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Chapter 506 - 332 "The True Meaning of Kong Rong Giving Up Pears_2

Chapter 506: Chapter 332 "The True Meaning of Kong Rong Giving Up Pears_2

This isn’t very harmful, but it’s incredibly insulting!

Even if I am usually tolerant, I can’t endure this!

...

"Thud!" He hung up the phone angrily.

Big Wave, who had been listening to the whole conversation by his side, looked a bit bewildered too.

"This is so infuriating!" Hu Yifei lamented.

"Don’t be angry, you also said that he is an expert. It’s normal for experts to have some quirky temperaments.

Besides, I think what he said makes sense.

If it’s truly a lost cause, it’s better to prepare early. If we stubbornly persist, the loss will only grow."

"What makes sense about that! Just because of a little setback, he expects me to give up the family business I’ve been building for so many years?

How would I ever be able to look grandpa in the eye again?

It hasn’t come to that yet. I can still seek funding, I could even go for bank loans. At worst, I’ll sell off my idol’s shares; I must save Cretaceous Company no matter what!"

Hu Yifei was utterly unwilling to give up.

You can’t just give up without even trying, right? It’s not like I haven’t won against the odds before!

Big Wave, feeling helpless, didn’t persuade any further.

Having known Hu Yifei for many years, she was aware of his character, the type who wouldn’t turn back unless he hit a South Wall.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t wait until every business closed down to admit failure...

"I don’t believe it. Even if he is a god, he can’t predict everything!

Go, call the new HR manager into my office."

"What are you planning to do?"

"Starting now, Cretaceous cancels weekends off and increases incentives!

From now on, the company will intensify performance sprints. We’ll step up assessments in the sales department and give the R&D department an ultimatum. They must develop ’Star Array Go’ by next month to break into the market!

As long as Cretaceous starts generating profit on its own, we will have a chance to turn defeat into victory!"

"Star Array" Go, a Go game AI Cretaceous Company was developing, was aimed to be similar to AlphaGo.

"Increase incentives? But in times like these, shouldn’t we be cutting costs, reducing expenses?

This incentive approach, won’t it make us unable to hold on much longer..." Big Wave said, puzzled.

"The only way to reduce costs is to increase efficiency!

If we spend less now, it means our crucial R&D product will be further delayed.

If the company can’t hold on, then the funds we previously invested would be completely wasted, utterly thrown away.

Rather than cutting our flesh with a blunt knife, it’s better to stake everything on one decisive battle!

The company has been pushed to the brink. We might not have the advantage of time or location, but at least we have unity!

I want to unite everyone from top to bottom, squeezing out their potential, giving us a slight possibility to succeed!"

"But... I see the employees outside looking so listless, is it really okay to push them this hard?"

"People are forced to reveal their potential. If you don’t push yourself, you’ll never know how capable you really are!

This is not internal wrangling; it’s quietly working hard and then stunning everyone!"

Seeing Hu Yifei’s full confidence, Big Wave could only temporarily give up persuading.

After all, she wasn’t skilled in company management...

It wasn’t long.

Sure enough, a cry soon came from outside the office...

"See, this is the momentum, morale we can use!" Hu Yifei nodded in satisfaction.

Big Wave: "..."

For most people, clearly they couldn’t learn the Dugu Nine Swords.

When faced with tremendous survival pressure, if you want to survive, you just have to pick up the treasure...

With clenched teeth...

...

"This is all I can do for you..."

On the other side, Meng Lang also hung up the phone.

He didn’t expect everyone to possess Gao Yuan’s kind of drastic resolve, but if his words today could awaken him sooner and save him from some losses, then he would have indeed done his utmost.

With the connection of Yan Weiwei in place, they were nominally "fellow disciples."

Moreover, his impression of Hu Yifei, the second generation, was still quite favorable.

At least, after listening to his "inferior strategy," the other party had politely endured it and completed the formalities with, "I’ve learned a lot, I’m very grateful, listening to your advice..." before hanging up the communication...

Given the other party’s status and position, this was indeed precious.

Though waiting until the other party was at the end of his rope and the company on the brink of bankruptcy to then acquire it would undoubtedly fulfill his aims at the least cost.

However, as long as the other party could understand, he wouldn’t mind spending a bit more money now to use wealth to exchange for time, bringing Cretaceous Company into his fold sooner and doing him a favor by the way.

In fact, in comparison to the value of the company, Hu Yifei as a person also held "considerable value."

This unavoidably brought up the anecdote of "Kong Rong giving away pears."

"At four years old, Kong was able to give away pears."

A simple "peer-giving" story, what made it worthy of being included in the Three Character Classic, immortalized through the ages?

Compared to him, Kong Xiaorong, am I, Meng Xiaolang, really that inferior?

We were all just kids, wasn’t it just about giving away a pear? Did he really give away less?

Looking over Meng Xiaolang’s entire childhood, it was basically a chronicle of "giving pears," and in the end, it even became a conditioned reflex...

How come no one has ever written about him in the "compulsory education textbooks" to pass down through the generations?

Look through the phenomenon to see the essence.

Isn’t it just because one has the surname Kong and the other, Meng?

Kong Rong, a person from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the Seven Jian’an Poets, a 20th generation descendant of Confucius!

Meng Lang, from the early 21st century, arrogantly counted as Hero of Guanzhong, an uncountable generation descendant of Mengzi!

Both leaders in the ways of Confucius and Mengzi, yet Meng Xiaolang’s status in the martial world compared to Kong Rong’s... naturally can’t be spoken of in the same breath.

Since the Han Dynasty began, descendants of Confucius held special positions throughout the successive dynasties.

Han Gaozu had once conferred the title of Sacrificial Official to the 8th generation descendant of Confucius, a privilege that continued without break thereafter.

From the Song dynasty onward, the direct eldest descendants of Confucius were conferred the titles Duke of the Sacred Ritual and Duke Yan Sheng, continuing all the way until these titles were abolished in the Republic era.

In contrast, Kong Xiaorong had a background, while Meng Xiaolang at best had only a Replication...

This story aims to tell minors that kindness, decorum, thrift, and concession are our Country Hua traditions and virtues.

This story should tell adults that your humility might win your parents’ acclaim; but if you want the whole world to revere you for your humility...

You would need an illustrious family background...

As a second-generation scion, Hu Yifei’s father is the distinguished mayor, his grandfather even more so, a prominent figure of considerable status.

The Hu family has deep roots; otherwise, Mr. Hu would not have been parachuted in as the mayor of Su City.

Although Su City is not among the top super-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, or Shenzhen, it ranks sixth nationwide in terms of GDP, decidedly the strongest prefecture-level city in Country Hua!

Its status in Su Province even surpasses that of the provincial capital, Jinling.

If a "strong dragon" could be parachuted here to mix in, how could he be any simple character?

To say that Hu Yifei is the contemporary Kong Rong would not be far from the truth.

Otherwise, with so many quality IT companies around, ones better suited than Cretaceous Company aren’t absent; why then do the brothers particularly favor this one?

Simply because in a "clerk-centric" country, if you want to develop into a super unicorn, you can’t bypass the "clerk" factor.

Here’s an example.

When Ali Mama went public in the US, among the shareholders were several very low-key ’small shareholders,’ whose backing, however, was overwhelmingly significant, with their net worth multiplying after the IPO...

This is the unspoken rule acknowledged within the industry.

If you want to grow and strengthen, your company must include a few such "partners."

Rather than eventually having to give way to some overbearing "Mr. Zhao" who comes meddling halfway, why not once and for all find a "Mr. Hu" with good relations and acceptable character to join in?

Meng Lang’s thought was to leave him a bit of company shares, tying him to the "Baiyeji" chariot...

With Mr. Hu serving as a protective deity, it would completely prevent many future troubles.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Hu Yifei cooperates enough, willing to give away the pear voluntarily...

If you could "be like Kong Rong giving a pear," why shouldn’t I let you "become renowned throughout the world"?

Do you want my treasure? Do you want my fame?

Then give away the "pear"...

This... is what Meng Lang truly wants to express with the meaning of "Kong Rong giving pears."

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