Chapter 433 Ancient Buildings

After marking this information, Su Yun took a rare two seconds to predict what Zhuang Long would look like when he actually saw her visiting the set.

Although she usually just talks sweet nothings with men, when she really wants to "seduce" them, she is very attentive - she really didn't lie to him this time! She really wants to go to the capital!

Of course, this future trip to the capital will mainly be to discuss the protection of ancient buildings with relevant departments, and to visit Zhuang Long by the way.

After all, after she finishes the films she has on hand, she plans to start the long-prepared "Nine States Past" series.

The "Kyushu Past" series is a fantasy-themed anthropomorphic adaptation of the history of China and other countries. It is different from her previous realistic science fiction futuristic style, which she is particularly good at. It requires stronger knowledge and foundation than the "Grave Robbers' Love" series... and this is definitely something that a small place like Hong Kong cannot cultivate.

If the war had not caused a large number of scholarly and famous families to flee south to Hong Kong, a city with such a foundation and size as Hong Kong would never have become a major exporter of entertainment in Asia and would have continued to be a cultural desert.

However, the right time, right place and right people created a glorious and prosperous half century for the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

However, Hong Kong does not have any major problems with soft power for the time being, but its hard power is definitely not enough.

It is impossible to create the magnificent "Jiuzhou" simply by setting up the scenery; only by shooting with the Chinese land as the background can the true charm of this place called "Jiuzhou" but actually "Shenzhou" be truly revealed.

This is often the reason why Li Xuexiang always wants to go inland: the studios built in Hong Kong cannot satisfy the subject matter he wants to shoot, so he can only go to China and shoot in real ancient buildings to achieve the effect he needs.

No matter how difficult it is to go back to the mainland to film, from politics to funding and other aspects, there are many difficulties. Those who are determined to film the true glory of ancient China are not afraid of any difficulties or obstacles.

Undoubtedly, this is also a problem that Su Yun urgently needs to solve in the future.

Fortunately, Su Yun has the support of the two big mountains of the Zhao family in Hong Kong and the Zhao family in Nanyang, and the vast ocean in front of her has a great favor in the inland because of her previous disaster relief, support, funding, and cooperation. Then it condenses into a big ship that can carry her through the wind and waves and sail to the other side of her dream.

Before that, the first place she would use to test her sword and serve as a case study was undoubtedly the Kowloon Walled City, a "no man's land" - the so-called "no man's land" meant that China, Hong Kong and Britain were not in a position to intervene.

The reason for the formation of this "no man's land" is that the Kowloon Walled City was a place left behind by the Qing government to exercise territorial sovereignty when it signed the cession treaty with Britain in order to prevent Britain from completely occupying this pearl of the Orient.

This agreement made Kowloon Walled City a British colony's "enclave" outside China, with a status basically equivalent to a modern consulate.

In the terms, the Qing government and the British side agreed that Qing officials could still be stationed in this area within the Kowloon Walled City and could retain nearby docks for the purpose of travel and management.

Unfortunately, due to the war, no one cared about this place anymore. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, people in the inland area found it inconvenient and had no energy to manage it. In addition, the British did not want to manage this place which had become a refuge for outlaws. Gradually, it became a chaotic place where all kinds of people mixed together.

But now, the unrest in the whole world has begun to subside. In this gradually peaceful era, when all parties have certain guarantees after the economic boom, such a small but geographically advantageous place has caused everyone to start to worry.

The Hong Kong River, which surrounds it, has recently announced a plan to demolish the Walled City, hoping to regain this prime land in the name of urban construction management.

As for the British side, which had already signed a return agreement with China, before the date of the return arrived, it seemed that it still regarded the "leased" area of ​​Hong Kong as its own private property, and was quite supportive of Hong Kong's desire to "take back" Kowloon Walled City.

In contrast, China, which is relatively more "honest", did not take any action because of this - Hong Kong was going to be taken back as their home anyway, and they would eventually return this place no matter how much trouble they put in. There was no need to create any more twists and turns for such a pitifully small piece of land compared to Hong Kong.

Combining all the above reasons, the current situation is that everyone is watching the show. No matter how many people think that Kowloon Walled City is a rare man-made miracle, it cannot shake the minds of any party.

Logically speaking, under normal circumstances, Su Yun should have supported the plan to demolish Kowloon Walled City and rebuild a park - even though she had once filmed the extremely ironic movie "The Postman".

On the premise that she does not have sufficient strength foundation.

But the situation now is that she may have the power to change all this: since the demolition plan of the Walled City was announced, she has begun an even more frantic money-making campaign.

Whether it was proposing a plan to Zhao to take over Kowloon Walled City and turn it into a new filming factory; or contacting Du Lifeng, who had filmed "The Postman" with her, and a group of people who did not want to see the Walled City demolished, to call for a large-scale fundraising campaign... all of these were laying the groundwork and foundation for competing for the future arrangements of this piece of land.

Once she has truly built up the strength to join this competition, it will be time for her to go to the capital to seek further policy support.

After all, Su Yun understood very clearly that it was not that the inland side did not want to compete, but that it was difficult to compete: the money and effort required for protective reconstruction would undoubtedly be much more than the current method of direct demolition and reconstruction.

The inland is now experiencing a period of rapid development, and many times they themselves do not realize the preciousness of these buildings, while those who want to preserve and save these buildings mostly do not have the power to compete with them.

Su Yun had heard from Li Xuexiang the stories he had encountered many times about ancient buildings being demolished to make way for economic development.

Every time he talked about this, Li Xuexiang sighed deeply with helplessness: those famous mountains and rivers, and ancient buildings with names and surnames, could still be preserved in the chaos and economic development, continue to attract tourists from all over the world to make money, and then in turn become their own protective layer.

As for those that are relatively worse off, they seem to have become "obstacles" to economic development.

The current impulse to pursue "money" is to exchange green mountains and clear waters for mountains of gold and silver. The countries and regions that developed earlier have already given them a real and clear answer to this behavior with their own abnormal feedback that should not have occurred.

But many people are unable to learn lessons from history. They only start to regret and try to make amends when they themselves fall into the pit that they have clearly seen.

Unfortunately, when people began to realize that they cannot sacrifice everything for money, only the photo albums in Li Xuexiang's hands and the videos he recorded with his camera while shooting the movie became the last traces in this world of those ancient buildings that "gave way" in the process of development.

This is also the most fundamental reason why Su Yun secretly deployed this "Kowloon Walled City Rescue Operation".

She spent so much money to support road construction, hoping that those trapped in remote and poor areas could get out; but she absolutely did not want to see that these people would forget the memories of their hometown after leaving.

These ancient buildings, which have experienced the test of time, are unique and invaluable gifts left by ancient China to future generations.

Of the four great ancient civilizations, to this day, only China, the dormant oriental dragon, still exists in the east of the world.

As for those ancient countries that have become history, they only exist in the form of "sites" and "remains" in reality and fantasy, becoming people's only two memories of these ancient countries.

These ancient buildings, which cannot be compared with any other country, are the unique and precious treasures that have been passed down from ancient China to the present day. They are also the precious treasures that other countries and regions desire very much but can never possess.

She has come to this era, and with it the cultural and financial power that can be said to be associated with it, she must do her best to protect them and not see regrets repeat themselves in history and people's memories.

Even if she couldn't do it perfectly, she could do a little more, and finally, when she needed to do her best, she would use all her strength to save this regret...

Looking at the poster in her hand promoting the protective reconstruction of Kowloon Walled City, with its shadows of a steel monster and huge buildings intertwined, Su Yun felt mixed emotions.

Such buildings are the deformed products of the struggle between man and capital. Amid the chaos of evil and hidden kindness, they have become the last hope for some people's survival.

Even if she was born in the apocalypse and chaos, she must do her best to live in the present moment - this future wasteland carnival atmosphere that transcends time and space, even in the distant future she knows, is still repeating such a struggle.

Are those social animals working people who live worse than cattle and horses really becoming less and less able to endure hardship as those high-ranking people say?

No, they just can't bear losses and don't want to suffer losses anymore.

Just because you didn’t understand it before doesn’t mean you will never understand it.

With the popularization of education and knowledge, those once ignorant and confused minds have been enlightened by the light of wisdom, which eventually ignited into a prairie fire and united into a force to resist oppression.

The old days, covered with fine dust, seem to be looming in this blend of old and new buildings, allowing one to glimpse a trace of the torrent of history.

This is Kowloon Walled City, a deformed man-made miracle and an irresistible mark of history.