Early in the morning, before dawn, Zhou Yingyao went out.

Nordic is an extremely harsh area, and what is particularly unbearable is the length of day and night. Most of the year here is more night than day and work day and night. For Swedes and Norwegians, it is the most common, but it does not mean comfort, especially for outsiders like Zhou Yingyao. If possible, he usually does not go out early and come back late.

It’s not only dark in the morning, but also very cold. Although you can wear thick clothes on your body, your face and ears will suffer.

Zhou Yingyao showed no hesitation today.

He held the insulation bucket in one hand and the insulation box in the other. When he arrived at Hilton, he called Yang Rui in advance before taking the elevator.

When he knocked on the door, Yang Rui greeted Zhou Yingyao in his pajamas and said, "I'm sorry, I just got up and didn't have time to change my clothes."

"It doesn't matter, it's because I came too early." Zhou Yingyao made an appointment with Yang Rui last night, and at this time she sat on the sofa in the suite with a smile.

Hilton's suite is not big, it is just a bedroom and a small living room, but it is completely beyond the consumption level of domestic cadres.

Zhou Yingyao placed the insulation bucket and insulation box on the coffee table, looked at the room, and said, "Tofu brain and fried dough sticks, I asked the canteen to prepare in advance, it should still be hot."

He opened the insulation bucket containing tofu brain and saw the steaming heat inside.

Zhou Yingyao fanned his hands in the air, smelled the smell, took a deep breath, and sighed: "It's pretty good, no problem, it's the smell of tofu brain. Oh, look at me, I miss home when I say I'm eating tofu brain. Come on, I'll scoop it for you, you're still salty."

Faced with the serious question Zhou Yingyao asked suddenly, Yang Rui hesitated for a moment and said, "It's so spicy."

"There are also spicy, I brought them all." Zhou Yingyao's proud spoon made a bowl of tofu brain for Yang Rui and made another bowl for himself, then sighed and said, "You don't know how difficult it is to eat a bowl of tofu brain when we first arrived in Sweden. By the way, you may not know that this tofu brain was ground by our embassy staff."

"Has you ground it yourself?" Yang Rui tasted it in surprise, nodded repeatedly, and said, "It tastes really good."

"No, grinding tofu is a tradition of our embassy, ​​which has been trained from generation to generation. When the museum was built, someone wanted to eat a bite of tofu and searched all over Stockholm and couldn't find it. There was no way, so he found a bite of graphite from the local Chinese. When everyone had time, they would use human grinding instead." Zhou Yingyao smiled and said, "Whenever the ambassador comes, we will introduce our stone grinding to him, and some ambassadors will take time to grind it in person."

Zhou Yingyao paused and said, "When Ambassador Ling Zhiming arrived at the embassy, ​​we told the story of graphite. He came here once later, but after only a few strokes, he left. However, he still likes to eat tofu brains, and he has to eat it once or twice a week."

"Amistantor Ling went to Chad, I don't know if he could buy soybeans." Yang Rui was fascinated by his side. He was somewhat dissatisfied with the ambassador.

Ling Zhiming agreed to his request and made him relax his vigilance. As a result, after arriving in Stockholm, he became an orphan with no one around, almost causing huge losses. In fact, he had caused considerable losses, and Yang Rui's plan was delayed, and even the plan itself was modified.

To be honest, Yang Rui doesn't know what Ling Zhiming's true thoughts are now, because he did not see Ling Zhiming, and the information he received is also from others. Compared with the information brought by Zhou Yingyao, the information provided by Wang Kuo is less accurate.

However, no matter what Ling Zhiming's true thoughts are, Chad is not only in central Africa, but also in wars all year round. Its political state can be described as an uncontrolled underworld form with a nominal boss. The gangs gathered together in various names have been repeatedly banned, using both large blades and AK47. The construction level of its capital is basically equal to the level of townships in China inland, which is worse than that of Xibao Town.

For ordinary officials, diplomacy in such a country may illuminate the corresponding political future. However, for Ling Zhiming, who is looking forward to retirement, he is probably not very happy.

Yang Rui felt that the leadership of the ministries was quite interesting. Since Ling Zhiming could avoid trouble in order to have a stable life, he would let him go to an uneasy place to continue hiding and seeking, which really did not waste his talent.

Zhou Yingyao followed Yang Rui's expression, and saw that he had indeed spoken to Chad, and immediately confirmed Yang Rui's tendency and followed Yang Rui's words, saying: "Ambassador Ling is indeed a little unscrupulous, he is a person who likes to follow the flow. When he arrived in Chad, he didn't know if he could handle it."

"Chad is full of war, and slickness is more important than doing things." Yang Rui commented lightly, and also commented on Ling Zhiming.

Zhou Yingyao knew it clearly and said no more, and advised: "Try this fried dough stick, don't say it. In China, I see that fried dough sticks are easy to make. After I went abroad, I couldn't even find the right flour. The noodles from foreigners are more vigorous and they are tired when kneading. The fried dough sticks made are not delicious. In the end, we bought free exports from the United States."

Zhou Yingyao smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "In Sweden, American food is relatively cheap and synonymous with junk fast food."

Yang Rui took a bite of fried dough sticks, and it really tasted very domestic. When he was abroad, the taste of his hometown was the best. Yang Rui raised his thumb, swallowed the fried dough sticks, and said, "You are indeed good at it. Well, wait a moment, I'll call Jing Yulan to eat together."

He didn't ask Zhou Yingyao for his opinion and went to call himself.

After a while, Jing Yulan, who was wearing casual clothes, knocked in the door and came in. Her face was a little red, but Qiao was still calm.

"Try it and it tastes similar to what we eat in Beijing. It didn't take long to come out, and I couldn't adapt to their taste at once." Yang Rui shook his head and personally prepared tofu brain for Jing Yulan.

No matter how stupid Zhou Yingyao was, he knew that Yang Rui and Jing Yulan had a close relationship. However, he not only did not want to evaluate the two of them, but was happy in his heart. He felt that Yang Rui did not avoid him, so he invited Jing Yulan to trust him. Therefore, Zhou Yingyao's tone became bolder and said, "Director Yang, do you know the new ambassador, Ambassador Cao Da and Cao?"

"Don't you know it, do you know it?"

"My father-in-law has an old relationship with him, so he may be able to get in touch with him." Zhou Yingyao took the initiative to release his relationship line and handed it to Yang Rui.

Yang Rui looked up and smiled, "That's good. I originally wanted to ask Guo Wei how to contact him. It would be best if you know him. I'll ask you to recommend him at that time."

"No problem, I'll ask him for a chance." Zhou Yingyao thought: "We are in Sweden, and our favorite food is Chinese cuisine, followed by French cuisine. Occasionally, there are banquets from the French Embassy, ​​and everyone is willing to go there. Why not invite French cuisine? Ambassador Cao came from the Marseille Consulate and might still miss it."

He knew that Yang Rui was rich, so he didn't save him.

Yang Rui shook his head and said, "I can't wait that long. After Ambassador Cao comes, he will hold a dinner party. We will meet at the dinner. By the way, your embassy should hold the dinner a little better. You can invite more people from all walks of life in Sweden to come, so that it is more natural and not abrupt."

Zhou Yingyao suddenly appeared what his father-in-law said to him yesterday - "The benefits of the new ambassador."

Zhou Yingyao was very suspicious whether Yang Rui regarded the value of the new ambassador as a dinner party.

However, seeing Yang Rui's confident appearance, Zhou Yingyao felt very strange, so he said, "Director Yang, you have a great reputation in China, and you must have all your wishes abroad..."

"Maybe in a few years, of course, it's up to people." Yang Rui was indeed quite confident.

It should be said that the good domestic situation gave Yang Rui a lot of room for migration, allowing him to gather more resources and gain more support. For example, Ambassador Cao Da was specially transferred from Marseille, because he has always been a type of person who supports domestic scientific research and local innovation of domestic scientists. During his tenure, he also organized exhibitions and performances of domestic artists abroad many times. He was not only a revolutionary figure, but also had practical experience.

Being able to hire such a person to be transferred to Sweden to protect himself was also the result of Yang Rui's years of reputation accumulation.

When it comes to reputation, it is invisible and intangible, but when it faces the scenery, it can play a role.

Before Wang Mang usurped power, he could get support from the government and the people in whatever he did. After usurped power, he would fail to do anything. He would be a swear word from the government and the people in whatever he did. What variables had changed? It was reputation.

Yang Rui has not only made practical achievements over the years, but also won a large number of supporters.

Not to mention the other side, the young and old men of the Deling Group alone helped Yang Rui a lot. After three or four years of development, some of them restored their previous power and even made some progress. Some of them left the country, but they were still able to exert considerable influence. Their gratitude to Yang Rui was not only out of their original intentions, but also out of a collective will - helping Yang Rui is the collective will of the people who returned from the Deling Farm. Following this thinking is to make contributions to the Deling Group, and against this thinking, it is equivalent to deviating from the collective course.

If Yang Rui had been in politics, the young and old men in the Deling Group might be more reserved, but when he entered the academic community and was doing well, everyone would help him without any scruples, let alone Yang Rui was very good at being a human being, never letting them make things difficult for them, and often rewarded them.

In addition, Yang Rui's reputation at Peking University and the Academy of Sciences is also very good.

The Chinese academic community respects the capital city, and the three pillars of the capital city academic community are Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, without exception.

In such an environment, Yang Rui can form a great force by slight instigating the trend.

The 1980s was the last elite era in China. Poets could go all over the country with shouting "The night gave me black eyes", and Peking University students could also raise the banner of "Hello Xiaoping" to travel through Tiananmen Square. Mou Zhong shouted "Crack through the Himalayas" and traveled all over China. The so-called leadership power has made this era turbulent and brilliant...

And this gathered power also paved the way for Yang Rui.

There is no other era that requires the Nobel Prize to prove itself more than China in the 1980s.
Chapter completed!