"So, Professor Wu, how do you think this grudge between the two sides can be resolved?" Chen Tian asked.

Wu Weikun sighed lightly and said, "There is no solution, this is an unsolved situation." ”

"As long as it's a bureau, there will always be a solution, right?" Lin Zhenhua said, "Not long ago, when I was talking to them about cooperation in the St. Goga Islands, I also encountered some discordant voices, but after we worked patiently, in the end, both scholars and ordinary people understood the principle of China's peaceful rise, and finally everyone got a win-win result." ”

"Mr. Lim, with all due respect, Singapore is not Saint-Goga after all." Wu Weikun said meaningfully.

At this point, there's nothing more to talk about. Lin Zhenhua sacrificed his magic weapon and promised to provide $100,000 research funding to Wu Weikun's academic team in the name of Hanhua Heavy Industries. But Lin Zhenhua did not find an expression of inner ecstasy and superficial reserve similar to Vanier's face from Wu Weikun's face, which made him understand Wu Weikun's words: Singapore is not Saint-Goga after all.

Bidding farewell to Wu Weikun, Chen Tian and Lin Zhenhua visited government officials, scholars, media reporters, entrepreneurs and ordinary people in Singapore under various pretenses. During this kind of visit, the two men really felt the sense of superiority and hostility towards China that is deeply rooted in the hearts of Singaporeans.

This sense of superiority comes from Singapore's economic prosperity, and it is more like the smug mentality of an upstart in front of poor relatives. The hostility stems from decades of propaganda by politicians, academics, and the media, in which China is portrayed as a dark, evil country where people are looking to civilized, affluent Singapore to rescue them.

In conversations with ordinary citizens, Lin Zhenhua and Chen Tian were asked more than once:

"Now the Chinese can eat enough, right?"

"Your country is a secret police after all, and if I say these things to you, it won't cause you trouble, right?"

"I've heard that you will be beaten to death by the police if you set up a stall on the street, is it true?"

"Isn't the food in Singapore particularly delicious? I've heard that your food is poisonous. ”

“……”

Whenever these topics were asked, Lin Zhenhua and Chen Tian had a feeling of wanting to cry without tears. Lin Zhenhua can't wait to bring his "China Power" promotional film to Singapore for everyone to show for the first half of the year. At first, they also tried to explain to the people they were chatting with about what the real situation in China was like, but every time they just said a few words, the other party showed a look of knowing everything, and said: "Two gentlemen, you must have been brainwashed by the propaganda department, right?" What you say is whitewashed and false. If you have time, you can buy a few more local newspapers in Singapore. The above will introduce a lot of truths about Chinese mainland. ”

Nima, what you see from the literature of the stall is the truth, we live in China all day long, but what we see is a false appearance, is there any reason in this world? At this moment, Lin Zhenhua can't wait to strangle those who lie on the Internet and make jokes to demean China one by one.

Politicians, journalists, academics are much more knowledgeable than ordinary people. Most of them have been to China before and know that China is not what it is demonized in the media. When talking to Lin Zhenhua and Chen Tian, they all smiled politely and acknowledged China's construction achievements over the past 20 years, and they did not hesitate to use words such as "great" and "miracle".

However, when it comes to China-New Zealand relations, these people are very adamant, that is, they believe that China's development threatens the security of Southeast Asia, and as a "responsible" country in Southeast Asia, Singapore will be firmly committed to eliminating China's threat. Of course. Different people have different attitudes when making such statements, Chen Tian and Lin Zhenhua are both people with heads and faces, and people don't say things so ugly, but how can these two people not hear the subtext? ..., Lin Zhenhua said before setting off that he was just accompanying Chen Tianlai to go shopping, and he was not responsible for solving the problem. But when he arrived at the scene, he couldn't help but find some way to break the dilemma in front of him. He is an entrepreneur, and he can think of nothing more than to use money to open the way. But after several attempts. Once again, he deeply understood that Singapore is not the Saint-Gogar Islands after all, and the biggest difference between the two is the same. It's just that Singapore is a rich country, not to mention the little money that Lin Zhenhua can come up with, even if he concentrates the strength of the whole of China, it is difficult to make Singaporeans excited.

As elsewhere, Lin Zhenhua sought out the most staunch local scholars and tried to get them to change their tune by offering academic grants. But these scholars are adamant: they will not save this money!

There is a lot of mystery in this sentence, these scholars will not save for a little money, but if it is not a little, but a lot, they will not refuse to owe a little. It is not surprising that the so-called acquisition of literary and martial arts and selling them to the emperor's family, scholars' academic views are also to be sold at a price, and whoever sells it at a high price will sell it to whomever it wants. Lin Zhenhua asked someone about the reserve price that was enough for these scholars to sell their arts and bodies, and the answer was that first-class scholars should cost at least one million dollars, and second- and third-rate scholars would also need hundreds of thousands.

In addition, there are really a lot of scholars in Singapore, not only scholars engaged in economics and political science who will chirp crookedly, but even those scholars engaged in science and engineering will come out from time to time to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf in front of the public and belittle China, in order to win the name of a "scholar of conscience".

Lin Zhenhua made a rough calculation, if he wanted to settle this cadre of scholars and let them say good things for China, he would have to spend at least tens of millions. This figure is not big for China, enterprises need to have public relations expenses, and the country also has public relations expenses, and it is not a loss to smash a positive image with tens of millions.

However, neither Lin Zhenhua nor Chen Tian had any intention of making this choice. The feud between Singapore and China is essentially a struggle for regional dominance, and as long as the sense of superiority in the hearts of the Singaporean people is not eliminated, this dispute will not be settled, which is completely different from the desperate desire of the people of the Saint-Goga Islands to get help from China.

Wu Weikun is right, this is a dead end that no one can solve.

"I've done my best, and this matter is not something that our business people can interfere in. It's up to you government officials to worry about it. Lin Zhenhua half lay on the big sofa in the five-star hotel room and said to Chen Tian lazily. He felt a sense of frustration, though it really didn't have anything to do with him directly.

Chen Tianzheng was sitting on a single sofa looking at the information collected these days, and when he heard Lin Zhenhua's words, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Why, our omnipotent Mr. Lin has also encountered difficult bones?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "I've thought about it. There are some similarities between the contradictions between China and Singapore and the contradictions between China and Japan. When Japan becomes strong, it will inevitably contain China or find an opportunity to invade China. Singapore is a small country that is unlikely to invade China, but it can at least do something to cause trouble for China. Let China not rise smoothly. ”

Chen Tiandao: "Your analogy also makes some sense. In your opinion, Sino-Japanese relations are also dead knots that cannot be broken? ”

"Not really." Lin Zhenhua said, "I have always believed that there is still a way to improve Sino-Japanese relations. ”

"Oh?" Chen Tian was a little surprised. According to his understanding, there are two main views on Sino-Japanese relations among the Chinese people, one is that the past has come to an end. There is no grudge between China and Japan, and Lin Zhenhua obviously does not belong to this category of people. The second point of view is that China and Japan are an endless feud and that there is no way to live in harmony at all. Looking at what Lin Zhenhua said just now, he seems to have a third point of view, that is, he believes that there is a grudge between China and Japan, but there is a way to solve this grudge. "Tell me, how do you think Sino-Japanese relations should be improved?" Chen Tian said.

"Only fight!" Lin Zhenhua said, "I have carefully studied Sino-Japanese relations for a period of time. The conclusion is. It has to be hit. In an island country like Japan, there is nothing to be disciplined about. Whoever is strong will be attached to whomever he is, and whoever is weak will be bullied. If China and Japan want to live in harmony, there is only one way, and that is to let China beat Japan down, and then Japan will be honest. ”

Chen Tian smiled dumbly: "Zhenhua, you are a warmonger!" I thought you wouldn't be so extreme at this age. ”

"How is this extreme?" Lin Zhenhua argued, "Is this just an understanding of human nature?" Don't you think Japan owes a beating? China taught the Japanese to eat with chopsticks, and they invaded China in turn. The Americans dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and as a result, the Japanese took the United States as a godfather. This is the human nature of the island country, the more you fight, the more obedient you become. ”

"It's the 21st century, not the 10th century, not even the 19th century, do you think it's that simple to fight?" Chen Tiandao, "If there is a war between China and Japan, it will be a world war. Albert Einstein said that he didn't know how the Third World War would be fought, but he knew that the Fourth World War would have been fought by people with stones and sticks. ”

Whether Chen Tianyin's allusion came from Einstein's mouth is impossible to verify. But this truth is correct, in today's world, if there is really another world war, it will definitely be a nuclear bomb flying indiscriminately, directly sending human society back to the Stone Age. Because of this, the world's major powers are very cautious about the word war.

Lin Zhenhua looked disdainful and said, "Chen Ju, why don't you have any comprehension at all?" It will certainly not be easy for China and Japan to go to war, and when I say fighting, it is not necessarily a military blow, but an economic blow is the same. As long as Japan is brought down economically, it will be just as honest. ”

"That's pretty much the same thing." Chen Tiandao, "Over the years, you Hanhua has been fighting on the front line of the economic war against Japan, after squeezing out Nihon Heavy Industries and Xihu Company, I heard that you have acquired several Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises, and the results are remarkable." ”

Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and said, "This is what you can see, and what you can't see." In recent years, our country has been squeezing the space of Japanese enterprises in the fields of machine tools, home appliances, automobiles, shipbuilding, etc., and the Japanese economy has continued to grow at zero for 10 years. ”

From 1991 to 2001, Japan's economy was largely zero growth, known as the "lost decade." As for the fact that the Japanese are still very wealthy, it is only because the family foundation accumulated during the economic take-off period was very strong and can withstand the toss. Now, in 2002, the Japanese economy is still not improving, and some experts have predicted that Japan will usher in a second lost decade. How many decades can a country lose?

"According to your thinking, can we also adopt such a strategy for Singapore?" "Singapore's sense of superiority comes from its economy, and if we can weaken its economy and make it an 'old and broken', will it still be able to stand tough?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Chen Ju, you are a government official, and you are speaking on behalf of the government." We have always claimed to want peaceful coexistence and common development, but this kind of thing that weakens other people's economies doesn't seem to be what we should do, right? ”

Chen Tiandao: "Mr. Lin doesn't know that our policy is to coexist peacefully with other countries, which is true. But there is another sentence in our policy, which is that people do not offend me, and I do not offend others; If anyone sins against me, I will offend. For those countries that are willing to be friendly with China, of course we can't bully others. But this kind of rush to bully our country, not to give it two big ears to scrape, really sorry for the ancestors. ”

"Alas, I hope that our country's policy will always be like this." Lin Zhenhua said with emotion, and after expressing his emotion, he changed his serious expression and said: "Chen Ju, in fact, I am also looking for flaws in Singapore's economy these days, and I am thinking about how to clean it up." But the situation in Singapore is different from Japan, which is a large country with a population of more than 100 million and needs many industries to support it.

But Singapore is a small country, and a small industry is enough to feed it, and no matter what we do, we can't cut off all its roads. Many of its current industries, such as electronics, oil refining, ship repair, etc., are related to its superior geographical location. It is stuck on the mouth of the Straits of Malacca, this geographical location is too superior, we want to crush its industry, lack of geographical advantages. ”

Chen Tian nodded and said: "I can't think of a way now, it doesn't mean that there is no way in the future, don't worry, Zhenhua, take your time." ”

"That's all it takes, I believe time is on our side." Lin Zhenhua said.