Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 162 Resolve...and counterattack!

At noon by the lake, the warm spring sun poured down unreservedly, covering the entire lake surface with a layer of fine gold foil. The breeze blew, and the waves sparkled.

Because the weather has become warmer, more and more people are coming to the lake during this period.

The scenery of Peking University and Tsinghua University was as beautiful as ever. The weeping willows by the lake swayed gently, their slender branches dancing in the breeze, occasionally brushing across the surface of the lake, creating ripples. Groups of students sat by the lake, some chatting quietly, others reading quietly.

The scene here is full of youthful charm, but also has a sense of restraint and tranquility. It is rare to see noisy crowds. Even if you walk past the crowd, you can feel the tranquility that is unique to the country's top universities.

An Duoduo sighed slightly and continued the topic, "So it's obvious that the one trying to attack us from the inside must be Song Xinghai."

She sat on a bench by the lake, her fingers gently fiddling with the willow branches hanging beside her. She looked up at Li Xu and asked, "What should I do next?"

Li Xu smiled and said, "That doesn't matter." He also sat on the bench, leaned back slightly, and looked at the lake, where a few ducks were swimming leisurely.

But the next moment his expression turned serious, and he said, "You just scolded him like that?"

"No... I didn't scold him, I just spoke to him sternly. Was I wrong?" She tilted her head slightly.

Li Xu shook his head. "It's not a question of right or wrong. Never mind. It doesn't matter. This is not the main contradiction." He picked up a small stone on the ground and tossed it gently in his hand.

Li Xu paused, then said seriously: "It is not wise to use such a small trick to try to divide and split our team. I am worried that they have a backup plan." He threw the stone into the lake and his eyes fell on the lake surface.

An Duoduo thought for a while and said, "There is one more thing. I also tentatively asked him about the hacker attack, but he really seemed to know nothing about it." She frowned, recalling the scene of the confrontation with Song Xinghai.

Li Xu shook his head. "It's unlikely that I can ask directly about this kind of thing."

"So what should we do next?"

Li Xu smiled and said, "The instructor instructed us to grasp the main contradiction in doing anything. Commercial competition, or to be more precise, we do not have direct commercial competition with them. The main contradiction in this competition is still to impress the judges, and impressing the judges does not rely on tripping up competitors." He turned his head and looked at An Duoduo.

An Duoduo blinked, "Let's just leave it at that?" She stretched out her hand to block the glaring sunlight and looked at Li Xu.

Li Xu was silent for a moment. Of course, he would not let this kind of thing go so easily. He was not a person who was so broad-minded as to let others go after being tricked.

He looked at the teaching building on the other side of the lake.

However, this kind of thing always requires opportunity. Before finding the right opportunity, all you can do is do your own thing well.

However, in this matter, what surprised Li Xu the most was An Duoduo.

In fact, most of the time, An Duoduo did not appear in Li Xu's field of vision. For a long time before, Li Xu put all his energy and attention on product research and development and sales, but did not pay much attention to internal management.

That's true. After all, it's a small team with only a few people, and the management is actually a bit too big, so all matters are left to An Duoduo and Shen Mobai.

At this moment, Li Xu suddenly sorted out what they had done in his mind, and realized belatedly that it was not that easy.

A few days ago, he took some time to look at the documents organized by An Duoduo.

A company should look like a company. Although it is small, some things that need to be standardized should be standardized. Various documents and materials are clearly classified and organized, and the levels of confidentiality are also marked in sequence. Those documents are neatly stacked in the filing cabinet, and the handwriting on the labels is neat and clear.

As for financial matters, thanks to An Duoduo and Shen Mobai's attentiveness, not only are the vouchers clear and easy to see at a glance, but there are also almost no mistakes in every account and every expense.

These achievements are difficult to measure quantitatively.

But it has to be said that, just like the silent influence of the rain, whether it is the research and development of Ye Ruida, Lei Yinbing and others, or the external efforts of Tang Qiaoning, Xia Xiaohe and others, they all rely on the support of the middle platform.

This time, An Duoduo confronted Song Xinghai alone, which made her look more like a president.

Li Xu looked An Duoduo up and down, examining her from head to toe.

At this time, the sunlight just happened to shine on An Duoduo's body, outlining her graceful figure.

An Duoduo naturally noticed Li Xu's gaze. She recalled that Song Xinghai had looked at her in a similar way before. At that time, she only felt that Song Xinghai was disgusting, but now, she extremely enjoyed being looked at by Li Xu like this.

Duoduo smiled brightly and said, "What's wrong?" Her smile was particularly bright in the sunlight, and her eyes were shining with a lively light.

Li Xu shook his head and said, "Nothing, I just feel like you seem to have grown up. Uh, don't look at me like that, I mean you've become mature..."

While the two were chatting, Li Xu's phone rang.

The originally relaxed smile suddenly turned serious when he saw the phone number.

The surrounding environment seemed to quiet down as his expression changed.

He picked up the phone and said briefly, "Okay, I'll be there right away," before hanging up.

There was a hint of doubt in An Duoduo's eyes. Li Xu sighed, "Dean Chen came to see me. Judging from his tone, it's probably not a good thing."

An Duoduo was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Then hurry over."

When Li Xu rushed to the dean's office, the layout of the office was still the same as before, simple yet solemn, and the bookshelves against the wall were filled with various books and documents.

There were two documents on the dean's desk.

Li Xu knocked on the door and went in. The dean smiled.

"Xiaoxu, come in." The dean greeted warmly.

Li Xu hurried in, and his eyes were immediately attracted by the things on the table.

The dean not only didn't shy away from the question, but instead pointed directly at the two documents and said, "These two documents are related to your project. Take a look at them yourself."

Li Xu's eyes flickered, he nodded, and sat down on the chair in front of the dean, which made a slight creaking sound.

He was flipping through the pages intently. The office was so quiet that only the sound of flipping papers could be heard.

After a while, he gently closed the file and sighed slowly.

The dean smiled and asked, "What do you think?"

Li Xu felt more confident when he saw the dean's relaxed tone. He said, "What can we do? We must act according to the law."

The dean nodded, with a look of approval in his eyes.

Very good, he remained calm in such a situation.

One of the two documents is a letter from the government, requesting a self-inspection and self-correction of the smart express lockers within the school, as someone reported that some smart express lockers occupied fire escape routes.

Li Xu felt helpless when he saw the document, and couldn't help laughing in his heart. It was really a plain and simple business war.

He thought of the routines he was used to seeing in his previous life.

Many people think that business wars are about short selling, harvesting, reverse harvesting, finance, espionage, and all kinds of high-sounding and dazzling operations. In fact, in real business wars, such small tricks of reporting and framing are the norm, and there are even offline fights.

However, this method seems reasonable in other scenarios, but it is really not very decent to use it in colleges and universities.

Apparently someone reported that their smart express lockers were occupying the fire escape.

But this matter is not difficult to deal with.

What really made Li Xu alert was another document, which was a draft for soliciting opinions. Its full name was "Draft for Soliciting Opinions on Requiring Campus Express Delivery Facilities to Be Connected to the National Regulatory Platform."

Seeing Li Xu's eyes on the document, the dean smiled and said, "Please take a good look at this document. It will have a great impact on your smart express locker business."

After a pause, Dean Chen's expression grew serious. "Currently, your project's only source of revenue, aside from selling the solution, is the smart locker business. The other modules not only don't generate direct revenue but also require a certain amount of capital to maintain. Therefore, your competitors will undoubtedly target the smart lockers."

"Logically speaking, policies often have a significant lag, but this draft was released so quickly that it would have been impossible without human intervention."

"Once the system is finalized and implemented, it will take at least several months for the national regulatory platform to establish relevant rules and regulations and for the system to be built. These few months are enough time for your smart express lockers to miss the opportunity of the entrepreneurial competition. You need to think carefully about how to resolve this policy crisis."

Li Xu said to the dean gratefully, "Thank you for your reminder. I will go down and think of a solution right away."

Dean Chen smiled and said, "But don't be too nervous. After all, your project is the only one of its kind at Peking University and Tsinghua University, and it represents our School of Management."

There was one thing Dean Chen didn't mention: Li Xu's smart campus plan relied heavily on the eight-digit funding pool on the campus card. The School of Management would manage the entirety of its operations and revenue, and this alone was enough to ensure the School's full support for Li Xu and his team's project. So, if Li Xu couldn't resolve this issue, even at the risk of offending certain individuals, Dean Chen was determined to mediate with them, at least to get through the startup competition's operating period.

But before that, he still wanted to see what Li Xu could do.

……

As President Chen said, once this document is actually implemented, it will waste several months of operating time of the smart express lockers, which will have a huge negative impact on their final roadshow in the second half of the year.

Li Xu also immediately called everyone to the company's site at the entrepreneurial base.

In the conference room, he briefly outlined the current difficulties he was facing.

Everyone fell into deep thought, and no one spoke rashly.

Everyone present was extremely intelligent, and their growth rate was much faster than that of ordinary college students. They had already developed the habit of never speaking without thinking things through.

The atmosphere then became somewhat solemn.

Ye Ruida raised his head: "Li Xu, what do you think?"

Li Xu was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I can't think of a particularly effective solution at the moment. The only way is to go to Dean Chen and ask him to use his connections to delay the implementation of this document. This kind of document takes a long time to take effect, especially for a university like ours. We can submit opinions through think tanks, which carry a lot of weight. It should be easy to delay it for a few months."

The others' eyes lit up, and Liu Yunfei quickly said, "Let's do it!"

But Li Xu remained silent.

Xue Xue sighed and said, "But if we do this, regardless of whether Dean Chen will help, it will be like telling Dean Chen that we are incapable of solving this problem. This should be considered a last resort."

At this moment, Li Xu's phone suddenly rang.

He frowned and looked at the caller ID, which was indeed a bit unexpected.

The person who called was none other than Lei Lifeng, who had been defeated by him before.

After a slight hesitation, Li Xu still answered the phone in front of everyone.

Unexpectedly, the first sentence Lei Lifeng said when he called was: "I saw the draft for comments. Hahahaha, it seems someone has set their sights on your project."

Li Xu just said calmly: "It's not a big deal. Did you call me just to tell me hahaha?"

Lei Lifeng was speechless for a moment, and said in surprise: "It's not a big deal? How do you plan to solve it?"

Li Xu said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry about this. What exactly did you want to talk about on the phone?"

Lei Lifeng snorted and said, "You already have a solution? I'm being too conceited. I even said... I have a way to help you solve this problem."

Li Xu's eyes flickered slightly, and because the office was extremely quiet at this time, Lei Lifeng's voice came through the receiver and everyone heard it. Everyone widened their eyes and looked at Li Xu.

Li Xu signaled the others to be quiet, then calmly said to Lei Lifeng, "Then tell me, what do you have in mind?"

Lei Lifeng snorted and said, "Haven't you already solved it? Then I won't say anything."

Li Xu said frankly: "Forget it, you are not sincere."

Hearing this, the others widened their eyes, only An Duoduo couldn't help laughing.

Li Xu's nonchalant attitude really made Lei Lifeng feel helpless. He was also a little curious, so he asked, "How do you plan to solve this problem?"

Li Xu said, "You tell me first. After you tell me, I'll consider whether to tell you or not."

Lei Lifeng sneered and said, "Okay, it doesn't matter if I tell you. After all, this matter is really only our Huajing University can solve it."

"My advisor is currently drafting a 'Report on the Legal Compatibility of Smart Campuses and New Infrastructure Construction.' This report will be uploaded directly to higher-ups through the think tank. Honestly, your smart locker problem can be perfectly solved by simply adding some content to this report, allowing your smart lockers to circumvent the restrictions of the draft for public comment. Even if I told you my solution, you wouldn't have the resources."

When the others heard Lei Lifeng's words, they all frantically winked at Li Xu, asking him to say a few good words.

At this time, Li Xu couldn't help but admire Lei Lifeng. He really had the resources and could solve their current big trouble so easily.

But it is impossible to make Li Xu and Lei Lifeng give in.

Before Li Xu could speak, Lei Lifeng continued, "I've told you my method, so you have to tell me yours too."

Li Xu just said vaguely: "Your mentor can solve it. As the dean of the School of Management at Peking University, do you think you can't solve this problem?"

Lei Lifeng was stunned for a moment, then thought about how much benefit Li Xu's project brought to their School of Management. He thought to himself that the other dean would definitely help.

For the student team, this difficult problem may not be a big deal.

When I think about it this way, I really am a little too self-indulgent.

Lei Lifeng was very upset after being frustrated for a while and wanted to hang up the phone.

But at this moment, Li Xu suddenly said, "However, instead of asking the dean for help, why don't you help me solve this problem?"

Xia Xiaohe and Tang Qiaoning subconsciously looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

They didn't understand why Li Xu dared to use this tone... probably like: I'm giving you face and asking you to help me, and this kind of attitude to ask others to do things.

Talk to Lei Lifeng with this attitude.

The others didn't understand either, but at this time they still chose to believe Li Xu and didn't make trouble.

Seeing that others were about to get close to his face to eavesdrop on the phone call, Li Xu gestured with some dissatisfaction to ask everyone to disperse, and then turned on the hands-free mode directly to satisfy everyone's desire to watch the show.

As expected, Lei Lifeng on the other end of the phone got furious and said, "Should I still thank you?"

Li Xu said seriously, "You really should thank me."

Lei Lifeng laughed in anger and said, "Then tell me, why should I help you? Is it just because of the investment you gave me? Business is business and business is business."

Li Xu said seriously: "Do you think you are helping me? In fact, you are helping yourself."

Lei Lifeng was visibly stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Li Xu smiled and said, "How far along is your Zhihui Fengxing bicycle project?"

"Ok?"

……

A few days later, the deadline for soliciting opinions on a document titled "Draft for Soliciting Opinions on Requiring Campus Express Delivery Facilities to Be Connected to the National Regulatory Platform" was reached, and the unit that issued the document compiled the documents.

At the same time, a more authoritative report, "The Legal Compatibility Report on Smart Campuses and New Infrastructure Construction," was submitted to Huajing University's think tank. The two events, seemingly unrelated in terms of both the channel and the title, nonetheless quietly dampened any potential ripples.

At Peking University and Tsinghua University, everything remains the same.

Students come and go on campus, and the library and teaching buildings are still bustling. The only change is that the positions of the smart express lockers under two dormitory buildings have been adjusted, which is said to affect the fire escape.

The adjusted express lockers required students to walk dozens of meters more, and everyone complained about it, sparking heated discussions on the campus confession wall and forums. Apart from that, there was no other disturbance.

Meanwhile, in the office conference room of the Xuri Dongsheng Company, a bigger storm was brewing at the entrepreneurial incubation base.

The atmosphere in the conference room was solemn and the lights were dim. Li Xu looked at the neatly stacked documents on the table, his eyes flashing coldly. He muttered, "Is this all the information on Xinghai Education?"

Liu Yunfei nodded and said, "All the clues, whether public or available on the Internet, are all here." He stood aside with a serious expression and nervousness in his eyes.

Li Xu turned to the first page, and the sound of the paper flipping was particularly clear in the quiet conference room.

Meanwhile, Song Xinghai, who was attending a meeting, suddenly shuddered. Inside the conference room, a projector displayed various data charts. People around him smiled and said, "Mr. Song, the weather's still a bit chilly lately. You should wear more clothes."

Song Xinghai just responded with a smile: "Haha, yes, the weather is a little cold", but he felt vaguely uneasy in his heart, as if something was happening quietly.

(End of this chapter)