Chapter 131: Cultural Differences

I have to admit that when Gu Biao gained more than 30 years of knowledge and all kinds of declassified materials seen in later generations, he combined it with his diploma at the Foreign Affairs Academy for more than three years and systematically sublimated.

In many tricky fields, he already has the same evil and vicious as the top treacherous and cunning politicians.

At least on the events he's studied, it looks like so.

The rest of the people are naturally not opponents. And people who are motivated will naturally look for opportunities to get close to him.

Lu Guangfu pulled Gu Biao and left the teaching building for hundreds of steps, and finally stopped performing and let go of him.

The black classmate stopped at Lu Guangfu four or five steps away, saw Lu Guangfu looking at him with surprised eyes, and pointed to Gu Biao and explained with emotional intelligence:

"This Mr. Gu asked me about you just now, and I told him your identity, so I didn't cause you trouble. ”

He didn't say that he wanted to make friends with his face, but only said that he was "responsible, send Buddha to the West", which immediately made Lu Guangfu's resistance completely dissipate.

"That's really thankful, I haven't confirmed it yet, if there is no accident, classmate Gu should be my cousin. ”

"That's good, that's good. "The black classmate borrowed the slope to get off the donkey.

Gu Biao saw through their respective concerns and mediated: "I just casually said that I would invite him to dinner, why don't we talk together, anyway, the mainland has now been liberalized, and those who are allowed to contact overseas relatives are allowed to go to Wanwan." There's no need to hide it. ”

"Well, it's time to find a place to have lunch. Lu Guangfu looked at his watch.

"You wait a minuteβ€”I was walking too fast, and my girlfriend is still waiting for me in the study room next door. By the way, do you have a sister-in-law, call them together. "When Gu Biao came, he didn't let Xiao Sui follow him all the way to the class, so he was still waiting over there, and it would be bad if he got separated.

"You can do it, then pick up my younger siblings, I don't have your ability, almost all the Chinese who come to Columbia to study are men, and white people don't look down on us." Lu Guangfu subconsciously showed a wry smile of a single dog and laughed at himself.

In 1980, Chinese Americans studying in Ivy League schools, if they couldn't find other Asian girls, it was indeed difficult to fall in love on campus.

In another six or seven years, as he became richer to the point that "the money from Tokyo can buy the United States," the situation of Asian Americans will get better.

Gu Biao came over with Xiao Sui in his arms and introduced her to new friends, and Xiao Sui shook hands one by one very decently.

Because it was the first meeting of relatives who had never met before, Gu Biao naturally wanted to invite a more upscale restaurant.

He still has a little knowledge of the top luxury cuisine in New York in later generations, but considering that those Michelin stars are almost all propped up as individual chefs, most of the restaurants he has heard of in his previous life do not exist now.

So he chose the easiest option β€” take a taxi 5 kilometers along Fifth Avenue across Central Park to the Time Warner Center building.

He knows that no matter what era it is, New York's top restaurants that can find empty seats without reservations, whether it's French, Italian or Japanese, are here.

Manhattan is quite congested, and the 5 kilometers along Central Park can be driven for half an hour.

So staying in the taxi along the way, Lu Guangfu couldn't wait to ask Gu Biao a lot of questions and confirm some things. The two spoke Chinese, and the black classmates were embarrassed to hear it.

"It turns out that my aunt passed away 6 years ago...... What a tragedy, alas, it was Grandpa who owed her. ”

"How can my uncle get a divorce...... It turned out that it was a last resort in that era, well, I shouldn't stand and talk without backache, after all, you are the victims. I apologize on behalf of my grandfather. People die like lights go out, so why bother with what the previous two generations didn't do well, let's look forward. I believe that after Dad knows your situation, he will definitely be willing to subsidize and help you. ”

After Lu Guangfu asked some questions, he refused to admit that Wanwan's side owed the Gu family at first. However, later, in front of the ironclad evidence that Gu Biao posed, he had to bow his head and give in.

"Hehe, do I need your subsidy to help?" Gu Biao sneered, but he didn't go into the topic too much, so as not to hurt people's self-esteem too obviously.

Judging from Lu Guangfu's performance in just one or two hours of contact, although Gu Wei had never known each other before, his senses for this cousin were not bad, and he would not take the grievances of the previous generation out of anger on his peers.

After all, Gu Biao has very few relatives.

Chatting and chatting, the taxi has arrived at the Time Warner Center.

Gu Biao went straight to the fourth floor, asked one by one, and finally found that there was only one Japanese restaurant that did not need to make an appointment to queue, so Gu Biao took the group in. Maybe it's because in the three views of Americans today, French food is far more upscale and socially valuable than Japanese food.

"You don't mind eating Japanese food, do you? Japanese food is slower to eat, so it's good for chatting. Gu Biao asked a black classmate with care.

Of course, the black classmate said that he didn't mind, and he was originally here to get close to each other and improve mutual understanding.

Gu Biao sat down and directly ordered four $90 lunch chef sets, including service fees and taxes, for a total price of $480.

"The $1 million crude oil futures you just said can't be true, right?" Seeing Gu Biao's move, Lu Guangfu took a serious look at the amount mentioned by his cousin in the debate just now.

Originally, he still felt that he was old, and he should pay for today's meal, but looking at the price of nearly $500, he suddenly flinched a little.

The Lu family is not a super rich family. He has been studying in the United States for more than four years, and even if he has a private job and a scholarship to offset part of his expenses, his family has spent a total of $50,000, which is really a luxury.

His father, Lu Beifang, relied on being a low-level attendant military attache in the Shilin Mansion and knew a wide range of people, so his maternal relatives relied on the accumulated connections to do some small business, and share part of the profits to feed the Lu family, so that he could come to New York to study.

And just when Lu Guangfu was surprised, the first appetizer was already served, and the luxurious dish was obviously something that Lu Hei and the others had never seen before.

"It's only $1 million, and it's good to gamble 20% of the family property, but I'm young anyway. "Gu Biao doesn't take it seriously at all.

Lu Guangfu was completely shocked at this time.

He didn't expect that the mainland visitors would be so rich.

Completely subverted the propaganda he had received for years.

"Cousin, what are you studying? How can you be so generous in investment?" Lu Guangfu felt that his face was hot, he graduated from the Department of Finance of Columbia University, and he was actually not as generous as a layman in futures investment.

Although it is not yet possible to prove whether Gu Ao's investment can be profitable.

Columbia University's Department of Finance is known as the backyard of the children of Wall Street predators and ranks first in the world. A brick was thrown over and ten students were killed, and seven of them were Wall Street bankers/brokers.

Faced with doubts, Gu Biao of course had to answer: "I want to study international relations, or rather, majoring in diplomacy - I am from the Mainland Diplomatic College, a specialized school exclusive to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." ”

Of course, Lu Guangfu had never heard of a school like the Foreign Affairs Academy, which was supported by administrative power, and after thinking about it, he suddenly realized: "Oh, that's about the same as our Georgetown University?

"It's understandable. Gu Biao couldn't find a more appropriate analogy.

Georgetown University is not very famous in the world, and it is one level weaker than the Ivy League universities in the United States, and can only barely rank among the top 20 universities in the United States all year round.

However, the location and history of this school doomed it to be strong in certain areas - the school was founded in 1789, the year Washington was elected president and the United States was officially founded. The location of the school is also in the capital city of District Columbia.

(Note: For the first 10 years after the U.S. capital is selected, it can only be called the District of Columbia.) It wasn't until 1799, 10 years after the founding of the country, that in memory of Washington,)

Since the establishment of Georgetown University, it has been customary to have a mission: to allow the retiring secretary of state to make good use of it.

The Secretary of State, who later became the Secretary of State, is actually the same word, and the domestic translation is different, because the early Secretary of State in the United States actually had to assist the president in many things, and there was only one "ministry" at that time.

Later, more and more "ministries" were gradually divided, and the functions and powers of the Minister of State were divided one by one, and finally there was only one equivalent to the power of the foreign minister of other countries.

This history has not changed for 200 years, for example, Mr. Kissinger, the former secretary of state, who stepped down three years ago, is now temporarily returning to Georgetown University to teach. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is now preparing to challenge the next secretary of state, also went to Georgetown to teach after the failure of the attack. (Because he failed, Columbia looked down on him and didn't let him go back to teaching.) And Georgetown's convention is to cover for the secretary of state who can't find a way out)

As a result, Georgetown University has become similar to West Point's personality over time: West Point needs to always provide the United States with military personnel for the Department of Defense, and Georgetown University needs to always provide the United States with civilian personnel from the U.S. Academy.

Therefore, since the end of World War I, Georgetown University's "Diplomacy and International Relations" program has been recognized all over the world as the world's No. 1 program, and no one has questioned it for 60 years. After all, you can see seven or eight former secretaries of state on campus coming here to make a job.

When you go to Georgetown University, if you can study international relations, the strongest major, then after you go out, you will definitely not lose to the Ivy League eight schools. Spicy Chicken is just other majors at Georgetown University (relatively Spicy Chicken, and Spicy Chicken is also in the top 20 in the United States).

And after listening to Gu Biao's acquiescence that he was "about to graduate from Georgetown University in the East", Lu Guangfu did not dare to despise Gu Biao's academic level and treated him as a top student.

This cousin is not only super rich, but he is also so good at reading.

"Then what is the business of your visit to the United States? How did you arrange your itinerary? If I can do my best to help you. Lu Guangfu courteously courtesy.

Gu Biao: "It's nothing, it's mainly an investigation, and I want to seek technical cooperation for an electronic company of my friend." At present, the tentative cooperation intention is KUKA robots, and the follow-up may go to Silicon Valley. ”

Lu Guangfu didn't expect that it would be such a technical investment, and he, a pure financial and legal guy, might not be able to help much.

He thought for a moment: "Do you need me to help you provide legal services? I also graduated from the Department of Finance of Columbia University, and I am also studying international business law, so it is still possible to help you draw up investment contracts and avoid some obstacles and risks."

But your product, it seems to be very biased towards digitalization? Or computer? In our school's Wanwan Fellow Association, I know a student from the computer department, his name is Li Kaifu, and he is also talented, and he has followed the tutor to do some automation programming topics in his sophomore year, I don't know if you can use it? If you are not busy, you will see you at that time. ”

"I'm not busy, I'm just going to take a look. Gu Biao seemed very easy-going.

Zhedong Pifu said

Yesterday, a book friend persuaded me not to "punish without teaching" and interrupt the reminder activity without authorization, I think it's right, just give everyone a buffer period. Thank you for the tipping from the helmsman "Amazing Magician". However, I want to emphasize that this change is not for a helmsman to add a change, mainly to prevent "punishment for not teaching", my worth is not a helmsman can ask for a change, never. I also hope that everyone will not be impulsive to reward, as long as it is good to ensure that the genuine version is fully ordered.

Tomorrow, the new activity of "3,000 recommended votes per week, only three more days, and 20,000 votes capped" will be officially implemented.