272: I'm stirring up the heat

Yamai Murayu was furious in his office.

From the current market research, their fifty million was spent for nothing.

One video made all the branch companies of the Feihuang Group start to boom!

It wasn't a big deal to spend the money, but spending it without effect made him feel a bit displeased.

What displeased him even more was that his first encounter with Qian Ziyong ended in such a defeat.

Now that he thought about it, when Qian Ziyong called him before to thank him for suppressing the popularity, it was clearly mockery.

Yamai Murayu's strategist, Yamai Tano, said, "Chairman, this must have been planned by Qian Ziyong; he was fully prepared from the very beginning."

"Otherwise, why such a coincidence that Feihuang posted their accounts online, and it just happened to be discovered?"

"All of this must have been orchestrated by Qian Ziyong; that Video Blogger is very likely someone arranged by Qian Ziyong!"

It was too coincidental!

The Feihuang Group posted their accounts online, and they were discovered, and a video even came out, making the Feihuang Group's branch companies incredibly popular.

This marketing method was extremely clever, leaving no trace.

But they were the Shanjing Consortium! What methods hadn't they used? Even without a trace, they could guess that it was definitely done secretly by Qian Ziyong.

So, Qian Ziyong's words before were a blatant mockery of them.

On the surface, Qian Ziyong was thanking them, but in reality, he seemed to be saying, "Go ahead and suppress it; you suppress it, and then I'll market it, making your efforts futile!"

"Hmph!" Yamai Murayu laughed in extreme anger, "It's nothing big; Qian Ziyong just won a small battle."

"If he won, he won. I'm not someone who can't afford to lose."

"Qian Ziyong can win a hundred times, but as long as I win once, I will make sure he never rises again!"

"Keep suppressing them! I want to see if Qian Ziyong has any more tricks to make the Feihuang Group popular again!"

Upon hearing this, several strategists immediately began calculating how much money it would cost to suppress the popularity of the entire Feihuang Group.

After dozens of calls and calculations, they finally arrived at a specific number.

Yamai Tano said with a grim expression, "Chairman, we need to spend five hundred million to suppress all the popularity of the Feihuang Group!"

"What? Five hundred million?" Yamai Murayu was very surprised.

Yamai Tano nodded, "Suppressing popularity is like advertising; both consume a lot of funds."

"This time, the Feihuang Group posting their company's accounts online caused a huge reaction; almost every branch company's accounts were meticulously scrutinized by netizens."

"Every branch company became popular, so suppressing all that popularity naturally involves a significant cost."

Upon hearing this, Yamai Murayu also understood.

If only one branch company became popular, it wouldn't cost much.

Just like before, when only the game became popular, suppressing its popularity only cost fifty million.

But with all branch companies popular, suppressing all that popularity, tens of millions for each company, added up to a lot.

Yamai Murayu wasn't unable to come up with that much money, but he felt it wasn't worth it.

He paced around the room, thought it over and over, and said, "Take out one hundred million and suppress the popularity of Feihuang Restaurant."

"The others don't matter; Feihuang Restaurant absolutely cannot be allowed to succeed!"

Feihuang Restaurant was connected to the takeout platform.

A takeout platform, once it gets going, is a trillion-level company; once listed, it's at least a hundred billion.

The two existing takeout platforms combined have long surpassed a trillion in market value; Feihuang Restaurant Takeout absolutely cannot become the third takeout platform!

Good steel should be used on the blade, and Yamai Murayu believed that spending this money to suppress Feihuang Restaurant was very worthwhile.

As for the others, that was fine; even if they became popular, it would only mean profit for the Feihuang Group, far less terrifying than Feihuang Restaurant becoming popular.

Yamai Tano also strongly agreed with the chairman's approach, immediately expressing his approval.

Thus, the suppression plan was finalized, and Yamai Tano immediately went to execute it.

Soon, the popularity of Feihuang Restaurant began to decline.

Qian Ziyong, far away in Han City, saw the online popularity of Feihuang Restaurant drop and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his hanging heart finally settling down.

Chen Jingfu called in a hurry, "Ziyong, the popularity of Feihuang Restaurant has dropped; it's the Shanjing Consortium's people doing mischief!"

"Now, while the popularity hasn't completely dropped, spend some money, and you can boost the popularity again!"

As soon as Qian Ziyong heard that it was the Shanjing Consortium secretly causing trouble, he was overjoyed.

He had just been wondering why the popularity had suddenly dropped.

He had thought it was just good luck.

He didn't expect it to be the Shanjing Consortium again!

The Shanjing Consortium was really too good to him!

Ah haha...

Qian Ziyong was delighted.

He didn't have to spend his own money; the Shanjing Consortium helped him suppress the popularity—it was truly wonderful!

Spend money to boost the popularity again?

He was crazy!

"Brother Chen, thank you for the information. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known why Feihuang Restaurant's popularity dropped."

Qian Ziyong was very grateful to Chen Jingfu.

Now, Chen Jingfu hadn't invested in him, and he hadn't helped Chen Jingfu make money.

But whenever something happened, Chen Jingfu worried a lot for him; he was truly a good elder brother.

In Shen City, his connections were far inferior to Chen Jingfu's.

Chen Jingfu said, "Given our relationship, there's no need for thanks. Are you still in Wu City?"

"With such a big thing happening with Feihuang Restaurant, why don't you come to Shen City?"

"I know many media friends. If you come to Shen City, I can introduce them to you, and they can help you boost the popularity of Feihuang Restaurant."

Qian Ziyong shook his head, "Feihuang Restaurant has employees to manage it for me; I trust them very much."

"As for boosting Feihuang Restaurant's popularity, that's not necessary..."

Qian Ziyong also didn't know how to explain to Chen Jingfu.

Everyone else thought he wanted to boost Feihuang Restaurant's popularity, but only he himself knew that he wished from the bottom of his heart that Feihuang Restaurant's popularity would be as low as possible, preferably completely dead!

He wanted to find an excuse but didn't know what excuse would be good.

Chen Jingfu heard Qian Ziyong say it was unnecessary and thought Qian Ziyong had other ways to boost the popularity, so he immediately said happily:

"You have a way to make Feihuang Restaurant popular again?"

"That's right, before, when the Shanjing Consortium's people suppressed your game's popularity, you just used a small trick, and not only did you boost the game's popularity."

"You also boosted the popularity of all the branch companies of the entire Feihuang Group!"

"Your move of directly posting your company's accounts online was truly brilliant."

"In terms of marketing, you've reached an extraordinary level; I truly admire you."

Chen Jingfu truly admired Qian Ziyong's marketing skills from the bottom of his heart.

Qian Ziyong's marketing never cost a single penny.

The previous Bingmi Milk Tea's popularity was boosted using Boston lobsters.

Later, to boost the game's popularity, he just posted a few announcements on the official website, stimulating netizens' rebellious psychology.

Now, it was another move of posting his company's accounts online, piquing netizens' curiosity.

And letting netizens see how conscientious the Feihuang Group was.

This method of boosting popularity was truly imaginative and unique!