After Xu Lan came to Nanzhou to visit, Cheng Ran received a call from Xie Feibai.
"The current situation is... my mom and your mom's Yanhua Company's Nanzhou branch has 30% of the shares in my name. In addition to my mom's and your mom's, there are also a number of scattered investors. Now, I am the majority shareholder... I was a little confused, and when I asked my mom, she kept asking me questions, just asking me not to think too much and just transition... If they really want to transition, why would they use my name? Isn't this troublesome?"
When Xu Lan came to Nanzhou, she mentioned this matter, and this was also the decision made by Yan Hua.
Cheng Ran thought for a moment and said, "I have roughly guessed the significance of this decision."
"What do you mean?"
"Why was this 30% of the shares split out specifically for you?"
"I just can't believe it. Xie Houming even asks me repeatedly about the money I give him, fearing that I take too much money from home. If you say he gave me the shares, I definitely don't believe it. He's not that generous."
"Yes, you are just a figurehead for this part, so go and fight for it. Your parents want you to earn a well-deserved title."
"… Wait a minute, I'll come over to you. Let's talk."
In a small tea bar in the campus of the University of Science and Technology, Xie Feibai sat in front of Cheng Ran. He looked exhausted. He rubbed his brows, looked at the two cups of coffee placed in front of him by Cheng Ran, picked up one and took a sip, and said, "What you said, will Xie Houming look at me like this?"
This young man, who has probably been denied since childhood, will never have a day to sit down and talk with his father, and will instinctively question this possibility.
"Of course there is another possibility. One is that you can afford it and you really have the ability to hold this part of the shares. This share is yours. You got it yourself. The other is that you really can't earn it, and it's just a title without substance. Then you are just a figurehead. This share is just in your name. When needed, other split operations can be made and taken away. In the future, what your family can give you is to provide you with food and clothing without you having to take care of anything."
Xie Feibai didn't speak for a long time, probably because he was in a complicated mood.
What he didn't expect was that his father would have such a... maybe even an expectation for him
In high school, he and Cheng Ran worked together in Tianxing Dojo, and then he calmed down and became a good person. He broke Xie Houming's previous comment that he would be arrested sooner or later, and spent high school safely and went to Nanzhou to attend university. After seeing Cheng Ran's performance in high school, Xie Feibai had a desire to keep pace with him. Now that he encountered such a thing again, was it attractive to him? Obviously, there was no doubt about it.
So would you feel that his family has given him a platform, or a foundation, and that any future achievements will be due to this starting point and will not be considered real ability
This kind of thinking is inevitably pedantic. Those who are good at starting from scratch may not be good at maintaining their family and business, nor may they be good at pioneering and advancing. Those who have not started from scratch do not mean that they cannot make achievements in maintaining and expanding their territory. A hero is not judged by his family background, but by his skills.
In the arts, building a career based on the resources you have and proving your ability is a hundred times better than those who only see the appearance of others' success and sourly attribute this success to others getting a good opportunity, having a good family and pointing fingers at others for the sake of appearances.
The fact is, in business, there is no such thing as a natural success. If you are not that person, even if you are in the upper hand, you cannot hold on to what is given to you.
How to hold these things depends on yourself.
Challenge yourself to the death. Don't be intimidated by the height of others. Even if you can only take ten steps, then aim to surpass yourself by eleven steps.
As time goes by, aren't there lakes, mountains, rivers and big lakes behind you
Yes, there was no entanglement in Xie Feibai at all, which was also his advantage.
If someone argues with me, I will beat you up. If the teacher or the dean pulls us apart, I lose.
You give me soldiers and ask me to take the enemy's head myself, so if I take a step back, I lose.
"What should I do?" Xie Feibai looked at Cheng Ran with his eyes wide open.
For a moment, Cheng Ran imagined the lines from A Chinese Odyssey in his mind: "One day, he will put on the golden armor, step on the seven-colored clouds, obtain a weapon of power and strength, stir up the wind and clouds, and become the Monkey King."
"What can you do? Start from the grassroots." Cheng Ran said, "You are a major shareholder, but if you just stand out for this important project, what effect can you have? Will anyone listen to you? If others listen, do you dare to give orders? What should you do? Learn and polish from the bottom. You need to know what you are doing and what the general outline of this matter is..."
"Then what?"
Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment, because when Xie Feibai asked this, he took out a notebook, spread it out, rolled up his sleeves, bit off the cap of the ballpoint pen he carried with him, put one hand on the notebook, wrote down what Cheng Ran had just said, and then looked up at him.
This thing called "seriousness" appears in front of Xie Feibai, which makes people really uncomfortable.
"You talk. I remember."
"Okay... first step..."
"... After you have sorted out sales, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions, we can consider taking full control of the Nanzhou branch. This is a company in which your family holds the majority of the shares, and it also has my mother's support, so the difficulty is much lower than if you go to other companies. But you should also be aware that at this step, the problem you face is the conflict between an inexperienced and inexperienced general manager and some of the veterans who have been there since the pioneering period... It's an internal conflict."
"That's when your courage comes into play. What is courage... If you can fire them all and quickly organize a structure to support the company's operations and not be paralyzed, that's courage. That means you have complete control over the company."
"… Let's talk about strategy. Go and observe a company called Wal-Mart. When you visit the grassroots level, use this multinational company as a reference for comparison. Try to understand the company's history and how it operates… Then tell me later, when you get the company, how will you play it?…"
Swish, swish, swish!
Swish, swish, swish!
After finishing writing, Xie Feibai raised his head and looked at Cheng Ran, wondering, "Did you take a similar elective course at HKUST and continue this course?"
"What?"
“It’s like a business course… I feel like a university professor is telling me about topics and related papers… And this university professor is a very niche one.”
"… "
Xie Feibai closed the notebook, put it away, and shook it in his hand. "I'm just using these things for reference. For reference only."
That expression meant, if I create my own fighting style in the future, it won’t be entirely your credit, it’s because I was born to be a general.
…
Xie Feibai should be confused now. His family gave him 30% of the shares of the Nanzhou branch, but no one ever told him what he should do and how to do it.
"About Xie Feibai, Boss Xie, are you setting a trap for me?"
During the phone call from Xie Houming, Cheng Ran had a pleasant chat with him and then mentioned this matter in a joking tone. Xie Houming was privately called Boss Xie by his subordinates, and Cheng Ran felt that calling him by this "nickname" was more convenient and the communication between the two was smoother and more barrier-free.
"Xie Feibai actually has many places to go. He can go abroad to gild his reputation... just like many people suggested to me... but I think it's meaningless. Instead of letting him gild his reputation abroad without anyone being able to control him, I think it's better to send him to Nanzhou. It would be more practical to have you as his backer."
As expected, this is really a plan for me.
"Is it meaningful for you to run the Tianxing Dojo? I heard from Jiang Zhou that it started as the first theme coffee shop in China, and then it became an Internet cafe that integrates Internet cafe and coffee. The business was booming, and then it became the concept of Garage Coffee Entrepreneurship Base. As a result, you took advantage of the situation and joined forces with a group of people from Garage Coffee to create Blue Dot Linux, which was listed in the United States. I read the report that it was the first in China and created five billionaires. These... And then Yanhua's "housing reform movement" was originally a concept you came up with, right?"
Xie Houming said this on the other end, and from what he had sorted out, he probably had a sense of immersion in the fact that there was always someone higher than Cheng Ran.
So the feeling of substitution fell on Xie Feibai. This guy is in trouble.
This is no longer about test scores, this is the 2.0 version of other people’s children.
"Well, since it was you who proposed it, whoever proposed it should solve it. Yanhua's "housing reform movement" is a face and a window in Nanzhou. As for Xie Feibai, he should also have plans and responsibilities in his life. If he can take on the shares of Nanzhou Yanhua Company, then he should do what he can. If he can't do it, then he will just be a figurehead. Don't expect him to do anything in this regard."
Cheng Ran understood. This was to make Xie Feibai, in the eyes of these people, hang the title of "young marshal". If he could make it, then Nanzhou would be the stage for him to break out of his cocoon, and the trial field for General Xie.
Cheng Ran thought about it and said, "Am I being too anxious? After all, he just started college. Is college a waste?"
"Don't worry about his school. I've already contacted the school. Even if he doesn't go to class much in the past few years, he won't be late for his diploma. Besides, what does it mean to not waste time in college? Do you think he really finished his studies honestly in college? I know him. This kid will not stop after seeing what you did.
Then let him do it.”
The key is that I can't tell him to do this. Anyway, my old man is the one who is responsible for everything, so how can I do something so desperate
What I want to tell him is that you have to fight for things yourself. If you can't get them, then you can only eat and drink well in this life.
As for ideals.
That is something that only noble people can possess.”
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