"Let's go!" Huang He sighed and was about to lead his people away. But as he walked out of the somewhat cramped memorial service venue, he suddenly found people queuing at the entrance.
Even more surprising to Huang He was that the first few people in line, upon seeing him, immediately exclaimed with great joy, "Boss!"
"You are our company's employees!" Boss Huang squinted. He couldn't recognize his employees at a glance, but rather, his accompanying smart glasses automatically identified the identities of these employees and displayed all their information on his personal terminal.
In fact, this device also featured the brain-computer interface function secretly developed by Jiangnan Group. By using two electronic pads attached to the sides of his temples, it could monitor Boss Huang's thoughts in his mind. Coupled with a smart AI, it could provide Boss Huang with any answer he wanted to know instantly.
For example, if Boss Huang was merely curious about the identities of the employees in front of him, the earbud in his ear would directly reveal the identity information of these employees.
Of course, such a marvel was exclusively for Boss Huang alone. Although the brain-computer interface function would be open to the market within three years, this kind of function that could directly connect to the database and know everything one wanted to know was something only a select few important figures could enjoy.
Then, as Huang He walked step by step out of the hall, he found that people were constantly queuing all the way. Boss Huang walked out of the alley, onto the main road, crossed three traffic lights, and passed over a pedestrian bridge, yet he still couldn't see the end of the queuing crowd.
Through continuous facial recognition by his glasses, Boss Huang discovered that about seventy percent of the people were employees of Jiangnan Group, and the remaining thirty percent were ordinary people. Such a long queue indicated that at least ten thousand people had come to attend Elder Ni's memorial service.
"Didn't I say that it's strictly forbidden to promote anything about the memorial service within the company, nor are employees allowed to be mobilized to attend it? Why are they all our employees!" Seeing so many Jiangnan Group employees, Boss Huang said to the person beside him with some annoyance.
Boss Huang's words sounded like a mere complaint, but the person beside him immediately took action. Within five minutes, he reported back to Boss Huang, "Boss, there is indeed no unit within the company that has asked employees to attend the memorial service. Many units are working normally today, yet many employees still chose to skip work to attend Elder Ni's memorial service!"
"This kind of thing also happens!" Huang He was somewhat shocked. Jiangnan Group was quite strict about skipping work. Although no money would be deducted, merit points would be deducted, which for many Jiangnan Group employees was the most unacceptable punishment.
After all, money wasn't very important for Jiangnan Group employees. However, merit points, which could improve one's rank, unless one was a genius, would truly only be gained by slowly accumulating them over time.
Yet, here he saw so many Jiangnan Group employees who were willing to forgo their merit points to come and send off Elder Ni for the last time. This made Boss Huang's expression very serious.
So, Boss Huang found a small shop by the roadside and sat down. He then instructed the two people accompanying him to go and chat with these employees.
After a while, the companions returned and told Boss Huang that these employees said that they had heard Academician Ni's stories during their onboarding training and had long since developed reverence for Elder Ni.
Today was his final day, and even if they had to forfeit merit points, they had to come and send off the old academician for the last time.
These words were very touching, but for an old fox like Boss Huang, it was clearly too artificial. So, Boss Huang said to Tong He beside him with a smile, "Tong He, why do you need to differentiate so clearly between these people, whether they are genuinely here to send off Elder Ni or to put on a show for me?"
"Boss, it's a good thing, why must you try to distinguish so clearly?" Tong He was nearing sixty now, and his child was only about sixteen years old. Tong He no longer had the same enthusiasm for being immersed in the laboratory as before. He spent more time accompanying his child, and his view of the world had gradually changed, transforming him into a benevolent old man.
"It doesn't matter right or wrong, black or white. I just want to know the result!" Boss Huang took out his personal terminal and directly connected to the backend center of Jiangnan Group. This center controlled all core permissions of Jiangnan Group. If Boss Huang wished, he could even cause a power outage in any part of Jiangnan Group, or zero out anyone's merit points.
The personal terminal in his hand represented the supreme authority of Jiangnan Group.
Boss Huang used this personal terminal to access the group broadcast function and directly sent a company-wide internal message to all Jiangnan Group employees: "All employees please note, this is Huang He. Elder Ni's dying wish was not to disturb too many people. All employees who attended Elder Ni's memorial service will not only receive no reward, but will immediately have one year's worth of merit points deducted."
This announcement from Boss Huang was truly ruthless.
The deduction of one month's merit points might be an acceptable loss for many employees, who could just consider it as living one month less.
But the deduction of a full year's worth of merit points meant almost complete regression, which could not be compensated by any other means.
Therefore, Huang He immediately saw the Jiangnan Group employees who were still queuing scattering like birds startled by a hawk, leaving the queue almost instantly.
Even more than half of the remaining thirty percent of ordinary people who were still queuing left.
Later, it was discovered through investigation that about half of these thirty percent of ordinary people were hired by Jiangnan Group employees.
These employees heard that the queue had exceeded ten thousand people and they couldn't spend the whole day queuing, so they simply spent money online to hire people to queue for them.
When it was almost their turn, they would rush over to take the place of the hired person.
Facing this outcome, Boss Huang was neither angry nor upset. Instead, he asked people to count how many people still insisted on attending the memorial service after he released this message, and then instructed the group to provide them with certain care.
"Brother-in-law, I can guarantee that among those who still insist on attending the memorial service, there will definitely be some who are betting that you will reward them in the end! After all, this would make them appear to truly respect Teacher Ni from the bottom of their hearts!" Leng Zhiwen said casually.
"Yes, but there's nothing we can do. Who knows, there might also be people here who genuinely respect Teacher Ni from the bottom of their hearts. I can't punish them too, can I!" Huang He sighed, his words filled with loneliness.