After a brief moment of shock, Pei Qian quickly calmed down and decided to pretend he didn't see anything!

At this point, he couldn't let such a foregone conclusion distract him and mess up his train of thought!

Although there were less than two weeks left until the settlement, the situation already seemed quite clear.

Pei Qian waved to the waiter, who immediately understood and brought him his personal laptop.

Because Pei Qian especially liked to think and contemplate life at this shop, he had specifically prepared a thin and light laptop here for office work.

Of course, "office work" really just meant recording some things in a document.

Nothing particularly important, and often deleted after organizing his thoughts, so there was no need to worry about leaks or anything.

Pei Qian opened the laptop, created a new document, and began to organize his thoughts.

Although the next cycle would start in April, Pei Qian needed to plan ahead.

He had to think up new plans in advance so he wouldn't be caught off guard in April.

Currently available methods for spending money quickly included:

GOG's four annual bonuses for high-end players;

Following the standard plan of issuing bonuses to employees based on the TPDB website's ratings, and providing regular benefits such as various subsidies and health checkups;

Starting a long celebration banquet to let employees help him eat up some money;

Horror Hostel could consume a large amount of funds in one go.

After considering it, Pei Qian felt that it still wasn't stable enough.

Although it seemed like it was almost enough, there were still less than two weeks until the settlement, and in the meantime, *Glory of Gods* would be launched on PC, so he had to prepare for the revenue from that as well.

So, Pei Qian added another item.

Touchfish Cafe, ROF PC Assembly, Upwind Logistics, Touchfish Takeout, Qidian Chinese Website, Upwind Logistics, etc... burn money for a week!

Based on the mindset that losing money didn't necessarily mean needing to earn popularity, he would subsidize everything like crazy.

For example, with Qidian Chinese Website, he could subsidize both ends, subsidizing readers for reading books and authors for writing books, instantly reaping double the joy!

Self-entertainment, and the money would magically disappear!

The system would consider this behavior as promotion, which was allowed.

Of course, this behavior would make losing money more stable in this cycle, but the start of the next cycle would be more difficult.

Therefore, he had to think of a way to eliminate some hidden dangers!

From the next cycle onwards, he had to take some new measures!

Pei Qian started a new line in the document and continued to brainstorm countermeasures.

The last-place elimination system seemed to be a bit unsustainable.

However, Pei Qian didn't plan to consider canceling the last-place elimination system. After all, this system had eliminated some hidden dangers for him. Without this system, Tenda Games might have earned even more money...

He had to supplement and improve this system.

Pei Qian wrote the words "Periodic Shock Therapy" in the document.

Now, CEO Pei had a few too many businesses under his command, and he really couldn't manage them all.

If he threw these businesses to others, he wouldn't have enough time and energy to ask about them, which could easily cause some very serious consequences.

So Pei Qian decided to put these departments into periodic shock!

So that in a certain cycle, only some departments of Tenda were operating, while other departments were in a state of shock.

Of course, the system stipulated that under no circumstances could they slack off or fail to produce any products.

So... he had to discuss it with the system.

Based on Pei Qian's understanding of the system, this matter wasn't completely non-negotiable.

"System, if a certain department has made very outstanding contributions to the company's development, then for the purpose of allowing them to learn and improve and make greater contributions to the company in the future, giving their entire department a few months of vacation to improve their personal business skills... should be reasonable, right?"

Soon, Pei Qian received a positive answer.

But there were restrictions: Currently, only one department could be put on vacation per cycle, and only necessary expenses could be maintained for that department, and no investments could be made.

That is to say, paying wages was okay, but investing money in projects was not.

Pei Qian was very satisfied. As expected, it was possible!

Then there was no need to say more, in the next cycle he would put Flying Huang Workshop into shock first!

One movie had earned tens of millions. If they continued at the current rate, making three or four movies a year, wouldn't they soar to the heavens?

In addition, Pei Qian had also discovered that although the last-place elimination system was very effective, it also had a few small drawbacks, such as, it easily stimulated the employees' fighting spirit.

Therefore, Pei Qian felt that it was necessary to commend those excellent departments in CEO Pei's heart that had consistently lost money.

This was the supplement to the "last-place elimination system," the "last-place reward system"!

Pei Qian had already thought about who to give this award to.

Upwind Logistics.

From the very beginning, Upwind Logistics had been conscientiously losing money for CEO Pei. Lu Mingliang hadn't turned a profit after taking over either, and he was deeply trusted by CEO Pei.

As for what to call this reward, Pei Qian had also thought about it.

It would be called the "Tenda Cornerstone Award."

It could be forcibly explained as Upwind Logistics working conscientiously and serving other departments, and being the cornerstone for the rapid development of Tenda Group.

Of course, the actual reason was that they lost a lot of money.

Pei Qian hoped that this award would give all departments an implicit message: Even if your department continues to lose money, it doesn't matter, you will not only not be punished, but you will also be rewarded!

Without delay, Pei Qian felt that the Cornerstone Award could be given out in this settlement cycle.

Finally, Pei Qian felt that he could spend a little more money with those companies and departments that cooperated with Tenda.

Tenda had always had business dealings with various other companies, such as the game department's art resources, the cafe and restaurant's food and ingredient procurement, the mobile phone department's supply chain, the Horror Hostel's decorations and props, and so on.

Modern society emphasizes professional division of labor, and it is necessary to cooperate closely with other companies to produce good products.

And according to the well-known Tenda spirit, Tenda's various departments have always given the most money and wanted the best goods when cooperating with these companies.

The expenses in this area seemed to have reached their limit.

But it was precisely because it had reached its limit that Pei Qian wanted to use reverse thinking and continue to throw money at it!

Take food procurement, for example.

On top of the highest bid, he would forcibly overprice it by another 10% and require the other party to provide ingredients exclusively for Tenda.

Obviously, the other party could only carefully select the best ingredients on top of the good ingredients, and there wouldn't be much difference from the original ingredients, and it might not even be noticeable after cooking.

However, the procurement costs were indeed spent in real money.

The other industries were similar, in short, he would forcibly require the cooperative company to establish a Tenda standard on top of the highest standard, and forcibly stuff more money!

After writing everything down, Pei Qian read the document from beginning to end and nodded in satisfaction.

Yes, he felt much more at ease!

He immediately sent the document to Assistant Xin, asking her to split these plans and send them to the various departments, so that the various departments could begin preparations.

Afterwards, Pei Qian cleared the document on the computer and handed it over to the waiter to put away.

Just as he got up to leave, he saw Ruan Guangjian and a few others walking over from across the street with smiles on their faces, pushing open the door and entering the internet cafe.

Seeing Pei Qian, everyone's eyes lit up.

"CEO Pei!"

Ruan Guangjian also smiled: "My studio has moved across the street. CEO Pei, you can come and visit often when you have time! Feel free to ask me about anything at work. You can rest assured and leave the artwork to our studio!"

Pei Qian chuckled: "Of course, I have no doubts about your abilities..."

Look at the bloody wounds on my back, that's the best proof...

"Alright, I have something to do, so I'll leave first. You guys keep Guangjian company for me."

Pei Qian looked at Lin Wan, Chen Kangtuo and others: "I'll arrange a gathering at Mingyun Private Kitchen tomorrow, remember to bring Guangjian along, set up a few more tables as a welcome party."

Although he had a strong prejudice against Ruan Guangjian, Pei Qian didn't forget to invite him, after all, more people meant more mouths, and every bite of food eaten meant a little more money lost.

Under the grand goal of losing money, what did this little bit of hatred count for?

CEO Pei was a magnanimous person.

After explaining everything, Pei Qian said goodbye to everyone and left.

He knew what they were going to talk about next without even thinking.

They were definitely going to talk about how successful GOG and *Be Quiet* were, and how the telephone booth personally drawn by Ruan Guangjian had become a popular landmark in Jingzhou...

If he didn't leave, was he waiting to be repeatedly whipped by these people?

Looking at CEO Pei's departing back, Ruan Guangjian couldn't help but feel a little lost.

He had originally wanted to have a few drinks with CEO Pei and catch up a little.

But CEO Pei had left in such a hurry.

Lin Wan also felt a little regretful, but she still invited everyone to sit down in the cafe area, ordered coffee or drinks, and began to chat and reminisce.

Just then, Lin Wan's phone vibrated, and she received a message from Assistant Xin.

She quickly scrolled through it and found that it was a document personally drafted by CEO Pei, which put forward a series of requirements for future work.

It listed various reward rules that would make employees of other companies jealous and crazy with envy, but in Lin Wan's view, these were all CEO Pei's regular operations, and there was nothing to be surprised about.

Until the last one.

"When cooperating with other downstream enterprises and outsourcing companies, overprice the original purchase price by an additional 10%~20% to provide the company with higher-quality goods or services than the originally planned highest level."

Seeing this, Lin Wan couldn't help but be stunned.

After reading it again from beginning to end, Lin Wan took a separate screenshot of this one and handed the phone to Ruan Guangjian.

"Huh?" Ruan Guangjian took it over in confusion.

After reading it, his eyes widened slightly: "This..."

Lin Wan nodded: "I think this one is mostly arranged for Senior Ruan."

As everyone knows, whether Tenda is buying artwork or purchasing other things, they directly choose the best, and there is basically no more room for price increases.

Moreover, even if the price is forcibly increased by 10%~20%, the improvement that can be obtained is minimal.

So, why did CEO Pei specifically introduce such a policy?

Of course, one reason must be the pursuit of excellence, which is also in line with the Tenda spirit.

However, the introduction of such a policy at this critical juncture when Senior Ruan Guangjian's studio moved to Jingzhou was very thought-provoking.

Obviously, CEO Pei was worried that the Halo Studio had just arrived in Jingzhou, and was unfamiliar with the place, and the studio staff had also experienced turbulence, so it would be more difficult at the beginning.

That's why there was such a preferential policy, to help and support Ruan Guangjian's Halo Studio in this more subtle way!

This is... unspoken friendship!

Everyone couldn't help but smile, CEO Pei was very busy with work and didn't have time to have dinner with Senior Ruan, but he obviously hadn't forgotten to care about his old friend, and expressed his heart in this very implicit way.

A smile also appeared on Ruan Guangjian's face, and the previous disappointment instantly dissipated, replaced by relief and emotion.

"I understand, I will definitely urge everyone in the studio to continue to improve their drawing skills and definitely live up to CEO Pei's expectations!"

"Next time, CEO Pei will definitely see more brilliant artwork!"