Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 527: The Complex and Special Dong Jingban

Xi Wanqing didn't sleep well at night, and although she was not in a very good spirits when she woke up in the morning, she still had to do her work.

Before eight o'clock in the morning, after having breakfast and drinking a full cup of coffee, she coordinated with several other assistants of Dong Jingban before Xu Shenxue and several other executives of the group left, and contacted and arranged the specific itinerary for today in advance.

What we are going to inspect today is Yihai Technology's subsidiary in Guangcheng. There are relatively many things to do, involving some jumping videos and live shopping businesses, as well as related businesses of international shopping. These different businesses also need to be connected one by one and the relevant information and personnel need to be prepared in advance.

You can't just go there and stare at each other in front of a group of people, just walk around the office building, and then brag in the conference room. You have to see some practical things!
This requires coordination between their office manager and Yihai Technology Group.

As a multinational Internet company, Yihai Technology Group has a large number of employees at its headquarters in Shenzhen, as well as a relatively large subsidiary in Dongguan, which also has a large R&D center.

This is also the characteristic of many companies under Xu Shenxue. Although their headquarters are in Shenzhen, they generally have large R&D centers or administrative marketing centers in Guangzhou.

Just because Shenzhen and Guangzhou are close, we will not ignore the layout of Guangcheng.

First-tier cities cannot be ignored!

Not only is there a huge market here, but more importantly, these first-tier cities are gathering places for all kinds of talents, which makes it easier to recruit talent. It is also reasonable for major companies to set up large subsidiaries here.

Because today's inspection is about the business of Yihai Technology, Xi Wanqing can relax a little today. She will just be a regular staff member in the Dong Jing Office to help with some coordination. She does not need to be responsible for the specific matters. Instead, another senior assistant to the chairman in the Dong Jing Office will be responsible for it.

In Dong Jingban's office, Xi Wanqing was mainly responsible for the smartphone business in the early stage, and was responsible for connecting with the smartphone business of Zhiyun Group and Wecoo Electronics. Later, as she became more familiar with the work, her work was gradually adjusted, and she was also responsible for connecting with the entire smart terminal business.

Later, he also took over some semiconductor-related affairs, but overall he was still mainly responsible for smart terminal business.

The daily contacts are with Zhiyun Group's smart terminal business unit, Wecoo Electronics, Wecoo Industry, Wecoo Trading, Huaxing Technology and other business units or wholly-owned subsidiaries and holding companies in the smart terminal industry chain.

Today, Yihai Technology's business falls into the category of software and Internet business, and this business is managed by another senior assistant in Dong Jing's office.

However, although Xi Wanqing was not in charge today and was only helping her colleagues, in the small conference room downstairs, several senior managers from Yihai Technology Guangcheng Branch who came to coordinate were still very polite to Xi Wanqing.

Everyone called her Assistant Xi with respect, but no one dared to address her as Xiao Xi or anything like that... even though many of them were already in their forties or fifties.

They would not think that Xi Wanqing was just an ordinary assistant just because she was only an assistant in title... On weekdays, if Xu Shenxue did not go on business trips to inspect in person, it was actually the assistants in Dong Jingban who would inspect on behalf of Xu Shenxue and assess the business progress of these subsidiaries.

They are often accompanied by senior management of subsidiaries. When visiting medium-sized subsidiaries with a slightly lower scale, the CEO of the subsidiary is often the one to accompany them in person... Many persons in charge of subsidiaries are actually only at the M7 or M8 level.

If Xi Wanqing is successfully transferred to a new position in the future, she will basically be at the M7 level, which is not much worse than the CEOs of these medium-sized subsidiaries.

Although these assistants in Dong's office are all very young, mostly in their twenties or early thirties, and their ranks are M5 or M6, and they seem to have no real power, no one will look down on them.

In addition to the fact that these people are potential senior management candidates, it is also related to their work... On daily basis, they are responsible for reporting business-related matters to Xu Shenxue!

Although Xu Shenxue would also hold meetings with senior management of each subsidiary, have interviews and listen to reports, etc., there were too many companies under Xu Shenxue, and it was impossible for him to often summon the head of a subsidiary to listen to reports, let alone go and inspect them frequently.

How does Xu Shenxue know the daily operating conditions of these subsidiaries?

On the one hand, you can directly look at the summary report sent by the CEO of the subsidiary.

On the other hand, we will look at the research report of the assistant in charge of the relevant business of Dong Jingban.

However, the research report from Manager Dong is a bit more particular!
The same thing, if described in a report using different words, may give Xu Shenxue a different impression of the business manager!
This group of people, to a certain extent, control the right to speak. After all, how Dong Jingban's assistants write their research reports is decided by these assistants...If you piss them off, it will be a hassle if they make things difficult for you in the report.

After all, it is impossible to run a business perfectly. There will be successful projects, but there will also be unsuccessful projects.

It would be bad if someone downplayed your successful projects in their report but repeatedly and in-depth studied your failed projects!

Therefore, the management of the external subsidiaries are all polite to Dong Jingban's assistants... Of course, Dong Jingban's assistants are all smart people and will not do anything wrong.

After all, they will eventually be transferred to these subsidiaries, and in the future they will become one of the senior management of these subsidiaries.

Today he relied on the power of the director to mess around, and later he was transferred to a subsidiary company. How can he survive?

Besides, the other assistants in Manager Dong’s office were also keeping an eye on each other.

If someone comes here blindly today, the other assistants will tacitly tell Xu Shenxue about it that evening, not tomorrow.

There are only a few candidates for senior management that Dong Jingban chooses to train every year, but there are more than thirty people competing for them. Naturally, he would step on any of them he could!
Therefore, working in Dong Jingban is actually a test of one's abilities.

He had to demonstrate his abilities and value in front of Xu Shenxue, stand out among a group of assistants, gain Xu Shenxue's attention and promotion, and finally leave Dong Jingban's position and serve as a manager in a core subsidiary, and then gradually climb to the senior management level of the entire group.

At the same time, we must maintain good relations with the subsidiaries under our charge.

In addition, you must also build good relationships with other people in the director's office and unite your colleagues.

At least you can't let people complain about you every other day... Don't worry about whether other people complain about you or not, or whether Xu Shenxue hates villains or not. The important thing is not to let others complain about you every other day.

In this kind of situation, right or wrong is actually not important. In this kind of workplace environment, no one cares about right or wrong. What’s important is: you can’t let people complain to you every other day!
Because capable people will not let others complain about them every other day!

Whether it's making everyone convinced, or making everyone feel dissatisfied but afraid to act... or eliminating the threat in advance, any of them can prevent this kind of trouble.

For example, if a villain appears and wants to complain, then you should act decisively and squeeze the villain out in advance... Every year, there are a few unlucky guys in the director's office who are sent to unimportant subsidiaries to retire. As for why they are sent out to retire, there are many things worth talking about.

If you can kick the person who ruined your business to a small subsidiary to live out your retirement... this is a reflection of your ability!
As for not being able to find the villain, or not being able to get rid of the villain after finding him, what else can we say? It's just because of lack of ability.

He can’t even beat the villains in Dong Jing’s office, and yet he wants to be a senior manager in a subsidiary of a large group like Zhiyun Group... That’s just dreaming!

If you are really assigned to work in these subsidiaries, when you turn around to cooperate or compete with other companies, such as some large foreign companies, you will be killed by people from the competing companies!

Foreign competitors don’t play any moral game with Zhiyun’s management. If they get the chance, they will cheat them to death or even send them directly to jail - and that means literally.

Some of Zhiyun Group's management who were sent overseas are now facing legal troubles, with some even serving time in foreign prisons.

Money laundering, tax evasion, forced sex... all kinds of charges. Some are true, while others are traps set by competitors.

Of course, Zhiyun Group’s security and legal departments have done the same thing and sent many of its competitors’ management to prison for vacation.

We are all the same...

This is a daily activity for both sides, and it’s not a big deal... after all, no bazooka was used.

They didn't use rocket launchers or cause car accidents, but just framed others within the legal framework. This is already very restrained and is a controllable incident in daily life.

As for why this kind of thing still happened...well, we can't really expect Xu Shenxue and foreign financial groups to get rich together in harmony, right?

In many high-tech fields, competition is so fierce and conflicts of interest are almost irreconcilable, so it is normal to fight.

It's just that everyone is afraid of death. They say they are all decent people and shouldn't make things so ugly. They verbally agree not to use rocket launchers or anything like that... Especially you, Xu Shenxue, you should be careful and don't take out a rocket launcher to scare people!

But for some more 'gentle' methods, everyone should just do what they want...

Playing within the legal framework is already a very "mild" approach!
Therefore, it is not easy for senior management in charge of overseas business in Zhiyun Group, HaiLan Auto, Yihai Technology and some multinational companies in the financial field under Xu Shenxue.

It is difficult, risky, and requires very high abilities from people... otherwise you will be killed!

The Dong Jing Ban is training senior management, so the assistants are required to have very high abilities in all aspects. At least, a foolish young man can't survive in a place like the Dong Jing Ban!
Once any mistake was revealed, the other assistants in Dong's office would step on him in minutes without the senior management of the external subsidiary taking action. The assistants in Dong's office fought openly and secretly with each other, and Xu Shenxue, his superior, knew about it, but he didn't care!
This is what he acquiesced to!
This is an internal competition within the Dong Jing Office and one of the ways to screen senior management!

What Xu Shenxue wants is senior management that is flawless in every aspect… He can’t make it in a small place like Dong Jingban and is being ostracized, and he can’t unite his colleagues around him. How can Xu Shenxue believe that he can survive in a large group like Zhiyun Group?

You don't think there is no workplace competition in Zhiyun Group, do you?
For example, there are only a few M11-level senior vice presidents of Zhiyun Group. Such high-ranking and powerful positions are watched by a large number of M10-level group vice presidents.

Not to mention personnel changes at the level of senior vice president of the group, even personnel changes at a lower level like vice president of the group can easily lead to factional competition!

Therefore, the competition within Dong Jingban is also very fierce...and this fierceness also proves from another perspective the uniqueness of Dong Jingban's assistants.

The Dong Jingban of Liuhe Investment is a relatively large secretarial agency that assists Xu Shenxue in handling the business of various companies under its umbrella.

Different assistant directors are responsible for different businesses...The reason why such a large organization and dozens of assistant directors are needed is because Xu Shenxue has so many businesses.

The main businesses include smart terminal business, artificial intelligence business, semiconductor design business, semiconductor manufacturing business, semiconductor equipment and consumables business, software and Internet business, aerospace business, smart electric vehicle business, and medical and health business.

Then there are some secondary additional businesses, such as human resources business, financial business, financial business, domestic and international legal business, international relations and international public relations business...

Just pick a business group, such as financial and finance business!

This business department is responsible for connecting with Xu Shenxue's three banks, two insurance companies, six securities or investment banks, and more than a dozen large industrial investment funds... This is still on the surface, and there are a lot of messy secret offshore funds or investment companies in private... The above-mentioned financial-related subsidiaries are spread all over the world.

One of the three banks is located in the country, one is in Hong Kong, and the other is in Europe.

Two insurance companies, one in the country and one in Hong Kong.

Securities or investment banking companies are located in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe and the United States.

The same is true for industrial funds, mainly in China, but also in the United States and Europe.

Xu Shenxue's financial business is spread all over the world. It is mainly responsible for operating the huge cash flow of companies such as Zhiyun Group, Yihai Technology, and Hailan Automobile, and managing these huge cash assets to achieve value preservation and appreciation while ensuring the safety and allocation of these funds!

Many times, it is very troublesome to transfer large amounts of funds across borders, which involves many issues such as exchange rates, taxes, and foreign exchange supervision in different countries. However, global multinational companies like Zhiyun Group often need to transfer large amounts of funds across borders...and the funds involved are in the tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

The foreign exchange reserves of many countries are only a few hundred billion US dollars. How can you mobilize such a huge amount of funds at will and without hindrance?
This requires a series of legal and compliant financial operations, or operations that do not comply with the laws and regulations of the local country or region.

For example, if Zhiyun Group wants to acquire a company in Country A, it will need to spend 5 billion US dollars in cash...but the cash reserves in Country A are not that much, so it will need to mobilize the assets of subsidiaries in other countries to pay, or simply complete the transaction with the other company in a third country.

This involves very complicated issues of fund allocation!

It requires a large number of financial institutions and legal experts to complete!
It’s not that Xu Shenxue is going to use hundreds of billions of dollars today, and then find a bank account to transfer the money and be done with it... It’s not that simple.

Previously, Xu Shenxue and the American consortium were trying to decouple, and a huge amount of money of nearly 200 billion US dollars was paid in the delisting process... At the beginning, the money was prepared more than a year in advance, with various advance declarations and preparations, and a temporary bank working group was specially established. In the end, the bank group would provide the nominal transfer operation.

This is still at home. If it were outside, there would be more troubles.

For large global multinational companies such as Zhiyun Group, HaiLan Automotive, and Yihai Technology, smooth capital allocation and ensuring capital security are very difficult but very important.

Ordinary companies don't encounter this kind of problem... With such a small amount of funds, no one cares if you can move in and out freely... But Xu Shenxue's case is different. He has a large amount of funds. If Xu Shenxue's funds are allowed to move in and out freely, financial regulators in many countries will be afraid of him...

It could easily turn out like this: today Xu Shenxue has tens of billions of dollars of idle funds at his disposal, and he rushes in to buy up various securities or other types of assets, causing the local stock market to soar.

Tomorrow Zhiyun said it would invest in semiconductors and would use assets worth tens of billions of dollars. Then, in order to raise funds to transfer back to China, it began to sell off various local assets to raise cash for the transfer... Well, the stock market plummeted in minutes.

I can't let you do it so casually!
Therefore, in order to smoothly allocate funds on a global scale and ensure the safety of funds, Xu Shenxue was forced to set up a bunch of banks, securities or investment banks, and various investment funds.

Among the many corporate businesses under Xu Shenxue, financial business is just an additional business and is not a core business... After all, Xu Shenxue is involved in high-tech, not finance.

But even such an additional business is very large in scale.

No way, too much money...

From this financial business, we can actually appreciate the importance of Liuhe Investment, especially the importance of Dong Jingban... Such a large-scale financial business is just one of the dozens of businesses that Dong Jingban connects with.

The core staff in Dong's office, that is, the assistants, are also very special.

So whether in the company or outside, no one actually treats Xi Wanqing, the chairman's assistant, as an ordinary employee, let alone as an ordinary assistant or secretary.

Xi Wanqing herself manages a group of secretaries.

Xi Wanqing is an assistant in title, but in fact she is one of the middle-level managers in Liuhe Investment, and is also a candidate for training as a senior manager.

It's quite respectable... well, only in some cases.

At around nine o'clock, Xu Shenxue came downstairs with a group of senior managers from the group and appeared in the basement. Xi Wanqing could only wait outside with a group of staff from Manager Dong's office.

At this time, the small group of people who followed Xu Shenxue and talked and laughed with him were truly decent.

Now, next to Xu Shenxue is Ji Chenghe, senior vice president of Zhiyun Group. He is generally believed to be the second-in-command of Zhiyun Group.

On the right is Huang Jianian, CEO of Yihai Technology Group, who is in charge of Yihai Technology, the largest global Internet company in China and one of the largest in the world.

Next to Huang Jianian is Xu Libing, the deputy general manager and strategic investment director of Liuhe Investment Co., Ltd. He was previously the vice president of Zhiyun Group and the executive president of the strategic investment department. Later, he was transferred to Liuhe Investment and became the deputy general manager and strategic investment director...

He is responsible for managing various strategic investments of Xu Shenxue's companies. He has a huge influence in the international investment community, and many large companies and funds are eyeing him!
Some of the strategic investment behaviors he led are often analyzed in depth by the outside world and are considered to be important symbols of Xu Shenxue's entry into a new field.

Many outsiders say: If you want to analyze what Xu Shenxue will do next, just look at what Xu Libing is investing in!
But it is actually very difficult to analyze, because Xu Libing's investment fields are too many and too scattered... He invests in all high-tech fields. As long as there is something new, no matter what the future prospects are, Xu Libing's strategy is to invest first and then think about it...

How can other companies follow this kind of investment model of casting a wide net to catch fish? They can’t… because they don’t have that much money.

However, if you really think that Xu Libing is investing blindly, then you are underestimating him!
The reason why Xu Libing was able to stand out from a large number of competitors and become Xu Shenxue's investment manager is that he was able to perfectly execute various strategic investment businesses according to Xu Shenxue's future strategic direction every time.

When companies such as Zhiyun Group or HaiLian Automobile under Xu Shenxue are about to launch some major new products... the industry will be surprised to find that Xu Libing has already made a complete patent and supply chain layout for this new product in advance.

This was the case when Zhiyun Group launched its virtual device. Before Zhiyun Group publicly released the Yun VW virtual device to the outside world, it had already completed the patent and supply chain investment layout of the entire virtual device. All core components were either self-developed, acquired in advance, or obtained patent authorization.

But before Zhiyun Group officially launched virtual equipment, no one could analyze Xu Shenxue's intention to launch virtual equipment from these chaotic investment behaviors that seemed to cover the entire high-tech field...

This is the embodiment of Xu Libing's ability!
People like Xu Libing who always talk and laugh around Xu Shenxue are the core senior management around Xu Shenxue. If we use the management level of Zhiyun Group, they are all senior vice presidents of the group at the M11 level.

Those carrying bags and opening car doors on the periphery were all at the level of vice presidents and executive presidents of the group... As for Xi Wanqing and other people at the M5/6/7 level, they didn't even have the chance to get up and open the car doors for these senior vice presidents and could only watch from the periphery!

And Xu Shenxue in the crowd looked as dazzling as when Xi Wanqing first saw him!
Looking at Xu Shenxue who was talking and laughing in the crowd, Xi Wanqing inexplicably thought of her dream last night... and then a question popped up in her mind: if he really pursued her, would she refuse?
can you?

Does it really happen?

Xi Wanqing asked herself this question several times in a row, but she couldn't give herself an accurate answer.

This question is too difficult!

(End of this chapter)