Qi Tongwei: Sign-in relationship started during student days

Chapter 645 Gao Yuliang’s Call (2)

Gao Yuliang was silent for a long time before he said, "I did encounter a little problem, but it wasn't a big deal. I just felt a little emotional."

Qi Tongwei pondered, "Did there become any friction with Secretary Qi?"

Gao Yuliang hummed, "There are some minor conflicts. I knew I couldn't hide anything from you." He paused, then sighed, "Sometimes I think about it, the top and second-in-command, the secretary and the mayor—isn't this just a replica of the power of the emperor and the prime minister during the Ming Dynasty? The weaker you are, the stronger they become. You can't give in, and peaceful coexistence is impossible."

Qi Tongwei burst out laughing. Sure enough, any knowledge about officialdom could be explained by his teacher using the history of the Ming Dynasty.

There's nothing wrong with it.

There is nothing new under the sun.

This ancient country has a civilization of thousands of years. If you really think about it carefully, you will find that each dynasty has been repeating the same history.

Birth, prosperity, decline.

It seems like a circle, or like the sun, rising in the east and setting in the west, day after day, year after year.

And mixed in with this are endless disputes, ranging from those between countries to those between individuals.

These countless disputes evolved into irreconcilable contradictions, eventually triggering a new cycle.

Qi Tongwei listened quietly and did not verbally support Gao Yuliang.

Qi Bin was also the one signed by himself. No matter what, he would always remember the teacher-student relationship between him and Gao Yuliang and would not fight too hard. He was a good whetstone, just right to hone Gao Yuliang.

On a whim, Gao Yuliang said a few more words.

In fact, these are just some very common power frictions.

As he spoke, Gao Yuliang felt that he had gone too far and started complaining to his students.

But thinking about it, he realized that his student was indeed a good person to confide in. Whether it was politics, economics, or the ways of the world, he was more than qualified to be his teacher. So he continued:

"As you know, Lao Qi is a soldier with a strong work style. Your teacher, on the other hand, teaches people in a gradual and progressive way. In short, they have two different working styles.

One wants to see immediate results and act with great vigor, the other wants to be subtle and effective, like the gentle rain of spring breeze.

Therefore, when dealing with work, we often cannot reach a consensus, which inevitably leads to some small conflicts.

But I thought that this is not a bad thing. At least after these small conflicts, your teacher has made great progress in the officialdom.

I have a new understanding of so-called politics. In my opinion, politics is actually equal to compromise.

Everyone seeks common ground in conflicts and reaches consensus, and seeks concessions in disputes and achieves coexistence.

A team consists of more than a dozen people, all from different places and with different personalities. Everyone has his or her own political ambitions, political skills and political character. If you want to realize your own political ambitions, you must take into account the political ambitions of others and accommodate your ambitions in the ambitions of others.

It's like a bonsai with many varieties. You can stand out on your own, but you can't overshadow the others. They complement each other and make each other better."

After listening to this, Qi Tongwei exclaimed: "Teacher, you are becoming more and more like a mature politician."

Gao Yuliang smiled. "What's the difference between maturity and immaturity? It's just constant learning, and occasional gains. I think I still have a lot to learn from you in this regard."

Qi Tongwei hurriedly said, "Teacher, please don't flatter me. I am also learning and practicing at the same time, and I am making progress slowly through learning and practice."

Gao Yuliang agreed, "We're all the same, improving through learning and practice." Then he changed the subject, "Speaking of progress, I don't think either you or I have made outstanding progress. It's your junior who has made the most progress, and it's even surprising."

"You mean monkeys?"

Gao Yuliang scolded: "How many other students do you have?"

Qi Tongwei said, "Teacher, you are being a bit biased. You teach so many students, and I have at least 800, if not 1,000, of my fellow students."

"Not that many. You know I stopped teaching in 92. Even Hou Liangping and Chen Hai only taught for two and a half years, with only about two or three hundred students at most."

"Yes, two or three hundred people, and you summarized all of them with just one sentence. To this day, only Hou Liangping and Chen Hai are remembered."

Gao Yuliang scolded with a smile: "You kid, you are still winking at your junior today.

I said, why do you keep picking on your junior? Back in college, you've been treating him with disrespect. You even fabricated a crime to prevent him from joining the student union during his freshman year. Otherwise, he could have become student union president, which would have given him a much higher starting point.

From an outsider's perspective, it was indeed Qi Tongwei who first targeted Hou Liangping, but who knew that if things had developed normally, the original Director Qi would have been suffocated by that junior.

Qi Tongwei sighed and said, "I don't understand either. Maybe it's just a natural incompatibility. I don't like Hou Liangping very much."

Gao Yuliang said: "Like or not is not the standard we politicians use to judge things.

You two are both my most proud students. Within the system, you are natural allies. There is no deep hatred between you. If you can help each other, then help each other."

Qi Tongwei said, "Teacher, you can let go of Fangfang's matter, but I can't let go of what happened in Hekou County a few years ago. I almost fell into their trap back then."

"Then why don't you tell me about your plot against him? After all, it was you who wanted to use him as a knife first." Gao Yuliang really didn't want to see Qi Tongwei and Hou Liangping turn against each other.

It is always better to have a junior classmate with great development prospects and the background of the governor's father-in-law than to have an extra powerful enemy.

Because in Gao Yuliang's opinion, in terms of political background, Hou Liangping's background is stronger than Qi Tongwei's.

With the strength of the Zhao family, it is still unknown how far Zhao Lichun will go in the future. As long as he can take over smoothly, he will at least be a committee member, at the vice-political level.

On the other hand, Qi Tongwei is valued by a vice-political committee member, Zhong, but how could he possibly give his political resources and political property to Qi Tongwei?

To put it simply, from top to bottom, all positions are occupied. The more political resources you have, the higher the position you can obtain.

But if you give political resources to an irrelevant person, you will have to make concessions elsewhere.

If Commissioner Zhong wants to promote Qi Tongwei to the ministerial level, he will have to give up his position elsewhere. No one should be unwilling to be promoted. You can't take all the provincial governors while other families of the same level sit back and wait for them to eat vegetables.

But Hou Liangping did not have this concern. Zhao Lichun's only son was not very promising, and his two daughters did not enter politics, so the political resources were left to Hou Liangping.

At this point, Hou Liangping has a better future than being Zhong Wei's son-in-law in the original drama.

After all, Zhong Wei's son and daughter are both active in politics, so Hou Liangping cannot get many political resources, otherwise his rank would not be lower than Zhong Xiaoai.