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Chapter 232 Stringent KPIs

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruoyun nodded in deep agreement. Recalling her experience of being tricked into revealing information at the private restaurant, she still felt a lingering fear: "Indeed, that woman is too cunning! Last time, we almost got caught up in her scheme."

While listening to the two older brothers' analysis, Chen Xiao poured them drinks.

Yang Yang looked at Chen Xiao and Zhang Ruoyun and reminded them, "You two should be wary of her second-tier film and television company. I heard that her company has three more TV series planned, and I reckon they might try to get you two to play the male leads in order to take advantage of Haofeng's popularity."

"Turn down any roles you can! Don't be greedy for that little bit of pay!"

"We can't beat them, so the best thing to do is to stay away from them."

Zhang Ruoyun and Chen Xiaolian nodded repeatedly, indicating their understanding.

After all, in this world of fame and fortune, staying away from the whirlpool of right and wrong is the wisest course of action.

……

Xianlin Science and Technology City, Haofeng Network Headquarters R&D Center.

Li Feng, who is used to remotely controlling the overall situation from the top, made a rare appearance today to inspect the game department from the grassroots level.

In front of a high-spec test computer, running the card game masterpiece, Hearthstone, which is about to be launched and enter its final testing phase.

It took Li Feng a lot of effort to obtain the IP license for "Warcraft" for this game.

Technical Director Lao Chen was by his side. He waved and led a slightly awkward young manager over.

"Mr. Li, this is our manager in charge of numerical design and front-end logic for Hearthstone. Let him explain the current development progress and core card pool to you in detail," Old Chen introduced.

Although the young man seemed a little nervous, he had clearly done his homework.

He stood beside the computer, explaining the game's matchmaking system, card pack drop rates, and various playstyles to Li Feng with clear and logical thinking.

Looking at the exquisite card effects and familiar tavern interface on the screen, Li Feng pointed out several potential problems with the mana curve for aggro and late-game decks.

The young man answered the boss's questions fluently and even offered several very professional and forward-thinking balance patch plans, which effectively resolved Li Feng's doubts.

"Not bad," Li Feng couldn't help but praise.

"Have you been leading this project all along?"

The young man glanced at Old Chen beside him instinctively.

Old Chen glared at him and urged impatiently, "What are you looking at me for! Just answer the boss's questions!"

The man then replied, "Mr. Li, I was just transferred here two months ago. I was previously in charge of the 'Three Kingdoms Kill Online' project. Hearthstone is about to launch its open beta, and we're short-staffed, so Director Chen pulled me over from there to help with the coordination."

Li Feng understood.

He scrutinized the young man carefully, then suddenly asked:

"Your surname is Han?"

The young man paused for a moment, seemingly not expecting his boss to ask that, but still answered truthfully, "Yes, boss."

Li Feng didn't say anything more, turned around and left the R&D center with his chief secretary Zhang Yuxi.

Only the young man surnamed Han and Old Chen remained, standing there staring at each other.

……

Back to the CEO's office on the top floor.

Li Feng sat down in the chair, casually unbuttoned his suit jacket, and then waved.

Zhang Yuxi, who was standing to the side, immediately understood. She obediently walked to the boss's chair and sat down in Li Feng's lap.

Over this period of time, she gradually figured out some of the boss's little quirks.

For example, when the boss is thinking about something, he always has a habit of holding something in his hand to relax.

Zhang Yuxi nestled against Li Feng's chest, letting his large hand climb onto her soft skin.

Li Feng closed his eyes, but his mind was replaying the scene from the game department.

Old Chen's son works in the animation department, while Old Han's son leads projects in the game department.

If these two second-generation heirs are both incompetent fools, then dealing with them would be simple for Li Feng. He could just find a pretext to send them to some low-level government office to loaf around and wait to die.

However, today he personally tested that Xiao Han.

It must be admitted that this kid not only has an Ivy League degree, but also has excellent professional skills in game stats and operations.

Moreover, judging from his knowledge reserves during the exams, he is likely to be more hardworking than many people who come from humble backgrounds!

"They have resources, they have ability, and they work harder than the average person..."

Li Feng thought to himself, "These are the most terrifying competitors in the workplace."

So here's the question: should we reuse it?

Li Feng was certainly not afraid of any threat from these two pairs of fathers and sons. In the face of absolute control, any senior executive was just a high-level employee.

but!

As the leader of an empire, he had a natural aversion to this kind of nepotism where both father and son held important positions and even engaged in cross-departmental transfer of benefits!

Once this trend becomes tacitly understood, the upward mobility channels will be blocked, and those truly capable grassroots geniuses will be squeezed out by these second-generation rich kids and never have a chance to rise to the top!

Gradually, Zhang Yuxi felt the hand covering her chest and stopped moving.

She felt a chill run down her spine, realizing that her boss had already made a decision.

Sure enough, Li Feng opened his eyes.

"Yu Xi, write this down."

Zhang Yuxi quickly got up from Li Feng's arms, picked up the tablet on the table, brought up the memo app, and waited for her boss's instructions.

"Have the personnel department issue the transfer order."

Li Feng calmly delivered his verdict: "Kick that Xiao Han out of the Hearthstone project team and demote him to the Three Kingdoms team as the person in charge."

"Then give their team a task: within a year, make the revenue data of this reskinned game look good, and then sell it off to find someone to take over."

"The reserve price is one billion!"

Zhang Yuxi quickly took notes on the tablet, but her mind was far from calm.

Why demote a promising core creator to a reskinned mobile game team destined to be sold, and then burden them with the demanding KPI of selling it for a billion dollars?

After Zhang Yuxi finished taking notes, she looked up and waited for the next part.

"And there's Xiao Chen in the animation department."

Li Feng continued, "Have him lead the team to acquire Xuanji Technology in its entirety."

"The timeframe is also one year, and the acquisition budget... will be set at under 3 million."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuxi secretly clicked her tongue in amazement.

The boss wants Xiao Han to sell a poorly made, reskinned mobile game for a staggering 1 billion yuan.

The boss of the top 3D animation team in China only gave Xiao Chen 300 million yuan to acquire it!

With this back and forth, the boss not only made clear arrangements for the two young masters, but also took the capitalist's methods of exploiting them to the extreme!

Zhang Yuxi wrote down the instructions one by one and replied, "Okay, boss, I'll go down and coordinate with the HR and investment departments right away to distribute the assessment tasks."

Just as she turned to leave the office to carry out her mission.

Li Feng suddenly remembered something and casually added:

"Tell Xiao Chen that they must ensure that their 3D movie 'Qin's Moon' can be released in theaters on schedule, and the value of the IP must not be affected by the acquisition."

Although the movie "Qin's Moon" did not perform particularly well at the box office in later years, it still has irreplaceable strategic significance for promoting domestic 3D animation technology and consolidating the value of the IP.

Li Feng wasn't particularly concerned about whether these tasks could be completed on schedule.

If you can make it through, continue to shine on the fringes.

Can't make it through the tough times? Then make room for the truly talented people below.