Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 931 Good News

  From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, Yang Chen, like everyone else, spent every day eating and drinking. After paying New Year's greetings to several old husbands, Yang Chen immediately started to pay New Year's greetings to Huo Daheng and several big brothers.

   Now the whole of Xiangjiang is able to work for Boss Yang to come to visit the New Year in person, and he can count them with one hand, so it is quite easy to pass this year.

   Yang Chen had an easy life here, but some people didn't have a good time.

   For the matter of Yang Chen, Youde made more than ten phone calls with Downing Street, and finally made a trip to London in person to settle the matter.

  The prosperity and stability of Xiangjiang, in the eyes of many people, does not seem to be of much benefit to the United Kingdom. The return of Xiangjiang has become an unchangeable fact, and it seems that the United Kingdom does not need to promote these things.

   But is this really the case?

   In fact, it is not. Think about who has the right to issue the Hong Kong dollar. HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, these two banks hold the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, and both banks are British capital. In later generations, everyone believed that Hong Kong's economy was controlled by the four major Chinese families. In fact, Hong Kong's economy has always been controlled in Financial institutions like HSBC and Standard Chartered.

   The economic development of Hong Kong and the stability and prosperity of the society may be nothing to the British government, but it will be of great benefit to the British consortium and British businessmen in Hong Kong.

As a capitalist country, Britain naturally needs to consider the interests of its own consortiums and businessmen. In the early days, Britain made money from the Chinese for its own domestic businessmen, but did not hesitate to launch the notorious Opium & Pium Wars, wantonly going to the Qing Dynasty Dumping Opium & Pium.

   Yang Chen's plan can also promote the economic development of Hong Kong.

  Yang Chen invested so much, and if he won, there was no reason to say the benefits. If we lose, it will not have much impact on Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

  Although Downing Street didn't object to Yang Chen's plan, it still couldn't help but be jealous of Yang Chen's investment plan of pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into Xiangjiang.

   In order to gain some benefits from it, Downing Street specially recruited Youde and instructed him, hoping that when Yang Chen invests, the projects he chooses will be as inclined as possible to British companies.

  The privatization reform in the UK has achieved results. The next step to consider is how to make these private enterprises profitable. Whether it is market or capital, the British government is considering domestic enterprises.

   After returning from London, the first thing Yoder did was to visit Boss Yang directly.

   "Mr. Yang, I hope my rash visit will not disturb you." As for Yang Chen's villa, Youde is not the first time to come here, he is very familiar with it.

  Yang Chen said: "It is my blessing that the Governor-General is able to come to the cold house. It is not to be disturbed, and I have a hunch that the Governor-General should send me good news."

  Youde smiled and said, "I have to say, Mr. Yang, your hunch is as accurate as ever."

   "Really?" Seeing this, Yang Chen couldn't help but say, "Then should I open a bottle of champagne and celebrate with you, Lord Governor."

  Youde said: "This is a must. You have to prepare the best champagne to serve me. You must know that for your sake, I have not had a very good year."

  Yang Chen greeted Youde to sit down in the living room, and said casually, "Your Excellency the Governor also celebrates our Chinese festivals?"

  Youde said: "Do as the locals do, you know, as a diplomat, the most basic thing is to understand the local culture, learn to understand and even recognize different cultures."

  Since Yode's predecessor, MacLehose, the next two governors of Hong Kong served as diplomats as governors of Hong Kong.

  Compared with politicians, diplomats don’t have so much attention. Yang Chen can still accept a governor-general from a diplomat like Youde. After all, they have truly done a lot for Xiangjiang.

   The last political governor of Xiangjiang can be said to be the most disgusting one.

  Yang Chen remembered that this Governor Youde seemed to pass away due to a heart attack this year. His death became the only Governor in the history of Hong Kong to die in office.

   Thinking of this, Yang Chen couldn't help but mourn for this old man.

   Heart disease, to be honest, there is really no way to deal with it. When it happens, it is not something that people can control.

   Especially as the governor, Youde works long hours every day, and the workload is still heavy. It is undoubtedly quite a luxury to want to rest.

   "Sister Lian, help me get the bottle of champagne that Mr. Shen gave me last time."

  Youde's visit this time has indeed brought good news to Yang Chen. For Yang Chen's plan, London chose to support him, and at the same time asked Youde to give Yang Chen some support.

   Of course, this support is not for nothing.

  It should be said that since World War II, the strength of the UK has gradually declined, retreating from the level of hegemony to a first-class developed country, and as time goes on, the UK has become weaker and weaker, it seems that it is really impossible.

   However, in terms of manufacturing, especially in the field of high-end technology manufacturing, the UK is still very strong.

   As we all know, with the reform and opening up in later generations, it took three or four decades for the inland to become the world's factory, and Chinese manufacturing spread all over the world.

   But in fact, our manufacturing industry is still at the low-end level, and there is still a certain gap between the high-end manufacturing in Europe and the United States.

   From this point, it is not difficult to see that the manufacturing level of a country has nothing to do with its production capacity.

   Take the field of automobiles, which can best reflect the level of a country's manufacturing industry. In later generations, it seems that when people mention automobiles, they blindly think that the quality of automobiles in Germany, island countries and the United States is the best.

  Because all three countries have their world-famous cars, such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford, Toyota and the like.

But in fact, the British people's background in the auto industry is far from comparable to the Germans and the islanders. When Mercedes-Benz Toyota is still trying to make a good car, the British have already built the best car in the world. .

  Compared with ordinary cars, racing cars have higher requirements on the manufacturing level. The continuous innovation and ultimate pursuit of car performance by the British auto industry has attracted the favor of a large number of Formula One racing teams.

   Among the eleven Formula One racing teams in the later generations, eight teams have their headquarters in the UK, and the UK has the world's largest racing industry cluster, which undoubtedly shows the level of British manufacturing.

  The level of British car manufacturing allows the world's top auto parts manufacturers to have production bases in the UK.

   The failure of British cars is not that they are not of sufficient quality or innovation, nor is it the level of manufacturing, but that they are defeated by Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and other mass-produced civilian cars.

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