High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 659: Chapter 280: Xue, Come and Learn This Once_2

There’s no problem with putting shackles on a small employee, since a small employee doesn’t have much power in the first place.

All data on Li Yang’s end can be traced. Any issues will be evident from the data.

Of course, discrepancies of a few tens or hundreds of thousands might not be easily noticed, but when it comes to tens or even hundreds of millions, the office system will automatically flag suspicious data and send it to him.

The cost of each project at the company has long been registered in the system.

No matter how shrewd a person is, they can’t guarantee that they won’t make a single mistake with a long string of numbers, but the system can.

The suppliers for Extreme Shadow Cars are all negotiated independently, with no need to bribe the company executives.

The only thing that can be bribed is the quantity of orders...

Li Yang glanced at this year’s sales figures. So far, 190,000 cars have been delivered, just under 200,000.

There are still more than 30,000 orders, which won’t all be delivered in the last month, leaving over 10,000 cars to wait until January.

This year’s orders are just that many. Although the new car release date hasn’t been announced, many people know Extreme Shadow Cars’ habits, and from November, the order volume starts to drastically decrease.

Those who wanted to buy have already bought, after all, the sooner you buy, the sooner you enjoy, and their points have started to be cashed in.

They are still far from the target of 500,000 cars.

After a while, Bai Qing sent him some information.

"Honey, do you know how much the exclusive broadcast rights for the PCL Spring Tournament are worth?"

"How much?"

"Sixteen billion! But I didn’t sell it exclusively. I licensed it to six streaming platforms, each for 2.5 billion."

"Not bad."

"Although we earned one billion less, at least we can ensure viewership ratings. Otherwise, it would have become a means for some platform to draw traffic. Plus, the other regions also bring in quite a bit. Just the global broadcast rights for a Spring Tournament can bring in thirty billion. Last year, the same Spring Tournament only brought in five billion globally."

The global tournaments this year brought in such high traffic that all the major platforms benefited, and one of them wanted exclusivity for an astronomical sixteen billion.

If Aurora Studio had agreed, that platform would have drawn in over ten million views easily.

Gaining ten million views isn’t a loss, twenty million is a small profit, and thirty million is a big win.

However, Bai Qing didn’t agree, preferring to earn one billion less and pay a bit more in costs rather than let the tournament become exclusive to one platform, as that would gradually decrease viewership numbers.

If only one platform has the broadcast and doesn’t sublicense to other platforms, it essentially sets up a viewership barrier.

In essence, they drew from League of Legends’ popularity. This year’s exclusive broadcast rights for the LOL Spring Tournament didn’t even sell for three billion compared to last year’s five billion.

Li Yang said, "Then the Summer Tournament also needs to be around fifty billion."

"And there’s the Intercontinental Competition; although it’s not a long event, it still counts as an international tournament."

Bai Qing felt like she did nothing and somehow succeeded.

Even though PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds costs money, Aurora Studio can still earn hundreds of billions a year through tournaments, comparable to 2015’s LOL.

That year, LOL was at its peak, and the previous year, Li Yang’s championship win boosted the game’s popularity another notch.

Riot Games profited thirteen billion US Dollar that year, and Penguin Game hugely benefited as well.

The cost of running tournaments isn’t cheap, around ten billion a year, with nearly two thousand global employees.

But a single Intercontinental Competition can break even, and the Spring and Summer Tournaments and the World Championships are pure profit.

This only accounts for broadcasting fees; sponsorship fees are also significant.

Li Yang managed to secure NVIDIA, which averages 240 million US Dollar a year in sponsorship, along with three main sponsors at around six billion, and several other sponsors combined equal several billion.

Li Yang said, "I think you could do well. Why were you so passive at Green Water Group?"

"Um...maybe I just wasn’t that interested. Now I’m only interested in games and you, honey."

"What about the kids? Are you giving up on them?"

"I feel like the kids are closer to my aunt."

"Of course, Chen Peipei is with them all year, and you only accompany them for a few days."

"Hehe, honey, are you in Jiangbei? If you are, I have a gift for you..."

"Uh...I’ll come over the day after tomorrow...I have guests now, need to discuss something, I’ll talk to you later."

After Li Yang finished speaking, he saw the secretary bringing Ye Bingcheng in.

His private contact with Ye Bingcheng had decreased a lot, and they mostly meet in public settings.

"Congratulations, President Li."

Bingcheng first offered congratulations as he entered, without specifying what he was congratulating for.

Did he mean Li Yang winning second at the World Championships, or the fact that Extreme Shadow Cars’ orders surpassed 200,000 this year...

Li Yang smiled and replied, "I should be the one congratulating Director Ye."

Ye Bingcheng is about to get promoted.

Previously, he was only considered a vice ting, but after the new year, he’ll be a full ting.

This one word difference is a barrier that many people can’t cross in a lifetime, yet he did it in just three years.

Because of Extreme Shadow Cars, the number of Jiangbei enterprises with over 10 billion production value increased by 12% in three years, a growth rate never seen before in Jiangbei.

Of course, production value doesn’t represent profit, and quite a few companies are still losing money.

But production value represents jobs and employment.

The more the losses, the better, as long as the company’s shareholders aren’t embezzling, that money is spread among the employees.

"Haha, it’s just that the work has increased a bit, nothing else. I’m here this time because I heard that Extreme Shadow Cars’ orders are declining. Due to the production line, it’s estimated that there will be several thousand surplus inventory cars, and it’s just right that there’s a batch of government cars in Jiangbei that need to be scrapped. So I came to talk to Extreme Shadow Cars for a good deal, and it’s okay to slightly lower the configuration."