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Hong Kong.

Shek O Manor.

In the meeting room of the guest floor.

Xu Cun shook hands with Bai Teng with a smile on his face, and then the two parties took their seats.

When it comes to Bai Teng, most people may not know it, but when it comes to his other name, there is no one who knows about Xiangjiang.

Patten, also known as Patten, is a senior politician of the British Conservative Party.

Bai Teng is Patten's translated name before he was appointed as the Governor of Hong Kong.

The current British Prime Minister, Major, has a very good relationship with Bai Teng, so after Major took office, he immediately appointed Bai Teng as President of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party.

Under Bai Teng's planning, the Conservative Party was able to unexpectedly win this year's general election, but ironically, Bai Teng himself was defeated by the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster and lost his seat in the House of Commons for the constituency of Bath. This exited the House of Commons.

In the last life, according to Major's autobiography, if Bai Teng could keep his seat back then, he would have the opportunity to serve as British Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Minister.

In addition, Bai Teng was also one of three cabinet ministers who urged Mrs Thatcher to resign in 1990.

Different from the previous Hong Kong governors, Bai Teng is the only Hong Kong governor who believes in Catholicism, and he is also one of the few Hong Kong governors who was born not from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but from the Congress.

In addition, Bai Teng did not accept any honors before taking office, nor did he wear the traditional colonial official uniform when he took office.

but--

Xu Cun would never underestimate Bai Teng because of this!

On the contrary, Xu Cun's emphasis on Bai Teng is even higher than that of You De, Zhong Yijie and Wei Yixin!

In the last life, Bai Teng fell into a bad relationship with the mainland soon after he took office. In the last life, in October 1992, Bai Teng, who should have been called Patten at that time, published his first policy address during his tenure. , the report mentioned the political reform plan, indicating that the electoral system of the Legislative Council will be reformed. In addition to "separating the two councils", canceling all appointed seats, and adding nine functional constituency seats (new nine groups), all incumbents All are eligible to vote (which in disguise makes these nine seats directly elected) to speed up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong. The mainland is of course dissatisfied with this, pointing out that the reform has not been consulted with the central government, and claiming that the reform will be cancelled after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. At that time, many central officials accused Patten of being a "serpent", a "thief", a "prostitute" and dancing the "last tango" for the pro-democracy faction. Among them, Lu Ping, then director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, even accused Patten of being a "sinner through the ages". ".

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Despite the strong opposition from the central government in the previous life, Patten's political reform plan was successfully passed by the Legislative Council on June 30, 1994, and was implemented in the 1995 Hong Kong Legislative Council election.

Later, the Central Government stated that it would abandon the "through train" and would not allow members of the Legislative Council elected in 1995 to transition to the Legislative Council of the SAR.

And Patten has not been invited to meet with mainland leaders since he announced the political reform plan.

Patten ignored the attitude of the mainland and continued to plan the future of Hong Kong in the way he had long envisaged.

Don't think that Patten is acting recklessly against the mainland. Patten also has certain rules:

Patten knew that it was inevitable for the United Kingdom to get out of Hong Kong. Based on this, he actively used Chinese to hold important positions, euphemistically, "in order to facilitate the transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty."

Don't think that what Patten did is really for the smooth return of Xiangjiang. In fact, on the contrary, what Patten did is to set up obstacles for the return of Xiangjiang and help some selfish people in Xiangjiang to get a reading of Xiangjiang.

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During his tenure, Patten carried out a style of closeness to the people - for example, he once went to Tai Cheong Bakery in Central to taste egg tarts, and he maintained correspondence with the owner of the bakery in the following days. He will attend the radio program in person to answer questions from the audience, and host an open question-and-answer conference to face public inquiries, thus establishing an open and responsible image of the people.

During his tenure, Patten also actively improved the various welfare of Hong Kong people - Patten even proposed to increase social welfare expenditure for five consecutive years at a rate of five times higher than the GDP, and will continue to increase by this rate over the period of 1997 Social welfare for five years, for this reason, spending on education and large-scale infrastructure has been greatly reduced.

Don't think that Patten is kind. Patten did not spend his own money, but the financial reserves of Xiangjiang. The real purpose of Patten is not to improve the lives of people in Xiangjiang, but to spend all the financial reserves of Xiangjiang. Not a cent or a cent for the SAR government that drove them away from the mainland or the SAR government.

Moreover, Patten's term of office was only five years, and as soon as the time passed, he patted his **** and returned to the UK. It is his business whether Xiangjiang and the people of Xiangjiang are dead or alive.

In the last life, because the welfare expenditure of Xiangjiang was too high, the mainland paid a great economic price for this.

If you think that this only harms the mainland, it would be a big mistake. The people who suffer the most are Xiangjiang and Xiangjiang people. All of this is one of the important reasons for Xiangjiang's "car crash and death".

Ironically, everything Patten has done has also earned him an excellent reputation in Hong Kong - in his last life, in a poll conducted by Hong Kong Baptist University on March 13, 1997, , 62% of the respondents agreed with Patten's performance, while the then Chief Executive Lao Dong only 53% of the approval rate. Later, countless people who supported Xiangjiang Duli called Patten's name.

The reason why Major was able to beat other competitors to become the British Prime Minister was largely due to the support of Xu Cun (money), and Bai Teng was one of Major's important advisers. Therefore, Xu Cun and Bai Teng could be considered equal. It is an ally, which is why Bai Teng came to visit Xu Cun before he took office.

The two sides sat down~lightnovelpub.net~ Bai Teng said politely: "I'm so sorry, Mr. Xu, please come back from the mainland!"

Xu Cun smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a three-hour flight, and I have something to come back to deal with."

Bai Teng said with a smile: "The free land of Xiangjiang is really close to China. You can reach the capital of China in three hours."

Politicians rarely talk nonsense, and they like to talk around the bush. Although Xu Cun is not a politician, he has been dealing with politicians, especially the world's top politicians, for more than ten years. Naturally, he has long been accustomed to the way politicians speak. Teng said "the land of freedom" and "the capital of China", and Xu Cun immediately understood that Baiteng was testing his attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang. At the same time, Baiteng also faintly expressed his own attitude towards the future of Xiangjiang— - To make Hong Kong a land of "freedom", Hong Kong should be Hong Kong and China should be China.

Looking at Bai Teng's smiling face, Xu Cun's smile slowly disappeared...

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