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Chapter 218 The Largest Shareholder of Qidian

The next morning.

Cao Sheng received a call from counselor Lu Xiangwei.

"Cao Sheng! Have you been in Huizhou recently?"

"Yes, I am, teacher."

Lu Xiangwei: "Then let's have lunch together today? And chat for a while?"

Cao Sheng: "Okay! Do you know Liuweilou? Let's go there for lunch?"

Lu Xiangwei: "Liuweilou? The restaurant next to Binjiang Road?"

Cao Sheng: “Yeah, that’s right!”

Lu Xiangwei: "Okay! I know that store. Let's meet there at noon?"

Cao Sheng: "Well, how about 11:?"

Lu Xiangwei: “Sure.”

……

Lu Xiangwei suddenly asked Cao Sheng to have dinner with him, which made Cao Sheng a little curious. He wondered if it was just for dinner or if he wanted to say something.
Cao Sheng had some vague guesses in his mind, probably it was still about the internship.

He told the department last year that he didn't want to continue studying and was planning to start his own business.

But now the new semester has started for a few days, and other students have gone to internships, but there is still no movement in his entrepreneurship. Perhaps this is what Lu Xiangwei wants to talk about.

noon.

Cao Sheng met Lu Xiangwei at Liuweilou. The two asked for a private room on the second floor, ordered a few dishes, a bottle of white wine, and chatted while eating.

As expected, Lu Xiangwei mentioned starting a business.

"Cao Sheng! You said you wanted to start a business. When do you plan to start? The dean asked about this during the department meeting this morning."

Cao Sheng smiled and said, "I'm just about to start! But I don't have much time, so I need a suitable person to help me take care of it. Teacher! Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?"

Lu Xiangwei was a little surprised, "You want me to recommend someone for you?"

Cao Sheng nodded. "You are more familiar with this place than I am. If I recruit someone from outside, it will definitely not be as reliable as the one you recommend. Can you recommend one for me?"

Lu Xiangwei smiled, raised his hand to scratch his head, and nodded slightly, "If you say so, I will help you think about it. By the way, are you sure you want to open an Internet cafe?"

Cao Sheng nodded.

Lu Xiangwei: "I'll ask Mr. Huang from the computer class for you! Mr. Huang has good skills and should be able to help you with the technical issues of the Internet cafe. I'll ask him if he can arrange for the students in his class to work as part-time network administrators in your Internet cafe. You can pay these students 100 yuan a month, which can save you a lot of salary. You can also recruit one or two formal network administrators, and that will be enough."

Is that about it?

Cao Sheng was a little surprised.

Because according to Lu Xiangwei, his Internet cafe doesn't have much expenses on employee salaries.

"The Mr. Huang you mentioned... would you be willing to help me? How much do you think is appropriate to give him per month?"

Before Cao Sheng finished speaking, Lu Xiangwei smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay! I got promoted and am now the deputy director of the department. Teacher Huang should give me this face. Just give him a few hundred yuan a month as a token of your appreciation!"

Cao Sheng: “???”

Did he get promoted?

Cao Sheng remembered that when he graduated from university in the original time and space, he had never heard of Lu Xiangwei's promotion, but now he has been promoted to deputy director of the department.

Is this also the butterfly effect caused by my rebirth?
"Okay! I understand. Thank you, teacher!"

Cao Sheng smiled and raised his glass to express his gratitude.

Lu Xiangwei was in a good mood.

Cao Sheng was also in a good mood because Lu Xiangwei's promotion was also good for him.

At noon that day, they drank a bottle of white wine. Cao Sheng thought that he would not be able to write the manuscript in the afternoon after drinking, so he went to buy two storefronts near the school and planned to open an Internet cafe!

Thinking of this, he hailed a taxi on the side of the road and asked the taxi to take him around Huizhou Teachers College to see if there were any suitable storefronts for sale.
When the taxi turned to the south gate of the school, he looked at a row of newly built storefronts across the street.

This road is newly built, it is new and wide.

The south gate of the school is a side gate and is not opened very often.

Logically speaking, this area is not suitable for opening an Internet cafe.

Because the students can’t get out!

But he remembered that before his rebirth, when he finished his internship and returned to school to get his diploma, the south gate had been expanded, and the original side gate had been turned into the main gate of the school.

The original old gate has become a side door.

For this reason, many new stores have opened in the row of newly built shops opposite the South Gate, including two Internet cafes, and their business is brisk.

What else is there to say?

He immediately asked the taxi to stop across the street.

After getting off the bus, he found the sales office of the new community and bought four two-story storefronts at one time.

Not expensive.

Four two-story storefronts cost only about 300,000 yuan in total.

It is only separated from the south gate of Huizhou Normal University by a road, which was only repaired in the second half of last year.

Considering that he bought four units at once, the sales manager gave him a discount and rounded off the decimals, so that in the end he only had to pay 320,000.

Even so, when he was leaving, the manager and the sales lady saw him out the door with smiles on their faces, as if they were seeing off their father.

With these four storefronts, Cao Sheng felt that he could open an Internet cafe.

He doesn't have to pay for the decoration or the computer.

By using these four storefronts as collateral for a bank loan, you can open an Internet cafe.

In less than two or three years, the money earned from this Internet cafe will be enough to pay off the loan. …

When Cao Sheng was preparing to open an Internet cafe.

Huang Qingya published her new book, Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, on Hongxiu.

As the earliest female-oriented fiction website in the industry, Hongxiu has become a gathering place for female authors and readers. The website contains novels entirely with female protagonists.

The most popular novels here are either urban romance novels or romance novels with ancient backgrounds.

Urban themes usually involve several men falling in love with the heroine.

In stories with an ancient background, the heroine usually travels back in time to a native family with difficult life. Relying on various modern knowledge, the heroine gradually becomes rich and becomes the pillar of the family. In the process, she is loved by several men.

This is probably the biggest difference between novels oriented towards women and novels oriented towards men.

The focus of female-oriented novels is mostly on romance.

In male-oriented novels, romance is usually just an embellishment, and there are very few male-oriented novels with romance as the main plot.

In the first week after Huang Qingya's new book was uploaded to Hongxiu, it was not very popular and its ranking on the new book list was not high, climbing up little by little from over 100th place, with a very low sense of presence.

But in the second week, when the new book list was changed, her new book jumped to ninth place on the new book list and caught the attention of many readers.

After that, the ranking of her new book continued to rise.

Eighth, seventh, sixth...

By the end of the second week, this new book had already reached third place on the Hongxiu new book list.

In this era, the competitive pressure in writing online articles is not that great.

If the writing is a little better, the updates are a little more frequent, and the author pays attention to the rules of the rankings, he or she can basically make it into the top ten of the new book list.

Because there are very few authors who can achieve these three points.

Some authors add one or two chapters at the beginning of a new week, and then post a single chapter to ask for recommendations or flowers, and they can jump directly to the top of the new book list from outside the top 20 or 30.

However, without the support of a recommended position, this ranking can generally only be maintained for a few hours and will continue to decline.

But overall, it is easier for new books to make the list during this period.

Just look at it, in the third week, Huang Qingya’s new book quickly topped the new book list.

The longer this book stays at the top of the new book list, the greater the increase in its various statistics.

After seeing it, Huang Qingya naturally became more confident in the book.

My determination to write this book well has also become even stronger.

With this mentality, she hasn't come to see Cao Sheng for more than half a month.

Here in Cao Sheng, the Internet cafe has entered the decoration stage.

He handed the decoration matters over to a senior recommended by Lu Xiangwei.

This senior has graduated for three years. After graduation, he has been working in Huizhou. He studied tourism management and has worked as a hotel lobby manager and also in a travel agency.

Good eloquence.

Cao Sheng decided to try it out for a while.

Cao Sheng did not rush the completion of the Internet cafe's renovation.

Compared to the Internet cafe, he was more concerned about the novel website prepared by Bao Jianfeng and others. Bao Jianfeng sent an email saying that they had raised 500,000 yuan and had also selected the area for the website's headquarters. He asked Cao Sheng when he would go there to buy an office building?
So Cao Sheng went to the Magic City.

I invited Bao Jianfeng and others to have a meal.

During the dinner, Bao Jianfeng and others showed different personalities.

Bao Jianfeng has a very gentle personality, speaks slowly and always has a smile on his face. As for the other people, some are extroverted and good at dealing with things; some are introverted and not good at speaking; some seem introverted, but every time they speak, they are very organized.

Cao Sheng stayed in Shanghai for a few days.

We bought an office building in Pudong New Area and temporarily allocated one-third of it to Bao Jianfeng and others to set up a website.

Even this one third is more than 300 square meters.

This surprised Bao Jianfeng and others.

It is said that Zhongyuan Yidianhui is indeed rich.

Before leaving, Cao Sheng signed a share agreement with them.

He used five years' rent for an office building to invest in Qidian Chinese Network, holding 30% of the website's shares and becoming the website's largest shareholder.

Bao Jianfeng is the second largest shareholder with a 15% stake, and he serves as the company's legal representative and webmaster.

On the morning that Cao Sheng left Shanghai, Bao Jianfeng, Li Bin, Hu Jinyi and others came to the airport to see him off.

As the boarding time was getting closer, Hu Jinyi couldn't help but bring up the old topic again, "Mr. Cao! You are the largest shareholder of our website. When our website is established, can't you publish a work? Even a short story! With your fame, you will definitely help the website attract a lot of popularity. Why don't you reconsider it?"

Upon hearing this, Bao Jianfeng and others looked at Cao Sheng expectantly.

I hope Cao Sheng can change his mind.

Cao Sheng looked at them and wanted to laugh. Looking at their eager eyes, he couldn't bear to refuse them.

In fact, they have mentioned this matter several times in recent days.

However, because he had an agreement with Under the Banyan Tree, he needed to serialize 800 million words of his work for free on Under the Banyan Tree.

He has not yet completed the agreement.

Therefore, he never agreed to the request of Bao Jianfeng and others.

But today, he smiled and said, "You guys build the website first! I'll think about it, and then maybe I can change my pen name and publish a work."

Bao Jianfeng and others were delighted when they heard this.

(End of this chapter)