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

Chapter 671 WPG Charity Debt: Subsidizing Meal Allowances for Impoverished Students? Too Many Loopholes! The More You Do, the More Mistakes You Make?

Zhuang Xiaomeng sent a message to her roommates in the dormitory group to ask if they had moved out. She said that she was still mainly living in the dormitory and that she had a good relationship with her roommates.

Zhan Xinyue: I remember quite a lot.

'Zhan Xinyue: The previously released list of impoverished students was a long, densely packed page.'

Dong Jinzhi: I think there are many impoverished students in our school, at least two thousand, the list is really long.

Xiao Yunxi: Actually, some of the poor students in our school are quite something.

Xiao Yunxi: All I can say is that some people are receiving subsidies for impoverished students; it makes me shake my head!

Zhuang Xiaomeng: Thank you, sisters! I'll bring back milk tea for everyone later.

Crescent Moon: Are you coming back today?

Dong Jinzhi: President An is here, right?

Xiao Yunxi: Hehe, we already guessed it was President An coming!

Zhuang Xiaomeng: She probably won't be back tonight. We'll see how things go tomorrow.

Dong Jinzhi: My dear sister, keep it up!

Xiao Yunxi: If we become rich and powerful, let's not forget each other, sisters!

Zhuang Xiaomeng: How about I treat you to a weekend getaway at a guesthouse?

Xiao Yunxi: Best sister!

Dong Jinzhi: Sisters, you're so generous!

Zhan Xinyue: You're like a sister to me now!

The rooftop barbecue at Guyanxinju Homestay is now open for business, and thanks to the limited-time "Business Prosperity Card," business is currently quite good.

Zhuang Xiaomeng didn't hide these things, so her roommates all knew about them.

"President An, our school has quite a few students from impoverished backgrounds." Zhuang Xiaomeng said as she opened the school's official website and found the page announcing the list of students from impoverished backgrounds.

East Soford College will publish the list of students from impoverished backgrounds and may even release detailed information about their poverty.

An Wuyang glanced at the densely packed list of impoverished students and then asked, "Do you know how much the subsidy our school provides to impoverished students?"

Zhuang Xiaomeng replied in the negative, "I don't know."

Zhuang Xiaomeng did not meet the criteria for a student from a poor family, and she did not pay attention to related matters.

An Wuyang didn't ask Zhuang Xiaomeng to inquire further; instead, he directly dialed the phone number of Lin Dongyuan, the principal of East Soford College.

After the call connected, Lin Dongyuan greeted him warmly and eagerly, "Good afternoon, Mr. An!"

"Principal Lin, I have two questions to ask you." An Wuyang got straight to the point.

"The first thing is, when does our school's holiday start again? And when are the final exams? Are they open-book or closed-book?" An Wuyang asked the first question, mainly because it was related to the school's final exams.

Lin Dongyuan quickly replied, "I was just about to talk to President An about this. Our college's exams are on the 13th and 14th, and we'll have a holiday starting on the 15th. Registration will be on March 5th and 6th, and classes will officially begin on March 7th."

"This exam is an open-book exam. If President An has the time, we hope he can return to the school to take the exam," Lin Dongyuan added.

"Please rest assured, Mr. An, we have arranged everything." Lin Dongyuan added explicitly.

The so-called "pre-arranged" approach, coupled with the fact that it's an open-book exam, probably means the answers were already pre-arranged for An Wuyang, right?

As long as you are safe and sound, you can simply copy the answers!
An Wuyang figured the final exams were the day after tomorrow and the day after that, and since he was in Tianfu, he agreed.

“Okay, I will go back to school to take the final exams,” An Wuyang replied.

Lin Dongyuan breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that An Wuyang could take the final exam. If An Wuyang couldn't take the final exam, he would have to think of other ways to get An Wuyang a high score.

"Thank you, Mr. An," Lin Dongyuan said politely.

An Wuyang suppressed a laugh. He was studying at East Soford College. He was going back to school to take his final exams and he wanted the principal to express his gratitude, right?
"There's another matter. How many students in our school are from impoverished families, and how much financial aid do they receive?" An Wuyang asked again.

Lin Dongyuan was secretly curious as to why An Wuyang was interested in such things.
However, Lin Dongyuan still answered truthfully, "Our school has a lot of students from poor families. After all, we are a private school. Currently, there are more than 3,500 students from poor families among our students."

An Wuyang was surprised. There were so many?
East Soford College has a total enrollment of just over 20,000 students, and An Wuyang never imagined that there would be so many students from impoverished backgrounds.

Lin Dongyuan continued, "The percentage of students from impoverished backgrounds in our college is slightly higher than the average in Sichuan Province, which is understandable given the student selection process for private schools."

Lin Dongyuan didn't say much.

An Wuyang understood what Lin Dongyuan meant.

Private schools may have lowered their admission criteria to attract students with lower grades and earn tuition fees.

However, in this day and age, the probability of a child from a poor family achieving great success is extremely low. In families with poor financial conditions, academic performance is usually much worse.

Therefore, East Soford College, which is privately run, has more students from impoverished backgrounds.

Lin Dongyuan added, "Our college's subsidies for students from impoverished families are the same as those in Sichuan Province, corresponding to [4500 yuan per year for students in extreme poverty], [3300 yuan per year for students in financial difficulty], and [2100 yuan per year for students in general financial difficulty]."

“These three levels of student aid are provided by the state. Our school also has two other levels, including 2000 yuan per semester for students in extreme financial difficulty and 1000 yuan per semester for students in financial difficulty. As for students in general financial difficulty, there is no school subsidy,” Lin Dongyuan added.

Lin Dongyuan secretly wondered if he was going to make donations to impoverished students before dawn.

If such a good thing were to happen.
Lin Dongyuan wouldn't try to profit from this; he has too many ways to do so and wouldn't make a mistake in this matter.

An Wuyang was somewhat surprised; the poverty subsidy seemed to be more than he had expected.
No wonder there is always so much controversy surrounding poverty subsidies!

"What is the current payment system used in our school cafeteria?" An Wuyang asked another question.

Lin Dongyuan hesitated, not understanding what An Wuyang meant.

“Mr. An, I don’t quite understand what you mean,” Lin Dongyuan replied directly. “What I mean is, does our school’s cafeteria payment system require meal cards, or can we use mobile payments?” An Wuyang clarified the question again.

Lin Dongyuan responded, "In order to better manage the cafeteria's finances and improve payment efficiency and simplify the payment process, our school cafeteria uses meal cards as a payment method."

This is also the choice of most schools, because the reasons Lin Dongyuan gave are true. Although there are other reasons, these reasons are also valid.

"Are there security cameras installed in the cafeteria?" An Wuyang asked again.

Lin Dongyuan answered affirmatively, "As the cafeteria is an area where students gather in high density, we have installed surveillance equipment to ensure the safety of the students."

A security monitoring system would be even better!
After all, with a security monitoring system, if the earphones are lost, you won't be falsely accused.

"Does the cafeteria's security monitoring system have facial recognition capabilities?" An Wuyang added.

Lin Dongyuan hesitated for a moment, but still chose to answer truthfully.

"Yes," Lin Dongyuan replied affirmatively.

Facial recognition technology is now widespread and is not a high-tech innovation, which is why East Soford College's cafeteria monitoring system incorporates this feature.

"Through the cafeteria's security monitoring system and payment system, can we find out how much money a specific student spent in the cafeteria, and how many times they went to the cafeteria during the corresponding time period?" An Wuyang asked for more detailed information.

"Yes, theoretically we can do that, but we don't have that statistical function at present," Lin Dongyuan explained.

An Wuyang immediately instructed, "Then let's take advantage of the winter break to develop this feature."

"We need to understand and count how many times students went to the school cafeteria during the corresponding time period, how much they spent each time, and how much they spent in total," An Wuyang added.

Lin Dongyuan chimed in, "Should we record what each student ate for each meal?"

An Wuyang retorted, "No need!"

Recording exactly what students eat for every meal is just too much!
“President An, you need this data before dawn,” Lin Dongyuan probed.

An Wuyang responded, "Don't worry, we at Wujingtian won't do anything strange in the school cafeteria. We at Wujingtian are preparing to launch a charity project."

“This charity project mainly helps impoverished students who truly need assistance,” An Wuyang added.

"The data I asked you to collect earlier was to determine what kind of students are truly impoverished," An Wuyang continued.

"Based on my understanding and the actual situation, we plan to select students who eat in the cafeteria more than 60 times a month and whose average spending per meal does not exceed 7.5 yuan as the students we need to help," An Wuyang explained the relevant rules.

Lin Dongyuan asked in confusion, "Why 60 meals?"

"Two meals a day," An Wuyang replied.

Some impoverished students really do cut back on food and clothing!

Lin Dongyuan suddenly realized that if he ate two meals a day, eating in the cafeteria 60 times a month would be almost equivalent to eating in the cafeteria every day.

"So how does President An plan to help these impoverished students?" Lin Dongyuan asked curiously.

An Wuyang replied, "We will directly recharge 600 yuan into the meal cards of these impoverished students. They do not need to prove that they are impoverished, nor do we need to disclose their information. They can receive a 600 yuan meal card recharge subsidy simply by meeting the above conditions."

Lin Dongyuan discovered a new problem: "What happens in the second month after receiving the 600 yuan subsidy?"

"How do we determine the poverty standard in the second month?" Lin Dongyuan added.

"If student A meets our poverty criteria in the first month, we will directly provide a subsidy of 600 yuan. In the second month, as long as student A continues to dine in the cafeteria more than 60 times, they can receive the corresponding subsidy again," An Wuyang explained.

This time, Anwuyang has removed the 7.5 yuan limit for a single meal.

If this restriction is added, wouldn't the subsidy be wasted?

The purpose of the subsidy program for impoverished students promoted by An Wuyang is to ensure that these students can eat well and have enough to eat!
"In addition, even if students who previously received poverty subsidies spend less than 60 times in the cafeteria in the second month, we still need to contact the corresponding students to inquire whether there are any special circumstances," An Wuyang added.

"If the other party has special circumstances, the corresponding 600 yuan catering subsidy will still be issued," An Wuyang explained.

Lin Dongyuan sighed, "President An, there are at least 3,500 impoverished students in our school, and you're working so hard in the early hours of the morning."

Lin Dongyuan didn't finish his sentence, but he had already made his point clear: East Soford College has a relatively large number of students from impoverished backgrounds!

If we calculate based on 3500 people, and each person receives a monthly food subsidy of 600 yuan, then Wugengtian would need to pay out 210 million yuan in corresponding donations per month.

Even excluding summer and winter vacations, it's still close to 20 million a year!
In addition, Lin Dongyuan is unsure whether more people will try to take advantage of the catering subsidies promoted by An Wuyang.
After all, theoretically speaking, you only need to endure hardship for one month, and then you can get a monthly food subsidy of 600 yuan. Isn't that good?
The restrictions set by Anwuyang do not stipulate that only students from impoverished families can participate, right?
Some students from ordinary backgrounds can actually endure a month of poor living conditions with a monthly meal allowance of 600 yuan.

Besides, who said they can't eat something mediocre in the cafeteria and then order takeout?

There are huge loopholes here!
Lin Dongyuan could easily come up with a lot of loopholes just by thinking about them. These loopholes could very well turn a good thing into a bad thing, and might even affect the reputation of East Soford Academy.

If An Wuyang actually manages to pull this off, and the students at East Soford College turn this good thing into a bad thing and spread it online, then their college will probably become 'infamous', right?
"President An, please think it over!" Lin Dongyuan advised again, even pointing out the loopholes he had thought of.

"In addition, I am worried that the operation of the canteen will also change once such a meal subsidy program is implemented," Lin Dongyuan added.

“The current canteen is just a simple canteen, but after this meal subsidy is introduced, I’m worried that the canteen will diversify its development, including selling drinks, snacks, and even fruit.” Lin Dongyuan sighed.

An Wuyang frowned slightly. He had to admit that the problems Lin Dongyuan was considering were indeed real, and these problems were very likely to become a reality.

He pondered in silence, and after Lin Dongyuan's reminder, he had to consider whether to continue with this matter.

Because once this matter begins, it will affect the corporate image of Wugengtian.

If the good intentions of doing good deeds are abandoned halfway, then the pain point of public criticism will become the target of criticism!
This is a classic example of the saying: "It's better to do less than more."

After all, doing more things might lead to mistakes, while doing less things eliminates the chance of making mistakes.

If An Wuyang didn't do this, there would be no way Wujingtian would have anything to say about it, right?

So sometimes, it's no wonder that some people prefer to do nothing.

Because: I'd rather do nothing than make a mistake!

(End of this chapter)