When Li Ye nominated Dong Shan, Shang Bin only found it laughable. If he had not seen Ma Zhaoxian and Old Meng raise their hands in agreement as well, he would have burst out laughing.
What did it mean to put up a stubborn resistance from a cornered position? This was exactly that.
Had Qu Si not made it perfectly clear today? They needed to send an "outstanding young person" to the Southwest to shoulder a heavy responsibility.
What was this "heavy responsibility"?
What was Southwest Heavy Truck Company's situation now? More than ten thousand workers were waiting to be fed!
Since the higher-ups had made such an important temporary reassignment, it was naturally meant to solve a problem. Without the diamond drill to draw in wealth and money, did you dare take on this porcelain job?
What, did getting promoted mean you were being sent off to sightsee?
That was why Shang Bin had long been certain that this position belonged to Li Ye.
Yet Li Ye and the others had pushed Dong Shan forward to spar with him? Were they brushing him off? Or fooling the higher-ups?
What sweet dream were they having?
So Shang Bin smiled and said with great reluctance, "Dong Shan... doesn't quite meet the requirements, does he? The opinion Qu Si conveyed to us yesterday was that we needed a young person with ability and experience."
Shang Bin rambled on at length, but everything he said carried one meaning—"The higher-ups have already decided internally, so don't fail to appreciate kindness."
But Ma Zhaoxian said mildly, "Dong Shan is thirty-five this year, exactly within the standard for young people. He has sixteen years of service, meeting the requirements for experience and qualifications, and his education is outstanding as well. So I think he is quite