After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 606: Chapter 446: Staking Out the Command Center

Fang Huai didn’t even have time to celebrate with his comrades before he said he had a special task, packed up his things, and hurriedly left the gate at 4:33 AM, headed for the airport.

Watching Fang Huai’s retreating figure, all his comrades wore expressions of envy.

Lian Xu smacked his lips, "The big leadership personally assigned him a task, Fang Huai’s going to be a leader for sure! When I get back, I’ve got to cozy up to the leadership."

He Zhijun, however, spaced out for a moment, clenching his fists.

Next year, when his Open University higher vocational education diploma came through, whether as a non-commissioned officer backbone or a candidate sent to the Military Academy, he had to make a push. After returning, he would need to apply to his squadron for a tutor to come and help improve their education.

While everyone else was envious of his prospects, only Gui Qiang sighed and shook his head:

"Damn, you guys are thinking way too far ahead. Shouldn’t you be envious that he’s taking a plane back? We’ll still have to catch a train after dinner!"

Everyone was startled.

"Damn, don’t tell me he did it on purpose?!"

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Old Zhang was having dinner with a comrade from the Tianjin General Team he had studied with when he heard the bad news that Fang Huai had already rushed to the airport.

He felt like cursing Fang Huai for unilaterally canceling the meal and going back on his own.

But soon after learning that after the New Year, they would visit Vice Bureau Chief Yu’s home together for an interview, Old Zhang’s face broke into a smile again.

During this trip, Zhang Zhongting had hit it off with Vice Bureau Chief Yu, who also greatly appreciated such a "young cadre."

In the whole corps, Zhang Zhongting indeed counted as a young cadre.

In the few days Zhang Zhongting had been here, he hadn’t been idle. He dined with some comrades he got along with and learned some news: after Vice Bureau Chief Yu’s formal promotion, he would take charge of disaster prevention, reduction, and war training.

That matched well with his work in the whole corps.

Therefore, he understood the influence held by someone in charge of these areas.

Being in charge of war training didn’t just mean the War Training Department, but half the Command Department.

Disaster prevention and mitigation is the main work of firefighting, which involves a wide range of responsibilities.

At this level, many things have harbingers. Nurturing leaders can also be evidenced by the departments they oversee. Moreover, unlike typical new leaders, he had the power to approve tens of millions for pilot squadrons, a true testament to his influence.

Fang, his nephew, was now taking on tasks closely associated with the higher-ups. Boss Wu mentioned that during the Corps Martial Arts Competition, Fang even had a pleasant chat with Secretary General Hao. Fang was interested in both the horizontal leaders and the vertically managed leaders above the corps.

This nephew had grand ambitions and didn’t communicate with him; he was gradually moving beyond his uncle’s reach.

Zhang Zhongting didn’t ask further, as he knew everything very clearly from other sources. People like Hu Peizhou always believed that Fang had told everything to his uncle, and nothing had been hidden from him. Within the corps, everything was within his field of view.

Thus, he maintained the stance of an elder, waiting for the young man to take the initiative to speak to him. But the young man truly went around him and managed things one after the other.

He faintly felt that Fang Huai didn’t want to get him involved.

Fang Huai had grand ideas, so he decided not to inquire further.

If there was anything he couldn’t handle, then he would think of ways to support him.

If not, it didn’t matter—retiring to civilian life might even be better.

As an uncle who regarded family above all, since Fang Huai had a better fallback when pushed to the brink, Zhang Zhongting simply let go. freёwebnoѵel.com

Fang Huai was unaware of these things.

Even if he knew, he had no plans to ask his uncle for help in everything. He was fully aware of the scale of what he was doing, from the Instruction Team to the national pilots, to the large-scale emergency response and systemic issues. It was a continuous expansion from a single point, radiating outwards like concentric circles of light, and he was standing at the center, looking outward, needing to gradually brighten each layer of light before he could see the boundary. freewebnσvel.cøm

But whether he won or lost was not important; he knew where the finish line was in 15 years. As long as he did more in-between, it would certainly be better than just sitting by idly.

In his mind as he did all this, he wasn’t the passionate T-800 from "Terminator" sent back to save the world, but rather Xu Sanduo from "Soldiers’ Attack," with a simple and pure smile.

Doing the idle clack-clack of whatever.

So much idle clack-clack of whatever.

Fang Huai, in a rush, carried his heavy bag and caught the last China Southern Airlines flight from Binhai International Airport Tianjin to Guiyang.

As the flight attendant introduced the unremarkable airline meals that couldn’t even rank among many domestic airlines, Fang Huai sat by the window, took a photo of the "fairy" admired by his comrades, sent a safe trip MMS, then pulled down the window shade to shut out the light, watching planes queue up for takeoff outside as he fell into thought.

This trip back to Lincity, he had two things to do.

The first thing was what Vice Bureau Chief Yu mentioned before leaving: the title of the large emergency response was good, but his Rapid Response Force was a bit too radical for now. He should start with the draft of the new "Fire Protection Law" from the department’s internal network, separating the operationally meaningful content from the forward-looking content. It’s fine to have a vision, but it should be clear at first glance what the value of it is.

This comment also let Fang Huai know where Director Chen’s interest in the bold plan came from.

That’s fine, reforms should be gradual.

Starting with the most accessible and reasonable demands, such as from the expert database and corporations, he would first remove the parts requiring government department cooperation and put them in the forward-looking section for later.

Things like the Firefighting Command System, which wasn’t technically mature yet, could also be deferred to later.

Add in a small team dispatch system, to at least touch upon the issues with the firefighting science research institute.

Of course, it could only be mentioned in passing.