September 1st, Thursday …
Pei Qian arrived at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe early in the morning. He sipped his coffee while sorting out the mind maps of the various departments.
There was still a month before settlement. As the saying went, 'the closer you get to your job, the better.' Whether he could successfully incur losses in this cycle depended on this last trick!
Pei Qian carefully considered the current industries. Overall, there was still hope of incurring losses.
Of course, this was not because Pei Qian's various industries were not profitable. It was mainly because Pei Qian was getting better at spending money.
As the various industries grew, Pei Qian could spend money in more and more directions. Especially after these departments became profitable, the System seemed to relax the restrictions on spending money on these industries. Publicity, branch expansion, giving discounts to customers, and the like would all become more free.
At present, Pei Qian's two biggest sources of income in this cycle were the box office of Tomorrow is Beautiful and the 70 million US dollars from IOI. The former was used to buy a building to build Sloth Apartments, and the latter was directly burning money to promote GOG's world server. He had spent almost all of it. The last sum of money was used to prepare for the GOG World Invitational Tournament. He should be able to spend it before settlement.
As for the other businesses, such as internet cafes and food delivery, the money they earned from the sudden explosion was still much less than the previous two incomes. After all, these physical businesses were a long-term business. Even if they turned losses into profits, it was impossible to accumulate too much capital in a short period of one or two months.
Pei Qian followed the principle of 'whoever earned the money should spend it'. He would definitely be able to spend all the money they earned if he allowed these physical industries to continue opening branches and expanding.
Of course, he could not open more branches in the last week before settlement, but there should not be much money left by then.
Otto Technologies could not settle this cycle. The extra money could be invested in the software laboratory and imaging laboratory over there as long as there were results in the next cycle.
The key for Pei Qian now was to maintain and not earn as much as possible. Every additional sum of money made would make it more difficult to incur losses during settlement.
Pei Qian felt that it was okay after using the mind map to smooth out the current situation of the various industries.
This cycle had been full of twists and turns. Fish-Catching Take-Out had profited, Thriller Hostel had become a little popular, the DGE Club had also profited, and Dayak Corporation had inexplicably set him up … However, he was strong enough to hold on.
"Struggle is going to be released soon. As long as this game doesn't make a lot of money, yes, even if it only makes a little, this cycle will be fine."
"From all aspects, the chances of making a huge profit are very low."
"The investment in Struggle is too high, and it's very disgusting. This kind of game is more suitable for cloud clearance, and there won't be too many people buying it. The poor version and the rich version will be priced separately to reduce some income."
"Most importantly, the sales of standalone games take a long time. I only need to worry about the first month's sales. As for the sales in the future, that's a matter for the future …"
"At the very least, even if it makes a small profit, I can still throw the money at Otto Technologies."
"What's more, I have a special mission for this cycle that can be used to reduce the final settlement of the System Funds. I just don't know if the System will recognize the results of my learning …"
There was a special rule for this cycle's settlement. Pei Qian could spend money to invest in himself up to 1.6 million yuan. If the System judged it to be successful, it could reduce up to eight times this value, which was 12.8 million yuan in the System Funds. It would not be included in the final settlement.
If Pei Qian's System Funds were 22 million yuan at settlement, he could only get 2 million x 0.001 according to the original conversion ratio, which was 2,000 yuan.
However, after adding this special rule, Pei Qian could get (22 million – 12.8 million – 20 million) x (-0.1) = 1.08 million yuan!
That was a world of difference.
Of course, this was the most ideal situation. Moreover, Pei Qian was not sure if the things he had learned could be recognized by the System.
He An and Qiu Hong were both big shots in the industry, and what they said was real. The value of the tuition fees had also been recognized by the System, but would the System think that Pei Qian had learned enough useful knowledge? That seemed hard to say.
Pei Qian was not sure if he could successfully reduce the System Funds to about 20 million yuan at settlement.
If he could, then this settlement would be the most successful one in his history!
It might be the most exhausting one, but it would all be worth it!
Pei Qian felt much more at ease after straightening out his current thoughts.
At that moment, his cell phone rang.
"Ding."
Pei Qian picked it up and took a look. It turned out to be a message from the Fei Huang Workspace's Manage Loss Trainee.
"Senior, Director Zhu is working with Sloth Apartments to prepare a video to expose the formaldehyde problem of the Home Corporation."
Pei Qian was stunned.
Fei Huang Workspace's presence was so strong!
They had only been out of shock therapy for a month, and they made two videos in a row?
Did they not want to work anymore?
Pei Qian was a little speechless. The promotional video of Sloth Apartments last time had not made me recover yet. Again?
Home Corporation's formaldehyde room … what was that?
Pei Qian frowned slightly and typed back. "Tell me in detail."
The Manage Loss Trainee replied quickly.
"It's like this, Boss Pei. Home Corporation has been discrediting our Sloth Apartments online for not being cost-effective. However, in fact, the 'Safe House' launched by Home Corporation has always had a serious problem of excessive formaldehyde. The person-in-charge of Sloth Apartments, Director Zhu, and Teacher Qiao decided to expose this problem together … "
Pei Qian fell silent as he looked at the detailed information sent by the Manage Loss Trainee.
There was a saying that there was nothing new under the sun.
Pei Qian did not take the matter of Home Corporation's Black Sloth Apartments to heart at first.
It did not matter if they said that Sloth Apartments' price-quality ratio was poor or unlivable because Pei Qian had originally intended to dissuade tenants.
Pei Qian knew very well that once the video of Fei Huang Workspace and Sloth Apartments was released, it would be a powerful counterattack against Home Corporation. It was very likely that Sloth Apartments would become popular as well.
He could only say that this world was so magical.
In some industries, if you operated by the law and were honest, even if you did not make any breakthroughs, you would have exceeded 99% of your peers just by meeting the requirements of the bottom line.
That was because 99% of your peers had no bottom line at all.
Pei Qian was silent for a long time before typing back. "Tell them that they did well!"
Pei Qian hated this kind of blood-sucking trash the most in his life.
They were even more disgusting than scalpers!
Scalpers disrupted the market order. They were a group of vermin, but they only wanted your money.
On the other hand, companies that made formaldehyde rooms not only wanted money but also human lives!
How much more money could they spend if they used environmentally friendly paint to disperse the smell after the renovation?
Ah? How much more money could they spend?
A room could be rented out for three, five, or even ten years after renovation. During this period, even if Home Corporation only earned five hundred yuan a month, it could accumulate more than tens of thousands of yuan, right?
Obviously, maintaining the health of consumers could also earn money, but it was just less!
Completely disregarding the health of consumers just to save the cost of a few thousand yuan per room? Did they have to kill people?
Especially since Home Corporation was a national chain intermediary company. How many apartments did they have? How many people would get sick, be hospitalized, suffer from cancer, or even die because of living in formaldehyde rooms?
Pei Qian did not know before. He only thought that Home Corporation and Sloth Apartments were normal business competition.
Okay, that doesn't matter. You can criticize me all you want. I can even be quite happy.
However, if Home Corporation is such a rubbish company, then I'm sorry, I'll kill you even if I have to take the risk of making money!
Pei Qian was still a little angry after replying to the Manage Loss Trainee's message.
Perhaps he would never understand why some companies would murder people just to earn a few thousand yuan per room for a few years when they only earned a few dozen yuan per month on average?
As a normal person, a person with humanity, he could not understand.
His cell phone rang again as he was angry.
"Ding."
Pei Qian picked it up and saw that it was a message from Zhang Yuan.
"Boss Pei, the inspection team of other esports clubs is in Jingzhou! They want to discuss buying players with us! Are you coming in person? It's fine if you don't come. I can just sign the contract with them. "
Pei Qian: "What the f * ck?"
Other esports clubs?
Inspection team?
Does that mean there is more than one?
They want to buy DGE's players?
Why?! The other players are not live-streaming geniuses like Huang Wang! You will lose money if you buy them!
Pei Qian was speechless. What he was worried about had happened.
The H4 Club buying Huang Wang was not the end, but the beginning!
Pei Qian quickly replied, "I'll be there right away!"
He did not trust Zhang Yuan. What if Zhang Yuan raised the price to the limit and sold all nine players for a transfer fee of thirty million yuan? Wouldn't that be the end of them?
At this point in time, an extra thirty million yuan would make me very passive!
Pei Qian immediately called Little Sun over and drove to the DGE Club.
…
In the DGE Club …
The managers of several teams gathered in the conference room, drinking tea and chatting while waiting for Boss Pei's arrival.
These managers all had their own small calculations.
In fact, they had contacted Zhang Yuan separately. There were a total of seven teams, and each team wanted to buy players from the DGE Club to strengthen themselves. They all needed different positions.
However, Zhang Yuan thought about it. How long would it take to talk to the managers of the seven teams one by one?
He might as well invite all of them over.
He could start a bidding war, and whoever offered the highest price would win. No one would have anything to say.
As for why these managers suddenly thought it through and wanted to buy players from the DGE Club?
It was very simple. They had all been abused by the H4 Club!
After the H4 Club bought Huang Wang and settled down in Jingzhou, they had been playing online mock competitions with other clubs for five days.
Then, they had beaten all of those clubs!
All of them
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
