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Chapter 349: Jumping Beam Clown! Four more

"Find out who wrote this article, and find out who sent this newspaper!" After Ye Kai listened to Uncle Li's words, he immediately gave instructions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It may be a bit too much to say that it is an instruction, but as the third-generation leadership core of the Lao Ye family, the deputy director of the Central Police Bureau, the major general of the army, and the director of the Management Committee of the Shengwang New District, Ye Kai still has enough aura on his body, which is enough to support his prestige in the old Ye family and even the entire high-level.

You must know that not long ago, Uncle Li was only a major general.

"Yes, I've arranged this." Uncle Li also responded seriously.

Old man Ye fell ill suddenly, and the second old man also went to visit several countries in South America to carry out exchanges on military cooperation, and he will definitely not be able to come back for the time being, and Ye Ziping, as the secretary of the Mingzhu Municipal Party Committee, has an economic and trade delegation from the Americans, which must be received, and they will definitely not be able to come back immediately, and the eldest uncle Ye Zijian and the second uncle Ye Zichu are even more in military positions and cannot move easily, so in this way, there is no one in the center of the old Ye family.

This is also the main reason why Uncle Li is anxious to call Ye Kai to return to China, after all, although Ye Jianhuan is the eldest in the third generation, he still has to be in charge of Ye Kai to do things.

Sure enough, Ye Kai lived up to expectations, and as soon as he came back, he began to order people to investigate the cause of the incident.

It is definitely not a trivial matter for an article slandering the prime minister to appear in a newspaper, and this newspaper can still appear under the nose of Old Man Ye, which is very weird, and there must be a reason for it.

The situation in China is very particular, and generally speaking, it pays attention to reporting good news and not bad news, and an untimely article like this will not appear in front of the leaders of the highest grassroots level at all, let alone "coincidentally" for Old Man Ye to see.

This matter must be done, but what Ye Kai is most concerned about now is Old Man Ye himself, I don't know what his situation is?

Ye Kai went to Russia and then to Ukraine, and he has been gone for a month, and Ye Kai really doesn't care enough about domestic affairs, so he doesn't know much about Hong Kong Island, and he doesn't know what happened to the second uncle.

"The matter of your second uncle should be related to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, but it doesn't matter, it's just a little aggrieved." Uncle Li was a little clearer about this, so he handed a newspaper to Ye Kai, "It's the matter on Hong Kong Island that really makes the old man angry, in fact, it's not just the old man who is angry, several bigwigs are very angry, that foreign devil is very bold!" ”

"Chris Patten!" Ye Kai opened the newspaper and saw a white and chubby standard Englishman face.

In Ye Kai's later era, many people were not familiar with Patten, but most of the people who experienced this stage had an impression, because this person served as the governor of Hong Kong, just like Ye Kai went to Jiangzhong to develop, he was to disrupt the situation.

At the age of 30, Chris Patten was appointed head of the research department of the British Conservative Party, and then many of the election manifestos in the 1979 general election were written by him.

In November 1990, Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, and received his great help, and Major had a good relationship with Patten, so he immediately appointed Patten as president of the Duchy of Lancaster and chairman of the Conservative Party. Under Patten's planning, the Conservative Party was able to win a surprise victory in the 1992 British general election.

Ironically, Patten himself was defeated by the Liberal Democratic candidate and lost his seat in the House of Commons in the Bath constituency, leaving the House of Commons.

Major later said that if Patten could retain his seat, he would have the opportunity to become finance minister or foreign minister.

However, out of compensation for Patten, under the arrangement of Major Patten, Patten officially became the 28th Governor of Hong Kong on July 9, 1992.

In 1992, at the age of 48, Patten was sent to Hong Kong Island as the last governor.

In the last five years of his stay on Hong Kong Island, Patten had many incidents, causing a sudden twist and turn in Hong Kong, which had been able to make a smooth transition, and some people said at that time that Patten was a "spoiler" sent by the British government to Hong Kong.

Soon after taking office, Patten became involved in a bad relationship with the mainland, and he said that he would reform the electoral system of the Legislative Council, in addition to separating the two bureaux and abolishing all the appointed seats, but also adding nine new functional constituency seats (the new nine groups) so that all incumbents would be eligible to vote (in disguise, making these nine seats directly elected), so as to speed up the pace of democracy on Hong Kong Island.

However, the mainland immediately expressed its great dissatisfaction, pointing out that the central government had not been consulted on the reform, and claiming that it would cancel the reform after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong Island.

Patten did not pay attention to the attitude of the mainland, insisted on going his own way, and had the consciousness of being stubborn to the end, which made the top brass very angry.

Ye Kai looked at the newspaper at this time and found that the mainland media almost unanimously denounced Patten as a "poisonous snake", "thief", "prostitute" and "last tango" for the democrats, and the mainland representative in Hong Kong even denounced Patten as a "sinner for the ages".

In addition to reforming the Legislative Council elections, Patten proposed in his first Policy Address the controversial Strategic Sewage Scheme, the predecessor of the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme.

The Strategic Sewage Scheme originally intended to collect local sewage from Stonecutters Island for central treatment before discharging it into the sea through deep-sea pipelines. The project was originally scheduled to be completed in April 1997, but due to technical problems and the failure of the contractor, the first phase of the project was not started until 1997, and the first phase was completed in 2001 at a cost of $8.3 billion. The second phase of the project was suspended in October 1999 as it was criticized as a waste of money and non-essential.

In 1994, the Legislative Council approved the establishment of the Sewage Management Fund (STF) by allocating $6.8 billion from the fiscal reserves to implement the Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme, and planned to collect sewage charges from businesses and industries to pay for Stage 2 works. However, two years after its implementation, the Trading Fund had lost $5 billion and the Government was forced to close the Fund on 31 March 1998 and replace it with government subsidies.

There is another item of the mainland's dissatisfaction with Patten, that is, the "Rose Garden Project".

Hong Kong Island's only civil Kai Tak airport was inadequate in the 70s, but the new airport has not been put off the ground due to future problems.

The former Governor of Hong Kong, Mr Wilson, decided in his Policy Address to build a new airport in the hope of boosting the confidence of Hong Kong people. According to the core plan of Hong Kong Island Airport formulated by Wilson in his Policy Address, a major reclamation of the sea at Chek Kok north of Lantau Island will be carried out to build a large-scale new airport of international scale, which will operate 24 hours a day and can accommodate 80 million passengers per year, which is three times the capacity limit of Kai Tak Airport.

On the other hand, in order to make a supporting arrangement, Wilson also decided to build a road, a bridge, a bridge, a west. the District Cross Harbour Tunnel and the Airport Railway; In parallel with the construction of the Airport Railway, the construction of Container Terminals 8 and 9 will be carried out in conjunction with land reclamation in the western part of the Kowloon Peninsula and Tsing Yi, further expanding the port's throughput by as much as five times.

In order to facilitate the service of the new airport, Wilson also decided to open a new town in Tung Chung near Chik Kok, which is planned to accommodate at least 150,000 people.

All in all, this project is unprecedented in the history of Hong Kong Island, and the core project of Hong Kong Island Airport is collectively known as the Rose Garden Project, implying that the future of the project will be as bright as the Rose Garden.

At that time, Wilson estimated that HK$127 billion would be spent on the project, with the commissioning of the first runway in early 1997. Because Wilson launched the plan to stabilize public sentiment, he did not consult the Chinese side, which caused an uproar.

In addition, the 88 direct election issue, the Vietnamese boat people issue, and the British right plan made the mainland and the British government dissatisfied with Wilsson, so he was not re-elected as the governor of Hong Kong.

At the beginning of his tenure, Chris Patten expressed his intention to support the rose garden plan, but the mainland side expressed different opinions, asking the British government in Hong Kong at that time to plan the cost budget, but the other party did not provide a specific figure, and later asked the British government how much money it would leave for the SAR government in the future, and the British gave the answer of 5 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"How can $5 billion be enough to support the establishment of the HKSAR Government? What if there is a risk? When Uncle Li mentioned this, he was also very annoyed.

It was because of this incident that Old Man Ye had a headache and a lot of liver fire, and finally fell ill.

"It turns out that it's mainly for this matter......" After Ye Kai read these materials, he probably had some concepts in his heart.

He is still relatively clear about this period of history, because at that time, Patten had to be caught and scolded almost every few days in China, and Patten was also the only Hong Kong governor who was not invited by the central government to visit.

However, Ye Kai also remembers very well that later, at the insistence of the Chinese side, by the time the SAR government was established, the British government of Hong Kong had left more than 200 billion yuan in reserves to the SAR government, plus 197.1 billion yuan in land reserve funds kept by personnel appointed by the Chinese side, totaling more than 400 billion yuan.

It can be said that without the more than 400 billion yuan, in 1998, the SAR government would not have been able to enter the market on a large scale and withstand the crazy speculative moves of Soros and other financial predators.

At that time, the British were doing a trick on Hong Kong Island, so it was no wonder that Mr. Ye was so angry.

"This matter is not urgent, and the British also have many problems that are difficult to deal with, so just talk about it slowly." Ye Kai thought for a while and said, "The struggle between countries has always been about interests first, cooperation and confrontation are intertwined, and it is immature to want to finalize things at once." As for Patten, he has a high eye and a low hand, but he is just a clown who jumps off the beam! Is it so easy for him to hollow out the foundation that Hong Kong Island has saved for many years?! ”

Uncle Li looked at Ye Kai, who had a confident face, and suddenly felt that Ye Kai now had the demeanor of the head of the family.

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