Lin Xiaozhi hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement. The issue of Hong Kong is very complicated, and there are countless hands and interests entangled behind the return to the motherland.

There are British people making trouble, Taiwanese people splashing ink, the US Consulate General in Hong Kong is also tossing and turning, and there is also a group of local banana people who have not known who their parents are for more than 100 years.

Therefore, even if he had made some preparations before, he was worried that it would be difficult to answer Deng Gong's question.

Seeing that he agreed, Deng Gong smiled and covered his right hand, which was burned by a cigarette butt just now, and said: "Comrade Xiaolin, don't have so many scruples, my old man has been retired for a few years, and now he is just chatting with you, a sensible Hong Kong person, as an ordinary old man who cares about the future of the country and the return of Hong Kong."

After speaking, he restrained the smile on his face, frowned and asked: "I asked some comrades who have returned from Hong Kong, many of them have been in Hong Kong for more than a year, and there are even some comrades who have participated in the reunification negotiations. It's just that I heard that there have always been some of our own compatriots in Hong Kong who stubbornly refuse to return to the motherland, and there are really a lot of them in Hong Kong. Some comrades told me that they were bewitched by the propaganda of Western society, but I think that your education in Hong Kong is very good, and you can think rationally about problems, and most of you are not influenced by the media. So Comrade Xiaolin, you are from Hong Kong, can you talk to me, an old man, why some compatriots are reluctant to go home? ”

This question is really difficult to answer, Lin Xiaozhi frowned, thinking about how to answer. And the old man didn't rush him, just sat quietly and waited, and the small courtyard was quiet for a while

"As you said, some people are very sensible, and they are indeed not bewitched by too much propaganda. But he still opposes Hong Kong's return to the motherland, mostly because he is worried about ......" It took him a while to organize his language and begin to answer this question seriously.

"Worried about ......" Deng Gong flicked his cigarette ash, and his gray eyebrows wrinkled, "Are you worried that after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the Communist Party will confiscate their family property?" The mainland is now reforming and opening up, encouraging the people to develop self-employment......"

"No, Old Deng, you misunderstood what I meant. I'm not talking about this worry, but on a deeper level. For example, the law ......"

Talking and talking, Lin Xiaozhi also let go, he lived in the mainland in his previous life, but in Hong Kong in this life, and after several years of continuous analogy, he did have some vague views of his own, which will say that he also has a feeling of unhappiness in his heart.

"Although Hong Kong has been occupied by the British and become a British colony since the Opium War in the last century, and it has indeed been oppressed by the British for nearly a hundred years before the end of World War II, the Chinese are a people who will never remember, and time will make the Chinese forget everything. After the end of World War II, the British gradually lifted their repressive rule in Hong Kong and adopted a more moderate approach to administering Hong Kong due to various needs. With the economic rise of the sixties and seventies, the hard work and struggle of the past two or three generations of Hong Kong people have been exchanged for the fruits enjoyed by our generation, and now Hong Kong, like the developed countries in Europe and the United States, has a perfect internal legal system that is sufficient to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of any citizen are not infringed upon......

"I'm not a theoretical expert, and I don't understand the comparison between the advantages and disadvantages of socialism and capitalism, but as a Hong Kong person who is about to return to the motherland, I can't help but increase my understanding of the mainland before the handover. IMHO, the current mainland constitution stipulates that 'private property is sacrosanct, is this article?' From the perspective of a businessman, I found that the mainland's 'commercial law' has not yet been promulgated, there is no 'company law', 'labor law', and various tax systems are so complicated that it is difficult for even the most professional lawyers to straighten out...... In the current mainland, the most basic laws and regulations that a country should have are incomplete, and it is difficult to meet even the most basic requirements of 'governing the country according to law......

Although what Lin Xiaozhi said was the truth, it was obvious that this remark could not be accepted by the old man in front of him for the time being, and it could be seen by just looking at his frowning brows.

In fact, most of the socialist countries in the world have a common characteristic, that is, they all built their countries in the midst of wars and disputes, such as the Soviet Union, Vietnam, North Korea, Yugoslavia and Cuba.

Even now, this iron law cannot be changed. If other countries don't talk about it, let's talk about the mainland. To the north is the Soviet Union, a hostile neighbor, and a series of quasi-adversaries and hostile countries such as North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore, and even further away is hostility from the NATO bloc. A small Thailand practices democracy, and in three days, there is a scene of soldiers in charge and the prime minister's cabinet overthrown, not to mention the mainland, which has a population of more than one billion and dozens of provinces with regional contradictions.

The return to the trouble, the Tibetan people tossed, the south discriminated against the north, the coast looked down on the inland, the huge population base, the complex ethnic composition and the diversity of the provinces and regional contradictions, plus the tigers, leopards and jackals around the eyes. The national situation is doomed, and authoritarian politics is always the most suitable choice for this country.

Lin Xiaozhi, who has been a man of two lives, combined with the evolution of the mainland in the next few decades and the turmoil that has just passed, quickly realized that although he said the right thing, it became the wrong thing on a wrong occasion.

I took a breath and thought for a while to calm down my surging thoughts. Lin Xiaozhi continued: "Of course, the road has to be taken step by step, if you walk too fast, you will be unstable, you may fall and bump, and in the end you will hurt yourself, and it is not necessarily a good thing to be too anxious." You can wait a little slower, but don't let people lose sight of hope......"

After all, he still knew that the turmoil of the previous year was a hard thorn, so he just nodded vaguely and didn't say more, but the changed tone and attitude were enough to make the old man's face show joy again, and he nodded again and again: "Yes, slow down, steady The ancestors have all said, if you govern a big country, you can't be in a hurry...

Twisting the cigarette butt out, Deng Gong seemed to be in a much better mood, and his gaze at him became more and more kind, "No wonder I heard Comrade Xiaolin say, Comrade Xiaolin, you have earned billions of family business at a young age." These old and serious words, without some experience and experience, really can't see through, very good...... Very good......"

Having said that, after listening to Lin Xiaozhi's words just now, Deng Gong changed his mind and stopped asking these questions, but seemed to be interested in him, and asked some questions about himself and Hong Kong movies.

"Hong Kong movies are very good, and they are also very competitive. I know Bruce Lee, hey, his fists and feet are amazing, even foreigners are convinced, but unfortunately he died young. I remember more than ten years ago, when I traveled to Huangshan, I met a crew from Hong Kong, it seems to be filming "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", and we took photos together. It's just that in the past two years, I've heard that there are some people in the film industry in Hong Kong who are making some movies that distort and attack the mainland, which is not ......."

As the former supreme chief, although he is now retired, when the old man frowned and said the last few words with some displeasure, Lin Xiaozhi's heart also rose to his throat. From him, it can be seen that the mainland government is now hostile to the Hong Kong film circle, which has made a number of films attacking the mainland.

However, Lin Xiaozhi soon realized that this might be an opportunity. immediately replied: "The butt determines the brain, the Hong Kong film market is very small, our films cannot be released in the mainland, and it is difficult for overseas markets to enter Europe and the United States because of cultural differences, and Hong Kong alone cannot be satisfied, so the Taiwan market is particularly important." Therefore, some people, in order to curry favor with Taiwan's theater businessmen, investors, and even the Taiwan authorities, have made some maliciously distorted films. These people don't represent the entire Hong Kong film industry, and sane filmmakers basically don't shoot movies like that. It's just ......"

He paused deliberately......

"It's just what" Although Deng Gong heard that he might have something to say, he listened seriously, so he followed the urging question.

"It's just that Taiwanese capital has a great influence on the Hong Kong film industry. It is conservatively estimated that the amount of money flowing into Hong Kong's film industry from Taiwan is as high as more than NT$10 billion. If these big financiers really want to use money to smash it, I think many film companies in the Hong Kong film industry will not be able to refuse, in the final analysis, it is the Taiwan market and capital that have too much influence on the Hong Kong film industry......"

The implication is that he almost confessed that he hoped that the mainland would open up its market as soon as possible and allow Hong Kong films to enter.

After Lin Xiaozhi finished speaking, he saw the old man's face thoughtful, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He is well aware that there will always be risks in opening up foreign markets, and the Taiwan authorities have increased the introduction of American films to impact the market share of Hong Kong films in Taiwan since a few years ago. Indonesia, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries have also begun to introduce various support bills to restrict the introduction of Hong Kong films. Japan and South Korea have their own film industries, and they also prefer to import American films to Hong Kong films. It is difficult to reconcile the European and American markets, and it is difficult for Lin Xiaozhi to ensure that he will always grasp that side

Therefore, it is difficult to feed the increasingly huge Media Asia and hundreds of Hong Kong film companies with the billions of Hong Kong dollars at the box office alone.

The old man listened carefully, and said that he was really thinking about this aspect of the matter with his heart, so what he asked for would be a drama

Deng Gong obviously didn't know much about movies, but the reason was the same, and after thinking about it, he said seriously: "When New China was founded, we Communists faced the biggest difficulty, in addition to the country's hunger and cold, we also had to face the dilemma of no one available. That Mr. Jiang was so ruthless that when he went to Taiwan, he not only scraped the mainland three feet to the ground, but also plundered hundreds of thousands of talents from all walks of life. Therefore, our film industry was founded on the basis of borrowing the Soviet model, and later it was reformed with reference to some of the experience of Yugoslavia. However, that was twenty or thirty years ago, and now watching mainland movies has to be reformed. Comrade Kobayashi, can you tell me about Hong Kong's film industry? ”

"No problem" was exactly what he thought, and he responded readily at the moment.

"I don't know the specific scale of the mainland, so I can only cite some data circulating in the Hong Kong film industry to talk about it. In 1989, the box office revenue of mainland films was about 100 million yuan. On the other hand, in Hong Kong, the box office of our local film exceeded HK$1 billion for the first time last year, and finally about 10. 43U billion Hong Kong dollars, of which the number of moviegoers is about 41.38 million, and Hong Kong has a population of about 6 million, that is to say, almost 6 million people in Hong Kong watched seven movies last year. This data is only higher than that of most countries in Europe and the United States...

"In Hong Kong, the total scale of the film industry is about 17,025 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is about two or three billion US dollars. Looking at the entire world realm, this scale can only be regarded as below average. However, Hong Kong has relied on the resources of one city to become the world's second only commercial film base to the United States, sending hundreds of films to Southeast Asia, Asia and even the United States every year, covering dozens of countries and regions, and directly or indirectly creating nearly 10 billion Hong Kong dollars of wealth every year, not only revitalizing thousands of theaters and tourism resources in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but also directly supporting more than 70,000 Hong Kong film practitioners. ”

If it weren't for the fanatical pursuit of the market by the media listing, which raised the financial community's assessment of the Hong Kong film industry, strictly speaking, the reasonable data should only be about six or seven percent.

"It seems that Hong Kong movies are very good......"

Although Deng Gong does not understand the film industry, he is very sensitive to the sets of data he mentioned. When I heard a junior from the Xiao family mention to him that Lin Xiaozhi, who initiated this icebreaking trip to the north of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, wanted to meet him, he also learned something about movies. At least he knows now, all the film studios in the country can't make money, and they all rely on government grants to maintain them. Movie theaters in various localities are even more of a big hole, and not only the central government has to allocate a special fund for the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television to maintain it, but the provincial, municipal, and county governments below sometimes have to allocate a financial subsidy.

Hearing him mention that Hong Kong alone can build up a lot of industries, this old man who advocates the reform of a powerful China can't help but think about how great it would be if the mainland's film industry could also grow like Hong Kong.

But after thinking about it, he knows very well that while film can make money and is an art, it is also one of the best propaganda tools. In socialist countries, there is a common habit of using film and television works for political propaganda and patriotic education. Therefore, it is not easy to reform the film part......

"Using Hong Kong as an example, Deng Lao may not feel obvious, so I will introduce you to the American film industry, which is divided into soft and hard parts. The soft industry includes artists, directors, film schools, related newspapers and periodicals, box office, etc., which can generate more than $11 billion in box office every year, while the video tape market has more than $6 billion, and the market for other peripheral film industries also has $35 billion. The hardware industry includes cinema chains, film companies, special effects production companies, animation companies, photography equipment production companies, etc., with an overall scale of more than six or seven billion US dollars. It can be said that the overall scale of the US film industry is nearly $100 billion, exceeding the total industrial output value of the vast majority of countries in the world."

Unlike others, Lin Xiaozhi always likes to include manufacturing related to the film industry when calculating, so the scale is also much larger. Every time he recalled the potential size of the film industry in the United States, he was shocked by the coldness of his siblings, and his words really shocked Deng Gong, and he was silent for a long time and frowned again.

According to the latest mainland exchange ratio between the renminbi and the US dollar, the total value of mainland GDp in 1990 was only about 390 billion US dollars. The size of the film industry in the United States alone exceeds a quarter of the total value of the mainland's GDp, how can he not be shocked.