I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 40 A Highly Profitable Business Comes to Your Door
The interview segment from the provincial TV station of Jiangkou Province was quickly broadcast on county and city TV stations in the province and Jianghuai Province. The sentence "...dreams are too far away for me, a luxury" quickly became a social topic.

Various self-reflective individuals immediately used Zhang Da'an, the top scorer in the national college entrance examination in 1946, to reflect on the question: What kind of society could allow a seventeen-year-old boy to have no dreams?
How can this country be so stable? This is a fundamental question...

What a commotion! There's even speculation that Zhang Da'an, who is already the top scorer in the college entrance examination, didn't go to university. Is he planning to go abroad to breathe some fresh air?
In short, these "reflectionist freaks" feel no pressure at all when using Zhang Da'an as a tool to attack everything, and they don't care whether it will harm the person involved.

However, Zhang Da'an didn't care. As long as no one was watching "Zhang An Education," it didn't matter if the newspapers called him a perverted serial killer.

Before the internet boom, "cyberbullying" was less than a flea to Zhang Da'an.

During the fifth round of internal training, while the newly recruited frontline instructors were shocked that Zhang Da'an was a "super iron-willed comrade," they were also concerned about whether this young boss would feel anxious and uneasy because he was in the eye of the storm of public opinion.

This is a matter of their livelihood.

As it turned out, nothing went wrong. Chief lecturer and head coach Mr. Zhang Da'an continued to advance the training of each subject in an orderly manner, and further introduced various incentive models and organized the first "Xin Dongwei E-sports Tournament".

It attracts far more viewers and enthusiastic participants than basketball or football games.

Besides Red Alert, people also play games like Age of Empires, but they all like to cheat.

Last year's wildly popular StarCraft was also in high demand, but unfortunately, it wasn't possible to play it every day. To really enjoy it, you had to get a ranking in the weekly quizzes.

The "ladder ranking" of Xindongweigang Middle School is truly hellish in terms of difficulty.

Although "Zhang An Education" now mainly focuses on repeat classes, its training configuration and model are quite advanced.

To reinforce key points, the scene design also included etiquette training for the coaches and instructors. They would occasionally borrow props and costumes from the Shazhou City Grand Theater. Apart from Han Tieguai, the other language coaches could even walk the "four-square step" quite well.

No one complained, since they were already being paid for it, and it was reasonable for the boss to make them strip naked and run on the playground.

The scene designs have all been turned into audio-visual teaching materials. This kind of setting that reinforces memory points makes the experience unforgettable, just like mastering the skills of riding a bicycle or learning to swim.

The moment you know it, you'll always know it.

Muscle memory becomes incredibly profound.

This approach simply won't work in other schools. First, one teacher can't complete it all; second, forty minutes of class time is simply not enough; third, it takes at least three to five days to prepare the course materials; and finally, normal schools can't force students to catch up on the curriculum.

In short, the cost in all dimensions means that ordinary public schools cannot afford the terrifying waste of resources associated with "personalized education".

In subjects like politics and history, "Zhang An Education" even has someone specifically impersonating Comrade Vladimir. The teacher is bald, and so is Comrade Vladimir—it makes sense. There are also people who can impersonate Lin Zexu. How is the smoke of war produced? Some people think it's produced by burning, and then the history teacher will remind the students that burning is called "having a smoke together."

Zhang An Education has made videos of these expensive investments in reinforcing impressions and memories, and now publishes and sells them as supplementary teaching materials for educational institutions.

It's a reference book and materials specifically sold to various tutoring classes, but it's not widely available; it's initially sold in county-level cities in Jiangkou Province. As for prefecture-level cities, the education bureau's directly affiliated company acts as the agent. The reason is that the rampant piracy these days is unimaginable.

How much does a copy of the operating system that Microsoft is currently selling cost?
The answer was: The price in the electronics market is two yuan.

However, Microsoft is like Microsoft in this regard. Large companies need a large number of users to build platforms. As for companies like Zhang An Education, forget about it. They can just take what they can get and not bother with thinking about increasing their customer base. In this day and age, that's just nonsense.

Therefore, in the second half of this year, the Shazhou City Education Bureau has been planning the publication of brand-new supplementary teaching materials, intending to make a fortune in the urban areas of the twelve prefecture-level cities.

In order to achieve instant success, we collaborated with other companies, sharing the profits. The provincial publishing company also got a share. Originally, we had nothing to do with the provincial publishing company. The first company to get involved was the Wudu City publishing company, which specialized in tutoring materials. However, because the provincial publishing company had new business needs and the higher authorities issued guiding documents, we made a small exchange with the Wudu City publishing company.

In the first few days of winter, the Shazhou City Education Bureau and its sister units began to promote the event by having local bookstores and bookstores generate buzz. Zhang Da'an's full-body portrait in a suit reappeared at the store entrance or in the glass window.

Zhang Da'an received 300,000 yuan for just this one full-body portrait, a price that even third-tier celebrities in China don't command.

Because of this full-body photo, a subsidiary of the provincial pharmaceutical company that specializes in health products arrived in Shazhou City, brought along people from the Education Bureau, and came to discuss making health products with Zhang Da'an.

"Principal Zhang, you're unaware of this, but the health supplement business is incredibly lucrative right now. Many large companies have grown into large conglomerates or regional armies, making a fortune effortlessly. Our company is also planning to enter the health supplement industry, but to grow and succeed, we definitely need to advertise..."

"Advertising...what does that have to do with me?"

Zhang Da'an sat in his boss's chair with his legs crossed, looking expressionlessly at the vice president who had come to visit.

"Isn't this perfect for our company's new product, given your current fame? Principal Zhang, how about we discuss it?"

"The market for health supplements for the elderly is indeed huge, but with my appearance, it's not suitable, is it?"

“Hey, Principal Zhang! Mr. Zhang! We’re not making health products for the elderly, we’re making brand new products for the intellectual development of teenagers.”

"..."

Hearing this, Zhang Da'an was suddenly stunned. "You've reminded me. I can totally make health products for teenagers. Anyway, there are already pharmaceutical factories in Shazhou, and I can buy the bottling production line directly from the bonded zone. The total investment is at most 20 million. It's a very profitable business."

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Seeing Zhang Da'an about to defy the odds, the vice president from Jiangning knelt down without hesitation. "President Zhang, I really have no other choice. Please save our company. It doesn't matter if I lose my job, there are over two hundred people waiting to be fed. We haven't been paid for four months. The little money we have in the account is just enough for one last gamble. President Zhang, President Zhang..."

Seeing this, Zhang Da'an was stunned; it was the first time he had ever encountered something like this.

(End of this chapter)