Sail across the sea

Chapter 450 What was his name again, Xia something?
"Xiaomin, you are really amazing. I think all the student council members are impressed by you."

As Yang Kai walked through the campus after leaving the student council, he sincerely praised Gao Min.

According to Yang Kai's original idea, Gao Min was, after all, just a vocational school graduate who had always lived in a small county town like Cangtang. She would probably be nervous if she came to Peking University to contact the student union for business.

On the way to the student council with Gao Min, Yang Kai was still frantically making contingency plans, preparing to step in and negotiate on Gao Min's behalf if she was unable to deal with Jia Liuming and his group.

He felt that Gao Min's plan was a bit too audacious and might not be able to gain the cooperation of the student council. He thought of many reasons to persuade Jia Liuming and the others, but he was also a little uneasy, wondering if these reasons would be effective.

Unexpectedly, Gao Min didn't lecture the students with any grand principles. Instead, she took out 10,000 yuan and knocked them all unconscious. Then, using her remaining influence, she started giving orders and actually managed to get the deal done.

Just now, Jia Liuming had already agreed and was about to draft a plan to apply to the school's general affairs office for the voluntary painting of classrooms. He analyzed that this was practically a done deal, since the school wouldn't have to spend a penny, and it was an activity organized by the student council; the school had no reason to object.

The recruitment of students for work-study programs has been finalized. Gao Min agreed to pay each student 3 yuan per day, a standard that made the student council officers present's eyes light up, wondering if they should use their authority to reserve a spot for themselves.

The last item was about hiring reporters. Luo Wei and Chen Zhihong stated that if Xinglong Company could provide reporters with a relatively high travel allowance, they could hire reporters from at least 20 news organizations to cover the story, including but not limited to China National Radio, CCTV, and several major newspapers.

In fact, Gao Min really underestimated the power of the Peking University Student Union. To put it simply, for many years, the president of the All-China Students' Federation was the president of the student unions of Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Keep in mind, the All-China Students' Federation is equivalent to a department-level unit.

Of course, it is precisely because she was unaware of this that she dared to send the student council to run errands for her; this can be considered a kind of ignorance and fearlessness.

The student union handled everything; Gao Min's job was simply to provide the paint and conduct training for the painting business. She brought two engineers from her company with her to Beijing, enough to handle the training.

"I think the students at Peking University are of very high quality and easy to communicate with," Gao Min commented cheerfully.

Yang Kai laughed and said, "That's because they don't usually have much contact with people in the company, and they're not used to your way of doing things."

He said this because he himself had had such an experience.

He prided himself on being a free-spirited and easygoing person at school, but when discussing business with Gao Fan, he felt constrained for the first time in his life. Back then, when Gao Fan simply gave him a computer, he was stunned, feeling he couldn't refuse whatever Gao Fan asked. Now, thinking back, wasn't his mentality exactly the same as Jia Liuming's today?
People are only confident in their areas of expertise; they become reserved in areas they are not good at.

People like Jia Liuming can easily handle academic discussions or talk about the rules of conduct within the system when Gao Min talks to them. They can even use their high intelligence to overwhelm Gao Min.

But Gao Min was talking to them about things under the commodity economy, and she would throw money around at the drop of a hat, acting as if money could buy anything. Jia Liuming and his group were completely defeated.

"By the way, Xiaomin, Luo Wei asked you to prepare a press release for the reporters to refer to. Did you prepare one beforehand?" Yang Kai asked Gao Min, remembering something.

Gao Min said, "I'm not ready yet. However, I brought the news articles that Xiao Fan and his team published in the newspaper when they cleaned the Army Memorial Monument. I was originally thinking of imitating Xiao Fan and his team's propaganda methods to write our propaganda articles."

"Did you write it yourself?"

"What else can we do if we don't write it ourselves? I used to have the highest level of education in our company, even though I only graduated from a vocational school. Later, the company did hire a few engineers, some of whom had bachelor's degrees, but they all studied science and engineering. They really couldn't do things like writing press releases."

“How about I give it a try…” Yang Kai said hesitantly, then added, “But I’ve only ever written academic papers; I don’t know how to write press releases.” Gao Min smiled and shook her head, saying, “No need to trouble Dr. Yang. I’ve already spoken with Yuan Xiaoyan. I’ll show her Xiao Fan’s press release later and have her write one based on it. I told her that if she writes well, we’ll have her write all our company’s press releases from now on, and I’ll give her 100 yuan per article.”

"Ha!" Yang Kai laughed. "So that's why you were asking Yuan Xiaoyan so many questions earlier. I remember she said she was a Chinese literature major, so writing a news article should be a piece of cake for her, right?"

Gao Min said mysteriously, "My plans don't stop there. I have other ideas too. Can you guess what they are?"

"How could I possibly guess that?" Yang Kai gave up immediately.

Gao Min smiled brightly and said, "Dr. Yang, don't you think Yuan Xiaoyan is very beautiful?"

"Really?" Yang Kai feigned confusion, then thought for a moment before saying, "Now that you mention it, it does seem alright, but it's not exactly beautiful."

"You have pretty high standards," Gao Min teased.

"Not really, the main thing is..."

"What's the main thing?"

"Don't you think that just by sitting there, you've overshadowed all those girls?"

"Hehe, I didn't realize Dr. Yang was so good at talking."

"It's just being realistic."

"I don't believe it!" Gao Min said, though she didn't mean it. She was secretly pleased, but too embarrassed to continue the conversation, so she changed the subject and asked, "Dr. Yang, what do you think about me introducing her to Xiao Fan?"

"Introduce him to Gao Fan? There's no need. Gao Fan's writing is excellent on his own; he doesn't need anyone's help." Yang Kai rejected the idea without thinking.

Gao Min laughed and said, "Who said she should help Xiao Fan write articles? I think she could be introduced to Xiao Fan as his girlfriend."

"what!"

Yang Kai was dumbfounded. Women's focus is truly baffling.

"its not right."

After a brief moment of surprise, Yang Kai remembered something and said:

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten. I heard from Gao Fan's roommates that Gao Fan has a very good female classmate at Peking University, she's in the geology department, her name is Xia something..."

(End of this chapter)