Thinking of this, Hou Gui said: "Mr. Li, it's rare to meet, let's have a meal together at noon?"

When Li Xin heard this, he immediately excused himself and said, "You're welcome, I still have something to do at noon, so I won't eat the meal, let's talk about it later." ”

Hou Gui was afraid that Li Xin would not go, so he had to say: "Mr. Li, don't shirk, you have to eat anyway, so let's get together together." In fact, eating is just an excuse, the key is to talk to you about something. ”

Li Xin asked strangely, "Talk to me about something?"

Hou Gui said, "That's right. ”

Li Xin said: "I really don't go to dinner, you can say anything about it, Vice President Yuan is not an outsider, I will do what I can do, and I can't do anything if I can't do it." ”

Li Xin really couldn't guess what Hou Gui wanted to talk to him about, the intersection between himself and Hou Gui was the copper produced by the Southern Group, could it be that Hou Gui wanted to find himself to get closer to the price?

Although Li Xin is the assistant to the chairman, he has no right to meddle in the group's production and sales business, especially in the current eventful season, if he gets involved in these things, Huang Hongliang and others will seize the handle and say that he is digging the corner of the group. Li Xin would never do this kind of thing.

Seeing that there was no chance to ask Li Xin out to talk alone, Hou Gui hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, I mean I want to ask you to be a consultant in our factory." ”

Li Xin said in surprise: "I work as a consultant for your factory?"

Hou Gui said, "That's right. ”

Li Xin said: "No, right? I don't understand the business of your factory at all, how can I be qualified to be a consultant?"

Hou Gui said: "If you want to say that the matter of asking you to be a consultant has nothing to do with the production business in the factory, it is not entirely true. Aren't you very familiar with the trend of copper prices, and you are proficient in the futures business, and your expertise can help our factory save a lot of production costs, which is very beneficial to the business development of our factory. From this point of view, there is no more suitable person than you, and I am eager for talent!"

Li Xin said: "No, no, no, you haven't been dealing with the Southern Group for a year or two, and you don't lack understanding of them, the employees within the Southern Group are absolutely not allowed to work part-time outside without permission, at this point, I think it should be the same in your factory, right?"

Hou Gui said: "If this is what you are worried about, then it will be easy to do. Rules are dead, people are alive, as long as you don't say it, I don't say it, who will know about this? Mr. Li, don't worry, I won't treat you badly, I will give you a reward of 4,000 yuan a month according to the treatment given to experts by our factory, what do you think?"

Li Xin waved his hand and said, "This is really not good, let's forget it." ”

Hou Gui listened to it and thought to himself: It seems that Li Xin thinks that the remuneration is too low, and this 4,000 yuan a month is a lot of income in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Li Xin, it is estimated that he can't look down on it at all.

Hou Gui really didn't want to miss this opportunity to recruit Li Xin into his command, he gritted his teeth, and his heart was open, and said: "Mr. Li, I know that this money is not a matter for you, otherwise, how much compensation do you think is suitable for you to say a number, I will never bargain." ”

Hou Gui, who is usually stingy, immediately regretted it in his heart after saying this, he was also worried that in front of Yuan Jie, he had already praised Haikou, in case Li Xin heard his words, and asked him for an annual salary of 200,000 or 300,000 yuan a year, and he couldn't give it, wouldn't it be embarrassing and embarrassing?

Li Xin is a person who has seen a lot of money, he casually says a number, and in his eyes he is a lion's mouth.

Unexpectedly, after Li Xin heard what he said, he smiled and said: "Thank you Director Hou for lifting me, you look up to me so much, this is really not a matter of money, if you have any questions in the future, you can call me at any time, we can communicate at any time, as for going to your side as a consultant, it is really not good, I understand your kindness." ”

He Gui listened to Li Xin's reply, and felt both a sense of loss because he didn't fulfill his wishes, and secretly a little relieved, because Li Xin didn't ask for a high price, so that Hou Gui avoided embarrassment. So he took advantage of Li Xin's words, and smashed two more hammers into the truth, saying: "That's okay, Mr. Li, after you say this, I will often come to the door to ask for trouble, don't you give me face when the time comes?" Hou Gui thought to himself: You promised me that I can come and ask you if I have any questions, which is not bad, it is basically equivalent to already being my consultant, and it also saves me money to hire you.

Li Xin said: "Look at what you said, discuss with each other, I also have to ask you for advice on many questions." That's it, you guys talk first, I'm kind of going beforehand. After speaking, Li Xin said goodbye, went downstairs and drove back to the company.

Not long after Li Xin returned to the office, Yuan Jie's call came: "What do you think? I think Director Hou's suggestion just now is very good, what a good opportunity this is, why don't you agree to him?"

Li Xin smiled: "How can you help him talk? Is it that after I leave, he will give you any benefits, let you be a lobbyist for him." ”

Yuan Jie said angrily: "Look at what you said, what do you think of me as? I just think it's a pity that you gave up this opportunity, you give him up as a consultant, isn't it just to help him come up with ideas? And you don't have to go to his factory every day to work, and there is still an income of 4,000 yuan a month, if you don't make it for nothing, how many people can earn 4,000 yuan a month?"

Li Xin said: "You think too simply, this consultant is not so easy to be. ”

Yuan Jie said angrily: "I don't think it's anything, it's you thinking about things too complicated, right?"

Li Xin didn't hear the change in Yuan Jie's mood, he said: "It's not that I think it's complicated, it's that this matter is very complicated. Convincing people is a difficult thing to do, and everyone thinks differently. As the old saying goes, the Tao is not the same, Hou Gui is not a very good person to work with, and it is too tiring to do things with him. ”

Yuan Jie didn't speak, her attitude on this matter was completely opposite to Li Xin's. Li Xin repeatedly shirked this matter, which made Yuan Jie feel that Li Xin was a little forward-looking, and even a little mother-in-law.

Therefore, the reasons that Li Xin is saying now sound completely quibbly to Yuan Jie. Especially when she heard Li Xin move out of the ancient saying: Tao is not the same, it is not conspiratory, and her heart is even more disgusted. She said lightly: "At work, you have to face different people, and that's not a reason." ”

Li Xin explained: "The nature of my current work in the Southern Group is a bit like the kind of consultant Hou Gui said. Do you know how it feels like I've been in this position for so long?"

Yuan Jie said: "You say come and listen." ”

Li Xin said: "Do you know where the biggest difference between people is?"

Yuan Jie said: "If you want to talk about your own feelings, you come and ask me?"

Li Xin said: "The reason why people are different is not the difference in physiological indicators, but the difference in thinking. As long as they are normal people, everyone's physiological indicators are within a reasonable range, and there is little difference between them. Blood pressure, heart rate, blood lipids, etc., these physiological indicators, as long as they are normal, are estimated to be about the same. Even if there is a slight difference, it is only a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference. Let me give you another example, if you can eat two bowls of rice in one meal and others can eat four bowls, you will be tired enough to carry a 50-pound burden, and others will be able to walk like a fly while carrying a 100-pound burden. However, the difference between people and people's thoughts is worlds apart even between normal people. Different people may come to the opposite conclusion on a commonplace problem, which is the difference between people and people. ”

Yuan Jie said impatiently: "How can you pull out so many rambling questions, this has nothing to do with the questions you said." ”

Li Xin said: "Don't worry, things are not irrelevant, the reason why I did these foreshadowing is to tell you the following point of view." The longer I've been in my current role, the more I've felt like I've spent most of my time playing the piano to cows. In fact, the reverse is also true, and others may think that what they say to me is also playing the harp to the cow. Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about the sale of hedging by the Southern Group, which is a very typical example. In this matter, I think the price of copper will rise, and they think the price of copper will fall. This kind of dispute went on for a long time, and as a result, you can see it. But a lot of things happened in the middle, especially my own mental journey in it, which outsiders don't know. For such a long time, my hard work has been treated as a donkey's liver and lungs by others, and I have to withstand all kinds of cynicism from above, just such a thankless position, and I am threatened with dismissal by others at any time. ”

Yuan Jie listened quietly and did not speak.

Li Xin paused for a while, and then said: "Alas, don't mention these things, and then go back to Hou Gui asking me to be a consultant for him, you know, before the copper price rose, I told him more than once that their factory should do buy hedging, and repeatedly told him not to consider whether the copper price is up or down, as long as he feels that there is a profit margin between the product and the cost of raw materials, he should do this buy hedging." At that time, he promised to do well, but in the process of holding the position, he changed his mind at any time when he encountered price fluctuations. You said that if I gave him these suggestions before, wouldn't that be equivalent to being a consultant for him? But did he really listen to such opinions? Maybe he listened to them sincerely, but when he encountered a problem, he would do things according to the kind of thinking pattern that was inherent in his own head. From the performance of the chairman of our group and Hou Gui during this period of time, I can guess that even if I go to Hou Gui as a consultant in the future, when I encounter problems, I give him the idea, at most he will go in and out of the left ear, and he will still follow his own steps in case of trouble. If that's the case, what's the use of my idea for him?"