Chapter 838: Chapter 348: Throwing a Meat Bun to a Dog (Part 2)

Oh, by the way, we need to pay attention to the code that President Han gives, and then take out contracts of different levels...

The clients of Supernova One can generally be divided into three categories.

The first category includes old friends like Panzi and Little Dou. The company has privatized and cleared the funds, and the cooperation is very pleasant, so we must leave enough quota for the new product for them.

Of course, it’s actually not that sufficient...

Jin Meilun wants to invest 500 million, which surely isn’t all her own money, but Han Lie only gave a quota of 200 million for now.

Old Huang, the fat sheep, wants to invest 300 million, and Han Lie was about to cut it in half when Old Huang hinted behind closed doors, "It’s not all my money, that person..."

Han Lie nonchalantly made a phone call to Huang Xing, not discussing business, but casually asked an unrelated question at the end:

"Huang Xing, has that outstanding niece of yours who graduated from the University of Sydney found a job yet? I’m very much in need of talented people here. I ran into Mr. Huang today, and it suddenly reminded me of this talented young lady..."

"Hahahaha!"

Huang Xing burst into a hearty laugh and then declined.

"No, no, no, I know too well what level my niece is at... We have a lot of cooperation coming up, and letting her work at your place is inappropriate both publicly and privately.

Let my second brother take care of it for now. He usually handles family affairs like managing people and money, I can trust him with these small matters..."

Got it, understood!

After hanging up, Han Lie directly gave Old Huang a 300 million quota, and it was the top distribution plan.

Dou Mingde, Principal Zhang, and Liu Minghao, naturally no need to mention, fully satisfied.

Little Dou found it hard to come up with 100 million, reportedly mortgaging two houses and two shops, and borrowing a lot from relatives.

But this guy wasn’t anxious at all, carefree as he signed the contract, smilingly saying, "Haha, business is handled! Lie, when can you find some free time? Let’s take a spin around the Hong Kong Club, I just met a new little buddy, playing really well with Er Mao Heavy Industries, and he has a big bunch of Er Mao models..."

Oh boy, if you’re going to talk about this, I’m definitely not sleepy anymore...

Rogue Lie asked with great interest, "Regular army?"

Dou Mingde chuckled and lowered his voice, "The source is definitely regular! But that little buddy... he’s somewhere between regular and irregular, you know..."

Han Lie absolutely understood.

In 2013, 2014, due to the explosive growth of online shopping, it spurred a large number of small and medium-sized clothing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta that urgently needed flat models.

This, in turn, led to the rapid expansion of the modeling industry.

Han Lie’s harem department now has an endless list of clothing photoshoot orders every day.

According to conditions, 100 sets can fetch 1500 to 3000. Anything higher requires certain fame.

And it was at this time that models from Eastern Europe were introduced into the domestic market on a large scale.

They were cheap, obedient, hardy, and easy to control...much more popular than domestic college students.

Just how cheap?

Top-notch appearance, stunning long legs, only 3000 yuan a day.

Even so, the modeling agency would take half first, and then deduct training fees, management fees, transit fees, room and board, leaving them with just 500 yuan was considered kindhearted.

This resulted in a phenomenon—so long as there’s no language barrier in communication, they’re much easier to court than any so-called campus beauties domestically, and much more obedient, compliant, and loyal.

The only issue is...

You need the ability to relax the brokerage company’s control over them.

A good portion of those who could bring people into China were real brokers dispatched from regular international modeling companies, while another portion had tendencies akin to human traffickers, acting as international middlemen.

The former merely saw the domestic market as a stepping stone, leading the models step by step to upgrade to Japan and South Korea, then New York, then Paris...

The latter was not only difficult to deal with but also ruthless.

Yet both had roughly the same level of protection for models, as after all, they were their money trees.

So in a previous life, Han Lie had only heard people talk about it but had never seen an ordinary person successfully court an Eastern European model. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Of course, the correct understanding of the term "money tree" should be...as long as the money is in place, anything is possible.

Han Lie understood, and gave Dou Mingde a wink.

"OK, let’s wait until we’re done with this busy period, indeed we brothers haven’t gone out for some gourmet food and drinks for a long time..."

"Sure, brother will arrange it, just wait to be amazed!"

Oh good grief, the hierarchy obviously is getting more and more messed up...

Next, even Principal Zhang managed to come up with 100 million.

Han Lie was extremely puzzled, "Where did you get the money from? Don’t tell me you sold your house?"

Old Zhang naturally lowered his voice as well, whispering, "I only have 60 million, my coffin money! The remaining 40 million was pooled together by several old friends from the Shanghai Foreign Studies University, who and who... what do you think? Can I have this favor?"

Han Lie paid no heed to those titles that sounded grand, just some vice presidents and deans.

Publicly speaking, the heads from Shanghai Foreign Studies couldn’t really help his business, but privately speaking, exchanging a few tens of millions for their favor is totally worth it!

Looking at it from a long-term perspective, if any children of friends or partners in the future want to apply for university or graduate school but don’t seek the right assistance, with just one sentence we can solve it, isn’t it a display of ability and connections?

"Your favor, I definitely have to give it to you! Alright, 100 million OK, sign it!"