Chapter 52: The Edge

When I first arrived in Nanchang, I almost devoted myself to the training of the team, and I also went to Yichun with Zhu Ansheng. In order to achieve better results in the conference, I even worked tirelessly for two days and two nights to make a history of system development. In the end, I am still old, and I think that I can only sleep eight hours in six days when I am traveling, and I can't help but sigh that the years are urging people. Without the energy of my exuberance, it is difficult to "have a little red in the greenery", and this world has never been casually successful. I remember that there is a law of conservation of kinetic energy in junior high school physics, that is, no matter what, no effort is saved, and the same is true of Meilu, it is not a shortcut to life as newcomers imagine.

With me sitting in the center, Zhu Ansheng can finally leave Nanchang behind and better run his other markets in Jiangxi. At one time, the Nanchang Center held eight regular meetings every month, and I had to talk about six of them. Zhu Ansheng's team here is basically mainly college students, and there are 180 people at each regular meeting, and there are very few serious adults. Seeing them full of hope for the future, my heart felt sad. During the days when I was in charge of the center, compared with the classic courses of Meilu such as OPP, "Long-term Value" and "Million Maps", I talked more about "101 Ways to Die for Meilu People", "Survival and Life of Meilu People", "Necessary Conditions for Successful People", "Personality Analysis", "Emotional Intelligence", "From Good to Excellent", "Leadership Building", "Personality Charm" and other courses that are conducive to enlightening students' minds and their growth. Success is still far from them. From the Qianhu campus of NTU to the city center, students have to ride for more than an hour after class, while students from Agricultural University and Normal University are even farther away, and in order to succeed as soon as possible and make their dreams come true, they come and go in the wind and rain every day. There were several girls who didn't have a car back after class, so they simply laid a bunk in the house I rented. For the sake of their dreams, they are willing to give anything.

As always, Zhu Ansheng preached to the students how long he bought a car and how long he bought a house, and his favorite lecture was "give and return". But only I know that the down payment for his car and house comes from his wife's deposit, and Meilu's income is used to repay the loan at most. In order to renovate their new home in Honggutan, his wife borrowed money everywhere, and by the time I left Meilu at the end of September 2008, they still had at least 220,000 yuan in foreign debts to pay off. And all this students are unaware, they continue to believe in their teacher Zhu, and believe that all this comes from the rich feedback of Meilu. In September last year, Zhu Ansheng changed to a BMW 5 Series long-axle version, all of which cost at least more than 600,000 yuan. Of course, for Zhu Ansheng, who is proficient in organizing meetings, the gray income of the meeting cannot be easily revealed, but for an old Meilu like me, it can be calculated. In any case, the new BMW is a powerful shot in the arm for the department in the midst of a storm, and the investment is worth it. Conferences, cars, houses, and even overseas travel are all ways for leaders to build influence, and it's no wonder that they are desperately borrowing, hoarding, or even discounting for awards and travel. In Meilu, losing influence means losing everything! If you want to practice this skill, swing a knife from the palace. First castrate your own thoughts, then castrate your conscience, and finally add more than ten years of crazy hard work, you are probably not far from the so-called success.

Compared with the 1998 direct pyramid scheme, which was dominated by laid-off workers, today's Meilu college students have almost gradually become the mainstream, and the group of white-collar workers and bosses from 2000 to 2004 has long been wiped out, which cannot but be said to be the sadness of Meilu. Back then, Li Lin, the overlord of Hainan's IT industry, spent millions to start the Meilu, and in eight months, the bosses of the company were all BMW deliveries. Now, he has long degenerated into a DD, and he can only relive his glory on stage again and again.

Nanchang Center was originally a platform for the leaders of the three households to work together, and one of the other two leaders was the jade of the depth of Zhouzhuan in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and one person came to Jiangxi to expand; And the other is the depth of Hainan Lu Zuan's DD, gave up the house and car in Hainan, and the husband and wife both returned to their hometown full-time to take root and operate, after more than a year of tossing, they basically became the commander of the light pole, and the whole center was slowly occupied by Zhu Ansheng's students.

In Yingtan, we also have a family surnamed Yu in the system of side department diamonds, she also has a market in Nanchang, but this person's character is very poor, just because it is Mr. Chen's small department, so it is very favored. In the United States, because of the abundance of talents and generals, the high-level people generally don't worry too much, but the small department is different, and the small department means instability, even if it is a diamond. I remember that once in Mr. Chen's room at the Royal Hotel in Nanchang, Mr. Chen was instigating Yu Zuan's husband to go out of the mountain, when Miss Zhou said something to compliment him, Yu Zuan's husband was lying on the sofa opposite Miss Zhou, the villain was undoubted, and Yu Zuan was standing aside with a flattering face, hehe, that scene...... So it's not very cooperative.

1,000 yuan allowed me to hold on full-time in Nanchang for more than a month, and soon I ran out of food, and what is worse is that I can't get to know strangers in the center every day. It just so happened that at the beginning of April, Mr. Lu, the ambassador of the crown, was invited by the company to give a lecture in Changchang, and I had the honor to listen to his lecture on "how to be strange", during which he advocated: 50 meters away from the store, constantly ask passers-by, "Do you know how to go to the company"? If the other party answers that he doesn't know, then you can ask, "Oh, you don't even know about Meilu...... and then open the Meilu chatterbox. If the other party knows, then it is just right to get off the donkey. The founder of the dignified Tianyi system is so unfamiliar, I really don't know how many times he has done this on the side of the road? No wonder there are so many people who dislike Meilu nowadays, and I am sweating when I hear it.

In order to reach out to as many people as possible, and for the sake of life, I began to apply for contracts as a lecturer at consulting firms. Nanchang is a declining city, although it is a provincial capital, but in fact it is only a third-tier city in China, and the training market is naturally very limited. More often than not, I give lecture tours to college students on major campuses, 300 yuan for large classes, 150 yuan for small classes, and 1,000 yuan per session for one of the few business management trainings.

Soon after I started working as a part-time lecturer, Zhu Ansheng strongly suggested that I also take the opportunity to recommend some college students to come in, and I hesitated for a long time. Zhu Ansheng is very smart, he knows that if I don't have my own front row in Nanchang, it will be difficult to make up my mind to stick to the city, and my efforts will not last long. In order to strengthen his strength as much as possible, Zhu Ansheng also tried his best to attract several Shanghai side departments to come here to open up the market, but unfortunately in the end they all ended in vain, and I became the object of Zhu Ansheng's efforts again.

I quickly got into the front row of college students, and in order to ensure the success rate in the future, I selected three students with the strongest desire to succeed from the large number of fans who have given lectures in the past. They are not encouraged to sell, nor are they recommended to recommend, and they are not allowed to participate in foreign conferences, and each person is only 500 yuan for their own use. I just reiterated the need to stick to the central learning, and only wait for a few years to become the backbone of my team when they can support themselves and face the society. I once asked Zhu Ansheng if the hundreds of students in his team had never considered how they could succeed. In this regard, Zhu Ansheng's answer was: "You still care about him so much, isn't it good to have a turnover every month?" His words made me think deeply. Watching him induce a recent college graduate to take all the 20,000 yuan he borrowed from his home to buy the best gold pot, my heart was heavy. Although the best golden pot is good, it also depends on whether there is such a consumer group and market around this person. But for Zhu Ansheng, the huge expenses required to repay loans, repay debts, follow meetings, center, self-use and run the market every month are the big tigers behind his ass, and he only needs turnover.

In order to build his own influence, Zhu Ansheng has been calling for diamonds since he was on DD in 2003. By the end of 2004, he had advertised to the department that he was already a pearl, but so far he is still a DD. Over the years, he has indeed cultivated three DDs, one gold medal and five silver medals, but unfortunately some of these leaders are in the front row, some are deep, and many of them are not in the same year, let alone the same month. So far, only one of these leaders has survived, three have been silver, and two of them are college students, so it is no wonder that Mr. Zhu is in a hurry to buy a BMW. Before I left, the partners in Nanchang had already begun to praise Zhu Ansheng as a jade at the meeting. There was so much chaos, and I had no choice but to remain silent.

In order to get more opportunities to give lectures, I kept searching the newspapers for advertisements for lecturers throughout April. As a trainer, it is indeed the best choice to stick to Meilu after the lecture. That month, I got a total of two jobs, one was to work as a full-time trainer in a securities company with a monthly salary of 6000~8000 yuan, and the other was an investment company that was about to open. Mr. Xue, the chairman of this investment company, once came across a Guangdong diamond on a plane, and since then he has admired the eloquence of Meilu people, and he directly pointed out in the advertisement that Meilu or insurance people are preferred.

I left a good impression on Mr. Xue when I met him for the first time, he was the general agent of a well-known water heater in Jiangxi Province, and recently partnered with a friend in Fujian to start this investment company mainly engaged in gold and futures, and is recruiting a large number of people. After an afternoon of sitting in the Calomby café behind Hengmao Plaza, he said to me after some in-depth communication: "Don't be a trainer, come and be the general manager for me." "The second time we met, I gave him a full set of Meilu SPA with product demonstration, OPP, Vision Value and Million Map, and after the talk, we reached an agreement: he worked with me for Meilu, and I helped him take care of the company. The monthly salary of being the general manager of an investment company is nearly 5,000 yuan, which is much less than that of being a lecturer in a securities company, but it is still worth trying to bring a wealthy chairman under his command. Mr. Xue and I became very good friends, and from then on, I began a seven-month executive career in the company, which had to be restructured due to internal disputes within the board of directors.

In the process of preparing for the establishment of the company, I was fortunate to get to know the national conference director of the excellent system, a senior diamond medallion who joined Meilu in 1995. Zhang Zuan is the brother-in-law of Mr. Luo, the second shareholder of the company, and was hired as a special consultant of the company and made a special trip from Xiamen - the two senior executives of Meilu met in the traditional business field of non-Meilu. During the casual conversation, I learned that there were two crown ambassadors in his deep market, and there were several diamonds that died young due to overwork, and we were not very emotional about this. And the Yichun market has repeatedly grabbed people from our team Director Ding is also subordinate to the depth of his market, to me across the mountain like a bull complaint, he said with a smile, he does not ask the market retired for a long time, at present mainly to traditional business, but involved in the United States for a long time, and now also has the system of the conference director, from time to time for the big leaders to run errands, if his market in the future to grab the line behavior, can directly call him to solve the problem. We chatted about Miro all night, and listened to him talk about many old stories that no one knew.

Through the platform of the investment company, I further contacted more middle and upper class contacts in society, and in less than two months, I recommended several front rows in a row: the chairman of the company, the HR director of another investment company, and the female boss of an advertising company. Almost all the employees in the company have given face cards, and one of them is quite positive, before leaving Meilu, she became my girlfriend, which is the later circle of mothers.

With a high-quality front row, the next learning problems are quite a headache for me. The center is full of poor college students who come in and out all day long, and the few who have jobs are all young people, how dare I let my front row come to the center for a meeting! Isn't that poisoning yourself? Maybe "die" faster! As a last resort, the company's monthly marketing meeting has become the main place for me to follow up on the front row. However, the company's meeting was obviously not very incendiary, and I was busy with the daily operation of the investment company all day long, and I was constantly reflecting on and summarizing the lessons of Meilu, so the front-row start was put aside for the time being. When I didn't know where I was going to take the team, I might as well let them spend a few thousand dollars each and follow the local meeting.

For a long time that year, Chen Drill and Lin Drill ran very frequently in the national market. Since April, Lin Zuan is in Tianjin, while Chen Zuan is in Yichun and Nanchang; In May, Chen Zuan Tianjin, while Lin Zuan was in Yichun and Nanchang; In June, it was the other way around. Almost every month, there is always a beginner diamond who sits in a major market to give a lecture, and I realized that not only Yahan, but also Chen Diamond and Lin Diamond are in trouble in other markets across the country. I remember that just a few years ago, they only came to Tianjin once a year, and we were all like looking forward to the stars and the moon, but now they come uninvited, not only to come, but also to come every month.

When Lin Zuan came to Nanchang in May, she communicated with me after the conference, and for more than two hours, she repeatedly focused on two points: (1) When will I go back to Tianjin to marry Yahan? (2) Lock in the goal and go all out! From her vague description, I learned that she went to Tianjin last month to open the road to success, and Tianjin, Beijing, and Dagang together only came to more than 30 people, less than one-tenth of 2004, and 18 of them were newcomers, all of whom were employees of the company brought by a boss who Wu Hao had asked to come to study. If this trend continues, it will be difficult for Yahan to recover diamonds for three years! Lin Zuan kept emphasizing the significance of my return to Tianjin to assist Yahan, but my heart became colder and colder, and they suddenly discovered: As a tool, I am useful again! The big team can't live without me again! But she didn't say a word about my emotional entanglement with Yahan, and she didn't care about my long-standing confusion. After a hurried farewell to Chen Zuan in Guangzhou, I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach whenever I heard the words "lock the goal and go all out". Since then, I have drifted away from the leaders who started with me.

In June, Chen Zuan came to Nanchang again, and I directed the Yazi show for the last time in the conference, and also gave a big lecture for the last time, farewell to the front row of the participants, I flew away, I didn't want to meet Chen Zuan, let alone eat and communicate with him. When a person was eating dandan noodles at a roadside stall, Chen Zuan and Zhu Ansheng called one after another, and I said that there was something to refuse. Chen Zuan later said to others at the dinner table: "This kid is angry with me and doesn't want to see me." "Yes, I was completely dead to the so-called start-up at that time, I was just a tool in their hands to maintain the team and maintain the market, and the veil of warmth and affection was always only for better control. Meilu and all direct pyramid schemes are just a game of playing the rich and the poor crazy, imparting knowledge, improving ability, showing dreams, and a warm atmosphere...... Everything is for better control, until you willingly give everything you have and burn it......

For the first time, I started to feel burned out of this business, and I started to have a strong desire to find a girlfriend. July 12, 2008 was the day I made a relationship with my girlfriend Circle Mom, who was also the last front row I recommended in Meilu, a Meilu person who had never been a Meilu. I sent her to the Foshan Congress, but I didn't say a word about her start-up, because I was getting deeper and deeper into contemplation, and I longed for a direction, a direction in which I could lead myself and the department that followed me to the light.

With the expectation of happiness, buying a house soon became a lingering heart disease for me. I have long been tired after half a life of wandering, and I long for a peaceful harbor where this sailing ship that has gone through all the vicissitudes of life can dock quietly. When you are alone, you have nothing to worry about, you can eat when you have food, and you can sleep when you have a bed, but when you have to face responsibility, you suddenly find that you have nothing but a dream of working hard for seven years. In the midst of the difficulties, my father remitted me 30,000 yuan, which is all my father's savings in the past few years! Fatherly love is great, and the leader of Meilu is far behind! They will be full of love when you are most valuable, but they will abandon you when you are useless.

The housing prices in Nanchang are not high, and the real estate in the Xianghu plot is only more than 3,000 yuan. I fell in love with a small house of 55 square meters with a down payment of 46,000 yuan, which I used as an excuse to help me refer to her before chasing my mother, and she liked it very much. I called Yahan and asked her to lend me 20,000 yuan, but Yahan politely refused. A few days later, I was reluctant to call Yahan again, and I never gave up until I had to—she finally gritted her teeth and agreed. Before the remittance, she told me that Lin Chao had supported 20,000 yuan before going abroad, and Zhang Wei had also supported 20,000 yuan when she was in difficulty. This choked on my heart, am I just an old friend of the team? I still have the cheekiness to ask for this food, I love my mother, and I always try my best to give her a better future, which is a responsibility that a man cannot shirk.

On August 12, 2008, I did the last 3S job in seven years. In the high-rollers of Bayi Square, the best sisters of the girlfriend circle and the mother gathered together, and for a whole afternoon, I talked about nutrition and Beixijian in simple terms, and they were all distracted, but in the end they still went to buy a low discount. I was frustrated, customers are the most realistic, even if it can be cheaper, they will never give face to their best friend. I understand them, but I hate them. Jiangxi is one of the markets that I have been frequenting for so many years, and there has never been a low discount before, and suddenly I found that with the company's efforts to crack down on low discounts, the wind of low discounts is increasingly spreading throughout the country. I have been struggling with low-discount for nearly six years since October 2002, when the Chinese market began to have a large-scale bargain, and this sale finally became the straw that broke the camel's back, and I was soberly aware that I had to stop and think about it systematically. In the past, I was always too busy, busy with sales, busy with recommendations, busy with service, busy with training, busy with marketing, busy rushing from one place to another, so busy that sleeping and watching TV have become a kind of fascination...... But I never have time to calm down and systematically organize myself.

If you go the wrong way, it's useless to run! In fact, sometimes people will fall, take this opportunity to stop, look back, look at the road they have walked, do not need to rush to bury your head forward, maybe after thinking about it, you will find that the things in front may not be important at all, in fact, we already have ......