"Comrade, do you have something to do? There is a class inside, please don't dangle in the corridor. ”

Han Ting passed by the lecture hall where she was teaching the "Introduction to International Relations" class to the 77 students, and saw a person wearing a structured Mao suit and looking like a cadre poking his brain at the door, so she went over to remind him.

Bao Chengcheng turned his head and looked: "It turned out to be Mr. Han, Bao Chengcheng from my first machine department, do you remember?" ”

Han Ting thought about it for two seconds and reacted: "Oh, you're here to find Gu Biao, I'll help you call him out, it'll be better after class for a while." ”

Half a minute later, Han Ting quietly led Gu Biao out.

This scene also fell in the eyes of the students in the big class, but it did not affect the classroom discipline.

Only a few classmates who were sitting by the window vaguely heard the cause and effect: it was someone from the First Aircraft Department who came to ask Gu Biao to prepare for a mission abroad.

They immediately couldn't sit still.

Since December last year, when the students were preparing for the diplomatic work of starting a war against Vietnam, they have not been able to get a mission abroad for two or three months, so they are naturally extremely sensitive to this information.

With the disparity in material conditions at home and abroad at that time, going abroad was addictive. Because Gu Biao has more knowledge of later generations, he has never seen anything in the world of flowers, which is somewhat better;

And those who can't predict the future, a considerable part of them will despair because they see the prosperity outside, and at the same time be more envious of those who can go abroad.

As soon as he finished chatting with Bao Chengcheng, more than a dozen classmates surrounded him and asked him this and that.

"Gu Biao, are you going abroad again? Tell me where you're going this time!"

Everyone's eyes were full of eagerness.

Ma Hui, who is in the same class, has now talked to Lu Jianjun, and at this moment she secretly screwed her boyfriend and scolded him: "If you have time to think about those who don't! It's better to dig out opportunities abroad like classmate Gu!"

All kinds of human feelings are seen in Gu Wei's eyes, and his heart is quite complicated.

There are two sides to everything, and while the foreign affairs activities in the 80s cultivated a large number of talents, it is undeniable that there are some mud and sand.

Some people fall for what they see when they see that "all foreign-related money is easy to make."

Not only do many civilians in coastal cities feel that "as long as they go abroad, even the most unskilled work will be faster than being a high-class person at home".

Even at a prestigious school like the Foreign Affairs University, after graduation, there are people who would rather not join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and quit their jobs to become field tour guides.

For example, Huang Jianxiang, a famous CCTV commentator, mentioned: In the mid-to-late 80s, when they graduated, they went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the third secretary of the embassy abroad, or the same level of reserve talents, and the monthly salary was more than 600 yuan.

Although this was an absolutely high salary at that time, 600 yuan was too little compared with other talents who were proficient in the "ability" of "English" - the field guide earned the tip of the American himself, which was converted into RMB 200 yuan a day, and he could earn 5,000 yuan a month every week.

There are even graduates who sell their selling point that they "could have been diplomats" when they take jobs to satisfy the self-esteem of American imperialist tourists.

As soon as the other party saw the graduation certificate, he immediately took a Franklin tip ($100), and then took a large number of photos (to take a group photo with the graduation certificate in hand, and to take a group photo with the campus loan to borrow money, to hold up the ID card for a group photo), so that the local tyrant can share the "circle of friends" after returning to China: I just went to China for a tour! And it is a state guest treatment, and the other party's quasi-diplomatic personnel are hired to receive it!

The face is similar to the micro-business of Xiti 30 years later.

Where there are people, there is a market for pretending to be a forced value transaction, and there is envy, jealousy, hatred, and distortion.

It is not surprising that among Gu Biao's classmates, two or three of them in each grade eventually failed to achieve positive results, but were tempted to fall.

"It's nothing, I don't go abroad, I just go to Xiangjiang to help the comrades of the First Machinery Department talk about some foreign-related intellectual property cooperation. After Gu Biao finished with emotion, he did not forget to answer the questions rigorously and positively.

"Go to Xiangjiang, isn't that a trip abroad~" Ma Hui, who loves Ronghua, pouted and whispered.

Gu Biao said with a straight face: "Classmate Ma! You can't talk nonsense! We can also be regarded as people representing the country, and Xiangjiang has been my country's territory since ancient times!"

Now there are still five years to go before the Sino-British negotiations, and most people have no sense of belonging to Hong Kong. However, the top students of the Foreign Affairs University know the big causes and consequences here. As soon as Gu Biao reminded him, everyone immediately changed their minds.

However, I also secretly felt that Gu Biao was hypocritical: "Anyway, it's all capital that pays attention to the world, this time you eat alone, don't forget to bring something to everyone~"

"That's a must, it's within my allowance. Gu Biao agreed very happily, which slightly soothed the envy and jealousy of his classmates.

……

Two days later, Gu Biao completed all the preparations and asked for leave. At the same time, he exchanged foreign exchange according to the prescribed maximum amount, about 500 Hong Kong dollars.

Early in the morning, the First Machinery Department sent a Hujiang car to the Foreign Affairs University to pick up Gu Biao.

When Gu Biao got into the car, he found that Director Bao was already sitting in the outer seat of the back row, and Director Bao's secretary, a young girl surnamed Qin, was sitting in the passenger seat.

It seems that they don't take a stand at all - Gu Biao originally planned to sit in the co-pilot by himself.

The students watched with envy as the sedan went away and went straight to Chongwenmen Railway Station - there was no plane ticket in the ministry, so the group could only take the train to Yuezhou first, and then transfer to the Guangdong-Hong Kong Railway to the port by the Shenshi River.

Director Bao waited for him to sit down, and asked half-jokingly: "The suitcase is so small, is the instant noodles enough?" A bowl of the worst Chaos noodles on the street over there costs seven Hong Kong dollars, enough for us to eat five catties of black market pork here." ”

Gu Biao explained: "Can I find a department store in Guangdong and buy it again?" ”

Director Bao was stunned: "It turns out that your kid only uses foreign exchange as money, and the national food stamps are not taken seriously." If you do this, you will suffer in the future, and the national food stamps are also a good thing, and if you want to subsidize your family in the future, it will be very useful. Like me, everything I can buy in the capital is bought in the capital. ”

If you go to Guangdong to buy food, of course, you need national food stamps/meat stamps, and if you buy daily necessities, you also need industrial stamps. However, as a diplomatic department, there are still plenty of national tickets for each time you go out in the field.

Especially for short-distance land trips, the state hopes that diplomats will buy more daily necessities before leaving the country.

The problem that can be solved with a national food stamp of 50 yuan will never cost an extra 1 yuan of foreign exchange.

The shortage of foreign exchange in the country can be seen from this.

After hanging on the sleeper for two days, during which he stopped and transferred trains in Guangdong, Gu Biao also went to the city to find a department store to replenish a lot of daily necessities, and then the group arrived at the port smoothly.

When passing through Bao-A County, there was a section of the railway built along the gentle slope of the seashore, and when the train passed, Gu Biao looked out of the window and unexpectedly saw a shocking scene.

The Shenzhen Bay Area is four or five kilometers wide, and at a glance you can see the mangrove forests on the opposite side, and you can see batches of floating corpses.

Feeling a little nauseous, he turned his head and closed the curtain of the car window.

Director Bao was more knowledgeable about the situation and comforted Gu Biao: "I heard that because of the war in the south, the escape from Hong Kong here has also reached its peak, and one or two hundred people have drowned every day in the past two days." There may be thousands of people who managed to escape. ”

Before the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in 79 and after the war against Vietnam, it was the peak of the wave of fleeing Hong Kong. The state clearly records that about 100,000 people have successfully escaped throughout the year. But for every 100 escapes, about 15 percent drown.

Later, the state also learned about the people's suffering, and quickly announced two policies in the middle of the year:

First of all, regardless of whether they pass the college entrance examination or not, educated youths can return to the city in batches.

Secondly, the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone will refer to the employment and investment and taxation systems of Hong Kong to a certain extent.

Since then, the tide of smuggling has been stopped overnight.

In the final analysis, the people just need a place where they can work overtime legally, sell more blood and sweat and make more money.

"After 30 years, the standard of living of these people is no different from that of those who stayed on the shore. Is it worth blocking the 15% mortality rate for the sake of a 30-year time difference?" Gu Biao couldn't help but think.

"Do you think we will be able to catch up with the development level of Xiangjiang in 30 years?" Director Bao felt that Gu Biao was a little whimsical.

"Yes, I really think so. Gu Biao said with certainty,

"Now we think that a bowl of chaos noodles at 7 Hong Kong dollars is very expensive, but it may only rise to 10 yuan in 15 years, and it will only be 20 yuan in 30 years.

But on our side, it may be 1 cent to buy a bowl of sesame oil noodles in Bao-A County now, and it may be 10 yuan in 30 years. ”

Director Bao pondered Gu Biao's statement silently, but Secretary Qin was a little breathless, and retorted solemnly:

"Inflation? That's the problem that capital is paying attention to the country! How can we be inflationary! That's not going to live. Besides, how do you think bloat is a good thing?"

"Of course, inflation is not a good thing, but it also has to grow the economy for the people to afford such inflation, right? Gu Biao knew that it was difficult to explain this, so he just mentioned it casually.

If Secretary Qin asks aggressively, he plans to surrender and lose half.

"Exposed to so much foreign affairs work, but not envious of foreign countries, this little comrade is a talent that can be created. Director Bao watched coldly, and secretly put another label on Gu Biao in his heart.

Nowadays, there are too few foreign affairs personnel who do not envy the outside world and really think that the country can catch up.

It's not that they're not strong-willed, it's that they see things that ordinary people can't see, and they're more likely to despair.

While the group was talking, they had reached the border.

After getting off the train, a jeep took everyone to a guest house near the border.

Director Bao explained: "We will live here, and in the future, we will drive 20 kilometers out of the country every day to do errands, and then come back at night." Anyway, we have diplomatic passports, so it's very convenient to pass through the customs and save some foreign exchange for the country. Only for lunch you need to eat instant noodles in the city. ”

Saving foreign exchange is also miserable enough.

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The book has just been revised.

Everyone should also pay attention to comments in the future, and do not deliberately cause other people's vicious associations.