The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

In late August, the heat was still unbearable.

Song Yanxi just gave birth to her third child and will need at least another month to recover before she can return to work.

During this period, Chen Pingsheng was the only one who could manage the affairs of the Shuiyunjian headquarters for her.

To date, Shuiyunjian remains their family's highest-earning project.

Because the Grand Night can be held twice a year, barring any major unforeseen circumstances.

These two events alone will generate at least 5 billion in revenue annually.

Adding to the existing profits of Shuiyunjian, this is the number one high-end beauty brand in China.

It could easily bring their family a net income of six or seven billion yuan every year.

Listed companies sometimes resemble one-off deals, but Shuiyunjian is clearly not like that.

Therefore, he has always attached great importance to the development of this area.

Otherwise, his wife wouldn't have been allowed to manage Shuiyunjian all by herself.

Late August.

After a two-month break, most of the interns at Jinshan Shuiyun University have gradually returned to campus.

This top-tier private professional college, covering 1,200 acres, was purchased by their family in 2016 with an investment of 32 billion yuan.

It has undergone a series of renovations since then.

The overall environment is much better than that of a typical university.

Especially since it's a paid learning program here, three thousand a month isn't much.

However, with meals and accommodation provided and all training fees waived, this amount of money is enough to cover the intern's expenses.

If that's still not enough, then it basically means you just love shopping.

Shuiyunjian University covers a large area and has many public facilities.

It includes eight huge canteens and twelve casual cafes.

In addition, there are badminton, bowling, classical music hall and many other facilities.

In the beauty industry, you can start working in just three months from scratch.

This is just learning some of the most basic techniques.

To truly become a good beautician at Shuiyunjian, one must go out and serve top-tier wealthy women.

They would at least need to know what rich women like, as well as a range of related professional qualities.

It can be said that the training at Shuiyunjian University has never been about methods.

Rather, it's about overall demeanor, encompassing a range of professional qualities.

This is also Shuiyunjian's core brand advantage.

In any service industry, the competition ultimately boils down to the basic quality of the staff.

This competition is not only reflected in management, but also in frontline service personnel.

Yang Wei has been here for almost a month, and she really likes the overall atmosphere of Shuiyunjian University.

Not getting into her dream university during her senior year of high school has been her biggest regret in recent years.

If she had studied a little harder in her senior year of high school, she probably wouldn't have ended up in a factory fixing screws.

But after coming to Shuiyunjian, she felt that this regret could be made up for.

The people here are different from ordinary college students; their eyes don't show confusion, but only endless expectations for the future.

After all, many of the previous batch of graduating interns were people they knew, or from the same hometown.

After graduating from Shuiyunjian University, those people have a minimum income starting at 18,000 yuan.

Some are slightly more formidable.

You can get rated as an excellent or A-level beautician at the store.

Annual salaries start at over 500,000.

Shuiyunjian's high salaries are well-known throughout the industry.

This is mainly due to three points.

One is the consistent commitment to the top-tier luxury positioning, focusing solely on the highest-end beauty market in China.

A higher positioning naturally results in a higher unit price.

Another major reason is that Shuiyunjian owns all the storefronts.

By becoming your own landlord, you can pass on more profits to your employees.

Besides, the most profitable segment in the beauty industry is equipment-related projects.

Shuiyunjian only collaborated with external teams in the very early stages.

Profits are split 40/60.

They themselves get six, while others get four.

Later, Song Yanxi led her team abroad and directly purchased nearly two billion yuan worth of high-end equipment.

The instrument project will no longer collaborate with external teams; it will be handled exclusively by the project itself.

Do you know how much those facial anti-aging treatments that celebrities get every year cost per session?

Seven or eight hundred thousand is not considered high, and over a million is considered normal.

The amount of money wealthy women spend on their appearance is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

It's quite normal for a single customer to spend over ten million yuan a year at Shuiyunjian.

Because the profits were too high, the boss adjusted employee salaries eight times.

The average monthly salary for a regular beautician has increased from 12,000 yuan to an average annual salary of 500,000 yuan.

This does not include management who receive dividend shares.

Those who can obtain store dividend shares at Shuiyunjian are basically starting out in Porsches.

Housing is not a problem at all, and an annual salary of two million is the bare minimum.

Compared to graduates from a typical 211 university, the income here is far superior.

That's not just leading in the general sense, but an absolute lead in per capita income.

Yang Wei worked hard for two years, and perhaps heaven rewards those who persevere.

This allowed her to enter such a top private professional school.

Moreover, she was personally received by Song Yanxi after her arrival.

This became a legend throughout the school.

Her inspirational story was featured on the official website.

Once you're inside, you'll never know how many people outside are envious.

Only through hard work can you make the most of this opportunity.

After she joined, she didn't receive the treatment of an intern.

Instead, they receive a full-time beautician salary, with a base salary of 240,000 yuan per year.

Additional performance bonuses and manual labor benefits will only be available after you officially join the Shuiyunjian store. She's already very happy with these benefits.

People in the college also frequently visit luxury goods exhibition halls to see the new models that top global brands release every year.

The exhibition hall was used by Shuiyun University to broaden their horizons.

Inside, there were LV bags worth tens of thousands of yuan each and Hermes bags worth millions of yuan, displayed everywhere.

Whenever a brand releases a new model, we purchase some of it immediately.

It's not just bags, but also all kinds of haute couture clothing, including celebrity-endorsed styles.

And those top global luxury watches.

The most expensive watch on display is worth over 50 million, and the cheapest is over 100,000.

These items are not for showing off, but rather because all the guests at Shuiyun Pavilion wear them.

They need to get to know them.

Just like real estate agents selling villas, they all want to take out loans to buy Mercedes-Benz or BMWs.

If you don't even recognize these women who serve this group of top-tier wealthy women, then you're not a good person.

Wouldn't that be completely out of place?

After Yang Wei arrived here, she truly felt that she was entering a world of the wealthy.

The things here are incomparable to those of a typical traditional university.

Even the air was filled with the scent of luxury.

The luxury goods exhibition hall is very large, enough to accommodate nearly a thousand people.

And those expensive clothes and bags are not like those in department stores, locked inside where you can only look but not touch.

They're just casually placed here.

All interns are free to go up and experience it.

You can carry it around anywhere without any problem, as long as you don't take it out of the exhibition hall.

In addition to the luxury goods exhibition hall, there is also a wine tasting center next door.

Each class would regularly bring out seven or eight bottles of top-quality red wine for the students to taste freely.

She had actually seen one of these bottles at the Worry-Free Restaurant in the urban village.

The little girl named An'an seems to often carry it around and give it away to people.

The price of this wine starts at 50,000 and can reach as high as two or three million.

The teachers will teach them how to view luxury goods correctly and how to appreciate these top-quality wines.

Once you arrive at Shuiyunjian University, everything is completely different from that in the urban village.

This place has collected all kinds of jewelry from around the world, as well as a wide variety of fine wines and delicacies.

There's also the luxury car exhibition center, which is a favorite spot for interns.

It contains the entire Ferrari lineup.

From the most basic Ferrari F430 to the legendary LaFerrari.

It also has almost all models from Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, etc.

Anyone with a driver's license can take a test drive, and even those without a license can sit in the car and touch the steering wheel.

Before entering Shuiyunjian, everyone was just a girl who liked to browse roadside stalls.

Once inside, they could talk about almost all the world's luxury goods in great detail.

Shuiyunjian also used this simplest and most direct method to let them understand what a luxurious life is.

With no experience whatsoever, would they dare charge their clients a million for a simple beauty injection?
impossible.

The prices were there and the customers could accept them; it was the customers themselves who were scared off.

What's the point of making a top page?

I've ridden in cars worth tens of millions, drunk wine costing millions a bottle, carried bags worth tens of millions, and seen watches that casually cost millions.

That's why they think the prices at Shuiyunjian are normal.

This is also the main reason why Chen Pingsheng spent a lot of money training Shuiyunjian's employees from the very beginning.

While others are still constantly trying to improve their mindset by shouting slogans in the morning and getting pumped up every day.

His interns are already drinking million-dollar bottles of wine and playing exorbitantly priced pianos.

They're riding in expensive sports cars now.

You can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month as soon as you graduate and start working. With a little effort, you can easily earn four or five hundred thousand yuan a year.

There's no need to worry about mindset here.

The companies that truly focus on employee mindset are those whose employees have low incomes.

The effort and the reward were completely disproportionate.

The boss wants his employees to work themselves to the bone, but doesn't give them reasonable pay.

That would require hiring self-help gurus to constantly work on one's mindset.

Yang Wei adapted to the situation here quickly. It was only at the beginning that she didn't dare to touch those expensive luxury items.

Later, with the help of her companions, she gradually began to experience and learn about it.

Shuiyunjian's original intention was never to let them pursue these things, but only to let them understand them.

No matter how luxurious external things are, they are not as valuable as inner richness.

This is the school motto given by Song Yanxi.

They were also afraid that these things would dazzle them.

The most talked-about topic in universities recently is that CEO Song Yanxi has given birth.

Shuiyunjian will be managed part-time by the big boss of Tencent Film for a period of time.

No one from top to bottom had any ill opinions, after all, Shuiyunjian was developed by the big boss from the very beginning.

He only handed it over to his wife, Song Yanxi, after he had developed his business well.

It would be a lie for Yang Wei to say she wasn't curious about the big boss.

After all, there are too many legends about him in the entire business world.

Just by looking at how he built the Shuiyunjian brand, you can tell that the big boss's abilities are beyond imagination.

According to most people at the school, the big boss's current focus is on the new energy vehicle sector.

They have already invested tens of billions of yuan in Shanghai.

The big boss has achieved industry leadership in many fields, and is now focusing on developing new energy vehicles.

Almost no one among the employees of Shuiyunjian thought he had failed.

After all, the big boss's capabilities are undeniable, and we'll see when his new energy vehicles come out.

Perhaps we will soon become number one in the country.

That will be truly impressive. (End of Chapter)