Count Rostovtsev glanced at Anton again. This straightforward style of asking questions must be taboo in officialdom, especially among civil servants. According to Russian traditions and habits, superiors pretend to be sophisticated and deliberately pretend to be superior to their subordinates.
It is the rule to slowly understand and guess slowly.
For Russian officials, doing this can greatly enhance their prestige and control their subordinates to death. Anyway, they enjoy doing it.
However, Count Rostovtsev does not like this tradition. In his opinion, this kind of mysterious approach has no benefit except making his subordinates more suspicious and afraid to do anything.
He believes that superiors should speak clearly, or at least clearly communicate your orders and intentions to subordinates, so that they can do their best to fulfill your orders and realize your intentions. If you are deliberately ambiguous and do not speak clearly, then the subordinates will do it.
If you don’t know exactly what you want to do, you won’t know how to do it.
He felt that a big reason why Russian officials like to talk nonsense is that they don't want to take responsibility and give vague instructions to their subordinates. If the final result is good, then he can naturally claim the credit generously. If the result
No, he can also push all the responsibilities onto his subordinates and not be responsible for it.
To put it bluntly, this is a bad official custom, which is completely meaningless. At least Count Rostovtsev would not do such a thing. Every order he gives to his subordinates must be clear and there will be no misunderstanding, unless there is something
It involves top secrets and cannot be explained clearly.
As for why Sergey felt that Anton Meng was attracted to him, it was because he had long been accustomed to this routine of Russian officialdom. Even if Count Rostovtsev did not engage in this routine, he was also accustomed to it, and he was also used to it.
This is the default setting.
Therefore, he adhered to this routine. Even if he sometimes did not understand Count Rostovtsev's orders clearly, he did not dare to ask. He just followed his own understanding and the rules of the officialdom.
And he was also very lucky. Most of Count Rostovtsev's orders were very clear and would not cause him any misunderstandings. And a very small number of things that were not clear to him could be fooled by his wisdom, even if they were completed.
It's not perfect, but it's passable, so I haven't been lectured or beaten by Count Rostovtsev.
Over time, Sergey thought that he was of high skill and understood Count Rostovtsev’s thoughts well!
In fact, if he were bolder and asked more questions when he received the rare orders that he didn't understand, he would immediately know that Count Rostovtsev was not being mysterious, and his performance would be better when executing the orders.
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 of this from happening. In a sense, it also made it impossible for him to understand the real Count Rostovtsev, which resulted in many misunderstandings, making it impossible for him to truly become Count Rostovtsev.
Count Rostovtsev's confidants were unable to seize the critical opportunity at the critical moment.
For example, now, if he really knew 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 accustomed routine ruined all this. In the final analysis, he is just a slightly smarter bureaucrat. His character and ambition cannot meet Count Rostovtsev's expectations of him. He will never
Nor can he become the next Count Rostovtsev, nor can he ever become the leader of the Russian reformists.
At this moment, when Anton once again made a very presumptuous request, Sergey felt more and more that Anton was ignorant of the importance. He believed that subordinates must fully respect their superiors and only act according to the will of their superiors. Now Rostovtsev
The count has already answered your very presumptuous question very magnanimously, which is already very unusual. At this time, you can only thank the count honestly for his magnanimity and then respectfully step down and do what you should do, rather than being presumptuous and helpless.
The land made new unreasonable demands.
Anyway, Sergey felt that Anton was a reckless person who did not know the importance of things. If he were Count Rostovtsev, he would definitely give him a lesson and let him know what it means to be superior and inferior!
Of course, we all know that Sergey is going to be shocked again, because Count Rostovtsev is not as narrow-minded as him, and has no interest in the so-called superiority and inferiority in his mind, so he is very calm
Answered Anton’s question:
"Admiral Fyodor Berg is a meticulous person, and he has very strict and even harsh requirements for his work... Of course, I don't think you need to pay special attention to this general, because he came to Ukraine to be the governor-general.
The possibility is very small!"
Sergey's glasses were shattered, because Count Rostovtsev's words almost hinted that the next governor of Ukraine would be Count Vorontsov. Damn, if you want to be so easy to talk to, I just asked Fyodor.
Why do you talk about Berg's affairs with such a secret?
If he hadn't known that Count Rostovtsev had no illegitimate children and no relatives like Anton, Sergey would have had to doubt whether Anton was his biological son. This made him somewhat aggrieved, thinking that Count Rostovtsev had no regard for Anton.
Dong is really great. Everyone is a subordinate. Why don't you treat us equally?
It can only be said that Sergey did not understand Count Rostovtsev very well. It was not that he was not fair in his bowl of water, but that Sergey himself always wanted to fit Count Rostovtsev into his established mold.
, by using the traditional Russian model to serve Count Rostovtsev, you have created a trap for yourself, and you will definitely not be able to get "equal treatment" from Count Rostovtsev.
It’s just that he didn’t realize this himself. He just insisted that Count Rostovtsev favored one and the other, and he would still be angry after Anton left!
At this time, it was time for Count Rostovtsev to beat him, and he would soon realize how serious Count Rostovtsev's "bias" was!
"Have you thought about where to work?"
Sergey replied: "I still want to go back to work in St. Petersburg, where I can play a greater role!"
This answer undoubtedly disappointed Count Rostovtsev. He had given Sergey so many opportunities and hinted countless times, just to let him understand the importance of Ukraine. But in the end, this boy was still extremely stubborn. Suddenly