231: Chapter 231 Monthly Income of Thirty Million! The Reputation of Jiuxiang Foods! Creative Employee Screening Methods!

Chapter 231: Monthly Income of Thirty Million! The Reputation of Jiuxiang Food! Creative Employee Screening!

Around the afternoon of the 7th, Su Yang finally returned to Rongcheng.

Sitting in his office, he felt a bit idle.

He didn't want to work this afternoon; he just wanted to wait for the news that came on the 7th of every month!

So, he lay down on the sofa, took out his phone, and casually scrolled through short videos.

Then he saw Ji Lanjun, dressed in a slim-fitting traditional Chinese martial arts outfit with a high ponytail and holding a Miao Dao, standing on a dilapidated plaza that looked like an ancient ruin.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, as if a torrential rain was about to pour down!

At that moment, the cameraman gradually zoomed in for a close-up of her face.

Her expression grew solemn, and her gaze sharpened, carrying an aura of chilling intensity!

Her hands tightened around the Miao Dao as a strong wind blew past, lifting her bangs.

When the first drop of rain fell onto the broken floor tiles, she finally began to brandish the Miao Dao.

In a slow-motion close-up, the Miao Dao sliced diagonally through a raindrop!

Immediately after, the pace and rhythm quickened.

Accompanied by the whistling of the blade and the sound of muffled thunder,

She performed slashes, upward swings, thrusts, and parries...

As Ji Junlan advanced, retreated, dodged, and spun, jumping and tumbling, her moves were unpredictable, fierce, and fast. Her imposing presence combined an extraordinary sense of power and beauty!

As the video neared its end, Ji Junlan delivered a final downward strike.

The blade qi broke through the curtain of rain and sliced a massive boulder clean in half!

To be honest, Ji Junlan really reminded Su Yang of those heroic female warriors from old Hong Kong and Taiwan movies!

Su Yang felt that even thirty or forty years ago,

With Ji Junlan's skill and looks, she could have easily been the female lead in a wuxia film!

But now... there was no chance!

Unless he decided to invest!

Smiling, he tapped the heart icon, replayed the video, and turned on the bullet comments.

Densely packed comments began to appear.

“Sister, kill me!”

“Sister, cut me!”

“So cool I could die!”

“Sorry everyone, my wife is just showing off!”

“High energy ahead!”

“Give the editor a chicken leg bonus!”

“Can Sister go film a wuxia movie?”

“...”

After watching it again, Su Yang clicked into Ji Junlan's profile page.

He was quite satisfied to see her follower count approaching two million!

Yu Siying had mentioned to Su Yang that Ji Junlan's short videos focusing on traditional culture were receiving traffic support from the platform.

Coupled with the fact that young audiences nowadays preferred this type of traditional martial arts content,

Ji Junlan's future was looking very bright indeed!

Some MCN agencies had already started following the trend by promoting similar influencers.

However, overall, no competitor of the same type had emerged who posed a threat to Ji Junlan!

Those who could fight weren't as good-looking as Ji Junlan, and those who were good-looking couldn't fight like her.

Furthermore, in terms of the behind-the-scenes team and video quality, Spark Media could easily crush the vast majority of influencers on short video platforms!

Crush the vast majority of similar influencers?

Judging by the quality of this short video, Su Yang felt Ji Junlan could crush the vast majority of 'little fresh meat' idols in the entertainment industry!

The fight scenes in modern idol-driven xianxia dramas were truly hard to watch!

After thinking for a moment, Su Yang called the head of Ji Junlan's team, who was on a business trip in the north, and praised them in passing: “The video was well done; you guys really put your hearts into it!”

“Thank you, Boss!”

A raise wasn't necessary; their base salary was decent, and their performance was now tied to Ji Junlan.

The better Ji Junlan performed, the better their results, and the higher their pay!

Afterward, Su Yang also praised Ji Junlan.

In the afternoon, as it neared closing time, Su Yang finally received the system notification:

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Spark Fitness employees for July: 2.65 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Jiuxiang Catering employees for July: 12.13 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Spark Media employees for July: 6.59 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Jiuxiang Food employees for July: 4.55 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Fengyuan Ingredients employees for July: 1.57 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Hongyu Law Firm employees for July: 1.36 million.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Meijia Housekeeping employees for July: 560,000.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate for Jufan Holdings headquarters employees for July: 370,000.]

[Ding~ You have received a total salary and benefits rebate of 29.68 million yuan for July.]

[Ding~ The loyalty of employees from Spark Fitness, Spark Media, Jiuxiang Catering, Jiuxiang Food, Fengyuan Ingredients, Hongyu Law Firm, and Jufan Holdings—including Zhou Long, Zeng Zhongjiang, and others—has reached 90. You receive a cash reward of 410,000 and 1 Strength point.]

[Ding~ Jiuxiang Food employee Ding Weichao's loyalty has reached 90. You receive a 90% off Home Purchase Discount Card (limited to three million).]

[Note: Ding Weichao is very satisfied with his current working environment and views his boss, Su Yang, as his spiritual idol. He intends to settle down in Rongcheng and occasionally slacks off at work to check Rongcheng's housing prices. However, when looking at prices, he generally only looks at listings below three million...]

A junior alumnus who slacks off at work?

Su Yang couldn't help but want to laugh.

He remembered this person quite clearly; he came from his alma mater and was likely a mechanical engineering major.

He had joined Jiuxiang Food through campus recruitment and was mainly responsible for equipment maintenance and repair!

However, he still felt a bit emotional; there were still quite a lot of people who wanted to buy houses!

Special rewards were very rare, and duplicate types almost never appeared.

But now, the home purchase card was indeed a duplicate!

He still had a 50% off home purchase card in his hand that had dropped from Spark Media employee Xu Hao.

That one had no amount limit, and he had always wanted to use it to buy an ultra-luxury villa!

As for the 90% off card from Ding Weichao, Su Yang decided he might as well find some time to use it up.

Since it was capped at three million, it would only cost him 300,000.

At this stage, he could easily produce 300,000!

After adding that Strength point to his attribute panel, Su Yang felt his physical fitness becoming increasingly abnormal.

Looking at the extra thirty million in his bank account, he felt very satisfied!

Throughout July, Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant had not opened any new stores or hired new employees.

Fortunately, Weimeijia was able to barely hold things up!

Spark Media hadn't hired many newcomers either, but they couldn't stop the influencer follower counts from growing, which increased their commercial value and income.

Fengyuan had been developing relatively quickly lately and was hiring employees frequently.

Spark Fitness had acquired two more gyms.

Hongyu was moving forward steadily. Jiuxiang Food only started hiring new employees at the beginning of this month, so the salary increase wasn't much.

On the other hand, the salary growth for Meijia Housekeeping was quite fast, entirely because employers generally pay the previous month's salary to nannies in the second month.

For the live-in nannies signed by Meijia last month, the employers would transfer the salaries to the company account, and the company would pay the nannies according to the contract... Su Yang had essentially gotten a free ride!

Su Yang remembered that the total salary and benefits for the companies was 25.99 million last month; this month it was 29.68 million.

That was an increase of about four million!

To be honest, this growth was somewhat beyond Su Yang's expectations.

He thought that since Nine Fragrance Hotpot wasn't hiring, the growth rate of the rebated salaries and benefits would slow down.

But after a bit of thought, he understood!

He had many companies now!

He had seven companies now. If each company hired a few new employees every month, the total number would be quite considerable when added together.

If he had a hundred companies, even if each company only hired ten newcomers a month,

That would be a thousand employees.

Even if the salary plus benefits for each employee was seven thousand, that would be seven million!

Well!

A hundred companies was just a joke!

But it wasn't impossible!

After receiving the money, Su Yang felt quite content.

He went downstairs and asked briefly about the recruitment of Meijia's ground promotion team.

Meijia's speed also gave Su Yang some relief.

During the time he was on a business trip to the Mountain City, Meijia had already recruited nearly a hundred people.

In addition, Meijia had hired several experienced ground promotion managers who were skilled at leading teams!

They were all attracted by the base salary Meijia offered, which was higher than the market rate.

Sales positions were everywhere in Rongcheng, so there were quite a lot of ground promotion teams.

Of course, if they wanted to recruit a telemarketing team... there would be even more!

However, Tu Zhiqiang roughly told Su Yang that a portion of this batch of ground promotion personnel would definitely be weeded out.

Su Yang thought about it and agreed; after all, not everyone could handle the ground promotion industry.

It was the same as the employees in his Jiuxiang Catering Market Expansion Department!

But Su Yang was still willing to give those ground promotion members who passed their probation some opportunities.

If they didn't want to continue, but had high loyalty and were down-to-earth, Su Yang wouldn't mind helping arrange positions for them in his other companies!

At the very least, he felt that the benefits and treatment in his various companies were quite good, including Jiuxiang Food, which seemed like it would be unpopular!

The reputation of Jiuxiang Food seemed to have spread through some short video platforms and forums.

Some local workers in Rongcheng had recommended Jiuxiang Food, giving it very high ratings!

These workers spent years moving between various factories in Rongcheng.

Those who liked to share would post factory reviews on short video platforms or forums,

Helping other workers avoid sweatshops!

Furthermore, Jiuxiang Food's benefits were no secret in the food industrial park. When they started recruiting at the beginning of the month, more than two hundred people applied.

Tan Yanghong really spent a long time screening them!

He first filtered out those over forty and then had people run laps around the factory.

Whoever finished five laps first would be given priority for hiring...

If Su Yang hadn't said in advance that they could hire young employees with bachelor's degrees for training,

He would have filtered out the ones with bachelor's degrees directly too!