Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

On April 13, 1997, Director Xie’s film “The Opium War” finally held a grand preview in Zhong (Harmony) Nan (Long Live) Hai.

At this preview, Deng Shirong, the chairman of the Deng Group, who was the investor of this film, naturally received the news from Director Xie at the first time. According to Director Xie, many leaders were invited to watch the film on that day.

On May 2, 1997, the leader personally reviewed “The Opium War”. The high standard of this film can be imagined. This is also the main reason why Deng Shirong was willing to let the group invest even though he knew it would lose money.

On May 6, 1997, the central government agencies organized cadres to collectively watch the film.

On June 9, 1997, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television held the national premiere of “The Opium War” in the Great Hall of the People.

On June 11, 1997, “The Opium War” held its Hong Kong premiere in the theater of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

As the news came one after another, Deng Shirong was filled with emotion. From the treatment this film received, we can see how much the country attaches importance to the return of Hong Kong.

In fact, this is understandable. From ancient times to the present, taking back the homeland is a major event that will go down in history. Who dares not to pay attention to it?

After "The Opium War" was released in China, Deng Shirong immediately organized his clansmen to go to the cinema to watch the movie.

This "Opium War" is just like its title. It mainly tells the real historical events of the Opium War. This period of history is destined to be frustrating. This kind of film cannot be as enjoyable as those commercial blockbusters. This is also the main reason why it failed at the box office in the previous life.

However, no matter how frustrating it is, the Naye Deng clan members still watched it from beginning to end without missing a single thing.

On the one hand, it is because they know that this film was invested and filmed by their Deng Group, and of course they should support their own films.

On the other hand, it is because the filming location of this film is their Naye Film and Television City. Seeing the familiar buildings around them being filmed into the movie, the clansmen naturally became excited. It was an unprecedented sense of freshness.

After watching the film, Deng Shirong called Director Xie and praised him for his good filming.

This is also the truth. Putting aside commercial factors, this is indeed a good film.

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In a blink of an eye, time came to June 30, 1997.

At midnight tonight, Hong Kong, which has been away from the motherland for many years, will return to the embrace of the motherland.

Although Deng Shirong also watched the handover ceremony of Hong Kong's return in his previous life, as an ordinary audience at that time, he only knew that the motherland successfully raised the national flag at zero hours and zero seconds on July 1, 1997, and successfully recovered Hong Kong. He didn't know what thrilling things happened behind the timely recovery of Hong Kong, and how much effort the senior diplomats behind it made.

Raising the national flag at zero hours and zero seconds is the only bottom line of our country.

But this reasonable request was strongly opposed by the British.

It was already stated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 that Britain would return Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, and it was only natural for China to raise the Chinese flag at 00:00:00 on July 1.

However, the chief representative of the British side who was responsible for negotiating with the Chinese side said that the declaration did not state the time of return on July 1, and as long as it was on July 1, 1997, Britain had the final say on when to return Hong Kong.

However, raising the flag at 00:00:00 is a matter of sovereignty, so it is necessary for the five-star red flag to be raised on time at 00:00:00 on July 1, 1997.

Our country means that the other side's national flag will be lowered at 23:59:58.

Because the band played the national anthem at the ceremony, the national anthem must be played by a conductor. The baton was raised for 1 second and lowered for 1 second. If these critical 2 seconds were not available, it would mean that after the other side's flag was lowered, Hong Kong returned to the motherland at 0:00:02 on July 1, which is of course unacceptable to our country.

Therefore, in order to win these critical two seconds, our representatives and British representatives had repeated confrontations. After 16 rounds of arduous negotiations, they finally won these precious two seconds.

Don't think that everything will be fine if the British agree to it. If they are asked to disrupt the handover ceremony, they will not dare to do it even if they have ten courage. But if they make some small moves to prevent our country from taking Hong Kong back on time at zero hour, zero minute and zero second, they are very happy to do it.

So, before the British army held the flag-lowering ceremony, a prince took the stage to speak. Originally, the prince's speech time was only 6 minutes, but he spoke very slowly, delaying the speech time by a full 23 seconds.

If it were other occasions, let alone delaying 23 seconds, even delaying 23 minutes would be a small matter.

But in the Hong Kong handover ceremony, which is accurate to the second, a delay of 23 seconds is different.

Damn, my country had negotiated with the other party for 16 rounds in order to gain those two seconds, but the other party showed its power as soon as it came out and delayed the time by 23 seconds. The intention was really obvious.

This 23-second delay directly disrupted all subsequent arrangements.

After all, this is calculated in seconds, and there is no room for error. A delay of 23 seconds has a huge impact on the subsequent process.

my country had no choice but to activate the emergency plan.

At that time, the person in charge of the ceremony had already made the worst plan in his mind. No matter whether the British flag had been lowered or the British national anthem had been played, he would rather the national anthems of the two countries overlapped. Our Chinese national anthem and the five-star red flag must be played and raised on time at 0:00:00!

Later, after the dispatch of the person in charge of the ceremony, the process was accelerated to grab time, and the 23 seconds delayed by a certain prince were finally made up. The handover ceremony returned to the original track again, and even one second more.

However, given the British side's urine, they must still do something bad.

As expected, when the UK began the flag-lowering ceremony, the accident happened again.

Originally, the British national anthem was played normally for a total of 51 seconds, but in order to sabotage it, the British actually took action on the national anthem, speeding up the rhythm of the national anthem, and it was not just a little bit faster, but it took only 39 seconds to play it, a full 12 seconds ahead of time.

I have to say that the old British face is really disgusting.

In his previous life, Deng Shirong didn't think much when he watched the ceremony. Not only him, but I believe most of the audience didn't think much. It was not until these details were revealed in the future that he realized how thrilling this seemingly simple handover ceremony was.

After all, if you want to be accurate to the second, you can't afford to make any mistakes. The British did this, which obviously disrupted the Chinese arrangement. It is hard to imagine how much pressure the people in charge of the handover on the spot were under.

In this way, in the end, the national flag was still able to rise on time at zero o'clock, zero minutes and zero seconds. It has to be said that it was really a miracle.

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In the evening, all the members of the Deng clan gathered at the entrance of the ancestral hall.

This Hong Kong sovereignty handover ceremony is a grand ceremony that has attracted worldwide attention. The ceremony is unprecedented in its high standards. Politicians from 45 countries around the world, representatives from 43 international organizations, and nearly 8,000 guests attended the ceremony...

In order to express his importance, Deng Shirong gathered all the clan members to watch it together.

At this time, rows of wooden racks were built at the entrance and on both sides of the ancestral hall, with televisions placed on them. There were a total of 30 televisions placed in the venue. The scene was unprecedented, but it was definitely unprecedented.

Because there were not only members of the Naye Deng clan at the scene, but also medical staff and family members of the hospital, and some other people who heard the news, who also rushed over to join in the fun.

The time soon came to 23:42.

The national leaders and the Secretary-General of the United Nations had all taken their seats. The ceremonial trumpets sounded in the venue. The Chinese and British guards of honor walked into the venue with the same majesty and different military postures. There were only the last ten minutes left before Hong Kong returned to the motherland.

At this time, it was already late at night, but everyone present was in high spirits, watching the ongoing Hong Kong sovereignty handover ceremony on TV.

Deng Shirong also watched intently, because of some details disclosed in later generations, he finally saw the unusualness of the ceremony in this life.

Ten minutes passed in a flash. When the national anthem was played on time and the national flag was raised on time, thousands of people in the audience stood up and applauded spontaneously. At the same time, cheers continued to ring out. The scene was so lively.

It was already midnight, and thousands of people gathered together to cheer. This can be said to be a unique thing in the town. Even on New Year's Eve, although everyone did not sleep, they stayed at home to set off fireworks and firecrackers. It was impossible for thousands of people to gather together.

Among the cheers of the crowd, the most excited were naturally the Deng family. They had just watched "The Opium War" not long ago, and they felt humiliated for the period of more than 150 years ago. Now the motherland is getting stronger and stronger, and finally took back Hong Kong, which had been away from the motherland for more than 150 years. They were of course very excited.

Of course, others were also very excited.

After all, even in the Olympics, seeing our athletes win gold medals can make people excited and cheer, not to mention the return of Hong Kong, which is such a big thing. As Chinese people, how can we not be excited!

Seeing the excited tribesmen, Deng Shirong also laughed and applauded. This was also the main purpose of his call for everyone to gather together to watch the Hong Kong handover ceremony. The atmosphere on the scene had a great impact on people.

If one person watched at home, few people would be excited to cheer, but when thousands of people gathered together to watch, the atmosphere was easily brought up.

It was just like many football fans in later generations like to go to bars when watching the World Cup, because watching the World Cup in a bar, the atmosphere is more than a hundred times better than watching it alone at home.

While being happy, Deng Shirong couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart. It was a pity that Mr. Deng didn't see this scene.

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PS: This review mechanism is really stupid. The two chapters were combined and revised countless times, and there were problems. As a result, they were separated and passed with a slight revision. It was really a ghost. I wasted so much time in vain.