I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

"That's a good point, but I don't think it can change anything. It's better to focus elsewhere." After Feng Yun left, Feng Jialun suddenly appeared in front of Chen Xi.

"Brother Feng, that may not be the case. Some things may happen sooner or later, but there is always a solution."

"Oh? Do you have any ideas? Why didn't you tell me at the meeting just now?"

"That's because it's useless to say it now. You also said that nothing can be changed now, but that doesn't mean it can't be changed in the future. The time is not right yet." Chen Xi blinked.

"You sly fellow, you're trying to play the same trick on me again." Feng Jialun smiled and shook his head, then continued to ask, "Are you still mad at me for not funding your project?"

"No, that's not the case. My project requires too much funding. Even if you want to support me, I'm afraid you are powerless."

"Haha, you are really sharp-tongued." Feng Jialun patted his shoulder.

Half an hour later, Chen Yifeng looked at the sparse crowd at the entrance and couldn't help but have a lot of question marks in his mind.

Why hasn't this kid come out yet?

"Old Chen, what are you doing here? Want to breathe some fresh air? Mr. Feng just talked about the smog problem." Liang Zhang suddenly appeared behind Chen Yifeng, scaring him.

"Fuck, you walk without making any sound. I'm waiting for my brat. What the hell are you doing? You're talking nonsense in the meeting."

"I think what he said is right. A son of a good father is like a good son. Don't always scold your child. I think we were brave and outspoken when we were young, but now that we are older, we have become a little timid. Seeing him is like seeing our past selves, isn't it great?"

"Nonsense, he's not your son, no matter how much I say, it won't affect you."

"Old Chen, you really think too much." Liang Zhang shook his head in confusion.

"Where's that kid? Why hasn't he come out yet?"

"I just saw him walk out of another door."

"Why didn't you say so earlier? Why are you still making fun of me?"

"Haha, let's not talk about this, let's get together tonight." Liang Zhang didn't wait for the other party to refuse, he took his arm and walked towards the parking lot.

Huajing, the Greater China Association of New Returnees.

"What nonsense is this, a time bank, and I'm traveling through time." In the conference room, someone couldn't help but make fun of the plan on the screen.

"I think this project is great and can stimulate the enthusiasm of association members." Yang Xiao touched his chin.

The man standing not far away explaining the plan was Zhang Liheng, who was rejected by Chen Xi.

"This is simply unrealistic. If contribution is calculated based on time, then everyone will waste time, everyone will be lazy and not work, or everyone will slack off, then won't the association be dragged down? Everyone is selfish and lazy. If one person works hard for eight hours a day, and another person slacks off for eight hours a day, and in the end they both only get a hundred yuan in salary, who will work hard? This is different from the past..." A young man immediately pointed out the drawbacks with sharp words.

"What qualifications do you have to criticize this model? The life we ​​have now is the result of the hard work of my grandfather and grandmother, not you. You are just a beneficiary. You have no right to judge the operating model of certain companies."

"calm down."

Yang Xiao suddenly went berserk. The teacher wearing glasses next to him was startled and quickly stood up and shouted.

"Sorry, I was a bit too impulsive just now." After a few seconds, Yang Xiao seemed like a different person. He sat down with a smile on his face and apologized to the young man.

"The entire time bank is not perfect yet. Originally, this was a volunteer project, but it needs to be modified if it is to be used in the Overseas Returnees Association." Stunned Zhang Liheng stammered.

"It's okay. Come back to me when you've figured out how to change it." Yang Xiao nodded. After Zhang Liheng left the meeting room, he said, "Today I went to the Young Returnees Association to take a look. I happened to meet their president. Their development is much faster than ours, but there are also many problems exposed. I talked privately with their instructor Zheng Wei. If we want our association to develop quickly, we must have stable projects to support it. With the support from above, our association has decided to cooperate with some Chinese companies to jointly promote economic development..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present's eyes lit up.

The association was short of money before, but now that money was delivered to their doorstep, they were naturally happy. They were all ready to work hard.

At night, at a hotel in Huajing.

"Mr. Chen's speech at the meeting today was very sharp, but there is no need to worry too much. Even if you say more at the meeting, it will be fine. However, you must play by the rules of the game."

"Yes, it's difficult to run a business, and it's even more difficult to run a business in China. If you want to keep doing it, you have to rely on a strong network of relationships, that is, to form a team!"

At the dinner table, a group of well-known entrepreneurs expressed their opinions one by one, and Chen Xi sat next to Feng Jialun and listened silently.

"There are some rules for forming a team. Some people form a team openly, and some people form a team secretly. In fact, no matter what, the news of their teaming up will eventually be known to others. Of course, there is another way to form a team... that is, we are enemies in public, but friends in private..." At this time, a chubby boss explained proudly.

Chen Xi remembered this guy. He seemed to be a chemical engineer and was worth quite a lot.

"After today's meeting, I don't know how many hotels in the whole Huajing are organizing parties. Mr. Chen, you are here today to represent the Overseas Study Network, so you must have a deep understanding of the education industry. I noticed that you seemed to be hesitant to speak at the meeting, so you must want to express your views on education. Can you tell me about any new money-making projects you have recently?" a boss asked jokingly.

Chen Xi understood that at a dinner party, someone would always say something interesting at the beginning to liven up the atmosphere. He was the youngest and the newest member, so he would naturally be picked out to test his quality.

"Haha, there are projects, but they are money-making projects for foreigners."

"It's okay, but it doesn't matter."

Chen Xi's words piqued the interest of the bosses, and the person who asked the question before waved his hand to let him continue.

"I have studied abroad. International students are very common all over the world, and everyone knows it. But do you know how much it costs to study abroad for a year?" Chen Xi cleared his throat and asked first.

"It depends on which country and which period it is. The tuition fees, minimum living expenses and exchange rates are all different in different countries and schools, so it's hard to comment." A boss answered first.

"The children of my company's employees go to school at Dameiliang, and the annual cost is about three or five hundred thousand. But my own child..." An elderly boss said halfway through, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Haha, it must have cost a lot," another person joked.

"Yes, everyone has a different family background, and parents have different ways of education. The amount of money given is not fixed, but studying abroad always costs money. We can go to other countries to study, and people from other countries can naturally come to study here. There are many universities all over the country, and Xinlu is the same. I recently discovered an interesting phenomenon at Xinlu University. There were suddenly many international students in the university, and 90% of them were Africans. But I think they are not here to be international students, but to study abroad as a career. During the years of college, they will change schools at each stage. In addition to free tuition, they can also get high scholarships, free travel during holidays, and very active female classmates will accompany them as tour guides throughout the journey. People can enjoy higher treatment with just one sentence: We are a family. I asked about it, and the scholarship for this year was tens of thousands of yuan, but according to my inquiry, he didn't seem to be a good student. That's fine, the problem is that he has been studying in the same university for many years, and even outlasted the next batch of students. After graduation, this international student happily took the money back to Africa to start a company. Do you think this is a good project to make money?"

"Hahaha."

“Yes, yes, it is indeed a good project.”

The small project that Chen Xi casually mentioned made everyone present laugh, and the atmosphere in the box was instantly boosted.

"There are many bosses attending the meeting today. They say they are here to discuss the country's future development, but in fact they all want to hear about the latest trends so they can make profits for their own companies." At this time, Feng Jialun spoke.

"Yeah, that makes sense." Chen Xi responded.

"What you said at the meeting is right. Now many bosses move overseas after making money. This seems reasonable but is actually unreasonable. Let me tell you a story. There was a very poor village in the past. The village chief called a meeting to discuss how to make the village rich. In the end, they came up with a plan. The whole village pooled money to send a few selected young people to big cities for development. After they succeeded, they would return to the village to improve the situation. But the result... people are selfish. After those young people became rich, they forgot their original promises and the efforts of their fellow villagers and chose not to come back. Do you think this is reasonable?"

"Haha, that's outrageous. Returning a favor is the basic principle of being a human being."

"Well, you are still young and have just returned to China. There are some things you must always remember in your heart..." Feng Jialun spoke to Chen Xi with a smile on his face, but his eyes swept over everyone.

"There is a lot of competition in the industry now, and many companies have turned from competition to cooperation. I heard that some logistics companies have cooperated to provide transportation services for a certain platform. It's not just the logistics industry, other manufacturing industries are similar. Small companies want to band together with large companies. Although the bosses make money, there is only one ending for the company, that is, being swallowed up! When the large companies become larger and larger and have more and more employees, they will choose another approach because there is no external pressure, that is, to reduce costs and start laying off employees. This is not a good phenomenon..."

“Although the anti-monopoly law for enterprises was implemented in the past few years, it was not strong enough. But I think the anti-monopoly law will be strengthened in the future, so… the reasonable development speed of enterprises is still very important.”

After Feng Jialun finished speaking, the two bosses brought up a new topic one after another.

I have to say that many of those who can become big bosses have very sharp vision.

"As the old saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. Sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing for a company to be too big."

"Steady development, neither falling behind nor being too advanced, is the long-term strategy."

Two more CEOs joined the discussion.

Haha, each of them is smarter than a monkey. When they become big, you won't have any control over them.

There are a lot of shareholders in a company, and you can't stop developing just because you want to.

"Mr. Chen, I heard that you have been staying in Tuao. What is the situation there?" A man with glasses, a square face and a gray suit suddenly spoke up. At this time, the others also paused and looked at Chen Xi.

"It's all the same, no matter where the corporate monopoly is. It's just a question of whether it can be controlled. In some areas, the authorities can't control it even if they want to, and there's nothing they can do about it. But even if they can't control it, the authorities won't give up, but will try to boil the frog in warm water. The resource lifelines of some Western regions are monopolized by many capitalists, which is a very dangerous thing, and the authorities understand this..." Chen Xi took a sip of tea.

"Don't just drink tea, come on, bring some wine." A tall and thin man waved his hand, signaling the waiter to come over.

Although Chen Xi didn't like this kind of drinking culture, the status of the people present was similar, and it was not good to offend others, so he picked up the glass and took a sip.

The spicy liquor went down his throat, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

The last time I drank white wine seemed to be... well, it seemed to be at a classmate reunion in Australia...

To be honest, there are so many types of wine, but Chen Xi dislikes white wine the most. He simply can't get used to it.

There were more than a dozen bosses present, half of whom he didn't know. However, those who could sit at the same table with Feng Jialun for dinner should not be small figures.

"There are many electric car companies on the market now, and they call them new energy vehicles. A new policy was just announced a few months ago, which is to implement subsidies for private purchases of new energy vehicles. Our domestically produced traditional cars, that is, gasoline cars, have never been competitive compared to foreign brands. These car companies say they want to vigorously develop new energy vehicles so that they can overtake others in the future. I heard from Mr. Feng that Mr. Chen is in the car business in Australia. Do you think this is feasible?" A fair-skinned and bookish boss looked at Chen Xi.

He was asked several questions in a row, and it seemed that everyone was very interested in this young man.

Chen Xi recognized that this man was the owner of an investment company. He was a former colleague and quite famous.

"It is feasible to develop new energy vehicles, but there is no such thing as overtaking others on a curve. As far as I know, most of the equipment used to manufacture new energy vehicles is actually imported. This is similar to making oil-fired vehicles. Our role is still in processing and assembly, but the difficulty of making electric vehicles is not that high, and we do not need to rely too much on foreign technology.

But if you make so many cars, you have to sell them. Now foreign countries are not very receptive to this kind of product, so you can only sell it domestically. I personally like new things, but I seldom use them. If I were the owner of a tram company, I would not drive a tram, but would sell the product to others because it is not suitable for me.

The main advantage of electric cars is that charging is cheap, which means they are only used by people with average financial resources. Rich people don’t care about the price of gasoline. Now that there are subsidies, I think we can do it…” Chen Xi said half of it, hiding the other half.

"You said that shopping malls are being built everywhere now, and the construction speed of some shopping malls seems to be the same, all controlled within eighteen months. Why is that?" The square-faced, bespectacled man spoke again.

"In some areas, if relatively famous shopping malls are introduced, it can bring significant development, such as increasing revenue and solving employment problems. As for the construction speed... that's because some people in the prefecture and city have almost the same number." Chen Xi said, blinking mischievously.

"Haha, okay. I thought you were going to say something else. You know a lot... You are perfect for living in Huajing." The man with glasses laughed and clapped his hands.

The others also smiled, as if the sect had accepted a new disciple, and this new disciple had just successfully passed the test, making all the brothers very pleased.

At this moment, Chen Xi has been integrated into this circle.

Feng Jialun looked at the young man beside him with some surprise. He couldn't understand how a person who had lived abroad for many years could be so familiar with the situation here.

You know, even people who have lived in the mainland for many years may not be clear about these things.

At this time, in a private room of another hotel several kilometers away from them.

Chen Yifeng is bragging about business with a group of old classmates from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

"Old Chen, you said you wanted to develop in Huajing, but you ran back to your hometown. Now you are back again. It seems that you have a deep obsession with this place." The CEO of Haier Group teased.

The two had a pretty good relationship and used to like joking around with each other.

"Haha, there is no future for development in a small place like Xinlu. We still have to go to a big city." Chen Yifeng smiled.

"In fact, all of us old classmates went to other places after graduation, but many of us came back later. I think this place is still the best," said another boss.

"We didn't dare to speak at the meeting today, but you are really brave enough."

“I see that besides Mr. Chen and Feng Yun, there is another young man who also speaks very fiercely.”

"I heard that he is Mr. Chen's son, right?"

The other three bosses joined the conversation.

"Well, he went abroad early, and I didn't care much about him before. He was self-righteous every day, talking nonsense everywhere, and simply treated the conference venue as his home..." Chen Yifeng became angry when he thought of this, and kept complaining about his son's recklessness today.

"I don't see anything wrong with it. Raising questions and pointing out mistakes, isn't that what the leaders want to see? Besides, they are young people and they have advantages over us. Even if the leaders are unhappy, they won't argue with young people, right? There's a saying... Yes, children's words are without restraint." The CEO of Haier Group consoled him.

"He is still a child and speaks without restraint. He is already an adult." Chen Yifeng was speechless.

"Let's not talk about this for now. The number of people taking out loans in the country is increasing. Can you guess why?" A CEO with a Mediterranean hairstyle tried to change the subject to liven up the atmosphere at the dinner table.

"I want money to spend!" someone answered.

The boss who asked the question before smiled and said, "In other countries, people mostly take out loans for consumption. But it's different here. I found that most people who take out loans do so to start a business. This is very strange... After research by our company team, we found that young people think that starting a business is the only way to get rich. Most of them like to watch TV dramas about losers who make a comeback, so more and more people start to do business."

After everyone showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, Mediterranean said, "But business is not that easy to do. There are very few people who succeed in starting a business. In fact, those people do not have the characteristics of entrepreneurship at all. They don't even have a good project, but they still rush forward stubbornly. I have seen that most of them are imitating their peers. For example, if a breakfast shop on this street makes money, a bunch of people will follow suit, and in the end no one makes money. So I did another market survey. I wanted to know why these people have no special ideas and still want to be bosses without thinking. The conclusion is that most of them say that bosses are not good in this or that way, that bosses make a lot of money but give them little, and that employees will be exploited, etc."

"Haha, then when they become bosses, aren't they also exploiting others? He doesn't think that bosses are bad, but that he thinks it's bad that he's not a boss. I think things like this that promote entrepreneurship should be posted more online, so that we can get more loan business. This is not good, I think it needs to be changed. We bosses can slightly modify our personal information online and write an inspirational struggle history. Make sure you describe how poor you were in the past, so that after reading it, they will feel excited and follow suit..." The boss of an investment company laughed.

"That's not the case. The lent money must always be taken back. The more people fail, the higher the bad debt rate of the financial company will be. Once the number increases, the financial company will go bankrupt." The boss of another investment company looked worried.

Chen Yifeng was also worried after hearing this.

My funds are all out there. If I can’t get them back, won’t that be the end of me?

"It doesn't matter. We can package the non-performing assets and sell them to a third party, which is called debt transfer." At this time, someone proposed a solution.

"You want someone else to collect the debt for us? That hole will be hard to fill."

"It's better to have a hard time filling it than not to fill it at all. If others buy the asset packages we sell, we can also buy theirs. If we work together, the hole will be filled."

"Why do I feel like I've seen this before? What was that phrase called? It seems to be called eating one's own children."

"Hahaha."

Several bosses burst into laughter after hearing this.

In a private room of a high-end hotel not far from where they were.

At this time, Xu Jia was sitting on a chair, listening to a group of CEOs bragging in front of him.

"Oh, I bought another private jet this year. The flight attendants... no, the space... wow." A fat and big-eared boss boasted, shaking his head.

"Hahaha, you let it slip. You've already bought one plane, and now you're buying another one. How can a person take two planes at the same time? You can also use the art of splitting yourself into two. It's obvious that you're transferring assets. Be careful." Next to him, a man with a big black mole on his face smiled and patted his thigh.

"What's the big deal? Which boss abroad doesn't have a few planes and yachts? Not to mention planes, many people have several cars. By the way, Mr. Xu, your art troupe..."

"We are going to register a company this year and formalize it. We will call it Heng Xiao Song and Dance Troupe. I will show you my skills then." Xu Jia laughed and continued, "I said at the meeting today that we will develop real estate across the country. This money..."

"The funds are easy to talk about. I've already found someone for you. We'll talk about the price later..." The fat and big-eared man raised his glass and clinked it with the Xu family, seemingly not wanting to finalize the matter all at once.

Late at night, Chen Xi returned to the hotel and lay on the bed. His eyes wandered on the dim ceiling, and the emotions surging in his heart were as complex and indistinguishable as the night.

Everything today seemed to subtly overlap with certain fragments of his previous life, evoking memories deep in his heart that were both familiar and strange.

Emotions of excitement and uneasiness intertwined in his chest, like an undercurrent in the night, difficult to calm.

The next day, Chen Xi, who was sleeping soundly in bed, suddenly felt that the world around him seemed to shake gently, waking him up from his slumber.

"Fuck it, I'm never drinking again next time." He suddenly opened his eyes, rubbed his aching head and muttered, staggering towards the bathroom, unaware that the bottle of mineral water on the bedside table was rippling with delicate layers of water.

Why do you feel like something's not quite right?

One hand supported the waist and the other hand held the pipe.

The liquid from the faucet fell into the toilet, and the splash seemed to be bigger than usual. (End of this chapter)