Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

Jiang Peiyao simply stayed the night here.

After taking a quick shower, she changed into her own set of white silk pajamas.

Seeing that her brother-in-law seemed to have fallen asleep on the terrace, she covered him with a small blanket.

Her brother-in-law must be quite tired, right?

He deals with so many things every day.

Jiang Peiyao couldn't understand how he managed it all by himself.

The next day.

As the first rays of dawn shone through, it signaled the start of a brand new day.

Jiang Peiyao had already gone downstairs to buy breakfast, as she didn't have the habit of sleeping in like other girls.

She got up very early every day and either practiced dancing,

or rehearsed the performances she would have to give.

Chen Pingsheng came downstairs, still driving the Phantom to work, while Jiang Peiyao also drove the convertible Phantom to the practice camp.

They were going to record a new episode of the show today.

In the morning, there weren't many people at the Magic City headquarters who arrived earlier than him.

He took the chance to run for half an hour upstairs.

His energy was still very high, "Bai Xin."

"Boss, Sister Bai Xin is in Capital City."

Perhaps it was habit—having called for someone by his side for years, now suddenly switching people, he should slowly adapt.

Zhang Wanyi could be said to be the best performer among that batch of trainees, plus she had a score above nine in looks.

Her figure was also great, and she belonged to the academically gifted group at school.

When Bai Xin was choosing secretaries, she promoted her.

Then she underwent nearly a month of training at the Capital City headquarters to familiarize herself with all the boss's contacts and daily work. After that, she was transferred to Magic City.

She was specifically responsible for the boss's secretarial work in Magic City.

"Wanyi, sorry, I got used to calling you Sister Bai Xin."

"No problem, boss," Zhang Wanyi quickly waved her hand to indicate, "Being transferred to the big boss's side to be a secretary is my honor. I will make sure to do this job well as soon as possible."

"Hmm, where are you living now?"

Zhang Wanyi was the kind of girl who was quite capable and not conventionally gentle or frail.

Her hair hung straight over her shoulders, curling slightly inwards at the ends near her chest.

"Boss, I live in the employee's apartment building. The conditions there are quite good."

"Hmm," Chen Pingsheng didn't ask further and Zhang Wanyi showed him his schedule for the day.

In the morning, he had an appointment with the people from Tengnong Breeding.

Over the New Year, hadn't he invested fifty million in his hometown, leasing all the unused land in the village at 8,000 yuan per mu to start a pesticide-free vegetable breeding project?

This was an agricultural development project he initiated himself.

He wasn't looking for high profits but rather to provide a project that could bring additional income—and income that could be generated even while sleeping—to the elderly in the countryside or to families.

He had also established a Tengnong Breeding Technology Department within the group specifically to research agricultural development.

The technology department came to show not only the pesticide-free vegetables that had already been cultivated and bred in Wangcai Village but also presented him with a series of detailed planting processes.

It's like many people in Wangcai Village having their own fish ponds. The farmers raise fish every year, but their income drops year by year.

The reason, mainly, was the lack of big data technology in breeding.

They couldn't track the fluctuating fish prices in the future and couldn't raise the types of fish wealthy people liked to eat.

The Tengnong Breeding Technology Department was entirely different, however, as they used big data to first collect the tastes of the affluent populace within the country.

That meant analyzing the vegetables they most enjoyed eating, as well as chicken, duck, fish, and beef.

Then they targeted those preferences in their development efforts.

Put simply, if vegetables were grown using ordinary farmers' methods, forget about making a profit,

even earning back the rent of 8,000 per mu was impossible—it was particularly cheap.

Professor Yang Weimin said, "In another two months, the first batch of pesticide-free vegetables planted there can be sent to Capital City and Magic City's Tengsheng Fresh Market. As it's the first batch of pesticide-free vegetables, specifically guaranteed for sale by Tengsheng Fresh Market, earning back the high annual rent should be no problem."

Yang Weimin was an early expert in agricultural breeding and held a professorship at a renowned agricultural university in Capital City.

He was poached to be solely responsible for the Tengying Group's agricultural assistance projects.

Chen Pingsheng said, "Pesticide-free vegetables are just one part of our agricultural assistance project. Eventually, we will have to deal with aquaculture and livestock breeding too. I'll call Wangcai Village to lease the fish ponds there. You should also quickly research a specific plan for aquaculture."

"Okay, but what do you plan to set for the rent per mu of the fish ponds?" Yang Weimin asked him, as it related to his subsequent aquaculture schemes.

To speak frankly, even for the older generation who might have raised fish for decades,

earning twenty to thirty thousand yuan from the fish ponds each year was very rare.

He didn't know the situation in other villages.

But in Wangcai Village, those who engaged in fish farming barely made any money.

Pingsheng thought about it and decided on a yearly rent of fifty thousand.

To be able to earn fifty thousand a year without much thought, that was certainly better than the hard labor of keeping it oneself, barely making twenty thousand a year.

Pingsheng also allocated fifty million to aquaculture in Wangcai Village.

For now, just take it slow.

Only after he had thoroughly researched this path to assist farmers would he slowly promote it to more rural markets.

A boss's time is extremely limited, and there are many people they have to meet every day.

Yang Weimin had joined their team because he truly believed in their ideas of helping farmers.

If wealthy people wanted to make money from breeding, it was definitely easier for them compared to ordinary people.

It's just a matter of how much profit they make.

The key was that the starting point here wasn't to make money from breeding.

Rather, they wanted to use this project to improve the problem of difficult income for thousands of farmers.

This called forth many real experts to join willingly.

Among entrepreneurs, those like Pingsheng who were not only wealthy but genuinely willing to seek development and income for farmers—

One couldn't say there were none.

But anyway, Yang Weimin didn't know a single one.

When Yang Weimin left, he nodded to Zhang Wanyi as a way to say hello.

It was a form of greeting.

As the boss's secretary, their social status was absolutely much higher than that of an average person.

After his departure, Zhang Wanyi quickly tidied up the sofa and teacups in preparation to receive the second person meeting the boss that day.

And this second person was none other than a district sales manager from Shen Chengjun's department store.

He wasn't old, just twenty-nine.

He had come this time based on the sales data of Tenghui Department Store, having analyzed a figure.

Snack category sales had a very large target audience.

While the market had various types of small supermarkets, everything was available.

Stores specializing in selling snacks were still very rare, and this project definitely had great potential.

Plus, in terms of distribution channels, they already had a national supplier network built by Tenghui Department Store.

In other words, as long as he could get the support of the big boss, the future was boundless.

"Big boss, I'm not just talking big—snack specialty stores will definitely become a favorite new type of retail store among young people."

"How much money do you need?"

A big chain specializing in snacks?

This was actually not much different from what Pingsheng had anticipated earlier. After the development of Tenghui Department Store, it was inevitable that many traditional projects would be born from within.

If you have an eye for opportunity, you can definitely find it in a large marketplace.

There you go; someone has already proposed specializing in snacks, haven't they?

This type of business was very easy to franchise, plus the existing national market channels of Tengying.

It can be said, as long as the business model has no issues,

he could have it open across the country within a year.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

Zhao Mingyu said, "One hundred million; give me a hundred million and I can open a hundred stores in Magic City, and then expand quickly through franchising."

Pingsheng looked at him, quite confident in internal venture incubation projects.

He thought it was much stronger than looking for projects externally.

One hundred million was a small amount, and he believed snack specialty stores definitely had potential for development.

But whether it could be successfully executed by him was an unknown.

Pingsheng allocated him one hundred million.

Zhao Mingyu didn't need to invest his own money, and his personal share would be just 25%.

If successful, financial freedom awaited him.

If not successful, he would just find someone else to take over the project.

After all, if he believed in the viability of a project, he wouldn't let it fail easily.

It's just that he didn't have the energy to focus on these smaller projects at the moment.

Otherwise, if he did it himself, it could be promising.

Traditional retail businesses just need to change their traditional thinking and adapt to the times, and they can still have a lot of room for development.