My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 374: More shock than joy
After leaving the temporary workshop converted from the site that was originally the dormitory of the construction team by the river, and after a brief inspection of the factory's production, I knew I would have to go to the zoo immediately.

It was already past four in the afternoon.

Sanitary napkin factories and jeans factories will not stop production during the May Day holiday, and will work in shifts to ensure sufficient production capacity.

But Wei Dong still insisted on giving the workers free admission tickets to the zoo.

Each person can bring three tickets and their family.

Later he realized that his action was absolutely brain-dead!
Why insist on giving out free tickets to your own family members every day during the May Day holiday when you can do it normally?

Even though those free tickets had no time limit, they still strongly suggested to tens of thousands of people in several factories that they wanted to go to the zoo during the May Day holiday.

Then, the zoo, which had been advertising in the newspapers for three consecutive days, underwent a complete makeover and welcomed people from all over the city to visit.

This is absolutely the first time that zoos and parks in China have proactively advertised and promoted themselves.

The people of the city may not know that the zoo they loved to visit since childhood has been contracted out and restructured, but they all know that it has a new look and new animals and new attractions, so they definitely want to go and see it.

Finally, to Wei Dong's utter dismay, on the last night of April 30th, he tried out the fireworks...

Honestly, he already felt something was off when he left the factory.

Upon hearing that fireworks were going to be tested, the entire factory area's "District Chief Shen" and the jeans factory owner quickly straightened their clothes, offered each other suggestions on their attire, and took Qin Yuye's makeup case into the car.

Originally, the Hong Kong girl wanted to drive her own car, but Shen Laosan reminded her not to be ostentatious and even glanced at Wei Dong out of the corner of his eye, clearly meaning "to agree with her clever words".

Qin Yuye adopted it.

So, with Dong Xueqing and Duan Lixia joining in, it became quite noisy.

Chi Shiming was almost reluctant to go to the zoo, so he asked Wei Dong to take him to see the dormitory building that was the most advanced, just to relax and have some fun.

There's no 7-day mini-holiday or any tricks like adjusting the work schedule before or after the holiday; it's just a regular three-day May Day holiday.

Today is Tuesday, a workday, so it doesn't look ridiculously crowded yet.

This further lulled Wei Dong, the old security guard who had never actually participated in the grand occasion of the mini-holidays over the past forty years, into a false sense of security.

Park your car in the parking lot outside the main gate.

The entire 50-hectare zoo only has 20 parking spaces at this moment.

When Wei Dong got off the bus, he just frowned: "The ticket window is a bit crowded. We need to allocate more staff tomorrow."

Fengchu, busy observing the new makeup technique, still took notes diligently, but judging from her brother-in-law's tone, he didn't seem to take it too seriously.

Everyone was given a work badge and was allowed to enter for free.

It turned out that this very step saved their lives.

Because it was copied from the tower and city gate combination at the entrance of Uncle De's amusement park, by the time Wei Dong later saw the magnificent Disney with dozens of entrances lined up, this place was already almost finished, and they were too lazy to change it.

This is a single person, a single door, beneath the Fairy Tale Tower.

The double red-lacquered copper-studded gate of the Chinese-style city gate tower is naturally for vehicles to enter, and it is usually locked.

They only allow passage from this side.

Qin Yuye was busy observing the results of his makeup work on Shen Laosan and Fengchu, and forgot to think about why Uncle De had done it this way in the first place.

Upon entering the park, Sister Duan, who had also put on some makeup, immediately exclaimed excitedly, "Wow, this place is perfect for doing business!"

Rang Weidong used the later internet thinking to treat zoos and scenic spots as traffic attractors, attracting tourists and consumers to generate buzz.

Then, no matter what you sell here, as long as the service is excellent, the products don't turn out badly, and the food doesn't cause food poisoning, you're basically guaranteed to make a profit.

So when he first came to see it, he felt that this open area, which was 200 meters deep and 120 meters wide, looked like a square in front of a palace, and it would be a shame not to use it as a food street or night market.

The goal is to immediately immerse tourists in a sea of ​​souvenir purchases and gourmet food consumption upon arrival.

Wei Dong was reluctant to spend a lot of money to build a large area of ​​ancient Song Dynasty buildings like Uncle De did, but setting up a temporary flower cart market like a shed was no problem.

The infrastructure team could handle this with ease.

The temporary steel pipes were insufficient, so bamboo from the southwest region provided a sufficient supply.

The various bamboo tents and treehouses constructed by binding and tying together even have a rustic feel, which perfectly matches the surrounding 80% green coverage.

After showing Weidong around Tokyo Disneyland and California Disneyland, he immediately understood.

It's clear that this is how it evolved from the first Disneyland in its place of origin to the later meticulously designed Tokyo theme parks that are all about ripping off tourists!
It's not that obvious at Disneyland in California yet.

The famous Disney shopping town is located just behind the entrance to Tokyo Disneyland, where a beautiful super tent covers the petals like a circus.

It's especially attractive to female and child tourists who buy things amidst a kawaii atmosphere.
Especially after you've had your fun, leaving through this area will be another lucrative opportunity!
So, during the nearly ten days that Wei Dong has been back, we've made some changes as much as possible.

There was no time to set up a building, but the engineers immediately erected a 20-meter-high temporary pillar at the center point.

Colorful flags and light strips were strung in all directions, covering the entire sales area and creating a rudimentary circus atmosphere.

More than 20,000 square meters! That's close to the size of later outlet malls and super-large shopping malls.

They racked their brains and dug out all their savings to piece together over a hundred stalls.

T-shirts were the absolute mainstay, with more than a dozen stalls offering different styles and animal designs.

The jeans were covered with hollowed-out metal animal heads, which could be made with a quick shot of iron filings. They were divided into monkey, panda, elephant, and tiger shapes, occupying several stalls.

Other items like radios, cameras, sanitary napkins, and cloth bags could only be given a perfunctory design with a silkscreen printed on the outer packaging. In the end, they hired teachers and students from a nearby art academy to make cartoon-themed pendants, keychains, canvas wallets, and plush toys.

People were also curious and envious, so they asked for two stalls where they could draw portraits and make clay sculptures for tourists.

Wei Dong quickly reminded them that they could set up stalls for hand-painted white pottery, and in the end, they gave them four or five.

Including ring toss, target shooting, and some simple amusement facilities, we also had to set up twenty or thirty food stalls to fill the area, even with limited resources and time.

Wei Dong was very satisfied when he inspected the place, and he took the lead in buying hot vinegar spring rolls, spicy bean curd sheets, and sweet pies for the foreign businessmen to taste.

Even with a vegetarian diet, you can still guarantee a unique flavor.

Steve's two bodyguards had completely transformed into his bag-carrying assistants, eating voraciously the whole time, only managing to give Wei Dong a thumbs-up and secretly say how good they were.

Duan Lixia couldn't help but start to take a management approach to the entire shopping plaza, and Chi Shiming was able to give her a lot of advice.

Then the loudspeaker announced that the daily animal parade was about to begin, and asked everyone to gather at the roadside to watch...

Wei Dong glanced at his watch; it was almost six o'clock. He led the way, and casually reminded Dong Xueqing, "We need to go earlier in winter, otherwise it'll be too dark to see clearly now."

The Hong Kong girl led the rebuttal: "Nighttime parades have their own charm, and Disneyland also has nighttime parade floats, which are even more attractive."

Wei Dong hurriedly asked the native Californian next to him, Steve, who was wolfing down his food, and surprisingly said that he had never been to Disneyland!

Fortunately, his assistant confirmed the matter.

As they spoke, melodious music began to echo throughout the zoo. Dong Xueqing chuckled and said that since they had been rehearsing these past few days, the animals in each enclosure were swaying their heads a little when they heard the music.

The starting point is the newly built performance hall deep in the dense forest just outside the gate.

Two white rabbit girls led the way, carrying colorful flags, followed by a large tiger and a large bear completely covered in clothing, and the monkeys jumping around among them were real...

Domestic tourists these days have never seen anything like this before.

Why don't you start cheering and clapping enthusiastically right away?

The kind of screaming that makes you want to shout until your throat is hoarse.

Because a bear and a hippo sat with their legs crossed on a brightly decorated trolley, and they were throwing plush toys around.

It's obvious they just throw it wherever it's being shouted the loudest.

Then, the camel that was slowly walking by, chewing incessantly, was also real, dressed in red and green, looking like a cartoon character.

The ducks and swans with huge cotton-like bottoms are definitely imitating Donald Duck's appearance, flirting with exaggerated eyelashes.

Shen Cuiyue laughed like a child who had never grown up.

Qin Yuye went even further, taking all sorts of selfies with her head turned back, a move that Wei Dong had taught her at Disneyland.

Then came a warrior in ancient costume riding a horse, but the impatient horse pooped a huge poop in the middle of the road, almost making the tourists laugh hysterically.

Dong Xueqing stopped laughing and quickly jotted down the note that they needed more people to clean up the mess.

Because the floats behind will run over the poop, wouldn't that make the whole way stink?

Therefore, managing such a large park requires experiencing every detail firsthand to summarize and adjust.

Even Disney doesn't use animals and performers together in their presentations like this.

But the most eye-catching was definitely Ai Jiayi dressed as a panda fairy on the float at the back...

She had been in Jiangzhou for half a month, and her biggest achievement was using her familiarity with the cultural troupe system to borrow the propaganda team from the Jiangzhou Garrison Command.

These are not commercial collaborations, but rather support for local reform and development.

At this time, only military regions at the level of major military regions have cultural troupes, and they still have some funding to ensure their operation. Cultural propaganda teams below the provincial level are already facing disbandment.

Jiangzhou, as a municipal-level garrison, is more than happy to have this area take over the burden.

Therefore, the relevant department is given a service fee, and the subsidies for each participant are also the best available at this time.

For the propaganda team members who are constantly attending political tasks and are under extremely strict management, being able to work at the zoo is a dream come true.

So they appeared with various animal costumes specially made by the clothing factory, along with the exaggerated business expressions that Wei Dong had requested.

This definitely elicited cheers and enthusiasm from the thousands of tourists already present.

Ai Jiayi seemed to see Rang Weidong looking down at her with elegant dance moves.

Judging from her graceful demeanor, she might be planning to blow a kiss, but that would be too much for the average person in this day and age.

At this moment, Wei Dong finally showed some of the professional sensitivity of an old security guard. He looked around and said, "Tomorrow, we need to call all the construction team members who aren't on the construction site to come and maintain order. They'll get holiday subsidies."

At that time, the number of visitors to Jiangzhou Zoo could be estimated from the ticket codes to be around 20,000.

Pure Jiangzhou local citizens.

They watched this unique parade together, and many people even rushed home early for dinner, boasting about how wonderful the scene was.

Then, at exactly 8 PM, just as night fell, ten fireworks were launched in quick succession...

Regardless of whether the animals, who had never seen fireworks before, were frightened, most of the people in the city were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped!

Which organization is this? They're so rich, it's not like it's Chinese New Year!
It's fortunate that fireworks and firecrackers aren't banned right now, otherwise Wei Dong might have been detained...

(End of this chapter)