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Chapter 88: Laxative ~ I'm Under the Soil, Just Passed the Seventh Day (Seeking Subscription)

In this era, where there's 'ID Pirate - Monkey D. Luffy' with over 200 identities and experiences, taking the top spot as the most storied brother on Zhihu, followed by countless 'Thank you for the invitation, I'm in America, just got off the plane' bragging havens.

Chen Jue's seemingly Versailles-esque reward question caused all sorts of joke tellers on Zhihu to react as if their G-spot had been touched, and they began to fabricate stories they knew or imagined in the comments section.

“Laxative ~ I'm under the soil, just passed the seventh day. This question is beyond my scope, please let the second floor begin your performance (doge)”

“Ahem, actually this question is not difficult at all. As a graduate of MIT with a PhD, and having worked in the advertising industry for ten years, I can responsibly reveal insider information to you all. The endorsement fee for an Olympic gold medalist starts at around 10 million, and for more popular events like track and field or swimming, it won't exceed 50 million per year (attached blurred quotation list + employee ID of a certain media company)”

“The sports advertising circle is too small, it's inconvenient to answer. I know too many people (anonymous)”

“Although this year's Paris Olympics are poorly organized, our Olympic athletes are still very strong. Currently, the market price for appearances and endorsements starts at 5 million per appearance. After this period, the price should drop (watching)”

“To be honest, the questioner's experience is very similar to mine. My family's beverage brand (a niche brand with a market share of about 1.2% in the same category) just signed the image endorsement of the ping pong six-sided warrior, Team Long! A five-year long-term contract for 60 million, the quotations are publicly and transparently available in the market (attached news link)”

In order to win the 588 yuan answer reward posted by Chen Jue, these Zhihu respondents began to exert their efforts.

It just so happened that there was Olympic heat, and the traffic in the relevant answer section was very high, with the number of views and likes in the comment section soaring.

After all, this was a 'flexing wealth post' with a hint of Versailles, and Zhihu netizens loved to see this kind of chaotic and ostentatious display of wealth.

Some users with blue V and crown badges even 'quoted scriptures' with various online pictures and news links, which stunned Chen Jue.

Originally, he wanted to come online and flex a bit, but unexpectedly, he was out-flexed by these silly netizens.

“These talents are pretty good at making things up!”

Chen Jue looked at the quotation list of these Olympic athletes on Zhihu and couldn't close his mouth with joy.

He divided the reward among the respondents with the highest number of likes and comments.

Afterwards, Chen Jue forwarded several quotation lists from online pictures to the work group of the Chen Ji marketing public relations team.

In the group, he @ Dai Cheng, asking him to take the time to contact the brokerage companies of the two swimming stars, Pan Lele and Xu Jiayu, to inquire about their endorsement fee quotations.

After all, Chen Ji's massive traffic was brought by these two fellow villagers from Wenshi, and Chen Jue had to express his gratitude in any case, and return the favor.

Seeing that the boss had issued instructions, the employees in the marketing public relations group were also in an uproar.

A group of newbies who had just joined the company didn't expect that they would be able to come into contact with endorsements of Olympic gold medalists so soon after joining Chen Ji, a start-up enterprise!

In addition, there were many newly graduated girls in the public relations group, and female fans naturally loved Pan Lele and other sunny, handsome stars with eight-pack abs.

Within a few minutes, the female employees inside Chen Ji exploded.

“Ah? No way! Is our company going to invite Pan Lele and Xu Jiayu as endorsements? (Staring)”

“Does that mean we can meet them and ask for autographs? (Loving it)”

“If we hold a fan offline meeting, will our business explode directly? (Thinking)”

“Brother Dai, it's already this late, don't sleep, hurry up and listen to President Chen and take action! (Drawing a knife)”

The female employees @ Dai Cheng one after another, urging him to take action quickly.

Dai Cheng was also stunned by the various messages in the group, and quickly privately asked Chen Jue how much the endorsement budget was.

After all, the appearance fee for Olympic stars is not low.

Although the two swimming athletes have a fellow villager relationship, business is business, and the budget definitely can't be reported too low.

Otherwise, if Chen Ji, a local catering company, goes to find them, it's uncertain whether these sports stars will accept the endorsement.

After all, top sports stars are very cautious about accepting image endorsements, and they usually accept endorsements from sports brands, or luxury goods, jewelry, and watches.

Even if it involves the food industry, most of them choose functional drinks and mineral water that are professionally aligned.

They rarely accept advertisements from chain restaurants like Chen Ji.

So Chen Jue thought for a while, glanced at the remaining funds from the first batch of soybean sales in the Hongxing Trading account, and replied in a private message: “Let's tentatively set the total price for endorsing the two at 100 million! You just go and quote the price. If their sports brokerage companies refuse, then keep adding until they are willing to accept our advertisement.”

Dai Cheng: “Budget of 1… 100 million? (Panda scratching head)”

Seeing this budget quotation, Dai Cheng felt his head buzzing!

He was just a newly promoted director of the marketing public relations department, and he hadn't done anything too great in the company yet. His daily work was all carried out according to the ideas given by Chen Jue.

He didn't expect that he would be able to be responsible for such a large-scale business cooperation so soon after starting work, which was a bit beyond imagination.

However, thinking that Chen Ji had already opened 8 stores in various districts and counties throughout Wenshi City, it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as making money every day. It didn't seem impossible to spend 100 million to invite celebrities to endorse.

So, after figuring this out, in addition to calling out 'Boss is awesome' in his heart, Dai Cheng was also secretly calculating how many roasted chickens or how many cups of mung bean smoothies he would have to sell to earn back the 100 million endorsement fee.

“President Chen is worthy of being a boss!”

“The pattern and way of thinking are different from us wage slaves.”

“We always think about how to make the store profitable as soon as possible. People probably had a good idea in their minds before opening the store! Even how many times the profit return can be created by inviting celebrities to endorse is probably within President Chen's expectations.”

Dai Cheng began to fantasize on his own, and while marveling at Chen Jue's extraordinary qualities, he also mobilized his contacts overnight to find a way to connect with sports brokerage companies.

After all, this was the top priority after he just joined Chen Ji. If this was not handled well, it was unknown whether he could keep his position as director.

…

At night, the moon and stars were sparse, and the park was swept by the hot and humid salty sea breeze.

After dealing with Chen Ji's sudden popularity, Chen Jue took a business car back to the Cube Factory, which was still under construction.

After a period of closed decoration, the internal layout of the factory has been clearly divided.

In addition to the largest bottom workshop being used to specifically accommodate large docks for 10,000-ton cargo ships, the empty workshops above were all separated layer by layer by 20 cm thick [iron plates] cut from the [iron block].

However, because Chen Jue's positioning of the Cube Factory was to use it as a new type of manufacturing factory.

It is not the light industry popular in Wenshi, so Chen Jue raised the height of each workshop to 10 meters to facilitate the entry of large equipment and assembly lines in the future.

Even if the introduced heavy machinery equipment or assembly line exceeds the preset height, there is no need to be afraid.

Because those spliced [iron plates] can be said to be extremely convenient in terms of disassembly and installation, just take out an MC [pickaxe] and knock them off.

Just avoid those [iron plates] that have been punched with holes and pre-buried with water, electricity, and network cables.

Of course, such a high floor plan also divided the 200-meter-high Cube Factory into a total of 15 large workshops, with an internal usable area of 600,000 square meters.

If this was used exclusively for factory rental, even if it was placed in this unpopular and remote coastal industrial park, it is estimated that it could earn a net profit of 10 to 20 million a year based on such a large area.

“The venue is there, and the next step is to add equipment inside.”

“It's ridiculous that there isn't even an elevator in the factory, right?”

“There's also the 100 million endorsement fee to return favors in the future, and 280 million bank loans to repay. Money is really not durable when you really start to toss it around!”

Chen Jue looked at this closed 'small' site that he led the iron golems to create, and the future development plan for Cube Technology became clearer in his mind.

However, the most urgent task is to solve the machine tool industrial equipment first.

Without the cover of equipment, no matter what product is produced here in the future and sells well externally, it will become extremely unreasonable in the eyes of insiders.

After figuring this out, Chen Jue casually took a few photos of the internal structure of the factory, and bought a plane ticket overnight to fly directly to Northeast China.

A few days later, at the brightly lit Rizhao Port Wharf, the second 10,000-ton bulk carrier from the north, bearing the hull number 'Tie Han 002', had quietly entered the port under the cover of night.

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