"What are we blindly chewing over here? What, can you, Director Sun, have any say in this matter? How about the two of us discuss getting you, Sun Xianjin, promoted to ministerial rank this year?"
Only after hearing Sun Xianjin did Li Ye realize that Sun had actually heard the rumors about "sending him to the Southwest," and that Sun took them very seriously, wanting to discuss and analyze them with Li Ye.
But at Li Ye's current rank, if they truly wanted to "promote" him to Southwest Heavy Truck Company, it was absolutely not something a single leader could decide with one sentence. Several leaders would have to exchange views and then make the decision in a meeting.
Forget Sun Xianjin and Li Ye's ranks—even people one level higher could not weigh in on it. That was why Li Ye had mocked Sun for blindly speculating.
But Li Ye recalled what Sun had just said and asked, "You said that rumor might have been deliberately fed to you by certain people?"
Sun Xianjin nodded. "Big Brother, to tell you the truth, the rumor I heard today concerns more than just you. It concerns me too,
because they said this time they wanted to send a younger team to the Southwest, and they vaguely hinted that I might be paired with you."
Sun Xianjin chuckled. "Big Brother, I don't want to go to the Southwest either. But if you go, I probably won't be able to escape it. If the higher-ups call me in for a talk, can I object? But if you don't go, hehehehe, then won't the whole thing just fizzle out?"
"That's impossible. We're both young men in our thirties. Absolutely impossible."
Li Ye flatly rejected Sun Xianjin's suggestion.
Although cases of "rejuvenating the ranks" were not