Chapter 1671 The Throne Is Empty (Grand Finale)

Inside the conference room on the top floor of Tenda Group's headquarters building, department heads were gathered, briefly reporting on their respective departments' work.

Xin Hailu presided over the meeting.

According to the original framework of the heads of departments meeting, some decisions should have been made by President Pei, but after President Pei left, the position of president had remained vacant. Some decisions were made jointly by five senior executives.

These were Xin Hailu, Ma Yang, Huang Sibo, Lü Mingliang, and Meng Chang.

All five of them now held the position of Senior Vice President of the Group, but Xin Hailu's status was higher, while the other four corresponded to different industries.

Huang Sibo mainly represented the company's cultural and creative industries, including the game and film departments.

Ma Yang represented the company's physical industries, such as Moyu Internet Cafe, Moyu Delivery, and trustee gyms.

Lü Mingliang was responsible for the company's supporting service industries, such as Nifeng Logistics and Shulan Apartments. The difference between him and Ma Yang was that he mainly considered how these industries could create greater social value, and losses were acceptable.

Meng Chang's situation was the most special. After paying off all his debts, he won the universal recognition of the heads of departments with his series of contributions. After all, Meng Chang had received President Pei's true teachings, and he did have real talent and learning.

Meng Chang was mainly responsible for the company's publicity and marketing.

However, Meng Chang's job function was not just to make a few publicity plans. Because of the particularity of Tenda Group, the publicity plan of an industry was closely related to the planning layout and product ecology of the entire industry.

Therefore, Meng Chang could have a certain influence on most departments, and his power was not small.

Although the other department heads' positions were not as high as these five, their words also carried weight. If a certain resolution was strongly protested by some veteran heads, then everyone would conduct a full discussion in combination with the Tenda spirit and reach a consensus.

In this process, it could not be guaranteed that every decision made was absolutely correct, after all, truth was sometimes in the hands of a few people.

But overall, as long as everyone put their own position into President Pei, imagining how he would make a decision if President Pei was still sitting in that president's position, then the final decision would generally be the least bad decision.

This was the first heads of departments meeting of the new year, and it also represented that President Pei had been away from Tenda Group for a full year.

In this year, Tenda Group had not had any problems. It had not only developed rapidly, but even developed faster and better than before!

Of course, no one would think that President Pei was holding Tenda Group back, but only that President Pei had laid a good foundation for Tenda Group, so even if President Pei was gone, Tenda Group would continue to develop in accordance with the established direction!

The heads of departments began to report on the development achievements of their respective departments in the past year.

After President Pei overruled all objections and formally acquired Finger Company and merged IOI and GOG, after a year of in-depth integration, from games to the esports industry, these two games had become inseparable, becoming the most-played games in the world, and had become a cultural phenomenon.

The studio left behind after Finger Company was merged specialized in the research and development of overseas heroes. In addition, the merger of the two games allowed GOG to have a large number of heroes loved by foreign players, thus quickly seizing the global market.

The global finals held in the second half of last year were unprecedented. The number of people watching online at the same time broke the previous record. In the future, this dominant position will continue and eventually become a special cultural symbol.

Tenda Group's layout in the game industry also played an important role. The incubation base and Chaolu Game Platform and Chaolu Game Editor greatly improved the entire domestic game environment, and a number of excellent domestic independent game producers and excellent game works emerged again.

Feihuang Studio continued to shoot movies, sometimes cooperating with excellent works from Zhongdian Chinese Website, and sometimes linking up with the game department.

In terms of catering, catering brands such as Wuming Restaurant, Moyu Delivery, Xiaochi Jishi, and Lengmian Guniang developed rapidly and became domestic specialty chains, to a certain extent causing a sniping effect on foreign fast food brands and changing the dietary habits of Chinese people.

Delivery was no longer a synonym for unhealthy, but had become a new way of life.

Physical stores such as Moyu Internet Cafe, trustee gyms, and Xingniao Virtual Sports Experience Stores had opened all over the country, enriching people's daily lives.

While Nifeng Logistics and Moyu Delivery allowed many people to enjoy high-quality catering and shopping experiences without leaving their homes, these physical stores encouraged people to go out, to a certain extent improving the sluggish state of physical stores and stimulating the development of the physical economy.

Subsequent amusement projects at Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) and Lengnuan Zizhi Animal Paradise were also under continuous development. According to Tenda Group's plan, this place would become a Tenda theme park in the future, striving to reproduce all of Tenda's classic game and film IPs in the park.

In the future, Tenda Group also planned to build Tenda theme parks of the same scale in other super-first-tier cities such as Didu and Modu, and even open theme parks abroad, creating different cultural landmarks for each city!

In addition, industries such as Shulan Apartments, Jifeng New Energy Vehicles, Tenda Experience Stores, Luxury clothing brands, Tuwei Live, TPDB website, Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel), Otu Technology, and Zhongdian Chinese Website were also upgrading their businesses to provide users with better services.

Tenda Group had truly penetrated into all areas of users' lives, but this penetration was not infiltration and control, but comprehensive support and promotion.

Under the pressure of Tenda Group, other Internet companies had to make changes. Whether it was food delivery, express delivery, or ride-hailing software, in order to cope with the pressure from Tenda Group, they had to provide users with more conscientious services and reduce the collection of user information.

Because they all knew very well that once they went too far and aroused public resentment, Tenda Group would immediately take action and make them disappear completely.

And if they wanted to survive, they had to provide relatively high-quality services like Tenda Group, and maintain their image and reputation in the minds of the people.

As early as the second half of last year, there was a trend saying that the Internet winter was coming.

This was also normal because in the Internet era, the favor of capital had led these high-tech giant companies to start disorderly expansion, and behind this disorderly expansion was a money-burning war, inflated valuations, and attempts to earn the last penny from users.

When the entire Internet economy changed from an incremental era to a stock era, the Internet winter was bound to come, and the entire industry had to tighten its belt and live its life, and could no longer be as extravagant as before.

But for Tenda Group, it had not been affected too much.

Because although Tenda Group also had some Internet industries, these industries all had solid physical industries as their support and were deeply supported by the general public.

And it was precisely the previous rich accumulation and perfect organizational structure that allowed Tenda Group to not only avoid being affected by this Internet winter, but also to be commended many times, as an excellent department to accept learning from other Internet companies!

The heads of departments spoke one after another, and one resolution after another was rapidly advanced. The entire Tenda Group was still moving forward by leaps and bounds along the original track.

...

At the same time.

A young man wearing a baseball cap got out of the car in the underground parking lot of Tenda Group.

"Just wait for me here. I'll be back in a while. Don't notify anyone that I've come."

Xiao Sun immediately nodded: "Okay, President Pei."

Pei Qian stepped out of the car.

Returning to Tenda Group headquarters again, he was really a bit emotional.

Before he left last year, this headquarters building had not been completely completed, and the various departments of Tenda Group were still scattered in different office locations in Jingzhou City.

A year later, he returned again. A year of running around and studying had matured him a lot, but it seemed that Tenda Group had changed even more.

Such a huge headquarters building showed the outside world Tenda Group's strong financial resources, and it finally had a bit of the flavor of a giant company.

Pei Qian stepped towards the elevator, preparing to wander around this new headquarters building.

More than half an hour later, he finally came to the first floor.

"Who is so lacking in virtue? Making a maze in the parking lot. I haven't found the way for a whole half hour."

"If someone who knows the way hadn't led me over, I guess I would have been trapped to death inside!"

"Wait, this seems to have been my idea back then, then never mind."

Pei Qian spent a full half hour in the maze in the underground parking lot. If he hadn't consciously strengthened his physical exercise in the past year, otherwise, with his previous weak physique, it would probably have been impossible for him to visit the headquarters building today.

Fortunately, there were balance bikes to ride after arriving on the first floor.

Pei Qian rode a balance bike around the building and played some games in the entertainment area.

During this time, some places required swiping a work card to enter. However, Pei Qian had prepared in advance. He had already obtained the highest-level work card, so these places were naturally unimpeded.

Occasionally, some employees walked through the company headquarters, but none of them recognized Pei Qian.

After all, the old acquaintances that President Pei knew were all the oldest employees of the company. At this time, they were either department heads or vice presidents of the company, and they were all busy working in the office.

Pei Qian felt that this was also very good. He didn't intend to tell others that he was back. He just wanted to come over and take a look at the situation of the new headquarters.

After a simple tour, Pei Qian took the elevator directly to the president's office on the top floor of the headquarters building.

After swiping his card to enter, Pei Qian was a little speechless.

The president's office was very spacious, with huge floor-to-ceiling windows that offered an unobstructed view of the outside scenery. Moreover, the president's office was obviously cleaned frequently and was spotless, as if it was waiting for President Pei to return and use it at any time.

But...

The style of the seat and desk in this empty president's office was exactly the same as what was presented in the game *You Choose the Future*.

Pei Qian called out, "Good heavens!" Life was full of surprises, and Tenda Group was worthy of being an entertainment company, full of entertainment spirit everywhere.

After sitting on the wide seat for a while, Pei Qian got up and left.

This office was very spacious and grand, but he was a little uncomfortable. Relatively speaking, he still preferred the working environment at Shenhua Haojing at the beginning, where he mingled with the employees.

He left the president's office and wandered around to other places on the same floor, and found that there was no one in the vice president's offices either.

"Why isn't anyone here? Oh, it's also possible that they are in a meeting."

Pei Qian looked at the time and realized that it might be time for the heads of departments' regular meeting, so there was no one in the vice president's office.

He looked at the nameplates on these offices. There were Xin Hailu's, Ma Yang's, Huang Sibo's, Lü Mingliang's offices, and also Meng Chang's office.

"I didn't expect Meng Chang to really become the company's vice president. It seems that smart people are smart people. Although they went astray before, as long as they correct themselves, realize their mistakes, they can quickly get on the right path."

Regarding the use of Meng Chang, Pei Qian didn't actually specifically instruct anything. It was just that the vice president's position in Tenda Group was now occupied by those with virtue. As long as they had real talent and learning and could obtain the unanimous recognition of the heads of departments, they could hold this position!

Meng Chang was originally rejected by the heads of departments, but now he was able to become the vice president, which shows that he had contributed a lot to Tenda Group in the past year.

It also had to be admitted that although smart people like Meng Chang could do great harm when they did bad things, they could indeed make outstanding contributions after turning over a new leaf.

Pei Qian swiped his card at the door of Meng Chang's office, and the door opened automatically.

Pei Qian's card had the highest authority and could open any door. Of course, the door of Meng Chang's vice president's office was no exception.

In fact, Pei Qian didn't intend to do anything. He was just curious to take a look, and then he would turn around and leave without letting Meng Chang realize that he had been there.

As a result, he found that there was a video editing project on the huge computer display that was not closed.

Obviously, Meng Chang was working on this video editing project before the meeting and didn't have time to save and close it.

Pei Qian was a little curious. It made sense that Meng Chang, as the head of the publicity department and the company's vice president, shouldn't need to edit videos himself, right?

Out of curiosity, Pei Qian went over and took a closer look at the video title and the video copy in the adjacent document.

"Young Master Tian???"

Pei Qian was shocked to find that this was actually Young Master Tian's latest video.

He clicked on the folder where this video was located in disbelief and found several previous videos of Young Master Tian.

And the video project that was under construction and being edited revealed a naked reality. Young Master Tian's series of videos were made by Meng Chang!

Pei Qian was dumbfounded.

"That's not right, wasn't Young Master Tian's video made by Tian Mo? It had already been confirmed at that time, and even the person who edited the video for him had been found."

"The two of them were sent to Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) together. This matter is over."

"And I asked Meng Chang back then. I asked him to guess who Young Master Tian was, and he pointed out Tian Mo on the spot."

"What's going on? Could it be that Meng Chang is Young Master Tian?"

"But why did Meng Chang come up with such a name?"

Pei Qian tried hard to think, giving full play to his ability to imagine, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Young Master Tian? Lord Mengchang?" (A famous Chinese nobleman known for his hospitality)

"Damn it! Meng Chang, you pit-dad thing!"

Pei Qian, who instantly understood the truth, almost wanted to curse.

If he hadn't accidentally discovered the truth, Tian Heiquan's unjust case would probably never have been redressed.

Now thinking about it, Tian Mo was really wronged. Such an honest person took the blame for Meng Chang.

And the most annoying thing was that Meng Chang not only perfectly got rid of the blame, but had never been discovered, and successfully escaped President Pei's sanctions.

Pei Qian was very angry, and the consequences were serious.

Such bad behavior must be severely punished!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian took a pen and paper from the side and wrote a few words on it.

"Voluntarily accept punishment, Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) and Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) for three months each."

Then he signed his name at the end.

Pei Qian's handwriting was not very good-looking, but fortunately, the style was relatively obvious. These heads of departments should be able to recognize it, and Meng Chang was even less likely to mistake it.

Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) and Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) for three months each, this half a year. Should be enough to achieve the effect of punishing Meng Chang.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian left Meng Chang's office with a feeling of guilt towards Tian Mo.

He closed the door of Meng Chang's office, but forgot to close the door of the president's office as well.

...

About half an hour later, the heads of departments meeting was over, and Meng Chang returned to his office.

The heads of departments meeting made him a little tired. He did not return to his desk immediately, but sat down on the single sofa in the reception area next to him to rest.

As his thoughts gradually emptied, Meng Chang's mind began to become active.

"Alas, after entering Tenda Group, I deeply realized what a frog in the well I was before."

"I originally thought that it would be enough to just deceive some investors' money, but after seeing President Pei, I realized what a real hero is."

"Building such a behemoth as Tenda Group, this is what a hero does."

"It's just that without President Pei, this peerless genius's leadership, these heads of departments in Tenda Group still seem a bit pedantic."

"President Pei has been gone for a full year, and there has been no news. If President Pei really doesn't come back, will I be able to sit in the position of President of Tenda Group one day?"

Meng Chang has always been an ambitious person, and also a capable person.

Before, in Tenda Group, he had President Pei suppressing him, so he could only do things cautiously and dared not have the slightest delusion.

But President Pei was gone, and he naturally had some other ideas.

In his opinion, the other heads of the company were all very capable, but they didn't have much ambition. Many decisions that could make Tenda Group develop faster were rejected by these heads of departments.

And the reason for the rejection was that it did not conform to President Pei's expectations and the Tenda spirit.

Although Meng Chang agreed on the surface, he somewhat disagreed in his heart.

Of course, in terms of the current structure of Tenda Group, the more money Tenda Group earns, the less it will be directly linked to the income of these heads of departments. They can only use the company's funds to do projects in accordance with the company's regulations.

But what Meng Chang sought was not money, because he and Fan Xiaodong could make money through other means.

Meng Chang longed to become President Pei's successor and become the new helmsman of Tenda Group. This kind of social status and the feeling of being admired by thousands of people was what he wanted.

Therefore, among the many heads of departments, Meng Chang was obviously the relatively radical one.

His idea would of course be resisted by the other heads of departments, so Meng Chang did not dare to express it too obviously, and could only consider gradually achieving his goal through subtle means.

Thinking of this, Meng Chang stood up and returned to his desk, intending to complete the new video of Young Master Tian.

But just then, he saw the piece of white paper on his desk.

The following line was written on it.

"Voluntarily accept punishment, Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) and Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) for three months each, Pei Qian."

Seeing this line, Meng Chang was so scared that he almost jumped up. The whole person looked like he had seen a ghost, and his face instantly turned pale.

He looked around in horror, then looked at the note in his hand, and confirmed again and again that it was really President Pei's handwriting.

Meng Chang clearly remembered that there was no such note on the table before he went to the heads of departments meeting, which meant that President Pei had been to the company during this period, and had entered his office, leaving this note.

Meng Chang looked at his computer desktop very nervously, realizing that President Pei was likely to have seen something in his computer.

It could only be said that the importance of setting a password to lock the computer screen was highlighted at this time.

Meng Chang did not set a screen lock password, mainly because the office door required swiping a card to open, and he was not worried that others would secretly run into his office.

But he never expected that President Pei, who had the highest authority, would come back!

Meng Chang looked at this line and couldn't help but be terrified.

Going to Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) and Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) for three months each was obviously a very serious punishment. Even from the handwriting, Meng Chang could vaguely feel that President Pei seemed to be suppressing his anger when he wrote this line.

Why was President Pei angry?

Meng Chang was very panicked.

If according to the idea of ordinary people, there was nothing else in the entire office, only Young Master Tian's video was on the computer screen. Naturally, they would think that President Pei was angry because he saw Young Master Tian's video.

But the problem was that Meng Chang knew that President Pei knew that he was Young Master Tian, and he had acquiesced to it.

In other words, President Pei had no reason to be angry because of this matter.

"Could it be that President Pei saw some of my work content in my computer? And discovered the signs of my loose thinking?"

Meng Chang instantly felt like he had fallen into an ice cave, terrified.

The thoughts in his heart had always been buried in his heart and had never been told to anyone.

Of course, Meng Chang did not want to subvert Tenda Group, but the perfect route he envisioned was different from the route planned by President Pei and the route that other heads of departments wanted to take.

Meng Chang did not dare and could not really let Tenda embark on the road of capital, but his personal ideas and ambitions would drive him to make some decisions that were relatively deviated from the Tenda spirit in the specific decisions of certain fields.

Although he had not expressed these ideas very clearly, he would more or less reveal some clues in some of his work content.

Meng Chang was very sure that President Pei had mostly seen his work content and had keenly captured this sign of loose thinking from it, so he was very disappointed in Meng Chang and put forward this request for punishment!

Although the punishment of three months each for Shoukǔ Travel (Sufferings Travel) and Jingji Lushe (Horror Dormitory) did not seem light, this punishment also meant that President Pei gave Meng Chang a chance to turn over a new leaf. Otherwise, this note would have said to let Meng Chang resign himself.

Meng Chang slumped in his chair, feeling like he had walked through the gates of hell.

That familiar feeling was back!

Whenever he self-righteously wanted to do something, he would always find that all of this could not escape President Pei's eyes.

"President Pei is really too scary."

"What does he mean by leaving Tenda Group and no longer paying attention to the company? But in fact, every move of the company and even the subtle changes in my heart have not escaped President Pei's eyes!"

"Fortunately, the matter I committed this time is not very big, and President Pei has still left me some face."

Meng Chang was terrified for a while, he immediately put away his dangerous thoughts, and then called Fan Xiaodong.

He decided to donate 70% of his income from outside investments to the Chuji Program!

There was no way, since he had been caught by President Pei, he could only spend money to avoid disaster and express his loyalty to President Pei.

The Chuji Program, as Tenda's largest-scale charity event, had been proceeding in a low-key manner, and its coverage had expanded from Handong Province to most of the rural areas of the country.

Many children had been given the opportunity to continue their studies and further their education because of this program, and many children had guaranteed the nutrition of meat, eggs, and milk during the critical period of their growth because of this program.

In the future, the Chuji Program would continue to expand its scale and continue to help more people.

However, so far, the Chuji Program had not been widely exposed, and Tenda Group had not done much publicity.

Meng Chang felt that President Pei might have wanted to use the Chuji Program as a trump card to deal with the Anti-Tenda Alliance.

At the critical moment of the public opinion war, the exposure of this charity program might play a role in reversing the battle.

It was just that the Anti-Tenda Alliance was too useless, and it was not used.

Of course, this was just Meng Chang's guess. Or perhaps, President Pei just wanted to do charity in a down-to-earth manner and never thought about exposing it, or even deliberately avoiding letting others know.

With Tenda's current situation, it was no longer short of a good reputation.

In that case, let's just keep the Chuji Program low-key. What does it matter whether others know about it or not?

After arranging all of this, Meng Chang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

President Pei's words and actions always brought him great pressure, making him feel that his little cleverness was seen through by President Pei at a glance.

Just then, he heard what seemed to be the sound of discussion outside.

Meng Chang left his office and found that Xin Hailu, Huang Sibo, Lü Mingliang, Ma Yang, and others were gathered at the door of the president's office.

And the door of the president's office, which was only opened at a fixed time in the morning for cleaning, was now open, and there was no one inside.

The other vice presidents were a little surprised.

"Who opened this door?"

"Could it be that President Pei came back?"

"But why didn't President Pei close the door when he left? Is he hinting at something to us?"

Meng Chang came to the crowd and said, "Yes, President Pei has been back."

"I think President Pei deliberately left the door open, he should be conveying a message to us."

"He's telling us: I'm watching you."

"Or he's saying, always remember the last scene in *You Choose the Future*!"

Everyone looked serious and nodded.

Although President Pei had not been to the company for a whole year, no one would doubt that he still had absolute control over the company.

Tenda Group was President Pei's hard work, and also the testing ground for President Pei to practice his ideals. How could President Pei really be indifferent?

Like some emperors in ancient times, they did not go to court for many years, but it did not mean that they were unaware of what was happening in the court. On the contrary, he would definitely use other methods to maintain the operation of the entire dynasty.

Of course, President Pei was definitely not a fatuous ruler. He left Tenda Group for a special purpose, and observing Tenda Group from a different perspective also had a special purpose.

At this time, everyone was silent, with some different thoughts in their hearts.

This huge boss's chair was a bit like a throne, its back was very high, and the armrests were very wide. Behind it were huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and the scenery around the entire Tenda Group could be seen at a glance.

It was just that the huge throne was empty.

This scene seemed to be somewhat similar to the last scene in the movie, but everyone present knew that the real Tenda Group would not go down this road.

Because President Pei was always silently watching from an invisible corner.

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