Chapter 211 Funny list, slapped in the face
In early 1980, the American science fiction series "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" introduced by the China Television Translation Department appeared on the TV screen every Thursday night.
This is the first time that an American drama has been introduced to a mainland TV station.
The style of this series is rigorous and simple. Compared with other science fiction TV series, it is closer to the actual situation of scientific undertakings.
Compared with later gorgeous blockbusters, "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" is actually very simple.
The image converted from the analog signal is poor and even somewhat blurry.
Except for the "Sea Whale", which is like a pile of sugar, there is no trace of "high technology" in the play.
Some special effects are nothing more than simple models, lens cutting, and screen editing to create effects.
The fade-in and fade-out scene editing has a sense of originality.
But the impact of "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" on China is actually quite large.
There are two things that cannot be ignored, one is the toad mirror and the other is the flying disc.
Mike Harris wore a pair of sunglasses, which were imitated by fashionable youths. Together with bell-bottom pants, floral shirts, and portable recorders, they became the standard equipment for street youth in the 1980s.
Everyone calls it the Mike Mirror, the Toad Mirror, and the Panda Mirror.
This kind of glasses has large lenses, light color, can protect the eyes from the wind and provide sun protection. There must be a self-adhesive trademark on the upper left corner of the lens. This trademark cannot be peeled off because it represents the original and genuine product.
In this context, many people’s curiosity about the United States has reached a high level.
Having the opportunity to go on a business trip to the United States is definitely something that many people don’t want to miss and strive for.
Capital Automobile Manufacturing Factory unexpectedly received an invitation letter from General Motors of America. The other party promised to receive a five-person inspection team and provide various expenses such as air tickets, food and accommodation.
With such a good inspection opportunity, someone from the First Machinery Department was naturally eyeing it.
"Chen Qi and Jiang Hui, take them down. Just keep Director Zheng Haiming at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and Professor Zhu Jiansheng from the Capital Institute of Technology."
"The remaining three places are reserved for our department."
Going abroad at this time is very troublesome in terms of procedures.
According to the original plan, this time the First Machinery Department arranged for a person to be the leader of the group and took Zheng Haiming, Zhu Jiansheng, Chen Qi and Jiang Hui to inspect General Motors of America.
But this list is stuck at the general office within the First Machinery Department that is responsible for the specific affairs of going abroad.
"Director, if this is the case, will there be trouble at the Capital Automobile Factory?"
As a clerk who actually runs errands, he will not be able to fall behind after the quota changes. On the head, so in fact he doesn't really want to have twists and turns in his life.
However, even if the director gave orders, he did not dare to disagree.
However, he must bring up some possible risks first, so as not to let him take the blame later.
"What's the fuss about? The previous contact with General Motors was originally led by the First Machinery Department. The Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant is also managed by our department. Don't they even have this awareness?"
“This time I personally led the team and went to inspect it together with our director and labor union leaders.”
As the deputy director of the general office, Li Benman is in charge of some business related to overseas management.
He must make full use of such a good opportunity.
It is a pity that there are only five places, otherwise he could arrange for more people to participate.
"Okay, then I will collect the documents and other information of the relevant personnel first, and go through the procedures as soon as possible."
The leader said so, Yue Rui naturally just If you can follow this idea, go ahead and handle it.
At the American Embassy, Smith has been paying attention to General Motors' invitation to Jiang Hui and Zhu Jiansheng to inspect the American headquarters.
After waiting for a long time, he finally received the information from the First Machinery Department to apply for a visa. He immediately followed up in person.
However, something happened that confused him.
"Woodcock, the First Machinery Department of China has sent over the visa application materials for inspection personnel at General Motors, but the list is a bit strange. I only saw Zhu Jiansheng and not Jiang Hui."< br>
Smith knew that Woodcock attached great importance to this matter, so he went to report to him immediately.
“Zheng Haiming, Zhu Jiansheng, Yang Jiansong, Cai Haoning, and Li Benman, why are there three people from the First Machinery Department going together?”
Woodcock took the information handed over by Smith and read it quickly.
"Yes, according to the information I originally had, this inspection should be a person from the First Machinery Department who arranged to take people from the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and Capital Institute of Technology to the United States."< br>
“The ones General Motors wants to invite the most are Zhu Jiansheng and Jiang Hui. The other people are all going together in a group, so that Jiang Hui and the others can put aside their worries.”
"But now the list of overseas inspections has become like this..."
Smith is also a little unclear about what to do.
It stands to reason that the list of people in China who went to General Motors to inspect has nothing to do with them. Whoever they like can go.
The embassy only needs to be responsible for getting the visa.
But Smith knew that this time things were special, so he came specifically to discuss it with Woodcock.
"Tell General Motors this information, ask for their opinion, and then make further arrangements."
Woodcock thought for a while and found a solution.
Smith naturally has no objection to this.
That night, Austin, who had just gone to work on the other side of the Pacific, received a transoceanic call from Smith.
"What? Jiang Hui is not on the list?"
"Fake!"
Austin couldn't help but use a foul language.
The last time he went on a business trip to the capital, the most important result was that he invited Jiang Hui and Zhu Jiansheng to visit and inspect the General Motors headquarters in the United States.
After fully seeing Jiang Hui's professionalism, Austin was very eager to attract Jiang Hui to join the GM design team.
But what I have worked hard on for so long finally turned out like this.
Is it possible that Jiang Hui changed his mind midway?
It shouldn’t be!
"I also feel a little strange. This list does not meet our previous expectations, so I called you specifically to communicate with you."
Across the Pacific, Smith can also feel Austin's dissatisfaction.
At this time, he basically knew that there must be something wrong with the list handed over by the First Machinery Department.
It’s just that he still hasn’t figured out what the problem is.
“The purpose of establishing this inspection team is to invite Jiang Hui to go abroad for inspection. If he is not on the list, there is no need for this delegation to exist.”
Austin said in a stiff tone.
He didn't care how high the level of the personnel in the First Machinery Department was. Anyway, he just wanted to see Jiang Hui come to General Motors.
“Let’s see, I have granted visas to Zhu Jiansheng and Zheng Haiming, and have rejected the visas of the other three people. Let’s see what the list they resubmit will look like.”
< br>"If there is still no Jiang Hui, we will discuss a solution."
Smith already fully understands GM's thinking.
Then he knew exactly what he should do.
Whether the visa is approved or not is entirely decided by the embassy.
They don’t even need to explain why they didn’t approve your visa.
Soon, Smith personally took care of the visa matter.
After that, someone specially notified the staff from the First Machinery Department to come and collect the information.
"Huh? The visas of our director, deputy director and trade union leaders were all rejected?"
After receiving the information, Yue Rui felt that his whole head was about to explode.
He thought that the American Embassy called him to come and collect the documents and that the visa was all settled.
Who knew it would be such a situation.
Isn’t this making things difficult for him?
Bringing this result back, God knows what Li Benman will think of him.
“Why was the visa refused?”
Yue Rui couldn’t help but ask the embassy staff, but the answer was a cold “No comment!”
I know. Unable to find any information, Yue Rui had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to the ministry with the information.
“Lao Yue, why do you look so sad?”
Downstairs of the First Machinery Department, Yue Rui met Wei Shuwu who was about to go out to do something, and the other party greeted him.
“Hey, don’t mention it. The visa I sent to the American Embassy was rejected by the three leaders of the ministry. The other party did not explain the reason. I don’t know how to tell Li The director explained. "
Yue Rui and Wei Shuwu were college students who entered the First Department of Machinery in the same year, and they have a pretty good relationship.
That’s why he dared to tell the problem as soon as they met.
“The leaders of the ministry are going to the United States for inspection?”
"There seems to be no special activities recently."
Wei Shuwu asked in confusion.
There are no secrets in the agency.
For things like this kind of overseas study tour, it is basically impossible to hide the news. "Your Automobile Bureau knows best about the inspection at General Motors."
When Yue Rui said this, Wei Shuwu felt even more strange.
“Didn’t General Motors invite personnel from Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and Capital Institute of Technology to the inspection?”
“At most, one person from our ministry can lead the delegation, right? Otherwise, we don’t even need one person.”
Wei Shuwu looked at Yue Rui in confusion, feeling that there seemed to be something that he had overlooked.
“It was originally arranged like this. There were three people from the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, one person from the Capital Institute of Technology, and our general office arranged for one person to lead the team.”
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"But when the list came to Director Li, it was not approved."
"The list we rearranged was Director Zheng Haiming of Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, Dean Zhu Jiansheng of Capital University of Technology, and the remaining three The individuals are Director Yang and Director Li of our department and Leader Cai of the labor union."
When Yue Rui said this, Wei Shuwu couldn't help but frown.
After staying in the institution for a long time, he can naturally understand the ways inside quickly.
Obviously, the General Office is interested in the quota for this overseas inspection.
I just don’t know why I got stuck when I went to the American Embassy to apply for a visa.
It is relatively rare for the First Machinery Department to fail to approve a visa.
At least Yue Rui has never encountered it.
After all, these people are going abroad for business, and the relevant information is endorsed by relevant Chinese departments. The American Embassy will rarely deny visas to these people.
“For this inspection, General Motors invited Jiang Hui, right?”
Wei Shuwu had been in contact with Jiang Hui a lot during this period, and naturally knew a little about some related situations.
Jiang Hui was not on the list right now, and he immediately felt the weirdness.
Perhaps the visa for the personnel of the First Aircraft Department was rejected this time because the list was wrong.
“Originally, there was, but when reporting to our Director Li, the list was revised.”
“According to the intention of the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, during this inspection, the department It only needs to arrange an ordinary staff member to serve as the group leader, but..."
Yue Rui didn't need to say anything, Wei Shuwu knew what was going on.
Similar things also happened during my inspection trip to Japan some time ago.
Originally, people from the following factories went to Japan for inspection, but in the end, more than half of the inspection team were people from the Ministry. There was even one person who was neither from the First Machinery Department nor the factory, but from the local area. Working in a certain department has absolutely nothing to do with the project.
The water here is a bit deep, and even Wei, Shu and Wu did not dare to gossip.
"Go and report to Director Li as soon as possible and see what arrangements he has."
"Let's go back and find a place to have a drink. We haven't gotten together for a while."
Wei Shuwu couldn't help Yue Rui with this kind of thing.
Yue Rui is also very clear about this.
So I had to bite the bullet and report to Li Benman.
"Director Li, I got the visa information back."
Yue Rui met Li Benman smoothly in his office.
When the other party saw him coming back with the documents, he said happily: "Now that the visa has been obtained, let's finalize the subsequent itinerary as soon as possible and book the air tickets and so on. , to avoid any trouble.”
Hearing what Li Benman said, Yue Rui’s face was full of bitterness.
At this time, Li Benman also realized that something seemed a little wrong, and said: "What's wrong? Are there any difficulties? Something happened at home?"
Li Benman didn't think about it at all. My visa will be refused. This kind of thing has never happened in the past.
For people in ministries like them, visa is just a process.
"It is true that there were some accidents. Only Zheng Haiming and Zhu Jiansheng's visas were approved this time, and the others were rejected."
Yue Rui said cautiously. He was afraid that Li Benman would be angry with him.
Sure enough, after listening to his words, Li Benman's expression suddenly changed.
“Didn’t pass?”
"How could it not be passed?"
"Did you have any documents that you didn't prepare?"
Li Benman completely understood that he would not be able to pass the visa if he was unable to do so.
This kind of thing can't happen.
“I have confirmed all the information. The preparation information for the five people is the same. It should have nothing to do with the information itself.”
Yue Rui definitely can't admit that it's the problem with the data. Wouldn't that be equivalent to admitting that it's his problem?
I don’t want to be the scapegoat.
The key is that in fact it is not a problem with the information. No matter how he improves it, it is impossible for Li Benman and others to obtain visas.
If you admit this, it will be more troublesome later.
“What’s the problem?”
"Does the visa officer at the American Embassy have any explanation?"
Li Benman continued to ask with a dark face.
It’s just that with these questions, he is destined to not get satisfactory results.
But the visa cannot be obtained, so this overseas inspection will definitely not go smoothly.
And when this matter reaches this point, it must be reported to the top, otherwise it will be embarrassing.
"I asked the other party, but no information came out, and the other party did not intend to give any explanation."
"Perhaps the ministry can consider asking about the situation through other channels?"
Yue As soon as Rui finished speaking, Li Benman's secretary walked in.
He didn't care that Li Benman was talking to Yue Rui, and came directly to Li Benman and said: "Boss, General Motors has sent a contact letter. The other party is questioning why in our inspection list No Jiang Hui? They said that if there was no Jiang Hui, then there would be no need for this inspection."
"And they also made it clear that they hope that Zheng Haiming, Zhu Jiansheng and Jiang Hui will all appear on the inspection team. Among the list, they just want to have a good communication with the people at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant.”
When the secretary said this, Yue Rui breathed a sigh of relief.
Obviously, there seems to be a little overlap between these two things.
Zhu Jiansheng and Zheng Haiming, the two people GM wanted to invite, successfully obtained visas.
Other personnel were rejected.
Li Benman was not stupid, and he realized this quickly.
However, it was not easy for him to lose his temper at this time, so he could only hold his anger in his heart.
“If there is no need, there is no need. Does General Motors really think they are the only car company in the world?”
“I have been squeezed by Toyota and can no longer survive. It seems to be very powerful."
"If you have the ability, don't contact us."
Li Benman said very unhappy.
Obviously, this matter is absolutely embarrassing.
After the news spread, his deputy director also lost his face.
Of course, he also knew that neither his secretary nor Yue Rui were the kind of people who gossiped casually.
But I feel unhappy after all.
"Director Li, what should we do next?"
Yue Rui asked cautiously.
He didn't want to ask, but this matter definitely couldn't be left in his hands, otherwise something would go wrong sooner or later, and she would have to take the blame.
“What should I do?”
“You ask me, who should I ask?”
“I still have to explain the situation to the director and Leader Cai. ”
Li Benman said something like this, which made Yue Rui very helpless.
However, the first level of official rank is overwhelming, not to mention that the level difference between the two people is more than one level.
"Then I will try to follow the list originally given by the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and then send in the signature materials to try?"
I have no choice but to do the work. .
Otherwise, Yue Rui's situation will be even worse by then.
"Just send over Chen Qi and Jiang Hui's information, as well as your own information."
"If anything else happens, come back to me."
Although Li Benman was full of anger, he also knew that the best way was to let this matter go as soon as possible.
Otherwise, I might be even more embarrassed.
(End of this chapter)