Chapter 34: Beginning to build up one’s power (2/2)

“Could she have the potential to be a great businesswomen?” Wang Chao thought in surprise, “There’s a lot of potential to be seen in the 21st century!”

Wang Chao had experience with contracts and quickly looked over the clauses before asking for clarification for the parts he didn’t understand. After several copies were made, each person left their own signature on it.

By the second day, Wang Chao had withdrawn 50,000 RMB and walked to the store where they were all located at. Under the directions of Yao Xiaoxue, they had bought furniture, a business license, computers, and several other miscellaneous items.

After a single day of observation, Wang Chao had felt that everything was in prime shape without any confusion. In his heart, he admired these university students for their entrepreneurship spirit. If it was him, he wouldn’t have even bothered with such an annoyance to begin with.

After a week during the weekends, Wang Chao arrived at the capital once more only to discover that the company was now open for business.

The company’s name was called Tianxing Networking LLC.

Author note: I had originally planned on calling it Shanda Online, but Qidian said no.

Yao Xiaoxue had even printed out several business cards with their industry, address, and telephone printed on it. With Wang Chao being the largest stockholder, he was the chairman. The others were called the general manager of technology and general manager of marketing.

Although the general manager was merely a commanding position, it still looked rather impressive on a business card.

“This is how business works, you cannot afford to look bad. You need to look big, you need to be aggressive. To not progress is to die.” Yao Xiaoxue explained to Wang Chao who accepted it as the truth.

With the company now officially open, they were able to attract several clients. Although they had a decent amount, it wasn’t enough to strike it even. Every day increased their losses, but the fact that they were able to open was a good sign.

But Yao Xiaoxue had been at her wits end. She had even tried to pull in some university students as client so as to turn the situation around.

“You must know a decent amount of people at the Taekwondo dojo, could you be sure to take note of them for us? After all, you’re the chairman, if the company goes down, then you will eat a major loss.” Yao Xiaoxue spoke to Wang Chao.

Wang Chao nodded his head in agreement, but he dedicated himself to practicing martial arts with Zhao Xinglong as his partner as well as Zhang Tong’s bodyguards.

It was after he had managed to bring his strength up to a sufficient level, Wang Chao had been able to increase his level of proficiency with Taichi, but there was still no noticeable change.

His temples were still barely raised up, unlike sis Chen’s whose temples were raised up an inch.

“Who knows when I’ll be able to get to the Hidden Jin stage and split apart even stone.” Wang Chao knew that he had to rise in skill steadily, but he was still anxious nonetheless.

The university exams in June had quickly gone by. Even after walking out of the room, Wang Chao didn’t know what subject he had just tested for, neither did he know what grade he could possible get.

The Tianxing Networking LLC was still keeping an adequate cash flow and had taken in only a minor amount of deficits.

As for Wang Chao’s martial arts, he hadn’t made any significant progress.

A week after the exams, Wang Chao was practicing with a staff under the moonlight when all of a sudden, his phone rang.

Picking it up, the sound of Cao Yi came through the receiver.

“I’ve heard you opened up an online company?” Cao Yi was straight to the point. “It seems that several parts of this area’s government is in need of replacing parts of their servers. After crunching some numbers, it’ll be worth several hundred thousand RMB. How about it, want to grab this prize? If you can beat the competition and disregard the middleman fees, you’ll get a net profit of at least four or five hundred thousand RMB. Even the future maintenance won’t be all that bad in terms of pay.”

Stunned, Wang Chao replied, “This is business with the government, officials, and even the big spenders. Would you help put a word in for us?”

Cao Yi replied, “Of course I’ll put in a word for you if you can just help me with a single task.”

“What task?” Wang Chao asked.

“It’s nothing major. Our public security bureau will be taking on a huge case tomorrow to sabotage one of the narcotic smuggling rings in the underworld. I don’t know how, but the news station managed to get wind of this and insisted upon doing an on-the-spot interview. It’s that reporter from last time, Zhu Jia, do you remember her? Your mission is to protect her; let her gather news and report it without making an issue of safety or security. Her father is an extremely influential person, so if you manage to keep up a good relationship with her, your business with the government won’t ever be finished! However, if she comes across any problems, then you’re finished! How about it, are you up to the task?”

Cao Yi’s words had an enticing tone it.

“Obviously!” Wang Chao replied.