Chapter 90

PS: On New Year's Eve, gather with your family, eat dumplings, and wish everyone a happy new year. I also wish myself a happy new year~!

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"Whose car is that?" Wei Shufen looked at the sports car parked outside and asked with a smile. Although she didn't know much about cars, she could still tell a bit from their appearance. The young wife next door had already come over to greet Hao Meng and was now sitting in the car taking photos with her phone.

Hao Meng didn't dare to say it was his, but he had already mentioned that he would give it to Gu Yan to drive. He actually had his own plans. What does it mean to act cool? If the secretary drives a million-dollar sports car, how can the boss be of a lower class? Even if he usually travels by electric scooter, in the eyes of others, that's called being low-key.

"It's a friend's. I had to bring it back because of some matters!" Hao Meng said with a smile.

"Pretty expensive, right?" Wei Shufen asked in a low voice.

Hao Meng nodded and smiled, not telling her how much it cost. She was the kind of woman who managed the household, and not to mention a million-dollar sports car, even a regular car worth a few ten thousand would seem very expensive to her.

After lunch at the store, Hao Meng went upstairs and took a one-hour nap. Now he also knew how to enjoy life. Why should a big boss run around in the middle of the day when he could be resting?

"Ti Niu, don't just stand there, come with me to do something!" Hao Meng called to Ti Niu, who was standing in the corner, sweating and looking foolish. This guy was weird; whenever he had nothing to do, he would go and 'squat' in the corner.

"Sure thing!" Ti Niu finished his exercise, wiped the sweat from his face, and ran over with a silly smile.

Before leaving, Hao Meng first called Zhou Tao. The young master didn't know what he was doing, but he was breathing heavily and told Hao Meng to go directly to the manager named Li.

After driving over, most of the equipment in the clothing factory had been dismantled and piled together. The most valuable were these six-tenths new machines. Two large warehouses were full, and it was quite troublesome to move them. The value wasn't very high, all at scrap prices, and with Zhou Tao's connections, it was just a few hundred thousand. If someone else contacted a buyer with demand, they could make at least a hundred thousand by reselling them.

"Manager Li, please remove the security here first. I'll have people come to move this batch of equipment tonight." Hao Meng looked at the tall, thin Manager Li, handed him a cigarette, and said with a smile.

"Remove all of them? Let them stay and help Hao Shao, since they are all company employees, there's no need to be formal." Manager Li said with a smile. These days, people treat you differently based on your status. If Hao Meng and Ti Niu had come on electric scooters, even as Zhou Tao's friends, they probably wouldn't have been treated so warmly!

Hao Meng shook his head and smiled, "There's no need. They would just get in the way. I'll definitely move this machinery by tomorrow!"

Since Hao Meng made this request, Manager Li didn't say anything more. He smiled and chatted with Hao Meng for a bit, then left with his people. The items were already sold to Hao Meng, so he could do whatever he wanted with them.

Ti Niu scratched his head and asked, "Boss, why are you buying this junk? You need to find a warehouse to store it, and you won't make much money. Are you thinking of starting a clothing factory?"

Hao Meng rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know? What's wrong with starting a clothing factory? Look how expensive clothes are now, especially those branded ones, which can cost hundreds or even thousands. I think starting a clothing factory would definitely be profitable." From Ti Niu's words, it was clear that despite his simple appearance, he was quite shrewd and knew a lot, not at all stupid.

Ti Niu laughed and said, "Boss, more than 80% of those branded clothes aren't made by the brands themselves; they are produced by other manufacturers. The bigger the brand, the more this is the case. When you produce for others, they control the prices, and you might not make much money!"

"Who said I would produce for others..." Before Hao Meng could finish, his phone rang. He saw it was Xiao Yuyun calling and mumbled to Ti Niu, "I'll take this call first!" He then walked to a place where no one was around.

"Yuyun, is there something?" Hao Meng asked with a smile.

On the other end of the phone, Xiao Yuyun was silent for a moment before saying, "Do you have plans tonight?"

Tonight?

Hearing these words, Hao Meng's heart warmed, and he laughed, "No plans!"

"That's good. Come have dinner with me tonight. A department manager in my company insists on treating me to dinner, and I've been unable to decline his repeated invitations." Xiao Yuyun knew he wasn't thinking of anything good, so her face turned red, but she didn't point it out. She directly explained her situation. The department manager was quite persistent, and she had heard that many people in the company had suffered at his hands, so she immediately thought of her "little brother."

"So you want me to be your bodyguard!" Hao Meng said with a laugh. Normally, Xiao Yuyun wouldn't call him for ten days or half a month.

Xiao Yuyun rolled her eyes and huffed, "What, you don't want to go?"

"Hehe, I want to, I want to, how could I not want to? Even if I had something important, I wouldn't dare to refuse when the big sister calls!" Hao Meng said with a smile.

"You're smart. Wait for my call!" Xiao Yuyun said and hung up. Hao Meng was used to her cold personality. Suddenly, he thought, wasn't Xiao Yuyun's company a clothing company? She seemed to have studied business management.

Hao Meng walked over and looked at Ti Niu, asking, "What do you think? If we really start a clothing factory and register a clothing brand, can we make it work?"

Ti Niu was taken aback, turned to look at the old machinery behind him, and asked with wide eyes, "With this?"

Hao Meng laughed and said, "This is all junk. If we really want to start a clothing factory, we'll buy new machines."

Ti Niu thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible. If you build a brand, a clothing company should be quite profitable. However, to start a clothing factory and build a brand, you need at least a few third-rate designers, a celebrity endorsement, and then spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions on advertising."

"Right!" Hao Meng nodded and smiled, "We can produce the clothes ourselves, find a celebrity endorsement, and start selling online first. Once we make money, we can expand with large-scale advertising and physical stores, gradually growing bigger." When it came to celebrities, the first person Hao Meng thought of was Xu Meng. With Xu Mei's current online fame, if she supported it, it would be enough to launch a new clothing brand, right?

If we make a micro-movie advertisement, it would probably be hard not to become popular, right?

The most important point is, do we need to pay Xu Meng to be our spokesperson?

Ti Niu stood there without speaking, but from his expression, it was clear that he wasn't very optimistic about Hao Meng starting a clothing company.