That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1390 Li Ye: I think I'm not clean anymore

The listing date for Jingnan Group was finally set for November. However, as of late October, the personnel changes at the Light Vehicle Company due to the merger of units were not yet fully finalized. Moreover, the process of finalizing the personnel changes was a fierce and complex one, and it was quite a lively affair.

Li Ye's side has been relatively smooth. He has promoted two deputy factory directors and transferred an experienced personnel manager from the main factory. In addition, some young cadres will follow Li Ye to the group to set up a stage and perform.

However, this was only because Li Ye was at the height of his fame and had a very high reputation within the factory. So, once he made a decision after consulting with Lu Zhizhang, almost no one objected.

But things were chaotic at the head office. Everyone was pulling out all the stops, vying for the same position and resorting to all sorts of underhanded tactics.
Often, just as someone is chosen, their competitor, dissatisfied, comes to them with their connections, complaining and even banging on the table, basically saying, "Why was he chosen and not me? If I'm not chosen, I'm quitting!"

Li Ye finally understood why so many people in the main factory were lying down, why so many leaders were making empty promises to their employees, and why rumors about him and Zhou Ziqing were circulating at this time.

It's all because of the changes in power.

Unlike the branch factory, the main factory has very young employees who all start from scratch. Moreover, the selection process at the branch factory follows a merit-based system, where whoever is capable gets promoted.

However, this approach doesn't work at the main factory. The main factory has accumulated too many cadres over the years, and many of them simply don't have the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Therefore, most of them rely on seniority and past achievements.

At this point, no matter who the leader chooses, the other person will be dissatisfied.

Unfortunately, the leader still wants the person who wasn't selected to keep working, so all they can do is make empty promises—"I'll definitely promote you next time, but this time you should prioritize the bigger picture!"
It doesn't matter if someone as capable as Zhou Ziqing is outstanding. Everyone should expose her weaknesses as much as possible. As long as it's to their advantage, they should attack her regardless of whether it's true or not. Otherwise, if they can't compete with her in terms of ability, how can they have a chance?
Li Ye carefully analyzed the rumors, but ultimately came up with no clues. He felt that no one was suitable to be his assistant except for Zhou Ziqing, but others didn't think so!

Even someone like Yue Lingshan felt she could easily take on a major responsibility after winning three consecutive ranks, so other people like Huang Mengjia and Lai Jiayi felt even more confident in their abilities. Anyone could be a potential candidate, and anyone could be a suspect.

No wonder Lu Zhizhang didn't inform Li Ye after hearing the rumors! If this were investigated further, it might affect the unity within the unit.

"Alas, the larger the family fortune, the heavier the burden of its problems!"

People's hearts change. Although the atmosphere in the branch factory is good now, Li Ye sensed from the bustling atmosphere in the main factory that in a few years, as the branch factory rapidly expands, these kinds of backstabbing and infighting will become more and more common.
By then, Li Ye might end up like Lao Meng now, exhausted from dealing with the various demands of his subordinates.

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On Saturday, after finalizing the last personnel transfer, Li Ye felt utterly exhausted and decided to leave work two hours early.

When he got home, he overheard his son pleading with his grandmother, Wu Juying: "Grandma, please talk to my mom and ask her not to send my sister and me to the after-school program anymore. We already know everything the teacher teaches, and we learn even more at home."

Wu Juying said lazily, "I can't say that. I can only tell your dad at most."

At this moment, Li Ye's daughter, Xiao Dou'er, said, "What's the use of telling my dad? He doesn't have the final say."

"Who do you think has the final say?"

Li Ye walked into the courtyard with a dark face, glaring at Xiao Dou'er and putting on a fierce look.

Listening to her son's hesitant pleas to Wu Juying, she knew it was this girl's instigation that led to this, because she knew very well that in front of Wu Juying, her great-granddaughter didn't have as much influence as her brother.

Who made Xiao Bao'er a bodyguard with a sword?
But this time, Xiao Dou'er miscalculated. No matter how much influence Xiao Bao'er had, he couldn't make decisions about their studies.

Li Ye's two children were actually more "spoiled" than other children. Many other children went to the company's daycare or public kindergarten at the age of two or three, but Xiao Dou'er and Xiao Bao'er did not start receiving preschool education until a year before they started elementary school.

Wen Leyu was initially against this, but later discovered that the children raised by her grandmother Wu Juying seemed to be "smarter" than other children of the same age, so she let it go.

Sending such young children to kindergarten is essentially about learning rules. As for the benefits of these rules, that's a matter of opinion.

For example, right now, Xiao Dou'er isn't flustered at all when facing Li Ye's stern face.

She quickly moved her little legs, laboriously pulled over a chair, and then took Li Ye's hand and pressed him down into the chair. "Dad, you don't look too well, you must be very tired. Let me massage your shoulders!"

Li Ye's feigned stern expression immediately crumbled.

What can you do with such a sweet and gentle child? Similarly, is it a good thing or a bad thing to send such a clever and mischievous child to kindergarten and have her obediently follow the teacher's orders?

At this moment, Grandma Wu Juying noticed the fatigue on Li Ye's face and couldn't help but laugh, "What's wrong? Have you realized how tough it is to be a leader these past few days?"

"It's not just difficult, it's torture!"

Li Ye squinted, enjoying his daughter's massage while recounting his work experiences.

“Grandma, in the past, I always felt that seniority-based ranking was unreasonable, and that talent selection should be based on individual ability. But these days, I think seniority-based ranking has its merits, at least it doesn’t cause so much controversy.”

Wu Juying glanced at Li Ye and said indifferently, "Now that you're at a higher level, I can't teach you anything anymore. I'll just tell you about your grandfather's story back then!"

"After your grandfather retired from the army, he was highly regarded by his superiors because of his experience leading troops and his excellent abilities. However, when it came time for promotion, the opportunity was given to someone else."
That person's abilities were only so-so, nothing compared to your grandfather, but the reason he was promoted was based on seniority."

“Your grandfather doesn’t have the temperament to be submissive. He went straight to the leader and slammed his fist on the table. Then the leader told him, ‘I really admire you, but if I really want to promote you, there can’t be anyone ahead of you. If there is someone ahead of you, then it won’t be your turn.’”

Wu Juying continued slowly, "The reason your grandfather wasn't promoted back then was because a colleague ahead of him was about to retire."

"Your grandfather has nothing to say. Everyone has worked their whole lives, and it's standard practice in the company for the leaders to give him a proper end. If they don't, he'll definitely cause a scene."
But then your grandfather realized that there's an older brother ahead of him who'll be retiring in a few years. According to that ridiculous seniority system, wouldn't your grandfather miss out on the next promotion? So tell me, what should your grandfather do?

What to do? Lie down?
Three years after three years, by then the leaders who appreciated Grandpa will have been transferred somewhere.

Li Ye, who was half-closing his eyes, was already wide awake. He could imagine how frustrated his grandfather, who had killed Japanese soldiers, must feel when faced with this explanation.

Not only do you have to meet various promotion criteria, but you also need to have no one blocking your way.

If someone more capable than you is ahead of you, you definitely have no chance. But if someone less capable than you is ahead of you due to age or other reasons, you also have no chance.

Do you know what your grandfather did?

Wu Juying smiled and said, "Your grandfather took on a piece of business that no one in the unit wanted to handle, then asked his comrades to pull strings, and with his own abilities, he finally made that piece of business a remarkable achievement that no one else could do."

Li Ye was taken aback. Wasn't this similar to what Teacher Ke had said? You have to have something that others can't master.

But the next moment, Wu Juying said, "So seniority-based promotion and exceptional promotion are both necessary. Otherwise, if we only have seniority-based promotion, what's the point of having leaders?"

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Li Ye felt his head buzzing. Was his grandmother teaching him how to be "double-standard"?

Looking at the stunned Li Ye, Wu Juying calmly said, "If you want to promote someone, then that person must have something you need, just like your grandfather back then. If you wanted to promote someone exceptionally, you couldn't even come up with a reason for promoting him, could you?"

Li Ye closed his eyes again, feeling as if he was no longer clean.

If you want to prevent someone from being promoted ahead of schedule, bring up the issue of seniority; if you want to promote someone ahead of schedule, then that person had better have truly exceptional abilities.

Otherwise, you'll have to come up with a very elaborate reason for him.
(End of this chapter)