Chapter 317: Jiang Qin, I’m Here to Take You Back

After seeing President Liu leave the banquet hall in a hurry as if he had just heard “his wife gave birth”, Jiang Qin was dumbfounded.

Where’s the money? You fucking didn’t give me the money! This marketing idea is worth at least 100 million yuan. How could you just take my stuff and run?

“President He, you brought this person. He took off without paying. My idea is worth 100 million. This debt is on your head now. You owe me 100 million.”

Jiang Qin pointed the spearhead at He Yijun.

“?????”

He Yijun had a look of disbelief on his face: “Where are your manners?”

Jiang Qin looked at him coldly: “I did the work but didn’t get paid. Is that reasonable?”

“I think your IQ has dropped. Don’t you remember how you treated me before? You gave out a mall reform idea in four parts, swindling me with the square of a win-win. This time, how come you gave out the idea before even discussing the benefits?”

“I didn’t expect there’d be someone even more of a dog than me. At least when I steal from others, I’m polite for a bit.”

He Yijun took out his phone: “How about this, I’ll give him a call first.”

Jiang Qin stopped him with his hand: “The money issue isn’t urgent for now. Actually, showing my skills today wasn’t just for that planning fee. It was mainly to open everyone’s eyes, to let them understand that those who cooperate with me, Jiang Qin, will win until they’re numb.”

“?”

He Yijun was slightly stunned. He suddenly realized it had gotten quiet around them. Maybe not the whole venue, but at least within a three meter radius centered on them, it was dead silent.

Old He turned his head to look around and found many bosses holding wine glasses had stopped chatting. Instead, they were getting closer, eyes locked on Jiang Qin, looking like they wanted to say something.

To be honest, these local brands born and raised in Linchuan rarely did marketing. Otherwise they wouldn’t be facing the predicament of being unable to expand out.

Especially some manufacturing enterprises, some didn’t even have a marketing department. Even for the portion that did establish marketing departments, there were very few people who could actually do marketing planning.

To give a simple example, it’s like Wanzhong’s marketing department in the pure sales era. Although the department name included the word “marketing”, the work content was actually doing various holiday promotions, not related to real promotion at all.

Before the arrival of the internet era, many bosses didn’t value the role of marketing.

What was their business thinking?

It was as long as my product is good, profits are high, and fists are hard, I’ll make a TV ad and I’ll definitely get rich.

But after the internet era arrived, many bosses began to realize the importance of marketing, especially Pintuan binding with Wanzhong’s two brilliant marketing campaigns that revitalized the newborn Wanzhong overnight and let Pintuan completely take the stage.

All kinds of things let them see unlimited wealth opportunities and also see the importance of knowing how to do marketing.

But seeing is one thing, as for how to actually market, they still had no clue.

Because if you didn’t value this in the first place and haven’t even learned to walk, how could you sprint as soon as the track opens?

But tonight, when the conversation between Jiang Qin and Liu Jiaming appeared and presented the enterprise owners of Linchuan with a complete marketing idea, everyone knew, this herbal tea seller was going to get rich.

What’s a complete marketing idea?

It’s that my product has very distinct characteristics and great effects, but doesn’t conform to the current mainstream market, so I can’t sell it. Then I’ll take my characteristics and hitch a ride on something very marketable, letting the market remember me through something else.

This idea is fucking awesome. Even those who hadn’t studied marketing felt their scalps go numb upon hearing “Afraid of getting inflamed from hotpot? Drink Jiaduoji”.

To be honest, around the turn of the millennium, besides some local regions, who had heard of herbal tea drinks with Chinese medicine ingredients?

No one.

This was a completely blank field. But being blank doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a blue ocean, because this kind of product doesn’t conform to consumers’ current consumption habits.

But when Jiang Qin lightly said that advertising slogan, they felt the track being opened up, the blank turning into a blue ocean, like the gears of fate beginning to turn and accelerate.

As long as that Liu Jiaming isn’t stupid, the future Jiaduoji will definitely become a national brand.

Once everyone felt this sense of money hitting them on the head, who could remain calm? Wouldn’t that be going against money?

“President Jiang, remember me? I’m Wan Gui, I run a convenience store. I’m also a strategic partner of our Zhihu. You have to help me!”

“President Jiang, I’m Liu Xiliang. We’re old friends. You even used me as an example when holding a seminar. Take care of your old friend!”

“I’m Shi Xinglong, I run a pizza shop. President Jiang, are you free tomorrow night? I’ll treat you to a meal!”

“Me too President Jiang! I’m Kang Guohong. I also sell tea drinks. I was in the first batch to join Zhihu’s strategic cooperation plan!”

“President Jiang, I’m in the air conditioning business. Can you help me make a plan?”

“President Jiang, me too!”

“Me too President Jiang!”

“…”

In the blink of an eye, bosses began lining up in front of Jiang Qin one after another. It can be said they were rushing forward, a good banquet instantly becoming as crowded and urgent as a hospital queue.

Some bosses had no previous interaction with Jiang Qin and didn’t know how to start. So they turned to He Yijun for introductions.

Old He instantly began to feel like a ticket scalper. He puffed out his chest and started seeking win-wins between the back-and-forth.

A while later, the banquet completely changed. Jiang Qin had the hotel staff pull over a blackboard. He held a class on the spot, publicly teaching some internet marketing ideas and how to combine them with Zhihu traffic for promotion, crazily PUA-ing those bosses.

The bosses of Linchuan all moved their chairs over, sitting in rows, listening carefully. Sometimes lost in thought, sometimes marveling, always feeling a big pie being drawn in front of them.

The hotel staff had seen it all. They had heard of messing around between men and women at banquets, and of people boasting like crazy at banquets. But it was their first time seeing a class being held at a banquet.

The Linchuan Chamber of Commerce was established with the Linchuan Municipal Government taking the lead. Although the top leadership designated Jiang Qin as the trailblazer, it was only at this moment that Jiang Qin truly became the leader of Linchuan’s business community.

This point was extremely crucial, because the internet craze was about to arrive. Once capital entered the arena, not even a complete egg would be left in a fallen nest.

He had to tie himself to Linchuan, constantly increasing his chips to resist the coming storms.

“That Old Liu is so lucky. Right away he got a tailored promotion plan. Who knows when it’ll be my turn.”

“With President Jiang showing this hand, it’ll be very hard for Linchuan’s merchants to get off his ride.”

“Get off for what? The ride is going so fast, even if you let me off I wouldn’t!”

“Actually, us Linchuan businessmen have resources and capital. Being able to band together and do something benefits everyone. No matter what level Jiang Qin’s Zhihu reaches, as long as the Linchuan Chamber of Commerce can set the stage, you and I will both be beneficiaries.”

“That’s a good point. Linchuan previously had a chamber of commerce that became a shell of its former self due to lacking a leader, reduced to a tool for boasting during the new year.”

“I’ve discovered that President Jiang has an incredible ability – no matter the occasion, he can always make himself the focus of everyone’s attention. Someone like that was born to be a leader.”

“I wonder if President Jiang has a girlfriend? My daughter happens to be single.”

“…”

After the banquet ended, Jiang Qin had fully established his image as a trailblazer. Many people were determined to follow him to the end, to the point that several bosses wanted to give him a ride back so they could chat more on the way.

However, Jiang Qin politely declined them all, saying there was no need to trouble them as someone was coming to pick him up.

Then he squatted by the side of the road and took out his phone to check his QQ messages. The message was from Feng Nanshu, telling him not to wander around after drinking, as she was going to ride Little Pink to pick him up.

Jiang Qin smiled at this message, thinking that Little Pink definitely couldn’t run such a long distance. “You want to come pick me up? So adorably silly.”

But for some reason, he really wanted to play along with Feng Nanshu’s antics. So he just sat by the road waiting, unrealistically imagining the scene of the little rich girl’s appearance.

What Jiang Qin didn’t expect was that he had waited less than five minutes when a stunningly beautiful girl appeared at the main entrance of Longkai, slowly riding an electric scooter.

The girl had a bit of a cool expression, full of aloofness, but the moment she saw Jiang Qin, she instantly became lively. With a screech, she stopped the scooter in front of Jiang Qin.

“Jiang Qin, I’m here to take you back.”

“?”

Jiang Qin was dumbfounded, wondering how she managed to ride Little Pink here. Would it really still have enough battery to take them back?

Seeing this scene, the bosses who had followed out couldn’t help but laugh, thinking that no matter how talented this President Jiang was, he was still just a self-made college student with no background, even needing to ride an electric scooter back to school.

This feeling was like a motivational guru on stage who casually gave people billions with every word, but backstage cursed up a storm because his lunch box was missing a chicken leg. It instantly made Jiang Qin’s carefully crafted tall image shrink by a large margin.

“President Jiang, don’t ride the electric scooter. It’s cold and unsafe. Why don’t you take my car back? It’s quite comfortable.” A female boss with a sense of justice couldn’t help but speak up.

Feng Nanshu: “?”

Jiang Qin also knew that after chatting up a storm and PUAing a whole room of bosses, if he turned around and left on an electric scooter, this scene would probably be remembered for a long time. His glorious image would likely take a big hit, making it very difficult to establish himself as a trailblazer in the future.

But so what?

The little rich girl had ridden Little Pink all this way to pick him up. How could he possibly not go with her?

As for his image and whatnot, if it didn’t work this time, there was always next time. No big deal. Jiang Qin stood up, sat on the back seat behind Feng Nanshu, and wrapped his arms around her slender waist, not caring one bit about his image.

“Thank you for coming to get me.”

“If I didn’t come get you, some other woman would have taken you away.” Feng Nanshu said with a pout.

Hearing this, the female boss who had just offered Jiang Qin a ride couldn’t help but snicker, thinking college students were really too immature. No matter how pretty she was, stubbornly riding an electric scooter to this place full of wealthy businessmen to pick someone up not only couldn’t protect their pure love, but also incidentally made President Jiang lose face.

But just then, a brand new Rolls-Royce drove in through the front gate. Its domineering front and shining headlights instantly attracted everyone’s gaze. The wheels came to a stop, the door opened, and Uncle Gong stepped out of the car carrying two helmets.

“Young Miss, the route is too long and there are too many cars on the road. Let’s put on helmets, otherwise it’s not safe. I bought one for Young Master Jiang too. Look, it’s also pink.”

“I don’t want to wear it.”

Uncle Gong looked at Jiang Qin with a troubled expression, “Young Master Jiang, please let the Young Miss put on the helmet.”

Jiang Qin took the helmet and looked at it, “Why do these two helmets look so similar? Don’t tell me they’re a couples set?”

“Then I’ll wear one.” The little rich girl suddenly changed her mind.

Seeing this scene, the female boss who had just been snickering instantly changed her expression, thinking a Rolls-Royce with a chauffeur? What the hell was this?

Were the entry requirements for college students already this high now? A random female college student, looking like a celestial maiden was one thing, but this kind of dramatic entrance was really too much, right?

“Little rich girl, not that way. You’re going the wrong direction.” Jiang Qin suddenly noticed that the little rich girl was riding in the opposite direction.

“Oh oh.”

Feng Nanshu rode the electric scooter in a circle, doing a few laps in front of the female boss before finally taking Jiang Qin and leaving the Longkai Hotel.