Chapter 495 The New Year Arrives



Bai Yu wasn't particularly concerned about the points of contention between Li Xue and Li Shuang.

In his opinion, if they wanted to travel the world with him, they would have to convince Bai Yue first.

After all, even if Bai Yue's abilities are indeed not a problem, if she is unwilling to take on the task, then all their current arguments will be in vain.

So under these circumstances, Bai Yu immediately adjourned the meeting and then took Li Xue, Wang Hai, and Xia Jing home.

Thanks to Bai Yu's example, there are many couples within their company.

Bai Yu and Li Xue, needless to say, they've already registered their marriage and are just waiting to hold their wedding.

Wang Hai is also spending time with Xia Jing, and he's been influenced by her to speak with a strong Northeastern accent, which makes Bai Yu feel helpless.

Li Shuang and Ke Ke, a live streamer in the company, are now a couple, while Lu Sheng is a couple with his original partner Zhang Yuxin. So none of the Haida F4 are single.

Bai Yu was quite pleased with this, at least these people hadn't neglected their personal lives outside of work.

After Bai Yu and Li Xue returned home, Bai Yue had just finished washing up and came out, and was then dressed by Li Xue and Li Xue.

As the saying goes, "being near the water tower, one gets the moon first," Li Xue and Li Shuang both want Bai Yue to take over their work, but the relationship between Li Xue and Bai Yue is anything but ordinary.

I don't know what method Li Xue used, but a few minutes later Li Xue came out of Bai Yue's room and gave Bai Yu an OK sign.

Bai Yu shook his head silently and mourned for Li Shuang for two seconds.

It's worth noting that Bai Yue spent the entire year following Li Shuang around, learning operational knowledge from her.

Now that it's time to take over the work, Li Xue has snatched it away. It's like Li Shuang cooked the duck, but Li Xue took it away in the end.

But there's nothing that can be done about it, since Li Xue is currently living at Bai Yu's house, and Li Xue and Bai Yue see each other every day.

However, although Bai Yue was snatched away by Li Xue, Li Shuang was really capable. He actually found a replacement in the company who could also take over his job.

Not only Li Shuang, but also Lu Sheng and Xia Jing, can find replacements within the company.

If they could travel the world with Bai Yu this time, they could keep the company running smoothly without any worries.

At the same time, these people were very familiar with Bai Yue. In the past, when Bai Yue followed Li Shuang, she had greeted the people in these departments.

After thinking about it for a while, Bai Yu nodded in agreement to Li Shuang and the others' arrangements.

If all six of them left, it would be equivalent to Yuxue Shipping Company having no one to make the final decision.

However, if Li Shuang and his team really want to go, their company can expand slowly next year. They can just follow the plan they made this year and develop steadily.

If there's a problem, just communicate by phone. If you can't make a call, just spend more on phone bills.

In the days that followed, Bai Yu also entered a busy period. Even though Bai Yu was the boss of the company, he started running all over Sanya.

The tax authorities went there once, and then went to the base in Sanya several more times. They would leave at eight or nine in the morning and not return until six or seven in the evening.

People who don't know the situation might think Bai Yu works at the base; she really runs around more often than people who actually have a job.

After Bai Yu's continuous explanations and clarification of the interests involved, he donated another 6.5 billion yuan to the South China Sea region that year.

This time, the donation was not made by Yuxue Shipping Company alone, but by three companies under Bai Yu's name, raising a total of 6.5 billion yuan.

This amount of money is exactly the cost of building a Type 055 destroyer; it's just the cost of building it.

The reason Bai Yu had to run to the base for several days in a row was because this kind of thing couldn't be decided by a single base leader; it still needed to be reported up the chain of command.

As for Bai Yu's behavior of donating money year after year, and with each year's donation being more than the last, the higher-ups naturally had to ask Bai Yu if he had any requests.

When faced with this question, Bai Yu spoke his mind and directly put forward his three requirements.

Firstly, we hope that relevant departments can relax their review process regarding the installation of high-pressure water guns on their company's fishing boats, and try not to create obstacles. Their company is installing water guns to spray monkeys.

Secondly, we hope that the relevant departments can take better care of their company's fishing boats in the South China Sea, since the South China Sea is not peaceful and there are many troublemakers.

Thirdly, he wanted to recruit some retired soldiers from the base to fill positions in their shipping company. Again, the South China Sea is not peaceful.

Upon hearing Bai Yu's request, the first reaction of the relevant departments was that Yuxue Shipping Company had a grudge against the Filipino monkeys.

Why are these three demands all directed at Fei the monkey? How did Fei the monkey offend Bai Yu and his group?

They didn't even ask why; they simply agreed to Bai Yu's request.

The first requirement is aimed at the Philippines, which has been acting too aggressively in the South China Sea recently. However, government officials cannot act arbitrarily, so it would be good if a private company like Yuxue Shipping Company could step in.

The second point goes without saying. As long as Yuxue Shipping Company has a conflict with the Filipinos, and the address is in our waters, who will support them and who will make decisions for them?

The third point is an even more mutually beneficial requirement. For the base, the most troublesome issue every year when retirements are due is the resettlement problem.

If Bai Yu's company is willing to take over now, that would be even better.

Yuxue Shipping Company owns ships and is located in Sanya. If a cooperation is reached, follow-up visits to the base will be very easy to carry out later.

So you're saying it's so easy to refuse Bai Yu's three requests?

However, there is one thing that is definitely unacceptable, and that is the naming of the newly donated 055. Bai Yu did not even think about this issue. Having the naming right of 052D is already quite good.

After resolving this matter, Bai Yu was able to focus on company affairs, such as organizing annual meetings for several companies and preparing various New Year's gifts for employees.

As for the company's revenue this year, the majority comes from live-streaming e-commerce. Even though the shipping company made a fortune from the more than 10,000 tons of salmon, it still couldn't compare to the profits from live-streaming e-commerce.

Especially after learning that Yuxue Shipping Company had acquired the naming rights to the 052d, netizens placed orders with them more frequently.

Over the course of a year, the total sales volume on both platforms exceeded 70 billion yuan, and the company's commission income exceeded 8 billion yuan. After deducting various expenses, salaries, year-end bonuses, daily bonuses, operating costs, and so on, there was still more than 6 billion yuan left.

Moreover, this money was pure cash income; their company was a cash monster.

Besides the live-streaming company, the shipping company also made a lot of money. With the addition of the more than 10,000 tons of salmon, the shipping company's net profit, after deducting various expenses, also exceeded 3 billion yuan.

In reality, it was just the revenue from those ten thousand tons of salmon, plus a small amount of other income. As for the shipping company's other money, it was all used by the company to buy ships.

Their company used to have only one boat, but now they have more than fifty fishing boats. That's a lot of money.

The shipping company didn't make much money from fishing, but the processing plant did.

After all, most of the seafood caught by the fishing boats is taken by processing plants, and after they process it, they can sell it at a higher price.

Furthermore, the processing plant also sources goods from other places, processes them, and then sells them. A significant portion of the products are also sold through live streaming, which generates very high profits.

Their annual profit is also several billion, and even higher than that of the shipping company that made a fortune.

The three companies' annual profits have exceeded 10 billion. Even after paying a portion of the taxes, they donated 6.5 billion, so they still received several billion in the end.

Bai Yu took a portion of the money and kept the rest for himself.

Not only do the company leaders like Bai Yu receive a share of the profits, but the company's employees also receive bonuses, and the amount they receive is quite substantial.

In that year, their company paid out hundreds of millions in salaries to all its employees, and the bonuses they gave out were even more than the salaries.

The bonuses paid out by the live streaming company alone have exceeded 300 million yuan. On the day of the annual meeting, Bai Yu specially arranged a live broadcast to distribute the money.

Have you ever seen a mountain of 300 million in cash?

To be honest, Bai Yu had never seen this before. In order to ensure the smooth running of the annual meeting, Bai Yu specially hired a security company to come to the venue and distribute money while the annual meeting was being held.

On this same day, all the employees of their live-streaming company came, totaling 583 people. The highest year-end bonus was 12 million, and the lowest was 30,000.

This bonus is calculated based on the length of employment, the position held in the company, and the employee's overall performance.

The only department that doesn't need to be assessed on these performance metrics is the cleaning department. Their year-end bonus is calculated based on the number of hours worked throughout the year, and it's 10,000 yuan per month.

Bai Yu's live stream of distributing year-end bonuses caused a huge uproar across the internet. Whose company gives out hundreds of millions in year-end bonuses?

Moreover, the lowest salary was 30,000 yuan, and this was for an intern who hadn't even completed their internship period. They had only joined the company at the end of November and had only been working for a total of two months.

And cleaning staff get a year-end bonus of 10,000 yuan a month? If you work a full year (12 months), that's 120,000 yuan?

The highest year-end bonus is 12 million, which averages out to 1 million a month. And this is for ordinary employees, not management.

There weren't many people who received the 12 million yuan prize; there were only three people in total: two were live streamers, and one was an employee of the operations department.

The two livestreamers had the highest sales performance this year, generating a lot of money for the company, so naturally, they received a higher commission.

These two people are Keke and Taotao, who later became a female anchor.

That operations department employee, too, brought significant profits to the company, which is why they received the highest bonus.

In addition to these three multi-million-dollar bonuses, their company also gives out a lot of year-end bonuses in the millions, dozens of them, not to mention hundreds of thousands. The company's average bonus is hundreds of thousands.

And this is just the beginning. The year-end bonuses for the live streaming companies have been distributed, and the year-end bonuses for the shipping companies will follow soon.

This scale is even larger than that of a live streaming company, after all, the shipping company alone has more than a thousand crew members.

The same goes for the prize money; it's no less than that of the live streaming companies, and may even be much more.

However, shipping companies have too many crew members, so the average year-end bonus isn't that much.

However, this still shocked the entire internet.

Then there's the processing plant. The year-end bonuses here were distributed rather discreetly. Bai Yu didn't do a live stream; she just let her father handle it himself.

Mr. Bai was naturally generous to his factory employees, paying them whatever he could afford.

It's important to know that, apart from the people from the small fishing village, the rest of the factory's employees are villagers from the surrounding villages.

In their remote coastal region, the villagers are very united and xenophobic.

The processing plant now provides these villagers with jobs and bonuses, so their sense of belonging to the plant goes without saying; it's extremely high.

Bai Yu had his own reasons for making the annual meeting and year-end bonus so high-profile this year.

First of all, after he became so high-profile, naturally more people started paying attention to his company.

There may be some capital involved, some powerful and influential people, and a large number of netizens.

Many people are interested in three companies with a combined annual profit of over 10 billion yuan, especially since they are all under the same person's name.

In the past year alone, no fewer than ten waves of people have inquired with Bai Yu about whether his company should go public or seek financing.

Even though Baiyu Company has the naming rights to the 052D destroyer, some people are not afraid. So Baiyu plans to continue donating to help our South China Sea while also trying to attract the attention of certain people.

Then he simply exposed how profitable his company was, and in fact, how very profitable it was, attracting everyone's attention.

Sometimes living under everyone's gaze isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as they don't make any mistakes, then there won't be any problems.

Even before the Lunar New Year, Bai Yu had someone announce that their company had donated another 6.5 billion yuan, and the donation receipts were even released.

Then he mentioned that he would be temporarily retiring from track and field next year to travel around the world. He said he would update his fans with videos of his trip and maybe even do some live streams.

It's fair to say that for a period of time before the Lunar New Year, Bai Yu and his shipping company or group were constantly trending on social media.

Especially from the start of the Spring Festival travel rush to the day of the Spring Festival, he and his company were always at the top of the trending search list, with multiple trending searches about them even appearing in the top ten.

This is tough on the celebrities and film producers. They finally have their winter break and the Spring Festival season is approaching, so they have to start doing some promotion and marketing.

Then Bai Yu never left the trending topics list, and it was the kind of list that these celebrities and production companies couldn't get off no matter how much money they spent.

As the New Year's bells rang, 2023 officially arrived.

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