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Chapter 51 Management by Imitating My Father
Xu Xuejun looked at his son sitting in his seat with his legs stretched out, and remained silent for a long time.

Like a deflated balloon.

Xu Xuejun's back was slightly hunched and he sat down slowly.

He stared absent-mindedly at the teacup on the coffee table.

"dad."

It was not as frank, sharp and merciless as before.

The stormy and progressive questioning just now turned into a gentle and soft call after he sat down.

Xu Xuejun had never seen a son like this.

To be honest, his mind was already confused.

Since Xu Qingshan went to study at Longjiang Experimental School, the father and son have been together less and less. They only get together during the two weeks or half a month of vacation and major holidays throughout the year.

Xu Xuejun loves drinking and is not often at home.

When at home, he loves to preach.

It’s not that the father and son have any enmity, but they are definitely not familiar with each other.

"I'm not asking you to give me an answer."

Xu Qingshan told the story slowly.

He tried to slow down his tone and tone down his aggression as much as possible.

"I'm 17 now. After my birthday at the end of December, I'll be an adult."

"I didn't want to care before, not that I didn't know."

Xu Qingshan paused at this point.

He changed the subject.

"Dad, they say a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse's son will dig holes."

"Think about who you are, Xu Xuejun. With your ability, talent, brains, and looks, how bad can the son you give birth to be?"

"What I learned from you is enough for me to make a name for myself."

A few sentences of praise and compliment.

Xu Xuejun raised his head slightly.

"But you just said"

"I just said something to you, didn't I?"

Xu Qingshan asked back.

Xu Xuejun was speechless.

If you think about it carefully, there really isn’t one.

"Although you don't spend much time with me, in my heart, you are the pillar of our family, the sky for me and mom. Although I sometimes argue with you, it doesn't mean I don't respect you, quite the opposite."

Xu Qingshan patiently and persuadingly.

"It's because I respect you too much and care too much about your evaluation and opinion of me, so I had a verbal conflict with you."

"Later, I realized that if I want to be recognized by a real man like you, I need not just talk, but real actions and real achievements to prove everything. The results are there, and the process doesn't need to be explained, right?"

"It is indeed the case."

Xu Xuejun's expression gradually softened as he heard Xu Qingshan's praise for him between the lines.

It seemed that he felt the heart-to-heart connection between father and son, and that his son finally understood the hard work of his father and received high recognition from his son.

Xu Xuejun felt that his son was on his side.

He was just about to put on his fatherly attitude again.

Another turning point.

"But, Dad, our family and our clan are not doing very well right now, judging from the results-oriented approach you mentioned."

Xu Qingshan's words made the atmosphere cold again.

The words Xu Xuejun was about to say were stuck in his throat again.

It feels like something stuck in my throat, very uncomfortable.

"You often tell me how many children in your unit scored, some went to Ludao University, some went to Rongcheng University, and some went to Aurora University."

"My current score is 645. According to the grade ranking, I still need to work hard to get into Aurora University, but it will be easy for Ludao University. Even the accounting department or economics department that you always talk about and are called the Little Huaqing University will have no problem getting into."

“Since other children can do it, I did it.”

Xu Qingshan filled Xu Xuejun's cup of tea and continued to ask.

"how about you?"

"Director Huang of your unit is also quite famous in our Yunzhang. The whole family listens to his arrangements, takes good care of his family, and pays great attention to his wife and children. Do you have to learn from him and surpass him?"

Xu Xuejun stopped talking.

He himself is not a person who is good at arguing, nor does he like to talk much, otherwise when he was accusing Lin Yuehua, he would not have repeated the same words over and over again.

"How are you worse than Director Huang?"

"As for looks, wouldn't you, an old handsome guy, be more eye-catching than him when you go on stage?"

"As for talent, I'm not exaggerating or slandering you. Let alone Yunzhang, I can't even count on the palm of my hand the number of people in the whole of Longjiang who are more talented than you." "As for ability, you have rich front-line work experience and often go to the Party School for further studies. How can your ability be worse than his? No, I think you are more than qualified to be the director of a provincial bureau."

"You need connections, education, and ideas. Think about it yourself. In what aspects are you inferior to others?"

Xu Qingshan counted them one by one.

His indignant look.

It seems that I am the biggest in the world.

This allowed Xu Xuejun to swallow smoothly the food that was stuck in his throat.

My son still understands me.

"But Dad, do you know why you can't get promoted or make progress?"

Xu Qingshan suddenly became serious.

Xu Xuejun looked at his son, but didn't care much.

Even though Xu Qingshan had pointed out so much to Xu Xuejun before, in Xu Xuejun's eyes, he was still a child.

However, he should be considered a relatively mature child at the moment.

But Xu Qingshan's next words made Xu Xuejun sit up straight.

“Experience should be learned from those above you.”

"The organization's assessment is not only based on your ability, but also your personal image and social impact."

"Family is an important part of the organization's assessment. A stable and harmonious family structure determines whether you can devote yourself to the work assigned to you by the organization without any worries."

"Mass base and social influence are also extremely important. If you are an upright civil servant, but you don't even have the final say, have no opinions, are weak-willed, and have to listen to a woman's instructions on everything, do you think that if this kind of thing is spread too much, how will the people below and above view you?"

"Besides, you and your aunt are uncle and sister-in-law. I know you are innocent, but do others know? Will your competitors miss this opportunity?"

"People's words are scary, Lao Xu."

Xu Qingshan patted Xu Xuejun's hand on his knee earnestly.

He had noticed Xu Xuejun's body sitting up straight and his changing expression.

"If you want to make progress, you must be strict with yourself."

“If you want to make progress, you can’t just focus on the leaders, you also have to focus on the masses.”

“The lower base determines the superstructure. The structure of power is from the bottom up, not from the top down.”

“You taught me all this.”

If Xu Qingshan, who is still young, said the above words, it would seem unconvincing.

But the last sentence defeated Xu Xuejun.

"So, if you are angry about these things today, if you are troubled by these things, if you are arguing about these things, it is because you do not have enough say."

"The bottom line is that you haven't made any progress."

"If you are strong enough and high enough in status."

"Today, you solved my uncle's problem with just one sentence. Tomorrow, you don't even need to discuss my second aunt's problem with me. You can just wave your hand and solve it. My mom even clapped and said it was a good idea. Do you think anyone would have any objections to my big and small family matters?"

"Just like me, you are my most admired one. If you say one, I will never say two. If you say go east, I will never go west."

Xu Qingshan's words were full of alluring magic.

Bit by bit, Xu Xuejun's ambition, which had been buried by time and years, was being wiped away.

"But I'm old, let's not talk about it again."

"An old horse still has great ambitions. Our Yunzhang's Zhu Wanli was promoted at the age of 53. He has been promoted all the way in the past few years and now serves as deputy secretary-general of the provincial government."

"Are you worse than him?"

Xu Qingshan questioned again.

"How can we compare?"

Although Xu Xuejun has been praised for a long time, he lacks confidence.

A civil servant working at the county and town frontline who is still at the section level at the age of 43 is more or less too shallow in his sophistication, lacks the means, and does not have enough background.

In his previous life, Xu Qingshan had met many powerful officials by disguising his identity, so he could also talk a little about the topic of the system.

However, he did not really want Xu Xuejun to achieve something or become as successful as his father.

He just wanted to divert Xu Xuejun's attention.

“Not bad at all!”

"Dad, you are only 43 years old this year. It's time to make progress."

"Stand up, my expectation of you is at least to be the director of our Longjiang Municipal Bureau, please don't let me, your son, down."

"Think about it carefully and be more confident."

"Take a look at that information first and make your own judgement. I'll come out later."

Xu Qingshan picked up the tea and drank it all in one gulp.

He placed the teacup on the tea tray, stood up and left the living room, leaving Xu Xuejun alone to digest this unexpected father-son conversation that had caught him off guard.

(End of this chapter)