Chapter 463 Crazy Upgrade

Chapter 463 Crazy Upgrade

Chapter 463 Crazy Upgrade
The love is separated by mountains and seas, and both mountains and seas can be flat.

Many people do not believe this sentence, but if you replace "love" with "gossip", then this sentence will become the truth.

In order to eat melons, Chinese netizens volunteered to move ladders, and those who volunteered to grill meat grilled the meat.

"If I wasn't a Slav living in London, I would have almost believed you. Do I need to repeat how the Weymouth Series came about? In addition, the birth of Mr. Holmes, according to the information I found, was just a certain mystery magazine carrying out Sherlock Holmes-related activities. If it was about the activities of Detective Gurov, it is possible that Mr. Gurov is the one that exists now."

"Didn't you see the report in Le Parisien? Last year, our country had an economic deficit. As a witness to the friendship between France and China, Gu Lu couldn't sleep all night. In the end, he wrote "Who Moved My Cheese?" Da Ying? Mao Xiongguo? It was just a simple official task. Do you take it seriously?"

"There is an old Chinese saying, which roughly means: Wherever a person is, there is his heart. Gu Lu has been to London five or six times, to Moscow once, and to Paris zero times. In addition, Mr. Gu Lu's overseas copyright management company is headquartered in London. Stupid bears and cowardly French people, why don't you raise your hands, protect your heads, and think carefully? You can only play with Norway."

"Where the man is, there is the heart also? O foolish woodchuck..."

The content that was transferred here was the essence that was seen by Chinese netizens. Each of them had unique skills and presented long speeches.

People all over the world have similar human nature. They usually have no motivation to study and look up information, but once they meet people online, their learning ability and ability to look up information will reach its peak.

Look at the Russians working in London, who come to the Chinese Internet to use Google Translator to get information.

Of course, if you look at the big-sleeping people, they will directly start personal attacks. There is no way, the big-sleeping breast method, it is just like a conditioned reflex.

You can imagine what will happen next. In just one morning, netizens from the Bear Country, France and Britain got together to fight. Even if they don’t speak the same language, so what?
The discussion started out by talking about facts and presenting evidence, then turned into rumor-mongering and finally developed into large-scale personal attacks.

From Gu Lu having a French best friend (Dibo can barely be considered a good friend), to Gu Lu having an older boyfriend, to Gu Lu's first love being in the Bear Country, the news was flying around and it was hard to keep up.

I won’t list all the personal attacks, they’re so bloody!

The domestic spectators said it was an eye-opener.

roywang: [Awesome! This is the first time I’ve seen a writer being fought over by other countries. Please note that the fight here is not the kind that Koreans fight over.]
WQY010203: […At first I thought it was a joke from netizens, or that the author was going to release a new book, a new round of publicity. Until more and more news was brought back.]
Onlooker: [I'm sorry, in my mind, Gu Lu was just a best-selling author with no literary qualities. Now it seems that this view is really blind. Just because he is a best-seller, he can't be respected by so many foreign citizens. Gu Lu must have a side that I don't know. I read the reports from the Bear Country. My god, he is continuing Tolstoy's posthumous works! Is this the Tolstoy in my elementary, middle, and high school books?]
Alphabert: [Everyone is talking about Britain, France, and the Bear Country. Does anyone care about Norway? I'm studying in Oslo, and many Norwegian students are very angry.]
……

Indeed, Norwegians do not have deep feelings for Gu Lu. In fact, most Norwegians only know "The Battle for Antarctica" and do not pay attention to the author's name.

But you, the Bear Country, said that China was just average to Norway, and the French also came out to say that China was very casual to Norway. There were even some netizens who did not forget to mention Norway when attacking Russia and France.

Tolerable or unbearable!
My aunt can tolerate it, but my uncle can’t!

Therefore, "Uncle Chocolate", the Norwegian blogger with the most fans on YouTube, also spoke out.

"Gu Lu is a good friend of ours in Norway. He also owns a property in the Lofoten Islands. As a Chinese, Gu Lu is definitely fond of it, as the country that values ​​housing the most in the world. Newspapers in the Bear Country, as well as netizens in France and Britain should watch their mouths. Officials in Russia, France and the United Kingdom should also take good care of their citizens."

This internet celebrity's words are a bit of a cause and effect, because this property itself is a gift from the Norwegian government to Gu Lu, who has permanent residency rights but no right to sell. Because strictly speaking, the gift from the Norwegian government is "a place where you can see the aurora."

But the remarks made by Uncle Chocolate, who has more than two million fans, not only failed to calm the situation, but made it worse.

Some angry netizens have already started an offline fight. At the moment, it doesn’t matter whether Gu Lu really likes his country, but he must not be outdone by the other two.

Netizens from other countries also watched the entire process.

[American netizens: Fighting for a Chinese writer? Which of Russian literature, French literature, and English literature has not achieved brilliant results? Is April Fools' Day early this year?
South Korean netizen: Am I the only one who knows this? Gu Lu is most concerned about South Korea. He accurately predicted the current situation in South Korea four or five years ago.

German netizen: I feel that Germany should also join the discussion in this kind of occasion, but it seems that this Chinese writer has no connection with Germany at all.

Indian netizen: Gu Lu is the pride of Asian literature, just as Tagore was respected around the world back then.

[…]
Director Zhao, who was in the office of the United Front Department, took his eyes off the computer screen for a long time.

"The right time, right place and right people, all worked together to achieve this result," Director Zhao exclaimed.

Now there is no doubt that Gu Lu has become a world-class writer. Even though he does not have a truly world-bestselling work, the writer himself is more popular than his works.

"In the future..." Director Zhao received a call from someone before he finished speaking.

Who is it? Alexei, the Russian ambassador to China.

Director Zhao estimated that the incident had become a big deal and the Russian side wanted China to step in to calm it down.

For example, we are doing well in Chinese, French, Russian and English.

But what the other party said in his first sentence was beyond Director Zhao's expectations.

"My dear friend, you introduced Mr. Gu to me. I know you have a good relationship with Mr. Gu. My dear man, can you let Mr. Gu Lu respond positively to our Moscow Times report?" said Alexei.

To be honest, this was the first time Director Zhao felt that the other party's Chinese was so excellent.

"Positive response to the report..." Director Zhao seemed to understand. So you are here to get in through the back door? Since the netizens on the Internet can't come to any conclusion, you are doing it privately?
"Of course we are good friends, but Alexei, I have a good relationship with Gu Zhuan... Gu, but as a writer, he has a strong autonomy, so the most I can do is help convey the message." Director Zhao is not one to take on too much responsibility.

"Dear good man, it's great that you could help convey my message." Alexei said this on the phone. As a politician, he made this call for a simple reason: he believed that Russian culture was more worthy of liking than French and English culture.

The idea that Director Zhao was interrupted by earlier was that there would definitely be many people asking Gu Lu to write celebratory articles in the future, such as the 2020th anniversary of Germany's National Unification Day in October 10.

In addition, there is cultural exchange through the establishment of diplomatic relations. Director Zhao feels that foreign countries can no longer be allowed to get things for free in the future.

For example, pandas were given to friendly countries on their own initiative in the past, but later on, they were exchanged conditionally if they were wanted, and this gradually developed into "panda diplomacy."

Originally, a writer's articles could replace the national treasure panda, which was already the ceiling. But no one expected that at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, it could be raised even higher.

Director Zhao, who discovered this problem, is going to write a report to his superiors. Whether this situation will happen or not, we must be prepared first.

It's not just the Russians who are making efforts in private.

For example, Dibo, who was in Paris, called Gu Lu who had just returned to China.

The language environment is actually very important for learning a language. Take Dibo for example. His Chinese level was quite good when he was the ambassador to China, otherwise he would not have been able to translate "Who Moved My Cheese?"

But within a year of returning to France to report on his work, his Chinese level had audibly declined. "Gu, my friend, have you finished your cheese? I..."

"Ugh—sorry Dibo, I caught a cold and I'm a little nauseous."

Gu Lu said this.

"Drink more hot water, Gu. You will suffer the consequences in the future, so please take care of yourself." Dibo expressed his concern.

"?" Gu Lu asked directly what the other party wanted. Keep it simple, keep the way you speak simple, and most importantly, don't mention cheese.

"As my best friend and France's best friend, what do you think about what is happening on the Internet?" Dibo also went straight to the point.

"What's going on on the Internet? As I said before, I caught a cold and feel unwell." Gu Lu used illness as an excuse and pretended to be ignorant.

Dibo didn't feel like talking about business anymore, so he hung up the phone after saying a few words of concern.

Put down the phone. Gu Lu did not expect that this trip to the Bear Country would bring him unexpected gains.

He looked at the comments posted by netizens and had an idea.

Netizens are wrong. The most pitiful country is not Norway. Because Norway at least has a name, but there is another country. It can be said that the first article he translated was for that country... It doesn't even have a name.

"My semi-famous novel When the Stars Shine is almost finished. I have to find a way to borrow some Zweig's work to bring out The Architect of the World." Gu Lu is already planning for the next steps.

If you don't think ahead, you'll have immediate worries. Gu Lu's vision is still good, and he listed many kinds of items that may trigger it.

Items are relatively difficult. "Human Architects" is a biography of various great writers, so Gu Lu can take a class taught by Professor Zang of the Russian Literature Department. It should be triggered.

"Generally speaking, I choose to publish my two books in the first half of the year and the second half of the year. The Borrower will be published in June, and Ove should be published in October or November."

But this time there was a little surprise. Now that he was famous all over the world, Gu Lu wanted to strike while the iron was hot.

Fame is important, but it’s also important to keep up with the work!
King Guru was busy at his desk.

Someone from Da Ying's side also worked hard privately, and they found Yao Xiaoju directly. Yao Xiaoju used a similar rhetoric to Director Zhao.

The Internet is still very lively.

There will definitely be media outlets that want to take advantage of this huge wave of traffic.

The first to take action was Editor-in-Chief Gu of the Global Times. He called Gu Lu and asked if he had time for an exclusive interview.

I never thought that the other party would respond like this.

"Okay, I personally don't care whether I accept the interview or not, but Chairman Wen suggested that I should not make any response."

"Who is Chairman Wen? I seem to remember that Chairman Wen's information is available on the Internet. Let me read it to you..."

Chairman, what a strange title, Editor-in-Chief Gu asked.

"He is currently the chairman of the Huaxia Diplomacy International Think Tank, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of International Relations, a senior advisor to the Sino-US Diplomatic Research Office, and the director of the Ministry of Commerce's project on US business and economy. His main research areas are..."

"That's enough, Mr. Gu Lu, I am sorry for disturbing you."

Editor-in-Chief Gu of Global Times hung up the phone and wiped the cold sweat from his temples. They had interviewed Gu Lu many times, so they thought it was a sure thing.

But I didn't expect...

Editor Gu smoked a cigarette to calm down, and then looked at what was happening on the Internet.

Many people were shocked by the news on the Internet, but many units and organizations were also shocked.

"Take a look, take a look." Vice Chairman Qi said to Director Wang, "Teacher Gu is always the center of attention in exchanges with foreign literature."

Director Wang of the Children's Literature Research Room agreed wholeheartedly, and he even began to thank himself for not being rash enough to do something.

"Countries have cultural diplomacy with each other. Teacher Gu is busy with these major events every day. But he still thinks about the children. He is worthy of being a role model for young people to learn from."

Director Wang has turned to the boasting party, "Chairman Qi, can you invite Teacher Gu to give a lecture at our Writers Association if Teacher Gu has time? Tell us about your experience in publishing your works overseas."

In fact, the Writers Association has been involved in many overseas exports of works, especially exchanges with European countries, but they really want to learn Gu Lu's overseas model.

"I'll try to ask if Teacher Gu Lu has time." Vice Chairman Qi talked about the serious matter they wanted to discuss today.

He said, “Have a good talk with the other writers in the [New Fairy Tales] series. Their little tricks are too obvious.”

Director Wang said it was no problem and he would do it right away.

Really, to be honest, Director Wang really thinks that the Writers Association should be grateful that Gu Lu can participate in this event...

Compared with the "grateful" Writers Association, another more official organization is very conflicted.

"Should we speak?" Deputy Director Li of the China Foreign Language Bureau was undecided.

The Foreign Languages ​​Publishing Administration is known externally as China International Communications Group, and its full name internally is China Foreign Languages ​​Publishing Administration, an organization that most people are not familiar with.

Its main function is to fully publicize China's development and changes to the outside world and actively promote friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries. Therefore, the Foreign Language Bureau, like diplomatic agencies, will always pay attention to the foreign reputation of China.

Moreover, the issue under discussion this time is still in the field of culture and history, so the Foreign Language Bureau needs to take action. Apart from other things, its magazine "China Today" has the ability to be distributed to dozens of countries.

"The key now is what kind of mentality we should have."

(End of this chapter)