Imposter Young Master
Chapter 567 - 571: Finally Going to be Useful_1

Chapter 567: Chapter 571: Finally Going to be Useful_1

"Study hard. Your father is the CEO of our Yang Group, representing the image of our corporation. Many banquets require us to bring family members along, and as the spouse of General Manager Li, you, too, would represent the image of our Yang Group at such occasions." Yang Gang said with a light smile.

"Okay." Li Ziyan behaved very obediently today.

After Li Ziyan and Qian Yan left, Li Kun looked at Yang Gang gratefully, "Young Master Yang, ever since you educated her last time, she has been much more disciplined. Tell me, how did you manage that?"

He missed the scene where Yang Gang disciplined Li Ziyan last time as he arrived late.

Yang Gang suppressed a smirk while thinking to himself: "General Manager Li, you’re better off not knowing."

Pulling himself together, he gave a light-hearted laugh, "We just had a talk about manners. Your daughter isn’t all bad, quite easy to instruct."

"Oh. Thank you." Li Kun said, then after a brief pause, "Young Master Yang, I can’t help but notice that something seems different about you this time."

"Hm..really? Have I become more smooth-talking? I wasn’t kidding about the ten million year-end bonus I mentioned just now." Yang Gang said with a laugh.

"No." Li Kun shook his head, "I just feel like you’ve somehow become more mature."

Yang Gang chuckled, "I’ve gone through a lot recently and understood many things. Let’s discuss business now."

Li Kun nodded. He took a folder out of his briefcase and handed it to Yang Gang, "Young Master Yang, this is our Yang Group’s financial report for the past month."

Yang Gang flipped through the report while saying, "Both the corporate sales revenue and net profit have increased by more than thirty percent, not bad. Hm? Panda Fish Plaza and Panda Fish Online Shopping Mall, are these e-commerce ventures?"

Li Kun nodded, "This is a new project I spearheaded, focusing on local online shopping. The price of coal has been falling since a few years ago and is still on a downward trend. Our mining business is barely breaking even. If the price of coal continues to drop, or if there’s another major incident like the mine flooding last time, the mining business will inevitably decline, impacting the overall performance of the group."

Li Kun paused, then continued, "The pan-entertainment business, after your initial restructuring efforts, has been gradually turning losses into profits. However, any further significant breakthrough in profits is unlikely. The only promising part within the pan-entertainment business is the Dream Elf Entertainment Brokerage Company. The artist they’re promoting, Murong Liuli, has successfully used her platform as a model on Taobao to break into the film and television industry, and her popularity continues to skyrocket."

"Huh? Has Murong Liuli debuted already?" Yang Gang was slightly surprised.

"Yes. Murong Liuli is currently filming her first feature film under director Chen Honggang," Li Kun said.

"Ah, so that eccentric director finally got moving." Yang Gang nodded, "Carry on."

"With the real estate market downturn, one of Yang Group’s three core businesses, the property business, has seen a significant decline in profits. I believe this industry is stepping into a cold winter. Under such circumstances, I feel it’s necessary to develop new profit-making businesses. After much consideration, I chose e-commerce. Firstly, the local online shopping market in Hangcheng is large, but there are no vertical e-tailers, so there’s a gap in the market. Secondly, Hangcheng is not far from Shencheng, the country’s largest city, meaning transport is convenient, and it’s also easy to cover the Shencheng market. Thirdly, Hangcheng’s city leaders strongly support this project as they hope to make the Panda Fish Shopping Mall as iconic as Wanda Plaza. Fourthly.."

Li Kun paused and laughed, "Fourthly, because no other enterprise in Hangcheng has registered the trademark ’Panda Fish’."

"Is there something special about this trademark?" Yang Gang asked curiously.

"Er, Young Master Yang, didn’t you know? Hangcheng is the biggest producer of panda fish. Just as the panda is symbolic to Sichuan, the panda fish is symbolic to Hangcheng. We locals love this pet fish that looks like a panda. Using the panda fish logo as a trademark naturally attracts people in Hangcheng." Li Kun explained.

"Ah, smart," Yang Gang nodded.

"However.." Li Kun hesitated.

"What’s wrong?"

"We had our eyes on a spot for the Panda Fish Plaza. It used to be vacant land in an urban village with an excellent location. We’ve discussed the relocation agreement with the villagers, but they backed out as we were about to officially sign the contract. I had someone look into it and found that the Song family from the Jinyang Group interfered. Among the Top Ten Families in Hangcheng: the Ling family, the Gao family, the Xia family, the Qin family, the Yang family, the Tong family, the Huang family, the Liu family, and the Song family of the Jinyang Group, the Song family is middle-ranked and not as strong as the Xia, Gao, and Huang families, but they’re still stronger than us, the Yang family. This matter is complicated. I’ve asked someone else to search for other locations, but we probably won’t find a better spot."

"The Song family?" Yang Gang tapped his chin, deep in thought, "The Song family? If I’m not mistaken, I have a lurid photograph of Song Jiang’s wife, Tang Yan. She’s one of the inheritors of the Jinyang Group. The man in the photograph is the Huang family’s heir, Huang Tianlin."

A little over two months ago, Yang Gang had accidentally intruded on Huang Tianlin and Tang Yan in the middle of the night. He used an infrared camera to capture the erotic photographer. Afterward, the photograph had not come in handy, but now it seemed he would have a use for it.

"Hmm~ women with ’Yan’ in their name sure aren’t easy to deal with." Yang Gang silently commented to himself.

He composed himself, then looked at Li Kun and casually said, "Leave this matter to me. You just prepare to break ground."

"Okay, I understand." Although Li Kun felt that Yang Gang’s youth and lack of connections would make it difficult to handle the matter, he inexplicably trusted Yang Gang.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "Young Master Yang, about Qian Yan."

Yang Gang smiled, "You’ve been unable to let go of your wife, haven’t you? Qian Yan made a mistake, but this lesson should be enough to inspire her to reflect on her actions. Plus, wouldn’t Ziyan be the happiest if you got back together? I’ll take care of the matter about Chen Xinfan and your sister-in-law’s divorce."

"Young Master Yang, thank you very much." Li Kun stood up, bowed deeply to Yang Gang.

Yang Gang laughed, "Alright, we’ve talked about business for half the day. I’m hungry now, let’s order."

..

At ten o’clock at night, at the headquarters of Love and World Peace.

"Shitou, Qingjiao, you guys handle Chen Xinfan. No matter what method you use, make him divorce Qian Yan." Yang Gang said casually.

"Got it, boss." Shitou and Qingjiao left the headquarters right away.

"Brother Feng, how’s the situation in Hangcheng right now?" Yang Gang asked again.

"Everything’s still good. Our ’Love and World Peace’ has been gradually rising in the arena of international smuggling. Just this week, we received three businesses, worth around fifty million. I’ve recruited a large number of peripheral members, although the core members remain the same." Yang Feng replied.

Yang Feng no longer served as Yang Gang’s private driver, but had taken full responsibility for managing the arms organization.

"How’s the security of the Yang family?" Yang Gang asked again.

"Hm, everything’s going well, we haven’t found any attacks targeted at the Yang family yet. But.." Yang Feng hesitated, then said, "But there’s an extra person secretly following the second young mistress. But it seems like that person is protecting her. Is that one of the bodyguards you assigned?"