King of Capital

Chapter 11 High-pressure competitive environment
While the interns were working hard, the supervisors were chatting in the conference room.

The head of the institute was a middle-aged man in his forties with a Mediterranean hairstyle. He was tall and thin, wearing a pair of glasses. He looked gentle and easy-going, a typical science and engineering major. He said pragmatically, "Thirty minutes is too much. Let alone them, I can't do it well."

"Is it so difficult?" Tang Man, another female instructor working in private equity financing in the investment banking business line, did not feel the same way.

"The macro knowledge they mainly talk about is too miscellaneous, and their knowledge is not broad enough."

The head of the research institute adjusted the leg of his glasses with a nostalgic look and continued: "I could write well ten years ago, but now I don't have the concentration."

It is very demanding to filter out valid information and summarize it from the huge amount of information output of conversations during the meeting. As we get older and our energy declines, we may lose focus and fail to keep up.

Young people are full of energy and highly focused, but they lack the knowledge to distinguish valid information.

Therefore, many analysts who have been in the industry for two or three years are fine with internal meetings, but when they meet with partners, they like to leave the "minutes of the meeting" to young, energetic and experienced lawyers to write. It is reasonable for migrant workers to exploit serfs.

"I think the young man named Xie Jingxing seems to be quite relaxed." Tang Man said meaningfully.

Su He smiled slightly: "He has a lot of internship experience, so it's normal for him to get into the state faster than others."

"Rich internship experience is an advantage. Some kids don't know what to do for four years in college without any internship experience. As a result, they fail the interview and blame us Juntai for discriminating against fresh graduates without work experience."

Tang Man said jokingly in a light tone: "We have to recognize a down-to-earth kid like Xie Jingxing. Anyway, I admire him very much."

"Don't worry. The guy with a bachelor's and master's degree from Peking University and Tsinghua University and the girl with a bachelor's and master's degree from Central University of Finance and Economics are both good. Let's talk about it tomorrow." The head of the research institute stepped forward to smooth things over.

There is not much that brokerage companies can show in variety shows. The secondary market is very impressive and cool, but if the program director dares to film Juntai’s chairman today, he might dare to operate a sewing machine tomorrow.

The scene in the research institute where a bunch of miserable science and engineering guys are scratching their hair in front of their computers is not interesting; the wealth management scene is interesting, as the girls in the sales team all have slim waists, long legs and perky butts, but the part where they dance ballet in KTV is not very broadcastable.

Counting on fingers, only investment banking business is the most suitable. Handsome men and beautiful women talk about national policies and the business worth tens of billions of dollars every minute is very interesting.

Among the four instructors, Su He and Tang Man are in charge of the investment banking business line. He is responsible for mobilizing the resources of the research institute to provide technical support. Another instructor who works as a wealth consultant is just there to make up the number and is unrelated.

Investment banking business relies heavily on personal connections. The two old ladies of similar age and experience have been competing openly and secretly in private. They go on the show to gain fame and resources, so naturally they cannot show weakness.

Xie Jingxing was hired through Su He's interview, so Su He might not really be targeting Xie Jingxing; Tang Man was in charge of the interviews for the Beijing branch, so Su He might not really be admiring Xie Jingxing.

In a high-pressure competitive environment, who isn’t an expert at palace fighting?

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Ten minutes passed quickly, and Xie Jingxing finished his speech on time and waved to Zhao Mengche and the other two who were staring at him eagerly: "This is the general outline. It may not be finished in twenty minutes."

"Thank you."

Feng Shuo was the first to stand up and return to the office area. He was anxious to find Xue Haoran to check the answers.

Song Anli relied on her gender advantage and had no psychological burden. She directly pulled Xie Jingxing to cheat: "I still have some trouble wrapping up the part about 'the supply structure has changed significantly'."

"You don't need to go around in circles. You just need to highlight what Hongkong said: 'The continued rise in vegetable prices and meat and poultry prices proves that the impact of the decline in production capacity on the supply side of my country's primary industry on the macro-economy cannot be ignored.'"

Xie Jing Xing went a step further and gave her the correct answer directly, saving her the trouble of even thinking.

Zhao Mengche slowly packed up his computer and recorder and said, "The sentence 'supply-side structural adjustment is the next focus' is also very important. The tertiary industry has surpassed the secondary industry for the first time. We are seeking change amidst challenges."

"..."

Xie Jingxing glanced at her, unable to tell whether she was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid, as she wielded the shovel so smoothly.

The development of the tertiary industry indicates that a country's secondary and primary industries are strong, which is a basic concept in economics.

At first glance, Zhao Mengche's words seem to be saying that the proportion of the tertiary industry in China has surpassed the secondary industry for the first time, and supply-side structural adjustment is a good thing. But the problem is that while the tertiary industry has surpassed the secondary industry for the first time, the recovery of the primary and secondary industries is obviously lower than expected.

Supply-side structural adjustments are not meant to adjust and optimize the domestic economy, but to solve problems!
——Overcapacity in the secondary industry, overdeveloped tertiary industry leading to excessive financial expansion which has caused distortion of the real economy, and the deepest mismatch of social resources.

The most obvious example is that a new round of development on the east bank of the Pujiang River this year has forced the locals of Shanghai, who used to sit under the overpass and smoke Red General, to smoke only Sunshine Liqun.

It's like the tertiary industry is an ordinary person who has taken stimulants, and the secondary industry is a patient who is recovering from an injury and doing rehabilitation. If the former wins in a race between the two, is it a good thing?
If Song Anli cannot get around this and really modifies the "Minutes of the Meeting" with the idea of ​​optimization rather than solution, then she will fall into a trap.

It may also be that Zhao Mengche himself did not realize it, and Xie Jingxing did not intend to remind him.

When two kindergarten kids have a conflict and ask the teacher to judge, the teacher will say, "I know, go play." He is not Captain Dragonfly, so how can he be absolutely fair and just?

Back in the office, the interns were scratching their heads like headless flies. Xie Jingxing calmed down and checked the "meeting minutes" he wrote. He finished it on time in 11 minutes and sent it to the four mentors' emails in turn at 30:.

Looking at the time, it was time for lunch, so he asked Song Anli and Zhao Mengche who were still busy at their workstations, "Why haven't you sent it yet?"

"I'm almost done, I'll check it over and finish it." Song Anli said without raising her head.

Xie Jingxing looked around and saw that everyone else was busy doing nothing.

“Didn’t your teachers tell you what it means to meet the deadline when you were in school?” he was very confused.

Song Anli looked up at him: "Complete the task before the deadline, the death deadline."

"So why haven't you sent it yet?" Xie Jingxing was even more confused.

Zhao Mengche curled his lips: "Because I haven't finished writing it."

"...This is not the final exam. You can ask the teacher to collect the papers first." Xie Jingxing felt a deep sense of powerlessness. He turned off the computer screen and went to the tea room to eat alone.

He believed that the greatest benefit his rebirth gave him was not the ability to predict the future, but the ability to combine his brain, which had gone through detours and been through setbacks, with his young and energetic body.

But because of this, even if you are reborn, you cannot regain the innocence of youth, and you cannot step into the same river twice.

As Xie Jingxing left the office, Su He appeared and asked the interns, "Who sent me an email to request an extension for submitting the 'meeting minutes'? You didn't sign it."

"Sorry, Mr. Su He, I forgot to check." Stanford forced Wang to stand up and signaled.

Su He looked at the others and asked, "You haven't finished yet?"

"Right away, ten minutes." Song Anli replied.

The others looked at each other, and no one wanted to be the first to take action.

"How about the others? How long will it take you?"

Su He's face was not looking good. The phrase "the law does not punish the masses" did not exist in her dictionary. She raised her wrist to check the time: "I'll give you the last fifteen minutes. If I don't receive it by twelve o'clock, you don't have to send it."

After she left, Feng Shuo and Xue Haoran felt a little nervous and asked each other encouragingly, "Will you send it?" The undergraduate and master students from Peking University and Tsinghua University and the undergraduate and master students from Central University of Finance and Economics of the Beijing trio sent it on time at 12 o'clock.

Song Anli was sent off five minutes early and went to the tea room to have dinner with Xie Jingxing. Juntai was rich and prepared a working meal for the interns, with three dishes, one soup, two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, as well as some yogurt, fruit slices and other desserts, which was comparable to the treatment of state-owned enterprises.

"You eat so much for lunch, aren't you afraid of feeling sleepy in the afternoon?" She was not interested in lunch and just grabbed a piece of cut fruit and a box of yogurt to fill her stomach.

Xie Jing Xing pointed to the coffee machine and two cans of tea on the island next to him: "There must be an antidote within five steps of every poison in the world, triple concentrate with ice."

"You call normal physiological instinct poison?"

Song Anli was having a hard time staying still, so she said, "Did you often write 'meeting minutes' when you were doing internship in college? It seems like you are very relaxed."

"You don't have to write much. You will learn it if you read more." Xie Jingxing encouraged.

Song Anli wondered who would have the time to learn how to write "meeting minutes". She didn't want to work in administration, so she took out her phone in a positive manner: "Oh, I don't know where to find a lot of "meeting minutes". Can you share some related book lists or magazines with me? Let's add WeChat."

"Uh, I don't know either."

When Xie Jingxing was in primary school, he sat in the corner of the Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry meeting room and listened. Since middle school, Old Xie has consciously let him speak at the family office meetings. He learned how to write the "meeting minutes" passively by watching and hearing, and never actively learned it.

He took out his phone and added a friend, saying, "But I can share with you a few financial websites. Accumulating more financial knowledge in daily life will also help you write 'meeting minutes'. There is no need to learn it specifically. This is not the focus of my work."

Song Anli looked at him as he was giving advice seriously and was speechless and could only say "OK".

“CNBC, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal are three websites that need no introduction. Just like watching the news broadcast, it doesn’t matter whether you can understand them or not, but you should at least have a general idea in your mind.”

Xie Jingxing sent her two websites: "Seeking Alpha is more inclined towards virtual currency, and American Banker is more inclined towards the primary market, mergers and acquisitions, commercial banks and other content."

Both of these financial websites mainly output analytical opinions on the European and American markets, with a lot of professional content. With Song Anli's level, it is highly likely that she will not be able to understand them, so they are of no use.

It’s just an excuse to add a friend, you can’t embarrass a girl.

“Isn’t there any domestic website?”

Zhao Mengche showed up at the right time. Coincidentally, there were only some fruits and yogurt in the lunch box, and an extra skinless braised chicken leg.

Xie Jingxing shook his head: "It's better not to look at it. This is how it is for me."

"Okay, then I'll add you and share the website address with me." Zhao Mengche took out his mobile phone.

Xie Jing Xing swallowed the last bite of food in one gulp, leaving the battlefield for the two little girls who could be ruthless to him.

Except for a very small number of women who are born with natural beauty and girls whose appearance conforms to the public's aesthetic standards, at least they have strong self-discipline and a strong desire to win.

Workplace gossip is so scary these days. If Prince Yunshan were scratched on the face by a rhinestone nail polish, his face would be disfigured. It is not a coward to avoid it if you can.

Xie Jingxing made a cup of coffee and returned to the office area. Feng Shuo and Xue Haoran dawdled and walked to the tea room to eat. Stanford Bi Wang was still busy. The other two members of the three-member Beijing team said that a senior from Peking University invited them to lunch at Juntai.

"Have you helped Zhao Mengche and Song Anli organize the 'meeting minutes'?"

Suddenly, a voice of torture came from the empty office area, and Su He appeared silently like a ghost.

Xie Jingxing, who was lying on his reclining chair and happily following up on the progress of Liu Qiming's meeting with investors, almost jumped up. His body swayed with the chair as if he was nodding: "Well, it's the first day at work, and they haven't adapted to the intensity of the work yet."

"You're adapting well."

Su He said in a neither-positive nor negative way, exuding the spicy Chinese medicinal scent of ginger and cardamom, the unique top notes of the 'Garden After the Rain Perfume'. Who teased her by spraying such a strong personal style perfume during her lunch break?

Xie Jingxing didn't think it was his problem. This was not the final exam room and Su He was not a teacher.

He didn't care about the risk of being eliminated due to copying answers to his competitors. Could Su He really criticize his moral character like the Virgin Mary? Adults should be responsible for themselves, that's all.

"You have affected the fairness of the assessment. You cannot erase the efforts of all other interns just because you are capable." Su He's tone turned cold.

Xie Jingxing stood up and took a step back without leaving a trace: "I think sometimes choice is more important than hard work, and being good at communication is also part of ability."

Su He was silent for a few seconds and agreed with this statement.

"Maybe it's due to your family environment that you have an outstanding macro-vision. You also need to have the corresponding leadership and vision. Don't limit yourself." She made a sudden change and reminded him.

In fact, she doesn't care at all about what affects the fairness of the assessment, and the same goes for several other tutors.

Why didn't Xie Jingxing let other interns copy their answers? Don't they have any problems at all? They should look for the reasons within themselves.

It’s a skill for Zhao Mengche and Song Anli to copy the answers. If they can copy their competitors’ answers today, they can make their competitors destroy their bid documents tomorrow. The future is promising!
From a certain perspective, this ability is not as good as a single hair, even if ten thousand hardworking people are busy making "meeting minutes".

The workplace is not an examination hall, not a court, and certainly not a moral high ground. It is a big stage where your boss pays you with real money. If there is a role to play, you go in. If there is no role to play, stay out and don't get involved.

As for hard work, who cares?
China has nothing else but a large number of people who are good at hard work and diligence. Now the workers who are tightening steel bars in the outdoor construction site under the temperature of over 30 degrees are working harder than anyone else.

What Su He really cared about was that Xie Jingxing should not be so short-sighted that he was fooled by the two little girls and accepted them as a dog even though he was beheaded.

After all, she couldn't invite a beheading, but she hoped to recruit... recruit Xie Jingxing to use for her own purposes, so she could only use both kindness and force to give a subtle reminder.

Xie Jingxing understood what Su He meant and asked, "How about Feng Shuo and Xue Haoran's 'Minutes of the Meeting'?"

"...Did you also help them clean it up?" Su He raised his eyebrows.

Xie Jingxing was speechless: "Very bad?"

"The rankings will be announced at 1 p.m. and the next test questions will be assigned. You should be prepared." Su He did not comment.

I thought that the three-person team that Tang Man brought back from the interview in Beijing had a good balanced configuration, but what kind of people were the ones she interviewed? Even with a core support like Xie Jingxing, her own father couldn't lead them? !

The head of the institute spoke highly of Xie Jingxing's "Minutes of the Meeting" and hoped that he could be his supervisor and mentor.

She held her breath, forced a smile on her face and finally asked, "Do I look difficult to get along with?"

"I have allergic rhinitis."

Xie Jingxing said sincerely that he was prone to allergies in a high-pressure competitive environment.

　The chapter was reviewed last night, which was unavoidable due to the subject matter.

　　Therefore, I will try to move the updates to after midnight in the future, so that if they are reviewed, I can revise them as soon as possible so as not to delay everyone's reading during the day.

　　If the update is late, it may be under review, so don't worry.

　　Finally, I would like to ask for the follow-up reading data. If everyone can update the data every day, it will look better. I will also have the confidence to ask the editor to review and unblock it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)