Chapter 94: Hundred Days Reform
Chapter 92
The woman playing chess heard the sound and quickly came to her senses.
"Sister Zixuan! Sister Xiaojing! You are here!"
Her face lit up with delight, then she stood up and walked forward, greeting the two people who were entering the manor.
"Fangfang, I haven't seen you for half a year. You've become even more beautiful!" Xiaojing continued to tease.
"You're too kind. No matter how beautiful you are, you can't compare to Sister Xiaojing!" Fangfang smiled and said, "It was you who said you wanted to play chess with me? Shall we play a game?"
Xiao Jing was stunned, waved her hands and laughed: "I'm just talking, I'm not your opponent!"
"You don't know her yet. She won't seek trouble on her own initiative!" Zi Xuan also said.
Xiao Jing said: "She asks even though she knows the answer!"
Zixuan and the other two walked to the willow tree and saw the young man next to the stone table.
The man took the initiative to greet Zixuan and the others. Then, he smiled and said to Hu Fangfang, "You are busy. I will play chess with you another day!"
"Okay!" Hu Fangfang nodded.
"Well, I'll take my leave then!"
"Okay. Take care, I won't see you off!"
After the man left, Xiao Jing asked as she walked away, "Fang Fang, tell me the truth, is this your new lover?"
"He's just a worker from a nearby factory." Hu Fangfang rolled her eyes and said with a sullen smile, "Besides, have I ever had a lover?"
"It seems that I didn't have it before!" Xiao Jing said seriously without commenting, "But this doesn't mean that you won't have it now or in the future, right?!"
"Uh, I don't want to bother with you!"
The three of them walked side by side to the meeting room in the manor.
Hu Fangfang gently closed the door. There was no one around, and a special wave flashed in her eyes. She turned around and suddenly bowed to Zixuan: "Greetings, Princess! Please forgive Fangfang for being rude just now!"
"Get up!" Zi Xuan saw this and said with a wry smile, "I've told you so many times, there's no need to be so formal!"
Xiaojing watched from the side, silent.
Fangfang, like the two sisters Ah Man and Ah Xi, were brought out from the space ruins by them, and their names were also given by them. Ah Man and Ah Xi were from the spirit cat tribe, and followed Xiao Jing, so they took Miao as their surname; while Hu Fangfang was from the spirit fox tribe, and followed Zi Xuan, who asked her to take Hu as her surname.
Xiaojing was of course also aware that there was a kind of gratitude from the bottom of Fangfang's heart in her eyes.
Judging from bloodline alone, the celestial fox is much higher than the ordinary spirit fox. As a royal family of the celestial fox clan, Zixuan's bloodline is so noble that ordinary spirit foxes like Hu Fangfang cannot compare.
In addition, she was rescued by Zixuan, and from then on she no longer had to worry about not having enough food or being in danger of losing her life, so she willingly took the initiative to serve Zixuan as her master.
Of course, Zixuan didn't think so. She had stayed in the lower world for a long time, and it had been a long time since she had been greeted by the crowds of people in the Sky Fox Clan. Times had changed, and Zixuan was not used to Fangfang being so particular about etiquette.
After Zixuan and Xiaojing sat down, Fangfang brought tea. Then, she took out several account books and said:
"...The wages and repairs of the manor totaled 70,800 yuan."
"In Bai's Paradise, two children were adopted last month, and one was added two days ago. Therefore, the total number of abandoned children adopted in the manor has reached 29..."
"The group's half-year financial report has come out. The family's money has been distributed according to the profit ratio, totaling million..." Hu Fangfang's face was calm. She stood in front of Zixuan, picked up the account books one by one as usual, and told Zixuan everything.
She does this twice a year, and her work is meticulous, with the goal of giving Her Royal Highness the Princess full control over her income and expenditure.
That’s right, she is the housekeeper of Bai’s Manor and also Zixuan’s personal financial manager.
If it was an ordinary wealthy family, the housekeeper would be responsible for the master's daily life such as food, clothing, travel, etc., which would not be so cumbersome. But Fangfang was different. In addition to the affairs of the manor, she also represented Zixuan and was the link between the Bai clan. Many family-related affairs were completed by Hu Fangfang.
It was not Zixuan's idea to give the dividends from Qianqiu Group to other members of the Bai family. It was decided by her father and the elders of the family a long time ago.
According to the agreement, different families get different benefits. Although it is written clearly in black and white, some people will inevitably have opinions when it comes to benefits. Therefore, this job is not easy.
When her father was still alive, Zixuan had helped him do the work for two years. The more she did so, the more she felt that her father Bai Qi had a hard time.
More than 20 years ago, Bai Zixuan's father Bai Qi borrowed money from relatives and opened the first Qianqiu Department Store in a county near Hangzhou.
Bai Qi managed the supermarket well, and the supermarket quickly gained a foothold in the local area and made considerable profits. Two years later, Bai Qi expanded Qianqiu Supermarket to become the largest supermarket in the county. However, he was still not satisfied and continued to raise funds from relatives and friends to open chain supermarkets in several counties in the Hangzhou area.
All things are difficult at the beginning, but they become easier with experience. In this way, in just ten years, Bai Qi completed the layout of Qianqiu Department Store in dozens of county-level cities in southeastern China. Later, relying on the accumulated strong capital and good reputation, he marched into big cities and fought fiercely with the giants... until now he enjoys the status of a commercial aircraft carrier.
Therefore, some people later commented that the Qianqiu Group's fortune and rapid rise took only sixteen years. This case is a model of "surrounding the city with the countryside" in the history of Chinese business.
However, most people tend to see the glorious journey that Qianqiu has taken, but few pay attention to the twists and turns that the company has experienced.
But Bai Zixuan still remembers it vividly.
As Bai Qi continued to open chain supermarkets, many of his relatives and friends also joined the company. It is undeniable that in the early stages of Qianqiu's development, this method brought enough personnel and capital to the company.
But as the saying goes, "In a big forest, there are all kinds of birds." With the development of Qianqiu, especially after Bai Qi established a limited liability company, this drawback became more and more obvious. For example, some relatives were in management positions, abused their power, and hired people at will through nepotism. Some departments were overstaffed and inefficient. Some ignored the company's management system and managed by personal relationships, and so on.
Among them, the biggest incident, which also made Bai Qi determined, was an xenophobic incident ten years ago. That year, Qiuqian Company recruited a large number of new employees. Due to the targeted recruitment, the employees' working ability was generally strong, and as newcomers, they were highly motivated and willing to take on heavy responsibilities.
At this time, Bai He, a distant relative of Zi Xuan who was introduced, was lazy and didn't accept the existence of these outsiders. So he recruited some relatives and friends and found reasons to create obstacles for some new employees, so that they made mistakes frequently in their work. Bai He and others also took the opportunity to blame or even belittle them.
The right and wrong of this matter is clear at a glance. However, since the new employees have no one in the management, they do not get basic respect. Baihe and his group are fined, but they are fined. The new employees are depressed and dissatisfied, and they confide in each other. Later, the matter escalated. Not only did a large number of new employees ask to resign, but many old employees who had been working for more than a year also asked to leave.
Bai Qi was furious when he learned about this. After much deliberation, he convened a meeting of the elders of his family with the courage to scrape the bone to cure the poison and cut off the arm of a hero. The venue was set on a large pleasure boat on the West Lake.
At the meeting, he rejected all objections and used this xenophobic incident as an opportunity to make three rules with everyone - Qianqiu Company refused to allow family members to enter unconditionally, and those who wanted to work there had to go through the recruitment and inspection process; they were not allowed to intentionally reveal their family relationship on weekdays, and they had to participate in the assessment like other employees, and those who failed the assessment would be eliminated according to the system. At the same time, family members who had already entered the company to work were registered and included in the assessment.
This incident had a profound impact on Qianqiu's development. After a quarterly assessment, Qianqiu quickly cleared out unqualified personnel. Afterwards, more people left.
Although the door of Qianqiu Group is still open to Bai's relatives and friends, only two of Zixuan's relatives have become core management in the past ten years. One is her aunt, currently the financial director of the East China region, and the other is her distant cousin, who serves as the general representative of the overseas company. In addition to being extremely loyal to the company, these two people are naturally quite capable.
Of course, Bai Qi was not a heartless person, and he had received help from many people in his rise to power. In the end, he reached an agreement with his elders to distribute dividends to everyone according to the company's profits every year.
When Bai Qi was alive, he always fulfilled his promise. Even with the expansion of Qianqiu Group, this ratio did not change, and the dividends increased, from hundreds of thousands to millions, and now it has reached tens of millions.
Many people could not understand Bai Qi's approach and thought it was too pedantic. But Zi Xuan always believed that the agreement her father signed on the painting boat was of great significance to the development of Qianqiu. It broke the shackles of Qianqiu's family business and allowed the introduction of high-quality professional managers and professionals. In this way, not only did Bai Qi gain absolute control over Qianqiu, but it was also a prelude to the company's subsequent expansion and transformation.
Ten years ago, the assessment of Qianqiu Company was one quarter, which was nearly a hundred days. Therefore, Zixuan privately called this matter: the Hundred Days Reform.
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Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and I would like to wish the editor and all the book friends: Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I wish all editors and book friends a happy Dragon Boat Festival!
(End of this chapter)
