Chapter 430 - Lu Zhiyao’s Interview, Help from an Eminent Person (1/2)

Pei Qian finally decided on two directions after a friendly and harmonious communication with the system.

Housing and fitness…

In fact, Tengda had corresponding benefits for these two projects already. There were subsidies for renting a house and also reimbursements for the membership and a certain number of private training sessions.

The current amount of welfare seemed to be unable to meet Boss Pei’s needs anymore.

Pei Qian only had one feeling now: he made mountains of money but could only trickle the spending away!

Of course, it seemed to be a good idea for all the employees to share this pain together, but this sort of burden-sharing was obviously limited. Pei Qian wanted to buy a huge building to house all his employees. Obviously, that could not pass through the system.

Therefore, Pei Qian could only replace it with housing subsidies previously.

The system’s restrictions on employee welfare had gradually relaxed as Tengda Corporation became larger and was making more money.

He still could not give each employee a good lodging, but it seemed like he could use other ways to achieve this means.

Pei Qian had realized that the system had different restrictions on the method of spending money.

‘Charity’ was the most restrictive and only had a small quota every cycle.

‘Company benefits’ was slightly looser. The standards would continue to rise as the company expanded to cover all the employees.

‘Reimbursement’ was even laxer… even though an appropriate reason had to be found and must appear to be connected to the needs of the job.

‘Investment’ was the most relaxed. There seemed to be no upper limit on the investment funds. The most important restriction was to leave some room for profits so that the project had the possibility of making money in theory.

In some very special circumstances, the system would allow the investment even if there was a limited possibility of making profits; it was permitted as long as they could obtain an excellent reputation and social influence. For example, the documentary filmed previously by Huang Sibo and the loss-making Upwind Logistics. Therefore, there were a lot of restrictions when it came to welfare or reimbursement for housing benefits. It would be a four-person or two-person room at best. The standards were set up too high. However, if one changed their way of thinking and used the ‘investment’ approach, the requirements by the system were much looser.

For example, if Pei Qian were to use this money to invest in an apartment project, use the money to renovate it, and then set a price to rent out.

The system would not be too strict about it if he were to use some rooms as the staff dormitory.

It was just like the Fish-Catching Take-Out, which was a little more troublesome. He first had to make a take-out and then let the take-out provide his employees with work meals and then obtain reimbursement from the company.

It was even better if he could not rent the apartment out. Boss Pei could even make some money.

As to why he chose housing and gym…

That was because both projects had a physical existence, which required repair fees and rents. The maintenance and operating fees were much higher. It might even increase the chances of making losses.

Moreover, Pei Qian could also change his place of residence reasonably!

His current place of residence was alright, but it was just an ordinary two-bedroom apartment. Pei Qian also hoped that his place of residence could become bigger and better as a hermit.

It seemed like he was rather far away from fulfilling his dream of making enough losses until he could buy a mansion.

Moreover, Pei Qian felt that he did not need to worry about buying a house with his own money. It wouldn’t matter if it’s his or not if he could live in it forever, wasn’t it? So what if it belonged to the company? Pei Qian added the two projects ‘apartment’ and ‘gym’ to the planning cycle of the settlement after some thoughts.

It was definitely not in time for this cycle.

On the one hand, there was only one month more to the settlement. It was too late to start these projects. The Thriller Hostel would not be able to be completed within this cycle. It would affect the settlement if he were to add more projects that couldn’t be completed.

On the other hand, it was because the payment of the movie was not so soon.

Generally, movies were released for one month before the box office could be determined. The box office revenue would then be settled from theater to theater. It would take anywhere from three to six months to complete the whole process.

However, there were ‘fast settlement and collection’ companies in the film industry. They were similar to the bank factoring businesses. They would assess the company in accordance with the box office and charge a percentage as the handling fee. It was similar to the ‘fast refund’ of many shopping websites to put it bluntly.

However, even so, he would only be able to obtain this money during the next cycle. It was actually good news for Pei Qian because this cycle would not need to bear such heavy pressure. It would cost tens of millions in less than a month…

However, the pressure would be great for the next cycle.

Therefore, Pei Qian planned to spend the ‘accidental fortune’ he made from the movie to the apartment and gym projects.

As for the other industries that earned more money because of the movie’s influence…