The Super Rich: Start from when the family business is about to go bankrupt!

Chapter 615 WPG Lee Chia-chang: We are different! Having seen the vastness of the universe, I still cherish the green of the grass and trees!

It was just past noon.

After washing up and getting dressed, An Wuyang and Anna prepared to go out for dinner.

This time, Anna didn't drive herself. She and An Wuyang rode in the back of the Audi A6L. The restaurant they chose was none other than the seafood stall they had previously visited on the Bund.

While enjoying seafood dishes prepared at the counter, a message popped up in An Wuyang's childhood friends' group chat.

Li Jiachang: @An Wuyang: Brother Wuyang, are you getting a holiday for New Year's Day?

'Are you alright?'

'An Wuyang: Of course we deserve a holiday!'

'Peace and safety: The old rule for the early morning hours is: those who want to take a day off can take a day off, and those who want to work overtime can work overtime. Except for a very few key positions that require mandatory on-call duty, everyone else can take a day off.'

For example, the technical department must arrange for two people to be on duty during holidays.

Secondly, the security department needs even more staff on duty, and the warehousing department also needs staff on duty.

However, generally speaking, employees who work past midnight actually enjoy working overtime.

The reason is simple: overtime pay is indeed given for working past midnight, and it is based on the regulations for holidays, with double or triple pay.

'Li Jiachang: Brother Wuyang, I'd like to borrow the Tank 300 again.'

'An Wuyang: Are you going out to play again?'

Li Jiachang: Hehe, I recently made plans to go out with a female technician for New Year's Day. We're planning to go to Leiming Grand Canyon; you can drive right up there.

Li Jiachang: A three-day holiday is roughly enough for a round trip.

'An Wuyang: You better watch out!'

'An Wuyang: These days are dangerous. Don't let yourself be told, "It's nothing serious, just gonorrhea or warts. But then AIDS will come, won't it?"'

Lee Chia-chang: Holy crap!

Li Jiachang: Brother Wuyang, please stop scaring me!

Li Jiachang: We're different. For me, foot massage offers the best value for money; it's the optimal solution for someone like me.

Li Chia-chang: Look at Sha-zai, he used to insist on playing the victim, but now he's perfectly happy, isn't he?

Liu Sha, who was once a sycophant, was dragged into the bathhouse by Li Jiachang and underwent a complete transformation.

As for Ma Xinrong, the goddess he used to fawn over?

Who is that?
Unfamiliar!

An Wuyang: Okay! It's good that you know what you're doing! I'll send a message to the logistics department, you can go get the car keys directly.

An Wuyang's Tank 300 off-road vehicle, which he had previously acquired through the Happy Life System, had been parked at the Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group headquarters, and the car keys were left at the logistics department, since An Wuyang did not intend to drive it for a long time.

'Li Jiachang: Thank you, Brother Wuyang!'

After An Wuyang and Li Jiachang finished their conversation, the young foreigner fed her some mantis shrimp tail meat. She casually asked, "Is there anything work-related?"

“No.” An Wuyang denied it, then briefly explained the situation and his relationship with Li Jiachang.

After An Wuyang finished speaking, the foreigner leaned close to An Wuyang's ear and whispered, "President An, I'm very curious, with your status, why do you still keep in touch with your childhood friends?"

Logically speaking, An Wuyang and Li Jiachang are from completely different worlds. Their economic conditions are so different that their perceptions of various things would be completely different.

For example, Li Chia-chang likes 'personal computers/PCs', but An Wu-yang doesn't do that kind of thing.

For example, Li Jiachang taking foot massage technicians on a trip is something An Wuyang would never do.

If you rely solely on so-called 'childhood friendships,' you certainly can't maintain a lasting relationship.

When asked by the young foreigner, An Wuyang smiled and said, "My mother once repeatedly taught me a saying: 'If you only look at other people's shortcomings, you will find no one worthy of your friendship; if you recognize other people's strengths, everyone in the world can be your teacher.'"

An Wuyang didn't finish his sentence, but Li Wenya had also said: 'A truly intelligent person should know how to guide the good and evil within people's hearts, thereby making people's hearts and nature serve their own purposes!'

The second half of what I said is not suitable to be said publicly!
It can only be said that Li Wenya truly deserves to be called a family lawyer; she has an extremely clear understanding of these human nature issues.

“For example, Li Jiachang, he was my childhood friend. In our interactions, he was able to face the gap between us squarely and treat it calmly. At the same time, he was able to find contentment in his own way. That’s his strength,” An Wuyang explained.

“If I were to switch places with him, I might not be as open-minded and cheerful as he is,” An Wuyang added.

Of course, this is just a hypothetical scenario.

Because such an assumption is invalid from the start.

How to switch roles?

Memory, cognition, personality, and so on—these are things that cannot be forcibly interchanged, and there's no need to force assumptions about some things.

Li Wenya taught An Wuyang that when dealing with people from different levels, he should clearly see their strengths and weaknesses.

In Li Wenya's view, people are divided into five levels.

From lowest to highest, they are: bottom, grassroots, middle, elite, and top.

Among the lower classes, most people have problems such as being greedy, calculating, and mercenary. However, there are also ambitious individuals and some unruly and restless people among the lower classes.

Breaking the rules is seen as a bad thing by many, but why can't it be a good thing sometimes?

Everything has two sides.

For example, in dire straits, when one has to do certain things before dawn, the unruly lower class is the best choice!

The number of people at the grassroots level is enormous; the vast majority of ordinary people can be considered grassroots people.

Because of the "Baby Bottle Fun Project," this group of people enjoy gossip and fantasy, and are shallow, short-sighted, and lack the ability to think long-term.

Internet short video platforms are a powerful tool for exploiting these people.

In particular, short entertainment dramas are a golden scythe that precisely targets and harvests middle-aged women at the grassroots level.

But this group also has its advantages. Most of these people share a common characteristic: they are passively content. They belong to the group most favored by the top leadership. They are law-abiding and do not cause trouble.

As for the middle class
This level is a fabricated concept.

The concept of the middle class has successfully portrayed this group as more prone to vanity, comparison, and sycophancy.

However, this group also has its advantages. They usually have high emotional intelligence and are highly skilled at navigating social situations, handling interpersonal relationships very well.

The elite and top classes do indeed need them as a lubricant to ease relations with the lower classes and the grassroots.

When people reach the elite class, they also have many shortcomings, including but not limited to arrogance, meanness, and unrealistic ambitions.

However, the reason why elites are able to become elites is that they also have strong advantages, such as high intelligence, a love of learning and research, and a persevering and never-give-up character.

It is precisely these strengths that have propelled them into the elite class. How many people at the grassroots level would rather spend their time watching short videos than learning?

While watching short videos may provide a fleeting and false sense of pleasure, in the long run, the pleasure derived from short videos is ultimately meaningless.

This is why those at the grassroots level will most likely remain at the grassroots level and can never be considered part of the elite class.

Finally, there is the top tier, which is very complex and includes all sorts of people!

What else?
In fact, let alone the early hours of the morning in the past, even now, those early hours are only for the elite class, and cannot be considered the top level.

In addition, there are also hierarchical levels within the top level.
The term 'top level' is just a general concept. For those who are truly at the top of the pyramid, the 'top level' is merely an admission ticket.

Of course, An Wuyang was just going through Li Wenya's teachings in his mind about these conceptual things, rather than explaining them to the foreigner in their entirety.

After all, these kinds of family education tips can't necessarily be shared publicly.

If I were to reveal these things under the identity of An Wuyang, they might be misinterpreted and cause some trouble.

Even if An Wuyang is not afraid of these troubles and does not care about them, it would be best to avoid causing trouble.

After all, it's hard to judge human nature in this world. What if someone dislikes An Wuyang's remarks and that person has great power?

Therefore, An Wuyang did not want to create trouble for no reason unless necessary and without any benefit.

In response to An Wuyang's answer, the little foreigner exclaimed, "Your mother is really amazing!"

“We in the Xia Kingdom have a poem that goes: ‘Having seen the vastness of heaven and earth, we still cherish the green of grass and trees.’” An Wuyang added.

Anna speaks fluent Xia Mandarin, and she vaguely understood the meaning of the poem: "Does this poem mean that even those in high positions should have compassion for the common people?"

“Your way of putting it is not very good.” An Wuyang smiled. Although her statement was mostly correct, it was not very well phrased.

Such statements are likely to cause offense.

"To borrow a phrase from the internet, this line of poetry only talks about one thing: being 'down-to-earth'," An Wuyang added.

"Yes!" the foreigner nodded.

Towards the end of their meal, Qin Sheng called, and An Wuyang answered the phone.

"What is it?" An Wuyang asked.

Qin Sheng quickly replied, "President An, the matter you instructed me to handle privately has been settled. They have approved our application."

"Excellent!" An Wuyang praised.

"I'm leaving the rest to you, Lao Qin. You won't mess up something this simple, will you?" An Wuyang reminded him.

"Don't worry, it's absolutely impossible to mess it up!" Qin Sheng assured him.

"If I mess this up, I'll offer my head as a reward!" Qin Sheng emphasized the weight of his promise.

An Wuyang laughed and cursed, "The Great Qing Dynasty is long gone!"

"Um, Mr. An, I have something to say." Qin Sheng had just started to speak when An Wuyang interrupted him.

“I understand what you mean,” An Wuyang replied directly.

"You're so fast?" An Wuyang teased, deliberately speaking in a vague tone.

Qin Sheng complained, "I have three girlfriends, one of whom is a sports student. President An, I'm already thirty-two years old this year, unlike you young people."

An Wuyang suddenly realized that Qin Sheng was already a little old man in his thirties, and his attack attributes were indeed not as good as before.

“I checked the inventory. I’ll give you twenty bottles for now, but please be careful. Our inventory is also very low. We are currently calculating production costs, and the cost of the Vitality Restoration Factor has increased somewhat,” An Wuyang reminded him.

The so-called cost increase is, of course, a conclusion drawn from the single condition that the extraction yield per kilogram varies depending on the growth year of Morinda officinalis.

According to statistics from the Wugengtian R&D Center:

One kilogram of Morinda officinalis, which has a one-year growth period, can only yield 2 grams of vitality restoration factor.

However, one kilogram of Morinda officinalis with a five-year growth period can yield a full 30 grams of vitality-restoring factor.

The difference is fifteen times!
Although there is a five-year time difference, even taking into account the time difference, the corresponding difference is three times.

However, in reality, the yield of one-year-old Morinda officinalis is very low, while the yield of five-year-old Morinda officinalis is much higher.

Therefore, considering both time and yield per acre, there is indeed a significant cost difference if one-year-old Morinda officinalis is used to extract the vitality restoration factor.

However, using this calculation method to prove the increased cost of the vitality restoration factor is actually a fallacy of misrepresentation.

Using the value of the vitality restoration factor to inversely estimate the cost is putting the cart before the horse!

The real cost shouldn't be calculated like this!

The true cost calculation method only needs to calculate the human resource costs, land resource costs, seed or seedling procurement costs, management and operation costs, etc. required to grow these Morinda officinalis plants.

That's how you calculate the actual cost of Morinda officinalis.

However, if you calculate it this way, how can you make money in the early morning?

An Wuyang's goal is to subtly change the subject!
"Okay, thank you, Mr. An." Qin Sheng expressed his gratitude directly, not caring at all about the cost changes. As long as he got the twenty bottles of Liang Huanxi first, that was all that mattered.

Qin Sheng was well aware that Liang Huanxi was not openly sold to the public, and the five major distributors could not obtain the goods at all.

Currently, the fixed costs for two happy events only consist of four parts.

The first group consists of super clients, namely Musk and Ren Tianxiang of the Tyland Pufeng Lotus Group.

The second part is for personal use during the fifth watch of the night. Li Wenya is the biggest consumer, consuming nearly one hundred bottles a month. The consumption of Anhuchun and Anwuyang is also not low.

The third is the "Newborn Care Project" under the alias "Premature Birth Loan".

The consumption of this product has been gradually increasing. As of now, the consumption in December has reached 89 bottles, and it is expected that it will be only a matter of time before it exceeds 100 bottles.

These two benefits are simply expenses; it's unclear when the costs will be recouped.

Finally, there are the scattered channels, mainly Anwuyang giving away its products in small quantities at half price or as a gift. Qin Sheng is a standard example.

There's an unspoken rule in this mutually beneficial channel: reselling at inflated prices is prohibited.

For example, the two "joys" that Qin Sheng bought were for Qin Sheng's own use.

Taking this as an example, An Wuyang approved twenty bottles of Liang Huanxi for Qin Sheng. Logically speaking, Qin Sheng should have used ten bottles himself and then resold the other ten at a high price.

Under such circumstances, Qin Sheng could use the quota of ten bottles of Liang Huanxi for free, and might even make a small profit.

But how could An Wuyang have left such a loophole?
If this kind of channel is used to resell products, and An Wuyang finds out, then the product will inevitably be blacklisted, and the accountability may even be expanded, such as canceling the distributor's qualification.
Qin Sheng is a smart man; he wouldn't do something so stupid!

(End of this chapter)