King of Capital

Chapter 9: Cows and Sheep Team
The morning light was as red as a golden canopy, the whole city woke up from its sleep, and the traffic flowed towards Lujiazui like migrating ants.

A low-key and steady Audi A8 drove against the morning rush hour towards the headquarters of Juntai Securities in the west area of ​​Pujiang in Central. The photographer sitting in the passenger seat held up the camera and gestured to Xie Jingxing to raise his hands holding the steering wheel a little higher so that his watch and a pair of seemingly inconspicuous precious metal cufflinks could be captured in the frame.

The character of a dandy young man will never go out of style, and the corresponding grassroots growth story script has been prepared, waiting for the "actors" to enter the set.

The wealthy Juntai specially set aside an floor to build a studio, and the design imitated the image of Wall Street trading floors commonly seen in movies. There are two rows of public open office seats in the middle, and the row against the wall is the independent offices of the four teaching teachers and MDs.

This is due to compliance risk considerations. Brokerage supervision is strict and almost all ordinary employees' salaries include a confidentiality subsidy component. It is impossible for the program crew to shoot casually.

When Xie Jingxing arrived at Juntai, the four teaching teachers were already there, busy in their respective offices.

"Hello, good morning."

The little princess from the University of Edinburgh, whom I met during the interview, was sitting at her workstation and waving hello. Her long hair was curled into big waves and draped over her shoulders. She wore a V-neck white shirt and looked like a workplace heroine.

Xie Jingxing nodded and said, "Morning."

This girl's name is Zhao Mengche, it's no surprise that she passed the interview.

She has a clean family background and good looks. She has won the model beauty pageant. With a height of 175cm, she can easily be the center of a photo if she stands up straight. Her education level is enough, and you can't eat that thing.

But beauty is good and pretty is a feast for the eyes.

In addition to her, there were two other people who met during the interview that day: Feng Shuo, a student with a bowl-cut haircut from UCLA, and Xue Haoran, a graduate student from Peking University.

"Would you like to sit next to me?" She waved.

Xie Jingxing looked at Feng Shuo and Xue Haoran who were sitting opposite Zhao Mengche, and thought that this was probably an instinctive grouping.

There are eight interns in total. The other four were selected through interviews from Juntai Pengcheng and Beijing branches. There are two men and one woman from Beijing branch, and the one from Pengcheng is a girl.

Xie Jingxing put down his computer and briefly greeted a few people, then went to the offices of the four instructors to pay respects and introduce himself. Su He poured him a cup of coffee, the Gold Label Geisha coffee beans, and was an exquisite female comrade.

When they returned to their workstations, all eight interns were present. Five men and three women had nothing to do but stared at each other and chatted awkwardly.

As per the rules of society, we started talking about school. One of the two boys from Beijing was a master's student from Stanford University, and his workstation was filled with Stanford peripherals such as cups and pens.

Xie Jing Xing immediately forgot his name and put on an impressive label - the King of Force.

The other boy was a native of Beijing, with a bachelor's degree from Peking University and a master's degree from Tsinghua University, and was specially marked as a bachelor's degree from Peking University Guanghua School. Xue Haoran, a graduate student at Peking University, was exposed by him and dared not speak loudly. I think he laughed the loudest during the interview.

There are two other girls who don’t have any special memorable features. If beauty is counted, they are no worse than Zhao Mengche.

After getting to know each other, I found that the contempt chain based on academic qualifications is clear: Beijing natives with bachelor's and master's degrees from Peking University and Tsinghua University are in the top tier, while Xie Jingxing and those from Stanford are in the second tier.

Xue Haoran stayed in the third tier alone and didn't join others. The Beijing girl who had a bachelor's and master's degree from Central University of Finance and Economics was not convinced, and the girl from Shenzhen from London School of Economics also wanted to fight with him. Feng Shuo, the pot-covered hair of CULA, was second to none and attacked Zhao Mengche, the little princess of Edinburgh.

Eight people and seven levels of contempt chain, very good, this is very financial.

Finance is the industry with the most serious academic qualification contempt chain, no doubt about it. Doctors, lawyers and others have to stand aside.

The phrase 'Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan and Jiaotong' comes from the financial industry. The whole sentence means there is no finance below Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan and Jiaotong.

Even so, there are still people who think that Chun Chun is trying to scam people from Fudan University. Only a degree from Peking University or Tsinghua University can be accepted nationwide, while a degree from Fudan University is just a regional degree. Once you leave the East China region, no one will know who you are.

As for the three schools, Central University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and University of International Business and Economics, which are collectively known as the "two finance and one trade", it is advantageous to take the civil service exam and enter a public institution. When looking for a job in society, it depends on the region and the competition between the newcomers. "Your undergraduate English at Columbia University should be good, right?"

The girl from Pengcheng, who was sitting alone in the diagonal corner, actively joined the small group. She noticed that the Modu quartet was vaguely centered around Xie Jingxing.

The three people from Beijing also saw it and looked over when they heard it.

Zhao Mengche had no psychological burden and answered first: "A genius with an IELTS score of 8.5."

"8.5, did you go to high school abroad?" Stanford couldn't help but ask.

The full score of the IELTS English test is 8.5 points, and 8.5 points is almost the level of native English speakers. Among the hundreds of thousands of IELTS test takers in China every year, only less than 1% can achieve points. In terms of language application requirements for Ivy League schools in the United States, an IELTS score of is generally enough.

Apart from the fact that he was a rich second generation and had studied abroad since childhood, he couldn't think of any way to get a score of 8.5.

Xie Jingxing shrugged: "If you live and eat with your high school English teacher for three years, you should be able to get an 8."

Stanford forced Wang into silence. Could it be that his high school teacher is his biological mother?

“Why not 8.5 points?” a Beijing native who graduated from Peking University or Tsinghua University asked in confusion.

"good question."

Feng Shuo, who had asked the same question, raised his hand: "Because if I want to get 8.5 points, I have to live and eat with my junior high school English teacher for three years."

During the pre-job training a few days ago, he, Zhao Mengche and Xue Haoran had been pinned to the ground and crushed several times. Some people cannot fully reflect themselves through their academic qualifications.

“…Awesome.” The Beijing natives who graduated from Peking University and Tsinghua University were also silent.

The girl from Pengcheng decisively picked up her computer and moved to the workstation next to Xie Jingxing: "Master, please help me fly."

"Welcome. Although I don't know how many vacancies there will be after the internship, I think cooperation is more important than competition." Xie Jingxing said bluntly.

Cattle and sheep travel in groups, while wild beasts live alone.

——Lu Xun really said this. What he meant was that only when cattle and sheep travel in groups can they resist lone wild beasts.

However, whether it is a wild beast or cattle and sheep, they are in the same camp in the current specific situation. It is better to lead the cattle and sheep than to waste energy fighting with them.

What Xie Jingxing wanted to say was: I am not targeting anyone, everyone here is a cow or a sheep, please consider cooperation before competing.

Who agrees with my suggestion and who opposes it?
"Let's first see what kind of work our instructor will assign us. It may be an individual battle." The female undergraduate and master's student from Central University of Finance and Economics had a very secretive expression on her face.

There's nothing great about being good at English. Everyone who can sit here must have some strengths. Let's wait and see.

Stanford's King is also eager to try: "I think the possibility of individual competition is greater, after all, everyone still needs to get to know each other."

"During my interview, I was tested on leadership. Big companies like Juntai usually focus on cooperation." The girl from Pengcheng was a little unhappy. The little gang from Beijing acted as if her English was so poor that she could only suck up to them.

Xie Jingxing smiled but said nothing. This development trend is very good. Differentiation is an art.

As everyone was talking, the instructor Su He appeared and asked to go to the conference room for a morning meeting to assign tasks.

(End of this chapter)