385: Chapter 385 A City on the Plateau! A Thousand-Acre Winery!

A day later, Yi Jiangang came to find Su Yang to name the football club.

He also mentioned the Football Association's requirement that club names cannot contain the names of shareholders.

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Su Yang actually already knew about this; he had recently been brushing up on his football knowledge.

Yi Jiangang had also prepared a list of potential names for the club for Su Yang.

This pleased Su Yang greatly, as he was not good at coming up with names!

He glanced at the football club names on the A4 paper: Daxing, Fuxing, Comet, Meteor, Flaming Tiger, Hurricane, Lightning Wolf... Proud of the Crowd, Baby Bus, Cold-Blooded Assassin, Blade, Sunset Red... He couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

So many edgy names!

Some people were making memes, and others were just plain bizarre!

However, he recalled the names of the teams in the Chinese Super League.

Among the sixteen football teams, there were all sorts of Lions, Tigers, and Bulls... it seemed about the same.

He casually removed the ones that were memes, the "Sunset Red" ones, and the "Blade" and "Assassin" ones.

"Fuxing" (Revival) wasn't necessary either; it was a new club, what was there to revive?

"Daxing" didn't seem necessary either!

Wasn't "Comet" just another word for a jinx?

"Meteor" seemed fleeting... but Su Yang wasn't superstitious!

Besides, it could be linked to Xinghuo.

After thinking for a moment, he moved Comet and Meteor to the front, then added the Flaming Tiger ones to the backup list.

Anyone who has registered a company name knows that sometimes all the good names are already taken!

It's just like registering an ID on a platform.

You rack your brains to come up with a good name, only to find it's already taken.

That's why you need to prepare a few more as backups.

Yi Jiangang mentioned again: "Mr. Meng wants our football club to be affiliated with the Provincial Football Association!"

"Why?"

Su Yang said noncommittally.

"He likes wearing yellow jerseys!"

Su Yang laughed: "Was he a fan of Quanxing in the past?"

"I believe so!"

Yi Jiangang nodded.

"That team disbanded almost twenty years ago, and he's still obsessed with it?"

Su Yang hadn't even been born when the Quanxing team was founded!

He was still in kindergarten when it disbanded.

"Yeah!"

"What's your opinion?"

Su Yang looked at Yi Jiangang with a calm gaze.

"That probably won't work!" Yi Jiangang said in a low voice. "The Provincial Football Association and the Rongcheng Football Association hold their amateur competitions separately. Our clients are mainly from Rongcheng, so it wouldn't be good if they weren't eligible to play in the amateur league organized by the Rongcheng Football Association."

"Right, business is business!" Su Yang nodded. "We need to satisfy the needs of the majority of our clients!"

He felt that the setup of these two Football Associations was quite unreasonable, but since they already existed, they had to follow the rules.

"Indeed!"

"Just tell Mr. Meng the truth about our company's considerations. If he really likes it, we can establish another club and place it under the name of the Provincial Football Association. Then he can sign up if he wants to!"

If the football club is managed well, while it might not make huge money, making over a million a year is still possible!

It could also help him recruit employees and enhance the cohesion and brand value of Spark Fitness, so Su Yang was definitely willing to do it.

If Spark Fitness expands across the country in the future, he could open football clubs in various places. Who knows, he might even be able to organize a Xinghuo Cup National Amateur Football League.

Of course, that's just a thought; things aren't that simple.

However, saying hello to the higher-ups and arranging a few inter-provincial matches would definitely be no problem!

Thinking about flying to other provinces on weekends for matches, being able to take on football teams from Shancheng, Jingcheng, the Magic City, and Shenzhen... it actually sounded pretty exciting!

Yi Jiangang laughed: "Make him pay the membership fees for two football clubs?"

Su Yang nodded: "If he's willing, I'll certainly accept!"

The formation of the club went quite smoothly, so the Rongcheng Meteor Football Club was soon established.

The office was located in Hyatt Plaza for ease of management.

The accounting staff were the first to enter, starting to collect membership fees.

The tentative rates were 1,000 yuan/year for ordinary members and 5,000 yuan/year for premium members.

When the establishment of the Meteor Football Club was announced, Su Yang saw that many male members of the high-end customer group were very happy.

They were eager to pay!

Then came recruiting management talent for the club... and soliciting sponsors!

However, handling sponsors for amateur football matches was actually very easy.

Many local businesses wouldn't mind spending a few tens of thousands of yuan.

Su Yang could also bring in Meijia Housekeeping and Jiuxiang Food, and in the future, he could let other company brands join as well!

Su Yang didn't pay much attention to the football club; he was more concerned about the expansion of Spark Fitness.

Recently, three fitness chains had proactively approached Spark Fitness to sell themselves, and all were in the preliminary investigation and evaluation stage!

One of them had already been rejected!

The reason was that the investigators only discovered upon arriving there that the fitness chain had sold many three-year, five-year, and ten-year fitness memberships to customers... and they were demanding that Spark Fitness take on the responsibility of providing follow-up services to those customers after acquiring the chain.

Buying a five-year or ten-year gym membership all at once—Su Yang could only say that these customers were bold enough and had enough money!

Why didn't he have so many high-quality customers?

Spark Fitness already had tens of thousands of members; if every customer paid tens of thousands...

Wouldn't Spark Fitness have hundreds of millions in cash flow?

How could his grand enterprise not flourish then?

The negotiations for Chizhu Wine Industry were going quite smoothly.

Jiuxiang Food had also received support from the local authorities.

However, Su Yang's only concern was how much winemaking technology the technical staff at Chizhu Wine Industry had actually learned from the French.

Of course, he wasn't too worried about the development of chizhu; at the very least, it wouldn't make him lose too much money.

In the wine industry, he still had an advantage!

On February 17th, Su Yang took Tan Yanghong, Yu Chengjun, and other staff members to Derong County.

Derong County was located in the southwest of the province, surrounded on three sides by Yunnan Province and adjacent to Shangri-La.

It was situated in the high mountain and plateau region of western Sichuan, lying on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The scenery Su Yang saw along the way was nothing but towering mountains and steep ridges, though there was some slight soil erosion.

The county town was well-built, but it was quite quiet—he hadn't even seen a traffic light.

It was a quiet and clean little town with a population of less than thirty thousand.

The car drove straight to the main gate of Chizhu Wine Industry; the factory buildings looked unremarkable.

Only the simple football field next to it made him take a second look!

The staff from the Mergers and Acquisitions Department, other management from Chizhu Wine Industry, and representatives from Chenyu Group and the French investors were already waiting for him at the winery gate, including a few blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigners!

In the evening, he met with the local authorities again, and they all ate a whole roasted lamb together.

Su Yang was poured quite a bit of alcohol.

That night, the sky was full of stars!

Beside the bonfire, Yu Chengjun sat on the grass holding a lamb rib, looking up at the brilliant starry sky and couldn't help but exclaim: "How beautiful!"

Su Yang handed her a tissue: "Wipe your mouth!"

"Thank you, Boss!"

After Su Yang and Yu Chengjun had finished eating, they were dragged off to dance again!

Over the following days, Su Yang was taken to tour the winery and winemaking workshop of Chizhu Wine Industry, as well as the cellars, and he toured the thousand-mu high-altitude vineyard that Chizhu Wine Industry had carved out on the plateau.

These vineyards used imported French grape varieties and hired locals to tend them, though they were not full-time employees.

At this moment, Su Yang also gradually began to appreciate the magnificent plateau scenery of Derong County!

The representative from Chenyu Group boasted endlessly, basically repeating over and over: The boss has a good eye, and this place has a great future!

Su Yang didn't pay much attention to it!

If you could really make big money, why are you running away?

Su Yang smiled: "Not bad!"

The Chenyu Group representative, Zhou Chengtao, smiled: "That's for sure. We've worked hard here for ten years, introducing the best grape varieties and winemaking techniques..."

"I meant the scenery is not bad!"

"..."

Seeing Zhou Chengtao's awkward expression, Su Yang added: "Of course, what you've done is not bad either!"

Zhou Chengtao felt a bit aggrieved, always feeling that Su Yang was just comforting him!