Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

When Song Yang heard her complain about the price, he immediately switched to another poster.

”399 yuan? Senior, you wouldn’t lie to me, would you?” the naive freshman girl asked, looking tempted but still uncertain.

”Do you know the boss of Orange Technology?” Song Yang asked conspiratorially.

”You mean Senior Chen Yansen? I... I applied to Xucheng Academy just because of him.”

The freshman girl gave a faint smile, her cheeks flushing unintentionally as she spoke.

”Chen Yansen and I are roommates,” Song Yang said, puffing out his chest and holding his head high.

”Wow! Senior, can I add you on WeChat? You have to send me Senior Brother Chen’s contact info,” the freshman girl pleaded sweetly.

”No problem. So, about this phone card?”

”I’ll get it! Senior, here’s my ID card.”

Five minutes later, the freshman girl left the telecom service point, beaming with joy.

’That kid... he’s really been letting himself go ever since the breakup.’

Chen Yansen shook his head and muttered to himself.

Seeing a lull in customers, Chen Yansen strode over, a grim look on his face. ”Are you selling phone cards, or are you selling my WeChat contact?”

”Ah!? Brother Sen, what are you doing here?” Song Yang said, scratching his head and smiling awkwardly.

”Just passing by,” Chen Yansen said, looking at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.

”Brother Sen, don’t get the wrong idea. I made a burner account...” Song Yang explained in a low voice, giving a sheepish smile.

”...” Chen Yansen was speechless. ’A man’s journey to the dark side always starts with getting a burner account.’

”Abandon. A-B-A-N-D-O-N. To give up, discard, terminate...”

Nearby, Tang Zhenzhe had taken advantage of the lull to pull out a vocabulary book and was now reciting from it with his head down.

”President Chen, long time no see.” Seeing him, Meng Yaqin, the hall manager of the telecom branch, slowly walked over and greeted him with a radiant smile.

She never would have imagined that the general campus agent for telecom cards from two years ago would, in the blink of an eye, become a billionaire worth tens of billions.

Many people said privately that as soon as Orange Technology, Pinbei Technology, or Cloud Speed Express—any single one of them—went public, Chen Yansen’s net worth would surpass one hundred billion.

A twenty-year-old worth a hundred billion!

If someone had told Meng Yaqin two years ago that Xuyuan’s current class would produce someone worth a hundred billion, she would have scoffed at the idea.

Now, with the reality laid out before her, she had no choice but to admit it.

She had grossly underestimated Chen Yansen’s abilities back then. That freshman who had snatched the campus card agency rights from Zhou Ze Kai was a true dragon among men, thriving in water and soaring on the wind.

”The Science and Technology Park isn’t far from Xuyuan. Manager Meng, feel free to come by for tea anytime.”

Chen Yansen said with a faint smile.

”Huh! Brother Sen, you’re here! Didn’t you go to the office today?” Tang Zhenzhe asked, looking up at the sound of his voice.

”You guys carry on, I’m heading to the library.” Chen Yansen didn’t linger, turning and heading toward the library after he spoke.

Meng Yaqin watched Chen Yansen walk away, a smile on her face.

When she drew her gaze back, her eyes swept over Tang Zhenzhe and Song Yang, and she secretly envied their dumb luck. With a connection like that, as long as they weren’t idiots, they would never have to worry about their futures.

As Chen Yansen ambled along, his mind was occupied with building out Orange Technology’s offline retail channels.

Although the importance of online channels was steadily increasing with the rapid development of e-commerce and the express delivery industry, offline channels could not be underestimated.

In 2012, users who didn’t shop online or own a smartphone still constituted the mainstream. Even more than a decade later, the market share of offline channels would never dip below 50%.

Currently, the Orange Mobile Phone’s offline sales network relied entirely on China Telecom’s more than 10,000 stores across the country.

The problem was that these 10,000-plus stores sold a wide variety of brands and models, and the managers of both directly-owned and franchised locations would push phones on customers based on their gross profit margins.

The Orange Mobile Phone’s offline sales potential had yet to be unleashed.