Chapter 712 - 299: A Game Worth Ten Billion
After the summer finals of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Li Yang finally had some time to rest.
He spent some time at home with Jiang Banxia, and they talked about many things.
Gradually, the two of them were developing into close friends, and Jiang Banxia started to understand Li Yang from all angles.
"Master Li, has your system given you any new tasks?"
"Huh? Not yet, I haven’t triggered any new tasks. It’s still the same as last time."
"The task from last time hasn’t ended? I’ve already given birth to a child."
"Well... usually, it’s based on a financial cycle, and it won’t end until next June."
"Oh, I see. When there’s a new task, remember to tell me, so I can cooperate with you."
"Why do you want to cooperate with me?"
"To fleece the system!"
"Haha... okay, okay."
Jiang Banxia felt that Li Yang was pretty short on money, but after reviewing, she couldn’t figure out exactly where he needed money.
Whether it was Extreme Shadow Cars or other companies, everything seemed fine, right?
Last time, a lot of cash was injected into these companies, and recently Kuai Pai made a big move with a nationwide short video creation project, with a prize pool of two billion.
Her video earnings were very high, with daily income of thirty to forty thousand.
This was despite her posting videos infrequently; if she posted more, making sixty to seventy thousand a day wouldn’t be a problem.
Extreme Shadow Cars was even more so; it’s already a mature enterprise. Although the profit margin is low, selling three to four hundred thousand cars a year wouldn’t lack cash flow no matter what.
Unless Li Yang had bigger goals.
She had great faith in Li Yang’s strategic vision; he had never been wrong over the years and always gauged things accurately.
However, having strategic vision also comes with more helplessness.
Her strategic vision was lacking, so she could only see what’s in front of her and was easily satisfied.
For instance, during this good market period, all four stocks could yield tens of billions in floating profits daily, and when the market was especially favorable, it could float around a hundred billion.
She also engaged in some trading, almost always earning money.
Even if the money wasn’t hers, she only needed to maintain the interests of the over three million investors, and it was quite straightforward.
But Li Yang couldn’t.
Even if Extreme Shadow Group plus Green Water Group plus Kuai Pai had just over eighty thousand staff in total.
But real industry efficiency was far from the strength of finance. Li Yang had to constantly maintain a strategic vision, planning the third step while taking the first, and even simulating the fourth and fifth steps.
At this moment, Li Yang’s behavior seemed like he was anticipating some major problem and needed to prepare funds in advance to weather the crisis.
She couldn’t help him; she could only earn that much money, roughly a hundred billion a year.
It’s clear that this money didn’t play a significant role in Li Yang’s strategic position.
Li Yang never said what he intended to do, but after being beside him for many years, Jiang Banxia could tell.
From a financial perspective, the East and West are bound to partially decouple eventually.
The resilience of the domestic economy is not low, but there need to be more people, and the situation needs to be more complex.
In the past twenty years, the economy has always grown rapidly, and even with various stock market crashes, they essentially had little impact on life. Housing prices have never dropped, and the luxury goods market has only expanded.
But once the economy starts to slow down...
Last year, a term emerged, known as the internal cycle.
This was also the only way to break the impasse.
Many things in the world essentially boil down to economics.
Economics is the core of politics, and politics is the continuation of economics.
The economic structure that came out of the wild times had many issues.
For example, the Xingcheng Supermarket in Jiang City before; the actual workers earned next to nothing. High prices, low service, profitability was quite impressive, but that wealth never reached those who needed it.
Anybody who didn’t need the money, who would work as a service staff or a porter in the supermarket?
Green Water Heaven and Earth changed this phenomenon.
The Green Water Heaven and Earth in Jiang City had started making money, but almost all of the money went to the employees, leaving little for Green Water Group itself.
Previously, they provided the best possible conditions for over three thousand employees, and now, after making a bit of profit, they began grading agricultural products so that farm produce from the nine nearby counties could be sold at higher prices.
Take watermelons, for example.
The domestic watermelon planting industry is highly competitive. For the sake of profit, the terminal tries to undercut prices at the production end and raise them at the sales end.
Farmers’ earnings are less than 20% while bearing significant risks.
The middlemen’s profits reach about 10%, and they also have to bear certain risks.
The terminal’s profit is no less than 50%, and they bear slightly more risk than the middlemen.
The process at Green Water Group is to allocate profits based on risk.
The higher the risk, the greater the profit given.
Watermelons are somewhat unique; the crucial point concerns other items.
Take crayfish, for instance.
When the market is good, the production end earns just 30%, and when the market is bad, they suffer significant losses.
The terminal earns the most, with their risk not even as high as the middlemen’s.
Jiang Banxia had eaten quite a few times, as the neighboring county towns have a lot of crayfish farming. The best quality crayfish would only go for ten yuan out of the pond, with most prices around six yuan.
The middlemen maintained a fixed 10% to 20% profit, bearing the transportation losses. Upon reaching the terminal, the raw material prices directly shot up by 200%.
The terminals indeed deserve this money; after all, investing in a store could easily cost several million, unlike middlemen who could seize gains equipped with just an electronic scale, with overall costs being lower.