Chapter 43: Goodbye Clementi
On the third day of the next day, Li Tie twisted his neck, covered his small face on the right, and walked out of the room from time to time.
When they came to the living room, everyone had already eaten breakfast and were chatting in the living room. It was also strange for everyone to see that Li Tie's right cheek was slightly swollen, and no one noticed that Li Tie's right cheek was a little swollen when he came back too late yesterday.
Qi Dehai was most concerned about Li Tie: "Li Tie, what's wrong with your face?" It looks a little swollen. Isn't it allergies? ”
Li Tie covered his cheeks. slurred speech: "I don't know what's wrong, the right side of my face even hurts from the roots of my teeth and ears." Could it be that I ate too many ribs last night? ”
Everyone was also surprised, only the thousand-tailed scorpion knew what was going on, she deliberately angered Li Tie, "I dreamed of something delicious last night." The cheeks of the chewing are all painful. ”
"Alas, don't mention it, last night I dreamed that I went to a Western restaurant with Mike, and asked me if I liked Western food, of course I said I liked it so much, and asked me what I liked to eat, and I said I liked everything, and he said he didn't believe it. I mean it. I asked again if I like fish? I said I like it and I like to eat big.
Do I like to eat bear's paws? I also said I liked it, and told Mike that he likes to eat big bear paws. Actually, I haven't eaten bear's paws, but I think the bigger ones should be better. ”
Hearing this, the thousand-tailed scorpion's eyes widened, wanting to see if Li Tie was acting.
I saw Li Tie rub his face and start rubbing his arms again, and then said, "Mike asked me again which one I prefer and which one I want." Of course I say I like them all, and I want them all.
After the dish was served, he also ordered a plate of raw rice and asked me how to eat it. I told him that raw rice had to be cooked to maturity. ”
Hearing this thousand-tailed scorpion already had a feeling of collapse. What and what is this! It's been a long time, and yesterday I was wishful thinking. For a while, he didn't get angry, and glared at Li Tie fiercely.
Zhao Dabao asked Li Tie if he was eating. Li Tie said that he was uncomfortable drinking yesterday and didn't eat it. It was much better to drink some water in the room just now. There is also the fact that my arm has hit somewhere, and there is a place where it is blue.
He'll have to find some medicine and wine to wipe it off. Seeing that Sister Qian's face was a little unkind. Li Tie asked with concern, "Sister Qian, your face is not very good, did you drink uncomfortably last night, I am going to visit Clementi in a while, do you still want to follow?" ”
"No, I won't. My stomach was a little upset, so I went upstairs to rest first. After saying that, he ignored the crowd and turned to leave. Little Red followed the thousand-tailed scorpion upstairs together.
Li Tie didn't see anything, since Sister Qian was inconvenient, she had to take Dabao and Qi Dehai to the Governor's Palace. Called the black three backup sedan, several people went out of the hall together.
In the car that was about to go to the Governor's Palace, Li Tie still thought evilly, "Sister Qian is very lively, if you don't take the initiative to follow this time, there must be something inconvenient, well, it is estimated that her eldest aunt is here." ”
Li Tie, who thought he had guessed, also laughed secretly, but he didn't know that a smile would affect the pain on his face. "Ouch, I won't drink so much wine in the future, I'll drink broken pieces (lose my memory)."
Li Tie and his entourage finally came to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion in Central, Hong Kong, which was built in 1855.
Although the Governor's Mansion has been in use for 70 years, except for the dilapidated walls, the entire white Governor's Mansion is still very sturdy from the outside. The level of architecture in the UK is the best in the world.
After getting out of the car, Li Tie took a good look at the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion in front of him, and just wanted to walk into the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, he found that there was an optical store next to the street of the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, and a promotional poster of a handsome man with sunglasses was placed outside the door of the optical store.
"Ah, so sunglasses are available now. And there are models. Looking at the cool sunglasses poster, Li Tie couldn't help but think of the little brother in the future.
In a moment of excitement, Li Tie walked into this optical store first, bought himself the most expensive and luxurious sunglasses, and bought a lot of sunglasses for the Black Three people, but unfortunately everyone was not used to wearing them for a while, so they put them in their pockets, ready to return to the branch hall to slowly get used to it.
Li Tie was not unaccustomed to it, he felt cool with sunglasses, and strode towards the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion.
Li Tie asked Hei San and a few people to wait for him outside the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, and he took Qi Dehai and Zhao Dabao into the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that the hall on the first floor was already crowded. The sound is boiling, so it's not lively.
At the staircase on the second floor, a dozen British soldiers stood guard. It turned out that hundreds of staff members of the Hong Kong Governor's Office were on strike.
Li Tie thought to himself, "You guys are going on strike here and blocking the entrance, where can I go to find Clementi?" By the way, this old boy won't be afraid of being beaten and run away, right? Li Tie was looking around to see the excitement, and saw that Clementi had already come to the hall under the protection of two British soldiers.
It turns out that in the past few years, because of the domestic warlord scuffle, Hong Kong, which is adjacent to the country, has also been affected a lot. Many young people went to China to make revolutions, and there was a serious shortage of local workers in Hong Kong, and even the staff of the Hong Kong Governor's Office wore many hats.
In the past few years, everyone's work tasks have become more and more, but the salary has not risen at all, and the current price is rising year by year.
Li Tie asked the people next to him in a low voice, what their current salary was, and when he heard that there were only ten silver dollars, Li Tie couldn't help muttering, no wonder they wanted to rebel.
In Shanghai, a rickshaw puller. I earn more than ten silver dollars a month. It seems that Hong Kong is still very backward now, and his own master, who is worth tens of millions, should be able to use it.
Clementi was also very hot-witted, and he was still worried about how to make the governor of the upper realm of Hong Kong smoothly hand over power, but who knew that yesterday afternoon the governor of this realm was impatient to hand over power to himself, and his resolute attitude and efficiency made Clementi think that the reform of the imperial official position had been effective.
When I came this morning, I realized that today was the day when the staff of the Hong Kong Governor's Office had agreed to strike collectively. "Of course I know that your wages are very low, and of course I will report to the British Empire about increasing the salaries of the staff, but I am only on my first day on the job, do you have to give me a little time?" Clementi communicated loudly with the staff.
It's a pity that Clementi's explanation was not recognized by the staff, and everyone has announced that they will not raise wages for a day and will not return to work for a day. In fact, the requirements of the staff are not high, as long as they are raised by another five yuan per month.
But Clementi doesn't have a penny left now. Where is he going to get money for these people? But he assured that as long as these people returned to work first, he would immediately report the situation to the Empire, and at the latest in a month, there would be an explanation.
However, the staff thought that Clementi was perfunctory to these people, and a month later he just had an explanation, not that he would definitely give a salary increase, and that he was playing with words. They condemned Clementi one after another, regardless of the lives of employees. The two sides are arguing with each other, you come and go, and they don't give in to each other.
Just as everyone was arguing, an extremely arrogant voice sounded in the hall.
"From now on, the salaries of all staff will be doubled."
The sound of a doubling of wages drowned out all the noise in the hall, and there was silence in the hall. The crowd looked in the direction of the sound, and the people being watched flashed to the sides to show that they did not say it.
Soon a passage appeared in the crowd. At the end of the road, a handsome young man of fifteen or sixteen years old in a black suit and the latest fashionable and expensive sunglasses and two young men in black suits were standing at the entrance of the hall.
"I repeat, from now on all the staff of the Governor's Office will be doubled, and now everyone can go back to their respective posts. Don't huddle around here anymore, am I right, Governor Kim? Li Tie took off his sunglasses and walked towards Governor Jin with a smile.
Everyone saw that he was just a hairless teenager with a hairless mouth, and before everyone could scold a few words, they saw the new Governor Jin's hands swinging happily.
"Oh, praise God, it's Mr. Li that you're here, great, my friend." Jin Wentai was as young as a child, and happily ran to Li Tie's side, and gave Li Tie a bear hug when he came up. At the same time, he asked softly in Li Tie's ear, "What you just said is true?" ”
"Of course, I'll pay for it, as long as you are still the governor." Li Tie replied in a whisper.
"I need a lot of money here."
"I have the money, but I'm afraid you won't be able to spend it."
"OK" Clementi has a lot of confidence in his heart. Turned around and introduced Li Tie to all the staff.
"Let me introduce to you that this Mr. Li is a wealthy man I invited from Shanghai to invest in Hong Kong. Even if what he says is what I say, everyone should return to their positions now, so as not to miss Mr. Li's investment schedule. After speaking, he pulled Li Tie and wanted to go upstairs.
The striking staff would not let the two of them fool them easily. "You said you would give you a wage increase. Do you have any money? Don't try to fool around. "There were quite a few people standing in the way of the two.
Li Tie smiled slightly, stretched out his hand in front of Qi Dehai, and gestured with three fingers. Qi Dehai immediately took out three golden tickets of one thousand silver dollars from his briefcase and put them in Li Tie's hands.
Li Tie took the golden ticket, "This is three thousand silver dollars, which is this month's salary, I will give it to you first, and you will count the number of people in a while, and refund more and make up for less." With that, he handed over three thousand silver dollars into the hands of a leader who was clearly a staff member.
The man took the golden ticket and couldn't believe it, thinking that the strike would last for a long time to make the new port governor succumb, but he didn't expect that it would be successful just after opening the rack. "Who is this Li Tie, and he casually threw out three thousand silver dollars. Is he the reincarnation of the God of Wealth? ”
"Even if you give the three thousand silver dollars, this month's salary will be settled, but the days to come will be long. What do we do in the future? "There were still people in the crowd who were skeptical.
Li Tie looked at Jin Wentai, and Jin Wentai nodded, indicating that he supported Li Tie whatever he wanted to say.
"On behalf of Governor King, I, Li Tie, hereby solemnly promise that from this month until the next five years, as long as Mr. Clementi remains Governor of Hong Kong. Even the government doesn't have a penny. Will your salary be paid in full and in full month? ”
"Who do you think you are, that you have so much money?" Another voice came out.
Li Tie was sure that it was impossible to say that there were no troublemakers among the strikers. He exchanged glances with Clementi, who nodded fiercely. Li Tie knew that after this strike, Governor Jin would definitely not let go of those with ulterior motives.
In order to appease these bottomless staff, Li Tie had to make an arrogant gesture, "Don't worry." Don't say pay you a few years' wages, I casually leak some points from my hands, which is enough to feed you for hundreds of years.
I'm going to go upstairs now and talk to Governor Kim about investing in Hong Kong, at least a few million dollars, and if you stop me again, the deal won't be negotiated, and your salary will be lost.
Whatever you want, you'll have to wait until I'm done talking to Governor Kim, and now that everyone is gone, and if you don't return to work, I wonder if some of you have other agendas. Li Tie, who was domineering, calmed the scene in a few words.
Governor Kim gave a thumbs up in admiration. The two went upstairs hand in hand.
The staff downstairs had to return to their posts, and only a few unwilling people were still guarding the staircase, for fear that Li Tie was a liar, and they would have to listen to the results of his discussion with Governor Jin later.
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