Majesty the Queen, stand the last shift in the East, and then retire with honor.
After all, by the end of his first term in 1992, there will be only three years left before his retirement age of 65, and Hong Kong will only be five years away from returning to China. But since Prime Minister Major’s visit to China, Wilson quickly found that his idea seemed impossible, because he had been blacklisted by the Prime Minister.
This made Wilson have to start thinking about his retirement plan in advance! When Western officials retire or leave office, they usually don’t really start to enjoy their old age, but most of them turn around and join a company to hang a slack, and then continue to receive a high salary. This is actually one of the most typical power-profit cash-out methods for European and American politicians!
Wilson is no exception, and he doesn’t want to live on pensions alone. So a Hong Kong company interested in exploring the European market took the initiative to find him through a middleman.
The other party hopes that Wilson can serve as a special consultant of the company’s overseas market department after retirement, and use his profound literacy in the field of international relations to help the company gain a better foothold in the European market. And the middleman who found Wilson was none other than Hawke, the former chairman of Ikon.
Hawke himself was born in the upper class of London. After abandoning business and entering politics, he was even more like a duck to water. He quickly joined the Conservative Party and became a new member of the British House of Commons through a by-election.
The British parliament is divided into two houses, the upper house and the lower house. The upper house is often called the House of Lords, because most of the upper houses are not elected by election, but more than 600 hereditary nobles serve as members. You must know that there are only more than 1,000 hereditary nobles in the UK. Except for those who are under the age of 25, or who are financially bankrupt, and do not meet the conditions for being elected to the Senate, almost most of the qualified hereditary nobles can easily become as long as they have the will. Senator.
It’s just that although the House of Lords is respectable, its powers and responsibilities are very light, and it is almost difficult to influence the government’s formation. Almost all cabinet positions, including the prime minister, have long been held by elected members of the House of Commons. So in order to participate in the election, Hawke handed over his hereditary baron to his son in advance, and then joined the Conservative Party as a civilian!
The reason why Li Xuan chose Hawke to be the first CEO of Aikang was to a large extent because he was good at dancing in the political and business circles in the UK. Most of Li Xuan’s tacit transactions with British political circles over the years were also completed by Hawke.
Therefore, Hawke decided to resign from Aikang Company and participate in the by-election of the House of Commons. Li Xuan must have strongly supported it and provided a large amount of campaign funds on his own initiative. It can be said that Hawke is Li Xuan’s number one spokesperson in the British Conservative Party.
In addition to communicating with Wilson, Hawke also helped Li Xuan in London to actively run the candidate for the next Hong Kong governor. After experiencing the turmoil at Hong Kong’s new airport, Major’s original intention was to send a tougher new governor to replace David Wilson, who was about to expire. The two were not in line with Li Xuan’s interests.
At this moment in history, there is a very interesting scene. The first person in the Conservative Party to stand up to persuade Major was his friend and Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten. In another time and space, Wilson’s successor was supposed to be Patten, but now he has taken the initiative to recommend another candidate for the last governor of Hong Kong to Mr. Prime Minister.
1992 is a great year for global politics. The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held in China, while abroad, the United States will hold a presidential election and the United Kingdom will hold a parliamentary election. Patten, as the current chairman of the Conservative Party, needs to coordinate the election of the entire Conservative Party.
Democratic-democratic elections in the West have always been a particularly expensive political game. In particular, after the Conservative Party has been in power for 12 consecutive years, the opposition party, the Labour Party, has faced an extremely strong challenge in this general election.
Due to a series of mistakes by the Conservative Party itself, the support rate of the opposition Labour Party has not been much less than that of the Conservative Party since Maye became Prime Minister! Therefore, this year’s British general election will be a fierce and protracted battle, and the pressure on Patten will naturally be enormous.
He desperately wants more campaign funds ~www.mtlnovel.com~ to help the Conservative Party run more ads and hold more campaign rallies. So when a big money owner like Li Xuan knocked on the door with a lot of pounds, let alone a mere Hong Kong governorship, even if it was a bigger interest appeal, he would agree without hesitation.
Because Patten and Major’s qualifications in the Conservative Party are not deep enough, once the Conservative Party cannot win this election, his party chairman and Major’s leadership positions will be instantly lost, and the political future of the two will immediately be destroyed. was terminated. Under the situation that taking a step back is a cliff, Mei Jie has no reason to drive away the gold master who came to the door automatically!
What’s more, it’s not just Hawke, a new member of parliament, who speaks out for Li Xuan. The political donations he has made in the UK over the years are not in vain. Major traded a candidate for Hong Kong governor in exchange for unity within the party, which is not a difficult transaction to decide.
Therefore, in this year’s New Year’s Day honors list, Wilson was officially canonized by the Queen as a life noble. At the same time, Downing Street also announced to the public that Wilson will not be re-elected after the end of the current term, but will be replaced by Mak Robin as the governor of Hong Kong.
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