Star Tycoon

Chapter 99 The Infuriating Female Reporter

Zhou Shanshan stared in shock at the live stream on her phone and ran to Wang Linlin's bed.

"Linlin! Quick, watch today's live stream!"

Wang Linlin and Zhang Shuya were lying on the bed listening to music and watching videos when they noticed Zhou Shanshan coming over, so they checked out the live stream.

Soon, both of them showed expressions of astonishment.

"Are there really that many?"

"Two hundred and thirty million!" Zhang Shuya tried hard to think. "How much is that?"

Zhou Shanshan said with absolute certainty, "I could never spend it all in a lifetime!"

Wang Linlin was more concerned about Tian Ersan's safety.

"With so much money, Mr. Tian, ​​isn't there a risk of him being kidnapped?"

Zhou Shanshan and Zhang Shuya were stunned, but quickly realized that this was very likely.

Tian Ersan naturally thought of the things that women could think of as well.

Police cars were already patrolling the area even before the live stream ended.

As the broadcast was about to end, Tian Ersan said with a smile, "For the next year, I will live and eat at the company, I will not go out to eat, drink, gamble, or visit prostitutes, I will not pursue any fashion brands, I will not travel or make friends, and I will not go abroad!"

"Tomorrow I'll be livestreaming myself working in the warehouse, so you can see what a billionaire's daily life is like!"

"Family members!!"

"Look!"

"Let me show you just how powerful a man who stays away from women and alcohol is!!"

Gifts started being sent in the live stream room again.

[If you can keep your word, I swear I'll stop masturbating starting tomorrow!]

[Go, Second Brother!]

[Husband! Husband!]

Baby! Mommy loves you!

Honey, you're amazing! I love you so much!

Why are there so many women in this live stream?

If you don't want to watch, then get out!

Tian Ersan quickly ended the live stream.

You can tell how good a live stream is by looking at the store's sales figures.

Tian Ersan patiently kept track of the time and the number of orders in the backend.

Within ten minutes of the live stream ending, orders increased by more than five thousand.

Some people were buying clothes, some were buying canned goods, and others were buying sunflower seeds and agricultural products.

This is just the sales volume in ten minutes.

Nowadays, the main group is no longer the people in the live streaming room; it's the suppliers who get the goods at low prices.

Tian Ersan can now obtain goods at prices lower than those in supermarkets across the country, and local clothing retailers and businesses all source their goods from him.

For most supermarkets, selling canned goods for five or six yuan, clothes for twenty yuan, and sunflower seeds for seven or eight yuan are all profitable.

Distribution channels are king!

People who can make cheap clothes can't find customers.

Those who can sell clothes cannot obtain cheap goods.

With so many small clothing stores across the country, the goods they get from first-tier distributors are definitely not cheap. They can make a lot of money by getting hot-selling products directly from Tian Ersan's live broadcast room.

If you buy 12 pieces of clothing and sell them for 21 pieces, you're sure to be able to sell them. This is perfect for small vendors who can buy hundreds of pieces at a time to sell at the night market.

In the evening, I would load a cart of clothes and go to the market to find a good spot. I could easily sell all the clothes, which cost around twenty yuan each.

Once these lowest-level distributors bypass the middlemen and get their goods directly from Tian Ersan, it will impact garment factories across the country.

Industry consolidation—Tian Ersan unknowingly did just that.

The quick-thinking Southern Garment Group tried to interrupt him, but their propaganda campaign failed.

After business boomed, Tian Ersan raised the price by one cent to give some benefits to the women left behind in the county.

In addition to raising the cost price of the clothes to five yuan, breakfast, lunch and mung bean soup were also provided.

The cost of these four pieces of clothing is only 25, so you can only make a meager profit of 25 on a 50-yuan order!

Anyone in the clothing business can easily calculate Tian Ersan's actual profit; they simply can't compete with him.

Tian Er San's advantage lies in its dual guarantee of online and offline services.

There's no need to worry about stockpiling goods; we'll always be able to sell them.

The supply of goods is stable; so many garment workshops throughout the county and city are operating, so there's no worry about a lack of goods.

With cheap labor, many garment factory workers had nothing to do but earn some extra money while accompanying their children to school.

These people don't rely on this to support their families; they use it to supplement their household income and earn some living expenses for their children, such as meat, eggs, milk, and books and learning materials.

Working eight hours a day and making thirty or forty pieces of clothing can earn sixty yuan, enough for four or five days' worth of food. The workshop owner bears the rest of the costs, including the purchase of fabric and maintenance of the machines.

Without jobs in garment factories, these people have to find dishwasher jobs that pay a little over a thousand dollars, or other jobs that are even more lucrative, making their lives even more difficult.

After taking a nap, Tian Ersan had breakfast in the morning and then told the women to continue working while he went to the live streaming room to broadcast his work.

The September morning was as muggy as ever, and Tian Ersan was drenched in sweat after only ten minutes of work. Fortunately, he had already experienced something similar yesterday, so his body quickly held up and he continued.

Like the other men in the warehouse, Tian Ersan carried bundles of clothes to the warehouse and threw them onto the stacks that were already several meters high, where the people on top would arrange them.

This lasted for more than three hours.

Around noon, Zhou Shanshan led several strangers into the warehouse.

"Mr. Tian, ​​a reporter from Beijing TV wants to interview you!"

Upon hearing this, Tian Ersan walked to the computer and casually said, "Okay, feel free to ask me anything you want to interview."

The female reporter who came over felt that it was very hot and humid here, and she was soaked in sweat, even her hair was a little sticky... but Tian Ersan was very sexy.

"Hello, I'm Yan Qingqing, a reporter from CCTV. I'd like to interview Chengbang Trading Company about their business. I heard that your company's clothing sales have been phenomenal since August. What do you think is the reason for this?"

Tian Ersan smiled and said, "Of course it's cheaper. Whether it's for advertising or personal favors, it's all gone once it's used up. Only affordability is the key. It's normal for people to choose cheap and affordable clothes."

The female reporter asked, "Are all these warehouses filled with clothes? Is it necessary to store so many clothes? Are they unsold?"

Tian Ersan discovered that some journalists had serious issues with their professionalism, especially those from companies with many connections.

If you're talking about where the most connections are, it's naturally in the most profitable and prestigious companies.

Those people with connections aren't idiots; they're not going to suffer.

Tian Ersan was not surprised by the idiot reporter's idiocy and calmly replied, "Because clothes can be stored for a long time, before the 88 Mom Shopping Festival, I had 400,000 pieces of clothing made based on a sales target of 5 million. At that time, the expectation was 5 million."

"To this end, I contacted about 526 garment workshops in the county and nearby towns and counties to carry out the operation, mobilized six or seven thousand housewives and female workers, and then collected them by truck in various towns, transporting about 200,000 pieces every day."

"Each person can earn about 60 yuan more per day, without interfering with things like picking up and dropping off the children and cooking."

"Now that schools have reopened in the county, many mothers who accompany their children to school are looking for work to supplement their income. Otherwise, it's too hard for the children's fathers to work alone, so..."

The reporter quickly interrupted, saying, "You made 230 million, and you only gave each of them 60?"

Tian Ersan countered, "Then how much can you give them?"

The female reporter brazenly said, "If it were me, I should give at least a thousand dollars a day. You earn ten million dollars a day, and six or seven thousand people only earn... a little over seven thousand dollars a day."

Tian Ersan, looking somewhat displeased, asked, "How much does your TV station earn each year? And how much is your salary?"

You idiot, are you interviewing your dad because you have connections?!
The female reporter asked unhappily, "How much do you make per piece of clothing? Before, everyone thought you only made 50 cents per order, but after hearing that you make 10 million a day, everyone feels deceived."

Tian Ersan stated directly: "The claim that I earn ten million a day is pure fabrication! Even a single penny, a dime, or a punctuation mark off is still a fabrication! Please don't believe such false rumors! Please, everyone, do not believe or spread rumors!"

"The 50 cents was the price we gave to other manufacturers to promote their products during the event. In reality, this price was already very low. I didn't actually charge that much for those low-priced items. For products that cost tens of yuan, the 50 cents advertising fee was already very low."

The female reporter asked, "Do you think the clothes you sell for ten or so yuan a piece are very good?"

Tian Ersan was furious. That idiot reporter!
"The quality of my clothes is actually quite average, you could say they're not good."

Tian Ersan tried his best to be frank and said, "It can't compare with big brands. It's the kind of cheap clothes that are good quality but not expensive."

"A single garment sells for 15 yuan, four garments for 50 yuan, so the average price per garment is about 12 yuan. The labor cost for garment workers is 3 yuan, which is straightforward. The cost of raw materials, transportation, storage, machine wear and tear, express delivery, and some indirect labor costs add up to about 6 or 7 yuan."

Tian Ersan became increasingly angry as he spoke, and his speech became faster and faster.

"Currently, I need a lot of capital because I plan to build a factory and specialize. The province has given me tax breaks. After two years, once the policy expires, my profits will drop to a normal level after deducting various taxes, utilities, and marketing expenses."

"I will invest a portion of the money I've earned during this period into industrial upgrading, improving the quality of clothing, and hiring construction teams to build more standardized clothing workshops."

The reporter asked, "What do you think of the 780 million yuan achievement of this year's 88 Mom Shopping Festival? Some people say it's luck, and others say it's a coincidence, because everyone sympathizes with you."

Tian Ersan's lips twitched slightly, and he calmly said, "It is a manifestation of the improvement in economic and social standards, as well as the strong support from all over the country for food enterprises in Zhongzhou Province."

“7.8 million is nothing to many financial companies. Most of the time, it’s just money being transferred from one group of people to another’s accounts, from all over the country to a head office, or all over the world.”

“It’s different here. A few hundred million yuan can improve the living standards of hundreds of thousands of people.”

"Of the 7.8 million yuan, at least 5 million yuan was distributed to the lower levels of the building. This money was distributed to fruit farmers, vegetable farmers, herders, farmers, local restaurant cooks, cotton growers, cotton pickers, truck drivers, deliverymen, workers in various food companies, construction workers, and so on."

"As the person who brought the water for irrigation, I did receive the bulk of the funding, but I won't use it to buy luxury cars and mansions in first-tier cities, nor will I use it for travel, buying airplanes, yachts, or antiques and paintings. I will spend it locally to build factories, shopping malls, hire workers, and distribute bonuses."

“These people will pay taxes and shop when they have money, and eventually they will go back to their hometowns all over the country.”

The female reporter then asked, "Why don't you install air conditioning in this warehouse?"

Tian Ersan doubted whether the woman had a license to work, but he refrained from cursing in the live stream.

After all, I want to be a positive role model for livestreamers.

Anyway, my fans have already cursed her ancestors for eighteen generations on my behalf.

"The warehouses are all old and outdated. In the future, I will introduce better sorting equipment to upgrade the industry, and then we will need better warehouses."

“This company is located in the county, near schools and commercial streets. Our company’s vehicles will affect the surrounding area, and I am worried about accidents. So I plan to build a corporate warehouse in a less populated area in the suburbs in a while.”

"The work here is very hard. I've been working here for two or three days now, so I know how demanding it is. But the pay is good too. You can go to the canteen and see. We have meat and vegetables, and the portions are unlimited and free. They also provide fruit and refreshing popsicles and herbal tea. You can talk freely while working, and you can go out for a walk if you want. It's very free."

The female reporter frowned. "Since you've already made so much money, why not spend a few hundred yuan to install an air conditioner?"

Tian Ersan could hardly contain himself and said, "This warehouse is 3,500 square meters, about five acres in size, and there are only a few dozen people working there. We have already prepared fans and floor fans."

The female reporter found Tian Ersan's actions strange. "A fan is definitely not as effective as an air conditioner. This space is so big, you could easily build a convenient air-conditioned hut so that the workers can work comfortably."

"Do you think we're all just sitting in the office doing nothing?" Tian Ersan said, getting angrier as he spoke.

The female reporter calmly asked, "Are you angry? I can tell you care a lot about your education. You kept mentioning numbers when you were talking to me earlier. Are you bad at math?"

Tian Ersan felt a kind of hazy, oxygen-deprived sensation in his brain, as if he couldn't breathe or communicate.

Several workers nearby were also dumbfounded.

It took Tian Ersan a few seconds to recover. He quickly reached out and turned off the computer, no longer wanting to argue with the woman.

"I'm off work, going to eat. I'm not working this afternoon! From now on, I will refuse all interviews from Beijing TV! And I will refuse all interviews from female reporters!"

(End of this chapter)