After eating Li Muzhen and resting for two hours, Lin Cheng finally remembered that today is June 30th, and the Xiangjiang return ceremony is about to start in two hours.

On the eve of the return of Xiangjiang in the previous life, Lin Cheng's family had just moved back to their rural hometown after going bankrupt, and it coincided with the flood in eastern Guangdong before and after the return, and the entire village was cut off, resulting in Lin Cheng not being able to watch the return ceremony on TV, and regretted it for a long time!

Now that Lin Cheng is in Xiangjiang, he naturally can't miss this great event worthy of historical inscription, but Lin Cheng is still an otaku in essence, and he doesn't plan to go out to watch the ceremony, because for those big people with monstrous backgrounds at home and abroad, Lin Cheng is just an inconsequential passerby, and he can't even enter the convention and exhibition center.

The picture on the TV is clear, the new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center is brightly lit at night, and the handover ceremony of the Chinese and British governments in Hong Kong is grandly held in the Great Hall on the fifth floor here.

Lin Cheng looked out his window at the Convention and Exhibition Centre, and he had already seen the fireworks display over Victoria Harbour, which rose into the sky one by one, illuminating the night of Victoria Harbour as if it were day.

Soon the time came to 23:42, the handover ceremony officially began, and the handover ceremony of the return of the entire Xiangjiang River was only more than 20 minutes, but in this short 20 minutes, China and Britain, the two world powers, launched a thrilling contest behind the scenes.

According to the process, the original speech time of the British royal representative Prince Zals was 6 minutes, and at the end of the speech, the British band played the British national anthem and lowered the British flag and the Hong Kong flag at the same time, the time was 35 seconds, and the British national anthem was played at 11:59:58 on June 30 and the flag was lowered at the same time. At this time, the conductor of the Chinese band signaled the band to prepare to play the national anthem, and the national anthem was played at 0:00:00 on July 1, and the national flag and regional flag were hoisted at the same time, marking China's resumption of the exercise of sovereignty over the Xiangjiang River from July 1.

However, due to the decline of the United Kingdom and the unwillingness to return the Hong Kong River smoothly, and the fact that he was not able to take the first class cabin when he went to Hong Kong, he only sat on the upper deck of the business class, and he was very unhappy.

He later said: "I found myself and my assistants on the upper deck of the business class only, and I had to be sure that it was not first class, although I had long wondered why it was so uncomfortable to sit in." Later I found out that even Prime Minister Heath, former Foreign Secretary Jeffrey, new Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, and former Governors such as MacLehose and Wilson were comfortably seated in first class below us. I can only sigh alone, this is the end of the empire!"

"On my first night in Hong Kong, I went to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion for a welcome party full of locals, and it ended with a wonderful exercise by the Hong Kong police. Therefore, many people in the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion burst into tears. Later, at a dinner on a royal yacht, sitting next to me was Tung Chee-hwa, the man chosen by China to replace Mr. Patten, a businessman with a background in shipping. I found him to be very mysterious, but very talkative. He said reassuringly that everything will remain unchanged after the handover, and assured me that the Chinese Government will show the people of Baodao that everything will be fine after the 'one country, two systems' in Xiangjiang. At that moment my throat choked...... More excited and sad. ”

The incident did not change because of the chaos of Lin Cheng, the reborn person, and everything went smoothly before the ceremony was carried out before the speech of Zals, but when Zals began to speak, there was a sudden change, and Zals seemed to be too sad and made a mistake on the outside, but in fact, he still intended not to let China take back the sovereignty of Xiangjiang on time, and his speech was overtimed for a full 23 seconds, which completely disrupted the arrangement of the ceremony process in seconds.

If this continues, the Chinese flag will not be raised until at least 0:00:20 on July 1, and China will not be able to reclaim its sovereignty on time at 0:00:00 on July 1 in front of the world, and it will be a shame to lose face at that time.

However, there was a new change in the progress of things, and the British band suddenly accelerated the rhythm of the national anthem, ending the performance more than 10 seconds early, but at this time, it was not 0:00:00 on July 1, and according to the agreement between the two countries, China could not play the national anthem and raise the national flag. After waiting for more than 10 seconds, the Chinese side played the national anthem and raised the national flag at 0:00:00 on July 1 to complete the resumption of sovereignty over Hong Kong.

Lin Cheng had been staring at the TV screen, and the thrilling twenty-minute battle was in full view of him, while other Chinese did not realize at this time that in this thrilling behind-the-scenes contest, there was a "vacuum" period of more than ten seconds in Xiangjiang without a sovereign state.

Then the climax came, at 0:00 on July 1, 1997, the Chinese orchestra played the majestic March of the Volunteers, and the Chinese national flag and the regional flag of the Xiangjiang Special Administrative Region were slowly raised together.

The audience suddenly boiled, many people's eyes were full of tears of excitement, and the thunderous applause lasted for a long time. The lenses of cameras and video cameras are constantly flashing, recording this solemn historical moment.

At this moment, when the artesian wind blew the national flag, Lin Cheng as a Chinese suddenly rose a strong sense of pride, this pride was very strong, so strong that Lin Cheng's whole heart thumped, and his bright eyes were filled with a layer of transparent water mist.

The same is true of Li Muzhen, as a Chinese, she also completed a spiritual baptism in the ceremony, and her whole soul seemed to be sublimated, with a smile in her eyes and tears in her laughter.

"A hundred years of shame will be washed away!" Lin Cheng muttered.

"Hmm. Li Muzhen nodded obediently and leaned his head into Lin Cheng's arms.

Then Lin Cheng clearly saw on TV that when the applause of the audience sounded like thunder, the old Mr. Huo Yingdong, who was thinking about the good of the motherland, burst into tears, which really moved Lin Cheng.

For the rich tycoons in Xiangjiang, Lin Cheng despises and respects less, and among them, Lin Cheng undoubtedly respects the legendary Huo Yingdong.

At a time when the mainland was hit by an international blockade in the 60s and 70s and the economy was in the most difficult period, it was Mr. Fok Ying-tung who risked imprisonment and bankruptcy, smuggled industrial supplies and scientific and technological goods urgently needed by the mainland into the mainland, and helped the mainland to develop its economy regardless of the hardships and dangers.

There is nothing to say about this legendary Lin Cheng, only worship, although Li Chaoren is famous in the entire Chinese world and is known as the light of the Chinese, but in terms of contribution to the motherland, a hundred Li Chaoren are less than one Huo Yingdong, not to mention that before Lin Cheng crossed, this Li Chaoren, who was highly respected by the Chinese, did not even want to do it to the people of Xiangjiang, and almost transferred all industries to the United Kingdom and Australia, which is really indignant.

Lin Cheng can boldly say that the reason why Xiangjiang fell to the point of rampant drugs in Hong Kong after 20 years is undoubtedly the culprit of a group of real estate tycoons led by Li Chaoren.

However, the world is so wonderful, Huo Yingdong, who has made great contributions to the motherland and the mainland, and Huo Qigang, the grandson who married the diving queen, often become the villains of urban rebirth novels, and are frequently slapped in the face by pig's feet, while Li Chaoren's father and son, who are quite ruthless to the mainland and Xiangjiang, have become the objects of pig's feet kneeling and licking.

This is really pitiful, infuriating and hateful!