The Royal Yacht Britannia docked steadily at the Queen's Pier in Central, and in the cheerful welcome of the British Military Band in Hong Kong, Prince Charles, dressed in military uniform, and his beautiful and noble princess, appeared in everyone's eyes.

The new Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Youde, stood at the front of the line. Li Xuan was also in the crowd of greetings, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was nominally here to attend his wedding, but it was obvious that his itinerary was not as simple as attending a wedding banquet.

For example, his first itinerary in Hong Kong was to inspect the British Hong Kong Garrison at Queen's Wharf. In the rousing military music of the "March of the Britannia Grenadier" played by the military band, General Charles, with a stern face, inspected the army under the guidance of Governor Youde. Charles is an active-duty soldier who holds the title of honorary head of more than a dozen British and Commonwealth forces, as well as the rank of lieutenant general in the British Navy, Army and Air Force.

"March of the British Grenadier" is a special military music for the British army when it inspects its troops. This is the most famous and oldest infantry march in Britain, originating in the 17th century. If the older generation of people in China listen to this song once, they will feel very familiar, because the well-known "Guerrilla Song" is actually a foreign product adapted from it.

Li Xuan looked at the British crown prince not far away, and couldn't help but secretly speculate about what he was thinking now. On the other side of the globe, the British Royal Navy is engaged in a fierce battle with Argentina over the Falklands. Just a week ago, the destroyer Sheffield, part of the British task force, was sunk by the valiant Argentine Air Force with Exocet anti-ship missiles.

It was the Argentine's most powerful response to the British two days earlier for sinking their own cruiser, the General Belgrano. The British should be glad that the Argentine Air Force does not have many Exocet anti-ship missiles in their hands, and even more so that the Argentine pilots do not have the patience to wait a few more minutes. They didn't wait to spot the aircraft carrier behind, so they couldn't wait to press the button and attack several forward destroyers who were responsible for the outer guard of the aircraft carrier formation.

If the Exocet missile hits the aircraft carrier. Thatcher's military campaign to make an urgent expedition to the southern hemisphere from the British mainland would have been a laughing stock. The military strength of the declining Britain if it loses an aircraft carrier. There is no way to continue the labor expedition, so he can only obediently return to the negotiating table.

But the loss of a destroyer, the British could afford it. With the casualties on both sides, the dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falklands has become even more intense, and both countries have already fought a real fire. The mediation of South American countries and the United Nations was rejected by both sides, vowing to settle a winner.

Hong Kong's ATV television station carried out an in-depth and heavy report on this war, which was thousands of miles away and seemed to have nothing to do with Hong Kong. The first act of Charles's trip to Hong Kong was a military parade. The implicit implication is not necessarily to show his toughness to the north. But the Sheffield, which had just been silent in the Atlantic, turned this demonstration show, which was originally a show of muscles, into a show of strength and strength.

Argentina's military strength was too weak, and Li Xuan naturally knew that the British army had finally defeated the Argentine army, and Thatcher later came to negotiate with China with the threat of a big victory. But now the British army is still fighting back and forth with the Afghan army, and they have sunk their battleships, so they naturally can't get up.

After a period of red tape, it was finally the turn of Li Xuan, one of the masters, to exchange greetings with the crown prince and Her Royal Highness the princess. Li Xuan took his fiancée Zhong Chuhong's hand and stepped forward. With a sincere face, he thanked the crown prince and his wife for coming from thousands of miles to attend their wedding.

The personable prince in front of him can be called the Oscar for Best Actor in his acting skills. For example, the affectionate eyes between him and Her Royal Highness the Princess will not make people doubt the couple who have just been married for less than a year. is in the honeymoon phase of the relationship.

But in fact, Li Xuan, who has come over, knows very well that Charles's heart is different. The first British couple in the next decade of time. A wonderful soap opera will be presented to the whole world. One scandal after another has completely trampled the reputation of the British royal family to the bottom of his feet. No wonder many people have believed in it since then. Diana's death was because her mother-in-law couldn't bear it. In the end, he instructed British agents to kill Diana and his lover.

The crown prince and his wife, who came to attend Li Xuan's wedding, had a very tight schedule, and after arriving in Hong Kong today for a short rest, they will go to a special secondary school funded by Hong Kong's Po Leung Kuk to attend classes with students with disabilities. After that, I went to an orphanage in Wong Tai Sin at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and had dinner with the children there.

In the final analysis, this is a move by the British to buy people's hearts. In a high-rise building in Central, two men are standing at the window looking out at the spectacle of Queen's Pier in the distance, with a disdainful smile on their lips. They are located in the office of an import and export trading firm with a Chinese background.

Their apparent identities are new clerks from a domestic state-owned enterprise that has just been stationed in Hong Kong. In the past two years, the offices of various provinces, central ministries and commissions, and state-owned enterprises in various countries in the mainland have grown like weeds in Hong Kong, and even the political departments of the Hong Kong government cannot fully monitor them. This provides the best cover for these special personnel.

"Is there any movement from the guests at the Renaissance Hotel?" asked the taller of the two.

"That Jiang Gongzi, as the general manager of Zhongguang, went to the ATV headquarters in the morning to inspect it, and his appearance is normal!" replied the other person.

"Even if Taiwan's Kuomintang really had private talks with Vice President Bush of the United States, it would be unjustifiable for him to come forward, and it is most likely that Mr. Chiang Jr. would send a special envoy!" said another person, shaking his head.

After receiving Li Xuan's greeting, China immediately analyzed the reason for Bush Sr.'s trip to Hong Kong, and it was probably to take this opportunity to meet with people from the Kuomintang side in the south and give them a reassurance. The real purpose of Bush Sr.'s visit to China this time is to promote the deadlocked Sino-US talks.

Previously, in 1979, when the two countries negotiated the establishment of diplomatic relations, they shelved the Taiwan issue, which had differences. From '79 to the present, Sino-US negotiations have continued. The main purpose of Bush Sr.'s visit to China by invitation this time is to reach a compromise through direct communication between the two sides on some issues that have reached a deadlock in the talks.

Li Xuan is a science student, so naturally he would not have known that a few months after Bush Sr.'s visit to China, China and the United States jointly issued the "August 17 Communique." This communiqué, together with the "Shanghai Communiqué" during Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the "Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations" when China and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1979, are known as the three joint communiqués that laid the foundation for the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

The "August 17 Communique," also known as the "Taiwan-Gulf Communique," was the first time that China and the United States explicitly expounded in the form of a diplomatic communiqué on the Taiwan-Gulf issue, which is the most sensitive issue affecting Sino-US relations, and reached agreement on such important matters as "one China" and "arms sales to Taiwan." It was also after 1982 that Sino-US relations entered the sweetest honeymoon period in history.

Of course, this is naturally another bad news for Taiwan's Kuomintang after the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, and it has not only been abandoned diplomatically, but also militarily. Mr. Jiang, who is in charge, can imagine his panic and anxiety.

Taiwan is just a pawn for the United States to contain the mainland, and now that China and the United States are beginning to move closer to each other, the United States wants to use China to contain the Soviet Union, so naturally it has to show enough goodwill, so the Kuomintang was sacrificed throughout the eighties.

Although the negotiations between China and the United States are not fanfare, they are also impossible to be absolutely confidential. In particular, Taiwan and the United States have been engaged in large-scale lobbying for the US Congress, and there are a large number of congressmen in both the Senate and the House of Representatives who are inclined to Taiwan.

It is precisely because of the strong pro-Taiwan forces in Congress that the Reagan administration cannot completely abandon Taiwan, but it also wants to win over the mainland government. In order to show goodwill, Reagan directly rejected Chiang's request to send an envoy to Washington. Since the United States has already severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan, it is naturally even more impossible to send high-ranking officials to Taiwan to appease people.

Therefore, Reagan decided to ask Vice President Bush, who had just completed his visit to China, to send a reassuring pill to Mr. Chiang Jr. in Hong Kong. In fact, it is not only the mainland side that has such speculations, but also several professors of political science at the Oriental Economic Research Institute, a think tank established by Li Xuan earlier, have also reached the same view after careful analysis at the first time.

A good wedding, with so many political intrigues, Li Xuan didn't know whether to feel honored or depressed. But no matter what Li Xuan thinks, at least his wedding may really be the most unprecedented wedding of the century in Hong Kong's history.

Four years ago, the eldest son of the Huo family got married, and at that time, the governor of Hong Kong, the governor of Macao, and the commander of the Thai Air Force were on the scene, which was called unprecedented by the Hong Kong media. Now Li Xuan's guests include the British Crown Prince and the Vice President of the United States. No matter what purpose they came for, at least Li Xuan's wedding was already world-class. The Times, The Sun, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other global media have sent reporters to cover and report.

After greeting the British crown prince and his wife, Li Xuan did not leave, because half an hour later, another distinguished guest would also go ashore from Queen's Wharf. At the invitation of the US RCA company, the last leg of President Bush's visit to China was to go to the Shekou Industrial Zone in the Deep Sea Special Zone to cut the ribbon for the picture tube factory that had just been completed and put into operation. This joint venture between Hong Kong and the United States, set up in Chinese mainland, is also very suitable for Bush Sr.'s visit to the mainland and Hong Kong.

The elder Bush also stopped by the deep-sea special zone for a half-day visit. In his previous life, Li Xuan, as an out-and-out Shenzhener, clearly remembered that in the history of the SAR for more than 30 years, only former President Carter had set foot in the deep-sea SAR many years after leaving office, and the elder Bush certainly never visited. This should be the influence of Li Xuan's butterfly. (To be continued......)

ps: Tragedy, I uploaded it before seven o'clock! I forgot to post it!