121: Chapter 121 Making Dried Fruit Snacks! Boa Hancock!

Chapter 121: Making Dried Fruit Snacks! Boa Hancock!

Su Yang naturally wouldn't just decide what to make based on a whim of what he personally liked to eat.

Doing business couldn't be done solely according to one's own preferences.

"I actually think dried fruits and preserved fruits are quite suitable!" Tan Yanghong replied after a moment of contemplation. "The quality of local peanuts, melon seeds, almonds, walnuts, and pine nuts is quite good. Fruit resources are also relatively abundant—mangoes, kiwis, persimmons, peaches, citrus, grapes, mulberries, strawberries, pears... there are quite a lot of them. Sourcing won't be an issue."

"Besides that, we can also do soy products or spicy strips!"

Su Yang thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go with dried fruits?"

Dried fruits were indeed a good snack category and were quite popular.

He also had a personal fondness for dried fruits.

Whether it was peanuts, melon seeds, or walnuts and pine nuts, he liked eating them all!

"Dried fruits are good, but many domestic snack giants are already doing them!" Tan Yanghong said worriedly. "The competitive pressure will be quite high."

Su Yang said with a smile, "It's fine, I'm not afraid of competition!"

Seeing his boss's confident smile, the bit of worry in Tan Yanghong's heart dissipated!

He didn't know that Su Yang truly wasn't afraid of competition; after all, he wasn't afraid of losing money on labor costs.

Moreover, the system would give his snacks a buff!

As long as he could buy the factory, as long as the factory's goods could be sold, and the payments could be recovered...

...he could completely accept it!

Collecting payments for snacks was much easier than chasing down final payments on construction sites!

What's more, he also had Spark Media as a promotional accelerator.

Thinking about making dried fruit snacks, Su Yang recalled a factory in the industrial park that was suitable for purchase!

Su Yang thought for a bit and asked, "Do you know about Mingrui Food Factory?"

Tan Yanghong said in surprise, "Boss actually knows about Mingrui?"

Su Yang explained with a smile, "Before you came to work at the food park, I had already inspected all the companies and food factories in the park!"

This really wasn't him bragging.

He had long since figured out the situation of many companies and factories in the food park.

He might even know their backgrounds better than the owners of those companies and factories themselves!

No matter what snack Tan Yanghong wanted to make, he could recall all the companies and factories in the park that made related snacks.

"Boss is amazing!"

Tan Yanghong wasn't entirely just flattering him.

He also hadn't expected his boss to have done so much homework.

He himself had only found out about this dried fruit snack factory after staying in the park for a month or two.

"Go get in touch with their boss, Jiang Mingrui," Su Yang said after thinking for a moment. "That snack factory mainly deals in melon seeds, peanuts, and pine nut snacks. The production lines are relatively new. They should be losing money lately; although it's not a lot, he has the pressure of loan repayments!"

Lately, many small and micro enterprises had been having a tough time.

"The boss knows this too?"

"Mm!" Su Yang nodded seriously. "Don't seem too eager. I think we should be able to take it for around 1.2 million."

"I'll go give it a try!"

"Good!"

Su Yang could also go and wear them down slowly, which might save more money than Tan Yanghong going personally.

But he certainly didn't have that much time, and it wouldn't save much anyway.

Afterward, he told Tan Yanghong about the requirements of the clients at Spark Fitness.

Tan Yanghong felt that healthy beef snacks also had development prospects and promised to develop this type of beef snack.

As for Spark Fitness, the food company would send a batch of goods over.

But this time, it definitely wouldn't be free!

Su Yang returned to Jiuxiang Catering and spoke to Ji Guoxiong about making nutritional meals.

Ji Guoxiong felt that this market wasn't large, but since Su Yang was willing, it didn't matter to try it out.

However, Ji Guoxiong was more inclined to open a subsidiary.

Rent a low-cost kitchen specifically to do delivery for nutritional meals!

The initial scale didn't need to be too large, just enough to satisfy the needs of the gym's clients.

If business was good, then they would consider expanding the scale!

Su Yang thought about it and also felt it was good, so he left the matter to Ji Guoxiong to handle.

Not long after, Su Yang saw a newly released video from Jiang Yan, cosplaying as the Pirate Empress from One Piece, Boa Hancock.

This video had been filmed at the beginning of the month, but it was only being released now.

It was mainly for post-production rendering and special effects!

In the video, Jiang Yan's majestic aura, exaggerated bust, gorgeous high-slit cheongsam, deep blue eyes, snake-shaped golden earrings, and the eerie skull-patterned flower snake...

Along with the civilians of Amazon Lily bowing in submission at her feet, made her look noble and full of dominance!

Then, it was a hearty battle against NPCs!

Mero Mero Mellow, Pistol Kiss, Perfume Femur—various abilities were showcased.

Those long legs occasionally revealed by the cheongsam were extremely eye-catching!

Just these action scenes already surpassed many domestic Xianxia dramas.

The company was very satisfied with Jiang Yan's performance; at least she could endure hardship.

She had studied dance herself, so her body flexibility was quite decent!

Countless people in the bullet chat were shouting 'Empress,' 'Wife,' and also 'Budget Explosion'!

Su Yang admitted that the budget had indeed exploded a bit, but he could still bear it!

The most expensive thing in this video was that flower snake!

However, to save on the budget, the flower snake wasn't made to look that realistic; it was just enough to get the point across!

Everything else was also fine, mainly just labor costs.

However, Su Yang's media company had a special effects team.

This project was personally reviewed and approved by him!

Seeing Jiang Yan's follower count increasing, it was completely worth the company's investment in her.

Coupled with the gathering of various talents in the company and the three million in capital Su Yang had invested...

Yu Siying was also becoming more and more willing to spend money on Jiang Yan. The directors' side also started to go crazy, and the scenes and expenses designed for Jiang Yan became larger and larger!

After watching the video, Su Yang was very satisfied.

He didn't call Yu Siying because he knew she must be very busy right now.

After all, in the plan, this video was the focus of the company's promotion!

He gave Jiang Yan a call and arranged to meet at the apartment today.

He told her to communicate with the makeup artist, costume designer, and prop master in advance to be prepared!

He was mainly going to help his employee release some pressure!

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yan found the makeup artist: "Sister Chen, help me do a Hancock makeup look!"

Sister Chen asked casually, "Is it for a livestream?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Jiang Yan nodded quickly.

"You really work hard!" Sister Chen, the makeup artist, couldn't help but say. "You even have to work overtime at night!"

Jiang Yan said with a smile, "Can't be helped, I have to try to earn a bit more whenever there's an opportunity!"

"That's true. You have to earn more while this wave of popularity lasts. Your line of work relies on youth; who knows, you might not be popular one day!" Sister Chen looked at Jiang Yan's beautiful face in the mirror and couldn't help but touch Jiang Yan's chin in admiration. "But this face of yours is indeed born for this. Most female stars in the entertainment industry aren't as good-looking as you!"

Jiang Yan said with a smile, "The competition in the entertainment industry is too fierce. It's not like you can become a star just by being good-looking!"

"It's already hard for young female stars in the entertainment industry to move up, and yet there's a group of old monsters who are still playing young girls at their age and refuse to retire... of course the competition is fierce!"

Hearing Sister Chen's complaints, Jiang Yan couldn't help but laugh.