The rapid development of Matrix has entered a bottleneck period, which is not a bottleneck period for business, but a bottleneck period for management.

Managing a company of 50 people is very different from the need to manage 500, 5,000 or even 50,000 people. Zhang Chen's ability to manage a company with 500 people is quite competent, but if it is to manage 5,000 people, it will be beyond his strength, as for managing 50,000 people, hehe,

The founder of a great company must be a great manager. In this regard, Zhang Chen can only say that his management ability is stronger than that of ordinary people, but compared with many management masters, he is naturally far behind.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Chen's future achievements will be limited, after all, management ability is only a small part of leadership.

Management is like the ancient general soldiers, Han Gaozu Liu Bang asked Han Xin: "How many soldiers can I bring?"

Han Xin replied: "Your Majesty can only send 100,000." ”

Han Gaozu asked again: "What about you, how many can you bring?"

Han Xin replied: "The more ministers there are, the better the good." ”

Purely in terms of management ability, Liu Bang has a lot of poor Han Xin, but it is Liu Bang, a little country hooligan who is not brilliant in all aspects, who has achieved great things.

Some people say that Liu Bang's only strength is that he can use people, in fact, Liu Bang's biggest advantage is that he has self-knowledge and a full and sober understanding of his own abilities and strengths and weaknesses.

It is precisely because of his self-knowledge that he can see the advantages of others and be good at knowing others. The negative example is Xiang Yu, who felt that everything was his own awesomeness, and he was stubborn and self-serving, forcing away his father Fan Zeng, and finally fell to the point where he was embattled and ambushed on all sides of Wujiang and had no shame to see Jiangdong's father.

At this point, Zhang Chen, like Liu Bang, has a very clear understanding of himself, knows where the limits of his ability are, and what kind of talent he needs.

Jobs is the talent that Zhang Chen needs the most.

In addition to the intellectual property rights held by Apple, the most important purpose of acquiring Apple is Jobs.

Jobs has been able to achieve success again and again because he was born a great manager, and this natural gap cannot be made up by how many MBAs he plays.

Without Jobs' Matrix, even if Zhang Chen knew the general trend in the next 20 years, he might not be able to bring Matrix to the scale and status of Apple in the future.

Maybe before that, Matrix was falling apart because of its own management problems.

But with Jobs' recklessness and rebelliousness, needless to say, Zhang Chen and him do not have a good relationship, even if the two are close friends, Jobs will not be willing to work for Zhang Chen. If you want Jobs to stay and lead Matrix wholeheartedly, you must first break his prejudice against Chinese culture.

Prejudice comes from ignorance, and even more so from the contempt of the strong for the weak. If in the past, let alone Zhang Chen, even if Huaxia No. 1 asked Jobs to come to Huaxia to have a look, Jobs might not come.

But now, Matrix has completely defeated Apple, and even more so Apple, for the first time, Jobs really treats Zhang Chen as a figure of the same level as himself.

Therefore, this stage is the best opportunity to break the bias of Steve Jobs and make him want to stay in the Matrix.

Fortunately, Steve Jobs had an unusual fondness for the occult, and when it comes to the occult, what country can compare with China, which has a history of 4,000 years?

Seeing Jobs turn around, Zhang Chen was overjoyed, but he remained silent on the surface: "The so-called Tao is the fundamental rule of the operation of the universe, and this rule exists in all things and is the foundation of all things. Cultivating and mastering this rule is the only pursuit of Chinese Taoists. ”

Jobs returned to his seat and sneered, "Mastering the fundamental rules of everything?" haha, that's the biggest joke I've ever heard. If there were such a rule, I would like to hear it. If your so-called Taoists could really find this kind of rule, they should have known to everyone in the world long ago. I have never heard of any religion that dares to claim to have mastered the fundamental rules of the universe. ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "First of all, in the strict sense, Taoism is not a religion, but a collection of people who are full of curiosity about the 'Tao'. Secondly, Steve, can you make a schoolboy understand what a Fourier transform is in five minutes?"

Jobs was speechless for a moment, and Zhang Chen continued: "Needless to say elementary school students, according to statistics, less than one percent of people in the world can understand and apply the Fourier transformation. And the Fourier transform is just a basic concept in higher mathematics, in the vast world of mathematics, it can only be regarded as a flat boat, even the Fourier transformation is the same, do you think I may spend a few minutes to let you understand what are the fundamental rules of the operation of the universe?"

"Two thousand five hundred years ago, Lao Tzu of China once said in the Tao Te Ching that the Tao can be the Tao but not the constant Tao, and the name can be the name but not the permanent name. As the most subtle truth, the Tao can only be perceived and cannot be abstracted and concretized. Because the Tao is all-encompassing, and your description of the Tao is also within the Tao, so naturally you can't accurately grasp it. ”

Jobs naturally wouldn't be so easily fooled, and sneered: "In this way, no one, including yourself, can actually thoroughly understand the fundamental Dao you said, right?

Zhang Chen was unhurried: "Have you ever seen God and Buddha? Has anyone in the world really seen them? And why would anyone believe that they really exist? What's more, Taoists only point out the methods of learning and cultivating the 'Dao', and whether or not they can master it or how much they can master depends on their own comprehension and practice. ”

Seeing that Jobs didn't believe it, Zhang Chen looked at him and said casually: "However, as for verification, it can really be verified." ”

Jobs was surprised, he had believed in Dongying Zen Buddhism for so many years, and he hadn't heard of anything that could be verified, could Zhang Chen really do it?

Zhang Chen put down the teacup, "Everyone has different cultivation directions and things to master, and what I have mastered may be more useful in terms of business laws, so I can get everything today." But other than that, I didn't have much to do because of my qualifications. However, there are many cultivators whose level of cultivation is much higher than mine, and their understanding of everything in the world is also more profound, and although they cannot say that they have mastered the fundamental path, they can still judge the fate of a person. ”

Jobs had a strange expression: "You mean divination?"

Zhang Chen laughed: "The real Taoists will not engage in these deceptive things, everything they know comes from the mastery and understanding of the 'Dao'. The old man you saw just now is an elder in my own clan, he practices the way of life, and you can see your hidden illness by looking at your face and complexion, even if you don't have any symptoms for the time being, if you are interested, you can let him take a look. ”

Jobs was shocked, is it true that Zhang Chen is so calm and relaxed?

Bill Campbell is a staunch Protestant, but when he heard Zhang Chen say it so firmly, he couldn't help but be interested, "Steve, this is the ancient and mysterious East, maybe there are really some phenomena that we can't explain, why don't you give it a try?"

Zhang Chen stood up, tidied up the clothes on his body, and said to the two, "I'll take you to give it a try." ”

Jobs's half-pushed Bill Campbell followed behind Zhang Chen, passed through the two moon gates, and came to a courtyard, Zhang Chen knocked on the door of the wing: "Dao Chief, I bring a few friends to meet you, is it convenient?"

No one spoke in the room, Zhang Chen slowly pushed open the door, and Jobs and Bill Campbell couldn't help but be startled when they looked at it.

I saw the old man I had just seen meditating on a low couch, two white smoke spewed out from his nostrils between his breaths, his eyes were closed, his nose and mouth were looking at his heart, his heart was not distracted, and he looked like a fairy wind and bones.

Zhang Chen slowly closed the door and whispered to the two of them: "The Taoist is meditating and practicing, we can't disturb, just wait a while." ”

Bill Campbell whispered excitedly, "Was he suffocating smoke just now? Why is it so thick?"

Zhang Chen shook his head: "That's Qi, it's hard to explain to you in English, you can understand it as a kind of energy generated in the process of cultivation." ”

At this moment, everyone heard a cough from the old man in the house: "Come in." ”

Zhang Chen pushed the door open again, and Jobs and Bill followed Zhang Chen to see that everything in the house was as usual, and there was no special smell.

Jobs saw Zhang Chen walk up to the old man, give a deep salute, and say a few words, the old man shook his head first, Zhang Chen said a few more words, his attitude was very respectful, the old man thought about it for a while, and then nodded reluctantly.

Zhang Chen's face was overjoyed, and he said to the two: "Although the Dao Elder is my elder, the Great Dao is ruthless, and his leaking of the Heavenly Secret is undoubtedly an interference and influence on the Great Dao, which has caused him a lot of damage. I persuaded him for a long time before he agreed to show it to one of you. Which of you will try?"

Jobs said, "Of course it's me, how do I know if this traitor is joining forces with you to deceive me?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "Okay, you sit there, it doesn't matter what posture you sit in." ”

Jobs saw that there was a futon where Zhang Chen was pointing, and Jobs was sitting on it, drumming in his heart, only to see that the old man's eyes were like electricity, he looked him up and down, and nodded.

Before Jobs could react, the old man stretched out his finger and pressed a little hard above Jobs's abdomen, Jobs was in pain and snorted, but the old man turned away.

Jobs rubbed his stomach and was inexplicably when he saw the old man walk up to the bookcase, pick up a brush, dip it in ink, and write a few words on a blank piece of paper.

Zhang Chen took the blank paper and read it in Chinese: "Accumulated in the Sanjiao Mansion." ”

Bill Campbell said hurriedly, "What do you mean?"

Zhang Chen lowered his head and pondered: "Sanjiao and Ji are both Taoist and Chinese medicine sayings, from the point of view of modern medicine, Sanjiao refers to the endocrine system, and Sanjiao is the pancreas, which is the corresponding concept of accumulation in modern medicine, similar to tumors." Steve, did you know you have a tumor on your pancreas?"

Jobs was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Tumor? I just had a comprehensive physical examination, and there can't be any tumors at all." ”

Zhang Chen's face was solemn: "If this is the case, you'd better do an in-depth examination of the pancreas as soon as possible, if the tumor is still in the early stage, it is not difficult to treat, if it spreads, it will be dangerous." ”

Jobs was shocked, could it be that Zhang Chen was serious? This old man just looked at himself twice, and then found that he had a tumor on his pancreas?

The point is, do you really have a tumor? No way, I don't feel it at all.

The old man waved his hand and said something to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen respectfully agreed, and pulled Bill Campbell with an incredible face and a worried Jobs out of the room.

"Either way, it never hurts to look it up. Bill Campbell advised Jobs that he knew Jobs's personality well, that Jobs was arrogant and stubborn, and that if he decided not to go to the hospital for a check-up, it would be useless for others to say anything.

"Of course, you can not believe it and not check. Zhang Chen smiled slightly, "Taoism never forces others to do anything, your life is your own, believe it or not." ”

Provoked by Zhang Chen like this, Jobs said proudly: "In order to debunk these tricks of yours, of course I will check them." I won't believe what you're saying, I'm going to make you the laughing stock of the whole Silicon Valley. ”

Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh, what should you do if the results of your examination verify my statement?"

Jobs snorted: "There is no such if, I know my own physical condition." If the tumor is really detected, I will agree to your conditions and be this bullshit iCEO. ”

Zhang Chen stroked his palms and laughed: "Okay, there is a saying in Huaxia, a gentleman is a word, a horse is difficult to chase, you and I are not gentlemen, but I still believe in your promise." Would you like to visit here for a few days before returning to the United States?"

Jobs was expressionless: "My time is very valuable, and I don't want to waste them on such pointless things." ”

Bill Campbell played the round: "Zack, I'm going back early too, Jim has a game on Sunday, I promised him to go live and cheer him on, I'll go back with Steve." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Okay, I'll arrange a car to send you down the mountain." ”

As soon as Jobs walked out of the gate of Yuntaiguan, he saw the Mercedes-Benz that sent him parked outside the door, thinking that he had climbed the mountain for half an hour in vain, he couldn't help but glared at the young man who sent him up the mountain in annoyance: "Didn't you say that the car couldn't drive?"

The young man winked innocently: "Did I say that? Oh, mountain climbing is a very healthy sport, and it is very beneficial to your health, so you don't need to thank me." ”

"FXCK!" Jobs burst out and got into the car, "Chinese people are a bunch of liars!"

Bill Campbell laughed.

"Hey, if he goes to the hospital and doesn't find out what's wrong, what will you do?" Seeing the Mercedes-Benz in the distance, the young man asked Zhang Chen, "The plan I made for you before was not like this, did you buy his health care doctor?"

Zhang Chen smiled mysteriously, turned around and looked back, smiling without saying a word.

"Kaleidoscope, these two foreigners just now are the fat sheep you were looking for? You didn't make any less money on this order, right?" The white-bearded old man turned from behind the moon gate and tore off the fake beard that was glued to his face, he was clearly a middle-aged man in his early forties, where was he still looking like the fairy wind Dao bone just now.

The young man smiled: "What do you earn, a little porridge money." As he spoke, he took out a thin stack of bills from his pocket, "Labor fees." ”

The fake old man took it and nodded: "It's only a thousand? ”

The young man's face was flat: "Too little?" Wen glasses, if it weren't for Lao Tzu looking for you, you would still be eating and drinking at the mouth of the magnetic device, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will not look for you in the future?"

This young man was none other than Wei Daren, who had just returned from Xiangjiang.

The fake old man said: "That's not what it means, you make a lot of money, you eat meat, and you have to let the brothers drink some soup." ”

Wei Daren sighed and ordered another five hundred yuan: "Take it, if you gamble again, sooner or later you will be in the Jialing River." ”

As soon as the fake old Taoist money arrived, he smiled, spit and began to count the money, and dealt with it in his mouth: "Brother Pao, never pull the belt, kaleidoscope, you can rest assured, and come to me next time you have business." ”

Wei Daren has dealings with many people of the three religions and nine streams, this Wen Glasses is one of them, he was originally a middle school teacher, a little cultured, and he also likes to dance and write ink, and later he got involved in gambling, his wife was separated, and his job was lost. As long as people are stained with the word gambling and drugs, there is only a thin line away from the degradation of human nature, and the same is true for Wen Glasses. was forced to be helpless, and he also fell into the evil way, often pretending to be a monk and cheating money outside.

Zhang Chen pulled Wei Daren aside: "How is Luo Zhaohui's side, did he use the money?"

Wei Daren smiled: "What else can he take care of now? ”

Now that I think about it, the end of the nineties was really a group of demons dancing wildly, in the year when rumors and secrets were not so popular, cows, ghosts, snakes and gods emerged in an endless stream, even if they were cultured, they were easy to be fooled by some gods.

This topic is forbidden to be discussed.

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