this man is not calm

Chapter 466 Secretly assassinating Chen Cang
As the business grew bigger and bigger, Jin Shang was in great need of assistance from experienced, capable, and less troublesome old employees like Hong Renquan. Unfortunately, he was getting old and had reached retirement age, but Jin Shang forced him to stay for more than two years, retiring to the second line and ordering him around without complaint. That was already quite nice of him.

The shortage of senior talents will exist for a long time, and only Jin Shang can personally take care of many things to ensure the normal operation of each business line.

Soon Wei Shuangping will end her vacation, return to work, and take control of Jinxi Mall again.

Liu Yanqing's long vacation had already stretched Jin Shang financially for a while, and Wei Shuangping's temporary departure made him even busier.

CSSC Electromechanical has been rooted in Jiaoao for decades, and has split off two unicorn companies with good development prospects, Xingdao Marine Chemical and Planetary Intelligence. It is also a well-known listed company. It once declined to the brink of passive delisting, not because of its lack of strength, but because of the sluggish international shipping and marine markets, coupled with the high domestic financing costs, which made it unable to sustain itself.

After surviving these two years, under the command of Jin Shang, the team has grown stronger step by step, showing extraordinary vitality.

Even during the decline in the secondary market from last year to this year, the stock price remained strong, and the total market value remained stable at around 5 billion and did not continue to fall, proving that investors are still optimistic about its prospects.

"If only I were ten years younger!"

After chatting for a long time and seeing Hong Renquan off, Jin Shang leaned lazily in the boss chair, sighing constantly.

It is not always possible to find executives who are truly capable and suitable for one's own company. The new chairman of CSSC Electromechanical was recommended by Hong Renquan and recognized by Jin Shang. He is very capable, but his shortcomings and restless spirit are a bit of a headache.

Fortunately, Jin Shang is not a major shareholder who has been sidelined, so he can suppress the undercurrent that is ready to stir.

"Without Hong Renquan, the senior and experienced person who serves as a bond, the friendship is basically gone. From now on, it will be a matter of interest and facts."

According to the current securities law, the same person can hold positions in different listed companies and even become the chairman, but there are many restrictions. In order to avoid suspicion, most entrepreneurs will not do so.

In the future, Jinxi Culture's attitude towards non-core businesses will be to manage them indirectly through holding, so it is very important to select senior executives such as the chairman and executive CEO.

Since he had no one in the "smuggling group" and no foundation of "disciples and former officials all over the world", and he did not want to compromise with Huang Zhengkuo, he could only hope for internal training and promotion and trust his own vision.

Fortunately, we have the "Golden Broom" to help find and fill in the gaps, otherwise, there would be so many things to do that we would be overwhelmed.
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In June, the sun was scorching and it was raining in several provinces around Beijing, but the land of North China, which had been suffering from drought for a long time, was eagerly waiting for rain, but it did not get what it wanted.

Fortunately, the water conservancy facilities are basically complete, irrigation is not greatly affected, and the overall situation is relatively stable.

Further south, the rivers are also prone to floods and droughts. From 1972 to 1996, the Yellow River dried up for 19 years.

Last year, in 1997, there was no such thing on the surface, but this was only the result of "technical" statistics.

Using formal measurement and observation methods, the net flow rate obtained is less than one cubic meter per second to be counted.

In fact, there are not so many "operating methods" to cover it up.
It is generally acknowledged that the river dried up substantially every year from 1972 to 1996, especially in 1996 when the Lijin Hydrological Station recorded seven dry-ups that lasted for 136 days.

Last year was 1997. Nominally, no similar data was released and most people didn't care much about it. But the data Jin Shang found was that the Lijin Hydrological Station recorded a total of 226 days of dry flow, setting a new record since monitoring began.

The situation this year is not as exaggerated so far, but it cannot be said to be better either.

At the same time, the south was suffering from heavy rains and floods, and all walks of life donated money to provide help. Jin Shang donated 5 million in cash and equivalent materials in the name of the company, and personally donated 10 million, and provided a lot of help within his capacity.

My future father-in-law also visits me from time to time. Although it is not in the most dangerous area, it is still too inconvenient.

"With this approach this year, the construction of water conservancy facilities in the middle and upper reaches of the river will probably be accelerated!"

After taking a sip of the slightly sour apple juice, Li Xuan closed the web page, shut down her laptop, and asked curiously,
"Do you think...will it get better?"

"It's not a big problem. We have to trust the stability of the river defenses. At most there will be some damage, but overall there will be no problems."

It’s a different era now. As long as we deal with the problems of floods and droughts properly, we will be able to overcome them.

"That's good. I was worried that my hometown would be flooded. When I was a child, I heard many stories from my elders about how the water level rose to a certain place in a certain year."

If there were no human interference, the ancient Yunmeng Lake area would actually be a regulating reservoir for the river. If the situation were really bad, the consequences would be hard to predict.

“I believe that the country is very effective in dealing with this kind of trouble.”

Not only the Yangtze River Basin, but also the Pearl River Basin and the Songnen Plain have encountered some troubles to varying degrees, but not as serious as those in the Central Plains. Those who are suffering from drought are dying of drought, and those who are suffering from floods are dying of floods.

Moreover, this abnormality is not only occurring in the Western Pacific region, but is somewhat out of the norm all over the world.

"I remember that in my previous life, after the millennium, the situation gradually improved. Coupled with the regulation of large-scale water conservancy hubs, it is rare to see the whole family, young and old, working together to carry soil to the embankment with dustpans! I hope there will be no accidents in this life. Global climate anomalies are troublesome!"

The El Niño and La Niña phenomena often appear together. When one place becomes extremely rainy, the other place will be barren. Or if there is "El Niño" this year, there will be La Niña (Little Girl) next year.

As for the results of academic discussions, experts always like to attribute it to excessive carbon emissions, which have led to rising global temperatures, disrupted atmospheric circulation and abnormal ocean currents.

At this point, the trend of green electricity, new energy, and low-carbon environmental protection has been completely formed. Developed countries occupy the moral high ground, while developing countries are locked in resource usage quotas, which means their "right to development" is restricted.

There are only a few countries and regions in the world that are eligible to compete for carbon emission shares. Others, such as Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, can probably only provide basic resources.

The establishment of the World Trade Organization, under the framework of global division of labor, is the last major event in nearly a hundred years to reshape the global order. It is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but were quickly suppressed. Jin Shang also withdrew his gaze from the computer screen, stared at Li Xuan's bored face and smiled:
"Isn't it a bit boring?"

"Hmm! I thought it would be different from the office, but...no surprises."

"You were the one who said you wanted to experience working in a high-end internet cafe and try out the regional hotspot and wireless network card. So here we are, aren't we?"

"Some of my acquaintances from my hometown were introduced to work here. The working environment is pretty good. My cousin's family is among them. Haven't you met them?"

"Oh! I remember now!"

There is such a thing!

Working in an Internet cafe is a bit tiring, but not too hard. After training, you just need to collect bills, contact logistics, clean up, maintain order, etc. Apart from network management and computer repair, there is no technical content. The company basically adds bonuses, which are 650 yuan or more per month. If you work hard, you can get more than 700 yuan.

Working in cities near my hometown, a monthly salary of three to four hundred is very common, and this is the salary only for formal workers. For temporary workers, outsourced workers, and daily wage workers, people are scrambling to do jobs that pay only ten yuan a day.

In comparison, the treatment in Beijing is already very good.

The main reason is that Jin Shang does not want to recruit some "Rune girls" and "spirited guys" of questionable quality. Young people with the Shamatte style are considered to be untidy and are refused entry into high-end Internet cafes that still maintain a relatively high style.

Different from the smoky and dirty cheap Internet cafes of the future, Jin Shang's self-operated Internet cafes serve business elites, technology enthusiasts and heavy gamers who have money and free time, with a typical petty bourgeois style.

How much money can a street urchin have to afford to pay more than ten yuan for an hour of internet access?
The service staff working here naturally cannot just take up their posts casually, and they have to sign formal labor contracts and are basically full-time.

"You, you don't care about people you don't care about. You even toasted them at the engagement party!"

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it. But once you mentioned it, many details came to mind. I'm not that forgetful. I remember it very clearly. Even if you have a big family and a big business, it's inevitable that you have poor relatives who are not doing well!"

"There are many children at home, and someone is always sick. After a while, I can't bear it anymore, so it's normal to go out to work."

"Bad luck and misfortune! It's not a problem to arrange some positions for them when they come here, but whether they can stick with it and go further depends on themselves."

For non-core businesses and unimportant positions, it doesn’t matter who does them, and it’s okay to arrange some people with connections to do them.

As he spoke, Jin Shang raised his head and looked around.

“More and more people are playing Fengshen. It looks like it’s really popular!”

The computer fees in directly-operated high-end Internet cafes are very expensive, and the food consumption is not cheap either. The expenses are much higher than those of most small and medium-sized Internet cafes and computer rooms. Among the business elites who come here, the proportion of those who play online games is relatively low, and not many of them spend their time for entertainment during working hours on weekdays.

Even so, nearly 30% of the computers are running online games, and some people come together to level up, whispering to each other and discussing something from time to time.

"I don't think these people are short of money. They probably have computers at home and can afford high-speed broadband. Why do they come to the Internet cafe in a group?"

"Online games are both electronic games and a form of social interaction. Coming here provides the atmosphere, and more importantly..."

Jin Shang smiled and responded confidently,

"Each operating unit of the self-operated Internet cafe and the Internet cafe alliance has built a secondary central base server, which is different..."

"Is this the P2P distributed network data transmission technology you mentioned?"

"Correct!"

The nature of online games determines that issues of security, stability and scalability will always exist, that is to say, there are flaws such as viruses (malicious programs), operating bugs and plug-ins. So just relax a bit, apply patches slowly later, and use peer-to-peer network node servers to provide auxiliary resources first.

In this way, the pressure on the game servers in the data center is greatly reduced, and a lot of the burden is shared by the Internet cafe computer rooms and the computers of each player.

Reduce server pressure, reduce latency, and reduce costs.

The implementation of the "three reductions" has resulted in the performance and speed of computers in Internet cafes not being advantageous. In fact, when there are a large number of people, they are slightly inferior to home broadband. However, the gaming experience of players is significantly better.

Loading is smooth, no lag, and there is no delay in map switching.

With so many advantages, players are naturally willing to come to high-end Internet cafes to play "Fengshen", call friends, form teams to defeat BOSS, earn gold and equipment, PK siege cities, etc., it's so fun.

"There is another advantage. The performance of computers in Internet cafes is not necessarily very good. Compared with mainstream configurations, they do not have an advantage, but customers feel that the experience is better. The reason is that the computer room of the Internet cafe, or even the remote server, bears part of the data and computing power."

There are always idle resources in the local area network, and rational use is the key. If you just pursue configuration, the operating costs of the Internet cafe will be high.

If it was just for making money, Jin Shang would not have needed to go this far for the Internet Cafe Alliance.

Bai Ze system, online games, instant messaging, online media, music system, e-shopping, offline life, etc. all require a carrier to operate.

"Is this possible? You are so cunning!"

"IT technology is a miracle of combining software and hardware. If we have the resources, why not use them?"

Facing his fiancée's teasing, Jin Shang shrugged nonchalantly and said,

"Internet cafes are a very profitable business. Although the upper limit is very low and there is no threshold to enter, if you want to be successful, you still need some real skills."

Testing and promoting new technologies is one aspect, but Jin Shang also wants to see to what extent this earliest business opened by Jinxi Culture has developed.

"Are you still satisfied with the current situation?"

"It's okay! Liu Yanqing and Yin Feiyang have been taking turns to manage it. In the future, we still have to pay more attention to it. The next five years will be a period of huge profits. It will not be outdated in ten years. After that, whether it can become bigger and stronger depends on your own ability."

"Online games are a new form of entertainment and recreation. More and more young people are addicted to them, driving the vigorous development of the upstream and downstream industrial chains. They will be one of the important pillars of the future cultural industry. Now, with the popularity of "Investiture of the Gods", the average daily online time of single-machine users in Internet cafes has steadily increased, and revenue has also increased rapidly."

Perhaps before long, "Fengshen" will break out of its circle, go beyond the attention of video game players, and become a real social phenomenon.

"It's too far away for me to see! But I always thought you were hoarding shops by opening high-end Internet cafes. After all, the properties of the directly-operated stores are all yours..."

Just open an Internet cafe and pay the rent. What’s the big deal about buying a store?

Too much money to burn?

(End of this chapter)