Chapter 140: Good results, pretending to be drunk (please subscribe, please vote)
"Xiao Li, we warmly invite you to come to our county government for live broadcast, but the commission is a little low, only 1%. I wonder if you are willing? You also know that we are truly helping farmers with charity. The price of spring bamboo shoots is also lower than the normal online price. For the same quality, it is also lower than what you sold before."
"No problem, it's my pleasure. I just have a few questions that I'd like to learn more about."
"You talk, you talk. We will tell you everything we know." On the other end of the phone, the county magistrate laughed heartily.
Li Xiang raised a few questions, and after some communication, a cooperation agreement was finally reached.
The public welfare project to help farmers organized by the county government is actually quite good. Faced with a large number of spring bamboo shoots on the market, government departments have also kept pace with the times and set up a temporary working group, convening more than 60 large and small agricultural professional cooperatives. These cooperatives are responsible for supply, delivery, and after-sales service. Li Xiang does not have to worry about anything else except live streaming to sell goods.
In addition to him, there are more than ten other Internet celebrities in the county, but their status is not as big as Li Xiang. The most powerful one among them has only more than 400,000 fans.
And Li Xiang has more than 2.6 million fans.
He is now a bit famous on the Internet, and participating in this charity to help farmers can be considered a contribution to his hometown. Moreover, he estimated that if the sales volume is large, even a 1% commission should be a lot.
As for the pit fee or something like that, of course we don’t charge it.
If you charge the pit fee, you will be scolded and your image will be ruined.
Li Xiang also learned that in some other places, the commission for live broadcasts of agricultural products to help farmers is usually 1%-5%. It is not ruled out that a few anchors charge high commissions, such as 15%-20%, but that would be meaningless and would defeat the purpose of helping farmers.
Because high commissions mean high prices for agricultural products, otherwise the farmers’ original profits will be squeezed out.
Moreover, if the price is high, the competitiveness in the market will be low, and small profits but quick turnover is the key.
The government’s pricing is low, which is an advantage. Also, because it is a public welfare project to help farmers, the anchors receive a very low commission rate, which can ensure the interests of farmers.
This is equivalent to the anchors making concessions, but government departments will give some policy preferences to these anchors and teams.
When the news spread, some villagers from the surrounding villages who had previously asked Li Xiang to sell their goods began to complain because they were unable to see this level.
"Before, they charged 10% for bringing goods to us, but now they charge 1% for bringing goods to the government. If we had known this earlier, we would have participated in the government's live broadcast to help farmers."
Someone explained: "You are overthinking it. Are you qualified to participate? Those are organized by the big cooperatives who use their connections."
"Even if we participate as a village or even a town, don't packaging, delivery, and after-sales service cost money? Li Xiang was responsible for all of this before."
"Alas, you guys have overlooked one thing, that is the price! Li Xiang's price for us is very high. Look at the price at the county government. The price per kilogram of the same quality is five or six yuan lower than ours, or even seven or eight yuan. Over there, Li Xiang gets less commission, but he doesn't have to worry about anything, and the price is still lower."
After everyone discussed it, some smart villagers calculated that they would get more by selling the goods to Li Xiang.
Moreover, the government only gives priority support to large-scale cooperatives. If "retail investors" like them want to participate, they may have to go through the hands of those cooperatives and make money from them again.
Sure enough, not long after, news came that the cooperatives had sent people to the countryside to collect bamboo shoots in large quantities and the prices were kept very low.
The villagers in the surrounding areas near Lijia Village were very fortunate because they had already shipped goods to Li Xiang.
"Grandma, I'll be away from home these days. Please take care of yourself." Li Xiang gave some instructions to his grandmother, then took Zhao Xueqing, Yao Yao, and Lei Xiaohui with him, and the four of them set off together.
He has not yet obtained his driver's license, so he still hasn't bought a car. This time he went to the county to help farmers live broadcast, and he would also take the time to take the subject three test. Anyway, this test is very fast and will not affect his work.
The third subject test, also known as the road test, requires you to drive on the road for a few minutes and perform all the actions properly, and you can basically pass it.
The government has arranged a five-day period, from Monday to Friday, with live broadcasts during the day and stays in the county government's guesthouse at night.
On the morning of the first day, the county leaders organized a symposium, which was attended not only by the anchors and their teams, but also by many staff members from government departments, local news media, and suppliers participating in this charity event to help farmers (that is, representatives sent by more than 60 cooperatives).
The meeting was held in a large lecture hall in the county government building. Nearly two hundred people gathered together, making the meeting very grand.
The theme name displayed in large characters on the big screen is: "Symposium on New Internet Business Models to Promote Rural Industrial Revitalization and the First Internet Anchor Rural Charity Tour in 2025". Below are some signing units, displayed in small characters.
This kind of meeting is actually very lengthy, with various leaders giving speeches.
However, Li Xiang also had the opportunity to go on stage. He was invited to speak as a representative of the anchors.
He had been informed in advance, so he specially prepared a speech of about 800 to 900 words, all of which was eloquent and full of positive energy. When he went on stage, he started talking eloquently.
In particular, he came back from a big city and spoke very standard Mandarin with clear pronunciation, full of energy and a loud voice. After listening to him, many leaders nodded secretly, thinking that this young man was good and had the style of a general.
When the audience talked about the highlights, Yao Yao took the lead in applauding. This girl was a little reserved at first because it was her first time attending such an occasion. But when Li Xiang spoke so well on stage, she applauded vigorously. She almost stood up and screamed! It was a pity that the occasion was not right, otherwise Yao Yao would definitely be the best in the atmosphere group.
When Li Xiang was speaking on the stage, some other anchors were envious and jealous.
"This guy definitely has a team behind him, otherwise how could he have more than two million fans in less than half a year?"
"That's right. We worked so hard to get only a few hundred thousand fans."
"I don't think I'm uglier than him, why does he have so many fans?"
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In fact, at the beginning, Li Xiang didn't have any team. Even if there was, there was only one assistant, Jiang Caier. Now it is a little better, with three artists under her, Zhao Xueqing, Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui, taking on the chores of shooting, editing and so on. In addition, they are also planning to build a Chinese-style pub, teahouse, coffee shop, milk tea shop and other businesses.
Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui all took a lot of photos below and recorded a short video, which they posted to their respective WeChat Moments and self-media accounts.
Zhao Xueqing also shared the video with Li Xiang. However, Li Xiang was speaking on the video, so she had to wait until he finished speaking before posting it.
After the meeting, a staff member took them to see their live broadcast room.
Each team has a dedicated office. Theirs is quite large. The background and equipment are of course impeccable. They are all officially decorated and there are special posters for this charity event.
They had lunch in the canteen of the county government compound. It was quite good, with a wide variety of dishes and very cheap prices. Of course, they didn't spend any money, they had the meal for free.
After dinner, I took a short rest in the guesthouse room and started the show on time at 1:30.
The four of them came prepared. Li Xiang was dressed in ancient costume, and so were the three women.
Lei Xiaohui is COSing Mulan, dressed as a female general, with metallic armor and a high ponytail. She is tall, about 1.8 meters tall, but not burly and strong, but slender with a well-proportioned figure. Although her appearance is not as good as Zhao Xueqing and Yao Yao, she is also quite pretty. She is as good-looking as any man, both beautiful and heroic.
Zhao Xueqing was wearing a Tang-style hezi skirt embroidered with peonies and butterflies, and had her hair tied up in a high bun. With her clear and fair face, she looked like an ancient lady.
Yao Yao was wearing a purple tulle long dress with water sleeves. When she walked, the tulle rippled and the sleeves fluttered slightly, she looked like a blooming iris, ethereal and fairy-like.
Lei Xiaohui and Zhao Xueqing pouted at the same time, thinking that you are not afraid of the cold. Because Yao Yao was wearing the least.
Li Xiang was dressed like a nobleman from martial arts novels, and Zhao Xueqing helped him pick out his clothes.
Before that, Li Xiang allocated clothing expenses to each of them, asking them to buy performance costumes, at least five sets per person, plus various jewelry, accessories, etc., so that they must dress up beautifully.
Zhao Xueqing was very thoughtful and selected two sets for Li Xiang. Seeing this, Yao Yao helped Li Xiang pick out three sets.
Li Xiang naturally did not take advantage of them and reimbursed them for everything.
"Brother, wear the clothes I picked for you tomorrow." Yao Yao was a little unhappy when she saw that Li Xiang was actually wearing the clothes picked by Zhao Xueqing, so she gently took Li Xiang's arm and whispered to him.
"Okay, okay, there are still a few days left, take turns wearing it." Li Xiang comforted.
Behind him, Lei Xiaohui and Zhao Xueqing rolled their eyes.
Originally, the county magistrate was in a good mood today and was planning to do a live broadcast with Li Xiang and others. However, when he entered the live broadcast room and saw this situation, he gave a few words of encouragement and then left.
"County Mayor, why are you out?" A female staff member saw him and asked curiously.
The county chief wiped his sweat off his forehead, pointed inside and said, "They are all handsome men and beautiful women. I, an old man, feel out of place!"
When the female staff member saw that Li Xiang and the others were wearing ancient costumes, she couldn't help but suggest, "Why don't we change into ancient costumes too? You have a strong aura and can definitely suppress them."
"Forget it, forget it. It's not suitable. This style is wrong. I won't join in the fun." The county magistrate thought that if he wore ancient costumes, he had to dress like an official of the imperial court, otherwise he would not be able to control himself.
But for a small county magistrate like him, it would be a bit presumptuous if he wore a hat of the first or second rank.
On the afternoon of the first day, sales were good and Li Xiang and his team sold over six million units.
Other anchors: “…”
The best one was only over 300,000 yuan, and the worst one was only sold for over 100 yuan. It was simply a dimensionality reduction attack.
The one who sold over 300,000 was very proud at first, thinking that he was really amazing, and thanks to the support of his friends, he should be not much worse than Li Ying, right? But when he asked around, he was almost vomiting blood.
Then in the evening, Li Xiang took the three girls to a barbecue restaurant for a midnight snack to celebrate.
It wasn't entirely because of this, but because the previous construction company sent the plan and quotation for the "Holy Land Garden" again, and Li Xiang wanted to discuss it with the three women.
But as a man, it would have a bad impact if he called three girls to his room, so he came to this newly opened, fairly large barbecue restaurant and asked for a private room. They sat together and discussed business while having a midnight snack.
Li Xiang brought a laptop computer. After the meeting, he summarized everyone's suggestions and sent them back to the construction company for further revisions.
For such a large project, we naturally have to strive for excellence. Otherwise, if we rush into the construction, it will be very troublesome to redo the work if we are not satisfied with the result.
BBQ and beer, and we didn't have to drive, so everyone had a drink.
Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui can drink a lot, but Zhao Xueqing can't. After this fair-skinned girl drank just a small glass of wine, her pretty face and neck turned red, and red spots appeared on her arms. It was obvious that she was allergic to alcohol.
"Brother, I can't drink anymore. I really can't drink anymore." Zhao Xueqing scratched her arm and said with embarrassment.
"If you can't drink it, then don't drink it. I'll change it for you with juice." Li Xiang called the waiter and ordered a pitcher of freshly squeezed orange juice to help him sober up.
Yao Yao secretly complained: "You are really good at pretending. You just drank so little and you don't want to drink. If you don't drink, I will drink. When I leave later, I will pretend to be drunk and let my brother carry me back, haha."
Yao Yao used to work as an atmosphere creator in a bar, so naturally she can drink. Lei Xiaohui practiced martial arts, and under the influence of Lei Jiaming, she also has a good alcohol tolerance. These two girls competed in drinking with Li Xiang, and made Li Xiang have a great time.
Yao Yao wanted to drink from the cup of wine with Li Xiang, but was glared back by Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui.
"Brother, I can't take it anymore. I feel dizzy." When leaving, Yao Yao couldn't stand steadily and leaned on Li Xiang.
Lei Xiaohui thought, you really can't even pretend to be drunk, people who are really drunk always shout, I'm not drunk, I can still drink! You?
So, he shouted, "Sister Yaoyao, don't worry, I'll hold you!"
He took a quick step forward and picked up the petite Yao Yao. Yao Yao was so scared that she immediately sobered up and struggled and screamed, trying to get down.
But Lei Xiaohui did not let go, and rushed out carrying her, causing other customers in the store to look at them sideways.
Zhao Xueqing covered her mouth and laughed secretly, thinking to herself, "Why are you pretending to be drunk when Xiaohui is here? I can't carry you, but Xiaohui is Mulan, she can easily carry you."
She thought that if she and Lei Xiaohui were not there, Yao Yao would probably get drunk and go to Li Xiang's room tonight.
Faced with such a vixen, Brother Xiang may not be able to withstand the test.
After sending the three women back to the guesthouse, Li Xiang looked at the time and saw that it was still early, around 20:40, so he slipped out again.
Jiang Caier had already started school, and the county government guesthouse was actually quite close to Jiang Caier's school. Li Xiang bought three cups of milk tea and a large bag of snacks and sent them to Jiang Caier.
However, Jiang Caier did not bring her cell phone to school, and Li Xiang did not have the teacher's contact information, so he handed a cigarette to the security guard and said that someone in Class XX was his sister, and that he came to the county town to do some business and would bring her some food.
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