Huo Qi had always believed that Lin Yong, like himself, had joined forces with the British side solely out of resistance to the handover and a refusal to bow to the Mainland. After all, from the day they swore their oaths to the Royal Hong Kong Police, though they were not soldiers, they had assumed a soldier’s duty: to protect the citizens of Hong Kong.
However, as Chen Rou once noted, the reason the British had coveted and occupied Hong Kong a century ago was its superior geographical location. Its pillar industry, upon which it relied for development, was not real estate, but ocean shipping. Now that the British were forced to leave, they were also forced to relinquish control of the shipping industry. Ordinary people could never get their hands on it, but the plutocrats who sat upon 90% of Hong Kong’s wealth would have to join forces to claim it.
Huo Qi could have accepted it if Lin Yong had sided with the alliance led by Sir Li and Sir Ding, as that group was made up of Hong Kong locals, and the resulting profits and tax revenues would remain in Hong Kong. But how could it be the Bao family, people from Macau?
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