…

Hong kong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Shek O Manor.

In the living room of the guest building.

Xu Cun shook hands with Bai Teng with a smile, and then the two sides sat down separately.

Speaking of Baiteng, ordinary people may not know, but when it comes to his other name, there is nothing that people who know something about Xiangjiang.

Bai Teng, also known as Chris Patten, is a veteran politician of the British Conservative Party, who served as Minister of the Environment, Chairman of the Conservative Party and the last Governor of Hong Kong.

Bai Teng is the translated name of Patten before he became the governor of Hong Kong.

The current British Prime Minister John Major has a very good relationship with Bai Teng, so after taking office, John appointed Bai Teng as the president of the Duchy of Lancaster and chairman of the Conservative Party.

The Conservatives were able to win a surprise victory in this year's general election, but ironically, Kashiwato himself was defeated by the Liberal Democratic candidate, Don Foster, and lost his seat in the House of Commons in the Bath constituency, leaving the House of Commons.

According to Major's autobiography, if Kashiwa Teng could keep his seat that year, he would have the opportunity to become Britain's finance minister or foreign minister.

Kashiwato was also one of three cabinet ministers who urged Margaret Thatcher to resign in 1990.

Unlike previous governors, Kashiwa Teng was the only Catholic governor and one of the few who was not born in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but in the National Assembly.

In addition, Kashiwa did not receive any honors before taking office, and did not wear the traditional colonial official uniform when he took office.

But-

Xu Cun will never underestimate Bai Teng because of this!

On the contrary, Xu Cun's attention to Bai Teng is even higher than that of Youde, Zhong Yijie, and Wei Yixin!

In the previous life, in October 1992, Kashiwateng, who was then known as Chris Patten, delivered his first policy address during his tenure, in which he mentioned the constitutional reform plan and said that the electoral system of the Legislative Council would be reformed, except that the two bureaus would be "separated" , abolishing all appointed seats and creating nine new functional constituency seats (the new nine seats) to enable all incumbents to vote (which in turn makes these nine seats directly elected), with a view to speeding up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong. Of course, the mainland was not satisfied with this, pointing out that the reform had not consulted the central government, and claimed that it would cancel the reform after the handover of sovereignty over Hong Kong. At that time, many central officials accused Patten of being a "poisonous snake", a "thief", a "prostitute" and a "last tango" for the pro-democracy faction.

But-

Despite strong opposition from the Central Government, Patten's constitutional reform plan was successfully passed by the Legislative Council on 30 June 1994 and implemented in the 1995 Heung Kong Legislative Council Election.

Later, the Central Committee made it clear that it would abandon the "through train" and would not allow the members of the Legislative Council elected in 1995 to transition to the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Since the announcement of the constitutional reform plan, Patten has not been invited to meet with mainland leaders during his term of office.

Patten ignored the mainland's attitude, and continued to plan the future of Hong Kong in the way he had long envisioned.

Don't think that Patten is acting brutally against the mainland, Patten also has certain rules:

Patten knew that it was inevitable for Britain to get out of the Hong Kong River, and based on this, he actively hired Chinese to important posts, and called it "in order to make a connection for the transfer of sovereignty over the Hong Kong River." ”

Don't think that Patten is really doing this to make Xiangjiang return smoothly, but in fact, on the contrary, Patten is doing this to set up obstacles to Xiangjiang's return and help some selfish Xiangjiang people to study Xiangjiang.

In addition-

During his tenure, Patten was very close to the people - for example, he went to Tai Cheong Bakery in Central to taste egg tarts, and in the days that followed, he maintained a correspondence with the bakery owner, and after each Policy Address, he would personally attend radio programs to answer questions from listeners, and host public question-and-answer meetings to face questions from the public, thus establishing an image of being open and accountable to the public.

During his term of office, Chris Chris also actively raised various kinds of welfare for the people of Hong Kong -- Chris even proposed to increase social welfare expenditures for five consecutive years at an increase rate five times higher than the gross domestic product, and will also raise social welfare by this range for another five years, thus greatly reducing expenditures on education and large-scale infrastructure construction.

Don't think that Chris Patten is well-intentioned, Patten is not spending this money of his own, but the financial reserves of Xiangjiang, and the real purpose of Patten is not to improve the lives of the people of Xiangjiang, but to spend all of Xiangjiang's financial reserves and not to the mainland that drove them away from the British, nor to leave a penny for the later SAR government.

Moreover, Patten's term of office is only five years, and as soon as the time passes, he will pat his ass and return to the UK.

In the previous life, because of the high welfare expenditure in Xiangjiang, the mainland paid a great economic price for this.

It would be a big mistake to think that this is only endangering the hinterland, and it is Xiangjiang and the people of Xiangjiang who suffer the most.

Ironically, what Patten did also earned him an excellent reputation in Hong Kong – a poll conducted by Hong Kong Baptist University on March 13, 1997, showed that 62 percent of respondents approved of Patten's performance, while Lao Dong, then the chief executive, had only 53 percent support. Later, countless people who supported Xiangjiang Yuli played the name of Patten.

The reason why Major was able to defeat other competitors and become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was largely because of the support of Xu Cun (money), and Bai Teng was one of Mei Jie's important aides, so Xu Cun and Bai Teng could be regarded as allies, which is why Bai Teng came to visit Xu Cun before he took office.

The two sides sat down, and Bai Teng said politely: "I'm really sorry, Mr. Xu, please come back from the mainland!"

Xu Cun smiled: "It's okay, it's a three-hour flight, and besides, I also have something to come back to deal with." ”

Bai Teng said with a smile: "Xiangjiang, a free land, is really close to China, and you can reach the capital of China in three hours." ”

Although Xu Cun is not a politician, he has dealt with politicians, especially the world's top politicians, for more than ten years, and is naturally accustomed to the way politicians speak, therefore, as soon as he heard Bai Teng say "the land of freedom" and "the capital of China", Xu Cun immediately understood that Bai Teng was testing his attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang, and at the same time, Bai Teng also faintly expressed his own attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang - to make Xiangjiang a "free" place, to be Xiangjiang, China is China.

Looking at Bai Teng's smiling face, Xu Cun's smile slowly put away......

……