In later generations, some people often complained that the number of visa-free countries for Chinese passports is too small and inconvenient. But on the other hand, the domestic examination of foreigners entering the country is also quite strict.

Although from a diplomatic point of view, visa exemption does not have to be reciprocal, in most cases, whether you are exempt from a visa to someone else will also affect whether someone else gives you a visa exemption.

For example, on the famous Sino-US issue, from the late Clinton period to the O'Dark Horse administration, for nearly 20 years, the U.S. U.S. House actually wanted to extend the maximum number of long-term business visas for Chinese elites to the United States. But the relevant departments feel that the harm outweighs the good, and it will make it easier for the rich to emigrate and escape, so don't do it. Therefore, both parties will default to not developing the visa for more than one year, or you will just get the green card.

Therefore, for a long time, it was actually more difficult for foreigners to come in than for Chinese to go out. Even in the 2010s, the 15-day visa exemption opened in China was only for the three countries of Yueben, Li Jiapo and Brunei.

In the 1980s, Li Jiapo and Brunei had not yet established diplomatic relations with China. All over the world, if you want to "go on a trip to China", you can only do it with a passport.

(Note: 1992~2010, this passport is recognized as the most convenient passport in the circle, which is more convenient than Germany and the United States, because the German and American passports can go to places without visas, and I can basically go to them, at most a few small countries in Eastern Europe and East Africa.) And I said that I have one more direct to China, so the gold content has increased greatly. After China's visa-free treatment of Li Jiapo, the comprehensive convenience rate of Li Jiapo's passport rose to the first place in the world. ）

Even if a Monegasque holds a French passport, he will be subjected to various interrogations when he enters, and it is not something that can be done in a day or two, unless the other party brazenly applies for a diplomatic visit.

And this is obviously impossible.

Therefore, Gu Biao still has a little time to prepare.

He secretly contacted Tiffany to check on the progress of her trip. I learned that she successfully applied for a travel visa, followed the team of art collection to "literary and artistic exchanges", and was able to depart in about three days, transfer in the middle, and arrive in China in five days——

In 1981, China's civil aviation did not open direct flights to France, and foreign airlines were not allowed to operate commercially in Chinese airspace, so they had to fly from Paris to Moscow, and then transfer to Air China flights to Moscow. (At that time, administrative regulations already allowed private charter flights to enter China's airspace after applying for routes, but commercial flights were not allowed to enter.) ）

Tiffany also secretly shared more information, oh, it shouldn't be a little secret to Gu Biao.

Because the little girl who has just finished her first year of high school does not have the string of "intelligence" in her mind at all, in her eyes, all privacy is "little secret" rather than "intelligence".

"The director my mother was looking for was Bertolucci, an Italian, a forty-year-old uncle. I just visited my father and mother in Cannes a while ago, so I was dragged here.

He doesn't seem to have anything to do lately, he's going to take a break, and he has no plans to prepare a new film. When the time comes, let's just play our own as if he doesn't exist. ”

When Gu Biao heard the name Bertolucci, he had a vague impression, and then he thought of "The Last Emperor".

Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. And this director was nominated for Cannes in 81, and he didn't make much achievements in history for five or six years, and only started to work on "The Last Emperor" in 86. In the middle, I only made a small film that was not well-known, and I went to the Venice Film Festival to be the president of the jury once.

However, Gu Biao thought about it, and it seemed that an Italian would not take the initiative to shoot such a part-of-the-road theme as "The Last Emperor of the East".

In history, the reason why Bertolucci was dragged should be that in 1985, CCTV first filmed Uncle Daoming's TV series version of "The Last Emperor", and then took the TV drama script to sell it, begged foreign directors to make it into an art film, and rushed to the Oscars, so as to contribute something to the export of traditional Chinese culture, which was the initiative of the Chinese side.

Now the people of CCTV should not even have thoroughly studied how Pu Yi's autobiography "The First Half of My Life" was scripted, and there is no such risk for the time being. GU BIAO CAN COMPLETELY CONTROL THE RHYTHM OF THE SCENE.

It's a big deal that when the people in the cultural department really find out that this is an Italian director who is still a little famous, and beg him to do some other private work to promote China, it doesn't care about the matter, and it won't change history.

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"There are still five days to go, so what fun can I arrange? Coming to China, at best, is to visit natural scenery and historical sites. But these are the proper meanings of the question, and what foreigners expected is not enough to surprise them. To catch that little girl's surprise, you have to make a little bit of surprise. ”

The next day at work, Gu Biao was a little absent-minded, and he was always thinking about the reception.

When he was about to have lunch, Director Bao passed by his desk and patted him on the shoulder: "Xiao Gu, seeing that you have been restless all morning, let's go, eat something and be busy." ”

"Yo, Uncle Bao, I'm sorry I just got distracted, I didn't see you coming. Gu Biao came back to his senses.

"Hey, be polite to me. ”

The two talked and laughed and went to the cafeteria.

In the middle of summer, Gu Biao's appetite was not very good, so he asked for two warm buns, and didn't order the hot dishes that had just come out of the pot.

"Young people eat so much, have they never experienced hardship and starvation? At our age, we can eat no matter how hot it is. Director Bao kindly despised and teased.

Gu Biao bit the vegetable bun and said in a negotiating tone: "Uncle Bao, I may have foreign friends who want to travel to China recently, and they are looking for me to play, their status may not be too low, and they don't want to alarm the reception department too much." I may have to take another day or two off at that time, you don't think there will be any delay. I'll go back and work overtime to get the job done. ”

Director Bao glanced at him gossipily: "Isn't his status low? Could it be those graduate students brought by Professor Kissinger?"

Gu Biao's eyes lit up, and he found that there were some things that he had been brewing for a long time as an excuse, and it was better to wait for the other party to make up a reasonable reason on his own.

Indeed, if a person like Gu Biao has a foreign dignitary come to play with him, the biggest possibility is that he is a fellow student at Kissinger's place.

Patrick Russell, the child of Alcatel's big shareholder, is already the humblest of all graduate students. The rest are either princes or the second generation of foreign dignitaries.

"It is true that I met a foreign friend through Professor Kissinger's connections. Gu Biao hurriedly slapped the snake with the stick on the premise of not deceiving people.

Director Bao: "Then you'd better talk to the deputy director in the afternoon, the leaders must understand." For the rest, you are more familiar with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs than me, so let them write a letter to you, and then you can drive away the escorts who are on official business. ”

Gu Biao felt that this idea was good, and thanked him at the moment.

"Thanks, please go out and play something new in two days. ”

Bao Mian was embarrassed: "Isn't this okay?"

Gu: "It's not for fun, it's for everyone's comments to see if there are any potential service flaws that I haven't noticed that might make foreign guests unhappy." This is a test product that annoys you to test, and it is a contribution to the country. ”

Director Bao put on an unshirkable expression: "That's as it should be." ”

When he went to work in the afternoon, Gu Biao handed over a letter to the deputy director, asked for leave, and then went to the foreign affairs department to complete the reception procedures.

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After getting off work, Gu Biao had already figured out a plan, so he drove straight to a small shop that he had built with Qin Guogang, Director Bao and other colleagues a few days ago.

It was a three-story western-style building in the direction of Chongwenmen on Qianmen Street, and there was an earthy sign of "Rock Club" hanging at the door. The first floor is a bowling alley, the second floor is a dance hall, and the third floor is a place to eat. (Gu Biao and his colleagues will never go to hide dirt)

At least for four or five years, the most enlightened entertainment venue in the capital can only do this.

The rest of the units that receive foreign guests, such as the Friendship Hotel or something, may be more fashionable than here, but they are all state-run and do not dare to take risks and innovate.

Because he has been here to play twice, Gu Biao's face and the car boss recognize it. Those who do this line of work must have sharp eyes and wide faces.

As soon as Gu Biao walked a few steps into the door, a 30-year-old abrupt old cannon with a cigarette in his mouth and a little bald came over to greet him: "Yo, Gu Shao, what about a person, are you not invited today?"

This person is none other than the boss here, named Feng Pao. Chengnan was born in a stubborn youth, and he survived in a special era, and he hid in the frontier as a soldier for a few years, and later engaged in literary work and made mistakes to transfer to the army, and returned to the capital to get a little capital, and just set up an individual entertainment venue.

In the dance hall on the second floor, there are even intermittent shelters of a handful of the earliest underground rock in China.

In these years, as long as you can get a self-employed license, have capital, and are not afraid of being embarrassed, in fact, business is very good. Because others feel that it is a shame to operate an entertainment venue, there is a demand, but they can't pull down the face to operate, in fact, the competition is quite a blue ocean.

Talking to this kind of person, of course Gu Biao can't come to the text, but to talk nonsense: "Boss Feng, I have something to discuss with you, I will treat some foreign guests in a few days, are you willing to take care of your yard, I will take out the things, and after you use it up, you will stay as you like, and you are not happy with me to take it away." ”

"Don't, just call Brother Pao for face, what Boss Feng, you have something to say. Feng Pao said, and gave Gu Biao a big heavy nine.

"I want you to make a few dining boxes upstairs and turn the second floor into a place for singing and dancing. I'll provide you with a few imported large color TVs, video recorders, and stereos, and put them on the sofa bar......"

According to the layout of his KTV (in fact, it should be called "karaoke" now) in his memory, Gu Biao roughly described the design and use.

Feng Pao heard it in a fog, not knowing whether this thing had a future or not, and whether the guests liked it or not.

I also have two friends who have been to foreign countries, the United States and Italy, and have never heard of them. Will it be too expensive for anyone to afford to play?"

"But I already have it, and it appeared two or three years ago, this thing is definitely a good deal, believe me right. Gu Biao encouraged.

Gu Biao didn't want to make such a small amount of money, he just wanted to have a place to entertain foreign guests, so he directly spilled out this big business opportunity.

In the coming 82 years, economic crimes will be seriously rectified, and I hope that this Feng Cannon will be a little forced and a little more restrained when the time comes. If he really dared to hide the filth, he would be shot by himself at that time, and Gu Biao would not be involved.

Monaco is also said to be a big country in the entertainment industry, and it has no future compared to luxury, and only novelty can satisfy guests.

Zhedong Pifu said

The air conditioning filters are moldy, a few days ago it was suddenly cold, and it was opened directly without washing, and today I took the time to diagnose a little laryngitis.

If you're unwell, it's just two chapters. I couldn't hold up three consecutive explosions, and the overnight draft was gone

Thanks to another helmsman of "Zhang Jiahui of Malaysia" for his reward.