I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state

Chapter 224 Escape from Hong Kong!

Before this, Lin Xiuzhi had never gotten along with domestic employees, and felt that their efficiency must be very slow.

After getting along with each other these days, she found that Tang Yun's personal abilities were very strong, and those part-time employees who joined the Yang Group's Beijing office were also really capable.

Sometimes, Lin Xiuzhi found that she was not as good as Tang Yun and the others.

Tang Yun seems to have adapted to the position of deputy director of the Beijing office now, and does not seem to be very interested in the commission offered by Mr. Yang.

The commission of two thousand yuan is indeed a lot.

However, this is not what Tang Yun wants.

. . .

October 14, 1978.

It was the sixteenth day when Yang Ming came to Yanjing.

That night, when Yang Ming saw Mr. Shen coming, he knew he had to go see the old man alone.

During the recent period, Yang Ming went to meet the old gentleman every night.

The two of them met more often and became more familiar with each other.

The old man also admired Mr. Yang's insights even more.

There are still a few days until the old gentleman visits Japan.

The old man knew that it had been nearly half a month since Mr. Yang was invited to Yanjing for the first time. As the chairman of a large group, it was impossible for him to stay in Yanjing for a long time.

Yang Ming went in in a wheelchair.

Obviously, before Yang Ming came, the old gentleman was still smoking.

After Yang Ming arrived, the old man put out his cigarettes in advance and opened the window to let the cold wind outside blow away all the smell of cigarettes.

"Old sir."

"Mr. Yang."

The two greeted each other.

When Yang Ming sat down, Mr. Shen went out and closed the door.

"Mr. Yang, I heard that your Yang Group's Beijing office bought many houses in Yanjing."

The locals in Yanjing are not starting to buy and sell houses privately now.

always have.

Especially last year, it started to appear.

The old gentleman will not interfere in this kind of thing, nor does he want others to interfere.

They want to sell and Mr. Yang wants to buy. As long as the price is right, it is normal for the transaction to be fair and equitable.

The hottest old gentleman was shocked.

Representatives of other wealthy overseas Chinese businessmen who came to Yanjing only stayed for a day at most and then left Yanjing in a hurry, as if they could not leave Yanjing safely if they did not leave as soon as possible.

Mr. Yang?

First, I visited the National History Museum and bought all the calligraphy and paintings from the Foreign Guest Service Department.

It is said that he also donated a large amount of money to the National Museum of History.

Another deal with Rong Baozhai.

Mr. Yang spent millions of RMB, nearly 5 million Hong Kong dollars, to buy thousands of collections from Rongbaozhai, including calligraphy and painting collections.

Five million Hong Kong dollars?

In the opinion of the old man, this is definitely a large amount of foreign exchange.

In other words, Rongbaozhai creates a foreign exchange for the country.

Only when the country gets more foreign exchange can it purchase more foreign technologies and other products.

The old gentleman also very much agrees with these.

The old man also found it strange that many of the calligraphy and paintings by modern painters were still alive. Mr. Yang actually bought them all at any price, making life easier for these modern painters and their families.

They can even continue to create continuously.

The old gentleman couldn't understand these. He felt that Mr. Yang was a capitalist, but not the kind of capitalist he imagined.

In his view, people like Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang are capitalists.

Are they the same as Mr. Yang?

Of course it's different.

"The old gentleman bought a lot of houses. They wanted to sell them, so I bought them. Before the sale, I had asked the staff to investigate clearly. If there were problems with the houses, we would not buy them, and we did not want to cause any further consequences. a series of questions.”

Some of them were sold because of gambling losses.

Some have the only property in their family and want to sell it secretly.

Also, their family members don’t agree at all.

etc.

Yang Ming didn't want anything like this.

The old gentleman nodded. He felt that Mr. Yang did a particularly good job in this regard.

No wonder Mr. Yang is so successful in Xiangjiang, there must be his reasons.

Next.

The two started talking about business.

"Mr. Yang, where is your hometown?" the old gentleman asked.

He had thought about it before Yang Ming came.

Sure enough, the old gentleman still mentioned his hometown.

Historically, representatives of the Chinese capital in Hong Kong and old gentlemen suggested that they go back to their hometowns to visit, which would trigger their motivation and ideas to change their hometowns and even change a country.

Hu Yingxiang and others returned to Guangdong Province, or even their hometown, and saw the poverty in their hometown, which triggered their inner emotions and love for their hometown.

Take the money and invest it directly.

Especially investments in infrastructure.

Build bridges, build highways, build power stations.

These all require a lot of money.

Now the country simply does not have that much money to invest in this area, so it can only rely on these Chinese capital coming back from Hong Kong.

After the old man got acquainted with Yang Ming, he also wanted to know more about Mr. Yang's hometown.

"Old sir, I didn't know where my hometown was at first. However, my parents mentioned it to me. My father Yang Jirong came to Xiangjiang from Longchuan County in northern Guangdong in the 1950s to develop. In Xiangjiang I met my mother Li Yufang there, and later I was born.”

Yang Jirong came to Hong Kong in the 1950s?

The old gentleman thought of many things.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and even the 1970s, even during this period, there were always people from China, especially those in Guangdong Province, smuggling people to Hong Kong to develop.

Why are they going to Xiangjiang?

Or it’s because the country is too poor, so poor that they can’t even support themselves.

In China, ordinary farmers now don’t have enough to eat, and they don’t even have a few dollars a month.

They successfully smuggled themselves to Xiangjiang, easily earning hundreds or even thousands of Hong Kong dollars a month.

Even more smart people have become rich people in Hong Kong.

Thinking of this, the old gentleman also sighed.

"Does your father still have contact with his hometown?" the old gentleman asked.

"There should have been correspondence in the past. I heard my father say that it was always intermittent."

The old gentleman nodded again.

In this era, the only people in China who can really afford landline phones are some government agencies in Yanjing and Shanghai, and ordinary people simply don't have them.

All added up, there are less than two million households in the country.

Under such circumstances, how could the people in northern Guangdong keep in constant contact with Yang Jirong?

"Does your father still have feelings for his hometown?"

"Yes, my father dreams of returning to his hometown."

I heard Yang Ming say that.

The old gentleman finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He also knew that some people smuggled themselves into Xiangjiang from China and almost escaped death. Under such circumstances, how could they survive in Xiangjiang without feeling resentment against the country?

In this way, how could they have feelings for the country?

They went through all the trouble to get there.

Speaking of Yang Ming's father smuggling to Hong Kong, we have to talk about the historical wave of people fleeing Hong Kong.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the illegal crossing of the border into Hong Kong by mainland residents basically ended. The reasons were political at first, and later mainly economic.

In the nearly thirty years since then, the political Iron Curtain has not completely severed the umbilical cord between Hong Kong and the motherland. In addition to limited official exchanges, private forms of smuggling have always been active, and eventually they converged into a group of people fleeing Hong Kong. surging trend.

Take Pengcheng as an example. According to public documents, there were four large-scale smuggling cases in Pengcheng's history, namely in 1957, 1962, 1972 and 1979.

According to statistics from the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee's Border Defense and Port Leading Group Office, from 1954 to 1980, there were more than 565,000 "escapes from Hong Kong" officially recorded.

At that time, there were three ways to secretly cross the Xiangjiang River in Guangdong Province: walking, swimming, and taking a boat. According to the route, there were three types: the eastern route, the middle route, and the western route.

Swimming is usually the first choice, and there are many ways to do it.

Stowaways often choose the western route, that is, starting from Shekou and the mangrove area, swimming through Peng Shing Bay and arriving in Yuen Long, northwest of Hong Kong New Territories.

Smuggling from land is the usual middle line, that is, in the areas of Wutong Mountain and Shatoujiao in Pengcheng, climbing over the barbed wire fence and arriving at Xiangjiang. People in Guangdong Province jokingly call it "Putting the Net".

This kind of net was difficult to climb over. Later, the barbed wire was equipped with advanced sensing devices. Once the net was touched, it would be discovered. The combination of searchlights, sentries and police dogs was a fatal danger.

In order to prevent dogs from entering Hong Kong, smugglers often go to the zoo to bribe the keepers before leaving, find some tiger feces, and spread it as they walk. The police dogs smell the feces and think there is a tiger, so they dare not chase them.

In order to avoid being seen by the border guards, some people hollowed out the watermelons and put the rind on their heads, leaving only the eyes exposed.

After all, crossing the "net" on land and breaking waves on the sea are done by young people. The only way for middle-aged and elderly people, children and women to do this is by boat.

Taking a boat is relatively safer, but it has a corporate nature and there are smugglers. Naturally, there are also these people smuggling. If something goes wrong, it will be more serious, and you will have to pay a considerable fee ranging from 300 yuan, but in order to escape from Hong Kong , many people and snakes are often willing to go bankrupt.

Smuggling by boat tends to take the eastern route, that is, the Dapeng Bay waterway, between Huicheng and Pengcheng, more than ten kilometers away from the Xiangjiang River. The waves are very strong, and drownings often occur during stowaways.

Last year, in November 1977, Mr. Ye set the first stop of his inspection in Guangdong Province after his comeback. Mr. Ye was traveling with him at that time.

When the main leaders of Guangdong Province reported the situation to Mr. Lao, the escape from Hong Kong was exposed as a major vicious event.

While Guangdong Province was anxiously waiting for instructions, the old man was strangely silent.

He smoked several cigarettes, turned around slowly, and said calmly to everyone: "This is a problem with our policy. This matter is beyond the control of the army."

The border defense at that time was almost powerless to deal with the increasingly violent flight to Hong Kong. If we strengthened the force and mobilized military and police from all over the province or even the country, it would inevitably have adverse effects.

In addition to leaving a bad impression on the international community, more importantly, if large-scale armed obstruction is not done well, it may arouse public anger and form sudden mass incidents.

The old gentleman emphasized that only by restoring the policies that have worked well in the past, developing the economy, and improving production and life can we solve the problem of people fleeing from Hong Kong. The main reason for fleeing to Hong Kong is that life is not good and the gap is too big.

At that time, the income of a farmer in Baoan was 0.70 to 1.20 yuan per day, while the income of a farmer in Xiangjiang was 60-70 Hong Kong dollars per day. The gap between the two was nearly 100 times.

In some areas, there is a common saying that a year of hard work is not as good as someone else's 8 cents (referring to sending a letter to Xiangjiang to ask relatives to remit money back), and a month of working in the mainland is not as good as a day's work in Xiangjiang.

This also tempted many people to flee to Hong Kong one after another.

In 1978 alone, more than 97,000 people fled Hong Kong, and more than 18,000 people escaped.

What is intriguing is that there was no such thing as Luo Fang Village in the Xiangjiang New Territories. All the people living here came from Luo Fang Village in Pengcheng.

The top decision-maker, Mr. Lao, once again realized from the historical cycle of fleeing from Hong Kong that blockade alone cannot stop the situation, and the country’s focus must be shifted to economic construction.

The old gentleman went to Pengcheng to see it in person.

He also knew that those people smuggled themselves into Hong Kong and narrowly escaped death.

In addition to being dangerous here in Pengcheng, it is also very dangerous in Xiangjiang. In addition to being shot and chased by white sirs, some even become gangsters because they have no relatives or friends to join them.

Yang Ming knew better that there would be a huge wave of illegal immigrants around the Spring Festival in 1979.

Historically, many people have died during the stowaway tide. Some died at sea, either drowned or fed to fish.

So much so that the rapid trend of exodus has given rise to a new industry: "cadaver removal."

At its peak, there were more than 200 "corpse pullers" active in Pengcheng.

The Shekou Maritime Police Station stipulates that for every corpse of a drowned stowaway, the "corpse puller" can go to the Shekou Commune with a certificate to receive a labor fee of 15 yuan. If the corpse is rotten, smells bad, and is difficult to bury, the fee will be increased to 20 yuan. Yuan.

This amount is equivalent to a villager's income for 10 days.

On the Xiangjiang side, the drowned ones that could not be found may have been fed to fish, and may have been pushed to other places by the sea water. Some bodies were found, or they were floating on the seaside, and were eventually pulled to the mountains of the New Territories.

There have always been many graves in the mountains of the New Territories, some of which even have no names. They were left by the stowaways back then.

Chapter two!

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