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Chapter 410 Rong Nianqing: This is difficult (6k views, please subscribe)

The so-called "Mr. Hai" who suddenly appeared was just someone with ulterior motives trying to use Liu Tongxiong to make a fuss.

Such people are indeed very difficult to track down. Although China's intelligence and tracking capabilities have always been strong, the most advantageous and extensive area of ​​this intelligence network is actually within China. Unless you cooperate with foreign intelligence brokers, finding Mr. Hai abroad would require a great deal of resources.

Such a level of resource allocation is clearly beyond the capabilities of Lü Yao, Gan Xiaoxi, or Rong Nianqing at present.

So Lü Yao put the matter of Mr. Hai aside and stopped worrying about it. Instead, he talked to Gan Xiaoxi about Liu Tongxiong: "What about Liu Tongxiong? What was his reaction after he came into contact with Mr. Hai?"

Gan Xiaoxi sent a smiley face and replied, "Liu Tongxiong, he's quite an interesting guy. I don't know what they talked about, but judging from Mr. Hai's immediate departure from Hangzhou and from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, their conversation probably didn't go very smoothly."

"Although Liu Tongxiong is stingy, he's quite smart."

Lü Yao smiled.

Maybe.

It's not surprising that Liu Tongxiong would choose to refuse cooperation. The fact that he could cause so much trouble in Hangzhou shows that he has quite a network of connections in the city's social circles, which means he's at least a top-tier player in the provincial server.

Unless you're a top-ranked player on the Chinese server, it would take a lot of effort for a regular player with a lower ranking to take down someone like Liu Tongxiong; it's impossible to kill him in one hit.

This is also the source of Liu Tongxiong's confidence in refusing to cooperate, and the biggest reason why he refused to cooperate with Mr. Hai.

Before coming to Mianyang, Lü Yao had almost no contact with Liu Tongxiong. Even through Li Ziqi, he only had a few interactions with Liu Tongxiong. The two did not have many interactions, but in these limited interactions, Lü Yao could tell that the other party was quite arrogant, even a bit stubborn, and had a strong desire for control.

The pampered upbringing he experienced from a young age is also one of the reasons that shaped his personality.

Having this kind of personality would inevitably lead Liu Tongxiong to refuse to cooperate with Mr. Hai. Because in his eyes, he had used himself as bait to lure people out to fish, and they didn't come looking for him. But now that he and Lü Yao's matter is over, those people are coming to him instead, wanting to use him as a pawn.
What benefits can he gain from this?
The prerequisite for trying to negotiate with a tiger is that you must have the means to kill the tiger, or at least the means to make the tiger wary.

He used himself as a scapegoat before to ward off wolves and tigers, but now that the other party is coming to Liu Tongxiong again, it's simply because they think Liu Tongxiong is a fool.

If Liu Tongxiong couldn't even see this, then he couldn't have built his business to this extent.

After finishing his business with Gan Xiaoxi, Lü Yao ended the call and went back to doing his own thing.

Not long after, Lü Yao received a call from Liu Tongxiong. Looking at the caller ID on his phone, Lü Yao smiled and felt that things were getting interesting.

He answered the phone and greeted the caller first, "Hello, Mr. Liu."

Liu Tongxiong's slightly gloomy voice came through the phone: "Hello, Mr. Lü, I'm calling to talk to you about something. Earlier today, someone who called himself Mr. Hai came to see me. If you need, I can send you a picture of him. He wants me to join forces with them to deal with you, but I refused."

Lu Yao asked curiously, "Well, I can understand you declining their invitation, but why did you call me to tell me this?"

Liu Tongxiong's voice was unwavering: "We did have some unpleasantness before, but those were just business matters. I think we might be able to cooperate in the future."

Lu Yao did not reveal that he already knew about Mr. Hai's matter. After receiving Liu Tongxiong's reminder, Lu Yao smiled and thanked him, saying, "Thank you for the reminder. I will invite you to Shangnan as a guest during the New Year's Day. I hope Mr. Liu will do me the honor of attending."

Although it's only late September, telling Liu Tongxiong about this in advance can lay the foundation for communication between the two parties.

Although it was just a verbal invitation, given Lü Yao's current status, this invitation alone already represented a lot. It also meant that Liu Tongxiong could enter Lü Yao's circle and have the opportunity to make more connections and access more resources.

Furthermore, Liu Tongxiong could use Lü Yao's promise to quickly acquire more resources within the industry.

In today's business operations, "credit" is as valuable as gold.

This is also the foundation of loans, banker's acceptances, and even the value system of personal reputation.

Liu Tongxiong understood that this was a gesture of goodwill from Lü Yao, so his originally gloomy tone softened considerably, and he expressed his gratitude to Lü Yao, saying, "Thank you very much, Mr. Lü, you are too kind."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Tongxiong, who was hiding in a secluded spot, put down his phone and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

His heart was in turmoil, and his mind was churning with thoughts, like the sea after a typhoon.

Amidst these surging thoughts, the image that surfaced most frequently in Liu Tongxiong's mind was none other than Lü Yao... The few times he had interacted with Lü Yao and the few conversations they had had began to resurface in Liu Tongxiong's mind.

this moment.

He finally realized how petty his previous decisions had been.

With such limited capacity, he could never reach a truly high position.

That's why he called Lü Yao tonight. He's no longer satisfied with his current situation; he wants to keep climbing, to climb into the ranks of top players in the national server! Until he can be just as nonchalant about it!

The flames of ambition burned fiercely in Liu Tongxiong's heart, which would prompt him to take even more action.

……

After Li Ziqi's live interview ended, her real-life experiences sparked considerable discussion, and people were filled with goodwill towards this young woman from an ordinary, even impoverished, background.

She has been hailed as a role model for contemporary inspirational women.

With the strong support of local official media in Mianyang, the publicity surrounding Li Ziqi in Sichuan Province began to rise steadily. Official media in Chengdu, and eventually even official media in Sichuan Province, started to promote Li Ziqi's inspirational story. They even made a special National Day feature on Li Ziqi's story and broadcast it on the official media channels of Sichuan Province.

In less than twenty days, Li Ziqi became a true top influencer in Sichuan.

Li Ziqi's social media accounts have been growing by hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers almost every day. During the National Day holiday, Li Ziqi's total number of followers across the internet exceeded 100 million. Invitations to Li Ziqi to participate in various official media and even housekeeping activities came in like snowflakes.

Every day, just processing invitations from various parties requires five employees to work ten hours a day to reply. The reason for not using automatic replies is that the backgrounds of these inviting parties are often not simple, and simply using automatic replies would easily offend people.

Therefore, a dedicated person is needed to handle and maintain the relationship.

It's fortunate that Li Ziqi is now in a cooperative relationship with Lü Yao; otherwise, simply refusing an invitation would have been very likely to offend someone.

When Lü Yao was studying abroad, Li Ziqi had been in seclusion for three years due to contract issues. Although her comeback was incredibly successful, she soon faded into obscurity again, which was also related to the bad karma she had accumulated in the past.

At the height of Li Ziqi's popularity, many brands and local media outlets invited her to collaborate. However, Li Ziqi had her own aspirations at the time and did not want to cooperate with these brands. In addition, Weinian did not handle these relationships well, which ultimately led to Li Ziqi accumulating too much resentment in the world of internet media.

Now that Li Ziqi's operations have been taken over by Lü Yao, Lü Yao cannot allow similar incidents to continue. Therefore, his responses to invitations are very ceremonial, so that even if the invitation is rejected, it will still make the brand feel more honored.

However, Lü Yao's approach failed to win Li Ziqi's support, but that's okay, Lü Yao successfully persuaded Li Ziqi.

Li Ziqi is indeed very popular now, but in this credit, Lü Yao is just a prelude, a prelude to getting official media involved. For this reason, Lü Yao even specially added the bait of "New Rural Development Support Fund" to Li Ziqi's interview.

Sichuan's marketing is also one of the best among domestic official media outlets.

In addition, in November 2015, the country launched the "battle against poverty," and rural areas in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and other places all began to exert their efforts. However, among all these efforts, only Sichuan did a better job.

When Lü Yao was studying abroad, Li Ziqi became so popular because the authorities hoped to leverage her influence.

Unfortunately, Liu Tongxiong from Hangzhou did not seize this opportunity.

That's why Ma Hongyun later became incredibly lucky and rose to great fame after seizing the "Nine-Turn Great Fortune Gu".

Now that Lü Yao has already played his cards and promoted the "New Rural Development Support Fund" with the help of Li Ziqi, he can now seize the opportunity to grasp the real "Nine-Turn Great Fortune Gu".

The true Great Fortune Gu is never an individual, but a kind of "capital".

Lu Yao would personally hand over the individual containing the "Great Fortune Gu" to the officials in Sichuan, and then Lu Yao could refine the "Great Fortune Gu" he needed from it.

With Li Ziqi's explosive popularity, everything is progressing steadily.

It's currently the second half of 2017. He will go there with the locals after May next year.

The land of Sichuan is magical. Half of it is prosperous, with Chengdu's GDP ranking among the top in the country. But besides Chengdu, there is also western Sichuan, where many people cannot go to school and are extremely poor. Ignorance and apathy are the most resilient crops there.

That's why people in western Sichuan are so eager to tap into internet traffic and seize every opportunity to promote this region.

The only thing that can make this place shine in a short period of time is the resources brought by its natural scenery. Under the concept of carbon neutrality, against the backdrop of domestic industrial transformation, and given the weak industrial base in western Sichuan, tourism empowered by the Internet seems to be the only way out for this place.

Ma Hongyun later caused a lot of dissatisfaction due to his excessive popularity. Many people who had studied hard to make a living were full of contempt and even hatred for this traffic king who came from a poor place.

They thought he couldn't even read many words, so why was he being elevated to such a high position?
In reality, it wasn't that the official media in Sichuan wanted to elevate Ma Hongyun to such a high position; it was simply that Ma Hongyun happened to be in the right place at the right time, gaining countless female fans online, which prompted the local official media to start their efforts. This reflects the local struggle to escape poverty.

Their struggles were indeed worthwhile.

No matter how much Ma Hongyun is smeared, it is a fact that he brought nearly 400 billion yuan of GDP growth to his hometown, transforming it from an unknown, even primitive, herding village into a place where every family built new houses, and later the county built roads and installed streetlights.

So even if Lü Yao came here with ulterior motives, he wasn't setting up this scheme to destroy anyone's family. On the contrary, he genuinely came with the intention of bringing prosperity to the area.

to this end.

Lü Yao also began contacting directors, producers, and celebrities in the variety show industry to prepare for future promotions.

If he can boost the local economy on his own, he will definitely become a guest of honor for the official media in Sichuan. At that time, given Lü Yao's influence here, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to place some of his own people into the news system.

Besides.

Sichuan will also shoulder the heavy responsibility of being a pillar of Southwest China in the future. Given its development positioning as a pillar of Southwest China, it is very necessary to invest in this region in advance. It is also an important safeguard for Lü Yao's future, and even his family's wealth.

In preparation for the next steps, Lü Yao actively worked on his plans, and his company in Mianyang grew larger and larger, with his responsibilities gradually exceeding their limits.

During this time, Rong Nianqing, Jian Xiaojie, and even Wang Shu and Gan Xiaoxi came to visit Lü Yao. Once, at a gathering, Gan Xiaoxi said, speechless, "Damn! Your company in Mianyang is getting bigger and bigger! Why don't we just move the company here?"

Rong Nianqing and the others were all there that time. When Rong Nianqing heard this, she held up a bottle of wine and laughed, "You know what! You really have to say! Sichuan is great. We can go directly out of Chengdu via National Highway 318 and then enter western Sichuan, and then all the way to Tibet. Even if we don't go to Tibet, we could spend years exploring the beautiful scenery of western Sichuan."

Jian Xiaojie: "Hearing you say that, I'm even thinking about retiring."

Lu Yao leaned over and asked in a cheeky tone, "Is it okay? If it's feasible, let's make a plan now?"

Then Lü Yao was beaten and scolded.

"That's impossible!"

"What are you thinking? Please, wake up!"

"You're a father now, can you stop being so indecent all the time!"

While Lü Yao was being chased and beaten by three beauties, Rong Nianqing, Gan Xiaoxi, and Jian Xiaojie, Xiao Ping'an, who was being held in Wang Shu's arms, seemed to have discovered something particularly fun and grinned from ear to ear.

Not a single person!

Feeling sorry for him.

Thankfully, Wang Shu would hold Lü Yao in his arms at night and cherish him. (How would he cherish him? In what way? For how long?)
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……

Time flies, and before we knew it, it was November.

In high-altitude areas like Sichuan, temperatures drop very quickly; autumn arrives after just one autumn breeze.

However, because this place is far from the north, even in November, there is no golden autumn scene of yellow leaves falling everywhere.

Lü Yao actually really likes autumn. Many ancient poems often use words to describe the parting in autumn. The fallen leaves of autumn, the cold wind of autumn, the frost and dew of autumn, and the desolate whiteness of autumn as it moves from golden yellow to cold winter are all full of desolation.

But Lü Yao preferred to focus on the autumn harvest, the coolness, and the beauty.

So when he was in Shangnan, he enjoyed walking or running alone on the sycamore-lined avenue.

When he perceived all of this with a soul in his forties and a body in his twenties, everything changed.

However, this autumn seems to be more bleak than in previous years.

To this day, Lü Yao has received no news of Lin Yongzhen, and Hou Yulou, whom Lü Yao entrusted to request permission to leave, has also not sent any message. However, Lü Yao himself has not inquired too much about these matters.

Because Lü Yao knew that at this time, no news was the best news.

If anything bad happens, Rong Nianqing will definitely notify me immediately.

Although rationally, Lü Yao told himself these things, and he understood and agreed with these theories, the uncertainty and worry that shrouded his heart was like a huge stone, always hanging over Lü Yao's heart, making him unable to help but think about it whenever he had free time.

In fact, this kind of emotion is very bad. Lü Yao himself knows that Lin Yongzhen has unknowingly become a huge flaw in him, but there is nothing he can do about it.
There are no truly perfect people in this world.

Lü Yao could only immerse himself in busy work to try and stop himself from overthinking.

……

In mid-November, Lü Yao was busy as usual.

As 2017 draws to a close, following the Double Eleven shopping frenzy comes a series of holidays such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Any commercial activity will inevitably pay attention to the trends of these holidays, not to mention that after New Year's Day there is the Spring Festival, the most beloved and lively holiday for students of Southeast University.

Although the pace of urban life is getting faster and faster, even during the Spring Festival holiday, many people cannot truly rest or find peace and quiet. But the Spring Festival, a festival that is almost ingrained in the genes of Dongda students, is still something that countless people yearn for.

So during this period before the Lunar New Year, both Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing were extremely busy with Jian Xiaojie's side.

They need to do their best to plan the activities, discounts, and promotional programs for each upcoming holiday.

During this time, Lü Yao glanced at the marketing plan of Xinbai Plaza on Huasheng Life New Street. Rong Nianqing directly invested a huge sum of money to build a giant ultra-high-definition screen, which was intended to replace the original display screen on the exterior of Xinbai Department Store.

This screen was created by Huaxing Optoelectronics, an investment company of Rong Nianqing and Lü Yao. It is a single, super-large curved screen in the shape of an "L", with a total length of 48 meters and a height of 13 meters. The pixels are extremely high-definition. The total cost of creating this super-large, ultra-high-definition curved display screen alone exceeded ten million yuan, and the monthly power supply for this screen costs tens of thousands of yuan.

The various ultra-high-definition dynamic images displayed on this screen every day have successfully attracted countless young men and women from Shangnan to come and take photos.

In the art world, there's a saying: art isn't necessarily big, but anything that's big enough is definitely art.

Not to mention this ultra-high-definition, ultra-large curved screen that also boasts a strong sense of technology.

To complement the curved screen, Rong Nianqing invested heavily in a complete renovation of the area around Xinbai Plaza. After the renovation, Xinbai Plaza resembled a cyberpunk world from the game "Cyberpunk 2077".

The dazzling optical screen and strong contrast in saturation, along with the vibrant and avant-garde color scheme, have given Xinbai Square a strong new vitality. Countless young men and women flock to this area, and the daily foot traffic on Xinjie Road has surged from more than 500,000 to more than 800,000. On holidays, the foot traffic can easily exceed 100,000.

The foot traffic at Xinbai Shopping Mall almost overwhelmingly surpassed that at Deji Plaza.

Although Xinbai Plaza and Deji Plaza are very close to each other, these two high-end shopping venues are now showing completely different vitality.

Deji Plaza is like a luxurious but old-fashioned, very old-fashioned aristocrat. It is still the most favored shopping destination for many wealthy businessmen and tycoons in Shangnan. In particular, the different treatment of card thresholds and VIP reception channels here is especially in line with the preferences of Shangnan's rich.

What about Xinbai Plaza?
It's like a "futurist" who has traveled from the future—trendy, avant-garde, arrogant, and unreasonable. Like a tech god who has emerged from the internet, it uses the physical Xinbai Plaza to proclaim its existence in reality.

In addition to the avant-garde visual effects, various auxiliary robots have begun to appear on the streets of Xinbai Square, and short videos of young people filming and teasing the robots have quickly become popular online.

With the help of Douyin (TikTok), young people who like trendier, cooler, and more fun things are developing a stronger sense of belonging to Shangnan Xinbai Plaza.

Judging from its popularity on the internet, Shangnan is gradually becoming like the "strongest man in Jiangsu Province" and "Brother Nan of the South".

The status of Shangnan in the hearts of people throughout Jiangsu Province seems to be rising sharply.

As the year draws to a close, more and more people from other places are flocking to Shangnan to spend money, which has generated a significant GDP for Shangnan. This strong momentum has put immense pressure on Suzhou.

Lu Yao learned about these changes through the feedback from Rong Nianqing. He had roughly anticipated these changes, as the renovation and design of Xinbai Plaza was originally inspired by Lu Yao, and a well-known local design company in Shangnan helped to implement it.

Lü Yao's design inspiration naturally comes from learning about the future.

In today's world, although most resources are still in the hands of the elderly, young people are the true future of this world.

Young people's vision of the future represents the blue ocean of future consumption.

Shortly after the renovated Xinbai Plaza achieved great success during its trial operation, Rong Nianqing called Lü Yao. Rong Nianqing said on the phone, "President Lü! You've really been holding back a big move! Now, people in Suzhou have come directly to us, hoping that we can help them create a landmark building that will be a landmark for the future."

Rong Nianqing's tone became helpless: "This is a bit difficult."

(End of this chapter)