Justice of the Peace!

According to the Hong Kong Government Gazette on February 10, a total of eight people were appointed as Justice of the Peace by the Governor's Office, and among these eight names, Fok Yaowen has three big characters in them.

Not to mention Fok Yiuwen, the remaining seven people appointed this time are all well-known figures in Hong Kong's business or philanthropic circles, among which the most powerful and famous are He Shizhu, Fang Runhua and Sun Bingshu.

Dr. Sun received his bachelor's degree in business from Hujiang University in Shanghai, and his Ph.D. in business from St. John's University.

Upon his return to Hong Kong, he became the Chairman of Suntec Limited, the Chairman of Suntec Trading Limited, the Director of Kam Sun Land Limited, the Chairman of Sunrise Sdn Bhd, the Patron of The Community Chest of Hong Kong, the Vice President of the Scout Association of Hong Kong, and a member of the Hong Kong Education Advisory Committee......

In 1966, he was the chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and the chairman of the previous chairmen of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.

He Shizhu and Fang Yunhua are also people with great prestige and reputation in the business and philanthropic circles, compared to Huo Yaowen, although he founded the first charitable education foundation in Hong Kong, but compared to the achievements of these three people, he is still an insignificant little person.

However, outside of Hong Kong, Fok Yaowen is still somewhat famous, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, which were the first places to publish Fok Yaowen's science fiction books and philosophical arguments in "Brain in a Jar".

It is precisely because of these reputations, coupled with the joint recommendation of many Justices of the Peace, that Governor Tai Lin-toe made an exception to appoint Fok Yiu-man as a Justice of the Peace.

You must know that except for Fok Yaowen, who is a young man in his 20s, the youngest of the rest is also 40 years old, and since the opening of Hong Kong, he is the youngest of the appointed justices of the peace, whether they are Chinese or British!

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No, when the list of justices of the peace appointed in 1969 (the appointment was in 1970, but it belonged to 1969) was announced, people from all walks of life in Hong Kong exploded, especially the press, which was the most shocked.

A number of newspapers have made headlines that have caught the eye of readers:

"The Youngest Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong":

"Since the opening of Hong Kong, there have been 173 Chinese gentlemen and 461 English gentlemen, making a total of 634 justices of the peace. The youngest Justice of the Peace before that was the gentleman Fu Lamming in 1890, when he was only 35 years old, and was recommended as a Justice of the Peace by the British Prince and Duchess Connaught who were visiting Hong Kong at that time because of his vigorous reclamation of the Central area.

Neither before nor since, there was no considered Justice of the Peace who was younger than Fu Linming, until this year, a familiar name appeared in the list of Governor-appointed Justices of the Peace———— Fok Yiu-man......"

"Hong Kong's New Generation of Young Leaders, the Goal of Contemporary Youth: Fok Yiu-man":

The new Justice of the Peace, Mr. Fok Yiu-man, born in 1947, is nearly 23 years old, graduated from the Department of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, and stayed on as a philosophy teacher after graduation. During his time at HKU, Mr. Fok wrote a number of popular works in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, among which "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" broke the highest sales in the history of Hong Kong romance letters.

Not only that, Mr. Huo also published the amazing science fiction masterpiece "1999" that sold millions of copies in the United States, and later released the book in the United Kingdom, which also created the miracle of the best-selling science fiction in the United Kingdom last year, and was praised by many recognized science fiction masters in the world for his works full of ideas and fantasies, and Mr. Huo has become a world-renowned science fiction writer. His recent creation of "The Devil of the Tang Dynasty" has changed the unchanged martial arts model in the past, and transferred the disputes in the rivers and lakes to the change of dynasty...

Mr. Huo is not only a teacher, a writer, but also a great philosopher, philanthropist and educator.

At the World Congress of Philosophy held in Vienna in 1969, Mr. Huo Yaowen became the two brightest stars of the philosophical conference with a philosophical thesis of "Brain in a Jar" and "The Tram Problem" proposed by the British philosopher Philippa Ford.

Later, after returning to Hong Kong, Mr. Fok Yiu-man established the Hong Kong Charity Education Foundation, vigorously developing the charity education industry in Hong Kong, subsidizing a large number of poor students to go to school, and put forward the philanthropic belief of kindness, love and self-reliance, and the education theory of education-oriented and moral education first.

It is unceremonious to say that after the Second World War, among the many young talents in the birthplace of Hong Kong, Mr. Fok Yiu-man was a leader, and he played an incomparable and conspicuous achievement in literature, social welfare, and the world. It is precisely because Fok Yaowen has achieved great achievements while not forgetting his original intention as a teacher, actively developing basic education for young people, and being appointed as a Justice of the Peace, which is well-deserved. ”

Some tabloids are even more frequent in order to sell:

"How did a 23-year-old poor boy who came out of a housing estate turn into a well-known writer in Hong Kong, set up a publishing company, and was appointed by the Governor as the youngest Justice of the Peace?

Originally, the list of appointed Justices of the Peace published in the Gazette did not have much to do with ordinary Hong Kong citizens, and they did not care who became a Justice of the Peace and who received what kind of honor, but they could not withstand the series of bombardments by dozens of newspapers in Hong Kong for many days.

In particular, some tabloids collected information about the past, and they added fuel to the content on their own, portraying Huo Yaowen as an inspirational poor boy in a housing estate, and his current achievements are all the result of his own hard work.

As a result, in the streets and alleys, teahouses, restaurants, and neighborhoods, people have one more topic that can be discussed together, that is, the youngest Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong in history--- Fok Yiu-man!

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Under the bombardment and spread of Hong Kong newspapers, Huo Yaowen received many congratulatory calls from friends, including Jin Yong and Shen Baoxin of Ming Pao, as well as Yishu, Gu Long, Wolongsheng, Chen Fan, Li Daoguang, Li Hanxiang and other friends, all of whom called congratulatory calls without exception, even Zhou Xinian, who did not have Huo Yaowen's new home number, specially prepared a congratulatory message and sent someone to the foundation.

Kowloon Tong, inside the Huo family's villa.

"Three days later, the banquet room of the Peninsula Hotel will welcome Sir Chow's arrival!"

"Haha, such a big happy event, Huo Sheng invited, I will definitely come. ”

When Huo Yaowen hung up the call with Zhou Xinian, the joy on this face was still difficult to hide.

Since the publication of the list of Justices of the Peace in Gazette 10, Fok Yiu-man has received many congratulatory phone calls from friends almost every day at home.

Huo Tingting sat aside, looked at Huo Yaowen, who had just hung up the phone, and asked, "Brother, have you finished making the call?"

"Well, it's over. Huo Yaowen smiled.

"That's on, I'm going to make a phone call. ”

Huo Tingting ran to the phone, but before she could pick up the microphone to make a call, she heard the bell ring again.

Huo Yaowen picked up the phone directly without thinking about it, "Hey, that one?"

"Yaowen is me!"

There was a familiar hearty laugh on the other end of the line.

It's Huo Guantai's laughter!

Huo Yaowen grinned: "Uncle Huo is also here to say hello to me?"

"Haha, yes, congratulations on Yaowen, getting the title of Justice of the Peace..."

"Thank you, I don't think it would have been a good time for me to compete with those guys without Uncle Ho. Huo Yaowen didn't get cheap and behaved, but directly pointed out that he got a Justice of the Peace, thanks to Huo Guantai's help.

Huo Guantai on the other end of the phone heard the meaning of Huo Yaowen's words, and while he was relieved that he didn't help the wrong person, he smiled happily: "It's better for Yaowen to work hard yourself, otherwise the governor won't appoint you." By the way, in addition to calling you to say hello this time, I also want to ask you to go to Peking Opera in the afternoon, there is a particularly wonderful Peking Opera performance this afternoon, I wonder if you have time?"

"Uncle Huo still knows me, and I'm getting moldy when I stay at home during this time, and I have long wanted to go out and play. ”

"Haha, okay, then meet at the Spring and Autumn Opera Club in Kowloon at two o'clock in the afternoon. ”

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