An ordinary prince who is not a crown prince, if he breaks into the palace at night and wants to ask to see his father, he will definitely not be killed by the guards.

However, if he suddenly forced his way into the palace on the night when the emperor was likely to be seriously ill and died, he would probably be killed by the nervous Imperial Guards.

After understanding a lot of Maozi's recent international response measures that seem unprofessional and emotionally unstable, and adding the variable of "emotional instability due to nervousness", many situations suddenly became clear.

Kissinger may be the only person in the United States who sees this connection for the time being, but certainly not all the time - at least he has now told his closed disciple Gu Biao that he wants to use Gu Biao's quick brain and often insight to consult with him some secret diplomatic plans that can take advantage of this, and see if he can use this knowledge to seek some benefits for the interests of the small group.

Of course, according to Kissinger's estimates, in a week or two at most, the current Secretary of State Schultz will definitely react, and then in no more than a week, he will be stabbed to President Reagan .

If the fundamentalist forces want to prove their evergreen value in US foreign affairs, they must take advantage of this time gap, first make a little achievement, and then once the president needs it, or the president has just woken up, they will doze off and send hot pillows and make the president clear.

In this way, the Holy Grace is further strengthened.

Kissinger and Gu Biao began to make various deductions, and made corresponding plans for all the possibilities mentioned in the previous thesis topics, especially according to the general ideological context of "if the Soviets have been emotionally unstable, where else may there be new situations that they have not thought of before".

This kind of thing is very brain-consuming, and for ten consecutive days of intense academic operations, Gu Biao was instructed by Professor Ji to move and move, only execute, not to be imaginative, not responsible for imagining new imaginary enemies, and to do all the plans assigned by the professor.

The time quickly advanced to mid-October.

"If something happens in Grenada, your rapid response plan is not perfect. Beginning with Nixon, our presidents have become accustomed to listening to the 'upper, middle and lower' reports and then choosing one every time. If you give him a plan directly, the president will be dissatisfied. ”

On this day, in Kissinger's office, Kissinger proposed revisions to the latest rapid response response plan that Gu Biao came up with.

There is more than one revision: "If this Argentina is fanned by the Soviets and there is a change in the response plan, it will not work, there are not many alternatives." ”

Gu Biao took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and pretended to be tired, while scheming: "Professor, we are all our own people, you should know how hard I have been these days, almost sleepless, that kind of foil plan that is destined to be denied, why let me think about it, you just find someone, or Abdullah's junior, or someone else who is reliable, just do it, anyway, Mr. President will not use it." ”

Kissinger tilted his head and thought for a few seconds, and also noticed that Gu Biao's intelligence was about to be squeezed dry, so he chose to "pinch the head and remove the tail and desensitize, and let it go".

He didn't say much about the conversation he had with Gu Biao just now, but he couldn't understand it if he wasn't a diplomatic professional or someone who had a deep understanding of the top level of the United States.

Here we have to mention a statement in Kissinger's memoirs: starting with President Nixon, because Nixon had a confrontation with Eastern wisdom for a while, and after he came back, he liked to learn the ancient Chinese art of war.

The former president of the United States also hoped that his subordinates would give more analysis options when reporting to work, but it was not so rigid. And when Nixon returned from China, it was almost a hard requirement.

This led to a large increase in the workload of many staff, and later they casually gave very unreliable alternatives to meet the president's "Party A plot".

In his memoirs, Kissinger wrote: "Some security and international relations aides, having figured out the president's temper, tend to do just that: Plan A is the one he really wants the president to adopt, while Plan B and Plan C have never thought about it."

If the president had to have three, then his aides would improvise that 'Plan B is to directly fight a nuclear war with the Soviets and end up together,' and 'Plan C is to directly admit that the Soviets have the authority to lead the world,' and at most the description was slightly embellished in words. They know that Plan B and Plan C are just to satisfy the president's desire to make decisions and will never be used, so it doesn't matter how ridiculous they are. ”

In this way, the formalistic workload of the president's aides and advisers is greatly reduced.

Kissinger himself, at this historical juncture, was transferred from Nixon's national security adviser to the position of secretary of state, so he has the most say in this kind of thing.

The reason why Nixon finally had the "Watergate Scandal" was also because his "ridiculous record, which was obviously used to accompany the run", was actually executed, and then it made a big fuss - in fact, Nixon did not gain any election advantage from eavesdropping on the people's pig stalls at that time, and he did not need to spy at all, and he could be elected president innocently.

Therefore, "Party A's desire to choose in order to show its authority" is sometimes harmful to others and oneself. In case you choose a party in your brain, you just design a plan to accompany you, and you will cry in the end.

Kissinger still knows that although there was a four-year gap between Carter, after Reagan came up, the president of the nuclear file system almost still followed Nixon's habit of "making sure to report on the middle and bottom policies" in the field of decision-making on international relations issues.

Only advisers who follow the style of giving the upper middle and lower levels will be appreciated by the president.

If you are strong, give the president only one option, and force the president to govern the way you want to go, then the adviser will soon be perceived as "trying to manipulate the president" and fall out of favor.

Anyway, this is also human nature. Even in the Donald era, people claim to have no "bureaucracy of insiders", but if Bannon really wants to engage in "only one option for the president", it is not to obediently fall out of favor and be kicked out of the White House.

Humanity cannot stand the test.

Anyone who sits in the position of US president, no matter how well he thinks about it at the beginning and encourages himself to "accept advice with an open mind and listen to it wisely," he will eventually enjoy the pleasure of being arbitrary.

Gu Biao believes that if he has the opportunity to become president of the United States, he will not be able to withstand such a test.

Fortunately, according to the United States, it is impossible for him to live in this life, saving a lot of worries about "how to prevent himself from becoming black one day".

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The above twists and turns, when Gu Biao and Kissinger talked, of course, there was no need to repeat it, it was for outsiders to see, similar to the gold medal off-court commentator on "Fist of the North Dipper".

Both of them are human spirits, and the above thoughts flashed in their minds for a second, and then they were able to talk smoothly.

"Professor, I think if you're afraid that you won't have time to complete those spicy chicken alternatives that are 'obviously going to be rejected,' you might as well take a different course and let Secretary Schultz do the work. ”

After avoiding the drudgery of doing these "meaningless" jobs in person, Gu Biao pretended to have just thought of it.

"What do you mean?" Kissinger interrogated with interest.

Gu Biao: "It's very simple, I think you, and I, have already shown their faces directly to Mr. President in the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis." What would he think if he went beyond his authority this time to directly relieve the president's worries, and His Excellency Scholz was bypassed by you?

You're planning to start a consulting firm when you retire, and you don't plan to go back and be secretary of state. In this case, it is better to bet separately and be more modest - last time I sold favors directly to the president, this time I sold them to Secretary of State Scholz.

Then, the ribs of Plan B and Plan C were left to Secretary of State Scholz to think about it. In this way, if the president really uses it in the future, he will sooner or later find out that 'this wisest and most correct option comes from our base forces.'" And those brainless B/C plans will not insult your name.

On the other hand, you can't guarantee that the president will adopt your plan every time. So if the other filings provided by Secretary of State Scholz really seem merit and are used by the president, but the final effect is not as good as the option from you, wouldn't it be even more famous and calculating?"

Gu Biao's statement is very interesting.

Find Li Gen directly, then ABC's upper, middle and lower three strategies, you have to think about it yourself before you can go to the book.

If you look for Schultz first and let Schultz find Li Gen, then only the upper strategy will be provided, and the middle and lower strategies will be left to Schultz to figure out his own way. Coupled with the fact that this was not meant to be a final report directly to the president, it was appropriate to have fewer options.

There is also a division of labor between several designers within Party B. Only the person who is responsible for Party B's external report PPT needs to give Party A's father a comprehensive option.

It's also easy to push through, how good.

The more Kissinger thought about it, the more he felt that Gu Biao's idea was a bit interesting, and he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "You guy, you're getting cheaper and cheaper!"

The cheapness here, of course, is similar to the insidious, unscrupulous compliment, but it is an omitted statement.

The old Yin beep master and apprentice discussed it, discarded those worthless alternatives, and only made Plan A and gave it to Schultz.

However, because he had already explained it just now, Senior Abdullah, and even a few others, had already happily handed in some cranky things without knowing the specific purpose of his ideas.

These things, in order not to hurt their enthusiasm, will be solemnly taken away by Kissinger on the surface, but in fact, they will either be burned or used as drafts, and will no longer appear in front of Scholz or Regen.

However, if the time is too urgent, Schultz's staff from other channels will not have time to think about plan B and plan C, and directly take away some of the abandoned drafts here for reference, and Gu Biao will not be able to stop it.

Anyway, when Professor Ji submits the official version to Schultz, he will keep files and evidence to prevent future versions from being unclear and hacked - this is a bit like the handover of work tasks in later generations, which must be confirmed by email and copied to the leader for the record, so as to prevent too many versions from ripping off.

Although there are no e-mails these days, people like Kissinger must have a way to protect themselves.

No one expected that the day after Kissinger and Gu Biao finished the plan, and the day after Kissinger handed it over to Secretary of State Scholz, Grenada was in chaos.

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