Chapter 424 Managing Upward

Chapter 424 Managing Upward
Since the day Star Technology was founded, the Xu family has become one of the new elites in Jiangcheng.

As the chairman of Star Technology and closely involved with Jiangda, Xu Jun is naturally qualified to be invited to participate in military training performances.

However, Xu Jun went to the central campus, which is the main campus of Jiangnan University.

Beihai Campus was originally a university merged into Jiangnan University. If it were not for Xu Mingyuan, there would be basically no discussion within Jiangnan University.

Originally, the old father Xu Jun wanted to come to the Beihai campus to visit Xiaoyangzhi’s military training, but Xu Mingyuan persuaded him to stop.

Little Yangzhi doesn't like to show up in public. She will definitely be embarrassed if Xu Jun takes her in front of school leaders.

The family now has a clear division of labor. Xu Jun handles all external social activities. Xu Mingyuan is responsible for the direction of the company's development. If there is something that cannot be shirked, he will go along.

And what about Xiao Yangzhi?
She just needs to be a little parasite who eats and waits for death peacefully. Xu Mingyuan will come forward to stop her if anything happens.

Although old father Xu Jun didn't come, Su Muqing came over happily.

"What are you here for?"

Xu Mingyuan, who was playing with his mobile phone, saw Su Muqing sitting next to him with a wisp of fragrance, so he greeted her with a little surprise.

"I have nothing to do today, so I thought I'd come and watch the freshmen military training. Hey, which team is your sister in?"

Su Muqing unscrewed the bottle of mineral water, took a sip, and pursed her lips to signal the team in front.

"In the art school team." Xu Mingyuan said casually.

"Where is the art team?" Su Muqing continued to ask.

"How would I know where to go? There are so many people there, why don't you go over and take a look?"

Xu Mingyuan continued to play with his phone with his head down.

He is similar to Xiao Yangzhi, or it can be said that Xiao Yangzhi was brought up to be the same type of person as him. The two of them usually play mobile games, and they only play "Happy Match 3".

There is a reason why this classic mobile game has remained popular for so long. It has simple rules, smooth difficulty, and a perfect reward mechanism, and it accurately captures the psychological needs of casual players.

But the disadvantage of feature phones is that the special effects are very ordinary and cannot achieve perfection in vision and hearing.

Another problem is that there are too few levels, so the only way to extend the life of the game is to increase the difficulty.

However, the core of the matter is that today's users have extremely high tolerance and can tolerate the frustration of being stuck.

When the Starry Sky Plus was launched, it gave people the impression that it was not very popular, but the sales volume of the phone has been steadily increasing and seems to be showing an explosive trend.

After nearly a year of marketing, the Starry Sky phone has successfully climbed to the top of the domestic gaming phone rankings and even received some overseas orders.

However, the total proportion is not large, and Starry Sky Technology's development strategy is still to focus on the domestic market. After all, the domestic potential consumer market is the largest in the world, so there is no need to seek far away. If there are orders from overseas, they will be accepted, and if there are no orders, they will not deliberately spend a lot of money on marketing.

Star Technology is still in a stage of rapid expansion. The most taboo thing is to spread out too much in order to prevent some low-profit projects from dragging down the main line.

"Isn't Taotao here?"

Of course, Su Muqing would not just sit there and look for Xiao Yangzhi. After all, she came to find Xu Mingyuan, and she would not do anything stupid that would lose sight of the main purpose.

"She has to go to class. What's the matter? Yo? She's wearing a skirt today?"

Seeing Su Muqing's raised calves wrapped in a white gauze skirt, Xu Mingyuan couldn't help but take a few more glances.

"I often wear skirts, right? Haven't you ever seen it?"

Su Muqing rubbed her forehead and pretended to have a headache.

"I've seen you before. Don't you always wear a dress? Why did you change into a skirt today? And you're wearing a white gauze." Xu Mingyuan said after taking a look.

Today, Su Muqing not only wore a white gauze skirt, but also a pair of white slip-on cloth shoes that were very popular in the 1990s, the kind that were commonly seen on the market for ten yuan a pair.

Xu Mingyuan vaguely remembered that when he was in elementary school, there were activities in school and everyone was required to wear this kind of shoes. The quality was very poor. Either the soles were cracked or the fabric had holes. They would break within half a month of wearing.

"Can I wear a black dress on such a hot day? I will die of the heat."

Su Muqing fanned her face with her hands and said with a smile.

"You don't usually go out, do you? You have a car when you go out, so what you wear makes a difference." Xu Mingyuan said casually.

"Well, I can't stay at home all the time, right? How do you think of my skirt? Does it look comfortable?"

Su Muqing pinched the corner of her skirt with her fingers and pulled the elasticity of the white gauze.

"Generally, why are you pretending to be so young, an old man like you?" Xu Mingyuan said casually.

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Su Muqing was stunned when she heard this. She was always well-mannered, but at this moment she opened her mouth, her chest heaving, and her surging eyes hidden under her white T-shirt seemed to be about to break through the restraints and burst the fabric.

"Old... onion? Pretending to be... young?"

Su Muqing spoke each word slowly, as if she couldn't believe that these words came from Xu Mingyuan's mouth.

Women always attach great importance to age. Although Su Muqing thinks that she is not old, she can't help but feel old when Xu Mingyuan, who is two or three years younger than her, calls her old.

"Hahaha, I'm kidding."

Seeing that the fake smile that Su Muqing always had on her face disappeared without a trace, Xu Mingyuan couldn't help laughing.

"Xu Mingyuan, I just graduated from college, okay? If I choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, I am also a college student now, okay?"

Su Muqing could no longer hold back the resentment in her heart and directly called out his name.

"Haha, isn't this good? Why do you pretend to be so hypocritical all day long?" Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

"Isn't it okay for me to wear something casual? It's tiring to dress up every day when going out. Do you understand girls?" Su Muqing said unhappily.

"Stop pretending. You are more suited to the sophisticated style of a strong woman. Look at the way you are dressed. You are even wearing perfume. How can an innocent little girl wear perfume when she goes out for a walk?" Xu Mingyuan said, shaking his head.

"Does it smell bad? I didn't spray it with a strong smell, did I?" Su Muqing pinched the collar and smelled it. Seeing Xu Mingyuan tilting his head to look at her, she put down the collar and said, "Stop looking at me." "You are really good at pretending. Have you worn low-cut dresses less often? What can I see when you pull on this high-necked T-shirt?" Xu Mingyuan said.

"That won't work either. You're peeking." Su Muqing said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, whatever you say."

Xu Mingyuan didn't bother with Su Muqing. He always gave face to his high-level employees.

"Don't you like the smell of perfume? Taotao has it on him too, right?" Su Muqing asked puzzledly.

Not only had she smelled the fragrance on Tao Shuxin's body, but she also smelled a more general floral scent. Logically, Xu Mingyuan should not be disgusted by it.

"As long as the perfume is not so strong that it kills people, I don't mind it. Taotao smells like a sachet, but she doesn't wear perfume." Xu Mingyuan said.

Tao Shuxin's family usually burns incense, which is a habit passed down from her grandmother's generation. It can't be said whether it smells good or bad. Anyway, when you visit her grandmother's house, you feel like you are in a very classical environment.

Although Tao Shuxin is not so rigid, she also likes to put some sachets in her wardrobe to pretend to be intellectual and elegant.

However, Xu Mingyuan did not think the fragrance was inferior. His nose was not that sharp, and the natural floral scent was quite pleasant to smell.

"Oh, then I'll try a different sachet next time." Su Muqing said.

"No, why are you doing this all day long? Are you trying to seduce me?" Xu Mingyuan asked.

"Making the boss happy is the principle that a good employee should abide by. As a boss, you don't understand the difficulties of being an employee at all. It seems that you are not a completely smart person, alas."

Su Muqing sighed softly, without any teasing in her tone, as if she had not yet gotten rid of the resentment of being called an old onion by Xu Mingyuan.

"What do you mean? Do you want to manage upwards?" Xu Mingyuan asked.

"How can an ambitious employee not manage upward? But your company is also strange. The process is so complicated. If you want to manage upward, well... how do I put it?"

Su Muqing hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether she should say it.

"Just tell me what you think. I also want to hear what problems the company has."

Xu Mingyuan put down his phone, stretched comfortably, put his hands on the seat, and stared in a daze at the freshmen who were being reprimanded in the distance.

"It's easy to say, easy to say, and hard to say. I see the chairman is managed very well, but it's a bit difficult for you," said Su Muqing.

"It's normal. My dad just likes to be flattered. I don't like that kind of thing." Xu Mingyuan said.

"I see that most of the management of Star Technology are from Sailboat Technology. Do you think their management level is sufficient?" Su Muqing asked.

"It's enough. The company has just started to develop and we can gradually promote people from within. There is no need to hire a professional team. It will be fine with Yao Jianhui to be in charge. I don't worry about these things." Xu Mingyuan said.

"You have given President Yao so much power, aren't you afraid of being sidelined?" Su Muqing asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Do you think the company's rules and regulations are just for show? The process to bypass me is quite complicated. Besides, I'm good at judging people, and Yao Jianhui is not a selfish person." Xu Mingyuan said.

"Aren't you afraid that you have misjudged the person? And that you are being managed by your superiors?" Su Muqing asked with a smile.

"Do you know why no one in the company manages me upward?" Xu Mingyuan asked with the same smile.

"How would I know that?" Su Muqing said with a smile.

"You've heard that the means I used to get the sailboat technology were a bit dishonorable, right?" Xu Mingyuan asked.

"I've heard of it, but I don't know if it's true." Su Muqing nodded.

"It's half true and half false. At the beginning, the predecessor of Starry Sky Technology was heavily in debt and was on the verge of surviving. I heard that someone was going to acquire it, so the district leaders and creditors tacitly let me take over the mess." Xu Mingyuan said.

"Oh, what do you mean by this? Do you want to prove your greatness?" Su Muqing asked puzzledly.

"I am great and glorious, do I need to prove it?" Xu Mingyuan said shamelessly.

"Yes, you are right. You are an upright, noble, and pure good person." Su Muqing said a little speechlessly.

"Haha, you're right." Xu Mingyuan smiled and said, "The most difficult part of acquiring a company is how to manage it. It's not like I don't know how to use one faction to fight another. Those who didn't obey me at the beginning, or those who wanted to put on airs because I was young, and those who wanted to manage upwards, have long been removed. The management team from Sailing Technology is actually not the first batch. If they still don't know how I deal with people, they are too stupid."

"You mean, you are very capable?" Su Muqing said with a smile.

"It's just so-so, but it shouldn't be a problem to deal with your mediocre skills."

"Ah, am I really just like an old onion?"

Su Muqing also leaned back in the chair like Xu Mingyuan, staring at the shade of the tree in silence.

"No, Senior Sister Su, why are you always thinking about hooking up with me?" Xu Mingyuan asked.

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense. Who seduced you?"

Su Muqing immediately straightened up and said to him with a smile.

"Then why do you manage your superiors? You keep doing this all day long. I thought you were interested in me." Xu Mingyuan said speechlessly.

"You are so confident. I just want you to teach me more things. At most, I have a little bit of admiration for you. How can it be said to be interesting?" Su Muqing explained calmly.

"Why don't you go to work honestly? Why are you running here?" Xu Mingyuan said helplessly.

"Boss Mingyuan, I've been working for nothing. Can't I take a break for a while? Can you please not be so excessive?"

Su Muqing began to grit her teeth, and the teardrop mole at the corner of her eye lost its charm, as if she was about to cry.

"Didn't you say that I know and do? I wanted you to go to work, so of course I had to say it out loud."

"Fuck off, no."

Su Muqing simply leaned back in her chair, swaying her calves gently, imitating Xu Mingyuan and spending her time lazily.

(End of this chapter)