A month later, the official order promoting He Wenjie to chief of Security Division 3 came down. The news shocked the entire Rolling Mill workforce. He Wenjie's promotion was simply too fast; he had made section chief after just one year on the job, whereas a normal person would barely have completed their probationary period in that time. A few disgruntled employees wrote anonymous complaint letters, but these were all handed over to He Wenjie by the former chief of the Security Office, who had just been transferred to the Metallurgy Bureau.
After getting the letters, He Wenjie glanced at them for a couple of seconds, then traded a bottle of liquor with the accountant for the payroll sign-in registry. Taking a single day, he tracked down the authors of the anonymous letters. Finally, just as those men were getting off work, he cheerfully returned their complaint letters to them. Upon seeing the anonymous letters they had written handed back to them by the very person they reported, the men were so scared they almost dropped to their knees. He Wenjie didn't make things difficult for them either, merely tossing out a casual remark: "Next time you write a complaint letter, make your handwriting neater." With that, he walked away.
From that day on, anyone who had originally been dissatisfied with He Wenjie's promotion didn't dare utter a single word. Anonymous complaint letters didn't work at all—just how much influence must He Wenjie wield? Coupled with the fact that the enti…
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