After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 98: People are all made of flesh and blood

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "I understand. The annual sales champion will be rewarded with a Xiali car. This is great. I think Deputy Director Yi is really considering the sales staff wholeheartedly."

"Are you having a sweet dream?"

Meng Xuemin thought this kid was too naive.

"I know what you mean." Zhou Haoran didn't care. "It's just a play on words. The requirement is annual sales champion, not half-year sales champion, right?"

"Huh?" Meng Xuemin was a little surprised. "Don't you understand this?"

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Isn't it obvious? We new salespeople are just getting acquainted with the job and don't know the clients well, so our ability to close deals is inherently weak. Zhong Jiantong, Tian Kai, Xie Heping, and the others are veterans of the sales department. They have stable, long-term clients, and they've also achieved strong results in the first half of the year."

Meng Xuemin nodded. "Yes, that's what I mean. This stimulus plan is tailor-made for them. It can not only reduce the negative impact of Shao Kong's dismissal, but also strengthen Zhong Jiantong and the others' loyalty to the deputy director."

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "It will also cost a large sum of money, making the channel's budget even tighter and creating difficulties for the director."

"You understand everything, don't you?"

Meng Xuemin looked at him in surprise.

Zhou Haoran said casually, "This idea is so obviously planned! Director, do you know why the planned model was replaced by the market model?"

Meng Xuemin knew that this kid wanted to brag again, and said angrily: "Do you have any good ideas?"

"Yes, because plans can't keep up with changes. There are too few variables in a plan. The market's greatest advantage is its ability to adapt to unpredictable emergencies and to find the optimal solution among countless variables."

This is Zhou Haoran's heartfelt words.

It was also the most important analysis he had made in the past few months since his rebirth, and it determined his life choices.

Even after twenty or thirty years, many people still have a planning mindset.

Like rebirth.

Many people fantasize that if they are reborn with foresight, they can change their fate and replicate the success of others in their previous lives, becoming the best of the best easily.

This is the result of planning thinking.

Because all success is the fruit born from the harmonious convergence of thousands of quantitative changes in the market.

If one of the variables is changed, the final interwoven result will inevitably change, and these thousands of variables need to be harmonized and adjusted again... Even if it succeeds, the fruit that is born will be different because the genes of the fruit have changed.

In this world, there are thousands of people who have foresight.

You deserve to be poor.

Most of them even have to rely on foresight to do some illegal activities to make profits, and earn some shady gray income in the cracks.

Because a prophet can only grasp one or several of the thousands of variables in the market, it is impossible to grasp the entire market.

The most successful world-class entrepreneurs and wealthy people have always relied on their knowledge of the market and understanding of human nature, rather than their foresight and sneaky tactics.

Zhou Haoran is willing to work down-to-earth as a salesperson at a TV station instead of making waves in the stock market, futures market, and foreign exchange market. He is even full of concerns about starting a business.

The main thing is to have a sense of awe and to have complex considerations about the myriad variables in the market.

Only hard power and real skills, combined with foresight, can bloom the most gorgeous flowers.

He doesn't understand finance at all.

If you blindly dive into the stock market and futures market, you will most likely become a leek by those market makers who collude with securities companies and have the real "real-time dynamic foresight".

Meng Xuemin obviously does not have such awareness.

Not only him, most people don't have it.

The same is true for Deputy Director Yi Changping.

He thought he could plan everything!

I thought he could distribute the stimulus benefits to his direct subordinate Zhong Jiantong according to the expected plan.

Meng Xuemin laughed and said, "From what I hear, you are the variable?"

Zhou Haoran straightened his back and said, "It is my duty to help the leader share his worries!"

"You're too optimistic."

Meng Xuemin felt that this young man was very insightful, but his ideas were sometimes too naive.

I wanted to convince him, but he always managed to pull out some incomprehensible yet powerful words.

Meng Xuemin has self-knowledge.

I feel like I can't carry him.

And he loves talented people very much.

Meng Xuemin asked, "Are you busy tomorrow?"

"Yes, to run business."

Zhou Haoran is going to sign the second order tomorrow.

"Come back tomorrow at noon." Meng Xuemin planned to take him to Zhan Yushan and let the director teach him. "I will have lunch with the director tomorrow at noon, and you can come too."

……

It's not just Meng Xuemin.

The same goes for Director Zhan Yushan.

He felt tremendous pressure and smoked alone in the office.

Meng Xuemin frowned and asked, "Why did it take such a sudden turn for the worse?"

Zhan Yushan said: "The market!"

"The Qin Chi wine incident?" Meng Xuemin looked troubled. "Could a Crown TV ad campaign have such a significant impact?"

Zhan Yushan said, "It's bigger than I imagined. The news about Qin Chi's counterfeit wine has been everywhere, and it's already caused a chain reaction. Last year's top-selling wine, Kongfujia Wine, has also been affected and has been condemned, with sales plummeting."

Meng Xuemin said with disgust, "Counterfeiting liquor is atrocious." Zhan Yushan said, "Crown TV has placed too much emphasis on developing television advertising, which is considered excessive marketization. It must be scaled back."

"The Lifestyle Channel has finally achieved some success. If we roll back, all the reform and marketization achievements of the past few years may be lost!"

Meng Xuemin was very unwilling to accept this.

Zhan Yushan sighed, feeling helpless. "The station's support has stopped. They've asked us to treat them the same as other channels. We don't have any extra funding."

The Life Channel receives more funding because it is at the forefront of reform.

With more money, we can recruit more outstanding talents and produce more new programs.

Now, the talents have been recruited and the programs have been produced.

But the support from the station was cut off.

Naturally, a huge financial hole will appear.

But the conservatives also have a point.

We need equality!

They are both channels under Red Star TV, so why does the Life Channel get more money?

Everyone should be treated equally!

Isn’t the purpose of market-oriented reforms to make more money?
How come after all the changes, we actually need more financial support from the station?
"Is there no other way?"

Meng Xuemin's expression was stiff.

"Difficult!" Zhan Yushan shook his head. "Yi Changping is a tough guy and not easy to deal with."

Meng Xuemin asked, "What did the Grand Master say?"

Zhan Yushan said, "He told us to rely on the market and come up with our own solutions. The Life Channel reform has been going on for over a year now, so it's time to give full play to the market mechanism."

Meng Xuemin said: "The time is not ripe yet!"

Zhan Yushan apologized, "I shouldn't have let you come to the Life Channel and get stuck in this quagmire. In the second half of the year... well, if there's no progress, you might get dragged down."

"What's the point of being implicated..." Meng Xuemin waved his hand, not really caring. "It's nothing more than going to a cold government office. You can't fire me, right?"

Zhan Yushan said seriously: "That will definitely not happen!"

Meng Xuemin smiled and said, "That's fine. I've learned how to be optimistic now!"

"Optimist?" Zhan Yushan twitched his lips. He knew who this description was referring to. Recently, Meng Xuemin had been coming to him and talking about that amazing kid. "How did that kid react?"

Meng Xuemin said with a smile: "I'm very happy!"

"Happy?"

"Yeah, the annual sales champion gets a car as a reward. He looks like this car is a gift to him."

"Still young!"

Zhan Yushan shook his head secretly, but he could understand it.

It is normal for young people to lack experience, be optimistic, and have naive ideas when encountering some complex situations.

Meng Xuemin said in a deep voice: "This kid is a talented person. We must not let him be implicated in our affairs."

Zhan Yushan knew what he meant and assured him, "Don't worry about that. Wait a few months and see how things go. If the situation gets out of control, I'll find a way to transfer him to a general channel or a city channel. Keep him away from this troubled place so he doesn't get implicated."

"Well, that's the best." Meng Xuemin laughed. "But that kid might not agree. I'll bring him over tomorrow. You can meet him and give him some advice."

"What do you want to teach?"

"After signing the contract with the brewery, he got a little carried away. Every word he said became louder and louder."

"Young man, you weren't like this when you were young?" Zhan Yushan said nonchalantly, "After a few more setbacks and failures, you'll learn your lesson. Being a salesperson is good; you can be trained in the market. Whether you succeed or fail, you'll grow."

Meng Xuemin said solemnly, "There's something wrong with this kid's mentality. He acts as if he can easily resolve any big problem. He doesn't even realize the crisis on the channel. He thinks Yi Changping is giving him some benefits!"

Zhan Yushan did not refuse, "Okay, then I will enlighten him."

……

Zhou Haoran received a message on his pager.

Somewhat surprised.

It was actually sent to him by Shao Kong.

Zhou Haoran thought about it for a moment, then called him back and asked, "Master Shao, are you looking for me?"

Shao Kong asked: "Are you free tonight?"

"Tonight..."

Zhou Haoran actually had nothing to worry about, he was just not sure what the other party meant.

Shao Kong said bluntly: "I have something very important to tell you, about signing the contract."

"Ah?" Zhou Haoran was slightly startled. "Sign the contract?"

Shao Kong said calmly: "According to the plan, I should have gone to the North Shore Shoe Factory tomorrow to sign a contract with them. However, I am no longer at the TV station, and I didn't take the client with me."

Zhou Haoran understood and asked cautiously, "Where is Team Leader Zhong?"

Shao Kong said: "This is a client I developed myself, he doesn't know about it. I have given the client information to Director Meng, you can go to him for it."

"Okay, let's have dinner together tonight!"

How could Zhou Haoran miss such an opportunity?
The human heart is made of flesh.

In most cases, if you are nice to others, they will be nice to you.

(End of this chapter)