In the Chinese Consulate General in Quebec, the Minister of Confucius, Zheng Zheng, and the three counselors of the Embassy, ​​were entertained by the North American Economic and Industrial Exchange Trip.

Due to the important status of Quebec, several officials of the Chinese Consulate General in Quebec are also at a higher level than ordinary consulates.

Like Kong Xianchao, although he was only the Consul General, his status was slightly inferior to that of the Chinese Ambassador to Canada, and his administrative level was only the deputy department.

But he himself enjoyed the treatment of a department-level official.

At the same time, he is also the second-ranked figure among the Chinese foreign affairs personnel stationed in Canada, second only to Yuan Zhengping, and his status cannot be underestimated.

As for the three counselors of the Consulate General, they are all regular department-level cadres, and they are in the same level as the consulates of China in other cities in Canada.

Among the three counselors, business counselor Pei Chunming and industrial counselor Li Haoping are both highly educated talents and top students who graduated from the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

The two are not old, only thirty-seven or eight years old, three or four years younger than Kong Xianchao.

As for another economic counselor, Feng Yuejin, he is the oldest among several leaders in the Consulate General, and he is 45 years old this year.

Sitting in his own position, Zhao Guoyang silently looked at the four leaders of the Consulate General.

This time I took the delegation to Quebec, which is a very important task.

If you want to fulfill the instructions of your superiors, it will definitely be impossible to achieve without the cooperation and support of these leaders from the Consulate General.

Although Zhao Guoyang believed that before his team came, the leaders of the ministries and commissions would have communicated with the Consulate General early in the morning and also talked about the general situation.

However, if you want to work together with the Consulate General, you have to see the degree of running-in after meeting.

"Researcher Zhao, come and try this most representative dessert cream tower in Canada." Consul General Kong enthusiastically raised his hand to Zhao Guoyang sitting beside him.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Guoyang hurriedly thanked Kong Xianchao, took a fork and set up a "cream tower" and put it on his mouth to taste it slowly.

Seeing this, Kong Xianchao nodded slightly, then turned to Xu Guangyuan and said, "Old Xu, don't be polite, start moving! After flying for more than ten hours, I'm tired from the journey, everyone must be hungry, right?"

Because of the relationship between the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kong Xianchao and his three counselors did not regard Xu Guangyuan as an outsider.

The intimacy revealed between words is obviously more obvious than that of other people.

Xu Guangyuan was a polite person. After hearing Kong Xianchao's words, he ummed, whipped up a "cream tower" and swallowed it in his mouth.

After one of them got a stomachache, Director Xu was still a little impressed and soon put it on and stuffed it into his mouth.

Seeing his voracious look, the business counselor Pei Chunming on the side couldn't help but smile and said, "Choo Xu, you want to let the comrades in our Consulate General drink porridge next month!"

Xu Guangyuan turned his head indifferently and asked, "Brother Chunming, are you too stingy? Isn't it just that I ate two more snacks? Is it necessary to be so scrupulous?"

After Xu Guangyuan finished speaking, Li Haoping next to Pei Chunming quickly explained: "Xu Chu, Chunming is just kidding. It doesn't matter if you eat it all!"

"But speaking of this 'cream tower' is really not cheap. Don't look at its small one, the price is about two Canadian dollars." Li Haoping added.

"Damn, two Canadian dollars, if you change it to RMB, it will be almost twenty yuan?"

When Xu Guangyuan heard this, he was shocked.

He couldn't help but look at Zhao Guoyang sitting opposite him and said, "Brother Guoyang, please give everyone some information. Is this 'cream tower' so expensive? But not Chunming, Haoping and others are confused!"

Xu Guangyuan's words were naturally a joke, but everyone still heard his affirmation and trust in Zhao Guoyang inside and out.

Kong Xianchao smiled and looked at Zhao Guoyang, then said curiously: "Researcher Zhao, you know a lot about Canada by listening to what Lao Xu said? Then let's listen carefully!"

After hearing Consul Kong's profound question, Zhao Guoyang answered honestly: "I dare not take this from Consul Kong, I just know a little bit..."

While holding up the "cream tower" on his fork, Zhao Guoyang explained to the people of the inspection team: "If you want to talk about this "cream tower", its history is very long, and it can be traced back to the 17th century."

"The basic method of making it is to put cream, maple syrup, eggs and various nuts into the pastry and bake it, and finally form the shape it is now."

"After entering the 20th century, eating raisins and nuts has gradually become popular in various restaurants. It is very popular in cafes of all sizes in Canada."

Listening to Zhao Guoyang's familiar explanation, everyone in the inspection team admired it.

Several leaders at the Consulate General also looked surprised.

After a moment of silence, Kong Xianchao couldn't help but sigh and said, "When I received a call from Mr. Li before, I mentioned to him whether the inspection team should arrange to be familiar with Canadian diet and humanities services during this trip, but he declined."

"Old Li said that as long as the inspection team has Captain Zhao, there is no saying that they don't understand or adapt to it."

Kong Xianchao laughed at himself and said, "I was muttering at that time, thinking that Mr. Li was a little exaggerated, but now I heard the insight that Researcher Zhao said immediately, which is really amazing!"

"It seems that Mr. Li is right at all. Researcher Zhao, you are the mobile 'encyclopedia' and you don't need to worry about anything..."

After Kong Xianchao finished speaking, the three counselors of the Consulate General expressed their agreement.

Zhao Guoyang quickly said a few humble words, trying to distract everyone from everyone's attention so that everyone should not always focus on themselves.

Just as Zhao Guoyang was thinking about how to change the topic, Huo Xiufen, the only woman sitting in the back, smiled and said, "Researcher Zhao has told me a lot about Canadian history and culture along the way."

"To be honest, although I think I already know Canada, I was immediately compared with Researcher Zhao."

After Huo Xiufen finished speaking, Feng Yuejin, the economic counselor of China in Quebec, said with a smile: "Captain Zhao has a deep understanding of Canada, which is the best. Our Consulate General does not need to worry too much about this."

Speaking of this, Feng Yuejin looked at Kong Xianchao and said, "Consul Kong, isn't this a foreign-related government work briefing in Quebec tomorrow? Do I have to listen to it? I guess I can't accompany Captain Zhao tomorrow, so I'll go to Montreal..."

After hearing that Feng Yuejin had just come up, Kong Xianchao was obviously a little unhappy.

But there is no way. This old Feng is the oldest and oldest in the Consulate General. In addition, he has strong professional ability. Even Kong Xianchao, the Consul General, had to give him some face.

But when he was still in the banquet for the inspection team, he came like this, which made Kong Xianchao feel a little uncomfortable.

However, Zhao Guoyang had no feelings about Counselor Feng's statement.

He just smiled and nodded and said, "Let's understand! If you have anything to do, go and do it. The inspection team will be here. We can just go there for tomorrow's trip to Montreal by ourselves. We won't bother Consul General Kong and everyone."

Zhao Guoyang did not say anything disunited to Feng Yuejin's statement, but instead helped Counselor Feng exonerate a few words.

After hearing his general words, the other two counselors of the Consulate General Pei Chunming and Li Haoping also felt a little displeased with Feng Yuejin.

Pei Chunming slowly put down the knife and fork in his hand and slowly spoke: "Counselor Feng, this foreign-related economic briefing by the Quebec City Government tomorrow will definitely be reported after the meeting, right?"

"I think it's okay if you don't go to the scene to listen. It's better to accompany Researcher Zhao and the others to Montreal!"

Although Zhao Guoyang had just expressed his attitude, he said that he would just take the inspection team to Montreal.

But neither Kong Xianchao nor Pei Chunming or Li Haoping could let such a thing happen.

Because in that case, the Chinese Consulate General in Quebec seems too unkind.

After being questioned in public by Pei Chunming, Feng Yuejin's face looked a little unfair.

He snorted: "Counselor Pei, tomorrow's foreign-related economic briefing will be hosted by senior officials from Quebec. The meeting will give a detailed explanation of the economic development goals and related policies formulated by the Quebec government in the next five years."

"Even if you see the newspaper, there will definitely be many omissions. It would be fine if you, a business counselor, don't go, but if I don't go, that's definitely not possible!"

After Feng Yuejin said this, Pei Chunming's face turned into pig's liver.

He naturally understood what Feng Yuejin said, that the other party was relying on his seniority and accusing himself of not doing his job well.

But in fact, this kind of foreign-related economic briefing in the Quebec provincial government is held every month, and its importance is not as high as Feng Yuejin said.

What's more, even if you don't go, you will definitely send one or two entourage members to listen.

Whatever you say you don’t show up in person will miss any important information, it’s simply an international joke.

Although she was very unhappy, when faced with Feng Yuejin's failure to get into the air, Pei Chunming really couldn't find any way to make him change his mind.

Seeing that the situation was a little stiff here, Kong Xianchao felt a little frustrated.

Just as Consul General Kong was about to speak out in person and ease the matter a little, the researcher Zhao who had been listening silently rushed to speak out in front.

His first words were quite surprising.

Zhao Guoyang asked Feng Yuejin in a relaxed tone: "Counselor Feng, the highlight of this Quebec foreign economic briefing you will attend tomorrow should be to analyze the current economic situation and future development direction of Quebec?"

Feng Yuejin didn't know what Zhao Guoyang was going to say, so he nodded immediately, looking a little confused.

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Chapter completed!