Chapter 375 - Whoever Earned Money Should Spend It (1/2)

Zhang Yuan continued to bootlick Pei Qian without resting. However, Pei Qian sipped his coffee, not listening to a single word.

He could not understand where he had gone

wrong.

He had brought Tang Yishu to the warehouse, and he had seen instant effects. The computers had started to malfunction, and the assembly process had been hindered.

Yet… how did the RAM factory catch fire? The halo effect could not have spread overseas, right?

No matter how hard Pei Qian thought, he could not figure it out.

Strictly speaking, none of this mattered that much. However, they were very troublesome for Boss Pei. It looked like Boss Pei had to be careful about using his killing machine.

He could slip up and end up hurting himself!

In any case, what had been done had been done. More importantly, he had to think about how to spend the money from now on.

Should they continue to hoard stocks? That seemed impracticable.

ROF was already very well-known at the moment. After promising that prices wouldn’t rise during the New Year’s Day, it would likely become even more reputable and popular.

Experience had already shown that many customers were willing to pay a certain brand premium for ROF’s system units.

In other words-even if prices of their system units remained stagnant, ROF’s sales volume would not decrease. Furthermore, since they could maintain their original profit margins, the company was bound to generate profits.

If ROF hoarded even more stocks now and other parts became more expensive later on, wouldn’t Boss Pei be shooting himself in the foot?

It did not seem smart to hoard stocks now!

Boss Pei had learned an expensive lesson. What if he invested this sum of money in other businesses?

However, on second thought, Pei Qian rejected this idea.

Pei Qian preferred to stick to one general principle: whoever caused the problem should solve it; whoever earned money should spend it.

After some self-reflection, he realized that he had to keep fighting fires helplessly in the past because he had not stuck to this principle.

Many projects were not inherently problematic. Many of them had been incurring losses until they started collaborating with other projects. Then, problems started arising.

Thus, Pei Qian decided that Zhang Yuan should remain in charge of the revenue that ROF generated. He had to take charge of finding ways to spend the money.

Pei Qian considered this for a moment and said, “Don’t submit the profits generated by ROF to Tengda. You should think of ways to spend the money.”

Zhang Yuan was stunned. “Huh? Boss Pei, we’ve generated a lot of profit, but I shouldn’t submit any of it? Would that be appropriate?”

Pei Qian sniggered. “Of course! This is your hard-earned money. You should get to spend

it.”

Zhang Yuan quickly waved his hands. “No, no, no. Boss Pei, we earned this money thanks to your wise guidance.”

Pei Qian remained silent.

Look at him! Stop speaking if you don’t have anything good to say! Pei Qian was a magnanimous man who had no intention to go back and forth on this issue. “Tell me—where do you intend to spend this money?”

Zhang Yuan fell into deep thought.

He was now in charge of the Fish-Catching Internet Cafes and ROF. Of course, since Fish-Catching Take-Out had been derived from Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Zhang Yuan was also considered in charge of that.

At the same time, all of those businesses were closely related to Upwind Logistics.

Lu Mingliang was in charge of Upwind Logistics. He was greatly favored by Pei Qian. In fact, until now, Upwind Logistics had been incurring losses. It could only continue operating because of Tengda Corporation’s financial support. This proved that Boss Pei had been right to trust Lu Mingliang all this time.

Of course, to Pei Qian, he was not offering financial support. Instead, he was detoxifying himself.

If not for Upwind Logistics, Boss Pei might have been poisoned to death by now.

After some thought, Zhang Yuan said, “Boss Pei, I think that ROF has obtained a stable foothold in Jingzhou. Our online store has also achieved some level of fame.

“At the moment, the Fish-Catching Internet Cafes are quite popular as well. In fact, it’s now the most popular high-end internet cafe brand in Jingzhou.

“I think we can continue to expand and bring Fish-Catching Internet Cafe to other cities!”

Pei Qian sighed inwardly. Indeed, this problem was not going to resolve itself.

Boss Li had asked the same question before. He had asked Pei Qian why the latter had not considered opening branches in other cities to generate more profit.

The reason for this was simple. Boss Pei did not want to generate more profit by opening branches in other cities!

However, he had to seriously consider it now. That was because he could not delay it any longer.

Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and ROF were now generating profits, and the sum was not small. How could Pei Qian avoid expanding?

It would not make sense.

Thus, he had to open more branches sooner or later. The questions were where and how.

Pei Qian pondered for a while and asked, “Where do you think we should open more Fish-Catching Internet Cafe branches?”

Zhang Yuan responded instantly. “I think we should open branches in the bigger, first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou!

“There are many young people in those cities, and the population is much denser. What’s more, people there earn higher incomes. High-end internet cafes would probably appeal to them more.

“It would be easier for us to fight for market share in those cities. We could even open related businesses, like Fish-Catching Take-Out, there at the same time.”

Pei Qian was silent.

You’re making sense, and so I definitely cannot do that…

Pei Qian considered the problem for a moment. Then, he said, “I’m thinking the exact opposite. Lincheng is my next target.”