That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1224 Don’t Give Them a Knife

After the welcoming banquet, Jiao Yaqiang and Tian Xizhen took Li Ye and others back to their residence by car.

After everyone got on the bus, they soon started complaining about the same thing.

"I used to watch White Elephant's musicals and I thought they were nice people! But now it seems hard to describe them."

"That's right. This morning, Samit was trying to stop us like a big shot, but look at how they flattered Jeff and the others tonight.
But when I turned around, they started to pull me, and I was confused. We won the war in 1962, so why do I feel like they won?"

"You said that today was the day that Boss Jeff hosted a welcome party for us, so why did those white elephants come over here with such a shameless face? Isn't this a bad mood?"

"Don't you understand? They can't see us at all. They are moving closer to Jeff and Gary."

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Because everyone present was “our family” and everyone had drunk some wine, the conversation became more and more heated.

The reason was that Jeff held a welcoming banquet for the "guests" from a branch factory today, but Samit's white elephants also went, which spoiled everyone's fun.

As Jiao Yaqiang's husband, Zhen Jie also had opinions about Samit and his people. She said mysteriously: "The White Elephant movie you are talking about is that one. Abalagu, right? I have seen it too!
When I watched it at the time, I also thought that the people of White Elephant were kind and that it was a civilized society that followed the law. But after I met Samit and his friends, I realized that White Elephant was not civilized at all and was still a feudal society. ”

"Feudal society? How is that possible? Is there still a feudal society in this world today?"

Wu Yan and others were shocked. After all, there was no Internet back then and no one knew how exciting the world outside was.

Sister Zhen continued, "That's right. After spending a long time with Samit and the others, I realized that they are already the upper class in White Elephant.
Samit once said that he still has many servants in his family, just like the chieftains in our snowy area before, the master's son is still the master, and the slave's son is still a slave.

Besides, whether you are a superior person or not can be seen from your appearance. Superior people never talk to inferior people. It is so feudal. "

"Wow, there is such a thing?"

"If that's the case, we shouldn't have stopped the war in 1962. We should have just marched in and liberated the vast majority of the White Elephant people."

"That's right! We didn't know about it! Don't you think this is a legitimate reason? We just missed such a great opportunity."

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Li Ye listened to a group of "drunkards" in the car talking more and more excitedly, and completely regarded the great goal of "planting the red flag all over the world" as their unshirkable responsibility. He couldn't help but sigh that some ideas of this era were really very advanced and explosive.

However, what Wu Yan and others said is not without reason. If we rank the degree of suppression of each country on this planet, there should be four levels - mild, moderate, severe, and India.

After Jiao Yaqiang and Sister Zhen sent Li Ye and others to their residence, they drove back to their own home.

Li Ye stopped them and said, "Lao Jiao, Sister Zhen, I talked to Jeff about something today."

Li Ye had already discussed the matter of the "General Affairs Department" with Jeff, so at this moment Li Ye revealed a little information to Jiao Yaqiang so that he could be prepared.

In addition, he also wanted to hear Jiao Yaqiang's opinions. If there were any deficiencies, he could also supplement them with Jeff as soon as possible.

Sister Zhen reacted faster than Jiao Yaqiang and said in delight, "What? If that's the case, that's great.
You don't know, Li Ye, when Lao Jiao and I first joined the R&D center, everything was great. Everyone was very active and harmonious, until a professor of White Elephant descent was recruited.
Then they moved like mice moving house, one nest after another, moving to the kilometer! In less than two years, all their aunts and uncles were crammed in.
It would be fine if they were capable! But they are not good at anything and are always the first to take credit. Many of our research results have been shamelessly taken away by them. To put it bluntly, if they hadn't helped, the research might have progressed faster! "Tian Xizhen is also a technician who graduated from Stanford. When talking about her experience at work, she was full of complaints and couldn't stop talking for a while.

According to him, the white elephants in the company were all hindrances and were very good at taking advantage of opportunities. Even Jeff and Gary were fooled by them.

However, Jiao Yaqiang said bluntly: "There is nothing we can do about it. If our research center is full of Chinese people, it will arouse the vigilance of many people."

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Li Ye sighed and had to admit it.

Otherwise, he would not have come up with the idea of ​​the General Affairs Department, but instead learned from Musk and directly fired Samit and others.

However, after thinking for a while, Jiao Yaqiang asked Li Ye again: "By the way, Li Ye, how much power does the General Affairs Department you mentioned have?
Please don't give Samit and his people a knife. Samit and his people like to use chicken feathers as a token of authority.

You also saw what happened this morning. As long as they get a little excuse, they will try to gain a sense of presence in front of the general manager.
If you let them take charge of the center's staff attendance, external reception and other miscellaneous affairs, they can think of 88 ways to torment us."

Li Ye said strangely: "I didn't ask them to be responsible for attendance! I just asked them to clean up and organize office supplies."

Jiao Yaqiang was also stunned for a moment, and then he said embarrassedly: "That's because I misunderstood. When I heard you say the General Affairs Department, I thought of the Navy Department during the Qing Dynasty."

Li Ye was surprised and asked, "The navy office of the Qing Dynasty? What does that mean?"

Jiao Yaqiang said embarrassedly: "I liked the Navy very much when I was in school, so I knew the name of the General Affairs Department. But when you mentioned it, I thought of it in a wrong way."

Jiao Yaqiang explained to Li Ye for a long time before letting Li Ye know that the "General Affairs Department" did not originate from the Japanese, but was an administrative agency of the Navy Ministry in the late Qing Dynasty and was one of the three departments under the Military Reserves Department.

Moreover, this General Affairs Department nominally has considerable power. It is not only in charge of the purchase and distribution of all items such as paper, stationery, and utensils, but also audits the attendance, duty, meals and other chores of menial staff, and even manages matters related to external receptions.

"Li Ye, if they are in charge of attendance, our brothers who work overtime late and can't get up tomorrow will be in trouble. If they are in charge of food, we will have no way to survive."

"Yes, yes, I will discuss this with Jeff later. I believe Jeff is reasonable. You can discuss the details with Jeff and Gary in detail. Anyway, we should make everyone feel comfortable."

Li Ye quickly gave Jiao Yaqiang a reassurance, assuring him that this General Affairs Department would definitely be a "castrated version".

After all, he had suffered from certain people when he was at work in his previous life. A few notebooks and pens could make you feel full of malice. Some people like to use their only little power to make things as difficult for themselves, the poor employees, as possible.

What Li Ye is worried about is not issues like office supplies, what he is most worried about is "external reception".

Thinking of this, Li Ye couldn't help but recall what his buddy said in his previous life.

He is a senior executive of a foreign-funded company in the mainland. His colleague is a German. They usually take turns to go on business trips to Japan. When the German colleague goes on a business trip, the Japanese company will send female employees to entertain him.

Li Ye's colleagues were very angry at the time because he did not have that treatment. But now Li Ye thinks that it was within the scope of the Japanese General Affairs Department's responsibilities! It's just that mainlanders are not within this scope.

If Samit and others were given this kind of "entertainment" right, who knows what kind of trouble would arise!
(End of this chapter)