Rebirth: Outstanding

After Chu Xiaoxin asked this sentence, Chu Xiaozhong stopped speaking with ugly perfunctory sentences. The brothers fell into a strong silence between them. Fortunately, Angie Peris asked Chu Xiaoxin about him in a timely manner. The latest movie "The Night Is Not Quiet", which was released in the Hong Kong City Hall, barely obscured the previous dialogue.

Jiang Yongen, the female secretary sitting next to Song Tianyao, saw the brief conversation between the two brothers in the Chu family just now, turned her face to Song Tianyao and said, "This must be Secretary Song. I heard Mr. Chu mention it. I’ve been to you many times, hello, I’m Jiang Yongen from the Hong Kong Chartered Secretarial Union, and I am now Chu Xiaoxin’s company secretary. Where did Mr. Song go before?"

"Since Miss Jiang has heard of me from the loyal young man, I should know that I was a poor boy in the wooden house district with nowhere to go. The Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union, I have heard of it for the first time, just like the Textile Workers Union or the Shipyard Workers Union. Song Tianyao smiled at Jiang Yongen. His first impression of this woman was not very good. It seemed that Jiang Yongen, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, had a slightly tougher face, and lacked the femininity that a woman should have, although it looks good. People feel shrewd and strong enough to keep their eyebrows away, but when they speak, even with a smile, matching that face gives people a strong feeling.

In fact, Song Tianyao knows that the Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union is probably the early prototype organization of the Hong Kong Professional Managers’ Association. At this time, there is no such profession as a professional manager. The various Chinese business families in Hong Kong still maintain the traditional rules of family business and will not hire. An outsider is in charge of the overall family business, so when hiring, he will only hire a professional secretary at a monthly salary to help him take care of his work. The Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union was born accordingly.

It’s not like Song Tianyao, who has the title of secretary in a business, can join the Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union. Although the Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union and the British Association of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators are not much related today, it is based on the criteria for recruiting members. , But also maintains a high degree of consistency with the Chartered Secretaries Union of the United Kingdom. Both men and women must be university graduates. They must have systematically studied company management, company administration, secretarial practice, British and Hong Kong company law, taxation and other majors.

However, the current situation of professional secretaries is still very embarrassing. They often don’t get real trust after entering a large company and becoming the boss’ secretary. Those family businesses trust the veterans who have followed them for many years and are loyal to the world, even if those veterans have insufficient ability. , But in the eyes of the boss, loyalty is better than everything, including ability.

Therefore, most of these professional secretaries are guest translations, document sorting and attendance at the Chinese business bosses, involving the core of the business such as accounts, finances, and business contacts. Few people will let these secretaries participate.

This also forced these real future business elites who could not be trusted to join those British companies in Hong Kong to serve the British in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason why Song Tianyao knows this union so much is because he saw it when he looked through some biographies in his previous life. Many Hong Kong people called them "the first sister of Hong Kong Chinese", the director of Swire Group of "Mrs. Thatcher of Hong Kong", and the director of HSBC Bank. Deng Lianru, the vice chairman, joined the trade union briefly after returning to Hong Kong after studying in the United States.

Compared with this professional secretary, Song Tianyao, who became a monk and acted under the sign of a secretary, is the difference between Jianghu Caomang and Yutang character. Fortunately, in Hong Kong in the 1950s, whether it was a stubborn grassy or a romantic Yutang, as long as he did not bow his head and admit his destiny. , All have the possibility of going straight into the blue sky.

Seeing that Chu Xiaozhong came to see Shi Zhiyi, they brought this secretary named Jiang Yongen, and listened to the other party's self-reported identity, Song Tianyao guessed that Chu Xiaozhong was stimulated by the combination of himself and Chu Xiaoxin, and hired at a high price from the Hong Kong Chartered Secretaries Union. Jiang Yongen helped with company affairs.

Jiang Yongen seems a little ignorant. He has heard Song Tianyao ridicule that the secretary union has been put together with the shipbuilding union and the textile union, but he still wants to say: "Mr. Song looks very young, the Chartered Secretaries Union..."

"If I look the same age as you, Zhong is just a secretary who works everywhere and can't accomplish anything. That's bad, Miss Jiang, you don't see that there is a little coldness between your boss and mine. We keep the same as them. Attitude is fine, not too close. If you ask me to have dinner and watch the movie in private, I should probably have time, but now is really not a good time for you to strike up a conversation with me." Song Tianyao turned his head to Jiang Yongen. The smile has faded clean, and Jiang Yongen's eyes are facing each other and said.

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The eight-minute cable car ride ended when Angie Peris racked her brains to chat with Chu Xiaoxin about movies and songs, while the other three listened silently with different looks.

When the cable car arrived at the mountain top station and the car door opened, Chu Xiaozhong got up and walked out quickly. Song Tianyao sternly molested Jiang Yongen before getting off the car and looking back at the other party, seeming a little confused. How did the boss and secretary, who are worried about their IQ and reckless, make Chu Xiaozhong feel that he would be threatened with his status in the family?

In addition to restaurants, English bars, and scenic plazas on Victoria Peak, before the fall of Hong Kong, there were more than 80 independent villas distributed among them. The most conspicuous one is naturally the Governor's Hilltop Villa. However, after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, there were many wars here. Destroyed, there are only a few broken walls left in the best view of the Governor’s Villa. The new Governor has not arranged for repairs. Since the cable car in Victoria Peak, British officials are used to moving their residences to Victoria Peak. Therefore, although the hilltop villas of the Governor were not restored and left unused after the war, there are more than 90 other British villas from the hilltop to the mid-levels, exceeding the number of villas before the war.

The reason is nothing more than the outstanding scenery of Victoria Peak. Standing on the scenic platform, you can overlook the scenery of Hong Kong Island and Victoria Bay, and experience the thrill of the city stepping on your feet. The other is that the Hong Kong colonial government issued an ordinance in 1902 to clearly prohibit the Chinese. Live in Victoria Peak and Mid-Levels, which are British settlements in Hong Kong. This kind of regulation that clearly discriminates against colonial races has made the scenic Victoria Peak basically a secret garden for the British in Hong Kong.

After the war in 1947, although many British colonies in Asia had become independent and separated from colonial rule, in order to alleviate Hong Kong people’s opposition to colonial rule, the Governor’s Office had revoked this regulation prohibiting Chinese from settling in Victoria Peak. However, Victoria Peak is here. At that time there was no suitable place to build new villas, and they were all occupied by the British, and those British people would not sell their villas to the Chinese. Even if they returned to London, they would only sell the villas to the British who took over their duties. , So till now, there are still no Chinese in Taipingshan.

The only good thing is that now the Chinese can take the cable car to the top of the mountain to see the scenery and taste the western food of the restaurant on the top of the mountain. Before the war, except for the cable car workers who could appear on the top of the mountain under the leadership of British engineers, other Chinese who appeared on the top of the mountain would be convicted as thieves by the Indian police.

Anji-Peris and Mrs. Shi Zhiyi’s appointment is the last one, so Chu Xiaoxin and Song Tianyao didn’t rush into the restaurant on the top of the mountain. Instead, they went to the distant scenery platform to enjoy the golden sunset. On Hong Kong Island and Victoria Bay, several Chinese workers were climbing a ladder outside the door of a mountain top restaurant in the distance to help check the gas lamp post.

"Ayao, didn't you say you have arrangements? I'll do something later." Chu Xiaoxin asked Song Tianyao, looking at the distant scenery.

Song Tianyao took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed it to the other party, and started lighting a match. The two people got together and lit the cigarette: "Wait when you are ready to save someone, you can take the person you rescued and take the cable car down the mountain, and then everyone See you in Retiro tonight."

"What the **** are you doing? Save people? Zhongyou, you mentioned the 300,000 medicines for no reason, and you said you want to use these medicines to talk to Shi Zhiyi for cooperation. Are you planning to sell these medicines to the mainland? Hey, everyone is Chinese, and the mainland is fighting the Korean War again. What is not easy to do is so unreasonable. Beware of being scolded by traitors. If those medicines are poisonous, don’t harm your own Chinese. It doesn’t matter if you sell them to Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, or the Philippines. It's best to sell to Japan. If I see those Japanese people who have vomiting and diarrhea, I will be happy." Chu Xiaoxin spit out the smoke, watching the smoke scatter in the evening wind, and said to Song Tianyao.

Song Tianyao looked at Chu Xiaoxin and suddenly felt that his boss was really not an ordinary person. Although he didn't care about business, he was greedy and drunk, and his father and brother looked dull, but before the big troubles, there were quite a guys who were responsible: "Less letter, if I were a man Woman, now Coco must be ready to throw her arms in her arms. It's really charming. These few words are impeccable. Maybe I myself want to pay the room rate and open the room with you."

"I don't see the ghost girl next to you give her a hug? I don't know how to shoot flattery. I don't know how to choose you, a guy who doesn't know how to flatter and is a bigot, as the secretary." Chu Xiaoxin was amused by Song Tianyao's words. stand up.

"Ghost girl from the British, of course I don’t understand the family and country feelings of a dignified Chinese man. Next time you want to talk to a girl, bring a beautiful girl to the top of the mountain. I will cooperate with you. I will repeat what I said before and promise to take me back to the hotel in the evening. Big bed." Song Tianyao said, holding a cigarette and looking at Hong Kong Island below the mountain.

At this time, he began to understand why the British, Hong Kong officials, and businessmen would like to buy a mansion on the top of the mountain after the development, standing here overlooking the wind, talking and laughing, which man would not give birth to a free port that wants to hold this feasting and drunk. The pride in your palm?

"I'm serious. You are not allowed to sell those drugs to the mainland to poison Chinese people." Chu Xiaoxin exhorted again.

Song Tianyao nodded, restrained the smile on his face, and looked at the distant scenery with Chu Xiaoxin, and said slowly: "Don't worry, I'm less faithful, I'm also a Chinese, Song Tianyao can do it, just can't do it. Traitors."