Chapter 288: Prime Minister’s Office

Since Li Bin escorted Jiang Yujie back this time, the procedures for entering the home this time were much easier. He just registered at the gate and drove in directly.

A piece of red bricks, green tiles, ancient cypress and ginkgo naturally brings people a sense of tranquility and tranquility. In this ancient environment, even the restless mood will gradually calm down.

Li Bin sent Jiang Yujie home first, and then was nagged by Jiang Yujie, then left the courtyard where his father-in-law lived temporarily in the home and walked towards the courtyard where Zhao Wenge worked.

Jiang Yujie was nagging him, so she naturally nagged Xiaoyu's injury and pregnancy. Although Xiaoyu's injury is no longer a serious problem, she can walk on a cane with a doctor's permission, but after all, she is now four months pregnant and has become somewhat inconvenient to move.

In fact, if Jiang Yujie means, she is planning to bring Xiaoyu to Beijing. Living in the home is quiet and the environment is good, it is very beneficial for recuperation or pregnancy. However, when Jiang Yujie saw Xiaoyu's attachment to Li Bin, she was determined to break up the couple alive. As long as her daughter is old, she couldn't help but mom. With Li Bin's repeated guarantees, Jiang Yujie had to leave Xiaoyu in Tianjin.

When entering the courtyard of Zhao Wenge's office, Li Bin followed the rules and first went to Tan Lei's office to register.

When Tan Lei saw Li Bin, he shook hands with Li Bin with a smile. He stepped back and the staff who wanted to come up to make tea for them. He personally made a cup of strong tea for Li Bin, but the name he was handing over when he handed over the tea almost made Li Bin throw the tea cup in his hand to the ground.

"Brother Jun, please use tea."

Seeing Li Bin's embarrassment, Tan Lei laughed happily. No matter how famous Li Bin is now, he is still Li Bin, and has not changed at all. If he had to find a little from Li Bin and change it, Tan Lei had to say that the young man in front of him has become more calm and mature than before.

"President Shi is here for a while. The Prime Minister is meeting with several generals from the Navy Command." As he said that, Tan Lei sat opposite Li Bin with a smile.

Li Bin narrowed his eyes, looked at Tan Lei and asked, "Somali?"

Tan Lei was stunned and put down the teacup in his hand. This guy was too keen. He just said vaguely who the Prime Minister met, and he directly locked in what incident it was.

Seeing Tan Lei nodding, Li Bin also fell silent.

The Somalia problem has a long history. Since the Ethiopian army overthrew the Somalian regime, Somalia has basically been in anarchy. The newly established Somalia government can barely control the capital Mogadishu, but it cannot even control the peasant women in the suburbs of Mogadishu. Somalia is poor and backward, mainly based on animal husbandry, and its industrial foundation is so weak that it can be ignored.

All factions of all ethnic groups in Somalia have their own troops, and warlords are everywhere. Raising the army and developing forces requires a huge amount of funds to support them.

Therefore, the warlords of all sizes all looked at Somalia's 2,880 kilometers of coastline.

When they wear military uniforms, they are soldiers.

Take off your military uniform and they are pirates.

A few days ago, they hijacked a freighter from the Hong Kong Bao Group Ocean Transportation Company, seized 25 hostages on the ship, and demanded a ransom of 20 million US dollars from the Bao Group.

Although the media has reported this matter publicly, most of them are vague. However, Li Bin is still quite clear about this matter. The content of Bao Wanxing and Hua Guoliang talks about this matter. When Mr. Bao was critically ill, it was undoubtedly a step further to the injury. Mr. Bao’s three sons were also trying to hide this matter from the old man, for fear that Mr. Bao would die in anger when he learned about this matter.

The Bao Group has now informed the government of this matter, but they have also prepared a ransom, prepared to negotiate with the pirates, pay the ransom to redeem the hostages and freighters.

Li Bin frowned and pondered.

Most countries in the international world are mostly dealing with the problem of Somali pirates seizure ships by adopting a default attitude. The only way to solve the problem of some Somalia patriarchs negotiating ransoms with pirates is to spend money to avoid disasters.

The United States, which has strong military power at sea, once sent troops to attack Somali pirates, but the results were not very effective. Your warship came, and those pirates turned into Somali soldiers. If there was a ship being hijacked in your hands, then you probably only get the wreckage of the ship and the hostages that had already died.

Even the United States is helpless, so those small countries will have to admit that they are unlucky and spend money to avoid disaster when encountering such a thing.

However, Somalia's geographical location is exactly at the other end of the Gulf of Aden. The ships passing through the Suez Canal pass through the waters of Somalia. All countries have to send warships to escort their own country's cargo ships. Most of the cargo ships without warships also choose to follow the fleets with warships to escort the Gulf of Aden.

China also sent three warships to escort the Chinese ships that were commuting. However, these three warships were a bit stretched for the increasingly busy shipping in the country and could not take care of them. They had to designate a sea area in the Bay of Bengal as a temporary anchorage, and then pass through the Gulf of Aden when the ships accumulate to a certain number.

This cargo ship that fell into the hands of the Somali pirates must be unwilling to wait. He followed the other fleets to pass through the Gulf of Aden with a lucky mentality, but the reason why it fell into the hands of the Somali pirates is unknown.

It took more than an hour to wait, which had already exceeded the originally scheduled time for the Prime Minister to meet with the naval officials. Tan Lei also went in and reminded Zhao Wenge five minutes before the scheduled time, but after he came out, he sent the two local government officials who had originally made an appointment to wait for another appointment and sent them away.

Li Bin was not in the schedule for Zhao Wenge's appointment, and there was no need to make another appointment, so naturally he was not among the people sent away by Tan Lei.

However, Tan Lei now has a lot of things to do, so he has no time to sit aside with Li Bin to chat. He stepped from the secretary of the Organization Department of the Central Committee to the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, and things suddenly became more than twice as many. Fortunately, Tan Lei has been working as a secretary for many years, so he was able to handle things in an orderly manner.

Seeing everyone busy, Li Bin bored and picked up the newspaper on the newspaper shelf and flipped through it. His eyes looked out of the window from time to time at the direction of Zhao Wenge's office.

Zhao Wenge has been meeting the navy general for so long, and what has happened must be unusual.

During this period, Tan Lei gradually led several people into Zhao Wenge's office, including military and political affairs, all of whom were tyrants in their respective fields.

When his uncle Lin Aidang walked into Tan Lei's office, Li Bin hurriedly stood up and said hello. Lin Aidang just nodded to Li Bin with a gloomy face, and followed Tan Lei silently and entered Zhao Wenge's office.

When the last person who entered Tan Lei’s office to report appeared, Li Bin suddenly understood and knew what was about to happen.

The last person to come in was the big old Li, the dusty big old Li.

Li Bin quickly walked towards the eldest elder Li. In a blink of an eye, it had been more than a year since he saw him. The eldest elder Li still looked the same, but he was wearing a regular army uniform, which made him look even more majestic.

Li Bin had never seen Big Old Li or even any of his comrades in his army wearing regular clothes, and he only wore regular clothes once when he was taking a photo of the non-commissioned officer certificate. Until he was "dead", he didn't know what his military rank was.

They have no military rank or even no public military status.

Li Bin suddenly discovered that the rank of the eldest elder Li turned out to be - Major General, a major general who only manages more than one hundred soldiers.

Looking at Li Bin who was approaching him quickly, the eldest elder Li was a little stunned.

Why is this strange young man so excited?

The eldest elder Li politely shook hands with Li Bin after saluting. The person he met in the Prime Minister's Office should be the staff around the Prime Minister.

Li Bin resisted the urge to embrace Big Old Li, held Big Old Li's hand tightly and shook it desperately. Tears were accumulated in his eyes, but his throat was suffocated and he couldn't speak.

Tan Lei stood beside the two of them in confusion, looked at the big old man Li and asked, "Is it..."

The eldest elder Li pulled out Li Bin's right hand and saluted Tan Lei: "No. SSZ, received the order, come to report."

Tan Lei looked shocked, and he called the Military Commission himself. Of course, he knew what the identity of Lao Li was. He hurriedly stretched out his hands to shake hands with Lao Li. No matter what his power was, he was also a respectable person.

Tan Lei turned to Li Bin and asked, "Mr. Shi, do you know this... this general?"

Li Bin was stunned for a moment. He knew his current identity, but just now he couldn't help himself and wanted to come up and get closer to Big Old Li. Of course, he prefers to see Big Old Li turn into a giant panda, so he is closer.

Li Bin looked at the eldest elder Li and said, "General Li, I have seen you at Li Bin's home in Qingdao. I am Li Bin's... Brothers of Life and Death."

The old man Li stared at Li Bin for a long time, then suddenly burst into laughter, stretched out his hand and punched Li Bin in the chest:

"I remember you, we two even drank two bottles of Erguotou..."

As the expression of Big Old Li dimmed, Big Old Li's voice was no longer cheerful:

"Li Bin's mother and sister are doing well?"

Li Bin laughed: "Thank you General Li for your concern. My mother and my sister are both very good. My sister is going to get married on New Year's Day this year."

"Your mom? Your sister?" Old Li stared at Li Bin with his eyes tightly.

"My mom, my sister." Li Bin replied firmly.

The eldest elder Li stood attentively and saluted Li Bin with a serious expression, then hugged Li Bin tightly in his arms, and choked and said, "Thank you."

Li Bin's tears finally rolled down, slowly sliding across his smiling face.
Chapter completed!