Chapter 46: Secrets and Meetings
After Du Qiu finished his work in a rental house that looked like a small black room, when he returned to the office at around 5 o'clock, Su Wenhai was still angry, but the person he was angry was not him, but the sister-in-law.
"Du Qiu, I don't know the troubles that woman did. My little sister and I don't have the intention to start our own business."
"Wenxiu told you?"
"Tell me, I didn't expect her to borrow my sister's names and cheat outside." Su Wenhai was angry and gritted his teeth and cursed: "My elder brother is so blind. Why did he marry such a shameless woman? Huihui came to my house to meet her parents on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and she said nothing at all. She was still bewitching Huihui's financial data behind her back. It's so shameless!"
After Du Qiu returned to his hometown, he did not completely become a hand-off manager. Every three days he would call Su Wenxiu to learn about the progress of the Notepad business. Therefore, he was also clear about the company's business during the Spring Festival, but also the dirty things that happened during the period.
When the general account before the New Year was settled on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, Wang Huihui found that there were problems with the price of several batches of orders, so she investigated and found that Ma Xiaoli used the Su brothers and sisters who wanted to set up their own business, but they couldn't ignore it. So she asked her sister-in-law to help collect money privately as an excuse, secretly connected several part-time salesmen, and changed the notepad that was originally sold for more than 60 yuan to a price ranging from 48 to 55 to a price of 48 to 55 to a price of hiding the difference. She embezzled all the concealed reports, involving more than 300 orders, and lost nearly 5,000 yuan.
Because it was about to be New Year's Eve, Wang Huihui and Su Wenhai were about to visit each other's parents during the Spring Festival and formally determine their relationship. She was worried that if this matter was exposed, it would affect Su Wenhai's mood for the holiday and Su Wenhai's parents' views on her, so she hid it down and didn't say it. When she first went to the Su family on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Ma Xiaoli, as the sister-in-law, not only did not give any gifts, but also secretly persuaded Wang Huihui to help tamper with financial data, joining her to take kickbacks, and poach the company's corners.
Wang Huihui was very upset about these destructive things, so she told Su Wenxiu privately on the night of the sixth day of the lunar month. Su Wenxiu told Du Qiu in detail and asked him to deal with it, because among the four partners of the company, he and Ma Xiaoli had no relationship at all and did not have to worry about sympathy.
So today after Du Qiu saw Ma Xiaoli in the office, he immediately decided to have a thunderous anger, completely breaking up, so that this woman could not dare to mess around again in the future. At the same time, he also publicly expressed his attitude towards life for the first time after traveling through time - he was not interested in dealing with people who had nothing to do with business, even if they were friends' parents!
Just kidding, if you have to give face and socialize, are you tired of living? Are you feeling depressed?
Before traveling through time, it is helpless to slander a snake in social situations. Although you can’t be said to be superior to others after traveling through time, at least you have the confidence and capital to live casually. Why bother yourself and waste your time and energy on irrelevant people or boring things?
Du Qiu has a cold personality and his emotions have little ups and downs. The advantage is that he is free and rational, and rarely has to worry about trivial matters. The disadvantage is that he is relatively closed inside, somewhat unkind, and is not easy to accept others. Before traveling through time, he lived for 26 years and made only three or four real friends, and all of them were classmates or childhood playmates who had known each other for many years. After traveling through time, he had almost never made any friends with anyone except for his blood relatives. Even the second generation like Chen Dawei and Chen Dayou who were helpful to his career did not inquire about the other party’s family background, but only maintained a purely general relationship.
The Su brothers and sisters met in a very passive environment at the beginning of time travel. Du Qiu and Su Wenxiu were more in tune with each other and got along well. They were friends with good relationships. Su Wenhai could only be considered an acquaintance. Their personalities, tempers and values were too different, and they had basically no communication except work. Therefore, as long as Su Wenxiu was not angry about what happened in the afternoon, he would not care even if Su Wenhai was furious.
Will Su Wenxiu get angry? Obviously not, because she proposed to hit her sister-in-law in the face, and the more she beats her, the happier she is. Moreover, she has complained more than once that her parents are too tolerant to her sister-in-law...
Since he had no scruples, Du Qiu naturally had to take advantage of this opportunity to make profits for himself. So he slapped his daughter-in-law in the face in front of Su Weiguo, thus washing away the old image of harmless people and animals in the past, gentle and generous, and establishing a new image of clear distinction between public and private, strict and tough. The reason why he used such fierce means was because this incident reminded him that kindness did not control the army, love did not establish affairs, and righteousness did not manage finances is a famous saying. The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and open guns and arrows are everywhere. If you want to conquer cities and territories and dominate the world, you cannot be a good person!
Ma Xiaoli is an open gun, while Wang Huihui is an arrow. For the sake of her love, she concealed the truth she found. Although it is understandable, even if she doesn't tell Su Wenhai, she should at least notify Du Qiu to say a word. As a result, she did not reveal him seriously, which means she did not take him seriously. If Su Wenxiu had not informed her, Du Qiu would have been kept in the dark and lost more than a thousand yuan in unexplained dividends.
Although more than one thousand yuan is nothing, it is very serious. A thousand-mile dike is destroyed by an ant hole. What if it is ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million or even ten million in the future?
Isn’t it because I was too gentle before, which gave people the illusion of being completely harmless?
The company will make major adjustments soon. Not only will the business it operates need to change, but the system, structure and equity also need to change. The four partners will no longer be on an equal footing again. If you still smile like a warm and gentle person, how can you convince the public? How to manage it? How to issue orders? How to enforce orders?
Time travel only gave Du Qiu a BUFF to delay aging, but not a BUFF to instantly change from a lazy otaku to a strong business man. Although the Notepad business is small and it is not fast to make money, the market is stable and the risks are controllable. It is an excellent way to learn and exercise business capabilities. If you can't even control such a small company and want to be an Internet giant? Don't daydreaming and take a shower and go to bed early...
At around 6 o'clock in the evening, Wang Huihui came back from get off work. When she saw Du Qiu, she looked a little embarrassed, and even she seemed a little nervous when she greeted her. Obviously, Su Wenhai called her to tell her what happened in the afternoon, which also indirectly shows that Du Qiu's tossing was good and achieved the goal of establishing her authority.
"We're all here, let's have a meeting, and you'll preside over Du Qiu."
"Okay, then I'll start." Du Qiu wrote the summary of the topic before the meeting, sat at his desk, spread out the meeting record book, and said, "The first topic is Ma Xiaoli's embezzlement of kickbacks..."
Su Wenhai raised his hand and said, "Du Qiu, I will deal with this matter, so don't discuss it."
Wang Huihui stared at him with her eyes slanted and asked, "What do you do?"
"Of course I'm asking her to come back!"
"She did not sign a work contract with us, and she did not write a receipt when she was in private. Without any evidence, what do you want?" Wang Huihui snorted and asked angrily: "If she doesn't repay her tantrum, are you going to sue her in court and then sue your elder brother?"
Su Wenhai was speechless and lowered his head to smoke. Wang Huihui poked the desk with a pencil a few times, then sighed and said helplessly: "Du Qiu, Wenhai and I will pay for the 4,886 yuan deficit, so don't pursue it."
Su Wenxiu raised her hand and said, "My brother, my brother and Sister Huihui are all sharing the same. After all, she also used my name to deceive people."
Du Qiu then wrote the processing results in the meeting minutes, then continued to hold the meeting, saying: "The second issue is dividends. Wenxiu drew all the data into a chart, so everyone came to take a look."
He spread the charts drawn with watercolor brushes on his desk and pointed to the data on it with a pen one by one, saying: "This is the total sales volume, a total of 3,379 books, including 187 Jinyumantang and 3,192 genuine leather notepads... This is profit, a total of 97,388.24 yuan, with an average of 24,347.06 yuan per person... Deleting the 8,000 yuan that he had previously allocated, each person should be able to get 16,347.06 yuan. Is there any problem?"
After the Spring Festival, the sales of genuine leather notepads fell sharply like a waterfall. If the more than 100 yuan sold in the gift market were removed, the daily orders were only pitiful single digits. Therefore, after the eighth day of the first lunar month, part-time salesmen and workers in the workshop next door were fired, and the company was closed. All the data for this statistics had been counted long ago. Everyone knew the specific dividend figures, but they still looked it carefully and read it again.
After reading the chart, the originally dull atmosphere began to become active under the stimulation of money. Su Wenhai, who was worried, also relaxed a lot and said with emotion: "In the past, if someone told me that he could earn 20,000 or 30,000 a month by making notepads, I would definitely think he was a lunatic. I didn't expect that he could earn more than 20,000!"
"It only earns this once a year." Wang Huihui said with some regrets, "If we met Du Qiu on New Year's Day, we would have started making genuine leather notepads immediately, and we would probably earn 10,000 more."
Du Qiu ignored this and continued to preside over the meeting and said: "These dividends show will be transferred to everyone's accounts on Monday. Next, we will discuss the third issue, related to formally registering a company."
With Wang Huihui, a civil servant who deals with various companies every day, there is nothing to discuss about the information required for registration and related procedures, so I can just leave it to her to deal with it. The four people mainly discuss the following four issues: the company's Chinese name, the company's registered capital, the company's equity structure and the company's production method.
"Our Thinker’Notebook is now well-known. Thinker is a thinker and is better to just call it Thinker Stationery Co., Ltd.." Wang Huihui has prepared for this and said, "I have checked it, and no one has registered this name yet."
"Are the thinker a little too tall?" Gao Da Shang is a word that Du Qiu sometimes popped up casually. Su Wenxiu also learned it. After thinking for a while, she suggested: "Why not call it a thinker or a contemplator? Isn't there a famous statue in foreign countries called The-Thinker? The Chinese translation name is called a thinker or a contemplator."
"Then call it a thinker. The thinker and the thinker are only one word apart, so they should not be registered. Du Qiu, do you think?"
"That's good for thinkers."
This name is directly related to the product, and it sounds quite high-end. A consensus was reached soon. The vote was passed. The company's registered capital was followed, which involved the company's main business and business methods. Therefore, before the discussion, Du Qiu took out 5 notepad cover design drawings drawn in the afternoon, and placed them on the desk together with 4 printed plans, saying, "This is the plan I made during the Spring Festival. Do you see if it is feasible."
Su Wenxiu practiced typing almost every day during the Spring Festival, but her level did not improve much. She didn't even remember the keyboard layout. Seeing that the plan had at least tens of thousands of words, she said in surprise: "So many words, did you type it out this afternoon?"
"I used the handheld computer that Chen Dawei gave me in my hometown, and my index fingers were almost calloused."
Su Wenxiu was also practicing typing with two fingers. She smiled with empathy and asked again: "How can I get it after typing such a small computer?"
"Although the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs, there is an interface for the printer on the body."
While chatting, the three partners looked at the project. Du Qiu's plan was actually very simple. He picked up the kraft paper notepad he had given up before. The design style was in line with each other, but the cover materials were all changed to printable ordinary kraft paper. He printed some poems, lyrics or famous quotes on it in 5 different artistic fonts, and then went to newspapers, magazines and TV stations to publish advertisements, and quickly promoted the notepad to the whole country through carpet-style marketing.
Before the Spring Festival, Su Weiguo relied on the tactics of the sea of people and used assembly line collective production to defeat Du Qiu's small workshop-style private customization. Now Du Qiu has made a comeback and used mechanized production to bring him back to his original form, which can be regarded as avenging him...
In the 1990s, there were very few people who knew computers, and even fewer people who knew font design. Those 5 artistic fonts were available only in Du Qiu, and new fonts could be added at any time as needed, greatly raising the market entry threshold. It not only blocked the emergence of other competitors, but also eliminated the risk of three partners kicking him out of his own business after becoming bigger, thus completely grasping the company's dominance...
Chapter completed!