Chapter 41 Entrusted with an important task
PS: Chapter 41 starts to be rewrite, and today I will catch up with the progress again. The plot about Ye Wan's early spy is gone, so adjust and compress the rhythm.
41~46 have been deleted so far, and will be updated again tonight
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At 8 a.m. the next morning, 120 students from all over the school were already lined up in TAM Square, preparing to welcome the upcoming parade of representatives from all walks of life.
Because it was arranged by the diplomatic department, the observation location is very good.
In addition to the students, the school arranged four intern teachers to lead the team, and each grade was assigned one boy and one girl.
A large flower bed with a diameter of dozens of meters was laid in advance in the square, with colorful flags and statues on it, which was spectacular and attracted the attention of students and the melon-eating crowd.
The heads and foreign guests on the city tower will enter the venue on time before nine o'clock and receive it. For students from the Diplomacy School who are here today, watching the ceremony is not important. What is important is to hold photo albums and telescopes, then observe the foreign guests on the city tower one by one, remember their identities, and then try to remember them in your heart.
Of course, Gu Ao was no exception. He also held a white cover album in his hand and had a binoculars hanging around his neck.
Han Ting arranged Gu Ao's position to her so that she could explain it to him in person later, which made many classmates envious.
After all, all the students were accompanied by four intern teachers, and Gu Ao was almost appointed as a full-time commentator, so he naturally also had a hatred value.
However, before the official start, she did not forget to ask a few questions: "I heard that you talked to your classmates about their attitudes towards Vietnamese yesterday?"
Gu Ao was slightly nervous: "I didn't want to express my opinions casually, but someone else asked me."
Han Ting comforted softly: "Don't be nervous, I know the causes and consequences - I just want to ask, are those you analyzed by yourself? Or are there any other sources of information?"
Of course, Gu Ao gave a positive answer: "I think everything myself."
"That's very good." Han Ting nodded slightly, then instructed with a gentle intent:
"I will explain to you who are the foreign guests on the city tower. You must remember with your heart that I will tell you who are the key points.
According to the old school rules, you had to be at least a junior high school to arrange a practical internship. However, the school has been closed for 10 years and there is a huge shortage of professional talents. Recently, it has to go on intensive visits, and the staff is not enough, so you have to work hard to seize the opportunity."
"I can do it, thank you Teacher Han for your trust." Gu Ao agreed humbly.
After a while, the city tower was crowded with people, and Han Ting began to teach carefully one-on-one.
"...The third fat man on the left is Albanian ambassador Shemcha; the fourth white-haired old man is the national hero of the Czech Communist Party and General Ludwik... If the situation in these two countries deteriorates in the future, they may have to arrange a note to visit."
Gu Ao remembered it very seriously and found that those sent by Eastern European societies were generally not real power figures.
Relatively speaking, the level of visitors from several societies that pay attention to neighboring countries is much higher. For example, Han Ting points to a fat Asian face that everyone knows:
"...I don't need to introduce this. Chairman Jin from Beiyi. After 71 years, he came often after normalizing his relationship with us. However, his attitude towards us has changed slightly recently..."
After a full three-hour tour, Gu Ao basically didn't watch any fun, but just studied hard, remembering all the political leaders and personal minions - this feeling was a bit like the translator never had food at a state banquet, and could only watch the food served and then served it intact.
With about 40,000 representatives from all walks of life in the capital, they finally lined up through the rostrum, and the ceremony finally ended. Ten times the number of people watching and eating melons dispersed in an orderly manner.
Gu Ao only felt that his mind was in chaos, and hundreds of names and faces were fighting in his memory.
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However, since Han Ting had expectations for him, she obviously would not let him go.
He only gave Gu Ao half a day to sort out the old things, and he worked overtime that night to take the school exam.
There is not much time left.
Han Ting's position in the department is not high, she is just a deputy department-level minion. (The deputy department-level treatment is not a deputy director).
However, she happened to be in charge of some personnel work and reserve talents. Therefore, when the department does not have enough staff and needs to be transferred from the diplomatic college to internship, she has to check whoever is not allowed to attend.
She first asked what she explained to Gu Ao during the day, and Gu Ao said it was OK.
"It's already great to be able to remember so much in just half a day." Han Ting gave a good review and then continued to conduct in-depth investigation.
"Gu Ao, are you familiar with Albania? According to your resume, your father has served as an expert for 60 years and has helped? Do you know the history of diplomatic relations between the two countries?"
Gu Ao nodded: "Yes, it's quite familiar. At the Bucharest Conference that year, the Soviets attacked our route and officially withdrew their aid projects. At that time, the Albanians supported us at the meeting, and the Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with them and withdrew the aid experts.
At that time, the Albanians also had an oxygen generator project shut down, so the Ministry of Machinery asked my father's factory to provide counterpart assistance and take over the work that the Soviets had not finished."
In those years, because of the Sino-Soviet competition for younger brothers, the small countries in the social attention camp lived a very prosperous life.
For example, Beibang and Cuba, who were so poor in the 1990s, were so rich in the 1960s.
No matter how much coal was dug, Khrushchev instructed the Mutual Association to buy all the coal mines at a protective price higher than the average international market price. He would rather stay idle in the Donetsk coal mine in Ukraine than dig.
The same goes for Castro's tobacco and sucrose. Khrushchev promises to buy as much as you can grow it.
Although Albania later became an ungrateful wolf, since she dared to speak for China in the 1960s, she could only use the swollen face to pretend to be fat in China, and she would like to imitate the Soviets to help her younger brother.
After hearing this, Han Ting felt that Gu Ao's diplomatic history was OK, so he went further: "Okay, I understand. Then I'll tell you directly - in the future, if the Vietnamese really use force against Cambodia, the ministry will definitely arrange envoys to pay attention to all other society and pay temporary notices. This is a thankless chore. I will recommend you to Albania at that time, as well as to make the best of your talents."
Han Ting said it very tactfully, as if she recommended it so completely because she considered "your father went there to be an aid expert, so you know more about the situation there."
But Gu Ao knew that this was entirely because he was too short of experience and was too young. Albania was the poorest and the youngest among the dozen countries in which the society paid attention to.
It is the most, no one. It only has more than 20,000 square kilometers and has a population of 2 million.
"Why do you want to go to such a frustrated country? I want to go to East Germany! At least I can go to Czech Republic and Poland!" Gu Ao felt helpless inside.
But who made him just a sophomore?
If you can get an internship opportunity, it is already a blessing from the law. It is because the professional staff in the department are really not enough to give it to you.
Thinking from the perspective of others, if Gu Ao was the leader of the ministry, he would not dare to let newcomers with no experience and qualifications negotiate with the great power directly.
The rookie diplomat can only practice with the rookie country first.
After accepting this setting, Gu Ao's aura quickly regained his calmness. He asked constructively: "So, are you asking me to study related business knowledge in the past two months and prepare in advance?"
Han Ting nodded secretly: This child is not picky and can do things steadily, which is very good.
She also gave a few more advice: "Don't be nervous, our relationship with Albania has now completely deteriorated. Three months ago, after the central chief instructed to stop everything from dealing with foreign aids, they had already started to abuse us wildly. Therefore, the superiors did not expect the people on the mission to meet their preferences and improve their relationship.
However, in theoretical debate, you need to work harder. It is best to dig out the works of Comrade Marne and Ulyanov in the near future. Nicole must not underestimate Albania, which is weaker than arguing with the argument."
Gu Ao didn't understand: "How could it be? In such a poor small country, will political education and philosophical theory be very developed? I remember Teacher Miao's "History of International Political Theory" that our country has never lost in the debate over the past decade."
Although liberal arts research is not as good as science and engineering research, it can indeed be supported by one or two geniuses. But Gu Ao does not think that a small country with 2 million people can produce any master of thought.
After hearing Gu Ao's questions, Han Ting showed a bit of deep worries between her eyebrows.
"I'm just afraid that the superiors will underestimate the enemy. We have won over the past ten years, but it doesn't mean we can still win in the future. Xiao Gu, the following sentence is my experience in the past ten years. If you have heard it, don't spread it outside the box.
Whoever pays attention to society and whoever pays attention to cultivation. This kind of debate has nothing to do with a country's solid theory. The key is to see who is poor and who is reasonable.
Why aren’t we afraid of the Soviet Union’s verbal wars in the years when the Chairman was there? Because we are poorer than the Soviet Union. No matter how much the Soviet Union collects evidence, he is embarrassed to say that we are taking the bourgeois route.
Why did Albania dare to say that the Soviet Union should pay attention to cultivation, but later he dared to lose his mind and say that we should pay attention to cultivation, because it is the poorest in Eastern European countries! Their people are lazy and not enthusiastic about making money, and they lie there and say that hardworking people are speculative, so of course they have the right to do so.
Therefore, in the past decade, we have won every battle, which does not mean that we can win every battle in the future. Once we open up, once we allow the commodity economy to appear in a planned manner, the people will have a little money. Many arguments that we can use for debate will be left behind and cannot be used anymore.
This is the reason why the country needs new diplomatic talents. We must start a new business and find new theoretical evidence so that other brother countries will not stand on our opposite side at once, and give the country a transitional buffer period. The above are responsible for reforms, and we must be responsible for explaining what they do, which is a new manifestation of social attention, and it is..."
When Han Ting said this, she was a little exhausted and couldn't help but stumbling, not knowing how to summarize.
"It is a social attention with Chinese characteristics." Gu Ao subconsciously added.
Han Ting's eyes lit up, her face was confused, and then she slapped: "Yes! This word was invented well! It was said so well. Chinese characteristics... Oh, Xiao Gu, I found that you are really talented. I asked you to follow you this time, maybe I can really remind you to prevent underestimating the enemy."
Gu Ao knew that he was talking, so he hurriedly concealed: "Don't say to the outside world that I said it. I just mentioned it casually and accidentally typed Shakespeare with a monkey randomly typing the keyboard."
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