Chapter 3371

Mr. Wang wants to whitewash the Wang family, hoping the authorities can give him a chance. All such thinking is naturally well-intentioned, but ten thousand steps back — if Zhang Lin refuses to relent, even if the authorities want to take the Wang family in, they wouldn't dare.

Put plainly, even the authorities now have to read Zhang Lin's face when acting. That alone proves just how pivotal Zhang Lin's position is.

It's just that many people haven't caught on yet. They naively believe everything Zhang Lin does is ultimately in service of the authorities. If they cling to that notion, they're being utterly laughable.

Zhang Lin has never bowed to the authorities. On the contrary, the authorities have always been wagging their tails at him, hoping he'll say more, hoping he'll give the archaeological team more guidance. That is the essential misreading.

Still, Zhang Lin has never thought to flaunt this. He has always believed that justice lives in people's hearts — many can see through the surface to the essence, see that everything Zhang Lin does has nothing whatsoever to do with the authorities.

All of this is purely his own initiative, and through this approach, Zhang Lin feels he can bring a certain sense of satisfaction to his readers.

To him, that is what matters most. As for everything else, Zhang Lin can be utterly indifferent, even brushing past it with the lightest touch — that has always been his outward manner.

At the same time, Zhang Lin has shown everyone an established fact: once he has decided something, he won't change it — unless, on a subjective level, some matter truly demands a change in principle, in which case Zhang Lin will settle for the next best option.

But so far, nothing of the sort has happened. Whether it will in the future, he doesn't know, but facing the present situation, Zhang Lin is very clear on how to choose.

Looking at Mr. Wang, he only had to glance at his trusted subordinate and he basically had the measure of things. At the same time, Mr. Wang was certain he needed to settle this matter quickly, or the situation could grow worse. In one respect Mr. Wang learned well from Wang Canghai — he too is a person who pays attention to detail.

Mr. Wang understands that many things are swayed and influenced by details. Once the details shift, or a sizable deviation appears, then no matter how well he handles the real situation or how precisely he controls the grand direction at the macro level —

— all of it is like foam, utterly worthless. Only by handling both the macro and the details extremely well can one reap the proper rewards. Mr. Wang has long been crystal clear on this. Perhaps that is also why he has been striving all along to win Zhang Lin's promise.

This is the detail he must control, and his subordinates are naturally a link within that detail. If he can't even keep a grip on something like this, then Mr. Wang knows the Wang family under his lead is destined not to go far. But then again, from this one can see that Wang Canghai's initial choice of personnel was indeed very discerning.

Though Mr. Wang isn't the cleverest, he is the one who most diligently makes up for his lack of talent. He chose diligence. The notion that some things of sentiment cannot be made up for is the biggest lie of all — given enough time, there is nothing in this world that sentiment cannot make up for.

If such a thing exists, then that diligence must certainly be false. Zhang Lin thinks the same way, including regarding the tomb knowledge he has mastered.

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