pappabearbooks Chapter 649 A drama performed by the state
Chapter 649 A drama performed by the state
Li Zhenmin returned home and thought about it over and over again, but he still couldn't figure out why Xu Zhenguo treated him like that.
It's ridiculously direct and ridiculously friendly.
Li Zhenmin asked himself honestly and thought that he really didn't think he was so charming that Xu Zhenguo valued him so much. As for the reason why he took care of Xu Jingshan over the years, Li Zhenmin didn't think that was the case.
If taking care of Xu Jingshan really had such a great effect, then the Xu family would not have adopted such a condescending attitude over the years.
Unable to figure it out, he found Xu Jingshan and asked him what kind of person Xu Zhenguo was and what his behavior and personality were like.
The answer given by Xu Jingshan was beyond Li Zhenmin's expectations. What Xu Jingshan said was basically the same as what he saw. In other words, what Xu Zhenguo showed in front of him was his true face?
The more this happened, the more strange Li Zhenmin felt.
So he called Zhang Huaiyuan directly.
Zhang Huaiyuan on the other end of the phone quickly picked up the call. Before Li Zhenmin could ask, Zhang Huaiyuan said that Xu Zhenguo had called him not long ago and invited him and Li Zhenmin to have dinner together to discuss Li Zhenmin's work problems.
Seeing this, Li Zhenmin directly stated the purpose of his call and told Xu's family what he saw.
Curiously asked: "Uncle Zhang, I asked Mr. Xu, and his answer was similar to what I saw, but I always felt something was wrong, or was I thinking too much?"
Zhang Huaiyuan did not answer immediately, but asked: "What are your plans now? Are you going to be a secretary? Xu Zhenguo is right. Being a secretary can really train people. It can really help you advance in your career faster and save a lot of time."
Li Zhenmin thought about it and answered truthfully: "I don't know if my choice is right, but I prefer your advice to me. I still think it's better to keep everything stable. I should focus more on research, and the job is just a by-product."
This is a deliberate consequence.
On the one hand, he always believed that if he wanted to be promoted, he had to show corresponding results.
Go to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to participate in communications research. This is what I am good at. It will be a great achievement if I can accomplish it. It should be a sure thing for me to be admitted to the Ministry of Science and Technology. Combined with what I have done before, it should not be difficult to get promoted to the next level.
If you work as a secretary, since you don't understand the job, you have to listen to your boss in everything. If you want to achieve effective results, you have to take big actions.
What can bring great achievements during this period of time?
Apart from espionage intelligence cases, I can't think of any other contribution I can make.
In addition, there is also the matter of severe crackdowns, but that will take several years.
But no matter what, these jobs are not what I am familiar with, and the efficiency of achieving results may not be as fast as doing my own research.
on the other hand--
The former's achievements are real and depend on scientific research results. Promotion and transfer are based on scientific research results. Even if they are in management positions, they have a solid foundation.
As for the latter, as a secretary, you basically have to do whatever the leader tells you to do. It doesn't matter if the leader says you are capable or not, or it doesn't matter if the leader says you are not capable or not. In short, those are all empty words, and you will inevitably be involved in some struggles, and if you are not careful, you will be doomed.
Having actual achievements and having no actual achievements are completely different.
The so-called actual achievements are scientific research results or military merits, while the so-called political achievements seem much more abstract. Since ancient times, officials can be replaced at any time, but generals cannot be replaced at will.
As a time traveler, Li Zhenmin knows that although the current situation has improved, it has not completely improved. If he wants to achieve stability, he will have to wait until after the severe crackdown in 83 before things will be relatively stable.
There are still four or five years left. During this period, it is safer for me to do research than to go into politics. Maybe one can be promoted faster in politics, but I have chosen the safe strategy for so many years, so I should not take such risks at this time.
This was Li Zhenmin's truest thought. Although he did not say it explicitly, Zhang Huaiyuan also sensed the general meaning from Li Zhenmin's usual style and words.
He was silent for a moment, then said on the phone: "Do you want me to reject Xu Zhenguo?"
Li Zhenmin replied embarrassedly: "I am not close to you, and I can't just reject him directly, right?"
"Go away, you are plotting against me." Zhang Huaiyuan said unhappily, then changed the subject and said, "I know something about the question you asked me at the beginning."
"What do you mean?" Li Zhenmin perked up.
Zhang Huaiyuan replied, "It's hard to talk over the phone. Xu Zhenguo has asked me to have lunch with him tomorrow. Come over to my place tomorrow morning and I'll talk to you then."
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The next day.
Li Zhenmin went to find Zhang Huaiyuan in the morning.
Zhang Huaiyuan told Li Zhenmin some of the things he knew.
Basically, the Xu family had some problems some time ago, which led to demotion. The biggest reason was that a junior of the Xu family had stolen money.
Logically speaking, this kind of thing would not affect a big leader like Xu Zhenguo. Xu Zhenguo could even use his connections with the public security people to release the person directly.
But for some reasons, this small matter was magnified.
When he said this, Zhang Huaiyuan did not say the reason, but Li Zhenmin, considering Xu Zhenguo's proposal to him to be a secretary yesterday, suddenly had an idea in his mind.
So he lowered his voice and asked, "Spy?"
Zhang Huaiyuan's eyes trembled when he heard this, then he glanced at the door and realized that there was no one there. Then he lowered his voice and asked, "Why did you bring up this, kid?"
Li Zhenmin knew that he had guessed correctly when he saw Zhang Huaiyuan's reaction, so he whispered, "If the matter of sucking flour is really investigated, it will implicate a lot of people, and the Xu family's young people should not dare to do it alone. If my guess is correct, there should be some other second-generation playboys."
"And the teachings of big families are stricter. If something like this really happened, it means someone is doing something in secret, and spies are very likely to do that."
"There weren't many such incidents in the past. But starting this year, when the policy was relaxed, the return of educated youth to the city created too many idle people, and this kind of thing started to ferment slowly."
"And the No. 1 above definitely doesn't want to see this kind of thing. Maybe the situation isn't that bad right now, but we should be able to find some clues from it. I guess we should use this incident to take some action."
"If, I mean if, if a big leader like Xu Zhenguo was punished, what would he do? I think he would want to make more contributions, so he would step up his efforts to investigate the spy."
In other words, the country does this on purpose in order to stimulate some lazy officials to take action. It may not necessarily catch the spies, but it will certainly restrict the activities of the spies and promote social security to a certain extent.
Now is the time of reform, and No. 1 does not have enough energy to take care of these things, so it is very likely that this method will be adopted to stimulate spontaneous behavior among cadres.
As for a big leader like Xu Zhenguo, it is very likely that the No. 1 had privately discussed it with him. Demoting him is to serve as a warning to the officials in lower positions. If the big leaders will be punished, then the people below will be even more so.
In other words, this was a drama performed by Standing Committee member Xu Zhenguo, a drama to maintain social order at the beginning of the reform.
Xu Zhenguo would be promoted sooner or later, so he made himself a secretary and said that being a secretary would lead to promotion faster than doing scientific research. He probably let himself be involved in the spy investigation, which was just like gilding his own rank.