Chapter Eighty-Five: Secret Talks in Shanghai
Ye Yongji and his entourage of 10 people were received by government officials when they came to Shanghai Airport, and now that the interior is undergoing reform and opening up, various localities are ushering in waves of foreign businessmen from other places who come to investigate, and the government has a special foreign investment promotion office, which is responsible for entertaining these foreign businessmen, and tries its best to retain these foreign businessmen who come to inspect, and there are preferential policies and preferences in all aspects. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ye Chengkang took Fang Qiaorong and Zhao Fei to follow behind Ye Yongji and Ye Xiaofeng, Ye Yongji talked to the director of the government's investment promotion office, and introduced him to a few people in the group, Director Fu told Ye Xiaofeng and Ye Chengkang that there are still some scenic spots near Shanghai, if you have time, just say, where you want to go, he will arrange it, Ye Chengkang smiled and went down.
Ye Chengkang gestured to Zhao Fei, and Zhao Fei disappeared into the sea of people at the airport, only Fang Qiaorong vaguely knew that Ye Chengkang must have asked Zhao Fei to do something.
Ye Chengkang and his entourage stayed in Shanghai Mansion. Shanghai Building, formerly known as Broadway Building, is located at No. 20 Suzhou Road, facing the Waibaidu Bridge where Suzhou Creek joins the Huangpu River, the building was invested by the British Commercial Real Estate Company controlled by the Jewish businessman Sassoon at that time, designed by the British architect Bright Fraser of Gonghe & Co., and built by six construction factories such as Xin Yan Kee, which was built in 1930 and completed in 1934. Since its completion, it has been one of the best observation decks in Shanghai.
The first thing Ye Chengkang did when he stayed in the hotel was to hang up the phone to Luo Huifang and Xu Jiayi, who were far away in Hong Kong, and told them that they had arrived safely, and asked them what they had done today, Xu Xu chattered for half an hour before ending the call, he took a shower, there was nothing to do, he began to write a novel, "Heroes" was almost serialized, Mr. Jin Yong personally asked him for a manuscript, he thought for a long time and decided to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Robbery Notes" Written out, but in terms of literary style, the ghost blows out the lamp has the style of contemporary market novels, and the tomb robbery notes are trivial, and the style is not so strong; in terms of story narration, the ghost blows out the lamp is a folk tale storytelling, which pays more attention to the flow and change of the plot, and the narration of the tomb robbery notes pays more attention to the psychological activities of the characters, and promotes the plot with dialogue and psychological activities; in terms of characters, the characters of the ghost blowing the lamp are still folk tales, and the civil, military, elegant and vulgar forms a kind of comparison, vivid and lively, and the legend is strong, but the characters are sometimes flat, like the characters of the Journey to the West, a vulgar person is vulgar from beginning to end, and will not change。 Tomb robbery notes pay more attention to the character, especially the description of the protagonist's psychological process, although the other characters are rough, but compared to the ghost blowing the lamp, the characters may have more changes, there is a growth process, relatively three-dimensional, although sometimes the changes of the characters are not very reasonable, the psychological process of the characters seems too redundant; Based on these, Ye Chengkang still has a long way to go if he wants to open a new genre, and whether the current audience will buy it or not, after all, many of them are stories about modern and modern times in the mainland, but he still decided to write them, and after writing them, these can be made into movies in the future.
So he started his second creation, after one or two years of writing and the accumulation of serious reading in peacetime, Ye Chengkang felt that his writing had made great progress, and he was more sure of the description of some details and the burial of foreshadowing, and at nine o'clock he got up and made a cup of coffee for himself, and when he was ready to continue, Zhao Fei had already returned.
"Kang Shao, it has been arranged, our top leader will wait for you at seven o'clock tomorrow night. Zhao Fei's face turned red when he spoke, that is the supreme leader, and he has a lot of support at this stage, and even this Sino-British meeting was presided over by him.
"Really?" Ye Chengkang was also very excited.
"Yes, tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening, someone will come to pick us up. The exact location is yet to be determined, but I have been informed from above, and it is confirmed that it is the top leader. Zhao Fei said.
"Okay, let's go together tomorrow night, don't alarm the others. Ye Chengkang also calmed down his mood.
"Okay, I'll arrange it. Zhao Fei nodded and went out.
At 6:50 the next night, a very capable man about thirty years old got off the Hongqi car, but this man had a very mediocre face, but Zhao Fei, who was waiting in the hall, hurriedly greeted him, but Ye Chengkang did not come down, he knew that it was not appropriate for him to have contact with anyone in public now, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
After Zhao Fei talked to the man for a few words, the man returned to the car, and Zhao Fei called Ye Chengkang at the main station, told him the license plate number of the Hongqi car, and asked him to get down immediately.
Ye Chengkang sorted out his clothes, he put on a suit that he hadn't worn for a long time, put on a tie, and the whole person was much more energetic. He watched the hallway for a moment, hung a Do Not Disturb sign on the door of his room, and hurried downstairs.
Ye Chengkang and Zhao Fei were taken to a box at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, which is located at the intersection of East Nanjing Road and the Bund Road in Shanghai, and consists of two historic buildings, the South Building and the North Building. The hotel opened in 1956, replacing the original North Building (Sassoon Building). Yes, it's the Chinachem Hotel, the controlling shareholder of the investor in Shanghai Tower. In 1965, the original Huizhong Hotel in the South Building was merged into the Peace Hotel. From 1965 to 2010, the two buildings were jointly operated as the Peace Hotel. From 2007 to 2010, the hotel underwent renovation and reorganization, and in 2010, the north building was reopened as the "Shanghai Peace Hotel", and the south building was renamed the Swatch Peace Hotel Art Center, which is mainly open to artists.
"Mr. Ye is really young, amazing. The supreme leader speaks Mandarin with dialects.
"Hello, Chief. Ye Chengkang bowed respectfully to him.
"Don't be so polite, you are a guest from afar, I am here today to hear your views on the Soviet Union and your thoughts on the future of Hong Kong, the information you asked Xiao Zhao to bring back last time has helped us a lot, and I thank you on behalf of the people of the motherland and all the personnel of the army. The supreme leader smiled and shook hands with Ye Chengkang.
"The motherland is the root of all our overseas people, and we also hope to return to the embrace of the motherland, and the resumption of Sino-British talks has given many Hong Kong hopes, and you have proposed one country, two systems a year or two ago, and if it can really be implemented well in Hong Kong and Macao, it will be a matter of time before the problem is solved. "Ye Chengkang didn't dare to show off in front of the supreme leader.
"Yes, one country, two systems is one of the principles we have put forward to resolve the issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, and do you know that in Hong Kong?"
"I am more concerned about the policy orientation of the mainland, and I know a little bit through some channels. ”
"Okay, good, it's good to be able to understand this, and what did you always think about the Soviet Union with Zhao Fei before, today you have to speak freely, but let's talk while eating, otherwise the food will be cold, are you used to eating Shanghai food?"
"No problem. For so many years, the Soviet Union simply followed the route of a military power, and it was already on the verge of dragging down their economy. Moreover, because of the system, the corruption in the Soviet Union is extremely serious, and the current Soviet Union is almost an empty shelf, which looks extremely glamorous on the outside, but is about to rot on the inside, and they need economic support. As long as the conditions are right, they will not mind transferring some high-tech weapons to us. Although these weapons could not be the most sophisticated weapons installed by the Soviet Red Army, relatively speaking, they were enough for us to digest and absorb for a while. This is a shortcut to rapidly ramp up the capabilities of the defense industry. ”
"Yes, our staff officers have raised this point before, but the Soviet Union may not cooperate with us, and it may be better to have you as an intermediary. ”
"I'll do my best. Ye Chengkang said, "At this stage, there are too many places in China that need money, and I want to pull a team to go to South Africa as soon as possible to open mines, and the diamonds mined are made into hand ornaments and sold to people from all over the world who come to Hong Kong for tourism." If we do it well, we can make a profit this year. ”
"This report has been handed over to me, I have already arranged it, the personnel will be in place as soon as next month, Zhao Fei will contact you at that time, such a thing is beneficial to us, and we are really short of funds at this stage, we will seize such a money-making opportunity, but what do you want?"
"I don't want anything, really, the master who taught me kung fu in the UK was a Chinese soldier who was captured in the Sixing warehouse in Shanghai, and then came to the UK, but unfortunately the time to teach me was not long, and then I met the current master Elder Yihang, and I myself am Chinese, I hope that one day I can proudly tell everyone that I am Chinese, and now we are second-class citizens everywhere, this is the sorrow of our generation, I don't want my next generation to be called that, so helping Zhao Fei is also helping myself." ”
"Yes, young man, we're suspicious. In the future, the country will still need your help, and if you have any needs, you can ask Zhao Fei at any time, and the country will help you wherever it can. The supreme leader was silent for a while and said.