The next day, Uncle Lin Wu drove a small van and took Uncle Lin Sanqi and Uncle Lin Liu to Tsuen Wan.
Lin Sanqi looked at his uncle who was driving the car skillfully and joked:
"Hey, Uncle Wu, you're so cool! You can already drive after just one day in Hong Kong?"
Uncle Lin Wu said proudly:
"What's that? I could drive before the liberation, okay? I was your dad's car driver back then. This shabby loaf of bread isn't enough for me to use."
Lin Sanqi looked out the window. Although it was only 1961, Hong Kong was already highly prosperous. Cars were constantly coming and going on the streets, and it was very lively.
Uncle Lin Liu introduced:
"Qizi, look to the left. This is all docks, Hong Kong's main freight terminal. Look to the right. This is all factories. Some of the workers are Hong Kong natives, but at least half are refugees."
Lin Sanqi thought that it was not easy for refugees to survive in this tiny city where money was everything. They had to work like slaves for more than ten hours a day, all year round, which was what made Hong Kong so prosperous.
In 1950, Hong Kong's population was 2.36 million; by 1960, it had reached 3.01 million. Twenty years later, in 1979, Hong Kong's population reached 5 million.
It’s not that Hong Kong people have more children, but that most of the population growth depends on people from the mainland who have fled to Hong Kong, and almost all of them are young and middle-aged workers.
The demographic dividend that Hong Kong enjoyed in the 1960s and 1970s was actually a disguised dividend from the mainland.
Those who fled to Hong Kong were willing to do any kind of work, no matter how hard or tiring it was, and could accept working 16 hours a day. They had only one request: not to starve to death.
A small number of these people achieved success, but most of them died in poverty, which was very pitiful.
The car drove along the seaside for a while and then drove into the mountains.
80% of Hong Kong is mountainous, so there are many mountains and the lanes are very narrow.
The lack of plains has caused land prices to be extremely high, making it a scarce resource, so many people have set their sights on the mountains.
For example, the truly wealthy people in Hong Kong live on the Peak, but that is a place with good feng shui.
There are also a large number of corporate schools built on various mountains in order to save land costs.
Lin Sanqi and his friends' first stop today was the private Wang Guogan Commercial College located halfway up Lianhua Mountain.
The car drove in the mountains for half an hour, turning around and around, and finally arrived at the school halfway up the mountain before Lin Sanqi got carsick.
The school director was already waiting at the school gate. After the two sides met and shook hands, they began to tour the school.
Lin Sanqi was quite satisfied with the school's size and location, but when he stood on the 5th floor of the school building, he found a building roof not far away.
Lin Sanqi pointed at that place and asked, "School Director, that's..."
"Oh, that's a nursing home over there."
"Didn't you say the nearest neighbor is 3 kilometers away?"
"Mr. Lin, it is indeed 3 kilometers. You can call a taxi now to calculate it."
Lin Sanqi understood. If you drive, it is indeed 3 kilometers, because the mountain road is winding, but if you calculate the straight-line distance, it is at most 500 meters.
Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Factory is going to arrange for veterans to come in and they also need to train them on a regular basis.
During soldier training, they all shout slogans, and they may even have to sing revolutionary songs while running. It is very tiring.
There is a nursing home next to it, it would be strange if there are no complaints.
If someone discovered that this was a mainland military camp, even if it was just a suspicion, as long as the Hong Kong Eagle government was not blind, these people would definitely be deported back to the mainland, and they would have nowhere to escape in Tsuen Wan.
Therefore, the place of Lotus Mountain does not meet Lin Sanqi's requirements.
The Lin family didn't even bargain, they just drove away.
Uncle Lin Wu drove carefully while reminding:
"Qi Zai, let's go to Lai Chi Wo. It's quite far away. It takes more than an hour to drive there, almost across the entire Hong Kong River."
Lin Sanqi thought of a Korean joke.
There was a South Korean who came to China to work. He planned to travel around China for two days over the weekend, visiting Beijing in the morning, Shanghai in the afternoon, and Guangzhou in the evening. He would leave for Chengdu early the next morning, then go from Lhasa to Urumqi, and return to Beijing for dinner in the evening.
This shocked his Chinese colleagues, who thought he was planning a rocket tour around China.
In fact, the Koreans substituted China for South Korea, thinking that two days were enough to go around it.
As for Hong Kong's 1,100 square kilometers, it is not even as big as a county in China. If it weren't for the winding mountain roads, the straight-line distance would only take a cigarette to cross the border.
The minivan passed through Sha Tin and Tai Po, heading east, and finally continued forward along the narrow road along the coastline.
Because the road was a coastal highway all the way, the scenery was very beautiful, which made Lin Sanqi feel relaxed and comfortable.
Uncle Lin saw his nephew's appearance and decided to strike him down:
"Qizai, don't you think this sea is very beautiful?"
"Yes, Uncle Wu, I can't see the sea in Peking. There is sea in Tianjin Port, but the quality of the water there is not very good."
"Yes, the scenery is beautiful, but you have to know that countless lives have been lost beneath the sea. At least half of the people who leave from the back sea can reach shore. From this side of the sea, less than one in ten or twelve can reach shore."
Lin Sanqi was stunned for a moment, then thought of something and suddenly became silent.
Uncle Lin Wu complained, "Sixth Brother, why are you saying this?"
Uncle Lin Liu laughed and said:
"I just want to tell Qizai that Hong Kong is a cannibalistic society. Don't think too highly of people. My family is planning to open a pharmaceutical factory, and I'm worried about how much protection money we'll have to pay each month. And how many jackals and tigers will try to force a stake in us?"
Lin Sanqi straightened his mood and said disdainfully:
"Sixth Uncle, do you know why I insisted you find a large venue that can accommodate thousands of people? It's actually to protect us from being blackmailed in the future. Don't worry, I'll take care of everything."
Uncle Lin Wu and Uncle Lin Liu immediately became interested:
"By the way, Qizi, are you really going to get a group of veterans here? We thought you were joking."
"I can't take this lightly. I've already agreed with my leaders back home that the first batch of 500 people will be able to come over next month. In the long term, I plan to accept 2,000 people, with no upper limit."
"So many people?"
The two uncles were shocked: "How can we support so many people? The profits from the pharmaceutical factory won't be enough to cover the cost, right?"
Lin Sanqi stretched her hand out of the window, feeling the cup in her hand, and said:
"Uncle Five, Uncle Six, imagine what it would be like if we had one or two thousand soldiers in our family? Which gang in Hong Kong would dare to challenge us? By then, we will not only have machetes, but I can also provide a large number of firearms.
Are those gangs afraid of machine guns and submachine guns? Are they afraid of mortars and grenades? Even if we don't use firearms, how many people can withstand hundreds of muscular men rushing at us with machetes?
"Oh my god! Are you going to make our Lin family the next Xiang, Ma, or Li family?"
"That's not the case. We are the Lin family, the famous Xinglin Lin family, a family of traditional Chinese medicine, and a family of kindness. We are not like those rotten ghosts. We only protect ourselves and will never expand or take the initiative to provoke others.
Of course, if someone insists on causing trouble for our Lin family, or for Lin Sanqi, then I wouldn't mind sending them all to the sea. In fact, as long as our Lin family survives until 1997, we can naturally become a wealthy family in Hong Kong."
Lin Sanqi thought that just as the Huo family became a wealthy family, he would make the Lin family replicate the wealthy family in Hong Kong.
By then, even if Lin Sanqi no longer has the golden finger of time travel, the Lin family members who remain in this era will be able to become rich and be protected by the country.
When he is alive, he can sit on the podium of the Great Hall of the People, and when he dies, he can even be covered with the national flag. This is a unique existence among the wealthy circle of Hong Kong.
As a few people were chatting, the car soon turned into a valley where there was a huge building complex.
This is a place sandwiched between two mountains, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea to the east. There is only one coastal highway passing in front of the door. It is definitely an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place.
Lin Sanqi liked the geographical location as soon as he saw it. Don’t young people like to set up a sand table to fight a war?
Because they had contacted by phone in advance, the resort manager Liu Dai was waiting early. However, when he saw the Lin family driving a small van over, he couldn't help but frowned.
What wealthy person these days doesn't drive a Mercedes-Benz? At the very least, a Crown, right? So what's the deal with a minivan?
But when he thought about his company's financial difficulties, he felt he had no choice but to try his luck. So, he put on a smile again and ran to open the car door. (End of this chapter)
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