Chapter 428: High-standard treatment

After dealing with Xu Li's matter, Chen Yang decided to make a trip to Xinan County.

Although Ouyang Sheng had already agreed to develop there long-term, as the company's boss he still had to show his face in person. This was a promise to Lin Jianye, and also a sign of respect to the various leaders of Xinan City.

Because Yexin was still harvesting Zhou Zhixin's remaining industries in Xingcheng, Chen Yang did not detour to Xingcheng to pick her up, but instead set out directly from Qingshui City to Xinan City.

To his surprise, the leadership team of Xinan City's Municipal Committee and Municipal Government actually rushed to the highway exit of Xinan City to greet him in person.

Such high-standard treatment left him feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the favor.

The secretary of Xinan City's Municipal Committee is Xu Changsheng, who was parachuted down from the province the year before last. According to the information provided by Yexin, his backer is the Provincial Committee Secretary of Dongjiangsheng.

"President Chen, your company is the fastest-growing enterprise in Dongjiangsheng. The provincial leaders have praised your work more than once. As a leading cadre of Xinan City, I hope you can also impart your successful experience to our enterprises."

Chen Yang humbly said to Xu Changsheng: "Secretary Xu, the rapid growth of our Old Hundreds Agricultural Products Trading Company is inseparable from government policy support. If the entrepreneurs of Xinan don't mind my youthful meddling, I am also willing to exchange experiences with everyone."

Xu Changsheng said with a smile: "President Chen, in less than a year you've brought an agricultural products trading company to a market value of over ten billion. With this achievement, no entrepreneur in Xinan City would dare to complain. But I have a question; I don't know if President Chen is willing to answer?"

Chen Yang said: "Secretary Xu, feel free to ask any question; I will certainly answer without reservation."

Xu Changsheng paused, then asked Chen Yang: "Your company's offline sales performance is already very good; why do you still want to set up an online sales platform, and moreover spare no expense in promoting this project?"

Chen Yang thought for a moment before answering: "Secretary Xu, even if offline sales performance is excellent, it still has limitations. It can only develop customers within a single city or near a store. Whereas an online sales platform faces customers nationwide and even worldwide. A product that can sell for 100 million in one province could sell for ten billion or more across the country. If you were to choose, how would you decide?"

Xu Changsheng still seemed puzzled, saying: "As far as I know, your products have low profit margins. If sold outside the province or abroad, shipping and refrigeration costs would increase greatly. Would you still be profitable?"

"No!" Chen Yang replied bluntly: "Our current goal is simply to develop new users and expand the platform's reputation. Once the platform's user base grows, we will diversify the online sales service. In the future, the Old Hundreds E-commerce Platform will sell not only agricultural products, but any other valuable goods."

Xu Changsheng immediately grasped Chen Yang's meaning: "President Chen, may I understand that your company is also preparing to expand into other industries?"

Chen Yang shook his head: "Our company's main focus remains agricultural products. The diversified platform is prepared for merchants nationwide who wish to join the online sales platform. Our company provides them with some professional services to help them sell goods better and faster, and they pay a certain service fee."

Xu Changsheng suddenly realized: Chen Yang's e-commerce platform does not sell its own products, but rather professional online sales services.

One must say, this idea is extremely creative; it amounts to establishing a diversified virtual market for merchants across the country.

"President Chen, if Xinan's enterprises also build e-commerce platforms like yours, do you have any experience to pass on to them?"

Chen Yang laughed and shook his head: "The success of the Old Hundreds E-commerce Platform mainly comes from my sparing no expense on advertising and promotion. Are the entrepreneurs of Xinan City willing to spend hundreds of millions on commercial promotion?"

Xu Changsheng immediately shook his head. The characteristic of Xinan City is poverty; let alone investing hundreds of millions, they can't even come up with tens of millions.

"President Chen, then what do you think Xinan City is suitable to invest in?"

Chen Yang said: "Any project that can make money can be invested in."

Xu Changsheng seemed to have heard Chen Yang say something, yet also seemed to have heard nothing at all.

However, since Chen Yang has come to Xinan City, there's no need to worry about investment issues.

After chatting with Chen Yang for a while, Xu Changsheng left. The secretary handles party affairs, the mayor handles the economy; matters of negotiating with Chen Yang should be received by the mayor.

In the following days, Xu Changsheng did not appear again. The mayor, being busy with his own work, delegated the reception of Chen Yang to Deputy Mayor Yao Chunming.

Yao Chunming is Yexin's husband and the elder brother of Yao Xia. Despite being only in his thirties, he has attained the position of deputy mayor of Xinan City; his family background must be strong.

Because Chen Yang had Ouyang Sheng conduct an investigation in advance, he already had some definite investment projects.

"Mayor Yao, our company plans to invest in a large-scale pig farm in Xinan, with the specific location arranged; I hope it lies within Xinan County."

Upon hearing this, Yao Chunming was very pleased. As long as he is the one spearheading the project, it doesn't matter where it is located. Moreover, the county magistrate of Qingshui County is still his classmate.

"President Chen, you actually could invest in more projects. For example, real estate……"

Chen Yang shook his head: "Xinan's real estate will surely have great prospects in the future, but our company's current goal remains investing in agriculture-related products, earning money within our own understanding."

Yao Chunming felt a bit regretful. Given Chen Yang's economic strength, if he developed real estate in Dong'an, it would surely bring earth-shaking changes to the entire Dong'an City.

Moreover, Yexin had also told him that Chen Yang's vision for real estate investment is excellent; almost all of his investment projects have appreciated.

Unwilling to give up, while Chen Yang was on the road to Xinan County, Yao Chunming also called Lin Jianye.

"Old Lin, Chen Yang has already arrived in Xinan County. According to information provided by my wife, his funds are far greater than we imagined. You should seize this opportunity well."

"Chunming, the investment project Chen Yang plans to undertake in Xinan County has already been decided, with total investment exceeding two hundred million. If I were to raise additional demands, it would probably be inappropriate."

"Old Lin, he is your niece's husband and also half of the Lin family. What do you have to be embarrassed about? Besides, real estate investment will surely yield far higher profits than agriculture; he is a sure win, no loss!"

"Chunming, why not let your wife go talk to him and do some ideological work? Their relationship is better than mine as your second uncle; perhaps your wife's words will make Chen Yang more receptive."

"……, Old Lin, are you truly stupid or just pretending? If I could control my wife, would I still need to come here and say all this nonsense to you?"