I saw some book friends saying that the protagonist is too young and can’t do anything.
All I can say is haha!
The reason why the age of the protagonist is so young is to make the content closer to reality and to facilitate future promotions.
Starting from the world of movies, a large number of novels about Hong Kong variety shows have been born on the Internet.
But so many novels inevitably involve one issue, and that is the promotion of the protagonist in the police force.
Hong Kong is a city that has made the police level extremely cumbersome, probably due to colonial reasons.
From ordinary police constable, senior constable, sergeant, station sergeant, trainee inspector, inspector, senior inspector, chief inspector, superintendent, senior superintendent, chief superintendent, assistant commissioner of police, senior police officer There are actually fifteen levels from Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of Police, to Commissioner of Police (First Brother).
Compared with the mainland, there are too many levels, which makes it difficult for police officers at the bottom to climb up. Many people also think that the Commissioner of Police has a high status, equivalent to a minister in the mainland.
In fact, judging from the organizational structure of Hong Kong, the rank of the Hong Kong Police Force is quite low. At most, it is the director of the Public Security Bureau of a sub-provincial city, or even lower.
Because many of the chiefs of public security bureaus in the Mainland are also deputy mayors, and there are so many people in charge of the Hong Kong Police Force.
It can be seen from the scope of work that the tasks undertaken by the Hong Kong police are far less onerous and complex than those of a prefecture-level municipal public security department. Mainland police have to fight crime, maintain social harmony, and sometimes support the weak, such as the fire department.
The Hong Kong police are much simpler. They only need to "handle cases in accordance with the law." No one will tell them that they must be "sons of the people."
Compared with the mainland, the Hong Kong police are more like the military. They are only responsible for their own work. In times of peace and stability, even funding is restricted by other departments.
Even the ranks of the Hong Kong police can correspond to the ranks of the troops.
Ordinary police officers, senior police officers, sergeants, and police sergeants are equivalent to ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the army.
Inspector, this character who often appears in Hong Kong movies and TV series, is actually a lieutenant, equivalent to the chief and deputy platoon commander and chief and deputy company commander of the army.
Superintendent, this sounds like a very big officer. The senior police officer is actually the school officer. When placed in the army, he is the chief and deputy battalion commander. The chief superintendent is equivalent to the regiment level.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Commissioner of Police are equivalent to division-level cadres.
This can be seen from Money Empire. The police chief who was slapped in the face by Lei Luo only had the rank of colonel in the army.
Having said that, let’s return to the issue of promotion.
In peacetime, promotions in government departments are no better than those in the military.
The army emphasizes the promotion of the capable and the mediocre, especially in war years.
Take our party as an example.
During the Red Army, officers were promoted fastest, and there were many division commanders and corps commanders in their twenties.
The reason for this situation is that the army is developing rapidly. From a few thousand to tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, a large number of officers are needed.
Secondly, it was a brutal battle that caused serious losses to officers and even high-ranking officers.
Someone on the Internet made a joke. If you want to climb fast, in addition to your own ability, you also need no one in front of you to block your way.
The biggest promotion was in Stalingrad. It is said that if a soldier survives one day, he will be the squad leader, two days he will be the platoon leader, and three days he will be the company commander, because you are the only one in the company, and one week later you will be the battalion commander.
The Red Army is not so exaggerated, but still...
Many of the founding generals became company commanders from new recruits within a year of joining the revolution, not just because they were good at fighting, but because they were lucky and were one of the few old men in the company.
Later, during the Liberation War, army officers were promoted much more slowly. Many people who joined the army for several years were only platoon commanders and company commanders, and if they were lucky, they could become deputy battalion commanders.
Even less so in peaceful times.
First of all, there are few opportunities for meritorious service. No matter how many cases there are in Xiangjiang, it is impossible to compare with the war years.
Secondly, no matter how many meritorious services you perform, it is not easy to get promoted. There are people in front of you, and there is no one to give up the position. How can you be promoted?
It's okay at the bottom, but when you reach the middle and upper levels, such as superintendent, promotion not only requires someone to step aside, but merit and seniority also account for a large part.
The fact that Mr. Zhuang was able to occupy the position of No. 1 brother before his return was inseparable from his seniority as a detective. The entire police force was his juniors and subordinates, and he would not be promoted.
Hao Ren in the Independent Commission Against Corruption became the director in the 1980s because he was one of the first commissioners of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He was promoted with sufficient qualifications and merit.
Otherwise, mere merit will not suffice.
But then, there is another problem, and that is the age of the protagonist.
In the early 1970s, I was in my twenties. In the 1980s, when goddesses appeared in large numbers, I was in my thirties or even forties. In the 1990s, I was about to reach my fifth decade.
It would be inappropriate to fall in love with a goddess who is in her teens or 20s. If you force yourself, you will lose the sense of empathy.
If the protagonist debuted in the 1980s, it would be easy to fall in love with a goddess, but it would be troublesome to get promoted.
Even if college students come out, they can't come out too quickly. Before returning, the senior superintendent was already top-notch.
The world of the movie directly spans twenty years, from the first generation to the second generation to solve the transition problem from superintendent to police commissioner.
Hong Kong Movie Heroes started with business, making Lao Wang a business tycoon and the controller of Hong Kong's economy. His position as a police officer was dispensable, and he was promoted in the police force through transactions.
In a word, if I don’t work as a police officer, I can only become the richest man. By then...
Taking this into consideration, the protagonist was deliberately made younger. He was 13 in 1974, only 19 in the 1980s, and in his early 30s in the 1990s.
He is just the right age to fall in love with the goddess, and he has enough qualifications. After all, he is an old man who came out of the Lei Luo era, so he is naturally a head above the juniors like Chen Jiaju.
Getting promoted becomes much easier.
Don’t think it’s unrealistic to be a police officer at the age of thirteen.
The children of the poor become rich early.
In the Mainland, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, many children aged 14, 15 or even 12 or 13 years old did not go to school and did not want to join the society, so they had no choice but to work in factories to replace their parents. In order to successfully enter the factory, many people put their The age has changed.
There are many people who changed the age of twelve or thirteen to seventeen or eighteen.
As for Xiangjiang.
There are also many children from poor families who start working at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Brother Cheng Long's wife, Lin Fengjiao, came out to help people farm to make money at the age of twelve because her family was poor. When she was older, she worked as a dancer in a dance hall.
Sexy goddess Wen Bixia became financially independent at the age of fifteen.
If she hadn't been spotted by the great director Li Dawei while shopping with her friends and entered the entertainment industry, there would have been a little girl in the society.
In the movie "Beautiful Girl", Wen Bixia never acted so captivatingly, because this is almost her true performance.
