Under the influence of a slight fear of heights, Lin Xiaozhi's spirits have not been very high since he got on the plane, and after whispering to his girlfriend Li Jiaxin for a while, he leaned back on the seat and closed his eyes and took a nap.

The journey from Hong Kong to Beijing was not long, and thanks to the efforts of the Boeing 760, the highest achievement of big industry, the whole journey took only five and a half hours. So much so that Lin Xiaozhi and they had lunch on the plane for about an hour, accompanied by a prompt sound, the plane slowly stopped at the capital airport, and Beijing arrived

Whether it's to show off to the Hong Kong and Taiwan media who pay attention to the group, or to treat each other sincerely. In short, it can be seen that Beijing attaches great importance to the arrival of the Hong Kong delegation. Lin Xiaozhi is not Huo Yingdong or Li Jiacheng, and the people who organized the group to go north this time are just a group of people from the Hong Kong entertainment industry, especially the film industry, but when Lin Xiaozhi and the others stepped out of the plane and saw a few people waiting not far from the airport runway, they were dumbfounded. In the past month, he has made up for his knowledge about the mainland in order to go north, so he immediately recognized three of the four people standing in the front row of the greeting crowd: Premier Li, the first premier of the State Council, Premier Yao, the first vice premier, and Ms. Wu, vice minister of foreign trade.

The only one Lin Xiaozhi didn't recognize, and the position of the watch station was still before Ms. Wu, so it can be seen that he is at least a ministerial-level executive. In order to receive a delegation from the Hong Kong entertainment industry, two state-level and two ministerial-level senior officials were dispatched, even if it was just to make an appearance, Beijing's attitude was indeed enough.

The brief conversation and welcome ceremony at the airport did not last long, and after a warm greeting and introduction, Lin Xiaozhi quickly learned who the only old man he did not recognize among the four people was, and it turned out to be Minister Ai of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television (Ministry of Radio, Film and Television) of the mainland, because his photos rarely appeared in the Hong Kong media.

I have to say that whether it is a show or sincerity in Beijing, the effect they want has indeed been achieved. When he learned that among the people who personally picked them up were the first premier of the mainland's State Council and Vice Premier Yao, who had formulated the mainland's 65-85 industrial plan, Lin Xiaozhi, who was not only psychologically prepared, was taken aback, but other people in the Hong Kong entertainment industry who visited him performed a little worse than him. However, it is undeniable that some of the mustards that originally straddled Hong Kong and Beijing have dissipated a lot.

After a brief exchange and introduction, Lin Xiaozhi and his entourage got on the luxury bus arranged by Beijing and left the airport to drive to the State Guesthouse.

Beijing is very different now than more than ten years later, after leaving the airport, the bus is driving on the newly built new asphalt road, and Lin Xiaozhi is also like some Hong Kong people who come to Beijing for the first time, looking out through the car window to observe curiously. In the previous life, as a North Drifter, he was no stranger to Xu Fan in Beijing, but he was unfamiliar with the city in the early nineties.

"Darling, is this Beijing?"

Li Jiaxin was in Beijing for the first time, and after driving into the city, she lifted the window screen on the car window and looked out with interest, like many people in the car.

"Hmm" Lin Xiaozhi responded, his eyes moved away from the continuous buildings not far from the neat asphalt road, and there seemed to be some different emotions brewing in his eyes.

Different from the international metropolis in his memory of ten or twenty years later, Beijing in 9l is still an ancient and simple ancient city full of historical dust, with a group of alleys in the city, and the eye-catching buildings and CHD in his memory have not yet appeared, replaced by pieces of old Beijing urban areas full of stories.

"It's so beautiful, it's completely different from the crowded Hong Kong, and coming here is like a nostalgic old county"

Li Guoxing, who was sitting not far away, whispered that he grew up in Southeast Asia when he was a child, and the traditional Chinese settlements there retained a lot of buildings that imitated the architectural style of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Green belts have begun to be planted on both sides of the street, and there are already a lot of buses and private cars coming and going on the streets, although most of them are old and far less numerous than those in Hong Kong, but the business opportunities and vitality contained in them have surprised many delegates who have secretly observed the streets of Beijing.

This is Beijing, the world's largest red developing country, the decision-making center of reform and opening up.

"It's better to see than to hear, sure enough, what is said in the media may not be all true" Unlike other people's suppressed emotion, a big voice came from the corner, Lin Xiaozhi followed the prestige, and saw Zeng Zhiwei who was sitting with Teddy Robin, Xu Ke, and Cheng Xiaodong at a glance, needless to say, the words just now were shouted by him with a loud voice.

Inside the car, most people feel this way to some extent. For the purpose of vilifying the mainland, the mainland propagated by ordinary Hong Kong newspapers, especially the pro-Taiwan, pro-British, and pro-Western media, is absolutely not rosy. Filth, famine, poor livelihood, disease and plague, political absurdity, and so on; judging from the heart, it may not be good for the mainland, which has just emerged from the great turmoil of the past 10 years, but after 10 years of recuperation and recuperation, the mainland's development has been very rapid, far beyond the imagination of many people in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This is also the reason why many Hong Kong tycoons who have gone north and have no political views will immediately become pro-communist after returning to Hong Kong, and their attitude will be greatly changed no matter how bad they are. Allowing the Hong Kong and Taiwan media to maliciously slander it as a drug that has been poured into the mainland, it will not be able to hide the panic in their hearts.

Since he had previously negotiated through the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, the mainland's highest official body in Hong Kong, as the initiator and leader of the Hong Kong entertainment industry going north, Lin Xiaozhi has already obtained the arrangement plan from Beijing. According to the plan, the entire delegation of the group will stay in Beijing for three days. On the first day of arrival in Beijing, there were not many arrangements in Beijing, the afternoon was a break time but they couldn't go out to run too far, and after they had dinner at the State Guesthouse in the evening, Lin Xiaozhi, Li Guoxing, Zhang Guozhong, Xu Ke and other six or seven people, as representatives of the entertainment industry, were invited to Zhongnanhai to be received by the No. 1 chief.

This is the first time that Lin Xiaozhi, who has been a man of two lifetimes, has seen the No. 1 leader in reality, and at the end of the eighties, he was suddenly favored by Deng Gong and gradually took over as the helmsman of New China, although the No. 1 chief showed a conservative performance during the early period of his tenure, but he was well aware of the future history, and he knew very well that the changes and reforms of the republic in his hands throughout the nineties far exceeded the ten years after the 21st century, and many future reform policies and laws and regulations that deeply affected the fundamental reform policies and laws and regulations of more than one billion people. It was all formulated and introduced by him, so being able to be received by such a great man, even if a few people just chatted for twenty or thirty minutes, it still made it difficult for him to calm down.

The second day was the most intensively arranged, in the morning, Lin Xiaozhi and others were invited to Beijing Film Studio and Beijing Film Academy, and stayed at Beijing Film at noon to dine with the students. In the afternoon, he was received by Premier Li of the State Council, and many senior officials from the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Foreign Trade were also present. In the name of listening, consulting, and exchanging some of their opinions and suggestions on Hong Kong's return to the motherland, to put it bluntly, it is actually negotiations.

Unlike the others, Lin Xiaozhi did not stay at Beiying for lunch at noon, after Xiao Nianqi had promised him to meet the retired Duke Deng after he went north. The president of the Bank of China, who was suspected to be the son of a former Politburo boss, did not deceive him, and on the afternoon of his arrival in Beijing, he personally went to the State Guesthouse to inform him that he would arrange for him to meet Deng Gong at noon that day.

So, near noon, he was picked up by a car, and he was the only one invited for safety reasons.

He was picked up by a car that was once very popular in China and has not been seen on the market in recent years, and after being asked by the guards who drove to get into the car, the car was not fast, and it turned around half a city in downtown Beijing before driving into an alley near Dengshikou.

"Sir, please go here"

A guard guided him into a courtyard house in the alley, Lin Xiaozhi nodded, and after getting out of the car, he glanced at a house not far away. In his previous life, he spent most of his life in Beijing, and he knew that this place, for example, the house he looked at was where a certain president once lived. The alleys in this vicinity are inhabited by high-level Chinese Communist Party officials, and the ordinary alleys and alleys do not show the wealth and luxury of Western elite politicians.

"This must be Mr. Lin."

Following behind the guard, he passed several entry and exit checks before entering the courtyard. Lin Xiaozhi was still distracted by the brewing speech, an old voice woke him up, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had been unconsciously brought into a small courtyard in the courtyard, not far from him an old man was sitting on an ordinary bamboo chair, and there was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl next to him, with four or five braids on her head, and a pen and homework book in her hand, as if she was asking the old man questions.

The sentence "Deng Gong" almost didn't shout, and it took Lin Xiaozhi a lot of effort to suppress the fierce thoughts surging in his heart.

The short and fat old man in front of him, who looked very ordinary, was a great man to whom the billions of people in the entire republic must be sincerely grateful. In that chaotic period of the 70s, if it were not for his iron-fisted efforts to lead China out of the political struggle and adopt the basic national policy of reform and opening up, what North Korea would look like in the 21st century in the future, and China, with more than a billion mouths to eat, would not be much better.

"I'm Lin Xiaozhi, Deng Lao, hello" Although there was a middle-aged man in the courtyard who looked like a translator, he had also translated the old man's words into Cantonese just now, but Lin Xiaozhi did not use Cantonese to communicate with him, but directly used Mandarin.

A fluent Mandarin made the smile on the face of the old man on the bamboo chair kinder. With a smile, he got up and shook hands with the middle-aged man's support, "Mr. Lin speaks Mandarin so well, I was worried that my inability to understand Cantonese would affect some communication with you."

Before Lin Xiaozhi could answer, the cute little girl with braids next to him was not happy, and pouted and shook the homework book in his hand: "Grandpa, you haven't told me how to do this yet."

"Hehe" He touched the little girl's head and smiled apologetically at Lin Xiaozhi, "This is my granddaughter Mianmian, Mianmian, grandpa wants to talk to this uncle about something, let your Uncle Guo teach you"

The translator surnamed Guo also heard Lin Xiaozhi's fluent Mandarin just now, and he didn't need to translate it himself. smiled and hugged the little girl, "Mianmian, Uncle will teach you." ”

"Oh......"

The little girl pursed her mouth angrily, but she didn't play the lady's temper, and was taken down by the middle-aged man. After his eyes followed his granddaughter Mianmian to leave the small courtyard before retracting, the old man smiled and pointed to the bench next to him, "If you don't dislike my old man's shabby words here, sit and chat with me."

"Good one" Lin Xiaozhi would be disgusted, and responded happily.

"Do you smoke" Deng Gong is a big smoking gun, even if he is older, his health is gradually getting worse, but he still can't quit the habit of smoking, and the two of them just sat down and were ready to chat, he couldn't help but take out a pack of white paper cigarettes from his pocket, poured out two and really looked like he was an ordinary old man, and handed him one.

"Xie Lu Xie ......" The flattered Lin Xiaozhi took the cigarette and was really startled. Although through some channels, the old man in front of Zhilu Dao has always been approachable, but it was the top decision-maker of the former Republic and the chief architect of reform and opening up.

Deng Gong took out an old-fashioned kerosene lighter and lit a cigarette for himself, but when he saw that he didn't light it after taking the cigarette, he thought he didn't bring a fire, so he smiled and handed over the lighter.

"Xie Lu Xie, I have a fire"

He hurriedly refused, took a piece of nn from his pocket and lit a cigarette for himself. But he didn't want the old man's gaze to stay on the perfect lighter in his hand for a while, and then looked at the old style of the lighter in his hand, and sighed.

"Alas, from the small to the big, China is too far behind"

Lin Xiaozhi didn't expect that a lighter could make this old man who had worked for China all his life sigh, but he didn't say anything when he heard it. Just as Deng Gong sighed, if he did not step out of the country and look at the world, he would never know how backward the world was in the world, not in five years, ten years, or fifteen years, but in forty years, fifty years, or even more. This is by no means an exaggerated number, from electronic lighters, silicon chips, to precision instruments, the automobile industry, shipbuilding, aerospace industry, as well as scientific and technological innovation and cultural creativity, in 199l in the reform of the regressive port of the continent, the gap between the world and the world is indeed so big.

I had the heart to open my mouth to comfort, but after the words came to my mouth, Lin Xiaozhi really didn't know what position to express, and what to say to him, but the courtyard was quiet at the moment.

The old man smoked for a while, and then spoke again: "I heard Xiao Xiao say that Mr. Lin wanted to see me when he was in Hong Kong. My old man has been idle since he retired, and he is indeed more interested in you, which is rare, after 89 years, Hong Kong has a very serious misunderstanding of the mainland, and there are too few people like Mr. Lin who can look at the problem calmly and not blindly bombard the mainland."

This may be the reason why this old man agreed to meet him, you must know that Lu Dao with his special status, even after retirement, has a higher influence on the political situation of the mainland than the No. 1 chief, and he lives in Zhongnanhai on weekdays, so it is not easy for ordinary ministerial-level officials to meet him, not to mention that Lin Xiaozhi is just a well-known Hong Kong businessman in Hong Kong.

Sensing the opportunity to cut in, Lin Xiaozhi's heart moved, and he answered: "If Deng Lao doesn't dislike it, call me Xiaolin." How to say it, Hong Kong has been separated from China since the last century, most Hong Kong people have received Western-style education, and Taiwan's influence in Hong Kong has always been not small, after the accident in 89, there are people who have a heart behind the scenes, and some people continue to promote Hong Kong's return to the motherland, we capitalists and rich industries will be confiscated by the Communist Party, pessimism about the future, so Hong Kong's hostility to the mainland in recent years is indeed very heavy."

He took a puff of cigarette, stimulated by the smell of tobacco, and his brain, which had been a little stiff by the surprise stimulation of Deng Gong's reception, began to work again, and the words he had been preparing for months earlier began to shake out

“…… I heard that Deng Lao, you put forward a 'practical theory' in the 70s, unfortunately, I believe more in what I have seen with my own eyes than the rumors of the Hong Kong media, although I am coming to the mainland for the first time, but I have been paying attention to the development of the Shenzhen丨 Special Economic Zone, which is close to the water barrier. I also compared the mainland to North Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and other socialist countries, so I admit that the mainland has won my respect and trust with the data of reform and opening up, and the people and the country have become rich and strong, which is a manifestation of a truly responsible government. As for the political turmoil, when I was making a film, I studied the changes in several socialist countries in Eastern Europe in detail, and I can see a lot of things when I draw an analogy with those countries that are still in chaos and conflict......"

Although there is no lack of subtle compliments in these words, it is indeed Lin Xiaozhi's true thoughts. In the past few years, the Warsaw Group has been hit hard by the plans formulated by the Western powers for the evolution of socialist countries, and what are the current appearance of several countries in Eastern Europe that have been tempted by the West to move towards democracy in the past few years? The military is strongman, the dictatorship is the government, the transformation from a socialist state-owned enterprise to a private oligopoly of state resources has led to the withering of people's livelihoods, and the disgruntled people who find that change is far less good than they advertise, and the constant conflict with the government and the army, this is the democracy they want......

Thankfully, China in '89 didn't turn out like that. Because if those fanciful delusionals who have been instigated by Western countries really succeed, even if they are not good at politics and history, they will know very well that that country will probably end up being dismembered by the Western powers and becoming more fragmented.

Deng Gong looked at him carefully in surprise for a while, until the cigarette in his hand burned out and burned his fingers, and then threw away the cigarette butt in the sting, as if nodding slightly with some relief, "There are always some rogue countries that don't look down on us, so they try to make trouble for us...... If only all Hong Kong people thought like you."

The old man is really old, he coughed for a while, his thin body was weak and weak, but his spirit seemed to be very good, "I'll just call Comrade Xiaolin, I'm not in good health now, I always wanted to go to Hong Kong after retirement to take a look and understand the fundamental needs of the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, but now it seems that it can't be done." You are a Hong Kong person, so you can represent Hong Kong people, and if you can, can you answer some of my doubts and questions? ”