At the beginning of July 1985, Lu Zheng was appointed as the lowest-ranking deputy director of the Wushan Municipal Education Commission, and a deputy director of the Organization Department accompanied him to take office.

The Municipal Education Commission was established in June this year, and in fact, it is naturally the entire team of the original Municipal Education Bureau; no matter how much the state attaches importance to education, when it comes to the localities, under the current conditions, whether it is renamed the Education Commission or the original Education Bureau, it is impossible for it to become a hot and powerful unit.

Lu Zheng assists Director Wang Futing of the Education Commission in charge of the Vocational Education and Social Education Department, secondary professional (day) schools, Vocational Education Teaching and Research Office, Adult Education Teaching and Research Office, Vocational Education Society, Social Liliang School Association, and Adult Education Society. At the same time, he presides over the daily work of the Foreign Language Office (Office Chinese of the Wushan Foreign Exchange Language Committee).

The Office of Foreign Exchange is located in the office building of Osan Vocational College of Foreign Language Translation and Interpreting, which is a temporary office established to meet the needs of Osan foreign exchanges, and its main task is to provide professional translators for official foreign trade and foreign affairs affairs such as foreign trade offices, overseas Chinese affairs offices or non-governmental foreign exchange needs.

Lu Zheng is familiar with the Education Commission, and has dealt with several main leaders of the Education Commission and some middle-level cadres, but on the first day of taking office, he faintly heard people talking in the bathroom, accusing him of how can a junior high school graduate be qualified for the work of the Education Commission? What's more, the rural students who came out of the Cultural Revolution era are not necessarily able to recognize all the characters.

The man raised his voice even more and said, "I heard that his nickname is a live bandit, you say, can he be educated?" The most ridiculous thing is to arrange for him to preside over the work of our office, which is ridiculous! What kind of work do we don't know about? The selection of excellent translators, the selected people are dealing with foreigners, he? It doesn't matter if you are smiling and generous, it will be a national shame to make any oolongs! ”

The brother who was chatting with him "shh ”

"I'm not afraid, I say the same in front of anyone!" Although the sharp voice was hard, the voice gradually became smaller.

Then the footsteps gradually faded away, Lu Zheng shook his head, his diploma, in the cultural and educational unit, is really a hard injury.

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The office building just built by the Education Commission, although Lu Zheng is the deputy director at the bottom of the ranking, but he also has his own office, Director Zhao of the commission accompanies him and introduces him to the work in charge, in fact, the work of each department has its own charter, although Lu Zheng has never worked in the cultural and educational system, but as a leader, especially a deputy position, there is nothing difficult to get started, there are many signatures, and he is slowly familiar with the work process.

Lu Zheng is mainly in charge of vocational education and adult education, as long as Xiao Gui Cao follows, follows the work path of his predecessor, don't toss around, and develop vocational adult education in an orderly manner, and the work can be done well.

Director Zhao of the commission office is called Zhao Minggang, in his forties, wearing glasses, Sven Wen, at first glance, he is a cultural person, he speaks slowly and logically, and he is angry.

"Director Lu, that's it? Tell me whatever you have. Tomorrow, I will accompany you to the Institute of Foreign Languages. Zhao Minggang has dealt with Lu Zheng a few times, and his attitude is also very respectful at this time, but it is unknown whether he despises Lu Zheng in his heart.

The phone on the table rang suddenly, it was a call from Director Wang Futing Wang, calling Lu Zheng to come to his office.

Wang Futing's office is on the same floor as Lu Zheng's office, and Wang Futing is a very wealthy middle-aged cadre, just in his early forties, in the prime of life, and he is very hopeful to go further.

Seeing Lu Zheng come in, Wang Futing got up with a smile and shook hands with Lu Zheng, and said: "We really have some fate, the first time I saw you, I felt that I was in love, no, let's go together?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled, but he also noticed that a slightly chubby young man stood on the sofa next to him, dressed very elegantly, with a jacket, trousers, and black leather shoes, but his face was slightly ugly as if he heard what Wang Futing said to himself.

At this time, Wang Futing had already smiled and said, "Xiao Zhou, what are you still doing in a daze?" This is Director Lu, your immediate boss, younger than you, but more capable than you, follow Director Lu in the future, you have to study hard, and report to Director Lu first about work. ”

"Xiao Zhou" immediately looked very embarrassed, and greeted Lu Zheng awkwardly: "Director Lu." ”

Wang Futing introduced Lu Zheng on the side: "Xiao Zhou, Zhou Xiaoming, the deputy director of the Foreign Language Office, don't listen to me, you are actually a very capable young man!" ”

Lu Zheng smiled and nodded.

From Wang Futing's style of words, I also knew that there seemed to be a tricky matter in the department, so Zhou Xiaoming came directly to report to Wang Futing.

Wang Futing obviously didn't eat his set, and broke it in front of himself, so as not to have a mustard in his heart, that is, in a large unit such as the Municipal Education Commission, the principal and deputy positions perform their duties, and rush to do the work of the deputy position? Only young people like Xiao Zhou think it's power-grabbing, right?

Wang Futing said to Lu Zheng again: "That's the case, the Foreign Economic Cooperation Commission received a few friends from West Germany this afternoon, and I heard that the other party seems to have investment intentions, but all along, you also know that we Wushan have never dealt with German businessmen, and the Foreign Economic Cooperation Commission does not have a suitable translator. But Xiao Zhou just said that the first German class of the School of Foreign Languages has just reached its second year, and he is afraid that he will not be able to do oral translation work. Haha, Lu Zheng, I'll leave this matter to you. ”

West German businessmen, with foreign economic and trade ties, think of it as investment, and the number will not be large, otherwise they would have alarmed the leaders of the municipal party committee with great fanfare.

Since the number is not large, it seems that Wang Futing does not take it to heart, and casually throws this problem to Lu Zheng, anyway, it just happens to be under Lu Zheng's control.

Lu Zheng looked at Zhou Xiaoming: "Can't you contact the Beijing Foreign Affairs Department?" "Osan is very close to Beijing, but Osan can't find a suitable German translator for a while, can't you contact one from Beijing?

Zhou Xiaoming's face was embarrassed, and he said: "The Foreign Economic Cooperation Commission is very anxious, and said that it will be used in the afternoon, and I am afraid that it will be too late to find it from Beijing." ”

Lu Zheng was suddenly stunned, Zhou Xiaoming's voice was slightly sharp, listen carefully, isn't it the one who ridiculed himself in the bathroom for being a big boss, and even worried that he was "insulting the national body"?

"Director Lu, what do you think?" Zhou Xiaoming's face was embarrassed, but in his eyes, there was a faint hint of schadenfreude, obviously, this old and rough new official encountered problems when he took office, which made him very comfortable.

Lu Zheng groaned slightly and said, "In this way, I really can't find a suitable candidate, I'll go to the top first!"

Zhou Xiaoming almost burst out laughing on the spot, barely holding back the smile on his face with muscle twitches, and said, "You...... Where are you going? "Even now in the director's office, there are two more directors present, Zhou Xiaoming almost can't help but want to hold his stomach and laugh, this person, this big old man, too, too ridiculous, it's ridiculous, I really don't know how many pounds and taels I have, it's just, it's inexplicable!

You go? Why are you going? Gesturing with others? Is this old and rude, do foreigners not know what it is, and think that it is the same as in the movie, they can speak Chinese?

Wang Futing's face was also a little weird, staring at Lu Zheng, he didn't think of Lu Zheng so superficially like Zhou Xiaoming, but he also didn't know what Lu Zheng meant.

Lu Zheng continued: "Don't the Germans also have translators? That's fine, I'll do the talking, top first. Xiao Zhou, you contact Beijing and ask a professional translator from Beijing as soon as possible. The latter words were completely an order to Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou was stunned, only to find that it was not what he thought it was at all, just, what? Does this old man speak German? How can it be?

Wang Futing thought about it and had the same doubts in his heart, and asked, "Is it really okay?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled and said: "Don't worry, I learned German in the army, and it is no problem to deal with general conversations, it is the professional terminology of the official document, I am afraid that it will not be very good, so I must ask a professional translator as soon as possible." ”

Wang Futing suddenly, admired in his heart, I couldn't imagine that this Lu bar head was also very studious, think about it, didn't Huang Lao say, in the correspondence secondary school of the mechanical and electrical school.

"That's it, it's good if you're sure." Wang Futing smiled and nodded.

Lu Zheng turned his head to Zhou Xiaoming and said, "Let's go, let's quickly solve the problem." ”

Zhou Xiaoming was stunned by Lu Zheng's command, but he could only follow Lu Zheng and walk out of Wang Futing's office.