Chapter 1157

Hearing this, Ma Lan couldn't help but exclaim: "My god! Eight hundred to one thousand per square meter in design fees, wouldn't that be fifty or sixty million? This is too scary!"

Xiao Churan smiled and said: "What's scary about this? Some internationally renowned designers charge over a hundred million RMB just for the exterior design of a building!"

Ma Lan touched her chest and hurriedly asked her: "Good daughter, are you planning to take on this project?"

Xiao Churan said seriously: "Of course I want to take it, but my studio's current scale isn't that large. Taking on such a project, I'm afraid I won't be able to compete with my rivals during the bidding, and there is too much preparatory work. If I want to bid, I have to devote myself entirely to it right now and do the bidding preparations..."

As she spoke, Xiao Churan couldn't help but sigh and said: "Sigh, the company scale is small after all. For such a large project, I'm also afraid I won't be able to digest it."

Ma Lan asked in surprise: "Isn't design just moving a computer around? What's there to digest?"

Xiao Churan said: "It's not as simple as you think. With over 100,000 square meters of business area, there are more than a dozen room types that need full-house design, several types of restaurants, as well as leisure and entertainment parts, administrative office parts, and security, defense, and fire planning. The overall design workload is very large."

"It's like making an animated movie. Ordinary people think it's just finding a bunch of people to draw, but in reality, one second of footage requires twenty pictures. An hour-and-a-half animated movie requires at least tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand pictures. The workload behind it requires hundreds of people working for several years."

As she spoke, Xiao Churan added: "Our studio doesn't have many people. Even if we could take on such a large project, we couldn't finish it ourselves. We would have to subcontract it to other design studios to do it together. It would require at least dozens of designers and take more than half a year to finish..."

"And this is only the first stage. When construction starts, we have to follow up throughout the whole process. The construction period is at least one year, so the whole process will take a year and a half."

"Dozens of designers, a year and a half, good designers have an annual salary of several hundred thousand, and ordinary ones have at least two hundred thousand, so the labor cost alone will be over ten million!"

Ma Lan blurted out in surprise: "My goodness! Over ten million just in wages? This is too ruthless, isn't it?"

Xiao Churan said seriously: "It's always been like this. I'm still making a conservative estimate. If the construction period is long and there are many plan revisions, the overall time cost and labor cost will increase."

Ye Chen, who was on the side, asked curiously: "Wife, what are your plans? Do you want to strive for it?"

Xiao Churan nodded and said: "Although my studio's strength isn't strong, I still want to strive for it and give it a try. If I can win this project, I can merge several small design teams while doing this project. In that case, after this project is finished, my studio will be able to upgrade by at least two levels and reach a medium-to-large scale!"

After finishing, she said with some worry: "However, my studio's volume is indeed a bit small. There are so many companies bidding this time, I really don't know how much certainty I have."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Wife, if you are interested, just go for it. If you succeed, it will be a great opportunity. If you don't, we won't have any actual losses, nothing more than wasting a bit of energy, what do you think?"

"Yes..." Xiao Churan nodded lightly and said: "I just want to try hard, so from today on, I will take the team to work overtime to come up with plans and make bidding documents, and prepare for this bidding with all my strength!"

As she spoke, she also said with some emotion: "However, I heard that many design companies are looking for connections everywhere to get this big order, and some even want to bribe high-level executives of the Dihao Group and give kickbacks. I don't know if the Dihao Group will engage in any backroom deals..."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "A large group like the Dihao Group with a market value of over a hundred billion, how could they engage in backroom deals for a design project of twenty or thirty million? That wouldn't happen."

Although he said so, Ye Chen had already made up his mind to greet Wang Dongxue and quietly give this project to Xiao Churan.

The Dihao Group was originally his own property. Since his wife was so interested in this project, it was natural to give her a chance to practice.

Thus, he said to Xiao Churan: "Churan, you don't need to consider so much now, just focus on the preparations. I believe you will definitely be able to do it!"

"Hmm!" Xiao Churan also nodded very firmly and said: "I will definitely work hard! Strive to win this big project!"

After lunch, Xiao Churan went to the company, and Ye Chen returned to his room and called Wang Dongxue.

Once the call connected, Wang Dongxue said: "Young Master, you called, is it about the bidding for your wife's company?"

Ye Chen smiled and said: "You guessed it."

Wang Dongxue hurriedly said: "Young Master, originally I wanted to entrust the hotel decoration design project directly to your wife's company, but I was also worried that if I gave the project directly, your wife would be suspicious, so I told her about this and planned to start a bidding meeting, allowing your wife's company to get this project through internal bidding, which would also seem more natural."

Ye Chen praised: "Dongxue, you did a great job on this, and you considered it very comprehensively. I called to tell you about this too. My idea is the same as yours: let Churan participate in the bidding normally, and then the group will directly designate her studio internally. When the time comes, let her think she won the bid based on her own strength."

Wang Dongxue guaranteed: "Young Master, please rest assured, I will arrange all of this."

Ye Chen asked her: "When does the group plan to officially start the bidding?"

Wang Dongxue said: "I plan to give one week for the rough draft, and start the bidding one week later."

"Good, then I'll leave this matter to you."

After hanging up Wang Dongxue's call, Ye Chen thought there was nothing urgent in the afternoon, so he didn't plan to go out again.

Thinking that during the New Year, he had promised everyone who came to give gifts to prepare some medicinal pills as return gifts, he planned to take advantage of this leisure time to refine the pills.

He called Qin Gang. Qin Gang answered the phone and asked very respectfully: "Master Ye, what are your instructions?"

Ye Chen said: "President Qin, help me prepare some medicinal materials and send them to my home this afternoon."

As soon as Qin Gang heard Ye Chen say he wanted him to prepare medicinal materials, he immediately realized that Ye Chen was planning to refine medicine, so he said excitedly: "Master Ye, just tell me what medicinal materials you need, and I will have someone prepare the best ones and send them to you immediately!"

Ye Chen said: "How about this, I will send you the prescription on WeChat in a moment, and you just prepare it according to my requirements."

Qin Gang said without hesitation: "No problem, Master Ye. Send me the list, and I will have Aoxue send it to you as soon as I've prepared it!"