550: Chapter 550 was placed in the heart of the food research and development team at Yanhu Vocational School!

Not long after, Longyin, where Tian Hanxiong worked, quickly granted a 40 million loan to Jiuxiang Food.

It followed the old rules as before: the loan was only for one year.

Interest on the bank loan would be paid monthly, and the 40 million principal would be paid back after one year!

Because Jiuxiang Food had a good reputation for repayment in the past, a healthy financial status, was a "well-known" enterprise, with business booming and completely in an upward trend, plus it was a secured loan, and Su Yang's other industries were developing rapidly, the bank felt it necessary to maintain a good relationship with Su Yang.

Tian Hanxiong helped Jiuxiang Food secure a low interest rate of 4%.

After receiving the 40 million loan, Jiuxiang Food paid off the 20 million loan from Xia Yin.

They now had an extra 20 million in working capital!

On the last day of August, Shenmiao Pet Hospital bought two private pet hospitals in quite good locations for 4.24 million.

With this, Shenmiao Pets now had three decent locations!

Li Yuping immediately announced that social insurance would be purchased for the employees of the two new stores, and he raised the base salary of the pet hospital staff by 1,000, which immediately made the employees feel favorable toward the company.

Su Yang did a quick check on the pet hospital employees and discovered that they were all quite compassionate.

Many of them were pet lovers!

These days, without some compassion, it is very difficult for ordinary employees to persist in this industry.

Su Yang considered himself quite fond of pets; whenever he saw someone else's cat, he couldn't help but pet it a few times.

He was relatively neutral toward dogs.

When he was a child in the village, he had actually been chased by dogs, and not just once!

This left him with a certain amount of psychological trauma!

When he first arrived in Rongcheng, he would occasionally feel apprehensive when he saw medium or large pet dogs in the city.

Especially when encountering those people who walked their dogs without leashes, claiming their dogs were very well-behaved and wouldn't bite anyone!

If possible, he would definitely walk around them.

Therefore, Su Yang viewed running a pet hospital quite indifferently.

Making money was just making money, and business was just business!

At most, he would concede some profits, hire more compassionate employees, and recruit skilled pet doctors!

As long as the prices were relatively fair and they had a decent reputation, that would be enough.

Compared to the pets, he was more willing to treat his employees well!

On the morning of September 1st, when An Xinlei woke up, she felt exhausted and sore all over, as if she had just run a marathon the night before.

Although she was physically exhausted and sore, she felt much more relaxed in spirit!

She turned to look at her side, but that person was already gone.

Feeling a bit disappointed, she checked the time on her phone and was shocked to realize she had slept for so long... it was almost eleven o'clock!

She got up, picked up the clothes that had been washed clean and folded beside her, and put them on. Just as she stepped out, she saw the nanny in the first-floor living room say to her: "Miss An, breakfast is still warm. Would you like to eat?"

"Where is the boss? Did he go to work?"

"The boss didn't go to work today; he's out playing!"

"Out playing? Playing what?"

"It's that kind of board where you step on it and can float on the water!" The nanny tried hard to describe what the boss was playing with, slowly recalling: "The boss said it seems to be called a hydrofoil board or something, the name is too long, I can't quite remember!"

"Oh!"

An Xinlei, wearing sandals, walked down the stairs step by step.

Passing through the living room and walking out of the villa, she felt the sunlight was a bit dazzling.

She arrived at the beautiful garden and saw, in the middle of the lake, a man wearing shorts and sunglasses, with an extremely fit and strong physique, stepping on a human-powered hydrofoil board, gliding across the lake surface!

Following the rhythm of his stepping, he moved flexibly across the lake...

A yacht passed by. An Xinlei heard a burst of piercing screams from girls, and then she saw that person flexibly make a turn, giving the passengers on the yacht a cool back as he glided back toward the villa!

An Xinlei arrived at the pier, using her hand to block the somewhat dazzling sunlight. As the person approached, his strong eight-pack abs and the beautiful, streamlined muscle lines on his body became increasingly visible!

Looking at the leg muscles that were constantly stepping and exerting force, An Xinlei couldn't help but recall the pleasure of last night.

Even though a night had passed, her body still couldn't help but tremble at the memory!

Su Yang jumped onto the pier with ease and style, picked up the human-powered hydrofoil board, placed it on the shore, and walked toward An Xinlei.

An Xinlei was wearing a one-shoulder, form-fitting gray dress, exposing one snowy-white shoulder and her straight, fair, long legs. In the sunlight, she was blindingly white!

Standing on the shore, she saw Su Yang coming over and trotted to meet him, a sweet and joyful smile appearing on the corners of her mouth!

Su Yang took off his sunglasses and smiled: "How did you rest last night?"

"You didn't even wake me up!"

An Xinlei seemed to be complaining, but she couldn't help but hug Su Yang's body.

Seeing Su Yang lean in, she stood on her tiptoes, slightly closed her eyes, and wanted to kiss him.

Su Yang saw her lips and originally wanted to give her a kiss.

But seeing her slightly messy long hair, as if remembering something, he kissed her forehead instead!

An Xinlei noticed this, jumped up very dissatisfied, and kissed Su Yang's lips.

After a long while, she let go of Su Yang.

"Did you rinse your mouth?"

An Xinlei shrugged her pert nose: "Guess!"

She had learned this action from a cute model in Japan!

That model was super good at acting coquettish!

Su Yang gave her butt a hard smack: "I think you're itching for a beating!"

"Yeah! Help me scratch it then!"

An Xinlei's alluring, bewitching expression, along with that mischievous look in her eyes, made Su Yang a bit fired up!

"..."

He took a deep breath and decided to go change his clothes first!

By the time he changed out of his swim trunks, An Xinlei was already eating breakfast.

Maybe the dishes the nanny made suited her taste, or maybe she was really starving.

Although she ate quite elegantly, she was fast.

The food on the plate was disappearing at a visible speed!

"Hungry?"

An Xinlei complained: "You don't know, the food in Japan is simply not meant for humans to eat; my mouth was about to go bland!"

"How was it over there?"

"Not bad, every day it was just changing clothes, posing, taking photos; the translator and the PR lady both took very good care of me!"

It was very necessary for a translator and PR agent to follow An Xinlei.

Especially the PR agent!

If nationalism in the country rose, and the country where An Xinlei was working, Japan, happened to be a country that people in the country were sensitive about.

Every word and action of hers in Japan, her attire in Japan, the themes of magazine covers she shot, the activities she participated in in Japan, as well as the significance and organization behind those activities, all had to be carefully considered.

A slight carelessness could bury a landmine for An Xinlei's future.

Su Yang didn't want the person he had spent so much money and effort to train to explode halfway through.

Doing prevention and avoidance work in advance was always simpler than trying to fix it afterwards!

Su Yang's Business Deduction was not omnipotent.

Many landmines might only explode years later!

Once An Xinlei accumulated certain resources in the fashion industry and gained some fame domestically, Meixing would reduce the number of times she went to Japan.

In Japan... An Xinlei couldn't make much money; the domestic entertainment industry was where the money was!

"Is there anything else you need?"

"Nothing!" An Xinlei shook her head and smiled, "It's already quite good!"

Compared to her classmates from the same period, she felt her development was going very smoothly.

She had TV series to film, could walk in fashion shows, and could even develop abroad, having her own stage.

She hadn't expected to become famous overnight; this gradual upward development gave her a sense of stability.

She returned this time because news of her popularity in Japan was "spread" back.

Meixing used her fame in Japan to help her secure cover shooting jobs for several domestic fashion magazines.

These magazines didn't have much fame in the industry, but their professionalism was relatively high.

For her, who was currently unknown, this was considered a very good resource.

Of course, there was another reason that really drove her to want to come back quickly, but she was too embarrassed to say it now, especially with Su Yang right in front of her.

If it were on the phone, she could still be bold!

Watching An Xinlei eat, Su Yang also felt hungry.

He picked up a xiaolongbao, chewed it, and suddenly said: "In Japan, you missed me a lot, right?"

An Xinlei didn't even look up: "No!"

Su Yang teased: "That's not what you said on the phone!"

"You probably heard wrong!"

"Someone just got off the plane yesterday afternoon and said they wanted to come to my villa to take a look..."

Seeing the nanny walk by, An Xinlei slowed down her eating, her face turning a bit red.

"Some people... really have no conscience!" Su Yang glanced at her, "Pulling up their pants and refusing to admit it!"

An Xinlei took a deep breath; she couldn't eat anymore: "...Today is Wednesday, aren't you going to work?"

"Don't you want me to keep you company?"

"You'd better go to work!"

"..."

In the afternoon, arriving at the company, Su Yang signed a few documents and then began to review the interviewees sent to his email from the subsidiaries!

As long as it was talent the company needed, he had to screen everyone himself.

Especially those young talents!

Apart from this period, his work was also very effective.

Several subsidiaries had added more than forty young management trainees; these people were all management and marketing talents with at least three-star talent ratings.

Don't ask why there was so much talent; after all, there were tens of millions of graduates outputted annually in the country, which was still a very huge group, and one could always find a batch of little geniuses among them!

Jiuxiang Catering, Jiuxiang Food, and Fengyuan Ingredients had all established product R&D departments and recruited quite a bit of talent.

These talents were mainly responsible for the R&D of new products, the improvement of existing products, as well as the improvement of production processes and market research.

Now these three companies were all profitable and fully qualified to invest more in R&D.

As for the location of the R&D department, it would definitely be at Yanhu Vocational College.

It had already passed approval, the construction team was already building it, and this time it was funded jointly by several companies!

After it was built, the R&D department would be able to move into the school.

Companies could set up R&D departments within schools, through cooperation with schools, establishing R&D departments or research centers inside the schools.

This form of cooperation was called a school-enterprise joint R&D center, aiming to promote technological innovation and talent cultivation through the deep integration of industry, academia, and research...

Even public schools could do it, let alone a private vocational college like Yanhu Vocational College!

Yanhu Vocational College had a large, ready-made plot of land, and there was no need to pay any rent.

Not only could the R&D department employees be listed as teachers, leveraging the school's scientific research and learning buffs, but they could also train professional students; for Su Yang, it was simply pure gain!

Under these circumstances, whether Yanhu Vocational School made money or not didn't matter anymore!

In the first half of this year, Yanhu Vocational School had already applied to cancel several majors with difficult employment prospects.

In the food sector, they applied to add several majors, including Food Processing Technology, Food Nutrition and Testing, Food Storage, Transportation and Marketing, Brewing Technology, and Brewing Equipment Operation and Maintenance.

However, even if everything went smoothly, it might have to wait until next year for these majors to be officially canceled or for enrollment to begin.

For these majors, as long as the students studied hard, it would definitely be easier to find a job after graduation.

Not only could Su Yang place them here, but they could also be placed at Longjiu Group.

Or at other partner enterprises of Su Yang.

Furthermore, this year, the admission score line for Yanhu Vocational College had seen a huge improvement, from just needing to cross the 150-point minimum threshold to enroll by paying fees, to now requiring 50 points above the minimum threshold to enroll!

It was gratifying, at least it had pulled away a distance from those lowest-tier private colleges and vocational schools!

Going from being able to enter with a 150-point college entrance exam score to requiring at least 200 points or more to enter.

At least the student source was more excellent... somewhat.

The students' foundation was also better... a little bit!

As for talent in other areas, such as Tourism Management, law, software development, live-streaming e-commerce, influencer self-media, psychology, fashion design, film and television, and pet medical fields, Su Yang was also continuously absorbing potential talent in those areas!