The Embassy of the Republic in Myanmar is located in the Embassy District of Yangon's Linyin Road. It belongs to the old city. The exotic style is coming. The wooden structures on both sides are mottled in wood, which reminds people of Yangon's colonial history. The intertwined are some century-old buildings with magnificent designs. Some of these buildings still retain the Victorian and Edward styles during the British reign, and the craftsmen incorporated some architectural features of India and Myanmar, making them form a wonderful and unique mixed style.

From afar, you can see that on the commanding heights of the city, the grand gold pagoda stands magnificently on Mount Sinddaya, the Burmese people regard it as a holy land of Buddhism, as the pride of the nation, and also Yangon, a symbolic landscape of Myanmar.

However, the whole city gave Lu Zheng the feeling that it was dirty and messy. On the street, children without clothes were playing, and there was almost no concept of traffic rules. They could even rush out of your car at any time. There were also motorcycles that seemed to be rotten and would suddenly pass by you, and they were often crowded with people, just like funny pictures I had seen before.

The entire Yangon, most areas are like noisy vegetable markets, and they are completely less solemn and prosperous than the national capital. This is the case with both Chinese Street and Indian Street. Various stalls and food stalls are piled up on the streets, just like a market in mainland towns.

Only in a few bustling streets can it make people feel like a city.

The Embassy District is one of the most modern areas in Yangon. Embassies in many countries are stationed here. Among them, the China Pavilion is a complex of buildings composed of gardens and small buildings. The main office building is a local hotel purchased and renovated. The entire building complex has the charm of flying eaves and hanging feet, small bridges and flowing water, which has a lot of charm of ancient oriental architecture.

Lu Zheng met with the embassy staff and visited various departments. That night, Yang Chengye, the Ambassador of the Republic to Myanmar, and his wife, held a banquet at the ambassador's residence to welcome Lu Zheng.

In the magnificent banquet room of the ambassador's residence, Lu Zheng was received the warmest reception, and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

The ambassador's official residence is in the embassy area, very close to the Chinese Pavilion. The ambassador has a separate official residence as an international practice. The official residence is the ambassador's residence, but it is also the ambassador's workplace. The ambassador's office is usually in the embassy's office building, but the ambassador's official residence is also an important place for ambassadors to carry out external activities. The important content of ambassador's external work, namely, some banquets and receptions, are often held in the official residence. The atmosphere is more friendly at the official residence or to receive some friends as guests, so it is a working method that the diplomatic circles in various countries prefer to adopt.

Lu Zheng, the minister and counselor, had to live in the embassy, ​​but the conditions were also very good. The two-story wooden building walked along a wooden bridge spanning a clear water. The bedroom floor-to-ceiling windows opened the dark yellow curtains, and the garden pond was outside. The environment was particularly elegant and the exotic colors were rich.

The person who led Lu Zheng to visit the bedroom was Huo Yakun, the director of the embassy office (counselor of the administrative department), and said with a smile: "Minister Lu, if you are not satisfied, you can change it."

Lu Zheng nodded slightly and said, "It's great, thank you for your hard work, Director Huo."

"Okay, you're tired of traveling. If you have any needs, call me." Back in the living room, Huo Yakun said goodbye immediately.

Following Lu Zheng were the Counselor of the Business Office, Du Xiaohu, the Interior Office, and Lin Hanshen, the Counselor of the Consular Department.

Lin Hanshen thought about it, and then asked the leader to rest and wait for polite words before he avoided it. Lu Zheng, Wang Jiawang and Du Xiaohu were left in the living room.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "How is it? You have been here for a few days. How do you feel in the new environment? I'm sorry to say that I'm going to make you all come abroad."

Guest Wang hurriedly said, "Secretary, don't say that." Guest Wang never expected that he would join the ministry one day, and now he has become a diplomat. He is relatively independent in the business office and is even ready to move out of the embassy office building to find a separate office location. He was originally just a ministry in a poor county in the north.

Thinking about the storm caused by the old leader in southern Yunnan, Guest Wang was also filled with emotion, and it seemed like a different life between advancing and retreating.

Du Xiaohu said: "It's better than in China, and I'm here to stay here now."

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Then we have to do something, not to come out to hide from leisure and wait for me to get started. I am still busy. By the way, Hu Zi, I will say to Huo Yakun, you should be my secretary for the time being..., please." I wanted to call Du Xiaohu as the driver, but after thinking about it, if the driver is, he must use a local employee.

There are two types of embassy staff, one is diplomat, and the other is ordinary staff. Diplomats range from ambassadors, ministers to counselors, first-class secretaries, second-class secretaries, third-class secretaries, and so on; ordinary staff are administrative employees and local employees, such as office heads in charge of administrative management, financial accountants, translators, private secretaries, document administrators, document clerks, typists, stenographers, assistants, purchasers, communicators, drivers, technicians, cleaners, waiters, chefs, gardeners, etc., as well as radio operators, translators, etc. who are responsible for confidential communication and contacting the country. These staff members do not belong to the diplomat series and generally do not have the mission of representing the country to communicate with foreign affairs, but they play a very important role in the normal operation of the embassy and the work and life of the entire museum staff.

These administrative affairs and technical staff generally do not hold diplomatic passports, so sometimes the host country does not give them the privileges and diplomatic immunity enjoyed by ordinary diplomats. Among administrative personnel, some of them must be dispatched domestically, such as office clerks, accountants, document administrators, translators, etc., because their work involves confidential parts of the embassy work, while other positions need to be familiar with the local language and environment, such as drivers, procurement and other positions, and more employees in the country are hired.

The Republic's Embassy in Myanmar is a medium-sized embassy, ​​with not many diplomats, and there were not many counselors at the beginning, and most of the departments were responsible for the first-class secretary. Since last year, the Republic has begun to attach importance to relations with its neighbors in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, which has an extremely important geographical location, which has begun to supplement the diplomatic power of the embassy, ​​but the embassies of the Republic in developed countries are still incomparable.

For example, Lu Zheng, the Minister-General, was in charge of the Political Department, assumed the responsibilities of the Government Counselor, and was in charge of the Consular Department and the Foreign Trade Economy. A duo formed by Ambassador Yang Chengye led the operation of the entire embassy. If Ambassador Yang Chengye left Myanmar, whether on vacation or returning to China to report his duties, Lu Zheng would automatically become the temporary office and be fully responsible for the diplomatic affairs of the Republic and Myanmar.

While drinking tea, Lu Zheng said to Guest Wang and Du Xiaohu: "Anyway, we have to achieve some results. Also, we must have a good relationship with the old comrades in the embassy and don't ask others to see that we are the three-person gang."

Guest Wang and Du Xiaohu both laughed and nodded.

The embassy office building is a particularly gorgeous four-story building. The roof is made of oriental eaves, which looks solemn and simple.

Lu Zheng's office is on the third floor, and the Political Department he is in charge can be said to be the core department of the entire embassy. The Political Department has four main functions: the first is to collect intelligence and make accurate and reliable reports to the country in a timely manner; the second is to establish friendly relations with people from relevant parties in the host country; the third is to publicize external propaganda, publicize the national conditions of their own politics, economy, culture, society, diplomacy, history, etc. to the host country's government and people, and strive to enhance the host country's understanding of their own country; the fourth is to handle various cases and handle various matters

For embassies abroad in various countries, understanding the development of the political situation in the host country and estimating and predicting possible changes in the political situation is undoubtedly the top priority in investigation and research.

Myanmar is now in the process of election, and the Political Department of the Embassy is also busy. Through the various data collected, it is possible to obtain the most accurate results and provide forecasts for domestic decision-makers.

The Embassy Cultural Department has a first-class secretary as the director, responsible for cultural exchanges, but in the Political Department, two first-class secretaries serve as deputy positions, which also shows the importance of the Political Department. In domestic institutions, the Political Department of Embassy abroad is usually called a research room.

One of the two first-class secretary-generals of the Political Department, the surname is Chen, named Chen Tongda. He is an old diplomat in his early fifties and has gray hair. When he first met Lu Zheng yesterday, he was a little qualified. To put it, he didn't know Lu Zheng's past, but he felt that an airborne soldier suddenly came and had never had any work experience on the diplomatic front. He was appointed as the counselor of the minister and a young boy. No matter how he thought about it, he could not put himself in a right position and could not regard Lu Zheng as a real leader.

Another deputy director, whose surname is Zhu, is Zhu Qiong. He is as gentle and generous as his name, is a beautiful young woman. According to rumors, he is the young wife of a deputy minister of a ministry.

This news was naturally revealed to Lu Zheng in Lin Hanshen's speech.

Before the meeting between the two deputy directors, Lu Zheng, Chen Tongda and Zhu Qiong, first paged Bai Su'e, and when she was about to take her to play in Yangon when she was about to fly to Myanmar again. She had a chance yesterday, and Bai Su'e's flight crew would stay in Myanmar for one night and fly back to China this morning, but just got in touch with diplomatic work, Lu Zheng had no time to take care of her.

Before Bai Su'e could call back, Chen Tongda and Zhu Qiong came to Lu Zheng's office.

Chen Tongda and Zhu Qiong, one is already in the age of knowing destiny, while the other may be less than 30 years old, but they are both first-class secretary at the deputy division level. Their mentality is naturally different. Lu Zheng heard Lin Hanshen mention that Zhu Qiong was transferred from behind. Chen Tongda taught people all day long. At first, Zhu Qiong was able to give in, but gradually, he became disgusted. After a few quarrels, the two are now quite incompatible and the contradictions are almost irreconcilable. This is a secret that everyone knows about the Political Department of the Embassy.

When he came to Lu Zheng's office, Zhu Qiong was quite polite. Seeing that Lu Zheng's tea cup was empty, he took the initiative to lift the kettle and poured a glass of water for Lu Zheng. However, Chen Tongda lit a cigarette when he came in, regardless of whether Lu Zheng, the new minister, smoked or not, and looked like he was indifferent.

Lu Zheng also knew in his heart that if Lin Hanshen said what he said was true and Zhu Qiong was really the successor of a senior official of a ministries and commission, then she should have a clear understanding of her background. After all, the ministries and commissions are much more informed than local governments.
Chapter completed!