"The deputy factory director of North Wind Machinery Factory has been transferred away? What does that have to do with Li Ye?"
"Mm, perhaps it does have something to do with him!"
Niu Hongzhang picked up the phone and dialed First Branch Factory. "Comrade Li Ye, don't go anywhere today. Someone from The Department wants to talk with you."
"..."
Lai Jiayi stared blankly as Niu Hongzhang finished the call, then suddenly asked, "What rank was the deputy factory director at North Wind Machinery Factory?"
A deputy factory director could mean very different things. Some were simply lying around waiting for retirement, or were in charge of sanitation; they might rank as low as the fifth or sixth leader. Sometimes, they did not even carry as much weight in the workplace as a section chief.
Niu Hongzhang thought for a moment and said as if he could not quite remember, "I think he was number two! He should have been number two. But that factory director Weng, the top leader, seemed to have been born in '31. He'll retire in another couple of years."
Damn, wasn't that practically a future top leader? You wanted Li Ye to become a future top leader? What the hell were you thinking?
The moment Niu Hongzhang mentioned "giving Li Ye a chance to advance," Lai Jiayi had known with ninety-nine percent certainty that Niu Hongzhang had arranged this.
Now he even knew exactly what rank the other man held and when the head of that unit would retire, yet he was still saying, "I heard."
Wasn't this your scheme of pulling the firewood from under the cauldron? Did you think I, Lai Jiayi, could not come up with such a move? I simply did not have the connections to carry it out.
But why