Silence, the entire conference hall was as quiet as death. Everyone stood there and stared at Zhou Ming on the podium, as if he couldn't think anymore, as if Zhou Ming was just saying something, but something petrified.

Including the Hong Kong government spokesman Zhang Zuo and Guan Sheng who had just passed by, they all opened their mouths wide and looked at Zhou Ming with incredible expressions. At this moment, they only had one idea left: Is this person stupid? Why did he speak like this?

They didn't understand what Zhou Ming was thinking. Now the audience is scolding the mainland, just a shared hatred for the enemy. If you want to speak well, you should first find a way to explain and say more good things and stabilize the scene. How can you scold the whole audience when you start speaking? Aren't you adding fuel to the fire and escalating the already very high class contradiction?

As the famous saying "If you don't perish in silence, you will erupt in silence", after a brief silence, the scene erupted like a volcano.

"What beast? I think you are the real beast that forgets ancestors. Your whole family is the beast that forgets ancestors!"

"You are also a mainlander, right? Sure enough, the mainlander is all domesticated by the ** system. They have no quality. They just swear when they open their mouths and shut up. They are all uncivilized barbarians!"

"You mainland dog slaves, you should go back to the mainland and not come to our Hong Kong City to embarrass you? You can't stand it if you want to make trouble here? You mainlanders have only this ability. You still stay in your poor valley and eat shit for the rest of your life, and never come out!"

"I have always hated mainlanders, but you and I want to kill you even more. You are simply a shame for us Chinese. Letting you in this world will defile this air!"

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Listening to the insults with a strong Hong Kong voice below, Zhou Ming stood on the stage but didn't speak. He just stood there with a smile, listening to the words from the stage, which formed a sharp contrast with the previous rebukes and scoldings.

Seeing Zhou Ming like this, Liu Xiaotian and Zhang Zuo below frowned, because if Zhou Ming was just angry and scolded the people below the audience like Guan Sheng before, it would be normal, but now he is so calm, there will definitely be something wrong.

Especially Liu Xiaotian, he remembered the scene when he met Zhou Ming at the entrance of the building. Zhou Ming was able to say those words so calmly even though he knew his identity, and the bodyguard with a wolf-like look beside him. He could conclude that Zhou Ming was definitely not simple.

As the saying goes, something abnormal will happen. If a capable person does something abnormal, then there must be something wrong with this matter itself!

This is the conclusion that Liu Xiaotian and Zhang Zuo came to in their minds. However, no matter how bad their premonitions were, it was impossible to come forward to help Zhou Ming stabilize the scene. They could only wait and see what they had made. However, they did not know that Zhou Ming wanted this effect.

Zhou Ming stood quietly on the podium, looking at the surging people below the stage coldly. After a few minutes, the voice below gradually weakened. Zhou Ming said, "What? Everyone is tired of scolding, don't you want to scold anymore?"

Zhou Ming finished speaking, and someone immediately said: "Fuck! It's a mainland shit like you that is not worthy of our scolding. It's just that we're dirtying our mouths!"

Zhou Ming smiled: "Is that so? Actually, I really don't know if you should agree or disagree with your words, because if you say you scolded me for being dirty, then what were you doing just now? Are you spraying feces?"

"You are spraying feces, your whole family is spraying feces!"

Zhou Ming's words once again ignited the enthusiasm in the audience. Someone in the audience pointed at Zhou Ming and sweared loudly, but compared to before, the current verbal abuse has obviously weakened a lot.

Facing the people who performed in the audience, Zhou Ming said in a tone of coaxing the child: "Okay, everyone, I am the same as you all, but you don't agree with some practices and systems in the mainland. This is normal. After all, after a long time, the two brothers suddenly returned to the same roof and lived together, there will be many unfamiliarities, let alone people from two places. It is not surprising that you will have concerns."

"You seem to have misunderstood something. We don't worry about it, but there are real problems!" Someone immediately refuted Zhou Ming, "You have also heard the recording just now. Your mainland officials are so domineering and regard the law as nothing. I also heard that any county party secretary in your place can execute a person. This is simply terrible!"

"Is that true? I tell you that I have lived in the mainland for half my life and have never heard of something like you." Zhou Ming said.

"You are also a mainland bureaucrat. Of course you will cover up the mainland's practice, otherwise you will be shot when you go back!" Someone below booed to Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming asked him calmly: "Do you think this is important? I don't think it's important at all, because the joint statement has been issued. Do you still have any choice?"

This question made the audience quiet. This was different from the effect of Zhou Ming's sudden reprimand at the beginning. Instead, Zhou Ming's words penetrated everyone's hearts. In other words, this is what they are most reluctant to face, and it is also the reason why the central government dared to send officials to attend this meeting casually. Because the overall situation has been decided, even the British Hong Kong government is unable to change anything, so it is even more impossible for these people.

The quietness in the audience was expected by Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming said: "There is a very vulgar saying in our mainland, life is like being raped. Since you can't resist, you can only choose to accept it."

Someone immediately retorted below: "We can also choose not to accept it. We can choose to escape from the port. We can choose to give up the port city so that you can't get the essence of the port city!"

"You really thought you could take away all the essence of Harbor City. You really thought you could leave Harbor City. Do you still have your current status after you leave Harbor City?"

Zhou Ming's words pierced into the hearts of everyone below the stage like steel needles, making them all silent and didn't know what to say. At this time, Zhou Ming continued: "You think that all your industries in Hong Kong City will be taken away after the return of Hong Kong City. Do you think that the system of Hong Kong City will undergo earth-shaking changes after the return of Hong Kong City? Haven't you read the joint statement?"

Zhou Ming thought about it deliberately and then said: "If I remember correctly, the third article of the joint statement has clearly stated that it will maintain the high degree of autonomy of the Hong Kong City, and the current political and economic systems will not change. Doesn't you Hong Kong people know that even me, a closed mainlander, know in a free country like Hong Kong City?"

After a questioning, the people below were speechless. After a long time, someone said, "Can you believe your mainland authorities? Do you still have credit for your mainland authorities?"

"Your question is very good!" Zhou Ming said loudly, his tone as if he was praising, "You can't believe in the country's party committee and government, then do you also don't believe in your Hong Kong and British government? Because this joint statement is not a unilateral statement."

After Zhou Ming said that, he looked around the conference hall, and everyone who was seen by him subconsciously lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him, as if they were afraid of being stabbed by Zhou Ming's sharp gaze.

Zhou Ming didn't plan to let these people go. He continued: "And you really think that the Port City will always be so good, and that the domestic development will never be able to catch up? You are too naive. You are all businessmen. Why don't you think about it carefully? There are such vast land and so abundant resources in China, and there is also a market for hundreds of millions of people. If you really have the will to develop, how could it not be able to develop?"

"Just across the river, you all heard of Nanjiang City," Zhou Ming pointed his hand to the north. "Then was just an ordinary county town in China ten years ago, but what about now? It has a certain prototype of an international metropolis, and most importantly, Nanjiang has only been developing for ten years. I believe that the word Nanjiang speed is not fabricated in our country, but is recognized by the whole world."

"So," Zhou Ming asked last, "What if there are another ten or twenty years? Who can guarantee that Nanjiang will not catch up with TPG or even surpass TPG at this speed?"

"That's all the result of the concentrating resources of the mainland!" Some people below said unconvincedly.

Listening to the stubborn shouting of the following people, Zhou Ming smiled and said, "I don't think there is any need to discuss this topic, because there is no difference between being and not being. If you can promote a Nanjiang in China, you can produce a second, third or even more. The final result can only be better and better. If you want to continue to compare this, then I can only say that you have no vision."

"The political system in the mainland has always been a flaw!" Someone below shouted, "Economic development requires freedom. ** control like the mainland will push the port city into a dead end!"

"This is like a sentence!" Zhou Ming nodded with gratitude, "Economic development does require freedom. The economy that needs to be transformed by itself is a healthy economy. Therefore, reform and opening up is being carried out in China. Isn't it just to break the previous rules and regulations and truly let the economy be its own master? I believe you also know that during the Spring Festival not long ago, the Supreme Leader of the Central Committee, Mr. Yang, went to the south to the south. This is to convey to the outside world that the central government's determination to carry out reform and opening up to the end!"

Zhou Ming paused and finally said, "I'll share something with you. You have been calling me a bureaucrat, but in fact I am not. I am just an ordinary businessman, without any family relationships, and making money entirely through your own efforts. This is simply impossible according to your understanding, but I did it. Isn't this the best example of reform and opening up in China?"
Chapter completed!