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Chapter 507: Chapter 417: New OEM Model (Please Subscribe!)_1
The next day.
Saturday. 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝖔𝔪
Several families came to the Pedestrian Street in Qingyan City for shopping. However, Tang’s father and Lin’s father didn’t come along and were keeping an eye on the shop.
Youman and Auntie, along with a few others, were walking ahead, popping into every shop, trying on all kinds of clothes, and enjoying the fun of haggling. They didn’t buy much even after hours of shopping.
Tang Kai and Uncle were chatting about work behind them.
Qin Shiqi was dragging Tang Nian’er along, chattering non-stop. Thankfully, Tang Nian’er had a quiet personality and liked to listen but didn’t enjoy talking much. Having found a new ’confidant’, Qin Shiqi didn’t care about her sister anymore.
Tang Qing was happily taking things easy. With Qin Shiqi not turning up to play gooseberry, he was walking behind the crowd, hand in hand with Lin Jiaxue.
"Jiaxue, we’re about to go to university. What about our thing..." Tang Qing whispered into Lin Jiaxue’s ear, excited about the upcoming university life and remembering their past promise.
"Wh...what thing?" The smart Lin Jiaxue naturally knew what he meant, her face turning slightly red. She was startled by the warm breath by her ear, her body becoming somewhat weak. Tang Qing often did this, which always almost embarrassed her.
"Hehe, what else? It’s the matter between a man and a woman," Tang Qing leaned over to her ear again and giggled.
"Let... let’s talk about it once we are in college," Lin Jiaxue answered in a mosquito-like voice after some hesitation. She was looking forward to it but also afraid of it to some extent. Nonetheless, it would happen sooner or later. But during the holidays, she felt shy as their relatives were around.
Knowing that Lin Jiaxue was thin-skinned, Tang Qing happily replied, "Hehe, okay, I’ll listen to you. But once we reach Shanghai, you can’t refuse anymore, okay?"
"Okay..." Lin Jiaxue replied with a blushing face and cast her eyes down.
Having received a response...
Tang Qing was walking behind holding Lin Jiaxue’s hand, looking ahead to a beautiful college life. Everything seemed so alluring; they could finally spend time alone doing intimate things.
That’s how people are. When busy, their physical desires are suppressed. If they’re extremely busy, naturally they would stop thinking about these messy things.
This was the case for Tang Qing before. Attending classes during the day, he had hobbies to occupy his night. Now he also had to practice Nerve Telekinesis and manage various business layouts and deliver orders. Each order required thorough pondering and consideration. Therefore, he wasn’t too eager about the issues related to ’the latter part of life’.
Moreover, Lin Jiaxue made it clear that they could let loose only after university.
But once there were signs...
Tang Qing inevitably started fantasizing.
Dear University.
I’m coming.
Wakaka.
Fortunately, Tang Qing could control his body freely now, including his heartbeat and blood flow. He didn’t embarrass himself in the middle of the street. Otherwise, wearing a pair of loose shorts and pitching a tent would be utterly embarrassing.
In fact, Tang Qing discovered another use for Nerve Telekinesis.
Which was to control the stimulative hormones in his brain.
However, Tang Qing didn’t do this. A person’s happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy are all controlled by hormones. It includes liking and desiring. Without hormones, men would not desire women. At a deeper level, men do not enjoy spending time with women in reality. To call it instinct is to actually refer to the hormones in the brain.
The origin of this phenomenon is only one - compelled reproduction of living creatures, and nothing more.
In other words...
Love is real. It is what people actually desire deep down.
Desire is not. It’s just hormones.
While being bored and pondering on these ’rubbish theories’, Qin Shiqi turned back and noticed Tang Qing’s ’lecherous’ smile and couldn’t help asking, "Brother, what are you giggling about over there?"
Tang Qing was pulled back to reality by her voice.
Giggling?
Uh...he actually was.
But he couldn’t admit it.
Tang Qing immediately countered, "What are you talking about? Giggling? You’re the one giggling."
"Yo, you’re growing bolder, Jiaxue sister, come here, don’t walk with him," Qin Shiqi couldn’t lose face in front of Tang Nian’er.
With that,
Qin Shiqi pulled the extremely shy Lin Jiaxue over, smugly gazing at Tang Qing.
"Nian’er, in the future, if my brother doesn’t obey, you have to do it like this, understand?" Qin Shiqi was teaching the art of ’tricking brother’.
"Mm," Tang Nian’er replied, lightly giggling with her hand covering her mouth.
She learned another trick.
Tang Qing completely turned a blind eye to all of this.
Humph.
Let’s see how long you can go on for.
We’re about to go off to study abroad.
Tang Qing, left without companionship, quickly walked up to his uncle and second uncle, listening in on their passionate conversation about investing.
"Second Uncle, are you planning to invest in Qingyan City?" Tang Qing asked.
Tang Kai nodded and replied, "Yes, I plan to invest in a jewelry processing factory here. I’ve decided that being the end retailer for jewelry is too cumbersome, and it conflicts with the Dream Melody Group’s business, as well as with many of my suppliers.
You should know, a lot of domestic jewelry companies source from me, and if I were to start selling finished goods, it wouldn’t be good – I would make too many enemies. So, I plan to continue with wholesaling.
But it’s not just wholesaling raw materials domestically, I do finished products wholesaling as well. The profit margin in wholesaling raw materials is simply too low, the big bucks are in the processing stage, and I had negotiated with numerous jewelry company bosses before coming here. They agreed to have their jewelry custom-made by me, effectively outsourcing a part of their jewelry processing operations.
With this, I reap the profit without making enemies. It would also be easier to expand the domestic business.
"
Tang Kai dutifully explained his business strategy to Tang Qing. With Tang Qing and Liu Qian holding shares in the Dream Melody Group and being well-acquainted, and the jewelry industry not being an endless opportunity, there’s no point in competing among themselves. It’s better to release the handcuffs.
Tang Qing, nodding on the side, admired the plan. It’s one of the ways to eliminate competitors.
It’s also good that his Second Uncle won’t have to face the brutal market competition. Instead, he will remain a supplier for jewelry companies, with an added twist – making the jewelry. Letting other jewelry companies profit from their brand; this is the creation of a novel market space within the highly competitive environment.
If it were any other company, they wouldn’t be able to pull this off. Even the Dream Melody Group can’t.
Only a merchant with total control over raw materials can achieve this. This is an exchange and cooperation that only wholesalers can pull off, it’s a death wish for anyone else. After all, who would hand over design and processing to others?
Once you control the channels.
Tang Kai now can coerce other jewelry companies to delegate some of their production tasks to him. If not, should Tang Kai resort to underhanded tactics, or disrupt the supply, it would be a nightmare for many jewelers.
Hehe.
Tang Qing had not expected his Second Uncle to come up with such an excellent way to avoid competition while still protecting his interests.
Brilliant.
But there’s one premise.
That is, Second Uncle must indeed have control over the supply market.
If he loses his supplier status, then this plan won’t work.
Thinking of this, Tang Qing decided to devise a means to further solidify his Second Uncle’s business. Although the rest is hard to determine, in the case of jade, he hoped his Second Uncle would become a real ’unicorn’ in the industry. Currently, domestic jade merchants still have numerous supply channels, and the jade production bases in Southeast Asia don’t border his territory.
With this in mind.
Tang Qing plans to have a ’discussion’ with the forces in the territory. In the future, all jade must be legally sold within the territory. At the same time, to avoid arousing suspicions, he needs to have a good talk with Ling and his Second Uncle, urging him to quickly expand the scale of the company. If he continues to help his Second Uncle hoard goods, it won’t be a long-term solution.
"Uncle, then there shouldn’t be any problem with your annual investment promotion task." Tang Qing said to Qin Yugang.
Qin Yugang cheerfully replied, "Of course not, your Second Uncle is investing in US dollars, foreign capital!" He suddenly felt how wonderful it is to have a wealthy foreign relative who can successfully complete the most important task in investment promotion, creating foreign exchange.
"That’s good, if there’s anything else the department lacks." Tang Qing nodded continuously, foreign investment is a trivial matter. If his uncle could rule a region, his foreign investment could make him dizzy. However, due to his uncle’s professional constraints, it’s not easy to make this leap, and he didn’t know if his uncle was willing to take the plunge.
"We don’t lack anything. General Manager Liu and your Second Uncle have donated quite a bit previously; the Sheng Tang Group also donated some recently, so we don’t lack anything." Qin Yugang felt that the biggest issue for every department used to be funding, but to these two big spenders, it’s trivial.
He must be lucky.
"Alright, work hard. By the end of the year, you might be able to serve as executive deputy director." Tang Qing suddenly said.
"Tang Tang, that’s something for the leaders to consider, we can’t talk about it carelessly." Qin Yugang promptly reminded him.
"Of course, what am I chatting about? I’m just idly talking with family." Tang Qing chuckled.
Qin Yugang nodded, "Tang Tang, when you get to Shanghai, you have to study hard. You already have a lot of money, but investment knowledge will give you the real ROI. So, don’t fail your courses."
"Uncle, do you even need to say that? Failing a course? That’s impossible." Tang Qing said bitterly. Him, failing a course? Impossible.
"That’s good, you’re in university now; you need to manage your relationships with your classmates well. You can’t look down on others just because you have money, understand? As for friends, doesn’t matter if they can help you, it’s enough if someone in a city can invite you for dinner and reminisce about the old times." Qin Yugang said wistfully.
Tang Qing listened closely to the side.
His elders wouldn’t try to harm him.
He didn’t want to go through university in isolation either.
In high school, truth be told, he only had Wang Yan and Li Kai as good friends. In university, he wanted to expand that a bit. Not too many, but it also shouldn’t decrease to the level of casual acquaintances.
For the rest of the day.
They all wandered around Qingyan City, because of this Tang Qing even drove his Audi over. Sun Chao went home, Uncle drove, otherwise everyone wouldn’t fit.
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