Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 334 How to Breakthrough
Without waiting for Director Miao's reaction, Gu Weijun left and returned to his room.

After Gu Weijun left, Yu Qiang actually opened the door from the back bedroom and complained directly to Director Miao, "Uncle Miao, look at this mud-legged guy's attitude?"

"Isn't it just that you hooked up with a big capitalist in France?"

"Do you think you are so arrogant just because you helped the country sell some raw silk at a low price?"

"what is this?"

"This is definitely a case of relying on foreigners to show your own self-respect!"

"This is a serious problem of tendencies!"

"There's definitely something wrong with this guy!"

"I suggest you check him out!"

"No, he is to be removed from office directly!"

"No investigation, no right to speak."

“No matter what you do, you can’t underestimate it.”

A sneer appeared on Director Miao's lips, "After all, capitalists are all about profit, right?"

"Now we have also officially connected with the French association and several large textile factories."

"Such a large amount, we"

"One day in the future, we can bypass this trader and work directly with them."

"Just defeat them one by one!"

"Gu Weijun did a particularly good job."

"Since he was able to graduate from Tsinghua University smoothly in the past few years, and was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his position is still so high."

"We can continue to discuss the raw silk trade in the long term."

"Silence!" Director Miao shouted loudly, staring at Yu Qiang coldly. After a while, he slowly said: "Be calm when facing important events!"

"Either he has something special, or he has enough background and trump cards."

Director Miao raised his hand to stop Yu Qiang's tutting, and his expression returned to normal, "Xiao Qiang, I told you, work must be down-to-earth!"

"What's the difference between this and fighting?"

"Criticize him directly!"

"Besides," Director Miao glanced at Yu Qiang indifferently, "I have told you again and again not to have any objections to Gu Weijun or have conflicts with him."

"But!" Yu Qiang was anxious and spoke arbitrarily, "Uncle Miao, the annual raw silk export trade volume is several hundred million US dollars!"

“Nothing happens overnight.”

Yu Qiang frowned and asked with some confusion: "Uncle Miao, but according to his information, his parents are ordinary people. His father is a doctor and his mother is a housewife."

Director Miao said coldly, which made Yu Qiang completely powerless, "My information is also ordinary."

After Gu Weijun returned to his room, he locked the doors and windows, but did not go to the apartment on Roosevelt Avenue immediately. Instead, he lay on the bed with his hands on the pillow, constantly thinking about Director Miao's attitude and purpose today. In the past few months of working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gu Weijun has maintained superficial relationships with people in the ministry, neither far nor close.

Especially Director Miao, as his immediate boss, Gu Weijun kept a distance from him and did not behave like he did when he first entered the office.

Gu Weijun's performance also caused Director Miao and other colleagues in the office to have the same cold relationship with him, maintaining a normal working relationship, except for Deputy Director Zheng.

But since going abroad this time, Gu Weijun has felt strange. Director Miao seems to be testing him.

Gu Weijun did not refute, which was equivalent to silently acknowledging Director Miao's words.

Following Yang Ping, the commercial representative in Italy, he returned to the commercial representative office.

The commercial representative office is located near Barberini. It is just a small two-story building next to the Barberini Palace. There are less than 10 people in the representative office, and it is mainly responsible for delivering some trade information and the like.

In order to accommodate Gu Weijun, the comrades in the representative office even squeezed in and gave him a separate room.

Gu Weijun expressed his gratitude, but also said that he would do more market and economic research here and might not stay for a few days.

In fact, Gu Weijun only stayed for one night and said goodbye to his colleagues in the representative office.

When asking the comrades in the representative office what is the most imported product in Italy every year, Gu Weijun had no idea, and it turned out to be red wine.
Although we have plenty of money, Italians may not recognize it.
Gu Weijun's last phone call brought Catherine and Constance over from France, hoping to come up with a countermeasure together. The result was that the three of them had been studying for a long time and could not find any other suitable products for China's large-scale export to Italy besides existing trade products. goods for export.

Gu Weijun racked his brains and came up with a way. Was it to resell Changyu through Catherine's winery in France?

The result was ruthlessly denied by Catherine. Firstly, how could one winery produce so much red wine? Secondly, Italy is already a red wine exporting country.
In the end, Gu Weijun had no choice but to give up the idea. It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.
In the end, the idea of ​​expanding export trade to Italy was given up. It can only be said that Italy has not found suitable trade varieties, so it can only rely on agricultural products and primary mineral products.

Helpless, Gu Weijun could only spend a few days with Catherine and Constance in Rome and Milan, which was equivalent to a short honeymoon.
Then Gu Weijun returned to France and waited for Director Miao in the embassy.

Looking at the calendar hanging in the room, Gu Weijun let out a long sigh. He still couldn't make it back to China before New Year's Eve in 71.
Today is already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow will be the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. It seems that Director Miao and the others are still struggling on the diplomatic front of other countries.
The only person who can comfort Gu Weijun now, besides Catherine and the others, is Master Wang, the chef of the embassy.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and although we don’t have any rest, we shouldn’t delay eating dumplings in the evening, right?

Therefore, on New Year's Eve two days later, Gu Weijun decisively joined the process of making dumplings with the comrades from the embassy, ​​and even secretly hid a lunch box
After the dinner party was over, Gu Weijun took Comrade Wang and hurried to Catherine's apartment building.

Gu Weijun took out the lunch box as if offering a treasure, opened the lid, and a unique smell of pork and cabbage stuffing spread out.

After letting Catherine and Constance, including the children, have a brief taste, Gu Weijun began to tell them about Chinese Spring Festival customs, their implications, and so on.

When his sons asked why they were not given Chinese names, Gu Weijun touched their heads and replied patiently: "If you think you are Chinese, you can give yourself a Chinese name in the future."

"But if you have no feelings for China and only think of yourself as French, then why bother?"

"A name is nothing more than a person's code name, isn't it?"

"Just having a Chinese name means that you recognize the Chinese heritage and culture."

The sons seemed to understand, and Gu Weijun didn't explain too much. So what if he gave it a Chinese name?

There are still plenty of bananas!

Finally, on the 28th, Director Miao returned to France with the delegation and made dumplings with the comrades from the embassy.

The group of people who visited the country this time finally returned home.

Before returning to China, a colleague asked Gu Weijun why he didn’t bring more local specialties back to China.

(End of this chapter)