Shekou generally refers to the area within the scope of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, which is the jurisdiction of Merchants Street in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, located in the southeast of Nantou Peninsula in Shenzhen, adjacent to Shenzhen Bay in the east, the Pearl River Estuary in the west, and Yuen Long and Lau Fau Shan in the New Territories of Hong Kong across the sea, belonging to Nanshan District, covering an area of 10.85 square kilometers. It is China's first export-oriented economic development zone wholly owned by China Merchants.

In 1980, there was only one port between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, which was Luohu Station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which was extremely inconvenient. The trains from Kowloon did not go directly to the mainland, and some of them turned around and returned to Kowloon when they arrived in Sheung Shui.

The border guards at the port are open from 9 to 5 every day, and the iron gate is pulled on time at 5 p.m., so the possibility of going back and forth on the same day is almost zero.

Hou Runzhi departed from Tsim Sha Tsui at 9 a.m. and took a two-hour train to Lo Wu Port. I didn't expect a lot of people to pass through the customs, but later I learned that it was because it was a public holiday in Hong Kong, as long as it was a public holiday, the number of people who passed the customs was particularly large, and since 1980, many Hong Kong people have poured into the Pearl River Delta. They set up factories in Shenzhen to do processing with supplied materials, or use Shenzhen as a transit station to enter the mainland to open factories for trade.

Queuing is the hardest part. There is only one border inspection channel at the Luohu port, and the Hong Kong side is still open-air. Generally, it is noon when he arrives at the port, and Hou Runzhi roasted for three hours under the sun. There are also many Hong Kong people who go to Shekou around, all wearing suits, ties, and shiny leather shoes. Such a grand outfit is only suitable for "sighing the air conditioner" (enjoying the air conditioning) in the office building, although it is the turn of winter and spring, Hong Kong is not as cold as the north, it is already like summer, standing down for a few hours. It's all sweating like rain, and the clothes are soaked, so how can we talk about decency. It's not as casual as Hou Run's coarse cloth, which looks chic.

At that time, the Shekou Industrial Zone had not been established for a long time, the wharf and port had not yet been built, and the entry and exit of Shekou had to rely on an east-west patrol road, which was probably the roadbed of today's Shennan Highway. In 1980, the road was not paved, and it took nearly two hours to drive from Luohu to Shekou. There is a section of "rib road" between the western part of Shenzhen and Shekou, which has not been repaired at all, and the car is particularly bumpy. There was a tall Hong Kong man who hit his head on the roof of the car as soon as the car jolted. Hou Runzhi sighed for a while, it turns out that being short (one meter seven) also has the advantage of being short.

In 1980, there was no place to live in Shekou, and the only place to live was the overseas Chinese community. When it comes to the peak season for visiting relatives, trade fairs or something, the room is very tight. Hou Runzhi lives in a two-person room. In fact, most of the rooms here are shared by eight people, and the two-person room is definitely a luxurious luxury room. In addition to living in large rooms, there are also canvas beds in the room (called military beds in the mainland, simple beds that can be folded). I don't know how many people have used these canvas beds, and they never seem to be clean, leaving the smell of sweat from countless guests, smelling of hitting people's brains, and adding to the big room can no longer be added, so they are added to the corridor and even the toilet door. More than a dozen people slept in a large room, snoring one after another, and fighting mosquitoes. Hou Runzhi only saw this scene once, but he will never forget it.

The next day, Hou Runzhi got up before dawn, although it was a "luxury room", but his roommate snored and snored, washed up, and went out to change the air. Chiwan has not yet been built. I want to go to the beach along a dirt road.

Halfway through, I met a young man who looked like a staff member of Shekou, so I heard him ask in Chinese: "You must be a guest who came to Shekou to inspect, why don't I take you around." ”

Hou Runyi was stunned and then smiled: "Okay." ”

In this way, the two went side by side, and after some introduction, Hou Runzhi knew that the young man's name was Wu Guohua, and Wu Guohua led him all the way into the village.

By this time it was already dawn, and the women of the village came out to gather water and burn firewood. There are fishermen and oyster people living here, and Hou Runzhi walked all the way and didn't find a young man, so he couldn't help but wonder, and asked: "Xiao Wu, where have all the men in this village gone, are they working at your construction site?" ”

Xiao Wu smiled bitterly and said, "They, Mr. Hou, I'll take you somewhere, and you'll understand." ”

Hou Runzhi nodded hesitantly.

Wu Guohua led the way, and more than 20 minutes later, he came to a seaside, the surging sea, the tide rose and fell, and many pale corpses that were soaked were left......

Wu Guohua looked sad and said: "These are the surrounding villages, and failure to escape from Hong Kong is a dead end." ”

At this time, the wind of escaping Hong Kong was in full swing, and many fugitives went to sea from Shekou and swam to Hong Kong on the other side of the sea with the help of air pillows and other things.

Hou Runzhi was extremely shocked and asked, "Are there many dead people?" ”

"Many, every day there are corpses pushed ashore by the tide...... Look, the corpse collector is coming. ”

Wu Guohua pointed to a few old men who came over on the left and said.

These old men were commissioned by the maritime police station to bury the bodies. They pulled the bodies from the sea or even the sea to the place where they were buried, and the locals called them "corpse pullers". For each buried corpse, go to Shekou Commune with a certificate from the maritime police station to receive 15 yuan for labor services, which can be increased to 20 yuan if the corpse is decomposed and foul-smelling.

I saw a few old men skillfully carrying people to a small car not far away, pulling up the small car and heading west.

Hou Runzhi involuntarily followed, since he saw these corpses, he had no fear at all, just sentimental, and felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Not long after the car came to the place where the corpse was buried, several old people first took a sip of wine, bowed to the nameless corpse, said "Sorry for the interruption", and then dug a pit for burial.

Wu Guohua said with emotion: "Hey! It's all poor. ”

Hou Runzhi's heart was turbulent, he had no sense of belonging to this world, and he wanted to return to his original society, but this scene made him change his mind, what should be done for the current motherland, so that such tragedies will occur less, although China will still develop in the future, and in modern times it has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy, and the people are rich and live and work in peace and contentment. Wouldn't it be better if we could make this time shorter?

Hou Runzhi, who was confused for many days and didn't know where the future would be, finally had an ambition, that is, to let the motherland develop faster, so that compatriots could enjoy a happy life faster, of course, he would not participate in politics, but from the economic aspect, the motherland is actually lacking in foreign exchange, as long as he earns a large amount of foreign exchange, he will be able to achieve the goal by continuously investing in the mainland.

Hou Runzhi turned to face Wu Guohua and said solemnly: "Comrade Xiao Wu, I want to invest here, and I hope to talk to your leaders." ”

Wu Guohua was stunned, flashed a trace of doubt, and said, "No problem, please follow me." ”

The two came to the Shekou Industrial Zone Construction Headquarters, the commander-in-chief was an elderly man with a burning spirit, Wu Guohua introduced each other: "This is our commander-in-chief Yuan Geng, this is Mr. Hou Runzhi, an overseas Chinese in Hong Kong." ”

The two greeted and shook hands, and Yuan Geng smiled: "Mr. Hou's name is like thunder to me." I guess I fled the harbor. ”

Hou Runzhi said: "That's right, I just got my Hong Kong identity a few days ago, and I think the old man must have something to say to me, so I came." ”

"Huh!" Yuan Geng flashed a trace of surprise and looked at Wu Guohua next to him, Wu Guohua shook his head.

Hou Runzhi smiled slightly and said meaningfully: "Chinese." Comrade Xiao Wu and I spoke Chinese, and then there was another "education." I don't think that poster is accidental. ”

Wu Guohua's face turned red. I thought I didn't know it, but I didn't expect the other party to notice it.

Yuan Geng laughed and said: "Sure enough, he is a hero out of a young man, Xiao Wu has met an opponent this time." That's right, the reason why I went to great lengths to bring you over is to let you join China Merchants. ”

It turned out that as soon as the newspaper reported on Hou Runzhi's press conference, it attracted the attention of the top management of Hong Kong's four major Chinese-funded enterprises: China Hong Kong China Travel Service Group Corporation, China Merchants Group Co., Ltd., China Resources Group Co., Ltd., and China Everbright Group Corporation. Hou Runzhi's crisis public relations means are still a little immature, but the mode of thinking is something they greatly appreciate, and they don't care about the escape from Hong Kong, and they all agree that it is a talent that can be created, and the popularity of the word YY can completely regard Hou Runzhi as the company's image figure, and they all want to recruit into their own companies.

The four companies did not let each other go so a dispute broke out, and even the Beijing bigwigs also knew the name of Hou Runzhi, which was also the main reason why he was not repatriated for a long time, and later the telegram investigating Hou Runzhi's original address was sent back to say that there was no such person, it may be a black household, and the remarks were: There is a Taoist priest who exists, he is dead, and the nearby villagers have no impression of Hou Runzhi, and the black household is suspicious.

The reason for the suspicion of the black households made the big four companies suspicious, and then Smith operated, the Hong Kong government refused to repatriate Hou Runzhi, and the Beijing bigwigs wanted to see the follow-up development.

But Yuan Geng of China Merchants has a keen sense of smell, and he always feels that Hou Runzhi is not a simple person, and he still wants to solicit, so he has what happened before.

Hou Runzhi pondered for a while and said, "I'm sorry, I just want to invest in a store here now. ”

"It takes at least 500,000 RMB to open a shop in Shekou, and as far as I know, you've only been in Hong Kong for a few days."

"It's really not a few days, but I've already earned two million, and it's enough to open a store."

"Oh. It's true?! It can't be a crooked way from an evil sect, right? "Yuan Geng already highly estimated Hou Runzhi, but he didn't expect to think low.

"You can go and check, no matter what, you have to invest in the store today, and when the time comes, if you find out that it is an evil way, you will deduct the money, I have no complaints."

"Oh, unfortunately, someone said before the store that it was invested...... You see, Cao Cao is here. "Yuan Geng has a heart of love, unwilling to accept investment, more willing to recruit under his command, the store's things are not untargeted, today someone did come to see, just talking about people came in.

There was a man and a woman, in their thirties, the man was handsome, and the woman was beautiful.

Yuan Geng continued: "Mr. Ma, what does Mrs. Chen think about opening a store, no problem." ”

Mr. Ma had a difficult face and looked at his wife Chen Huijuan next to him.

Chen Huijuan said: "We listened to your words and asked us to develop Shekou tourism, and a large group of people from our company went to Shekou to take a look, and they were-"

Hou Runzhi burst out laughing and said, "Old man, now I have no problem investing." ”

Yuan Geng pointed to Chen Huijuan and his wife and sighed, and said, "Yes, but I suggest that the two of you cooperate, one has money, and the other has connections to provide supplies." ”

"Okay, listen to the old man."