Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 445 Internal Troubles
Is it actually a heart-to-heart talk?

Sun Miao was a little unsure of Li Yan's intention, so he said a few polite words:

"Recently, there are too many tasks that require you to make decisions. It is really stressful. Rest more."

"What kind of boss do you think I am?" Li Yan closed his eyes and didn't care that Sun Miao was still standing.

"Beyond imagination." Sun Miao said, "I am the most powerful person I have ever seen in my life."

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about when I was a 'boss'."

Sun Miao frowned. This kind of question sounded like a trap.

It is just like the ancient emperor summoning his ministers to ask, "How will history books evaluate me?"

Boasting is not sincere, saying some unpleasant things...

That just doesn't sound good.

Eh? How did I end up in this situation...

"As a boss... he is capable enough, respects his employees, and is very clear about paying them. He is a good boss no matter how you look at it."

“Do you need a good boss when managing a company?”

Asked to this point, Sun Miao did not dare and did not want to give an ambiguous response.

"From the perspective of employees, of course we hope to have a good boss," said Sun Miao. "We pay them enough and respect them enough so that they can be happy working for us. But from the perspective of management, as the old saying goes, in the business world, you can't survive if you are a good person. The same is true for management."

"Click me." Li Yan smiled.

Sun Miao hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head and said, "Boss Li, a company with hundreds of people is completely different from the days when we had only a dozen or dozens of people."

Then there was silence.

This guy still doesn't dare to say it.

"Brother Miao," Li Yan said, "You think I'm too opinionated sometimes, right?"

"……No."

"If you hesitate, you have it."

Sun Miao didn't say anything.

"Do you think that sometimes I basically don't consider your opinions at all and just veto them?"

"You certainly have your own ideas, and so far, your ideas are all correct."

"I'm not convinced." Li Yan opened his eyes and saw Sun Miao still standing at the door. "Sit down. I call you Brother Miao. Let's have a good chat."

Sun Miao nodded, pulled over a chair and sat down straight.

"Brother Miao, so far, does what future technology has given you match what you want?"

"I have absolutely no intention of being dissatisfied with the current situation. I was even a little apprehensive that you were willing to let me be the project leader."

Such a positive display of loyalty...

"Recently, you have been getting closer to Zhou Yang and a little more distant from Shang Jie." Li Yan did not respond, but just said this.

"It's not really... I just..."

Li Yan raised his hand. "Brother Miao, I just want to tell you that you said that the company with hundreds of people is different from before, but it doesn't make much difference to me. I could manage the cooperation of two teams before, and I can still manage it now."

Hearing the dissatisfaction in Li Yan's words, Sun Miao adjusted his breathing and said, "Mr. Li, in private, some personal opinions are always expressed... more strongly, but in fact, that's not what I mean..."

"I don't care about what you said." Li Yan sighed inwardly. Sun Miao is indeed young and not someone who can withstand the storm. He almost revealed the whole conversation before he even tried to trick her twice...

"I only care about one thing: whether the Jiaolong mobile phone project can meet my expectations." Li Yan continued, "From the beginning, I brought you in just for this purpose."

Sun Miao still couldn't figure out what Li Yan meant and remained silent.

"Anything else would bore me." Li Yan sighed, "For example, manipulating power is very interesting in the eyes of many people."

Sun Miao was nervous.

"What intrigues, what management experience, it's annoying." Li Yan waved her hand, "I accept the external needs, and I'll do it. If I need to consider this more internally, I won't be very happy."

"Mr. Li, maybe you misunderstood me. Maybe I didn't express myself well enough..."

Sun Miao panicked, and Li Yan basically made up his mind, and raised his hand to interrupt:
"I told you, don't bother with this nonsense. If I really have any misunderstanding, you can't walk through this door. I am a person who is very afraid of trouble. I would rather pay you more money than bother to tangle with you."

Sun Miao was completely stunned. He couldn't judge the meaning of Li Yan's words rationally. He couldn't hear what Li Yan meant by "I don't think you have a big problem". He only heard that Li Yan didn't feel any pressure about firing him.

"Mr. Li, if there is anything I did not do well, please correct me."

"I asked you to come here just to make it clear to you that my goal from the beginning to the end was only one thing, to make the mobile phone thing a success." Li Yan said, "To make a mobile phone that will go down in history, change people's lives, and make enough money to give me more freedom."

Sun Miao nodded.

"At the same time, I also hope to realize some idealistic things." Li Yan said, "Since the original intention is to truly change people's lives, we should not develop to the point where we are controlled by capital in the end."

"So, for all the decisions in between," Li Yan didn't give Sun Miao a chance to speak, "you only need to consider how to execute them, unless you can point out that I'm wrong. If it's just 'you think', then forget it."

So domineering?

Sun Miao was still struggling with how to express his opinion when he suddenly heard Li Yan say:
"You don't know the basis of my decision, and you don't need to know. Some things cannot be obtained by thinking alone. Sun Miao, maybe you think there are many things in this world that are 'reasonable', but limited by your current vision, you don't understand enough impression factors. What you think is 'unreasonable' may actually conform to the laws of how the world works."

For a moment, Sun Miao remembered the night when he saw Li Yanru possessed by a ghost.

Lost eyes, inhuman speed, mechanical and rigid posture...

Ever since that first glimpse, Sun Miao has been convincing himself that it was just an illusion.

Li Yan never said anything about this, and as time went by, she just kept it in her heart as an unspeakable anecdote.

But there was something wrong with what Li Yan said today.

To sum up, doesn’t it mean that Li Yan’s decision-making basis cannot be obtained by thinking alone?
But relying on some unreasonable things in Sun Miao's eyes?

Oh shit, what is that?
Sun Miao instantly broke out in a layer of cold sweat, even his shirt was stuck to it.

He felt a little dizzy, his eyes were misty, and he couldn't see Li Yan clearly. He even felt that the room was a little floating... It was like he was in a fairyland.

Could it be that Li Yan is really a deity from heaven? An alien? A person with super powers?
Or some fake person in human skin?
"Your glasses are fogged up. Are you so nervous?" Li Yan said with a smile.

Sun Miao was so scared that his whole body shuddered.

He just felt that there was a chilly and gloomy air in Li Yan's office... No, it should be a majestic and immortal air, which was not suitable for a mortal like him to stay there for long.

He didn't even dare to stay in Li Yan's office any longer. He expressed his sincere feelings while panting, and then left in a daze.

Seeing his state, Li Yan guessed most of what he was thinking.

It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. He had not originally intended for Sun Miao to think in this direction, so he was thinking of putting some pressure on him.

Now, this nominal first deputy should be stable.

Li Yan then called Liu Liwei and Bai Shuyun to the office, but these two were much easier to deal with.

It's just confirmation and reinforcement work. Liu Liwei's focus is to make him more confident, while Bai Shuyun's focus is to make him more proactive.

And he emphasized again that they were all directly responsible to Li Yan, and that Sun Miao and they had different divisions of labor.

Wang Zi also kept tracing back in Li Yan's analysis, recalling the various people who had communicated with Sun Miao recently, and found out the three people who appeared frequently between Sun Miao and Zhou Yang. "They actually mainly followed Engineer Zhou," Wang Zi frowned and said, "They did communicate more with Engineer Sun."

"When did you come in?"

“After the mobile phone starts production.”

"Let's open it."

Wang Zi was stunned. "No... observe it for a while?"

Li Yan waved her hand. "One factor is a coincidence. There is no need to waste time checking if there are multiple factors combined."

"The reason is..."

"No need for reasons. If they don't know themselves, they can come to me. If they can prove that they have no problems, they can stay."

Wang Zi nodded and left.

The office returned to silence.

Li Yan lay on the chair and closed her eyes again, muttering:

"We were so busy chatting that it was already past dinner time. It's really annoying to waste precious time on this."

In fact, the sense of disconnection that Li Yan feels is not just felt by other people.

He has one himself.

A sense of disconnection in the choice of life path.

Are your current achievements awesome?
The little cow is riding on firecrackers, it’s so cool.

The sales of mobile phones are much stronger than expected, and the speed is very fast and the momentum is very strong.

As of now, after the first wave of users are consumed, the sales volume should reach 15 million units. The sales volume of a single domestic mobile phone model exceeding 15 million is basically a legendary achievement.

But Li Yan’s efforts were not limited to one wave.

There are a lot of feedbacks on the use of Jiaolong mobile phone, but few people complain about "not having QQ".

The public opinion field is a battlefield that Xiao Ma Ge has always attached great importance to.

All I can say is that the lack of relevant opinions is not because he did not fan the flames, but because the fire could not be lit.

Penguin does have an exaggerated user base, but it has not yet dominated the smartphone market.

Because smartphones themselves haven’t dominated yet.

The number "tens of millions" is still far from the population. The group that buys smartphones is a specific group, including a large number of people who play with phones and companies that purchase them, and it is common for one person to buy several phones.

Of course, the most critical influencing factor is the difference in user groups.

Most of the people who use QQ are young people, especially students who have no source of income.

QQ on keypad phones is basically played by young people.

But the main buyers of Jiaolong mobile phones now are not young people.

The design of WeChat chat is as simple as possible, with simple functions. It can be said to be an integration of text messaging and phone calls, so the entry threshold is very low.

Simple pages are also more likely to be favored by the older generation. The more they are differentiated from the "QQ for kids" that they are not willing to use, the more these users will be interested in trying micro-chat.

Once they start using it, the trend of confrontation arises. QQ and WeChat are no longer in a life-and-death relationship of who monopolizes the market, but a differentiated competitive relationship.

By then, the elders who use WeChat will naturally let the young people use it as well. As long as Li Yan does not only consider the usage habits of the previous generation in the design of WeChat, making the software old-fashioned, he can even make the software synonymous with "advanced".

No one can't give up QQ.

It must be admitted that this design idea is somewhat influenced by memories of past lives.

Li Yan couldn't help but admire Xiao Ma Ge's clever way of competing with himself.

If it fails, it will consolidate QQ's position; if it succeeds, it will divert traffic from itself, thus completing QQ's internal revolution and providing an additional layer of insurance.

But now Li Yan has taken the lead in this step, and because there are successful cases in the past, Li Yan does not need to doubt the correctness of this path.

Therefore, now we just need to operate various platforms according to Li Yan’s plan and let Linjiang set an example first. As long as everyone can actually see what the “new life” looks like, they will naturally start to vote with their feet.

In addition, Li Yan is absolutely confident in the stability of the phone, the system has no bugs, the hardware remains stable, and combined with the publicity of the Linjiang user experience, there will inevitably be a second wave of sales peak.

After analysis, it’s all “inevitable” and “as long as”, which sounds a bit taken for granted, but in the final analysis, this is the result of previous step-by-step efforts.

It is not okay to be self-righteous, and it is also inappropriate to be self-deprecating.

When it comes to making mobile phones, Li Yan's strong logical and analytical abilities are telling him that it has been done.

The variables are things like the software platform not running well and the company's internal crash.

Li Yan took a deep breath and let out a long sigh.

“As long as” you do it well, you will “definitely” succeed.

Anyone who has struggled understands how precious this relationship is.

There is no destiny, no luck, everything depends on yourself.

Now there is nothing for him to break through or create. All he can do is manage and wait.

Take care of the troublemakers outside and the people inside who have ulterior motives.

Really boring.

In the eyes of others, Li Yan is a god-like person. They cannot see his upper limit, but they only know that he is expected to have a net worth of tens of billions before he reaches adulthood.

We should be content no matter what.

But Li Yan knew that he was a reborn person and had a cheat.

He himself couldn't see the upper limit, but this road was quite difficult to walk.

He also knew that he would never be content with the present.

10 billion is the end point for others, but it requires a lot of hard work in management and operation.

But for Li Yan, it was just one of the conditions he created for his subsequent self-improvement.

Yes, self-improvement.

This is the most important thing for Li Yan. He hasn't studied the system for a long time, and he hasn't calmed down and felt the pleasure of the "ding" sound for a long time.

The anxiety about time follows you everywhere and you can’t get rid of it.

And the increasingly exaggerated satisfaction threshold - if even the "soon" 10 billion fortune, an achievement that he would never dare to dream of in his previous life, has now become "just one of the goals to be achieved", then how should Li Yan's life go in the future?
He suddenly understood the intention of some of Wei Yili's questions. If he really turned self-improvement into an obsession and spent his entire life pursuing achievements and pleasures that ordinary people could not understand or imagine, then he would not be a person who could bring happiness to others.

"At every critical juncture in life, I always have some messy thoughts." Li Yan said self-deprecatingly, "The ancients reflected on themselves three times a day. It's not a bad thing to think more."

On June 6, the daily sales data of Jiaolong mobile phones suddenly showed a slight rebound after a continuous decline.

At first, everyone thought it was just a simple data fluctuation.

(End of this chapter)