"Aha, isn't this Senior Bill, I'm glad I will. Sister Obright, it looks like you and Senior Bill have a good conversation, so I didn't bother you. ”

Gu Biao caught Obright and Governor Bill talking about a certain topic just into the interval of interrupting thinking, and cleverly inserted it forcefully and added it to the topic circle.

It is said that Gu Biao should be called "Professor Obright", and the other party is 25 years older than him in terms of age.

However, Obright is also a graduate student at Georgetown Wales Diplomatic College, and it is not wrong for Gu Biao to call the other party's senior sister (in fact, it is a senior in English).

What's more, Gu Biao is from "Your mentor Brzezinski is the same generation as my mentor Kissinger, so we are also equals." Even if you are a professor at this school, but I have not taken a single class of yours, we have no direct affiliation, and we have our own opinions", which suddenly seems very strong and natural.

Senior Bill on the side will not feel that he is blind and forcibly climbs.

So, Senior Bill shook hands with Gu Biao politely: "Isn't this Gu, Professor Kissinger has retired for eight months for your own sake, and he must be very optimistic about you." ”

Gu Biao: "Don't dare to be, I've been here for three years to hear the legend about you - when I first came, the senior McCarran said that before I came in, the youngest and most promising person at the Waltz Diplomatic Academy was Senior Bill. You are not the absolute most accomplished one, but you are the one who rises the fastest and shines, and I have always used you as an example. ”

Gu Biao didn't praise his deeds, but only said that his junior was excited and wanted to catch up with his predecessors. And Bill was also comfortable when he was slapped like this.

Azhou is a backward and poor state in the south and has no sense of existence, so the governor there is not much of a powerful elite in the United States.

Because the United States is a country that looks at strength, not level, there is no such thing as being able to level it when you reach your level. The actual influence of a governor in Alberta is not as good as that of the mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

But the factor of Bill's "young and fast climbing" is obvious to all, and it is also what he is most proud of. At the age of 29, he became the governor of state justice B, and the governor at the age of 31, who can withstand this. Now 37 years old, he has been governor for four years, and he has been idle for one (two years) in between.

Gu Biao touted a little, and the distance between the two sides was shortened, and Senior Bill seemed to regard him as another "leader of the Young Zhuang faction", and felt a little sympathy.

But the vigilance of the stall still has to be maintained, Bill exchanged a few polite words with him, and had to add a question: "Gu, aren't you a student of Professor Kissinger, and we are a ...... of people's pigs"

This means that if there are differences in the Tao and do not conspire with each other, especially if the academic factions of international relations are not in line with each other in the past years, it is better not to get too close.

Professor Obright on the side also showed a slight hostility towards Gu Biao: You guy who followed the professor for the nuclear file to study for a doctorate, what are you here to stir up trouble with us? This is when we are pulling the relationship between the pig stalls and hugging the thighs, you kid comes to spoil my good deeds!

However, Gu Biao was dissolved at once, and he naturally smiled and said, "I'm not an American, where did I come from? I'm a member of the Wudang faction." I followed Professor Kissinger, and of course I tried my best to study and carry forward his diplomatic academic ideas, but I did not have a view of the door. ”

Professor Obright was still slightly angry, but Senior Bill had already accepted Gu Biao's explanation with a smile, and he talked and laughed with Gu Biao.

Obright could only endure it for the time being, and changed his smiling face and pretended to be very affectionate with Gu Biao and had no views on the door.

After chatting for a while, the two sides naturally wanted to introduce other guests in the nearby circle and get to know each other.

Senior Bill gave up half of his body and beckoned without a trace, and a capable young man about 35 years old next to him who was chatting with another wealthy businessman came over and shook hands with Gu Biao cordially.

"This is my wife, Sellalie. Senior Bill casually introduced, and did not go into depth about his wife's social position or other information.

This makes you look very confident.

Because in the 80s, on the occasion of this kind of alumni association, many times when introducing the wife, it would be a simple mention of what the wife does, and the position may not be said, but at least the industry to which it belongs.

Senior Bill didn't introduce anything, which means that he thinks others should know what his wife does.

"Lady Sellalie, it's a pleasure to meet you. Gu Biao also paid great attention to her when she was called, and did not call her "Mrs. Clinton", indicating that he did not regard the other party as an accessory of her husband.

After saying hello, Gu Biao didn't forget to praise a little, "I have long admired your name, at the age of 25, he graduated from Yale University with a law degree, and he was able to participate in the '33-member independent investigation team of the Watergate Scandal' organized by the judicial BU that year, becoming the only lawyer who graduated from the university." You have always been an example for me to learn from –

My mentor, Professor Kissinger, has repeatedly mentioned your investigative performance when I talk to me about President Nixon's case.

Well, I have a cousin who studied law at Columbia University and graduated at the end of last year, and he is still working on his qualification certificate during his internship as a lawyer. If he could have one-tenth of your ability, my family would wake up laughing. ”

When Celali heard Gu Biao say this, she was very happy, and felt that this little fresh meat was very worthy of being close to her, and she actually knew so much about the deeds she was proud of.

In just a few minutes, it was as if everyone was an old friend.

At this time, Gu Biao was ready to help Akio Morita introduce him to Senior Bill without any traces, so that he could carry out his plan today.

"This is my friend, Mr. Akio Morita, President of Sony Corporation. President Morita, this is the senior of the 68th class of our college, Governor Bill. ”

"Fortunately. ”

"Fortunately. ”

After a group of people got together, Gu Biao didn't give advice to Senior Bill first, but chatted with his wife Celali about business experiences, so as not to appear too clear about the purpose.

After a few words, Gu Biao cleverly mentioned: "By the way, Ms. Sellali, aren't you from Ross Law Firm? Last year, we had a case in Tiankun Entertainment, and thanks to the help of Ross Law Firm and the National Legal Service Company of the United States, justice was served. ”

Sellali was slightly stunned, apparently not reacting.

Although she is one of the key partners of Ross Law Firm, it is impossible for the firm to know all the cases it takes.

She subconsciously asked, "Oh, does it have a big impact? I don't know which of my colleagues took it?"

Gu Biao: "It was lawyer Edmund Perry who took it, and in the end he did not officially appear in court, but only mediated it." Strictly speaking, the client is EFF, John Barlow of the Outpost Electronics Foundation. I just secretly sponsored money behind the scenes for this human rights foundation – they solved the labor tort case of Atari's outsourced customer service. ”

Gu Biao said in such detail that Sellali immediately remembered: "Oh, it's Edmund who took the case, Edmund is my best partner - you should know that I am a member of the National Legal Services Company, and Edmund is also one of the directors of this company."

In the early years, I wanted to stay in Watsengton and run the legal aid of the national law service, advocating for the rights of the poor. No, Bill became governor, and I could only follow him to Azhou, and I entrusted Edmond with Washengton's public welfare rights protection business. ”

Gu Biao chatted with Bill and Sellalie here, the time was almost to luncheon, and some more in-depth cooperation was not suitable for talking in public, so I just took the buffet and found a box to sit down and talk while eating.

Gu Biao took the Bill couple to dine with him as much as the landlord's friendship.

As an aside, the money for Kissinger's retirement farewell banquet today was originally Gu Biao's treat. He applied to the general affairs staff of the hospital, and the hospital was very happy and agreed.

If the teacher has something, the disciple will obey him, and that should be done, no one will hinder Gu Biao's respect for the teacher.

And since it was his hospitality arrangement, he had a lot of convenience, and he didn't have to be afraid of being said to be special.

Gu Biao premeditated to take the Bill couple to one of several highest-level boxes to start the highest-level hospitality.

Moreover, this box is several tables, and each table can only seat no more than four people, which further divides the conversation crowd.

Gu Biao's table, only he, Mr. and Mrs. Bill, and Professor O'Britt relied on it, while others, such as Lawyer Edmund and Akio Morita, were all at the next table, and if Gu Biao didn't call them, they couldn't hear what was being talked about at this table.

Because of the isolation of other businessmen, there are only officials, lawyers and scholars left at Gu Ao's table, and the topic has also shifted from the business just now to current affairs and public welfare rights protection.

Senior Bill originally maintained a very selfless and sanctimonious posture in front of others, and he would not talk about those topics that he planned for himself. However, on such a private occasion, after getting closer to Gu Biao, his style of words also changed.

Sometimes, "talking about your recent difficulties with your new little brother" is also a kind of overture not to treat the other party as an outsider. The people in Watsonton's revolving door circle understand this kind of human sophistication.

And this year is 1984, in such a year, what personal trouble can Senior Bill deal with? In fact, anyone in the circle can know if they think about it a little, that is, he is going to try to be re-elected as governor again.

Bill's first term as governor was 78 to 80 years, and then at the end of his first term, a considerable proportion of the people of Alberta still felt that this person was "too young, too reckless and unreliable", and elected him for two years.

In '82, it took a lot of effort for Bill to be re-elected, and two years later, he learned the lesson of being knocked down for the first time, and he was ready to prepare for re-election and make Azhou his iron bucket.

After Gu Biao skillfully introduced the topic to this issue, he pretended to be very optimistic and comforted: "Senior, I don't think there is anything to worry about the governor's re-election, you went down, and then the people of the state elected you again, which shows that this is a long-tested situation, and others can't solve the economic, security, and social problems of Azhou." What do you have to worry about. ”