Moreover, Song Tianyao had no intention of actually helping London get rid of the smog. Nearly 80 percent of the text in this article was dedicated to explaining the dangers of smog and its formation process.
As for the governance approach, only 20% of the information is provided. The governance approach covers strategic plans for the next 50 years, but unfortunately, each measure is only outlined without detailed explanation.
In short, people who have concerns about London's smog might get excited after reading this, but after the initial excitement, they'll realize it's pretty useless and they'll need to consult Song Tianyao again.
Of course, this article was not kept from the hydrologist Mrs. Bess. Mrs. Bess. She received the manuscript as soon as it was finished. In Song Tianyao's opinion, Mrs. Bess understood the saying that interests are mutual better than Shek Chi-yik.
Just as Song Tianyao was thinking that he should escape London first, the hunting party was completely hopeless, and he was preparing to take the Foreign Girl to meet her parents, Mrs. Bess finally brought Song Tianyao some good news. In view of the terrible air in London, Mr. James, who works in the Overseas Colonial Department, has decided to hold a ball at the Modern Jazz Poets Club tonight.
"Song, do you remember your article about the London fog? Someone is interested." Mrs. Bess said to Song Tianyao. Today she was wearing a pale yellow coat over a light-colored knee-length skirt, a purchase she and her Foreign Girl had made while shopping together the past two days.
"Who? Could it be Mr. James from the overseas colonies? I don't think he'd care about the London weather right now, instead of the fact that Britain has so few colonies left." Song Tianyao said curiously, "I thought people wouldn't care until the London fog killed everyone."
Mrs. Bess gave Song Tianyao a speechless look. "Song, everyone is kind, everyone is a lamb in sheep's clothing, you can't..."
"Thank God, thank God for bringing me to London to remind the citizens of London to pay attention to the weather," Song Tianyao said. "I am merely an inquirer, not yet a believer."
Following Mrs. Bess down the elevator of the Cloud Palace Hotel to the cigar bar on the first floor, a bald, pot-bellied old man with a stubborn face, holding a cane, who fit Song Tianyao's image of all capitalists, turned his head and looked at Song Tianyao with a cigar in his hand.
"Let me introduce you, Sir Hugh Beaver, and Sir, this is Mr. Song from Hong Kong." Mrs. Bess gave a brief self-introduction to the two.
Song Tianyao glanced at Mrs. Bess with surprise. An old man selling beer, concerned about London smog?
Hugh Beaver didn't pay much attention to Song Tianyao, this Easterner; in fact, one could say his attitude was somewhat arrogant.
"Young man, I've read your writing, and I think you should know that I own a newspaper, and this newspaper is currently looking to publish some news about the heavy fog."
Chapter 448 Xu Pingsheng
While Song Tianyao was in London meeting with Sir Hugh Beaver to present a paper on smog.
Lei Yingdong, far away in Hong Kong, also met Xu Pingsheng, the Shipping King of Hong Kong known as Uncle Sheng, because of that bottle of soda worth ten thousand dollars.
Although the Xu Family is not listed among the so-called four major Chinese families or the heads of the three major chambers of commerce in Hong Kong, it does not mean that the Xu Family is not wealthy. Rather, the Xu Family has always been accustomed to making money in a low-key manner and never flaunts it.
The Xu Family's shipping company owns twenty or thirty passenger and cargo ships, and Xu Family vessels are present in various locations, from Nanyang to North Korea, and even along the mainland coast.
Of course, the most important factor was the network of connections that the Xu Family had built up over the years. It could be said that in the small city of Hong Kong, the Xu Family was adept at navigating between the Britain and the China person.
Xu Pingsheng's ships could do business with any country, except for the Japan.
Moreover, when Xu Pingsheng is mentioned, all Hong Kong businessmen give him a thumbs up. After Hong Kong fell to the Japanese and the Hong Kong waters fell into Japan hands, this Uncle Sheng resolutely scuttled two cargo ships docked at the Hong Kong docks to prevent his two ships from being requisitioned by the Japan for the purpose of invading his motherland.
With his assets frozen and his goods seized in Hong Kong, Xu Pingsheng refused to surrender to the Japan and returned to his ancestral home on the mainland via Macau. The Xu Family was left with almost nothing, and his family members wept bitterly. The family business, which had been built up over three generations from their ancestors to Xu Pingsheng, and a century of hard work, had vanished into thin air, leaving everyone in the Xu Family in despair and feeling sorry for their ancestors.
Only this Uncle Sheng, kneeling before the ancestral tablets of the Xu Family, spoke frankly, saying that he had not disgraced the Xu Family ancestors, had not served as a dog for the Japan, and had always stood tall as China person.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xu Pingsheng returned to Hong Kong immediately and salvaged the two cargo ships he had scuttled years earlier. After repairing them, he re-entered the shipping industry, becoming one of the first businessmen in Hong Kong to enter the shipping industry after the war. Several years later, he expanded from two ships to twenty or thirty passenger and cargo ships, becoming the Shipping King of Hong Kong.
When a large number of Shanghai people flocked to Hong Kong, and Shanghai shipping tycoons were preparing to resume their old businesses at the Hong Kong docks, local Chinese shipping merchants in Hong Kong did consider having Xu Pingsheng lead them to give the Shanghai people a hard time. However, Xu Pingsheng did not agree, saying instead that business is done by people all over the world, and everyone is China person.
If Lei Yingdong's ship hadn't been sunk, causing Xu Pingsheng to become dissatisfied with the actions of these shipping tycoons in Shanghai, how easy would it have been for a small-time merchant like Lei Yingdong, who made his fortune through smuggling from fishing boats, to meet the shipping magnate Xu Pingsheng? Let alone a bottle of soda costing ten thousand yuan, even a hundred thousand yuan might not have gotten him any attention.
Xu Pingsheng honored Lei Yingdong by choosing the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the meeting place, and to avoid embarrassing Lei Yingdong, he specially arranged for Chu Xiaoxin to accompany Lei Yingdong to the racecourse.
Now that Xu Pingsheng is old, he has handed over most of his business affairs to his eldest son, Xu Enbo. In his daily life, Xu Pingsheng has no other extravagant hobbies, except for watching horse racing. The Xu Family Hong Kong Jockey Club racing club.
There are no races at the Hong Kong Jockey Club today, but Xu Pingsheng has two more of his beloved Ever-Victorious Mountain, Chang Shengshan Must-Win Mountain arrived in Hong Kong and are being inspected by trainers and jockeys in preparation for the races.
"Mr. Xu, I think you'll be the chairman of the Hong Kong Hong Kong Jockey Club sooner or later Uncle Sheng and your racehorses together have more than a dozen horses." Chu Xiaoxin greeted Xu Pingsheng's eldest son, Xu Enbo.