Chapter 84 New Materials Release
How could the other party, who clearly had no prior knowledge of her salary, suddenly pull out a paper contract without even changing the salary amount?
Is Mr. Fang really that confident that she will be satisfied with this salary?
Fan Jia hesitated before taking the contract and immediately flipped to the section on compensation.
She carefully counted the zeros at the end and was surprised to find that the annual salary of forty million was clearly marked on it.
This amount is equivalent to three times her previous salary, which is definitely higher than the top executives of leading mecha companies. It can be considered the highest salary for senior employees in the industry.
She even doubted she was seeing things; her eyes almost popped out of her head when she saw the contract.
Besides the salary, the various benefits are also exceptionally good.
Ju Ke opened up both floors of the dormitory, preparing a super large two-story dormitory with a building area of nearly 400 square meters for her.
There are more than 30 days of paid annual leave each year, and sick leave does not require a deduction of salary. Employees also have an annual high-end cross-star travel benefit.
According to the contract, each time the team wins a prize, 2% will be distributed equally among all employees. This time, the main league's championship prize money has reached an unprecedented 10 billion, which means that each junior employee will be able to receive at least 500,000 in bonuses.
This amount is quite terrifying. Fan Jia can't even imagine what kind of good life the chefs in the team's base canteen live every day. Gold bars fall out every few steps.
With high pay, low workload, and a good working environment, she couldn't find a single fault with Juke.
Now she finally understood why Han Fengfeng sounded so excited on the phone. He must have known about President Fang's financial strength for a long time and was eager to let her absorb some of his wealth.
No wonder we're from the same hometown; she always thinks of me when there's something good happening.
Fan Jia felt a warmth in her heart. She quickly signed the contract and smoothly completed the entire process of resigning from Yingjing and leaving the work group.
"Ms. Fan, Juke is about to release two new materials. Here is the basic information. Please take a look and give me a detailed plan before 11 a.m. tomorrow."
Upon receiving his first work assignment, Fan Jia dared not slack off in the slightest.
Around 6 PM, she compiled all the information into a detailed report, noting the budget that the leaders were most concerned about next to each promotion plan, and finally summarized it into a complete budget table.
At 11 a.m. the next day, when Fan Jia handed the report to General Manager Fang for review on time, he was unusually nervous.
Last night, she was a little bolder when she was making the budget. Considering that Juke could offer her a salary of 40 million, the salaries of the new materials promotion and installation personnel should be no problem at 35 million.
She mustered her courage last night to draft the figures, but just before submitting them, she couldn't help but worry that her boss might be furious about the somewhat outrageous budget.
Materials are not like the full armor of a mecha. A single outer panel costs only a little over a million, so the profit margin is not large. Spending too much on marketing and promotion would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Yingjing's new product launch promotion only involved a few key media platforms, with an investment of just over ten million yuan.
Although she received a big surprise in terms of salary yesterday, it was her first day at Juke, and she still didn't quite understand the company's inner workings. She wondered if President Fang was the kind of leader who only spent money where it mattered most.
Fang Zhuo took the tablet from Fan Jia.
He glanced at it briefly and casually added a zero to the end of the total budget.
Fan Jia initially thought that President Fang had drawn a circle on the proposal to represent a problem.
She was about to ask her supervisor for their opinion, but Mr. Fang simply handed the tablet back to her: "The plan itself is fine."
Fan Jia stared intently at the red circle for two seconds, pondered for a while, and finally tentatively asked:
"Boss, do you mean the total budget should be increased tenfold?"
She herself found it absurd to say it, but all she heard was a brief "hmm".
What a pleasant sound, even a little unfamiliar.
That's over 300 million... Yingjing doesn't even spend that much on the research and development of a single new project, yet here it's just the price of a single publicity campaign.
If it weren't for her excellent professional ethics, Fan Jia would love to pound her chest and shout with excitement right now in the office.
I really made the right choice by joining this company.
Awesome! With such a large sum of money, she could launch advertisements to the skies.
In fact, the advertising for the new mecha outer panel material has indeed reached outer space.
Just after 9 p.m., the entire Star Alliance's 327 interstellar train lines formed a network, precisely projecting advertisements for new materials as they ran along their ground-hugging orbits, truly bringing the new technology to every remote planet.
Meanwhile, flash mob black boxes appeared in the capital cities of the sixteen competition zones.
The black box is made of the same material as the mecha's outer plate, and every passerby can enter the black box and interact with the mecha accessories that are usually only seen on TV.
This is one of the largest campaigns in the entire Star Alliance history, going beyond cheap media video promotions to truly reach everyone offline with its technology outreach.
Not limited to the outer panels of mecha, Juke has successively launched collectibles such as bags, watch cases and limited-edition trendy toys made of the same material, with individual items priced between 40,000 and 50,000 yuan.
Before the third round of the winners' bracket, all the team owners and operators of the mecha experience centers were keeping a close eye on Giant Technology, eagerly awaiting the release of new materials.
Even small business owners in lagging regions who focus on the secondary league are paying close attention to this new version of the outer shell. The advertisements are practically plastered on their doorsteps. Although they can't afford a whole new energy mech, they can spend money to upgrade the mech's accessories.
At the end of October, the procurement notices for the new outer panels and hand parts were still issued by the league officials.
Coincidentally, as a long-established mecha manufacturer with a complete industry chain, Platinum is still not on the supplier list this time.
At this point, the official forum for the Mech League had been filled with posts thousands of stories high.
[Is Platinum Chaser being bullied? New Energy Mechs won't include Platinum Chaser, and neither will New Materials. Does anyone have an inside story about the current relationship between these two companies?]
[I don't care, I don't care, Giant Interactive has already reached the next level.]
[I'm trying so hard not to laugh that my hemorrhoids are starting to swell into the shape of a little rabbit. Those who know, know the value of the first-ever space ad campaign in collaboration with Interstellar Train. Platinum Cheng, stop trying to piggyback on our moon landing hype; your cash flow isn't even half as good as Juke's.]
Has anyone compiled total sales figures for these two new materials?
[Within three days of release, sales exceeded two thousand units, matching the total sales revenue of the previous three quarters. Juke alone accounted for 60% of the sales.]
[I'm so envious! Brother Fang is making money faster than I am making game currency, with patent fees on one hand and profits from real businesses on the other.]
[Has no one mentioned the sales of bags and headphones made with the same material? They're practically the latest fashion items now!^^]
[You said it's peripheral stuff... I suspect Brother Fang doesn't treat these little things as his main business at all; it feels like he's just casually selling them to expand his influence.]
[May Brother Fang's career be blessed]
[I hope Brother Fang will transfer the patent to me; I will definitely keep it safe, hehehe]
[I listened to the entire press conference the day before yesterday. The combined R&D costs for these two materials are over a billion yuan. The master's degree holders in the materials R&D team earn a monthly salary of 150,000 yuan. I suggest you study hard and try to join Juke after graduation.]
[Master of Chemistry... monthly salary... 150,000 yuan, can these three words be put together? They sound so unfamiliar]
Just one week after its release, Fang Zhuo received 1.3 billion yuan in patent royalties and 102 million yuan in profits from his business.
Even without the system's tenfold return, it's only a matter of time before he recoups his R&D costs.
This amount of money may seem like a lot, but it's just a tiny fraction of his total cash balance of over 260 billion.
The system's investment section also displayed a new notification on time.
[Investment Target No. 6: Materials R&D Team (7 people signed in total)]
[Initial valuation: 132,100,000]
[The return on investment has exceeded 100 times; the above fields can be freely unbound]
[Based on the settlement results, Investment Slot 10 has been opened for the host. Please keep up the good work!]
[Company's current reputation value: 65, matching the title 'Renowned']
Fang Zhuo leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on the computer screen.
A video was playing on a loop on the screen; it was the complete confession of the players who had been bribed to beat Ling Han during the secondary league finals.
Zeng Ge is much smarter and more cunning than Ruan Zihan in the entertainment industry. At least he knows that he can't use Bocheng's own account to transfer money, and he also knows that he can't leave online chat records.
But Zeng Ge didn't expect that these bribed contestants who were doing dirty work were also careful; they secretly recorded the conversations when the contestants were negotiating the specific amounts.
The league's official committee's investigation team shared the video with Fang Zhuo, but they did not release it immediately, saying they would wait for the results of another investigation before issuing a joint statement.
As for what the other investigation was, Fang Zhuo was of course aware of it.
Zeng's manipulation during the ability test was definitely not something he did alone.
For such an important assessment as capability testing, if a third-party organization or machine-assisted testing is to be commissioned, it is highly likely that Platinum Engine, which has extensive experience in the field of mecha manufacturing, will be chosen.
Once this scandal is exposed, Platinum Drive's stock price will definitely plummet.
With ample funds at his disposal, Fang Zhuo was finally able to take action against the behemoth that was Platinum Chase.
Unlike entertainment companies like Xinghan Media, which lack real business support, Bocheng Technology has a market value of 1.8 trillion yuan, almost reaching the point of being too big to fail.
Fang Zhuo sent Jiang Yu a message: [Come to my office]
"Jiang Yu, contact a third-party financial institution. There's no upper limit to the consultation fee. Have them re-examine the investment schemes that manipulated the players in those match-fixing incidents from back then, and see if you can trace the source of the funds behind them."
"In addition, the investors behind the IN team should also take note of whether Platinum or its shell subsidiary has invested in it."
Jiang Yu nodded: "Okay, Mr. Fang, I will give you feedback by next Monday."
Behind both of these lines are clues that Zeng Ge has carefully orchestrated. If any more substantial evidence can be found, coupled with the league's official Thor's hammer, it would be enough to make Zeng Ge and Platinum Technology be utterly despised by everyone.
Using the same trick again, Fang Zhuo contacted a securities company and asked them to lock up 9% of the shares of Bocheng Technology for him.
Including the 50% margin paid to the brokerage firm, the total value of this transaction is over 190 billion.
If both hammers fall simultaneously and Platinum Drive's market value plummets as desired, he can gain over 100 billion yuan in one fell swoop.
With this short-selling operation, he could easily make a fortune without lifting a finger, and the Zeng family's more than 100 billion yuan would flow into his pocket like water.
Conversely, if Platinum Wheel's stock price rises against the trend, all of his short-selling funds and margin will be lost without limit.
This is a lavish gamble worth hundreds of billions.
More than 100 billion yuan in cash was transferred out of his account, and Fang Zhuo's expression was as relaxed as if he had just picked up a new car from a 4S store.
Meanwhile, Yi Diandian was pacing anxiously: [Host, I feel like I'm really going to die if I work for you. What if we lose everything?! I'm so terrified, I want to turn into Ke Yun and scream like crazy!]
Fang Zhuo retorted with a smile: "[With that mentality, you'll basically be forgetting about making big money.]"
Yi Dian Dian: [qaq]
Fang Zhuo casually explained, "[I've already been very restrained. If I weren't considering saving money to buy more days of survival, I might have leveraged tenfold.]"
Yi Dian Dian somehow found a Ke Yun meme and vividly projected the expression into Fang Zhuo's brain:
[Host, this is roughly my current expression. Although I seem to be able to communicate with you normally, I've been dead for a while now. Actually, you could have been a little more restrained. Please, sob sob, even if you're gone, I'll still send you a message.]
Fang Zhuo chuckled: [Begging won't help.]
In the second week after the brokerage firm locked up its stock shares, the final winners of the main league's winners' and losers' brackets were determined simultaneously, with JR and YXG both advancing to the finals without a doubt.
After losing to JR once, YXG fought their way through the loser's bracket, venting their frustration on other teams. Their average winning time was less than 25 minutes, and they didn't lose a single game.
YXG's performance even gave the audience the illusion that their loss to the JR team was just a coincidence.
Even Zeng Ge had almost selectively forgotten the pain of being surrounded by reporters when he left the field after his defeat. Looking at the posts on the players' forum, his long-lost confidence seemed to be gradually being regained.
At 2 PM, Zeng Ge took a deep breath and got into the self-driving car heading to the racetrack with Lin Yuzheng.
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