Helping to arrange some domestic manpower to serve as "renovation supervisors" on the gaming ship is such a light deal.

After Christmas, Gu Biao can take some time to go to the embassy or consulate to make a phone call back and explain the connection. The follow-up arrangements are not something he can ask.

Of course, before that, Gu Wei would first spread the news that "the French seem to be making small moves" through the channels of Peterson and even William Clark. The specific operational requirements naturally have to be "even Peterson and William Clark themselves didn't know that they were deliberately leaked by Gu Biao, and they thought that they were outstanding, so they found out by self-reliance."

I won't go into the details of the operation.

After chatting about business, Gu Biao and his entourage naturally stayed in the Grimaldi family's castle to attend the Christmas Eve dinner party.

The formal banquet in the evening is, of course, more formal and elaborate than the light lunch of business at noon.

The dishes on the table are no longer blindly pursuing taste, but have become more traditional. Christmas roast goose and turkey must be there, nothing more than rubbing truffle slices with a planer, and the style of other ordinary staple ingredients has been suddenly raised a few notches.

Dishes such as mahogany clams and gooseneck barnacles, which are not suitable for shaving truffle slices, are all topped with Astrakhan white sturgeon caviar.

The long-necked glasses for Christmas fruit cocktails are antique 19th-century crystal glasses, and some of them have a very thin layer of gold leaf floating on the surface - of course, guests can take the ones without gold leaf if they don't like them.

In addition, as a special Christmas decoration, the royal family has prepared something similar to a gingerbread shell tart, but the surface of the tart is covered with a special chocolate hard shell, decorated with a round Christmas reindeer face, and chocolate forked antlers. (Santa Claus pulls the cart with reindeer)

The nose of the reindeer is decorated with natural rubies, and before the guests want to eat it, the maid who manages the plate will remove the deer nose from the face of the chocolate deer so that the guests do not eat the rubies.

In a word, it's a feast of imagination.

Perhaps because there was a lot of business to deal with this year that needed to be reconciled with the French, the royal family had come to Bordeaux, and some French businessmen had attended the dinner.

Gu Biao and Mina can take the opportunity to get to know more people.

I don't know if it's because of the supply of satellite communication systems for the "Clemenceau", Gu Biao met Patrick Russell, a fellow senior who was a graduate student at Kissinger's a few years ago, and his family-

As mentioned earlier, his dad is the majority shareholder of Alcatel, which is France's largest communications giant. The French military needed to improve the satellite communication system, strengthen electromagnetic compatibility and anti-interference, and naturally the first thing that came to mind was Alcatel as a supplier. Alcatel's business does straddle the civilian and military sectors.

This pattern was not surprising in the 80s, because many of the giants of communication technology at that time were not clearly divided between military and civilian. The Pentagon, which is American, sometimes turns to Motorola for communications upgrades.

"Mr. Russell, it's an honor to meet you. Gu Biao greeted the other party politely. According to the habit of the Chinese, when you know the father of a classmate on such an occasion, you should call your uncle, but since it is in the Monegasque field, it is still customary.

Mr. Russell seemed to appreciate Gu Biao very much, and shook hands with him cordially: "I have heard about your cooperation with Motorola, and it is really terrifying." If you have the opportunity, you are welcome to cooperate with Alcatel. ”

The two sides talked a little bit about it, and then they put it aside and looked for their prey to befriend.

Gu Biao soon met Robin Southwell, a wealthy French businessman and COO of Airbus, who seemed to have just had a good conversation with some members of the Monaco royal family and persuaded the prince to change to an upcoming A320 as a royal plane next year, so he was in a good mood.

When I saw Gu Biao, I inevitably sold it to a big tyrant like Gu Biao, and expressed my desire to enter the Chinese civil aviation market, not just watching Boeing make money in China.

Gu Biao could only smile and refuse, saying that this matter was not his responsibility, and he had no influence in China and in this field.

Robin Southwell will not embarrass him, but just laughs and says that if he can facilitate the matchmaking, he will send Gu Biao a special plane.

Of course, Gu Biao won't take it seriously.

……

Gu Biao chatted and laughed freely with those French tycoons, and Mina naturally occasionally spent time on the air and socialized alone.

It just so happened that when Gu Biao was entangled by Robin Southwell, Princess Caroline, who had just finished talking to Robin Southwell a few minutes ago, also happened to be empty.

Princess Caroline has been a little curious about Mina's half-breed since noon today, and feels that she has a lot of mysterious temperament, so she took the opportunity to talk to Mina:

"Cheers, Miss Mina, I have always felt that you have a grace beyond your origins, and that you do not show any timidity when you associate with us on an equal footing, it is very ...... Goose girl. I've never seen such a Chinese mixed-race white person. ”（Amazing）

Mina was dressed in a half-off-the-shoulder tunic evening dress, and the curves of her figure really made all the women in the audience jealous, and at the age of twenty-two or three, it was also the most dignified and pure season.

Faced with Caroline's curious question, which invisibly played a role in complimenting, Mina was not in a hurry to show it at all, but said lightly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Gu should have told you that I am a classmate of the Diplomatic Academy with him, of course I am one level lower." I've been a diplomat for several years, and I've been a commercial counselor, so it's not surprising. ”

Princess Caroline casually asked: "Don't you have Lucia blood in you, Gu said, it is your grandmother's generation?" As far as I know, many of those who fled Lucia to China in that era were descendants of nobles, and the poor did not have to leave. ”

Mina showed a gloomy look of wanting to be captured, as if she remembered some sad past, and then controlled it and let the expression flash away, pretending to be relaxed: "I don't know, when I was a child, my grandmother never said anything about her childhood, and now she is gone." ”

As she spoke, Mina pretended to hide her sadness and wiped the corners of her eyes, brushed her hair, and inadvertently conspicuous some jewelry on her hands and neck, just like a person who wears a Constantine watch always has to "inadvertently" look at the time in that posture.

"It's a classic piece of jewelry, it's not a family heirloom. Princess Caroline asked playfully.

She's just out of royal instinct and interested in these things.

"Classical? I thought it was called 'plain', or did I buy it myself. Mina replied easily.

In fact, these quaint things are certainly not heirlooms from Mina's family, but are all goods that she got by the way when she was doing business with General Lucia.

Lucia people always have a lot of things that have been precipitated during the changes of the times and are not easy to see, and they will flow out when they do business with foreigners. From the Khruf era to the Gowoodw era, there have always been scattered and scattered, as long as foreign businessmen can contact and afford money.

However, these things that Mina wore out were carefully selected by her, and she also let the executives under Gu Biao who had transferred from luxury goods to the palm of their hands.

"Can you show me?" Princess Caroline smiled kindly, then took a ruby bracelet from Mina.

Dimić...... Well, the Russian should be pronounced Dimitri, a very common Russian name. ”

Princess Caroline couldn't see why, so she easily asked Mina's opinion and asked one of the luxury merchants/jewelers in the circle who was going to the dinner tonight.

As we all know, all the sounds in English that are pronounced "cui/qi", Russians pronounce "terry", just like "Intristine" will become "Intristine", and the big tongue sound will tremble a little.

The jewelers that Princess Caroline befriended, of course, were of a very high level, and after a while she concluded: "Oh, my Royal Highness, my Royal Highness, if I am not mistaken about this age, style and workmanship, this should be a necklace around 1913, with a strong early design style of Mademoiselle Chanel."

Combined with the pattern and lettering of this inner seal, Mademoiselle Chanel must have made it for her fourth lover, Archduke Dimitri, cousin of the last Tsar Nicholas II. Considering that Mademoiselle Chanel was founded in 1910, I think the time of this work should be between 1910~1913. Of course, Mademoiselle Chanel should have only provided the design, and I couldn't tell the specific craftsman. ”

When Princess Caroline heard this, she turned her head and asked with a casual smile: "Does Grandmother Ling have anything to do with Archduke Dimitri? Is it his illegitimate daughter? The Grand Duke himself had children in marriage, but they were all killed in 1920." ”

Mina sighed, "I said, I don't know anything. If there really are such tragic pasts, wouldn't it be good to let them disappear forever? After all, the current Soviet Union is so powerful. ”

Princess Caroline couldn't help but smile: "What's this, Bai Lu, who fled to our western world at the beginning, is doing well, and there will be no danger." The sphere of influence that the Russians can influence, will not expand. ”

"Don't talk about that, I still have to do business with the Russians after all. Mina persuaded to the point.

Princess Caroline stopped.

Mina hurriedly excused herself to go to the bathroom to clean up her emotions and calm down by the way.

"I didn't expect that the jewelry experts known by the Monaco royal family were really more powerful than those Xiangjiang people, and they actually saw that it was the work of Madame Chanel during 1910~1913. Damn, I originally chose this to meet guests, just because the daughters of the Grand Duke Dimitri's family are relatively innocent and have a good reputation. If it is misrecognized, it will not insult the name of the elders. ”

Mina looked in the vanity mirror and confessed inwardly.

Before she put gold on herself, she had done historical research, and she knew that before the fall of the Romanov Dynasty, the wives and ladies of those royal families and nobles had a very bad reputation-

Because Empress Feodorovna favored a god named Raspigin in her later years, this bastard took the opportunity to defile the palace. It is said that many noble ladies and ladies in Moscow are ......

Only Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dimitri were the most innocent, because they were the ones who later conspired to kill the god, and the Grand Duke Dimitri's family was more innocent - because Prince Yusupov used his own wife as bait in order to trap Rashpikin. (After the man was killed, his words are still hidden in a museum in St. Petersburg, soaked in formalin, and are 29 centimeters long.) ）

At the beginning, Mina had only found this far in the historical materials, so she specially selected the clothes that could show the characteristics of the Grand Duke Dimitri's family from the box of Russian jewelry she had gotten, deliberately misleading.

It's just that she didn't find out that "Archduke Dimitri is one of Chanel's lovers", nor did she find out that the jewelry she chose was Chanel-style, but it was seen by French jewelers (of course, Chanel is also one of Archduke Dimitri's lovers, foreigners, they are not possessive, each has its own play)

It's a mess of accounts, and sure enough, after it is released, it can't bring a bad rhythm, so you can only let the gossip people make up their own brains, and in the end, the rumors will be out of shape, and the mastermind can't control it at all.

Mina can't tell what it's like to be this Christmas, so let's see.