Shen Bi’s serious face was thrown into a pebble like a calm water surface, and his smile gradually expanded from the corner of his mouth to the entire face. He stood up, shook hands with Song Tianyao, and said HSBC’s slogan that often appeared in English newspapers. : "HSBC is honored to participate in the entrepreneurial history of every great company."

...

Governor's Mansion, Governor Grantham sits in the third meeting room of his official residence. He is dressed in exquisite workmanship, hand-made dark gray suit from London, gray hair is combed back, not messy, and even the sideburns are neatly trimmed. At this time, I was sitting at the main seat of the conference table, looking shiningly at a guest sitting next to him. At present, one of the only two Queen’s Barristers in Hong Kong, an elected member of the Urban Council, and a civil political organization, the Hong Kong Reform Society The chairman, Brooke Bernaki, is called Benaki in Chinese.

Bernache is one of the few people in Hong Kong who has made Governor Grantham feel a headache. It is not that the Queen’s Barrister has too much power or a terrible background, but the British who is only thirty years old. The Royal Queen’s Counsel is a supporter of the former Hong Kong Governor Yang Muqi’s so-called "Hong Kong Autonomy" policy. After taking office as Hong Kong Governor and abandoning Yang Muqi’s plan, the Benazir Barrister thought he was a traditional conservative. Yang Muqi is the only hope for Hong Kong’s revival. He has repeatedly criticized him for being dictatorial in public.

"Mr. Bernaki, I don't have time to discuss the work of the Municipal Council with you today. If you want to ask me questions about water, public facilities, etc., it is better to go to the Auxiliary Secretary to disturb Henry." I didn’t even bother to let the steward of the Governor’s House offer this young **** a cup of black tea: "Or, get to the point."

Benach’s speech and reaction were very quick: “This is the attitude shown by the dictator inadvertently. You are the power of this city, but you don’t allow other people living in this city to understand even if they are personally. What is needed? Isn’t this a dictatorship?"

"No, if I were really a dictator, you would have been hanged for the first time in front of more than 30,000 people who questioned me for hindering the development of Hong Kong." Grantham said: "I need you to know, you Being able to sit here and talk face to face with me is not because you are a member of the Urban Council, nor is it because you are the chairman of the Hong Kong Reform Society, or even because you are British, but because you are the Queen’s Counsel of the British Royal Family, this is me Every time you promise to see you, your unique identity tag."

"The police force arrested my good friend Mr. Lin Xiaohe, and when his wife and his solicitor rushed to the police station, they found that he could not be guaranteed. When I went to the Hong Kong Police Force to find out the situation, the answer I got was no answer." Benach said with a smile.

He was dissatisfied with Ge Lianghong’s governance philosophy in Hong Kong, so he stood opposite Ge Lianghong, and his wife and Lin Xiaohe’s wife, Lu Yanqun, are close friends. Lu Yanqun asked him to help understand Lin Xiaohe’s being taken by the police. Where did he go? Benachi didn’t need to come to see Grantham for this kind of thing, but he felt that this was another opportunity for Grantham to deepen his impression of himself, so he chose to use himself as the Queen’s Counsel of the British Royal Family. He came to see the Governor of Hong Kong solemnly instead of asking friends who work in other government departments.

"Is this something you, a council member or barrister, should be concerned about? If you are a good friend of Mr. Lin, you can defend him in court, and then slightly reduce the commission he has to pay you. "Germany said to Benachy: "The police took him away, of course there are police reasons."

Benachey lowered his head and smiled, and when he raised his head again to look at Granthong, his expression was interesting: "Mr. Governor, do you think Mr. Lin Xiaohe, who has long been a barrister, will go to instruct others to make a living..."

"You don't have to play this trick with me, Mr. Bernaki, I will not act on my own feelings. I will only do everything from the perspective of Britain and Hong Kong. No one can be above the law." With a hint of arrogance in Hong's calm face, he said to Benage.

Benachy hummed softly in his nostrils: "Your amnesty order is okay."

"My amnesty order will not be wasted on a Chinese who disrupts social order in Hong Kong." Grant Hong raised his wrist and looked at the time, then stood up from his seat: "I don't think I have much time to continue chatting with you, I still There are many things to deal with, old Bernard, send Mr. Bernaki away for me."

Benachie also stood up from his seat and asked Grant Hong who turned and walked outside the door: "Why? Why this time, you have to help Lin Xiaohe's opponent. You don't like to support Lin Xiaohe the most. Elite Chinese? Why must he be ruined this time?"

"It's not me, Mr. Bernaki, because you and my nephew Milo once joined the army to fight against German devils. Let me tell you that now the Hong Kong police force is only cooperating with the United States. Now it is the American consulate that suspects the United States. People work with the Lin family to illegally provide China with urgently needed high-risk strategic materials. Yes, they are Americans."

"Impossible, you are lying to me!" Benachey said incredulously: "Americans? Will it be revealed that their citizens are providing supplies to China?"

"That hapless American is Chinese. You should know what it means, right? As far as I know, the current consul general of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong is a staunch McCarthyist. He now needs to deal with this hapless Chinese American seriously. Then he took the opportunity to set off a new round of struggle in the country." Grant Hong lay his hand on the back of his chair and smiled contemptuously at Benachy: "So now the Political Department of the Police Force is here to follow the request for assistance from the US Consulate. Participate in the whole case. Your understanding of politics is obviously too young. I think the Prime Minister who is far away in London and the American consul general do not want to see me wasting the amnesty on this Mr. Lin and his family. "

Benaki swallowed hardly: "You have reached an agreement with the US Consulate?"

"Hong Kong, this small city, has recently been forced by the United States to breathe out. Now, there is just an opportunity for Yankees to reflect on their own problems and let them know that, see, the British are not involved in the ban in Hong Kong. The smuggling of goods, on the contrary, is our American citizens cooperating with the pro-communist elite Chinese in Hong Kong, and what is worse is being discovered by the British. What they will do at this time, with the prevailing trend of McCarthyism, they must pay attention As for the Chinese Americans, don’t let the scandal of this kind of face-slapped appear again, and the consul also hopes to see this kind of situation appear, to prove the importance of McCarthyism in the United States, if you think that American Chinese and Lin The sir is innocent. What was wrong was that the British Empire shot more than 30 Chinese spies in the Federation of Malaya. So you, Queen’s Counsel, are you ready to face the British military? Or agree with me now. Thoughts?"

"what idea?"

"The British can't be wrong, it's the Chinese who are wrong, and that Mr. Lin shouldn't need the amnesty, he will recognize this problem himself." After Ge Lianghong finished speaking, he stepped out of the conference room. Benach stood still, breathing heavily.

His understanding of politics and struggle is far from enough.

Before, he thought that every time he publicly invited Grantham to participate in debates and speeches, it was because Grantham did not have the courage to fight, so he refused.

Only now did he know that Grantham hadn't put him in the eyes at all, even if he was one of the only two Queen's Barristers in Hong Kong, in the eyes of the other party, he was just a small character jumping up and down.

...

Lin Xiaohe was sitting in an interrogation room where he had no idea where he was. The police did not restrict his hands and feet, and even placed a box of cigarettes, a box of matches, and a cup of coffee on the interrogation table.

Although he had learned everything he wanted to know from the police in the Political Department who had interrogated him before, he has completely lost contact with the outside, and he can only move in this cramped room less than ten meters away.

After learning that Lin Xiaoqia was designed to participate in rubber tree smuggling and was involved in the American Tang Boqi, Lin Xiaohe knew that this matter could not be easily resolved. The Lin family must now have a person with sufficient weight to stand up and carry everything. , Pleaded guilty to all charges, including the so-called supply of embargoed materials for mainland China, and instigation of others to murder union members.

The best candidate is himself.

The key rang outside the door, and the iron door was opened from the outside. Song Tianyao stood outside, nodded politely to the policeman who opened the door, and walked in. The policeman outside closed the door.

Song Tianyao sat opposite Lin Xiaohe and looked at Lin Xiaohe across the interrogation table.

"It's four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Lin." Song Tianyao picked up the cigarette case on the table and gave it to Lin Xiaohe.

Lin Xiaohe stared at Song Tianyao in his eyes, and took a cigarette in his mouth. Song Tianyao took out a cigarette himself, struck a match, and helped Lin Xiaohe light it first. Then he lit it again, and said to Lin Xiaohe:

"The speech by the special agent of the Political Department should be more credible than what I told Mr. Lin in person, so you should also know the whole thing?"

"If you can let the police from the Political Department help you, you can be considered as having great powers." Lin Xiaohe said with a breath of smoke.

Song Tianyao nodded slightly: "They didn't help me, nor did they take advantage of me. They just did things according to the orders of the superiors. I happened to have some contact with the police chief who directly led them."

"I feel trapped now, the Lin family collapsed?" Lin Xiaohe asked with a cigarette between them.

"Today, the Wenying Commercial Company, in which the He family holds 60% of the shares, has become the second largest shareholder of Xizhen Real Estate. The call you made to Taiwan is really powerful." Song Tianyao gave Lin Xiaohe a thumbs up: " A phone call almost ruined my entire plan. A politician is a politician, and his actions are extraordinary."

"Another extraordinary move, not the same as being trapped by you here? No chance to make a second call."

"You stand up and take all the charges. This is the end of this matter. Everyone will retreat." Song Tianyao looked at Lin Xiaohe and remained silent for ten seconds before speaking.

Lin Xiaohe asked calmly, "Do you think I will believe the four words you said so far?"

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. If you don't stand up, it's not just Lin Xiaoqia who will accompany you. Lin Xiaosen will also come in to accompany you tonight. As for Lin Xiaoze, the lawyer and the head of the Lu family that I invited in the UK are ready to go to bed at any time. The problem is suing the Lin family, do you really want everyone in the Lin family to bear the stigma, and finally accompany you to leave Hong Kong to Taiwan?" Song Tianyao did not avoid Lin Xiaohe's sharp sight, and said to him without fear.

Lin Xiaohe didn't have any emotional fluctuations: "Why stop?"

"Luo Bao is closed, otherwise the stock will not enter the He family's hands. Without the backing, I am not interested in continuing to engage in scams. I made tens of millions in the stock market, which is enough for my future business expenses. I need to grit my teeth again. After all, the He family is not the Lin family. Offending the He family means that I have offended the British, Taiwan, and the mainland. If you bear all the sins, the whole thing will pass. The people and things involved are already There are too many, it is better to just decide the outcome here, you admit defeat, I stop and let the Lin family go, which is also considered to be a face to the He family."

"Can you meet my wife?"

"Today Mai Jingtao announced that the whole Hong Kong is sweeping the dark and there is chaos outside. I don't think there is any need for Mrs. Lin to come to Kwun Tong to see you in such a dangerous way, and time is too late." Song Tianyao took off his wrist watch and put it down. In front of Lin Xiaohe, he pointed to the ring on the roof used to extract confessions and lift the prisoner: "If you carry everything, the Lin family will at least not be chaotic. Ten minutes later, the police here will change guard and you can go on the road quietly. "

"Once I die, the He family won't be right with you anymore, and your troubles will be much less." Lin Xiaoqiao glanced at the time and sneered at Song Tianyao.

"If you don't die, the entire Lin family will have more trouble. You are a high-level politician, and you don't want to stay in jail and watch your family fall apart and the trees fall apart, right?"

"I'm alive. If the mainland regains Hong Kong, I can at least see you fleeing Hong Kong in embarrassment." Lin Xiaohe said with a smile.

Song Tianyao leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice: "I'm afraid it's exactly the opposite of what you thought. If you weren't dead at that time, you would definitely be taken to the target."

Lin Xiaohe was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Awesome, awesome, the British have done a good job here, and even mainland China has made arrangements. I die easily, but always let me see your sincerity. ."

"Sincere?" Song Tianyao rubbed his brows, raised the cigarette in his hand and motioned to Lin Xiaohe: "Lin Xiaohe, I Song Tianyao gave out 30% of tmd's intentional shares before I came in to respect you and light a cigarette before you hit the road, you Living and ruined, I will continue to hunt and kill other people in the Lin family. You are dead, and the dead is the greatest, I will stop. This is my greatest sincerity."