Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 439 Human nature is evil

Cheng Yi took a sip of tea and said, "Let me tell you a story."

"Okay." Du Yusheng looked at Cheng Yi very seriously.

Cheng Yi said, "Many years ago, a very outstanding college student came from a backward and poor mountain village in India. At that time, he did not have the tuition fee to go to college, so the villagers raised the tuition fee for him. Later, he graduated from college and became a nationally renowned entrepreneur. Wherever he went, he was accompanied by high-ranking officials, and his businesses were spread all over the country."

"Is it even better than what we did?" Du Yusheng was still young and still at the stage of figuring out who was stronger and who was weaker.

"Us?" Cheng Yi couldn't help but laugh and said, "His group has more than 60 employees, and he pays out nearly 1000 billion yuan in salaries every year. Who do you think is more powerful, us or him?"

"1000 billion? How is that possible?" Du Yusheng was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Momo Group pays out billions in salaries every year, which is already considered generous in the industry. They wouldn't even dare to dream of paying out hundreds of billions.

Cheng Yi said, "Because he came from a poor family, he wanted to give back to his hometown."

"He's similar to you; he moved the group's call center to his hometown and even invited local officials to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, making quite a stir," Cheng Yi said. "Do you think what he did was right or wrong?"

“That’s definitely the right thing to do. If it were me, I would have done the same,” Du Yusheng said. “What’s his name? Once we’re a bit more successful, I’ll definitely pay him a visit.”

“His name is Amir Don,” Cheng Yi said. “Initially, he just wanted to give back to his hometown as much as possible and had no other intentions, but sometimes things don’t go as you expect.”

“Gradually, the call center could no longer drive the development of his hometown. In order to make his hometown rich as soon as possible, he opened a credit company in his hometown and issued loans to young people all over India with almost zero thresholds.” Cheng Yi said, “The interest they charged was not high, with an annualized interest rate of only about 18%. However, these young people lacked the ability to control their consumption. Once they got the money, they would buy and buy. Few people would plan their finances.”

"This kind of overspending quickly swept across India, leaving young people with heavy debts. In order to recover the loans and interest, his fellow villagers formed the strongest debt collection team in India. Under his protection, they carried out debt collection almost frantically, threatening him at his door, exposing his contact list, and even verbally abusing and insulting him, plunging him into a media storm."

"Why do you think the final result turned out this way?" Cheng Yi asked Du Yusheng.

Du Yusheng was taken aback and said, "His original intention was good, but he went astray."

Cheng Yi said, "It's greed."

"I'm telling you this story to tell you that you should only do things halfway through and never get too caught up in them. Don't think of yourself as some kind of savior. We're just throwing out a brick to get the scoop. There are no saviors in this world. Human hearts are inherently evil. No matter how good your intentions are, they will eventually be drowned out by the hearts of countless people."

"And another thing..." Cheng Yi glanced at Du Yusheng and said, "When poor people turn their lives around, they want to regain the face they lost. And the place where a person loses face the most is their hometown. As long as you want to regain face, you will become high-profile and flamboyant, and you will especially like to perform in front of the camera. If someone with ulterior motives flatters you a few times, it will be easy for you to fall into a trap from which you cannot extricate yourself."

"I understand." Du Yusheng nodded slowly.

His excitement these past few days was indeed due to the series of flattering phone calls from the leaders of Dongcang County.

Those phone calls were just so irresistible.

After all, being praised and admired by the local officials was more likely to stimulate a man's hormones than being surrounded by beautiful women.

Cheng Yi's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Du Yusheng's head, completely waking him up.

Only after winding up Du Yusheng's wind-up weapon did Cheng Yi feel at ease enough to entrust the entire matter to Du Yusheng.

Otherwise, if Dongcang County were to make a move against its more than 1000 million PHS (Personal Handyphone System) users, things would get really interesting.

Dongcang County might not be capable of such unethical acts as lending money, but if they wanted to make money from over 1000 million Xiaolingtong (a type of mobile phone) accounts, they certainly had many avenues to choose from.

Therefore, it is necessary to brake in advance.

A call center is a call center, not a user information sales center.

After winding Du Yusheng's hair, Cheng Yi sorted out most of the things he had done in the past few days before heading to Handong University.

Universities have already started the new semester, but due to the series of incidents that have occurred within the group, Cheng Yi hasn't even had time to register for university.

After reporting back to school, he rushed to Gao Lifu's office.

"Principal Gao." Seeing Gao Lifu reviewing documents, Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Busy, huh?"

"Oh, not busy." Gao Lifu closed the file and said, "Has the group's troubles been resolved?"

"I just resolved it, so I rushed over to report," Cheng Yi smiled, placed a box of tea on the antique shelf in Gao Lifu's office, and said, "I brought it back from Guangdong Province. Although it's not valuable, I heard it tastes very good."

Gao Lifu opened the drawer, took out a document, and handed it to Cheng Yi, saying, "By the way, your term as acting president of the student union has expired. This is your official appointment document. Since you're here, I won't arrange for someone to deliver it to you."

Cheng Yi took the document and smiled, "I'm finally officially in charge. During my time as acting chairman, I was extremely cautious and conscientious, afraid that I might not have done something right."

Gao Lifu chose to ignore Cheng Yi's words, picked up another document, and said, "This is a list of outstanding alumni of our Handong University, as well as the contact information and positions of the past student union presidents. Now that you are the student union president, you are one of them. Keep in touch with them from now on."

Cheng Yi took the document with both hands, and could feel its weight.

This document is arguably the most valuable asset of the student council president.

Even in 2024, this document remains incredibly valuable.

Many college students think that the student union president is useless, and even look down on the position with arrogance. What they don't know is that while they are busy with their jobs after graduation, the student union president has already entered the highest social circles.

As fellow alumni, the levels achieved by the former student union presidents are something many people look up to.

What's most impressive is that there have never been any exceptions. There are only students from prestigious universities who don't do well, but there are no student union presidents from prestigious universities who don't do well.

Therefore, as long as you become the student council president, those upper-class circles will accept and recognize you in advance and do their best to help you.

After all, the student council president is still in the stage of receiving help from others. Offering help in times of need is much better than adding to their glory after graduation.

Cheng Yi glanced through the documents, and at the end of the documents was an application form for the Handong University Alumni Association.

Cheng Yi glanced at the list of alumni of Handong University and couldn't help but gasp.

Gao Lifu's rank is high enough, but there are four or five alumni with a higher rank than Gao Lifu on the list, and more than a dozen alumni with the same rank as Gao Lifu. There are dozens of well-known entrepreneurs on the list. People like Li Chengxuan, who are at the same level, can't even make it onto the first page of the list.

On the first page of the list, there was one name that surprised Cheng Yi.

Huang Fei.

Huang Fei did not fill in his position, but his ranking was almost the same as Gao Lifu, the president of Handong University.

However, upon learning that Huang Fei was an EMBA student at Handong University's School of Business, Cheng Yi felt relieved.

This business school's EMBA program doesn't require an exam, so many successful people spend money to buy an EMBA and then try to get into the alumni association.

Some entrepreneurs even attend EMBA programs at a dozen or so prestigious universities. EMBA stands for Executive Master of Business Administration, which is similar to a training program where both the university and the entrepreneur get what they need.

Cheng Yi looked through the list and found that there were more than 140 members in the alumni association. Lin Hua was at the very bottom of the list, and his position was Deputy Researcher of the Poverty Alleviation Guidance Department of the National Poverty Alleviation Office.

However, once Cheng Yi finished filling out the application form, he was at the bottom of the list.

Cheng Yi put away the documents, and then Gao Lifu said, "Your words and actions now represent our Handong University. If you encounter any trouble again, you should first consider the impact and consequences."

"Understood." Cheng Yi nodded.

Gao Lifu said, "Well, generally speaking, the president of our Handong University Student Union also serves as the executive vice president of the Handong Provincial Student Federation. This appointment letter should be issued within one or two months. When that time comes, you can go there to report for duty and help out in any way you can."

"Okay." Cheng Yi smiled. "Principal Gao, what about that national university broadband thing from last time?"

"Oh, that should be done soon too," Gao Lifu said. "The pilot program in our Handong Province has been very effective. However, you need to keep a close eye on your computer room and make sure there is no illegal content, especially unhealthy websites. Remember, remember, don't let them appear."

"Don't worry, the system in the university computer lab has been specially modified and a healthy reading mode has been added. Websites with unhealthy information have been blocked. For example, NetEase's portal often contains information with distorted values, so we blocked NetEase for the sake of students' mental health."

"Yes, this feature of yours is excellent. This is why I dare to submit a report to the National Education Industry Association." Gao Lifu smiled and said, "Alright, you should hurry up and register at your college. You've really angered your dean lately. During the Spring Festival, he came to my house crying his eyes out, saying that you've taken away a talent that his college has only seen once in a thousand years."

"Dean Zhu is exaggerating," Cheng Yi said with a smile. "I will nurture Lin Qingyin well. All the achievements Lin Qingyin makes will still be the honor of our Handong University."

"You can handle it yourself. Try not to have too much of a falling out with Dean Zhu. After all, you are still a member of the School of Computer Science." Gao Lifu nodded and said, "Alright, go report for duty. I still have some documents to process, so I won't chat with you any longer."

"Okay." Cheng Yi got the information he wanted and left Gao Lifu's office with satisfaction.

Cheng Yi didn't actually have any grudge against Zhu Zhiyu, the dean of the School of Computer Science. Zhu Zhiyu was actually similar to most professors; he had his own little schemes and a bit of vanity, but ultimately, these flaws wouldn't affect their academic level.

When people walk in this world, they either seek fame or fortune. Those who do not seek fame or fortune are not ordinary people; they are saints.

Zhu Zhiyu belongs to the former category.

Ever since Cheng Yi confronted him, Zhu Zhiyu has rarely asked about his affairs. Firstly, Zhu Zhiyu realized that he couldn't beat Cheng Yi, and secondly, he had come to terms with it.

Not fighting against the powerful is the basic standard of being a human being; compared to this standard, conscience and other such things take a backseat.

After Cheng Yi returned to the college and registered, he bought some cheap tea from the supermarket, intending to visit the dean who had cried during the Chinese New Year. Just as he walked out of the supermarket with the tea, his phone rang.

It was Cao Zhengze calling.

"President Cheng, Tencent has released an announcement officially launching its campus network function. The page layout is almost identical to our school's intranet, and it also hosts QQ and other similar services." Cao Zhengze immediately said, "They're probably declaring war on us."

"Declare war?" Cheng Yi laughed. "At most, they'll just cooperate with Shengda Group and cause trouble for us. They're not qualified to declare war."

Seeing that Cheng Yi didn't value Tencent so much, Cao Zheng became a little anxious and hurriedly said, "President Cheng, we can't be careless. QQ now has 200 million registered users, which is top-notch in the internet industry. If they enter the Renren.com field, it could have a significant impact on our business."

"Two hundred million is bullshit." Cheng Yi couldn't help but laugh. "QQ accounts are being hacked every day, so of course they have to register every day, right? Their daily active users nationwide are only a little over 700,000. As a social software, their online users are less than half of Legend's. That in itself is a failure."

Hearing Cheng Yi say this, Cao Zhengze could no longer persuade him.

Although Cheng Yi didn't take the penguin seriously, he then realized that while he didn't care about the penguin, Cao Zhengze and his employees were feeling the pressure.

Cheng Yi thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you instruct the technical department to release the optimized Momo Farm, so that college students can secretly farm crops when they have nothing to do, and increase user engagement."

"Good." Seeing that Cheng Yi finally took it seriously, Cao Zhengze secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Their campus network company has optimized Momo Farm, which is highly playable. In addition to planting and stealing vegetables, it also adds recycling and exchange functions to each type of vegetable. For example, you can collect a certain number of vegetables to exchange for Momo points or even item coupons, which can be used in Momo's self-operated store.

At this moment, in the chairman's office of NetEase Games, Ding Sanshi stood up with high spirits and said to the executives in front of him, "Now that Tencent has declared war on Xiaonei.com, we must also join the battle. After two years of hard work, our 'Westward Journey 2' should be put into public beta!"

(End of this chapter)