162: Chapter 162 The Boss's Troubles! The King of Pizza Hut in Fuzhou!

Chapter 162: The Boss's Troubles! The Rongcheng Pizza Hut!

On the high-speed rail, Dai Wei curiously asked Liu Shucheng, "Brother Liu, are there any fun places in Shancheng?"

Liu Shucheng was a native of Shancheng; among this group of thirteen people, three were originally from Shancheng.

Liu Shucheng smacked his lips and thought seriously for a moment. "I feel like there's nothing fun in Shancheng... it's not as fun as Rongcheng!"

Guo Fang, who was nearby, laughed. "I also think Rongcheng has nothing fun!"

Liu Shucheng asked in confusion, "Isn't Kuanzhai Alley pretty good?"

Guo Fang replied, "That's just a broken alleyway. The stuff they sell is incredibly expensive. I never go there!"

Liu Shucheng: "What about Qinglong Palace?"

Guo Fang replied casually, "Just a broken Taoist temple!"

Liu Shucheng: "What about Wenshu Monastery?"

Guo Fang: "What's so interesting about a bunch of big monks?"

"Hahaha..."

Everyone present, whether from Rongcheng or Shancheng, laughed.

The atmosphere of the entire team lightened up!

"Brother Yan, you guys are going to strike it rich in Shancheng this time, right?" Zhou Zichuan asked Yan Chunrong from the Market Expansion Department. "I heard you get a ten-thousand-yuan bonus just for finding one shop!"

Yan Chunrong was grinning so much he couldn't even keep the corners of his mouth down.

The employees from the Market Expansion Department going to Shancheng this time were all doing it for the bonuses.

There was no other way!

The hotpot restaurants in Rongcheng were somewhat saturated, and only a few could be opened in the surrounding counties!

It was currently too difficult to find a shop that the boss would be satisfied with!

For this trip to Shancheng, the employees of the Market Expansion Department had been scrambling to go.

Everyone knew that the probability of finding a good shop in Shancheng was much higher than in Rongcheng.

In the end, only a few of them won out through their performance!

He looked at his other three colleagues...

Good grief!

Their eyes were glowing green, just like wolves!

The way they looked at him was full of fighting spirit!

Resources are always limited; although the four of them were colleagues, they were also competitors!

Feeling a secret tightening in his chest, Yan Chunrong remained calm and said modestly, "That depends on performance!"

Zhou Zichuan said, "I heard that the performance targets in the Market Expansion Department are very hard to meet!"

"It is indeed difficult; the boss's requirements are quite strict," Yan Chunrong said with a smile. "You envy us, but we envy you trainee store managers! Your salaries are much more stable than ours!"

Zhou Zichuan smiled, knowing that the other man was telling the truth!

At the same time, he decided to perform well and strive to become a store manager in Shancheng.

[Ding~ You have received 1.78 million in salary and welfare returns for Spark Fitness employees for March.]

[Ding~ You have received 6.81 million in salary and welfare returns for Jiuxiang Catering employees for March.]

[Ding~ You have received 3.92 million in salary and welfare returns for Spark Media employees for March.]

[Ding~ You have received 3.47 million in salary and welfare returns for Jiuxiang Food employees for March.]

[Ding~ You have received 0.76 million in salary and welfare returns for Fengyuan Ingredients employees for March.]

[Ding~ The loyalty of employees from Spark Fitness, Spark Media, Jiuxiang Catering, Jiuxiang Food, and Fengyuan Ingredients, including Lian Qingnian, Gu Shiyuan, Lyu Jiantuan, etc., has increased to 90. You receive 470,000 in cash rewards and 1 agility point.]

[Ding~ Spark Media employee Tang Zhengchu's loyalty has reached 90. You receive Writing Skill +1.]

17.21 million went directly into his account!

Looking at his account balance again, it was already as high as 18 million!

This speed of development was something even Su Yang hadn't quite expected.

However, the bulk of the salary increase this time still came from Jiuxiang Food and Jiuxiang Catering.

Jiuxiang Food now had up to five hundred employees, making it second only to Jiuxiang Catering in terms of employee count among Su Yang's five companies!

But for it to catch up to Jiuxiang Catering was almost impossible.

The number of employees at Jiuxiang Food was already very saturated.

If he hired any more, there would truly be nothing for them to do!

Furthermore, his Jiuxiang Food would be operating at a loss for a while; after all, with five hundred workers, 3.47 million in salaries and benefits wouldn't be easy to cover!

But Su Yang didn't mind at all; he'd let things stabilize for a while first!

But Jiuxiang Catering was much more impressive; once the Shancheng market was opened up, that would be another point for a performance explosion!

As for the writing skill rewarded for Tang Zhengchu's loyalty reaching 90, Su Yang felt a bit helpless.

What was he supposed to do with writing skills?

Shouldn't writing drafts be handled by his employees?

In other words, the writing skill, just like his culinary skills, was useless to him!

He would have preferred discount cards for luxury cars or mansions!

He still had some impression of this Tang Zhengchu.

A Spark Media employee, skilled at writing various promotional articles, and an excellent member of the internet water army.

But at least it was a skill with a relatively wide range of applications, so Su Yang didn't reject it!

"This eighteen million... how should I spend it?"

Su Yang looked at the money in his account with some bewilderment. Thinking about his five companies... he suddenly didn't know how to spend this money!

Spark Fitness didn't need money; its operations were very healthy, unless he went to buy someone else's gym.

However, he looked down on small gyms, and other large gyms in Rongcheng belonged to chain fitness brands.

Generally, people wouldn't easily sell their own brand's chain gyms!

If you wanted to buy one, expect to be fleeced!

Building one himself would take at least half a year, and Su Yang still preferred to just buy, buy, buy!

There was still plenty of capital in Jiuxiang Catering's account, and unless there was a big move in Shancheng, it didn't need Su Yang's support!

Even if it needed capital, it wouldn't need much!

It was the same for Jiuxiang Food and Spark Media; they needed capital, but not much!

Over at Fengyuan, the number of employees was approaching a hundred, but that was also the limit.

Give the employees a raise?

Su Yang felt that now was not the time!

A pay raise must be timed perfectly.

Frequent raises, or raises for no reason, would only cause their threshold and excitement points to get higher and higher.

Eventually, they might even become numb to it!

He had to give his employees a good experience with their raises.

Make them feel a sense of achievement, just like leveling up and killing monsters in a game.

For example, set a strict requirement for them or give them a difficult task.

After they complete it, then give them a raise; they would definitely be happier!

But Jiuxiang Food, which was currently operating at a loss and had redundant employees, didn't quite meet Su Yang's requirements.

Even if he gave them a raise, it couldn't actually be by much.

Su Yang felt that being a boss was truly exhausting.

He even took into consideration the sense of achievement and experience of a raise for his employees.

But if he didn't spend all the capital on hand by the end of the month, he felt like he was losing money in business!

"Sigh!"

Su Yang leaned back on the sofa in his office, unceremoniously propped his legs up on the desk, stared blankly at the white ceiling, and let out a heavy sigh.

How to spend the money?

He suddenly felt like a master swordsman looking around in bewilderment, finding no worthy opponent!

Jiang Yuzhen, who had just entered the office intending to pour some water for Su Yang, heard him sigh and asked with concern:

"Boss, what's wrong?"

The impression Su Yang gave her had always been one of composure and stability, full of confidence and ambition.

It seemed like no problem could stump him!

This was the first time she had seen the boss sigh!

Su Yang said casually, "It's nothing!"

Jiang Yuzhen: "Did you run into a problem?"

"Yeah!"

Su Yang nodded.

"Boss, tell me about it!" Jiang Yuzhen sat down beside Su Yang and said caringly, "As the saying goes, two heads are better than one. Maybe I can help you come up with some ideas?"

Looking at this beautiful secretary with loyalty over 90, Su Yang's mood gradually improved a bit.

"Boss, tell me!"

Jiang Yuzhen's voice unconsciously rose at the end, giving off a coquettish vibe.

"Alright!"

"Mhm! Go ahead, I'm listening!"

Jiang Yuzhen looked at Su Yang seriously, putting on an air of listening intently.

She also wanted to know what kind of problem could trouble her always steady, confident, and exceptionally capable boss!

Su Yang lowered his legs from the coffee table and said slowly, "I have over ten million in my hands, but I don't know how to spend it!"

"Huh?"

Jiang Yuzhen was dumbfounded.

She never imagined in her dreams that the problem troubling the boss would be this!

This was just blatant flaunting of wealth, wasn't it!

But as she looked at the boss's serious eyes, she knew he wasn't flaunting.

He was likely telling the truth!

Because she knew the boss was a relatively frugal person; he rarely spent more than a hundred yuan on a meal, he didn't wear any luxury watches or accessories, and even his car only cost a little over a million.

For a rich man like Su Yang who gave out over ten million a month, this was indeed very frugal!

Yet the boss was very good to his employees and very generous to his subordinates!

The fact that it was the truth made Jiang Yuzhen feel even worse.

For a moment, she had the urge to hang her boss from a lamppost!

Jiang Yuzhen said, "How about you let me spend it?"

Su Yang laughed. "Sure, give me your bank card number. I'll give you three million and you can help me spend it!"

"I was joking! Just joking!" Jiang Yuzhen quickly refused.

She was genuinely afraid Su Yang would actually transfer the money to her!

Because she had discovered that Su Yang was truly the type of person who didn't treat money as money.

"Alright then," Su Yang said immediately. "Since you refused, then never mind!"

"..."

Jiang Yuzhen's eyes widened, feeling as though she had missed out on something.

She asked in a small voice, "You weren't joking just now?"

"No!" Su Yang shook his head with a smile. "I was serious just now. Three million is nothing to me, you know that!"

Jiang Yuzhen scratched her head. "Then can I regret it now?"

"Of course not!" Su Yang shook his head. "It's too late now!"

"Ah?"

Su Yang shook his head with an expression of regret for her and patted her shoulder:

"Do you know? You just missed out on three million!"

Seeing Jiang Yuzhen's beautiful, delicate face wrinkle up like a bitter melon with his own eyes, Su Yang felt his troubles vanish and his mood brighten!

Teasing the secretary occasionally was quite a good recreational activity.

Ignoring Jiang Yuzhen, he sat up from the sofa and casually wiped the coffee table with a tissue.

Throwing the tissue into the trash can, he sat back in his executive chair and opened a folder on his computer desktop.

His current five companies indeed had difficulty absorbing these ten-plus million, but he could start a new company!

Many things, several entrepreneurial directions, he had considered before.

Opening the folder, he found a Word document named "Million~Ten Million," and he saw rows of startup projects.

Ranked first was—Law Firm: Rongcheng Pizza Hut!

Rongcheng Pizza Hut... was Su Yang's note; he had been making a joke at the time.

This ranking didn't actually represent the priority of the startup projects.

It was just Su Yang writing down whatever came to mind!

But at this moment, Su Yang also gradually recalled the reason he had considered opening a law firm.