Chapter 1024: The New Chinese Republic (Part II)
"Infernal Affairs" is finally green, according to the tradition of Hong Kong, after thanking God and eating the banquet, Liu Weiqiang and Lao Du, two top photographers, also took their assistants to East Timor.
Blue skies, white clouds, green hills, green trees, blue seas, black reefs, white sand beaches, winding coastlines, verdant rolling mountains, and waves crashing against the reefs and shores form a pure beauty that has not yet had time to be polluted, and this is East Timor.
Lao Du is a pure photographer who is not interested in politics and the economy, while Liu Weiqiang is a director, and his professional sensitivity makes him instinctively care about the local economy, politics, and culture. The two of them each took a group of people to take pictures, take pictures, and pick out exterior photos, Lao Du was working with his head bored, and Liu Weiqiang became more and more frightened. This is a remote small country in Southeast Asia, which is clearly those remote small towns in the coastal areas of the country, but the people are darker and thinner, and they speak different words.
The member of the 'Chinese Freemasonry' who accompanied Lau Wai-keung was a sturdy and swarthy young man from Macao, and when he arrived at a village, he took out his mobile phone and yelled and laughed, and it didn't take long for two or three equally sturdy and swarthy young men to ride a 'southern motorcycle' and rush from the nearby mountain roads and mechanized farming roads, leading them into the village to arrange food and lodging. Listening to the Chinese with various accents, Liu Weiqiang knew that these people were all members of the former 'Punishment Heaven Society', and now they have been installed in various places and acted as the leaders of Chinese immigrants.
The Macanese named Zheng Feiyang, who accompanied Liu Weiqiang to take pictures and take pictures, had studied and was actually a top student at the University of Macau. Zheng Feiyang knows that Liu Weiqiang is not only an international director and photographer, but also a confidant of a big man, and he has to answer his questions.
"Hehe, only with organization and discipline can there be combat effectiveness. Liu Sheng, don't look at these natives who are short in stature, and they don't want to die when they fight. ”
Yes? Liu Weiqiang subconsciously exclaimed, handed out a cigarette to each of the young people who came to pick him up, and asked, "You often have conflicts?" ”
The young man took Liu Weiqiang's cigarette and said respectfully: "Not now, I subdued them when I first came, and later asked them to work." The wages are sufficient, and the plantation gives them shares, what are they not satisfied with? ”
Another young man, who was also swarthy and strong, chimed in, "The salary of five dollars a day is twice as high as in our hometown." ”
Liu Weiqiang's assistant asked, "Xiao Zhao, what about your salary?" ”
Xiao Zhao pointed to his nose and said proudly: "We? Hehe, we don't get paid for our work, we only get dividends. You see, those peaks are all coffee plantations, and halfway up the mountain is cocoa orchards, and next year there will be a lot of fruit. If it weren't for the fact that it was too far away from China, the foot of the mountain could be planted with durian and paramita in its entirety, not those cinchona and sisal. ”
While talking, everyone entered the village. Liu Weiqiang has been to many countries in Southeast Asia, the indigenous people are poor and lazy, but here not to mention that you can't see a few idlers, even a few children running around, the things sold in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village, from food and drink to clothing, are Made/in/China.
Zheng Feiyang and his assistant bought a bunch of snacks in the small supermarket and threw them in the car, and then took Liu Weiqiang and them to their residence. When they came to Xiao Zhao's simple dormitory building, they heard the sound of TV from afar, and the sound was actually played in the Chinese "Mazu" with correct words. When I opened the door of the activity room, I saw a bunch of indigenous children sitting on the billiard table and small benches, gesturing silly music around the TV.
As soon as they saw Xiao Zhao and them enter the door, the children threw down the TV and hugged them, simply treating Zheng Feiyang and Xiao Zhao as their fathers, and after they finished distributing the snacks in Zheng Feiyang's hands, they surrounded them again in front of the TV as passers-by.
"Liu Sheng, let you smile. These bear children are all from the village, the adults are working on the plantation, and these little rabbit cubs don't want to go to school. ”
"They don't want to go to school?"
Zheng Feiyang snorted and explained to Liu Weiqiang's assistant: "There's no way, this place is too remote, and no teacher wants to come." There are some teachers organized in the meeting, but it is not enough to satisfy the schools in Dili and Baokao, so we can only make up for it first, let these children watch TV and the like, and don't run around. ”
Not enough teachers?
Liu Weiqiang glanced at the indigenous children who only cared about stuffing snacks into their mouths, and a few of them were dirty and even dragging their noses, and they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts. The big guy is so influential, and the Far Eastern Group has always been keen to invest in education, can it still recruit enough teachers?
I'm afraid that the bigwigs have made up their minds to sacrifice this generation of indigenous children in exchange for the economic, cultural and even political advantages of the Chinese. Perhaps education in rural areas will not be on the agenda until these children get used to watching Chinese TV and believe in Buddhism or Mazu or even Wong Tai Sin like Xiao Zhao.
That's right, Sun Ziming and they just made this calculation, except for the relatively elementary schools in Dili and Baucau cities, there are no schools in rural areas at all. Even in Dili, donated schools teach both Chinese and Tetum (the indigenous language of Timor), excluding Portuguese, the other official language, on the grounds that there are not enough teachers who can speak Chinese, Tetum and are fluent in Portuguese. How can the Tetum language, which does not even have written language, compete with the Chinese language, not to mention the fact that the programs on television and radio are provided free of charge by several major television stations in Hong Kong, and even the staff of the national television and radio stations are all from the mainland.
It can be said that the current administrative system of East Timor is spoken in Portuguese and Chinese, but the Chinese language is widely used among the people. If the indigenous people want to make money from those Chinese brothers, they must be able to speak a few words of Chinese and know the words on the goods, right?
Francisco and his team are among the East Timorese elites, and they know that the 'Chinese Freemasons' are using various means to accelerate the cultural control of East Timor, but they can no longer do anything about the whole country. The reason why political characters are political characters is that in addition to their political ambitions, there is also a reason beyond ordinary people.
They used to promise the people that they would be free and richer after independence, but now they have all done it: there were nearly 300,000 unemployed people in the capital Dili alone, but now all the people have jobs; In the past, an East Timorese was paid only a few tens of cents a day, but now the lowest wage is five dollars a day, more than double that of Indonesia across the sea. In the past, more than 90 percent of the population was poor, but now there are still people who do not have enough to eat?
On top of that, the Indonesians, who had previously oppressed the indigenous people, are gone, and the power is in the hands of the Timorese themselves. Even those new Chinese immigrants only participate in the administration of the government, and more put forward all kinds of practical proposals for the government, and do not hold much real power, so what reason do they have to launch another revolution? Even if you want to launch, how many people will follow you?
No matter how lofty the slogan is, it can't compare to the benefits that can be seen and touched; No matter how ambitious the political zhì family is, they are also people, and they also have seven emotions and six desires!
When a sum of money for coffee was remitted from Hong Kong and the mainland to East Timor, even Francicos, the interim president, threw away that poor national pride and quickly invested the money received from his plantation in a new round of IPO at the Baucau petrochemical base.
By the time Liu Weiqiang walked around East Timor along the coastline and returned to Hong Kong after filming enough footage, he was already convinced of the rumors that East Timor would become a Chinese republic.
Sun Ziming, who is working on the post-production of "Infernal Affairs", joked: "Wei Qiang, read more "Capital" and less comic books. The economic foundation determines the superstructure, what we teenagers in the mainland know, you are an international director who doesn't know it, are you ashamed? ”
Wang Jing, who had just come over, also chimed in: "Yes, you have to read more books to understand the truth." ”
These words are not like what can pop out of Wang Fatzi's mouth, Sun Ziming immediately knew what trouble came to the door, and hurriedly prevaricated: "Brother Jing, be kind." I'll talk about it when the movie is over, so don't bother me now. ”