Chapter 18: Promotion (Seeking Recommendation Votes——)

  Xu Secretary arrives at the office an hour early every day. Apart from cleaning, the most important task is organizing newspapers and magazines.

  He had to quickly scan a dozen or so newspapers and sort them according to relevance and urgency before placing them on Secretary Su's desk.

  This task, Secretary Xu does extremely skillfully, usually only needing 20 minutes to complete, and rarely makes mistakes.

  But today he hesitated.

  "China Youth Daily" front page features a photo of an oil field with the bold headline "Beida Students: I Contribute Oil to the Motherland".

  Xu Secretary saw the protagonist's name at a glance, Su Cheng.

  That ungrateful relative of the Su family.

  Xu Secretary recalled that two months ago, he was ordered to inform Su City to "wait patiently for the allocation", but did not expect him to insist on going to the Petroleum Department... Although Secretary Su did not blame anything, Xu Secretary himself was very unhappy.

  Anyway, the errand was messed up because of him.

  Now Secretary Xu was very reluctant to let Secretary Su recall this matter. Therefore, the "Youth Reference" that should have been placed on top was hidden by him among a stack of newspapers.

  Ke Xu's secretary was a bit worried. At the last moment before leaving the office, he moved "Youth Reference" up two places.

  Listed in the top five, it should be normal, right?

  Secretary Xu knew that when Secretary Su was busy, he only read the first three newspapers. Unfortunately, that report was on the front page; otherwise, if it had been placed in the front, it might not have been seen either.

  At 8:30, Secretary Xu knocked on the door of the office and said, "Secretary Su, Director Yang has arrived."

  "Let him wait." Secretary Su didn't even lift his head.

  Secretary Xu was right in front of him, with the headline of "Youth Reference" newspaper. He couldn't help but feel a wave of resentment: You're already at such an old age, why don't you read "Reference News" properly, what's with reading "Youth Reference"?

  "This is the second time." Secretary Su suddenly sighed.

  Xu Secretary was shocked and puzzled, he didn't know what "second time" specifically referred to. Was it that he had messed up the task for the second time? Or was this Su City's second appearance in the newspaper?

  With his current state of mind, whatever he thought seemed like the former, and thus he became even more resentful.

  On the same day, Lin Yonggui read the headline and introduction of the first page of "Youth Reference" at the party committee meeting of the oil field command center, and said with a heavy heart: "This is the talent sent to us by the Petroleum Department. Take a look, it's worthy of being a Beida student, even if he was placed in the grassroots level, he still has plenty of energy. The basic five small ones he proposed are well worth our promotion."

  The participants were full of praise.

  If it weren't for this report, people might have just talked vaguely and waited to see what would happen. But with a national newspaper's report, speaking out against it would be unnecessary. For a vice-ministerial-level super-large enterprise, tens of millions are just a drop in the bucket.

  Don't look at the state-owned enterprises in the late 1980s, which were all miserable, but resource-based enterprises were quietly issuing welfare benefits.

  Lin Yonggui originally did not agree with Su Cheng's request, lacking a reason, now naturally there is no such obstacle.

  He was making the second oil extraction team as a pilot project based on the five small ones, and said: "This Beida student Su Cheng, shouldn't we promote him? Putting him in the oil extraction team as a repairman is a waste."

  "I think it's okay." Secretary Bo Rong slapped the board and said, "The university students we recruited this year are not very impressive, they're all spoiled. This young man is good, I suggest that the Organization Department investigate him and promote him after fully listening to his opinions."

  Two big leaders said so, what opinions can people below have. After the meeting was over, the Party Committee Organization Department, the Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Basic Construction Office respectively sent people out.

  A group of people arrived at the Oil Extraction Team 2, and the propaganda department of the party committee was busy running around, interviewing and collecting materials. The organization department of the party committee "escorted" Su Cheng into a small black room, while the leaders and workers of the infrastructure department didn't say a word, removing prefabricated boards, digging holes, laying cement, leveling the playground, installing basketball hoops and transformers, without even taking a puff of smoke.

  In the evening, Su Cheng walked out of the small black room exhausted. The framework for the basic five small projects of the No. 2 oil extraction team had already been set up.

  The cadre from the Organization Department shook hands with him and said: "Remember, report to the Planning Division of the Dong Command Post on Monday morning."

  The cadre from the Propaganda Department shook hands with him and said, "Comrade Su Cheng, since you are studying Chinese, you should return to the propaganda front line. The door of our Propaganda Department is always open for you. Besides, think again about the task of writing a report on your work experience, all the oil field workers are eagerly waiting to learn from it."

  Su Cheng always smiled and responded.

  Victory Oilfield East Command Plan Department Three Section Chief, was his appointment, responsible for the promotion of basic five small work in the Donggu area. Because he did not want to go to headquarters, administrative level only increased to deputy section chief, Su Cheng did not feel at a disadvantage.

  Although the headquarters is of a high level, bureaucracy prevails, and doing anything has its difficulties. He would rather first achieve some results in the Dongying Oilfield Command Center before choosing a new direction.

  Not to mention anything else, just the location of the large oil fields in his memory is enough to create a new petroleum myth, let alone his understanding of the route of technological development for future generations.

  It's precisely because he has such confidence that he is unwilling to idle away in the office and waste his years.

  Lao Wu and others surrounded him, clapping and hitting him, truly happy for him.

  Although the time spent together was short, everyone's feelings were sincere. In their eyes, a college student who could work at Jing Station for two months was also considered one of them.

  Only Xiao Hei felt a bit sentimental, sighing constantly: "Alas, the toilet is already built, and you won't have the chance to take two dumps. When you come back, I'll invite you to smoke inside."

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