Chapter 351 Li Yan's Interview

"Is your father the CEO of Yili Group?"

Wei Yunzhi really didn't expect Li Yan to ask this question.

She swallowed back the words she was about to say to praise Li Yan.

She actually didn't want Li Yan to know about this, but she didn't want to hide it or lie deliberately.

I thought that people normally wouldn't care too much about what their friends' parents do, so I picked out some real situations and expressed them in a one-sided way to fool people.

For example, he had previously expressed a little bit of resentment towards Wei Yili for being away from home all year round and neglecting his family.

This is true. Yili Group has recently expanded its business across the country. As the CEO, he has to travel around a lot and has indeed neglected to take care of his family.

He couldn't even care too much about Wei Yun's high school entrance exam - of course, the main reason was that in the eyes of Wei Yili and Ouyang Wantang, getting into a New Taipei City High School was as easy as drinking water, and there was no pressure at all.

Even if she really failed the exam, Wei Yili had a million ways to get her admitted.

They never had high expectations for Wei Yunzhi. As long as she didn't go astray in the general direction, their daughter didn't have to be outstanding.

"Yes, it's him."

Li Yan didn't think about getting entangled in anything. The two of them were just walking along the path in the park and chatting for a while.

"I wonder if I'll have a chance to meet your father," he said.

The girl's face turned red and her ears became hot. Her voice changed a little. "Why...why are you talking about this?"

"I don't have much experience in managing a company, and the point is that I'm too lazy to deal with all those details."

It turns out this is it...

"Want to learn from my father?"

"Well, if he gets the chance, he must have a deep understanding to be able to take charge of such a large group."

"...Oh, when he comes back, I'll take you directly to his office."

Even a fool could hear Wei Yunzhi's disappointment, "What's the matter?"

"No, no, I just thought you were talking about meeting your parents or something..."

Wei Yunzhi really would not lie in front of Li Yan.

"Didn't you say we can't fall in love?"

"My mother said it."

Li Yan just smiled. Even if they were in love now, if they really wanted to talk about it, that would be a matter for the future. There was no point in talking about this topic any more.

"Can we go directly to his office?"

"Why not? He has already instructed you to invest 30 million. Even if you don't have this relationship with me, you can still... No, you should meet him."

If it weren’t for this relationship with you...it’s hard to say whether your father would be willing to give you 30 million.

"But Li Yan," Wei Yunzhi's expression finally cooled down, "You said you didn't want to deal with the details... then don't deal with them. Why force yourself to do it?"

"I have thought about handing it over to someone with experience in company management," Li Yan sighed, "but I'm not sure how I can guarantee my absolute say in the company if I do that."

"Absolute...right to speak?" Wei Yunzhi wondered.

"Well, only by holding power firmly in my hands can the 'company' or 'team' be truly used by me, become my right-hand man, help me accomplish things, and avoid becoming a profit-driven money-making machine."

"You mean you don't want to make money?"

"That's impossible. Money and power are attractive in themselves. I have no resistance to them. But I have higher aspirations above these."

"What?"

"Money and power alone will not allow history and the world to remember you."

"Like my dad?"

“…I didn’t mean that at all.”

The two of them suddenly laughed out loud.

"You are very free, Yan." Wei Yunzhi put his hands behind his back and jumped left and right on the stone pavement of the small park. Beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead and stuck to some hair.

"Because we are taking a walk outside the school now?"

After the meeting, the others had to go back to class, and a group of people watched Li Yan and Wei Yunzhi leave the school gate while laughing and chatting. One was officially on vacation after the high school entrance examination, and the other did not need to take the high school entrance examination and could leave at any time.

In the eyes of classmates, it is indeed free.

"No, it's about your freedom to choose your life."

"Do you think you have it?" Li Yan asked.

"I have a good life, but not enough freedom." Wei Yunzhi pondered, "It's essentially because of my 'ability' that I can only enjoy the given 'good life', but I can't live the life I want."

Li Yan did not comment.

"Of course," the girl smiled, "I am definitely luckier than most people. At least I can choose to live a 'good' or 'bad' life, but there are many people in this world who cannot choose to 'live a good' life."

“The proposition of ‘living the life you want’ is mostly just ‘how to reconcile with yourself’.”

Wei Yunzhi didn't understand, so she didn't continue the topic.

After watching the small park for a while, he asked, "Yan, what are you going to do this summer vacation?"

"Interview, seize the good opportunity before school starts, and officially start the system development work."

"What about meeting my father..."

"After school starts." Li Yan thought for a moment, "Then I can visit you in the name of your classmate, which will be more legitimate."

"The title of good friends has become more legitimate."

Li Yan just smiled.

Girl, if you think so, I'm afraid your father doesn't think so...

Li Yan's interview was very special because the office of "Future Technology" - the company with the same name actually changed its name, and I heard it was voluntary - had not been renovated yet. Although Li Yan had a large number of resumes in his hands, he did not choose to organize a centralized interview.

Moreover, since a lot of content still requires cooperation from other companies, he has no intention of expanding the current company's scale rapidly.

After all, startups must first take the small and fine route. Everyone is a backbone and has dreams and passion.

This is very different from using tangible benefits to attract parts to run the company after the business is rolled out and the products are launched.

Besides, most of the resumes are not attractive to Li Yan.

So Li Yan chose to go to where others were for the "interview", although in Huang Zhan's eyes, this behavior should be called "recruiting".

However, Li Yan said that even if she traveled thousands of miles, she would not accept the person if he did not perform well.

So he insisted that he was doing the interview.

Li Yan’s first target was Sun Miao, the deputy of the then Chief Engineer of Win Corporation’s Greater China South China Branch.

Sun Miao is only 32 years old. He graduated with a master's degree from Huazhong University and worked in the South China branch of Win for five years. With his excellent technical level, he soon became the deputy chief engineer and is considered an expert in system development. The key is that this talent himself has many resources for Win company's system development and can provide a lot of valuable experience.

With Li Yan's current network of contacts, it is not easy for her to get to know people like Sun Miao. Their views on Li Yan's press conference are very different from those of the general public.

Because they already have sufficient industry status and strong technical skills, they can see how brilliant Li Yan's product thinking is, and they also know clearly how many technical difficulties there are in Li Yan's mobile phone.

They see Li Yan more as a potential rival who poses a threat, rather than as some newly graduated college student from a prestigious university, the person in charge of a small project, a researcher who studies the quick-fix of smartphone routines, etc., and they look at Li Yan with an exaggerated filter.

This is also why Li Yan was very dissatisfied with the resume in hand.

He could only get to know these industry leaders through recommendations from his personal connections.

For example, Sun Miao was introduced to Huang Zhan through him.

The process was a bit tortuous. Among those recommended by Huang Zhan, there was an engineer from the South China Division of the Greater China Region of Gugou Company. After all, this was the company that came up with the Robert System, so Li Yan was still very interested in this engineer.

As a result, he said that his main work had nothing to do with smartphones, and introduced Li Yan to go directly to Beijing to find the president of Gu Gou Da Hua Xia region.

The president's surname is Li, and his name is Kaifu. He happens to be a person who is very keen on entrepreneurship incubation. He knows the existence of Li Yan and is very happy about Li Yan's call. Then he introduces him to Vice President Lin of GuGou HuaXia Engineering Research Institute.

As a result, Li Yan found out after communicating that Vice President Lin had already reached a cooperation with Lao Lei and was also engaged in the mobile phone business. However, he actually explained the situation directly to Li Yan, which was a bit unbearable.

Li Yan himself did not expect that Lao Lei's faith was shattered by his press conference, and he was about to die before achieving his goal.

Vice President Lin recommended his good friend, the deputy chief engineer of another American technology giant Win in China, to Li Yan.

When Li Yan called, the other party asked, "Who are you?"
When things got to this point, Li Yan became a little angry.

Are you guys making fun of me?

But if you think about it calmly, these people have both strength and status, and it is good enough that they are willing to act as introducers.

Li Yan is indeed particularly outstanding because of her status as a junior high school student - now she should actually be considered a high school student.

But if you really compare him within the industry, he is just a newcomer with government support and more than 30 million in investment.

The company's current total assets of more than 30 million are not attractive in the eyes of these people.

So Li Yan adjusted his mindset, communicated patiently with the deputy chief engineer, and finally got Sun Miao's contact information.

Li Yan directly gave up Sun Miao's immediate boss. All he needed was technical support to implement his own ideas, not a manager.

Sun Miao worked in Xin'an City, so Li Yan went there alone.

And made an appointment with him at a restaurant with a private room.

Sun Miao is a little chubby, wears a polo shirt and glasses, and fits the typical IT guy stereotype very well.

When you first meet, greetings are inevitable, and so are compliments to each other.

Li Yan once again suffered the three attacks of "I've heard of you", "You're too young", and "How come you don't look like a minor". She was already familiar with this and just laughed it off.

Soon the topic turned to Li Yan's press conference. Sun Miao raised several difficulties in implementing the effects. He wanted to put some pressure on Li Yan, but unexpectedly, Li Yan's expression became much more relaxed.

At least it can be seen that Sun Miao is indeed a technology fanatic, he is not wrong.

"I came here today to get to know Brother Miao first," Li Yan said, "Let's talk freely and chat while eating."

"It's my honor to have the opportunity to communicate with you." Sun Miao nodded.

The two also discussed the development of smartphones.

Five minutes later, he was nervous and excited at the same time.

The ability Li Yan demonstrated at the dinner table was much more terrifying than when he answered questions at a press conference.

What shocked Sun Miao the most was Li Yan’s “systematic cognition”.

He was developing smartphones, but his eyes were on much more than just smartphones. His thoughts in many directions supported each other, which shocked Sun Miao.

Twenty minutes later, Sun Miao was sweating profusely.

Because he found that he could not keep up with Li Yan's output. This young man had an extremely amazing reserve of knowledge, and he didn't have to think at all when chatting. He gave examples and applied theories as soon as they were asked.

Still all-round.

During this time, Sun Miao thought about competing with him on some specific technical problems and using this thing to prove his own value.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan asked the question herself before he even asked.

When the words "Mr. Sun, do you have any ideas?" appeared, Sun Miao suddenly realized...

It seems like he was interviewed today.

Forty minutes later, Sun Miao was convinced.

He thought that his thinking speed was already very fast, but every time he came up with a possible idea, Li Yan would immediately point out the difficulties that might arise in this idea, forcing him to start a new round of thinking immediately.

However, he was never faster than Li Yan, and his answers always came immediately after Li Yan's questions.

Even later on, he himself was not sure whether a certain approach was feasible - inputting on the computer and directly simulating in the brain are two completely different levels of difficulty, and the difficulty of simulation in the brain will increase exponentially with the increase of branch lines of thought.

Then Li Yan clapped her hands and said, "This approach is indeed feasible, but the operating efficiency is a bit low."

Sun Miao was completely confused. Li Yan's recent wave of mental pressure made him so nervous that he broke out in a sweat in the air-conditioned room.

Of course, his performance was actually very impressive. Judging from the ideas he proposed, Sun Miao's experience in system development was worthy of Li Yan giving him a good opportunity.

"Brother Miao, do you know that Future Technology is developing the Hetu system? Do you have any support at present?"

"know."

"That's fine," Li Yan raised his teacup, "The members of the Qingxinao Gold Medal Team are my employees number two to five. Are you interested in being number six?"

"This one……"

"I can give you a higher salary than you have now, or you can choose to talk to me about shares."

Sun Miao scratched his head. "That's not the question. Li Yan, I want to ask you, why did you choose me? I am just one of the several assistants of the chief engineer."

"I only need skills, not status." Li Yan said seriously, "And the assistant is usually the one who does the work. I need your skills and experience, but I don't need your chief engineer to control the general direction."

Sun Miao raised his eyebrows.

"Because I'm the one at the helm, one is enough." Li Yan clinked his teacup with Sun Miao's.

"What do you think is the biggest attraction of your company to me?"

Li Yan suddenly laughed, "Engineer Sun, where the attraction lies is your business, not something I want to answer you about. There are many people who want to use their superb skills in more worthy places."

"I also want that, and it would be much better to get something in return for the value I create than to get a fixed salary... But I need some time to think about it."

"I understand," Li Yan nodded. "It's a question of ideals and bread."

"I want to ask you a few more questions."

Li Yan nodded again.

"You really went from having never touched programming to winning first place in the Youth Information Olympiad in just one year?"

"No."

Sun Miao seemed relieved, yet also a little disappointed.

"It was less than a year. I started learning about computer programming after I entered junior high school, and the national competition was held during the summer vacation of the second semester of junior high school."

...It seems to be just like the legend, this Li Yan really loves to show off.

"Regarding the development of mobile phones, I saw some comments online..."

Li Yan directly took out two Jiaolong concept phone samples from her bag and handed them to Sun Miao.

One of them was the semi-finished product that amazed everyone at the press conference, and the other was a draft before Li Yan took over the retreat.

"From this to this," Sun Miao asked, waving his phone, "I heard you only used it for a month?"

"No."

Sun Miao didn't dare to be disappointed in advance this time.

"I only used it for a month." Li Yan said with a smile.

Sun Miao adapted to Li Yan's pretentious style very quickly.

But it was obvious that he hadn't gotten used to the pretentious stories themselves.

"But if that's the case, then the online claims that you were in charge of the animation videos and PPTs must be fake, right?"

"That's definitely not true."

Sun Miao still didn't dare to react.

"It's not me who leads it, it's what I do."

Sun Miao understood that this company’s strongest attraction, biggest bargaining chip, and most powerful advantage was——

It’s Li Yan herself.

(End of this chapter)