Chapter 245: Red Envelope

Therefore, as long as he kept expanding the Garment factory, it would be a path of continuous financial loss.

Chen Mo took out his plan and wrote down the expansion plan for the Garment factory.

Next was Nanhe Coffee.

Currently, including the two special coffee shops, Jiang City already had 15 Nanhe Coffee Shops. If he added five more, the market in Jiang City would be saturated, and it would be time to expand outward.

However, the pace of five new branches per month must not be reduced.

Five Nanhe Coffee branches could help him consume 10 million in System Funds per month, not counting the staff salaries after opening and the costs of purchasing raw materials.

Once Nanhe Coffee expanded to a certain number, the staff salaries alone would be able to consume a large amount of System Funds.

As for Snowy Sky Games, it was time to develop a new game, but he couldn't hand it over to Fang Chang anymore.

According to the previous plan, he would just hand it over to Wei Yan, who didn't understand anything.

If he picked a declining game genre for him, there would basically be no problems.

Taking the opportunity to invest a large amount of project capital could also help consume a portion of the System Funds.

Then there were the Boring Short Videos. When he returned from his vacation, the office building would be renovated, and once the employees moved in, it would be time to recruit streamers. He could dedicate more energy to this area.

He would find some teachers with dull content to livestream every day.

He needed to find a few teachers for every subject to livestream part-time every day, paying them 100-400 per hour.

Then he would find some other professionals, for dancing, fitness, etc.

The main focus would be teaching. In this fast-paced society, how many people would actually calm down to study?

This kind of unappealing, dull teaching content could not possibly attract traffic.

No traffic meant no income.

But he could still pay those people who were streaming part-time every day.

As long as he recruited enough streamers, he could consume enough funds.

The Pet Park was still under construction; he just needed to periodically add more investment. Once construction was complete, he could adopt more stray cats and dogs.

By then, the food and care for the cats and dogs would be a huge expense.

Furthermore, after the Pet Park was built, the park's sanitation, the pets' hygiene, and feeding the pets would require a large number of employees.

The salaries of these employees would also be a large expenditure.

However, some of the manageable, low-effort work in the Pet Park could be given to empty-nest elderly people to do.

Currently, Yang Xingguo had recorded a group of healthy elderly people capable of simple labor during his census of the needy. These elderly people had already indicated that if there was a place that needed them, they were willing to come out to work.

Chen Mo looked at the plan full of notes, and then finally wrote down "Investment Company" at the bottom.

Opening an investment company was a matter of urgency. Once the holidays were over, facing the huge income from the game, he would definitely need new investment projects to consume the System Funds.

As for the investment projects, they definitely had to be money-losers.

And as long as he established an investment company, he could select projects from those collected by the investment company, picking the ones that could lose money.

This was much better than him trying to come up with ideas himself. Moreover, after establishing the company, someone would need to manage it, and labor costs would be another form of income.

Knock, knock, knock!

A knock on the door sounded.

Chen Mo looked up and discovered that the person who arrived was actually Wang Yang.

He didn't know what he was doing here today.

"Hello, Boss Chen."

Wang Yang walked in, feeling a bit nervous. Since their few interactions during the previous renovations, the subsequent renovations had been handled by Boss Chen's employees, so he didn't know Boss Chen very well yet.

"Come, sit down and talk. Did something happen with the renovations?"

Chen Mo pointed to the chair in front of him. The only thing he could think of was that something had happened with the renovations.

However, he had already handed the renovation matters over to his subordinates, so they shouldn't be looking for him.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yang instinctively looked left and right, then sat down nervously on the chair, listening to Boss Chen's words, and quickly denied it.

"It's not about the renovations. I came here today mainly to thank you, Boss Chen, for your trust over the past six months or so. Thank you for your support, Boss Chen."

"I didn't know how to thank you, Boss Chen, so I prepared a red envelope. The amount in this red envelope might not mean much to you, Boss Chen, but it's just a small token of my appreciation."

As he spoke, he took a red envelope out of his pocket and carefully handed it over.

Last time, he had asked Li Shen about Boss Chen's preferences, but hadn't gotten anything.

With no other options, he couldn't think of what gift to give Boss Chen, so he helplessly chose to prepare a red envelope.

But would such a big boss like Boss Chen care about his red envelope? This made him feel a bit uneasy.

Chen Mo was stunned for a moment looking at the red envelope Wang Yang handed over; he hadn't expected the other party to come here today to give a gift.

He simply gauged the thickness of the red envelope; it must have been about ten thousand yuan.

Thinking of this, Chen Mo instantly laughed and looked at Wang Yang, who was sitting opposite him, with a warm expression.

"You say that, but thanks are just thanks. Why bring a red envelope? That's too much trouble!"

Wang Yang heard Boss Chen's words and felt a shock in his heart. Had he given the wrong gift?

Just as he was about to say something, he saw Boss Chen directly take the red envelope and then stand up and walk away.

This left him feeling a bit confused. What exactly did Boss Chen mean by this?

However, very quickly, Boss Chen returned carrying a cup of coffee.

"Here, have some coffee."

"Thank you, Boss Chen."

Wang Yang took the coffee, feeling flattered, and breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that Boss Chen was quite satisfied with his red envelope.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about making him coffee.

"What are you thanking me for? It's almost noon; you haven't eaten yet, right? I'll take you to our company cafeteria for lunch in a bit."

Chen Mo waved his hand nonchalantly, his smile widening. Just a moment ago, he had secretly counted the amount in the red envelope.

Just as he had guessed, it was exactly ten thousand yuan.

He racked his brains every day, trying every possible way to spend money, and in the end, he only settled over 120,000 in personal assets.

And here, Wang Yang had just given him a ten-thousand-yuan red envelope. Although it wasn't over 120,000, this money was earned easily.

Other than hiring the other party for renovations, he hadn't done anything else.

Looking at Wang Yang opposite him, he found him more and more pleasing to the eye.

This Wang Yang was much better than Li Shen and those other backstabbers.

Hmm! It seemed he should hire Wang Yang for more renovations in the future. Once Wang Yang earned more, wouldn't the amount of red envelopes he gave him be even higher?

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration struck Chen Mo. This red envelope that Wang Yang gave him wouldn't be counted towards the System Funds.

Should he make good use of this point?

After all, the Chinese New Year was coming up soon, and giving out red envelopes was the most normal thing in the world.