If you follow the aesthetics of foreigners, Chris Patten can be regarded as a beautiful man even though he is a little fat.

Lin Xiaozhi took a glass of wine and quietly followed the corner of the venue to carefully look at the new governor of Hong Kong, who was talking to Italy and the American consul in Hong Kong.

After Huo Yingdong and his entourage arrived at the venue, they quickly separated, and he just casually asked the waiter for a glass of champagne, and shook it casually in the venue. In the end, the Lin family is the new junior in the circle of Hong Kong's top wealthy families, he knows a lot of people in this circle, but there are few close to him, so that when he sees others chatting happily, he will not force himself to intervene/go in to disturb people's conversation.

Xu was that his gaze had stayed on Patten's body for too long, and Lin Xiaozhi quickly noticed that the new governor of Hong Kong looked up at him, smiled and nodded at him before continuing to chat with a few people around him. Soon after, he seemed to whisper a few words to a secretarial-looking man next to him, and then Lin Xiaozhi found that his gaze fell on him from time to time, just like he had before.

Soon he knew that he was right, and after a little chat with the consuls, Patten soon separated from the others, and walked over to him with the secretarial man he had just whispered to.

Along the way, few people took the initiative to talk to the new governor, and the people who could receive invitations to the meeting were obviously not ordinary people, and some attention was paid to Patten before. At this time, I saw that after he finished explaining to the consul, he took the secretary and walked to a place, and I didn't know that he was walking towards someone. Naturally, he would not come over to disturb and disturb him, and he would ruin the new governor's impression of himself.

"Hello, is this Mr. Lin Xiaozhi?"

The venue was so big, so Chris Patten quickly came to stand in front of Lin Xiaozhi and took the initiative to say hello to him in his obviously not very smooth Cantonese.

Obviously, the new Governor of Hong Kong put a lot of effort into his journey before leaving for Hong Kong. Chinese Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, and Cantonese is one of the most difficult dialects to learn in the middle and Chinese languages.

But after thinking about it, he immediately felt some relief in his heart, and when the British government changed in 90, there was a rumor from London that the new governor of Hong Kong would be replaced, and it has been two years since then. With Patten's previous status in British political circles, it is not difficult to know in advance that he will probably be learning Cantonese from more than half a year or even a year ago, so that he can take a pro-people line at HKU in the future.

Before he was reborn, because of the relationship between many Hong Kong artists, he had paid attention to the 'Occupy / Central' incident that caused a sensation around the world, so he learned something about Patten and Hong Kong.

After learning about what Patten, the last Hong Kong governor, did in Hong Kong, even those who are no longer interested in politics have to admit that the former British environment secretary and chairman of the Conservative Party is an excellent politician who is very good at grasping the hearts and minds of the people. Growing up in the 90s, the Gangcans from time to time held the flag of his former colony and made trouble.

Indeed, no one can deny that Patten did a lot for Hong Kong during his tenure, especially in infrastructure construction, he left behind large-scale projects that have benefited generations, so much so that more than ten years later, Hong Kong media praised him for building half of Hong Kong in just a few years. However, the wool comes from the sheep, and he only thinks about some good Hong Kong in the past, but he does not see that all the construction funds used by Patten come from Hong Kong's finances, and according to the agreement between China and Britain, it is something that the British cannot take away, and the British are unwilling to leave the development funds to the mainland, so they are naturally willing to smash Hong Kong, and if it were not for the resolute opposition of the mainland, even this lord really has the intention of smashing all the old facilities in Hong Kong and rebuilding them.

In addition, many of the heavy construction projects during the Patten period took more than three or five years, and some of the projects that were started at the beginning of his tenure should have been completed before Hong Kong's return to the motherland, but most of them were delayed by the British government in Hong Kong under his leadership. As a result, most of these projects, which involve billions or even tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars at every turn, have been dragged out until after the establishment of the SAR government, and they have to continue to spend money on construction.

At this time, the British had already slapped their butts and left, but the financial burden of hundreds of billions of dollars was heavily pressed on the SAR government, and they caught up with the 97 Asian financial crisis. As a result, not only did the top officials of the first SAR government, especially the chief executive, pay for the bane laid by the British, but even the mainland had to tighten its belt and send hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to Hong Kong, and could only swallow it with broken teeth.

A lot of thoughts passed through his mind in an instant, and Lin Xiaozhi quickly replied to him with a smile: "I didn't expect His Excellency the Governor to speak Cantonese, I am Lin Xiaozhi!" ”

Patten's Cantonese is not smooth, and it is good to occasionally show that he is close to the people, but if he wants to talk to people proficiently, he has to learn a few more years, so he answers in English.

Patten still knew how many pounds and taels he had, so he smiled and replied in English: "Hong Kong is a beautiful Oriental Pearl, I like Hong Kong very much, and I also like the knowledge, culture, history and language related to it." ”

He paused slightly, and even took out a movie ticket from his inner pocket. Lin Xiaozhi's eyes were very sharp, and after just one glance, he recognized that it was the movie ticket for "Black Man" that was about to be released in the UK, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

I saw that Chris Patten handed the movie ticket to him and shook it: "My little daughter is also your valued movie fan, she can't come in person until August to complete the transfer procedures, but I still asked you to sign an autograph early!" ”

"Black Man" is a movie directed and filmed by Xu Ke, but because he has given a lot of opinions and creativity in the filming and script preparation process of the movie, he also has two identities as one of the screenwriters and a producer in the work information of "Black Man".

So as soon as Patten opened his mouth, he suddenly had some thoughts in his heart. His eyes rolled and his face was full of smiles, and his tone was much softer, and he said: "It is my honor to make His Excellency the Governor's little princess like it, one of my new movies is about to be released recently, if His Excellency the Governor does not dislike it, let me send some movie tickets for your family to enjoy your face!" ”

Patten nodded again and again: "Then I will be disrespectful!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi noticed that his eyes glanced at the watch on his wrist, and then put the movie ticket back into his pocket quietly, and Chris Patten quickly opened his mouth again, "I remember that Mr. Lin has a TV station under his name, right, I just have a little favor and need your help?" ”

"Please ......"

"You know I'm new to Hong Kong, and a lot of people in Hong Kong don't know much about me and my new government. As a public servant of the people, I hope to have a face-to-face and cordial exchange with the people of Hong Kong with the help of the television station, and introduce to them some of the policies of my government and I in the next few years, as well as the welfare of citizens and the construction of urban infrastructure. ”

Lin Xiaozhi's heart moved, Patten had been interviewed by TVB for a short time at noon, and he had seen him chatting with TVB boss Shao Yifu, who was also invited, for more than ten minutes before leaving, revealing a good personal relationship between the two. It is impossible for Patten not to know the competition between their ATV and TVB, but he already has TVB as a publicity channel, but he still took the initiative to ask him to go to ATV for publicity. He wasn't a stupid person after all, and after a while his head turned, he finally determined that the new governor was taking the initiative to befriend himself.

At the moment, he smiled and readily agreed: "Your Excellency the Governor is dedicated to the welfare of the people, which is admirable. No problem, I'll go back and explain to ATV, if you need it, you can always ask the Governor's Office to call the TV station directly to cooperate with the arrangement! ”

The new governor took the initiative to make friends, which made the tension in Lin Xiaozhi's heart relax a lot. Although he had also considered that even if his position was somewhat close to the mainland, as long as he still had a number of media in his hands and could influence some of Hong Kong's public opinion, it would be impossible for the British to directly follow him and force him to completely 'fall' to the mainland. Moreover, with the return of Hong Kong imminent, even with a hardcore pro-communist faction like Fok Yingdong, the British have not suppressed it as blatantly as they did in the sixties and seventies since the eighties.

But thinking about it, he has never been in contact with politics before, and he is still a little lacking in confidence. Now that he saw that the new Hong Kong Governor Chris Chris had taken the initiative to befriend him, although he had the intention of wooing, it also indirectly proved his previous speculations, and finally pressed back half of his heart that had been hanging to his throat in the past few months.

He didn't want to touch it at all if it didn't involve too much, and a dozen tigers on the mainland in the future would bring down a large number of businessmen who had unlimited scenery, all of which proved that it was irrational to get involved too much in politics.

He has made a lot of money in the past few years, and now he prefers to pursue some dreams that he was not able to complete in his previous life, such as making movies and making a contribution to the real integration of Media Asia and Hong Kong films into the mainland, the largest market for Chinese-language films......