[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-704":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887281,2510,"Chapter 704: Responsbility and Cabinet","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-704",704,"\u003Cp>\"If you’re the one who’s constantly making the decision. Then everyone is going to blame you for the mistake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s just the burden of making mistakes... I picked the wrong workers to carry out the mistake, and it’s partially my fault for choosing them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very selfless thinking. But that’s the exact thing you should be avoiding. Once people start attaching with negative image, you’re stuck with it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once a single failure gets onto your record. Everyone points to that exact failure and asks you to step down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t that what every government has to go through? It’s just another day. People are going to move right past it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said it yourself. We’re a government. We are not a business anymore. You need to realize that sometimes we need to sack people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I fire plenty of people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure, you might fire those who fucked up a low-end job or even a department head. But that image of failure still sticks with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of the office workers know you’re the one who constantly makes the decision and draws your own conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perception of you being in charge of everything. Even if those department heads are the ones really making the suggestions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m in charge of everything... I mean, you’re in charge of everything, but I’m——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need to sugarcoat it. I know you’re the one who does most of the stuff around here. But you need a scrapegoat, Yuqi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A scrapegoat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, a scrapegoat. More specifically, you need to make everyone, both the public and the government worker, think they are the ones who suggested it to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t that what department heads already do? They’re the ones who suggest the solution, and I make a decision based on the information they give.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything is working fine. Xiaoyun, you’re even more paranoid than me. Just leave this work to me if you don’t want to——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi, you’re still not understanding me. Look, what does the government have that separates the leader from any responsibility?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s argument only caused more confusion once again as she looked back at him as if she were looking at an idiot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those people working below them? They only have partial responsibility, though. You said it yourself, the negative image sticks with the leader.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless the department heads are the ones deciding, the beginning of the problem appears to be the solution being found at the end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun paused for a second, then continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have to start realizing that sooner or later, your job is going to be oversight, not problem-solving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You check to make sure everything is right, and that’s it. Not interpreting data and coming up with an answer of your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you suggesting I should be a figurehead like you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I’m saying you should leave more responsibility to the workers below you. Even more than what you had given them right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t trust them.\" Yuqi instantly answered this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doesn’t matter if you trust them or not. You had to delegate more responsibility. You’re not smarter than everyone in the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we’re going to have a merit-based government, we need to act like it. Let people make their decision and promote or demote based on their performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your current system of having people carry out what you want them to do is too stagnant. There’s no room for their own decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sooner or later, it’ll be impossible to micromanage everything. Even at the surface level, it’s going to be too much at some point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I’ll change when that time comes. I’m more than capable of continuing the status quo.\" Yuqi argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi, you need to start developing cabinet positions, full stop. Two-thirds of the decisions shouldn’t be made by you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They should have been done by experts. Technocrats who had years of schooling and personal experience, not you sitting in the office all day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shouldn’t even need to ask you for permission. Your whole decision-making from you is just redundant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her still unwilling to back down, Xiaoyun pulls out his trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Earlier, I even called several of your department heads, and they stated they would have made the same decision as you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s just in hindsight. Who knows what decision they would have picked hundreds of suggestions they have for each plan?\" Yuqi argued again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But with time, they’ll develop. They should start early to let them learn from their small mistake before we’re forced to transition responsibility to them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forced to transition? By who?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By our size. Even the central government couldn’t wrestle absolute control and do everything. What makes you think you’ll be better than them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi fell into silence for once as she couldn’t argue back at all. She knew what Xiaoyun was suggesting, but she just didn’t want to face it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do I really have to delegate even more power? Haven’t I already let them decide more on so many decisions than before?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If there’s a pile of papers on your desk you can’t finish every day, that means you haven’t done it far enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a whole minute of silence, Yuqi let out a small sigh as if she had finally backed down from trying to grasp onto power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. I’ll go call the department heads and arrange the meeting tomorrow. But you’d better be there as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll announce it if you don’t want to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her shaking her head, Xiaoyun didn’t try to take it away from her. But he finally let out a small smile as she looked much more relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If anything goes wrong during this process, I’m going to blame you for it,\" Yuqi murmured as she looked back at him right in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll handle the transition. You don’t have to worry about it... Let me read the names of each department——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi turned on her monitor and switched to a spreadsheet tab, Xiaoyun froze as rows upon rows of names were displayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-You serious? When did we have that many department heads?\" Xiaoyun asked in shock as he finally recovered from the list of names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since you started clearing Dongguan and Shenzhen... That’s why I don’t trust having so many different department heads making their own decision.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is not going to work. We have to consolidate these many groups of departments into... twelve or so.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who’s going to do that? Don’t tell me you’re just going to randomly elect them to give them the power to make the policy decisions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their policy agenda still follows what we tell them to do. They’ll just be deciding how to carry it out to fulfill it rather than having us decide it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is taking off your pants to fart. It’s pointless and unnecessary. We’re still telling them what to do at the end of the day.\" Yuqi quickly argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re too young, too naive. You need to realize they’re going to be the one publicly perceived as the one making the decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the people working in the government will also think they’re the ones at fault if something goes wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t be our agenda at fault, but their mistake in carrying out the wrong solution to fulfill our policy agenda\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun smirked with an evil smile, Yuqi felt a chill traveling down her spine as she began to realize what he had been planning all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All this just to scrape off responsibility? This is ridiculous, Xiaoyun. You’re going to deal with this mess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s fine. I’ll interview them and organize everything in a week. You don’t have to worry about a thing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Yuqi moved her chair aside to let Xiaoyun take over, she suddenly felt a little guilty watching him work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his birthday, yet he was being forced to work. At the same time, Xiaoyun barely working in the office left her with a sour taste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun... Did you let me do all this work in the office because you didn’t want to see me do nothing all day?\" Yuqi suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What makes you suddenly think that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun questioned without looking back at her, his hand still busy writing ideas for merging the department into cabinets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can do this way better than I since the beginning. But you chose to give me this position as deputy governor rather than——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did I ruin your self-esteem too much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he turned around and looked right into Yuqi’s eyes, her heart couldn’t stop beating for some weird reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"N-No. I’m just curious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know what makes you think I can do this job better than you. I probably would make a lot more careless mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You just got too busy with office work that you don’t see the bigger picture... Like having a mindset of running a business rather than running a government.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A government...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep. After all, we are called the National Reclamation Government for a reason... Me as the Governor and you as the Deputy Governor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Xiaoyun shifted his attention back to the paper, she tightly held onto her heart as a weird feeling began to develop.\u003C\u002Fp>",1521,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","2f3fb6760b0ab8df0d37951868cbe232778315e6be46499aa3a05125bce7f6f8","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-705","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-703",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]