Although Nora did not directly say that she would vote for Yanjing, the meaning behind her words was already very obvious. She was willing to vote for Yanjing in exchange for allowing Yu Dong to go to Liechtenstein to open a conference this summer.
Book signing.
He Zhenliang and Wei Jizhong on the side were a little excited, especially He Zhenliang. He had met Princess Nora more than once these days, and every time he tried his best to persuade Princess Nora to put her ticket in the first round.
At that time, he voted for Yanjing, but he never got any commitment from Princess Nora.
But now Yu Dong has only chatted with her for a few words, and she has already made her attitude clear. This is great news for Yanjing.
There are only 120 members of the International Olympic Committee, and when voting tomorrow, members from the country where the candidate city is located will not be able to vote, so the number of valid votes tomorrow will probably be just over 100.
This time, after extensive lobbying, He Zhenliang and others were able to be 100% sure that there were more than 30 committee members who would vote for Yanjing in the first round.
According to the rules of the International Olympic Committee, voting is conducted in rounds. In each round, the city with the fewest votes is eliminated, and the other cities enter the next round and vote again.
There are a total of five bidding cities. If you get more than 30 votes in the first round, you will definitely be able to advance to the next round, and you can even guarantee that you will enter the final round.
But in the final round, there were only two countries left, and they had to get more than fifty votes to ensure they could win. Therefore, the current situation in Yanjing is promising, but it is not very stable, and there are still variables.
He Zhenliang and the others spared no effort in lobbying just to eliminate this variable.
But now that they have got Princess Nora's ticket, their chances of winning are much higher. Although there is only one ticket on the surface, if they get one more ticket, their opponent will get one less ticket.
One trip is equivalent to two tickets.
In addition, Princess Nora has a wide network of contacts within the International Olympic Committee. If she can come forward, she may be able to get a few votes for Yanjing. For example, the Grand Duke Henry of Luxembourg is Princess Nora's brother-in-law.
He Zhenliang secretly clenched his fists. If he had known that Yu Dong was so useful, he should not have thought so much about not arranging lobbying tasks for him.
Princess Nora chatted with Yu Dong and the others for a while and then left. After all, Yu Dong and the others had only finished half of their meal.
The reason why she values ​​Yu Dong so much is, of course, not only because of Yu Dong's status as a writer, but also because of Yu Dong's net worth. The outside world says that the Liechtenstein royal family is very wealthy, but the combined assets of their family may not be as good as Yu Dong's.
East personal assets.
There is a lot of news related to Yu Dong's assets, and various figures have appeared. The least said that his assets are only 100 million US dollars, and the most said that his assets exceed 10 billion US dollars. The gap between the highest and the lowest is very large.
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However, as a member of the aristocracy, Nora has a little more information than ordinary people. She knows that Yu Dong's net worth is at least three billion U.S. dollars. A rich man with a net worth of more than three billion U.S. dollars will be popular no matter where he is.
After Nora left, He Zhenliang was very happy. He smiled and said to Dong, "If I didn't have something serious to do tomorrow, I would definitely have a drink with you now. You just chatting with Princess Nora for a while, for Yanjing
It’s so important.”
Wei Jizhong also smiled, "If we get two more tickets, we may be able to resolve the battle in the third round."
The voting rules include eliminating one person in each round. If a city gets more than 50% of the total votes in a certain round, it will win directly without the need for subsequent voting.
Theoretically, it is possible to resolve the battle in the first round, but this is relatively difficult, so everyone's hope is that the battle can be resolved before the fourth round.
"Although there is no wine, let's have tea instead of wine."
He Zhenliang raised his glass and drank a glass of water, and then said, "Maybe Xiao Deng can bring us good news tonight."
…
The next morning, when the delegation gathered for breakfast in the restaurant, He Zhenliang looked at Deng Yaping's tired face and asked with some concern, "Xiao Deng, what's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Deng Yaping nodded, "I went to bed too late last night. I fell asleep at one or two o'clock. I woke up too early in the morning and didn't sleep for long in between."
He Zhenliang frowned and said, "How can this be done? Today you are going to go on stage to make a statement. If this situation comes to the stage, it will be very detrimental to us. Didn't you go to see Susie O'Neill last night? Didn't you go to see Susie O'Neill again later?
Why didn't you go to bed until one or two o'clock when you met other people? By the way, how is Susie's attitude? Has it changed?"
Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Deng Yaping's tired face, "Fortunately, it was worth staying up last night. Susie told me that she would at least vote for us in the second round."
"This is good news." He Zhenliang raised his eyebrows and said happily, "Her vote in the first round is not very important to us. We will definitely be able to enter the second round. As long as she is in the second round
It is a good thing for us to be able to vote for us after the round.”
"She promised me, and I know her. Since she can guarantee it, there will definitely be no problem." Deng Yaping said with a smile.
He Zhenliang wondered again, "Why did her attitude change so much? Is it because of Yu Dong's laptop?"
Deng Yaping sighed slightly and said, "Don't mention it. It was because of the laptop that I didn't go to bed until one or two o'clock. Teacher Yu said that there were videos on the computer. I shouldn't have thought about it for much, just a few dozen minutes at most.
But when I watched it with Susie, I realized there were so many videos. There were several hours of videos of sports facilities alone, and there were also many clips of sports games. I chose to watch them with her, otherwise I would still watch them all now.
Not finished.”
He Zhenliang said in surprise: "Is this video so good? Can you let her follow you until midnight?"
Deng Yaping nodded and said with emotion, "Those videos are really well shot, and I have never seen many of the gym videos shot in them. They are all new gyms. Susie is mainly interested in two aspects of videos. On the one hand,
It’s a video of a swimming pool, and on the other hand, it’s a video of interviews with passers-by, which is quite interesting.”
Hearing what Deng Yaping said, He Zhenliang became very interested in the videos on the computer.
"I'll ask Yu Dong later for another video to look at to see what kind of charm the video that got us a ticket has."
Deng Yaping smiled, looked around again, and asked, "By the way, where is Teacher Yu, why didn't you come out for breakfast?"
He Zhenliang smiled and said: "I have brought someone to deliver books to Princess Nora and the others. Doesn't his new book "District 9" happen to be on sale today?"
Deng Yaping left early yesterday and came back late. She didn't know what happened to Princess Nora later. Now that she heard that Yu Dong sent books to Princess Nora, she asked curiously, "How to send books to Princess Nora?"
"It's like this. Didn't you leave first yesterday? Not long after you passed by..."
He Zhenliang gave an overview of what happened yesterday, and Deng Yaping said with emotion, "Teacher Yu's action is indeed unusual, but the book can only be bought in Russian in Russia, and Princess Nora can't read it."
"Hey, Xiao Deng, you are still too naive. Yu Dong has already prepared it. He has brought books in various languages."
Deng Yaping was stunned for a moment, then said regretfully, "Teacher Yu should have come earlier. If he had come earlier, maybe we would have won the first round."
He Zhenliang smiled and waved his hands, "Don't think about those possible things. Today is the last battle. We have to hold on. Fortunately, we are presenting in the afternoon. Before the afternoon meeting starts, you can take some time to rest and recover. You can't
Don’t hesitate when making your presentation.”
…
Before breakfast was over, Yu Dong returned to the restaurant.
He hadn't had breakfast yet, and was originally going to eat two boiled eggs to cope with the problem, but He Zhenliang pushed a nutritionally balanced meal in front of him, "I'm in a hurry at noon, so I might not be able to eat anything good, so I'd better take advantage of it."
Eat well in the morning, today’s meeting is very long, so physical strength is very important to us.”
Yu Dong knew that what He Zhenliang said was reasonable, so he did not refuse and began to have breakfast peacefully.
He Zhenliang watched from the side and waited until Yu Dong finished eating before asking, "You have been gone for a long time. How is it going? Have you seen other committee members?"
Yu Dong smiled. He knew that He Zhenliang wanted to ask this when he first came here, but he kept refraining from asking.
"There is good news. Swiss Commissioner Fasal has agreed to vote for us."
He Zhenliang raised his eyebrows and said, "Vote for us in the first round?"
Yu Dong nodded, "Every round, he will support us until the end."
After receiving a positive answer, He Zhenliang looked at Yu Dong, his eyes shining brightly.
He had previously contacted Fasal, the Swiss committee member. They had met in the restaurant in the morning. Fassal said that he was willing to vote for Yanjing, but he would have to wait until Paris was eliminated. There are many people in the same situation as Fassal,
Many committee members have told He Zhenliang that if the city they support is eliminated, they will vote for them. This is good news, but it is not stable. This kind of vote is the easiest to jump.
But Yu Dong made a trip and was able to get Fasal's firm vote.
He Zhenliang suddenly thought of what Deng Yaping had said before. If Yu Dong could come to Moscow earlier, maybe they could resolve the battle in the first round.
Thinking of this, He Zhenliang smiled and shook his head. He had advised Deng Yaping that it was good, but he still couldn't help but think the same way.
He looked at his watch and said, "It's getting late. Let's go. The plenary session will start at 8:45."
…
It wasn’t until 9:30 that the city bidding process began.
The first one to take the stage was Osaka. Their main focus was sports paradise, and their theme was heart-to-heart conversations.
The second one is Paris, they advocate the embodiment of freedom, equality and fraternity in sports.
The third one is Toronto, which focuses on multiculturalism.
After the presentation in the morning, the Chinese delegation returned to the hotel. On the way back, He Zhenliang kept frowning. After arriving at the hotel, he said, "Now we have encountered a problem. Today's big screen is red, and our
The clothes are also red."
Everyone else also frowned. What He Zhenliang said was indeed a problem.
The color of their clothes is too close to the color of the big screen. They are inconspicuous when standing in front of the screen, and they are not energetic. No one dares to ignore this problem.
Wei Jizhong said, "We must change clothes, but there are more than 200 people in our delegation, and it is too late to change everyone. I suggest that the nine people who took the stage today change to suits of other colors. I will count them later.
Let’s take a look and see what suits we all brought over. Let’s see if we can find nine suits of the same color for the nine people who made the statement to wear.”
He Zhenliang nodded and said, "This is the only way. I brought a set of black and a set of light gray. Let's count the clothes of these two colors. Each of you look at your own figure. Are there any that are similar to the person who made the statement?
…”
At this moment, Yu Dong suddenly said, "Chairman Wei, Commissioner He, there is no need to count. I have already asked someone to take care of the clothes matter. If nothing else, the clothes will be delivered in a moment."
Hearing Yu Dong's words, everyone looked at Yu Dong in surprise.
Facing everyone's surprised looks, Yu Dong smiled and explained, "When I went to the venue in the morning, I noticed that the color of our clothes was too close to the color of the big screen at the scene, so I sent someone to search for clothes in Moscow.
There are three colors in total, black, blue, and light gray. After the clothes arrive, everyone will try on all three colors before deciding which color to wear."
"Is it for the nine of us, or for everyone?" Wei Jizhong asked.
Yu Dong replied, "There are more than two hundred sets for all of us."
At this moment, everyone was silenced because this matter seemed too unbelievable to them.
There are more than two hundred suits in three colors in total, that is, six to seven hundred suits, and they are all improvised. Is this something that can be completed in one morning?
In fact, after Wei Jizhong and He Zhenliang went to the venue in the morning, they realized the problem of clothes and the color of the big screen very early. However, it was impossible for them to send people to search for clothes in Moscow like Yu Dong did. This was not something that just a few people could accomplish.
They did have a lot of people come to their delegation this time, but since everyone was on site, there was no way they could find people to do this. And even if they could find people, where would they go if they were unfamiliar with the place in Moscow?
Can you find two hundred suits of the same color?
Even if we ask the embassy, ​​this problem cannot be solved.
Wei Jizhong wondered, "Is there any problem with the size of the clothes? Each of us has different sizes."
Chapter completed!