In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 191 Full marks in the retest
That's why Zi Xiaowei had the idea to take over the work-study website.

Before entering society, college students should carefully experience and feel whether they are ready to accept the beatings from capitalists.

Anyway, he didn't want to be a capitalist.

So the next morning, Mr. Zhou must have had another face-to-face conversation with him.

It’s interesting to say that the old leaders that others try their best to get close to can chat with him every day.

Of course this time there was a small stove. Zi Xiaowei deliberately moved the earthenware stove down to make a fire. Hahaha, it depends on whether he dares to make a sound when the security patrol car passes by.

Mr. Zhou certainly didn't expect that this guy would have such a petty idea.

"So, was it wrong to vigorously promote the work-study program back then?"

Zi Xiaowei sat on a small stool and added fuel to the fire: "Perhaps you and the teachers and students who participated at the time were basically not users of this work-study program. This also includes the current live broadcasts and short videos on the internet. The leaders and scholars are not deep participants. That's why I said that I don't understand it."

He had a profound experience at the time: "First of all, this thing is definitely mainly for students. It's not a labor service or employment platform that everyone can participate in. This narrows its scope of application. Primary and secondary school students can't participate. Then, only the hundreds of thousands of college students in Jiangzhou area can participate."

Teachers of education and training are all too familiar with these statistics: "Over the past two years, enrollment has expanded and new schools have been built, resulting in only about one million students. Even ten years ago, there were only about 600,000 or 700,000. Of these, for various reasons, such as being too lazy to play, focusing on academics, and not having the need to work, only about 100,000 or even fewer actually actively participate in work-study programs. With such a meager daily income of 30, 50, or even 100 yuan, how can it support an IPO?"

Mr. Zhou thought carefully and said, "At that time... we did propose to create a recruitment platform open to the whole society, but we rejected it because it deviated from the basic starting point of work-study."

Then I thought, "But the ultimate goal is to connect all the universities in provinces and cities across the country. That would be a big deal, right?"

Zi Xiaowei felt a little sorry for the guy. "Even Jiangzhou couldn't sustain the scale, and with all the provincial and municipal collaborations, operating and management costs would have skyrocketed. I remember the biggest complaint at the time was that the platform was taking a cut of the meager work-study income. Isn't that just bloodsucking? Haha, both students and employers were very dissatisfied."

Talking about this, his dusty memories gradually opened up: "Yes, I heard that they didn't charge a commission at first. How could a commercial operation not make a profit? It's just based on selling ads. Later, they asked the employers to charge a commission, so they naturally lowered the price. The students still had to pay the price. Later, it became popular to only register with the platform for one day. Tutoring, part-time jobs, etc. were all sold privately. The platform was no longer a big deal."

Mr. Zhou frowned, as if he had never heard of the complaints from the front line before: "Then what should we do?"

Zi Xiaowei stretched out his hand to warm himself by the fire. "This is originally a public welfare activity. We can just make a small program to facilitate students, tutors, and part-time employees. People can contact each other and transact on their own. Why would they need a payment system? A simple bulletin board like posting a note will do. It's simply not worth the expense and effort of such a small undertaking, not to mention scraping off the fat from the chicken feet."

The retired old man leaning on the folding chair couldn't help but stroke his gray hair several times.

He couldn't help but close his eyes tightly, as if reminiscing, or regretting. "Back then... internet companies were being promoted everywhere, and it was said that they needed to be nurtured and invested in initiating them. So, we received strong support from all sides for several years. We were also a star company that leaders at all levels highlighted every time we came to promote us, and we had millions of work-study programs every year."

Zi Xiaowei is now quite proficient. "There are countless ways to make financial statements and statistics look good. Let me put it this way: I've been dealing with large companies for the past few months, and I've seen them embellish their data in various ways every day. It's all real, but you just flip your favorite part to the top. They don't care about the company's future; for now, they just want to keep their jobs and be happy."

University leaders are definitely different from business owners.

Mr. Zhou's considerations were certainly different from those of private company owners: "Then the business model is completely impossible? We can't collect money, and we can only continuously maintain the platform's expenses."

Under intensive training from Boss Dai, Zi Xiaowei has become a qualified boss. In fact, he has a ready-made template and scale, and has solved the problem of large income from sales. It is not difficult to be a boss.

"That's why I've been saying we should downsize, desperately cut costs, and then focus on some big project. Look at this media company, the video team that attracts tens of millions of fans now has only about ten people. The team that can produce a live broadcast room with billions or even tens of billions of fans has only a dozen people plus dozens of part-time online promoters."

This is his experience: "I don't understand other things, but the characteristic of the current internet industry is to attract as much popularity as possible with as little cost as possible. It takes tens of thousands of salespeople nationwide to sell cars, but here just a few people can sell them. Don't you think the sales commission is terrible? The same goes for image transactions. The simpler the platform, the better."

At this point, he had a new idea and took notes, "Anyway, the Work-Study Program has put the cart before the horse on this point. If it's a public welfare project, why not just charge money? Now, donating to the school for public welfare construction and asking for this and that, isn't that a bit of a distortion?"

Mr. Zhou leaned over to look at what he had written: "What does one cent mean?"

Zi Xiaowei shared this with a friend: "Simple and crude, photos sold on all platforms can only be sold for ten cents each. No matter how good the photo is, it's still the same price. It all depends on how many people buy it. Our advantage is that we have several million- or even tens of millions-level traffic generators that can attract traffic. If you can sell 10 million copies, then each photo is worth a million."

Then he admitted: "Actually, this photo trading platform is not for people to make a lot of money, but for everyone to make a little money so that they don't have to be vulgar and weird to support themselves. If you really master photography skills, there are jobs that can make money. This is to cultivate some new jobs."

Mr. Zhou nodded slowly. "Your mind is very active. I remember that two or three months ago, you hadn't even had these thoughts."

Zi Xiaowei himself marveled, "If I were still working, repeating the same tasks every day, I wouldn't be able to calm down and think. Now I sit here every day, constantly learning and having many opportunities to put it into practice. I am truly working hard to improve myself. When I teach and train children, I often remind them that life is a process of continuous learning. Now I feel that I have realized this."

Mr. Zhou also turned to look at the broken van whose taillights were repeatedly wrapped and taped with transparent tape.

There was a recliner and a wardrobe in the empty carriage, and simple outdoor tables and chairs outside.

It's a bit like Yan Hui's humble life, with only a bowl of rice and a gourd of water to drink. It might be hard to understand outsiders, but university leaders know only researchers with this mindset can produce results.

So this is like a final retest.

Just the next day, the school notified that the work-study website would be transferred to Tingbao Media for operation, and all qualifications were sold to Tingbao Media for a symbolic price of one million yuan. The payment license was indeed stripped away, but the one million yuan included a five-year free use period for the work-study website's office building.

In fact, if you rent out the building, you can earn more than 200,000 yuan per year.

It's just a free gift to get rid of the burden and support the exploration of new platforms here.

The only person who was rehired was the retired former school leader Mr. Zhou, who was hired as secretary with an annual salary of one yuan.

Zi Xiaowei was still in class when the notice was sent to the School of Software, the School of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, the Incubation Park, and Tingbao Media.

He himself was not surprised.

It would be more accurate to say that Mr. Zhou is here to help block the wind and rain rather than to take up the position to supervise.

Perhaps this is the benefit of rushing to push forward the campus renovation project.

But since the entire project is being transferred and resold to Tingbao Media, the corporate legal person and representative must sign for it and participate in a formal ceremony.

Boss Dai would not show up for such a small project, and she was not enthusiastic about the projects that Zi Xiaowei was doing.

Zi Xiaowei is not even a shareholder.

But the school now believes that he is working like a teacher leading a group of students.

The only option was to call back baby Ting who was floating outside.

Gao Tingting simply and clearly agreed and rushed back.

She traveled through western Sichuan and southern Gansu, which is a very beautiful northwest tourist route heading north.

But he went a lot to the west and stayed in ethnic minority areas for most of the time.

There is no high-speed rail or flights there, so I can only drive back day and night.

I returned to school three days later.

The assistant secretary who accompanies Tingbaobao on "business trips" actually reports the route, location, itinerary and even work content to President Wei every day.

Now that I'm back, I'll naturally report closely.

Zi Xiaowei felt that he had been away for almost a month.

No matter why you leave.

At least the girl didn't delay in filming the video. She sent back 20 to 30 different PK videos since she arrived in Chengdu.

Later, when we arrived at the plateau and mountainous areas, we hardly saw any feedback.

It's still quite hard.

So he calculated the time and ran to the small parking lot at the back to wait for the welcome after two o'clock in the afternoon.

Just the kind between pure partners.

By the way, let’s see if the female students have grown up.

(End of this chapter)