2084

Westminster Palace, Hall of Parliament, Round Table.

The Prime Minister is sitting in the center, and directly opposite him is the Minister of the Cabinet Boqi. The round table is centered on the cabinet members. Opposite the Prime Minister, there are also the Secretary of State and several senior officials from the Ministry of Commerce. They are discussing the issue of R There are documents spread out in front of everyone, and the teacups are also arranged crookedly.

Ling Yan sat in an inconspicuous corner, quickly taking minutes of the meeting, occasionally raising his head to ask a few questions - after all, he was probably the lowest-ranked person sitting on the round table.

Many people mistakenly think that the management meeting is always smelly and long, but it is not true. Everyone’s discussion is fast and direct. After drawing up the general charter, the Prime Minister said "Okay, let's start working", and everyone tidied up their work. Quickly walk out of the meeting room.

It was the same this time. After the meeting ended, the Ministry of Commerce directly occupied the meeting room and began to draw up a list of suspension of concessions for imported products from country R. The Secretary of State stepped on his mid-heeled shoes to draft the administrative request, while whispering instructions to her secretary to draft it. matters.

"You don't need to worry about this matter, tonight you go to District VI as usual." Ling Yan followed Boqi and heard him say this.

Boqi is getting old, although he is still tall and straight, but the traces of the passage of time on him are already obvious, "If two players of the same weight want to fight, the prospect is not pessimistic, and there is no need to be overly nervous .”

Boqi suddenly reached out and touched Ling Yan's neck. Unexpectedly, Ling Yan gently avoided it. It was bitten out by Qi Siming this morning. It still hurt a little, so Boqi had to pat him on the shoulder. Take it off, let Xiao He help you mend some."

Nanle Street, Qijia Restaurant.

After Qi Siming said a piece of news lightly, the expressions of Qi Tan and his wife began to change unpredictably. In the short silence, Qi Siming's Utopia port suddenly beeped. Qi Siming looked down, it was the news from Ling Yan, "I'm sorry tonight I can’t accompany you to report to you that I’m going on a business trip to Zone VI.”

He replied, and then Shi Shiran raised his head and said frankly, "That's the way it is, Ling Yan and I are together—this incident was a bit sudden, so I didn't mention it just now—Originally, life and work are two separate lines, and you two have different political views , I don’t want to interrupt, but if you talk about my boyfriend in front of me, I won’t be able to listen.”

Tan Qing's expression was thought-provoking for a moment.

Qi Hongshan was the first to react, and poured a glass of wine with a busy smile, "Siming, you should have said it earlier, really, the matter of not being close to each other made me a villain in vain. Three glasses of fines—but then again, since the two of you are together, we will definitely have more contacts in the future, and although there are differences in political opinions, there are also many opportunities for understanding and accommodation."

Qi Siming clinked glasses with him and said with a smile that everything is easy to talk about.

However, the question Tan Qing asked was very straightforward, "Have you and Ling Yan not seen each other for many years? Is that why you decided to be together? Do you understand his current character?"

Qi Siming actually really hates this kind of discussion of character and character. What can be discussed about such a metaphysical, big and empty thing?What can be explained after the discussion?

But Tan Qing is also kind-hearted, and Qi Siming is not easy to please her, "Some people don't change their minds after ten years of seeing each other. I can trust him. Besides, how can we be as lucky as you and your husband? Take the time to run in and stay together, so——you can only analyze the specific situation in detail, and make a quick decision on the person before talking about it.”

Tan Qing pondered for a while, as if he was still not very optimistic about this relationship, "I don't know much about Ling Yan's private life rumors, but you knew him better than me ten years ago, so you should know that he has a high technological talent, And he is not good at dealing with people. In fact, I have been puzzled in the past few years. What happened to him can turn a person with similar social barriers into such a handy person—yes, and, you know? He studied at university clinical medicine, was retained by Congress during the undergraduate internship—”

"I heard a little bit."

"The former chairman of the Congress had some personal relationships with my father. I asked him this question. After all, in a place where law and politics occupy half of Congress, his major is not common, because the possibility of being retained if he performs well in internships is even smaller. But if the chairman specifically mentions it, it's probably for another reason—"

Qi Siming raised his eyebrows.

"The three hundred members of Congress are living under great pressure every day. They are human beings, and they will also have various problems. The chairman of the Congress, he is likely to see what's wrong with someone's body—of course not to see some small Sickness and minor disasters, that is the business of the medical insurance committee and emergency doctors-mainly to see if anyone is taking drugs-in fact, I don't know if this can be observed from the outside, but the former chairman said that if special training Doctors who have passed, not to mention ninety-nine out of ten, can be seventy-seven or eighty-eight."

Qi Siming's heart skipped a beat.

There are 1500 civil servants in the Capitol, and they all work in Building No. 539, Jiexin Road. Three years ago, when Bo Qi was promoted to the cabinet, he chose Ling Yan, a young man, as the chief of staff. One must have no qualifications and no experience. Experienced newcomers, although the family was once prominent, but the influence of grandparents and parents disappeared ten years ago. Perhaps everyone thought that Boqi was anxious to cultivate cronies in the Congress at that time, so he lost his head.

"If you know a lot about this kind of thing, it's not surprising that you know more about other secrets. Last year, I accompanied Sequoia to a congressional dinner. At that time, a congressman was forced to resign and drank too much. In the lobby, he and Ling Yan started arguing, and swearing a lot of nasty words under anger—roughly speaking, he once, uh... harassed Ling Yan once, and then drafted a single proposal for the high street shopping mall, which has not yet waited for a vote , I received a call from Ling Yan in Zangjiao's golden room asking him to cancel..."

Qi Siming understood what Tan Qing meant.

In fact, he was a little skeptical yesterday. Ling Yan is so young, so he shouldn't have too much bargaining power in front of those senior councilors, just like low-level players usually don't directly challenge high-level players, but the annoyance in the eyes of those two men It was so obvious, as if someone had grabbed him seven inches with his bare hands.

An unclean and controversial start to his political career, he was quickly promoted in the early days because of political terrorism. It may look like a bright spot to outsiders, but he also prematurely involved himself in too many nasty scandals.

This is a quick-fix but dangerous strategy.Because while raising the butcher's knife, other people's butcher's knife was aimed at him.

"I'm telling you this just to make you pay attention. If it gets involved, I'm afraid you will be accidentally hurt—but I don't care about those political games, and I don't understand. I just want to tell you Technology—You know, Utopia is a neuroscience chip. Every infrastructure upgrade needs to be designed according to 10 times the current performance and storage capacity. In our era, everything is updated too fast. If there is no way After the control is deployed in advance, there will be a big mess——

My eldest daughter is almost 6 years old, and Utopia is about to be activated. If many proposals of the management committee have been delayed and cannot be passed, it is not only a matter of politicians, but also a matter of countless scientific researchers behind Utopia. There will be no problems now, but after another year or two, the chip technology cannot be upgraded, and if it does not advance, it will retreat. No one can predict what the consequences of the radium bipolar vacuum tube under the skin layer will be—— It's not a trivial matter, I hope you can persuade Ling Yan, no matter what reason he blocked the proposal from the management committee, I hope he can change his mind. "

At 21 o'clock in the evening, Ling Yan returned to his residence in District VI.

He just finished participating in an event, even though it was just the beginning, it was exhausting enough.Although some of these constituencies starting with Roman numerals are far away from the core of power in the capital, they are the outposts of the political world. If they can’t figure out the voters here, there is no need to talk about entering Congress.

After he was adopted by Boqi, he lived here for a long time. Compared with District XXI, except that the latitude is a little lower, the climate is warmer, and more obviously, the economic development and urban intelligence are slightly weaker.But XXI is a special zone, and it is hard to match it anywhere in the country except the capital, so he doesn't particularly care about it.

Boqi used to be the mayor of many districts in District VI. Ling Yan, the dignitaries and politicians in the district, is familiar with them. These people of class A and B are the vested interests of the society. It is not difficult to deal with them. What is difficult is C and D. class of people.

Ling Yan loosened his tie and poured himself a glass of red wine.

All his public appearances have been meticulously crafted, every piece of clothing, every accessory, every drink, and even his hairdo. His team has done data comparisons to help him design.

His professional team positioned him as a gentleman and elegant, but not lacking in passion. He felt that the former was barely enough, but the latter was physically and mentally exhausted.Just now the host pushed him to the stage like a mascot to let him speak, the surroundings were in chaos, there were a few fanatical little girls in front of the stage, and they almost rushed forward.

I also want to know that the speech script for this kind of occasion is memorized in advance, but he still has to pretend to be impromptu, and it is best to be able to have cadence and ups and downs in just a few minutes-passionate speeches are mixed in politics It is a compulsory course, but for Ling Yan, this skill is difficult to hone.

It may be due to mental problems in his early years. He couldn't mobilize his emotions freely, especially when he was mobilized, he couldn't calm down quickly, so every time he finished speaking, his nerves were tired and excited, and he couldn't fall asleep at all. .

He took off his suit, took a sip of wine, read the reply on Utopia and sent Qi Siming a call.

He is very tired.

He wants to hear his voice.

Walking into the bathroom, Ling Yan wiped off the liquid foundation on his neck, and solemnly undid a few buttons.

In the unconnected communication, a lot of things flashed through his mind in a mess. He knew that Qi Siming met with Qi Hongshan and several partners of the company today. Entering the game, maybe in this day, he experienced being lobbied, instigated, slandered, and even intimidated. The Vanity Fair in the capital, where greed, enthusiasm, and ambition are intertwined, has all kinds of monsters and ghosts. The sentence I received was "I regret it, let's separate."

Like ten years ago.

Ling Yan's hands began to shake.

Fortunately, the next second, Qi Siming connected.

Ling Yan looked at himself in the mirror, suppressed his disordered breathing, and said steadily, "Do you want a video?"

The other party smiled, "Then I will switch to automatic driving."

As soon as Ling Yan heard that he was driving, he immediately changed his words, "Don't, don't change, then say it like this."

In fact, the two people have nothing serious to talk about after ten years of fault. It is just a couple's night talk. In Ling Yan's view, this is a very ritual thing. After scrolling through each of them, Ling Yan was a bit at a loss for words. He thought for a while and asked a question that he had been thinking about all day.

"Did Qi Hongshan speak ill of me when he saw you?"

Qi Siming was not surprised by his question, and smiled, "Yeah, I said a lot, saying that you manipulated votes maliciously, abused your power, and were ambitious... I was shocked when I heard it. My family Ah Yan is so evil."

Ling Yan's body tensed up unconsciously. Looking at the overly arrogant and cold face in the mirror, he suddenly felt hatred for no reason.

He said, "Yes, I am such a person, so are you afraid?"

One is a close friend since childhood, and the other is a lover who has not had a deep friendship. If he misses the old love, he dare not compare the weight in Qi Siming's heart with the two of Qi Tan.He has been homeless for ten years, and up to now, he still dare not show any pity for him.

Qi Siming didn't notice Ling Yan's strangeness at all, and lazily said, "I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid."

Although the tone was joking, it was enough to scare Ling Yan. He didn't speak, and could only ask the other party to complete the next sentence, "So Ah Yan, I have heard so many other people's words, are you going to tell me this in person? Boyfriend talk about the past few years, so that I won't be afraid when I hear other news in the future?"