Chapter 602: Disagreements at the Dinner Table
In addition to Cantonese dishes, there are exotic dishes such as fresh sashimi and Persian lamb chops, desserts such as red velvet cake and matcha mousse, and soup with winter melon and chicken soup and rich clam and radish cream soup.
One after another food stairs are presented, spread all over the long table, Hu Yiting's index finger moved, and he shook off his cheeks and ate it violently.
Seeing that he was gobbling up and eating cutely, Mrs. Bao was satisfied, while Wu Zhongen stuck out his tongue with a smile, and kept looking at him during the banquet, surprised that this guy's appetite was so amazing.
Lan De disdained Hu Yiting to eat like a hungry wolf, and said with a smile: "Mr. Hu was very bitter when he was a child, right? ”
Mrs. Bao looked at Lan De in surprise when she heard this, and said in her heart that after studying in the United States for a few years, why didn't this distant nephew grow at all, how could there be such a reason to say that the guest was like this, not to mention that Hu Yiting was a valued guest at home.
She hurriedly said: "I just like young people to have a healthy appetite, those modeling artists who can't eat enough every day for their bodies are very hypocritical, and it is uncomfortable to eat with them." ”
Wu Zhongen also said: "Hu Yiting, don't listen to your cousin, eat more." ”
Seeing that all the members of his family were defending Hu Yiting, Lan De was jealous and angry in his heart, and said: "Mr. Hu, what do you think about the election of the governor of Hong Kong after Hong Kong's return to the motherland this year? What is the future of Hong Kong if it is placed under the dictatorship of the Chinese government in the future?"
Hu Yiting rolled his eyes angrily, reluctantly put down the ginger oysters in his hand, and frowned: "The central government has given Hong Kong great autonomy, isn't this satisfied? Britain has ruled Hong Kong for 150 years, and Hong Kong has never been allowed to elect the governor of Hong Kong in any form. Why didn't you commit suicide in protest? At that time, you obediently obeyed the people and never complained, but now that you have such a democratic and relaxed environment, there are many strange words, are you cheap!"
This is unceremonious, it is Hu Yiting who has been annoyed because he has been pestered and impeached by Lander many times.
After speaking, Hu Yiting also felt that his tone was too tough, so he picked up the napkin in his hand and wiped the corners of his mouth, and continued: "I have heard about the results of the Hong Kong governor election this time, and Mr. Wu lost to Mr. Dong in the election, but the election is like this? Who can guarantee that he will be elected? If you ask me if I support Mr. Wu, then I will definitely support it? But the election is in accordance with the Basic Law, isn't it? Since the law is clear and the election process is open and transparent, everyone will accept whoever is elected? How are you? Are you not convinced? Then you are very lacking in democratic qualities? ”
Wu Guangzhen had been listening silently, and finally said at this moment: "Lan De, you are too presumptuous, Mr. Hu is a distinguished guest I invited, and it is not your turn to speak." Then he said to Hu Yiting: "I have no opinion on Dong Sheng, everyone is from Hong Kong, and our two families are also friends, but Dong Sheng's policy proposition on land development is not in line with the interests of Hong Kong people." ”
Hu Yiting couldn't help frowning when he heard this, he clearly remembered that after Dong Sheng was elected, he launched the famous "80,000 five" housing policy, requiring the Hong Kong government Housing Department to build 85,000 public housing suites every year.
Hong Kong's public housing is actually what the mainland and Singapore call low-rent housing, and Tung Sheng is bent on letting Hong Kong's low-income people gradually realize home ownership, gradually demolishing all cage houses in Hong Kong, and abolishing subdivided units.
The so-called subdivided room, also known as the coffin house, is a kind of rental house with Hong Kong characteristics, subdivision is a slaughtering word, which means slaughtering division, a small room with one room and one kitchen, can be divided out of ten shops for rent, and the tenant is really a humanoid livestock living in a birdcage. Generally speaking, a private house is simply cut into seven or eight or even a dozen small rooms of four or five square meters for rent to the residents, and only one bed can be placed in one room, and even then it is cut into a large number of multi-layer beds, and a toilet size can be shoehorned into a family of two generations and a few people!
Although the Hong Kong government has a fire protection ordinance and a building ordinance, it is a hypocrisy, and it is clear that the local laws are not for the low-class citizens. Hu Yiting remembers reading media reports, statistically saying that even in 2014, there were more than 60,000 subdivided units in Hong Kong.
Now, in 1997, there are hundreds of thousands of subdivided units of all kinds in Hong Kong, living in nearly one million poor citizens, the living conditions are extremely poor, the public security environment is extremely bad, and a lot of friction will inevitably arise when people live in dense concentrations, and the residents will be torn against each other, and under the mental depression, they will naturally become extremely petty citizens!
Undoubtedly, this is a deeply inhumane housing policy, and no ruler has any reason to sit idly by and ignore the living conditions of the citizens.
Because a large number of low-income Hong Kong people live in the world's worst subdivided flats with poor conditions, and the government acquiesces in legality, many people in Hong Kong like to buy old buildings to rent out to make money and become charter tenants.
A large number of Hong Kong's low-level laborers come from stupid people who have been deceived from the mainland,13 thinking that Hong Kong is full of gold, and they have done everything possible to smuggle them into Hong Kong, but with the result that except for a small number of people, most of them have become victims and stepping stones, not to mention smuggled women, who are engaged in a large number of ancient industries with the lowest status in human society.
I remember that when the chartered public tenants of later generations were interviewed, they all said that if it weren't for the subdivided flats, wouldn't the hundreds of thousands of low-level citizens in Hong Kong have to sleep on the streets, sleep on the streets and lie on bridges, saying that they are making money there, but engaging in charity. However, when Chief Executive Dong proposed the 85 Plan, this group of people called on their friends to pour into the streets and staged large-scale demonstrations and protests.
In the era of Hu Yiting's rebirth, Hong Kong was probably the richest city in China, but it was also the most inhumane city.
"Mr. Wu, do you mean Dong Sheng's plan to build a large number of public rental housing?"
"Xiaohu, I didn't expect you to be so familiar with politics and know Hong Kong very well. ”
"Hehe, I didn't plan to know too much, but Hong Kong subdivided units are notorious, and the Kowloon Walled City is famous in Asia, I don't think I can't help it. ”
Of course, I am not opposed to building public rental housing, but Dong Sheng's plan is so big that it is a disaster for the real estate industry. ”
Hu Yiting is at war in his heart, it stands to reason that as a guest, under the host's courtesy, he eats people and has a soft mouth, so he should be along, even if he can't be attached out of principle, he should shut up.
But he couldn't hold back after all.
The rebirth has been smooth sailing so far, which has made him a little self-inflated, and the hormones gushing out every day in his young body have also made him always full of passion, and it is inevitable that he will stand up impulsively, scold Fang Xuan, and point out the country.
"Where righteousness is, although thousands of people go to me. Hu Yiting thought.
"Mr. Wu, I don't think Dong Sheng's idea is radical, in fact, compared to Singapore, Hong Kong has lagged behind. You are in the real estate industry, you should know how rapid the construction of low-rent housing in Singapore is, it is ten times more radical than Hong Kong, but you see that Singapore's economy has not crossed the border? On the contrary, it has not been dragged down, but has been thriving.
This is economically, morally.
Hong Kong has existed as a British colony for a long time in history, for the colonists, the main meaning of Hong Kong's existence is to seek benefits for them, and most of the negative effects brought about by the colonial economy, or suffering, are all swallowed silently by the low-level citizens of Hong Kong, and even to put it mildly, Hong Kong's major wealthy families owe the love of Hong Kong citizens, and now that Hong Kong has returned, there is no need to be angry with the Hong Kong governor sent by the British, and you can choose your own chief executive, so shouldn't you repay these citizens for their support and silent endurance for many years?
Before I came to Hong Kong this time, I saw relevant information that according to the Hong Kong police, in 1990, there were 69,000 drug addicts in Hong Kong, of whom 39,000 were drug addicts and 39,000 were Taoists in Hong Kong. According to preliminary estimates, there are about 100,000 women engaged in sex in Hong Kong, including about 20,000 professional and part-time prostitutes. For a long time, Hong Kong has basically dominated the world with "local chickens" or Chinese chickens. Except for a few who were persecuted by gangsters, most of them went to sea voluntarily. They started out as cashiers, maids, barmaids, and ushers in semi-pornographic establishments. The low salary is in strong contrast with the high income of the erotic girl, resulting in a psychological imbalance, coupled with the fact that it is not strange to see it, and slowly slides towards selling sex until selling her body.
Mr. Wu, do you think this social situation is reasonable? Shouldn't we try to change it? The high housing prices have already weighed down the people of Hong Kong! The people of Hong Kong who are under pressure are discarding morality as garbage! Can Hong Kong still be able to develop sustainably if this continues?"
Hu Yiting finished speaking unhappily, and immediately regretted it, thinking that he was really a big mouth, how good it would be to pretend to be stupid, the main industries of the Wu family, Wharf and Wheelock, are both real estate companies, how could he urinate with Dong Sheng in the same pot. What's more, he lost to Dong Sheng in the election of chief executive this time, how could he be consistent with Dong Sheng's political views.
"I'm sorry, I may be a little impulsive, but what I say is from my heart, there is no hypocrisy, Mr. Wu should have listened to the voice of a public opinion representative, after all, politics is a thing, there is no right or wrong many times, only interests, I have no intention of persuading Mr. Wu to harm his own interests, after all, this is not realistic. ”
The long and wide dining table was silent, Lan De looked at Hu Yiting, and gradually became a little convinced, faintly feeling that he was indeed inferior to this mainland genius, although this person was young, as old as his cousin in high school, he could see that his knowledge was too much, and his knowledge could be called profound.
Mr. Wu was very well-cultivated, and said with a smile: "Xiaohu, you can tell me the truth, I am very happy, I am not untouched by what you said, and even I agree with some of your views, but ...... People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and many times, feelings must be subordinated to reason. For example, public rental housing, I know that this is good governance, and Singapore has done a good job, but I think the situation in Hong Kong is different from Singapore, so the speed of progress is debatable, and it should be pushed slowly on the premise of not hurting the economy of Hong Kong Island, and it will be solved in decades.
If Hong Kong is in chaos, it will not benefit anyone. ”
Hu Yiting looked around the banquet, saw the lifeless expression on Mrs. Bao's face, and looked at him with a smile as always, Wu Zhongen looked at him with a playful expression, and there seemed to be some appreciation in his eyes.
It seems that the family is not angry, the atmosphere is still very gentlemanly and democratic, so the wealthy family is still a little good, and the personal qualities are all elite level, which is very different from the kind of domestic cooks who blush, scold the street as soon as they are refuted. ”
Hu Yiting said: "Of course Mr. Wu has his own considerations, which has nothing to do with me, I am just a bystander, and after being asked by Lander, I calmly said what I thought." ”
After saying that, he paused and added: "But I stick to my ideas." Because modesty is a good virtue for the individual, but for concrete things, realism is a virtue, and pessimism and optimism that are detached from realism are not virtues.
After all, I'm engaged in scientific research, hehe. ”
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