After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 74 Robot

Early the next morning.

Dongfang Lang ran over in a hurry.

I want to talk to Zhou Haoran about Guo Zhiyuan.

During the process of purchasing supplementary teaching books, he seemed to have some dirty hands and embezzled money from others!
Zhou Haoran didn't take it to heart at all.

This is predictable.

When he first designed the book-selling project, his idea was a light asset model.

Just don’t take the money.

Go get the book first.

After taking the books and selling them, I gave them the money.

We are all classmates, so there is still some trust between us.

Unexpectedly, squad leader Wang Wenrui, a wealthy individual, had applied for 5000 yuan in start-up capital from his family. Simple and crude, he just threw money at it right away… This was simple to implement, but it was beyond Zhou Haoran's plan.

If you don’t have money, you naturally can’t be greedy.

Once there is money but there is a lack of a sound financial management system, the phenomenon of financial abuse is bound to occur.

Dongfang Lang found it hard to accept and was very angry. "I thought of him as a brother, but he acted like this! If it weren't for Tian Yueran, I would have almost been deceived by him!"

"How did Tian Yueran find out?"

Zhou Haoran was squatting in the alley, holding a cup and brushing his teeth.

Dongfang Lang said, "Guo Zhiyuan came to collect the books. One of the students was Tian Yueran's junior high school classmate. She didn't care at first, so she asked casually, and then she found out that the amount didn't match. Her classmate only received 12 yuan, but Guo Zhiyuan's reimbursement was 17 yuan. He embezzled 5 yuan from the transaction!"

Zhou Haoran rinsed his mouth and spat onto the ground.

The old alleys here have not been renovated yet.

The toilet outside the alley exit is even an old-fashioned open-air toilet... There is no cover, and the scene of people using the toilet will be seen by everyone passing by.

This type of public toilet is generally used by men.

Dongfang Lang continued, "Later, Tian Yueran contacted some classmates based on the list Guo Zhiyuan submitted, but many of them didn't match. It's likely he embezzled over 100 yuan!"

Zhou Haoran rinsed his mouth again, which was considered as brushing his teeth. "No big deal."

"It's a small matter?" Dongfang Lang almost exploded when he heard it. "Is this still a small matter? Zhou Haoran, do you understand what I'm saying?"

Zhou Haoran said, "Isn't it just that Guo Zhiyuan enriched himself and secretly took the funds for collecting books?"

"Yeah, how serious is this?"

Dongfang Lang widened his eyes.

"How serious is it?" Zhou Haoran didn't care. "It's just a little bit of money, just over 100 yuan. If we can make the book business a success, each of us can get a few thousand yuan."

"It's not about the money!" Dongfang Lang said seriously, "It's the nature of this. This is very bad!"

Zhou Haoran remained unmoved and said casually, "Guo Zhiyuan's parents were laid off, and their family is facing financial difficulties. I can understand that."

"What are you talking about? If he's short on money, I can lend it to him once I make some money from selling books! But he can't just keep it privately. That's breaking the rules and crossing the line!"

Dongfang Lang was filled with righteous indignation.

I feel like I've been betrayed when this happened.

Zhou Haoran stood up and went back to put the toothbrush holder away.

Dongfang Lang is like a follower.

He followed Zhou Haoran wherever he went.

After washing his face, Zhou Haoran took a towel and wiped his face while saying, "What principles, what bottom line?"

Dongfang Lang said angrily, "He's lining his own pockets! He's crossed the line!"

Zhou Haoran walked out of the bathroom and into the living room without any hurry. "It's good to have principles and bottom lines. But there is a prerequisite: you have to be a human being."

Dongfang Lang followed him and his face darkened when he heard this. "Why are you cursing?" "I'm not cursing you." Zhou Haoran laughed and followed him to sit on a wooden chair in the living room. "You're not a human now. You're a robot that's been programmed... Well, you know what a program is, right?"

Dongfang Lang said, "It's just a microcomputer program."

"Yes, microcomputer program."

Zhou Haoran then remembered that he had taken computer classes in high school.

However, the name is not computer class, but "microcomputer class".

When we have class, we have to go to the computer room.

Even stricter than a chemistry lab.

To go to the computer room, you need to wear shoe covers. Sometimes when leaders come to inspect, students have to wear white coats and hoods, as formal as possible.

A microcomputer costs tens of thousands of dollars, so it really needs to be protected.

Zhou Haoran said, "Your brain is programmed. This is the habitual understanding of things that was formed in your upbringing, your education, your parents, your teachers, and the social atmosphere. You judge right and wrong according to this standard procedure, not according to your true feelings."

"My thoughts don't belong to me." Dongfang Lang also read a lot. "Descartes' idealism, the first principles of philosophy. We must use universal doubt to attack the previous knowledge system and thus establish a new knowledge system."

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "That's about right. I was talking to you about selling books before, and we talked about value and price. Didn't Chen Zixuan say that commodity price is the monetary expression of commodity value, and that commodity value is the sum of the total socially necessary labor time of the product... What she said was all the stuff she learned in political science class, it was just embedded in the standard procedure."

Dongfang Lang calmed down, "So we shouldn't think that Guo Zhiyuan did anything wrong."

Zhou Haoran said, "It's definitely wrong to embezzle money, but it depends on your perspective and the level from which you look at it. You have to respect human nature, don't let your emotions get in the way, put aside all your emotions, and look at it objectively."

Dongfang Lang scratched his head, "How to examine it?"

Zhou Haoran said, "The real mistake was your failure to establish a reasonable oversight system, giving him the opportunity to steal money. Any team that deals with the use of funds and doesn't have an effective operating system is bound to experience misuse of funds. Even without Guo Zhiyuan, there will still be Ma Zhiyuan, Liu Zhiyuan, and Zhang Zhiyuan. There's no difference."

Dongfang Lang frowned slightly, "Isn't that a bit arbitrary?"

Zhou Haoran said, "Human nature is the same. It's just that different people, placed in different environments, will react differently to stress. If you want to be a master, you must respect human nature. If you talk about feelings, emotions, and love all day long, focusing on these vague and unreliable things, then your visit to Fudan will be in vain and you won't make any progress."

At this moment, Dongfang Lang was already brainstorming.

I feel like I can't quite keep up with his train of thought.

Zhou Haoran went on to say, "For modern enterprises, the largest expense in management costs is 'respecting human nature.' What does it mean to respect human nature? It means respecting not only the beautiful side of human nature, but also the ugly side."

The better the company, the more it holds the system accountable rather than the people.

However, this topic is too broad to expand.

With Dongfang Lang’s current level, he wouldn’t understand even if I told him.

"Then..." Dongfang Lang was indeed a little confused now, "What about Guo Zhiyuan's matter?"

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "If you can tolerate sand in your eyes, it will be considered progress."

Dongfang Lang was shocked. "Are you pretending not to know? Are you allowing him to do this?"

Zhou Haoran said, "This is human nature. If you can't control it with the system, then use the system to adapt to human nature. At the institutional level, approve Guo Zhiyuan's behavior and give him a legitimate reason."

"What?"

Dongfang Lang was really shocked.

Zhou Haoran was surprised and said, "You don't want to break up with him and fire him, do you?"

"No!" Dongfang Lang had never thought about it that way. "I just think this matter shouldn't be let go like this."

Zhou Haoran said, "If you expose him, what's the difference between that and expelling him? How will he get along with his classmates in the future?"

Dongfang Lang said "hmm", "What you said makes sense."

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "Let's not talk about classmate friendship, just talk about our book-selling project. Whether you expel Guo Zhiyuan or try to expose and punish him, you can't solve the root of the institutional flaws. If Guo Zhiyuan comes, there will be Ma Zhiyuan, Liu Zhiyuan, and Zhang Zhiyuan, and this project will be destroyed by the chaotic organizational structure."

Dongfang Lang was completely at a loss. "What should I do then?"

Zhou Haoran felt that this was indeed a bit embarrassing for him. After thinking for a while, he said, "How about this? I'll treat you all to dinner at the Lvyuan Restaurant on Chunqiao Road tonight. You can invite everyone along."

(End of this chapter)