togophonebook #233 - Mr. Lu doubts his life again (2 in 1 order required)
#233 - Mr. Lu doubts his life again (2 in 1 order required)
He was stunned not because the revenue report looked bad, but precisely because it was too good.
In the past month, the total sales of "NekoPara Adventure" soared to 1.5 million, bringing in 4 million yuan in new revenue.
"My Leisurely Island Life" saw its monthly active users exceed 3.5 million, with a peak concurrent online of 600,000.
After Taoyuan Guangnian's live demo event a few days ago, "Free Mouth Cannon Life"'s monthly active users exceeded 4.2 million, with a peak concurrent online of 750,000.
"Eating Feast Simulator" has sold a total of 1.8 million copies.
Because all these games are now launched on their own platform, they no longer need to be shared with Youyi platform, the game's revenue hit a new high.
The sales revenue of the game business alone reached 184.3 million yuan in a single month!
Last month, NekoPara animation continued to play episodes four to seven, and Taoyuan Huimeng's animation licensing revenue was 35.3 million.
Taoyuan Fantasy Realm, its own game platform, helped small and medium-sized developers on the platform sell 2 million games last month, earning a sales share of 8.2 million yuan.
As of now, a total of 520 small and medium-sized developers and independent studios are trying to use the "Taoyuan Kaiwu" engine, with an annual engine fee revenue of 3.12 million yuan.
Taoyuan Guangnian earned a total of 36.6 million yuan in cooperative advertising fees and gift sharing last month.
Last month, the company recruited 40 new employees for the game platform group, the game engine group, and the live broadcast group.
The company's total expenditure on wages, benefits, team building expenses, rent, outsourced R\u0026D, live broadcast support funds, etc., totaled 53.7 million yuan.
Now, the company has a cumulative balance of 213.82 million yuan in its accounts!
When Lu Yu saw that the balance in the company's account had exceeded two small goals, he was completely dumbfounded.
Damn, when did the company's business develop to this point?
Is this scientific? Is this reasonable?
In fact, looking back carefully, in order to prevent the company's scale from getting out of control, since he was reborn and obtained the Leisurely Lying Win System, he has been desperately "increasing revenue and reducing expenditure."
First of all, increasing revenue, under his insistence, all of Taoyuan Township's game business sells at cabbage prices!
In the current era when krypton gold card games are becoming popular, Taoyuan Township still insists on monthly card and daily card systems. The average daily playing cost for Taoyuan Township players is only a few cents.
The two standalone games, NekoPara and Eating Feast Simulator, are also cabbage prices ranging from a few yuan to a dozen yuan. Compared with the hundreds of yuan pricing of other 3A masterpieces at home and abroad, it's simply like giving them away for free!
And the sales share of its own game platform, Taoyuan Fantasy Realm, has also been compressed to a cabbage price of 15%.
Even in the live broadcast business, all rewards and gifts can be obtained for free by doing daily active tasks!
In addition to compressing revenue, on the other hand, Lu Yu desperately increased employee benefits.
It can be said that as long as it's something that can make employees feel happy, he doesn't even blink an eye when spending the company's money!
543 work system and reduced efficiency and increased costs, luxury villas comparable to five-star hotels...
As long as it doesn't trigger a system warning, Lu Yu will find various reasons to give employees money and team building in disguise.
Not to mention this involution world, even in the world before his rebirth, the company's current welfare system and salary treatment are quite heaven-defying.
However, even though he has tried so hard to prevent the company's business from falling into involution, he didn't expect that in less than a year, his company has already earned more than two small goals?
...
In order to prevent Liu Mengyuan from seeing his abnormality, Lu Yu stood up, went to the bathroom to wash his face, and then looked at himself in the mirror.
What was my original purpose for awakening the Leisurely Lying Win System?
That is naturally, in this life, to be indifferent to the world, and the wind and rain outside have nothing to do with me!
Why else would I name the company Taoyuan Township?
But how did I end up lying down and becoming a trendsetter in an industry with monthly revenue of over 100 million?
Moreover, this is the achievement I got in less than a year.
Is this reasonable?
I'm already so seriously spending the company's money to enjoy lying flat,
Does this money really increase the more I lie down?
Does it really become more and more involuted the more I lie down?
And, the most deadly thing is that he can't take a penny of these 200 million away. He can only leave it in the company's account and be envious.
He must find a way to spend the money on making the company's employees lie down and enjoy themselves in order to convert it into his own money.
But now?
It seems that Taoyuan Township is stirring up a storm in any industry it joins!
Unknowingly, the company has become a black catfish. Which industry it joins, that industry will start to roll up?
Lu Yu scratched his hair.
If it were the previous life, as an involution king, he would have laughed in his dreams if he had achieved such success!
But now... hehe, fate is tricking people.
...
At this time, the guests on the TV were still praising Lu Yu in various ways, such as "first suppressing and then promoting", "discerning eyes", "strategizing", "old thousand-layer cake"...
After hearing this, Lu Yu felt even more bitter in his throat.
Which dimension of me are you talking about?
Why does the whole world seem to know me so well and know what I have done,
But I myself don't know?
...
After calming down for a moment, Lu Yu opened the system light screen again.
Because now, there are too many employees in the company, and Taoyuan Township users will also constantly report their Leisure Points income,
So, usually Lu Yu basically keeps the system in do-not-disturb mode and only looks at it every few days.
When browsing the system light screen, Lu Yu found that, as expected, the Taoyuan Guangnian project team had a shortage of more than 2,000 Leisure Points due to the recent liver explosion!
That is to say, he should have lost more than 200,000 yuan due to this wave of involution in the live broadcast project team.
But unexpectedly, thanks to the existence of the system buff "Colorful Festival", Taoyuan Township users can also return points to him proportionally.
What's more, Taoyuan Township users have felt a lot of pleasure in the recent live broadcasts.
Although the user's return points are currently pitifully small, there are so many users!
Therefore, the points deducted from this round of involution in Taoyuan Guangnian miraculously canceled each other out with the user's leisure return points, and Lu Yu even made a small profit of 100 points.
Through this incident, Lu Yu thought that the way to earn points in the Leisurely Lying Win System is becoming more and more high-end and complex, and it can no longer be speculated with common sense.
When browsing the system light screen, one record made Lu Yu laugh and cry:
[150,000 Taoyuan Township users felt admiration for the host when watching the host's interview on TV, and their mood was excited and happy, Leisure Points +720]
Lu Yu couldn't understand a bit. Could it be that admiring someone can also generate pleasure?
What are these fans thinking...
Besides, what is there to admire about me?
I am precisely the representative of lying flat and slacking off, and the opposite of many company bosses. What's the use of admiring me?
...
After Lu Yu left the bathroom and sat back on the sofa, he looked at the program guests on TV who were praising him with flying saliva and looked blank.
He finally couldn't help but ask Liu Mengyuan beside him:
"Um... do you think what this expert said is true? Am I really as exaggerated as the TV says?"
"No." Liu Mengyuan shook her head.
Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Girl, you still understand me.
Unexpectedly, Liu Mengyuan continued:
"Where is it exaggerated? On the contrary, I think what he said is still conservative."
Liu Mengyuan's beautiful eyes stared at Lu Yu's profile with a look of relief.
In fact, what the expert on TV said was just a superficial generalization, and she quite understood that the most fundamental reason why Taoyuan Township can achieve its current success is that it relies on Lu Yu's enthusiasm for his career!
Although this kid usually doesn't say anything, he is very concerned about the development of his career and employees!
Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why his inadvertent pointers can be so perfectly connected.
To put it bluntly, her bottom-line system golden finger will not motivate employees to fight. Her golden finger is just an amplifier.
If employees slack off, then the golden finger will make employees slack off even more, and vice versa.
Therefore, Lu Yu's personal charm and various god-level decisions are the core reason why Taoyuan Township is now making its peers want to die.
"It's still conservative?"
Even Liu Mengyuan said so, Lu Yu has begun to doubt his life.
...
How could he be as involuted as the host said?
Calmly reviewing, Lu Yu does only a few things every day when he goes to work:
After arriving at the company in the morning, he stretches and yawns, first eats potato chips and snacks, drinks fat house happy water, and watches movies and dramas.
If he sits for too long and gets tired, he goes downstairs to work out and play ball. After sweating all over, he goes to the first floor to soak in a hot spring and enjoy a SPA water therapy massage.
After this set, it's basically noon, and he's hungry.
After soaking in the hot spring, he goes to the restaurant floor to taste the new skills that Teacher Fan Jing is working on.
After lunch, he goes back to his workstation to put down the small bed and takes a beautiful nap.
After waking up from the nap, it's already past two o'clock. He will first go to the bookstore floor to pick out the latest game software and beauty magazines.
He will be leisurely until 3 o'clock in the afternoon tea time. He will come to the employee office area on time to watch the Tangtang sisters and the occasionally refreshed Milk Candy, and conduct on-site activities to develop and encourage employees, laugh at the LSP's being crazy burst points, and by the way, eat some afternoon tea and fruit snacks.
After eating, he plays the games he just bought from the bookstore at his workstation, or goes to the gashapon machine on the fifth floor to try his luck.
After doing these things, it's already past four o'clock, close to get off work.
He will first briefly inspect the office area to see if any employees are working too saturated, especially those employees who are still crazy burst points at their workstations when they are about to get off work are his key capture targets.
After catching the small involution king, it's 5 o'clock. He goes downstairs to eat dinner, wipes his mouth and goes home.
The daily life of the company boss is so simple, unpretentious and boring.
Moreover, the most important thing is that in other companies, some bosses are so peaceful because their employees are carrying the burden for him.
But Lu Yu is different. He can't wait for all the employees in the company to live such a boring life like him.
Why can't these employees understand what he means?
If the system rules didn't prohibit exposing the existence of the system, he would have confessed to these employees long ago, and then everyone would have worked together to harvest the system's wool.
Hey, so angry!
...
After stabilizing his emotions again, Lu Yu felt that the first thing to avoid now is loss of control!
Because, in terms of deducting points, the system will not have any special preferential treatment. The point deduction ratio is exactly the same as the point earning ratio.
Points come quickly, and deductions are also fast!
Therefore, he must ensure that there will be no uncontrollable large-scale involution events within the company.
It's okay now. He can use his own coquettish operations to make the earned points and the deducted points cancel each other out.
But what about in the future?
There are more and more people in the company, and it is no longer realistic to stalk them one by one.
We must find a way to expand the source of Leisure Points income...
Just then, a cat food advertisement was being broadcast on TV.
After Lu Yu watched it, he suddenly remembered the scene of taking his employees to Mao Zhi Ming to pet cats before.
At that time, the employees' expressions were quite enjoyable, and those cat attendants had a "combo" effect on many employees.
In this round of the cycle, the system turntable lottery previously gave him a "Cat's Golden Age" buff, which he hasn't used much yet.
Why not directly incorporate Mao Zhi Ming and make cat petting a daily benefit of the company?
After all, it is related to the great cause of earning Leisure Points. There should be no delay. Let's do it!
Lu Yu took out his mobile phone, took out the business card left by Lin Ming, the boss of Mao Zhi Ming, and dialed the number on it.
...
At the same time, a high-end apartment in Jiangdong District, Jianghai City.
Candy, the operations director of Leopard Tooth Live, is watching the live broadcast of "Electronic Sports World" on TV.
She sat on the large sofa, holding a cup of coffee in her hand, and the live broadcast of "Electronic Sports World" was playing on the big screen.
Staring at the host on the TV screen, talking eloquently and praising Taoyuan Township and President Lu, a burst of frustration and annoyance surged in her heart.
Her fingers clenched the cup unconsciously, and she didn't even realize that the coffee had completely cooled down.
She originally thought that in this battle with Taoyuan Guangnian, all she needed to deal with was the simple-minded Tangtang sisters.
In addition, the Liu Group itself had a good relationship with those partners. Wasn't it a sure thing to win Taoyuan Guangnian?
She never expected that President Lu would come out halfway and kill her in the opposite direction, leaving her with no armor!
Recently, the traffic of those little fresh meats signed by Leopard Tooth Live has been completely sucked away by Xia Shuheng of Taoyuan Guangnian.
Those variety shows made by Leopard Tooth Live have also been sucked away by the Chasing Light Project public welfare variety show of Taoyuan Guangnian, and even the partners have been turned back by the way...
Game live broadcasts are even more unnecessary to say.
Originally, in the previous round of competition, Youyi Company was a loser under "Free Mouth Cannon Life."
Once Taoyuan Guangnian broadcasts "Mouth Cannon Life", wouldn't that attract all the players...
Jia Xin Tang was caught off guard by the opponent's combination punches. After listening to the analysis of the program's guests, she suddenly understood and felt a chill run down her spine, instinctively hugging her arms.
So, everything was within this President Lu's expectations.
She thought she was the hunter, but she had long become the prey in the eyes of others.
Patient, meticulous, and delivering a fatal blow—what a terrifying enemy!
She originally held a slight contempt for the Tangtang sisters, but now, that contempt had turned into a deep-seated dread.
The feeling of being crushed by an opponent in business gave her an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.
The corners of her mouth trembled slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she just pursed her lips, unwilling to let tears well up.
Gently wiping the corners of her eyes, Jia Xin Tang patted her cheeks, trying to cheer herself up.
Alright, Tang Wanru, it seems your sisters have found an extraordinary backer.
But!
This matter is not over!
No matter how strong your backer is, they can't be stronger than Liu Lan, the chairman of Liu's Group.
When it comes to comparing backgrounds and patrons, this lady won't lose!
Jia Xin Tang took out her phone and opened a new event page.
The end of the year is approaching, and the Leopard Tooth Live's annual live streaming gala is about to begin.
The live streaming platform is all about traffic, and the amount of traffic depends on the depth of the platform's streamer lineup.
When the top streamers of Leopard Tooth Live gather, it is bound to ignite a frenzy among fans.
Jia Xin Tang felt that as long as this live streaming gala was more lively than Taoyuan Guangnian and other competitors like Douyu, it would definitely be foolproof to attract back the lost traffic.
Heh, President Lu of Peach Garden Homes, just wait and see.
Jia Xin Tang frowned and drank her coffee, a glint flashing in her eyes.
...
Monday.
Jianghai City University Town Pedestrian Street, Meow's Tea.
Last weekend, Lu Yu contacted Lin Ming to discuss investing in and acquiring shares.
The other party was very happy, so both parties agreed to discuss the matter in detail on Monday.
But upon arriving at the entrance of Meow's Tea, he found that the atmosphere of this cat cafe was a bit off today.
Several black Audi A6L luxury business cars were parked at the entrance.
Pushing open the door of Meow's Tea, a row of well-dressed, black-sunglass-wearing burly men stood in front of the counter, like black-clad soldiers guarding an important stronghold.
The cats in the store were so frightened that they huddled in a corner of the store, trembling.
Lin Ming faced the row of men in black, her face revealing a trace of helplessness and worry.
The leading middle-aged man, who looked extremely dignified, said in a low voice:
"Miss Lin Ming, you should understand that the offer from our Liu's Commercial Company is already very generous.
In the future, all the shops near this block will become part of Liu's Commercial Plaza.
Keeping this shop in your own hands will only lead to a slow death.
Now, we are giving you one last choice: transfer this shop, or... it can only end up losing everything under the siege of Liu's Group."
His gaze, hidden behind sunglasses, swept over Lin Ming like the chilling wind of winter.