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    After the roast duck feast, everyone returned to the hotel full and laid flat, without even the energy to speak.

    Although Jiang Qin used clever management to improve work efficiency, it was like a stimulant that left only fatigue and soreness after the effects wore off.

    In this state, it was hard for anyone to go for a night stroll.

    Jiang Qin was also exhausted by Feng Nanshu. His legs were numb. After showering, he decided to sleep immediately. Even if the sky fell, he wouldn’t open his eyes if Feng Nanshu came to whine.

    But the next second, his phone on the table started vibrating and ringing.

    “……”

    Jiang Qin was silent for a while, thinking the usual rule was that if a call wasn’t answered, it wasn’t important. He’d deal with it tomorrow morning.

    Unexpectedly, the phone kept ringing, making Jiang feel helpless. He reached for the phone and asked wearily who it was.

    “President Jiang, it’s Old He. I have an important matter to discuss. Do you have time now?”

    “President He, is it something that can be explained in a few words?” Jiang Qin asked exhaustedly.

    He Yijun was stunned, “What important matter can be explained in a few words? I was planning to chat all night.”

    Jiang Qin went numb, “How about this, first explain what it is. Do you want a win-win or need my help?”

    “I need your help.”

    “So you need my help? President He, don’t blame me for taking advantage then. I hope you can write your long speech in an email and send it to my inbox. I’ll skim through it tomorrow morning.”

    He Yijun almost cursed on the other end, “Jiang Qin, you little brat, you’re so realistic!”

    Jiang Qin laughed, but his eyelids were too heavy to open. “If you’re asking for my help, can’t I be a bit arrogant?”

    “Fine, you wait. I’ll curse you in the email with an acrostic poem.”

    “……”

    Jiang Qin didn’t know if He Yijun hung up. He closed his eyes and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. Eight hours later, he woke up refreshed like an arrogant hero, doing dozens of ab exercises as if his young body didn’t know fatigue.

    After exercising and showering, Jiang Qin observed his abs in the bathroom mirror from various angles.

    Very good, the contours were very distinct now.

    This could be considered a success, right?

    Jiang Qin patted his belly, planning to take the team to a coastal city after the four-city market research was over.

    Otherwise, how could he let others “accidentally” see his abs?

    Boss Jiang smirked and opened the curtains to let the morning light in. Then he opened his inbox to check the work reports from the business and marketing departments.

    After reading the reports, Jiang Qin suddenly remembered last night’s call. He searched his inbox and found a new email from He Yijun.

    The email was indeed long-winded, making one’s eyes go blurry. Jiang Qin read it carefully and found it was He Yijun’s subsequent business plan for Wanzhong Group.

    Of course, those general things weren’t the main point. The key was what He Yijun wrote at the end of the email.

    “President Jiang, help me prepare some money. A mall in the neighboring city is about to collapse. I talked with their boss and plan to acquire it.”

    Jiang Qin pondered for a while and typed, “Read it. Old He, help me prepare some shares. I feel I haven’t had a win-win in a long time. Life is too boring.”

    Within five minutes of sending the email, He Yijun immediately called, roaring like an angry dragon, “Jiang, your request is a bit too much!”

    “President He, are you borrowing money or not?”

    “Borrow, of course I’m borrowing money.”

    The reform of Wanzhong Mall at the beginning of the year had exhausted He Yijun’s capital. Although Wanzhong was still thriving after the reform, the funds couldn’t be recovered in a short time, let alone the huge bank debts he owed. This time, he was really caught by Jiang Qin.

    That dog, he hasn’t finished winning yet!

    Jiang Qin raised the corner of his mouth, feeling the joy of being a rich daddy. Although he spent a lot of money on Sharp Sword Marketing, Pintuan had already taken root in Linchuan and was constantly taking commissions from the market. Taking out a few million was no problem.

    Moreover, after the millennium, the purchasing power of the RMB fell sharply and later encountered trade restrictions against China, depreciating rapidly. Rather than keeping it in the bank as waste paper, it was better to invest.

    However, what Jiang Qin planned to invest in was not the industry, but He Yijun himself.

    When Zhihu was just starting and made some achievements, He Yijun began to look for him to advertise.

    You should know, at that time, Jiang Qin was just an unknown stupid college student, while Old He was a real Linchuan tycoon.

    Being able to put aside his status to seek a cooperative relationship, Jiang Qin felt that giving He Yijun a chance, or making him ten years younger, this kind of person would definitely become the protagonist of the era.

    In addition, after the Linchuan business banquet, Old He mysteriously smelled the scent of the times changing and began to plan reforms in a hurry, cutting off the most profitable pure sales business like a warrior cutting his wrist and diving straight in.

    Although Jiang Qin was a bug of the times, He Yijun was actually able to use this bug to jump out of the three realms, which was not something an ordinary person could do.

    Vision, courage, drive, and sensitivity, Old He had it all. What he lacked was an opportunity, and now, the opportunity was here.

    “When will you return to Linchuan? Why don’t we meet in person to discuss in detail?” He Yijun submitted after pondering for a while.

    Jiang Qin thought carefully, “I’m currently out of town inspecting the market. It will take about half a month to finish. How about this, I’ll go back before the end of the month.”

    He Yijun grunted, “Okay, half a month later, let’s talk in detail at Wanzhong.”

    “You must prepare the bait well, a lot, exciting, the kind that makes people drool when they see it. Otherwise, I won’t easily take the bait.”

    He Yijun almost had a stroke and cursed “real dog”, then furiously hung up the phone.

    Jiang Qin was very happy. He got up and went next door, took out the little rich woman who had become even more silly after waking up, and went to the second floor buffet for breakfast.

    One after another, the others also got up. Everyone gathered in the buffet hall and put together three tables to form a long table.

    “While having breakfast, let me arrange today’s tasks for everyone.”

    “Lanlan and Tan Qing, you two go to Tsinghua and Peking University to collect questionnaires and settle commissions. The others follow me to visit other schools to see if we can get any new inspiration.”

    “At one o’clock in the afternoon, let’s gather in the hotel lobby, discuss where to go for fun, and then enjoy ourselves to the fullest!”

    After he finished speaking, the pure and stupid core employees of 208 cheered, completely sweeping away the morning fatigue and even speeding up the pace of eating.

    This was a people’s entrepreneur who had tasted the hardships of the bottom. He really knew what to say and when to say it. Whenever you felt lazy, his boost was really fast and effective.

    So, everyone started to act in teams again.

    Zhihu was positioned as a college student forum, so regional promotional activities did not need full coverage. It only needed to use the most famous schools as a model, and the rest would naturally follow, so today’s research task was not that heavy and was more like a stroll.

    There were many shopping addicts in 208 who bought many cultural and creative products along the way, such as bookmarks, t-shirts, etc., as souvenirs stuffed into their bags, not knowing who to give them to.

    Feng Nanshu didn’t have much desire to shop but liked to take photos everywhere.

    Lu Xuemei came as the team photographer and had now become the boss’s wife’s full-time photographer, basically shooting wherever she pointed.

    In fact, universities across the country were basically similar. Unless there were some landmark buildings worth checking in, Feng Nanshu stopped in front of a wall with the words “study hard and make progress” and tirelessly took many photos the word “diligent”.

    Jiang Qin pretended to know nothing, but his heart was constantly moving wildly.

    After the questionnaires were collected, everyone began to pack up and prepare to move to the Qianmen Street area.

    The work was done, and it was time to consider the matter of enjoying themselves to the fullest. The attractions they were going to tomorrow were mostly concentrated in the same area, so staying in Qianmen was the most convenient.

    “Damn, the capital is really an inch of land for an inch of gold. Are the hotels near the Second Ring Road built with gold? Why are they so expensive?”

    Jiang Qin took the invoice, and his head was getting big.

    “This was unanimously chosen by everyone because you can start shopping as soon as you leave the door. Dong Wenhao said that the filming location of Immortal Doctor Xilai was right in front, and they asked to go and see it.”

    Jiang Qin was stunned for a moment, “Are you talking about Dashilan? Forget it. Although Xilai in the TV series does live in Dashilan, their filming location is in Wuxi.”

    “Then what the hell is Dashilan here?” Wei Lanlan was also a little confused.

    “It should be a commercial street now. Forget it, it doesn’t matter. Let’s stay here, we have money.”

    Jiang Qin handed the invoice to Xu Yu and led a group of fifteen people into the hotel elevator. They checked into their rooms according to the room numbers. After enduring the hottest noon, everyone left the hotel from three o’clock and wandered around eating.

    Get in the car to sleep, get off the car to pee, take photos on time, and forget when you go back.

    Traveling is actually going from a place where you are tired of living to a place where others are tired of living, then spending the hard-earned money, and finally getting a body of fatigue unless you can find a nice-assed companion to accompany you all the way.

    Chapter Summary

    Jiang Qin received a late-night call from He Yijun seeking investment to acquire a failing mall. Jiang agreed in exchange for shares in Wanzhong Group, seeing potential in He's business acumen. The 208 team continued their university research trip in the capital, collecting surveys and shopping before moving to a hotel in the Qianmen area to enjoy sightseeing and local attractions.

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