117: Chapter 117 Li Jiaxuan's Persuasion! Jiang Yan's First Video!

Chapter 117: Li Jiaxuan's Persuasion! Jiang Yan's First Video!

At Jiuxiang Catering, with Ji Guoxiong and three vice presidents in charge, development was progressing quite smoothly.

Su Yang's eighteenth hot pot restaurant was about to open.

Five more hot pot restaurants were currently under renovation.

Nowadays, Jiuxiang Catering was gradually gaining a certain level of fame in Rongcheng.

Especially its terrifying speed of opening new branches.

It made all sorts of catering companies take notice!

Opening franchise stores quickly is considered relatively normal.

After all, as long as the reputation is big enough and the promotion is done well,

it can indeed attract a group of people who want to get rich by opening a catering shop.

What was rather abnormal was that Jiuxiang Catering's hot pot restaurants were all direct-sale stores.

And business at every direct-sale store was quite good!

Jiuxiang Catering was also formally invited to join the Rongcheng Catering Association.

Su Yang wasn't interested in these associations, but it wasn't easy to refuse.

After all, they all had official backgrounds.

Additionally, according to Ji Guoxiong, people had already come to inquire about whether they could franchise Jiuxiang Catering.

Naturally, it was impossible for Jiuxiang Catering to open franchise stores.

Doing so wouldn't bring him much benefit other than collecting some franchise fees!

Unless he was willing to follow those 'quick-recruit' companies and 'harvest the leeks' of the franchisees.

That would be more or less unethical!

He preferred to earn money in an upright and honest manner.

Moreover, the hot pot business is highly replicable; it could not only help him make money,

but also serve as an important means for him to accumulate a large number of employees.

As for those genuine brand companies that open franchises,

they have many reasons for doing so.

Either it's to make money—since they can't guarantee every branch will be profitable like Su Yang can, collecting franchise fees is a guaranteed win—

or it's to expand their scale and influence.

This makes it easier to get financing and go public, where they can then 'harvest leeks' on the stock market.

Furthermore, Ji Guoxiong took advantage of the scale of the hot pot restaurants to pressure suppliers for lower prices, saving Jiuxiang Catering a certain amount in costs.

Over at Spark Health, Su Yang received the list of fitness instructors who had failed the assessment by Feng Jianxing and Gao Qiang.

As it turned out, only one male fitness instructor failed!

Su Yang was quite satisfied with this; it was fewer than he had expected!

After all, the Qinglong District store was the first shop he had bought.

It would be impossible to say he had no feelings for it.

However, it was normal for the passing rate of the fitness instructors to be so high.

Firstly, this assessment wasn't particularly strict.

It was mainly intended as a warning and reminder to those fitness instructors.

Future assessments would gradually tighten and form a fixed evaluation system!

Secondly, two or three months ago, Su Yang had already notified the three store managers—Xu Zhiping, Gao Qiang, and Zhou Shunian—to strengthen the professional training of the fitness instructors.

The business pressure at the three gyms wasn't high, so the instructors had time to step up their learning and exercise!

At the Jiuxiang Food factory, the newly recruited workers were gradually becoming familiar with the operations, and the product production speed was increasing.

Su Yang didn't have them work triple shifts or double shifts; they just produced at a normal pace.

Because Tan Yanghong had opened up a sales channel with a supermarket chain, plus some online sales, Jiuxiang Food's inventory pressure existed but wasn't very large!

If they really did triple or double shifts, the piled-up inventory would tie up a large amount of Su Yang's capital.

At Jiuxiang Catering, Li Jiaxuan sat in his office and called his good friend Pan Chunhui.

“Li Jiaxuan, why are you calling me?”

Li Jiaxuan asked in a low voice, “Pan Chunhui, have you guys opened that shop yet?”

Pan Chunhui replied over the phone, “Not yet!”

“That’s good!” Li Jiaxuan let out a long sigh of relief. “I heard that many of those unknown franchise stores are just scams for money.”

After training at Jiuxiang Catering for two days, he had consulted Manager Zhou Yaoxian about the franchise catering companies on the market.

Zhou Yaoxian had naturally answered Li Jiaxuan's questions offhandedly.

If it were only Zhou Yaoxian saying so, he might not have believed it.

But when the veteran employees in the company who had been in the catering industry for a long time all said the same thing, he started to believe it.

He still remembered the grudge of Zhou Quanming kicking him out of the group chat.

But he still wanted to give Pan Chunhui a warning.

Pan Chunhui: “The money has already been paid!”

Li Jiaxuan said in surprise, “What? The money has already been paid?”

Pan Chunhui: “Yes!”

Li Jiaxuan asked in shock, “Weren't you still short by two hundred thousand?”

Pan Chunhui: “Zhou Quanming scraped it together himself!”

Li Jiaxuan told Pan Chunhui what he had found out, and Pan Chunhui said in a low voice:

“Didn't you say it yourself? Most franchise companies are scammers, but there should still be some that are real. I feel like the one we found is quite reliable!”

“Sigh!”

Li Jiaxuan started to get a headache!

Pan Chunhui: “I think Zhou Quanming is quite capable. He was already able to do business and make money back in school!”

Before they knew it, another three days had passed, and Yu Siying told Su Yang.

Jiang Yan's first cosplay video had been released across all platforms.

She was cosplaying as Tsunade from Naruto.

After the company pushed the traffic, they found that Jiang Yan's data was indeed growing very fast!

One could tell she was in a very good mood!

Su Yang opened Douyin, found the account 'A Little River Fish,' and clicked right in.

The videos Jiang Yan used to post were all those heavily made-up, overly seductive dancing videos.

As for her dancing skills, there wasn't much to say.

Just like other female streamers, it was all very homogenized.

Her only highlight was probably those two 'large headlights'!

Clicking on the recently posted video, Su Yang heard the rousing, Japanese-style Naruto soundtrack.

Seeing the dense barrage of comments, Su Yang casually turned off the bullet chat.

The woman in the video had her back to the camera, with long golden hair tied in twin tails.

Standing on a slope in the wilderness, she looked both lonely and domineering!

As the camera zoomed in and rotated, Su Yang finally saw Jiang Yan's beautiful face.

The makeup artist had done a great job of recreating the look, including the hairstyle and the Strength of a Hundred Seal on her forehead!

Standing there, she was full of dominance and confidence!

And that determined look in her eyes... it really was very different from her usual self!

He heard her say in a firm voice: “What I possess is not mere strength. What I inherited from the First Hokage is my true power. Do not underestimate our Will of Fire... Bakayaro!”

With an angry punch to the ground, the entire mountain began to crack and crumble!

When the mountain collapsed and the dust settled, 'Tsunade' landed on the ground with a solemn expression.

Her gaze looked into the distance, as if facing a powerful enemy!

Looking at Jiang Yan's exaggerated figure, Su Yang couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

When Jiang Yan landed, those 'little cuties' bounced!

Truly a surging tide!

Su Yang swallowed hard.

Compared to the anime character Tsunade, Jiang Yan had recreated at least eighty percent of the look.

The remaining twenty percent was purely because they were separated by a dimension!

As for the short video's special effects, music, and editing, they were naturally top-notch.

Even if placed in a movie, it wouldn't feel out of place!

Spark had really spent a lot of money this time!

He turned on the bullet chat; although the video had only been posted for a short while, there were already many comments!