Chapter 2981
An Irresistible Condition
Chapter 2981 An Irresistible Condition
Snapped! ! !
A book was slammed to the ground, and everyone standing around fell silent.
Secretary Chen's face was cold and pale, but his heart was filled with a terrifying rage.
The office was completely silent, except for Secretary Chen's constant panting, which only made the people present even more frightened.
"Out of a thousand people, you only managed to find these few?"
"Two days have passed, and you still haven't even reached two hundred people. Is this your result?"
"How am I supposed to explain this to my superiors? Huh?"
"say something!"
Secretary Chen looked at the seven people present and questioned them sternly.
All seven were directors in charge of university affairs, and upon hearing Secretary Chen's question, they all kept their mouths shut and dared not speak.
In fact, all seven of them knew in their hearts that the current situation was caused by something that happened before.
Without your approval, Secretary Chen, who would dare to do this?
Now that you can't find them, why don't you say that you sent them all away back then?
However, all seven of them could only think about it in their hearts and dared not speak out.
But if they don't speak, Secretary Chen won't keep them quiet forever.
The higher-ups said they needed a thousand college students with geology backgrounds to support the West-East Gas Pipeline project. This was a requirement from above. If he couldn't even complete this task, wouldn't that mean he was derelict in his duty as the Party Secretary?
What right does he have to sit in this position?
Moreover, the person in charge of education now is that one.
His own backer had said that he should not easily hand over any leverage, otherwise he would lose his seat.
He glanced at the seven people; these were all his confidants and key managers.
Finally, my gaze settled on a middle-aged woman.
"Huang Hua, you speak."
"With so many universities in Beijing, how come there are 82 surveying and mapping departments?"
"Even college students who haven't graduated would have more than this."
Huang Hua shuddered when he was called out, but he had no choice but to speak up.
He looked up and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Secretary, there are indeed quite a few surveying students graduating this year, but many of them have gone to the countryside to study."
"Also, many of these eighty-two were recruited from the countryside, but we are contacting other places. If we wait another week, we can gather three hundred people."
"A week? You think the spot you're sitting on is too stable?"
Secretary Chen stood up abruptly from his seat and roared angrily.
Huang Hua was so frightened that he took two steps back and hid behind the others.
"Trash, trash!"
Secretary Chen shouted angrily, his composure completely gone.
"I'm telling you, I want to see five hundred people tomorrow, five hundred people on the bus and sent there, or you're all getting out of here. Get out of here, all of you!"
Secretary Chen roared, and all seven men lowered their heads in fear.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and go!"
Upon hearing this, the seven people quickly lowered their heads and ran out, leaving a chaotic noise in the corridor.
The door closed, and Secretary Chen sat down in his chair with a thud, his expression silent.
It took him a long time to pick up the phone and make the call.
"Hello, boss, this is Xiao Chen."
Secretary Chen spoke in an extremely obsequious voice, but a woman's cold voice came from the other end of the phone, "Didn't I tell you not to call?"
"Boss, I... I'm really in trouble."
"I'm really out of options, that's why I'm calling you to ask for your help."
"Boss, you really have to help me!"
"Say!"
The voice on the other end was cold and reserved, perhaps because they were too lazy to waste words with Secretary Chen.
But Secretary Chen's face lit up with joy, and he quickly explained the situation.
"You know what the situation is like in universities these days!"
"They need a thousand people to help us now, isn't that asking for our lives?"
"Also, I heard that these thousand people are just the beginning, and more will be needed later."
"Where are we supposed to find these people?"
"I'm still thinking of transferring people back from the local areas."
"no!"
Just as Secretary Chen mentioned this idea, a cold, sharp voice came from the other end of the line, causing Secretary Chen's hand to tremble involuntarily.
Then he heard someone on the other end say, "Chen Chang'an, let me tell you, those people who are sent down there will have to stay there."
"No one is allowed to come back."
"Otherwise, this would be a slap in the face to those in power."
"If you dare to go against the higher-ups on this issue, you'll be in big trouble, you understand?"
Secretary Chen quickly explained, "I understand, I understand."
"I know they're making things difficult for me this time to bring those people back. How can I fall for that?"
"But boss, if I fail to complete the task, wouldn't that be handing over leverage to the other side?"
"If I can't do my job well, can't they just bring someone else back?"
"What do you think, sir?"
Secretary Chen spoke softly, and there was a moment of silence on the other end.
After a long silence, the person on the other end suddenly spoke.
"Didn't you just set up a new department there?"
Secretary Chen paused for a moment, then cautiously asked, "You mean that... that rural education department?"
"Nonsense, if it's not this one, then which is it?"
"Leave this to them and let them do it."
Secretary Chen immediately realized what was happening, but then, as if remembering something, he asked in a low voice, "But, but they're only in junior high school yet, this..."
"That's something they should be thinking about!"
After saying that, the phone hung up.
Secretary Chen paused for a moment, then hung up the phone. He then sat in his office for a while, lost in thought, until it was almost time to leave before getting up and walking out.
Top floor, north-facing office.
A wooden sign hangs nearby, with the words "Rural Education Office" written in red ink, indicating the office's purpose.
Of course, compared to other offices, this place never sees sunlight and seems quite deserted.
The people inside were all wearing thick clothes, but even so, their hands were ice cold.
In the office, Ran Qiuye sat at her desk looking at the materials, her brows furrowed.
Meanwhile, Feng Nan quickly browsed through the documents, occasionally taking out those that required special attention and setting them aside.
As for Cuiping, she was sitting to the side with her right hand on her chin, glancing at the clock on the table from time to time, waiting to get off work.
"Qiuye, this is from Lukou Town. The junior high school they're building needs a lot of teaching materials!"
"In addition, we need ten math teachers, as well as corresponding teaching materials..."
Before Feng Nan could speak, and before Ran Qiuye could say anything, Cui Ping chimed in, "Seriously? It's been almost a semester and they're only asking for a teacher now? What were they thinking all along?"
"What can we say now? We can't conjure up people!"
"And last time I went to HR to find someone, those people rolled their eyes to the sky. When I asked them, they said to go to the archives to find the information. When I got to the archives, they said I needed approval from a higher-up and that ours wasn't valid."
"I ran up and down the stairs three times, and in the end they said no one was home. Luckily, I left my Browning at home, otherwise I would have taken it out already."
After Cui Ping finished speaking, Feng Nan got up and walked to Ran Qiuye's side, placing the documents on the table. "Hmm, they've been expanding their enrollment a bit too hastily this year, and there are quite a few students!"
Feng Nan said helplessly, "Of course, it's also because we lowered the admission threshold too much, so there are more people who pass, and the school can't do anything about it!"
Ran Qiuye reached out and looked at the document, then rubbed her forehead.
She finally understood why her husband was so reluctant to work in an office.
She had thought that traveling around would be tiring and exhausting, but sitting in this position, she realized that some things are mentally taxing and some are physically taxing. Compared to that, she still preferred traveling around.
But now that she's in a position to fulfill her duties, the documents in her hands and the responsibilities on her shoulders tell her that her current battlefield is more important than before.
"Having more students is a good thing."
Ran Qiuye spoke earnestly and affirmatively, then put down the document, "They now have more than seventy children in a class, which was unimaginable before."
"This shows that there are more children and that more and more rural families are beginning to take education seriously."
"Isn't this the meaning of our work?"
Ran Qiuye took a deep breath, a bittersweet smile on her face.
Cuiping patted her forehead, "Yes, yes, yes."
"The next sentence is, I used to be just a teacher, so I could only help a few hundred children, but now I can help tens of thousands of children, right?"
Ran Qiuye laughed as she spoke, and asked in return, "Isn't this also what you're pursuing?"
Cuiping nodded, and Feng Nan laughed along, "That's right, Sister Cuiping has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Last time, a girl was called back home to do chores, and Sister Cuiping rushed into the house and almost drew her gun."
Cuiping blushed upon hearing this and quickly checked the topic, "Hey, do you know how lively things have been in our building lately?"
After she finished speaking, both Ran Qiuye and Feng Nan nodded.
How could they not know what's going on lately?
The tasks assigned by superiors were like a death knell; the once peaceful office building suddenly sprang to life as if a spark had been ignited.
The office used to be so crowded that you wouldn't see anyone when you arrived at work or left work.
The person making that phone call could be heard yelling from inside when you passed by.
It's like a completely different world.
Cuiping smiled smugly, "Qiuye, I must say, your man is really something else."
"This move exposed their true colors, haha."
Cuiping smiled smugly, but Ran Qiuye was taken aback. "Sister Cuiping, what did you say?"
Cuiping realized she had said the wrong thing and gave an embarrassed laugh, but she didn't hide anything and said directly, "Well, last month when your husband went to the backyard to see the old Taoist priest, he asked about our work."
"I bet he figured out what was going on between us, but you were too embarrassed to say it, so he made an excuse to ask me."
"Then I told him about what we'd been through during this time."
"I thought he would come over to support us, but so many days have passed and there's been no word from him. I thought he was just asking."
"Who knew that his move would be so earth-shattering?"
At this point, Cuiping turned the chair upside down, sat cross-legged, leaned over it, and excitedly said, "You all saw it, right?"
Ran Qiuye felt a little flustered when she heard Cuiping say that, but also a strange sweetness in her heart.
After all, these things were done for her, even though she didn't say it.
But the more this happens, the better it proves how good her man is.
While feeling sweet inside, I was also thinking about how I would get home tonight.
Hearing Cuiping speak at this moment, he immediately realized what she meant and asked, "What did you see?"
Cuiping chuckled, "What you see is only the surface. Let me tell you something."
"My husband told me this."
As she spoke, a proud look appeared on her face, completely forgetting that her husband's thigh had turned purple from being twisted by her.
He said that most of the students in recent years have gone to work.
"This time we needed more than a thousand students to help with the surveying, but they simply couldn't find that many people."
"And there's another thing. If we really call back the people who were sent down before, it's fine if it's just one or two people, but if there are more people and the noise gets louder, some people will feel uncomfortable."
"So, they simply don't dare to call them back."
"But they can't afford to fail to complete the mission. What do you think they should do in this dilemma?"
Cui Ping gloated, and Ran Qiuye and Feng Nan also laughed.
"No matter what we choose, we just need to do our own thing."
"First, prepare the textbooks the school needs. Sister Nan, see if you have any extra textbooks and help us allocate them later."
"As for the math teacher, I'll ask the old principal. He said that a group of students from the teachers' college are going to work in the countryside. If it works out, we can let them become teachers at the school."
Feng Nan nodded in agreement, then sighed, "These days, even teachers' colleges can't recruit enough students. What will we do in the future?"
Cuiping, however, didn't care at all. "What do you mean, what can we do? We'll still eat pork even if Butcher Zhang isn't around."
"We can build high schools and universities in rural towns and villages, just like that."
Ran Qiuye and Feng Nan exchanged a smile, and then prepared to process the documents.
However, just as the two were busy working, there was a sudden knock on the door, and then the door was pushed open, and a figure appeared in the doorway.
"Director Ran!"
As soon as the voice fell, the three looked over and saw that it was none other than Secretary Chen.
"Secretary Chen."
Ran Qiuye stood up to greet her, while Cuiping glanced at her and took her feet off the chair.
Feng Nan walked to the side and lowered her head to work on the documents.
"Director Ran, let's chat for a bit."
Secretary Chen spoke, but did not enter the office.
Ran Qiuye nodded and then went to the door.
The two arrived at the end of the corridor, with Secretary Chen standing with his hands behind his back and a serious expression.
"Director Ran, I'm sure you've heard about what's been happening lately."
Ran Qiuye smiled and nodded, "I've heard that. Everyone's been very busy lately."
"As you know, we are busy with rural education work right now, so we just listen to these things and don't pay much attention to them."
Her current responsibilities include independently managing rural education affairs, coordinating resources to establish junior high and high schools, and planning for the future construction of a university.
To put it bluntly, it's an independent department, and nominally it's directly under my uncle's jurisdiction, but it's not responsible to Secretary Chen.
Secretary Chen naturally understood what Ran Qiuye meant, but since he had come prepared, he nodded and said, "Director Ran, this time the higher-ups have assigned us a task that requires us to coordinate resources and provide 1,000 college students to participate in the actual surveying work of the natural gas project."
“It’s difficult, but as those in charge of education, we have an obligation to accomplish this task.”
Ran Qiuye maintained her smile. She loved her job, but she wasn't stupid; she knew what she could and couldn't do.
Therefore, he didn't show much expression in response to Secretary Chen's righteous and awe-inspiring words, but simply watched quietly.
Seeing this, Secretary Chen knew that talking about things in a roundabout way would be useless, and it might be better to be direct.
"Director Ran, I would like to separate the rural education system into a separate Rural Education Bureau, which you will be in charge of."
"From now on, all departments related to rural education will be managed by the Rural Affairs Office, which will make your work more convenient."
"I wonder what you think?"
Ran Qiuye looked at Chen Chang'an's serious gaze and instantly understood the meaning behind his words.
Although they currently work independently, they rely on existing educational resources and management systems.
Just like what Cuiping just mentioned, they won't openly make things difficult for you, but they will create trouble within the system.
If you have your own management system, this kind of thing can be avoided.
The other party said this in order to let them set up their own business and have their own management system.
There are many benefits, but also a lot of pressure.
The key point is that the other party won't offer something for nothing; there will definitely be conditions.
After much deliberation, Ran Qiuye finally asked, "Secretary Chen, what are your conditions?"
Secretary Chen smiled and said, "Director Ran, you know we are facing tremendous pressure this time, so we hope you can help share some of the burden."
"natural gas?"
After Ran Qiuye finished speaking, Secretary Chen nodded.
"Yes, we only need your help to solve the problem of 500 people."
After thinking it over and over, Ran Qiuye finally nodded, "Okay."
Secretary Chen smiled upon hearing this, then extended his right hand, saying, "In that case, let's have a pleasant cooperation."
Ran Qiuye smiled, then turned and walked into the office.
Secretary Chen's hand froze in mid-air, and the smile on his face could no longer be maintained. The next moment, he withdrew his hand, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.
(End of this chapter)