Chapter 746

The action of Du Xinye, the manager of the Zhi Xiang project team, was very fast. Wang Yan had said to debug it and push the update in two days, but in reality, Du Xinye took the people from the project team and pulled in the people from Yi Yi to work overtime, finishing the debugging that very day and starting to push the update at noon the next day.

They didn't actually need to get involved in the hype themselves, because people nowadays hold their phones and film everything all day long; such novel things are never absent. Moreover, over 600,000 units of the first-generation Zhi Xiang were sold, which means over 600,000 households behind them. Even if we don't count more, just two people per household, that's 1.2 million people.

This order of magnitude of people is enough to ensure that there are people from everywhere in China. It also ensures that the moment Zhi Xiang's update appeared, there would be people reading the update introduction and, even more so, conducting targeted tests.

And Zhi Xiang's users are a group of people who pursue technology and a new lifestyle. As the product with the most disruptive potential in recent years, standing at the peak in terms of both appearance and user experience, these people will definitely release test videos at the first opportunity.

What Du Xinye, this manager, needed to do was apply for a sum of funds, give his subordinates a half-day off to go home and lie in bed scrolling through short videos, and see whose video was done well, then top up money for them to promote it. Additionally, spend money to buy some press releases and find business news to report on it. Combining the two, it could basically be hyped up.

Of course, there were also the elderly users that this update was mainly targeting. If there were no videos in this regard, they would just find people to film them themselves and have the official account release them.

In this era, a truly excellent product will never be buried no matter what. After all, junk is sold everywhere, and consumers are not incapable of distinguishing good from bad.

So, in just a few days, the scene from when Yi Yi first went online appeared once again, and it was even livelier. After all, the previous Yi Yi was considered professional software, and there weren't many people with a need to use it. But Zhi Xiang's update was interactive. Users could converse in dialects, and Zhi Xiang could not only understand them, but it could also speak a considerable portion of those dialects.

This "considerable portion" depends on the number of people using the dialect. The more people, the better it speaks. The fewer the people, it's already not easy to be able to recognize it. However, as time passes and Zhi Xiang receives training and grows, it will be able to speak anything by then.

But even with just this incomplete ability shown now, it is enough to amaze the world. It doesn't have to be an elderly person talking to Zhi Xiang; even young people who know dialects are happy to use dialects to communicate with Zhi Xiang and record videos to document it, especially women. Many of them open beauty and long-leg effects at home, filming their own legs, while the floating, blue-glowing Zhi Xiang is displayed in the frame, having a conversation with them.

The conversation is fluent and natural; although there are some differences compared to a real person, these differences are acceptable to people and even help them distinguish.

Therefore, taking advantage of this popularity, it drove Zhi Xiang's sales again, and the already stable sales curve climbed once more.

Purchasing their products is all done under real names. Although they don't collect more data, like other software that asks for camera, contacts, photo album, and other permissions, just having the ID card and shipping address is enough to understand a lot of things.

Before this, users who purchased Zhi Xiang were mostly in the eastern region, mostly in coastal cities, with more in the south than in the north, and mostly under thirty years old. By comparison, with this upgrade in interactive ability, orders in the central and western regions increased significantly, and the situation of ordering in the east and shipping to the central and western regions also improved significantly. In Zhi Xiang's user profile, users over fifty are increasing.

This clearly shows that this wave, just as expected, has opened up a new user group.

In this process, of course, there was no lack of hardworking international porters, moving domestic videos abroad. Although the foreigners couldn't understand, they could distinguish that they were different dialects, and besides, there were subtitles to go with them. And what they mainly watched was that same small, blue-glowing, floating chubby figure in different videos.

Zhi Xiang still has popularity abroad because there are also foreign bloggers who film videos to demonstrate its powerful functions. More importantly, the different prices of the "Strong Kidney Pill" revealed by this made it a company that discriminates against them and treats them differently. Of course, it has fame, and many people don't have anything good to say.

It's just that foreigners are also people, and the faults of our countrymen exist there just the same. There are plenty of people who say one thing but mean another. They also have people who take the initiative to help this foreign company find excuses, calling on everyone to reflect, calling on everyone to be calm...

In short, it didn't delay the surge in overseas visits to the official website, and Zhi Xiang's overseas orders increased even more. From the surrounding Russians, Koreans, and Japanese to that bunch of countries in Southeast Asia, and then to Europe and America, hundreds or thousands of orders per country, added together, that is also very considerable, and revenue rose sharply.

At this time, Zhao Changchun had also finished the things Wang Yan had entrusted to him. New production workshops began to be built inside the factory, and at the same time, the clothing factory next door was acquired, and the clothing factory was moved to another place, with the vacated factory being renovated.

Wei Lan went upstairs to Wang Yan's office. Arriving behind Wang Yan, she looked at the pile of code on Wang Yan's computer. She squeezed Wang Yan's shoulders hard to massage them and asked, "What are you developing again?"

"Our office software, the mobile version, will be about ready in another week. By then, we can chat and communicate on our phones, and any company information can be pushed at the first opportunity, making office work more convenient." Wang Yan asked, "What's wrong? What business do you have with me?"

When at work, Wei Lan is also very busy and doesn't have time to have an office romance with him.

Wei Lan turned and leaned against the table, saying, "About the clothing factory, hasn't the candidate for factory manager been selected yet? I was thinking... let Sun Yi be the factory manager? She looks good, has a good figure, and her aesthetic sense is no problem. Anyway, we didn't think about making money when we acquired the clothing factory, so we might as well create a brand ourselves. Whether it becomes popular or not doesn't matter; it's also a joy to wear it ourselves. I've even thought of the brand name; let's call it 'Long Teng · Qing Ya', fresh and elegant. We'll make some Chinese-style clothes. What do you think of this?"

"You can do whatever you want, but you have to be prepared to have no friends. You understand this principle. She isn't in our company, so no matter how rich we are or how high our social status is, at least we are on an equal footing with her. But if she comes, she becomes your subordinate, and then it can't be like before."

"Are we on an equal footing now?" Wei Lan shook her head. Looking at Wang Yan's smiling and silent appearance, she sighed and said, "I can feel that she is trying her best to keep things as they were, trying her best to face us naturally, but I can already feel it. You say, is there anything different about her working under me? You must have seen it long ago, yet you're here telling me these big principles."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "She is a person with a sense of propriety. Since you've thought it through, then call her over; it doesn't matter to me. Our company is a place that values ability, but a clothing factory, which is not important, doesn't matter either. If she doesn't have higher goals, then as long as she does her job well, it can also let her muddle through until retirement."

"I don't know if she'll come or not." Wei Lan rolled her eyes. "Alright, you get busy; I'll go have a chat with her."

Watching Wei Lan leave, Wang Yan drank some water and continued to work.

He doesn't care about this kind of thing, and he also believes Wei Lan doesn't have any other intentions; it's purely helping a good friend. Wei Lan only has this one good friend here, so it's normal to think of her when there's something good.

As for the so-called relatives wanting to interfere in company affairs, not to mention Wei Lan's side, even his father's side, his mother's side's relatives, they just know Wang Yan has made a fortune. After all, he bought a big house with a courtyard last year, and this year after the New Year, when they went back, Wang Dong was driving a million-yuan Land Rover, smoking Huazi cigarettes, and drinking Maotai liquor. If Wang Yan hadn't made a fortune, Wang Dong couldn't have lived like this.

They just borrow some money. They have thought about letting Wang Yan arrange jobs for them and such, but Wang Yan hasn't heard it; it's all what his parents told him when they were on video calls.

It's not that he looks down on poor relatives, but that he is protecting them. According to the character of these people, coming to his company to work for three or five months, basically it's all three years or more. Not to mention anything else, just a small bottle of Strong Body Pill, as long as it's three bottles, it's a "particularly huge amount." This is not to mention that his company executes confidentiality regulations; if these people inadvertently hear or see something and reveal it, then there's no end to it.

Of course, that's just saying it. If it weren't for his parents' sake, he wouldn't even want to lend money, let alone arrange jobs.

It's the same on Wei Lan's side; basically, they don't know what Wang Yan does, just thinking he opened a company and made a little money. And with Wei Lan's parents blocking, it can't bother them...

Wang Yan focused on his work, not thinking about those messy things.

Up to now, the company is still in the stage of building its team, and the main thing is that people are not easy to recruit. Especially in the various industries he is involved in, the treatment of the practitioners themselves is not too bad.

Especially apart from the artificial intelligence-related project team, which used his "genius" brain, he completed the huge underlying architecture by himself over many years and realized various functions that were extremely difficult to break through, so there is no need for R&D talent to act as a cover for the time being. Other projects all need R&D talent. The quality of these people is higher, and the treatment is of course even better.

However, what is relatively good is that he doesn't need all kinds of top experts; as long as they have R&D ability, it's fine. Relatively speaking, it's still easier to find. After all, in any industry, it's the top group that eats meat, and the rest, according to the industry scale, some eat meat shreds, some drink meat soup, and some lick the bowl. The talent he needs is roughly at the level of drinking meat soup.

There are still many such people. Perhaps their ability is insufficient to move up, perhaps they are suppressed by industry insiders; the reasons are various and numerous. Recently, the more capable headhunting companies are all working for him, digging people up everywhere to come for interviews.

Correspondingly, money is also being spent like flowing water. Every day there are new employees joining, and every day there are all kinds of express deliveries being sent over, all computers, keyboards, and the like. Once the equipment they bought is delivered to the company, they can report for duty and start work.

Their interview passes are all determined on the spot, talking about money directly, and they won't do one, two, three, four rounds of interviews, just for the sake of simplicity and efficiency. Under normal circumstances, there will be six people at the interview site. Two are from human resources, asking some targeted questions from his professional perspective to make a judgment. Two are people from the project team, making a judgment on technical level. And two are people from the branch, responsible for making judgments on "people" issues.

Finally, the six people collectively give a comprehensive opinion to decide whether to recruit or not. If they recruit, they will call the applicant waiting outside in to talk about salary and treatment, synthesizing what the applicant wants, synthesizing what the company can give, and what the salary and treatment are for people at the same level, and finally determine a number on the spot. If the applicant is satisfied, they are hired directly; if not satisfied, they leave.

There are also some situations, such as newly formed projects where there is no project team yet, where Wang Yan personally goes out to interview, and Zhao Fu from the branch will accompany him, because they are both leaders of the interview, which is very important. This doesn't have the link of the interviewee waiting outside to discuss the results; whether to recruit or not is a matter of one word from Wang Yan, the big boss. He knows how much ability is worth much better than the applicant themselves.

At other times, Wei Lan will also attend the interview, but she mostly sits on the side and watches, rarely speaking. Because apart from the two technical people, the other four people are all better than her. She is just experiencing the thousand people, thousand faces, and exercising her own ability.

And the biggest difference between them and other companies is that they submit resumes online, and at the same time provide resume templates. Apart from personal expression, most of them are multiple-choice questions. For example, for the interview position, if you choose a technical position, corresponding skills will pop up, and finally, you add a self-description, strengths, and weaknesses. Submitting it will generate a resume, and at the same time, it will be sent to the human resources department to enter the company's talent pool.

The official website traffic is very high. Apart from those buying goods, a considerable number of people make resumes here for free. Whether they can get into Long Teng is not important; many people have their own numbers, and they all run here to make resumes. This was summarized by the human resources department that Long Teng spent a lot of money to build, and it is much better than what they made themselves. Good-looking, clean, and practical...

At the same time, various branches have also been registered. Computers, new materials, smart homes, medicine, etc., have all been separated and registered as companies, and the names are also simple, just with "Long Teng" as the heading, followed by the company's business. It is also because of this that Wei Lan would give the clothing brand such a name. In fact, it would be best to have a "·", but the heading doesn't allow it.

Registering so many companies is also for business separation, which is more convenient for management. Although a group company has not been registered yet, the current one is already a group model. Moreover, registering a national-level group company also has requirements for subsidiaries and registered capital. They currently do not meet this point and need to wait for a period of time. Actually, it's a matter of money; there is enough money in the account, but there are too many places to spend money, and there is currently no mind to worry about this problem.

And in order to deal with the problem of duplicate names, as well as the future group heading problem, Wang Yan has previously communicated with comrades from the state-owned assets, and no more company names with the word "Long Teng" can be registered. For existing ones, they will wait until the later stage to ban and change them, or directly invest to acquire them. And the future group heading has also been determined long ago, which is "China Long Teng Group", a proper state-level heading...

Long Teng alone looks very silly, because past internet novels have already ruined it, but adding the state-level heading is different, and it also carries an immensely beautiful meaning. It immediately went from a bad boy with a nose-picking yellow hair and tight pants to a steady middle-aged man in a lapel jacket, big leather shoes, and a slicked-back hair. This temperament and oppressive force suddenly went up...

By five o'clock in the evening, it was time to get off work. The door to Wang Yan's office was pushed open, and Wei Lan pulled Sun Yi, who was in high spirits, and walked in.

"Yo, the great beauty Sun is here." Wang Yan looked up and glanced, greeting her with a smile.

"Hello, big boss Wang. You don't say, your company is developing really fast. Good heavens, three whole floors, impressive." Sun Yi smiled, giving a thumbs up in praise, and then continued, "From now on, I'll be eating at the hands of you two; you must promote me a lot."

"What promote or not, we are our own people, trustworthy. Didn't Wei Lan tell you? We originally had no profit requirements for this clothing factory, so it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you don't run it into the ground. Of course, having no profit requirements means the company's support is also less. How it turns out depends entirely on yourself."

Wei Lan said, "Alright, let's go when we're about ready. Sun Yi will eat with us today. Let's go back early and cook a bit more."

Wang Yan tapped on the computer a few times, locked the screen, and stood up. A real programmer never shuts down.

"Alright, welcome, welcome. My skills have improved recently; you can taste it again."

"Wei Lan told me; it's probably 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', and it was exaggerated. I want to eat Gourd Chicken and Squid Shreds to see to what extent big boss Wang's level has risen. But seriously, your cooking was already good, plus your identity as a billionaire, it's delicious even if it's not delicious."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Alright then, you've ordered the dishes; you're really not polite."

"It's only good if I'm not polite. Let's go." Wei Lan pulled Sun Yi and turned to leave.

Wang Yan tidied up, carried his computer bag, followed and left the office, went to the underground parking lot, drove his small BMW 5 Series, and set off for the vegetable market.

Sun Yi sat in the middle of the back row, clutching the driver and passenger seats, poked her head out and asked, "Big boss Wang, what requirements do you have for the clothing factory?"

"Aren't we making Chinese-style clothes? Why, did you change it again?"

Wei Lan took over the conversation, "No, just asking for your opinion. You have many ideas; maybe you can make the clothes popular?"

"Clothes and shoes, these are industries with saturated markets. Reaching today's level, it's not easy for anyone to become popular, and I'm not a god."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, continuing, "However, I do have some ideas. First, when making Chinese-style clothes, pay attention to historical factors. It's best to find professional experts who have studied historical clothing to check this point. Secondly, in terms of materials, we must not deceive consumers. Pay attention to skin irritation and be sure to grasp the quality well.

There is one more point to pay attention to: don't mess with English letters for the logo design, and don't mess with packaging, instructions, etc. It's not the past anymore; Chinese goods don't have to hang a messy foreign brand to be fashionable and sell for more money. If selling to Chinese people, then write Chinese characters; don't mess with useless things. You can't sell abroad for a while, so we'll talk about the specifics later.

The most important point is that you have two tasks after taking office. One is to first design the clothes and shoes we donate, and the other is to design the clothes for our company employees. The preliminary decision is that company employees will have one set of summer clothes, one set of spring and autumn clothes, and one set of winter clothes every year.

Summer clothes are simple; spring and autumn clothes need to be matched with inner base shirts; winter clothes must have cotton-padded jackets and a set of autumn and winter clothes different from autumn and winter clothes, and they must also have matching shoes. You first design a set of summer clothes, and when the time comes, it will be pushed on the intranet, and all members of the company will vote. If there is no dispute, then it will be put into production; if there is a dispute, then redesign. Perhaps you can also initiate a questionnaire survey on the intranet to collect opinions in the early stage; it all depends on yourself.

Later, you go and supplement the production and sales license for shoes. After purchasing the shoe production line, submit a report, and the company finance will settle it. In addition, I will give you an initial development fund of 10 million, and the rest depends on yourself."

Seeing Wei Lan looking at himself, Sun Yi nodded and smiled, "Alright, I originally thought there would be no capital support."

Wei Lan shook her head and said, "How is that possible? Isn't employee salary also money? We raised the take-home pay for employees by 500, and paid social security in full; this part is also an expense. There is also the money for equipment; before it was a manual workshop, the equipment was too simple, and this also needs to be re-purchased. When the company grows in the future and the scope of charity expands, just the procurement of this part alone will probably be enough to support the clothing factory, so you don't have to have too much pressure."

"I really don't have much pressure; I'm just full of energy. In the past, I always felt that my talent had nowhere to be displayed, feeling that if I went up, I could do it too. Now that I have the opportunity, I must show my skills and see if I can do it or not."

"You can definitely do it; work hard."

Wang Yan smiled and took over the conversation, "Speaking of charity, I just ignored it. Don't forget the employees of those charity funds; they are also the same standard, and the factory employees are too. Everyone is treated equally; don't engage in differential treatment.

Recently, start measuring the sizes of all employees. In the future, send a clothing factory staff member to the company. After the interview passes, measure on the spot and write it into the employee file, so that the clothes fit and don't look bad.

It's the same for the children; don't use general numbers. Their bodies grow fast, so arrange for someone to go over and measure once every spring and autumn when school starts. Don't wear loose and baggy clothes; there's no spirit.

On the clothes belonging to company employees, there must be our Long Teng flag. You can arrange where to put it yourself when the time comes. Forget about the children's clothes; just make them clean. Wei Lan, later you give instructions to procurement to customize a batch of our Long Teng flag badges. It doesn't matter if they don't wear them; we must have them; this is a sense of collective honor. Send them to the teachers who are supporting education and the staff working over there as well; treat everyone equally.

I believe that as the company gets bigger and bigger, they will be willing to wear them. Also, tell President Zhao that the party member badges should also be purchased. In the future, when we go out to participate in party and mass activities, wearing two badges and wearing unified clothing will also look formal."

"Good."

"Tsk tsk, really rich and willful. Even state-owned enterprises don't have such good benefits as yours." Many are not necessary expenses. Three sets of clothes and three pairs of shoes for employees a year, even if the factory is your own, that's not a small amount of money. Who dares to spend like this without money...

Wang Yan laughed, "We are both vulgar people. Now that we have achieved some success, we suddenly feel a mission on our shoulders and a heavy responsibility. Changing China's environment is something we can't do, but doing our own job well and being a little better to our own employees is still possible."

"This awareness..."

"You also have to strengthen ideological construction." Wei Lan said, "Our company values this very much. You should perform well and strive to join the party in our company. There are benefits; the salary will be 1,000 more."

"Hey, now I am also a part of the company. Tell me about the branch? I'm especially curious."

Sun Yi officially resigned and joined the company, going to the clothing factory to be the factory manager. She recruited several clothing designers, and at the same time implemented the instructions of big boss Wang, finding a professor from the History School of Zhejiang University to provide guidance and design new clothing. The products designed, of course, were still according to the instructions of big boss Wang, designing the clothes for the donated students, as well as the work clothes for company employees.

What Wang Yan did, of course, was still those things: interviewing, signing for funding, controlling the progress of various projects, personally joining in to speed up a lot of speed, etc. He worked for five, six, or seven hours a day, and the rest of the time was cooking for Wei Lan, massaging and maintaining her, exercising with her, accompanying her to read for a while, chatting aimlessly, very fulfilling.

Time slipped away just like this, and the living father would never forget his good son.

"John Wick: Retirement."

This day at work, deep in Wang Yan's mind, he received a new message.

He decisively stopped the work in his hands, sat in the office and watched the movie, using speakers with very good sound quality to play it out loud. Now his office is very large, and the privacy is very good, so he is not afraid of affecting others.

"John Wick" has a total of four parts, mainly about the protagonist killing people all the way for a car and a dog, killing until he himself was gone. Some busybodies counted that the protagonist killed a total of more than 400 people.

If you need to know the details, please Baidu it...

The four movies are only eight hours. After eating dinner and taking a stroll with Wei Lan and coming back, it didn't take long to finish watching.

The protagonist of the story wants to retire and has been fighting for this. It wasn't until he died at the end that it could be considered retirement. Wang Yan thought that John Wick should have lived to retire, should have enjoyed a quiet life without being disturbed, and missed his dead beloved wife alone.

However, this movie has some problems. John Wick wears bulletproof clothing and shoots at close range with others. The impact of a pistol, even if wearing a bulletproof vest, might cause the person shot to have bone cracks or fractures, and at the very least, it must be a not-light bruise. Moreover, John Wick was hit by a car and fell all the way from the building. An ordinary person wouldn't have a way to live with this force, and even if they were healed, they would have to be a cripple. But John Wick was able to jump around and kill wildly.

This is obviously problematic. At the very least, John Wick's bone and muscle strength far exceed ordinary people.

So from this point of view, this world may not be as simple as it looks on the surface...