Chapter 2091 The Contradictory Pearl of the Orient
Although I didn't have any psychological shadow when I came here this time, I still felt a little weird in my heart.
It’s not that Ye Huang has any prejudice against Hong Kong people. As a person who has been influenced by Chinese traditional culture and has lived in an orthodox Western society, Ye Huang.
All the social customs, humanities and geography of Hong Kong gave him a feeling of being mixed with rice.
It is part of traditional Chinese culture, as well as some Western social customs brought over from Britain.
Unfortunately, the influence of Eastern and Western cultures in the past two hundred years has made some of Hong Kong's features a bit narrow, and the cultural concepts born in a corner are also difficult for Ye Huang to accept.
Hong Kong has many nicknames, but not many are related to its culture.
What Ye Huang really remembers may be the prosperity of Hong Kong films in the 1980s. Today, this point of pride for Hong Kong people has gradually declined.
Walking in Victoria Bay at night, Ye Huang saw many things.
There are both inland and western ones.
It seems that everything is a perfect blend of East and West, but in fact some of the underlying essence is not as simple as it seems.
Not to mention anything else, just the matter of Hong Kong's return.
Back then, Hong Kong people had an extremely contradictory mentality.
Some people want the reward of returning to the motherland and welcome the return, while others strongly reject it and regard the motherland as a ferocious wolf and tiger, and would rather let Hong Kong exist as a colony.
Even now, many people still have this idea.
They felt that the Chinese state was not their root and was inferior to British rule.
Two to three hundred years of slavery have given most people in Hong Kong an almost "slavish" temperament deep in their bones.
From the time Hong Kong was occupied to its successful return to the motherland in 1997, countless people gathered here regardless of war or peace.
As for the people who come to Hong Kong, they have very few children because of Hong Kong’s cultural spirit. Those who really choose Hong Kong as their destination are simply because of some material reasons.
Higher education, good security and other aspects that can meet some of their needs.
Most people who enter Hong Kong have the idea of escaping from the world.
Hong Kong is stable and will not experience major right and wrong. It is stable and calm and can just sit back and watch.
For more than a century, Hong Kong has watched with cold eyes the various changes in the current situation that China has experienced since the Opium War.
The Sino-Japanese War, the entry of the Eight-Power Allied Forces into Beijing, the fall of the Qing Dynasty, World War I, the Northern Expedition, Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor, the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation, the Revolution and even reform and opening up, and later the return of Hong Kong itself.
For more than a hundred years, Hong Kong has always been a bystander watching its motherland's bloody struggle for national independence.
It was during this entire period of more than a hundred years that some people who were afraid of being implicated in the fate of the country gathered in Hong Kong.
Emperor Ye didn't have much favorable impression of such people.
From a certain perspective, Ye Huang does not have a good impression of some people in Hong Kong.
Of course, there is no bad feeling.
Living in troubled times, everyone wants to find a stable place to live, which is understandable. Ye Huang couldn't say anything.
What he really hates are those Hong Kong independence elements. They have black eyes, yellow skin, and the blood of Chinese people, but they have the soul to grovel and become slaves!
Looking at the Hong Kong independence activists in the distance holding banners telling the troops stationed in Hong Kong to get out of Hong Kong, Ye Huang thought they were a bit ridiculous.
They can't change the pace of history, but they are always like flies that appear on your face in summer, buzzing when you take a nap, landing on your mouth from time to time, disgusting you, and making you feel very uncomfortable.
It is said that democracy is a sign that human society is moving towards a higher level in the city, but in Ye Huang's view.
Sometimes democracy is necessary, but it can often play a better role in certain aspects than democracy. At least there will be no blame-shifting and wrangling.
That is to say, in Hong Kong, democracy gives these people the opportunity to wave the flag and shout outside. If they were inland, they might have been invited to the police station for tea.
Regarding the emergence of these Hong Kong independence elements, Ye Huang believes that there must be some instigation from Western forces behind it, just like the military coup that occurred in Thailand.
Even if China has a market economy, now that the capitalist system occupies nine-tenths of the world's national systems, China's socialism seems too unique.
The competition for national strategies will eventually lead to certain countries and forces using some despicable means to attack China.
Who is it? It’s self-evident!
"A bunch of overfed bastards really think that the wheel of history can change just by you raising the sign. If that were true, the huge China would have fallen apart long ago."
Lin Baoguo, the Hong Kong separatist who was holding a sign in the square in the distance, also saw it. His eyes showed a trace of disgust, and he gritted his teeth and said bitterly.
"Hong Kong independence has been around for a few years, right?"
Ye Huang took another look, turned back and asked Lin Baoguo.
"They have always been there, but in the past few years, under the great prosperity, their voices were not listened to. During this period, I don't know how they came out. In fact, these people can't achieve anything. Various political parties and organizations in Hong Kong,
I don’t dare to have contact with them, the central government is watching.”
After poking at the north, Lin Baoguo continued speaking meaningfully.
"There is no sand that can't be rubbed into the eyes of the land that was finally recovered. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the purpose of blocking Youyou's mouth, the fifty-year buffer period could have been saved."
"There will definitely be huge rejection, and Hong Kong may simply collapse."
After all, there are people in the world who are unfamiliar with and do not understand the socialist system. Hong Kong has always been known as a free port and pursues liberal policies.
If Mr. Lin's words are true, I am afraid that the brain drain in Hong Kong will be extremely serious.
Even if China's top officials foresaw all this and promised one country, two systems and the system would remain unchanged for fifty years, many people still chose to leave.
"If you don't break, you won't stand! Some things will stand up only after they are broken."
"You have no objection?"
"What am I opposed to? Are there no businessmen in the mainland, or rich men with tens of billions of assets? In fact, to put it bluntly, the system is only for the national level. For ordinary people, they can live a good life and have enough to eat.
That’s what they care about most.”
"Let's go, don't talk about this anymore, it's too sensitive. I look upset. The police should come over later to deal with it."
As if he felt that discussing national-level matters was not in line with the original intention of going shopping today, Lin Baoguo sighed and said nothing.
Here, Ye Huang didn't think any more and walked forward along Victoria Crescent.
After walking less than half a mile, there was a sudden noise in front of them. Several people looked over and saw a group of police officers rushing out of their cars on the roadside.
