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Chapter 608: Chapter 512 - Billions in a year (Please subscribe!)-1
Sketching was something Lin Jiaxue had requested to learn before. Although her piano skills were far from matching Tang Qing’s, she wanted to have a rough understanding of what he was familiar with. Having the basic skills, she could slowly delve deeper into it in the future.
She arrived at the art studio.
Tang Qing began with the most basic brushstroke methods, step by step teaching Lin Jiaxue. Watching Tang Qing nonchalantly draw a nearly perfect sketch, far superior to those famous works on the internet, Lin Jiaxue’s eyes were full of admiration, twinkling like stars, and her interest in learning was very strong.
Tang Qing is so outstanding.
She must keep pace with him. It’s hard to be equally excellent, but she can try to close the distance. At the same time, they could share more common interests. Even if she didn’t learn, Tang Qing would still love her, but she wouldn’t choose to be complacent because of his doting.
Just like this.
In a morning, Tang Qing was able to basically explain the essentials of sketching. The rest was just to practice and familiarize herself, much like regular sketch teaching, starting with some specific, simple designs.
Tang Qing gently held Lin Jiaxue from behind while occasionally providing guidance. There were no distractions, he was completely focused, enjoying this rare tranquility.
At this time.
The rain outside was still heavy, showing no signs of stopping. The strong wind brought a touch of chill into the room, but to prevent Lin Jiaxue from getting cold, they had already installed a central air conditioning system in the villa, ensuring the room was always at a comfortable temperature.
The things made by scientists.
The quality was unquestionable.
Lunchtime.
At the dining table.
The fighters cooked a full table of dishes. Lin Jiaxue didn’t feel that it was wasteful for the two of them to eat this much anymore because Tang Qing’s appetite was enough to handle it. At this time, Dou Jiao’s figure appeared on the giant screen across the dining table.
That’s right.
Both sides had their meals while video calling. It wasn’t a meeting, it was just that Dou Jiao had called around noon, wanting to see how Tang Qing’s villa decoration was going and what the arrangement looked like.
When she visited before, she was only responsible for the rights and property rights of the real estate company. She participated in the selection of decorations, but Tang Qing later made big changes, and many things and decorations had changed.
Some of them were the inventory from the territory. When they were looting there, they got many antiques. A part of them were sold to the Second Uncle, and many of the good ones were kept. Tang Qing selected some from the warehouse, brought over the ones that looked good.
So the busy Dou Jiao decided to use the video conference system of Sky Eye, to have a meal together with Tang Qing and Lin Jiaxue.
Dou Jiao had the company cafeteria prepare her meal to eat here. As part of the management, her meals were actually the same as those of the ordinary employees, with no special treatment other than quantity. Here, they just used plates instead of trays.
Looking at Tang Qing’s table full of dishes and then at her own.
Dou Jiao felt a bit frustrated, but she also accepted it as a matter of course. After all, Tang Qing was the boss, and the luxurious villa behind him justified his food. Dou Jiao grumbled: "Little boss, aren’t you deliberately discouraging me? Look at what I’m eating, then look at yours."
Tang Qing smiled and said, "Sister Jiaojiao, if you want to eat, just come here. Isn’t the food at Sky Eye’s to your liking?"
His words were true, the standard of meals set by Tang Qing for Sky Eye was 20 yuan per person per meal, quite high. Breakfast was served buffet style, while lunch and dinner offered options of choosing dishes or ordering together. Any unused meal money in a month could be accumulated to treat others or eat fancier food, but it couldn’t be cashed out, though it could be used in advance.
Even before his rebirth, such meals were quite high-standard.
Tang Qing experienced enough suffering from company meals. In the previous life at the foreign trade company, god, was that even edible? Due to the cafeteria aunt being a relative of the boss, there was serious skimping on food. Absolute conniving inside.
In this life, although the pay at Sky Eye wasn’t outrageously high, they would never skimp on food for the staff. Or it could be said that the standard of meals at all his enterprises wasn’t low. Aside from Sheng Tang being fifteen, others were all at twenty.
Although the cost per year was huge, it was only a few tens of millions of RMB per year, at most over a hundred million, which Tang Qing could still afford.
Upon hearing this.
Dou Jiao looked at Tang Qing with a face full of bitterness.
"I’ve been busy this month. Next month, when Pan Yue comes back, we’ll feast at your place. Humph." Saying this, Dou Jiao glanced at the meal which was completely not on the same level, swallowed her saliva, she really wanted to eat that too.
"Great, when will Brother Pan come back?" Tang Qing asked curiously.
"Mid-next month. Speaking of Pan Yue, sis here needs to ask you for a favour." Dou Jiao’s face changed as she said this cheerfully.
Tang Qing didn’t dare to rashly promise her, in order to avoid falling into a pit.
"Go ahead and tell me, if it’s within my power, there’s no problem."
"It’s like this..." Dou Jiao began to explain, it was actually Pan Yue’s business, he had always been involved in the agency business for foreign liquors. Recently, fruit wine has caused a tremendous stir worldwide, and prices have soared, especially overseas. In the United States, for example, the black market price for a bottle has already been inflated to 1200 dollars, with scarce availability.
Now, distributors around the world are getting anxious.
Among them, naturally, is Pan Yue.
This time Pan Yue wasn’t aspiring to an agency right for any country or region, because Dou Jiao knew it was impossible. Tang Kai and Tang Qing are not fools, while Sky Eye monitors Uncle Tang Kai’s business activities, it doesn’t have the right to directly influence decisions, let alone the opportunity for personal gain under the guise of public benefit.
What Pan Yue wanted was simply the right to purchase fruit wine at market price, because domestic purchase orders have already filled up to the end of the year. Even though he had initially bought a few boxes, by the time he looked back, they were reserved by wealthy individuals until year end. That’s why he wanted to see if he could get a portion through Tang Qing, not much, just about 500 bottles a month.
After listening to Dou Jiao’s request, Tang Qing feigned a troubled expression. This made Dou Jiao very conflicted, but there was no choice, this was her husband’s business, as a wife, this time she could only vent her frustration on Tang Qing.
Dou Jiao was genuinely anxious, while Lin Jiaxue was on the verge of laughing, because Tang Qing had just winked at her, clearly messing around with Dou Jiao, which caused Lin Jiaxue to quickly turn her head so as to not let Dou Jiao notice anything.
Tang Qing took a deep breath and slowly relaxed his furrowed brows.
"Okay, no problem, I’ll talk to my uncle about it later. A few hundred bottles is no big deal," Tang Qing agreed. The total outbound volume of fruit wine is more than 80,000 bottles each month. After being distributed worldwide, Huaxia’s share is only about 10,000 bottles, which is far from sufficient to meet demand.
Inside his territories, production capacity has also been actively expanded. It’s estimated that by the end of this year, the monthly shipment will reach more than 200,000 bottles. According to the sales, that is four billion RMB per month.
It amounts to a few billion in profits a year.
Not too shabby.
Upon hearing this, Dou Jiao was ecstatic. As the only child of the Tang family, what Tang Qing says, Tang Kai will surely take into consideration. Not to mention it does not involve increasing production but only selling at market price.
"Thank you, young boss, it’s not in vain that I’ve been working overtime on weekends, going to bed late every night. Look at my skin, it hasn’t been great recently." After getting the business out of the way, Dou Jiao, back to her gregarious self, leaned into the camera and began to chatter.
"Sister Jiaxue, next month I’ll come to Shanghai to see you."
"Sure, that sounds great." Lin Jiaxue agreed.
As if remembering something, the currently eating Tang Qing said, "Sister Jiaojiao, in the coming period, I’m likely to sell my shares in that real estate company. You follow up on that when the time comes."
Yesterday, he got the news from Huang Qi that someone was interested in purchasing his shares. Tang Qing promptly agreed, after all, as long as the price was right, there was no problem selling it. Either the background of the investors were as powerful as Yunqi Investment, full of second-generation elites from Beijing. Otherwise, Tang Qing really didn’t want to remain involved in a company with such a complicated shareholder structure.
"You’re selling the shares of this real estate company? Why?" Dou Jiao looked puzzled. The real estate company is on the uprise, yet Tang Qing suddenly seemed ready to quit, she couldn’t make sense of it.
How would Dou Jiao know that Tang Qing found it troublesome?
"Sister Jiaojiao, you know I have another real estate company in Beijing, this one is redundant, and the shareholders are complicated, so I don’t want it anymore. When the time comes, I’m going to sell it as soon as I’ve worked things out with them," Tang Qing explained.
"Alright then, after you’ve negotiated, I’ll have Sky Eye’s branch in Shanghai handle the formalities. We value your 30% of the shares at about 100 million RMB, don’t sell it for a loss."
Having heard this, Dou Jiao didn’t ask anything else. This was Tang Qing’s issue, and from the looks of it Huang Qi and the others also knew about it, so she didn’t feel the need to interfere. It was Tang Qing’s company, he could sell it if he wanted, it wasn’t a big deal. After hearing Tang Qing explain, Dou Jiao also felt that holding shares in the Beijing real estate company was enough, and this one was inessential.
Tang Qing nodded.
Sky Eye currently has five branches.
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu each have one, and there is also one in Thailand. Aside from Thailand, the staff count in the other four offices exceeds fifty, and the plan is to expand to a hundred by the end of the year. The branches have leased office buildings in bustling areas to serve Sky Eye’s various clients.
However, he has never visited any of the branches.
Nor does he have any intention to.
He now has many branch offices under his companies, especially Sheng Tang Group’s. The stores have already opened nationwide, and many clothing design branch companies have been established. Security companies have also set up offices in more developed cities nationwide. He wasn’t interested in making inspections, why bother, as long as the employees worked well.
This meal.
Dou Jiao ate with great relish, though the food tasted like chewing wax. She decided that the next time she visited Tang Qing, she would eat enough to gain a few pounds.
After lunch.
Lin Jiaxue went to practice the piano, while Tang Qing sat in the living room, reading the weekly reports sent by each company. Weekly reports were naturally sent on Friday evenings, he didn’t have time to read them last night. This morning he was teaching Lin Jiaxue to draw and only now he had the time.
He read the Sheng Tang Group’s weekly report carefully as it mentioned the funding for the construction of Hope Primary School, a report summarizing the donation of goods to children in remote areas and scholarship for their education.
