In the big conference room on the top floor of Tengda Corporation's headquarters, the person-in-charge of the various departments gathered and briefly reported on the work of the various departments.
Xin Hailu presided over the meeting.
According to the original structure of the meeting, some decisions should be made by Boss Pei. However, after Boss Pei left, the position of the CEO had been empty. Some decisions were made by the five upper echelons.
They were Xin Hailu, Ma Yang, Huang Sibo, Lu Mingliang, and Meng Chang.
These five people were now senior vice presidents of the group. However, Xin Hailu's position was higher while the other four corresponded to different industries.
Huang Sibo mainly represented the company's cultural and creative industries, including the games and movie departments.
Ma Yang represented the company's physical industries, such as Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Fish-Catching Take-Out, Deposit Fitness, and so on.
Lu Mingliang was in charge of the company's supporting services, such as Upwind Logistics, Sloth Apartments, and so on. The difference between him and Ma Yang was that he mainly considered how these industries could create greater social value. It did not matter if they lost money.
Meng Chang's situation was the most special. After paying off all his debts, he won the general recognition of the person-in-charge with his series of contributions. After all, Meng Chang had received Boss Pei's teachings and he was indeed talented.
Meng Chang was mainly in charge of the company's publicity and marketing.
However, Meng Chang's job was not just to make a few publicity plans. Due to Tengda Corporation's special nature, the publicity plan of a certain industry was closely related to the planning and product ecology of the entire industry.
Thus, Meng Chang could have a certain amount of influence on most departments. He had quite a lot of power.
The other department heads might not be as good as these five people on the surface, but their words also carried weight. If a certain decision was strongly protested by some veteran person-in-charge, everyone would have a full discussion with the Tengda spirit and reach a consensus.
During this process, there was no guarantee that every decision made would be absolutely correct. After all, the truth was in the hands of a few people sometimes.
However, in general, as long as everyone put their position in Boss Pei's shoes and imagined how Boss Pei would make a decision if he was still in the position of the President. Then, the final decision would usually be the least bad one.
This was the first meeting of the new year. It also represented that Boss Pei had left Tengda Corporation for an entire year.
In the past year, Tengda Corporation had indeed not encountered any problems. Not only had it developed rapidly, but it had also developed faster and better than before!
Of course, no one would think that Boss Pei was dragging Tengda Corporation down. They would only think that Boss Pei had built a good foundation for Tengda Corporation. Thus, even if Boss Pei was not around, Tengda Corporation would continue to develop according to the established direction!
The heads of the various departments began to report the development results of each department in the past year.
After Boss Pei stood his ground and officially acquired Finger Games and merged IOI and GOG, after a year of deep integration, from the game to the esports industry, these two games became inseparable. They became the game with the most players in the world and became a cultural phenomenon.
After the merger of Finger Games, the studio that was left behind was specialized in the research and development of overseas heroes. Coupled with the merger of the two games, GOG had a large number of heroes that were loved by overseas players. Thus, it quickly occupied the global market.
The global finals held in the second half of last year was an unprecedented grand occasion. The number of people watching at the same time broke the previous record. In the future, this dominance would continue and eventually become a special cultural symbol.
Tengda Corporation's layout in the game industry had also played an important role. The incubation base, the Morning Dew Game Platform, and the Morning Dew Game Editor had greatly improved the entire domestic game environment. A batch of outstanding independent game designers and outstanding games had once again emerged in the country.
Fei Huang Workspace, on the other hand, continued to film movies. Sometimes, they would work with Zhongdian Chinese Network's outstanding works, and sometimes, they would work with the games department.
In terms of food and beverage, the nameless restaurant, Fish-Catching Take-Out, snack market, and Cold-Faced Lady developed rapidly and became local specialty chains. To a certain extent, they had a sniping effect on foreign fast food brands and changed the eating habits of the people.
Take-Out was no longer synonymous with unhealthy. Instead, it had become a new way of life.
Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Deposit Fitness, Starbird Virtual Sports Experience Store, and other physical stores had opened all over the country, enriching people's daily lives.
While Upwind Logistics and Fish-Catching Take-Out allowed many people to enjoy high-quality food and beverage and shopping experiences without leaving their homes, these physical stores encouraged people to walk out of their homes. To a certain extent, they improved the sluggish situation of physical stores and stimulated the development of the physical economy.
The follow-up attractions of Thriller Hostel and Leng Nuan Animal Park were also being developed. According to Tengda Corporation's plan, this place would become a Tengda theme park in the future. They would strive to recreate all of Tengda's classic games and movie IPs in the park.
In the future, Tengda Corporation also planned to build Tengda theme parks of the same scale in Beijing, Shanghai, and other super first-tier cities. They could even open theme parks overseas. Create different cultural landmarks for each city!
Apart from that, Sloth Apartments, Jifeng New Energy Vehicles, Tengda Experience Store, luxury clothing brands, Bunny Tail Live-Stream, TPDb website, Suffering Travel, Otto Technologies, Zhongdian Chinese Network, and other industries were also upgrading their businesses to provide better services for users.
Tengda Corporation had truly penetrated into all areas of users' food, clothing, housing, and transportation. However, this penetration was not infiltration and control, but comprehensive support and improvement.
The other internet companies had no choice but to make changes under Tengda Corporation's pressure. Be it food delivery or taxi hailing software, they had no choice but to provide more conscientious services to users and reduce the collection of user information in order to deal with Tengda Corporation's pressure.
That was because they knew very well that Tengda Corporation would immediately take action and make them disappear completely once they went overboard and stirred up public resentment.
If they wanted to survive, they had to provide relatively high-quality services like Tengda Corporation and protect their image and reputation in the hearts of the people.
In the second half of last year, there was a trend that the cold winter of the internet was coming.
This was also very normal, because in the Internet era, the favor of capital had caused these high-tech giant companies to begin unorderly expansion. Behind this kind of unorderly expansion was a money-burning war, an inflated valuation, and the purpose was to earn the last copper coin from users.
When the entire internet economy changed from an incremental era to a stock era, the cold winter of the internet would definitely arrive. The entire industry would have to tighten their belts and not be as extravagant as before.
However, Tengda Corporation was not affected much.
That was because Tengda Corporation also had some internet industries, but these industries were backed by solid physical industries and were deeply supported by ordinary people.
It was precisely because of the rich accumulation and perfect organizational structure that Tengda Corporation was not affected by the cold winter of the internet. Instead, it was praised many times and accepted the lessons of other internet companies as an outstanding department!
The person-in-charge spoke one after another, and the resolutions were pushed forward quickly. The entire Tengda Corporation was still taking big steps forward according to the original track.
…
At the same time …
A young man wearing a cap alighted from the car in Tengda Corporation's underground parking lot.
"Wait for me here. I'll be back in a while. Don't inform anyone about my arrival. "
Little Sun nodded immediately. "Alright, Boss Pei."
Pei Qian stepped out of the car.
He felt a little emotional when he returned to Tengda Corporation's headquarters.
Before he left last year, the headquarters building had not been completed. The various departments of Tengda Corporation were still scattered in different offices in Jingzhou City.
He returned a year later. He had matured a lot after studying for a year, but it seemed like Tengda Corporation had changed even more.
Such a huge headquarters building showed the strong financial strength of Tengda Corporation to the outside world. It was finally a bit like a giant company.
Pei Qian walked towards the elevator, ready to walk around the new headquarters building.
Half an hour later, he finally arrived at the first floor.
"Who's so wicked? I walked around in a maze in the parking lot for more than half an hour, but I still couldn't find the way.
"If someone who knew the way hadn't led me here, I would probably have been trapped inside!
"That's not right. This was my idea back then. It's fine, then."
Pei Qian walked around the underground parking lot's maze for more than half an hour. If he had not consciously strengthened his physical training in the past year, it would have been impossible for him to walk around the headquarters building with his weak physique.
Fortunately, there was a scooter that he could ride on once he reached the first floor.
Pei Qian rode the scooter around the building and played some games in the entertainment area.
During this period, he had to swipe his access card to enter some places. However, Pei Qian was already prepared. He had already obtained the highest level access card. Naturally, these places were unobstructed.
Some employees occasionally walked past the company's headquarters, but none of them recognized Pei Qian.
After all, Boss Pei's old acquaintances were the oldest batch of employees in the company. At this time, they were either department heads or the company's Vice-Presidents. They were all busy in the office.
Pei Qian felt that this was quite good. He had not intended to tell anyone that he was back. He just wanted to take a look at the new headquarters.
After a simple walk, Pei Qian took the elevator directly to the CEO's office on the top floor of the headquarters building.
After swiping his card, Pei Qian was speechless.
The CEO's office was very spacious. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows gave a panoramic view of the outside world. The scenery was excellent. What's more, the CEO's office was obviously cleaned frequently. It was spotless as if it was waiting for Boss Pei to come back and use it.
However …
In this spacious CEO office, the style of the chair and desk was exactly the same as in the game 'The Future You Choose'.
Pei Qian exclaimed in admiration. Life was full of surprises. Tengda Corporation was indeed an entertainment company. It was filled with entertainment spirit everywhere.
After sitting on the spacious chair for a while, Pei Qian stood up and left.
This office was very spacious and stylish, but he was not used to it. Relatively speaking, he preferred the working environment at Shenhua View where he mingled with the employees.
He left the CEO's office and strolled to other places on the same floor to take a look. He realized that the Vice-Presidents' offices were empty as well.
"Why isn't anyone here? Oh, they might be in a meeting. "
Pei Qian looked at the time and realized that it might be the time for the person-in-charge's regular meeting. That was why there was no one in the Vice-Presidents' office.
He looked at the nameplates on the offices. There were Xin Hailu, Ma Yang, Huang Sibo, Lu Mingliang, and Meng Chang's offices.
"I didn't expect Meng Chang to really become the Vice-President of the company. It looks like smart people are smart people. They might have walked the wrong path previously, but as long as they correct themselves and realize their mistakes, they can quickly walk the right path."
Pei Qian did not specifically remind him of Meng Chang's use. However, the current position of Tengda Corporation's Vice-President could be considered a virtuous person. As long as one had true talent and could obtain the unanimous approval of the person-in-charge, they could take on this position!
Meng Chang had originally been ostracized by the people in charge. Now that he was able to become the Vice-President, it meant that he had contributed a lot to Tengda Corporation this year.
He had to admit that a smart person like Meng Chang could indeed make outstanding contributions after turning over a new leaf even though it was very harmful when he did bad things.
Pei Qian swiped his card at Meng Chang's office door and the door opened automatically.
Pei Qian's card had the highest authority and could open any door. Of course, Meng Chang's Vice-President's office door was not a problem.
In fact, Pei Qian did not want to do anything at first. He just came to take a look out of curiosity. Then, he turned around and left so that Meng Chang would not realize that he had been there.
In the end, he realized that there was a video editing project on the huge computer screen that was not closed.
Obviously, Meng Chang was working on this video editing project before the meeting and did not have time to save and close it.
Pei Qian was a little curious. Logically speaking, Meng Chang should not have to edit the video himself as the person-in-charge of the publicity department and the Vice-President of the company, right?
Out of curiosity, Pei Qian leaned over and took a closer look at the title of the video and the video in the document beside it.
"Young Master Tian?"
Pei Qian was shocked to discover that this was Young Master Tian's latest video.
He clicked open the folder where the video was in disbelief and realized that there were a few more videos of Young Master Tian.
The video project that was being edited revealed a naked reality. Young Master Tian's series of videos was made by Meng Chang!
Pei Qian was stunned.
"That's not right. Wasn't Tian Mo the one who made Young Master Tian's video? It was already confirmed at that time. Even the person who edited the video for him has been found. "
"The two of them were sent on a bitter trip together. This matter is over."
"What's more, I asked Meng Chang back then. I asked him to guess who Young Master Tian was and he pointed Tian Mo out on the spot. "
"What's going on? Could Meng Chang be Young Master Tian? "
"But why did Meng Chang come up with such a name?"
Pei Qian thought hard and fully used his imagination. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"Young Master Tian? Lord Meng Chang? "
"F * ck! Meng Chang, you scammer! "
Pei Qian, who instantly understood the truth, wanted to curse.
If he had not discovered the truth by chance, Tian Mo's grievance would probably never have been cleared.
Now that he thought about it, Tian Mo was really wronged. Such an honest person had taken the blame for Meng Chang.
What's more, the most infuriating thing was that not only had Meng Chang thrown the blame away perfectly, but he had also not been discovered and successfully escaped Boss Pei's punishment.
Pei Qian was very angry. The consequences were very serious.
Such vile behavior had to be punished severely!
At that thought, Pei Qian took a pen and paper from the side and wrote a few words on it.
"Accept your punishment. Suffer Trip and Thriller Hostel for three months each."
Then, he signed his name at the back.
Pei Qian's handwriting was not very good, but fortunately, the style was more obvious. The person-in-charge should be able to recognize it. It was even more impossible for Meng Chang to recognize it wrongly.
Suffer Trip and Thriller Hostel for three months each. That was half a year. It should be enough to achieve the effect of punishing Meng Chang.
At that thought, Pei Qian turned around and left Meng Chang's office with guilt towards Tian Mo.
He closed Meng Chang's office door but forgot to close the President's office door as well.
…
About half an hour later, the meeting in charge was over and Meng Chang returned to his office.
The person-in-charge would make him a little tired. He did not return to his desk immediately. Instead, he sat down on the single-seater sofa at the side to rest.
Meng Chang's thoughts gradually emptied, and his mind began to become active.
"Sigh, after entering Tengda Corporation, I finally realized what a frog at the bottom of a well I was."
"I originally thought that it would be enough to cheat some investors of their money, but after seeing Boss Pei, I finally understood what a true hero is."
"Creating such a colossus like Tengda Corporation is the work of a hero."
"However, without the leadership of a peerless genius like Boss Pei, the person-in-charge of Tengda Corporation seems a little pedantic."
"Boss Pei has been gone for an entire year without any news. If Boss Pei really doesn't come back, would I be able to sit in the position of Tengda Corporation's President one day? "
Meng Chang had always been an ambitious person and a capable person.
Previously, Boss Pei had been suppressing him in Tengda Corporation. He could only do things carefully and did not dare to have any wishful thinking.
However, now that Boss Pei was no longer around, he naturally had some other ideas.
In his opinion, the other person-in-charge of the company might be very capable, but they did not have much ambition. Many decisions that could allow Tengda Corporation to develop faster had been rejected by these people in charge.
The reason for rejection was that this did not meet Boss Pei's expectations and the Tengda spirit.
Meng Chang agreed with this on the surface, but he did not think much of it in his heart.
Of course, with the current structure of Tengda Corporation, no matter how much money Tengda Corporation earned, it would not be directly linked to the income of the person-in-charge. They could only use the company's funds to do projects according to the company's articles of association.
However, Meng Chang was not asking for money because he and Fan Xiaodong could earn money in other ways.
Meng Chang yearned to become Boss Pei's successor and the new leader of Tengda Corporation. He wanted such social status and the feeling of being respected by thousands of people.
Thus, Meng Chang was obviously the more radical one among the many people in charge.
Of course, his thoughts would be resisted by the other people in charge. Thus, Meng Chang did not dare to make it too obvious. He could only consider slowly achieving his goal through subtle influence.
At that thought, Meng Chang stood up and returned to his desk, intending to complete Young Master Tian's new video.
However, at that moment, he saw the piece of white paper on his desk.
There was a line of words written on it.
"Accept your punishment. Suffer Hardship Travel and Thriller Hostel for three months each, Pei Qian."
Meng Chang almost jumped up in fright when he saw this line of words. His face turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.
He looked around in horror and then at the note in his hand. He confirmed again and again that it was really Boss Pei's handwriting.
Meng Chang clearly remembered that there was no note on his desk before he went to the meeting. In other words, Boss Pei had been to the company during this period and entered his office to leave this note.
Meng Chang looked at his computer desktop nervously, realizing that Boss Pei might have seen something on his computer.
It could only be said that this highlighted the importance of setting a computer lock screen password.
Meng Chang did not set a lock screen password mainly because the office door could only be opened by swiping a card. He was not worried that others would sneak into his office.
However, he did not expect Boss Pei, who had the highest authority, to return!
Meng Chang could not help but tremble in fear when he saw this line of words.
To go to Suffer Hardship Travel and Thriller Hostel for three months each was obviously a very serious punishment. Meng Chang could even vaguely feel that Boss Pei was suppressing his anger when he wrote this line of words.
Why was Boss Pei angry?
Meng Chang panicked.
According to an ordinary person's thoughts, there would be nothing else in the entire office except for Young Master Tian's video on the computer screen. Naturally, he would think that Boss Pei was angry because he saw Young Master Tian's video.
However, the problem was that Boss Pei knew that he was Young Master Tian and had tacitly agreed to it.
In other words, Boss Pei had no reason to be angry because of this.
"Could it be that Boss Pei saw some of my work content on my computer? Did he discover signs of my loosening of thinking? "
Meng Chang felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, his heart trembling.
He had always hidden his thoughts at the bottom of his heart and had never told anyone about it.
Of course, Meng Chang did not want to overthrow Tengda Corporation. It was just that the perfect route he had imagined was different from the route planned by Boss Pei and the route that the other person-in-charge wanted to take.
Meng Chang did not dare and could not really let Tengda walk the path of capital. However, some of his personal ideas and ambitions would drive him to make decisions that deviated from the Tengda spirit in certain areas.
He might not have said these thoughts very clearly, but there would more or less be some clues in some of his work content.
Meng Chang was very sure that Boss Pei had most likely seen his work content and keenly captured signs of loosening of thinking. That was why he was very disappointed in Meng Chang and proposed such a punishment!
The punishment of Suffer Travel and Thriller Hostel for three months each might not seem light, but this punishment also meant that Boss Pei had given Meng Chang a chance to turn over a new leaf. Otherwise, this note would have asked Meng Chang to resign on his own.
Meng Chang slumped in his chair, feeling as if he had taken a trip to the gates of hell.
That familiar feeling was back!
Every time he thought he was smart and wanted to do something, he would always realize that nothing could escape Boss Pei's eyes.
"Boss Pei is really scary."
"I said that I would leave Tengda Corporation and no longer pay attention to the company, but in fact, every move of the company and even the subtle changes in my heart did not escape Boss Pei's eyes!"
"Fortunately, I didn't commit a big crime this time. Boss Pei still gave me some face."
Meng Chang felt a lingering fear. He immediately put away his dangerous thoughts and called Fan Xiaodong.
He decided to donate 70% of his investment income to the Beginner Relief Plan!
He had no choice. Since he had already been caught red-handed by Boss Pei, he could only lose money to avoid disaster and express his loyalty to Boss Pei.
As Tengda's largest charity event, the Beginner Relief Plan had been carried out in a low-key manner. Its coverage had already expanded from Handong Province to most of the villages in the country.
Many children had obtained the opportunity to continue learning and further their studies because of this plan. Many children had also ensured the nutrition of meat, eggs, and milk during the critical period of their growth because of this plan.
In the future, the Beginner Relief Plan would continue to expand and help more people.
However, until now, the Beginner Relief Plan had not been widely exposed. Tengda Corporation had not done much publicity either.
Meng Chang felt that Boss Pei might have wanted to use the Beginner Relief Plan as a trump card against the Anti-Tengda Alliance.
At a critical moment in the battle of public opinion, the exposure of this charity plan might play a role in reversing the battle.
However, the Anti-Tengda Alliance was too weak and useless.
Of course, this was only Meng Chang's guess. Or perhaps, Boss Pei just wanted to do charity honestly and had no intention of exposing it. He might even deliberately avoid letting others know about it.
Given Tengda's current situation, it no longer lacked a good reputation.
Since that was the case, it was better to keep a low profile with the Beginner Relief Plan. What did it matter if others knew about it?
Meng Chang finally felt relieved after making all the arrangements.
Boss Pei's every word and action always brought him immense pressure, making him feel like his petty tricks had been seen through in front of Boss Pei.
At this moment, he seemed to hear the sounds of discussion outside.
Meng Chang left his office and found Xin Hailu, Huang Sibo, Lu Mingliang, Ma Yang, and the others gathered at the entrance of the president's office.
The door to the president's office, which would only be opened at a fixed time every morning for cleaning, was now open. There was no one inside.
The other Vice Presidents were a little surprised.
"Who opened this door?"
"Could it be that Boss Pei came back?"
"But why didn't Boss Pei close the door when he left? Is he hinting something to us? "
Meng Chang walked in front of everyone and said, "Yes, Boss Pei came back."
"I think Boss Pei opened the door on purpose to send us a message."
"He wants to tell us: I'm watching you."
"Or perhaps he's saying that we have to remember the last scene in 'The Future You Chose'!"
Everyone's faces were solemn as they nodded.
Boss Pei had not been to the company for an entire year but no one doubted that he still had absolute control over the company.
Tengda Corporation was Boss Pei's hard work and also the experimental ground for Boss Pei to practice his ideals. How could Boss Pei really not care?
It was just like how some ancient emperors did not attend court for many years, but that did not mean that they knew nothing about court. On the contrary, he would definitely use other methods to maintain the operation of the entire dynasty.
Of course, Boss Pei was definitely not a fatuous ruler. He had a special purpose for leaving Tengda Corporation. He also had a special purpose for watching Tengda Corporation from a different perspective.
At that moment, no one spoke. They all had different thoughts in their minds.
This huge boss chair was a little like a throne. Its back was very high and the armrests were very wide. Behind it was a huge floor-to-ceiling window. The entire scenery around Tengda Corporation could be seen.
However, there was no one on the huge throne.
This scene seemed to be similar to the last scene in the movie, but everyone present knew that Tengda Corporation would not take this path in reality.
That was because Boss Pei had been watching silently from an invisible corner.
(End of the book)
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