557 [Upstart]
Song Weiyang stayed with Chen Tao in Sanshui for half a month before leaving for Shenghai.
The Spring Festival is approaching, but Song Weiyang is very busy, and his meditation is ushering in the busiest moment of the year. Because of the year-end reports of major companies, Song Weiyang needs to look at them one by one, and even has to conduct video or telephone conferences with executives (vice president level or above) from companies such as Xifeng, Shenzhou, Sohu, Sogou, NetEase, Tencent, Zhongxingwei, SMIC, Taurus Capital, Alibaba, etc.
Far away in Shenzhen, Taurus Business School also began its second round of enrollment exams.
Anyone who wants to attend Taurus Business School can apply for the entrance examination anytime and anywhere if he pays 500 yuan in the registration fee. The school will send letters to the currently registered students every once in a while and arranges them to come for the written test and interview.
The first round was the end of December last year, but now it is the second round.
"Boss, it's here!" the driver reminded.
Niu Guangcheng was wearing a high-end suit and a big belly. When the follower in the co-cab got out of the car and opened the door, he moved his body with Xiaomi on the waist of the water snake and ordered the follower, "Wait in the car!"
The follower couldn't help but remind him: "Mr. Niu, today is the entrance exam, and Secretary Wei's accompanying him has some bad effects."
"What's wrong with it? I still need you to teach you how to do things?" Niu Guangcheng was a little unhappy.
The follower nodded embarrassedly and squeezed out a smile and said, "Then I wish Mr. Niu a smooth exam and a prosperous business."
Niu Guangcheng said disdainfully: "This Taurus Business School is not a regular school. You can study it by paying money. The exam will definitely be a formality. If I hadn't met more business friends, I wouldn't have come to study. I would have read Hammer's book in my 40s."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Niu is right." The followers agreed.
Niu Guangcheng hugged Xiaomi and left the parking lot, and suddenly said, "Smoke!"
Xiaomi immediately took out a cigarette and stuffed it into his mouth, took out a lighter and lit it, and said in a slight voice: "Oh, Mr. Niu, you said you would take someone to Hong Kong City to play. The opposite side of this special zone is Hong Kong City. Anyway, there is time, so why not go over and take a look after the exam."
"Go and go, definitely go." Niu Guangcheng said, spitting out smoke.
At this time, a car stopped beside them. Guo Guangchang walked out of the car, smiled and nodded politely at Niu Guangcheng, and called, "Well, I've already arrived at the place. I'll go to the end of the written test and interview. Everyone have a few drinks tonight."
When Niu Guangcheng heard that the other party was also here to take the business school exam, he glanced at Guo Guangchang's car again and laughed happily: "Brother, you should change the Toyota. The old models from many years ago, like us who do business, will lose face when driving a bad car, and the deals that can be negotiated will definitely lose their money."
Guo Guangchang said: "My company is in Shenghai. After flying to the Special Administrative Region, I found a friend to borrow it to drive it."
In fact, it is a branch car. Guo Guangchang didn't want to be too high-profile, so he specially chose an old car.
Niu Guangcheng took the initiative to hand over the cigarette and asked, "What business do you do in Shenghai?"
"The drug seller." Guo Guangchang said.
"It's very profitable to be a pharmaceutical agent. I have a friend who also works in this business," Niu Guangcheng said with a business card, "My name is Niu Guangcheng. I am a miner. I used to build gas stations, but now all gas stations are sold to PetroChina."
Guo Guangchang asked: "Coal Mine?"
Niu Guangcheng said: "It is mainly gypsum ore, and some other companion minerals are also dug."
"Boss Niu must have made a lot of money, and those who mine are all rich people." Guo Guangchang flattered him.
Niu Guangcheng said happily: "What a big money? I just pick up the rest of people. It is best to dig the gypsum in a single deposit. All I have in my hands are companion mines. However, I recently won a good mine and I am very good at it. I will plan to list the company in a few years. This time I came to Taurus Business School to learn how to operate the listing."
Guo Guangchang said: "Then I wish Boss Niu a successful listing."
The two chatted and walked into the elevator. At this time, Taurus Business School was still relatively shabby. They only rented a few rooms in high-end office buildings for use. After the handover of Jianlibao Building in Huadu is completed, the business school's office will be moved over and will always be the headquarters of Taurus Business School.
The scale has been expanded bit by bit. Now there are only emba classes. In the future, teaching projects will be added one after another. After the real growth, you will have to build your own building.
I went upstairs to the "classroom", and there were already several sitting inside, and someone checked the "admission ticket" at the door.
Guo Guangchang and Niu Guangcheng were successfully allowed to enter, but the Xiaomi was stopped. The staff said: "No one is involved, please go out!"
Niu Guangcheng smiled and said, "This is my secretary. I think it's quite empty inside, so I let her sit in the last row to feel the atmosphere of the business school."
"If you insist on letting her in, your admission exam qualification will be cancelled," the staff said.
Niu Guangcheng's expression on his face was a little awkward. He was angry and inconvenient to get angry. He could only say to Xiaomi: "You are waiting outside."
Xiaomi pouted, twisted her waist and turned around and left.
There were 26 bosses who took the exam in this round. Regardless of whether they were all here or not, they announced the start of the exam when the time came.
Niu Guangcheng didn't even graduate from junior high school. For the sake of face, he got a correspondence bachelor's degree. After he got the test paper, his originally nervous mood disappeared instantly because it was all multiple-choice questions, and only the last question needs to be discussed, and he also explained his views on his own industry.
In less than half an hour, Niu Guangcheng finished the test paper and was directly invited to another room for an interview.
Since Taurus Business School was still in its inception, it only dug up four full-time professors. This was caused by dean Xiang Bing, who said he was so mean to fool him. The rest need to be invited professors from other universities to serve as part-time.
At this moment, Xiang Bing personally served as the admissions interviewer. He said to Niu Guangcheng: "Please briefly introduce yourself."
If it was a school like Tsinghua University and Peking University, Niu Guangcheng might still be restrained. But Taurus Business School belongs to the grass-roots team, and even the examination location is in the office building. Niu Guangcheng didn't know which green onion Xiang Bing was. He said with a loud voice: "My name is Niu Guangcheng, he is 45 years old this year... I am born with a business mind. Song Weiyang started a business at the age of 17, and I also started a business at the age of 17. I collected eggs from the countryside and sold them in the city. At that time, I was arrested and went to jail. No one in the whole county town dared to do such a business except me. My eggs can be bought without tickets. The business is very good, and one person can't be busy at all. Many people saw that I made money and wanted to sell eggs. I asked them to sell them. I specially purchased goods in the countryside. At that time, half of the black market eggs in the county town were all picked up from me..."
This guy talked for three minutes, talking about his brilliant entrepreneurial history. Xiang Bing interrupted with a headache: "Just just introduce it briefly."
Niu Guangcheng, who was interrupted, was very upset. He leaned back and closed his belly, raised his feet and crossed his legs: "A few years ago, I made a big profit in selling gas stations. Now my main business is mining. There are not many assets. After all, I can only count it as a billionaire. I heard that Taurus Business School only recruits big bosses. My net worth is enough for admission standards, right?"
Xiang Bing said speechlessly: "The admissions of Taurus Business School are not based on assets. Okay, please evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses."
Niu Guangcheng smiled and said, "The advantage of me is that I am a brain. If others don't see opportunities, I know that I can make money. I also like to make friends. I have a very good alcohol tolerance. Two pounds of white wine will be like drinking water. No matter where the businessman comes from, as long as I have a meal with me, I will definitely be convinced by me. I am very righteous to my friends. As long as I make friends sincerely, everything will be easy to do. Last year, a friend lost his pants in business and I lent him 1 million to make a purchase without saying a word. Those who know me say I am in the business world in time! I have another advantage..."
"Disadvantages, talk about shortcomings. Remember, it is about business shortcomings. Don't talk about those who drink or not." Xiang Bing was a little impatient.
Niu Guangcheng scratched his head and thought for a long time, then slapped his thigh and said, "My shortcomings are that he is too righteous to his friends. Let me tell you, once when the shipment was delivered, a friend who had known him for many years..."
"I understand what you mean, I was cheated by my friend, right?" Xiang Bing interrupted again and asked, "Let's talk about your most regrettable thing. Remember, it must be related to business!"
Niu Guangcheng might have been a little tired of crossing his legs, and moved his legs down and said, "This is a sad thing. I shouldn't have sold the gas station so early. If I kept it until now, I could sell it at least four or five million more. Who knows that it's going to rise so fast! There is also a coal mine, the county next to me produces coal, and the public coal mine has been digging for decades, and it has basically been dug. I don't think there is much profit, so I didn't buy it. As a result, he has coal in the mine layer below, and the reserves are quite large! If I bought the coal mine at that time, I now have a net worth of at least two or three hundred million! This is all luck, God won't let me make this money!"
Xiang Bing said: "Okay, your interview is over."
Niu Guangcheng said unsatisfiedly: "I haven't finished speaking yet."
"No need to finish." Xiang Bing said.
Niu Guangcheng asked: "Then am I admitted?"
Xiang Bing said: "Go back and wait for news."
Niu Guangcheng felt a little unstable: "In this way, I will pay the tuition fee of hundreds of thousands of yuan and donate 500,000 yuan to Taurus Business School!"
Xiang Bing said: "Sorry, except for Taurus Capital, we only accept alumni donations. Before you officially enter the school, you are not considered an alumni of Taurus Business School."
"You are just pretentious and don't even want the money you have picked up for free." Niu Guangcheng left swaggeringly.
Xiang Bing worked hard all day and had a headache. More than half of the people who took the second round of admissions exams were such old nouveau riche. He called Song Weiyang directly to explain the situation and sighed: "Mr. Song, it seems that the enrollment quota must be reduced. I am afraid that 100 people will not be able to get together. We will only recruit 80 people. I tell you, I knew that the overall quality of Chinese rich people was very low, but I didn't expect it to be so low. I won't talk about the interview. I imitated the gmat questions in the written test, and many candidates' answers can make you laugh and laugh. Especially the final essay questions, which make people laugh and cry. I doubt how they made their business bigger."
"Hahahaha," Song Weiyang laughed uncontrollably after hearing this. "Professor Xiang, just be patient. The generals from the short guys will pick up a few of them and gather the 100 enrollment quotas before talking about them. Follow the principle of lenient entry and strict exit, those who are not satisfied with credit training will never allow graduation, so that the quality of Taurus Business School can be guaranteed. We are in the early stage of initiation and the funds are very tight. Let's first increase the scale. If you think about this, if you recruit 20 students less, you will lose 6 million yuan in a year."
Xiang Bing couldn't help laughing: "Well, I can figure it out in this way."
At this time, the overall quality of Chinese rich people is so low. Just look at the description of Fortune magazine: these people build luxurious and tacky imitation White House offices and imitation Rococo villas; build villas in the suburbs but dare not turn on the luxurious chandeliers because they are afraid of causing the poor neighbors to trip their homes; their wives endure countless lovers of their husbands and feel lonely, and can only save their lives by raising expensive pets, burning incense and having more children; they pour Sprite into the most expensive red wine, and pouring them down like drinking water; they eat fried eels, stuffed seaweed and stewed oysters... fully enjoying every minute of their extravagance.
Don’t think that this is an American slander. In the suburbs of China around 2000, the use of high-power electrical appliances is indeed likely to cause regional trips. As for the "1982 Lafite", it is a favorite of many nouveau riche. They even believe that the correct way to drink red wine is to mix Coke.
Let’s talk about the answer to Niu Guangcheng’s written essay question. This guy has a lot of typos, and the general meaning is: first of all, it must be related to mining in China, and secondly, it must be tough and strong. Whoever fights well will be more desperate, so that he can get the mine and keep it without losing it.
Well, it seems to be true, but the answer Xiang Bing wants is not this. Explaining his own industry, the correct answer should revolve around the industry prospects, market environment, business management, marketing methods, technical costs, etc. Who the hell cares if you fight or not?
Chapter completed!