In the following days, Zheng Yi has been in a state of high workload, leaving the house early in the morning, often returning home until dark, during which he also has to find time to accompany his father Zheng Lanting to receive visiting relatives and friends, and in the dead of night, there are still a lot of business plans and various investment reports to write, and the total sleeping time does not add up to four hours a day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zheng Lanting and the fourth aunt in charge of the family saw all this in their eyes, and secretly admired Zheng Yi's extraordinary talent and rigorous and diligent style, and compared Zheng Heng and other children with Zheng Yi from time to time.

Zheng Yi's beloved wife Liu Yu felt another way, while feeling proud, she felt distressed for her husband who was busy day and night, if it weren't for the need to pay attention to her body while pregnant with a child, she would have accompanied her husband until dawn every night.

At 9 a.m. on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Lanting, Civil Affairs Officer of the Hong Kong Governor's Office, brought his son Zheng Yi into the Governor's office to formally defend the establishment of the "Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf Trade Union."

Hong Kong's colonial authorities have long been troubled by the chaotic law and order problems and inefficient loading and unloading operations at the Kowloon Ferry Pier, and the British, who have a century-old history of trade unions, know better than anyone the importance of trade unions.

As early as 10 years ago, the colonial government of Hong Kong also had a plan to establish the Hong Kong Dock Union, but its own energy was limited, and it still has not been able to spare enough manpower, material and financial resources to implement it.

The May Day Strike, which shocked the world two years ago, plunged the British government and the Hong Kong colonial government into a predicament of disrepute, and it is still unable to change the chaotic situation that has plagued the world for more than a decade.

On more than one occasion, the colonial government in Hong Kong ordered the three major shipping companies of the local chaebol to contribute money and efforts to form dock unions under the direct leadership of the Governor's Office.

The local chaebol, which has been running the shipping industry for many years, has intertwined relations with major forces, and with the emergence of the economic crisis, the international shipping industry is becoming more and more sluggish, and no one is willing to take on this thankless huge responsibility, and is more worried that the trade union that they have worked so hard to organize will eventually be used by the colonial government or some forces, which will affect the future of their family and their hard-won wealth.

So this matter has been delayed again and again, and there is no way to solve it until now.

Zheng Yi also persuaded his father Zheng Lanting through many requests, collected a large amount of information and combined with his own industry, and finally impressed his father Zheng Lanting, and Zheng Lanting, who was an official of the Governor's Palace, also needed a prominent political achievement to consolidate his identity and status, so he submitted an application report to the Governor two months ago, and the Governor Governor had discussed it many times in the executive meeting before he had today's summons.

After Zheng Yi followed his father into the governor's office, as soon as he saw that only the Governor Clementi, Police Inspector William and two administrative assistants were waiting with a smile, he knew that today's so-called defense meeting was just a formality, and his goal had been achieved.

The whole process was exactly as Zheng Yi had speculated, and after the smiling Governor and the attendees had read the application report written by Zheng Yi himself, and had made a final decision, after sitting down with each other, the Governor asked Zheng Yi only one key question:

"Dear Paul, after careful discussion in the Governor's Office and the Political and Legal Council, it has been agreed to hand over the management of the Kowloon Docks Union to you, but how do you ensure that the Docks Union does not develop into an organization against the Hong Kong government?"

Zheng Yi replied solemnly: "The Kowloon Dock Trade Union is just an industry association that unites and helps each other, and it is limited to this area of the Kowloon Ferry Terminal, and the total number of workers is less than 50% of the total number of dock workers in Hong Kong. ”

"The supreme purpose of trade union members is to protect their own interests, pray for the most basic labor rights and the right to life, and have no political demands, which can only benefit and not harm the stability of Hong Kong's social order, except for a more orderly work order, more efficient work results, and a rapidly improving living standard, there seems to be no potential trouble."

Everyone in the audience smiled knowingly, and everyone knew that the underlying meaning of Zheng Yi's words was that the Kowloon Dock Union would not be allowed to become an opponent of the colonial government, without any political demands, and was only one of the many dock workers in Hong Kong, not the entire Hong Kong shipping industry.

Such a union would only greatly improve the chaotic order of the docks, and would not add trouble to the colonial government.

Mr. William, the Inspector of the Force, then asked: "Paul, from your 20-page application report, I see the details of improving the law and order, but I don't see any specific promises. ”

All eyes were focused on Zheng Yi's slightly emaciated face.

Zheng Yi thought for a moment, showed a faint smile, and calmly replied: "Dear Mr. William, I can only promise that after the establishment of the Kowloon Wharf Trade Union, the extremely chaotic law and order situation at Kowloon Wharf will be significantly improved, and at least twenty police officers will be saved for you, and I will not be able to do anything more, unless you approve me to set up another security company and generously give me more than twenty gun licenses." ”

Everyone laughed, and William shook his head repeatedly: "No! You're asking too much, your arsenal already has an eighty-five security company and fifty gun licenses, all of which are close to HSBC and Swire. ”

Zheng Yi couldn't help but be happy, seeing everyone's harmonious appearance, he thought about it and stopped making other requests.

The current security company owned by the Cheng family is the first legal armed force in Hong Kong in decades to be owned by a Chinese company, and if it were not for the fact that his father Zheng Lanting and his family of siblings had become British citizens, and thanks to the fact that the Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company has an extremely important arsenal, even if they have money, they would not have been able to obtain such privileges.

Even so, it has attracted a lot of jealousy from the local gate valves in Hong Kong.

After a while of jokes, there was finally no obstacle to the establishment of the Kowloon Wharf Trade Union, and Mr. Governor, who was full of interest, seemed to have a lot of time, and turned to the Chinese market, which was constantly being encroached upon by European and American countries and the consortium, and asked Zheng Yi what he thought about this?

After briefly saying a few words about his views on European and American countries and the capital, Zheng Yi solemnly put forward three suggestions to the Governor for the prosperity of Hong Kong's industry and commerce:

First, introduce more preferential financial policies to encourage Hong Kong's major banks to support local industrial and commercial development, simplify business registration procedures, and lower loan conditions, so that more people can have entrepreneurial opportunities.

Second, we should encourage powerful local businessmen to increase their contacts with the Nanyang colonies and India, which has a relatively developed industry, and make use of the colony's high-quality and low-cost raw materials and industrial products, and rely on Hong Kong's geographical advantages to enter the domestic market step by step.

Third, seize the opportunity of the continuous war and turmoil in the country, vigorously publicize the stability, democracy and freedom of Hong Kong, and encourage domestic capitalists and the middle class to move to Hong Kong and set up businesses.

The Governor not only listened to Zheng Yi's suggestions very carefully, but also asked his assistant to record Zheng Yi's words one by one, Zheng Lanting, who was sitting next to the Governor, was full of smiles, looking at his son who was talking proudly.