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The reason why France so happily admitted that it had blown up and sunk the Rainbow Warrior was because on September 17, 1985, more than two months after the incident, Le Monde, France's second largest national daily newspaper, published a front-page headline pointing out that the bombing was ordered by French Defense Minister Erney and Chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces Lakaz, and carried out by six agents of the French General Directorate of Overseas Security; In the aftermath of the investigation, Ernie and Lakaz provided false information to Trico, who had been appointed by French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius to investigate the bombing.

Although Le Monde is located under Le Figaro, France's largest newspaper, Le Figaro, it is France's largest overseas daily newspaper and has a strong influence in the French-speaking region and a high international reputation.

Its founding date dates back to October 1944, when it was founded as LeTemps, one of France's most famous high-society newspapers before World War II. At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle, Hubert Beuve-Mery, a well-known French resistance journalist, took over the Le Zeit, which became the current Le Monde.

In terms of style, "Le Monde" is absolutely high enough, its content is comprehensive, the amount of information is large, the reports are serious, and the wording is exquisite, and most of them are in-depth reports and commentaries, as well as exclusive interviews with political dignitaries; the French president, prime minister, and foreign minister often publish exclusive speeches in the newspaper, and foreign heads of state and figures in political and economic circles are also often interviewed by the newspaper's reporters. In addition, its international current commentary is concise and concise, with strong authority and reference value, and has attracted the attention of all parties.

When a domestic newspaper with such a huge influence found out the truth, the French news media naturally followed up and reported it, and the French government fell into an unprecedented crisis.

Five days later, on September 22, French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius held a press conference to publicly admit that the bombing was planned by French intelligence and announced the resignation of the Minister of Defense. The next day, the French prime minister, through his ambassador to Auckland, expressed his apologies to the New Zealand prime minister. Since then, French President François Mitterrand has dismissed the head of the Directorate General of Overseas Security and the chief of staff of the three services.

After that, the process of handling things is basically stuck at this level. In order to protect its own face and avoid being caught by competitors and falling down, the French government, which has no way to retreat, has always been careful in negotiations.

In fact, throughout the world, whether in the past or now, such accidental accidents are not uncommon, and civil airliners will be unlucky enough to be shot down directly by missiles, and the French agent can only be blamed for being too low, and he was directly arrested by the New Zealand police and Interpol.

After assessing the position of this incident in the French political infighting, Tang Huan wrote a personal letter, which can be regarded as fighting for Greenpeace. After all, the reason "for the sake of environmental protection" may help you win a chance to stay out of the whirlpool of right and wrong in the future.

What is Tang Huan's identity? In particular, his public image has recently turned purple all over Europe!

Therefore, his letter was put on the desk of the French prime minister for the first time.

In March of this year, the French prime minister was replaced. Due to the crushing defeat of the French Socialist Party in the parliamentary elections, Laurent Fabius, the youngest prime minister since the founding of the French Fifth Republic, had to resign and be replaced by the rightist Jacques Chirac, thus creating the first "left-right co-governance" in the history of the French Fifth Republic.

Jacques Chirac, the next president of France in the original time and space, could not wipe the ass of his political opponent, the predecessor who belonged to the left, and he wished to dispose of these bad things quickly, but he had no burden anyway.

In this way, Jacques Chirac quickly stated that the French government was willing to compensate Greenpeace with $7 million, and his immediate boss, French President François Mitterrand, who belongs to the left, formally apologized to Greenpeace.

Of course, Jacques Chirac also insisted on some bottom lines, such as reaching an agreement with New Zealand that the French agents involved must be handled by France themselves, that is, escorted to a French military base in the South Pacific, and the sentence was reduced from 11 years to 3 years.

In any case, it is not easy for the lawsuit at the national level to reach this level, and it can be successfully concluded. What's more, Greenpeace, an organization that specializes in working against the state and large enterprises, will inevitably be suppressed at every turn.

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Tang Huan didn't have time to wait for the dust to settle down and set off for Xiangjiang, mainly because the commercial layout over there was variable, but it was not entirely for Baodao to ask him to be a middleman to mediate, after all, this kind of trouble will definitely happen in the future, how can you manage it, no matter who is missing from the earth, it will still turn the same, you can deal with it yourself.

But since the time to return to Xiangjiang this time was in time, Tang Huan had to ask patiently.

In May, that is, on the 3rd of this month, China Airlines, the largest civil aviation company on the island, had a cargo flight from Changi Airport in Singapore, through Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, and Kai Tak Airport in Xiangjiang, to Zhongzheng International Airport in Baodao.

On May 6, Wang Xijue drove the plane from Yangcheng to Yanjing, and finally met his father and brother on the mainland as he wished.

As for his future, with his ability to fly a Boeing 747, that is talent, which must be reused.

The biggest difference between this and the previous incidents that were also related to the plane is that the plane belongs to civil aviation. Therefore, Wang Xijue is known as the "first person to have direct flights between the two sides of the strait" after 1949.

Because of the "three noes policy", China Airlines refused to negotiate and entrusted Cathay Pacific as an intermediary to coordinate the return of man and plane. The mainland, which supports the "three-link policy," said that there is no need for "third-party handling."

In this way, the two sides reached a stalemate.

That plane is a Boeing 747 full freighter that left the factory in September 1980, first purchased and used by Luxair, and then in 1985 it was purchased by the treasure island official at a price of 60 million US dollars at the time, and leased to China Airlines.

It can only be said that because of the relationship between politics and government, the relationship has become a mess.

China Airlines didn't want to offend the "three noes" policy, so it could only look around for intermediaries who were willing to accept it on the mainland, and finally begged Tang Huan.

At that time, Tang Huan was busy with his public relations show in Europe, and he had time to run from Europe to Xiangjiang for this kind of mushy thing, so he asked Xiangjiang's assistant team to come forward to match it in his own name.

Fortunately, the communication was relatively smooth, and the two sides agreed to negotiate in Xiangjiang on May 17.

As a result, there was little substantial progress on the first day.

Although everyone agreed that the cargo plane and the other two pilots should be returned as soon as possible, the handover location could not be agreed, and China Airlines was unwilling to send personnel to the mainland to hand over the handover.

By the next day, it was still fruitless.

China Airlines proposed: At that time, the cargo plane carried about 214,500 pounds of fruits, tires, fresh fish and other materials, and now half a month has passed, and you are responsible for the loss of fresh goods, right?

Of course, the mainland side disagreed: the refueling cost of the plane, as well as the related maintenance costs, as well as the accommodation expenses of the two pilots, etc., should we also calculate it?

"Today is the third time to negotiate, and the results have not yet been reported." On the Rolls-Royce with license plate No. 3, the assistant reported.

Tang Huan, who had something in his heart, listened impatiently, "Are you very idle?" Just worry about this little thing, can you get a happy ending right away? Is it okay to show a little sincerity? ”

Seeing that the boss was angry, the assistant said tentatively, "Then I'll convey your meaning right away?" ”

"Tell them I've arrived in Xiangjiang." Tang Huan nodded in agreement, "If the two sides are still so bickering, if there is something in the future, don't come to me again!" ”

The richest man was more serious, and the negotiation process was really affected.

On the same day, the representatives of the two sides reached a preliminary agreement on the handover of people, goods and aircraft in Xiangjiang.

In the next few days, the representatives of the two sides completed the last negotiations and signed the minutes of the talks, agreeing to return the two pilots, cargo planes, and cargo before May 24, and as for the related expenses and the loss of fresh goods, they will not care about each other.

In this way, the final outcome of this incident is as follows: on May 23, the mainland pilot of China Airlines was responsible for driving the cargo plane to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, and then the two sides completed the handover, and the curtain came to an end.

Of course, this incident inevitably caused some shocks on Treasure Island. Some political figures have pointed out that mainlanders living on the treasure island are homesick and affectionate, and on the basis of a humanitarian standpoint, consideration should be given to allowing them to return to their hometowns to visit their relatives.

Invisibly, a wave of change is about to start surging on the treasure island.

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Seeing that the negotiations between the two sides were truly sincere, Tang Huan ignored them and held meetings with Zhou Mi and other senior executives to discuss how to deal with the current turmoil in the business community in Xiangjiang.

After several years of gradual adjustment, the organizational structure of the Qinhe series has become more and more perfect, and Tang Huan is as free as his own arm. In May, it airlifted large quantities of supplies to Europe, and it delivered a satisfactory answer.

The headquarters of the Qinhe Department have all moved into the Connaught Building, which is now the Qinhe Building. It can be called one of the commercial office buildings with the largest technology content and the highest degree of office automation in the world, and it can be compared with several buildings in the United States that also belong to Tang Huan.

Looking out of the unique round window, Tang Huan can see the Exchange Square not far away, which will open at the end of June. The land where it is located was purchased in 1982, when Heung Kong Real Estate was at its peak, and Jardine Matheson, which was in a capital war with Tang Huan, spent nearly 5 billion Hong Kong dollars to bid.

After Jardine Matheson and Landset were swallowed by Tang Huan, this account brought a lot of pressure to the finances of the new consortium, and many people in the outside world were watching jokes and wanted to know how long the richest man could burn money.

But Tang Huan soon let everyone know what a local tyrant is, and without going through local leading banks such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, he directly smashed 8 billion Hong Kong dollars to build three buildings on the land, and named it Exchange Square, and the height exceeded that of Qinhe Building.

The tallest of the current skyscrapers in Hong Kong is the Hopewell Centre, designed and built by Hopewell Chairman and architect Hu Yingxiang at 216 metres, which was completed in 1980 and won the record for the tallest building in Asia and Hong Kong from the Connaught Building, now known as the Qin Wo Building.

HSBC's HK$5.2 billion investment in the fourth-generation HSBC Hong Kong Head Office Building, with a height of 180 meters, did not challenge the throne of the tallest building in Hopewell Center, and was lower than the 182-meter trading center, making it the third tallest building in Hong Kong.

As for the once tallest building, the Qinhe Building, it has now been squeezed into the fourth position.

The cost of the second-ranked trading center does take more time to recoup, but from the perspective of the current situation, it is worth the money, given its gradually forming position.

Many foreign consulates in Hong Kong, including Japan and Canada, have chosen Exchange Square as their location.

More importantly, the trading hall of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where an agreement has been reached, is also located here.

On April 3 this year, the four major exchanges of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Far East Stock Exchange, the Gold and Silver Stock Exchange and the Kowloon Stock Exchange merged to form the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the computer trading system of Zheru Xiangjiang was fully introduced, thus making the operation of the Hong Kong capital market enter a new stage.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange's establishment of the trading hall at the Exchange Square will undoubtedly increase the value of the property here and make Tang Huan's investment in Hong Kong worth the price.

Now in Xiangjiang, the cow is bigger. Because according to the economic statistics of 1985, its per capita GDP exceeded 10,000 US dollars, and since then it has entered the ranks of developed regions, compared with neighboring regions, it can be said to stand out from the crowd.

It is not difficult to imagine that the business community in Hong Kong is very active, and without the support of these material bases, the so-called golden age of Hong Kong movies will not be able to play.

It's just that in the midst of prosperity, the discord between Qinhe and HSBC is becoming more and more obvious.

It stands to reason that in business, a shopping mall veteran like HSBC can't make trouble with such a number one consortium as Qinqin, and make money in harmony, it doesn't matter if everyone has disagreements, even if they can't sit down and negotiate to solve it, it won't expand and intensify unnecessarily.

In addition, although the Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land series have changed their bosses and changed their appearance to Qinhe, the traces of British capital in them are still obvious, and they should have a lot of common language.

I don't know if it's because he is about to retire, the current chairman of HSBC, Shen Bi, has seriously lost his "self-denial" ability, and he does not hide his diligence and extreme dislike for Tang Huan, as well as his unabashed suppression. (To be continued.) )