"According to your wishes, the road project from Tsuen Wan to Yuen Long will be put aside for the time being."
Wu Jiankun said with a wry smile: "Li Sheng, this is the best way for us to build a good relationship. Before we do the government work, it is not appropriate for us to make some unnecessary actions at the moment.
We must know that no government wants to see a force that arbitrarily manipulates public opinion and uses public opinion to force the government to make concessions in the territory it manages.
Once we do this, we will inevitably be blacklisted by various governments, which is extremely detrimental to our future development."
Although the Xinjian Department currently has sufficient wealth, its relationships with various aspects and its influence in the government are still lacking. This is also the biggest shortcoming of the Xinjian Department at present.
Now the Xinjian Group can only be called an industrial group, but not a consortium. The main reason is that it only has wealth but no group.
The current MacLehose government still has quite strict control over Hong Kong. Whether it is the Legislative Council or the Executive Council, the members are mainly British. Even if there are a few Chinese, they will not play a big role.
Even if Li Jianhui is not satisfied in his heart, he can only accept the advice of the elites in the Intelligence and Governance Office and prevent Jiayi Group from fanning the flames.
But he obviously didn't want to let it go so easily. MacLehose made it difficult for him, and he also wanted to make MacLehose uncomfortable.
"I will give you an additional 50 million Hong Kong dollars in special funds, mainly for public relations to win over the British government and the Conservative Party. If necessary, you can contact Zhou Pengfei and let Blue Maple Investment Company Zifeng Fund make them rich.
The main task is to get MacLehose, who is obviously hostile to us, to leave Hong Kong and try his best to help Xia Dingji ascend to power. Even if it doesn't work, Xia Dingji can serve as acting governor for a period of time."
The people present were very happy. Previously, due to the relatively tight funds of the Xinjian Department, the budget for the Intelligence and Governance Office this year was not large. Now with these 50 million, they can finally make their hands a little richer.
As for Li Jianhui's request, for the British side, they have been doing it before, and now they are just carrying out it in depth.
Not everyone in the British aristocracy is rich, and there are quite a few who are poor. Not all of the members of Parliament regard money as dirt, and they can be persuaded to help Xin Jianxian by offering inducements.
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Many things are not developed by Li Jianhui how he wants. He has never thought of forcing MacLehose to make concessions in the name of Yuen Long District, but the topic has been brought up.
There was no need for him to fan the flames. Yuen Long citizens took action spontaneously, demanding that the government come up with a planning timetable for the Tsuen Wan to Yuen Long highway to promote the development of the Yuen Long area.
They also gathered outside the Hong Kong Transport Department, the Environmental Protection Section of the Administration Department, and the Governor's Office to petition, hoping that the project would start construction as soon as possible.
After listening to Zhou Jiayi's report, Li Jianhui just told Xia Dingji that the matter had nothing to do with him, and then waited for the matter to unfold. He wanted to see how it would end.
In MacLehose's office, the Chief of Administration, Charles Xia Dingji, the Commissioner of Police, De Kern, and the head of MI6, Stander, all looked gloomy.
Looking at these people, MacLehose, who was already angry, kept getting more angry. He remembered that the last time he petitioned outside was when Jiayi was liquidated last year.
That's just caused by the company's poor management and bankruptcy, and it won't have much negative impact.
But this time the nature is completely different. If it is not handled well, it will have a huge negative impact on him.
After controlling his emotions a little, he said to Stander: "You have been paying close attention to Li Jianhui and the Xin Jian Department. Now tell me, is there any Xin Jian Department manipulating this?"
"According to reports from our internal staff in the Xinjian Department, Li Jianhui has not made any moves in the past two days, and according to rumors, the Xinjian Department has temporarily given up its continued expansion in Xiangjiang and is preparing to develop Baodao and the new Malaysian and Thai markets.
The Xinjian group is headed by Wei Li and includes Wang Haichuan, executive vice president of Huihong Group, Xue Yiyang, general manager of Xinjian Bank, vice president of Xinjian Group, Gan Qinglin, vice president of Wheelock Land Group, etc. They have already flown to Taipei this morning."
Hearing that there was no Xin Jian Department involved this time, MacLehose finally felt a little better. He did not want to completely break up with Li Jianhui. As long as Li Jianhui could understand his interests, he would not go out of his way to trouble the Xin Jian Department.
He turned around and asked Police Commissioner De Kern. He did not believe that these people acted spontaneously this time. There must be forces behind it.
He doesn't care whether it's the British bosses who want to kill people with a knife or the manipulation of the interests behind Yuen Long. If he finds out who is instigating it, he will make the other party pay a heavy price.
"According to our inquiries about the petitioners, no force has been found to be behind the scenes. These people are all villagers from various villages in Yuen Long, and many of them work in the city.
They hope that after this road is opened to traffic, it will be more convenient for them to go to work and go home, and they will no longer even need to rent an apartment in the city."
MacLehose was obviously not satisfied with this response. He said angrily: "Are you sure the authenticity of the report you received? Are you kidding me? No one was planning behind the scenes. How could these people come to the Government House at the same time today? Executive
Department, outside the Transport Department?”
De Kern handed the information in his hand to MacLehose and said aloud: "This is a detailed report of our police department's investigation. I have verified it with several deputy directors. There is indeed no evidence that this time
There are forces behind the scenes."
MacLehose took the information and began to look through it in detail. It looked like that, but he always felt that something was wrong. He always felt that the report was too perfect.
He looked at Deken carefully and saw that the other person did not dodge or feel guilty when he faced him. He put aside his inner suspicion and asked Xia Dingji what he thought of the current situation.
“There is currently a lot of public opinion about the highway from Tsuen Wan to Yuen Long via Tai Lam Tunnel, especially the major media in Hong Kong, which are very concerned about it.
Now the longer we delay, the more disadvantageous it will be for us. London requires us to maintain the stability of Hong Kong as much as possible. I believe that they are absolutely unwilling to see such a situation happen frequently.
My personal suggestion is to finalize this road so that the opening time can be extended. The construction of the tunnel does not necessarily require cooperation with the Xinjian Department. It can be built by our government or British-funded enterprises."
MacLehose fell into deep thought and found that his assistant who had been his for nearly eight years did not seem to be on the same page as him.
Perhaps from Xia Dingji's point of view, economic development is the top priority. He doesn't care whether the Xinjian Clique develops hugely or not. As long as the Xinjian Clan can promote the economic development of Xiangjiang, even if it forms a monopoly, Xia Dingji will support it.
As the Chief Executive, Xia Dingji's main achievement is the economic development of Hong Kong. The better the economic development here, the greater the chance of being transferred back to the London government.