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 his father-in-law, Yang Chen then started to pay New Year's greetings to Huo Daheng and other big bosses.

Now the whole of Xiangjiang can count the number of people in Xiangjiang who, Mr. Yang, personally came to pay New Year greetings on one hand, so this New Year is quite easy.

Yang Chen's life was easy, but some people were not having a good life.

Regarding Yang Chen's matter, Youde made more than ten phone calls to Downing Street, and finally went to London in person to finalize the matter.

In the eyes of many people, the prosperity and stability of Xiangjiang does not seem to be of great benefit to the UK. The return of Xiangjiang has become an unchangeable fact, and there seems to be no need for the UK to promote these things.

But is this really the case?

In fact, it is not the case. Think about who has the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes. HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank. These two banks have the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, and both banks are British capital. In later generations, everyone thinks that Hong Kong’s

The economy is controlled by the four major Chinese families. In fact, Xiangjiang's economy has always been controlled by financial institutions such as HSBC and Standard Chartered.

If Hong Kong's economy develops well and its society is stable and prosperous, it may not mean much 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 consortia and businessmen. In the early days, Britain wanted its domestic businessmen to make money from the Chinese, but it did not hesitate to launch the infamous Opium War and massively invade the Qing Dynasty.

Dumping opium and tablets.

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

Yang Chen's investment is so large, if he wins, there will be no benefits. If he loses, it won't have much impact on Xiangjiang and the UK.

Although Downing Street does not object to Yang Chen's plan, it still can't help but be jealous of Yang Chen's investment plan of investing hundreds of billions of dollars in Hong Kong.

In order to get some benefits from it, Downing Street specially recruited Youde and gave instructions. It is hoped that when Yang Chen invests, the projects he chooses will be as biased towards British companies as possible.

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

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

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

Yang Chen said: "It's my blessing that the Governor can come to my humble residence, not to mention disturbing me. Moreover, I have a hunch that the Governor should have sent me good news."

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

"Really?" When Yang Chen saw this, he couldn't help but said: "Then should I open a bottle of champagne and celebrate with you, the Governor first?"

Youde said: "This is a must. You have to prepare the best champagne to entertain me. You must know that because of you, my life this year is not very good."

Yang Chen asked Youde to sit down in the living room and said casually: "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 Youde's former governor MacLehose, the next two governors of Hong Kong have served as governors of Hong Kong in the capacity of diplomats.

Compared with politicians, diplomats are not so thoughtful. Yang Chen can still accept governors like Youde who are diplomats. After all, they have really done a lot for Xiangjiang.

The last governor of Xiangjiang with a political background can be said to be the most disgusting one. He almost single-handedly pushed the relationship between the mainland and the United Kingdom into the abyss, and also left a lot of mess in Xiangjiang.

Yang Chen remembered that Governor Youde seemed to be dying of a heart attack this year. With his death, he became the only governor in the history of Hong Kong who died during his term of office.

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

To be honest, there is really no way to deal with heart disease. When it attacks, people cannot control it.

Especially since Yoder, as the governor, works long hours every day and has a heavy workload, it is undoubtedly quite a luxury to take a break.

"Sister Lian, help me get the bottle of champagne that Mr. Shen gave me last time he came to my place."

Youde's visit this time did bring good news to Yang Chen. Regarding Yang Chen's plan, London chose to support it, and also asked Youde to give Yang Chen a certain amount of support.

Of course, this support is not given in vain.

It seems that since World War II, Britain's strength has gradually declined, retreating from the hegemonic level to a first-class developed country, and as time goes by, Britain has become weaker and weaker.

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

As we all know, it took thirty or forty years for the mainland to become the world's factory thanks to reform and opening up, and Chinese manufacturing spread all over the world.

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

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

Take the automobile field, which best reflects the level of a country's manufacturing industry. It seems that when people mention cars in later generations, they blindly think that cars from Germany, island countries and the United States have the best quality.

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

But in fact, the British's background in the automobile industry is far beyond what the Germans and islanders can match. While Mercedes-Benz and Toyota are still trying to build good cars, the British have already built the best cars in the world. .

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

Of the eleven Formula One racing teams in later generations, eight teams have their headquarters in the UK. The UK has the largest racing industry cluster in the world, which undoubtedly illustrates the level of British manufacturing.

The UK's automobile manufacturing level allows all the world's top auto parts manufacturers to have production bases in the UK.

The failure of British cars is not due to lack of quality, lack of innovation, or lack of manufacturing level, but rather to the fact that they have been defeated by mass production line civilian cars such as Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota.
Chapter completed!