Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 134 I'm just saving costs, do you want to make a profit?
After Li Xu was confirmed as the chief conductor of the Management College for the chorus competition, the first thing he had to do was to actually make the plan he had drawn at the conference a reality, that is, the fresh arrangement.

Of course, Li Xu would not work on this alone behind closed doors. Although it could be done by spending some time and energy, it was not necessary.

The next morning, Li Xu called Ye Ruida and said, "Something happened."

Ye Ruida said lazily on the other end of the phone, "I'm busy with a math project lately. If it's not a project worth tens of millions, don't contact me."

This sentence obviously has the meaning of showing off.

Li Xu laughed and scolded, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and even you, Ye Ruida with thick eyebrows and big eyes, are talking to me like this!"

Ye Ruida remained unmoved and said perfunctorily, "Let's talk about the matter."

Li Xu sighed and said, "Since you're not interested and you're so busy, forget it. I'll find a professional to help me with this. Our college is participating in a chorus competition, and I'm going to put old music in new bottles. I'll choose a popular song and re-arrange it. You can continue to work on your project, and I won't bother you."

After Li Xu said this, he hung up the phone without waiting for Ye Ruida's response.

Then he put his cell phone on the table and counted silently "one, two, three". When he counted to three, the phone rang again as expected.

Li Xu slowly picked up the phone and said, "What's the matter? You're a busy man."

Ye Ruida said solemnly, "Compared to mathematics, I'm more interested in arranging music. Come pick me up! Didn't you just buy a new car? I'm in the dormitory."

Li Xu, taking advantage of the situation, deliberately asked doubtfully, "Isn't this a bad idea? I'm sorry that I've delayed your research."

Ye Ruida said dissatisfiedly, "Stop it, come and pick me up quickly, the musical cells in my body are about to ignite."

Li Xu burst into laughter.

There are actually quite a few people who buy cars in the School of Management. There is a small parking lot next to their dormitory, which is filled with cars of all sizes.

This is also why people from other colleges think that people from the School of Management are a concentration camp of beautiful, rich, tall, wealthy and handsome people.

Although Li Xu did not buy an expensive supercar, his AMG is still very eye-catching.

The sunlight was a little dazzling, so Li Xu took out his sunglasses and put them on after getting in the car.

Slowly roll down the car window with anti-peep film and move the car while looking at the rearview mirror.

At this moment, a crisp "dong" sound was suddenly heard, followed by the laughter of two girls.

Li Xu turned his head and saw a girl squatting on the ground not far away, covering her forehead with her hands and crying, while two girls next to her were laughing so hard that they were bent over.

One of them said to Li Xu, "Look, Manhua, you didn't look at the road ahead and bumped into the iron pole of the road sign."

Only then did Li Xu see clearly that the girl squatting on the ground was Xiang Manhua.

Li Xu coughed, quickly rolled up the car window, pretended not to see it, and drove away.

If Xiang Manhua were to be comforted in this situation, it might make her even more embarrassed. Li Xu couldn't help but touch his face. Was he really that handsome?

……

Li Xu picked up Ye Ruida in the car, then contacted a recording studio and drove there.

In the car, he told Ye Ruida about his ideas.

The more Ye Ruida listened, the brighter his eyes became. He said admiringly, "Brother, you are so talented in music. If we don't start a band together in college, it would be a shame for your talent."

Li Xu glanced at him unhappily, holding the steering wheel and said, "Who said I have talent? Don't say such things in front of others in the future."

Li Xu is very clear about his own musical abilities, but he only has some basic knowledge of music theory and arrangement, and has taken advantage of his experience in his previous life. If he wants to make a name for himself in this field, it will not be enough.

After all, music is different from other fields. It is not the case that things in the future are better. Compared with the music of the future a few years ago, it can even be said to have regressed. It’s just that some individual arrangement concepts will appear more amazing when used in the right place.

In the following days, Li Xu asked Ye Ruida to help him compose music.

Compared to himself, Ye Ruida's enthusiasm was obviously more intense.

Their School of Computer Science always comes last in singing competitions, and the student union doesn't pay much attention to activities like singing competitions and ballroom dancing competitions.

After all, it was an academy with more boys than girls. In comparison, this kind of choir competition was not as interesting as playing basketball, so Ye Ruida had no room to display his talents.

Ye Ruida often complained to Li Xu that his talents were not being fully utilized in the School of Computer Science.

Li Xu got tired of listening to him and complained to him, "Then why don't you change your major? With your level, no matter which college you go to, they'll want you."

This is the truth. This is the charm of mathematics. As long as it involves science and engineering, no matter which subject, mathematics is necessary. Being good at mathematics is helpful for most science and engineering majors.

Ye Ruida chuckled twice. It was enough for him to complain. If he really wanted to change his major, it wouldn't come to that.

With the help of Ye Ruida, a demo of the new arrangement was produced a few days later.

Li Xu took the accompaniment tape to find Liu Xueqin and Yin Qinqin.

I have to say that these two girls are indeed the most professional in the field of music.

Li Xu gave them the accompaniment tape, and they quickly put forward suggestions for revision from a professional perspective.

With the joint efforts of the three, two days later, this new version of the red song, which was arranged and rearranged by themselves, was successfully released.

And the next step is for the convener to practice repeatedly.

The difference between college and high school is that students do not have a fixed place for activities, which makes it impossible for students to form a collective basis, and it is easy to form small groups based on dormitories.

Fortunately, the School of Management is indeed wealthy, and there is a special classroom in the school provided for the choir. Naturally, this was arranged by the school student union, which saved Li Xu a lot of trouble.

If there is no fixed practice place, he will have to spend some time contacting and coordinating a classroom or other venue.

Now that the venue and accompaniment were ready, Li Xu arranged for Yin Qinqin and Liu Xueqin to fully organize the training.

Things went smoothly, and after a few days, the prototype of their chorus had taken shape.

Next, Liu Xueqin or other students can put forward any ideas they have, and hold a small meeting every few days to continuously improve their stage performance.

Everything was going smoothly, and with one week left before the choir competition, their costumes were finalized, but as expected, an accident happened.

It's a Friday and tomorrow was originally a day off.

Liu Xueqin stood on the podium and first summarized the recent training results. She said very pertinently, "Everyone's training has been very effective, so tomorrow morning's training will be changed to a rest period."

This caused a round of applause from the audience. It was really inappropriate to mention sad things during such a happy time, but Shen Mobai had to stand up.

He slowly walked up to the podium and reported on the expenditure as usual. He said, "Last week, our expenditure was mainly used to purchase drinking water, a total of 630 yuan."

He hesitated for a moment as he flipped through the account book before slowly speaking, "I have some bad news to report to everyone."

When they heard the bad news, everyone fell silent and the scene suddenly became much quieter.

Shen Mobai looked at the account book and said in a deep voice, "The budget given to us by the Student Union has been cut a lot. It seems that the sponsorship we got this year was not very ideal."

Shen Mobai raised his head and said, "The budget we were given is only 70% of previous years, but this year our choir has grown by 30 people, reaching 100."

Shen Mobai quickly flipped through the account book again, then said in a deep voice, "In previous years, each person was budgeted 300 yuan for clothing purchases, but this year we only have..."

Shen Mobai smiled bitterly, "Ninety yuan."

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene suddenly became an uproar.

Yin Qinqin frowned and muttered quietly, "What kind of clothes can you buy with 90 yuan? This is too outrageous."

Liu Xueqin participated in the last chorus competition. The quality of the costumes that cost 300 yuan was not very good. She couldn't even imagine what the texture and style of the 90 yuan costumes would be like.

The kind of stage performance that I originally imagined would probably be difficult to achieve.

Li Xu thought silently for a long time, watching everyone in the classroom talking about it.

Some people suggested, "If it's really not possible, just reduce the number of people. After all, there are still some individuals who don't want to participate." However, this suggestion was quickly opposed by Yin Qinqin, who said, "We've always arranged the performance for 99 people. It would be too troublesome to have to re-arrange the formation if one person is missing. Besides, everyone has trained for so long, and in the end, will you be willing to not go on stage?"

Someone else said, "Why don't we crowdfund it ourselves? After all, who in the School of Management can't cough up two or three hundred yuan?"

After this was said, many people fell silent. Although it was true that most people present could indeed come up with two or three hundred yuan, it was still an academy activity after all, and it was a bit strange to ask students to pay for it themselves.

"Or else just rent one."

But this proposal was quickly rejected. First of all, starting from the first choir competition where they won the championship, they had to purchase choir costumes, which almost became a label of their management school.

Because they are clothes purchased independently, firstly, they are new, and secondly, they are unique and will not be reused.

There are many children from wealthy families in the School of Management. If they were asked to rent a set of clothes, many of them would definitely turn hostile.

But what better solution is there at the moment? So even though they knew this option was not very reasonable, no one proposed a better solution for a while.

At this moment, Li Xu spoke with the final word. He looked at Shen Mobai and then said seriously to everyone, "Everyone, continue to rehearse well during this period. I will figure out the costumes. Mobai, you stay for a while."

Shen Mobai nodded.

Li Xu was not in a hurry to discuss directly with Shen Mobai how to solve the clothing issue.

After everyone left, Li Xu casually asked, "What do you like to eat?"

Shen Mobai thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat noodles."

Li Xu nodded and said, "Okay, let's go eat noodles."

The two came to the noodle shop window of the second canteen and each ordered a bowl of beef noodles.

While waiting, Li Xu looked at the fluorescent pen in Shen Mobai's chest pocket with some curiosity.

Shen Mobai is definitely the most distinctive person he has ever met. This guy always has three pens and a small notebook stuck in his chest.

When he manages the accounts, he can always keenly notice the abnormal numbers in the accounts, and then mark them with different colors. If there are many abnormalities, he will look at those abnormal numbers and quickly build something systematic in his mind. This is a talent, but it is probably also related to long-term and extensive training.

Li Xu was very curious why Shen Mobai seemed so experienced in finance at such a young age.

In fact, Li Xu had already found a solution to the problem of insufficient clothing budget for the college choir. The reason why he called Shen Mobai was not because of the clothing funds, but because he wanted to get to know Shen Mobai better.

Li Xu asked casually, "Tell me your solution."

Shen Mobai looked at Li Xu with some surprise, then asked, "Why are you so sure that I have a way to solve this problem?"

Li Xu smiled faintly. Just then, the number was called at the window. Li Xu held down Shen Mobai, who was about to stand up, and said, "I'll just go over and get it."

Li Xu came over with two bowls of noodles and sat down again. At this time, Shen Mobai had sorted out his thoughts and slowly said, "I do have an immature idea that should be able to solve the current crisis. Uh, it should be considered a crisis."

He quickly added.

Li Xu nodded, opened a pair of disposable chopsticks, stirred the noodles, and waited silently for Shen Mobai to speak.

Shen Mobai didn't move his chopsticks. He looked at Li Xu and spoke slowly, "To be honest, when the student union just told me that the funding was cut, I really wanted to curse. The average person has less than 100 yuan, which is not enough to buy curtain fabric. This is simply not a task that a human can accomplish. Last year, they bought a set of clothes for 288 yuan. This year, our standards are only higher than last year."

Shen Mobai paused for a moment, then his expression became somewhat serious, and his eyes gradually revealed a hint of confidence. He said, "Then is there any way to buy clothes worth two or three hundred yuan with a cost of one hundred yuan? The answer is yes."

Li Xu nodded, motioning him to continue.

Shen Mobai continued, "The answer is to split it up. If you split the clothes you buy into many pieces, the cost will be greatly reduced. If you slightly lower your clothing requirements and buy the bow tie, shirt, belt, and pants you need at the wholesale market at the cheapest prices, it should still be enough."

As he spoke, Shen Mobai showed Li Xu the results of his previous market research. He opened the small notebook he carried with him and said, "Here are the lowest prices for these parts in the wholesale market. Take a look."

Li Xu picked up the notebook and read through it carefully while eating noodles.

After a moment, he slowly closed the notebook and pushed it over slowly.

Shen Mobai was confused and didn't know whether Li Xu would adopt his idea, but this was indeed the only cost-saving method he could think of as a financial person.

Li Xu smiled and said, "Let's eat first. I'll tell you my opinion after we finish eating."

Shen Mobai was silent for a moment, nodded, and started eating noodles.

After Shen Mobai finished the bowl of noodles, Li Xu wiped his mouth and said seriously, "From a cost perspective, this is indeed a solution, but it can be done even better."

Shen Mobai remained silent. He really couldn't think of any better way.

Li Xu said, "You know, the core contradiction of our difficulties is not that we don't save enough, but that we don't have enough money. So to solve this problem, we have to consider increasing the budget."

Shen Mobai frowned and said, "The student union can't possibly give us more budget. I've told them that, but they have a lot of expenses for their activities, so they can only give us this much."

Li Xu smiled slightly and said, "The student union still relies on external sponsorship for its money. If they can ask for sponsorship, we should also be more open-minded and not just think about asking the student union for money."

Then Li Xu's expression turned serious, and he asked, "Do you have WeChat on your phone?"

Shen Mobai nodded. Although WeChat was not that popular at that time and most people preferred QQ, many people had already started using WeChat.

Li Xu said, "WeChat just developed a scan function, you know that, right?"

"Scan?" Shen Mobai was a little confused.

Li Xu pulled out a QR code from his phone album and said, "Come here and scan it."

Shen Mobai did as he was told with some doubts. With a slight "beep" sound, his phone quickly jumped to a Taobao merchant after scanning Li Xu's QR code. At present, WeChat has not blocked Taobao's webpage, so the Taobao page can be opened directly by scanning the code.

Shen Mobai asked curiously, "What is the use of this thing?"

Li Xu smiled slightly and said, "What if we printed this QR code on our clothes?"

Shen Mobai was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized something and said, "You mean..."

Li Xu nodded and explained, "If someone likes the same style of this clothing, they can scan the QR code and go directly to the store to buy it. We, wearing clothes, are equivalent to becoming billboards for the merchants. If we have confidence in our products, merchants will be happy to sponsor us."

Shen Mobai was stunned for a long time. The more he thought about Li Xu's method, the more amazing it was to him. Because according to this idea, only those products with good appearance and good quality would have the confidence to publicize their products.

Li Xu saw that Shen Mobai had already noticed this, and then continued: "But this is not enough. The method you just proposed of disassembling all the parts of the clothes and buying them is very good, but we need to go a step further."

Li Xu showed a mysterious smile, "I want a more sensational effect."

Shen Mobai blinked, already impressed by Li Xu's wild yet practical idea, and said, "What else do we need to do?"

Li Xu said, "That's how to leave professional matters to professionals. Doesn't our school have a design major? I remember there was a senior who seemed to be quite famous in this field. We asked her to help us design a set of clothes. We must make sure that the effect is amazing. Then we will take this set of clothes to various manufacturers on the market to discuss cooperation. We can use the name of Peking University and Tsinghua University, as well as the stunning effect of the overall clothes, to print our QR code on them. The cost is very low for them, but the publicity effect will be amazing. I believe many manufacturers are willing to give it a try. I will handle the negotiations then."

Shen Mobai was stunned. He had already imagined that scene. He originally thought that he had done quite well by relying on cost management and solving the clothing problem at a very low price. He didn't expect that Li Xu was even more ruthless. He was simply getting something for nothing.

At this moment, Li Xu said slowly, "When we go to negotiate, we will try to get those manufacturers to give us some more advertising fees."

The corners of Shen Mobai's mouth twitched slightly. Wow, Li Xu meant that not only would he not spend a penny, he also wanted to make a small profit?
He finally understood why his father said that he would never be cut out for business and could only be a financial manager.

But there was still a question. Shen Mobai hesitated and asked, "But why would the senior from the Academy of Fine Arts help you?"

Li Xu smiled and said meaningfully, "Having a handsome, rich, and beautiful girl from the School of Management be her model is an opportunity not every art school student has."

After a pause, Li Xu continued, "Also, the video of our competition will be uploaded to Youku later. We can then give her a three- to five-second credit. I believe she will be happy to do this. As for this, I will take care of it when the time comes."

Shen Mobai was completely convinced.

At this moment, Li Xu suddenly asked, "By the way, since you want to make money, are you interested in helping me?"

Shen Mobai's face changed slightly.

It wasn’t because Li Xu invited him to “help me do something.”

But because...

Why did Li Xu know that he wanted to make money?
(End of this chapter)