The growth system comes at the age of 30

Chapter 230 Becoming a Top-Notch Lecturer! (4.5K)

Li Qiguang's decision to have Chen Jingle give lectures to his company's employees and executives was not without reason.

Chen Jingle's strategic vision has been verified by himself, and it surpasses that of most people in the company, and even many of the so-called business course lecturers he had previously attended.

No joke.

Many people of their generation succeeded because they were at the forefront of the times, and it had nothing to do with their education. Once they became successful, they naturally needed to start packaging themselves.

Whether it's expanding your network, trying to change your career path, or simply wanting to improve yourself.

So they enrolled in various MBA and EMBA executive training programs to keep up with the times and avoid being left behind.

The quality of these courses varies greatly. Some do have some substance, but many others are just using the guise of higher education to swindle money from nouveau riche business owners.

The unsophisticated businessman was easily fooled and handed over the money.

Even if you later realize you've been tricked, you'll be too embarrassed to tell everyone, because people will just secretly laugh at your stupidity instead of feeling sympathy or indignation.

The only courses that truly hold value are those offered by top-tier universities.

However, the entry requirements are high, and most people can't meet them. Besides, most people don't have the financial means, so studying there is useless. If you're not in the same circle, they won't even bother with you if you try to force your way in.

The problem with MBA and EMBA programs is that they are not very effective for personal growth, but they are very useful for expanding one's network.

As for those so-called success gurus who are invited to give lectures at companies, needless to say.

It's all just hype!

There's a big boss in Jiangbei who hired this kind of person and completely believed in the master's words. Now he makes his company's employees shout slogans every morning, then sing songs and do radio calisthenics.

They have become a laughing stock in the Jiangbei circle.

No matter what Chen Jingle is like, isn't he better than this kind of trash?
It must be acknowledged that some people are born with an extraordinary sense and talent for a particular field, a talent that others can hardly match even through hard work.

Li Qiguang felt that Chen Jingle was just that kind of person.

His strength lies in his broad knowledge base; he can speak eloquently about many fields, and when combined, his knowledge creates a synergy greater than the sum of its parts. Moreover, he explains things in a way that is both profound and easy to understand, which is impossible without a certain level of knowledge.

Conservatively speaking, his knowledge base is equivalent to having at least three to five academic degrees, including master's degrees.

This is clearly beyond the reach of ordinary people.

It's important to understand that most people are already doing well if they can become experts in a particular field.

In other words, as long as Chen Jingle is willing to spend time returning to campus to continue his studies, he can easily obtain multiple doctoral degrees, get an associate professor title, and even a full professor title is not out of the question.

This is quite puzzling.

"If he's so capable, how come he only got into a regular second-tier university in the college entrance exam?"

Li Qiguang could not understand.

In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that this kid didn't study hard in the past, but later he started to like reading, and little by little he accumulated knowledge.

……

In fact, Chen Jingle's current knowledge reserves can indeed be described as massive.

If we use degrees as the measure, one needs at least 15 majors to obtain a bachelor's degree and more than 10 majors to obtain a master's degree.

A very small number have reached the level of experts and masters in their respective fields.

This is indeed unbelievable to outsiders.

Even Chen Jingle himself didn't expect that he would suddenly become so good at learning whatever interested him.

All I can say is that the system is truly amazing!
Unbeatable growth rate!

"Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem so hard to understand why my future father-in-law would ask me to help give some lectures."

Chen Jingle immediately felt relieved.

Regarding the lectures, Li Qiguang did not set any topics for Chen Jingle, but let him decide for himself what to talk about.

This kind of unassigned essay was what Chen Jingle hated most when he was in school.

You can write about anything, but it's not easy to write well; it's easy to go astray.

Li Qiguang may not provide a topic, but Chen Jingle himself cannot be without one.

There must be a core, a clear main theme.

Chen Jingle pondered for a long time but couldn't figure out where to start. However, Li Qiguang gave him a contact number and said that he could ask him any questions.

Before Chen Jingle could even search, the other party proactively added his contact information.

"Hello Mr. Chen, I am Chen Hui, Mr. Li's secretary. Please feel free to tell me if you need anything."

Chen Hui was the one who helped Li Qiguang collect information about Chen Jingle, so naturally he knew who Chen Jingle was.

I was stunned when I received this task.

It seems this person has gained approval and is about to become the boss's son-in-law, that is, the future successor of the company.

I immediately took a deep breath of cold air, and my scalp tingled.

I can't let my future son-in-law know that I've investigated him in private, or I might get into trouble.

Old Li's secretary?
Chen Jingle blinked and replied, "Hello, Secretary Chen. Could you please send me some information about your company?"

He still doesn't know what kind of company his future father-in-law owns. If he's giving a lecture to company employees and executives, he should at least have a general understanding of the company, right?

You don't know anything, so what are you talking about!

I feel like my future father-in-law is deliberately setting a trap for me!
"No problem, please wait a moment!"

Chen Hui breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went to find the information.

Li Qiguang assigned Chen Jingle the title of "Strategic Development Consultant," which carries considerable authority.

……

After reviewing the information sent by Chen Hui, Chen Jingle had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

Hongqi Agriculture is an agricultural product company mainly engaged in large-scale planting and transportation of fruits and vegetables. It has a good reputation in Jiangbei, and even people like Chen Jingle who don't usually pay attention to this kind of information have heard of it.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be Li Beixing's family business.

hiss~!

You'll have to eat this rice even if you don't want to.

Chen Jingle is not confident that he can earn a fortune of over a billion yuan in a short period of time.

Let alone billions, even tens of millions would be quite difficult.

"Agricultural products, large-scale cultivation..."

After pondering for a long time, Chen Jingle's goal gradually became clear.

Since my future father-in-law asked me to talk about the general direction, I'll combine recent news and summarize it a bit.

However, he had no formal training in public speaking or business management, so he had to cram for both at the last minute.

The former is the most crucial.

After all, this is a lecture, unlike explaining exercises to Chen Qiyun; it's about conveying one's own viewpoint to others. While not necessarily convincing everyone, it should at least have some impact on them.

In particular, he was facing a group of seasoned veterans in the workplace, and if you didn't have real skills, it would be hard to convince them.

This is somewhat similar to success literature.

Time was limited, so we had to be a little more extreme and brutal.

In Chen Jingle's view, the core of a speech is to use firm beliefs to evoke resonance in the audience and to control the rhythm of the entire event through language, thereby achieving the effect of stirring people's hearts.

I won't go into specific examples.

After practicing several times, Chen Jingle felt that the effect was acceptable.

He is the kind of person who speaks logically and persuasively, making him easy to convince others.

The same applies to business management. While it's not required to master all the knowledge in a short time, a basic understanding is essential to avoid making embarrassing mistakes. I'm busy reading and learning here, so I'll have to put the sewing machine aside for now.

……

Chen Jingle and Li Qiguang agreed to meet the day after tomorrow.

After two and a half days of preparation, he felt more confident and thought he shouldn't embarrass himself.

As scheduled, Chen Jingle arrived at the office building of Hongqi Agricultural Company.

Looking at this seemingly ordinary five-story building, it's hard to imagine that this is a company worth over 10 billion yuan that is not publicly listed.

That's too low-key.

His former company started to do slightly better, and the big boss couldn't resist renting a large office, even though the company had less than 10 people and didn't need a space to make a show of things.

It just goes to show that the difference in perspective between people is enormous.

After giving his name to the receptionist, he was led to a small waiting room where he was served tea and snacks.

Just from the entrance to the reception room, the receptionist and passing company employees had glanced at him more than 10 times. After he sat down, a constant stream of girls came over under the pretense of bringing him tea and snacks.

Fortunately, Chen Jingle is immune to this.

He was thinking about important matters and had little appetite, so he just took a couple of sips of tea to moisten his throat.

After a while, someone else pushed the door open and came in.

This time it was a young-looking man with a refined demeanor, wearing rimless glasses.

"Hello Mr. Chen, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I am Chen Hui."

The newcomer introduced himself with a smile.

Chen Jingle put down his teacup, stood up, and smiled in response: "Hello, Secretary Chen."

He had a good impression of Secretary Chen, whom he had just met. At least she was very polite on WeChat and almost always responsive to his requests. If she couldn't fulfill a request, she would explain the specific reasons.

Chen Hui smiled and said, "President Li asked me to take you to the main conference room. If there are no problems, shall we go now?"

"Row!"

Chen Jingle's words were concise and to the point.

……

Chen Jingle followed behind Chen Hui and silently took out his gold-rimmed non-prescription glasses and put them on.

If you're going to pretend, you have to pretend to be convincing.

As he walked into the conference room, he saw more than thirty people sitting below the stage, most of whom looked older than him, and he felt a little nervous.

When was the last time I stood in a scene like this?

Senior year graduation defense?

Even the defense panel doesn't have this many people.

"It's okay, just treat them like NPCs." Chen Jingle silently calmed himself down.

My future father-in-law, Li Qiguang, was sitting in the middle of the first row, surrounded by the company's senior executives, and behind him were department heads and managers.

Chen Jingle had reviewed the information Chen Hui had provided and was able to match the names and positions of the people present with a single glance, which surprised him when he discovered that many of the company's senior executives were there.

The scene was much larger than he had imagined.

Fortunately, we made adequate preparations in advance.

Upon seeing Chen Jingle enter, Li Qiguang stood up and personally gave a brief introduction: "This is Mr. Chen Jingle, the teacher I invited to be in charge of today's lecture."

The crowd below applauded enthusiastically.

Although it's unclear who this person is, he looks very young and more like a celebrity than a teacher, but the fact that the big boss takes him so seriously shows that he must have some real skills.

Let's hear what insightful opinions they have.

Chen Jingle breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't act too politely. He just nodded and smiled slightly, which gave the impression that he was a bit aloof.

There was nothing he could do. Although he had published some more papers in the past two months, they were still not up to par with real experts and professors. He could only pretend to be an expert for now.

Aren't big shots supposed to be very arrogant?

If you adopt a humble attitude when you first meet someone, they will look down on you.

So it's better to keep a respectable air about it.

To make it easier for others to understand, Chen Jingle also prepared a PowerPoint presentation.

After briefly testing the microphone on stage and finding no problems, Chen Jingle began his performance.

"President Li asked me to come and give a lecture, but he didn't specify what I should talk about. He just talked about the general direction and policies and told me to elaborate on it. So I just talked about it according to my own ideas."

"Today's topic is 'A New Round of Land Grabbing Behind Rural Revitalization'."

The slideshow behind Chen Jingle features eye-catching and impactful titles.

Many people in the audience sat up straight instinctively, which even surprised Li Qiguang.

Rural revitalization has been a frequent topic in the media in recent years, and it has been mentioned repeatedly, covering multiple aspects such as industry, talent, culture, and ecology.

After several years of hard work, remarkable results have indeed been achieved.

Take Jiangbei as an example. Although Jiangbei is a remote city and belongs to the southeastern province, its urbanization rate has only just exceeded 50% in recent years, which is extremely backward.

Rural revitalization policies have had some effect locally.

Which of you here didn't come from the countryside? Which of you doesn't have relatives in the countryside? You can find out the answer with just one question.

The Enclosure Movement hasn't been mentioned much, perhaps because the term is too jarring, but that doesn't prevent everyone here from understanding it.

When these two words are put together, it becomes quite interesting.

"Anyone with a basic understanding of history knows that land disputes have always existed, whether in feudal times, capitalist times, or today. The problem of land annexation has been repeatedly prohibited but continues to occur."

"Looking back at history, the land annexation in our country during the old society was somewhat different from the enclosure movement abroad. However, the two were consistent in their essential aspects of land concentration, intensified conflicts at the bottom of society, and profit-driven motives. As times have changed, please allow me to use the more vivid and appropriate term 'enclosure movement' to describe the phenomenon I am about to discuss."

Chen Jingle's steady and powerful voice resonated throughout the entire conference room through the microphone and speakers.

Everyone listened quietly.

"First, let's be clear: is the current influx of capital into rural areas a land grab? The answer is undoubtedly yes!"

"Land is being concentrated on a large scale, with a land transfer rate exceeding 36%. In some places, the sale of rural homesteads has even begun to be piloted. Farmers are losing the land they depend on for survival in the countryside and are being forced to move to the city. Although this new type of land grabbing is different from the violent land grabbing during the industrial revolution in foreign countries and from the feudal landlords buying and selling land in my country's old society, it is just a complex game between the current version of capitalist logic and my country's institutional framework. It can be called a reconstruction of a new type of urban-rural relationship. However, in essence, there is no difference for farmers."

Chen Jingle spoke entirely without notes, his gaze sweeping across the entire room.

Why does this happen?

"The reason is simple. The 'sheep eat man' movement revealed by the theory of primitive accumulation of capital is essentially a historical process of separation between the means of production and the laborers."

"As we all know, in a stage where productivity is not well developed, land is the most primitive and reliable means of production. For landlords and wealthy people in the old society, the more land they owned, the more rent they could collect, and the more principal they could use for lending. This is the land rent exploitation economy."

"In modern times, as social productivity has developed to a certain level, land under the household contract responsibility system has become a relatively backward means of production. Farming is no longer enough to feed people, and farmers are forced to go to the city to work. Similarly, the means of production have been separated from the laborers, and land has begun to circulate in the market through contracting and leasing."

“Individual farming cannot generate profits, but through large-scale contracting, mechanized mass production, reduced costs, increased output, and various government subsidies, it becomes profitable. This is why your company has been able to grow into a leading enterprise in the Jiangbei industry, and why more and more capital is eyeing this lucrative market and choosing to enter the field.”

"People in finance are farming, people in e-commerce are farming, even people in gaming, home appliances, air conditioners, shoes, and glass are all farming. When did farming become so profitable?"

At this point, except for a few who were simply too dense to understand what was being said, almost everyone in the meeting room sat up straight, eyes wide open, ears perked up.

What Chen Jingle said earlier seemed to have nothing to do with their vegetable-growing company, but as they listened, everyone understood.

Someone's trying to steal my job!

Holy crap, how can we tolerate this?!
Li Qiguang narrowed his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

Chen Hui, the one who led Chen Jingle in, was completely stunned by what he heard.

Wait a minute, why does it feel like the situation is getting really serious?

(End of this chapter)