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After some discussion, the group members suggested opening an arcade.

Once others see how popular the arcade is, they will naturally come to Xiaoshan to buy Taishan Block Arcade machines!

Moreover, Taishan Games will definitely make other arcade games in the future, so there's no need to worry about not having new games when opening an arcade!

Xiao Shan felt that it wasn't entirely impossible.

Back then, Lou Bancheng and Allen helped acquire land in Hong Kong, and also took the opportunity to acquire a lot of shops in Xiaoshan.

Now Xiaoshan can finally put his unprofitable shops to good use!

After making up his mind, Xiao Shan invited Lan Jing to meet him again that evening at the Jiuzhou Restaurant, where they had met before.

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After hanging up the phone, Blue Whale looked at Master Zhao beside him and asked, "What do you think Xiao Sheng wants by suddenly asking to meet me?"

“Xiao Sheng’s business is growing bigger and bigger now, I think it would be a good thing if he came to us!” Master Zhao said with a smile after thinking for a moment.

The blue whale nodded: "That makes sense!"

Chapter 621, Borrowing Henchmen from Blue Whale! (Please Subscribe!)

That evening, when Xiao Shan arrived at Jiuzhou Restaurant, Blue Whale was already waiting with Flathead.

After taking his seat, Xiao Shan looked at Blue Whale and said directly, "Mr. Zhou, I've come to see you today because I need to ask you for a favor!"

Blue Whale's real name is Zhou Jing.

Blue Whale immediately replied, "Mr. Xiao, you're too kind. Just call me Little Whale! Please feel free to ask if you need anything!"

Xiao Shan nodded without any formalities and said directly, "I'll give you 30 million here. I hope you can help me acquire some shops! These shops don't need to be renovated or located in luxury areas. They just need to be in areas with a high volume of young customers. Each shop should be around 500 to 700 square feet in size."

"Once the shop opens, we'll need people from your Sanlian Cooperative to help manage the premises. The price will be the same as a KTV security guard's monthly salary! You set up a shell security company, let the guy with the flat head be the nominal manager, and I'll pay him a monthly salary of 50,000!"

Although Xiaoshan owns quite a few shops, since he's already started this business, he might as well go big!

That's why Xiaoshan asked Blue Whale to help him acquire some more shops.

Arcades and KTVs are both entertainment venues, and they are naturally suited to the nature of gangs. Fights and brawls are bound to happen in such places, so it is more reassuring to entrust them to Blue Whale.

However, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xiao Shan had Blue Whale register a shell company to give his henchmen a gray guise.

After all, it's illegal for the henchmen of the Sanlian Society to come directly as security guards; they're collecting protection money.

But it's different when you put on the guise of a security company; that's gray.

Why does gray exist in this world?

Because everyone has different qualities, some people cannot be communicated with or reasoned with, and the Hong Kong government and police cannot manage them. In such cases, the intervention of gray forces is necessary.

This is why the Governor's Office tacitly approves of gray, but is extremely wary of gray turning into black!

The difference between the two may be just a matter of a single thought.

Upon hearing that Xiao Shan was willing to offer him a monthly salary of 50,000 yuan, the crew-cut man standing behind Blue Whale was naturally overjoyed.

Although he is the son of Blue Whale and the heir of the Sanlian Society, his monthly expenses are still limited.

Blue Whale looked at Xiao Shan with some curiosity and asked, "Xiao Shan, if I may ask one more question, what are you trying to do?"

"Arcades!" Xiao Shan smiled slightly. "You don't need to know now; you'll find out when it opens in a few days! Just assign three henchmen to each arcade to take turns guarding it, to prevent customers from causing trouble!"

Handing over the management of the arcade to Blue Whale is an inevitable trend; this kind of management is really not suitable for a normal company.

For example, some people like to occupy a toilet without using it, while others like to monopolize the machine and not let others use it, or there are acts of robbing other people's machines or even stealing money.

How crazy can someone be for a game? Xiao Shan, who came from a later generation, knows all too well.

Those lunatics are willing to sell their own parts for game equipment, what wouldn't they dare to do?

Even if Mount Blocks can't achieve the same addictive quality as future games, it's still a very dangerous sign in this age of entertainment scarcity.

If they were normal employees, they would never care whether customers were fighting, trying to steal machines, or even robbing money.

Even the police find it a real headache to deal with such trivial matters, like snatching a few dollars to play arcade games.

However, in the long run, this will cause enormous damage to the arcade.

Since normal employees cannot be managed, and the police and the law do not know how to manage them, the intervention of gray forces becomes necessary.

"Okay!" Blue Whale nodded without asking any further questions.

Anyway, registering a shell company doesn't cost much, and it can provide jobs for many of the underlings, strengthening the cohesion of the group.

Thinking of this, Blue Whale said to Xiao Shan, "Xiao Sheng, I'll register a security company tomorrow, and then have some of my subordinates with no criminal record who are willing to work honestly become employees to provide security for Xiao Shan's arcade!"

Hearing that Blue Whale was so cooperative, Xiao Shan nodded and said, "Okay!"

Once MacLehose steps down and the mainland's attitude becomes clear, and John Bull begins to frantically exploit Hong Kong's potential, Hong Kong's triads will experience their final frenzy.

Xiaoshan was willing to lend a hand to Blue Whale in order to reduce trouble for his company and employees when Hong Kong's triads developed rapidly in the future.

By having Taishan Security Company on the surface and Sanlian Society behind the scenes, one can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

It must be said that Blue Whale's execution capabilities are quite strong.

In just one week, he spent 30 million yuan to buy more than 40 shops in Xiaoshan.

When Blue Whale came to Xiao Shan with a stack of contracts, Xiao Shan was inspecting the assembled arcade machines at the arcade machine assembly factory.

Just as Xiao Shan was marveling at how amazing these behemoths would become in the near future, Blue Whale came over and greeted him.

After finishing discussing the shop, Xiao Shan smiled and said to Blue Whale, "Mr. Zhou, you've come at the right time. I'll have to trouble you to send someone to help move these arcade machines to the designated location!"

"No problem!" Blue Whale nodded in response, while looking at the arcade machines with curiosity.

Seeing the blue whale's curious expression, Xiao Shan smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou, would you like to give it a try?"

"That would be so embarrassing!" Although the blue whale said it was embarrassing, its eyes were full of desire to try.

Xiao Shan led Blue Whale and his henchmen to several arcade machines and let them try them out.

Although it was just simple Tarzan blocks, Blue Whale and his little brothers still had a lot of fun.

Xiao Shan waited for Blue Whale and the others to play for about twenty minutes before smiling and saying to Blue Whale, "Mr. Zhou, if you like, take a few machines back to play!"

Upon hearing Xiao Shan's voice, Blue Whale, who was engrossed in the game, instantly snapped out of his reverie: "Then thank you very much, Xiao Shan!"

Blue Whale knew very well that a few machines meant nothing to Xiaoshan.

Therefore, Blue Whale did not stand on ceremony with Xiao Shan over such a trivial matter.

Looking at Blue Whale's henchmen who were having a blast, Xiao Shan sighed and said, "The henchmen in charge of managing the arcade can each receive ten game coins for free every day. Any more than that, they have to buy them themselves."

"Furthermore, I think Mr. Zhou should remind them that the purpose of paying them to do things is to maintain order, and they should never violate order based on their personal hobbies!"

"Understood, understood!" the blue whale nodded repeatedly.

At this moment, Blue Whale finally understood why Xiao Shan had entrusted the arcade to him and his subordinates for management.

These addictive arcades are definitely the domain of club members; without some connections, they simply cannot be managed properly.

At the same time, Blue Whale also saw the potential profits; this kind of arcade game was definitely going to be a huge hit!

Chapter 622, The wildly popular Taishan arcade game in Hong Kong! (Please subscribe!)

"Stop playing, all of you!" Blue Whale roared, stepping forward and slapping each of his henchmen on the head. "Those in charge of managing the arcade, Xiao Sheng has arranged for each of you to receive ten game coins per day. From now on, you can play however you want. Now, get your men here to work!"

Hearing the blue whale roar, the underlings finally came to their senses and quickly went out to call for help.

About half an hour later, hundreds of members of the Sanlian Society arrived at the arcade factory.

Under the direction of the employees of Taishan Games, the underlings of Sanlian Society loaded the arcade machines onto trucks and drove them to the city.

Such a large movement immediately attracted a crowd of onlookers.

A total of 81 game arcades have opened in Xiaoshan this time. The number of arcades is planned according to different sizes, and each arcade can accommodate at least 20 machines.

The arcades obtained their operating licenses with almost no approval process.

There was no need for any renovations; just a few wires connected the machines, and a sign that read "Arcade" was hung on top. It didn't even have a proper name, let alone the name "Taishan."

The machine was moved to the designated location, placed according to the diagram, and the power cord was plugged in.

After the henchmen finish, they immediately collect game coins and start playing.

There was no need for any advertising; the exciting scenes and game sound effects immediately attracted a large crowd.

How do you play this thing?

"Game coins? How much is one?"

"Give me a coin first, I'll give it a try!"

……

Soon, the onlookers began paying to experience it.

Although Blue Whale's underlings were unreliable, fortunately, Taishan Games Company hired some store managers and employees to specifically manage the game arcades.

Each arcade is assigned three henchmen, simply to handle any trouble they encounter; they are not expected to know how to sell tokens and collect money.

Apart from the machines occupied by the henchmen, the vacant machines were quickly filled with people.

As more and more people discovered the arcade, it began to become noisy.

"You've finished a round, it's my turn!"

"Who said that? I've been waiting for ages..."

"Don't push your way in, please line up."

"Who dares to cause trouble?"

……

Seeing the arcade starting to fall into chaos, the henchmen dutifully began to maintain order.

However, while they were maintaining order, their machines were immediately taken over by others.

Emerging from the arcade factory and observing the bustling scene of the game arcades along the way, Blue Whale couldn't help but exclaim with admiration, "Congratulations, Mr. Xiao!"

Those who have tried the game know that it automatically increases the speed at which the Mount Tai blocks fall every three minutes.

After fifteen minutes, it will be so fast that it will be dazzling, until the screen is full of blocks and the game is over.

In other words, even if you are very skilled, one game coin will only last for a maximum of twenty minutes.

Xiaoshan priced the game tokens at four for one yuan.

In other words, based on an eight-hour operating time, one machine can earn at least ten yuan per day, and twenty machines would earn two hundred yuan.

Since the shop was purchased in Xiaoshan, the cost is only a little electricity and labor. The daily operating cost is less than 50 yuan, and it is easy to earn more than 150 yuan.

This is still the most conservative estimate.

Assuming each arcade earns 150 yuan per day, 81 arcades could earn more than 12,000 yuan per day, and 360,000 yuan per month!

Thinking of this, even the blue whale couldn't help but be moved.

The factory price of the arcade machine is 3000 yuan per unit, but it is obvious that Xiaoshan cannot sell the machine to him at the original price, as Taishan Game Company also needs to make a profit.

If you were to invest in an arcade at 5000 yuan per machine, without purchasing a shop, twenty machines would cost 10 yuan.

Using this profit model, all costs can be recovered in less than two years.

Moreover, Blue Whale doesn't operate for only eight hours a day.

"Mr. Xiao, can our Sanlian Society also open an arcade like this?" Blue Whale asked Xiao Shan somewhat embarrassedly.

"Okay!" Xiao Shan said after considering it for a moment, "I can sell you the Taishan Cube machines for 5000 yuan each, but only for orders of 10,000 units!"

Taishan Games has never sought to compete in the downstream market.

Even the best wine needs advertising; it's a problem if no one knows about your product.

Instead of carrying large machines across the ocean to sell door-to-door, the best choice is to make a name for yourself in Hong Kong and attract attention.

That's human nature. People who come to your door to sell things don't necessarily have good products; they only pursue those who see a way to make money from it.

This is the fundamental reason why Xiaoshan chose to open so many arcades.

Investing in shops was just a side effect.