Losing Money to Be a Tycoon c1-883
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“No matter what, I think that Boss Pei would choose to do the right thing.
“So… I’m in!”
Chapter 634 - Tell Them, They Did Well!
September 1st, Thursday…
Pei Qian came to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe early in the morning, sipping his coffee while sorting out the mind map of the various departments.
There was still one month before the settlement cycle. As the saying goes, the closer one was to completing a task, the tougher it got. The success or failure of this cycle would depend on this last mile!
Pei Qian carefully considered his current industry. There was still hope of loss.
Of course, that was not because Pei Qian’s various industries were not making profits, but because Pei Qian was getting more aggressive at spending money.
As the stores of various industries became larger, there were more places where Pei Qian could spend money on. Especially after these departments became profitable. The system seemed to relax on the restrictions of spending money in these industries. It would allow freer use of money in opening and expansion of branches, giving customers discounts, and the like.
At present, Pei Qian’s biggest source of income in this cycle was from the movie Tomorrow is Beautiful and IOI’s 70 million US dollars. The former was used to buy a building to make Sloth Apartments while the latter was used to directly burn money to promote GOG’s world invitation. It should be spent before settlement.
Others, for example, the sudden explosion of internet cafes, food delivery, and other industries which were much lesser than the other aforementioned two sources. These industries were a long term industry after all. It would be impossible to accumulate so much profits to break even in a month or two even if it had operational profits.
Pei Qian adhered to the principle of ‘whoever made the money would be responsible for spending it’. If these entities continue to open branches and expand, they would definitely be able to spend all the money they make.
Of course, no branches could be opened in the last week before settlement, but the money left by then should not be too much.
Otto Technologies did not need to settle anything for this settlement cycle. The extra money could be spent on software laboratory and image laboratory there… as long as the next cycle produced results.
To Pei Qian, the key was to maintain the present situation and try not to make more money. Earning extra money every day would make it more difficult to make a loss during settlement.
Pei Qian felt that it seemed to be okay after scoring the current situation of the various industries with his mind map.
It might be a cycle with twists and turns—Fish-Catching Take-Out became profitable, Thriller Hostel became a little popular, the DGE Club also became popular, and Dayak Corporation also strangely gave him something. However, but he was always strong enough to survive.
“Struggle will be released soon. This game should not be able to make much money. Yes, even if it is a little profitable, it would not do much damage to this cycle. The chances of making big profits are very low, considering all aspects.
“The investment in Struggle is too high, and it is a very disgusting game. Such a game is more suited for Cloud Clearance, so there should not be too many people buying them. The poor and rich versions were sold separately and could reduce some income.
“The most important thing is that the sale of standalone games would take a very long time. I need to worry only about the sales volume for the first month. Future sales would be a matter for the future…
“Taking 10,000 steps back… even if it did make a little profit, I can still throw the money at Otto Technologies.
“Moreover, I have a special task this cycle that can be used to reduce the system fund limit for the final settlement, but I don’t know whether the system will recognize my learning results or not…”
There was a special rule for the settlement of this cycle. Pei Qian could spend up to 1.6 million yuan to invest in himself. If the system approved of his progress, he could shave off up to eight times this value, which would be 12.8 million yuan excluded from the final settlement.
If the System Funds at settlement was 22 million yuan at the time of settlement, then he would only be able to get 2,000 yuan based on the original conversion ratio of 2 million yuan x 0.001.
However, if this special rule were to pass, then Pei Qian would be able to obtain (22 million yuan – 12.8 million yuan – 20 million yuan x (-0.1)) = 1.08 million yuan!
That was worlds apart.
Of course, that was the most ideal situation. Moreover, Pei Qian was not sure whether the things he learned would be recognized by the system or not.
Moreover, both He An and Qiu Hong were gurus in the industry. They were recognized in their ability; the value of this tuition was also recognized by the system. Would the system recognize that Boss Pei learned enough useful knowledge? That had to remain to be seen.
Pei Qian was not sure whether he could successfully reduce the system funds to about 20 million yuan during settlement or not.
If he could, then it would be the first success in history! He might have also worked the hardest this time, but it was all worth it!
Pei Qian indeed felt more grounded after straightening out his current thoughts.
At that moment, his cell phone rang.
Ding.
Pei Qian picked it up. It turned out to be a message from the Manage Loss Trainee from Fei Huang Workspace.
“Senior, Director Zhu is collaborating with Sloth Apartments to expose the problem of formaldehyde in the rental homes from Home Corporation.”
Pei Qian was stunned.
Fei Huang Workspace really had a strong sense of existence! They made two videos consecutively after an entire month of shock therapy?
They were giving up on their livers?
Pei Qian was a little speechless. I did not manage to come to the aid of the publicity video of Sloth Apartments previously. What now?
Formaldehyde from Home Corporation…? What was this?
Pei Qian frowned and replied. “Elaborate.”
The Manage Loss Trainee replied swiftly:
“It’s like this, Boss Pei. Home Corporation has been discrediting Sloth Apartments on the internet for its inferior price-quality ratio. However, in fact, the Safe House launched by Home Corporation always had serious problems with excessive formaldehyde.
“The person-in-charge of Sloth Apartments, Director Zhu, and Teacher Qiao had decided to expose this problem together…”
Pei Qian fell silent looking at the detailed information sent by the Manage Loss Trainee. There was a good saying. There was nothing fresh being exposed to the sun.
Pei Qian had never taken the matter of Home Corporation criticizing Sloth Apartments to heart.
It did not matter whether they said that Sloth Apartments was inferior in price-quality ratio or unlivable. Pei Qian’s original intention was for tenants not to rent the units anyway.
Pei Qian was very clear that if this video against Home Corporation were to go out, it could become an attack and would probably make Sloth Apartments popular as well.
He could only say that the world was just that magical.
In some industries, one might be law-abiding and honest. One would have already exceeded 99% of one’s peers if one had even fulfilled the minimum requirements.
That was because 99% of these peers had no morals.
Pei Qian stayed silent for a while before he replied to them. “Tell them that they did well!”
Pei Qian hated such trash. He hated them even more than the scalpers!
The scalpers disturbed the market order. They were a group of worms, but they only wanted someone’s money. This formaldehyde company not only wanted money but also toyed with people’s lives!
All decorations were made with environmentally-friendly paints. The smell would dissipate after the renovation was done. How much more could it cost?
Hm? How muc
h more could it cost?
If a room was rented out after renovations, it could be rented out for three years or five years—or even ten years without refurbishing. During this period, even if the Home Corporation only earned 500 yuan a month. They could earn more than 100,000 yuan right?
Obviously, maintaining the health of the consumer could make money, just less!
Just to save the cost of several thousand yuan per room, they completely disregarded the health of consumers. Were they going to kill humans?
Especially the Home Corporation which was a national chain intermediary, how many houses could they have on hand? How many people would become sick, be hospitalized, get cancer, or even die because they were living in a formaldehyde room?
Pei Qian did not know anything much before, but he thought that Home Corporation and Sloth Apartments were normal business competitors.
Okay, that was alright. You could even criticize me. I would not care and would even be happy.
However, if you were such a kind of garbage company like Home Corporation, then I’m sorry. I would definitely kill you even if I risked losing money!
Pei Qian was still a little angry after he replied to the Manage Loss Trainee.
Maybe he would never understand why some companies would make more marginal profits, a mere few dozen yuan per month, while disregarding human life?
As a normal and humane person, he could not understand.
His phone rang again while he was still pissed off.
Ding.
Pei Qian picked it up. It was a message from Zhang Yuan.
“Boss Pei, the other esports club delegations have come to Jingzhou to discuss buying players! Will you come here in person? It is alright if you don’t come as well. I’ll just need to sign contracts with them.”
Pei Qian: “F*ck?”
The other esports clubs?
Delegations?
That meant more than one?
That wanted to buy DGE’s players?
Why?! The other players were not the kind of live-streamers like Huang Wang! You would lose money!
Pei Qian was speechless; what he was worried about still happened in the end. The sale of Huang Wang was not the end… but the beginning!
Pei Qian hurriedly replied: “I’ll be there soon!”
He did not trust Zhang Yuan. Wouldn’t that be the end if Zhang Yuan were to raise the price to sell the nine members for 30 million yuan?
At this point in time, an additional 30 million yuan would make me very passive!
Pei Qian immediately called Little Sun and took the car to the DGE Club.
…
In the DGE Club…
Several team managers gathered in the conference room, drinking tea and chatting while waiting for Boss Pei to arrive. These managers had their own intentions.
In fact, they all contacted Zhang Yuan separately. There were seven teams in total; every team wanted to buy players from the DGE Club to reinforce them, and their needs were different.
However, Zhang Yuan thought about it. If the manager of the seven teams came to talk one by one, how long would it take to talk about it? It was much better for them to all come together.
They made a bid directly; whoever showed the highest bids counted and had nothing to say.
As to why the other clubs suddenly wanted to figure out that they wanted to buy these people from the DGE Club? It was very simple: they were all abused by the H4 Club!
The H4 Club had mock competitions with the other clubs after Huang Wang was bought over.
They beat the other clubs hands down!
Chapter 635 - We are all Willing to Move to Jingzhou!
The H4 Club originally had the strength of being a runner-up. The midlaner was a shortcoming previously. However, their combat power jumped instantly after changing to Huang Wang.
These clubs finally confirmed their suspicions after being abused for five days straight. The H4 Club might have paid a lot of money for Huang Wang, but it was not a loss at all! They actually profited!
The H4 Club would be able to win the championship two weeks later if that were to carry on. That had a huge reward of 1 million US dollars plus some skins and a lot of attention!
No one wanted to be a leaf; everyone wanted a beautiful rose.
There were only two weeks to go. It was definitely too late to add on to their training. The only way was to take a leaf out of the H4 Club’s book—to buy players!
The other clubs would definitely not sell their precious players because everyone wanted to play in the world tournament.
However, the players of the DGE Club could not play in the championship though they were—by far—the strongest. They were simply the best talents to be traded!
There was also good news. With the vigorous development of live-streaming through venture capitalism, these clubs could consider cooperating with these platforms to buy players.
The financial pressure to purchase players could be greatly reduced as long as the live-streaming platforms were willing to sign a three-party contract and bear a portion of the cost.
Therefore, during this time, other clubs were trying to raise money while being abused in mock competitions.
It was like an open arms race. Others were burning money; if someone didn’t burn money, then that person was destined to be at the bottom and to be eliminated by this circle!
None of these clubs present, be it the veteran clubs with history or ambitious clubs with good money, wanted to be eliminated.
What if a certain club were to buy three or four DGE members at once? Then, there was no need to play this competition anymore.
That being the case… everyone, let’s buy together!
It just so happened that there were nine players in the DGE Club. The seven clubs sat together to bid since they would be able to grab one player each anyway.
Then, every team would have one or two foreign aids. No one would be able to dominate. The championship would rely on real skills!
Therefore, no club was willing to give up on this opportunity.
Everyone waited anxiously.
Finally, there were footsteps outside, and a young man walked in.
Zhang Yuan stood up immediately. “Boss Pei!”
The managers of the other clubs also rose to greet Boss Pei. They were surprised that Boss Pei was really as young as the rumors said.
Zhang Yuan started to introduce these club managers one by one to Boss Pei.
Pei Qian could not tell; neither could he remember who was who. He only felt that they were very important people.
Why did so many clubs come?!
There were only a few domestic esports clubs, wasn’t it? It wasn’t possible that all of them wanted to purchase players from the DGE Club, right?
That would really make him despair.
Pei Qian sat down in the empty seat, his expression dead. It was worse than he originally expected in terms of the number of clubs!
These club managers had some associated thinking in their hearts when they saw Boss Pei’s expression.
He did not look too happy.
Why? Shouldn’t he be happy that we were here to purchase his players and to give him money?
Or he could not bear to lose these players?
Or perhaps he felt that we were here too late and showed too little respect for his players—unlike the H4 club?
Sh*t.
We have to increase the offer no matter which situation it was!
These club managers felt a little self-conscious and silently raised the lowest price they had prepared when they saw Boss Pei’s unhappy expression. They hope that this deal would be easier to conclude with a little more sincerity.
Everyone knew that Boss Pei was someone who had no lack of money. What if he would not sell them because he was unhappy? Wasn’t that a huge loss then?
This situation must not be allowed!
Seeing this posture, Pei Qian could feel that he had to sell these players even i
f he did not want to. Almost all larger club managers in China had arrived. It was enough to show how much the DGE Club players were already in demand.
The live-stream platform would come sooner or later even if he did not sell them this time.
If these players were not good, then it did not matter if they couldn’t play in the World Championship. Pei Qian could consider keeping them for fun.
However, these players had the strength to compete for the world championship. It would be very wrong for him to not let them play in the competition. They were all good children even though they always backstabbed him. They were indeed worthy of going to the world stage.
However…
He would absolutely not allow his negligence—like selling too high a price—to happen again!
Pei Qian decided to accept the deals immediately, no matter how much they bid!
Zhang Yuan coughed slightly. “I have asked these players before. They want to play in the World Championship so they are willing to listen to my arrangements.
“I brought these people up as the manager of the DGE Club. They are like my brothers. Our club could suffer a bit, but they cannot suffer. They deserve the best treatment.
“Therefore, I will say the names of these nine players. Everyone will bid separately, and whoever gives the highest bid will get the player. I believe no one will have objections to this method.”
Pei Qian: “?”
Wait, they were entering the bidding process directly?
These clubs would definitely bid like crazy!
Pei Qian felt dizzy. He originally wanted to tell them to lower the transfer fee this time and not make the same mistake as the H4 Club. In the end, they ended up bidding directly! Pei Qian was silent, his head quickly thinking about countermeasures.
Quick!
I would really earn tens of millions in transfer fees if I couldn’t think of a fast way out!
Zhang Yuan continued. “First, our Captain of Team One, Jiang Huan. Those who have played in the mock competition would know that he is the strongest of our players and is also the captain and commander of Team One. He is the person who had the least extra physical training.