Zheng Xudong got out of the car at the door of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and arranged for Liu Xiaoli to help buy some daily necessities for his new house.

The fan-shaped main building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is majestic. Across the door from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Sinopec, one of China's largest energy-based state-owned enterprises. Zheng Xudong remembers that his father refueled when he was driving from more than two yuan to more than six yuan now, and the explanation given by the National Development and Reform Commission is very mainstream - domestic oil prices and international oil prices, and then foreign crude oil is up to 147 US dollars a barrel when it is a little more than five yuan a liter, we understand, after all, our country was forced to export all over the world in the early years, which is to prove to the world that we have taken off the hat of poor oil, and now we are beginning to beg grandpa to tell grandma all over the world to import oil. The consequences of the fluctuation in oil prices will be paid by the common people, and we have endured this! After all, television has been reporting all day long on the pinching of Iraq and Iran, and no one has done anything to the other after eight years of pinching, which has crippled the lives of the common people! Now the international oil price has dropped below $50 per barrel, but the price of your gasoline has risen to six yuan, and the price of gasoline that was promised to fluctuate with the international crude oil price!

Zheng Xudong simply disdains to look back at this state-owned enterprise that has been raising prices but is losing money every year. Walked directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Stop! Documents! Do you have an appointment?" An armed policeman in an olive-green military uniform at the door first came to a quack-standard military salute, and then asked three questions in a row. And put his left hand on the handle of the Type 96 rifle on his chest.

Zheng Xudong knew that there must be no bullets in the guard guns guarding the gate of the local big organs, but he didn't dare to say anything about the central organs, so he looked at them with a perspective eye, and said in his heart: "Ciao! Live ammunition!" He once heard his father's students say that some armed police guns usually have no bullets in them, especially for nine years, and now even if there are bullets, they are rubber bullets, which are usually used for riot prevention. But it is also a show, because after the liberation of the country for so many years, those who dared to violently attack the party, government, and military organs with guns or weapons, not to mention Zheng Xudong, even Zheng Xudong and his father had never heard of it, at least after the reform and opening up.

Zheng Xudong is not a soldier, so he didn't return the military salute, but nodded at the armed police, regardless of his asking for documents, today is the first day of school at Beiwai, and the student ID card has not yet been made, he only has an ID card, but it is estimated that it is nonsense to show the ID card to the armed police, so he still said with his mouth, "Hello comrade! I am Zheng Xudong, I have made an appointment with your Minister Zheng Jie, please ask." ”

The armed police of the gate post stared at Zheng Xudong for ten seconds with sharp eyes, seeing that he might look like a "good citizen", so he said: "Please wait a moment, I want to verify." ”

At this time, a man wearing a white shirt and trousers walked out of the office building, ran to the gate post and said to the armed policeman standing guard: "Comrade, this is our guest of Minister Zheng, I just need to bring him in." Seeing the armed police nodding, this person stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Xudong, "Xiao Zheng, we met again, do you remember me?"

"Envoy Sun Qiang, it's been almost half a month since I was in my Yan Family Garden Villa last time, but I didn't expect to meet you here. The person in front of Zheng Xudong is Sun Qiang, the deputy foreign minister who is responsible for handing over the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Japanese Benzene.

"Let's go, I'll take you in, the minister just received a call from Ambassador Zhang Ye, and he postponed the next activities, just waiting for you." ”

"Then my sin is great!" Zheng Xudong said with a smile.

The two of them greeted each other all the way to the office building.

"Xiao Zheng, have you ever been to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building before?" asked Vice Ambassador Sun Qiang.

"I haven't been here, this is the first time, and I'm sure the vast majority of people have never been to such a sacred place. ”

"Shall I introduce you?"

"Listen up!"

"The construction of the office building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that you see now began in June 1993 and was officially completed and put into use in July 977. It covers an area of 61,000 square meters, with a construction area of 128,600 square meters. ”

"The floor area ratio is only a little more than 2.0, which is worthy of being a state agency, magnificent!"

"I didn't expect you to understand this!" Vice Ambassador Sun Qiang laughed awkwardly twice and continued: "Xiao Zheng, you see that our Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office Building has a gray arc-shaped structure from the outside, which not only shows the beauty of Chinese classical architecture, but also makes it have a quiet and solemn place in the bustling and noisy city. ”

After entering the first floor, Envoy Sun Qiangqiang took Zheng Xudong's hand and said: "This is the Olive Hall, which is the welcome hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its shape is olive-shaped, highlighting the theme of peace. The Olive Hall covers an area of 800 square meters, and its ceiling is made of stainless steel grid structure, supplemented by a glass ceiling full of stars, which is natural and harmonious.

Xiao Zheng, look at the wall above, its soft tone is inlaid with a giant relief designed by Mr. Li Linzhuo, a famous muralist in China: "Chinese civilization". It shows the glorious history of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years. From left to right, the murals show stone carvings and portraits of the Han Dynasty, statues of the Heavenly Kings of the Tang Dynasty, ancient bronze products, terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin Dynasty, the building drums of the Chu culture during the Warring States Period, the bronze panlong of the Zhou Dynasty, the jade pendant of the Han Dynasty, the astronomical map and compass of the Song Dynasty, the dragon of the Yuan Dynasty, the treasure ship of Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty to the West, and the ascension of the Long March-2 bundled rocket that symbolizes the development of science and technology in China and the construction of the "Four Modernizations".

There is also a Huang Zemu relief screen of "Qingming Riverside Map". It is taken from the famous long scroll Chinese painting "Qingming Riverside Map" by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, and the wood carving "Qingming Riverside Map" excerpts a section of the long scroll Chinese painting "Hongqiao Downtown City" as a blueprint, which is recreated by the senior craftsman Ma Guangjun for wood carving technology. The wood carving screen is 5.6 meters long, 3.1 meters high, 4.6 meters wide and 1.58 meters high. "Hongqiao Downtown City" is the climax of the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", which vividly depicts the lively scene of the commercial area near Hongqiao in Bianjing at that time. In the center of the picture is the Hongqiao, a majestic wooden arch bridge that reflects the superb bridge-building craftsmanship of the Song Dynasty. On both sides of the bridge are two tall wooden pillars, on which are carved two cranes, a symbol of the Song Dynasty that reminds the emperor to be diligent and love the people. On the right is a thrilling scene of a group of commercial ships sailing up the river and bravely crossing the Hongqiao, which pushes the whole picture to a climax. ”

Seeing that Vice Ambassador Sun Qiang became more and more excited, his language and body movements were like a professional tour guide, "There are also press conference halls, international conference halls, meeting rooms, negotiation halls, and negotiation halls in the building, and I will take you to visit them when I have time after meeting Minister Zheng, and those places are also worth seeing." Let's go, let's get on the elevator. ”

Sure enough, Minister Zheng's office is not in the arc-shaped building on the front, and the minister's office is on the seventh floor of the building on the east wing, which is very much in line with the Chinese concept of "big east and small west", "big south and small north", and "seven up and eight down".

Sun Qiang knocked on the door twice and heard "Please come in" and came to Minister Zheng's office, "Minister, Xiao Zheng is here, I'm leaving." ”

"Thank you for your hard work, Minister Sun. After Minister Zheng said a word, he got up from behind his big desk and came to the middle of the conference room, Sun Qiang closed the door and left, Zheng Xudong hurriedly stepped forward a few steps and stretched out his hands to shake Minister Zheng Jie tightly.

"Welcome to my office!" said Minister Zheng cordially.

"I'm still bothered by you, and I can't get enough of you. Zheng Xudong felt that if there were cameras and flashes at this time, it would be "live", and it was definitely a scene of the foreign minister cordially receiving foreign guests.

Minister Zheng kindly took his hand to the brown leather sofa in the corner of the nearly 200-square-meter office, took out a bottle of mineral water from a small Xiaoice box and handed it to Zheng Xudong, "I only have mineral water and tea here, I estimate that you young people may not want to drink those bitter ginseng kung fu tea, so drink some mineral water!"

Zheng Xudong stood up and took "Nongfu Spring is a little sweet", said "thank you", and after the minister took his seat, he put the mineral water on the coffee table in front of him and then sat on the sofa as well.

"Your affairs in the United States are not small, let our big boss (some words must be avoided, understand!)" Speaking of this, Minister Zheng pointed to the ceiling with his finger, "Let our big boss and the second boss coordinate a total of seven leaders of various departments, including me, to hold a meeting for one of you! As he spoke, he stretched out his two palms in front of Zheng Xudong's eyes, meaning ten, "The meeting is still good for you, you have entered the sight of the leader, as long as you perform well, there will definitely be development in the future." ”

"Thank you to the big leader, the second leader, and the leaders of various ministries for their great love to me! This is also my bad luck, you said that it let me catch up, and I actually got the cultural relics of the United States and Japan and Benese, and then they tried every means to get them back, but fortunately my life was hard! So this time I knocked them hard, anyway, don't want it in vain. ”

"Hah... Hearing his words, Minister Zheng laughed, "I don't agree with the way you do things, but the two big bosses and the ministers are quite satisfied." As for your request to buy land, it has been approved after our deliberations. After speaking, Minister Zheng took a file bag from the coffee table and handed it to Zheng Xudong, "Open it and take a look!"

Zheng Xudong opened the file bag and took out the things inside, "Wow!" Zheng Xudong sighed first, this was the first time he saw the things in his hand, A4 paper size, vermilion cover, back cover, the middle quarter of the top cover is printed with the gilded national emblem, and the lower quarter of the position is written "People's Republic of China" bronzing characters, and then below these words are written "State-owned land use right certificate" Seven gilded characters, the font is slightly larger than the name of the country above. The back cover is some precautions, and Zheng Xudong didn't pay attention to it. After opening the "Land Certificate", there are some more detailed contents, such as "Land Use Right Holder", "Location", "Land Number", "Plan Number", "Use", "Type of Use Right", "Termination Date", "Area of Use Right".

Zheng Xudong is concerned about the name of the user with his name on it, the land area of 3,500 square kilometers, and the date of termination: December 31, 2109.

"I'm the next Olympics! It's been 99 years!"