Volleyball, as one of the three major balls, is a young sport, but it still has a great influence in the world, and its audience is broader than table tennis.

Therefore, on November 16, in the Osaka Gymnasium in Tokyo, when the news of the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the championship was broadcast and broadcast by CCTV and Phoenix Channel, it soon set off a wave in Hong Kong and the mainland.

The women's volleyball team won the championship!

This astonishing good news swept through all the Chinese areas at a tornado speed, and countless compatriots cheered for it, especially when Fok Yiu-man was in the "Hong Kong Observer", "Ming Pao", "Oriental Daily", "Wen Wei Po", "Ta Kung Pao...... After an article titled "The Unique Sportsmanship of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team" published by more than a dozen newspapers was published, the good news that the women's volleyball team won the championship was brought to the peak.

In the article, Huo Yaowen gave full play to the writing he has honed over the years, and took the women's volleyball team winning the championship as an opportunity to depict the sportsmanship of the Chinese women's volleyball team that is down-to-earth, diligent and hardworking, fearless, sharing weal and woe, uniting and fighting, bravely climbing the peak, and fighting bravely!

This article not only caused a sensation in Hong Kong, but also spread to the mainland through the Xinhua News Agency, and after it was published in the "Minren Daily" with the approval of the upper echelons, it also set off a wave of slogans of "learning the spirit of the women's volleyball team and actively building the motherland."

Overnight, the good news that the women's volleyball team won the championship seems to be not only reflected in the field of sports, but also shows the spirit of the Chinese people in this period to work hard and strive for the early realization of the four modernization goals of the motherland!

So when the women's volleyball team and others were still training in the national gymnasium to prepare for the World Championships in Peru next year, they suddenly heard the spirit of the women's volleyball team, and they were all at a loss.

Originally, there were reporters who wanted to interview them, but they were all pushed away by head coach Yuan Weimin.

"You all know that, so everyone must train hard and not let down the expectations of the motherland and the people!" Yuan Weimin looked at a group of young girls in their early twenties, and his heart was both happy and worried.

I am happy because the women's volleyball team won the championship and brought great honor to the motherland, and I am worried that this honor will be too big and press on this group of little girls.

More than a dozen women's volleyball players clenched their fists and shouted: "Coach Yuan, don't worry, we will train hard!"

"Okay! Then hurry up and train, there are only less than ten months before the Peruvian Women's Volleyball World Championship, and the teams participating in the competition will not be as good as there are only nine teams in Japan, and there will be elites from all over the world to come!"

Yuan Weimin looked at the team members full of confidence and enthusiasm, and was encouraged in his heart, and he also clenched his fists and shouted: "23 teams, if we want to stand out, we must work harder and harder than them, only in this way can we live up to the expectations of the people and the motherland!"

"Yes!" the women's volleyball players shouted a word unswervingly, and the voice echoed in the stadium for a long time, and the players of other sports who were training nearby looked sideways and gritted their teeth to train harder.

……

Winter turned to spring, and when 1981 waved goodbye, it ushered in the early spring of 1982.

Time passed little by little.

When the grass grew in February, when the warbler flew, there were rumors in Hong Kong that the mainland was preparing to take back Hong Kong and was negotiating with the British government in Hong Kong.

At first, there was not much stir about this incident, but under the deliberate propaganda of some capitalist roaders, all kinds of extremely outrageous rumors spread, and the situation in Hong Kong changed unpredictably again overnight.

Hutchison Whampoa Building.

Huo Yaowen convened a meeting with all the managers above the middle level of Hehuang.

The contents of the meeting were not revealed, but in the following months, Hutchison Whampoa quietly sold several pieces of government land in his holdings.

Huanyu Group also began to sell some less important assets to collect funds in preparation for the chairman's next bottom-buying action.

In fact, it's not just Fok Yiuwen who is acting, many tycoons in Hong Kong with inside information are more or less doing the same thing. Some are holding a wait-and-see attitude; some are like Fok Yaowen, who want to collect funds as soon as possible to see what the situation is and whether it is worth buying the bottom; but more are worried that in the future, Hong Kong Island will be as rumored to be, and all the mainland will come to fight for communism.

Taking advantage of this shareholder trend, Fok Yiuwen and Fok Guantai invested 30 million Hong Kong dollars together to acquire Hong Kong Kowloon Telecommunications Business Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1927 and 1956 respectively, these two companies are leaders in Hong Kong's telecommunications and telephone industries, covering almost 60% of Hong Kong's domestic market in radio and telecommunications. In the past, when telegraphs were popular, Kowloon Telecommunications was almost an indispensable company for people to contact foreign countries.

Fok's purpose in acquiring the two telcos was to promote pagers in Hong Kong.

No one knows better than Huo Yaowen how popular pagers were in the 80s and 90s, and they dare not say that they have one per person, at least as long as they have the ability, almost all of them will buy one.

Although it is very profitable to sell pagers, it is telecommunications that really makes money, whether it is a monthly, yearly, or manual porting service fee, which is a large amount.

After the acquisition of the Kowloon Telecommunications Company and the telephone company, at the end of June, Fok Yiu-man officially established the "Hong Kong Wireless Communications Company" and began to sell digital pagers imported from abroad, and at the same time, the wireless communication laboratory in cooperation with the University of Hong Kong and the University of Chinese began to seize the time to develop Chinese character pagers and mobile phone technology.

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September 1982.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady, visited China and negotiated and communicated with Deng Lao on the Hong Kong issue.

This fall was unbearable, and there were rumors immediately that the Iron Lady did not agree to return Hong Kong, and the mainland's hardline attitude spared no effort to deter the Iron Lady, which caused the Iron Lady to be in a trance when she came out of the Great Hall, and she fell down under her feet.

It was an ordinary wrestling, but the trend of the rumors became more and more outrageous, especially when Shen Bi, the current senior of HSBC, publicly proposed: "Britain must retain its governing power, and handing over sovereignty is purely a façade", which was strongly opposed by countless patriotic citizens.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, many newspapers under the Universal Press began to blow up HSBC, causing HSBC's stock price to fall again and again.

At a time when the HSBC board of directors was having a headache over this, the only Chinese director, Charter Boat King, came forward and publicly stated that he would consider giving up his seat on the HSBC board.

The news that the charter king publicly stated that he might give up his seat on the HSBC board of directors caused a huge uproar on Hong Kong Island.

Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other banks saw the opportunity to step on HSBC, and they also tried every means to find out about HSBC, and even said that their banking business in Hong Kong would not be affected by any political factors.

Under the deliberate suppression of many forces, HSBC's stock price plummeted.

If this is the case, HSBC, with so many years of operating in Hong Kong and the power to issue banknotes, will naturally turn the danger into a disaster after a period of cooling.

However, when Fok Yiu-man, Fok Kwun-tai, Chartered Boat King, Macau King and other well-known tycoons on Hong Kong Island joined forces to set up a Hong Kong bank, HSBC's stock not only plummeted, but even its savings were greatly affected. A large number of citizens mistakenly thought that HSBC was going to roll up and run away, and they went to major HSBC branches to start withdrawing money.

After 17 years, the bank run happened again, and this time the bank is still the Hong Kong note-issuing bank HSBC, the impact is very huge, although the HSBC senior Shen Bi repeatedly assured that HSBC will not run away, will always take root in Hong Kong, but in the newspapers and TV stations to fuel, on October 15, HSBC was run on a total of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

The loss of seemingly small amount of cash to HSBC is actually huge. The run continued the next day, and this time the cash withdrawn was as high as 50 million!

In an interview with TV, some citizens said that HSBC said that it had sufficient reserves, but when he wanted to withdraw 5 million, he was politely rejected by HSBC many times, and it was seriously suspected that HSBC had begun to prepare to run away!

……

Bao family.

"Mr. Bao, what do you mean by that?"

Shen Bi looked at the charter boat king with an unhappy face, and said in a questioning tone: "I think HSBC treats you well, when you acquired the Wharf in 80 years, but I tried my best to negotiate a loan of more than 2 billion yuan to you! You can successfully acquire the Wharf, don't you Chinese pay attention to the word human favor? That's how you repay my favor?"

"Shen Taipan, don't be angry. ”

The charter boat king smiled slightly, personally poured a cup of tea for Shen Bi and said, "I am indeed very grateful to Shen Daban for resolutely lending me a loan despite public opinion. But this is a private feeling, in the face of national righteousness, I still carry someone clearly, not to mention that I didn't pay HSBC interest. ”

"What does Mr. Bao mean that he can't reconcile?"

Shen Bi frowned, the hand holding the teacup couldn't help but tighten a little, he specially came to visit the charter king, just hoping that the Chinese tycoon could publicly show his support for HSBC again, but looking at the other party's appearance, it didn't seem that he wanted to reconcile.

"Now that things have come to this point, it shouldn't have much to do with me signing someone. The charter king shook his head, the current situation was no longer something he could control.

Not to mention whether it will offend the public if he stands up and speaks in support of HSBC at this time, Guanghuo Yaowen's Huanyu Newspaper, Phoenix Channel, Asia Television, Commercial Radio and other media organizations bombard some remarks that HSBC may run away every day, which is not comparable to the charter king alone.

Shen Bi said directly: "So I hope that the charter boat king can communicate with Huo Yaowen and ask his newspaper not to publish some articles." ”

Chartered boat king: "I can't do anything about this, even if I tell Huo Sheng, he may not be able to manage the newspaper below, after all, Hong Kong Island pays attention to freedom of speech." ”

Hearing this, Shen Bi squinted slightly, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, and his gloomy and uncertain face showed the anger in his heart at the moment.

……

A month later, the board of directors of HSBC saw that depositors were falling sharply every day, and the stock price could not fall, so it finally couldn't hold on anymore and decided to talk to the charter king and others.

In the process of negotiation with the charter king, the charter king said that in order to restore HSBC's image in the eyes of Hong Kong Islanders, it is necessary to recruit one or more Chinese directors.

And the first candidate proposed by the charter boat king is Huo Yaowen!

After internal discussions at HSBC, a few days later, Fok Yiuwen successfully entered HSBC, and even broke Article 3 of the "HSBC Regulations" set by HSBC when it was established, which was unanimously approved: "A single shareholder shall not hold more than 1% of the capital unless approved by the board of directors." ”

After acquiring 5% of HSBC's shares, it successfully settled in HSBC and became the third largest individual shareholder of HSBC.

When the news was revealed by HSBC, HSBC even stated that it would stay in Hong Kong forever and it was impossible to run away.

Coupled with the public opinion of the global newspaper industry, the incident was slowly calmed down, but Huo Yaowen relied on this method to enter HSBC, and has been suppressed by the HSBC board of directors and the senior class Shen Bi.

Huo Yaowen doesn't care much about these, anyway, in another year, after 84 China and Britain signed an agreement and Hong Kong confirmed the return of 97, he has a way to continue to increase his stake in HSBC.

At that time, HSBC will sooner or later be in his Huo Yaowen's pocket.

As for the Hong Kong bank that Huo Guantai and others were preparing to establish, Huo Yaowen did not give up, on the one hand, he was secretly preparing, and on the other hand, he was also submitting an application for a banking license to the Banking Regulatory Commission.

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In a New York minute

May 2, 1984.

The exchange of letters between China and Britain came into force and was registered with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, bringing to an end the two-year negotiations, and the final agenda for the return of Hong Kong, the pearl of Hong Kong, after 86 years of wandering.

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