Early in the morning, before dawn, Zhou Yingyao went out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Northern Europe is an extremely harsh region, especially unbearable is the length of day and night, most of the year here, there are more nights than days, the stars and the moon to work, for the Swedish Norwegians, the most usual, however, ordinary does not mean comfortable, especially for outsiders like Zhou Yingyao, if possible, he usually will not go out early and return late.

The morning was not only dark, but also very cold, and although you could wear very thick clothes on your body, your face and ears were sinned.

Zhou Yingyao is obviously unhesitating today.

He carried a thermos bucket in one hand and a thermos box in the other, and when he arrived at Hilton, he made an internal call to Yang Rui in advance before taking the elevator up.

Knocking on the door, Yang Rui greeted Zhou Yingyao in his pajamas and said, "I'm sorry, I just got up, and I didn't have time to change my clothes." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm too early. Zhou Yingyao made an appointment with Yang Rui last night, and sat on the sofa in the suite with a smile at this time.

The Hilton suite is not large, just a bedroom and a small living room, but it is also completely beyond the consumption level of domestic cadres.

Zhou Yingyao put the thermos bucket and insulated box on the coffee table, looked at the room, and said: "Tofu brain and fritters, I asked the canteen to prepare them in advance, they should still be hot." ”

He opened the thermos bucket containing the tofu brain, and sure enough, he saw the steaming inside.

Zhou Yingyao fanned his hands in mid-air, smelled the smell, took a deep breath, and then sighed: "It's good, no problem, it's the taste of tofu brain, alas, look at me, I feel homesick when I say eating tofu brain, come on, come on, I'll scoop it for you, do you eat sweet or salty." ”

Facing Zhou Yingyao's sudden serious question, Yang Rui hesitated for a moment and said, "Spicy." ”

"There are also spicy ones, and I brought them all. Zhou Yingyao made a bowl of tofu brain for Yang Rui with a proud spoon, and made another bowl for himself before sighing and saying, "You don't know how difficult it was to eat a bowl of tofu brain when we first arrived in Sweden." By the way, you may not know that this tofu brain was ground out by the staff of our embassy themselves. ”

"Grind it yourself?" Yang Rui tasted it in surprise, nodded again and again, and said, "It tastes really good." ”

"No, grinding tofu is a tradition in our embassy, and it has been practiced from generation to generation. When the museum was first built, some people wanted to eat a mouthful of tofu, but they couldn't find it all over Stockholm, so they found a local Chinese to buy a mouthful of graphite. Zhou Yingyao smiled and said: "Every time an ambassador comes, we introduce him to our stone mill, and some ambassadors will take the time to grind it themselves." ”

Zhou Yingyao paused for a moment and said, "When Ambassador Ling Zhiming first arrived at the embassy, we told the story of this graphite, and he came once later, but after only a few grinds, he left. However, he still likes to eat tofu brain, and he eats it once or twice a week. ”

"Ambassador Ling went to Chad and didn't know if he could buy soybeans. Yang Rui was leisurely fascinated, and he was dissatisfied with His Excellency the Ambassador.

Ling Zhiming agreed to his request and let his guard down, but when he arrived in Stockholm, he became an orphan with no one around, and almost caused huge losses. In fact, he has already caused considerable losses, Yang Rui's plan has been delayed, and even the plan itself has been revised because of this.

To be honest, Yang Rui doesn't know what Ling Zhiming's true thoughts are now, because he hasn't met Ling Zhiming, and the information he gets is all from others. Compared with the news brought by Zhou Yingyao, the accuracy of the information provided by Wang Kuo is lower.

However, it doesn't matter what Ling Zhiming's true thoughts are, Chad is in central Africa, poor jingle ringing, and perennial war. Its political state can be described as an unruly underworld with a nominal boss, gang fights gathered in various names, using both large blades and AK47, and the construction level of its capital is basically equal to the level of townships in Chinese mainland, which is inferior to Xibao Town.

Doing diplomacy in such a country may light up the corresponding political future for ordinary officials, but for Ling Zhiming, who is looking forward to retirement, it is probably not very happy.

Yang Rui felt that the leadership of the ministry was quite interesting, since Ling Zhiming could hide in order to live a stable life, he let him go to an unstable place to continue to hide and seek, and he really didn't waste his talent.

Zhou Yingyao paid attention to Yang Rui's expression, and when he saw that he really followed to Chad, he immediately determined Yang Rui's tendency, and followed Yang Rui's words: "Ambassador Ling is indeed a little unmanageable, and he is a person who likes to push boats along the river. When I arrived in Chad, I didn't know if I could handle it. ”

"There are many wars in Chad, and it is more important to be slippery than to do things. Yang Rui commented lightly, and also commented on Ling Zhiming.

Zhou Yingyao knew in his heart, didn't say more, and persuaded again: "You taste this fritters, don't say it, you look at the fritters in China and make them easy, but after you go abroad, you can't even find suitable flour." The foreigner's noodles were relatively strong, and they were tired when kneaded, and the fritters they made were not delicious, so we finally bought flour exported from the United States. ”

Zhou Yingyao smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "In Sweden, American food is relatively cheap, synonymous with junk fast food. ”

Yang Rui took a bite of the fritters, sure enough, it has a domestic taste, being abroad, the taste of his hometown is the best taste, Yang Rui gave a thumbs up, swallowed the fritters, and said: "You have indeed made a level, well, wait a minute, I will call Jing Yulan to eat together." ”

He didn't ask Zhou Yingyao's opinion, and went to make a phone call.

After a while, Jing Yulan, who was wearing casual clothes, knocked on the door and came in, her face was a little red, but she was still calm.

"You taste it, it's almost the same as what we ate in the capital, and it didn't take long to say that it didn't take long to get used to their taste. Yang Rui shook his head and personally filled Jing Yulan with tofu brain.

No matter how stupid Zhou Yingyao is, he knows that Yang Rui and Jing Yulan have a close relationship, but not only did he not want to evaluate the meaning of the two, but he was happy in his heart, feeling that Yang Rui did not avoid him, so he invited Jing Yulan to trust him, so Zhou Yingyao's tone was also a little bolder, and said: "Director Yang, do you know the new ambassador, Ambassador Cao Dacao?"

"No, do you know?"

"My father-in-law has an old relationship with him, and maybe he can get in touch with him. Zhou Yingyao took the initiative to release his relationship line and handed it to Yang Rui with one hand.

Yang Rui raised his head and smiled: "That's good, I originally wanted to ask Guo Wei how to contact him, it's best if you know him, and I'll ask you for a recommendation when the time comes." ”

"No problem, I'll treat him when I get a chance. Zhou Yingyao thought about it: "In Sweden, our favorite food is Chinese food, followed by French food, and occasionally there is a banquet at the French Embassy, and everyone is willing to go there." Why don't you just invite French food? Ambassador Cao came from the Marseille Consulate, and maybe he still has some nostalgia. ”

He knew that Yang Rui had money, so he didn't save it for him.

Yang Rui shook his head and said, "I can't wait that long, after Ambassador Cao comes, a dinner will be held, and we will meet at the dinner." By the way, your embassy, if you want to make the dinner a little better, you can invite more people from all walks of life in Sweden to come by the way, which is more natural and not abrupt. ”

Zhou Yingyao suddenly came up with what his father-in-law said to him yesterday - "the benefits of being a new ambassador".

Zhou Yingyao was very skeptical that Yang Rui regarded the value of the new ambassador as a dinner party.

However, seeing Yang Rui's confident appearance, Zhou Yingyao felt very strange, so he said: "Director Yang, you have an outstanding reputation in China, and you must have made your wishes come true abroad......

"In a few years, perhaps, of course, it is man-made. "Yang Rui is indeed quite confident.

It should be said that the good situation in China has given Yang Rui a lot of room to move. So that he can gather more resources and get more support, such as Ambassador Cao Da, why he was specially transferred from Marseille, because he has always been a type of person who supports domestic scientific research and supports domestic scientists to innovate locally. During his tenure, he also organized many exhibitions and performances of domestic artists abroad, and he was not only a revolutionary figure, but also had practical experience.

And being able to invite such a person to be specially transferred to Sweden to escort himself is also the result of Yang Rui's accumulation of prestige over the years.

When it comes to prestige, you can't see it or touch it, but when it is against the scene, it can play a role.

Before Wang Mang usurped power, he could get the support of the government and the opposition in everything he did, but after he usurped power, how he did things, how he failed, and what he did was scolded by the government and the opposition.

Over the years, Yang Rui has not only made practical achievements, but also won a large number of supporters.

Not to mention, just the old and young masters of the Deling Group helped Yang Rui a lot. After they returned from Deling Farm, after three or four years of development, some of them have regained their previous power, and even improved, and some of them have been able to exert a lot of influence even though they have gone into the wilderness, and their gratitude to Yang Rui is not only out of their own hearts, but also out of a collective will - helping Yang Rui is the collective will of all the people who have returned from Deling Farm, and following this thinking is to make contributions to the collective of the Deling Group, and going against this thinking is tantamount to deviating from the course of the collective.

If Yang Rui is in politics, the old and young masters of the Deling Group may still be more reserved, but he has entered the academic world and is still doing well, so everyone can help, and he has no scruples, not to mention that Yang Rui is still very good at being a person, never making them embarrassed, and often rewarding.

In addition, Yang Rui's reputation at Peking University and the Academy of Sciences is also very good.

The Chinese academic community respects the capital, and the troika of the academic community in the capital is Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, without exception.

In such an environment, Yang Rui can form a lot of power if he stirs up a trend a little.

The 80s were the last elite era in China, poets could shout "The night gave me black eyes" and go to the whole country, Peking University students could also hold up the banner of "Hello Xiaoping" to cross Tiananmen Square, and Mu Zhong shouted "chiseled through the Himalayas" to go all over China......

And this gathered power also paved the way for Yang Rui.

There is no era more than China in the 80s that needs the Nobel Prize to prove itself.

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