Chapter 627 June 27th, Monday

Hantong University, in counselor Zhang Wei's office.

"Another donation? And another five million?" Zhang Wei's mouth hung slightly open, unable to close it for a long time.

This morning, Pei Qian had come to his office again, saying that he wanted to renew all the subsidies previously given to poor students, and donate an additional five million.

The previous five million was for 2,000 students, with a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan for five months, directly credited to their campus cards to ensure basic living expenses.

From December to now, the time had just arrived, and another five million was renewed.

In addition, Pei Qian wanted to add another five million, and it would be distributed in the form of scholarships.

It was still based on the current quota of poor students, selecting 500 students with excellent grades, with a scholarship of 10,000 yuan per person.

Pei Qian's goal was still the same as always: accurate poverty alleviation, no waste.

There are many poor people in this world, and although it is all charity and giving money, the effect is completely different when given to different people.

Some people are not aware that simply giving money cannot change their poor fate.

But for poor students, especially poor students with excellent grades, receiving this money can change their lives and make outstanding contributions to this society.

Pei Qian now has a charitable quota of 10 million yuan, which seems like a lot, but in reality, compared with the poor people in the world who need relief, it can still only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

His first goal is to ensure that the money is sent to those who need it most.

"Okay, Teacher Zhang, if there's nothing else, I'll go first."

Pei Qian came here mainly to solve this charitable money, and now that the matter is resolved, he should go back and continue to worry about how to lose money.

Zhang Wang and He Desheng's move of sharing phone booths and letting Learning is King promote Thriller Paradise has completely set Pei Qian up.

"Hey, wait, wait."

Zhang Wei hurriedly stopped Pei Qian: "Wait a minute, there's something else."

Pei Qian: "Hmm?"

Zhang Wei smiled and said: "I certainly support donating money to improve the lives of poor students, but... have you forgotten about the lecture we agreed on before?"

Pei Qian: "..."

He had indeed forgotten.

When he donated money for the first time, Zhang Wei said that he hoped to hold a lecture for Pei Qian, so that the senior students could talk about their experiences in employment or entrepreneurship.

After all, in Zhang Wei's view, Pei Qian is a proper business genius, and he would never believe that he had no experience to share.

But Pei Qian was also very helpless, I really have no experience to share!

Moreover, Pei Qian didn't want to show his face in front of these senior students, and didn't want to become a celebrity in the school, with students coming to him for jobs wherever he went.

But Zhang Wei had mentioned it twice, and he had already declined once, so it didn't seem appropriate to refuse again.

Pei Qian thought for a while: "Then... how about this."

"I'll find someone to give the lecture for me, and then I'll write the speech, so it's roughly equivalent to me giving the lecture, is that okay."

"As for the content of the lecture..."

"There's really nothing to talk about when it comes to experience in employment and entrepreneurship. Teacher Zhang, you also know that entrepreneurship is very accidental. My experience is basically unreplicable, and it may even be misleading."

"As for employment... Tendai now has unified exams, so doing more practice questions is better than anything else."

"Why don't I just talk to these poor students a little bit, the theme is, I hope they make good use of this money."

Zhang Wei thought for a while, and it seemed to be the case.

Entrepreneurial experience cannot be replicated, and talking too much about it may be misleading. Not to mention employment experience, that's all the responsibility of the Human Resources Department, and Pei Qian won't ask about it.

He has already donated 15 million to poor students, although it is not much per person, this money is not a small amount.

Giving them a lecture so that they can better use the money is reasonable and more appropriate than talking about entrepreneurial experience.

Zhang Wei nodded: "Okay, then I'll arrange it, and I'll send you the time and location directly to your phone."

...

After coming out of Zhang Wei's office, Pei Qian first called Tang Yishu.

"Xiao Tang, help me give a lecture to all the poor students Tendai has sponsored."

"What? Shy? No, this is a task, you have to go."

"The script? Oh, don't worry, I'll definitely send it to you before the speech."

"Okay, that's settled then."

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian called Assistant Xin again.

"Help me write a speech for poor students."

"There are no requirements for the content, just write something casually, and tell them to make good use of this wealth or something."

"When can it be completed?"

"Tomorrow morning? Okay, then send it directly to Xiao Tang when it's done."

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian felt relaxed.

Done, easily done!

In fact, Pei Qian didn't think too much, after all, he didn't do charity to show off or to gain fame, he simply wanted to provide assistance to some poor students, and also spend the system's charitable quota.

The only thing he was worried about was that some poor students would get the money and spend it in the wrong places.

Therefore, he arranged a speech to give these poor students as much positive guidance as possible.

Of course, the specific effect depends on how well Assistant Xin's script is written.

...

...

The next day, afternoon.

Hantong University Science Hall.

This is the largest hall in Hantong University, capable of accommodating more than 2,000 people. Its main uses are to hold large lectures, hold welcome parties, perform stage plays, and so on.

At this time, all the poor students were present, and the entire hall was almost full except for a few seats in the last row.

According to common sense, there should be a banner above the stage at this time, at least to clarify the theme of the lecture.

However, Pei Qian's script had not come out yet, and he didn't know what banner to hang.

But this is not the point after all, everyone knows what they are here to do.

The lecture hadn't started yet, and the poor students in the audience were all talking about it.

"Today's lecture, it is said that it will talk about the concept of wealth?"

"Shouldn't there be something wrong with our concept of wealth?"

"That's hard to say, I've also seen poor students eat steamed buns every day to buy Pineapple phones."

"That's right, we should talk about it properly. If someone takes this money to buy shoes, bags, or phones, are they even human?"

Zhang Wei was also sitting in the audience, thinking that this was too simple.

He originally wanted to add a few more links, after all, he had donated 10 million yuan, and it wouldn't be too much to hold a donation ceremony.

But Pei Qian sternly refused, and repeatedly emphasized that he would only do a simple speech, and no more steps, otherwise he would even cancel the speech.

Zhang Wei had no choice but to let nature take its course.

"I wonder who Pei Qian will let give the lecture."

"Vice President of the company? At least it has to be the Minister of the Human Resources Department, right?"

"Hey, that's strange, where's Xiao Tang?"

Zhang Wei remembered that Tang Yishu should also be a poor student, why didn't he see her?

However, while he was wondering, he saw Tang Yishu holding the speech manuscript and appearing from backstage, walking all the way to the podium in the center of the stage.

Zhang Wei: "..."

...

Tang Yishu stood in the center of the stage, looking at the dark crowd below, she became even more nervous.

When she came here for rehearsal in the morning, there were unexplained malfunctions with two microphones. The staff was just about to take them for repair when they inexplicably returned to normal, making people confused.

Now Tang Yishu has no other requirements, she just hopes that this microphone will not have any more problems.

"E-everyone..."

"Good afternoon, everyone."

Tang Yishu carefully said the opening remarks, fortunately, the microphone was working properly.

It seems that the misfortunes were used up by the accidents in the morning.

"Today, President Pei, who donated living allowances and scholarships, was unable to attend due to busy work. Therefore, I will read this letter to all the students on his behalf, hoping to give you some inspiration."

Tang Yishu paused slightly and began to clearly read the speech in her hand.

"Dear younger students, hello everyone. I am very sorry that I cannot attend due to work reasons. I can only use this letter to convey my vision and expectations to you, and share some experiences about life."

"Perhaps many people think that I am going to talk about how to use the money in hand."

"Perhaps some students are worried that some people will take the scholarship money to buy things that have no practical significance and can only enhance vanity."

"But, everyone understands similar principles, and I don't want to talk about them again."

"I want to change the angle and explore the issue of the concept of wealth."

"That is, what is the real wealth that we possess and should cherish?"

"Most of the students present should not think that they have ever possessed and are possessing superior wealth."

"I believe everyone has had such confusion: how can I have wealth?"

"Some people spend most of their energy on part-time jobs in order to have wealth, which affects their studies;"

"Some people are reluctant to eat their fill and buy necessary study supplies because of poverty, and hoard all their money like misers, as if spending money will lose their sense of security."

"I want to tell everyone that these are wrong concepts of wealth, wasting their real wealth for a small amount of money."

"Please think about a question: what are you going to exchange for in order to have wealth?"

"If you are a blacksmith in ancient times, one day, you have no food to eat. In order to obtain food, you have three ways to go:"

"Grow it yourself."

"Steal it, rob it."

"Make a farm tool and exchange it with the farmer."

"Most people will choose the third way. Everyone will find that as long as they produce ironware for continuous exchange, they will become richer and richer. Therefore, the basis for obtaining wealth is 'exchange'."

"Then, if you choose to grow it yourself, or steal it or rob it, isn't there any exchange?"

"No."

"The first option is actually exchanging your own time, labor, and farming experience; the second option is actually exchanging force, risk, the weapons you carry, and the preparations you make for the crime."

"So, no matter which option you choose, it is essentially an exchange, and the cost will not be lower than making a farm tool."

"Every choice you make to obtain wealth is essentially an exchange."

"So, apart from those parts that are destined at birth and that you cannot control, what is the real wealth that we possess and can be used for exchange?"

"Is it money? No, it doesn't really belong to us. It's just the numerical form of the part of wealth that you have already exchanged."

"Is it time? No, the passage of time does not depend on human will."

"Is it the body? This is indeed the wealth you possess, but if you use it to exchange for wealth, you will definitely fall into annoyance."

"Everyone's greatest wealth is actually 'attention', or 'energy'."

"If you want to earn money through work, it is useless to just sit in the office. You have to focus your attention on work and then use your knowledge to solve problems."

"And knowledge is learned in the classroom and at work with attention."

"Apart from the parts we cannot control, the only wealth we have is attention."

"The concept of wealth that I want to share with you today is, how should we use our attention?"

"Perhaps, many people will waste it;"

"Perhaps, many people will be harvested by some merchants with ulterior motives;"

"Perhaps, it will be analyzed and utilized in the form of big data."

"Many students complain about why they were born poor, why they were born unequal. This kind of resentful emotion will destroy you, make you waste your attention, and make your life a failure."

"And if we want to change our destiny, we must project our attention on ourselves."

"Read a book for an hour every day, and over time, you will gain unimaginable improvement."

"Therefore, I hope that the students who get this money will not save it all and be reluctant to spend it; nor should they buy some meaningless things that are only used to satisfy their vanity; and they should not spend it on some entertainment activities that distract their attention and make them addicted."

"Spend this money where it is really needed: to improve yourself."

"Always remember that attention is the most precious wealth of all of us. I hope everyone can make good use of it and treat it well."

"This is the superficial knowledge about wealth that I want to share with you."