[A deconstruction of Water Margin] The full story of a start-up’s journey from wild growth to acquisition by investors.
Pei Xuan was once a senior clerk in the Six Offices of Daming Prefecture. After offending the prefect, he was exiled, then rescued by Deng Fei and brought to Liangshan. Thanks to his impartial skills as a judge, Song Jiang promoted him to “Head of Rewards and Punishments at Liangshan,” which is to say, Liangshan’s HR and administrative operations director.
He figured that becoming an outlaw was just a change of office, and that after a few years he could put in for retirement and go home to farm a couple of mu of land. He never expected Song Jiang, Liangshan’s “CEO,” to hand him an epic project: building the corporate culture of “Acting in Heaven’s Name” and managing the entire “Amnesty and IPO” process.
Seen from a different perspective, Water Margin is essentially a high-concept workplace tragicomedy. The protagonist is no longer the all-powerful Song Jiang, but the “Liangshan office manager,” caught between 107 demanding bosses and spending every day handling expense claims, schedules, factional infighting, and KPI reviews.
