An abacus, a ruler, and all sorts of calculating tools were used by the two professionals. The crackling of the abacus beads, the rustling of paper and pen, and the wondrous and precise use of the calculating tools could be heard. These people had been standing for three hours. Even the soldiers felt uncomfortable in their legs and wanted to sit down. However, no one sat down. Everyone was too embarrassed to do so.
After another hour, the two finally finished processing the data. After checking the long data sheet, there was no difference in the data. The two signed their names and stamped their seals on the statistics sheet. Finally, they handed the data to the person in charge in the office.
The person in charge didn't speak immediately. After the two left, he asked, "Did you understand it?"
The young soldiers didn't dare to speak for a while. After a long silence, Qi Rui said, "I understood some of it. I tried my best to remember the rest."
Just now, with Qi Rui taking the lead, everyone picked up a pen and paper and wrote down the parts they didn't understand. Now that Qi Rui took the lead, the young soldiers hurriedly did the same.
"You must be wondering why you have to learn statistics first when you come to the intermediate class for advanced studies. I can tell you that as members of the intermediate class, we have high hopes for you. Nowadays, the war depends on the size of the industrial capacity. It will be helpful to have a certain statistical ability before the war. "The person in charge gave a brief explanation and let the soldiers prepare for tomorrow's work.
When they returned to their office, everyone's first choice was to immediately sit down in their seats. After standing for four to five hours straight, this group of soldiers who thought that they were well-trained also felt very tired.
"The nine of us worked for three days, but one person worked for three hours. Isn't the gap too big? "Hu Xingzhi was the first to sigh. The intermediate class was basically made up of young officers. Everyone was polite, but in their hearts, they were naturally arrogant. After suffering such a big setback on the fourth day of training, no one felt happy. But what could they do if they were unhappy? They were in a group of nine and were responsible for processing the data. In the end, the nine of them worked for three days and still couldn't finish the workload.
The leader didn't criticize them in person, but they heard the leader angrily say to the person in charge in the office next door, "What kind of people did you bring here?"
The person in charge came over angrily, but he didn't get angry. He just asked two professionals to come over. Hence, the previous scene happened. Since they were chosen to be in the intermediate class, the basic qualities of the young soldiers were not bad. Everyone knew that they were in the wrong, so apart from sighing at the huge gap between them and the others, no one dared to complain.
Without waiting for Qi Rui to speak, a young soldier next to him took out the contents of his notes. "Comrades, let's go through what we saw."
"Okay." Zhou Shaokang immediately took out his notes. Regardless of how the others felt, they all chose to join the discussion.
The young man sat in front of the blackboard in the office and began to point out the key points according to the content he saw. Soon, the blackboard was densely packed with information. During their discussion, the officer in charge looked outside the door several times. When it was almost time to get off work, he went quietly.
In the leader's office. This time, the door did not open, but closed.
"Those youngsters are starting to discuss," the person in charge said with a relieved expression.
The leader nodded slightly. Opening the door and shouting angrily was a work skill. If the leader rushed to the youngsters and scolded them, he might be able to control the situation, but the initiative of the youngsters would probably fly beyond the clouds. This method of letting the youngsters know that they were not good enough but giving them some face was a basic work skill accumulated by the training department.
Of course, if the young comrades could not effectively reflect on themselves, the leader could only choose to lower their evaluation. Once the evaluation was lowered below the standard, they would start to clean up. Intermediate training was a process of elimination. It was not the same as the teaching process where one was forced to learn even if one did not want to.
"The young comrades nowadays are getting better and better." The person in charge was greatly relieved. His job was more focused on inspection and guidance, but the idea of this position was to hope that the young comrades could pass.
"From the perspective of leadership, who do you think is better?" The leader asked.
"Qi Rui and that Li Yannian look good. They are very proactive and can lead by example throughout the whole process, "the person in charge answered based on his own observation.
Li Yannian was the first soldier to suggest that they quickly go through what they had just seen and heard. Although he was a beat slower than Qi Rui, he also took out a pen and paper and began to record as he watched from the side. With these two people taking the lead, the young soldiers also had targets to imitate.
"Qi Rui and Li Yannian …" The leader subconsciously tapped his fingers on the file. Qi Rui was born in Nanjing and had a military background. From his appearance, he was from an upper-class background. Li Yannian was a child from a small county in Henan. He joined the army at the age of 15 and received excellent military service evaluation. Later, he went to military school. Just by looking at his young and somewhat pitted skin, it could be seen that he came from a poor background.
The living standards of the city and the countryside were not small. Those children from upper-class families were very different from those from the countryside just by looking at their appearance. Bones, muscles, skin color, and different temperaments. If Qi Rui took off his military uniform and changed into ordinary workers' clothes, he would look more like a technical staff. As for Li Yannian, he would most likely be regarded as a laborer with heavy physical labor.
This was the current situation of the Liberation Army. The young soldiers who could enter the ultimate training had their own characteristics and showed a clear division. They were either like Qi Rui, who had grown up with a good education since childhood, or they were a group of people who came from a poor background and completely relied on their own seriousness and hard work to climb to this level. There were almost no middle class people whose parents were workers.
The leader's fingers stopped tapping and he said, "The training content should be carried out according to the established plan."
The person in charge was stunned. He did not expect the leader to give such an order. He quickly asked, "Don't we have different opinions now?"
"I think we still have to go according to the established plan. It won't take too long. "The leader decisively cut off the possibility of discussion.
No matter what the leader thought, the young soldiers had no experience. After listing the contents written on the blackboard, they found that they did not know too much, and it was not effective to rely on their discussion alone. Just as everyone was scratching their heads, Qi Rui said, "Let's ask the leader to arrange someone to give us a lecture."
They had already suffered a barrage of criticism, and everyone was feeling a little guilty. It was already very embarrassing to be judged as incompetent. If they used practical actions to tell the leader that they were incompetent, it would greatly contradict everyone's self-esteem.
Silence was the best way to express their stance, and everyone obviously did not agree with this approach.
"Why don't you go?" Hu Xingzhi said, a little exhausted.
Qi Rui did not answer immediately. He turned to the others and asked, "What do you think, comrades?"
Li Yannian replied, "I'll go with you."
With two people expressing their opinions, the others could only agree with Qi Rui's proposal. After listening to Qi Rui's and Li Yannian's applications, the leader carefully looked at the two young soldiers and finally said in an indecipherable tone, "The staff are very busy, and it will be difficult for them to find time. Moreover, your group is not the only one who has made such an application. A lot of groups have made such a request. "
Qi Rui was stunned. Before Qi Rui could think of how to answer, Li Yannian said seriously, "When those teachers are free, we will wait for them." After that, Li Yannian immediately added, "We only want to ask for advice after work. If it's only during working hours, we can only put work first. "
"Hmph!" The leader snorted, then said with a completely business-like expression, "You can wait for the notice!"
Outside the door, Qi Rui could not help but give Li Yannian a thumbs up. He lowered his voice and said, "Well said!" Li Yannian's attitude was so appropriate that Qi Rui did not even think about working hours. In Qi Rui's opinion, he felt that this was still a learning process. After Li Yannian finished speaking, Qi Rui immediately remembered that they were now working. Since it was work, there was naturally no reason for it to take up their working hours.
Li Yannian replied, "If I'm asking for help, I have to do it according to their convenience." Then, Li Yannian saw that Qi Rui could not help but show a surprised expression on his face. This expression made Li Yannian's heart feel uncomfortable. He had seen too many rich kids like this. On the road to promotion, Li Yannian's biggest competitors were this group of people. Their superior birth made them have no concept of asking for help at all. These people had good parents, and their world was a world where people came to their house to ask for help.
Even if it was a rich kid like Qi Rui who hid it well, he was still a rich kid in nature. When it came to asking for help, Qi Rui could only show a surprised expression, which was already a very good kind of rich kid. Li Yannian had seen too many rich kids show arrogance or contempt at times like this. There were even some guys who were so arrogant that they did not know who they were and would even shout, "Who the hell is XX? One call from my family, and he has to be obedient."
For those people, opportunities and the promotion brought by opportunities were just an exchange of power in the hands of their parents, or even a more direct order. But for people like Li Yannian who were born in the lower class, any opportunity must be fought for, applied for, pleaded, and even begged.
The opportunity was fleeting, and the opportunity did not necessarily lead to the sunshine road to glory. From a young kid in the southern part of Henan who was so poor that he barely had enough to eat, his promotion brought him to a group of people who had long been in a high position. Then, it brought more memories of rejection to Li Yannian. That circle had an instinctive rejection of people who were born in the lower class.
Li Yannian was not a person who hated the world, but these years of experience made him naturally have a rejection of those who were born in the upper class. Therefore, intuitively feeling that Qi Rui was also in that high class, Li Yannian unconsciously pulled away from him and Qi Rui.
Qi Rui did not know why this colleague of his was like this. He was a little surprised and felt that this guy Li Yannian was a little strange.
(End of this chapter)
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