Chapter 1: Crossing Hong Kong, 1949
Sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar room, Li Hualong was stunned, he didn't believe what happened to him, it was too magical, too illusory, and at the same time too wonderful, so wonderful that he couldn't believe it was true.
Sixty-six years later, on New Year's Day 2015, Li Hualong, who had been in Hong Kong for seven days, boarded a flight back to the magic capital.
As soon as the plane took off, there was a malfunction of Yan zhòng, and Li Hualong was both afraid and excited.
I was afraid that I would die like this, and I couldn't leave a queen for the Li family.
Not much excitement, but a little bit.
Li Hualong thought of some of the rebirth novels he had written and read, and looked forward to the opportunity for him to be reborn or crossed.
"God bless, let the boy also pass through and be reborn......"
may be God bless, Li Hualong's soul, or his memory, traveled through time and space to Hong Kong in 1949, leaning over a man with the same name and surname, and the memories of the two people were perfectly integrated.
On New Year's Day in 1949, Li Hualong, who had just finished his final exam, invited four classmates to his home as guests, and during dinner, he and his classmates drank a lot of wine, he was drunk, and his classmates stayed in his guest room.
"Knock Knock ......"
There was a knock on the door, Li Hualong's body trembled, turned his head to look at the door, and saw that the door was open, and two familiar and unfamiliar faces appeared in front of him.
"Hua Long, haven't you woken up yet?" One of the taller men asked with a smile, this person's name is Zhao Litong, his hometown is Chaozhou, his family is now in Hong Kong, and his father works in HSBC.
"I still have a headache now...... Li Hualong squeezed out some smiles on his face, stood up, rubbed his temples, and said, "I don't dare to drink so much wine in the future, the feeling of being drunk is too uncomfortable." ”
"Man, what's there to be afraid of when drunk!" The shorter, but stronger man smiled heartily, his name is Meng Dexian, his hometown is Yangcheng, and his father runs a gold shop.
"Breakfast is ready, go down and drink some gruel, and your head won't hurt." Zhao Litong said.
"You go down for breakfast first, I haven't washed up yet." Li Hualong said.
"Hurry up, we'll wait for you to have breakfast together." Meng Dexian said.
After Zhao Litong and Meng Dexian left the bedroom, Li Hualong entered the bathroom, and after washing, he went downstairs and had breakfast with four classmates.
After breakfast, Li Hualong chatted with the four classmates for more than half an hour, Meng Dexian was the first to propose to go home, and the other three classmates also said they wanted to leave.
After sending off the four classmates, Li Hualong returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed, thinking about how to go in the future.
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Li Hualong's father's name is Li Yisong, a courageous man, born in a small landlord family in Ningbo, before he was a minor, he followed his relatives to the magic capital of Shili Yangchang to work hard, struggled for more than 20 years, and became a wealthy businessman.
Before the Japanese army occupied the magic capital, Li Yisong hurriedly sold most of his property in the magic capital and brought his family to Hong Kong to develop.
More than four years later, when the Pacific War broke out and the Japanese army began to attack Hong Kong, Li Yisong and his family left Hong Kong and took refuge in Macau.
Li Hualong, who has the memory of two people, clearly remembers the analysis that Li Yisong did before taking his family to Macao for refuge.
At that time, Li Yisong and his family said that Macao was different from Hong Kong, that Macao was a colony of the Portuguese, that Portugal was a neutral country, and that Brazil had a large number of Japanese expatriates, and that Brazil was once a Portuguese colony, and that if Japan invaded Macao, Brazil might repatriate Japanese expatriates living in Brazil or even put them in prison. For the sake of its own interests, Japan will not get involved in Macao, which is close at hand, even if it is within easy reach.
After Li Songyi came to Hong Kong, he became conservative in business, and although his assets did not increase significantly, they did not depreciate either.
After coming to Macau, Li Yisong became aggressive, selling most of the gold in his hands, buying some newly built houses, and investing in a few plots of land.
With the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the inflamed wars of the Japanese army in Southeast Asian countries, many people fled to Macao, which had a large population and a shortage of housing.
Li Songyi made huge profits from the sale of land and rental income, and his personal assets increased significantly.
After Japan's surrender, Li Songyi decisively sold his property in Macau, left Macau, and came to Hong Kong, where he had the foresight to buy a large amount of land at a large price to buy "forced banknotes".
After the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, they requisitioned the HSBC headquarters building in Hong Kong as the headquarters of the Japanese government and seized a large number of unissued banknotes from the HSBC treasury without apostilles. Without any security deposit, the Japanese side coerced HSBC senior Qi Lihui and others to sign all the banknotes to buy supplies from Chinese mainland and neighboring regions. In the case of the "forced signing" of banknotes, although the London side entrusted the Nationalist Government to publicly announce through radio that it did not recognize the validity of these banknotes, and to disclose the serial numbers of these banknotes to the public, and Qi Lihui also added a code to identify these banknotes, the banknotes are still widely circulated in Hong Kong and neighboring areas.
During the fall of Hong Kong, HSBC banknotes issued under the control of the Japanese government amounted to HK$119.8 million.
After the reopening of Hong Kong, the banknotes signed by Qi Lici during the Japanese occupation were not recognized by HSBC for a time, which caused the purchasing power of the "forced banknotes" to be far lower than the face value, and some people with inside information and visionary views with Li Yisong began to recycle these banknotes at low prices.
Subsequently, in order to protect its reputation and restore the credibility of the Hong Kong dollar, HSBC reached an agreement with the British Provisional Military Government on 2 April 1946, declaring its full support for the validity of the banknotes.
A few months later, the Hong Kong Legislative Council's Banknotes and Certificates of Indebtedness Ordinance was reaffirmed, so that Qi's "forced notes" would not be turned into waste paper after the war, like Japanese military stamps.
Through guò's purchase of "forced banknotes" at a low price, Li Yisong's worth skyrocketed again.
In the autumn of 1946, Li Yisong learned that several old friends were doing well in the magic capital, and he decided to return to the magic capital. At that time, Li Hualong did not return to the magic capital with his family, he was studying in the Department of Architectural Engineering of the University of Hong Kong.
Before Li Songyi left Hong Kong, he sold part of the property, transferred the property that was not sold to Li Hualong's name, and left two servants in Hong Kong to take care of Li Hualong.
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Li Hualong lay on the bed and thought for a while, he got up, sat down at the desk, took out a pen and stationery, and wrote a letter to Li Yisong.
In the letter, Li Hualong analyzed the domestic situation and concluded that the Chinese Communist Party would win and the Kuomintang would be defeated.
In his letter, Li Hualong did not write about Hong Kong as a paradise on earth, but also said that if the Chinese Communist Party wants to occupy Hong Kong in the future, the family can immigrate to the United States or Europe.
After writing the letter, Li Hualong read it twice and felt that there was no need to revise it.
"I hope my father can come to Hong Kong." Li Hualong said secretly in his heart.
Now in China, many people think that the KMT with the support of the Chinese people will destroy the CPM, and even before the battle of crossing the river, there are still many people who think that the KMT and the CPW can be ruled by dividing the river.
Li Hualong knew that the general trend was unstoppable, and in less than half a year, the magic capital would be liberated, and in nine months, New China would be established.
Li Hualong has been studying at HKU for three and a half years, and in the remaining half of the year, he doesn't have to go to school to write a thesis and complete the thesis defense, and he can get his graduation certificate.
Originally, Li Hualong planned to return to the magic capital and celebrate the New Year with his family, but now he has an extra memory in his mind, and he is a future person sixty-six years later, so he decided not to leave Hong Kong.
Li Hualong wrote the letter, put the stationery into the envelope, and wrote down the address for sending and receiving it.
The servant Uncle Cai asked, "Third Young Master, when are you going to return to the Demon Capital?" ”
"Uncle Cai, I'm not going to go back to the Demon Capital for the New Year." Li Hualong paused, "You don't have to buy a ferry ticket, I'll go out and send a letter." ”
Uncle Cai was puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”
"I'll have a chance to tell you again in the future, this matter is settled, and in a few days, my parents will also come to Hong Kong."
After sending the letter, Li Hualong bought a few newspapers casually, and when he got home, he went into the bedroom to read the newspapers.
Flipping through the second newspaper, Li Hualong saw a sales advertisement, and after reading this advertisement carefully, he laughed.
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