Bai Ye looked at Hua Zhixiao for a while, finding it difficult to describe his current mood.
To say he was surprised would be an understatement, yet he wasn't entirely shocked.
This was Hua Zhixiao, the leader of Hua Street, one of the three major forces. In his previous life, Hua Zhixiao had become famous after a battle in Hua Street, astonishing everyone. During the central region war, she had even stunned both the Hidden Dragon Society and the Evil Spirit Group.
Therefore, Hua Zhixiao's abilities were undeniable. However, the fact that the Evil Spirit Group had been undermined by Hua Zhixiao after he went out to sea was still unimaginable to Bai Ye.
Considering he had been unconscious in Fanghu for over a month, that made it roughly three months in total. And she had dealt with the Evil Spirit Group just like that?
Bai Ye couldn't help but ask, "How did you do it?"
Hua Zhixiao replied, "It wasn't too difficult. Stensen employed a corporate management style, with layers of hierarchy. The people who could directly interact with him..."
Bai Ye waved his hand, interrupting, "I know about assassinating Stensen and supporting Gao Ming, but there are still more than a dozen people who could contact Stensen. How did you manage that?"
Hua Zhixiao smiled and said, "That wasn't difficult either. It was still due to Stensen's corporate management style."
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
This point puzzled Bai Ye. The Evil Spirit Group's corporate management had always been praised. In fact, Stensen's methodical management was the core reason for the Evil Spirit Group's rapid development to a point where they could contend with the Hidden Dragon Society.
Hua Zhixiao explained, "Stensen's so-called corporate management was a pyramid model. Stensen was the ultimate decision-maker, with managers below him, executors below the managers, team leaders below the executors, and then ordinary members."
"Each level of people was connected only to the levels above and below them, without interfering with each other. This is also why the Evil Spirit Group's internal management was orderly, with few disputes, because each of Stensen's direct lines extending downwards was equivalent to different departments."
Bai Ye stated, "I understand. Those dozen or so direct managers are the key..."
"No!" Hua Zhixiao interrupted with a smile and a shake of her head. "I swayed the executors."
Bai Ye froze for a moment, then asked, "Huh?"
Hua Zhixiao continued, "Although the managers appear to have great authority, they merely convey Stensen's decisions and delegate tasks. Without executors, they are essentially useless."
"This was Stensen's fatal flaw. This is a battlefield, not a company. He shouldn't have managed it entirely with a pyramid structure."
"There's no problem with a company doing this because the managers and decision-makers determine the interests of the lower-level employees. Executors are merely executors. To put it more directly, employees help the boss make money, and then the boss pays the employees, right?"
Bai Ye nodded.
"Since it's the employees making the money, why don't the employees do it themselves? The reason is simple: either the method of making money requires resources, and without company resources, employees cannot earn money, or the work of making money is broken down into many parts, and everyone needs to cooperate to earn money."
"But on the battlefield, the core of interest is combat. So, why do factions form? It's merely for mutual support. The need isn't for how much benefit there is, but for the assurance of receiving benefits. Secondly, if one person cannot obtain benefits, a group might be able to."
"However, what does this have to do with the management layer directly? During the development process, the management layer is certainly very valuable. But after the management system is established, the role of the management layer becomes less significant."
Bai Ye suddenly realized, "So, those dozen or so people weren't bribed, but rather sidelined?"
Hua Zhixiao smiled and nodded.
Bai Ye shook his head. "But don't the executors also need to be bribed?"
"Yes, but bribing them is much simpler because they are the core of interest," Hua Zhixiao said with a smile. "Doesn't an employee, while working, sometimes think that they work themselves to death for such little pay, while those in offices do nothing but earn so much more?"
Bai Ye nodded. "Naturally."
Hua Zhixiao elaborated, "But they can only think about it, because the core of interest isn't a single employee. Take a furniture company, for example. On the surface, the workers who make the furniture are key to generating revenue. But the company manager holds the client list, and negotiations are handled by the manager."
"So, as the chairman of a company, would you care more about a manager leaving or a worker leaving? Is the core of interest the worker, or the manager?"
Bai Ye stroked his chin. Honestly, this matter was a bit complex for Bai Ye, as it wasn't an area he was familiar with.
But he generally understood the gist. If an employee left, another could be hired. But if a manager left, the repercussions would be significant. Even with a client list, re-establishing contact and building rapport with clients would be necessary, and previously negotiated collaborations might need to be renegotiated due to the change in manager.
Hua Zhixiao explained, "Therefore, what I did was very simple: I gave the executors the benefits of the managers. They don't care if the leader is Stensen or who the management layer has changed to."
"They only know that by listening to me, everything remains the same, and their income will not only not decrease but will increase. And what I asked them to do was very simple: except for Gao Ming's orders, they were not to execute any other management orders."
Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, then slapped his thigh. This move was truly vicious.
No wonder Gao Ming felt that the entire management layer had been swayed. It was likely that in the eyes of those sidelined managers, Gao Ming was the only traitor.
Besides this, Bai Ye felt that Hua Zhixiao's decision not to directly interfere with the management of the Evil Spirit Group was also quite brilliant.
With a change of leadership, everyone would naturally wonder if the new boss was good, easy to get along with, stingy, generous with bonuses, and if welfare would improve.
There would certainly be suspicion. However, Hua Zhixiao had supported Gao Ming and had no intention of directly issuing orders to those executors, which naturally put them at ease.
Hua Zhixiao carefully sliced the peeled apple and brought it to Bai Ye's mouth. "Gao Ming is indecisive. You are now his last lifeline. This is evident from the fact that he sought you out immediately after your return. In your long-term cooperation, he has actually become very reliant on you. Therefore, whatever you say from now on, he will follow."
"With this, the Evil Spirit Group will be yours starting today."