129: Chapter 129 Expansion! Spend money! Money spent makes for a good New Year!

Chapter 129: Expansion! Spending! Spend It All for the New Year!

However, Tan Yanghong kept his inner complaints to himself.

"What does the boss want to do?"

Su Yang suggested, "We already have factories for beef snacks, dried fruits, and preserved fruit snacks. How about adding some spicy strips, soy products, bread, puffed foods, candy, and various meat snacks? For example, pickled chicken feet?"

Tan Yanghong gradually began to understand.

His boss wanted to do everything!

"Boss, I think at most we should just add some soy product snacks!" Tan Yanghong said in a low voice. "We haven't even finished hiring staff for our current two factories yet."

"Fine!" Su Yang nodded. "But I've got my eye on one that makes pickled chicken feet..."

He was still quite a man of his word.

He had promised to make pickled chicken feet for Tao Xue!

"That works too!"

Tan Yanghong said after thinking for a moment.

A factory that made pickled chicken feet shouldn't be very large; it might even just be a small workshop!

"Mm!"

Seeing Tan Yanghong agree, Su Yang was happy.

He needed to hurry up and spend the money so he could have a good New Year at the end of the month.

However, regarding buying the factories this time, Su Yang knew he wouldn't be getting much of a bargain.

He might even have to pay a slight premium.

But he was now someone who could afford the price.

Most snack factories required relatively low investment and didn't have any high-end equipment.

As long as the supply and sales channels could be retained, it was fine.

Besides, Jiuxiang was no longer lacking in sales channels.

Producing food didn't require too many connections or networks either.

One just needed to focus on food hygiene and smooth things over with the relevant authorities.

Tan Yanghong and the other employees would handle that, and the factory would reimburse the expenses.

The business environment in big cities was quite good, especially in industrial parks!

After settling things with Tan Yanghong, Su Yang rushed to Jiuxiang Catering early the next morning.

At 8:55 AM, he arrived at the Jiuxiang Catering conference room.

The number of employees at Jiuxiang Catering had already surpassed a hundred, mostly consisting of staff from the Market Expansion Department.

However, most of the Market Expansion Department employees were out today, and Su Yang didn't force them to come back for the meeting.

Anyway, Manager Zhou Yaoxian would notify them in due time.

Once it was nine o'clock and everyone was in place.

Su Yang began summarizing the achievements made during Jiuxiang Catering's recent rapid development, focusing on praising the outstanding contributions of all general managers, vice presidents, department managers, and the entire staff.

Thanks to his Photographic Memory talent, he could even call them out by name one by one.

He praised many outstanding department managers and ordinary employees across the board!

The department managers and employees praised by Su Yang were all invigorated.

They all knew that their hard work and dedication had been remembered by the boss!

Su Yang's Photographic Memory skill, besides being used to learn knowledge, was almost entirely used to remember employees' names.

He would also remember the strengths and weaknesses of his employees, but as long as the weaknesses weren't major issues, he generally only praised their strengths!

He left it to the department managers, general managers, vice presidents, and other leaders to address the weaknesses.

After all, they were being paid by Su Yang.

Lately, Su Yang generally only played the role of the good guy, unless someone truly offended him to his face.

He felt he was qualified to be the leader of the 'Cult of Praise'!

After Su Yang finished praising everyone, he announced on the spot that department managers would receive raises and position shares.

He gave raises to all employees and also provided dividends.

The entire conference room instantly erupted in excitement!

Department managers and all employees were so excited they were beaming with joy, and applause echoed throughout the entire room.

The employee loyalty of the entire Jiuxiang Catering began to rise across the board!

Seeing their happy faces, Su Yang was in a good mood himself.

If ordinary employees participated in dividends, they could probably get an extra one to two thousand per month.

In the future, as Jiuxiang Catering's scale expanded, profits would increase.

But the number of headquarters employees would certainly increase accordingly as well!

He would slightly control the amount of money they received from dividends.

It wouldn't be too much, but it certainly wouldn't be too little either!

As for the executives, they were supposed to get more money anyway.

One couldn't become a leader and not have their income increase, right?

Otherwise, who would want a promotion?

Unknowingly, Su Yang found that his acting and speech-giving skills had both improved to the Common level!

He looked at Chen Li; she was propping her head with her left hand and holding a ballpoint pen in her right, staring at him in a daze.

After noticing Su Yang's gaze, Chen Li lowered her head in embarrassment.

Like a female student caught daydreaming by her teacher.

Once everyone had finished celebrating, Su Yang handed the microphone to General Manager Ji Guoxiong.

The things Ji Guoxiong spoke about were not quite so pleasant.

He mainly pointed out the bottlenecks currently encountered in the development of Nine Fragrance Hotpot and the challenges they might face in the future.

The faces of all the staff gradually became serious as they listened intently to Ji Guoxiong's speech!

However, facing difficulties, they did not shrink back, let alone feel afraid; instead, they were full of fighting spirit!

Mainly because Su Yang had just given them a boost!

For workers, promotions and raises were the best kind of Viagra!

They believed that the boss would definitely not treat them poorly!

In the evening, Su Yang went over to Chen Li's place.

Today, Chen Li was truly as gentle as could be towards him.

Even for some of his more excessive requests, Chen Li shyly let him have his way.

Anyway, Su Yang was quite happy.

Next, Su Yang bought a soy product snack factory and a pickled chicken feet factory.

The pickled chicken feet factory was relatively small, only about five hundred square meters.

Besides making some pickled chicken feet snacks, they also did wholesale.

They sold pickled chicken feet to retailers, who would then sell them in the market.

Calling it a factory was more like calling it a workshop, but Su Yang still spent a million!

As long as it was still profitable.

The soy product snack factory, on the other hand, was somewhat more respectable.

It could produce snacks like dried tofu, peas, broad beans, and fermented bean curd; they were also doing wholesale!

This soy product snack factory had debts.

So Su Yang spent one million and took on one million in loans.

Altogether, he only spent two million.

With the remaining nine million, Su Yang turned his gaze toward Spark Media!

He had only one thought now.

Spend money!

Spend it all for a good New Year!

Currently, the only place that could accommodate such funds was probably Spark Media.

Jiuxiang Catering wouldn't do for the short term; only two shops were under renovation this month.

With over a million in profit a month, after paying salaries, they could also support renovation and equipment procurement costs!

A company like Spark Media that relied on the internet could truly accommodate an infinite amount of capital.

Besides, Su Yang had recently signed quite a few promising talents, and all of them needed proper cultivation!

At Su Yang's request, Yu Siying rented a thousand-square-meter office space next door to Spark Media and merged the two office spaces directly.

Thus, Spark Media's office area approached two thousand square meters!

In terms of office space, Spark Media was definitely top-tier.

Then came the renovations and the purchase of various work equipment; Su Yang could finally spend the money.

Spark Media also began recruiting employees and signing internet celebrity artists in large numbers!

Knowing that Su Yang placed great importance on behind-the-scenes personnel.

Yu Siying also recruited many makeup artists, special effects artists, editors, screenwriting talents, and various training teachers.

In addition, Su Yang had Yu Siying hire two relatively senior psychological counselors and set up a psychological counseling room within the company.

It was said to be for the internet celebrities.

Employees with psychological issues could also seek consultation.

This left Yu Siying somewhat between laughter and tears!

But to be honest, she felt some internet celebrities really needed it.

After all, once someone becomes a public figure, it's really easy to lose one's mental balance when facing various pressures and criticisms!

Having nothing else to do, Su Yang simply acted as the interviewer himself to recruit people for Spark Media.

At first, Yu Siying was a bit worried that Su Yang wouldn't know how to conduct interviews.

But she soon discovered that the boss's eye for people... was truly accurate!

At least none of the people Su Yang recruited were lacking in skill or ability.

There were very few troublemakers; at most, they just had a bit of personality.

Moreover, the interview efficiency was truly incredible!

In a typical interview, the interviewer might talk with the interviewee for half an hour, or even as long as one or two hours.

But what about Su Yang?

Generally, it wouldn't exceed ten minutes; it was just that crisp and decisive!

In fact, those interviewees also had an extremely good impression of Su Yang.

He was handsome, spoke pleasantly, and had a very approachable smile.

And he didn't waste words or talk nonsense.

He certainly wouldn't ask some weird, tricky questions that seemed designed specifically to torture people!

After chatting for ten minutes at most, he would directly say whether they passed or not, without them even having to wait for a notification.

It was truly straightforward!

Regardless of whether they were successful in the interview, Su Yang left an extremely deep impression on them!