What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 118 Value (5k)

Yu Xing spent this year very plannedly.

He looked at his uncle's new grapes, brought gifts and red envelopes to visit his grandparents, and then... just as planned, he fell into thinking about his life and career.

Of course, in Yu Guosheng's opinion...

Lying on the sofa, watching the news, eyes half open and half closed, occasionally smoking openly, what kind of ancestral treatment is this? ?
Yu Guosheng was so angry that he finally couldn't help but rush into the kitchen and accuse his son of the unfilial act of smoking to his wife.

Chu Qiying glanced at her son on the sofa, agreed with her husband, and warned her son: "Xingxing, if you want to smoke, go out and smoke. The whole house smells like cigarettes."

Yu Xing's response to this was: "Oh."

Yu Guosheng waited for a while, then questioned his wife in astonishment: "That's it? That's it?"

"Wait a minute. After all, he bought me a gold bracelet, and I feel embarrassed to say too much about him in the past two days." Chu Qiying said as a matter of course.

Yu Guosheng was defeated and retreated.

However, he was more or less concerned about his son's inner state and always felt that this situation was a bit worrying, so he would take time to ask if he had encountered any difficulties at work.

"It's not difficult. Our company should have a good development situation next year." Yu Xing said casually while watching the economic news on TV, "I'm just thinking about one question: how to deal with the value of united front work?"

In fact, on the way back from Jinling, Yu Xing was thinking about the two sentences he had exchanged with Xiaoying before. He said that if the value of united front could be achieved, Xiaoying believed that short selling could not achieve the value of united front.

From June last year to today, more than half a year has passed, from Guiai.com to Baixiaosheng, from the financial crisis to the loan easing, from the Internet conference to corporate financing, from the company's sale to shorting listed companies...

Yu Xing worked almost non-stop until he finally calmed down on the sofa during the Chinese New Year.

People are willing to think when they are quiet.

Where will career go? How should people choose?

Just as Xiaoying said, Bai Xiaosheng has shown the potential to make people rich. Although the revenue has not yet been developed, it is worth going all out.

What about over the mountain?

Are you going to stop after this job?
Yu Xing had given Xiaoying the answer, but when he had time to think about it over and over again at home over the past two days, the answer was no longer easily clear.

Putting aside objective income, influence, and risk, it is just my own subjective thoughts...

If last summer, in the sultry Jinling, it seemed as if there was a ball of miscellaneous fire burning unbridled in his heart, then now, after meeting the investors, peeking into the capital operation, and personally exposing the scam, that ball of miscellaneous fire not only did not go out, but was refined into a deeper surging magma.

Yu Xing "once" worked very hard. One bombshell could not crush him, but one bombshell after another made his life feel depressed and made him more inclined to the driving force from his heart. What if he turned the world upside down?
"Let's talk about the value of united front work." Yu Guosheng spoke slowly after hearing his son's question, "If you want to understand it, you have to be more specific."

Yu Xing glanced at his old father and said, "Chief Section Officer, please give me your opinion."

Yu Guosheng became excited and started talking: "We need to be more specific. First, let's simply divide them into two camps, either friendly or hostile."

Yu Xing said "hmm".

"The first point is how many points you can get as a friendly camp. For example, you have 20 points in the friendly camp." Yu Guosheng said with a smile, "The second point is how many points you can get in the hostile camp. It still counts as 20 points."

"Third, press the amount of points you need to pay to reduce the cost, and it will still count as 20 points."

"The first three points are added together. 20+20+20 equals 60 points."

"The last point, if we want you to be in the friendly camp, then how many points do we have to give you? Let's say 40 points. Taking this action is a necessary sacrifice, so we have to deduct it."

“20+20+20-40=20。”

"Your united front value is 20 points."

Yu Guosheng shook his head: "If the final result is positive, then it is valuable, and if it is negative, then it is worthless. But not all the 'positives' have to be pulled over. The more 'positives' you have, the more worthy you are to be unified."

Yu Xing pondered, then glanced at his father who was obviously a man of few days' experience with just a newspaper and a cup of tea, and felt that his father now looked like a strategist in the family's crimes.

"What can I do by pulling you here? What will I gain by driving you away? It's a two-way process." Yu Guosheng said with a smile, "This is also a kind of game."

He went on to give an example: "Look at Song Jiang in "Water Margin". Before he went to Liangshan, he was just a small bailiff. Song Huizong didn't know him at all and didn't care about him. After he went to Liangshan, he became valuable. This is the value of united front work."

Yu Xing nodded.

Seeing his son's approval, Yu Guosheng said with a bit of pride: "But there are also difficulties here. How can a normal person be united? You have to have destructive abilities to be treated like this, but destructive abilities must be verified. However, once verified, it is easy to cause trouble. When people want to unite with you, they have to consider the influence of the things they have done. There are negative effects here."

"Look, if you don't do something, you are worthless. If you do too much, the cost of united front work will be too high. It's not easy."

Yu Xing concentrated on thinking, and said slowly: "So, we have to brush the edge."

Yu Guosheng paused with a hint of regret, and suddenly said with a hint of caution: "No, why are you thinking about this? Are you going to commit a crime?"

"Brainstorming, business niche, granularity, underlying design, empowerment." Yu Xing pointed to his head.

Yu Guosheng seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand.

He thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "I see your website has received a lawyer's letter. Your user base is growing so fast. Is everything okay?"

"It's okay, we will start building the legal department after the new year." Yu Xing replied casually.

Yu Guosheng looked at his son's expression and said with a smile, "I have been looking at your website frequently in the past two months. Your ideas for website development are quite interesting."

Yu Xing was also somewhat curious about his father's perspective: "What do you mean?"

"If you seek development through struggle, then development will survive; if you seek development through compromise, then development will die," Yu Guosheng said. "Isn't your website designed to engage in struggle?"

Yu Xing thought for a few seconds: "It's not that sharp."

Yu Guosheng provided his own perspective: "Isn't it sharp? The lawyer's letter has arrived, and the chairman has even suffered a broken bone!"

Yu Xing then realized that his old father was indeed very concerned about his website and even knew about the injury of the steel chairman.

He smiled and replied, "That's in the past. Once we get the money, everyone will be more polite."

Yu Xing stood up from the sofa, stretched his arms, took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to his old father.

Yu Guosheng was surprised and asked, "What is this? Is it a consulting fee?"

Yu Xing saw his mother walking out of the room and said calmly, "Here you go. I don't smoke anymore. My mother doesn't like me smoking, so I've quit."

Yu Guosheng didn't know what was wrong with his son. He shook his head and put the cigarette in his pocket.

Chu Qiying took two steps at a time and snatched the cigarette from her husband's hand: "Look at how happy he is! I knew he didn't need me to say anything! Look at yourself!"

Yu Guosheng looked at "other people's smokers" in astonishment and received an affirmative look from his son.

Yu Xing laughed and said, "I'm going to go check out the New Year atmosphere outside and call my investors to wish them a happy new year."

Chu Qiying waited until her son left the house, stopped criticizing her husband, and sought advice on one thing: "Xingxing is not in school now, and he is busy with work. Do you think we should find someone to introduce him to a date?"

"Just let it be. If you meet the right one, introduce him to me. If not, let him find it himself." Yu Guosheng's mind was still thinking about the conversation he had just had with his son.

Chu Qiying frowned and suppressed the thought for the time being.

The New Year atmosphere on the streets of my hometown is obviously stronger than in big cities, and many children are still setting off firecrackers in groups of three or four.

We bid farewell to the old year with the sound of firecrackers and welcome the new year with fireworks filling the sky.

Yu Xing called Xiaoying while walking.

The call was connected quickly.

"Xiaoying, Happy New Year. Did you watch the Spring Festival Gala?" Yu Xing asked with a smile.

"I watched for a while, then fell asleep because I felt sleepy." Liu Wanying yawned, "Maybe I stayed up late to watch the market a while ago, so I feel sleepy these two days. I'm going to catch up on my sleep, go for a run, and play badminton but can't find anyone. How about you? How are you spending the New Year?"

Yu Xing waited until the sound of firecrackers died down before answering, "When you get to Shanghai, I'll play with you. I'll go see my elders and ask my mother to give red envelopes to relatives and friends. The financial management issues before made everyone feel uncomfortable, but it's not easy to take it on myself, so let's do this for now." Liu Wanying thought for a second: "Are you good enough? I have practiced before."

"If it doesn't work, just teach me when you're not busy on the weekend." Yu Xing didn't try to be stubborn.

He strolled along the road, listening to Xiaoying's vague voice from time to time amid the sound of firecrackers, and his emotions, which had been empty for two days, gradually returned.

After Xiaoying finished her call, she called Lu Haiying.

The top leader and second-in-command of Bai Xiaosheng wished each other a happy new year. Yu Xing first talked about the newly confirmed news about the A round of financing, and then mentioned an idea he had in the past few days.

"Our website still needs to further improve its value to the vast number of workplace users."

"In addition to anonymous disclosures and watching the fun, more utilitarian workplace connections also need to be further developed after the New Year."

"Xiaoying, what do you think about us opening a 'Dialogue' column to share our interactions with people of different identities in the industry?"

Lu Haiying hesitated for a while. This "connection" was something they had talked about before and was a profit-seeking consideration for workplace users.

At present, there is relatively little construction in this direction.

She asked: "Such a positioning sounds high-end, which is definitely helpful for establishing the image of our website in this regard. The question is how do we communicate with those 'high-end' targets?"

"We should participate in more industry events and give full play to the advantages of our user base." Yu Xing said his thoughts, "For example, let's take Xu Xin as an example. She is a well-known investor. Following Xu Xin, we can talk to Liu Qiangdong and the companies she invested in. Then, following Liu Qiangdong, we can talk to other people."

"We are not like those dead workplace platforms. We are a living platform and our user base is currently active."

"People like Xu Xin and Liu Qiangdong are superior to the working class. They are also human beings and are willing to be teachers."

Lu Haiying was very impressed that her senior brother was able to find Xu Xin. After hearing this example, she understood that, in short, one still needs to be thick-skinned.

"We can also not limit ourselves to domestic companies. We can talk about SoftBank, Tesla, Google, etc., and the conversations can be long or short. People in the workplace will be more interested in this aspect." Yu Xing has been working on this idea since he came up with it. "In addition, we can have conversations and evaluations to see which companies' models are obviously problematic, which are obviously at a dead end, or which have any shortcomings. We can point them out, which may lead to more discussions."

When Lv Haiying heard this, she suddenly asked, "Isn't this a CT scan?"

Yu Xing couldn't help laughing: "This is indeed easy to understand."

He did not understand it in this way, but thought of Xiaoying's explanation of the value of PUT put options. The value of PUT mainly consists of two parts: one is intrinsic value and the other is time value.

Intrinsic value refers to the economic value that can be brought by exercising the option, and time value refers to the potential return brought by the remaining validity period of the option, which will gradually decrease as the expiration date approaches.

比如，一份PUT是3月15日到期，3月1日的时间价值就要大于3月10日。

When Yu Xing was thinking about "dialogue and criticism", he suddenly thought of the "value of time".

For example, today is January 1th. I criticized the development of Dangdang.com on Baixiaosheng, believing that it will inevitably fall behind its competitors based on the current strategy.

This criticism will not have much value on the 26th, but when Dangdang verifies the criticism someday in the future, the value of the speech will greatly increase over time.

The longer the time goes, the more valuable Bai Xiaosheng will be to everyone and worth digging up.

Lv Haiying raised a concern: "It is easy to criticize, but it is not so easy to criticize correctly. Once we are wrong, we will easily be ridiculed."

There is no need to wait until one is wrong. As long as Bai Xiaosheng makes criticism, he will probably be ridiculed immediately.

Yu Xing agreed: "So, we need to have a dialogue, understand what is happening in the industry, and use data and conditions to determine what the trend is."

"We don't have to be afraid of making criticisms. It's just a subjective judgment. Of course, we should try to make judgments based on the facts."

“I plan to go back to the company or start an independent research company to see if I can help us make more appropriate judgments.”

It can be used as an evaluation target for investigating Bai Xiaosheng, and can also be used to investigate suspected targets on the mountain.

Just mix it together.

The scale does not need to be large, and the latter does not need to be doped too much. It is even possible to only conduct a partial investigation on the suspected target and then separate the rest.

Anyway, it is reasonable for Bai Xiaosheng to have such a column and pay attention to various types of companies.

Lu Haiying thought for a while and said, "Then let's try it?"

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Well, let's give it a try. We'll refine this aspect after the new year."

Lu Haiying feels that this should be considered the official traffic-generating mechanism of the website.

The purpose of anonymous disclosures is to attract users spontaneously, while dialogue and criticism are supplementary mechanisms created by the authorities that are prone to cause controversy.

But the only thing that worries her is that she may not be able to make the right judgment...

If the judgments are wrong continuously, such a column will naturally have no influence and will not be able to continue.

As for the column's slogan, it's a good idea: if criticism is not free, praise is meaningless.

Yu Xing could probably guess what the second-in-command was thinking, but this was not a big problem for him. The value of time is really valuable. Domestic people like Liu Qiangdong, who are not very famous, and foreign people like Musk, who are not very famous, can all have in-depth conversations and make it into a series.

As for the criticism, for example, No.1 Store, which engaged in vertical segmentation of e-commerce but could not escape failure, and Suning and Gome, which are still in their prime but will decline in the next few years, others cannot say for sure, but what you say is definitely correct.

If you use the answer to deduce the process, this kind of criticism is extremely valuable.

Yu Xing believed that this would certainly promote the further rapid development of Bai Xiaosheng, which would also make this source of information larger and provide more information for screening.

In addition, he really needs to look more and think more about more career possibilities.

After Yu Xing called the third-in-command Zhong Zhiling again, he looked through his address book and saw Xu Xin's number.

He hesitated for two seconds, but ultimately did not dial the number.

A text message wishing a happy new year should be enough. After all, the other party did not invest in the A round and may not be willing to hear your voice. Besides, Mr. Li from Zhenai.com may be right next to you, so don't provoke other people's family conflicts.

Yu Xing strolled along the road and made a few more calls. When he was about to return home, he saw "Jiahan Forestry" as the latest suspected target on his mobile phone again.

No matter how I look at it, I feel that Jiahan's methods are even rougher than Fenzhong's.

He shook his head, and when he got home and saw his mother was about to chop the dumpling stuffing, he volunteered, "Mom, I'll chop it and wrap it. Wrap more and freeze them in the refrigerator later. You can eat them whenever you want."

Chu Qiying was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Who is whose mother? After the New Year, when I'm done with my family, I'll go to Shencheng to take a look and pack more for you there."

"When I have money, I will buy you a house there." Yu Xing said as he chopped the chopsticks. "How about retiring early and you and my dad traveling to see the beautiful mountains and rivers of our motherland?"

Chu Qiying smiled slightly: "Then wait until you have money."

Yu Xing hummed, and after chopping for a while, he saw his mother was busy in the kitchen, so he said, "My uncle's grape vines were imported from Japan, and the variety is very good. However, after thinking about it, I have been wanting to make money for a while. I think it might be good to let my uncle and his family run a fruit chain store. People in big cities have a great demand for this now."

Chu Qiying hesitated and said, "There are people on the street who actually run a fruit store in Shanghai. They even changed their cars this year, but they went to do that... Well, you know, everyone is hurt by the financial management issue."

"It mainly depends on whether my uncle and his family have the ambition to do so. He grows grapes himself, so he should be able to ask around and find people for advice." Yu Xing smiled. "If they don't have the ambition to do so, it's not a big deal if they go to Shanghai to try to franchise the business."

Chu Qiying frowned and asked, "What do you think?"

"I can't think of anything. Well, I just checked the company's policy recently. Now the loan and other things are fine." Yu Xing said, "I think it is still better than growing grapes. If the trial planting of new varieties is successful, I can come back to plant them if I want."

Chu Qiying thought about it and asked, "Have you discussed this with your uncle?"

"Not yet. I was just thinking about it. I'm not chatting with you." Yu Xing said with a smile, "Oh, yes, a group of my colleagues will pass by here in a few days. It's a good opportunity to wish you a happy new year."

Chu Qiying was surprised and asked, "A group of colleagues? How many people? Wish me a happy new year?"

"About ten of them. They insisted on coming. You can think of it as a way of wishing me a happy new year. They just came to see if I'm really growing grapes." Yu Xing said with a smile.

Chu Qiying couldn't help but turn his head to look at his son, and suddenly he had a more concrete understanding of the fact that he was starting a company.

(End of this chapter)