Reborn Bao Guowei, I really didn’t want to be a great writer!

Chapter 433 Christmas in Paris! Is this what European politics is like?

After Christmas, many teachers and students of the University of Paris went home to celebrate the holiday, and the teachers' dormitory building became deserted.

Bao Guowei and two other people were the only ones left in the entire building.

Zhang Nianyue and Bao Guowei shared a room, while Cao Yanhai lived alone across the street, protecting them at all times.

But after arriving in France, there was nothing to protect.

Because it was Christmas, the University of Paris sent a rich variety of food early, and Bao Guowei also asked Cao Yanhai to buy some.

Although these people are Chinese, they follow local customs and celebrate Christmas.

So, a few people set up a table of delicious food in the reception room on the first floor of the dormitory.

A large roast goose was placed in the center of the table. Its skin was golden and crispy, and its tender and juicy meat was paired with a variety of spices and sauces, giving it a unique flavor.

This was specially sent by the principal Paul Abel. It was obvious that this gentleman did his best to recruit Bao Guowei.

The main reason is that Bao Guowei's current status is special. When universities recruit professors, they not only have to consider his academic ability, but also his fame and reputation in the academic community.

Bao Guowei is impeccable in these respects.

If he could recruit Bao Guowei to become a lecturer at the University of Paris, it would be a great achievement for Paul Abel.

Unfortunately, Bao Guowei never gave in, which made Paul Abel extremely disappointed.

In fact, all the conditions offered by Paul Abel could not impress Bao Guowei.

For Bao Guowei today, he has no shortage of either money or fame and fortune.

The only thing missing was something that Paul Abel had no chance of providing him with.

That is a strong motherland!

In addition to the roast goose, the dishes on the table were quite rich, including fresh oysters sprinkled with a little lemon juice, Christmas tree log cake, etc.

As for French foie gras, Bao Guowei had eaten some of it and found it extremely greasy in taste, and he lost all interest in it afterwards.

The rest of the dishes are naturally available.

For three people, this amount might be a bit too much, but with Cao Yanhai, a glutton, present, there is no need to worry about waste.

What about the homeless people suffering from hunger and cold on the streets?
In China, Bao Guowei might have thought that he was enjoying delicious food in his room while ordinary people were starving on the streets, and felt guilty.

But after arriving abroad, he put away most of his sympathy.

They haven't even taken care of their own countrymen? Let God save these foreigners!

Thinking of this, Bao Guowei enjoyed his Christmas dinner even more.

A few people sat in front of the fireplace, eating dinner and chatting, feeling the warmth in the winter. It was quite comfortable and had a sense of reunion.

Zhang Nianyue scooped out the oyster meat with a fork, put it into her mouth, and couldn't help but sigh.

"The New Year is coming soon. I can't spend New Year's Day at home this year."

"We may not be able to make it to New Year's Day, but we can still make it to New Year's Eve. Don't worry, we will be home soon."

Bao Guowei smiled and comforted his fiancée.

His main purpose of coming to Europe this time was to receive the Goncourt Prize and to enhance his influence, but he did not expect the effect to be so good.

Now Bao Guowei has planned to return to China. On the one hand, he wants to go home and reunite with his family on New Year's Eve. Reunion has been a simple emotion of Chinese descendants for thousands of years. Besides, his marriage with Zhang Nianyue can't be delayed any longer.
On the other hand, in order to avoid these fanatical Europeans, Bao Guowei had a hunch that if he stayed any longer, he might be detained by these European politicians and forced to work in Europe, whether in Britain or France.

It would be a lot of fun then. Bao Guowei would never expect that Chiang Kai-shek could snatch him back from these powers.

Having roughly confirmed the idea of ​​returning, Zhang Nianyue felt a lot more at ease. However, she remembered the doubts that had been hidden in her heart for the past few days, and couldn't help but ask.

"It seems that the French authorities have not come to you. What did you write to them?"

This is what confuses Zhang Nianyue the most.

Judging from the attitude of the French authorities in the past two days, it seemed that they were going to force Bao Guowei to go to the presidential office, but after Bao Guowei gave them a letter, everything was settled?

Zhang Nianyue was very grateful, but still didn't quite understand.

"Well," Bao Guowei swallowed a mouthful of goose meat and wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief. He didn't have any intention of hiding anything and spoke frankly. "Nothing much. I just wrote a set of theories based on the current economic situation in France and combined them with the macroeconomics I proposed and wrote them to the French government."

“That’s it???”

Zhang Nianyue looked at the other party in disbelief, as if she didn't quite believe what was said.

She has been following French news all the time, and her French has improved recently, so she can understand a lot of content.

In Zhang Nianyue's impression, many French people's admiration for Bao Guowei has reached an unprecedented level.

Some people even published radical remarks in newspapers: "Without Mr. Bao, the French economy will surely perish!"

In the past two days, people broke into the University of Paris from time to time and bluntly wanted to visit Bao Guowei, but fortunately they were stopped by security.

Not to mention the various scholars who have visited Bao Guowei in recent days.

It can be said that almost all the Paris scholars that Zhang Nianyue is familiar with visited them during these two days.

Including but not limited to John Dewey, Lucien Febvre, Paul Demilovich and so on.

The dazzling array of Christmas gifts behind the door is perfect proof of this.

In particular, the three people mentioned above had heated discussions with Bao Guowei after the visit.

The world-renowned educator, Mr. John Dewey, could be said to be full of praise for him.

With this momentum, Zhang Nianyue almost thought that the French authorities would keep Bao Guowei in Paris at all costs.

She was even a little nervous, wondering how they could escape from France.

"What else?" Bao Guowei asked as a matter of course. "Do you really think the French will insist on keeping me in Paris?"

"But, that's what's written in the newspapers." Zhang Nianyue became more and more confused.

"That's just what people think," Bao Guowei said with a smile. "It's also largely due to the hype of some unscrupulous media."

"Don't Western governments attach great importance to the voice of the people? They say this is called democracy." Zhang Nianyue asked again in confusion.

Bao Guowei sneered in response: "Democracy? It's just a nice word."

Then he began to explain Western politics to his fiancée.

"Western politics always puts the interests of capitalists first. Everything else, whether it's democracy or morality, serves this essence, just like the decorations on this Christmas tree. The public opinion and democracy mentioned by politicians look beautiful, but they have no practical value." Bao Guowei pointed to the Christmas tree in the house and gave an example to Zhang Nianyue.

"Decorations like a Christmas tree." Zhang Nianyue obviously had no political talent and seemed to not quite understand this metaphor.

Bao Guowei could only continue to explain: "These people are simply making things complicated enough for people to understand, so that the public will believe that they will be happy. Let's go back to this matter. Do the French authorities really think my economic policies are useful? Perhaps after some discussions among economists, they will come to a positive answer, but they have no motivation to implement reforms."

"Why? Don't they want to make the country better?"

Bao Guowei smiled and continued to give examples, saying, "In our history, when each dynasty came to an end, didn't some rulers hope to make their rule more stable through reforms so that their family could be prosperous from generation to generation? But what was the result?

Whether it was Wang Anshi or Zhang Juzheng, they both failed in the end. Why is that? "

"Why?" Zhang Nianyue blinked her innocent eyes.

Bao Guowei held his forehead helplessly. Faced with such a student, he, as a teacher, had no motivation to continue teaching.

Fortunately, Cao Yanhai had learned some historical knowledge from Bao Guowei. He put down the goose leg in his hand and immediately raised his hand to answer.

"I know, Master! There is just a bunch of short-sighted bastards who think that the reform has undermined their interests, so they are trying every means to obstruct it. But they don't know that the reform will make them bleed a little in the short term, but it will be beneficial in the long run!"

I didn’t expect that Cao Yanhai has made some progress.

Bao Guowei nodded and said, "Almost. In fact, France is facing such a problem now. On the one hand, the reformists want drastic changes, and on the other hand, the conservatives cannot give up short-term interests, so there is a contradiction between the two.

Today's French president is one of the representatives of conservatives, and behind him are countless traditional French aristocrats and capitalists.

The reforms I have proposed may help the French economy recover, but they will inevitably involve the interests of these traditionalists, which they are completely unwilling to see.

So I assert that the French president wants me to go, but in fact he is very opposed to reform. If I go, it will be bad.”

At this point, Zhang Nianyue seemed to have some enlightenment and felt that he had a new understanding of European politics.

She immediately responded, "So if you go, it will make the conservatives represented by the French president embarrassed. Reform is not right, and not reforming is not right. In the end, nothing will be done and they will use us as scapegoats for the economic crisis."

"I sent a letter to clear myself of any responsibility. I provided the policy and insisted on returning to China, so they had no way to deal with me. Nowadays, no country in the world will harm a well-known scholar."

Bao Guowei took a sip of wine and said.

"Europeans are so scary." Zhang Nianyue couldn't help but say with lingering fear.

Think about it, if Bao Guowei really went to the French President's dinner, he would probably have no way to escape, right?
Bao Guowei smiled and said, "But it's also true that I want to go back."

"Hehe! I feel that with Master's level, these foreigners are nothing but chickens and dogs!"

Cao Yanhai said with a smile while gnawing on the goose meat.

Having said that, Bao Guowei will not let his guard down. Wandering between the politics of various countries is like walking on a tightrope on a cliff. He needs to be extremely careful.

Bao Guowei made up his mind that he would make academic comments on all political issues in the future.

When asked, he would just say “I got this by accident”, but if you really ask him to practice, he would just say “I don’t know how to do this either” and so on.

After dinner, several professors from the University of Paris came to visit him one after another. Bao Guowei agreed to visit those who were famous, but he was perfunctory about the unknown ones.

There have been too many people looking for him recently, and if Bao Guowei were to deal with them all, he would be exhausted to death.

Later, Cao Yanhai came to Bao Guowei somewhat embarrassedly.

It turned out that the kid said that tonight was Christmas and he wanted to spend the night outside.

Bao Guowei looked the boy up and down and then remembered that the boy seemed to have been hooking up with a French female student for the past few days.

Looks like you're going out on a date tonight?

Thinking that Cao Yanhai had been working hard by his side for more than half a year, and that even if he had no credit, he had worked hard, Bao Guowei simply gave him a night off and let him relax.

After repeatedly warning him that he would be solely responsible for any future love affairs he had in France.

Bao Guowei closed the door and let the boy go out and do what he wanted.

The night was long. Bao Guowei looked at the lights outside and thought it would not be a bad thing for Cao Yanhai to go out.

It was freezing cold outside and they were in a foreign country, so he and Zhang Nianyue drank a little wine.

The two of them crawled into the warm bed and fell asleep in each other's arms. There was no one else in the entire building.

Isn't it just doing whatever you want?

Thinking of this, Bao Guowei hummed a little tune while preparing to extinguish the charcoal fire in the fireplace and go upstairs to spend a good night with his little wife.

But as expected, some accidents happened. Just when Bao Guowei was about to go upstairs, there was a sudden knock on the door.

When he heard the knock on the door, Bao Guowei almost cursed.

"Who?"

His tone was a little bit angry, and he thought that if a strange face appeared outside, he would smash the other person's head.

As soon as the door was opened, the wind and snow blew all over the ground. There were two shivering students standing in the cold wind.

Bao Guowei looked carefully and found that these were the two Chinese students who appeared during the speech that day.
Zheng Dazhang and Yu Binglie seemed to have walked a long way outside. Their clothes were covered with snowflakes and their faces were red from the cold.

"Mr. Bao, Merry Christmas!~"

Zheng Dazhang took out a tightly wrapped small gift from his arms and handed it to Bao Guowei.

Bao Guowei took a look at it with some surprise. The slightly shabby little box was in sharp contrast with the gifts in the corner.

"come in."

He suspected that if they stayed outside any longer, the two men would turn into ice sculptures.

Bao Guowei asked with a smile while sitting on the sofa, having just lit the fireplace again to warm the two of them up.

"I remember that I had asked you two to come to my place for Christmas, but I thought you were not coming."

In fact, Bao Guowei was quite caring towards these two students from foreign countries and had long wanted to invite them over.

But I didn't expect that no matter how long I waited, he didn't show up. I thought these two people were ungrateful.

Zheng Dazhang and Yu Binglie seemed a little frightened. They looked at each other and the former spoke with some stammering.

"Mr. Bao Bao, that's not the case."

(End of this chapter)