Chapter 458 - 369 Fang Huai’s Ambition_3

Relying solely on training people can never bring about significant progress in the firefighting career.

Step by step, Fang Huai had reached the present day, and now he began to harbor a vast ambition.

Meanwhile, Hu Peizhou was seriously considering the olive branch Fang Huai had thrown out.

The entire day, he deliberated whether Fang Huai was worth collaborating with.

Given his rank, he exercised caution.

Through a comrade in Guizhou of no small rank, he already knew who Fang Huai’s uncle was: a young leader who was promoted as quickly as he was, respected highly within their whole corps for his old battle training, and was about to step into a deputy leader’s position.

When he found out, Hu Peizhou harbored some doubts about whether the reform was initiated by Fang Huai’s uncle, but judging from the phone call he had just made, it seemed to be someone genuinely capable of overall coordination.

"Captain Hu, we’re carrying out the V-type rescue tonight, right? I’m off to prepare the equipment."

Fang Huai had a blueprint in his heart but didn’t plan on sharing it with anyone. He was leaving right after the call.

"Hold on."

Suddenly, Hu Peizhou called out to him, stepped forward, patted him, and took him outside the tent.

"What is it, Captain Hu, had a change of heart?" Fang Huai saw the hesitation on his face and guessed a little.

Hu Peizhou took another look at his young face, still intending to test him.

After pondering for a moment, he said:

"I’ve looked at your plan; it’s a plan for the transformation of a squadron. It has standards and methods, yet it doesn’t reflect any particular viewpoint.

Whether you succeed or not, as long as you achieve the targeted results of the transformation, that would be sufficient.

But if it is to be a trial project, have you considered what kind of viewpoint it expresses, how to prove the correctness of the trial project with data and whether the direction of the reform can indeed be realized?"

Fang Huai smiled.

This was a test of ideological argumentation for him.

Without much hesitation, he provided an answer.

"When we do things, we shouldn’t be obsessed with viewpoints but rather with our original intention.

The original intention is a new era. What kind of firefighting is a powerful guarantee to save people from fire and water?

I understand your concerns. Nowadays, many feasibility studies for trial projects rely mostly on adopted concepts, established work directions, and targets, gathering a group of ’friends’ with similar schools, factions, and opinions to come and support, speak out, and create momentum, limiting decision-making to the proposed frameworks.

In the end, they present achievements and win merits.

You think that I’m looking for you to be this kind of ’friend.’

No, what I’m seeking are comrades to work with, comrades to take action together.

Our mental capacity is limited, so is our vision. The core purpose of this plan is to pave the way for professionalization efforts.

As for what the current standards for specialization should be and what they will be in the future, let the leadership decide. We strive to perfect everything to meet any possible standards that might be set.

Rather than scratching our heads about how to set questions for ourselves, let’s let the leadership pose those questions; they speak more cautiously, and perhaps the final standard will be more relaxed than what we would have set on our own, making it a bit easier to achieve.

We should make a good start; just initiating this will open up a path. With plenty of experts around, new ideas will emerge to help us expand it.

When my squadron first asked me how to set standards for this plan, I had just six words for them.

Leave the blanks blank where they should be.

If there are good suggestions that benefit professionalization, we will also accept them.

We listen to the voices above, surpass the biases within those voices, and also transcend our own biases."

Hu Peizhou understood.

His approach was different from his previous rigid, top-down reforms; he aimed to accumulate reserves slowly before claiming authority.

Starting with a small trial and using it to initiate a wider discussion on professionalization, shifting the debate from "whether to specialize" to "how to better specialize."

His path was more than halfway forged.

And himself, he was still struggling against some opposing voices from above, caught up in a stage of theoretical contest.

Hu Peizhou sighed inwardly.

After a long moment, Hu Peizhou remained silent, but he raised his right hand and extended it towards Fang Huai.

Fang Huai smiled, extended his hand, and they shook firmly.