How to Become a Successful Person-This Month's Extra Chapter 22
In another room, the mayor sat on the sofa, sighed, took a sip of coffee, and suddenly asked, "Have Listoan's men arrived yet?"
The Listoan Group is one of the mainstays of the local economy in Sabine City and a well-known light industrial Group Company in the Bayer Federation.
With over seventy brands under its umbrella, the company's products cover all aspects of people's lives. Some have become well-known trademarks, while others are just ordinary ones. But overall, this is by no means an ordinary small company.
The city has approximately 30,000 to 50,000 people providing services to the supply chain connected to the Listoan Group. The Listoan Group itself is an excellent company that stands with the Progressive Party, and the cooperation between us has been very pleasant over the years.
As is customary, whenever there are small meetings to share the benefits of society, Listoan's representatives are always present and strive to demonstrate their leading role in these events.
But this time, none of Listoan's men came.
Another Attendant Official beside him shook his head. "I just called Neo, but no one answered."
The mayor nodded casually, offering no further comment.
Neo is the current president of Listoan and also one of the major shareholders on the Board of Directors. Having just turned forty-five, Neo has not even completed half of the long yet short journey of his life, but his career has already reached its peak.
He and the mayor are also "good friends," but some problems have arisen between these two good friends recently.
The problem stemmed from the Progressive Party's "arrangements" for the Heng Hui Group. Before Heng Hui collapsed, Listoan's side wanted to take over Heng Hui directly and completely, but this idea was obviously impossible.
Listoan is indeed one of the important supporters of the Progressive Party, but he is not the only supporter like them; there are many in the state.
After a behemoth fell, everyone wanted a piece of the pie. It was obviously impossible for Neo and his group to take it all for themselves. Even their so-called concessions, their idea of taking over at least a third of Heng Hui, could not be agreed upon.
Listoan actually contributed significantly to Heng Hui's downfall, but failed to achieve their initial goals, which greatly dissatisfied many of Listoan ' shareholders.
Feeling betrayed, Neo immediately showed a different side of himself. He began to reduce his appearances with the mayor and other Progressive Party. There were even rumors that he wanted to change his stance and support the Conservative Party in order to retaliate for the benefits they lost in the Heng Hui case.
Neo's absence, neither arriving nor sending anyone, exacerbated the conflict among the people in the conference room outside the room.
No one will wait to give away the benefits; they are greedy and cunning, and want to take advantage of Listoan's absence to swallow the benefits first.
Even if they have to spit it out in the future, regardless of how disgusting it is, at least they will have tasted it.
The fiercer their argument, the more the mayor understood a truth: when facing these capitalists baring their fangs, there must be a predator even more ferocious than them standing on his side to suppress them.
Otherwise, even if he wields considerable power, the lure of blatant profits might not make them as obedient as banknotes exuding the scent of ink.
The idea of cultivating his own vicious capitalist took root in the mayor's heart as soon as it appeared. If there really was such a person, would those people outside still dare to question his plans to his face?
There was no political persecution, no assassination attempts, just the threat of bankruptcy, and they knew how to tuck their tails between their legs and be docile dogs.
Unconsciously, Lin Qi's young face flashed through the mayor's mind. He didn't know why he would think of this young man at this moment. It might be related to the reminder from his Attendant Official earlier, or it might be that Lin Qi had left too deep an impression on him.
While many young people are still indulging in seeking thrills and so-called happiness, he has already begun to do things that his peers and parents could not accomplish.
Could it be him?
Thinking of this, the mayor sighed, smiled, and downed his coffee in one gulp. He had rested enough; he needed to go out and face those ruthless capitalists.
With a seemingly calm expression and maintaining his good mood, he negotiated with these capitalists, who were like wolves licking their sharp teeth, ready to tear their prey apart, for a long time, and finally reached a result that everyone could accept.
All of Heng Hui Group's investments in Sabine City will be auctioned off privately, and the participants in this auction are all of you present here today.
At the same time, these people also have a ticket to participate in an even bigger feast.
Sometimes the world is so cold, cruel, and disappointing. Perhaps it has its reasons for operating in this way, but it still disappoints most people.
Before the meeting adjourned, the mayor touched upon the issue of the land in the Lower District, subtly hinting that the City Hall might have a new development plan within a certain planning cycle, which could involve some changes in land prices.
This is why capitalists frantically transfer money into Political Donation accounts through various legally permissible means; after offering their cheap loyalty and expensive wealth, they also need a return.
As for whether the mayor had any ulterior motives in mentioning this matter, no one knows yet, but they will pay attention and try to find out the reasons behind it. If necessary, they wouldn't mind making a small fortune along the way.
Friday arrived before we knew it. The changes at the Upper Class of society were imperceptible to those at the bottom. Apart from the increasing number of unemployed and the growing anxiety among the lower classes, there weren't many other changes.
Occasionally, a police car will speed by, which is perhaps the most noticeable change. Police cars are using Police Siren more and more often, which also means that the crime rate is quietly and rapidly increasing.
Lin Qi is arranging for people to set up the stadium. The Sabine City Stadium can accommodate 8,000 people to watch indoor games at the same time. Interestingly, the stadium was originally built not to watch indoor sports, but to watch Rugby games.
While it's unclear why a stadium originally intended to provide a place for people to watch Rugby games was reduced to an indoor stadium, it's generally satisfactory. At least the Sabine City Hall has demonstrated that while developing the economy, they haven't forgotten about developing sports and have cared about the health of the people.
Tomorrow, this week's secondhand goods auction will be held here.
Some temporary workers were setting up the venue, while Lin Qi looked at a group of young Young Men.
Richard and Wood, among others, have successfully risen to the cushy position of Sales Manager, each with a group of anxious Young Men behind them.
These people were young people they recruited from the Employment Center. They had no base salary, no insurance, no guarantees, and they weren't even considered employees of the Interstellar Trade Company.
To circumvent certain legal issues, these people were Lin Qi's "partners." Yes, they were not Lin Qi's employees, but self-funded partners, so Lin Qi had no actual employment relationship or interaction with them.
This solved some minor problems for Lin Qi and also prevented the minor troubles that these problems would lead to.
Of course, he will solve these problems, but not now.
Inspired by the Monday newspaper, the Young Men found suitable young people at the Employment Center with relative ease.
Lin Qi told Richard and the others that a suitable salesperson must first be outgoing, enthusiastic, have excellent communication skills, and be shameless enough.
He even heard that during Richard's interviews, he would ask some of the young people he favored to kneel on the ground and polish his shoes! He was a shameless man, but it has to be said that of all the people Richard was definitely the one who best fit Lin Qi's image of a sales elite. He had gradually mastered the essence of the industry! Compared to Richard's cunning and shrewdness, Wood was like a lucky guy. He quickly gathered a group of people who looked a bit dull and not very useful, but that didn't matter.
Wood is still young; he's the same age as Richard —this isn't a joke, Wood and Richard are the same age, but that's the frustrating reality, yet it is reality.
Putting aside this minor issue, Wood's youth gives him more opportunities to make mistakes, and even if he makes one this time, he can correct it in time if he is willing to continue on this path to wealth.
The others also recruited some people, and they completed the targets Lin Qi had initially assigned them.
Recruiting these people was not easy, because they needed to "buy" seats. Of the 5,000 seats, 3,900 were sold to these salespeople for five dollars each, except for 1,100.
In other words, the moment they became Lin Qi's partners, they not only received no reliable guarantees or protections, but also had to pay a price ranging from a couple hundred dollars to three or five hundred dollars.
Not everyone in this era has such courage, which is why Lin Qi praised the first group of young men. Regardless of what they accomplished, at least they had mastered a certain level of rhetoric and were able to gain the trust of these people. This was the most difficult but also the most crucial first step.
Of course, as their boss, Lin Qi still needed to mobilize them and make a statement.
He had just stood still, ready to say something, when Richard and Wood pulled out their notebooks, and the others followed suit, taking out their notebooks and notebooks one after another.
Lin Qi was a little dumbfounded. He had only intended to say it casually, but now it seemed he had to teach these young people another lesson, for the sake of the 20,000 yuan he was about to receive from selling Trading Seat.
He had already decided on the content of this lesson, which he would call "Enhancing Customer Proactivity".
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