That night, Gu Biao personally inspected the house, verified all the documents, and then signed a contract with the landlord and paid a deposit, and the follow-up procedures could be handled the next day.

770,000 yuan for the purchase of the house, as well as 20,000 yuan in advance of this year's property tax and other management fees, and the remaining transaction taxes, the total expenditure is just 800,000 US dollars.

It seems that the New York landlord had already calculated that his house was actually worth about 800,000 yuan before shipping. It's just that it's still January, and he just happened to report the property tax for the new year, so he hurried to make a move, so he lowered it in the total price in advance, which can be regarded as bearing the tax.

After the 800,000 yuan is paid, it is not directly in the hands of the seller, and the seller can only get a large part of it for the time being, and a small amount of money will be left in the hands of the insurance company that provides quality insurance for the house.

After Gu Biao lives for a few months to ensure that the house does not have any hidden quality hazards, the insurance company will hand over the money to the seller, which is equivalent to providing an intermediary guarantee.

Americans have to come into contact with the types of insurance and spend dozens of times more insurance premiums than Chinese in their lifetime. But it has also led to a significant increase in the efficiency of business transactions.

Buyers don't need to be sharp-eyed to immediately see all the quality problems of the house, as long as they take all the photos when signing the contract, and then they can move in with confidence.

If the identification conclusion is the "old injury" concealed by the original owner, the insurance company will return part of the warranty money to the buyer.

Of course, in addition to the 800,000 yuan purchase price, Gu Biao also gave McAllan a $12,000 intermediary fee - in fact, if you find a formal intermediary agency, the fee will be more expensive, and some agencies will rip off customers according to 2%~3% of the house price.

McCarron just gave Gu Biao a discount as an unprofessional underground broker, and Gu Biao didn't need the other party to issue any bills, that's all.

"Happy cooperation!" just earned more than $10,000 in extra money, which made Senior McCarran feel very good.

"You're welcome, I've saved a lot of trouble. ”

After taking care of the house, Gu Biao realized that he had a home phone number, and felt that it was necessary to notify his teachers, classmates, relatives and friends in China, so he urgently printed some business cards and prepared to send them when he arrived at school tomorrow.

In the era of mobile phones, this is a basic etiquette, especially for people with very heavy social tasks.

……

The next day, it was already the third day that Gu Biao came to Watsonton.

Professor Kissinger was finally about to officially start classes, and Gu Biao went to school early in the morning.

There is no doubt that, as Gu told Akio Morita, he drove a 1978 version of the Pontiac Firebird to school.

In the United States, you can't live without a car, and almost everyone at top universities has a car. Now that the house is so quickly purchased, the car is not a matter of minutes.

Cadillac is not a particularly expensive brand, and Gu Biao bought the highest match Firebird, which is only more than 30,000 US dollars. This kind of brand is not eye-catching on the Georgetown campus, but the style is a little arrogant.

The only drawback of this car is that it is a single-door sports car, so it can only seat two people, the driver and the co-pilot. But considering that Gu Biao has no relatives and no reason in the United States, he is originally a personal traveler, and he doesn't have to drag a large number of girls out like in China, this shortcoming is nothing.

After parking the car properly, Gu Biao walked into the teaching building of the Waltz Diplomatic College with a few academic journals and notebooks, and found the small classroom where the professor was teaching.

Before Professor Kissinger arrived, Gu Biao first sent a circle of business cards to his classmates.

When talking to Prince Abdullah, the prince told Gu Biao that he had contacted the relevant Jordanian departments last night to confirm that China was indeed still in the state of importing oxygen cylinders, and that he could consider purchasing oxygen concentrators and building a self-sufficient gas factory, and asked Gu Biao to notify the relevant units in China to go through the procedures.

"Thanks, I'll call tonight. "Gu Biao still wants to thank him, but he can't look down on these businesses now.

Go back and call my father, and then ask Ma Feng: When Ma Feng was interning at the Provincial Foreign Trade Department, did any leader treat Ma Feng well, so he rewarded him with this little credit.

I believe that forming more leaders of several provinces and departments will also help to fish Ma Feng out of the position of university teacher in the future.

After finalizing the matter, Gu Biao sat down next to the prince and quietly waited for the professor to arrive.

Five minutes later, Kissinger walked into the classroom with a lesson plan.

Kissinger was busy and crisp, without any opening remarks.

"The registration deadline for the new semester has not yet ended, so the people are not very uniform, so let's keep it simple. Today, I will continue the research direction of last semester: the current decentralization system in the United States, the negative impact on the results of secret diplomacy, and how to minimize this influence without violating the constitution.

This month, we will give two historical cases and use the analysis method I said last semester to analyze them in detail - some newcomers this semester will find other students to understand the current situation after class, so I will not repeat them. ”

In just two sentences, Gu Biao and Prince Abdullah, as well as another freshman, were abandoned, leaving them to put aside their ignorance and listen to it first.

Gu Biao and the others hurriedly made a brief note on the memo about this extra extracurricular homework exclusive to the three of them.

"Next, let's look at a case of diplomatic failure in the United States due to the separation of powers in Congress, the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles negotiated by President Wilson after half a year, and finally because the House of Representatives did not pass, the United States itself did not participate in the 'entry into force' and signed the Treaty of Versailles, and the regrettable ...... of missing out on the League of Nations."

Kissinger talked eloquently about his outline.

Gu Biao listened very carefully, more seriously than when he was in the master's research group in China.

In the first year of doctoral students, they are also required to attend classes. Especially for PhDs in liberal arts, because there is no laboratory content for you to do chores.

And some of the classes are even taken with master's students - don't be surprised if you haven't read a PhD.

The scene during the class is roughly like this:

The professor will talk about it first, but not about the specific content, but generally take a review of the professor himself and talk about the current situation of the frontier in this research field.

If the professor is not good enough, and the status of the rivers and lakes is not qualified to write a review with a high impact factor, then you can only take the review of other professors. But this will not be the case at the top universities, and with Kissinger's rank, it must be his own review.

At the end of the review, the professor will open a long list of books, tell everyone which journals and articles they need to use to understand the details of the frontier, and assign a presentation (literal translation should be called 'report/report') topic.

Doctoral and master's students go back to check their dissertations, spend one to two weeks preparing, and if they have any questions, they will arrange a Q&A course, otherwise they will wait two weeks for the presentation class.

In the presentation class, all PhDs are required to make presentations and present their research results, and other audience members can question and ask questions.

Master's students, on the other hand, generally don't need to make presentations, just listen and ask questions. And when you are named by the professor, you can state your understanding of what the senior just presented, which is a bit like an academic debate.

For graduate students in science and engineering, there are just a little less class sessions and the content is changed to laboratory content, but the final presentation and presentation link is all required. Even in many research groups, there is no shortage of "technical blows" who are only good at reporting and cannot do anything at all.

This kind of "technical blowing" is usually chatting and farting in the laboratory stage, and at the end of the presentation, he is responsible for boasting about the straw into gold bars by eloquence.

But in any case, it is the liberal arts that eat more display technology. Because after all, the report of science should be based on facts, and no matter how wrong you can blow it in your experiment, you can only wash it away at the level of interpretation of the meaning of the results.

……

Gu Biao is also a doctoral student, so he can't avoid the presentation.

Prince Abdullah and others are master's students, so next time he can just listen to other people's reports, ask a few questions at the end, or answer a few questions from the professor.

Kissinger spoke on stage for about an hour, and then laid out the topic.

“…… That's all for this time, William, Patrick, each of the four of you will go back and prepare a presentation based on today's review and the research methods of the last time, and report back on Friday. ”

Gu Biao hurriedly looked down at the calendar on the electronic watch, that is, it was to be reported on January 16th.

"Seems a bit rushed, right? Is this time urgent?" he hadn't experienced it, so he had to ask his classmates.

Senior Sarah Sandberg pouted helplessly: "It's urgent, usually it's two weeks, even if there is an occasional week's report, it's until next Monday, and you can buffer multiple weekends in between." It's never a Monday setting up and a Friday is required. It seems that the professor has a lot of confidence in you. ”

When Sarah said this, there was a slight hint of sarcasm or two.

Among the four doctoral students who have the obligation to report, only Gu Biao has just arrived this semester.

(Note: Patrick Russell and Sarah Sandberg are both theoretically sophomores.) However, as mentioned earlier, graduate students at top universities in the United States are allowed to register for any of the three semesters in a year.

So these two are not strictly enrolled at the same time, Patrick has been studying for 1 year and 2 semesters, Sarah has only been studying for 1 full year, and her future graduation will be a rolling graduation. ）

It seems that Gu Biao is under the most pressure.

His first reaction to this was naturally a little confused: "What the hell is the professor thinking? Doesn't he have a dirty job for me to do? So urgent, he actually took a week out to let me enter the research state first? What the hell?"

Kissinger, the old fox, doesn't play his cards according to the routine.

Gu Biao left the classroom with the courseware and walked a few hundred meters thoughtfully, and only then did an explanation vaguely arise in his heart: "Could it be that Kissinger wants to convince the public and hide people's eyes and ears, and stop everyone's mouth first? Let me prove my strength and tell other students and teaching assistants that I am indeed qualified to be invited by him to study for a doctorate?"

The more Gu Biao thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility.

After all, Kissinger could make sure that things were kept secret, but he couldn't force the thinking of other students and teaching assistants.

The other students under his disciple were either the crown prince of a small country, the son of an ambassador, or the young lady of an industrial tycoon and a consortium.

At best, Gu Biao is just a speculative "nouveau riche", and some people in open California may look up to him.

But in the Northeast of the United States, where old money is believed in and all the rich generation is regarded as "nouveau riche", absolutely no one takes him seriously.

In the Northeast of the United States, you have to be respected, not only to be rich, but also to be rich since at least your father and grandfather. It's more than three generations before you think you're superior.

Therefore, Kissinger is very stable, he would rather wait slowly, let Gu Biao himself show his academic quality to convince other students, and then arrange an "academic mission" for Gu Biao to go on a business trip.

If Gu Biao can't prove himself, maybe Kissinger would rather act as if nothing happened, and then he will be able to toss with Li Gen blindly whether he can buy it coldly.

He has been out of office for four years, and he has no obligation to assist Li Gen.

It's just that Li Gen is re-entering the White House after a lapse of four years. Kissinger, as a veteran of the nuclear file, wanted to help him out of the way because of his desire to "supply the nuclear file and share the same spirit," so as not to make an outrageous move and lose the prestige of the US government.

(Historically, Li Gen did mess up, and today's deal was completely exposed in '86, resulting in the "Iran-Contra" scandal, which was almost as serious as the Watergate scandal to impeach the president.) ）

But Kissinger's primary premise for doing all this is to protect himself from exposure, that is, to control the scale to "benefit others without harming himself."

Pig teammates who will affect others, Kissinger will never touch.

Based on this deduction, Gu Biao couldn't help but think: "Then what will happen if I fail to act? If my academic level seems to be completely unable to keep up with other students, will I be able to shake the pot?"

But he only thought about it for a few minutes, and then he realized that it was dangerous not to do this.

At the very least, he must demonstrate the same strength and depth as he did at home – that is, with the same skill and depth as the results he published in the Foreign Affairs Review.

Because whether it is suddenly stronger or weaker, it is easy to attract suspicion and dig deeper from others. Even if people don't think much about it for a while, in the future, the FBI agents who will investigate the causes and consequences of "Irangate" will dig three feet into the ground, and some people will always think about it.

And once he dumps the blame and doesn't do anything, he may not be really safe - he can go to the United States, he is already in the eye of the storm, and if he pretends to be stupid in battle, he will only be regarded as "You have guessed what we want to do, but because you are suspicious and afraid of being wiped out, you will pretend to be weak".

This is equivalent to peeking a few times at the place where someone else has entered, and then refusing to accept the name, which will only be more dangerous.

Therefore, the safest thing is to show that your academic level is "consistent and stable".

The publication of the "Foreign Affairs Review" shows how strong the academic strength is, and now it still needs to maintain such a high level, and even make a little progress.

"However, how can we make progress? We must not have as much understanding of US laws and policies as we do about our domestic laws. And the time was still so short, and the other members of the research group were not around, and no one was responsible for the copywriting and argumentation of 'I put forward hypotheses and others explained for me'......"