Chapter 29 I cried on the 7th day

China and Japan have entered the negotiation stage on the "Twenty-One" agreement. The first is the issue of negotiating manpower.The Chinese government insists on forming a five-person group, with five people from China and five from Japan, and you can play basketball when you are tired of talking. The Japanese side expressed strong dissatisfaction and asked for up to three people to attend, the minister, the foreign minister, and a secretary.The Japanese demanded absolute secret negotiations and were not willing to make public. If you don't want to make public, you can't do it, the Chinese are very happy to make public.As a result, the two sides went back and forth several times in order to make publicity, and finally the Japanese won.

Next comes the pace of negotiation.The Japanese say: According to the process of working five days a week, how about talking once a day, five days a week? Lu Zhengxiang flatly refused: Why are you in such a hurry?Negotiations, there is no need to rush this matter, as the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.Just talk about it once a week, talk about it once, take a break for six days, life is short, why not have fun while you can? The Japanese were furious and strongly demanded that five days a week, Lu Zhengxiang played his sticky features, neither in a hurry nor annoyed, he insisted on talking only once a week.The final result was to add up the demands of both parties and divide by two. After one plus five, dividing by two equals three, and we decided to talk three times a week.Each time we talked for two hours, the time was set from four to six in the afternoon.

Finally started talking.When the time came, Japanese Minister Hikimashi couldn't wait to enter the venue, sat in his seat and waited.Waited and waited, waited and waited, finally Lu Zhengxiang and Cao Rulin arrived. These two living treasures entered the room and took their seats. First, Lu Zhengxiang delivered an enthusiastic speech.After finishing his speech, Lu Zhengxiang waved his hand: Serve tea! Hikiichi: Serving tea? Lu Zhengxiang: That's right, Mr. Minister, you heard it right. Haven't you heard the ancients say: On a cold night, guests come to tea for wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling, and the fire is just red, singing to get drunk and masturbating, and the local accent remains unchanged.Tea is also extensive and profound in Japan. Don’t you hear that there is a Japanese song in "Hundreds of Tea Ceremonies" by Master Rikyu: If there is a kettle, the tea ceremony is enough, and it is foolish to indulge in props.

Cao Rulin also said with deep emotion on the side: What President Lu said is very true. Don’t you hear that floating life is like tea, and breaking obsessions is like lotus. You must stop haste and use patience before you can move steadily and go far. The Japanese envoy slowly lowered his head to the table and wept. He couldn't help crying, because he was a hand at China and knew that when the two sides met, tea was served first, which is a unique oriental etiquette. As a minister, he couldn't be rude. But if Lu Zhengxiang was allowed to drink tea so leisurely, the two hours of negotiating time would be consumed by this fellow.