.Li Pingko called Li Guoqiang who was waiting outside and left the head of state together.

"Go to the General Staff Courtyard first."

"Lao Li, no need."

"You won't go back?" Li Pingkoo glanced at Li Guoqiang.

"No. I'll drive back by myself, so I don't have to bother you."

"It's nothing to do at night, I'll sit there. I heard that you still have a few bottles of Erguotou for 86 years, but I've been thinking about it for several years."

Li Guoqiang smiled and said, "You know what I have in my intelligence-related family, and the confidentiality work must be strengthened."

"You told me this in person."

"When did I tell you in person?"

"That year, I transferred from the local area to the central government and went to your house for dinner. You drank high, and I said it myself."

"Lao Li, you're kidding. I do love drinking, but I've never been drunk, and I won't talk nonsense when I get drunk."

"I'm kidding you." Li Pingko smiled and said, "It was your boy who told me that he was a daughter. I heard it. He said that those bottles of wine were when your boy was born. When you were happy, you went to buy it and put it in your house, and prepared to take it out and drink it when he got married."

Li Guoqiang was stunned and said, "That boy, he said nothing, and said anything."

"Your kid is almost thirty years old?"

"It's almost done, I don't want to see him anyway, I don't want to see him, I don't feel upset."

"Young people have the idea of ​​young people, but they are not half-sized and old. You, a father, have to be open-minded. Look at my daughter, I still don't take her seriously. I called her last Spring Festival last year and would rather mess around with a bunch of people outside, and would rather come back to have a reunion dinner with my parents. Your boy is quite sensible, and he bought you a lot of things."

"What are you buying? I know I don't like drinking foreign wine, so I want to give me a box."

"It's good to drink if you have something to do. I want to drink it, but no one has bought it for me." Li Pingkoo glanced at Li Guoqiang and said, "If my daughter is willing to buy it for me, let alone foreign wine, boiled water will be refreshing."

"It's not easy to drink it? I didn't move a bottle of foreign wine. I couldn't finish it, so you can take it all away."

"That's what you said."

"Do you think I'll care about that box of wine?"

When he came to Li Guoqiang's small foreign building in the General Staff family compound, Li Pingko left the driver and secretary outside and followed Li Guoqiang in alone.

Like other intelligence officials, Li Guoqiang is also a soldier and a major general in the army who holds real power.

Including the front and back gardens, the small western-style building covers an area of ​​about 400 square meters, with three floors above and below, and has a floor area of ​​about 200 square meters. Although it is smaller than the housing of the Chief of Staff and the commander of the army, it is definitely spacious in the capital of Cuntu Village Jin.

The house is deserted, only the street lights outside the door are on.

"How long hasn't you been back?" After entering the house, Li Pingkoo smelled a smell of dust, and there was a spider web covered with dust on the door frame.

"About a week."

"I think it's been more than half a year." Li Pingko swept off the spider web with his hand and said, "Sister-in-law is still in Tibet?"

"Yes, I will be transferred back next year." Li Guoqiang turned on the street lights in the aisle, "Don't come in first, wait outside for a while, I'll find you two clothes hangers."

Li Guoqiang's wife is also a soldier and is the chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Capital Military Region Hospital. At the beginning of last year, she went to Tibet as the first group of medical staff to aid Tibet. Because Li Guoqiang had been working on field work for more than 20 years when he was young, the couple had long been accustomed to separating from other places.

After a while, Li Guoqiang walked over with several clothes hangers and asked Li Pingko to hang his coat.

"I said, you don't come back to live in such a big house often, so you should give it up and don't waste resources."

"I want to give it up too. Just give me a single dormitory. I have reported it a few times, but the top didn't agree." Li Guoqiang smiled and said, "Let's go to the study, the place is the cleanest."

"Will you sleep in the study when you come back?"

"The sofa in the study room is big enough and very soft, so it's very comfortable to sleep on it."

Li Pingkoo smiled and shook his head, followed Li Guoqiang to the study.

The box of human heads was placed next to the bookcase on the right side of the entrance door, and it was covered with dust and it had indeed not moved.

"The refrigerator is powered off. There is no ice cube. Just order it." Li Guoqiang picked up a flat-headed horse and took two glasses. He probably didn't bother to go to the bathroom. He poured half a glass of wine to wash the cups, and then poured half a glass of wine each. "I heard from my boy that this wine is not cheap."

"It's really not cheap, it's much more expensive than your bottles of Erguotou."

"No matter how expensive foreign wine is, it is not as refreshing as our white wine." Li Guoqiang took a sip and put down his cup, "Do you know which wine is the best?"

Li Pingko shook his head. He rarely drank alcohol and almost didn't drink.

"It was about twenty-five years ago. I worked as a field agent in the northeast with an old comrade to chase a Japanese spy who had been lurking with us for decades. It was winter at that time. We chased him in the Daxingan Mountains for three days and three nights, and finally caught him in a forest by the Heilongjiang River. There was no village in front and no shop behind, and it was more than fifty miles away from the village. The temperature was minus 40 degrees below the night, and the three of us were frozen. Fortunately, at dawn, we met a fellow villager who poked ice to catch fish on the river and gave us a pot of sorghum wine."

“How is it?”

"Very good, the best wine I've ever drunk in my life."

Li Pingkoo smiled and said, "It was from that time that you were addicted to alcohol, right?"

Li Guoqiang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I won't talk about the past, what did the Head of State say to you?"

"Tell me a story."

"story!?"

Li Pingko nodded and told Li Guoqiang the story told by the head of state.

"The metaphor is appropriate, but part of it is missing."

"You have great ideas?"

Li Guoqiang smiled and said, "It's not considered a high opinion, I just have some ideas."

"Tell me, look."

"The Head of State is right. The top seed will definitely target the second seed and invite a group of weaker explorers to deal with the second seed together. However, before taking action, the top seed will try every means to weaken the second seed. First, win over some explorers who are closer to the second seed but have different ideas. Secondly, differentiate some explorers who have common interests with the second seed but are far apart. If some explorers still follow the second seed, they will find a thin explorer who has a lot of water to attack the prestige of the second seed, so that those explorers who are dissatisfied with the first seed dare not speak out, and when the second seed is besieged, they will not dare to stand up and uphold justice."

“Libya.”

Li Guoqiang sighed and said, "When the second seed is completely isolated and no explorer is willing to walk with him, the number one seed will attack the second seed."

"So, we really don't have much time."

Li Guoqiang did not answer this sentence and asked instead: "What instructions does the head of state have?"

"Let you let go and don't look back." Li Pingkoo smiled and said, "The Head of State has asked you to report to him directly at the meeting. I am afraid that you don't understand, so I asked me to remind you."

"This work adjustment is too urgent."

"If you don't have a hurry, how can you achieve unexpected results?"

Li Guoqiang smiled and said, "It's just that, your life will not be very good in the future."

"What am I afraid of?" Li Pingkoo also smiled and said, "The soldiers come and the generals come and the water comes and the soil is flooded. You have also seen that the other leaders remained silent, and no one stood up to support Lao Wen."

"They are not afraid of the head of state, but the issue is very sensitive."

"You are right, because fighting or not fighting will have something to do with the army. Fundamentally speaking, the army must want to fight, and want to fight earlier. Opposing the head of state's preparation policy is to be incomparable to the army. Supporting the head of state's preparation policy, you have to support the head of state's work arrangements." Li Pingko sighed and said, "No one is a fool. No one who is qualified to enter that conference room cannot see the strong relationship."

"Silence does not mean support."

"I know this. There will definitely be a lot of resistance in our future work. We must move forward with the resistance." Li Pingkoo took a sip of wine and said, "The current situation is not an exaggeration to describe it as 'internal and external troubles'. If we do not continue to promote reform, we will be left behind by other explorers sooner or later and lose the survival competition. We must deepen reform, concentrate all our forces, and deal with the upcoming challenges."

"The resistance to reform is getting bigger and bigger, and deepening reform is not as simple as one sentence."

"The greater the difficulties, the greater the gains." Li Pingkoo smiled and said, "For the future, we can only think about the better, so that we can see hope and have the courage and motivation to move forward."

Li Guoqiang nodded and did not interrupt, after all, he was just an intelligence official.

"My work is mainly focused on the economy, but it requires strong support in order for vested interests who have grasped the results of reform to hand over their rights and interests, so that more people can enjoy the results of reform, and establish a more fair, just and open economic order."

Li Guoqiang's brows jumped a few times and asked, "What do I need to do?"

"The Head of State asked you to report directly to him, that is, you would cooperate with me." Li Pingkoo smiled and said, "At the appropriate time, you have to submit a specific plan to integrate intelligence agencies to the Head of State. As long as it is feasible, the Head of State will propose it at a high-level meeting."

“The powerful relationships of intelligence agencies are even more complicated.”

"No matter how complicated it is, it is impossible for each department to set up an intelligence bureau." Li Pingkoo glanced at Li Guoqiang and said, "Although it is not appropriate for you to do this, the current situation is most beneficial to you. As long as the international situation becomes tense, military security will overwhelm everything."

"I understand what you mean." Li Guoqiang sighed secretly and said, "Let me think about it and think about it before talking to you."

"Okay, let's discuss together when Lao Sheng returns from Taiwan."

"What does this have to do with him?"

"It's not this matter, but another thing." Li Pingkoo smiled and said, "The head of state arranged by Lao Sheng to find a way to get back the protection fee we placed in the United States."

Li Guoqiang was shocked and couldn't believe it.

"It's getting late, you can rest early, and I won't occupy your sofa." Li Pingkoo stood up and said, "I'll just go back by myself, there's no need to send it."

"Just deliver it to the door." Li Guoqiang also stood up, "The Head of State didn't joke with you?"

"Do you think the head of state is a joke?"

Li Guoqiang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then we have to hurry up and keep it absolutely confidential."

"This is your business, please think about it carefully. We will discuss it in detail when Lao Sheng comes back."
Chapter completed!