"Okay, boss, I'll go back and take care of it right away."
At this moment, Zhang Yiming, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up.
"Boss, Mr. Li, don't you guys think this host in the live stream looks familiar? Like we've seen him somewhere before?"
"Old Zhang, don't stare at every pretty girl you see, or I'll tell Boss Wu."
"No, boss, I'm serious, Mr. Li, don't you think so?"
Li Mengqi recalled the host who had just hosted the live broadcast.
"It does look somewhat familiar. I'll take a closer look once the QQ Live platform releases the live stream recording."
"Boss, look, you're the only one who didn't see it, and you still have the nerve to complain about me..."
Before Zhang Yiming could finish speaking, he saw Lin Chen silently pull out his notebook again and immediately say something.
"The boss is right. It was definitely my fault. I should have gone back to work right after the meeting. I should have been under the car, not inside it..."
"Stop, stop, stop singing! Other people sing for money, but Lao Zhang, are you trying to kill me? Alright, you guys should also look into this and find out who this host is."
"Okay, boss, we'll get back to work now."
"Um."
After returning, Li Mengqi sent an email to all employees of the Panda TV live streaming platform.
The gist of it is that they need to recruit a team to go to impoverished areas to conduct live-streaming to help farmers. The conditions will be quite tough. Of course, the company will communicate with the local government in advance, and there will also be corresponding subsidies.
The requirements are: male, over 35 years old, in good health, and those with rural living experience are preferred.
Li Mengqi thought few people would sign up, but by the time she got off work, she had already received more than a dozen emails. She didn't expect everyone to be so enthusiastic about this.
Three days have passed, and the number of applicants has exceeded twenty, which is more than enough to form a live streaming team.
So Li Mengqi organized interviews to select five people in total: anchor, director, cameraman, team leader, and logistics staff.
After the interview, the selected anchor was an outdoor adventure anchor who, despite his burly appearance, was very quick-witted.
After live-streaming e-commerce started, I was live-streaming outdoor adventures and selling outdoor gear at the same time. However, since the target audience for outdoor gear is relatively small, I wanted to find other opportunities, so I signed up for this live-streaming event to help farmers.
The main team leader is a junior manager in his forties who is usually in charge of the dance broadcasting business.
Li Mengqi asked curiously.
"Zhang Tao, what made you decide to sign up for this event?"
"Mr. Li, you have no idea, I face so many young women at work every day, it's very stressful. My wife argues with me every day, saying that I look at beautiful women at the company all day and ignore her when I get home. But how can I dare to do that? It's clearly her who is going through menopause, so I just want to go out and get some peace and quiet."
"Uh, okay, I'm sorry to have troubled you so much."
Once the team was assembled, it consisted entirely of men, making it look like they were going to a brawl.
Our first stop was a county called Changhe in Gansu Province.
When the county leaders received the call from Panda TV, they didn't understand what live streaming was at first. But when they heard that a live streaming room could generate tens of millions of yuan in transactions in one night, they were stunned.
My goodness! You know, in 2010, the per capita GDP of Changhe County was only a little over 3,000 yuan. The entire county's annual income was less than what others earned in a few nights.
After hanging up the phone, the county party committee immediately convened a meeting to discuss the matter.
Then, the county head of Changhe County immediately approved the plan, sending the Panda TV live streaming platform team to the area for inspection, and requiring all departments to fully cooperate, hoping to get them to invest here.
The director of the investment office shook his head with a wry smile.
“County Chief, I just checked. Panda TV is a subsidiary of Xingchen Technology, a leading internet company in Shanghai with a market value of hundreds of billions. What conditions do we have here that would allow an internet company to set up operations here? Aside from the fact that the soft pears are somewhat tasty, are we going to ask them to invest in an orchard here?”
The county head's lips twitched. A market value of hundreds of billions—that's how many zeros there are!
"No matter what, this is an opportunity, and they contacted us first. Maybe their big boss just likes pears, right?"
Two days later, Zhang Tao and his group arrived at Lanzhou Airport by plane. After getting off the plane, Zhang Tao asked Zhao Qiang, who was in charge of logistics, to rent an off-road vehicle.
There are other ways to get to Changhe County, such as taking a sleeper bus where you can lie down, but as soon as Zhang Tao suggested it, everyone objected.
The people who came this time either came from remote areas or had been to remote areas. They had all taken sleeper buses before, and just thinking about the smell inside a sleeper bus almost made me throw up my dinner last night.
Fortunately, Li Mengqi approved a sufficient amount of funding, so they decided to rent a car and drive there themselves.
Zhao Qiang found a local car rental shop and rented a Toyota Prado.
All five of us can drive, so we can take turns driving. As for not knowing the way, so what? We have Xiaomi Maps.
After driving for two days and two nights, passing through the city, the national highway, the mountain road, and the dirt road, the five of them finally arrived in Changhe County.
The white Prado is almost completely covered in mud.
"Cough cough, Zhao Qiang, it's a good thing you rented a Land Cruiser Prado. If you had rented a Camry, we probably would have run into trouble halfway there."
"I went to the car rental company and asked the owner. He recommended this car to me. Although it was a bit expensive, it seems the owner didn't rip me off."
The five people drove into the county town and saw a noodle shop by the roadside, so they went in and each ate two bowls of beef noodles.
These past two days, I've only been able to eat bread and biscuits on the bus. After leaving Lanzhou, I haven't seen a decent restaurant on the roadside. The only hot thing I could get was a bowl of instant noodles at a gas station.
"Phew, that feels good. Gansu beef noodles are indeed famous throughout the country. Even in such a remote place, the taste is still so authentic."
After finishing their noodles, the five of them drove to the county government.
"Hello, we are from Panda TV. We have contacted your investment office leaders before."
"You've finally arrived! Our county head told us long ago that once you've arrived, we'll take you straight to the conference room."
The five people sat down in the conference room. Not long after, the county head, the party secretary, and the director of the investment office of Changhe County walked in together.
"Haha, welcome to Changhe County."
The five people stood up.
"Good morning/afternoon, leaders."
"Please don't be shy, have a seat."
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