After the Canton Fair was over, there was no more treatment in the bomb bay of a bomber on the return trip, and even civil aviation was not guaranteed, so he could only sit in a soft sleeper as usual.

The kind of soft sleeper that a deputy county magistrate is qualified to sit in is completely insufficient to reflect Gu Biao's grade.

The director and Director Bao went back to the capital directly, and Gu Biao had some things to do with the factory, so he went all the way with Director Chen and others, and returned to Beijing in a few days after dealing with it.

After all, there are so many new foreign-related orders in the factory, and some customers' detailed customization requirements must be finalized and conveyed by comprehensive talents who understand both professional technology and business English.

Early in the morning of May 10th, a group of people staying in Yuezhou Hotel got up early in the morning, ready to play in the city for the last half day, see the famous places in Guangdong, and then catch the afternoon train to Wuchang.

However, Gu Biao had just finished packing up when he heard Director Bao knock on the door and call him.

"Xiao Gu, a reporter came to interview the director and Director Chen, you can prepare. ”

Gu Biao hurriedly followed downstairs, and saw that several leaders were already sitting around a table in the tea restaurant where breakfast was served, and there was a female reporter sitting next to her.

He didn't have time to observe the female reporter's appearance carefully, so he sat down lightly at the bottom of the table.

He didn't think these people were here to interview him, because he was just a technical commentator to help with the negotiations. However, he was still present in case the reporter asked some questions that the leaders could not answer, and he could help explain.

However, the female reporter specially observed him for a while, and then greeted him with a relaxed smile: "Isn't this Xiao Gu? It turns out that you are transferred here, you are really capable and hardworking, I thought you were still doing pen work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." ”

Gu Biao glanced at the female reporter blankly a few times, and then vaguely remembered that it was Liu Linlin of Xinhua News Agency - half a year ago, when Zhao Yutian asked him to go to "Renren Daily", he met this reporter Liu, and the two sides also discussed some wording and organization issues.

At that time, Gu Biao and Zhao Yutian were in charge of the unsigned editorial, while Liu Linlin was in charge of the objective news report in the corner on "how the Vietnamese border troops provoked us, brutally killed our compatriots, and trampled on our soil."

"Renren Daily" is only an organ newspaper, mainly publishing editorials, advanced deeds, and discussion articles, so it will not have many reporters like local news newspapers. The Xinhua News Agency, on the other hand, is only a news agency, and it is in charge of interviewing people, and it will provide press releases to Renren Daily.

As a Xinhua News Agency reporter who specializes in reporting domestic and foreign affairs, it is not surprising that Liu Linlin may have been slightly transferred in the past six months, so it is not surprising that she came to report on the advanced deeds of the Canton Fair.

"It turns out that Reporter Liu still knows Xiao Gu, that's easy to do, don't be restrained, just talk about it. After listening to Liu Linlin's explanation, the director also understood, and the atmosphere in the venue immediately became more harmonious.

Liu Linlin returned to the topic and continued the interview: "Director, I heard that at this Canton Fair, the Qiantang Oxygen Concentrator Factory under the jurisdiction of the First Machine Department ...... in the completion of the task of earning foreign exchange through exports."

In less than an hour, a bunch of flowery advanced deeds jumped on the paper. Director Chen also fully fulfilled the friendship of the landlord of the subject of the report, and greeted the restaurant with a bunch of crystal shrimp dumplings, dried steamed roasted wheat with crab roe, Portuguese egg tarts, and tiger skin and phoenix feet......

The staff of the Xinhua News Agency enjoyed the most high-end morning tea. Even the photographer and the driver are the best hospitality, and everything that is served during the morning tea time is what you want to eat.

So except for Liu Linlin, the other peripheral staff who are not busy for the time being are full of oil one by one.

A better story is much more useful than spending money on advertising. In this era, how can local wealthy enterprises be stingy with entertainment expenses on Xinhua News Agency?

"It's really terrifying, I didn't expect Comrade Xiao Gu to play such a big role. Liu Linlin put away the interview transcript and finally sighed softly.

Then she proposed: "Let's take a group photo at the end, or if it's convenient, how about we drive to the gate of the venue to take pictures? ”

As she spoke, she looked at the photographer: "Master Xu, pay attention to the composition distance for a while, this picture is only one-sixteenth of the layout at most, you zoom in closer, don't be unable to see your face clearly." ”

Hearing this proposal, Director Chen was the first to get excited, and hurriedly said that he would go to prepare the car and pull everyone to the gate of the venue to take promotional photos.

In the end, it was Reporter Liu who humbly refused, and the director also supported Reporter Liu's opinion, so Director Chen gave up.

After all, the Yuezhou Hotel was originally for the Canton Fair, and it was only two intersections from the venue, and it took less than ten minutes to walk.

Gu Biao didn't have any concept of this matter at first, and felt that the reports were all reported, and it was just a matter of adding another photo with a picture, but other people who have been in officialdom for a long time know that this is different.

Qin Hui cared most about taking care of Fu, and taught him as an elder at the moment: "Xiao Gu, pay attention to your image for a while." That's amazing. ”

"Isn't it just taking pictures?" Gu Biao, who was not handsome in his previous life, didn't have a good impression of taking pictures. He prefers to use words to highlight his glorious image.

"What kind of attitude do you call this!" Qin Hui hated that iron could not become steel, "You have published a full-page article in Renren Daily, but it is an editorial, and in the final analysis, it is your point of view, not you! With a news report that shows your face, the situation is very different -- if you go out on business now, will anyone recognize you before you sign up?"

It is not the same as making others familiar with your name and being familiar with this face at the same time. How many high-ranking officials and officials may know their names, and their faces may not be recognized by anyone on TV, and they have to rely on the name tags placed on the table.

Gu Biao: "But how big is the one-sixteenth version of the photo, and will others remember our face?"

Qin Hui laughed angrily: "You kid...... It's really thick, this is the highest newspaper, and it's good to show our face with one-sixteenth of the page. You're Gagarin, I want to take a full page of headshots!"

Gagarin, of course, knew that it was the first cosmonaut of all mankind to go to space and return alive, and at that time it was a typical example of "proving the superiority of the social attention system over the capital attention system", and the Soviets used almost all the propaganda machine. He was therefore entitled to spend an entire page on the front page of Pravda-Pravda with a bust full of medals.

In the following 20 years, the "typical" people of the Oriental countries liked to use Gagarin as a reference when talking about their degree of typicality and how big a photo they were qualified to match.

Of course, Gu Biao and the others are not even one in sixteenth Gagarin now—not only are their photos small in size, they are not on the front page, but they also have so many people to share them.

Keep up the good work.

As the group walked to the door of the venue, Master Xu of Xinhua News Agency taught details such as standing angle and light, and with a few clicks, the work was finally finished.

A total of 5 people showed their faces in the photo, in addition to the director and Director Bao, they were Chen Sicong, Qin Hui and Gu Biao. For those officials, there is no shortage of this opportunity, but for the three enterprise personnel, this is a lucky fate, which may play a positive role in their subsequent development at any time.

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Whether you go back to the capital directly or go to Qiantang, at least the section from Yuezhou to Wuchang, everyone is on the same road.

On the train in the afternoon, Director Bao took advantage of the fact that he was on the same road with Gu Biao and began to teach him some follow-up preparations.

"Xiao Gu, this mission has been completed very well, but it has also delayed some time, the mission to Iraq is definitely a certainty, that is, it may be delayed a few days, you have to be more prepared. ”

Both of them sat in soft sleepers, with two lower berths opposite each other in the same box. Director Bao just knocked the melon seeds and explained to Gu Biao.

"When it comes to the Arabic translation of technical terms, I'll go back to talk to Isminaya, and I'll give her a good deal of etiquette and precautions for foreign affairs. Gu Biao threw two peanuts into his mouth and patted his chest to promise.

Director Bao nodded, knocked open a bottle of beer on the iron table, and poured a few sips: "Translation and etiquette are one thing, and safety must also be prepared." You don't have to worry about this, I'm just going to tell you the bottom of it-

No one has ever been to a country like Iraq, and I heard that the military are all doing things there, so it may be very chaotic. The foreign affairs department has no experience in dealing with these chaotic countries, and it is impossible to find the security personnel reserved for the embassies.

So I'm going to hire a few people here temporarily, and the bureau will provide some money, but it's not staffed, and I'll be on the spot for a while. When the time comes, you also need to get used to listening to the advice of professionals when it comes to safety. ”

Gu Biao confirmed: "You mean that you need someone similar to a foreign security company?

"Give a hundred dollars a month, and then eat and live, I don't compile it. When you come back, you will be dismissed. "Director Bao is talking about the practice of many temporary foreign affairs activities.

"More than 100 yuan a month, then many people will rush to go, right?" Gu Biao expressed doubts about the price.

Now those who have just served as soldiers are only 20 yuan a month. After the expiration of the two-year conscription service, he will be transferred to the volunteer army, 28 to 32 yuan. Therefore, the price raised by Director Bao is four times the salary of volunteers.

But Director Bao explained: "This is how it should be - when the country recruits soldiers, it is training, patrolling, and not necessarily fighting." It's just training and food, of course you can get someone for 30 yuan, and there will be a future in the future.

We are temporary workers who are completely unstaffed, and we only use them for a short period of time when we have dangerous tasks, and if we don't have more than 100 yuan a month, who will do it. ”

Gu Biao was right when he thought about it, being a soldier and eating food was "raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while". If the stage of raising soldiers is removed, and the money is directly taken and used, it will be used in dangerous situations, and the price will indeed skyrocket.

He followed the topic and asked, "Director, are you in charge of this matter directly?"

Director Bao had one thing to say: "Well, anyway, it's a temporary worker who has not been established, and the bureau has given the budget, and I will make the decision, and at most the people in the personnel department are reviewing the political reliability." However, I am going to find some veterans who have just been discharged from the army after fighting the Vietnamese, so that even the censorship will be waived. ”

Gu Biao's mind turned: "Can the demobilized soldiers who have fought the Vietnamese be directly used? Then I may know a reliable one, can you recommend it?"

Director Bao was completely unimpressed by this: "You have made several contributions to me, can I still trust you in this little thing? ”

"Okay, I have a friend who was originally from a division art troupe in the Shudu Military Region. The army was disbanded just last month, and she was demobilized and returned home to prepare for the exam. Several of her comrades-in-arms were combat heroes who had killed the Vietnamese. ”