Chapter 157 The Inevitable Outcome

Hearing the number "five thousand," a ripple stirred in Meng Chang's eyes, previously as stagnant as a pool of dead water.

"Huh? Five thousand?"

"Didn't you say before that the base salary was four thousand, and if I persisted for two weeks, there would be a guaranteed commission of two thousand?"

"Now there's no guaranteed commission... does this mean you see how hard I'm working, so you're adding an extra thousand as encouragement?"

Meng Chang suddenly felt a little touched.

Although the money wasn't much, it was still quite heartwarming.

Pei Qian was taken aback. "Huh? Did I only mention a base salary of one thousand before?"

"Sorry, I misremembered. I always thought I mentioned two thousand."

"Then we still have to follow the agreement..."

Meng Chang: "..."

The light in his eyes quickly dimmed again, replaced by a confused, perplexed, and incredulous expression.

This was too infuriating!

Even if you misremembered, shouldn't you just go along with it and give me an extra thousand?

How can you take back what you've already said?

You're doing this on purpose! You're deliberately trying to anger me, right?

Meng Chang was silent for a moment. "President Pei, I quit! I want to terminate the agreement!"

Pei Qian quickly stood up. "Don't be impulsive! Let's talk this over calmly. Don't break up just because we don't agree."

"How about this? Seeing how hard you've been working, I'll personally pay you an extra thousand! What do you think?"

Hearing that Meng Chang wanted to quit, Pei Qian panicked a little.

He couldn't quit! If he quit, where would he find someone with his talent for publicity?

He couldn't trust anyone else!

Only because Meng Chang had a huge debt could Pei Qian manipulate him at will, using this method to stimulate him to do reverse publicity diligently for him.

Although Meng Chang hadn't had any successful publicity cases so far, he had one big advantage: he wouldn't be corrupted by the Tengda spirit.

If it were someone else, they might quickly become completely brainwashed, causing the entire advertising and marketing department to quickly fall, becoming useless except for making money and stabbing President Pei in the heart, just like the other departments.

So, Meng Chang couldn't leave!

The advertising and marketing department wasn't complete without Meng Chang!

To keep Meng Chang, Pei Qian was going all out. The system wouldn't reimburse this extra thousand; he had to pay it out of his own pocket.

Fortunately, for President Pei now, although he wasn't losing much money and the personal property he had converted wasn't that much, he had saved up a sum of money by eating and drinking at the company in various ways.

His personal property had already exceeded three million.

He could definitely take out a thousand.

The money wasn't much, but he was a little reluctant to take it out. But for the sake of longer-term benefits, to keep Meng Chang, he couldn't skimp on this money.

Meng Chang's face turned green. "President Pei, I've made up my mind! Nothing you say will change it!"

Meng Chang had completely exploded because of this thousand.

What was President Pei saying?

He'd personally pay me an extra thousand?

There were too many flaws to even know where to begin!

All of Tengda is yours. Aren't all those publicity expenses of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars allocated to the advertising and marketing department by you? You can spend it however you want!

Just scrape a few copper coins from the publicity expenses, and you could solve my base salary and commissions for a long time! Do you need to pay it out of your own pocket?

And even if you're paying it out of your own pocket, why do you seem so conflicted about a thousand?

The entire Tengda is your private property, not to mention the cash flow, you've bought several buildings. Your net worth must be in the billions! It wouldn't be difficult to take out ten million on the spot!

But you're acting like it's a big decision to take out a thousand?

Keep acting!

If the Oscars don't give you a little golden man, I'll be the first to object!

Originally, after being tortured for so long, Meng Chang's ability to perceive money had severely declined.

Or rather, had it become more sensitive?

In the past, when he squandered investors' money, he didn't blink an eye at hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and was very carefree.

But now, he didn't know why, he was agonizing over this base salary of a few thousand for so long.

He suddenly realized that this was not the life he should be living.

He wasn't going to do it anymore. He wouldn't suffer this kind of grievance here no matter what!

Meng Chang looked resolute.

No matter how eloquent you are, I will never be fooled by you again!

Pei Qian saw Meng Chang's expression and felt that something was wrong.

Was the only person in the entire Tengda Group who was on the same page as him about to leave?

"Here, have a cup of tea to calm down. Don't be impulsive."

"Think about it again. There's still a long time in the future."

"We signed a ten-year agreement, and less than half a year has passed so far. We're not even close to the end!"

Meng Chang was about to take a sip of tea when he heard this and immediately put the cup down.

"Then I'm leaving even more!"

Pei Qian: "..."

Alright, he misunderstood again.

Pei Qian quickly explained, "What I meant was that, through our unremitting efforts, your publicity plan is getting closer and closer to success."

"Maybe in a few more months, you'll be able to get the full commission?"

"You're only having a rough start and getting a base salary for a few months. It would be unwise to give up the high commissions of the next ten years because of this little setback!"

Pei Qian reasoned with him in the hopes of dissuading Meng Chang from running away.

However, Meng Chang gave a polite smile, his face full of "hehe."

He meant, "You've been lying to me for so many months. Do you really plan to lie to me for ten years?"

Although he was a person with bad credit and it wasn't easy to find a job, Meng Chang was still very confident in himself. Even if he had failed in his entrepreneurship, what difficulty would there be in earning thirty to fifty thousand a month by honestly working for someone else?

At Tengda, although he could potentially earn a commission of 200,000 a month in the most ideal situation, which would greatly accelerate the speed of repaying his debts, the money was like a carrot dangling in front of a donkey, which he could only see but not eat. What was the point of not being able to get it in his hands?

Moreover, going outside to work would be a continuous accumulation. He might earn less at the beginning, but he might earn more and more in the future, and there would still be hope of repaying the money in advance.

Therefore, Meng Chang was determined to leave.

No matter how eloquent President Pei was, he would never be deceived again!

Pei Qian was also a little helpless. It seemed that Meng Chang was determined to leave.

For a moment, he regretted that he hadn't made the liability for breach of contract heavier when signing the agreement...

The agreement that was signed at the time didn't set the liability for breach of contract too rigidly. It only stipulated that the breaching party had to pay liquidated damages at a certain percentage of the original amount of the debt.

The liability for breach of contract was the lightest for the three-year period and the heaviest for the ten-year period, but the heaviest liquidated damages were only 30% of the original amount of the debt.

Of course, Meng Chang owed several million, so the liquidated damages would have to be more than one million.

But Meng Chang was clearly in a state of not caring about fleas or debts. He would have to repay several million anyway, so what was one million in liquidated damages?

But there was nothing he could do, because Pei Qian didn't dare to set the liquidated damages too high when he made this agreement at the time, for fear of scaring Meng Chang away.

If Pei Qian had set the liquidated damages at ten times the debt at the beginning, tens of millions, then Meng Chang would definitely feel that there was a huge conspiracy in it and would not sign the agreement at all.

It was precisely because the liquidated damages were not that much that Meng Chang was hooked.

So, there was no point in regretting it now.

Pei Qian silently took a sip of tea and continued to think of new arguments.

"Meng Chang, I think we all need to calm down and weigh the pros and cons."

"When you work here, I'm waiving all the interest on your debt for you. This can also be regarded as a benefit for you as a Tengda employee. If you go to other companies, I definitely have no reason to continue waiving this interest, right?"

"I won't calculate too much, and it would be bullying you to calculate at the highest interest rate for private lending. But even according to normal bank commercial loans, if you pay back these millions for ten or twenty years, calculate how much interest that will be."

"Are you sure you want to leave Tengda?"

Pei Qian didn't know exactly how much the money was, but those who borrowed money to buy a house knew that the interest rate of bank loans seemed not high, but once the time was extended to ten or twenty years, it was also a quite terrifying figure.

It was not an exaggeration that the interest alone might have to pay back two or three million for a loan of five million.

He could only get tough if soft tactics didn't work. Since Meng Chang was determined to leave, Pei Qian didn't mind being a villain.

Meng Chang: "..."

He didn't expect President Pei to have this trick. It was too despicable!

Originally, he had only considered the liquidated damages and felt that he could endure the money of more than one million if he gritted his teeth.

But if he added the interest, he couldn't endure it!

If he calculated like this, the debt would almost double, and the difficulty of going out to work and repaying the debt would increase sharply, almost becoming an impossible task.

Meng Chang slumped on the sofa, feeling a little hopeless.

"President Pei, you must be happy to see me die, right?"

"I understand now. This was a trap from the beginning. You just want me to work for you for free for the rest of my life!"

"I just wanted to cheat investors out of some money at the beginning. There are many entrepreneurs who cheat money, why are you just tormenting me alone..."

Meng Chang didn't pretend anymore and meant to give up.

Pei Qian felt that this state was not right.

Don't give up on yourself!

He quickly cleared his throat twice. "You misunderstood. I definitely don't mean to trick you in any way. I'm also sincerely doing it for your own good and want you to pay off your debts as soon as possible!"

Meng Chang said "hehe." "President Pei, do you believe what you're saying? If you hadn't been messing around, I would have gotten a high commission a long time ago!"

Pei Qian: "?"

How can this pot be thrown on my head?

Haven't I been helping you all along?

This was simply biting the hand that feeds you!

Pei Qian said, "Okay, I won't argue with you about the previous few times. You just tell me about the publicity plan for the Inspiration Class this time. Can you blame that on me too?"

"Does it have anything to do with me?"

Meng Chang opened his mouth and was momentarily speechless.

It seemed that... it really had nothing to do with President Pei.

Thinking carefully about the publicity plan for the Inspiration Class this time, the reason why it had a good publicity effect was mainly because many coincidences were superimposed together, producing a strange chemical reaction.

Teacher Qiao and Yu Fei's wrong remarks were one aspect, and the netizens' wrong brain supplement was another aspect.

The correct conclusion was deduced through the wrong known conditions.

And in this process, President Pei really had no pot, because President Pei couldn't manipulate the netizens.

If President Pei himself or hinted other official personnel to leak the news of the Inspiration Class copyright development, some clues could definitely be found on the Internet; and if President Pei anonymously released the news, it would not have much credibility, and the netizens would definitely not buy it.

Only when the netizens all spontaneously reasoned and believed all this would the current situation be created.

In other words, it was really not appropriate to pin this pot on President Pei.

Let alone the previous few times, President Pei really had no pot this time.

Meng Chang's mouth twitched slightly. "Then I'm leaving even more! If you hadn't interfered and instead fully supported me, but still failed in the end, it would mean that the difficulty of this matter has far exceeded my imagination, and the chances of success are very slim."

"Then what am I still insisting on?"

Pei Qian: "..."

This Meng Chang was also a little logic master and not easy to fool.

But it didn't matter, he would increase the fooling effort.

It was even necessary to come forward in person and prove it to him.

Pei Qian thought for a while and continued, "In my opinion, how about this."

"Next month, I will personally make a publicity plan for you, and you will do it according to my publicity plan."

"I can't guarantee that it will last a whole month, but two weeks should still be possible."

"If my plan also fails, then we will discuss the matter of breaking up."

"If my plan succeeds, lasts for two weeks, and helps you get the guaranteed commission, it would mean that there is something wrong with the publicity plan you made. You should no longer mention the matter of breaking up, and honestly settle down to think about how to promote it later."

"What do you think?"

Meng Chang blinked, completely not expecting President Pei to propose this.

The current situation was equivalent to Meng Chang complaining that the job was too difficult and saying, "You can do it if you can."

As a result, President Pei said, "I'll do it if I can. You can watch and learn. I'll prove that it's not the job that's difficult, but that you're too useless."

Originally, Meng Chang didn't want to stay, but after hearing what President Pei said, he felt that he could stay for another month to see how President Pei operated.

If President Pei could really complete the reverse publicity, maybe he could really prove that there was something wrong with his previous publicity methods?

At that time, he could learn President Pei's publicity ideas and continue to pursue the highest commission of 200,000.

In short, it wouldn't hurt to stay for another month to see how President Pei operated.

Thinking of this, Meng Chang nodded. "Okay, then I'll stay for another month. If you can really get the guaranteed commission next month and convince me, then I'll continue to do it."

"However, I have a request."

"Can I designate the publicity project next month?"

Pei Qian couldn't help being surprised.

Yo, he had learned to turn the tables?

Before, Pei Qian would designate the publicity project for Meng Chang and choose one from several projects that were about to go online. Meng Chang would always choose the wrong answer.

Now Meng Chang also wanted to be the questioner?

Pei Qian nodded. "No problem."

The real brave are those who dare to face challenges head-on.

For Pei Qian, all of Tengda's projects were approved by him, and all the heads of the industries were appointed by him. He was confident that he could come up with a suitable reverse publicity plan for any project.

Although the final result would most likely be a failure, it shouldn't be a big problem to persist for two weeks.

He should first find a way to keep Meng Chang!