At noon, according to Xu Yan, the two of them invited Chen She to have a meal, and in the afternoon, the three of them returned to the company in a harmonious manner, and it was already more than two o'clock.

The company re-demarcated the office area, and Xu Yan and Wang Youquan were given a few desks and employees dedicated to their projects, according to the combination of old and new.

Xu Yan and Wang Youquan have seen the resume, the old employees are basically in the early days of the company, they are very familiar with the company's routine affairs, and they basically know Xu Yan and Wang Youquan.

The newcomer is not bad, graduated from a famous university, one is a scholar of literature, majoring in linguistics, the other is a science, majoring in computer, a combination of civil and military, perfect combination. The newcomers are still very shy, looking at the two "general" eyes are still a little flustered, obviously, for the upcoming work, there is not much psychological preparation.

What's even more wonderful is that the finance came to convey the latest instructions of Mr. Wu: This time Xu Yan and Wang Youquan's project, the preliminary funds have been in place, and they are all 1.5 million. The money is not much, but it is the largest amount of money that the two of them have come into contact with for the first time. Wu Xiaoqing also explained that if there is any temporary need during the project, he can apply at any time, and the company will definitely not delay the project in terms of funds.

After Xu Yan and Wang Youquan met with their team members, they each brought them into the conference room and started the first meeting of the project.

Xu Yan's speech was carefully prepared by him for a whole day, and Wu Xiaoqing reviewed it to make sure that there were no problems. In order to prevent things from going wrong, the search and rescue team was also allowed to monitor the whole process during the meeting - because of Xu Yan's personal qualities, it was necessary to prevent him from inadvertently leaking secrets.

"Everyone should have heard about the way our company works, as well as the atmosphere," Xu Yan usually speaks quite casually, but now he has begun to be serious, quite like the feeling that he was teaching everyone in the organization, "Meeting...... It's our main job, studying how to hold a meeting, finding people to have a meeting, and what is the most important information to get through the meeting, which is our core work. This requires not only thoughtful preparation, but also imagination. ”

The one assigned to Xu Yan's group, the college student who studied computer science still came to the meeting with a computer, and when Xu Yan spoke, he had already begun to crack and type. This is a common voice in consultation meetings, but it is ...... in internal company meetings. It's still a bit abrupt. The old employee next to him had a smile on his face, Xu Yan paused, frowned, and then said, "Liu Bo, right?" Usually we use voice records to record information in meetings, and there is a special speech-to-text software on the company's official website, so you can directly convert the voice and text. ”

The eyes of the new employee named Liu Bo widened when he heard it - language to text? This company's technical reserves are so good? It's really hidden. It seems that I have come to the right place after graduation.

"Next, we want to talk about a series of consultation meetings that we are going to prepare next, the confidentiality clause, you all know when you enter the company, right?"

Both employees nodded, Qinglan Consulting's confidential training work is the focus of the whole work, all new employees have to receive more than a week of training when they join the company, and they will join the company after passing the exam. During the onboarding process, each time you come into contact with a new project, you have to undergo a separate temporary training, and there is a continuous assessment in the middle.

In short, the core is "not concerned about the customer's purpose, only concerned about how to achieve it".

"Project information, I have sent it to everyone's computer, you take a look at it now, I go out for a cup of coffee, I will be back in 20 minutes, everyone knows that our company meeting has always been brainstorming, after coming back, I hope to hear the lightning in your mind."

Then Xu Yan walked out the door.

Looking back, seeing the serious faces of the two subordinates in the conference room, Xu Yan felt that what he just said was really handsome.

Wang Youquan soon came out of the conference room opposite, his manuscript was still thought of by Xu Yan for him, the content was similar, the two of them glanced at each other, and then went to the bar to drink coffee.

In fact, both of them are not used to drinking this thing, Wang Youquan still makes tea, Xu Yan learns from Wu Xiaoqing, and drinks hot chocolate here, although they don't drink coffee, but the two of them like to call this behavior drinking coffee.

Wu Xiaoqing was also there, looking quite leisurely, chatting with Rao Xin, seeing the two of them coming, Wu Xiaoqing smiled: "How about it, are you still adapting to the new position?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay." It was rare for Xu Yan to see Wu Xiaoqing look so leisurely, especially before so many projects started at the same time.

Wu Xiaoqing seemed to have mind-reading skills, read the meaning of Xu Yan, and laughed: "Now that you share the work for me, I will naturally be idle." Rao Xin, you just said that you are the most idle person in the company, I see, it won't be long before your title will be given to me. ”

"I heard that the company has a new project?" Rao Xin was also a little flustered, "Is there a place to use me?" ”

"The specific affairs depend on them," Wu Xiaoqing pointed to Xu Yan and Wang Youquan, "as long as they want, at any time." ”

"Of course we welcome it." The two of them immediately said that in fact, for this special consultant of the company, they have always planned to invite them to a special meal and ask Rao Xin to give them guidance on their work - because they had also seen Rao Xin guide Wu Xiaoqing before.

"Otherwise, Consultant Rao will follow me and listen to the internal meeting," Xu Yan took the initiative to invite, "At the beginning of the project, I haven't settled down yet." ”

Rao Xin glanced at Wu Xiaoqing, nodded and said, "It's okay, I'm a little embarrassed to be idle here every day." ”

Then he turned his head and talked to Wu Xiaoqing about the topic they just said: "Actually, what you just said is not the same as the current business model. In today's Internet economy, the focus is not on profit and scale, but on business models. A newer, more efficient business model, once validated, will be quickly funded by capital. In fact, different types of civilization should probably be the same reason. If there really are so many advanced civilizations in the universe, maybe they are just like so many large companies on the earth now, the capital and scale they have are not the most critical, they will pay more attention to the model. ”

"You mentioned the classification of patterns, which is an interesting idea...... Let's move on. ”

"This is still what your setting tells me," Rao Xin said, "according to what you said, since there are moral and non-moral civilizations, we only care about these two civilizations, which are two business models, then there will definitely be competition between them, and now the defeat of the moral type must show that the non-moral type itself has merit." This is also good news for us science and engineering men - it shows that in the entire universe, reason is still the first element, more than sensibility, because morality itself is a product of sensibility, and in many cases, it is just an idealism of civilization itself. So I prefer to call this civilization a rational civilization. ”

Wu Xiaoqing's movements of drinking chocolate stopped, and he listened to Rao Xin continue intently.

"If you ask me what is the most perfect model of civilization in my imagination, I can only say that as a scientist, I think that always maintaining the greatest rationality, recognizing the reality of the environment as much as possible, and making the most correct response, is the most critical element for the continuation of a civilization.

The reality here, the first is the objective reality - first of all, we must have the ability to grasp the objective laws to a sufficient degree, at least not like human beings, the earth moves casually, the entire human race will be scared half to death, and a meteorite in the sky must be worried about whether it will be smashed ......

The second reality is based on your setting, the reality of the relationship between the Chinese and Ming societies in this universe. As you say, there are signs of decline in irrational civilization, so be considerably restrained from doing so......"

"I always thought that you writers like to be idealistic, but I didn't expect you to be so conservative. If all civilizations tell you that, then there are no more bizarre plots in science fiction. ”

Rao Xin shook his head: "According to what you said, in fact, our universe is quite bizarre now. If you think about it, if most of the current civilization is what I call a rational civilization, a sufficiently conservative civilization, wouldn't that explain the Fermi paradox? ”

Rao Xin also said: "You just talked about perfect civilization, according to my standard, if a rational civilization is perfect enough, then they will definitely pursue a certain kind of theory, a theory about civilized society, and they will definitely study the laws of civilization itself like they study natural science. Speaking of which, I suddenly had an idea, do you know Confucius? ”

"Can this also have anything to do with Confucius?" I have to say that Wu Xiaoqing feels that the leap of thinking in writing novels is really big.

"Of course. If you think about it, if you think of the relationship between people as the relationship between civilizations, then the entire universe is like a society. The society in which Confucius was born was a world of decaying etiquette...... It can be simply understood that all the rules do not work, there are many thinkers in society, and many aspiring people are pursuing some kind of idealized social model. When you just talked about perfect civilization, isn't this the same as the people of the past, the imaginary perfect people, that is, the saints? We ancients regarded Confucius as a sage, and from another point of view, a perfect civilization would definitely put forward some kind of idealized cosmic social model of its own after understanding and gaining insight into social reality...... A perfect civilization is naturally a civilization of sages. ”