Chapter 95

"Hey, I'm so bored back in the U.S. all by myself, there's nothing fun to do... What's fun in Shanghai for you?" Ye Jing asked Jia Hongjian in a slightly coquettish tone. "I'm swamped here. Tomorrow I have to take a day off to help my dad secure an office, find the police for security, and prepare the content for a press conference..." Jia Hongjian explained.

"What? Why do you have to do all that? Is your family starting a company? Why do you need police for security?" Ye Jing, the girl, clearly hadn't done any background check on Jia Hongjian and was unaware of his recent situation. Upon hearing this, Jia Hongjian realized that this so-called second or third generation of officials, though they could be quite wild, seemed to be quite innocent in some aspects, as they hadn't directly investigated his family's background. Thinking about this, his tone softened, "Do you know that the secret formula of Ma Junren was signed by someone? It was signed by my family. Now we're setting up a company to sell the exclusive distribution rights..."

"Your family bought it? Oh my God!" Ye Jing on the other end of the phone was clearly shocked. Then she excitedly asked Jia Hongjian about the signing process. Jia Hongjian, out of helplessness, simplified the process and omitted the key points, and briefly explained his family's situation to Ye Jing. After he finished, Ye Jing was in a state of disbelief and excitement, "Oh my God! It feels like watching a movie! Your family is so amazing, to sign it so easily? With this process, your company could make several million or even tens of millions a year, right?"

"Tsk, although Ye Jing's family is powerful, she seems to be not very sensitive to money. Maybe there's no one in her family who does business? Or perhaps her family is so well-off that she has never heard her parents talk about money or business? Several million or tens of millions, how could that be Jia Hongjian's annual goal? That's just an appetizer! He Boquan's auction reached 17 million, and with Jia Hongjian, a reborn person, putting in so much effort, the minimum should be 20 million, right?"

"Several tens of millions? That would be a failure! Let me put it this way, the target for this national tour auction is 20 million as the minimum, 25 million as the passing mark, and 30 million as the perfect score. The sales target after that... is about 300 million."

"300 million? An auction? And 300 million a year?" Ye Jing was truly shocked. She only had a few thousand dollars for living expenses in the U.S. each month. At the current exchange rate of 5.7 RMB to 1 USD, these numbers seemed astronomical to her. Her family was very well-off, but her grandfather, being a revolutionary, was not extravagant. Her parents, seeing her wild nature, strictly controlled her allowance to prevent her from getting into trouble.

She thought that a few thousand dollars a month was already very extravagant for this era, but compared to the numbers Jia Hongjian mentioned, they seemed insignificant.

But the surprises were not over yet. "300 million a year? Come on, Ye Jing, you're underestimating me. Am I such a failure? With my personal guidance, 300 million in sales? I'm talking about the sales for the next 2 or 3 months before January 1, 1994! The annual sales target is at least 2 billion!"

These words sounded a bit boastful even to Jia Hongjian himself, but this was his own requirement. Why? Because historically, Sanzhu, founded in 1994, had annual sales of 2 billion in its first year, making it the second-largest health supplement company in China! Sanzhu, which was registered with only 300,000 RMB in capital at the end of 1993, saw its sales soar from 0 to 8 billion RMB in just three years, from 1994 to 1996, and its net assets grew from 300,000 RMB to 4.8 billion RMB!

What does this mean? This is why Jia Hongjian chose the health supplement industry for his family's first business venture! In this crazy era, health supplements were like legal drugs! In 1994 alone, the advertising budget for Shenyang Feilong in the north exceeded 100 million RMB!

Sanzhu could grow from 0 to 8 billion in three years, and Jia Hongjian, a smart person and a reborn individual who knew the future trends, couldn't surpass a local entrepreneur with similar capital? Sanzhu did 8 billion in three years, Jia Hongjian did 300 million in 2 to 3 months, and 2 billion a year, which was still considered slow growth!

"Are you talking about yen? Haha..." Ye Jing thought Jia Hongjian was just boasting, though it was a bit exaggerated, she enjoyed the feeling of him trying to attract her attention. In her mind, Jia Hongjian was a bit naughty, always coming up with interesting and mischievous ideas, and was very good at causing trouble, which suited her taste. A boy who suited her taste, now boasting to attract her attention, must care about her, and might even have a crush on her, or maybe he felt her family's background and acted a bit macho...

Jia Hongjian had no idea what Ye Jing was thinking. He said directly, "If you don't believe me, fine. You'll see the initial results when you come back for winter break." "I believe you, I believe you! Just don't do anything stupid! You don't need to make so much money, enough to live on is fine. There's nowhere to spend so much money anyway..." Ye Jing, thinking Jia Hongjian might do something foolish to prove himself, quickly comforted him, "You're so smart, you'll definitely find a good job after university and make enough money to live on... No, maybe I should come back to China?"

"Relax, who am I? I won't do anything stupid. You just stay in the Land of Hope. If you sneak back, your dad will tear me apart!" Jia Hongjian tried to dissuade Ye Jing. Although he had easily lured a super-rich second generation, her father hadn't recognized him yet. If he made the girl so infatuated that she dropped out of school to secretly meet him, even a one-armed gangster with a scarred face would tear him apart, let alone a father protecting his daughter from a bad influence!

"True... By the way, the winter break in the U.S. is during Christmas, from December 25th to mid-January. I'll come back to find you then! You better prepare some surprises for me and come up with some ideas to keep me entertained!" The wild girl demanded.

"Sure, as long as you don't sneak back, anything is fine." Jia Hongjian, concerned for his own safety, didn't want to make any rash promises.

After chatting with Ye Jing for a while and hanging up, Jia Hongjian's parents secretly came out of their room. Su Ping and Jia Gang looked at Jia Hongjian with a "I get it" expression, making him feel uneasy. "What's up?" Jia Hongjian shivered involuntarily and asked.

"Who's that girl? Ye Jing, I haven't heard you mention her before. When did you meet her? What school does she go to? What does her family do?" Su Ping, in her motherly mode, asked a series of questions.

"Strange, your son has a tendency to fall in love early, and you don't sternly tell him to focus on his studies and get into university, but you're so nosy?" Jia Hongjian deflected the topic.

"Go away! Do I need to worry about your studies? Looking at you now, even if you don't go to school and focus on business, you wouldn't care, right?" Although she didn't understand what "nosy" meant, Su Ping, after hearing her son's many plans and ideas on the train, clearly had great confidence in his abilities.

"What does Ye Jing's family do... You'd better not ask." Jia Hongjian, seeing he couldn't avoid his mother's questions, decided to dodge them. "Her family is quite powerful, but I don't know exactly how powerful. If I tell you too much, you'll worry about me suffering in the future, or fear that her family won't accept me, or be afraid of this and that. So I don't want to tell you. I'm still a kid, only 15, can't I just be friends?"

Hearing her son's vague description, Su Ping was a bit shocked. Although she didn't believe in matching social status, if her son really fell for the daughter of a high official, and their family's power was much greater, wouldn't her son end up like a son-in-law? "Well, you're still young. Just be friends for now. But I have to warn you, don't be impulsive. If you [hurt] the girl and it doesn't work out..."

"Alright, alright, you're really something, Mom." Jia Gang couldn't stand it anymore, "Your son is only 15, and you're already talking to him about this? You can wait until he's 20 to tell him these things!"

"Tsk, you can wait until he's 20, but our son is so smart and mature beyond his years. If something happens because I didn't warn him, and they come to our door, what will you do?" Su Ping shot a glance at her husband.

"Alright, both of you, stop it..." Jia Hongjian felt the atmosphere was wrong. He remembered that in his previous life, his parents weren't so open. When he got close to Wang Danshui, they indirectly warned him about early love for a long time. Why was his mother now completely ignoring it and treating him like a 25-year-old? Was this a small butterfly effect of being reborn?