At that time, Geng Biao worked in the army and was the deputy commander of a certain corps. On this day, Geng Biao was doing his own work in the office. The staff knocked at the door and told Geng Biao that someone was anxious to find him. Hearing the news, Geng Biao quickly put down the work at hand and followed the staff out.

The man looking for Geng Biao is the corps commander Yang Dezhi, who is Geng Biao's superior. When Geng Biao came to Yang Dezhi's office, Yang Dezhi hurried to meet him and told Geng Biao the good news that Geng Biao had been promoted, and the CPC Central Committee decided to let Geng Biao take up an important diplomatic job in Beijing.

Hearing the news, Geng Biao felt a little incredible. Geng Biao participated in the revolution for many years. Over the years, whenever Geng Biao was in charge, he didn't do any tasks on the battlefield, and he didn't want to do some civilian work.

As Geng Biao's superior and old partner, Yang Dezhi clearly understood Geng Biao's thoughts, so he encouraged Geng Biao to say, since the central authorities believe in you so much, it shows that you have higher than ordinary people's ability, then go ahead and do it boldly, and you will certainly achieve something.

General Yang Dezhi has a good eye. After Geng Biao was transferred to the central government, he did make many remarkable achievements.

So, what did Geng Biao do?

At that time, New China had just been established, and it followed the principle of "treat guests after cleaning the house". At first, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China implemented a series of measures, overturned all the original diplomatic regulations, and was determined to re-formulate a series of foreign policies of equality and mutual benefit. At that time, China's position in the world was not high. Although they have a good relationship with their big brother, the Soviet Union, most western countries pursue capitalist policies, so many of them impose blockade policies on China. Few western countries have established diplomatic relations with us except France.

In order to change this situation, the CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to diplomatic work. In modern times, because old China was poor and weak, many unequal treaties were signed, which brought great losses to China and made people suffer a lot of unnecessary pain. It is precisely because of this that it is very difficult to open a new diplomatic situation, and at that time, our diplomatic talents were few.

In view of this situation, the CPC Central Committee has made a very bold decision, that is, to establish a diplomatic corps with characteristics. After careful consideration, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China finally elected a group of founding generals and transferred them from the battlefield to Beijing to undertake vital diplomatic work.

And Geng Biao is on this list.

After transferring to Beijing, Premier Zhou immediately met with Geng Biao. Geng Biao was very excited to see Premier Zhou receiving himself so warmly, but in addition to his excitement, he also expressed his confusion. Geng Biao said that he was a military commander and could not speak English. How can he undertake such an important diplomatic job?

Premier Zhou seems to have expected Geng Biao to say this, so he said with a smile that everything has a learning process. Besides, Geng Biao has dealt with Americans at the conference table before.

Diplomatic work is so important, of course, the CPC Central Committee can't just find a few people. Now that we have found Geng Biao, we must give it special consideration.

After some enlightenment from Premier Zhou, Geng Biao also slowly accepted the meaning of the CPC Central Committee and established a certain degree of confidence.

Later, the same batch of "chief diplomats" as Geng Biao arrived in Beijing one after another. After the generals gathered in Beijing, the CPC Central Committee immediately took them to a series of training on diplomacy. These generals used to hold guns, but suddenly they were asked to put down their guns and hold pens, which was inappropriate for any reason.

The same is true of Geng Biao, but Geng Biao quickly adapted to this life. Geng Biao knows that diplomatic work is very important, and the consequences are unimaginable if it is screwed up. So Geng Biao trained very hard. He not only listens carefully in class, but also often studies alone in his spare time. It is worth mentioning that in order to learn the etiquette in diplomacy, these generals must learn to eat western food politely. It is really difficult for such a group of "louts" to eat western food.

In order to help these generals cultivate social etiquette, Premier Zhou personally went into battle and served as a clean government for the generals, giving them a demonstration at the dinner table. Premier Zhou has some experience in studying abroad, so his operation is very skilled, which has opened the eyes of the generals. Although Premier Zhou gave a good demonstration, the generals, especially Geng Biao, did not learn so well. Geng Biao has no patience. What can be solved in a minute can never be solved in a minute and a half. Geng Biao thought, is it not a meal, but also so concerned. In the end, it wasn't all fed to his mouth. Why is this western food so troublesome?

The generals studied for a long time and were puzzled. Not only that, the generals haven't eaten for a long time and are hungry. So Geng Biao begged Premier Zhou to let them eat noodles first, because these western foods can't be eaten in their mouths.

Seeing the generals like this, Premier Zhou was also happy, so he had to let the generals eat their stomachs first. Chairman Mao also smiled happily after hearing the news, saying that it is also good to let the generals be diplomats! However, Chairman Mao also expressed his heartfelt wishes to the generals. The foreign affairs of the new China depend on them. We must do a good job and establish good relations with other countries, so that we can develop faster.

This is the first batch of diplomats in New China, all of whom are made up of generals of that year. The lineup is very luxurious.

They lived up to the expectations of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou. After taking office, they traveled all over the world, had a lot of contacts with ambassadors from various countries, and did a lot of good things for our country, which made our country's international reputation higher and higher.

As a diplomat, Geng Biao started a brand-new career.

1950, Geng Biao came to Sweden on the orders of the CPC Central Committee. At that time, Geng Biao had just taken office, and his experience was not particularly rich. This is his first time in Sweden, and the unique foreign environment makes Geng Biao a little nervous. Not only because of the unfamiliar environment, but also because Geng Biao didn't know a foreign language at that time.

In order to overcome this problem, the CPC Central Committee sent a foreign language teacher to Geng Biao. After a period of study, Geng Biao was able to master foreign languages skillfully and even conduct diplomatic activities independently.

In a diplomatic activity, Geng Biao showed the demeanor that a diplomat should have. Geng Biao was supposed to attend the event, but many embassy staff were absent that day, so Geng Biao went alone. When the staff learned about it, they always felt bad. How can a diplomatic ambassador drive alone? So he asked Geng Biao to wait. But Geng Biao doesn't care. There is nothing special about a diplomatic ambassador. Geng Biao told the staff: "The ambassador and the driver only have different division of labor. Diligence, equality and cooperation are virtues. "

When Geng Biao drove to the event site alone, everyone present was surprised, but after the surprise, everyone applauded Geng Biao and praised him as "the ambassador who mastered the steering wheel".

Geng Biao worked very hard during his stay in Sweden. At the same time, as a general, Geng Biao was always thinking about the domestic situation, because the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was going on at that time, and the international situation was very unfavorable to our country because of public opinion. As a diplomat, and more importantly, as a native of China, Geng Biao is determined to expose all the truth to the ambitions of western countries and the United States.

After serving as a diplomatic ambassador for a period of time, Geng Biao discovered a special phenomenon: in the world, probably only China gave photos and medals of leaders as gifts to others. So Geng Biao reported this situation to the CPC Central Committee and suggested that China cancel this habit.

It took a lot of courage to make such a suggestion, but Geng Biao made it anyway. After a little thinking, Chairman Mao accepted Geng Biao's suggestion. After that, the gifts people gave were not medals depicting evil, but portraits of mountains, rivers and lakes with more China cultural characteristics.

Geng Biao worked in Sweden for six years and made great contributions to the deepening of the friendship between the two countries. After that, Geng Biao was transferred to Pakistan, where he was about to write his own legend.

As we all know, Pakistan is a long-term partner of our country, and the friendship between the two countries has been maintained for a long time. Now, we even call Batie "Tiezi" to show our friendship.

From 65438 to 0956, Pakistan just got rid of British colonial rule and established an independent country. Pakistan soon established diplomatic relations with China. However, the relationship between Pakistan and China at that time was not very close, and even more inclined to the western camp.

This year, Geng Biao came to Pakistan as the ambassador to Pakistan to carry out his own diplomatic work.

In order to promote the relations between the two countries, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent He Long to Pakistan to carry out diplomatic work with Geng Biao, and served as the inauguration ceremony of Pakistan's first president at that time.

According to the central command, Geng Biao and He Long came to Pakistan. At that time, Pakistan was holding National Day activities, so the day when Geng Biao and others presented their credentials was postponed. After Geng Biao presented his credentials, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry asked to meet with Geng Biao.

The Pakistani side said that this move shows the importance Pakistan attaches to our diplomatic ambassador. There is a special way to maintain China-Pakistan friendship, and that is hunting.

After coming to Pakistan, Geng Biao and He Long went hunting with the Pakistani President. Geng Biao and He Long are both soldiers, so their hunting skills are not bad. So in this process, the relationship between the two sides has been further improved.

At that time, Geng Biao had a very important task, which was to open the west gate of China. This is the task given by Chairman Mao to Geng Biao, and Geng Biao naturally dare not neglect it. In order to accomplish this task, Geng Biao suggested that the communication lines between the two countries should be opened first, and a railway should be built between the two countries, which is more conducive to the exchanges between the two countries.

In order to realize this plan, Geng Biao visited the then Pakistani President many times. Geng Biao's proposal is beneficial to both countries, so the Pakistani President is also very interested in this plan. The two countries planned and inspected this plan, and finally decided to build an international expressway.

This road will pass through the Hongqilafu Pass, where the geographical position is very special and the climate is very bad. It was very difficult to build this highway with the technical conditions at that time, but the two countries overcame this problem through cooperation.

But in the process of construction, the most difficult problem is not this problem, but the territorial ownership.

The territory involved is called Kanjuti enclave, which is not far from Xinjiang. The ownership of this land has always been a historical issue. Faced with this problem, Geng Biao studied it for a long time and finally decided to give up this nominal territory and return it to Pakistan. Of course, Geng Biao didn't say anything about such a big problem. He reported it to the CPC Central Committee, which also conducted in-depth research on this issue. Finally, at Geng Biao's suggestion, we finally returned the land to Pakistan in exchange for the Kerqin Valley.

It can be seen from this incident that Geng Biao is very cautious about right and wrong.

12 years later, the international expressway was opened to traffic. This train has brought the relationship between China and Pakistan closer and made the trade between the two countries more frequent. At the opening ceremony of that year, the Pakistani government specially invited Geng Biao, who was retired at that time but still held the ribbon-cutting ceremony, to thank Geng Biao for his contribution to the friendship between the two countries.

Some people want to ask, we gave up land and built roads, so what did we get?

It's actually quite simple. China didn't have many international partners at that time. It was precisely because the diplomatic envoys at that time established deep friendship with these small countries that we ensured our position in the international arena and made contributions to our return to the United Nations. Comrade Geng Biao's contribution to China-Pakistan relations cannot be ignored.

Until today, Pakistan is still one of our best partners. In the interest-oriented international relations, China-Pakistan friendship is more like a clean stream and has made great contributions to the community of international destiny.