After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 448: Chapter 363: Director Wei’s Disciple

Hu Peizhou finished his meal and left, while Fang Huai still sat by the cave’s mouth, holding his bowl deep in thought.

In the past half a year, his influence had grown larger and larger.

From being able to influence a squad leader, to influencing the Squadron, and then through the Squadron and his uncle’s platform, he began to influence the decisions of the whole corps.

The success he experienced time and time again also made him want to accomplish even greater things.

The Guizhou Fire Brigade could boast no more than 5,000 people, not even one-thirtieth of the entire firefighting system. To be reborn and then limit himself to this seemed unreasonable.

But his platform ended with his uncle, with Boss Wu – beyond that, he couldn’t reach the higher levels any time soon.

In the troops, the lower you are, the closer you are to the rules, and everything proceeds in an orderly fashion.

But the closer you get to the top, the less the rules matter since those people create some of the rules and can even question the rationality of the rules. At this level, it’s often a clash of ideologies, and various relationships and the personal abilities of the leaders play a significant role.

Relationships need not be mentioned; behind a school of thought, there must be a big boss’s support, otherwise one couldn’t even get onto the decision-making layer’s table.

Therefore, he had to seize every opportunity to interact with the senior leadership, to get them to appreciate him, or alternatively, to get them to agree with his ideas through others’ mouths.

Secondly, one has to question whether the lead figure is qualified enough, whether their thoughts are profound enough, and whether their consideration is comprehensive enough.

When leaders open a plan, after reading it, they will inevitably look at the name signed at the end.

Without even a position title in front of his own name, he probably lacked the necessary qualifications.

Hu Peizhou’s name should suffice.

Being able to lead such a training session must mean he had some reputation in the eyes of the leadership.

Collaborating with him was feasible.

He could give up some credit but must ensure his own voice remained heard.

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During the mealtime, there were various discussions.

The words Fang Huai said when carrying the flag, because the instructors were around, everyone had been repressing their curiosity without much discussion. Even if they talked, it wasn’t clear.

But now that Fang Huai had returned to the crowd, everyone’s curiosity began to spread.

Number 11, who led the Hunan General Team, was especially curious. He wondered what business Hu Peizhou had that he would care about. freeweɓnovel.cøm

So, the first person to question him stepped forward.

"Hey, Number 1, what did you mean at noon? What does that flag signify?"

The others immediately gathered around, faces filled with curiosity. This was an advanced training session after all, and hearing words like "reform" and "reporting plans to the ministry" certainly qualified as high-level gossip that would be of interest if leaked; maybe even their own Squadron, Big Team, or Detachment would be intrigued.

Those from the Guizhou Brigade were even more interested.

They had heard that the provincial city’s Special Unit 2 was going to be awesome but didn’t know exactly how awesome it would be.

When Fang Huai saw it was him, he asked with a chuckle,

"You first tell me, what position does Captain Hu hold in your brigade?"

Number 11 immediately leaned back tactically, "You don’t know? He’s quite the big shot! Our brigade’s Deputy Chief of Staff! Always off to ministry meetings!"

Fang Huai was startled, "Deputy Chief of Staff of the brigade?! Isn’t he a colonel and deputy regimental commander?"

Number 11 smiled somewhat proudly, "Heh, clueless, aren’t you? Promotion comes before rank; his military grade will be raised soon enough!"

Fang Huai inwardly clicked his tongue.

A regimental commander in his thirties – promoted earlier than even his uncle, who was a First Class Meritorious Service medalist. The Hunan General Team was higher in status than theirs, categorized as a second-level general team, undoubtedly a series of exceptional promotions. Without the favor of leadership, it just couldn’t happen.

As for the doctorate, when they want to promote you, that’s the justification – cadre intellectualization, youthfulness. But if they don’t want to promote you, even having a master’s or doctorate means nothing.

What a pity though; with exceptional promotion comes stagnation. A regimental commander is a significant threshold. To rise higher, one might face the same difficulty as his uncle, having to accumulate seniority.

But nearby listeners couldn’t contain themselves, "Damn, Captain Hu looks to be in his thirties, right? A Deputy Chief of Staff? Our brigade’s Deputy Chief of Staff has white hair and looks like a retired old man!"

"How can you compare? Captain Hu has talent! I heard he even has a doctorate!" Number 11 said with a vicarious sense of pride, as if by being associated with a Ph.D., he himself held a master’s degree.

At that moment.

"Ceng Yijie!"

Number 11, hearing this voice, was shocked and quickly stood up, yelling, "Present!"

Hu Peizhou, with hands clasped behind his back, came over with a smile on his face, but piercing eyes, "You’re quite concerned about me, aren’t you? Do you want to go over how many people are in my family while you’re at it?"

Fang Huai was inwardly surprised.

This guy was Ceng Yijie.

He had heard from the Brigade Chief of Staff Zhou and his uncle that Ceng was one of the three major players of Hunan who would be competing in the Grand Martial Arts Competition this year.

Damn, Hunan indeed was fierce, to have three so formidable as him.

Without venturing out, one would never know the vastness of the world beyond the well.

"Heh, I don’t know how many people are in your family!" Number 11 said with an awkward smile.

Even at such a moment, he dared to smile, obviously quite familiar with Hu Peizhou. free𝑤ebnovel.com

But Hu Peizhou’s face turned stern as he took out a whistle.

"It seems you all are too idle!"

"Whistle–Whistle!"

"Assemble! Training!"

Now that everyone heard that Captain Hu was actually a senior officer, they assembled quicker than before.

Indeed, a Deputy Chief of Staff of the general team was, in their eyes, a big boss. A supervisory visit to the Regimental commander could send everyone into a frenzy; even the Regimental commander and Political Commissar would have to properly receive them.

But in Fang Huai’s mind, he felt that if only there were one more star, two stars in four rows on the badge of rank, that would be even better.

As everyone assembled, the generator-supported lighting rig too was hoisted up, thundering as it rotated, brightening the hillsides, leaving no place for the surrounding insects to hide.