While in the office.
Xu Weiwei couldn't help but ask, "Are you really not angry?"
“I know that. He said getting angry won’t help,” Qin Jingru interjected from the side.
"Since you're so free, go and process these documents. Refuse those dinner invitations if you can."
“Me?” Qin Jingru pointed to herself.
"Otherwise, you don't actually think Xu Weiwei can handle everything by herself, do you? This year, we'll be expanding our secretarial staff. Xu Weiwei, take a look at how many people you need to divide your work among, make a table, and categorize them."
"Oh." Xu Weiwei nodded subconsciously, but she realized that Wang Shouren hadn't answered her question: "You haven't answered me yet."
Xu Weiwei was very curious about this.
"Without hope, there will be no disappointment."
"You've given up hope on what's coming down?" Xu Weiwei frowned. "That's..."
“What I’m saying is the truth.” Wang Shouren waved his hand. “I’m just stating a fact. It’s not that I’m arrogant or look down on people. It’s just that this is the way things are in this era. Most people haven’t learned to read much. The limited books they have are mostly quotations. Are those quotations useful? Yes, and every single one is a gem. But the problem is, they can’t understand them.”
"They only know how to read, but they don't understand the true essence of it at all. Those quotes are the result of great men going through countless hardships and reading countless books. It's like an extremely profound martial arts manual; if you don't have any martial arts foundation, it's impossible to understand it."
"What I said, in your ears and in your understanding, was all for their own good."
"But they don't understand, so I need to do it in a different way, a direct way, to tell them that if they want a high salary here, they have to learn, link it to their interests, and use anger to tell them that I'm not someone to be trifled with. Then they will obediently learn."
At this point, Wang Shouren looked at Xu Weiwei, a woman who, even in her thirties, still retained her naivety: "Xu Weiwei, not everyone is well-read, not everyone is reasonable, and not everyone is worldly-wise. In this world, many people spend their entire lives in their own little world. In their minds, as long as there is benefit, they will do it, and they will try every means to do it. They don't care about things like morality and righteousness. Therefore, not everyone has to be reasonable."
"Because some people are impossible to reason with."
Education is, in fact, a long process.
Whether it's instilling public order and morality, or instilling loyalty to the emperor and love for one's country, these things take time.
Wang Shouren was not in a hurry, nor could he be in a hurry; he was simply doing his best.
"Alright, Jingru, your work will be incorporated into the secretariat from now on. This year, I'll probably be going to the United States with Xu Weiwei, and her work will be handled by you afterwards. As for the secretariat, how many people you want to recruit is up to you. This is a test for you. If you recruit too many and can't manage them, or recruit too few and there aren't enough people, then you'll have to bear the consequences yourselves."
"No, wait a minute, what did you say? I didn't hear you clearly, say it again." Qin Jingru's eyes widened: "You, with her? Am I getting in your way?"
A muffled thud.
Qin Jingru received a blow to the head, which didn't sound very good, and it was clear that her head wasn't in good condition.
"Ouch... You hit me again!" Qin Jingru cried, her eyes brimming with tears.
"What are you thinking! Lou Xiao'e is coming too! I told you to learn English, I told you to learn English, but you didn't want to, so I didn't take you, and now you're blaming me. We're going to do something important."
"Oh..." Qin Jingru lowered her head. Lou Xiao'e was there, so it didn't matter.
On the surface, Qin Jingru seemed prone to jealousy, but in reality, she knew that the most jealous person in the Wang family was definitely that woman surnamed Lou. She could have left already, but she was still lingering at home, saying she wanted to wait until after the fifteenth of the lunar month.
Under Wang Shouren's wrath, the entire factory became much more cautious, and the nighttime howls and wails in the dormitory building were no longer heard.
In fact, Wang Shouren truly treated the workers exceptionally well. Their dormitory building was designed according to later standards, after Wang Shouren communicated with the construction team. The rooms were quite comfortable, so people often played games in the dorms, and this quickly spread to those around them. As a result, after the regulations were implemented, the entire dormitory building became much quieter at night.
At least, quite a few people have already gone to the library to play.
Of course, this matter is not over yet.
Why?
Because the mastermind was not caught.
"Hey Lao Wu, what's up? Why did you call me over? Did you catch the mastermind?" Wang Shouren looked at him with a grin.
Director Wu rolled his eyes: "Don't think I don't know what you're up to. With the things you've done in the past, your factory can handle things on its own if you want to mess with these people."
In those days, many factories had their own security departments, equipped with real weapons. These departments had their own law enforcement authority. So, if Wang Shouren had actually sent the security department to arrest them, those people wouldn't have been able to escape. But inexplicably, Wang Shouren handed the matter over to Director Wu. Director Wu initially didn't think much of it, but then he realized something was wrong—wasn't he being used as a pawn?
"You'd better give me an explanation, or I'm going to let the guy behind it all get away."
"Hiss..." Wang Shouren gasped, "Good heavens, Comrade Wu, your awareness is not good enough."
Director Wu rolled his eyes again: "My requirements are not high, twenty vehicles."
"Isn't this blatant solicitation of bribes?!"
"Publicly my foot! We're short-handed right now." Director Wu cursed, "You have no idea what happened to those brats last year... Sigh, whatever, just tell me whether you'll give them or not."
"Here you go, since you've already asked, but you've asked for twenty?"
Director Wu shrugged and lit a cigarette for himself: "Why do you think I'm shamelessly asking for it? Just because you have more money in your account doesn't mean the whole country is rich. I'm in Beijing, and we don't even have enough funds. If I dared to write a note to my superiors and ask for more, they would come down and scold me the next day, you believe me? It's really tough these days."
"Alright, alright, I'll have you make fifty of them later."
"Good brother!" Director Wu beamed.
He wouldn't have dared to accept this from anyone else, but with Wang Shouren, there was no reason not to. There was really no need for him to offer bribes.
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