It would be very easy to understand if the publicity effect was better and the more money was paid. Meng Chang was very confident in himself. He would definitely make clear arrangements for marketing and publicity. He would definitely get a high commission.
However, Boss Pei’s condition was that the more money he spent and the less popular it was would mean a higher the commission.
To put it in simpler terms, it was to spend as much money as possible, but the worse the publicity, the better.
What benefits would that bring to Tengda? Did they feel they had too much budget to spend on publicity? Were they worried if they could not spend all of it?
It didn’t make sense!
Meng Chang felt that this would not benefit Boss Pei at all. Unless… Meng Chang’s publicity plans exploded every time. In that case, Meng Chang would only be able to get a base salary of three thousand yuan. He would probably never be able to repay his debts in this lifetime. The better his work was, the more miserable he would feel.
However, Meng Chang felt that it was impossible.
Many big companies spent tens of billions of yuan on marketing every year. The heads of the advertising and marketing departments were hired with high salaries because this was a job that required skills. It was not easy to do well, and there were many people who could not do well.
In fact, such a job would be even easier for Meng Chang. He wouldn’t even have to rack his brains to think of various marketing plans. Wouldn’t he be able to get a high commission just by fooling around?
Meng Chang read the agreement many times but could not figure out what was wrong even though he instinctively felt that something was amiss.
Meng Chang was a wily old fox. He was not lacking in financial nor legal knowledge. He could tell that the contract was not a scam. It even made him feel unreal.
The only limitation was that Meng Chang could not mess around. For example, he could not directly scold consumers in advertisements, engage in regional or gender discrimination, or violate advertising laws. Someone would be responsible for supervising him.
However, this clause was quite reasonable to Meng Chang. It was considered a protective clause to prevent him from exploiting loopholes. It was understandable.
After thinking about the millions of debt he had to bear, Meng Chang said, “Alright, I’ll sign it.”
“The longest period is… ten years?”
Pei Qian nodded. “That’s right. If you sign for ten years, the highest commission per month would be two hundred thousand yuan. If you sign for three years, the highest commission would be one hundred thousand yuan. The longer you sign, the higher the commission.”
Meng Chang was silent for a moment before he decisively took the pen and signed it. After signing it, he filled in the year column for ten years.
Ten years it was then. Of course he had to get a high commission!
Meng Chang knew very well that if he signed the contract for three years and realized that he could have easily gotten a commission of two hundred thousand yuan after that, he would feel very regretful.
Even though he would not need ten years to pay all of his debts if he signed on for 10 years, he could still earn for a few more years.
Ten years later, he would still be considered rich and powerful. If he accumulated some wealth, it would be a good choice be it to enjoy life or to start a business.
Pei Qian was very satisfied. After keeping the agreement, he smiled and said, “Alright, I wish you the best of luck in paying your debts!”
Meng Chang: “?”
For some reason, he felt like Boss Pei was mocking him.
…
Meng Chang still felt surreal after leaving Dream Realization Ventures.
He took out the agreement that he carried with him and read it carefully. There was indeed no problem?
“Forget it, I’ve already signed it. Don’t think too much.”
Meng Chang felt that it was useless to worry about his personal gains and losses now. This was already his best choice at the moment.
Work would only officially start next month according to Boss Pei. Meng Chang could take a break during this period to adjust his mentality.
He was just about to leave when he saw a familiar long face walking over hurriedly.
Meng Chang instinctively shivered. Wasn’t that Boss Ma?
He still remembered Boss Ma pretending to be slow-witted at the Cold-Faced Lady’s news conference to successfully deceive him. Then, Boss Ma threw out two soulful questions to the core of the problem, causing the entire news conference to fail to achieve the expected effect.
How could Boss Pei’s right-hand man be an ordinary person?
Meng Chang quickly lowered his head and left in a hurry.
Ma Yang walked past Meng Chang and stopped after taking two steps. He turned around to take a look.
“Eh, why does this person look familiar? Where did I see him before?”
“Er… I can’t remember.”
Ma Yang scratched his head. He had a lot on his plate recently, especially since he had been in seclusion for a long time to prepare for the exam week. How could he remember everyone from the mountain of people he had to meet everyday?
Ma Yang quickly forgot about this small episode and walked excitedly towards Dream Realization Ventures.
…
“Brother Qian!”
Pei Qian heard Ma Yang’s loud voice before he saw his long face.
The next second, Ma Yang pushed open the door to the guest room and entered.
Pei Qian put down the documents in his hand. “Eh? Old Ma, why are you here?”
Ma Yang sniggered. “I’ve been preparing for the exam some time ago and didn’t have the time to report on my work. Now that the exam is over, I should focus on my work again.”
“By the way, Brother Qian, our results seem to be published on the Academic Affairs Office website today. Have you checked?”
Pei Qian immediately perked up. “Eh? Results are out? I’ll check now.”
He immediately took a laptop from the side and opened the Academic Affairs Office website. After logging in, he checked the results.
“Heh! I scored 72 points for that closed-book paper!”
Pei Qian could not help but feel proud.
For the humanities and arts majors in university, the closed book exam was the most difficult. The difficulty of the closed book exam was much lower than the open book exam but most people were too lazy to memorize it.
If they were in high school, it would be easy to memorize this knowledge. However, it was completely different in university.
Most of the subjects failed in the humanities course were closed book examinations, and many of those who failed were males.
There was no other reason but laziness.
Pei Qian had scored 72 points, which meant that his revision had been effective. If it had been a friendly score given by the teacher, Pei Qian would have given at most 60 points. Every extra point was his own hard work!
“Old Ma, how many marks did you get?” Pei Qian asked.
Ma Yang sniggered. “I’m only slightly higher than you, Brother Qian.”
Pei Qian’s smile disappeared in an instant. “What’s slightly higher?”
Ma Yang replied, “81 points.”
Pei Qian remained silent for a moment. “What about this open book exam? I scored 79 points.”
Ma Yang took a look. “Brother Qian, I scored slightly higher than you. I obtained 82 points.”
Pei Qian asked a few in a row, but Ma Yang actually scored higher than him in all of them.
Finally, when he reached the last paper, Ma Yang scratched his head. “I didn’t score as high as you in this one. I scored 74 points, lower than you by one point.”
Pei Qian heaved a sigh of relief, his expression finally looking better.
That’s good, that’s good. From first year to third year, there was finally one subject that he scored one point higher than Ol
d Ma!
It seemed like his serious revision had paid off. It was a great start even though it was one point in one subject!
Chapter 834 - : Old Ma’s Live-Stream Results
Satisfied, Pei Qian closed the website of the administrative office and stopped talking about results.
One point might be a historical improvement but it did not make sense to keep showing off. It was better to keep it in mind.
“It looks like you’ve been revising very hard and taking things seriously recently. How’s work?” Pei Qian asked.
Ma Yang patted his chest and said, “Don’t worry, Brother Qian. I’m doing both studies and work without any delay!”
“I came today to report to you.”
“I’ve been working hard to fulfill people’s dreams on Weibo, but the dreams that are worth fulfilling are becoming fewer and fewer. Many people can’t even write a paragraph properly. How can I believe that such people really have dreams?”
“As for those flamers who have already received the money, their wishes have been fulfilled, and their flamers are almost squeezed dry. As a person, one cannot be insatiable, so I will not fulfill their dreams anymore.”
“In the past week, I’ve only sent out about a hundred thousand yuan. Sigh, I can only say that this is an era where dreams are scarce.”
“A good dream is more precious than gold. These are my heartfelt words.”
Pei Qian was stunned.
What should he say about Old Ma?
Pei Qian only wanted him to spend more money on Weibo, but Old Ma was too serious.
Those who had already taken the money would not be given anymore, and those who did not write well would not be given either. In the end, they only sent out about a hundred thousand yuan a week? Given the speed at which you were scattering the coins, I’m afraid I can’t count on you.
Pei Qian had already tried to persuade Old Ma to relax his standards and not be so harsh. However, Old Ma did not agree no matter what. He even said that dreams were rare and sacred things that could not be sullied.
Pei Qian had no choice but to let him be.
“What about the live-stream live commerce? How’s the popularity?” Pei Qian asked again.
Ma Yang said, “The popularity has stabilized. It’s not very popular, but it’s not bad either.”
Pei Qian was elated. It was as he had expected.
To put it bluntly, Ma Yang’s reverse-live commerce was akin to cheating. At the beginning, it might be quite popular, but it would gradually stabilize and there would not be an explosive increase in popularity.
After all, it was not suitable to watch such a program of fake reviews every day. One would get sick of it if he watched too much.
The popularity did not continue to increase. Instead, it stabilized. This was good news for Pei Qian.
Ma Yang continued, “I’ve already done more than 10 live commerce live-streams. The goods ranged from stationery to home appliances, food, digital products, and so on, have all been very effective!”
“Some merchants took down their products, closed their online shops, and ran away.”
“Some of the larger brands took the affected products off the shelves, apologized, and revamped it. Consumers who had tried to maintain their power but to no avail finally received the compensation they deserved.
“Many brands came to me in private, wanting to pay us to avoid disasters. They told me not to talk about them. Many brands that had not been exposed also hinted that as long as they did not mention their brands in the live-stream, everything would be fine. They could even give our show some sponsorship fees…”
Pei Qian asked with concern, “What did you say?”
Ma Yang laughed. “Of course, I blocked all the private messages they sent me!”
“Brother Qian, I haven’t forgotten your instructions. No matter what the reason is, there is no way we are going to take their money! We didn’t plan on doing the shows for those brands that haven’t been exposed. However, sending us private messages, means that they are guilty of something. All the more we have to expose them!”
“I have a few million fans now. Everyone says that I’m a warrior, the spokesperson of the Tengda spirit, and the vanguard. How can this bit of money buy me over?”
Ma Yang’s long face was filled with pride.
Pei Qian could not help but raise his thumb. “Well done! Old Ma, I’ve long seen that you’re a promising talent. I can rest assured when things are given to you to do!”
He had to admit that if it was anyone else doing Old Ma’s job, that person might not be so ruthless.
The brands that he had exposed during his live-stream were not all third-rate products. There were also some more famous manufacturers. This exposure would offend many people.
What was even worse was that he had even exposed the private messages that the manufacturers had sent to him. He did not leave any face for the other party at all. Ordinary people would not do such a thing.
Pei Qian was 100% satisfied with Old Ma’s work.
Old Ma’s fan base had been increasing and was already in the millions, there were many bloggers who had millions of fans on Weibo. Old Ma had spent so much money to earn millions of fans. It was completely acceptable.
“No one threatened you, right?” Pei Qian asked, concerned.
Ma Yang shook his head. “A few small accounts of the third rated companies sent me private messages. I directly @ the cyber-police and they were so scared that they deleted their accounts and ran away. What’s more, our country is a lawful society. I have bodyguards. What’s there to be afraid of!”
Pei Qian could not help but nod. “En, not bad.”
The resistance would definitely not be ordinary if it was an ordinary person doing this. However, Ma Yang had Tengda backing him. Many things would be much simpler. Even if someone hated Ma Yang to the core, they would have to weigh the weight of Tengda behind Ma Yang.
Speaking of Tengda…
Pei Qian asked, “Have you done any live commerce of Tengda’s products?”
Ma Yang paused and scratched his head. “Oh… no.”
Pei Qian was a little unhappy. “Didn’t I tell you to pay special attention to Tengda’s products?”
Ma Yang scratched the back of his head. “But Brother Qian, Tengda doesn’t seem to have any new products…”
Pei Qian said, “Isn’t there the Fully-Automated Intelligent Bickering Machine? Do this for the next episode. Show everyone the problems, flaws, and bad points of this thing in detail in the live-stream!”
Ma Yang hesitated for a moment. “This looks like a new product, right? There’s definitely no problem with the quality of our own products. There might not be much content for this program…”
Pei Qian’s expression was serious. “It’s precisely because it’s our own product that we have to be stricter! We have to treat everyone equally. At the same time, we have to spur OTTO Technologies to continue improving!”
Of course, it would be a lie to say that they were spurring Otto Technologies on. Selling less bickering machines and earning less money was his true objective.
The Fully-Automated Intelligent Bickering Machine had been released for more than a week. At first, no one was interested in it and everything was fine. However, for some reason, its sales began to skyrocket one day!
Part of the reason was the Weibo post with Qiao Liang recommending it. However, it had only added fuel to the fire. Pei Qian had never understood the root cause of its popularity.
Pei Qian did not want to sit back and do nothing as he watched the inventory that he had saved up for the sake of spending money turn into troubling System Funds.
Therefore, he planned to make use of Ma Yang’s live commerce live-streaming to reduce the sales of the Fully-Automated Smart Bickering Machine.
It had been more than a week since the Fully-Automated Intelligent Bickering Machine had been released. Everyone’s blind enthusiasm for buying it should have faded a little.
Since everyone regained their sanity, talking about the problems and shortcomings of the Fully-Automated Intelligent Bickering Machine should have the best effect, right?
There were definitely problems with the product no matter what.
Otto Technologies did not have its own factory. It must have designed the smart stereo system by itself and found other factories to produce it. There was no particularly high technical threshold.
In other words, the quality of this thing was about the same as the echo wall products produced by the original factory. However, the price was raised because of the addition of a bickering machine.
What’s more, the price of over two thousand yuan could only be considered a slightly better entry-level product which was not very ideal for fans. It was completely incomparable to the sound systems and echo walls costing thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.
See, there were many faults as long as they were willing to look!
Pei Qian felt that Chen Yufeng and the others, who were in charge of preparing Ma Yang’s live-stream, were professional teams. They would definitely be better at picking faults than him.
They would tear down the Fully-Automated Smart Bickering Machine. He could at least dissuade some consumers even if he could not dissuade all, right?
It would be a good thing if he could keep a batch of goods in the warehouse before settlement.
Ma Yang said, “Okay Brother Qian, I’ll talk to Chen Yufeng and get him to start preparing for the next live-stream. Then, we’ll start working on the Fully-Automated Smart Bickering Machine!”
Pei Qian nodded. “Alright, let me take a look after the first edition of the script. I’ll clear it for you.”
“No problem, Brother Qian. Just watch!” Ma Yang left excitedly.
Pei Qian could not help but feel emotional as he watched Ma Yang leave.
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