The trip was not smooth from the start, and the original plan was to arrive in Xiangjiang first, play for two days and then go to the capital, but the flight was cancelled due to a problem with the Air France flight.

In this era, there are not many planes in each airline, and if there is a quality problem with the aircraft, the aircraft is basically repaired first, and if the aircraft is not repaired well, the flight will be canceled, or the plane will be transferred.

Giovanne accompanied Suzanne and their bodyguards from Frankfurt to Xiangjiang, and in order not to delay their trip, Jonas and their friends could only book the most abundant Air China route in business class.

There are very few foreigners who like to sit on Air China, and the gringos of this era still have a strong sense of superiority, and they prefer to take Air France and SWISS planes.

In addition to the sense of superiority, the main problem is that Air China's current location abroad is relatively remote, not a big city at all.

This also involves the political factors of the Cold War between the East and the West.

For example, if an Air China plane flies to Paris, it needs to make a stopover in Eastern Europe, but Western Europeans can't even get off the plane when they arrive at an airport in Eastern Europe.

At such a time, Western Europeans are naturally reluctant to take Air China flights.

In order to change this unfavorable situation, Air China reopened a direct route to Europe via Sharjah in '83 to avoid this situation.

But where is Sharjah? Even in later generations, very few people know.

This is the third largest member of the UAE, next door to Dubai, which was later famous, but at this time, Sharjah was more famous.

No matter how famous it is, it's just a small town in the desert, and it's so boring that it's hard to attract Europeans to Air China flights.

Air France and SWISS flights are in big cities, and you can go shopping when you transfer flights, and you can buy some dates at most when you transfer to Sharjah.

So at the beginning, Hannah didn't consider Air China at all, but just because she didn't want to delay the time, she had to buy all the business class, so she reluctantly changed to an Air China plane.

Air China's planes are actually similar to European planes, basically the international routes are 747, or 330, but a little older.

But in fact, Air China's service is better, and the quality of flight attendants is higher. In this era, being able to work as a flight attendant on international flights is carefully selected.

Jonas and his party consisted of him and Hannah, Kostler and Dinah, Neuer and his cousin Helen, cousin Joseph, and Laken and his girlfriend Naira, plus four bodyguards, for a total of thirteen people.

Including the bodyguards, the business class took up a small half, and there were about 20 Chinese dressed as officials, and seven or eight foreigners in the business class.

Most of these Chinese are over 40 years old, and their rank is obviously not low, and each of them has one or two secretaries or interpreters by their side when they get on the plane.

Just as the plane was about to take off, they returned to the ordinary cabin.

Except for Geneva, an international conference centre, it is rare to encounter so many high-ranking officials at one time.

Moreover, in this era, they must take Air China on business trips, and the purpose is also to save foreign exchange.

Jonas was afraid of 404, and even if he saw a familiar face, he didn't dare to deal with it at will.

In fact, this group of them is also very conspicuous, the old and the young, all of them happily talking about their longing for China, and they are going to travel at a glance.

It's not uncommon to travel to China, but everyone, including the bodyguards, is arranged in business class, which is enough to show that they are extraordinary.

Several foreigners recognized Jonas and came over to ask Jonas for an autograph, and then returned to his seat satisfied.

After the plane took off, the Chinese loosened their seat belts, and several officials couldn't resist smoking and ran to the back of the plane to smoke.

In the eighties, not only smoking but also alcohol were not allowed on airplanes. However, smoking is basically not allowed in business class.

An official not far from Jonas turned around and said in English, "Hello, are you traveling to China?"

Jonas replied in Chinese: "Yes, I am full of yearning for that ancient country, which is the only ancient civilization in the world that has not broken its inheritance. ”

When the others heard Jonas say this, they couldn't help but look back, and one of the women in her thirties said in surprise: "You speak Chinese to the real standard, you are the best foreigner in Chinese I have ever seen." ”

"I'm Swiss. Jonas didn't know if he was saying it to them or to himself.

The official who accosted Jonas glanced at the woman with some dissatisfaction, and said, "Who did you learn Chinese from?"

"Self-taught in school, one of my bodyguards is also of Chinese descent. ”

Kaiya Yang spoke at this time: "But your Chinese is better than what I speak, which is really strange. ”

The accosting official ignored Kaiya Yang and said, "You are very interested in the history of China? You are a student of the history department?"

"No, I'm an economics student. ”

He finally asked. "But I think you seem to be famous...... You signed them just now. ”

Jonas laughs: "I'm a student and a footballer. ”

The officer, apparently not paying attention to the football, glanced in front of Jonas and his party before standing up and pulling out a file box from his suitcase, which he opened in his place.

Soon, he handed over a box and said, "I feel very honored that you are interested in the history of China and can speak Chinese so well." In Europe, it is rare to meet a young person like you, and this is a small gift that I hope you will receive. ”

If it were anyone else, they might think that this man was harboring evil intentions, but Jonas knew that it wasn't.

In the 80s, no matter what went abroad, I would bring a few small gifts that were not very expensive, but had very national characteristics to "international friends", the purpose was to establish the image of China in front of foreigners.

Young people like Jonas who can speak Chinese so well and have a good impression of China are the best targets of the United Front.

Huaxia, which has just opened the door to the world to see the world, is like this little by little, imperceptibly, wanting to change China's bad image in the West.

Jonas was not polite and opened the gift directly, and inside the box was an embroidered silk handkerchief.

Jonas pulled out a handkerchief, and a thrush was embroidered on it, and although Jonas did not know how to embroider, he also felt that the pattern was very complex and highly crafted.

"Thank you very much, I loved the gift. It's a very superb work of art, but I don't know if it's Su embroidery or Shu embroidery. ”

The other party was surprised for a moment and asked, "You know all this?"

Jonas smiled: "I said I know Huaxia ...... very well"

Not all of these people didn't know him, and his identity was spread among the Chinese when the plane arrived in Sharjah.

If he is just a football player, he will only be regarded as an international friend at most.

However, in addition to being a footballer, he also has a private bank at home and an investment bank with $2.3 billion under management.

Another branch of the Hoffmann family also cooperates with Huaxia, and Basel Pharma is one of the world's top five pharmaceutical companies with an annual turnover of tens of billions of dollars.

All this has multiplied his importance. When the plane arrived in the capital, Jonas and Raken had dozens of business cards in their hands.

When I came to the capital in 84, there was only one aviation building at the airport, and everything in front of me was completely different from what Jonas remembered.

Representatives of Roche and Jobs Wagner from the Swiss Embassy came to meet them at the airport, while Suzanne and Giovanne had not yet arrived in Xiangjiang.

However, with Joanna's arrangement, BMW specially shipped five BMW 745i from Xiangjiang, which is a new model that was launched just last year and is now BMW's flagship model.

The five cars were nominally purchased by the Hoffman family and donated to the Swiss Embassy and Roche Pharmaceuticals, but in reality, Joanna did not ask for a penny.

The E23 flagship model represents BMW's highest technology today, and is much more advanced than Jonas's Big G, equipped with not only fuel EFI, but also power windows and ABS.

At the customs, Jonas paid a security deposit of $23,400 on behalf of a group of thirteen people in exchange for a foreign exchange voucher of 133,380 yuan, and then the customs stamped each person's passport.

Since the beginning of the 80s, China has opened up foreign tourism, but every foreigner entering the country must pay a minimum of 1,800 US dollars in tourism fees.

This tour fee is the minimum cost, and each person must spend $1,800. Only when the consumption exceeds this amount, the remaining foreign exchange vouchers can be exchanged with the bank for US dollars at the time of departure.

During their stay in China, foreigners are not allowed to spend directly in US dollars or other currencies, and they must go to the bank to exchange foreign exchange coupons after spending them.

When Jonas came this time, he brought $50,000 in cash, which he thought was not enough to spend, but who knew that now the exchange rate had fallen.

He remembered that in the 80s, one dollar was exchanged for two dollars, and finally fell to three dollars, but he didn't expect that in 84, it had fallen to 57, and of course, the lowest in the black market was about nine dollars.

Jonas and his party have received a lot of attention, mainly because they are too stunning. In this era, except for foreign heads of state, who will get a convoy in because of half a month's travel!

Getting into the car, Jonas looked at the strange scenery and suddenly felt very depressed.

Maybe the changes within the second ring road are not very big, but on the periphery, Jonas can't find a little familiar feeling.

This is not like a separate world, but a real world, where everything is human and wrong.

Although he has always thought that he is a yellow heart in his heart, the white skin isolates all this.

The others were quite interested, especially the little ones, who were surprised to see anything.

Because they were mentally prepared, they didn't think that the capital was so backward, after all, Switzerland was originally a country that kept its classics as much as possible, and in terms of backwardness, those areas in Africa were really backward.

There are not many cars in this era, and the road is unimpeded. coincided with the workers' end time, and the army of bicycles in blue clothes on the road shocked everyone one after another.

Helen was full of admiration, from the airport to the hotel, she saw that there were probably more people from Switzerland.

Although this is an exaggeration, the population of the capital is indeed more than that of Switzerland, and in another ten years, it will exceed the population of Switzerland.

(Thank you for the reminder, I really don't dare to write about it, and the reason why there is a domestic trip is because Jonas is going to meet a long-term partner, and this partner is in the country right now.) You can guess who...... ）