Chapter 17: Operation Icebreaker

387 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, China News Service Hong Kong Branch Office.

The Hong Kong branch of the China News Service is not affiliated with the China News Service, but two completely different institutions, and the Hong Kong branch is actually a dispatched agency of the imperial court.

How did the Hong Kong branch become the imperial court's dispatch in Hong Kong?

When the Hong Kong branch of CNS was first established, it was indeed a news organization.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in view of the fact that the Chinese government did not have an official representative office in Hong Kong, it authorized the Hong Kong branch of the China News Service to handle any matter that needed to be contacted or negotiated with the British authorities in Hong Kong. Since the 60s of the 20th century, the British authorities in Hong Kong have been responsible for the day-to-day liaison with the Xinhua branch by the political adviser to the Governor.

The imperial court repeatedly attempted to establish an official representative office in Hong Kong, but the British refused. The Hong Kong branch of the China News Service (CNS) could not but continue to undertake the matters of liaison and negotiation between the imperial court and the British authorities in Hong Kong.

In 1978, Hong Kong Governor MacLehose attended the 11th National Day reception held by the Hong Kong branch of China News Service for the first time, which was a kind of acquiescence of the British side to the Hong Kong branch of China News Service as the de facto representative body sent by the imperial court.

The department that is really engaged in the news and communications business is nothing more than a relatively independent subsidiary unit under the Hong Kong branch of the China News Service, which is externally known as the "Editorial Office of the Hong Kong Branch of the China News Service", commonly known as the "small society", which is different from the "big society", and its office is located at No. 5 Thunder West Street, Wan Chai.

Liang Kun was also fortunate to be received separately by a director of the Hong Kong branch of the China News Service, who claimed to be surnamed Li.

Director Li said with a smile: "Mr. Ni, I heard that you are a senior cadre of Hong Kong's 'dynamic social organization' Hung Hing Society, why did you suddenly become a bodyguard for Miss Yang again?" Moreover, I heard Xiao Xu say that Miss Yang went to the mainland at your instigation. ”

Liangkun said humbly: "Hongxing is actually no different from ordinary companies, just eat with a mouthful of food, do everything, and do whatever you want to make money." Miss Yang was willing to pay the price, and the bodyguards did the same. I just relayed the truth of 'heavy ears are born outside, and Shen is born and dies inside' to Miss Yang in a language that Miss Yang can understand. She is a mixed-race child who lives abroad all the year round and does not know much about traditional Chinese culture. ”

Director Li said: "Listening to Mr. Ni's speech, I have a very deep understanding of traditional Chinese culture. ”

Liangkun said: "Look at my age, I'm only 20 years old. I'm still a student in the history department of Tamsui River University in Taiwan, but I took a long leave of absence at school. I studied history, so of course I had to study traditional Chinese culture. If you stay in Hong Kong, it's over, it's a 'cultural desert'! ”

"However, the perception of Hong Kong's cultural circles is that 'traditional Chinese culture is in Hong Kong'. In 1841, the British forcibly occupied Hong Kong Island and opened the port of Hong Kong. During World War II, it was occupied by Japan for nearly four years. However, traditional Chinese culture has never broken in Hong Kong. On the contrary, traditional Chinese culture has been well preserved in Hong Kong in the decades when the mainland has gradually faded. ”

Liangkun said: "Which stall do you see this from?" Hong Kong is a thoroughly commercial and consumer society; The newspaper with the largest circulation in Hong Kong is the Oriental Daily, and the owner of the Oriental Daily is a member of a 'dynamic social organization', like me, the Teochew Gang. In short, Hong Kong's climate is not suitable for cultural survival at all, and it also hinders the development of artistic imagination, making it impossible for culture to survive. The British, who have wreaked havoc on the earth for centuries and have rich colonial experience, did something that the Manchurians and Mongols did not do, that is, they implemented 'Hong Kong-style Chinese', and that forced thing is actually Cantonese transliteration of Chinese. And there is a very important force in China's ability to maintain great unification, which is the 'traditional Chinese characters'. When you turn 'Chinese characters' into 'transliteration' characters, it's no different from the 'character murmur' that the Annam people do. Over time, it is to let Hong Kong people separate themselves from the Chinese nation and no longer be Chinese. ”

Director Li said: "However, what the mainland is now practicing is simplifying Chinese characters. In Hong Kong, some scholars said: "After the simplification of Chinese characters, relatives are not seen, love is not hearted, production is not born, the factory is empty, there is no wheat on the face, there is no car, there is no way, there is no head, there is no head, there is a wing, there are clouds and no rain, there is no door for the switch, there is no lang in the village, the saint cannot listen or speak, there is a head under the knife, there is a dagger under the adult, and the entry is not getting better and better and goes to the well." 'What do you think of that?' ”

Liangkun said: "I'll read it as a joke book." Simplified Chinese characters are ancient, derived from ancient cursive and cursive scripts, not only invented now, the history of simplified Chinese characters can be said to have a long history, inherited from ancient cursive, line script, there is no cultural fault. I am from Hongmen, and there is Huang Zongxi in the 'Five Sages' of Hongmen. In the annotation at the end of the poem given to Huang Zongxi, Lu Liuliang, an anti-Qing righteous scholar, wrote: "I am happy to copy books with vulgar characters, and Yun can save half of the time." If you want to be retro, what to learn from the "Kangxi Dictionary", "Qingfeng is illiterate"! Learn the book of birds and insects! You can ask those who say this kind of, do you know what a 'bird seal' is, and what is a 'worm book'? The essence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's retro writing policy was to guide the intellectuals to face the old paper and turn their backs on reality, and to use the ancient books and ancient fonts that they had tampered with as a barrier to separate the intellectuals from the common people, so as to prevent them from connecting with each other and triggering a fire of rebellion against foreign rule. It's the same routine as the British, it's just a different skin. I support simplified Chinese. Moreover, regions that also use Chinese characters, such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, have their own set of simplified Chinese characters. Or are you guys too talkative! ”

Director Li said, "Mr. Ni is really knowledgeable. ”

Liangkun said: "I actually agree with Lu Xun's "Take-it-ism", 'He possesses and selects. When you see shark fin, you don't just throw it on the road to show its "civilianization", as long as you have nourishment, you and your friends eat it like radish and cabbage, but you don't need it to feast on guests; When they saw opium, they did not throw it in the latrine in public, so that it was completely revolutionary, and only sent it to the pharmacy for healing. There are only smoking guns and cigarette lamps, although the form is different from the smoking utensils of India, Persia, and Arab, it can indeed be regarded as a kind of national quintessence, if you travel around the world on your back, there will definitely be people to see it, but I think, except for sending a little to the museum, the rest can be destroyed. 'We are Chinese, and we must have cultural self-confidence and national self-confidence. How many days has the British dominated the world? They have long since died, and China is the 'Celestial Empire' for more than a thousand years, which is longer than the 'British'. ”

Director Li said: "The mainland is very safe, and there is no need for Mr. Ni to go to the mainland with Miss Yang." ”

Liangkun said: "I will accompany Miss Yang through the Luohu checkpoint, and after that, I am going to go back to Hailufeng's hometown, and then travel around the country to enjoy the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and the achievements of socialist construction." At the same time, if there is a suitable opportunity, I will also invest in building a factory, I will have my own income, and I can also solve the problem of a few more jobs. I don't know if the people of the mainland welcome this idea? ”

Director Li said: "Of course you are welcome. We, the people of the mainland, have always warmly welcomed the Hong Kong compatriots with open arms. ”

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came to Nanbin with Xu Zhengyang and Yang Qian'er, and after handing over the people to Song Shichang, Liangkun turned around and went to Hailufeng.

Liangkun didn't want to get involved in the emotional affairs between Yang Qian'er and Song Shichang, because he was not optimistic at all.

Song Shichang is undoubtedly a very ambitious person, but he is ambitious and talented, and sooner or later he will collapse.

Song Shichang's attitude towards Yang Qian'er is no different from treating a plaything.

Although Yang Qianer loves money, as a "canary", her personality is like a cat, and she has no consciousness of a "pet".

The boat of love between two people will capsize sooner or later, and that time is Liangkun's chance.

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Tazhai Village, Fenglin Town, Dongshan County, Hailufeng City.

This is the ancestral home of the pastor Lin Shangyi, which is a single-surname village, and the whole village is surnamed Lin.

To this day, the large and small family-style villages and villages of Hailufeng still maintain the old tradition of the patriarch's self-control.

Tazhai is the local Lin family settlement area, the patriarch is the village head, the family is very strict and rigid rules, once their Lin people make a big mistake and are expelled from the village, they are not allowed to set foot in Tazhai in this life.

Fortunately, when the pastor's family left Tazhai, they were not expelled from the village, but out of the village to beg for a living, otherwise Liangkun would not have been able to enter Tazhai.

Walking into the Lin ancestral hall in the central area of Tazhai Village, Liangkun relayed to the current village chief the story of Tazhai from the pastor.

The village chief stroked his goatee and said, "The Hailu Fenglin clan basically migrated from Fujian, and the ancestor Lin Lu joined the army for the Langyu Mansion of the Western Jin Dynasty. The Yongjia Rebellion, the clothes crossed to the south, the king of Langyu ascended the throne, and the ancestor Lin Lu was ordered to go out of Jin'an County, that is, the area of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, and settled in Fujian, so our department is called 'Minlin'. The founding ancestor of the Tazhai Lin clan is Lin Meixuan, the 31st Minlin, who is the fourth son of Lin Zhuang's father. And your father, Lin Shangyi, is the ...... of the second room of our Tazhai Lin family."

After the village chief popularized the family history of the Lin family to Liangkun, he introduced Liangkun to several outstanding young people in Tazhai Village: Lin Yaodong, Lin Yaozu, Lin Yaohua from Dafangtou, Lin Zonghui from Sanfangtou and Lin Ashui who is a teacher in the town.

Three-year-old looks old, and a strongman is a strongman from a young age.

Liangkun said: "My father left Tazhai to go to Hong Kong when he was very young, and I grew up in Hong Kong, but our roots are still in Tazhai. The trees are thousands of feet high, the fallen leaves return to the roots, we all want to do something for Tazhai, open a factory, so that the brothers in the same village have a way to make money. However, after all, we are not familiar with this place, we don't know what kind of factory is more appropriate, and we don't know if the village chief and a few brothers have any suggestions? ”

The village chief said: "I'm old, I don't know how to run a factory or do business, so it's better for you young people to talk about it." ”

Lin Yaodong said: "Our Tazhai Village is located in the southwest of Fenglin Town, in the coastal plain area. It is close to the second largest bay of Hailufeng - Shizi Bay, there is a river directly into the sea on the southeast side, and there is a provincial highway leading to Dongshan County in the north, which is not only convenient for land transportation, but also very convenient for waterways, and ships can go to Shantou, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other regions. Now those small electronic products, such as calculators, electronic watches, handheld game consoles and the like are selling very well, we can completely transport Hong Kong's freight to Tazhai, and then wholesale to all parts of the country, it must be very profitable! This is much more profitable than opening a factory, but it can't accommodate too many people. ”

Liangkun said: "The freight you said should not pay taxes, right?" ”

Lin Yaodong said: "Of course, otherwise wouldn't it be more convenient to import directly in Yangcheng?" At present, foreign exchange control and import quotas are very difficult to obtain. In Hailufeng, there are already people doing this business, and they are making a lot of money! ”

Liangkun said: "I know that this business makes money, but I don't want to do this." On the one hand, it is a smuggling offense, and on the other hand, as you said, this business cannot accommodate too many people to participate. There are more than 10,000 people and more than 2,000 households in Tazhai, and at most only a dozen families can participate. This is not what I was meant to do. ”

Lin Yaodong said again: "Then we will engage in the production of small electronic products by ourselves, and it is not illegal to produce them by ourselves, right?" ”

Liang Kun said: "Small electronic products are selling well now, the main reason is that the quality of our domestic electronic components is not good, and the output cannot go up. Electronic components are the raw materials for the production of small electronic products, and the problem of raw materials cannot be solved, and this business still cannot be done! ”

Lin Yaohua, who had an impatient personality, asked, "Then what kind of business do you want to do?" The two businesses that my eldest brother said are so profitable, and you still ......"

Lin Yaozu stopped Lin Yaohua's words.

Liangkun said: "Everyone is a brother of the same clan, and it doesn't matter if you have something to say." It's really my fault that I didn't talk about it. The business I want to do is, in technical parlance, a 'labor-intensive industry', which means an industry that uses a lot of labor and has little dependence on technology and equipment. ”

Lin Yaozu said: "Are there any more mature industries in Hong Kong, can't we follow them? ”

Lin Yaozu's words were like a bolt of lightning, illuminating the sky and the earth.

Liangkun slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! Hong Kong developed in this way by taking advantage of the opportunity of transferring labor-intensive industries from developed countries to developing countries, attracting large amounts of foreign capital and technology, and taking advantage of the cheap and good local labor force. Such an advantage, we also have Tazhai! ”

Lam said: "What are the more mature industries in Hong Kong? ”

Liang Kun said: "Textiles and clothing, leather goods and bags, plastic products, toys, furniture are all very mature industries in Hong Kong, even if there are no technical personnel in China, it is easy to find a master at a high price in Hong Kong." ”

Lin Zonghui asked: "Workers can be found from Tazhai, these industries have no technology, and they are easy to solve, and the rest is the problem of money." ”