There weren't many topics at the Korn Ferry gathering, and you could talk freely with your colleagues sitting next to you.

In fact, for some new or newly promoted executives of the company, this kind of gathering is a good opportunity to meet and get acquainted with other executives.

Although everyone belongs to the Korn Ferry Group and should support each other, a company's resources are limited, and it is sometimes difficult to say who to give and not to whom.

It's like some recommended positions on Guanghui Weibo, although everyone will give money, but when Guanghui's mobile phone and Guanghui car collide together, who will it give it to?

At this time, it is likely that the leader of Guanghui Mobile and the person in charge of Guanghui Weibo will be familiar with Guanghui Mobile Phone, and vice versa.

Of course, if the group has an arrangement, that is a different matter.

"Mr. Tang, come, I'll toast you."

"Mr. Fang, I'll do it first as respect, you are free."

"Mr. Zhou, let's go one".

……

After Jiang Hui took the lead in drinking the first glass of wine, a chaotic battle soon began below.

Originally, Jiang Hui would definitely be the focus of the siege tonight, but Bai Xue sat next to Jiang Hui, looking at everyone who toasted, plus Jiang Hui really didn't want to be besieged by more than two dozen people, so he didn't drink much.

As a result, the people below had no choice but to kill each other.

In the Celestial Empire, everyone often prefers to contact feelings at the wine table, and the wine table culture has a long history!

The wine table culture of the Celestial Empire is a culture unique to the Celestial Empire.

The history is almost as old as the history of man, and the people of the Celestial Dynasty mastered the art of brewing long before the Chinese characters matured. There are records of wine and drinking culture in many classics, and wine culture has penetrated deep into the blood of the people of the Celestial Empire and has a far-reaching influence.

There are more than 20 references to wine in the Book of Songs, and wine is endowed with ceremonial, social, and leisure meanings, reflecting a specific patriarchal order and human relations.

There are also many classics dedicated to wine, such as the "Wine Message" of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Wine Fu" and "Wine Motto" of the Western Han Dynasty, the "Wine Commandment" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the "Wine Classic" and "Wine Spectrum" of the early Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that wine has long been an important element of the culture of the Celestial Empire.

As old as the wine table culture of the Celestial Empire is the culture of persuasion.

In ancient times, catering in the Celestial Empire played an extremely important social function, so it was delayed for a long time.

Banquets in the Tang Dynasty generally started in the morning and lasted until dusk, which lasted no less than seven or eight hours.

During the Qing Dynasty, many banquets paid for by the public even lasted for three to five days, which were both social and political activities. Throughout the feasting and drinking activities, in addition to silk and bamboo singing and dancing, it is wine.

In the early days of the Celestial Empire, the culture of drinking originated from various banquets that lasted for a long time. After eating a meal for so long, the topic will inevitably dry up, and it will be boring to drink dry, so all kinds of drinking techniques have been invented.

Strictly speaking, the persuasion of wine originates from toasting, and toasting is an old custom left over from patriarchal society.

Toasting is divided into social hierarchies, such as the courtier respecting the king, the son respecting the father, the younger brother respecting the brother, the subordinate respecting the superior, and the younger generation respecting the elders. The toast is first and foremost a bottom-to-top interaction and is relatively non-compulsory.

However, the interaction between the top and the bottom can be called a return respect, or it can be an active respect, which is extremely compulsory.

Most of the earliest persuasions came from top-to-bottom toasts. Especially from home to country, this kind of ethics slowly becomes a political coercive force.

In the history of the Celestial Empire, there have been countless cases of coercive drinking in political contexts, some of which are interesting, but there are also many cases that are extremely cruel and creepy.

The executives of the Guanghui Group drank alcohol, and they were no different from others, and all kinds of persuasions came out.

The most classic is that Fang Dawen, who graduated from the Department of Chinese at Kyoto University, actually used Tang poetry and Song words in the words of persuasion.

Such as: "The white emperor of the court, between the clouds, half a catty, eight or two, etc."

"The sunrise river flowers are red, and the gentleman must drink the wine."

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground, raise a glass to the door, drink a double."

"I don't know when I sleep in spring, I smell birds everywhere, raise my glass and ask Miss, how much should I drink"?

"When I left home and went back, I asked my brother to accompany me for this cup."

"Wine is drunk by confidants, and poems are sung to nobles".

……

Fang Dawen's rhetoric made everyone stunned. I'm not afraid of how terrible the hooligans are, I'm afraid that the hooligans are educated.

When you get to the table, you are not drinking the wine voluntarily, but someone else is forcing you to drink it. This one comes to toast, one looks like the leader, and the other comes to toast to see what it is. It's hard to say no.

It's not that you can't refuse, it's that it can hurt people's feelings, so you end up having a hard time making a decision.

In this way, the atmosphere of the wine table is very bad, and it creates a feeling of involuntariness. If you don't persuade you to drink or drink, you are ignorant, and no one wants to be seen as this kind of person?

Otherwise, how will you mix in the group in the future?

Europeans and Americans drink wine to taste wine until it is in moderation, while people in the Celestial Empire drink wine with pride in many, and drink to death.

However, this kind of atmosphere will slowly improve in a few years.

In particular, after the criminalization of drunk driving, a very good effect has been achieved at once.

"I don't usually see that these people are so able to drink", looking at the scuffle, Bai Xue said with emotion.

"Hehe, people are floating in the rivers and lakes, how can they not be stabbed", Jiang Hui said with a smile.

Although Bai Xue didn't let everyone besiege Jiang Hui, it was indispensable for everyone to come over and have a drink with Jiang Hui, so in fact, Jiang Hui also drank a lot.

"It's a bit messy, but it seems that this kind of dinner party can really make everyone more familiar," Bai Xue said.

"That is, the wine table culture left by the ancestors must have its own reason for existence," Jiang Hui said.

"Well, it is said that the people of the Celestial Empire like to talk about things at the wine table, and when they drink, things are negotiated, which seems to be very reasonable," Bai Xue said.

In a certain sense, drinking is a means and symbol to shorten the interpersonal distance, and a means to eliminate the interpersonal distance, which gives people an "acceptable" reason to relax their rational constraints, confide in their true inner thoughts, and create an atmosphere in which everyone is "their own people".

In such an atmosphere, as long as it does not involve issues of principle, it is generally easier to relax.

This is something that countless experiences have proven!

The dinner party of the executives of the Korn Ferry Group started at six o'clock and lasted until more than ten o'clock in the evening, and even the dishes were served three times, not to mention the wine.

White, red, beer, and so on, basically everyone drinks it.

By the time it was over, many people were a little high, of course, whether they were really high or pretending to be high.

That's hard to say!

In any case, the purpose of this dinner has been achieved, and everyone's relationship is obviously more familiar.

As for further deepening, it will be left to each of them in private.

(End of chapter)