1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 61: Staying in Beijing, hanging out in the art troupe
Time flies, and three more days have passed.

Lu Yifan and the other two worked almost non-stop, participating in various meetings over the three days.

Naturally, most of the topics of the meeting involved how to carry out military trade in the future and what lessons the leadership teams of all parties should learn and summarize.

Lu Yifan was very tactful and low-key, and did not make any advanced remarks at these meetings.

This is one time, and that is another time.

The person who should sing the main song now is Director Zheng Xinmin.

Besides, let’s talk about the development of military trade business.

In the past, people were conservative and did not dare to easily make demands to foreign guests.

Firstly, they are too eager to ask for help and are in a hurry to make a deal.

As the saying goes, it’s not a good deal if you rush to do something.

If the starting point is wrong, you will be controlled by others.

Secondly, it is true as Liang Zhenxing and others said before, there is a serious problem of unclear rights and responsibilities in the army regarding military trade.

It’s no big deal if things don’t get done.

Anyway, just live your life in a muddled way.

As long as the relationship with foreign guests can always be maintained good.

Everything else is no problem.

But whoever dares to show off his strength will ruin the relationship with foreign guests.

That would be a real problem.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like they are going to do business seriously, so naturally they will always encounter bumps and bruises in foreign military trade, and they will be tied up and dare not make any moves.

Another point is that our own people have a serious lack of awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of their own military equipment and their identity positioning in the international market.

Take the military trade negotiations with White Elephant and Babayang for example.

One is the so-called South Asian overlord with an international license plate, and the other is a small partner who has been relying on his own support for many years.

It is obvious that the two armies’ equipment is of poor standard and their strength in all aspects is seriously inferior to our negotiation targets.

But Liang Zhenxing and his gang really believed that others didn't like our things, and they kept emphasizing that "we can't sell what others want, and what we want to sell others don't like."

This is clearly a case of cognitive impairment and a congenitally inferior and pro-Western mentality.

The main content of Zheng Xinmin's report at the meeting involved these three aspects.

I believe that with these changes in cognition, there are many capable people in the army who are more professional than Lu Yifan in terms of how to carry out military trade and export business.

For example, during a three-day meeting.

He met a young naval officer named Zhang Zhaozhong who knew Arabic.

The two chatted and learned that this person was currently studying in the Department of Oriental Languages ​​at Yan University, and they felt that they had met each other too late. In addition, the two were of similar age, so they quickly formed a deep friendship.

New era, new journey.

The country lacks down-to-earth and practical people.

But what is even more lacking is a sky that allows talents to spread their wings and soar into the sky.

Three days of intensive meetings finally came to an end.

Director Zheng and Factory Director Wang are both about to take the train back to Qinxi Province.

But Lu Yifan simply didn't go back.

It is not easy to make this round trip. The green train of that era takes at least 40 hours to travel from Beijing to Qinxi.

Besides, the university term is about to start, in less than two weeks, he will have to make the final decision between Yanda University and Tsinghua University.

I went to the train station to see Director Zheng and Director Wang off.

By the way, I asked Director Wang to send a letter home. He had to arrange some things that he didn't have time to arrange in the letter. Things that needed to be arranged in a special letter.

The first one is naturally the matter of my younger sister and my cousins ​​Qiangwa, Naowa and seven other people preparing for the college entrance examination.

Before the New Year, I had been busy taking care of the seven little ones for almost two months.

Even though the seven of them had relatively poor foundations in academic subjects, none of them were high school students, or even junior high school students.

He hopes that all seven of them can successfully replicate his path to success in life after taking the college entrance examination.

I'm afraid I'm not that lucky.

But if you want to let two or three people stand out among the seven.

There is definitely still hope.

The greatest opportunity period is naturally the college entrance examination questions in 78. The difficulty is still not that high. It is a golden opportunity period in which you can definitely succeed if you grit your teeth and work hard.

After all, the country is also well aware that the candidates of school age who have been waiting for many years have all seriously neglected their studies. The college entrance examinations in the first two or three years will mainly test the candidates' self-study cognitive abilities.

As long as you can defeat more than half of your competitors of the same period, you will be eligible to enter college and university, which will completely change your future life.

The second thing is to write a letter specifically to make arrangements.

That means, of course, that she promised to bring her brother-in-law Xu Erhe to Beijing to work hard a few years ago.

He was afraid that this eccentric brother-in-law would suffer from his old illness again, thinking that he had entered Beijing early and would not go back, so he did not want to take him out.

Another thing is that I was suddenly called up by the army for a mission a few years ago and had to leave home in a hurry.

His two university acceptance letters, as well as the little assets that Xiao Qian had accumulated, also had to be arranged with his family and redistributed, with most of it going to his parents, some to his eldest sister, and a small portion left for travel expenses. After his brother-in-law's family had made arrangements, he would take his acceptance letters and come to Beijing as soon as possible to meet up with him...

Before I really left home for a long journey.

All he wanted to do was to leave some compensation for his family and then go far away. It would be almost impossible for him to return to this strange hometown.

But now, after living two lives, he has unknowingly and completely accepted his current identity.

He, Lu Yifan, is now the youngest son of Lu Xiangrong, a villager of Group 5 of Renhe Production Brigade, Longyan Commune, Fu County, Qinxi Province. In this life, his new starting point is an ordinary country youth, an ordinary country youth who is abandoned by his beautiful educated youth wife...

After the summary meeting involving arms trade was held.

Naturally, Lu Yifan could not stay in the military guesthouse any longer.

Logically, he should also take the green train back to Qinxi with Director Zheng and Factory Director Wang.

Taking into account his special situation and the fact that he would be reporting to university in a few days, the superiors consulted with him and temporarily transferred him to the General Political Department Art Troupe.

As for why he received such an honor.

Isn’t this just what I was thinking? I have already shown my extraordinary talent for plagiarizing (creating) military (songwriting) songs in front of my elder brother!

Instead of waiting for my elder brother to return to the army, I would publish it in the military newspaper to make a name for myself.

Now that we have already appreciated the beauty of the pretty sisters in the General Political Department Art Troupe up close.

He prepared a buffet and casually revealed himself by singing classic military songs such as "The Full Moon on the 15th" and "The Motherland Will Not Forget". He wanted to join the General Political Department Art Troupe as a temporary non-staff member, which would be a piece of cake.

So after seeing off Director Zheng and Director Wang.

Lu Yifan soon went straight to the General Political Department Art Troupe with his bag as a temporary seconded, non-staff creative officer.

There’s nothing I can do!

The school is not open now, and he doesn't have his admission letter. If he wants to make a final selection in advance to determine who is the best school in Beijing, then there is no chance for him to express himself freely for the time being.

The most important thing is that these days, if you come to Beijing and want to stay in a hotel or guesthouse as an ordinary citizen, you must first have a letter of introduction from the local government, and then you have to pay for various accommodation expenses. Without money, tickets, ID, or letters of introduction, you will be unable to move forward.

He wanted to earn some extra money with his own ability.

It’s just that I have unknowingly put too much protective armor on myself.

They are all people who have registered with the old man in the lake, and now they suddenly run out to do some useless things to make extra money. How can we explain it?
Therefore, it should be a very good experience to join the General Political Department Art Troupe for a few days...

(End of this chapter)