Wu Hong walked quickly into Lin Yonggui's office and said, "Director, good news." ”

"Huh?"

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan invited China National Petroleum Corporation and China National Petroleum Corporation Shengli Oilfield to visit. Discuss technical and financial cooperation. Wu Hong read out the official document, put it on the table, and said: "This is transferred from the head office, and Director Lu is said to be going too, and gave us a place for five people, and one of them was given to Su Cheng." ”

Lin Yonggui let out an "oh" and picked up the official document and read it. The 80s was a time of fever for going abroad, unlike the high-ranking officials of later generations who had already begun to go to Algeria, the high-ranking officials of this era did not even play well in Europe, and they were very addicted, so the quota for going abroad was very popular and could be regarded as a kind of hard currency.

If you use it to exchange resources, there is no problem with 4 study abroad places for 4 cars.

However, Lin Yonggui has been to Japan several times, and when he saw that it was Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and other common places, he said with little interest: "I won't go, arrange a place for Lao Zhou, and I'll go back and ask about the rest." ”

"Okay. Wu Hong didn't expect to be arranged by himself.

Lin Yonggui didn't really need to ask, and before noon, there were cadres at the department and department level below to report on their work, and in the afternoon, the heads of several second-level departments and third-level departments also tried their best to inquire about the news.

There is no doubt that going abroad is a welfare, and as for the real technical officials, it is not completely unconsidered, and the quota of the head office wearing a hat is usually a technical officer, according to this official document, it is Sioux City.

As for the remaining 4 places. There is no doubt that it falls under the category of welfare.

On the second day, the four candidates were selected.

Among them, Wei Kong, with many years of conscientious service, became the deputy leader of the delegation, and unlike the pure welfare nature, he had to do all kinds of trivial things. Even so, Wei Kong was overjoyed. When he saw Sioux, he said, "I went this time, and I must drink enough Japanese sake, and it is the dog that can't get drunk." I really envy you young people, you can go to a Japanese girl to fall in love......"

"That's not called love. Su Cheng glanced at him and said with a smile: "A subsidy of a few hundred yen a day for one person." Drink a meal of sake and it's gone. ”

"It's just a little foreign exchange, and it doesn't depend on what you Brother Wei and I do. Wei Kong patted his chest and assured that he was the director of the office in charge of the tertiary production, but the tertiary production of the Shengli Oilfield was a crude oil-related product that could be exported, and there was no problem in exchanging thousands of dollars, which was also the weight of his deputy director of the office.

Su Cheng smiled: "As long as you are willing to drink, then I will accompany you." What did my sister-in-law say?"

"My sister-in-law said that my daughter is learning English, and asked me to bring a small Japanese tape recorder back if I drink. Just wring my legs. ”

Su Cheng looked between Wei Kong's legs and said, "Sister-in-law is really fierce. ”

"Stay abroad in foreign affairs, no matter how fierce your sister-in-law is, she won't be able to get to Tokyo, let's drink a little less." No one says, no one knows. ”

Su Cheng laughed and said with a smile: "When you arrived in Japan, it is estimated that it is not so easy." ”

He was very concerned about Moriyama and his entourage, and found that they went all the way to Dagang, eastern Hebei and other places, and their concern for shallow sea oil drilling technology was obviously extraordinary. This time, I went in the name of technical cooperation, so I guess that there will be more accidents on this trip.

Wei Kong said indifferently: "I'm only in charge of the 5 people in our Shengli Oilfield, hey, there is another one who is myself, and the rest of the department has their housekeepers." ”

"That's the head office. ”

"I've heard that the staff has been reduced, but it won't be just the head office. ”

A few days before going abroad, Su Cheng deliberately visited several companies, and sent Gorou and his boatman friends to Fujian and Guangxi to investigate, China Shipbuilding Guijiang Shipyard to the Fisheries Department of the Fisheries Department to make a good response to the 200-ton fishery administration ship, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiang and other places of the Fisheries Department are therefore interested, contact business at the same time, but also to avoid the investigation of the capsizing incident.

In addition to this, the last capsizing incident also made Sioux City see the benefits of his relatives. If it weren't for Goro, who knew the roots, he would not have been able to deal with this matter without a hand. Friends like Chubby are becoming fewer and fewer for individuals, while relatives are more and more. Moreover, breaking bones and connecting tendons, ordinary irregularities can be regulated by the system, and under extraordinary interests, outsiders have no relatives after all.

Compared to the conditions of the brotherly wall, the deception between business partners is so common that it is not even news.

In view of this, Su Cheng simply took 20,000 yuan and asked Xu Feng to take it home, half of it to his mother and half to the clan, so that they could rebuild the ancestral hall first, and then take San Lang out.

For Chinese, the ancestral hall is like an old locust tree at the entrance of the village, both a cohesion and a symbol. It is a place where children can chase with bare buttocks, old people can play chess and cards, women can gossip and chat, and men can rest with farts.

It is also a monument of oaths, a place where the oath was taken by the ancestors and all blood relatives. It may be easy to turn your back on your ancestors who don't know where, but it is not easy to turn your back on the land where you were born and raised, and to turn your back on the people you know and like.

When everything was ready, Sioux City chose a sleeper train to travel to Bei*Beijing, and then took a Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo.

At the airport, he joined Wei Kong, Lao Zhou and others.

Lao Zhou was also in the fifties and sixties, because of the battle of the oil field, and was sent from the Daqing Oilfield to the East * Battalion, 30 years have passed, and he is also about to retire, so Lin Yonggui left him a place.

Lao Zhou Xian was very excited, bought a can of Coca-Cola at the airport, and drank it slowly, like a child.

He looked at Su Cheng, who had changed into a brand-name suit, and said with a smile: "You guys have caught up with a good time, when you reach my age, I guess you won't be too lazy to go abroad to play." ”

Su Cheng smiled: "If you take good care of your health, in a few years, you can also pay for it to go abroad." ”

"Where to give. Lao Zhou shook his head and said: "When I come back this time, I plan to buy a better TV, and I will sleep at home and watch TV in the future." ”

"That's not bad either. Su Cheng said with emotion in his heart: It seems. Everyone who does technology has a homely heart. Sure enough, the people who do technology are benevolent people.

Wei Kong is still a typical young and middle-aged cadre, he was reluctant to sit down around the seat, and when he saw a ground crew in front of him, he immediately pulled Su Cheng and said, "It's coming, it's time to get on the plane." ”

Sioux City was dragged to his feet, and found that hundreds of people had been swarmed in front of him. I couldn't help asking, "So many people who go to Japan look like cadres?"

"These are all from our group. Wei Kong gave Su Cheng a strange look.

"It's all our group, didn't you say that the personnel were downsized?"

"Of course, it's streamlined, you see over there, the policy and regulation department of the head office was supposed to send 4 people. Now only 2 people have been dispatched, which is the most streamlined. The veteran cadres bureau was supposed to send 6 people, but it was reduced by 2. You know how difficult it is, and the finance department has also been streamlined from 3 people to 2 people......" Wei Kong introduced at the same time, everyone had already begun to line up.

The long boarding queue, scattered out 100 meters away in an instant, is spectacular.

Wei Kong was worried that Su Cheng would recognize the wrong person, so after finishing the team of more than 20 people in the head office, he pointed to the side again, and said: "The one wearing the coat is the escort of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, three people." Then there were 2 people from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 3 people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 8 people from the Chemical Import Corporation wearing all blue coats, 2 people from the Organization Department were gray, and 5 people from the Propaganda Department. Accompanied by two reporters, 4 people from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and 3 people from the Bank of China ......"

Sioux looked stupidly from left to right, front to back.

More than 100 people, either suits or coats, carried either briefcases or small bags. One big box per person, it really looks like a huge technical delegation.

But Su Cheng knew that if there were 5 people in this who could do things, it would be Amitabha.

Of course, it's not really possible to have only 5 people doing things. Each unit will send its own butler, for example, Shengli Oilfield sent Wei Kong, who wants to do things. The staff of the foreign affairs and diplomatic departments are also not idle, if only 5 people are sent, they may be enough to send a team leader, and now there are more than 100 people, and the number of team leaders will naturally increase.

In addition, every department has a rhetoric for going abroad, whether it is necessary or not, the report must always be written, and the photo must always be taken. Some large units may even have to send special people to keep money and purchase goods...... If the steward is in charge alone, then the power and responsibility are too great.

If the first or second leader of the unit goes out, it is usually necessary to bring a secretary or a full-time interpreter, and the number of interpreters has doubled and doubled, and when the delegation swells to 50 people, it is too easy to swell to 100 people.

Su Cheng said with admiration: "Petroleum technical cooperation, supply and marketing headquarters are going to go, do they want to open a store in Osaka?"

"Shhhh Wei Kong hurriedly raised his fingers and said: "This is to repay the debt, when people went to the United States for inspection, they gave us 2 places." ”

"Pay 4 back?"

"Can the United States and Japan be the same? One American indicator should be exchanged for two Japanese indicators, and this is still a friendly price. ”

Su Cheng smiled when he heard this, and said curiously: "What about Europe?"

"Paris is the most expensive, you can exchange 2 Americans, London is about the same as the United States. Everything else has to be added. About the time he got on the plane, Wei Kong's gossip heart was uplifted, and he whispered: "If your company can get the French index, you have to keep it and change it to a place to study in the United States." ”

"Public expense?"

"What do you want, you can only pay for it. But you can find a way to exchange for scholarships, when you graduated, I remember that Peking University had several scholarships for going abroad. "At the end of the 80s, going abroad was not free, and the so-called "freedom to come and go" had not yet appeared. Therefore, the quota for self-financed study abroad, or even just applying for a passport, requires a doorway.

Su Cheng and Wei Kong got on the plane as they spoke. Because of their ranks, these oilfield officials have to fly in economy class, and the first-class cabin belongs to the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, and the Petroleum Corporation.

Although they knew that these high-ranking officials did not know much about technology and oil, officials from Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry were still attentive to them.

This made Sioux City wary. These guys' enthusiasm for shallow sea oil drilling technology has surpassed the curiosity of ordinary commercial spies, and it can't help but make people suspicious.

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