286: Spending money like water

Right after starting a group food delivery order in his roommates' chat, Ye Su received a message from Ye Jianguo.

[Dad: I've checked the machines at the Xingchao Garment Factory, and they are all running normally. The price is also the 180,000 you two agreed on earlier, which includes the garment factory's business license and production permit.]

[Dad: I've also confirmed with Yu Xinyuan. Once the equipment transfer contract is signed and we transfer the money to him, he will settle all the workers' wages, the factory rent, and utilities.]

[Dad: Once we sign the new contracts with the employees and the landlord, the garment factory can start running again.]

[Good, let's put the garment factory directly under your name.]

[Once you finish signing the contract with Yu Xinyuan, have him send me his account number, and I'll transfer the money to him right away.]

Ye Su then sent an electronic version of the great sage swimsuit design blueprints to Ye Jianguo.

[This is the swimsuit we'll be producing next.]

[After taking over the garment factory, you can contact materials suppliers to start stocking up and begin production. Use better materials, and make sure to maintain proper quality control. We should aim for high quality.]

[Ye Jianguo: Alright, I'll sign the contract with Yu Xinyuan right now.]

[Okay.]

While waiting for Ye Jianguo and Yu Xinyuan to sign the contract, Ye Su chose food delivery options with his three roommates.

After some deliberation, the four of them ordered over three hundred yuan worth of meat and vegetables. Once Ye Su made sure they had enough to eat, he placed the order and paid.

Right after he ordered, Ye Jianguo replied on his phone, telling Ye Su that the contract had been signed and sending over Yu Xinyuan's receiving account.

[I'll transfer the money to him now.]

[Also, Yu Xinyuan mentioned he knows a garment factory that is currently idle due to a lack of orders. They can do OEM manufacturing for us.]

[We will control the materials and inspection standards. As for the processing price, you'll need to negotiate that in person with their boss.]

[Dad: Got it.]

[Send me your account number. I'll transfer 500,000 yuan to you first for materials so you can order them and get the factory running.]

[I'll send the remaining funds later.]

Having already decided to help Ye Su manage the Xingchao Garment Factory, Ye Jianguo didn't hesitate over the money and sent his bank account number straight to Ye Su.

After briefly discussing a few more basic details, Ye Jianguo stopped replying and set to work on getting the Xingchao Garment Factory up and running again.

After transferring the two sums of money to Ye Jianguo and Yu Xinyuan respectively, Ye Su beamed, put down his phone, and played the part of a good student for the remaining half of the class.

Buying the Xingchao Garment Factory meant his dad didn't have to drive around looking for fares from morning till night anymore, and he could be a hands-off boss. It was truly a win-win.

...

At noon, Ye Su had lunch in the dorm and spent some time joking around with his three roommates.

He knew that on thursday afternoon, when the whole school had a public half-day off, Yu Haoyang and the other two would gather at the campus entrepreneurship incubator to discuss and develop Firing at Spectres.

Although his only role was to act as the financial backer and provide the money while the actual development was handled by the three of them,

Ye Su felt too embarrassed to completely disappear and dump everything onto three college students.

Around two in the afternoon, Ye Su went to the entrepreneurship incubator to spend some time with them, check if they needed any help with the game's launch, and provide some emotional support.

After hyping them up and ordering them afternoon tea, Ye Su slipped away under the pretext of needing to go to the Tax Bureau to file taxes for the studio.

The studio's corporate bank account had been set up today.

By the time Ye Su took the financial seal to the Tax Bureau and completed the studio's tax registration, it was already past four o'clock.

"The corporate account is set up, and the taxes are filed. Once we get the ICP license in the middle of the month, the game can officially launch."

At this point, Ye Su's tasks were basically complete.

All that was left was to wait for the game to launch, then contact some game streamers and social media accounts to spend some money promoting Firing at Spectres.

"I also need to register another company to run the Secondhand Shop, sign a contract and pay social security for Jin Le, and handle the future revenue from the short dramas."

Ye Su glanced at the time. Seeing it was already past four in the afternoon, he figured it was probably too late to handle the paperwork today.

"Forget it, there's no rush. I'll do it tomorrow."

Deciding to slack off, Ye Su started his car and drove back to his residential community.

Chen Xinyi had to go to the Guang Yu Theater to sign a contract after leaving work early, so she wouldn't be back anytime soon today.

Taking advantage of this free time, Ye Su opened the system and switched to the [Information Details Page].

His current cash reserves were relatively comfortable, and Ye Su didn't feel like slowly upgrading through one piece of information per day.

"Spend 800,000 yuan to upgrade the Tier 3 information for Friday and Saturday into Tier 4 information."

[Confirming information upgrade. Processing payment, please wait, Host...]

*Ding—*

[Industrial and Commercial Bank of China: Your card ending in 9539 had an expenditure of 800,000 yuan on June 45th at 17:01. Your current balance is 1,360,148 yuan.]

"Holy crap."

Looking at the bank deduction notification on his phone, Ye Su couldn't help but curse under his breath.

"Buying equipment cost 180,000, transferring funds to the old man for inventory cost 500,000, and now upgrading the information cost another 800,000. That's the price of a Range Rover gone in a single day!"

Yesterday, when he made over 1.8 million yuan in a single day from selling fish, selling gold bars, and guessing the Lucky Dice correctly, he was incredibly thrilled.

Now, having spent over 1.4 million in a single day, Ye Su felt an equal amount of sheer heartbreak.

[Ding!]

[Information upgrade successful!]

[Time remaining until the next information refresh: 06:58:01. Please wait patiently, Host!]

"In just one day, my savings are back down to only 2 million. I just hope the next two pieces of information refresh with some junk worth hundreds of thousands that I can pick up and sell for cash."

Ye Su wasn't picky.

gold bars, jewelry, antiques...

Whatever the information refreshed, he would take it. He wouldn't refuse anything.

Seeing that there were still nearly seven hours before the information refreshed, Ye Su closed the system and idly passed the time playing console games.

Around six in the evening, Ye Su casually ordered a two-person takeout, went to the spare bedroom, and took out the Lucky Dice.

[Host's information earnings for today total 27,032 yuan.]

"The Secondhand Shop's profit today is over 1,800 yuan. That's not too bad."

Ye Su also knew that the reason the profit was so high was entirely due to those Lego sets in the shop worth over a hundred thousand yuan, which had cost him nothing.

Plus the inventory he took over from Feng Zhiquan at roughly a forty percent discount off the retail price; that was why the profit margin was so high.

Once the current stock in the shop was mostly sold out, the profits would likely return to normal, and making around eight hundred to a thousand yuan a day would be considered good.

"Once it's sold, it's sold. Anyway, the rent, utilities, and Jin Le's salary are all covered by the Ruyi Abacus. As long as I break even, everything else is pure profit."

Ye Su casually rolled the dice in his hand. "Since I rolled a [6] yesterday, let's go with a [5] today."