Chapter 349 It's just a clown jumping on the beam!
Chapter 349: Just a clown! [Fourth update]
"Find out who wrote this article, find out who sent this newspaper!" After hearing what Uncle Li said, Ye Kai immediately gave instructions.
Calling it an instruction may be a bit too much, but as the core of the third-generation leadership of the old Ye family, the deputy director of the Central Police Bureau, the Army Major General, and the director of the Shengwang New District Management Committee, Ye Kai still has enough aura.
More than enough to support his prestige in Lao Ye's family and even among the entire senior leadership.
You must know that not long ago, Uncle Li was only a major general.
"Yes, I have already arranged this matter." Uncle Li also responded seriously.
Mr. Ye suddenly fell ill. The second Mr. Ye also visited several countries in South America to conduct exchanges on military cooperation. He will definitely not be able to come back for the time being. As the Secretary of the Mingzhu Municipal Party Committee, Ye Ziping, the Americans came to do some economic and trade work.
The delegation must be received, and they will definitely not be able to come back soon. The eldest uncle Ye Zijian and the second uncle Ye Zizhu are in military positions and cannot move around easily, so as a result, there is no one in the center of the old Ye family.
This was also the main reason why Uncle Li called Ye Kai urgently to return home. After all, although Ye Jianhuan was the leader among the third generation, Ye Kai still had to make the final decision on how to do things.
Sure enough, Ye Kai lived up to his expectations and began to order people to investigate the cause of the incident as soon as he came back.
It is definitely not a trivial matter for an article slandering the Prime Minister to appear in a newspaper, and it is very strange that this newspaper can appear under Mr. Ye's nose. There must be a reason for it.
The domestic situation is very particular. Generally speaking, it is important to report good news rather than bad news. An inappropriate article like this will never appear in front of the top grassroots leaders, let alone "coincidentally" let Mr. Ye read it.
arrive.
This matter must be done, but what Ye Kai is most concerned about now is Mr. Ye himself. I wonder what his situation is like?
Ye Kai went to Russia and then Ukraine for a month. Ye Kai really didn't care enough about domestic affairs, so he didn't know much about the affairs of Hong Kong Island, let alone his second uncle.
Something happened to Bian'er again.
"The matter at your second uncle's place should be related to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, but it doesn't matter, I'm just a little frustrated." Uncle Li knew a little more about this, so he handed a newspaper to Ye Kai, "It's Hong Kong.
What happened on the island really made the old man angry. In fact, it was not only the old man who was angry, but several big bosses were also very angry. That foreign devil is very courageous!"
"Patten!" Ye Kai opened the newspaper and saw a white, fat, standard British face.
In the era after Ye Kai, many people were not familiar with Patten, but most people who had gone through this stage had an impression, because this person served as the governor of Hong Kong, just like Ye Kai went to Jiangzhong to develop.
, are all here to stir up trouble.
Patten was a talented student at Oxford University, majoring in modern history. He studied in the United States. When he was only 30 years old, he was appointed as the head of the research department of the British Conservative Party. Later, many of the election manifestos for the 1979 general election came from
His handwriting.
In November 1990, Major succeeded Mrs. Thatcher as Prime Minister and received his great help. Moreover, Major had a good relationship with Patten, so he immediately appointed Patten as the Duchy of Lancaster after taking office.
President and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Under Patten's planning, the Conservative Party was able to unexpectedly win the 1992 British general election.
But what is extremely ironic is that Patten himself was defeated by the Liberal Democratic Party candidate and lost his seat in the House of Commons in the Bath constituency, thus quitting the House of Commons.
Major later said that if Patten could retain his seat, he would have the opportunity to serve as finance minister or foreign secretary.
However, out of compensation for Patten, under Major's arrangement, Patten officially became the 28th Governor of Hong Kong on July 9, 1992.
In 1992, the 48-year-old Patten was sent to Hong Kong Island to serve as the last governor.
In the last five years of his stay on Hong Kong Island, Patten caused many troubles, which caused sudden twists and turns in Hong Kong's originally smooth transition. At that time, some people said that Patten was a "spoiler" sent by the British government to Hong Kong.
Soon after taking office, Patten fell into bad relations with the mainland. He stated that he would reform the electoral system of the Legislative Council. In addition to separating the two bureaus, canceling all appointed seats, and adding nine functional constituency seats (the new nine constituencies)
, making all office-holders eligible to vote (in disguise, making these nine seats directly elected), in order to speed up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong Island.
However, the mainland immediately expressed great dissatisfaction, pointing out that the central government was not consulted on the reform, and declared that it would cancel the relevant reform after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong Island.
Patten ignored the mainland's attitude and insisted on going his own way, with a strong determination to fight to the end. This made the senior officials very angry.
Ye Kai looked at the newspaper at this time and found that the mainland media almost uniformly denounced Patten as a "venomous snake", "thief", "prostitute" and a "last tango" for the democrats. The mainland representative in Hong Kong
He even denounced Chris Patten as an "eternal sinner".
In addition to reforming the Legislative Council election, Patten's first policy address during his tenure proposed the implementation of the controversial strategic sewerage plan, the predecessor of the Harbor Cleansing Plan.
The strategic sewerage plan was originally intended to collect local sewage to Stonecutters Island for central treatment, and then discharge it into the sea through deep-sea pipelines. The project was originally scheduled to be completed in April 1997, but it was repeatedly delayed due to technical problems and delays by the contractor.
The first phase of the project was not started until 1997. The first phase of the project was completed in 2001, costing the government as much as 8.3 billion. Because the project was criticized as a waste of money and unnecessary, the second phase of the project was suspended in October 1999.
implement.
In order to implement the strategic sewage discharge plan, the Legislative Council approved in 1994 to allocate 6.8 billion from the financial reserves to establish a sewage treatment operating fund, and planned to collect sewage discharge fees from industry and commerce to pay for the second phase of the project. However, two years after its implementation,
, the operating fund had suffered a loss of 5 billion yuan. The government was forced to close the fund on March 31, 1998, and replaced it with government subsidies.
Mainland China is also dissatisfied with Patten, and it is the "Rose Garden Project".
Hong Kong Island's only civilian airport, Kai Tak Airport, began to run out of capacity as early as the 1970s. Later, due to future problems, the new airport was never launched.
Former Hong Kong Governor Wilson decided to build a new airport in his policy address in the hope of reviving the confidence of Hong Kong people. According to the core plan for the Hong Kong Island Airport formulated by Wilson in the policy address, a large-scale construction project will be carried out in Chek Kok, north of Lantau Island.
Reclamation and construction of a large, international-class new airport. This new airport has two runways, can operate 24 hours a day, and can accommodate 80 million passengers per year, which is three times the capacity limit of Kai Tak Airport.
On the other hand, in order to provide supporting facilities, Wilson decided to build roads, bridges, the Western Harbor Crossing and the airport railway connecting the airport and the city. While building the airport railway, it also decided to build the west side of the Kowloon Peninsula and Tsing Yi reclamation.
Land was acquired from the sea to build Container Terminals No. 8 and No. 9, further expanding the port's throughput by five times.
In order to facilitate the provision of services to the new airport, Wilson also decided to open a new town in Tung Chung near Chek Kok, planning to accommodate at least 150,000 people.
All in all, this project plan is unprecedented in the history of Hong Kong Island. This core project of Hong Kong Island Airport is collectively called the Rose Garden Project, which means that the future of the project will be as beautiful as the Rose Garden.
At that time, Wilson estimated that the entire project would cost 127 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the first runway would be opened in early 1997. Since Wilson was all about stabilizing public sentiment when launching the plan, he did not consult with the Chinese side, and the result was that
It became an uproar.
In addition, issues such as the 1988 direct election, the Vietnamese boat people issue, and the right of abode plan made both the mainland and the British government dissatisfied with Wilson, which led to his failure to be re-elected as Hong Kong Governor.
When Patten took office, he expressed his support for the Rose Garden project. The mainland expressed different opinions and asked the British Hong Kong government at the time about the cost budget of the plan, but the other party did not provide specific figures. Later, he asked the British government how much money it would leave to the SAR government in the future.
How much? The British answer was HK$5 billion.
"How can 5 billion yuan be enough to support the establishment of a special zone government? What if there is a risk?" Uncle Li was also very annoyed when he mentioned this matter.
It was because of this incident that Mr. Ye suffered from headaches, anger, and anger, and finally fell ill.
"It turns out it's mainly for this matter..." After reading the information, Ye Kai probably had some ideas in his mind.
He is relatively clear about this period of history, because at that time in China, Patten was caught and cursed almost every few days. Patten was also the only Hong Kong governor who was not invited by the central government to visit.
However, Ye Kai also remembered clearly that at the insistence of the Chinese side, when the SAR government was established, the British Hong Kong government left more than NT$200 billion in reserves to the SAR government, plus a land reserve fund of NT$197.1 billion that was managed by personnel appointed by the Chinese side. The total
There are more than 400 billion yuan.
It can be said that without these more than 400 billion yuan, it would have been impossible for the SAR government to enter the market on a large scale in 1998 and withstand the crazy speculation of Soros and other financial giants.
At that time, the British were trying to take advantage of Hong Kong Island. No wonder Mr. Ye was so angry.
"This matter cannot be rushed. The British also have many problems that are difficult to deal with. Just talk about it slowly." Ye Kai thought for a while and said, "The struggle between countries always puts interests first and cooperation.
Intertwined with confrontation, wanting to finalize things all at once is a sign of immaturity. As for Chris Patten, he has high vision and low hand, and is just a clown! He wants to empty out the foundation that Hong Kong Island has saved for many years.
Is it that easy?!”
Uncle Li looked at Ye Kai, who looked confident, and suddenly felt that Ye Kai now had the demeanor of a family leader.