Chapter 355 Annoyed (Part 1)

Count Rostovtsev gave Anton another high look. This straightforward style of asking questions may be taboo in official circles, especially among civil servants. According to Russian traditions and habits, it is the practice for the chief to pretend to be profound and deliberately put on airs, and the subordinates to slowly understand and guess slowly.

For Russian officials, doing so can greatly enhance their prestige, and they can control their subordinates to death. Anyway, they never tire of it.

It's just that Count Rostovtsev doesn't like this tradition. In his opinion, this pretentious and mysterious approach has no benefit except to make his subordinates more suspicious and afraid to do things.

He believes that superiors should speak clearly, at least clearly communicate your orders and intentions to subordinates, so that they can fully fulfill your orders and realize your intentions. But if you are deliberately ambiguous and deliberately do not speak clearly, then the subordinates will not know what you are going to do, and naturally they will not know what to do.

He felt that a big reason why Russian officials like to talk like clouds and fog is that they themselves don't want to be responsible and explain to their subordinates vaguely. If the final result is good, then he can naturally claim the credit generously. If the result is not good, he can also push all the responsibilities to the subordinates without being responsible for it.

To put it bluntly, this is a bad habit in the officialdom, which is meaningless at all. At least Count Rostovtsev would not do such a thing. Every order he gave to his subordinates must be clear and there will be no misunderstanding, unless some things involve top secrets and cannot be explained clearly.

As for why Sergey felt that Anton Menglang had fallen, it was because he had long been used to the Russian officialdom. This set is the default.

So he strictly abides by this, even though sometimes he doesn't understand Count Rostovtsev's order clearly, but he dare not ask, he just acts according to his own understanding and the rules of the officialdom.

And his luck is also good, most of Count Rostovtsev's orders are very clear, and he will not be misunderstood. And a very small number of things that are not clear, can be fooled by his wisdom, even if the completion is not perfect, but it is still passable, so Count Rostovtsev has not been taught and beaten by Count Rostovtsev.

Over time, Sergey thought that he had a high level and knew the heart of Count Rostovtsev well!

In fact, if he had the guts to ask more when he received those few orders that he didn't understand, he would immediately know that Count Rostovtsev was not playing tricks, and his performance would be even better when he executed the order. Perfect, Count Rostovtsev should be more satisfied and like him, and give him more opportunities.

It's a pity that Sergey's inertial thinking prevented all this from happening.

In a sense, this also made it impossible for him to know the real Count Rostovtsev at all, which led to many misunderstandings, making it impossible for him to truly become Count Rostovtsev's confidant, and it was impossible for him to know the real Count Rostovtsev at a critical moment. Seize the key opportunities.

Just like now, if he really understood what kind of person Count Rostovtsev was, he would know how wrong it was to choose to return to St. Petersburg.

It's a pity that his usual routine ruined it all, and he is nothing more than a slightly smarter bureaucrat after all. Neither his character nor his aspirations could meet Count Rostovtsev's expectations of him, and he would never be able to become the next Count Rostovtsev, nor could he ever become the leader of the Russian Reform Party.

At this moment, when Anton made a presumptuous request again, Sergey felt more and more that Anton didn't know what to do. He believes that subordinates must fully respect their superiors, and only the superiors will act according to their will. Now that Count Rostovtsev has answered your presumptuous question magnanimously, this is already quite out of the ordinary. At this time, you can only honestly thank the earl for his generosity, then step down respectfully and do what you should do, instead of making new unreasonable demands presumptuously and feebly.

Anyway, Sergey felt that Anton was a reckless person who didn't know the importance. If he was Count Rostovtsev, he would definitely teach him a lesson and let him know what is superior and inferior!

Of course, we all know that Sergei is going to be shocked again, because Count Rostovtsev is not as narrow-minded as he is, and he has no interest in the so-called superiority and inferiority in his mind, so he is very calm To answer Anton's question:

"Admiral Fyodor Berg is a meticulous person. He has very strict and even strict requirements for his work...Of course, I don't think you need to pay special attention to this admiral, because he came to Ukraine to be the governor. The possibility is very small!"

Sergey's glasses were shattered, because Count Rostovtsev's words almost implied that the next Governor of Ukraine would be Count Vorontsov. Nima, why don't you be so easy to talk, people are just asking about Fyodor Berg, why do you even casually talk about this kind of secret!

If it weren't for the fact that Count Rostovtsev had no illegitimate children and no relatives like Anton, Sergey would have doubted whether Anton was his own son. This made him a little bit aggrieved, thinking that Count Rostovtsev was too kind to Anton, everyone is a subordinate, why don't you treat them equally?

It can only be said that Sergey doesn’t know Count Rostovtsev too well. It’s not that his bowl of water is not level, but that Sergey himself always puts Count Rostovtsev into his established mold. Well, doing things for Count Rostovtsev in the traditional Russian model, he has made a prison for himself, and there is definitely no way to get the "equal treatment" of Count Rostovtsev.

It's just that he didn't realize this himself, he just insisted that Count Rostovtsev favored each other, and he was still aggrieved when Anton left!

At this time, it was time for Count Rostovtsev to beat him, and he would immediately realize how serious Count Rostovtsev's "bias" was!

"Have you considered where to work?"

Sergey replied: "I still want to go back to work in St. Petersburg, where I can play a bigger role!"

This answer undoubtedly disappointed Count Rostovtsev. He gave Sergey so many opportunities and hinted countless times, just to let him understand the importance of Ukraine, but in the end, this kid was still extremely stubborn. he was annoyed...