Chapter 9 Six Offices - 1

Many famous and influential people at home and abroad have written articles saying: "Undoubtedly, Zhou Enlai is the person who works the busiest and works the most in the world." This is also my strongest feeling after following the Prime Minister for decades.Being busy at work mainly reflects his dedication, while doing a lot of work not only reflects his dedication, but also reflects his extraordinary intelligence. People have written many, many articles about the prime minister's selfless work, and I don't want to repeat them.I just want to talk about the "six offices" of the prime minister.Don't misunderstand that the "six offices" are the places where the Prime Minister works in different places such as Xihua Hall, the Great Hall of the People, Diaoyutai, and the New Sixth Institute.The six offices I want to talk about are the six "offices" summed up by the staff around us based on the Prime Minister's life and work rules.

What we call the Prime Minister's "first office" is the toilet.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was called more civilized, and it was the bathroom. The prime minister's life rules: wake up from sleep, the first thing is to go to the toilet.He is a person who starts working as soon as he opens his eyes, so the toilet became his first office.As far as I can see, this has been the case since I was transferred to him as early as 1940. At that time in Chongqing, there was no sitting toilet, and the conditions of the "first office" were very simple.We built a small shed about 10 meters away from the house in the landlord’s vegetable garden, dug a pit under the shed, and placed two bricks for our feet when squatting in the pit. This is all the buildings and facilities of the “First Office” up.After Zhou Enlai got up, he grabbed the newspaper and the documents to be done before going to bed and went straight to the toilet, which is the first office.As soon as he squatted down on the pit, he started to relieve himself and started working.

The Prime Minister takes a long time to understand, unlike someone who can "solve the battle" in 3 minutes.The prime minister can be fast for half an hour, and slow for more than an hour. If he does not work for such a long time, how much will he lose in his life?So he always brings a lot of newspapers and documents when he goes to the toilet.The length of working time in the "first office" depends on the length of time for freeing hands; similarly, the length of time for freeing hands sometimes depends on the completion of business affairs. Some people call going to the toilet to No. 1, but those of us, especially some comrades in the army and institutions, call going to the toilet "office work".The allusion comes from Zhou Silai.

Zhou Enlai also had a sequence for doing business when he was relieved: first deal with the urgent cases and calls, and then read the newspapers.Sometimes while reading the newspaper, I have to listen to the reports of the secretary and the staff, and make various instructions at the same time.Generally, after reading the newspaper or not reading the newspaper, the relief has been completed.Occasionally, after reading the newspaper, but the solution has not been "completely thorough", then continue to review the documents according to the priority. I remember that when I first transferred Zhou Silai to serve as a guard, because many people came at the same time, he did not talk to me directly, and set off from Yan'an.After arriving in Chongqing, I went to the "First Office" to report on the matter, and only then did I have an individual talk.

"Your name is He Shuying, right?" "Yes, Vice Chairman Zhou." "Which unit are you in?" "Brigade 385." "Oh, you belong to the Fourth Front Army." I feel a little uncomfortable.Zhang Guotao came out of the Fourth Front Army, which made us all seem to be inferior to others. Zhou Enlai seemed to see what I was thinking, and said with a smile: "Zhang Guotao is not good in the Fourth Front Army. The commanders and fighters are still good. The central government trusts him. Zhang Guotao can't fight, and he commands very specific. You have to intervene." Zhou Enlai shook his head when he said this, and then said to me: "You are welcome to work here."

He didn't distrust me because I came from the Fourth Front Army, he kept me by his side, and soon mentioned me as his adjutant. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as his confidential secretary and head of the guard. After entering the city, the conditions of the "First Office" improved.In the past, in the squatting pose, Zhou Enlai finished his official business, stood up for a long time and couldn't walk, his legs were numb.After entering the city, I changed to a sitting toilet. Although my legs would feel numb after sitting for a long time, it was more comfortable and labor-saving than squatting, and my office efficiency was also greatly improved.

Since he won power, Zhou Enlai had to be the prime minister of the whole country, so after entering the city, he was not only not relaxed, but even busier than he was during the war.The things that need to be dealt with in the "first office" are also more complicated than in the past, and there are more things than in the past. If the Prime Minister goes to bed at 3:00 am, he will wake up at 7:00 am.Of course, it is not always possible to sleep in such a regular manner, sleep issues will be discussed later; after he gets up, he takes newspapers, documents, and references and goes straight to the "first office", sits on the toilet, and the day's work begins.

We secretaries take this hour or so of office time very seriously.The plan for a year lies in spring, and the plan for a day lies in morning.For this hour of office time, our secretary has prepared and negotiated in advance. First of all, our secretaries took out the urgent items they were responsible for and "competed for the market". Whoever sent them first had to compete and arrange the order.Often those telegrams that require immediate approval are placed first.In such a big country, the prime minister only needs to sleep for 3 or 4 hours, and some urgent matters will happen, not to mention the international situation, which changes rapidly; not to mention that the earth is round, we are night, and that half of the sphere is day; war, Negotiations, general elections, coups, earthquakes, floods, air crashes, car accidents, there is not a minute of leisure.All this is connected to the "first office" of the prime minister, and it has to be dealt with and made decisions while sitting on the toilet.

The Prime Minister entered the "First Office" in front, and we followed in the back, standing around him, and submitting urgent calls, urgent letters, and reports that urgently needed to be forwarded in the order of severity and prior consultation.The prime minister is in a state of high excitement at this time, and his office efficiency is superhuman and astonishing, but anyone who has seen the prime minister's office, no matter how superior or outstanding you are, you have to bow down to the prime minister and be amazed . We often say that the prime minister has three brains working at the same time, and they communicate with each other without confusion.The world may not believe it, but those who have the conditions can ask the Prime Minister which secretary; they all feel this strongly.

To be more specific, the prime minister is carrying out three tasks at the same time.His eyes are reading telegrams and documents, and he makes comments on them from time to time; his ears are listening to our reports at the same time. This report often has nothing to do with the documents and telegrams he reviewed, because some calls for instructions and the problems we summed up are Oral reports are often required, and those who do not report will be criticized; while we are reporting, the Prime Minister will dictate some important decisions and instructions that he has considered at night to another secretary from time to time.I don't know how many times I saw him reviewing urgent documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, listening to financial reports in his ears, and confessing instructions on national defense and military affairs.The three aspects of work may be irrelevant, but the Prime Minister remembers everything firmly, approves clearly, and speaks accurately;

In this regard, some people do not believe, I do not blame.It's unbelievable, but it's true.Not to mention those who don't listen, it's hard to believe, even those who work next to the prime minister, those secretaries who have just arrived, were initially surprised by such an office, thinking that the prime minister must not remember his report when he is reviewing documents, or that the prime minister is half-hearted The second is to explain the work to others, and you must not be able to clearly review your own documents.It is often after many times of practice and the test of time and facts that I finally exclaimed: "I am convinced, the Prime Minister is really a god!" Now there are countless ink marks of the Prime Minister in the National Archives, and a large number of urgent telegrams are reviewed in the "First Office". clear?See if there's a typo or improper use of punctuation that the Prime Minister hasn't corrected?The Prime Minister has been strict, meticulous and cautious all his life.Here is an example of a review file: When the Prime Minister reads documents, in addition to punctuating one by one, when he finishes reading a page, he must turn up this page; press the last line of the page above the first line of the next page, read the last word in the lower right corner of the previous page, and then read the next page The first word in the left corner of the first line, so as to ensure that there will be no missing characters at the junction of the two pages. There were too many words in the documents I worked on, and the military secretary Wang Yazhi, Guo Yinghui and other comrades were missing words. The problems were all at the junction of the two pages. Found corrections.Comrade Cheng Pu who has worked next to the Prime Minister, when introducing the situation to the new comrades, he has to say a few words every time, so everyone remembers them, and it was quickly confirmed in practice: Don’t start from common sense. Going to think about and treat the Prime Minister, he has a special brain and incredible ability; he has amazing memory, extraordinary insight, extremely quick response and strict logical thinking ability; all these abilities can be used simultaneously The full play of several aspects shows that the work is highly efficient, organized and hierarchical, without confusion, and everything is thorough, meticulous, and precise. We can’t keep up with him when we put them all together...We usually put diplomacy and military at the top of the list of documents and reports we submit for approval. There are many emergencies and emergencies in these two areas, while the agriculture and forestry system generally lags behind, unless something happens. Disaster situation.If there is a major disaster, it must be reported first. I remember one report, the secretary in charge of agriculture greeted the secretary in charge of foreign affairs: "Hey, hurry up. At the state affairs meeting today, the prime minister listened to the report from Nonglinkou. I have to report the basic situation to him first." After entering the "First Office", the diplomatic and military secretaries finished their work quickly, leaving time to report to the agricultural secretary. But the Secretary of Agriculture was a little hesitant, because the Prime Minister was reviewing documents and telegrams, and from time to time asked the Secretary to send messages and dictate messages. Waiting behind the agricultural secretary was the secretary in charge of culture, education and sports. Seeing that the agricultural secretary hesitated, he wanted to report first.The secretary of agriculture knew that the prime minister was always busy and waiting was impossible, so he had to report. No wonder the Secretary of Agriculture hesitated. It was a planned economy at that time, and he reported a series of figures, such as production figures of grain, cotton, oilseeds, etc., procurement figures, completed figures, distribution figures, and so on.How could it be possible to remember to report to the Prime Minister under such circumstances? What is astounding is that at the state affairs meeting, the Prime Minister listened to the report and actually corrected a mispronounced number 2 for the reporter. And in the question and answer, whenever numbers were involved, the deputy minister had to re-read the materials, and the Prime Minister was very nervous. Help him tell the exact number impatiently.Afterwards, the deputy minister said: "We can't compare with the Prime Minister. We can only record so many figures on paper, but the Prime Minister can memorize them all in our hearts." I said: "You don't know yet, the Prime Minister just heard it once in the morning. Just remember the report." I didn't say much.If I said that the Prime Minister was still reviewing the documents while listening to the report and counting the numbers, he would definitely not believe it.They also mistakenly think that the Prime Minister does not value their work. Of course, there are so many texts and reports from across the country every day that it is impossible to ask the Prime Minister to read them all and report to the Prime Minister. First, they must be screened and filtered by our secretary, and they will be submitted and reported selectively. After a state conference, a vice premier asked Zhou Silai about the water conservancy of the Yellow River: "Prime Minister, we have submitted this document. I wonder if you have any comments or instructions?" The Prime Minister immediately shook his head and said affirmatively, "I haven't seen this document, nor have I heard from the secretary." He found the relevant secretary Li Yan, and sure enough, he was screened out by Secretary Li and did not report to the Prime Minister.As long as it is reported in the newspaper, the Prime Minister "never forgets it with his eyes and never loses it with his ears." Since then, in order to avoid making mistakes in the screening and affecting our work, we have changed our approach.It is to report on the documents that have been screened out, and to nag a few words to the Prime Minister when he has time.Don't underestimate these nagging words, the prime minister will never forget them after hearing them, and if any person in charge asks the prime minister about this matter, the prime minister will not be unaware. Due to the special environment of the "first office", it was difficult for female secretaries like Chen Hao and Yang Chun.It is inconvenient for them to enter, so we can only ask our male secretary to deliver it if there is an urgent mail.If possible, they also sent those very urgent telegrams to the "first office" in advance, so that after the prime minister got up, he could find and deal with them in time when he entered the bathroom.Those kind of particularly important telegrams should be sent to the Prime Minister as soon as they are received. If the Prime Minister has already entered the "first office", he can only call someone to ask us to pass it in. There should be no delay, otherwise he will be criticized.Once Chen Hao received a telegram about the border issue from an embassy abroad, and the telegram indicated that it was urgent.Chen Hao considered that the prime minister was resting, so he didn't send it right away, and he didn't send it to the "first office" in advance. As a result, he was severely criticized by the prime minister.After that, no one dared to delay the urgent call, and the "First Office" also had a special place in the hearts of the secretaries. In the Prime Minister's "First Office", coffee tables and chairs are also prepared, and materials, newspapers and documents are placed.The chair is because when a leading comrade needs to see the prime minister immediately, he can sit and report and receive instructions.Therefore, sometimes the prime minister sits on the toilet, and the deputy prime minister or minister sits on the opposite chair, reporting here and giving instructions there to quickly resolve some urgent matters. Once when Liao Chengzhi came to see the Prime Minister, the guard on duty said: "Oh, the Prime Minister's activities are all full today, and there is really no room for it. I'm afraid we can't talk." "This matter is urgent, so we can't see you." Liao Chengzhi asked anxiously, "Where is the Prime Minister now?" "Pooping in the toilet." "Okay, okay," Liao Chengzhi also knew about this "first office", and immediately put his mind at ease, and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'll come out as soon as I go." As he said that, no matter what the guards said, he broke into the "first office", sat down on the chair opposite the prime minister, and began to ask for instructions and report. Afterwards, Liao Chengzhi only said that he had gone to the Prime Minister's First Office and had asked for instructions and reported to him, instead of going to the toilet to ask for instructions and reported to the Prime Minister. Because we secretaries often refer to the "first office", gradually, many comrades in the State Council and various ministries and commissions have learned about it, and they all call the prime minister's bathroom the "first office". Under normal circumstances, the prime minister only handles urgent calls and urgent matters in the "first office".That kind of routine work cannot be done here.Because the Prime Minister still reads newspapers, it can be said that he has never missed one. The prime minister mainly reads four newspapers: People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Wen Wei Po and PLA Daily.He reads newspapers 3 to 4 times faster than the average person, at least 3 times faster than us secretaries.This is what we have quietly compared in our long-term contact. His eyes quickly scanned between the lines, and the sound of flipping newspapers was ringing in his ears. He knew exactly what content and columns were on each page; After a while, the major events in the world were basically understood. After coming out of the "first office", if there is no urgent meeting or Mao Zedong's phone appointment, the prime minister can do exercises for 5 minutes.Since the operation does not belong to the office, the time card is very tight, and it will not work for half a minute. However, there is no need for anyone to monitor the time. What he does is a set of health exercises he has compiled and practiced. It takes minutes to complete the complete set of exercises, and he knows the rhythm and speed of the movements. The main movements of this set of self-made health exercises are: hands on the waist, standing with feet shoulder-width apart, then twisting the waist left and right, then rotating the waist, then turning the head left and right, then raising the head and lowering the head, then extending the arms, then expanding the chest, and then lifting Legs, then kicks, and then close. After doing the exercises, he took two minutes to wash up, and then entered the "second office". The so-called second office is the prime minister's dining table.The dining table is not the restaurant because the prime minister never stops working no matter where he eats.Is there a world where banquets don't stop working?non-stop.Whether entertaining foreign guests or domestic guests is a job in itself. Of course, what I'm talking about is not the kind of work that talks at the banquet. The work I'm talking about still refers to handling various official duties.Including reading newspapers, reading documents, approving telegrams, listening to reports, holding small meetings, giving instructions, etc.Therefore, the "second office" mainly refers to the living room and dining room in his home. The second office is not as famous as the first office, because it is not rushing in the morning, and all urgent matters are handled in the first office. There is no special situation, and it is not a temporary emergency. The secretaries can't bear to disturb the Prime Minister during meal time.What's more, Sister Deng sent a message about this: "You have more than 20 secretaries facing him one by one, and you have to give him time to eat and breathe." Having said that, we still cannot arrange a meal time for the Prime Minister.There is a desk calendar on the prime minister’s desk. The secretary on duty records the prime minister’s day’s activities on the desk calendar in advance. Yes, so the prime minister's work schedule is also full.Meetings and exchanges. Reports, conversations, interviews, interviews, reviewing documents, and making reports are all timed in minutes.For example, Chairman Mao Zedong asked Zhou Enlai to meet at 4:00 p.m., and we can arrange the Premier’s activity schedule until 3:58, leaving 2 minutes for the Premier to walk.He walked like a gust of wind, from West Flower Hall to Juxiang Bookstore, he trotted there in two minutes. On January 20, 2010, Sister Deng went to the office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and handed over 20 work calendars left by Premier Zhou Enlai to Hu Yaobang, then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. This is the calendar used by Zhou Enlai from January 1, 1950 to January 8, 1976, called the working calendar.Because I filled 26 calendars and 8 pages of calendar paper, all of them were work.Searching through the calendar, chasing each minute, day after day, just all kinds of work, but I can't find where is the meal time arrangement? Because the prime minister eats most of the time, because the prime minister never breaks away from work when eating. Mao Zedong ate without rules, and neither did Zhou Enlai;Zhou Silai mainly reads newspapers, and the articles he read carefully in the first office must be carefully read in the second office. However, Zhou Enlai is also different from Mao Zedong.When I went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin, Mao Zedong led a group of people who were basically engaged in philosophy. Therefore, during the negotiations, Mao Zedong and his group could not explain clearly about the aid construction projects and the current situation of China's economic production.The comrades present once told me that Stalin said to Mao Zedong: "You can't talk about production and aid construction projects. You can call Zhou Enlai to talk about it." Zhou Enlai then rushed to Moscow with a group of people who were all engaged in economics. of.At the banquet, Mao Zedong said: "Now, we have a full set of people who work on the superstructure and the economic base." Doing philosophy can get rid of the entanglement of a large number of specific affairs, while doing economics must solve specific practical problems.Therefore, the Prime Minister not only has to read newspapers when eating, but also has to review documents, listen to our reports and give instructions at any time.We basically know what the prime minister eats every day.Because there are more than 20 secretaries, some of them have to ask the Prime Minister for instructions during meal time. Only when the Prime Minister and Sister Deng had dinner together, we tried to avoid asking questions.The prime minister eats irregularly, and rarely eats with his eldest sister.But if this kind of time really happens, it's really embarrassing. Once, secretary Yang Chun encountered this problem.There is a draft on agricultural policy that needs to be published in the newspaper. There are several changes in the final draft, which need to be approved by the Prime Minister.She took the manuscript to look for the Prime Minister, and just happened to meet the Prime Minister having dinner with Sister Deng.Come again later?She stared at Li and waited for an answer again, she was really troubled.Walking around the door like a millstone a few times, I couldn't help poking my head into the door.The face just flashed by the door, and happened to be seen by the prime minister. "Come in," the Prime Minister greeted immediately, "Come in if you need something." Yang Chun had no choice but to go in, looking at the Prime Minister and at Sister Deng, looking very embarrassed. "Ah," Sister Deng smiled and shook her head; "you don't spare him when you eat!" "Well, well..." Yang Chun was really embarrassed. The Prime Minister glanced at Sister Deng with a smile, then at Yang Chun, and said gently, "It's okay, what do you say?" Yang Chun quickly said, quickly send the manuscript for approval by the Prime Minister.Since the prime minister's time is too precious, our secretaries have developed the habit of speaking short, fast, "yes" or "no". Even the adjectives are deleted.Some people commented that our Prime Minister's secretary's speech was "straight to the point, straight to the point and naked." In fact, the more you do this, the more you can clarify things directly and clearly, and save the prime minister a little precious time. After breakfast (in fact, it is often not in the morning), the prime minister walks into the third office with mouthwash, and the mouthwash is often spit into the spittoon in the third office. The Prime Minister's third office is the office that most people think of.This is a room with a simple and practical layout. The walls are black due to age, and when the tide floods in summer, alkali flowers will appear around the corners of the walls. It was not until I was criticized for repairing the house that I sprayed the wall and put the bricks on it. The floor becomes a plank floor, making the whole office look brighter.There is an old carpet in this office and none of the other bedrooms etc. have carpet.The Prime Minister said that the office receives many guests, and the carpet can be enjoyed by everyone, so he agreed. In the middle of the office, there is a self-made wooden shelf against the wall, covered with an old blanket used before liberation, on which is placed a portrait of Chairman Mao, which is a bust made of plaster.There are bookshelves against the walls on both sides, mainly the works of Marx, Engels and Mao Zedong's anthology. In addition, there are many reference books such as Ciyuan Cihai. The prime minister's desk is not against the wall on all sides, it is the desk with two drawers before liberation.He was initially equipped with a swivel chair. He was not used to sitting on it, so he replaced it with a sofa chair. It was the kind of soft spring seat with a corduroy fabric that was most common in the early days of liberation. Nowadays, this old-fashioned seat is used everywhere. Not easy to see.In addition to this desk, there is also a long table without drawers, covered with a piece of green woolen cloth, with four stools on each side and one stool at each end, a total of ten hard wooden stools.The prime minister often convenes the deputy prime minister or some ministers to talk or hold small meetings here. The prime minister's desk is full of documents waiting to be approved all day long, and only a small table in front of the chair is left for him to review documents.In addition to office equipment such as pens and inks, this small desktop has a desk calendar and three "treasures", namely sleeve sleeves, reading glasses and refreshing oil. The Premier once lamented that his office was not as good as the cave dwelling in Yan'an.The cave dwellings in Yan'an are warm in winter and cool in summer, but the prime minister's "third office" is the opposite.The hotter the day, the hotter the house; the colder the day, the colder the house. There was no air conditioner at that time, and there was only a small electric fan in summer. It was so hot that I couldn’t stop sweating, and my arms were wet with paper, so I put a basin of cold water or ice cubes in front of the fan. We were afraid of the northwest wind, as soon as it blew, the "third office" would be too cold to stay in, and our hands were too frozen to write.At this time, the Prime Minister will pick up the documents and transfer them to the "First Office", because the toilet does not have a window facing the northwest, the temperature is low.Relatively higher. When the prime minister walks to his desk every day, the first thing he does is put on his sleeves carefully.It is exactly the same as the work sleeves commonly used by factory workers. It is sewn into a tube of blue coarse cloth and has elastic on both sides.bring.This will protect the sleeves from fraying and getting dirty. While putting on his sleeves, he leaned over and squinted at the day's schedule of activities recorded on the desk calendar. After putting on the sleeves, the Prime Minister sat down, put the reading glasses on the bridge of the nose with one hand, and moved the documents with the other hand, and the work in the "third office" began. The largest amount of office work every day, especially the review of documents, is mainly done in the "third office".From the beginning of the prime minister's office, we secretaries have also followed suit and become busy; we are always ready for the prime minister to ask questions, send important documents in hand, and report the situation at any time. Under normal circumstances, the prime minister has a lot of "programs" during the day, such as meetings, reports, reception of foreign guests, inspections, etc., so the time to sit in the "third office" is not much or long. The "Third Office" was really tense and lively after 10 o'clock in the evening. The Prime Minister finished his activities outside and hurried back to the West Flower Hall.The car was parked in the outer courtyard, and he walked into the third office while clearing his throat. When we heard the clearing of our throats, our secretaries had already gathered in the third office. Everyone had a pile of documents, telegrams, and materials. They were all major domestic and foreign affairs reported by the Prime Minister during the time when the prime minister was out for activities, and they were urgently waiting for instructions.When the Prime Minister was engaged in underground work, he used coughing as a signal to call the door. Over time, he developed the habit of clearing his throat reflexively and coughing a few times before entering any door.So, this sound became our "ringtone" for going to work. When we heard this sound, we knew that the Prime Minister was back, so we gathered in the third office. When the Prime Minister stepped into the office door, his habitual action was to look around the room. Seeing that there were many secretaries coming and the room dangling around, he knew that there must be a lot of things to do today.I have observed many times that even if he is exhausted, as long as there are many figures swaying in front of him, he must take a deep breath, and then blow it out from his nostrils, and then forcefully press down on both shoulders at the same time, and he immediately cheers up: "Here I make a cup of strong tea 1" This has almost become a routine. When we see that our secretary wants strong tea, we are excited.Sister Deng once said to us more than once: "The Prime Minister has a temper, you don't know. He gets excited when he sees your secretary, and he can't control himself; he can't calm down when the figure flickers in front of him. Can you keep only the secretary on duty, and those who have documents? Give it to the secretary on duty, the prime minister can relax a bit when he sees that there are fewer people." We try our best to do what the elder sister says, but some things have to be reported verbally, and there are often not too many people. There are several characteristics of the prime minister's office at this time. The first is hyper, with a burning power; it heats up the whole of the third office, but it also burns you sometimes.Especially at the beginning of the office, the first reports are all big and urgent, and the prime minister's eager voice is often heard: "When was the telegram received?" "noon." "Why are you sending it now?" "You've been busy, I don't think you're free..." "This is not allowed! How many times have I said that the chairman must report immediately if he has something to do, and if there is a disaster or a major incident, he must report immediately. Whether I am resting or busy, I must report immediately. Why did it take a long time?" The telegram was reprimanded and approved, and when it was handed back to the secretary, he raised his eyelids and his tone softened: "Don't be afraid that I'm busy, I can come over. If this happens again in the future, no matter if I am sleeping or in a meeting or busy with other things, I will report it immediately. " As he spoke, he picked up the next file and began to read it. It was a document that a deputy prime minister was going to forward in the name of the central government.The deputy prime minister is a worker and peasant cadre with strong practical ability but poor writing skills. The structure, logic, and sentences of the two- to three-hundred-character comments are not very smooth.The prime minister frowned after reading a few words, his eyes flickered from the frame of the reading glasses, and fixed on the secretary standing at the desk fieryly: "Have you seen this thing?" "seen it already." "Do you think it's okay?" "The content is okay, but the text seems to be almost lacking, and needs to be adjusted..." "Now that you know it, why don't you send it after you adjust it!" The Prime Minister threw the manuscript back to the secretary. "Oh," the secretary looked embarrassed, "This is written by the deputy prime minister, I don't want to move..." "You are here with me, you must be responsible to me first!" The Prime Minister picked up a new document for approval without any delay, criticizing in his mouth: "Re-reading immature things is a waste of my time!" This is how the prime minister works with such nervousness and enthusiasm.But the excitement and enthusiasm in spirit will never affect his rigorous and serious attitude. The second characteristic of the prime minister's office is prudence and meticulousness. He is inseparable from reference books such as Cihai and Ciyuan in his office work. In order to be accurate, he sometimes even has to turn to the Kangxi Dictionary. I once helped him look through the Kangxi dictionary, and after he found it, he had to check it himself.All documents published in newspapers or distributed are strictly checked. If there are references to classic works, he must find the original works for verification.After our secretary helped to check it, he was still not at ease, and still had to check it himself.For the figures for production and construction, for the planned projects, he has to personally recalculate every figure.Our secretary carries a slide rule with him at all times. When reviewing plans or financial budgets and final accounts, we have to move the computer to the desk to help the Prime Minister calculate and check. Once, I saw that the Prime Minister was working too hard, pulling a slide rule to check the numbers one by one, and there were so many documents behind, and it was inevitable that he couldn't sleep all day and all night, so I persuaded him: "Others have already done the calculations, and the Prime Minister is almost the same. Forget about it..." I didn't finish my sentence, because the Prime Minister raised his eyes and stared at me, and frowned: "Why did you say the same thing again?" I realized that I had made a slip of the tongue and shut my mouth in embarrassment.The prime minister can't listen to general words such as "estimate", "probably" and "almost", and he pursues precision in everything he does. "Is this superfluous?" the Prime Minister held up his calculator. "It's easy for me to sign. Just a stroke of a pen. But it's about the national economy and the people's livelihood, the country's funds, and the blood and sweat of the people. I don't dare Be careful not to be careful!" The Prime Minister's cautious and meticulous attitude has indeed found many problems and avoided many mistakes.I remember that during the China-India and China-Myanmar border negotiations, the Prime Minister consulted a large amount of information, maps, and consulted many experts.Once, the map attached to the submitted documents was missing one of the opponent's strongholds, and a part of the boundary line was bent.This is the responsibility of the specific technical staff, and the people in charge at all levels below have also seen it, but they have not found it.The Prime Minister discovered this problem when he reviewed it, which moved and ashamed those who were specifically responsible, and received a deep education. The third characteristic of the prime minister's office is extreme seriousness and responsibility.He often sits at his desk for more than ten hours, revising documents sent by various departments.I remember one time he put down his pen, rubbed his face and numb fingers, looked at me, and suddenly sighed: "Oh, I am the prime minister, I am just a language teacher, and I am correcting papers here every day..." The prime minister said it vividly.However, when our secretaries discussed it, there was another description. When we saw the prime minister approving documents, it was as delicate and meticulous as carving and embroidery.His sense of responsibility cannot tolerate any carelessness and delay; once he finds this situation, he will criticize it harshly. Once, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported a case, which was not very mature.Secretary Chen Hao received the report and sent it to the Prime Minister without fully investigating it.When the Prime Minister saw that many things in the report were incorrectly stated and the questions were not clarified, he immediately became angry and asked Secretary Chen severely: "Have you clarified this case?" Chen Hao said anxiously: "Oh, I didn't figure it out too much." "Why did you send it to me like this?" The Prime Minister slammed the report on the table: "No way! Go and call them here!" Chen Hao hurriedly went to make a phone call and called the deputy minister in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the comrades in charge of the relevant departments.After the Prime Minister severely criticized the case, he dismissed the case and asked them to reopen it. The fourth characteristic of the prime minister's office is that, day after day, year after year, he is immersed in habitual selfless labor, truly tenacious and dedicated. Under normal circumstances, the prime minister's sleep time is often only three or four hours.During the ten hours of continuous work, the impression left on us was not only superhuman energy, but also touching perseverance and perseverance. I have observed for a long time the several stages that the prime minister goes through in terms of energy and body.At the beginning, it was exciting and tense; after dealing with those important and urgent business affairs, the prime minister and the secretary could take a breather as if they had finished a charge.At this time, the prime minister must take the opportunity to drink a few sips of strong tea, and then enter into a continuous and long-lasting busy work with a certain rhythm.This stage is very long, it can be four or five small pairs, or seven or eight hours. We secretaries were generally in their prime in their 30s at the time, and we often felt overwhelmed, with sinking hearts and sleepy eyes.But the Prime Minister has always seemed energetic and enthusiastic during this period of time.Because of this, he left us with such a strong impression of a superhuman energy. However, after continuing to review the documents, after working for more than 10 hours, the Prime Minister entered the "persistence" and "struggle" period of fatigue.His degree of fatigue is also divided into several stages. He worked too hard and was in a state of ecstasy, so when fatigue began to strike, he didn't realize it, it was entirely out of physiological self-defense instinct, he yawned or raised his head to take a deep breath. Fatigue was quietly increasing, finally affecting office efficiency, and forcing him to raise his head again and again to take a deep breath.At this time, he realized that he was tired, and his first reaction was to gulp down strong tea to stimulate his gradually numb nerves to become excited again. After doing this for a while.It seems that theophylline has lost its effectiveness, and the prime minister would suddenly stand up irritably, walk around the desk a few times quickly, rub his eye sockets and temples, and then sit down and continue working. He finally felt that this would not solve the problem, so he picked up the "treasure" on the desk, opened the iron box, rubbed some cooling oil with his fingers, and rubbed it on his forehead and temples.这时，仿佛冥冥中有什么天灵感应，邓大姐会出现在总理办公室的门口，悄悄地在门外转圈，忧虑而心疼地朝里面伏案劳作的总理投去一瞥又一瞥。她轻易不进总理办公室，不去干预总理的公事，这是结婚时就有的协议。 总理的办公室有三把钥匙。一把在警卫手中，警卫交接班时，钥匙属于交接内容之一。 另一把在秘书手中，一般是放在机要秘书那里。总理自己有一把，睡觉时放枕下，起床时揣兜里，从来不离身。邓大姐没有钥匙，总理不在，她就进不了办公室；总理在，她也极少走进去，在门口转了一阵，终于向着门里轻轻唤一声：“恩来呀，该休息一会儿了。”总理掀起眼皮，目光从镜框上方望一眼邓颖超，点点头，却马上又伏进了文件堆，继续他的批阅修改。 片刻，邓大姐又轻唤一声：“恩来呀，起来活动活动吧。” 总理再次掀起眼帘，似有所震动，双手在桌上一撑，便立起身：“好的，我活动活动，你去休息吧。” 总理又开始绕办公桌快走，这种活动更多的是为了安慰邓大姐。快走两圈，便朝大姐挥挥手，叫她放心休息去。当邓大姐的身影在门口消失时，总理便重新在椅子上坐下来。习惯地擦一些清凉油。 这样又坚持一段时间后，疲劳便达到了难以克服的地步。眼皮会不知不党地耷拉下来，手中的笔在总理瞬间的迷糊瞌睡中，在文件上留下一些点或道的墨迹。出现几次这样瞬间的迷糊磕睡，总理会痛苦地拍拍额头，搓搓脸，猛地丢下笔，朝后仰身靠在椅背上，大声吩咐：“给我一条热毛巾！” 一边用热毛巾拼命地擦脸，揉眼窝，一边继续批阅文件，总理是在尽力聚集全身仅存的一点热能，投入到劳作中去。这样坚持一会儿，又会大声吩咐：“谁有烟？给我一支烟吸。” 总理的办公桌上放有一块“请勿吸烟”的牌子。他不吸烟，我们也自觉地不吸，以保证室内空气不受污染。但他困倦极点时，就会自己破坏自己的规定，吸燃一只香烟，以便给神经强刺激。 仿佛还是冥冥之中存在的那种天灵感应，或者叫生物电？我多次遇到这种情形，总理吸燃香烟不久，电铃忽然响了。这是睡醒一觉或难以入睡的邓大姐在按铃，她的卧室有个按钮，她那边一按，总理办公室这边的铃就响，是专为她和总理之间联系而装设的电铃，目的就是让邓大姐督促总理休息。而且，不久就有卫士进来，传达邓大姐的吩咐： “总理该休息了。”