"Yes, yes, yes!" Fang Yong said with a smile, "The winning teams will receive cash prizes and entrepreneurial support. What do you want?"

Jiang Xiaoli thought for a moment, "Teacher Fang, what kind of entrepreneurial support does the school usually offer?"

Fang Yong replied, "Generally, it involves providing office space free of charge for a certain period, or collaborating with outstanding alumni, etc."

Hu Jingxin pouted, "Is that all? Then it seems like we don't really need it."

Yuan Shuting from another group couldn't help but facepalm after hearing their conversation. "Can't you guys care a little more about what ordinary people like us think?"

Hu Jingxin stuck out her tongue. "Hehe, I'm sorry, Yuan Shuting, I really didn't mean it."

Yuan Shuting sighed, "It's okay. If our group were as good as yours, I'd be even more arrogant than you!"

"Haha." The girls in their group all laughed. "Yeah, we're just there to make up the numbers. If we had a chance to win an award, we would definitely gather all our relatives and friends to attend the award ceremony."

The awards ceremony began soon. There were more than 70 groups that had registered for the competition, but after several rounds of selection, a total of 24 groups made it to the final round.

After hearing the host's introduction, Ren Zhiyi turned to Yuan Shuting and said, "You guys beat so many senior students, that's really impressive!"

Yuan Shuting nodded. "I think so too."

The "Guanghua Cup" Business Simulation Competition awards one first prize, two second prizes, and three third prizes.

The winners of the third prize have been announced. They are a group of sophomores and two groups of juniors.

The host announced the second-prize winners: "The second-prize winners are Li Jin's group and Jiang Xiaoli's group!"

The reactions of the people around them varied when they heard that they had won second prize.

Jiang Xiaoli felt it was both expected and unexpected, while Yan Chengcheng muttered under her breath, "I want to see which genius won the first prize!"

Ren Zhiyi patted her shoulder, "Our Peking University is full of talented people, and you're only finding out today?"

When they stood up and went on stage to receive their awards, many people stared at them.

The host on stage introduced, "It's worth mentioning that all the materials submitted by Jiang Xiaoli's team, which won the second prize, from the first day of the competition were data generated from their company's actual operations!"

A murmur of discussion immediately filled the auditorium.

"These female students look unfamiliar. Could they be freshmen?"

"It seems so. I saw two of the female students there last year when the student council was recruiting new members."

"Wow, she started her own company in her freshman year and won second prize. Her actual business data beat a bunch of people's simulations? This year's freshmen are amazing!"

"..."

They and the others, along with Li Jin's group who also won second prize, went on stage to receive their awards.

The person who presented them with the awards was Tan Xuanyi, who had always maintained a close relationship with Jiang Xiaoli.

He handed them the trophy and certificate with a smile, saying, "I hope you'll keep up the good work!"

After saying that, he winked at Jiang Xiaoli, looking very optimistic about her.

Hu Jingxin was amused by his expression, "Xiao Li, Professor Tan is so cute!"

Jiang Xiaoli nodded, "Yes, Professor Tan is like a child at heart, he's really interesting."

She then focused her attention on Gu Qingdai's group, which had won first place.

She turned to Fang Yong and asked, "Teacher Fang, do you know what the project of Gu Qingdai's group is?"

Fang Yong nodded, "I'm not sure if your group can get first place because of them. The five boys in their group are very aggressive. They set up a financial company to simulate bond, stock and futures trading. The early data was very dismal and they almost went bankrupt in advance, but in the middle of the period, Gu Qingdai made a lot of money in futures trading, and they came back to life."

Jiang Xiaoli nodded. "It seems we didn't lose unjustly."

The financial market is constantly changing, and she wasn't jealous at all of anyone whose data was better than theirs, "307".

Hu Jingxin couldn't help but pout, "We've worked ourselves to the bone for half a year, and it's still not as good as someone just moving their fingers on a computer."

Ren Zhiyi chuckled and pinched her cheek. "People spend a lot of time thinking before they even lift a finger. Do you think making money by trading stocks or futures is that easy?"

She understood the reasoning, but she still felt a little sad about missing out on first place.

Jiang Xiaoli hugged her and smiled, "No matter how good they are at being number one, it's still just virtual data, isn't it? Can they make people feel more at ease with our real company? We just need to do our best."

Hu Jingxin nodded, "That's true. The competition is over, there's no point in thinking about it."

After the awards ceremony, the winning team members were called to the organizing committee's main office.

Chang Yue guessed, "Is this some kind of real reward they're going to give us?"

Yan Chengcheng tilted her head and asked, "Xiao Li, if we could choose, what kind of reward would we like to get?"

"Let's do some advertising." Right now, "307" is in a period of rapid development, and she plans to open stores in multiple locations while also placing advertisements on various media.

Ren Zhiyi's eyes lit up. "I agree! It's much easier to do publicity using the school's resources than to do it ourselves!"

Sure enough, once everyone had arrived, the organizing committee members told the six winning teams that they could choose to receive a certain amount of startup funding or resource support.

The members of the other groups went back to consider what kind of reward to choose, and only the members of Jiang Xiaoli's group and Gu Qingdai's group stayed behind.

Gu Qingdai, with great gentlemanly manners, extended his hand to them, "Junior girls, you go first."

Jiang Xiaoli smiled slightly at him, "Thank you, senior."

Without mincing words, she said directly, "Teacher, our company has completed its capital increase, and this phase of the plan is to open flagship stores in 10 key cities across the country. We would like to apply to the school for help with publicity and promotion."

Teacher Wang, who was in charge of the liaison, smiled and said, "I have seen the company development status that your group submitted at the end, and it is indeed time to start multi-channel promotion."

He thought for a moment and then said, "How about this, you write up an application for the publicity plan you want and submit it, and the school will make arrangements accordingly."

Jiang Xiaoli nodded. "Thank you, Teacher Wang. We will submit the proposal as soon as possible."

With the matter resolved, the group was about to leave when they heard Gu Qingdai speak up, "Teacher Wang, we are planning to start a business. This kind of small-scale simulation data work is not a long-term solution. We would like to apply for a startup fund."

The group of girls went outside, and they didn't hear Teacher Wang's response.

But they had barely stepped out of the office building when a boy from Gu Qingdai's group chased after them, calling out, "Junior Sister Jiang, wait!"

Jiang Xiaoli raised an eyebrow slightly. "Senior Zhang, is there something you need?"