Whether it's Li Xianlong or anyone else, they all use the Blue Star mentality to think about Zheng Li's way of doing things.
Unfortunately, their opponent was Zheng Li, who did not play by the rules at all.
"Now we will consider the last item on the agenda, concerning..."
Wang Ruijie, sitting in the audience, had reached the limit of his dissatisfaction.
The most painful thing in the world is knowing that you are about to take over the reins, only to be told more than ten years later that someone else has been replaced.
This is Wang Ruijie's true feeling right now.
While Singapore is perceived by outsiders as a one-man show by the Lee family, there was actually another Prime Minister between Lee Chung-ying and Lee Sedol – Goh Chok Tong.
Compared to Li Da and Li Xiao, Wu Zuodong's presence was relatively weak. When he was around, he was basically just paving the way for Li Xiao.
Goh Chok Tong is also a rather interesting person. His father passed away when he was young, and he grew up in a public housing flat with his mother and four siblings.
HDB flats are the social housing provided in Singapore.
He later relied entirely on Singapore government grants to complete his studies.
The reason why Lee chose Goh Chok Tong as his successor was largely because Goh Chok Tong was a technocrat with limited ambition.
At the same time, coming from a poor background and with limited clan power, he was basically unable to cause any trouble.
When Lee retired, he didn't retire completely; he later became a senior minister in Singapore's cabinet.
Old Li's most brilliant move was that while passing the position to Wu Zuodong, he also persuaded all the older players to retire.
The youngest member of Lao Li's management team was only in his early fifties, and he persuaded him to resign.
Whether it was a genuine attempt to persuade someone to quit or a sham is debatable, but in any case, the book "High-Difficulty Mission: The Biography of Goh Chok Tong" describes it as a case of persuasion to quit.
As a result, Goh Chok Tong was able to start his career with a lighter burden, Lee Chung-ming served as Senior Minister of the Cabinet, and Lee Chung-ming's potential influence also persuaded all the threatening people to step down, allowing Lee Chung-ming to successfully take over in 2004.
Heng Swee Keat plays this role. He became Lee Hsien Loong's assistant in 2018, serving as Singapore's First Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Prime Minister for thirteen years.
He has long been regarded as the next successor in Singapore.
Of course, he was also a transitional figure who paved the way for Li Hongyi.
Wang Ruijie's background is almost identical to Goh Chok Tong's; he also grew up in a public housing estate, his family were farmers who raised chickens and pigs, and he went to Cambridge University on a scholarship provided by Singapore.
After returning from studying abroad, she became Lao Li's personal secretary.
Whether in terms of upbringing or work experience, Wang Ruijie plays a similar role to Wu Zuodong, serving as a transition, which makes the public's perception of Li Jiacheng less strong.
But a transitional role is still a role, and it's much better than suddenly being parachuted in and having the position taken over.
Is there ever a crown prince who reigns for fifty years?
Logically speaking, he had already been the crown prince for thirteen years, and Li Xianlong was already eighty years old; he should have been able to take over soon.
Actually, he's only a little over ten years younger than Lee Hsien Loong, so five years should be about right.
It's better than never having done it at all.
Ten years ago, Wang Ruijie used a strategy of retreating to advance, claiming that he did not want to take over, but did not step down from his current position.
Taking advantage of the fact that Lee Hsien Loong was being attacked by his siblings on social media and in court at the time, the strategy was to retreat in order to get Lee Hsien Loong to further acknowledge his identity in public.
They're no pushovers either.
Zheng Li's sudden arrival dashed all hopes.
You can't expect to outlive a mage.
Still, I don't know which planet this mage came from.
"I now announce that Merlin will serve as the Secretary-General of the People's Action Party."
The audience erupted in enthusiastic applause and cheers, especially when Zheng Li appeared out of nowhere in the meeting room of the Singapore Parliament House.
Zheng Li used his own understanding of humanoid figures, and the Mage Alliance discovered other civilizations in the universe.
When intelligent life forms that resembled humans from Earth in appearance, yet differed from them, appeared, the assembled councilors applauded only out of politeness.
No one wanted to provoke the monk before knowing his style of doing things.
"Hello everyone, I am very happy to become the head of the People's Action Party in Singapore. In the future, I will bring new vitality and energy to the People's Action Party."
I am a mage, and what mages advocate most is the concept of elite governance. At the same time, I also have my own understanding and implementation methods for selecting true elites.
In the future, I will thoroughly implement the governing principles of our predecessors, who were known for their elite governance.
Despite having "people" in its name, the People's Action Party (PAP) adheres to an uncompromising elitist approach to governance.
Why? Because Singapore was able to develop rapidly from a small island nation thanks to its service-oriented government.
The rapid development of trade and commerce across the Strait of Malacca was due to Singapore's excellent service to these ships.
A good service-oriented government places high demands on its bureaucrats.
Without governing the country with elites and raising the status of civil servants, it is simply impossible to provide good services for trade and investment attraction.
Suzhou's industrial park was modeled after Singapore's, and the new districts that have sprung up in various places since then have civil servants whose salaries are significantly higher than those in the old city.
However, the way things are done in China is a little different.
The reason why local governments in China pay high salaries to civil servants in new urban areas is that these areas generate substantial revenue from land sales. In contrast, the old urban areas have largely been developed, resulting in lower revenue from land sales.
If developing the core area of the old city still requires urban renewal, it would be better to simply start afresh under the name of the new district.
If industries are relocated there, the population will naturally flow to the new district.
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