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Quan Baoer from SMART Company comes to visit.

As they were old friends, Chen Chen received her directly in the small conference room.

"We have a new assistant, where is the original one?"

Looking at Zhou Xinyu who brought tea, Quan Baoer couldn't help but feel curious.

"I put it on Qishop for recycling, and got a lot of idle funds." Chen Chen smiled and took a sip, "Try it, this is the good tea your representative Li Chengzhu sent me, and it's my first time to drink it too."

"Ah, then I have to taste it." Quan Baoer imitated Chen Chen and took a sip, "Hmm~ It's really good. Representative Li really has good stuff."

"I just don't know if this was sent by CEO Li some time ago or recently?" Quan Baoer continued, "In the past few days, many people from SMART have come to C headquarters to give gifts."

"Really? I didn't notice it and didn't take it to heart." Chen Chen smiled and waved his hand, "I really don't know who came."

"Then do you know who didn't come?" Quan Baoer joked.

"I don't know about that either, but I think it should be no problem to check the visitor records." Chen Chen put down the teacup in his hand and said seriously, "Others are here to make friends, but Director Quan, as a direct descendant of Chairman Lee Soo Man, will definitely not do so."

"I'm here to discuss the contract signing date with you, and by the way, I'm here to ask if you need to prepare for a press conference." Quan Baoer asked three questions with a smile, "Finally, I want to ask if you are willing to accept the welcome ceremony we have prepared."

"Aren't these things decided by SMART?" Chen Chen narrowed his eyes. "You're asking me now so that you can throw all the responsibility on me, right?"

"That's not our intention. It's just that you are of such noble status that we dare not make a decision on our own." Quan Baoer responded.

"What does Stupid Hat Company mean?"

Chen Chen paused.

"S.I.P. wants to hold a big press conference in early November."

Quan Baoer stopped here and didn't even mention the welcoming ceremony.

"Okay, let's do it this way." Chen Chen had no objection. "Shamao Company just needs to set up the charter and send it to me two days in advance. I will definitely cooperate."

The welcome ceremony can only provide emotional value, and Chen Chen’s ability to penetrate into the internal structure of SMART is already the top emotional value.

"Then I'll call you Consultant Chen in advance, hahaha, I hope we can get along well enough in the future."

Quan Baoer smiled happily, without any falseness.

"Also, I want to confirm something with you."

Quan Baoer lowered her body and spoke in a low voice, forcing Chen Chen to move closer to her.

"You know what consultants do, what powers they have and what obligations they should fulfill, right?" Quan Baoer asked in a low voice.

"To be honest, I don't know anything." Chen Chen sat up straight, picked up the teacup and took a sip. "But I think there's no need for me to know, don't you think?"

Strictly speaking, it is not right, but he is Chen Chen, so it is right.

Regardless of whether Chen Chen is a senior consultant or the lowest-level employee in the company, his position in SMART is always second to none, which is determined by his status and what he holds in his hands.

As for who is the number one person in SMART, Chen Chen doesn't care.

"You're right. Consultant Chen really doesn't need to know too much." Quan Baoer's expression did not change. She was still so calm and gentle. "Anyway, welcome to start your one-year consulting career."

……

"So soon, I just went downstairs to have a cup of coffee and you're done?!" Shirley spoke loudly, and deliberately raised the bag in her hand when she walked, "Look at the ginseng tea I bought for you! You should pay attention to your health during the change of seasons. Look how good I am at taking care of you."

"Why does this sound so awkward?" Chen Chen slapped her on the butt, then took the ginseng tea and casually placed it on the table. "There's nothing to talk about anyway. I guess Bao'er came to see my attitude and show his face in advance. He doesn't have any other intentions."

"So what attitude did you give her?"

Shirley sat down at her seat and asked curiously.

"I put some pressure on her. I think Lee Soo Man should understand what I mean." Chen Chen sneered, "He actually sent Bao Er to test me. I think he didn't expect that there were so many people in Sham who welcomed me. He panicked for a while!"

"At least Senior Baoer is not qualified to test and challenge you." Shirley shook her head and sighed.

"But apart from Lee Soo Man, no one else at SMART is qualified. It would be the same no matter who comes, so it's helpless to ask BoA senior to come." After thinking about it carefully, Sulli felt that there were only a lot of complaints. "It's still your fault. There are not many cases of what you have come up with in the world now, and we can't deal with it!"

"Alas, it is our greed that has reached the highest point in our brains." Chen Chen sat down and tasted the ginseng tea. It tasted strange. "Lee Soo Man wanted to use me to benefit Stupid, but I think the benefit is Stupid himself."

"I just need to sit at the door of Stupid Company, and even if I do nothing, the stock price of Stupid Company will go up."

"If I do something good, Lee Soo Man will make enough money to fill his piggy bank!"

"It was very easy for me to gain benefits from SMART. Learning from experience and recruiting talents were all easy things after entering the inner circle. It was not difficult to stir up trouble inside and seize power or help others seize power."

"In fact, I just need to sit still. After the internal power grab happens, I will naturally receive a lot of benefits."

"It seems that neither of us is at a disadvantage, but..." Chen Chen touched his chin and fell into his own thoughts, "If we calculate it this way, it seems that Lee Soo Man doesn't like SMART at all."

Lee Soo-man also made money, and Chen also made money, so who lost money?

Stupid company suffered losses. As a separate entity, it suffered disastrous losses. It was sucked dry by its founder and ravaged by outsiders.

Knowing that this situation would happen, Lee Soo-man still brought Chen into SMART. This behavior does not show any love of the founder for the company.

But this seems to be the right way. Only this kind of Lee Soo Man can allow Chen Chen to match him with the person in his "memory".

In my memory, Lee Soo Man was rebelled against because he sucked the company's blood so badly that others could no longer bear it. During the struggle between the two sides, people's brains were beaten and splattered all over the floor. No one was decent. The loser Lee Soo Man was particularly disgraceful as he left with a large sum of money.

"Well, Lee Soo Man does not love SMART." Chen Chen concluded on his own, "Compared to the money, compared to himself, his love for SMART is far less."

"What are you mumbling about? And you're still talking about love!" Sulli pointed out the truth, "Teacher Lee Soo Man is a very successful businessman. It's okay for you to ask him to talk about feelings with business, but forget about talking about products."

"Oh, that's it."

Chen Chen smacked his lips and said nothing more.

"Hey, how did you arrange your new assistant?" Shirley was bored and talked to Chen Chen about something else.

"Just throw her together with Jin Liuran, what else can you do with her?" Chen Chen was a little puzzled, "What do you want to say?"

"What are you talking about?" Shirley rolled her eyes. "How can you arrange it like that? Who do you think of them?!"

"Be an assistant." Chen Chen was confused. "Is there anything wrong with what I did?"

"You forgot to consider one thing." Shirley slid her chair to Chen Chen's side. "Although they are both your assistants and are considered to be from the same unit helping you deal with problems, they are two people. Do you understand?"

"Their brains are not connected. They can't handle one half of a task and then hand it over to another smoothly. When this happens, they have to communicate, and such communication takes a lot of time and energy, which reduces their efficiency."

"You haven't given them much to do right now, so they haven't discovered this hidden danger. They even have time to be trainees. But if you give them more tasks in the future, they will definitely not be able to do it."

"As their employer and the client, you should either help them assign the right types of work or help them establish the proper order and tacit understanding between them. In any case, you can't just leave them alone."

"They are not mature enough, lack experience in dealing with various things at work, and there are certain problems in communication between them."

"Fortunately, our personalities are quite compatible, otherwise something unpleasant might have happened in just a few days!"

"So you realize your mistake?!"

Shirley demanded fiercely.

"Yes, I understand." Chen Chen said with a serious expression, "Then what should I do?"

"I don't know!" Shirley said confidently, "You can go if you want!"

"So you are only responsible for finding trouble, right?" Chen Chen was speechless for a while, "Okay, I'll think about it myself."

"Actually, there's nothing to worry about." Shirley calmed down and spoke slowly, "From now on, the work they face will not be difficult. After all, the things in the entertainment industry are not complicated at all, and you will handle the really complicated things yourself."

"So what you need to do is to train them until each of them has the ability to handle things independently, and then when you assign work to them, just explain it clearly and let them solve it separately."

"The reason I brought up the matter of your assistant today is to let you make your presence felt, set some rules, and provide some initial guidance so they can avoid taking detours."

"The sooner your assistants reach maturity, the easier it will be for you."

"Hiss~ I found it." Shirley felt that she had found Chen Chen's weakness. "You seem to be good at discovering people, but you don't seem to be very good at training people."

"Hey, you're right!" Chen Chen nodded his head generously, "I really don't know how to train people. I've discovered that a long time ago!"

"Haha, no wonder you always ask others to do things for you." Shirley laughed softly, "That's great, this self-knowledge has saved you a lot of detours on the road to entrepreneurship."

"It's terrible to be a rookie and not realize it, so I always think of myself as a rookie." Chen Chen patted his butt and stood up. "Let's not talk about this anymore. I'm going to talk to my two assistants and solve the problem you mentioned."

……

Just as Shirley said, Chen Chen doesn't need to solve the problem, he just needs to explain it clearly. The two assistants will find the best way to cooperate with each other.

"Let me give you a slightly more complicated task." Chen Chen said, and gave you an after-class exercise. "On November 1, SMART will hold a press conference to announce my joining as a senior consultant. This news will definitely be a big deal that day and everyone will know about it."

"But I have different requirements for this news. I want to highlight the fact that I joined SMART and blur the identity of senior consultant."

"We still have a few days here. You can figure out how to complete my task."

"In addition, I hope that you can complete this mission in person and understand the operating rules of certain things in the circle."

Chen Chen said this casually, because this was a mission where it didn't matter if he failed.

"Okay, Mr. President."

Jin Liuran was the first to reply.

"I will work hard." Zhou Xinyu's answer was a bit weaker.

"Also, that..." Zhou Xinyu slowly raised her hand, with an uncontrollable curiosity beneath her quirky expression, "I'm curious about something."

"Just ask."

Chen Chen nodded his chin generously.

"You are already the president of C headquarters, why do you want to join SMART?"

Zhou Xinyu expressed her doubts, and Jin Liuran beside her also turned his attention over.

“Because there are benefits to be gained.”

Chen Chen took the outermost appearance as the answer.

"But wouldn't you feel wronged as a big president to work as a consultant without real power in SMART?"

Zhou Xinyu obviously didn't care about the first question and couldn't wait to ask the second one.

"I am Chen Chen. Even if I enter as a cleaner, I am the second most powerful person in SMART besides the helmsman. I have real power." Chen Chen helped her change her mindset. "The legendary second in command of SMART. Does it seem okay to think this way?"

"The second in command with real power?"

Jin Liuran murmured and then suddenly covered his mouth.

I actually said out loud what I was thinking. Big mistake!
"If a person with a reputation joins SMART, he will definitely not become the second in command. He will probably just be treated with some respect on the surface. But I am in the same industry, a very powerful one, and I have the ability to back up everyone in SMART." Chen Chen patiently explained to her, "If I have the ability to back up, I can attract others to work for me, and naturally I will be followed by many people."

"For example, I asked someone from SMART to help me destroy a plan that was bad for C Headquarters. I told him that if he succeeded, I would give him a reward. If he was found out, I would guarantee that he would be transferred from SMART to C Headquarters without changing his position." Chen Chen gave an example cheerfully. "Do you think anyone would help me?"

"Definitely."

The two assistants nodded in unison.

"And with the attraction and capabilities of C Headquarters, it's not difficult to get to the director level." Chen Chen touched his chin, "For someone who can get the director to help him, it's okay to be the second-in-command, right?"

...(End of chapter)