169: Chapter 169 Jiuxiang Catering Surpasses 1,000 Employees! Marathon Victory is No Problem!

Chapter 169: Jiuxiang Catering Breaks One Thousand People! Winning the Marathon is Not a Problem!

With Xu Hongyu and Liu Fengshan, as well as Zhou Jianjun and Guo Shuda—the two pillars of Hongyu's performance—present, it was easier to stabilize the other lawyers of Hongyu Law Firm.

Su Yang acquired the shares Xu Hongyu held in the law firm at a high price.

Xu Hongyu, of course, would give Su Yang this face.

Moreover, being an Honorary Consultant comes with a salary, and he doesn't necessarily need to come to the company normally.

Even if his health wasn't good, he could perfectly well hold this nominal position!

More importantly, Su Yang did not change the name of the law firm.

This made Xu Hongyu even happier.

He hadn't achieved many extraordinary things in his life.

Establishing Hongyu Law Firm was one of the few achievements in his career worth mentioning.

After gathering the more than forty employees of the company, Su Yang immediately announced a salary increase of one thousand yuan for all employees!

Everyone in the law firm cheered.

The ordinary employees and young lawyers especially cheered the loudest and smiled the most happily!

Their loyalty quickly exceeded sixty!

In contrast, the elite lawyers of Hongyu had relatively calm expressions.

However, they still gave Su Yang face by clapping along.

Their loyalty was indeed rising, but far less than that of the ordinary employees and young lawyers.

After Su Yang announced that everything else in the law firm would remain as usual, the loyalty of these elite lawyers actually rose!

They likely saw how young Su Yang was and were afraid he would act recklessly.

Now seeing that Su Yang seemed quite steady and was letting Liu Fengshan continue managing the company, they also developed some good feelings toward him!

"Additionally, I have five other companies that might need legal counsel!"

Su Yang said to everyone with a smile.

Hearing his words, the eyes of many lawyers lit up.

This was all money!

Jiuxiang Catering did have a legal department, but that didn't prevent Su Yang from hiring legal consultants as well.

Su Yang's employee meeting this time was quite successful.

At the very least, the loyalty of all the law firm's employees had barely reached the standard.

After the employee meeting ended, Su Yang chatted with the Law Firm Director, Liu Fengshan.

Liu Fengshan used to be a professional lawyer and was a partner in a small law firm with Xu Hongyu.

Because he took on the role of the person in charge of the law firm, Liu Fengshan was not only busy with his own cases but also had to spend effort managing the firm, which resulted in his income being mediocre!

However, back then, Xu Hongyu had noticed his management talent.

When Xu Hongyu left his original firm to establish Hongyu, he poached Liu Fengshan with a high salary to specifically be the person in charge of Hongyu.

Liu Fengshan had done quite well in the position of Law Firm Director and had developed Hongyu.

His original annual salary at the law firm was 350,000 yuan.

Su Yang increased his salary to 400,000 yuan, plus a 5% dry share dividend.

"Boss, do you have any plans or suggestions for the development of Hongyu?"

Liu Fengshan asked politely.

He actually didn't expect Su Yang to have any guiding suggestions; after all, he knew Su Yang was a layman!

In the past, laymen were not qualified to invest in law firms.

It was only in recent years that this policy had gradually opened up.

"Hire more people!" Su Yang said with a smile. "First, find a way to get me a total of one hundred employees, and poach some excellent professional lawyers as well."

The special buff for one hundred employees would gain an upgrade, and it was also a relatively easy goal to achieve.

Every time Su Yang acquired or created a company, his first goal was not profit.

It was to increase the number of employees to one hundred!

"Uh..."

"Don't worry about the money; I will continue to inject capital next month!"

"Alright then!"

"Don't worry!" Su Yang said with a smile. "If the company loses money because there are too many employees, I won't blame you!"

It's good as long as you say that!

Liu Fengshan said in his heart.

"No problem, Boss!"

After finishing the conversation with Liu Fengshan, Su Yang chatted with Zhou Jianjun and Guo Shuda for a bit, then left and returned to Jiuxiang Catering.

Today's Jiuxiang Catering, including its subsidiaries Jiuxiang Healthy Catering and Weimeijia, had a total employee count approaching one thousand people.

It was only short by three employees!

The day of the breakthrough was very close.

After all, Guo Fang was currently recruiting employees for seven hotpot restaurants in Shancheng, which meant over a hundred people!

During the period of acquiring Hongyu, the employees of the Market Expansion Department had helped Jiuxiang find two more good storefronts.

Guo Fang had also personally gone to negotiate the rent.

Meanwhile, back in Rongcheng, the expansion of Jiuxiang Catering had gradually come to a halt after opening its thirty-second hotpot restaurant.

In some counties in the province with better economies and higher spending power,

the presence of Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurants had also appeared!

After consulting with Su Yang, Ji Guoxiong gradually shifted the focus of development to Shancheng.

Rather than going to those counties with weak spending power to open hotpot restaurants, it was better to go to Shancheng.

There, they would find a stronger consumer base and more profit!

The next day, Su Yang transferred the 300,000 yuan bonus he had promised Fan Jinding into his account.

Just after the bonus was transferred to Fan Jinding's account, Fan Jinding ran to his office.

"Boss, was there too much transferred?"

"How is it too much?"

Fan Jinding: "The law firm was acquired after the fifteenth!"

Su Yang gave him a deep look: "But you recommended Hongyu to me before the fifteenth!"

"Thank you, Boss!"

Fan Jinding thanked him with a grin.

Su Yang asked with a smile again: "I also plan to have Hongyu's lawyers serve as legal consultants for Jiuxiang Catering. You don't have any objections, do you?"

Fan Jinding asked in a low voice: "Then my salary..."

"It stays the same!"

"Then there's no problem!"

There were indeed companies that set up legal departments and also hired legal consultants, but this mostly occurred in large companies!

So as long as it didn't affect his salary, Fan Jinding naturally wouldn't care.

"Alright, go get busy!"

"Okay, Boss!"

Seeing Fan Jinding leave happily, Jiang Yuzhen reminded Su Yang about the live stream connection with the Shancheng Market Expansion Department employees.

But before the live stream connection began, Su Yang heard a system prompt:

[Ding~ Your Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot Restaurant employee count has exceeded 1,000 people. You have received an achievement reward: 5 constitution points; the catering outlets under Jiuxiang Catering can obtain a new permanent buff, or upgrade an existing buff level.]

[1. Nutrient absorption reduction, 2. Nutrient absorption increase, 3. service effect enhancement, 4. Catering dish research and development speed increase... or upgrade an original buff!]

Hearing the system prompt, Su Yang's mood immediately became even better.

It seemed Old Guo hadn't been lazy over in Shancheng!

Now that the number of Jiuxiang Catering employees had increased to 1,000, the achievement rewards had clearly changed somewhat.

However, Su Yang was already mentally prepared and could accept it.

At least his range of choices was larger!

He used Business Deduction a bit and found that after the +50% Deliciousness bonus buff was upgraded, it would become +70%.

In other words, the special buff bonus ratio of this system probably followed the sequence of 15%, 30%, 50%, and 70%.

But Su Yang was still quite satisfied; after all, having the salary welfare return and Business Deduction—these two gold fingers—was already very good. He couldn't be too greedy!

Then he used the Business Deduction skill to experiment with other new buffs and eventually found that picking the service effect enhancement buff would be better for increasing the company's profits!

[service effect enhancement: When your employees provide high-quality service, it is easier to gain the goodwill of customers.]

Almost all of his catering outlets were aimed at the general public.

When people go to a restaurant to spend money, besides enjoying delicious food, they also go to enjoy the service.

Moreover, there were catering chain giants in the country famous for their service!

As for nutrient absorption and reduction, Su Yang felt it was unnecessary.

Reducing the nutrients customers absorbed didn't seem right.

But letting customers absorb too many nutrients could easily lead to weight gain... that seemed even more wrong!

As for catering dish research and development, it wasn't like he couldn't afford to hire R&D employees!

The service levels of Jiuxiang Catering's hotpot restaurants and fast-food restaurants were already excellent.

With another +15%, the effect would be even more prominent.

[Ding~ The hotpot restaurants under your name have permanently obtained +50% Deliciousness bonus, -30% physical damage buff, and +15% service effect.]

Happily adding the five constitution points to his attribute panel, Su Yang felt a warm current flowing through his body.

Adding five constitution points at once, the effect was indeed very obvious.

After the live stream connection ended, Su Yang went to the gym and ran for an hour.

As a result, he found that he surprisingly didn't feel much, only slightly out of breath!

It was a bit... ridiculous!

With his current physical quality, winning a marathon championship shouldn't be a problem.

But he was just thinking about it!

How much money could a marathon champion make?

After he took a shower, he received a wechat message from Jiang Yan.

"Boss, do you want to see Daji?"

Immediately after, Su Yang saw several revealing photos.

These photos were truly dazzlingly white.

Looking at the surrounding decor, Jiang Yan must have secretly taken them in the company's changing room.

So, this was a game character?

Su Yang took a deep breath, suppressing the fire in his heart: "I'll head over tonight!"

"My King, Daji is waiting for you!"

When night came, Su Yang nudged Jiang Yan, who was like a corpse, soaked all over, her eyes somewhat vacant as she stared at the ceiling.

Jiang Yan turned her head blankly to look at Su Yang, then looked at his little brother who had regained his spirit, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva and shake her head!

Su Yang teased: "Didn't you say you wanted me to favor you properly?"

"No more!"

"Really no more?"

"No!"

Seeing tears flowing from the corners of Jiang Yan's eyes, Su Yang hurriedly comforted her.

"Boss, you should go find someone else!"

When she said this, Jiang Yan was completely sincere.

Anyway, she wasn't Su Yang's girlfriend, much less his wife, so she had no burden!

This was just her survival instinct!

And she also knew Su Yang had other women!

"Uh..."

"I can't take it, waaaah... I feel like I'm going to die!"

This crying actually made Su Yang feel embarrassed.

After all, he indeed had been a bit excessive today.

But who told Jiang Yan's outfit to be so alluring?

Combined with his suddenly increased constitution, he was indeed a bit excessively strong!

Jiang Yan had also walked right into the line of fire today!

"Alright, alright, alright, let's sleep, let's just sleep!!"

Su Yang didn't want to be too excessive.

If he was too much and Jiang Yan got scared and stopped looking for him in the future, what would he do?

"Mm-hmm!"

Hearing Su Yang's words, Jiang Yan finally felt at ease.

Su Yang carried Jiang Yan to the bathroom, washed her clean, changed the wet sheets, and then held her as they fell asleep.

There are indeed some minor issues regarding the law firm, but not all law firm shareholders must be lawyers; some regions have already relaxed these restrictions, and there are other ways for non-lawyers to hold law firm equity... plus, this is a parallel world! However, I've also adjusted some minor details: Liu Fengshan, Zhou Jianjun, and Guo Shuda all held some shares, but they were bought out by the protagonist at a high price, leaving them with only 1% because the firm needs lawyers as shareholders. Those shares will be continuously diluted by the protagonist later, and they've all agreed. It won't affect the reading even if you don't look back... My head hurts from researching every day; I just want to earn some royalties, not actually start a company... I feel like my brain is being assaulted by all this knowledge! Also, I'm hoping for some monthly and recommendation tickets!