Chapter 496 A Great Victory!!

The automobile industry that capitalist countries have accumulated over sixty or seventy years will be reached in the mainland in an instant.

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Time flies, June 8th!

This is the day that Hong Kong Islanders are looking forward to!

On this day, the Legislative Council election will officially start voting.

After checking the financial statements of Birmingham Tianyao Automobile Group, Lin Yao focused his attention on this election.

Hong Kong Islanders are very enthusiastic about this Legislative Council election.

Because it is the first time.

According to the media's rough estimate of the voter turnout, the proportion of Hong Kong Islanders who have the right to vote this time will reach an unprecedented 90%!

It is very amazing in the world.

For countries like M and Europe that have been holding elections for a hundred years, a voter turnout of 70% is already a record.

A total of 365 polling stations have been set up in Hong Kong Island.

Of course, Lin Yao spent a lot of money on these polling stations and hung campaign advertising light boxes nearby.

Advertisements were also hung at all the most conspicuous intersections in Hong Kong Island, department stores, and major night stalls.

Moreover, they hired gangsters who had just stepped out of society to carry billboards on their backs for mobile advertising, which can be said to have carried out carpet-style advertising bombardment on the citizens of the entire Hong Kong Island.

This was also used directly by Lin Yao after watching many election programs in the Taiwan Island in his previous life.

The effect of this trick is very obvious.

In addition, the candidates selected by Lin Yao are of very high quality.

The political views proposed are popular with the citizens of the north and south Hong Kong Island.

As a councillor, you must be very familiar with the municipal administration and make strong supervision.

For the people of Hong Kong Island, this is definitely the first time in their life that Liu Laolao has entered the Grand View Garden.

With the power of legislation, you have the power of supervision, and you can conduct strong supervision on the officials appointed by the foreigners.

As long as a simple majority is achieved in the Legislative Council, this insidious reform will be a boomerang.

This boomerang will hit him and make him lame in advance.

After seeing Lin Yao's operation during this period, Peng Modai was really panicked.

He convened 5 meetings in a row, and let the foreigner consortium spend a lot of money to fight against Lin Yao.

And he also nominated many Hong Kong Islanders they favored.

The elections were also held in 18 districts on Hong Kong Island.

The whole selection process was very intense, and it seemed that both sides were evenly matched.

In fact, the polls of all parties showed that Hongxing was far ahead of its opponents.

For example, the poll of the candidate proposed by Lin Yao was 40%.

The other dozen candidates divided the votes, and the second place was only 9%, which was the person supported by Peng Modai and others.

The money spent by both sides was similar, but the results were completely different.

Peng Modai was really panicked!

There were 23 seats for councillors in 18 districts, and Lin Yao had a clear advantage in 22 seats.

Only one seat in Central was evenly matched with the candidate put forward by the foreigners.

The opinion polls of both sides were ahead of each other.

Who will be elected is in a quantum state, and Peng Modai still has 20 designated councillors in his hands.

If Lin Yao can get 22 seats, he will achieve his goal.

Peng Modai has been unable to sleep and eat these days because of Lin Yao's aggressiveness.

Every day he only focuses on the election of councillors and has no interest in other government affairs.

He was almost regretting the Legislative Council reform.

A sentence came to his mind and played over and over again:

"Alas, you shot yourself in the foot..."

But now it is too late to reverse the situation. If this reform is withdrawn, the consequence will be bankruptcy of credibility and premature lameness.

It can be said that he is now riding on the back of a tiger.

At 8 o'clock, all 365 polling stations were open, and Hong Kong residents lined up in an orderly manner with their ID cards to vote.

After voting, they discussed the election situation with each other on the spot or on the way back.

Outside a polling station on Guangfeng Street in Causeway Bay.

Hung Hing Causeway Bay Councillor candidate Mei Wangying looked at the polling station not far away with some nervousness.

Although he has been far ahead since the Hong Kong and Taiwan media began to conduct polls for the councillor election.

But after all, this is the first election in Hong Kong Island. How true is the councillor poll? He was very nervous.

Before the votes are fully counted, no one can be sure of the final result, and no one can guarantee what the foreigners will do.

Although all the major polling stations were relatively open this time, and there was third-party supervision.

Third-party supervision was not only international, but also representatives from various districts and streets were sent to supervise the voting and counting on site.

After a middle-aged woman cast her vote, she looked at Mei Wangying and asked:

"Aying, why haven't you voted today as a candidate?"

Mei Wangying shook her head and said, "Wait a minute, I won't compete with everyone for a position."

"Aying, I voted for you. Recently, you and your brothers have done a lot of good things for our neighbors. Of course, I will vote for you. Come on!"

The middle-aged woman encouraged Mei Wangying.

"Thank you, Auntie."

Mei Wangying thanked sincerely.

Then other people came to cheer Mei Wangying after seeing him.

After the greetings were over, the time had reached 10:30 in the morning.

Mei Wangying then walked to the polling station. Seeing that there were not many people left, he walked in, took out his ID card and filled in the ballot.

After the first day of voting, the relevant departments will count the voting data.

And publish the names of the two people with the highest votes in a constituency on TV and in newspapers.

There are more than 50 witnesses in Causeway Bay who are representatives from all walks of life, ensuring absolute fairness, justice and openness.

At 10 o'clock that night, the Statistics Bureau announced the final data to the public.

All 23 candidates launched by Hongxing in 18 districts are on the list.

However, the Statistics Bureau did not announce the specific ranking, so the final result is unknown.

The next day.

In the chairman's office of Tianyao Building.

In addition to the top executives of Tianyao Group, all the leaders of Hongxing also gathered together.

Feiji said quietly to Jiuwenlong:

"Brother Long, I didn't actually run for election, but I still feel very nervous."

Jiuwenlong always gives people a very calm personality, but at this moment he also smiled and said:

"Feiji, I'm more nervous than you. If Mei Wangying doesn't get elected, how can I be worthy of Brother Yao?"

"It's really weird. I'm not as nervous as I am today when I play in the ring match."

"Look, my face is full of cold sweat. What the hell is going on?"

Hongxing head coach Taizi said nervously beside him.

Feiji looked at it and laughed!

Taizi's forehead was full of cold sweat, and his temples were wet.

"Don't be nervous, let's wait slowly, there's no point in being nervous," Han Bin said to the three of them.

The deadline for this election is 6 pm on the 9th, after which the votes will be officially counted and checked.

And the final election results will be announced before 12 pm.     Because this is a single-member district two-vote system, it is divided into two procedures.

Soon it was 10 pm.

The first constituency announced was Causeway Bay!

The election results were officially announced on public television. Staff and Justices of the Peace, as well as community representatives and representatives of ICAC, jointly obtained the final results.

The Justices of the Peace publicly announced that the elected councillor of Causeway Bay was Mei Wangying.

"Thank God, Mei Wangying finally got through by luck!!!"

After seeing the final result, Jiu Wenlong excitedly grabbed a handful of his long hair with both hands.

He said loudly to Changmao and Shanying.

Mei Wangying had just graduated from university and had been attracted to the Causeway Bay Hall by Jiu Wenlong.

He was also the candidate he recommended to Lin Yao.

If he messed up this time, then Jiu Wenlong really had no face to see Lin Yao.

At least Jiu Wenlong himself thought so. He immediately took out his mobile phone and his hands were shaking with excitement, and pressed a familiar phone number.

After the call was connected, Jiu Wenlong said excitedly:

"Mr. Lin, Mei Wangying has been elected!"

"What should we do next?"

"Along, the next step is to let Mei Wangying withdraw from the Hongxing Group."

"Not only him, but all the elected members of the Hongxing Group must withdraw from the Hongxing Group."

Although Hongxing has basically become a business, the Hongxing community has been in Hong Kong Island for fifty or sixty years.

If they do not withdraw, the citizens of Hong Kong Island will still regard them as community members.

That will be very detrimental to their future image and the next election.

Competitors will seize this point to bombard him.

It will affect the votes at that time.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Yao asked all the elected candidates to withdraw from the Hongxing Group.

Although it is a real withdrawal in law and in name, they are actually under the order of Lin Yao.

Because these people know that it was Lin Yao who spent a lot of money to train them, otherwise they are nothing.

"Yes, Mr. Lin, I will do it right away!"

Jiu Wenlong said slowly.

"Well, don't worry, wait until the votes are counted. No one will accept you now," Lin Yao said calmly.

As the Causeway Bay councillors elected members of other districts, the election results came out one after another.

Finally, when the list of councillors in the outlying islands was announced, the first Legislative Council election in history was also declared over.

This time, the people carefully promoted by Lin Yao won an unprecedented victory.

They occupied 21 of the 23 seats in the direct election.

Although there was still one seat away from controlling the majority, Lin Yao was not panicked at all.

Because he knew that he had already exceeded the simple majority.

Because no matter who Peng Modai designated to be Legislative Council members, Lin Yao could control seven or eight.

In other words, Lin Yao's first step of achieving a simple majority to control the Legislative Council was successful.

Lin Yao was very satisfied with this result.

If 22 seats were directly elected, it would appear that he directly controlled the entire Legislative Council.

But that would cause Peng Modai a sense of crisis.

He might use various tricks such as constitutional interpretation by the chief justices to undermine the results of this election.

But now it seems that there is not more than half, so Peng Modai will accept it.

Little did he know that Lin Yao had already made two plans.

Peng Modai thought that the people he appointed would be his die-hard supporters.

At that time, Lin Yao would teach him a lesson with facts.

The term of office of the Legislative Council members of Hong Kong Island this time is 4 years.

After 4 years, it will be the last election, because by then it will only be three years away from the Jiuqi.

On the other side, there is a pile of land in the Causeway Bay Hall.

This is a nightclub. Although it is already midnight, it has become a sea of ​​joy.

Mei Wangying took out his savings to hold a celebration banquet here.

Jiu Wenlong also drank a lot in the carnival celebration tonight.

The next day is the day when the new members of the Legislative Council officially take office. This time, they take office differently from the past.

In the past, the Legislative Council members were appointed by the Governor, but this time they are elected by the people.

In the past, the oath was sworn to the Queen of Great Britain, but this time the newly elected members swore to the citizens of Hong Kong Island.

What is even more different from the past is that the head of the Legislative Council used to be concurrently served by the Governor.

This time, because of the major reforms from the Legislative Council to the Legislative Council, the head of the Legislative Council will be selected from these members.

The newly elected head of the Legislative Council will also become the first person directly elected by the members of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong Island.

The oath-taking ceremony of the members will be held at 10 o'clock in the morning.

After the oath, Peng Modai announced the list of the remaining 20 members.

These 20 members were directly appointed by him, and this list was also brewed by him for a long time.

In his opinion, they are all infinitely loyal to the rule of the British.

These people include 5 Justices of the Peace, 2 Deputy Secretaries, the President of the Bar Association, 3 Chief Justices of the Hong Kong Island Court, and other social elites.

After the list was announced, the Legislative Council held the election of the President of the Legislative Council at 3:30 pm that day.

Several major TV stations in Hong Kong Island broadcast live.

The citizens of Hong Kong Island also sat in front of the TV with great anticipation to watch the whole process.

What is surprising is that the first President of the Legislative Council was not a Chief Justice designated by Peng Modai.

It was not a Justice of the Peace that they preferred, but Jiang Zhiguang, the Deputy Secretary for Justice.

For Jiang Zhiguang, Peng Modai thought he was his man, but in fact Jiang Zhiguang was Lin Yao's man.

Jiang Zhiguang's resume is very good. He graduated from the Law Department of Hong Kong Island University and then went to Cambridge University for a doctorate.

He is the focus of cultivation by the foreigners.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, he has been working for 12 years and is a very standard middle class.

His wife is also a very famous lawyer in Hong Kong Island and Sandy's teacher.

No matter from which aspect, the couple are social elites carefully cultivated by the foreigners.

However, they don't know that Jiang Zhiguang has been Lin Yao's personal legal adviser for the past two years.

Of course, this is not public!

Jiang Zhiguang gets 2 million Hong Kong dollars from Lin Yao every year.

Jiang Zhiguang helped Lin Yao do a lot of legal things, and revealed many legal traps of the foreigners, which is considered to be a pledge of allegiance!

Lin Yao wants this result.

Jiang Zhiguang has now become the chairman of the Legislative Council, so he resigned from his previous position.

With the inauguration of Jiang Zhiguang and other elected members, Lin Yao's plan to deprive Peng of his power began to be officially implemented.

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On the other side, in a building in Washington TC, M country.

Soros, the boss of Quantum Fund, is talking to his assistant. (End of this chapter)