These three points exuded strong hints.
Do your best! I would support you unconditionally!
Rui Yuchen could not help but be moved inexplicably. He was more certain of his previous thoughts now!
Boss Pei’s first question really had a second layer to its meaning!
Fish-Catching Internet Cafe was making losses because of the operating model.
Healthy meals were not strong in taste so they were not pleasing in the first place.
The steps of destruction, cleaning, disinfection, and recycling of tableware would pile up costs. The cost would only be recovered when a certain scale was reached.
A profitable Fish-Catching Take-Out… Was only secondary for Boss Pei.
Then, what was the most important goal?
Rui Yuchen only guessed it originally, but he was completely certain now.
The goal of Fish-Catching Take-Out was to guide consumers so that everyone could start a diet and lead a healthy lifestyle! At the same time, Tengda Corporation would also make arrangements in advance to lay a solid foundation for the development of various related industries in the future!
This goal was very likely to be determined by Boss Pei from the establishment of the Fish-Catching Take-Out. However, due to funding issues and related industry issues, the conditions were not mature. Naturally, there is no need to mention it to the person in charge of Fish-Catching Take-Out.
However, the conditions seemed ripe now.
Fish-Catching Take-Out was now of a considerable scale and had a certain reputation among consumers.
They should continue to expand and establish the concept of ‘healthy eating’. Wouldn’t making money just be a matter of time? As expected, the losses that Fish-Catching Take-Out made previously were all within calculations of Boss Pei!
Rui Yuchen wanted to announce loudly. Boss Pei, I understand! I understand why Fish-Catching Take-Out had been losing money! I understand the true meaning of this operation model!
However, Rui Yuchen felt there was no need to do so when he saw Boss Pei’s light smile.
Obviously, Boss Pei knew it was a matter of time before I would guess it.
Shouting it out now would make him seem uncultured.
Everyone knew that Boss Pei disliked subordinates who credited themselves often. He preferred hardworking subordinates who only spoke about problems, not achievements.
Everything converged into one sentence after Rui Yuchen thought left and right about it.
“Rest assured, Boss Pei, I’ll do my best to achieve this mission and not fail you!”
Pei Qian nodded in satisfaction.
Hm, he was teachable!
At the same time…
Huang Sibo was lying on the sofa in his residence. He suddenly felt a little bored after watching a foreign movie. It had been more than a week since Fei Huang Workspace had been on Shock Therapy. The overseas release of Tomorrow is Beautiful was underway. The payment for the domestic box office should be coming soon as well.
Boss Pei gave Fei Huang Workspace four whole months of ‘shock’ time. It had only been a week, and Huang Sibo was already unable to withstand it.
“I’m too free at home…”
Paid vacation might sound cool, but staying at home watching movies every day was also suffocating!
Huang Sibo really wanted to go to work, but he did not dare to.
If Boss Pei wanted Fei Huang Workspace to be on shock therapy, then they had to follow through.
The consequences would be unimaginable if Boss Pei caught him secretly going to work.
However, to stay in this state for four months?
Death would have been more welcome!
Huang Sibo took out his phone and sent a message to the Fei Huang Workspace group chat: “I’m boredddddd!!!!”
Many people replied in no time.
“Yeah!”
“I watched four movies in one day. I’m dying.”
“I miss the time I was working on Tomorrow is Beautiful.”
“I miss it, too. It was tiring, but it was really fun, and there was a sense of achievement. I feel like I’m becoming useless now that I’m on paid leave.”
Everyone complained.
Huang Sibo sighed silently. It seemed as though it was not just his problem. Everyone else felt the same!
Zhu Xiaoce replied, “Don’t complain, everyone. I realized a problem after thinking about it for a few days.”
Huang Sibo quickly replied, “What problem?”
Zhu Xiaoce, “What Boss Pei told us was not ‘paid leave’ but ‘shock therapy’.”
Huang Sibo was confused. “Is there any difference? We are, in fact, on paid leave.”
Zhu Xiaoce sent a ‘contemplative’ emoticon. “No, no, no. Of course, there is a difference.
“Paid leave means giving you some time to rest after being tired from work. One week would have been enough.
“But Boss Pei gave us four months of madness.
“It’s obviously too much for rest.
“Therefore, the phrase used by Boss Pei was ‘shock therapy’.”
Huang Sibo was baffled. “How do you explain ‘shock therapy’?”
Zhu Xiaoce, ” ‘Shock therapy’ is an economic concept, to the effect that in the face of a severely unbalanced economic situation, the balance of social demand and supply can be achieved through some harsh means.
“It may even make the social mechanism unable to operate normally in the short term. However, if you use it well, you can quickly restore order after the pain.
“Our Fei Huang Workspace is currently facing such a situation.” Huang Sibo was a little confused. “No? We are not ‘severely imbalanced’; neither are we facing any serious problems…” Zhu Xiaoce, “Think about it again.
“Are you sure that we are not experiencing any imbalance?
“I am a Film Directing graduate who graduated less than two years ago. Brother Huang, you have just transited from the game industry recently. The others are mostly from academics. Which one of us had ever participated in such a successful movie?
“Our workspace had been making short films. We made a popular 200-million-yuan box-office-movie on our first attempt. “Who dares to say that you are not feeling full of yourself? Who dares to say that your mentality had lost its balance? “Doesn’t everyone think that a 200-million-yuan box office does not seem that difficult, that it is within reach?”
Everyone fell into silence.
Huang Sibo calmed down and asked his heart. Director Zhu Xiaoce seemed to be right about that.
Yes, everyone seemed to be a little full of themselves now!
However, that was human nature. Their first attempt at making a movie made a box office of more than 200 million yuan. It was very difficult for normal people not to float.
Huang Sibo typed his reply out, “What has Shock Therapy got to do with this then?”
Zhu Xiaoce replied quickly, “Think about it. What will happen if we are to prepare for filming the next film with our current mentality?
“The success of Tomorrow is Beautiful is firstly due to Boss Pei’s good script. Secondly, it was because of the inspiration accumulated by every one of us. That was what allowed us to achieve a superb level of performance in the process of creating the film. Finally, we filmed with a cautious, humble heart because it was our first movie.
“What about now? “I have no doubt that Boss Pei will be able to come up with a good script, but we have exhausted our inspiration. At the same time, we have become proud. There is no way we still maintain our previous mentality.
“We’ll definitely screw the movie up if we were to make a movie in this state!
“Obviously, Boss Pei has realized the serious imbalance in the mentality of everyone in Fei Huang Workspace. He, therefore, decided to use shock therapy to get us to reflect and re-adjust our state!”
A reminder to wake up the dreamers. Huang Sibo suddenly felt that it made total sense!
He ask
ed hurriedly, “What should we do now then? Do nothing while staying at home?”
Zhu Xiaoce, “Reflect and restore our mentality. Another important aspect is to replenish our inspiration. “It’s impossible to rely on hard work without methods in the movie industry. We’ll only make bad movies without inspiration. Not only would it make losses, but we would also be scolded very badly.
“We can only make better works with sufficient inspiration.
“Therefore, we have to advance ourselves!”
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Everyone became alive after listening to Zhu Xiaoce.
Yes, it would be too wasteful to miss this good chance by staying at home like a retard every day!
Director Zhu Xiaoce graduated from a proper related discipline. Moreover, he was the greatest contributor to Tomorrow is Beautiful other than Boss Pei. There was no reason they should let themselves off if even he was not inflated over this small success and was continuously trying to improve himself!
The rest in Fei Huang Workspace quickly understood this logic with the guidance of Zhu Xiaoce.
Generally, one should rest well and relax with paid leave. It would not be called paid leave if one thought of studying and improving oneself on leave. It should be called paid improvement.
However, that was also the crux of the problem.
People on paid leave were usually because they had been working very hard and had to take a break. However, the staff of Fei Huang Workspace was not short of rest!
The filming, editing, and publicity of Tomorrow is Beautiful was indeed rather tiring. However, everyone had enough rest half a month after the film was released!
They were happily monitoring Gou Yan every day at work without doing anything else. They might be in the office during this period, but they were playing games, watching dramas, eating rubbish food. Their exhaustion was long relieved.
At this point, more of them wanted to find something to do.
Boss Pei’s definition of ‘shock therapy’ only disallowed everyone from working, but he did not limit them from doing anything else!
They should use this company-given paid leave to gain more knowledge and improve oneself. That was an excellent chance that may not come again!
They would have to face the stress of living expenses if they were to quit and continue improving themselves. It would be very difficult to give it their all in their studies.
What about now? They had no such worry because they were still getting their wages!
Moreover, Zhu Xiaoce’s words reminded everyone of the dangerous mindset.
Tomorrow is Beautiful might have succeeded, but such a success had an element of chance and luck. That did not mean that this team was worthy of the 200 million yuan box office sales.
What if the next movie were to fail? Most of them did not want to fall into the valley after getting to the peak.
Therefore, they had to improve themselves!
They had to use this time to improve themselves so that they could reduce their reliance on Boss Pei. They had to make themselves more successful, so that they could live up to Boss Pei’s expectations.
The emotions in the group ran high.
“Where shall we go to improve ourselves?”
“I heard that some universities have Director Advancement classes which only accepted people with related experience. They condensed four years of study into a year course. They have outstanding professors and could really learn a lot from them!”
“That won’t work. This is a one year course while we only have a few months.”
“Uh, it might be useful for us, but it won’t be useful for Director Zhu, right? Even the professor might not have achieved such a high box office, let alone the students of the same level…”
Zhu Xiaoce replied, “Please do not harbor such an attitude. We did obtain some results, but these professors and teachers are world-class professionals. Please don’t become prideful because we managed to make two successful movies. We have to respect our elders.”
Huang Sibo agreed, “Yes, everyone can be a teacher. There are things we can learn from ordinary people as well, what more professional moviemakers?”
Zhu Xiaoce, “Considering the time, I would suggest for everyone to choose the postgraduate advanced training at Handong University. Classes are on Saturdays and Sundays, and it will be on for two years.
“This way, we can still go to class during weekends after the shock therapy for Fei Huang Workspace is over. “Of course, this so-called ‘training’ is not enough. Therefore, I’ll arrange for some related studies for everyone other than listening to class. Everyone should watch a movie and study the movie on days that had no classes. Write an analytical film review. Read a book on film and television every week, write reading notes and…
“I’ll ask my Professor for specific arrangements when I go back to school. I will let everyone know after I finalize the content.”
Everyone could rest assured with Zhu Xiaoce’s arrangements. He was a graduate in this major after all. He could always go back to Handong University and ask his tutors and professors if he was not clear.
Moreover, he had already made a movie like Tomorrow is Beautiful. His school had asked him a couple of times to go back and give lectures to his juniors. Such a request was nothing
Huang Sibo also had this requirement.
He switched over from the game industry. He had always felt that his foundation was weak in the process of making the movie. There were many things he did not understand. He had been busy helping Director Zhu Xiaoce out previously so he did not have the time to learn and be familiar.
He could finally make up for his shortcomings now! He was actually a little moved.
Huang Sibo received a message while he was feeling excited. “Eh? Payment has arrived!”
Pei Qian yawned in the office, ready to get off from work. Pei Qian felt that his pressure to lose money had lowered quite a bit after his arrangement for Rui Yuchen and Fish-Catching Take-Out.
He was about to leave his office when he received a message from Huang Sibo: “Boss Pei, the payment for the movie has arrived!”
Pei Qian’s heart nearly dropped.
So fast?!
He might have given Fei Huang Workspace Shock Therapy, but the payment for the movie box office was not resolved!
Another 70 million yuan were added to the company’s account in that instant.
Pei Qian felt the burden on his shoulders becoming heavy once again.
This Fei Huang Workspace only knew how to make trouble for me!
Pei Qian felt pissed off even though he knew this amount of funds would arrive in his account. It was three days early. He pretended not to see it and put his cell phone back into his pocket.
“D*mn Huang Sibo. Nothing good comes out of him coming for me! I’m going to ignore him. Hmph, fortunately, I’ve already made arrangements for this amount of money.
“Otherwise, I’ll really suffer.”
Pei Qian decided to head out tomorrow to settle the money at the speed of light. He would not be bothered if he could not see it!
Huang Sibo looked at his cell phone after half an hour. Boss Pei had yet to reply.
“Sigh, Boss Pei seems to be busy again.”
Huang Sibo was a little disappointed. He wanted to give Boss Pei a simple report on the arrangements for study when Boss Pei replied. However, Huang Sibo kept these words in his heart seeing how Boss Pei did not reply to him.
Huang Sibo changed his mind again after thinking about it calmly for half an hour.
He felt that he should not report such a matter.
An ordinary boss would only react in two ways if he knew that his employees were taking lessons and improving themselves. First, he must not have enough to do since he had so much free time; second, he wanted to jump to other companies.
There would only be a crueler and more inhumane squeeze on the employee.
Of cou
rse, Huang Sibo knew very well that Boss Pei was not such a boss.
Boss Pei was a good boss who attached great importance to employees’ rest time and personal space. That was why none of the Tengda employees would want to change jobs.
That being the case, every employee improving themselves in their spare time would only be able to better complete the tasks assigned by Boss Pei and also to realize their own potential.
However, even so, there was still no need to report it upwards.
That was because Huang Sibo felt that such matters should be taken for granted in Tengda, why should he report it to Boss Pei?
It would only reflect badly upon himself as though he was asking for credit.
Boss Pei hated employees asking for credit.
Huang Sibo, therefore, dismissed this idea decisively and began to discuss the next training plan with the others in the Fei Huang Workspace chat group.
April 12th, Tuesday… Pei Qian sat on the car with the map showing where he was going: Jingzhou Dawn of Prosperous City. This was a mid-high end real estate in Jingzhou.
Pei Qian liked it mainly for two reasons. First, it was relatively close to the company. He could reach it within 20 minutes of walking. Second, there was a building that Pei Qian felt matched his requirements.
Of course, it had to be confirmed at the scene itself.
Pei Qian decided what to do with the money Tomorrow is Beautiful made.
Buy real estate!
Of course, it was not real estate in general.
The system did not allow Pei Qian to be engaged in the business of real estate, but it did not disallow Pei Qian from using the system funds to buy buildings. The difference was whether the building was bought for production and business activities or not.
Just like the semi-commercial villa of Ming Yun Private Kitchen. He could not buy it and leave it there. It was alright to open a restaurant within it.
This time, Pei Qian decided to build a brand to rent houses. He even had a name ready, ‘Sloth Apartment’.
There were three advantages to this new industry:
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