531: Chapter 531 Fengyuan's Employees Exceed 1,000! Meixing Inspects Hangzhou!

That afternoon, Jufan Holdings transferred 5 million to Chuhe Food's account.

The number of full-time employees at Fengyuan Ingredients finally exceeded one thousand!

[Ding~ Your Fengyuan Ingredients employee count has exceeded one thousand. You have received an achievement reward: 5 Strength points. Your food supply chain company can receive a new buff or upgrade an existing one.]

[Ingredient processing efficiency increase, food technology R&D efficiency increase, ingredient waste reduction, ingredient, team communication ability... Please choose!]

Su Yang hesitated for a moment before choosing Ingredient Preservation!

Many ingredients are not resistant to storage and rot during transport, which causes significant losses for the company.

Furthermore, once ingredients are stored for too long, their quality drops significantly!

In recent years, people have noticed that many ingredients don't taste right anymore; they lack the flavor of their childhood.

That is highly likely to be correct.

Because when cultivating vegetable varieties, those that tasted good but were not resistant to storage were gradually eliminated.

Take tomatoes, for example!

Nowadays, when making scrambled eggs with tomatoes, one even has to add ketchup.

[Ding~ Your Fengyuan Ingredients has received the buff: Ingredient Contamination -50%, Ingredient Preservation +50%!]

Subsequently, Su Yang passed a board resolution to appoint Cheng Wei as the Vice General Manager of Chuhe Food to assist with Zhou Fuhai's work.

He also placed five employees with relatively high loyalty and decent abilities, brought over from Jiuxiang Catering and Fengyuan Ingredients, into sensitive middle-management positions at Chuhe Food, such as finance, quality control, and procurement.

In addition, the agenda to increase the salaries of Chuhe Food employees by one thousand was also passed!

These had all been agreed upon before acquiring a controlling stake in Chuhe Food, so both Zhou Fuhai and the other two shareholders were mentally prepared for them.

They were all counting on Jiuxiang Catering entering Jiangcheng to lead them in turning around the company's unfavorable situation.

Hopefully, it could even lead them to make money!

Cheng Wei came from the procurement department of Jiuxiang Catering and had quite good abilities.

He could be considered a loyal, core employee with a loyalty rating close to 90.

Zhou Fuhai himself was actually quite good; he had both ability and connections.

It was just that his decision-making was slightly too aggressive, so Su Yang didn't intend to replace him for the time being.

After the meeting ended, Zhou Fuhai took Su Yang to tour the various properties of Chuhe Food.

It was Su Yang's first time in Jiangcheng, so he treated it as taking Jiang Yuzhen on a trip.

After staying at Chuhe Food for three days, Su Yang left Qian Xiaochang in Jiangcheng and went to Hangzhou.

As soon as he got off the plane, Su Yang saw Natalia smiling and waving at him.

"Boss! Boss! I'm here!"

With her golden-brown shoulder-length hair and snow-white skin, Natalia stood out so obviously among the crowd of locals!

It was just that her Mandarin was still a bit broken.

However, compared to when Su Yang first met her, she had already made rapid progress.

As Su Yang approached, a woman with a slightly charming appearance respectfully introduced herself: "Boss, my name is Zhou Hongying, the person in charge of the branch office!"

"Hello, Manager Zhou. Let's head out first!"

Su Yang felt that the people around them were all looking their way.

Even compared to European and American female stars, Natalia's appearance and temperament were extremely outstanding!

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been spotted by Xu Fei and brought from Ukraine to China to make money!

In addition to the three-dimensional facial features typical of European and American women, her smile was quite sweet.

Walking on the boundary between youth and maturity, she had a kind of semi-mature allure.

"Okay, Boss, please come with me!"

Zhou Hongying hurriedly had the accompanying male employees help Su Yang with his luggage and led Su Yang and the others out of the airport.

On the way out of the airport, Su Yang looked at Natalia and asked, "Why did you come over?"

Su Yang had told Natalia that he was coming to Hangzhou.

Since he was already in Jiangcheng, he decided to drop by the Meixing branch office to take a look.

He hadn't inspected it since acquiring Meixing.

Natalia looked at Su Yang with her big brown eyes and said quite innocently, "I came with Manager Zhou to pick you up!"

Su Yang praised her: "Your Mandarin has improved a lot recently!"

Natalia smiled, revealing her white teeth: "I have been... learning very seriously!"

"Not bad!"

Beside Su Yang, Jiang Yuzhen looked at Natalia with curiosity.

She didn't even know that Su Yang knew a foreign woman!

And this foreign woman seemed to be very beautiful.

"Boss, who is this?"

Jiang Yuzhen asked in a low voice.

"Natalia, a foreign model from Meixing. She spent some time at the Rongcheng headquarters before!"

"Oh!"

Jiang Yuzhen nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Natalia also curiously sized up Jiang Yuzhen, though she felt she was probably better than Jiang Yuzhen.

Although she wasn't huge, she was definitely bigger than her!

Seeing Natalia's curiosity about Jiang Yuzhen, Su Yang introduced them: "Natalia, this is Jiang Yuzhen, my secretary!"

"Hello, Jiang... Yuzhen!"

"Hello!"

Zhou Hongying reminded her from the side: "Natalia, you should call her Secretary Jiang!"

Zhou Hongying was a bit nervous about picking up the big boss this time.

Even though she had asked Xu Fei before coming, and Xu Fei said the big boss was very kind.

According to standard reception protocols, the big boss liked to keep a low profile and preferred for employees to just work normally; it was crucial not to make a big scene, as the big boss really disliked that.

However, before coming, Zhou Hongying still hired a cleaning company to clean the branch office inside and out!

Seeing how familiar Natalia was with Su Yang, Zhou Hongying felt that if she wanted to leave a good impression on Su Yang, she might need to start with Natalia.

Su Yang came to Hangzhou just to inspect things; after meeting the branch employees and some of the signed models, and getting an understanding of the branch's business situation, Su Yang had originally intended to return to Rongcheng.

However, Natalia wanted to take him sightseeing in Hangzhou, saying that it wasn't easy for him to come all this way.

Su Yang checked the progress of the Willance Fitness acquisition in Shanghai with Cheng Wenhuo and decisively decided to stay in Hangzhou for a few days.

The Willance Fitness deal was mostly negotiated, with only a few minor details left.

If Su Yang flew back to Rongcheng now, he estimated he wouldn't be able to stay more than two or three days before having to head to Shanghai.

He might as well hang out in Hangzhou for a few days before going to Shanghai to meet up with Yi Jiangang and Cheng Wenhuo!

To be honest, he was also full of curiosity about the city of Hangzhou.

After all, "There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below"; it would be a lie to say he didn't want to travel here!

Zhou Hongying also recommended a local employee to be his tour guide, who was Yang Junqing, the one who had come to the airport to pick up Su Yang and helped carry their luggage.

Yang Junqing had joined Meixing after graduating from college this year. The Meixing branch in Hangzhou was also dominated by women, with very few men to be seen, so Yang Junqing was honorably conscripted!

Thus, in the following days, Su Yang and his group, led by Yang Junqing, went to see Wuzhen, West Lake, Leifeng Pagoda, Lingyin Temple, Thousand Island Lake...

The beautiful natural scenery and historical culture of Hangzhou left a very deep impression on Su Yang.

If he didn't have to rush to Shanghai, he would have liked to play around for a few more days!

As for the food, he was very deeply impressed by that plate of West Lake Vinegar Fish.

Don't ask him why he ordered it; he was just curious!