British 1986

It was the first time for Allen to come to Wei Dewei's home in Xiangjiang.

Although Wei Dewei has resigned from office, he will still stay in Xiangjiang for a while to help Patten take over the affairs here quickly. But after he loses the title of Governor, theoretically, he needs to move out of the Governor's Mansion. Allen is Wei Dewei's approach of buying a house outside and moving out before the end of his term is a bit curious.

"Why didn't you live in the Governor's Mansion before? I always thought you lived in the Governor's Mansion."

Allen asked as he walked. The small villa of Wei Dewei's family is very interesting. It is decorated in a Chinese style. It is not the Western pseudo-Chinese style decoration stereotyped by the outside world, but a Chinese simple decoration with a bit of artistic conception, which is very stylish.

People who do not have a deep understanding of Chinese culture cannot come up with this style.

Wei Dewei was not in a hurry to reply, and smiled awkwardly. He first took Allen to visit his exhibition room, and showed Allen one by one some of the antiques he had collected that he thought were very interesting. .

Although his financial resources are a bit insignificant in front of Allen, since he is in love and has come to visit, we have a good relationship, and all the required visiting procedures cannot be omitted.

Allen watched Wei Dewei show him some rather exquisite bottles and jars, squinting at these things.

At this time, we are in an era where we have just been exposed to the outside world for a few years. Materials, money, desires and other novel things are refreshing the common people's understanding bit by bit through newspapers, radio and television.

Allen remembered that in his previous life, when he was young, there were bosses from Hong Kong and Taiwan who sent people to the mainland to collect antiques. These big bosses from Hong Kong and Taiwan offered generous prices. Many people in the mainland couldn't resist the temptation, and some took out the antiques at home in exchange for money. Some smart people, after getting their first pot of gold, will go to the countryside and rural areas to recycle some antiques at low prices and become cultural relic dealers who sell antiques.

What's more, they will even take risks to produce and sell their own products, that is, directly rob tombs and then sell them to these bosses in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

However, for ordinary people at that time, a few hundred or a few thousand yuan was already a huge impact on the values ​​​​of ordinary people, let alone tens of thousands of yuan?

This price is more than some of their people earn in a year, but from Alan's current perspective, for tens or hundreds of pounds, you can receive this kind of antique that will be valuable in the future.

What a fucking scam.

But he doesn't know much about this aspect, and he doesn't bother to do this kind of thing.

What's so good about this little wool?

If you want to do it, just do it with things in the British Museum. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it, but as long as the things are collected by the British Museum, they can prove their value. If they are ordinary things, can British people like them?

Isn't it more satisfying to pick and choose among the antique artifacts in the British Museum that have been screened countless times than to make a small fuss like Wei Dewei?

I visited Wei Dewei's small villa in general. His wife and children had returned to China on the day he left office, and there were only a few servants left here to take care of him. His wife went back to buy real estate first, and waited for him to deal with the matters here. After that, he didn't have to worry about it when he returned to Daying.

Although the house was empty with no outsiders, Wei Dewei still very cautiously took Allen to his study, and after asking the servant to bring tea, Wei Dewei whispered mysteriously and with a little fear on his face: " Your Excellency, I don’t dare to live in the Governor’s Mansion anymore.”

Having just said this, looking at Allen who was a little confused, Wei Dewei subconsciously turned around and looked around, then took out a picture map from the bookshelf, spread it out on the desk, and motioned to Allen to take a look.

"what?"

I was just asking casually, but why did it seem like something big happened.

This is an aerial photo of Central. It looks very clear. There are several lines drawn by arrows on the picture, making it look like a military map.

"Your Excellency, Xiangjiang, you are not here enough, so you may not understand. I found that the Chinese are really good at magic!"

"???"

Why is magic involved?

Wei Dewei looked at Allen with a confused look on his face. He could speak Chinese, but there were some words in Chinese that he couldn't translate, or he didn't know what to translate them into. He didn't know that Allen knew Chinese, so...

After thinking for a long time, he stumblingly told Allen about it using relatively common but not easy-to-understand vocabulary.

It turns out that a few years ago, Huayin, that is, Huaguo Bank, was going to build a building, which is now the landmark building in Hong Kong, Huayin Building.

The shape of this building is very strange.

Overall, it looks like a triangular vertebral body. From a distance, it looks like an unsheathed steel knife.

In this Daxia, the design is officially meant to be aggressive and enterprising, but what's inside is quite extraordinary.

"You know Sir Yoder, right? He was my last governor?"

In order to confirm his statement, Wei Dewei even cited his previous governor as an example.

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Allen squinted his eyes, glanced at Weidwei and said, "Yode is a Welshman. How could I not know him?"

Allen not only knew this guy, but also knew many things about him. If he hadn't had no rights at the time, Gao Lu would have punched him when he saw him.

But God did not follow people's wishes. When Allen inherited the title in 1986, this guy died suddenly.

He was the first Hong Kong governor to die during his term of office, which was extremely embarrassing.

This old guy named Yoder was born in Wales. His hometown is in a small place south of Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

People who know something about history should know this guy. He is a very clever and opportunistic politician.

Of course he is also a very "qualified" diplomat.

In the 1940s, he worked as a third secretary at the British Embassy in China. Later, during the War of Liberation, he followed the ship to evacuate overseas Chinese.

The British warships were too arrogant in the Yangtze River and were shelled by the People's Liberation Army on the shore.

At that time, the ship was beaten and unable to move. Great Britain sent three warships to rescue, but in the end, none of them were rescued.

Youde was on the ship at the time. He spoke Chinese very well and was familiar with China. Seeing that the warship was seriously injured, he could not escape. In the end, he shouted in Chinese, negotiated with the leaders on the shore, and pretended to surrender.

British officials called his actions back then "mediation."

Then they took advantage of the people on the shore to relax their vigilance towards them, repaired the ship overnight, and finally ran away.

It was because of this incident that Yoder was awarded a knighthood by the King of England. This incident was also a turning point in his life. From then on, he gradually reached the pinnacle of his life.

Yeah, right.

The medal he was awarded was the Order of the British Empire, the same as the one Allen received last year, except that his was the lowest rank.

Ever since he knew what Lao Deng had done, Allen, who had just come here at that time, always wanted to find an opportunity to give Lao Deng a try after learning about the situation at home. Unexpectedly, he died here in the end.

Wei Dewei was stunned when he heard Allen's words, oh. He finally came to his senses, Welshman.

Theoretically speaking, when they meet the Hill family, it's almost like a mouse meeting a cat. The relationship is like a natural enemy.

With an awkward laugh, Wei Dewei thought that since Allen knew about Yoder, he would not give Allen a detailed introduction and continued talking about Huayin Building.

"Your Excellency, the people here know a kind of magic, which is generated through the shape of the building and the geographical environment. I don't know how to translate it in English. It's called Feng Shui in Chinese!"

"???"

oh.

As soon as Wei Dewei explained this, Allen understood, but this thing...

People themselves say that we can no longer promote feudal superstition.

Believe it or not, just listen to it for fun.

Allen raised his chin and motioned for Wei Dewei to continue.

"Look, Your Excellency, this building is triangular in shape when viewed from above. Look at where its three edges are facing."

Wei Dewei pointed to the Huayin Building in the picture and showed Allen three directions with his hand gestures.

"Governor's Palace? HSBC Bank? Military base?"

Allen looked at these three directions. I feel like this can't be a coincidence, right?

"Yes! It's these three places. Let's not talk about the others. I only found out later that these three blades are magic. Yoder used them in the first year after the construction of this building. In other words, it’s called sharpening.”

Wei Dewei gave Allen a look.

"ah?"

Allen's skin got goosebumps. What else is going on? Construction has just started and is it so powerful?

Who will die if you stare at them?

"Is this a coincidence?"

"No, no, Your Excellency, if Youd's death is a coincidence, then our garrison base has often had accidents since that year, and HSBC suffered huge losses in the year after they were built. I didn’t know this when I took office. Since I moved into the Government House, I would feel a little unwell every once in a while, and I had an operation the year before last.”

"???"

Damn it, this master is among the people.

Allen was also a little speechless. It was not about whether he believed it or not, but about some things. If coincidences were revealed everywhere, then it was definitely not a coincidence!

Although he was shocked on the face, he still felt quite happy inside.

So that’s what Yoder was like?

It’s not a happy ending.

But when he thought of Wei Dewei, Allen became even more curious. This guy is very smart, he can actually find out about such a thing?

"Then how did you solve it? Just move out and live like this?"

"Your Mightiness."

Wei Dewei looked dissatisfied, but said with some fear: "I didn't believe these things at the time, but someone below told me, and you should also know him, the businessman named Li who gave you the villa, and later still He helped me find a master who also knew this kind of magic, so I asked him to come over and help me resolve it."

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As for whether it was resolved in the end, just look at Wei Dewei now. He has moved out, so it must have been unresolved.

And he also had a minor surgery, almost following in the footsteps of Youde. If he didn't move out, Wei Dewei would probably have to be sharpened because of his small body.

But thinking of this, Allen was suddenly stunned again.

"Have you ever told Patten about this?"

"Huh? No, I told him what to do."

Wei Dewei was also stunned. Patten had been eating alone as soon as he came and took his money-making project. How could he tell him this?

That guy was probably happy because Wei Dewei had the good sense to move out of the Governor's Mansion in advance to make room for him.

"Yeah, haha, you."

Allen smiled and pointed at Wei Dewei. This old guy is quite ruthless. He is not afraid that after a period of time, someone will go to Patten to report him.

"Haha." Wei Dewei also laughed along with Allen.

"Sir, what advice do you have for your appointment with me today?"

"So...are you still handing over work to Patten these days?"

Allen touched his chin. He was not in a hurry to say that he had met with Patten. Instead, he wanted to trick Wei Dewei into telling him.

There are some things, and you can’t just tell them what they are. Wouldn’t that make you a fool?

Fortunately, there is also Wei Dewei, Allen needs to verify some things through him, for example.

Even if Patten doesn't deal with Wei Dewei, he still has to ask for advice on some matters in the Governor's Mansion. In this way, Wei Dewei will know no less than Allen, and through his side With these clichés, Allen can roughly verify the credibility of what Patten said, or what else is hidden from him.

Mutual verification.

As for some of Wei Dewei's words, Allen actually didn't trust him very much. Through his story, Allen could use Patten's statement to verify each other.

We still have to be vigilant enough about these old guys.

Governor's Palace.

Patten, who had been busy all day, rubbed his brows, picked up the phone, dialed Sir Hodder's number and asked him to come to his place.

Hodder has a small office in the Governor's Mansion, but he does not live here permanently.

"Your Excellency, what's wrong?"

After knocking on the door of Wei Dewei's study and receiving permission, Huo De looked at Patten with a smile and asked.

"Sit down and talk, sit down and talk."

Patten still respected Hodder very much. Whether he was a knight or he had another identity, he did not dare to act like a governor in front of him.

"I want to ask, do you think we can find those wealthy businessmen to lend some funds?"

After Patten waited for Hodder to sit down, he leaned forward slightly and discussed with Hodder in a low voice.

"those people?"

Hodder squinted his eyes and thought for a while. He knew who the wealthy businessmen Patten was referring to were, but these people were not idiots. When there were good projects, they would get them faster than anyone else, but when it came to borrowing funds.

Ha. One hides farther than the other.

However, if you are really in a hurry to use money, you can still find a few people who like Great Britain among these people to lend some funds, but this amount

"Sir, I can borrow it, but how much do you need?"

"That's what I think. If we can't get one billion US dollars in a short time, can we get some of it first? Then I'll go talk to your Excellency and ask him to help us put our plan first." start up?"

Patten thought that Allen was just ignoring the rabbit, but he really couldn't afford that much money now, but he couldn't wait any longer.

The follow-up plan he told Allen actually concealed a lot.

He came here to make big money, and US$10 billion only accounted for a very small part of his plan.

However, these plans are all connected. If one cannot be started, the others behind will be affected.

This time he came to Xiangjiang to take office, and he was ordered to empty out the funds here!