The 497th chapter cat and mouse game (2)
Dihao Apartment is a high-end foreign-related hotel-style apartment in Chengdu. It mainly targets services for senior foreign employees working in Chengdu. It uses services close to five-star hotels, but the price is only one-third of the five-star hotels, which are quite popular among senior foreign employees. As the director of Dimatt's office in Chengdu, Matt naturally chose this high-end apartment as his living area.
The supporting living facilities here are complete, and high-end clubs include authentic cafes, bars, Chinese restaurants, Western restaurants and other catering, tennis courts, swimming pools and other fitness venues. The service level is no less than the five-star standard. To be honest, Matt has attended many countries in the world, and many five-star hotels in many countries cannot keep up with the service level here, so Matt is very satisfied with the place. The clubs here have always had a high-end image in Chengdu, which is especially suitable for Matt's frequent social life.
At eight o'clock that night, Matt invited a senior R&D manager of Sal to come here for fun.
Just after eight o'clock, Matt sat in the private room of the booked bar, turned on the TV and watched while waiting for the guests to arrive. Most of his Chinese language was taught by watching some Chinese TV programs.
Matt is a very pursuing person. He used his spare time to learn Spanish and French when he was in the Marine Corps. It was precisely because of his excellent language talent in Spanish and French that Matt entered the CIA. After entering the CIA, Matt did not stay in language. He continued to learn Russian and Chinese, because Matt found that language was undoubtedly one of the most important reasons in the countries where the CIA worked in the future.
Russian and Chinese are the languages that the CIA needs most, so Matt has been working very hard in this regard. After having a considerable foundation in the language training class in the bureau, Matt took advantage of various opportunities to strengthen himself. The most important way of learning is to watch satellite TV programs in various languages.
Whenever he arrives at an attendance location, Matt spends his spare time watching local TV programs, especially learning authentic local languages and living habits through local life TV programs.
So after eight o'clock, although the guests invited had not arrived yet, Matt was not in a hurry at all. He watched the TV of a local Rongcheng TV station seriously and worked hard to learn some common languages and living habits in Rongcheng. It was not easy to be a qualified field agent, especially the difference between Chinese culture and Western culture, and it was difficult to integrate into the living environment of the target without studying seriously.
Perhaps it is considered common in the West, but it is a particularly difficult thing for people in this place of China. Of course, Matt will not make mistakes in these details, so he will learn local customs and try to follow the local customs as much as possible to reduce the interference of this factor.
For example, in terms of time concept, Matt has become accustomed to meeting at 8 o'clock locally. In fact, they will come one after another after 8 o'clock, and those who come will definitely describe various excuses to explain.
Sure enough, after Matt watched this local life news program, the first guest arrived.
Lu Yongfu, a director-level supervisor in the research and development of the smart TV product line of SAL, is now responsible for the research and development of smart TV control systems. In his projects, there are many control boards that can use Dimatt chips. Last year, the number of various chips from Dimatt Company was used by Dimatt Company is not less than one million. It can be regarded as a Dimatt customer. What is little known is that Lu Yongfu was also called by Duke to DSM to participate in the research on tank control systems and is one of the R&D team leaders.
Of course, Matt valued Lu Yongfu not because he was a key customer of Dimatt, but because of some of the content Lu Yongfu researched on DSM.
"Hello, Mr. Lu, hello! Please come inside!" Matt said with a smile in very standard Mandarin. The name "Sei" is obviously extremely inappropriate in the Western world, but here is a polite way of greeting. Although Lu Yongfu is a project director, he is actually quite far from the title of "Sei". However, meeting the name "Sei" is the first custom that Matt learned when he came here, because Matt soon discovered that the people here actually meant the same as the Western name "Sei" name.
"Mr. Matt, sorry, I'm stuck on the road for a while, so I came late for a while." Although Lu Yongfu said sorry, he didn't seem to be sincere in his apology. Of course, Matt would not be serious with him in this regard, so the traffic congestion in Rongcheng is indeed quite serious. However, if Matt is on the appointment, he will consider this factor in advance and ensure that he arrives on time a little in advance.
"Mr. Lu is so polite. I have just arrived for a while. I think the transportation in Chengdu is even more serious than in New York. China's automobile industry has developed too rapidly in the past few decades. It took almost ten years to complete the process that the West has completed in a hundred years. Relatively speaking, road traffic still needs to be improved." Matt complimented China's development in no trace. He knew that Chinese people like to listen to this, as if this development is all his own contribution, and he has an inexplicable sense of superiority.
Of course, to be honest, China's development in this regard has indeed exceeded people's imagination. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it surpassed the United States to become the world's largest automobile market. In Chengdu, the popularity of automobiles is close to the Western world, and road resources are far from that of the West. Therefore, under this circumstance, traffic jams have become a scenic spot in Chengdu, and it is even more significant during the evening rush hour from 6:00 to 8:00.
"It really needs to be greatly improved. I won't talk about the first and second rings. I've become accustomed to traffic jams, but now even the third rings are like a snail crawling, which is a bit unbearable. The government should indeed make great efforts to improve it and add a third ring viaduct fast passage. Now the Third Ring Road is the main living area. This traffic jam is really too delayed." Lu Yongfu complained.
However, he forgot that the second ring road had not had much effort to fill up with more cars, which forced the traffic management department to use traffic restrictions to solve the explosive growth of traffic. In the road resources owned by thousands of cars, the growth of roads will never keep up with the growth of cars.
However, these are not the focus of today, they are just a topic of greetings. Soon, when the bartender gave Lu Yongfu's favorite red wine, the two of them put on a cup and drank a bottle, and when they started to come to the second bottle, the topic gradually shifted from various gossips to topics such as project progress and chip demand.
Talking about things at the table is the second important custom that Matt learned in Rongcheng. He found that when he was drunk, he seemed to talk much more casually. Even if his requests were too much, as long as he saw that the other party’s reaction was wrong, he could get through it safely by taking the wine to make a fuss.
In this way, Matt found a lot of secret information that he would not find out on weekdays.
Although Matt consumes amazing money and expenses on alcohol, thousands of red wine will often consume several bottles at a time. If Matt hadn’t had a good alcohol content, he might have been drunk first.
Today, Matt used three bottles of red wine to find out a very valuable information from Lu Yongfu. Lu Yongfu accidentally mentioned that DSM was studying the unmanned transformation of an old-fashioned aircraft.
So, when Matt warmly bid farewell to Lu Yongfu and made an appointment to meet next time, he was in a very happy mood. Even on the way back to the apartment, Matt hummed a tune from his hometown.
However, Matt didn't know that his every move today had fallen into the eyes of those who were interested.
(Sorry, the update was late today. During the trip, it was too difficult to update. Can you come to a monthly ticket to comfort my tired heart?)
Chapter completed!