The thin old man has endured for decades. During his tenure, he has never slacked off on any family affairs, nor has he opened any "back door" for his family, nor has he ever corrupted any government work. He can be called a
An example of a civil servant who abides by the law.
He feels that he is now in a high position in the management of the clan, which is what he should be. He is not promoted because of the favor of the clan leader. He has gained the honor and status entirely through his own efforts.
In fact, if he thinks about his career development in the past few decades this way, he has deviated from his normal thinking.
Just imagine, every clan member who was originally selected and then selected can be said to be the essence of the Yong clan.
They serve their clansmen, and their diligence and effort in doing things have gradually gained recognition from the clansmen. As the head of the Yong clan, the clan leader will naturally give them in-depth consideration and observation.
Then based on consideration, the clan leader will make corresponding position adjustments to clan members who have performed well.
However, the result of adjustment may not necessarily be a promotion. It may be a matter of switching to different positions and constantly tempering them. It is the so-called principle of "steel is made through repeated tempering".
The thin old man has never been transferred to another department since he was selected as a clerk. He has always worked in the Yong clan's internal affairs office.
His current position as the head of a department is entirely due to his accumulation of seniority, rather than his ability to lead the Yong clan's internal affairs office.
In the eyes of the old clan leader, although the thin old man has no talent, he has no fault either. He is considered a clan member with mediocre qualifications. Let him serve as the head of the clan because he has taken a fancy to his consistent performance of conscientious work over the years.
If we discuss it in practice, the thin old man is definitely a case of "talent not worthy of the position".
However, what the old patriarch doesn't know is that people with such average talents often have aspirations as high as the sky.
If he is allowed to work at the middle and lower levels, the situation will be fine. He will work steadily and will not cause trouble. After all, his position is humble and his energy is limited!
But it's fine when such a person is not in a high position, but once he reaches a higher management position and has considerable power in his hands, his ambitions will gradually expand.
If his ideas or demands are not met, his thoughts will easily go to extremes and form irrational thoughts. If he puts them into action, they will become a big disaster.
Therefore, if we want to truly describe the matter of a thin old man occupying a high position, then the word "morality does not match his position" is the most appropriate and in line with the actual situation.
If people with "unqualified virtues" steal high positions, internal turmoil will continue and external turmoil will sway.
But the sad thing is that the thin old man has never recognized himself. He doesn't know that he is a mediocre person with average talent. He still thinks that everything he has earned after decades of hard work is due to his own hard work.
After so many years of hard work, he reached his current high position, but was easily surpassed by some younger nephews. How could he be willing to accept this?
Among them, the one who annoyed him the most was Yong Shiqian. He was a descendant of the clan from the outer five sects and was seven or eight years younger than his son. As a result, after being promoted, he became the "administrator" of the clan.
He is the person in charge, responsible for the management and operation of the Yong clan's property, and has the power to operate the Yong clan. This simply makes him crazy with anger.
At that time, his son was only the shopkeeper of the Xi'an Branch of the Yongran Branch, and was regarded as a middle-level manager of the Yongran Branch.
The thin old man attributed the fact that his son was not favored by the old patriarch and was not promoted because he had always been honest and dedicated to the public. During his son's tenure, he did not interfere in the affairs of the "Yongran Pavilion", which caused him to be criticized. Pay more attention than above.
At the same time, he also blamed himself for not "saying hello" to the "Kaozhengke" in charge of the promotion and promotion assessment of clan members in advance and asking him to take care of his son's development.
The thin old man believed that it was his inflexible approach that caused Yong Shiqian, who was much younger than his son, to be appreciated by the old patriarch, and thus he was promoted by the old patriarch, surpassing his son in the position in one fell swoop.
He holds a high position in the Yong clan, but his son has not even become the deputy director of the "Yongran Pavilion" Xi'an Pavilion, which really makes him feel that his face is shameless.
Although no one had ridiculed him in words, the thin old man felt that they must have planned to laugh at his incompetence behind his back. It was just that these people did not say it to his face, and he had actually been laughed at by his tribe.
When this person is mentally unbalanced, his or her perspective on the problem will deviate, and he will make mistakes in the direction, making wrong judgments and taking inappropriate actions.
The skinny old man was psychologically unbalanced. The key problem was that he understood that the reason why his son had not been promoted for many years was because of his own pedantry and self-denial. The descendants of his clan have far surpassed him.
This was an extremely wrong idea, and it also led him to embark on the wrong path due to psychological imbalance, and gradually deviated from his original intention of "serving the clan and safeguarding the interests of the Yong family" when he first joined the job.
Not long after Yong Shiqian was promoted, the skinny old man personally came out to "say hello" and added his son's name to the "List of Suggestions for Promotion of Yongran Hall Management Staff" submitted to the clan leader for "the official examination".
When the notice on the promotion and appointment of the latest managers of the "Yongran Pavilion" was finally announced with the signature and approval of the old patriarch, the thin old man looked through the entire notice and order circulated to various ministries. Among the personnel lists recorded in the official document, he suddenly found that there was no His son's name, this result made him deeply disappointed.
After seeing in the notification order that Yong Shijing was promoted and appointed as the chief inspector of the "Yong Ran Pavilion", the thin old man was disappointed and filled with deep doubts.
He felt that he must find out whether there was some mystery behind the promotion and appointment of these relevant personnel.
In order to better understand the past experiences of these two people, the thin old man used his power to take charge of the affairs of the clan and checked the files of Yong Shijing and Yong Shiqian.
He discovered that Yong Shijing, who was promoted this time, and Yong Shiqian, who was promoted not long ago, had both served in the clan for a short period of time.
However, their positions at that time were not high, and they were just idle positions. Judging from their file records, they should have joined the company not long ago and were still in the stage of experience.
Such new discoveries further aroused the skinny old man's curiosity to pry into the secrets of the patriarch, regardless of the fact that he violated the rules.
However, the discovery of this secret was also the beginning of the thin old man's gradual "sliding into the abyss".