Chapter 355 The Boss is Starting School
For a boss, is it a good thing to have a group of employees with explosive energy and many ideas?
It definitely counts.

Because there is no need to worry about their subjective initiative, there is no need to use any reward and punishment mechanism or company system to get everyone moving.

But the problem lies precisely in subjective initiative.

So damn movable.

They just can't stop talking once they open their mouths. This is not the case of a teacher guiding students, nor is it the period of building a project from scratch. The more ideas, the better.

Li Yan has already determined the research and development direction of the Hetu system, and even figured out how to make the mobile phone itself.

The purpose of recruiting these people is not to let them use their imagination to create a finished product on their own!

If everyone doesn't work together, it's easy to end up working for a long time without making any progress.

The problem is not just this. Li Yan discovered that these newly recruited people, unlike Chen Fan and others, did not already have a bond with Li Yan, and because of the competition, they had enough respect and conviction for Li Yan, so their ideas were very complicated.

The more well-behaved ones are the forces from Xin'an, headed by employee No. 06 Shang Jie, plus the guys from No. 12 to 15 who are engaged in technical research. They also have a lot of exchanges with Deng Yudi and Chen Fan, and they seem to be the employees with the best degree of integration at present.

There's nothing wrong with calling it the Xin'an Gang.

Sun Miao was quite impressed by Li Yan - he admired the part about his genius, but after all, as a person who came from a foreign technology giant, he had some complaints about the management of start-up companies.

In the final analysis, he was just not used to the local environment and was a bit pretentious. He felt that his level was outstanding among this group of people, and the only ones qualified to compete with him were Zhou Yang and Li Guangde who did not come to the scene.

He couldn't understand why the kids No. 2 to 5 got the same status, and he didn't quite accept that Shang Jie became No. 06 just because he agreed earlier.

And the most important thing is that Cao Haibin, who is noisy and bragging every day, is not at all to his taste.

It’s okay to feel nauseous.

There were only seven new employees. They couldn't stand Cao Haibin, looked down on the founding employees, and were unwilling to join the Xin'an Gang. He was suddenly left alone.

So I would look for Li Yan whenever I had something to do. If I had an idea, I would call her. If I had an idea, I would knock on her office.

This made Li Yan very annoyed.

Comrade Cao Haibin has completely become a troublemaker.

That can't be said. He is a stick, so what he stirs is...

Brother Cao has a loud voice and loves to talk about his experiences. He walks around the laboratory every day like the leader, and is particularly keen on telling stories to Chen Fan and the other three.

His catchphrases are "This definitely won't work" and "If you don't listen to me, you'll be in trouble" and so on.

Shang Jie was so angry that he always came to tell Li Yan about the gossip.

What the hell are these planes?

You are the elites in this industry and field! If you leave the big companies and platforms, you will be high-level talents who can stand on your own!

Why are they acting even more childish than a bunch of prospective high school and college students?

This really shattered Li Yan's view of high-level talents, and she even couldn't help but sigh that the world is a huge makeshift team.

Li Yan hasn't experienced such irritable mood swings for a long time. Thank you all the geniuses.

Seeing that it was not long before the school started, he couldn't even give a decent progress to the three little geniuses who went to study at Huazhong University, and he felt deeply powerless.

Wait, progress?
It's actually not difficult to calm down these arrogant and energetic guys.

Give them tasks.

Give them some tasks that are extremely difficult to accomplish, but not completely impossible, and are very helpful for the advancement of the entire project.

Force them to communicate and cooperate internally, and let everyone show their weakness appropriately.

For example, Sun Miao, the most arrogant one, needs a blow to let him know that the task given by Li Yan is not easy to complete.

The confident Cao Haibin made him realize that apart from some experience that could be used when playing with information asymmetry, he still had to rely on others for technical issues.

At the same time, cultivate the sense of cooperation between Xin'an Gang and other people.

Most importantly, the difficult problems given by Li Yan can help him establish his authority.

You guys are not here to eat and work or to be project leaders. There is only one person at the helm here, and that's me.

Unable to solve the problem raised by Li Yan, they naturally started to feel nervous.

Li Yan thought of this idea at four in the morning, assigned the tasks at five in the morning, and slept for four hours.

Then he called everyone to a meeting in high spirits. When assigning projects, everyone looked excited, feeling that things were finally on the right track.

After just one day, everyone was already frowning.

Sun Miao, who used to report to Li Yan at every turn, sat at his workstation and studied for the whole day. Cao Haibin, who was busy all day, also began to look for people present who could provide sufficient help. The Xin'an Gang had a very heated discussion.

Outstanding effect.

Chen Fan and his four friends wanted to join the discussion of the Xin'an Gang, but were stopped by Li Yan.

"You guys have followed us all the way here, so you must have a deeper understanding of the overall thinking of the mobile phone system than them. I don't want to see the Xin'an Gang develop independent tendencies. So I give them tasks that require understanding of the mobile phone system. They have no problem with the technology, but they can't keep up with the thinking. Sooner or later, they will come to you."

"If they find us..." He Zixiang asked, "then will we join?"

"If they come to you, of course they will join you." Li Yan smiled.

"Boss Yan," Lai Yining narrowed his eyes, "Do you think you are... cultivating your own people?"

"It hasn't come to that point yet. We are all one family. It's just that we need some small tricks at the beginning."

Small measures include making the company more professional.

So Li Yan recruited employee No. 16.

Wang Zi, 38 years old, used to work as a "housekeeper" in two large companies. Because the work intensity was too high and her husband was very profitable, she chose to resign at the age of 35 and go home to become a full-time housewife.

After being a rich lady for three years, she found it too boring and started looking for a job again.

Then he took a liking to the recruitment information just sent out by Li Yan at first sight.

At first, Li Yan was worried that someone with such a resume would look down on his small company with nothing. Unexpectedly, Sister Wang showed extremely strong interest during the interview.

Later, Li Yan figured it out. It might be that a startup company doesn't have any decent housekeeping, and it's fresh and not too busy, which just meets her needs.

Li Yan also really needed her experience, and the two of them hit it off immediately.

It was not until the first day at work that Wang Zi learned about the founding of Li Yan's company. She also learned that Li Yan was only fifteen years old. She was shocked but also had more expectations for the job.

Li Yan gave her a high degree of autonomy and even asked her to write a plan to organize the internal management positions and personnel requirements that she thought the company currently needed. Li Yan would try her best to meet them.

Wang Zi was so happy that she couldn't express it in words. Given the current situation of the company, with no more than twenty employees in total - and even four fewer people when school starts in September, what could there be to be busy about?

I can work on a project with a young boss who is somewhat legendary. The salary is not low, and I have something to do and some free time. It couldn't be better.

Wang Zi didn't know that all the gifts from fate had been secretly marked with a price.

Li Yan would set up such a position because there must be sufficient demand for it.

Wang Zi forgot a very crucial point, that is, the boss Li Yan also has to attend classes.

After the internal staff was in place and the R&D personnel were assigned tasks, Future Technology finally took on the appearance of a company - and it looked better than most startups.

In the last week of August, the development of the Hetu system finally made some serious progress. At least everyone could sit at the same table and discuss calmly. When everyone in a team realizes their own strengths and weaknesses and knows that they must work together to accomplish this task, the discussion meeting will be truly meaningful.

Moreover, as the project officially progressed, the team's original prejudice against Chen Fan and his four-member team began to collapse.

Because they learn so quickly, their ability to understand new technologies and new solutions is far superior to others.

Give other team members a sense of urgency that they will eventually achieve the result.

These people are gold medalists in the Youth Information Olympics, and they followed Li Yan to create the prototype of the Hetu system from scratch. In terms of learning ability, who else but Li Yan dares to compete with them?
Take Sun Miao for example. Although he has been called a genius by people around him since he was a child, his genius resume cannot be compared with these people at all.

If he had better talent, why did he have to wait until college to start to stand out in computer-related competitions? This is a relatively new industry and the pace of updates and changes is very fast. The length and depth of his study of computers may not be as good as He Zixiang and Deng Yudi, so there is nothing to be proud of.

The advantage of the entire new team over Chen Fan and his four-member team lies in "experience".

This is precisely what will become less and less valuable as the project progresses.

The people from the Xin'an Gang had the most contact with the group of four and felt it the most deeply.

So they were very curious about what kind of person Li Yan, the boss who made these four people constantly sigh that he was "extremely talented", was.

Everyone reported their progress one by one. The atmosphere on the scene was very good, and Li Yan was very pleased.

This made the three freshmen from Huazhong University of Science and Technology who were about to leave Linjiang feel a little sad.

I stayed in Li Yan's office all night.

"Don't be sad at all," Li Yan smiled and handed each of them a task book. "Although there is a slight overlap in research directions, you can make good use of the mentor resources while you are at Huazhong University. Maybe they will be eager to come and work on this project with me?"

"I don't know if I can still see someone as pretentious as you after I go to Huazhong University of Science and Technology." Lai Yining sighed.

"Please don't bring up such sentimental feelings," Li Yan said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "If you do that, I'll worry that you guys aren't doing your job well in school."

"Here we go, capitalist face!" Deng Yudi scolded with a smile, "Boss Yan, you haven't even paid us our salary."

"Oh, you want salary but not shares, right?"

He Zixiang directly covered Deng Yudi's mouth, "With Yan Shen's shares, we will never have to worry about food and clothing in the future!"

"How can you survive to have enough food and clothing?" Li Yan was in a good mood today and talked a lot.

But it is obvious that they still don't know how much these shares are worth and what they can be exchanged for.

So I didn’t worry about it.

Lai Yining started a topic that belonged to the teenagers, "Shen Yan, will you and Mr. Fan still have to go to class at that time?"

"Why not?" Li Yan said with a smile, "I will have to ask Professor Meng a lot of questions when the time comes."

"Good fellow, asking business questions openly in class." Deng Yudi applauded, "Mr. Yan's main point is to make the best use of everything."

"I am different from Yan Shen," Chen Fan replied, "I may have to follow the schedule of Huada's Excellence Class, while Yan Shen will definitely be a 'free man' again."

"Speaking of which," Lai Yining suddenly became mysterious, "Boss Yan, have you ever considered recruiting some people from Huada's Excellence Class?"

"It depends on fate. If there is someone I like... I will recruit him. But will they say I am employing child labor?" Li Yan thought seriously.

The other four people present had dark lines on their faces.

"Is this the reason why you don't pay us? You are very good at circumventing the rules." Deng Yudi began to applaud again.

"There are two people who are worth your attention." Lai Yining was still mysterious, and looked like "I have information, come and ask me." "They are No. 2 and No. 3 in Huada's Excellence Class."

In fact, Li Yan is also more interested in these two.

"Why doesn't number four work?" Deng Yudi asked.

"I've looked into it. Number four's score cannot be compared with number two and number three, which means the top three are at the same level as the others," Lai Yining replied.

"You're wrong," He Zixiang said with a smug look, "First place is in one category, second and third are in another category."

"Oh no! Zixiang is the real deal here. He's worthy of being from the capital!"

"The area is dark!"

Looking at several people quarreling, Li Yan smiled from the bottom of his heart.

Youth is so fucking great.

"Hey, Zixiang, didn't Number Two go to Beijing? Is there any legend about him?" Lai Yining asked a question that everyone was interested in.

"I know him, Yu Keyu." He Zixiang sat on the sofa and began to recall, "Shanghai Institute of Technology Affiliated High School is considered one of the top junior high schools in the country. I don't know if Yu Keyu's grades are the best in the grade. He is famous for his research."

"Research?" Li Yan raised an eyebrow. "It's a bit absurd for a junior high school student to do research."

"God Yan, please don't use the word outrageous to describe others." Deng Yudi said.

"Oh no, Yu Di also understands this. I will have no room to survive!" Lai Yining is always exaggerated.

"He is very good at computers and won a gold medal in a national competition, but he is not as good as us. His main achievement is that he has published some papers and participated in many scientific and technological competitions, such as robotics and scientific research projects. He often participates in cross-grade competitions - oh, because there are no high-level competitions in junior high school."

"And then get the award?" Chen Fan was also very interested.

"Yes, I have won many national and provincial first and special prizes. My latest research should be rocket launch."

…Everyone was silent.

"It sounds... a bit outrageous indeed." Deng Yudi observed Li Yan's expression.

"But Zixiang, from what you said it doesn't sound like you are very...emotional?" Li Yan asked.

In fact, the tone just doesn't sound convincing enough.

He Zixiang suddenly smiled crookedly, "Because his grandfather has a background in military research, his maternal grandfather is a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, his grandmother is a famous doctor, his father is a researcher at the National Institute of Physics, and his mother is a doctor of medicine."

…Everyone fell silent again.

"Oh, I forgot to mention that he also has a brother who is an engineer at the Shanghai Aerospace Research Institute, and a cousin who is a researcher at the National Information Technology Center."

"This...hiss." Chen Fan expressed everyone's unanimous opinion concisely.

"Of course, I didn't say anything, ahem." He Zixiang added.

"Think about it..." Chen Fan raised his hand and said, "A guy with such a background has achieved so many things, including papers and awards, and a gold medal in the Youth Science Olympics. He is only No. 2. So what is the concept of No. 1 Yan Shen?"

"What a concept, so far away and yet so close at hand." Deng Yudi responded smoothly.

Li Yan just felt goose bumps all over his body. These brats don't want to learn good things but learn bad things. Do I, Li, like such low-level pretentious people?

"Oh no!" Lai Yining realized belatedly that Chen Fan had just praised him so much, "Chen Fan, you also understand this?"

"Stop making such a fuss," Li Yan waved her hands, her expression very calm. "If what Zixiang said is true, then the value of this is already sky-high. I, the No.1 in the Qingxinao International, should not be able to suppress it. His background must have been a bonus, but Huada is also in Beijing, so he should know some inside information, so he is willing to let me be the number one."

"Indeed, it is consistent with my judgment. However, he must have some ability, otherwise he wouldn't be number two." He Zixiang said.

"It's a pity that he is at the Huazhong University High School campus and can't come over to battle with you face to face." Chen Fan expressed a little regret.

"Indeed, I can't wait to see Yan Shen defeat all kinds of gods in the Excellence Class." Deng Yudi rubbed his hands.

"Then there is another person we can face off against," Lai Yining finally waited for the opportunity to perform, "My legendary junior from the same city, number three."

(End of this chapter)