Chapter 607, the resurgence of infighting?
As soon as these words came out, Anthony's face changed drastically. His smiling expression stiffened, his facial muscles moved, and his whole face became unsightly.
"Goodbye." Brooklyn waved goodbye. As soon as he got into the car, without waiting for Harrison to start the car, Brooklyn commanded directly
"Go to Harvard." After speaking, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Burke's number.
"The talks fell apart, I came to Harvard, and I was ready to hold a meeting at the beginning of the year."
"Okay." Burke only replied with one word and hung up. Brooklyn then called Anthony.
"Sorry, I forgot to inform you just now, there is a new year meeting at six o'clock in the afternoon, everyone is going to attend, you remember to write a notice." After informing Anthony, Brooklyn asked Bob for last year's summary report, and after reading it carefully, he closed his eyes and pondered.
Harrison didn't dare to disturb Brooklyn and only drove quietly. His ears still echoed the words of Brooklyn when he was in Washington.
He's not a stupid guy, on the contrary, he's actually smart, and the reason why he behaves so differently from Brooklyn is because Harrison has never been exposed to political struggle.
In other words, he has been exposed to political struggles, but he is limited by his status, and he is just a pawn in political struggles.
It's not that he's not smart enough, it's that he doesn't have enough vision. So, despite Brooklyn's detailed explanations and his hard work, the result was that he still had some clues.
He didn't understand why a trip to Washington put Brooklyn in danger. In his opinion, Patrick Nestor is an old man with a higher official status than Brooklyn, and it is natural for him to be cold and even a little contemptuous.
He didn't understand why Patrick Nestor wanted to mess with Brooklyn, but Brooklyn first 'examined itself'.
In his opinion, Bob, Winston, Frank, Lopez and Michael are all very good to Brooklyn, just like teammates in the army.
I'm about to go on a mission, so instead of preparing equipment and checking ammunition, I first screen my teammates one by one if they are ghosts?
But he understood that Brooklyn was willing to take him with him at this time, which was the greatest trust in him.
He was very touched by this. He also understood that at this time and for a long time to come, Brooklyn was in a very dangerous situation, and there might be a lot of people who wanted to kill him.
Therefore, he must brace himself and give his full attention to ensuring the safety of Brooklyn. As for Brooklyn's "internal self-examination," which is to check ammunition and prepare equipment, he didn't understand it very well, but he was shocked.
And every word Anthony said just now shocked him, and he couldn't stop looking at Brooklyn frequently.
To say that Brooklyn is untrustworthy, cunning and treacherous, backsliding, and greedy, and then that Brooklyn has the temperament of a leader and is a qualified leader?
Harris: Do you have any misconceptions about leaders? He felt that Anthony was not the same person at all.
He felt that there should be some secret conflict between Anthony and Brooklyn that he had not heard of, and he secretly regretted that this old man and Brooklyn could not reconcile.
Of course, this is all in his heart. He won't show it and he won't say it. Harvard was soon there.
The Harvard Congressional Executive Building, which Brooklyn had so strongly requested, was finally in the preparatory stage. After a vast, complicated process that Brooklyn didn't know, the design firm hired by the school chose a plot of land next to the school's office building.
At this point, the place is fenced off, and machinery is clearing the surface of the turf and trees. Brooklyn took a look and went straight into the large conference room in the office building.
It was still early, and Brooklyn told Anthony to have a copy of the blueprints delivered. Anthony told him that the blueprints had not yet come out and that he was still in the design stage.
Brooklyn was a little unhappy, criticizing Anthony for being too slow, he had been talking about this building since the middle of last year, but half a year had passed, and he had just started to design it?
When does this have to go? Brooklyn then asked Anthony to give him a summary of last year's work, and he began to check them one by one through the projection in the conference room.
Time ticks by. Five o'clock in the afternoon. One after another, people began to walk into the conference room. This is a member who happens to be in Boston, physically in a high position or in an important position.
Other members entered the webinar room one after another. At this point, Brooklyn no longer occupies the projection, and the projection has been switched to a conference room.
At ten o'clock, Burke arrived. At half past five, Anthony arrived. At 5:50, most of the people were already there.
This meeting is required by Brooklyn, even if you are on the moon!
Thus, this is the first time that the entire Harvard Council has gathered. Even the last Manhattan hotel meeting didn't get all the members together.
At the first notice, the members were very formal about the meeting, and they speculated about what had happened to make Brooklyn speak in a commanding tone that he had never had before.
The time came to six o'clock. Brooklyn finally looked up from his computer. He asked the staff member in charge of the conference room
"Who else didn't come to the meeting?" The staff gave him a list. Brooklyn glanced at it and handed the list to Anthony.
"You can make an announcement." He said. Anthony glanced at Brooklyn with a gloomy face, picked up the list and read it.
Anthony hasn't had a good face since Brooklyn said, 'Your little grandson is cute, I hope he can always be so happy.'
Some people also saw Anthony's ugly face, and naturally derived countless speculations. There are a total of 147 names on the list, including 1 judge of the Supreme Court, 7 magistrates, 44 lawyers, and law clerks, among whom even three participated in the first phase of the resource support program.
It takes a long time to read 147 names. As Anthony pronounced out the names one by one, the conference room fell completely silent, and the participants in the online conference room straightened their bodies.
Although I didn't say what would happen, I thought it would be so solemn that it wouldn't end well. Finally, Anthony finished reading.
He put down the list and said
"When I gave out the notice in the afternoon, I specifically noted that I must participate."
"These 147 people were unable to attend the meeting, and they will not be used in the future." Wow - the crowd was shocked! Cleaned up 147 members in one go.
Isn't Harvard going to live? Anthony ignored the chaos of the venue and said with a blank face
"It's the Speaker's decision." All eyes were on Brooklyn.
"Yes, that's my decision." Brooklyn bowed slightly.
"Today's meeting is important, and we don't have time to waste on these unimportant outsiders." Brooklyn said indifferently.
After speaking, he paused for a moment and said
"In the past year, almost everyone, every project team has submitted a year-end work summary, but we have not had a meeting or discussion on the work summary."
"The work summary is a summary of the work results and content of the past year, and it is also a good time to find problems and change them." Because Brooklyn fired 147 people when he came up, everyone didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and listened to Brooklyn obediently and quietly.
Brooklyn spent more than an hour wrapping up. A lot has happened at Harvard in the past year, and it's already in the second half of the year when it's on track.
As a result, Harvard hasn't actually done much in the past year. There is also an item that cannot be avoided and is not convenient to mention - the proposal for a press law.
It's a big thunderbolt. An hour later, Brooklyn began to talk about his plans for the year. It is mainly for the second, third and fourth phases of the resource support plan, Dan Lis's project, and the first to propose but has been slow to progress whitewashing.
Dan Liz is the first step in the whitewashing plan, and now that Dan Liz is very successful, it is time for the second step.
The resource support plan can give the bottom members the opportunity to rise and let them see a promotion channel, but it is not really helpful to the top level.
Brooklyn has always taken the route of 'rural encircling the city' at Harvard, and he is very popular with grassroots members, but his relationship with the upper echelons is very average.
It's impossible for anyone to get along with a boss who might dispose of them at any time, right? This time, Brooklyn proposed an elite support plan for the upper echelons, and every year Harvard will pool resources and select a member for precise support.
The level of support and screening requirements were not said, but everyone couldn't help but sit upright. As soon as the two support plans for the grassroots and the upper echelons came out, who still remembered the 147 people who were expelled?
Coupled with the investment in public welfare and reputation, it also makes some people who are similar to Burke Forsman's ideals very satisfied.
In this way, everyone rejoiced. Who remembers the 147 people who were expelled? It's better without them!
It's just a good way to reduce the pressure of competition! Anthony's face became gloomy again as he watched Brooklyn regain his heart.
In fact, as early as when he received a call from Brooklyn, he had guessed that the meeting was aimed at himself.
But he came anyway. It's not about being a hero, it's not about fighting Brooklyn and fighting in the ring. If he doesn't come, he will lose even the qualification to compete.
Hear what Brooklyn just said? 147 people, said to clean up, clean up. If he had been even a second late, he would have become one of the 148 people.
All Brooklyn wants is an excuse to clean up Anthony, and with an excuse, justified and above board, no one can say anything.
And the most fundamental reason why Anthony came to the meeting was not to give Brooklyn this excuse. With tangible interests in mind, the venue quickly returned to bustling with activity after the eviction of 147 people.
When Brooklyn summed up the work of the past year, the whole venue was silent, and no one spoke at all, and it was all up to Brooklyn to speak alone.
Fortunately, he had Burke's report, and Bob helped sort out the summary report, and he could survive alone.
Now it's different. The discussion was very eager, and the speeches were more positive than ever. It wasn't until nearly ten o'clock that the general direction of the parties was decided, and the rest was the refinement of their respective returns.
During this period, no one mentioned the issue of the selection criteria for precise support, and everyone knows that even if the selection criteria are announced now, what can be done?
In the end, it is Brooklyn who chooses and who not to choose. This is not the same as supporting the grassroots. Grassroots support is more about stabilizing people's hearts and cohesion, increasing the centripetal force and cohesion of the parliament, and not having such a great impact on the upper level.
Even if a county clerk is promoted to a magistrate, what can he do? With Harvard's size, a county judge would not have taken it seriously.
It's different at the top of the house. A circuit appellate judge may become a justice if he or she is supported.
There are only nine justices in the whole federation! That's the existence of impeachment of the president! Every person who receives support must be carefully selected to be used by Brooklyn.
Otherwise, would Brooklyn have to work hard to cultivate a talent and let him fight with him?
This is a clear reason. With this hand, Brooklyn will further consolidate its grip on Harvard.
At this point, the meeting has been going on for more than three hours. Brooklyn announced a half-hour break before continuing.
Attendees either got up and left the room to take a breath, went to the bathroom to solve personal problems, or got together with acquaintances and talked in whispers.
Half an hour later, the meeting resumed. Brooklyn is starting to turn on Anthony. He first referred to the parliamentary administrative office building on the financial issue, and then mentioned that he had mentioned as early as the middle of last year that he would build the parliament's own administrative office building.
The council is well funded, so why is it only now that construction has begun? Brooklyn was unsparing in his criticism of Anthony's mistakes.
It is believed that this is the result of Anthony's incompetence. Brooklyn then listed Anthony's many work mistakes in the past six months.
These were all sorted out with Bob's help, and some of them were sorted out by Burke. In addition to the mistakes at work, there is also Anthony's attitude.
During that time when he was lying flat, he arrived late and left early more than once, and went out fishing during work hours — of course, as the nominal dean of Harvard Law School, Anthony actually had no clear rules for working hours.
The Harvard Parliament, on the other hand, is a loose and spontaneous organization that has no authority to arrange commuting hours. The council does not pay salaries, so why should there be a time to commute to and from work?
In fact, the council is nominally a non-profit organization, a 'alumni association' formed by Harvard alumni.
Here, Brooklyn has a little bit of a change of concept. Because he behaved very seriously and toughly from the beginning, he fired 147 people without a word, and then he was a 'big company' style, year-end summary, future prospects, systematic support, and various benefits...... A series of initiatives have made this loose and spontaneous organization professional and serious.
These all give people psychological hints, making people ignore the essence of the Harvard Council, and subconsciously think that it is wrong for Anthony to touch the fish, and to leave in the afternoon is absenteeism.
But there's nothing wrong with that. If you don't have a job, if you don't leave, do you stay in the office in a daze? Brooklyn only comes to Boston a few times a year, and by that standard, he's not a 'heinous crime'!
It's all about interfaces.