Chapter 224: Escape to Hong Kong!

Before this, Lin Xiuzhi had never interacted with domestic employees, and felt that their efficiency must be very slow.

After these days of interaction, she found that Tang Yun had strong personal abilities, and those part-time employees who joined the Beijing office of the Yang Group were also very capable.

Sometimes, Lin Xiuzhi found that she was not as good as Tang Yun and the others.

Tang Yun now seemed to have adapted to the position of deputy director of the Beijing office, and did not seem to be very interested in the commission proposed by Mr. Yang.

A commission of two thousand yuan was indeed a lot.

However, Tang Yun did not want these.

. . .

October 14, 1978.

The sixteenth day since Yang Ming came to Yanjing.

That night, when Yang Ming saw Mr. Shen coming, he knew that he had to meet the old man alone.

Recently, Yang Ming would meet the old man every night.

The more they met, the more familiar they became.

The old man also admired Mr. Yang's insights.

There were still a few days before the old man visited Dongyang.

The old man knew that this was the first time Mr. Yang was invited to Yanjing, and it would be nearly half a month. As the chairman of a large group, it was impossible for him to stay in Yanjing for a long time.

Yang Ming went in in a wheelchair.

It was obvious that the old man was still smoking before Yang Ming came.

After Yang Ming came, the old man put out his cigarette in advance and opened the window to let the cold wind outside blow away all the cigarette smell.

"Old man."

"Mr. Yang."

The two greeted each other.

When Yang Ming sat down, Mr. Shen went out and closed the door.

"Mr. Yang, I heard that your Yang Group's Beijing office bought many houses in Yanjing."

The private buying and selling of houses by the natives in Yanjing did not start now.

It has always been there.

Especially last year, it started to appear.

The old man would not interfere in this kind of thing, nor did he want others to interfere.

They wanted to sell, Mr. Yang wanted to buy, as long as the price was right, it was normal for the transaction to be fair and just.

The hottest thing that shocked the old man was.

Other overseas Chinese business representatives would stay in Yanjing for only one day at most, and then leave Yanjing in a hurry, as if they could not leave Yanjing safely if they did not leave quickly.

Who is Mr. Yang?

He first visited the National History Museum and bought all the calligraphy and paintings in the Foreign Guest Service Department.

It is said that he also donated a large sum of money to the National History Museum.

He made a deal with Rongbaozhai again.

Mr. Yang spent millions of RMB, nearly five million Hong Kong dollars, to buy thousands of collections from Rongbaozhai, including calligraphy and paintings.

Five million Hong Kong dollars?

In the eyes of the old man, this is definitely a large amount of foreign exchange.

In other words, Rongbaozhai creates foreign exchange for the country.

Only when the country gets more foreign exchange can it buy more foreign technology and other products.

The old man also agrees with this.

The old man also finds it strange that Mr. Yang bought all the calligraphy and paintings of modern painters, many of whom are still alive, at any price, so that these modern painters and their families can start to live better.

Even, they can continue to create continuously.

The old man couldn't understand all this. He felt that Mr. Yang was a capitalist, but not the kind of capitalist he imagined.

In his opinion, people like Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang were capitalists.

Are they the same as Mr. Yang?

Of course not.

"Old man, I bought a lot of houses. If they want to sell them, I will buy them. Before the sale, I have asked the staff to investigate clearly. If there is a problem with the house, we will not buy it, and we don't want to cause a series of subsequent problems."

Some of them were sold because of gambling losses.

Some of them are the only property in the family, and they also want to sell it secretly.

In addition, their families do not agree at all.

And so on.

Yang Ming doesn't want these.

The old man nodded. He felt that Mr. Yang did a particularly good job in this regard.

No wonder Mr. Yang was so successful in Hong Kong. There must be a reason for him.

Next.

The two began to talk about business.

"Mr. Yang, where is your hometown?" the old man asked.

Before Yang Ming came, he had considered it.

Sure enough, the old man still mentioned his hometown.

Historically, the old man suggested that the representatives of Chinese capital in Hong Kong go back to their hometowns to see what was happening, so that they would be motivated and motivated to change their hometowns, or even a country.

Hu Yingxiang and others returned to Guangdong Province, or even their hometowns, and saw the poverty in their hometowns, which triggered their inner emotions and love for their hometowns.

Directly use money to invest.

Especially like investment in infrastructure.

Building bridges, highways, and power stations.

These all require a lot of money.

Now the country simply does not have that much money to invest in this area, so it can only rely on these Chinese capitals that have returned from Hong Kong.

After the old man and Yang Ming got to know each other, he also wanted to know more about Mr. Yang's hometown.

"Old man, where is my hometown? At first, I didn't know. However, my parents mentioned it to me. My father, Yang Jirong, ran from Longchuan County in northern Guangdong to Hong Kong in the 1950s to develop. He met my mother, Li Yufang, in Hong Kong, and later I was born."

Yang Jirong ran to Hong Kong from the 1950s?

The old man thought of a lot.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and even 1970s, there were always people from China, especially from Guangdong Province, who smuggled to Hong Kong to develop.

Why did they go to Hong Kong?

Or because China was too poor, so poor that they couldn't even support themselves.

In China, ordinary farmers can't eat enough, and even don't have a few dollars a month.

They successfully smuggled to Hong Kong, easily making hundreds of dollars, or even thousands of Hong Kong dollars a month.

Even more smart people became rich people in Hong Kong.

Thinking of this, the old man sighed.

"Is your father still in contact with his hometown?" the old man asked.

"There should have been correspondence in the past. I heard from my father that it was always intermittent."

The old man nodded again.

In this era, only some government agencies in Yanjing and Shencheng can really afford landline phones in China, and ordinary people don't have them at all.

Adding them all together, there are less than two million households in China.

In this case, how could northern Guangdong keep in touch with Yang Jirong?

"Does your father still have feelings for his hometown?"

"Yes, my father dreams of going back to his hometown."

Hearing Yang Ming say that.

The old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He also knew that some people who smuggled from China to Hong Kong almost risked their lives. In this case, how could they not have resentment towards China after surviving in Hong Kong?

In this way, how could they have feelings for China?

They went there with great difficulty.

Speaking of Yang Ming's father smuggling to Hong Kong, we have to talk about the historical wave of fleeing to Hong Kong.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the illegal crossing of the border by mainland residents into Hong Kong was basically ended. The reason was political at first, and then mainly economic.

In the nearly 30 years since then, the political iron curtain has not completely cut off the umbilical cord between Hong Kong and the mainland of the motherland. In addition to limited official exchanges, the folk form of smuggling has always been active, and finally converged into a surging tide of fleeing to Hong Kong.

Take Pengcheng as an example. According to public documents, there have been four large-scale illegal crossings in Pengcheng's history, namely in 1957, 1962, 1972 and 1979.

According to statistics from the Office of the Leading Group of Border Ports of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, from 1954 to 1980, there were more than 565,000 official "escapes to Hong Kong" recorded.

At that time, there were three ways to illegally cross the Hong Kong River in Guangdong Province: walking, swimming, and taking a boat. According to the route, there were three ways: the east line, the middle line, and the west line.

Swimming is usually the first choice, and there are many ways.

Smugglers often choose the west line, that is, starting from Shekou and mangroves, swimming across Pengcheng Bay, and reaching Yuen Long in the northwest of the New Territories of Hong Kong.

Smuggling by land is the usual middle line, that is, in Wutong Mountain and Shatoujiao in Pengcheng, climbing over the barbed wire to reach Hong Kong, which is jokingly called "net-hunting" by people in Guangdong Province.

This kind of net is very difficult to climb over. Later, the wire mesh was equipped with advanced sensing devices, and it would be discovered if it touched the net. The combination of searchlights, sentries and police dogs is deadly.

In order to prevent dogs, smugglers who escape to Hong Kong often go to the zoo to bribe the keepers before leaving, find some tiger feces, and spread them while walking. The police dogs smell the feces and think there is a tiger, so they dare not chase.

In order to prevent being seen by the border guards, some people hollowed out watermelons and put the rinds on their heads, leaving only the eyes exposed.

After all, crossing the "net" on land and breaking the waves on the sea are done by young people. The middle-aged and elderly, children and women can only take a boat.

Taking a boat is relatively safe, but it has the nature of a community. There are snakeheads, and naturally there are human traffickers. If something goes wrong, the problem is more serious, and you have to pay a considerable fee ranging from 300 yuan. However, in order to escape to Hong Kong, many human traffickers often go bankrupt.

Smuggling by boat tends to go to the east line, namely the Dapeng Bay waterway, between Huicheng and Pengcheng, more than ten kilometers away from the Xiangjiang River, and the waves are very big, and drowning often occurs during smuggling.

Last year, in November 1977, the old man, who had returned to work, decided to visit Guangdong Province as the first stop of his inspection. At that time, Mr. Ye accompanied him.

When the main leaders of Guangdong Province reported the situation to the old man, the escape to Hong Kong was exposed as a major vicious incident.

Just as Guangdong Province was anxiously waiting for instructions, the old man was surprisingly silent.

He smoked a few cigarettes, turned around slowly, and said to everyone calmly: "This is a problem with our policy. This matter is not something the army can handle."

The border defense at that time was almost powerless to deal with the increasingly fierce escape to Hong Kong. If the force was strengthened and the military and police were mobilized from the whole province or even the whole country, it would inevitably cause adverse effects.

In addition to leaving a bad impression on the international community, more importantly, large-scale armed interception may cause public indignation if not done well, forming a sudden mass incident.

The old man stressed that it is necessary to restore the effective policies of the past, develop the economy, and improve production and life, so as to solve the problem of fleeing to Hong Kong. The main reason for fleeing to Hong Kong is that life is not good and the gap is too big.

At that time, the income of a farmer in Bao'an for a working day was 0.70 to 1.20 yuan, while the income of a farmer in Hong Kong for a working day was 60-70 Hong Kong dollars, and the gap between the two was nearly 100 times.

In some areas, it is widely circulated that working hard for a year is not as good as 8 cents (referring to sending letters to Hong Kong to ask relatives to remit money back), and working in the mainland for a month is not as good as working in Hong Kong for a day.

This also induced many people to flee to Hong Kong one after another.

In 1978 alone, more than 97,000 people fled to Hong Kong, and more than 18,000 people escaped.

Interestingly, there was no Luofang Village in the New Territories of Hong Kong. All the people living here actually came from Luofang Village in Pengcheng.

The top decision-maker, the old man, once again realized from the historical vicious circle of fleeing to Hong Kong that it was impossible to stop it by blocking it alone, and the focus of the country's work must be shifted to economic construction.

The old man personally went to Pengcheng to see it.

He also knew that those people who smuggled to Hong Kong had a narrow escape.

In addition to being dangerous in Pengcheng, it was also very dangerous to arrive in Hong Kong. In addition to being shot and chased by white sirs, some even became illegal residents because they had no relatives or friends to rely on.

Yang Ming knew even more that there would be another wave of smuggling around the Spring Festival in 1979.

Historically, many people died in the smuggling wave. Some died at sea, some may have drowned, and some may have been fed to fish.

As a result, the rapid exodus has also spawned a new industry: "corpse pulling".

At its peak, there were more than 200 "corpse pullers" active in Pengcheng.

The Shekou Maritime Police Station stipulates that for each drowned stowaway body buried, the "corpse puller" can go to the Shekou Commune to collect a labor fee of 15 yuan with proof. If the body has rotted and is very smelly, making it difficult to bury, the fee will be increased to 20 yuan.

This amount is equivalent to a villager's income for 10 days.

On the Xiangjiang side, the drowned bodies that cannot be found may be fed to fish or pushed to other places by the sea. Some bodies have been found or floated on the seashore and eventually pulled to the mountains in the New Territories.

There have always been many graves in the New Territories mountains, some of which even have no names, which are left by those stowaways.

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