Chapter 79. New Tasks

     Li Yaolin’s New Year’s Day was no different from other days. She got up early and had breakfast first. While eating, she listened to the housekeeper’s report on the operation of Xingzhou Island when she fell asleep last night.

     Then she walked around the island, looked at the progress of the hotel project, and returned to the office to handle official business.

     She thought it would take a few days for the system to settle last year’s support projects, but she didn’t expect that the system had already given the settlement results when she returned to the office…Yes, the system is different from people. It can calculate the conclusion that human power can reach in a few days in a few minutes, and it can be accurate to more than ten decimal places.

 

   【After the turnover reaches one million yuan, by 24:00 on December 31, 2021, the turnover of Xingzhou Island will be a total of 138.21 million yuan, and the sea area can be increased by a total of 13,821 hectares, and the right to use will expire at 24:00 on December 31, 2022. 】

 

     Li Yaolin’s mouth was almost grinning: This time she is really rich. With so much sea space, what is the best thing for her to do with it?

     Just as she was thinking about it, she saw that the interface of the APP had changed. Xingzhou Island looked smaller because the surrounding sea area was included, making Xingzhou Island look much smaller.

     However, Li Yaolin found that the southeastern sea area of Xingzhou Island, where she marked the lancelets, seemed to have expanded.

     After checking, she realized that the lancelets fishing ground she saw at the beginning was not large because the sea area of Xingzhou Island was too small at that time to see the whole picture. Now that the sea area has increased, this fishing ground has also been included, and it is a full 3,987 hectares!

     Li Yaolin did not intend to carry out projects in the sea area with lancelets, so the area of sea area that can be developed and utilized has been reduced by nearly 4,000 hectares.

     Having said that, Li Yaolin still circled the nearly 4,000 hectares of sea area and built a “Lancelets Nature Reserve” on the APP.

     Li Yaolin did not rashly include the remaining sea areas into the scope of the fishing ban area. The reason is that there are 27,000 hectares of sea area between Xingzhou Island and the other side of the coast as aquaculture fishery area, while the offshore fishing area outside Xingzhou Island and the aquaculture area is 560,000 hectares under the jurisdiction of Yóushì.

     The increase of more than 10,000 hectares of usable sea area on Xingzhou Island means that the area of aquaculture fishery area and offshore fishing area will be reduced.

     Easily changing the nature of the use of the sea can easily damage the interests of most aquaculture farmers, fishermen and fishing companies, thus attracting jealousy.

 

…

 

     The tourists who had been reveling all night woke up from their sleep one after another. They lay on the comfortable big bed, stretched their legs and got up slowly.

     It was already past eight o’clock. Thinking that the seafood buffet restaurant would stop serving breakfast at nine o’clock, the tourists took the time to wash up and ran to the restaurant.

     Zhou Qunfang also woke up slowly. When she opened her eyes, she saw Yingjie sitting by the bed staring at her, and she was immediately scared to death.

     “Sister Ying, what are you doing?”

     Sister Ying looked at her, sighed, and said, “You’re on the hot search again.”

     Zhou Qunfang stretched her head and found that someone had posted the news that she attended the bonfire party last night. The poster said that she was more beautiful in real life, and she was friendly and had no celebrity airs, so she was praised by netizens.

     She said, “Isn’t this a good thing? They all praised me.”

     Sister Ying said, “It’s really a good thing. This time I have earned enough popularity, so several production companies sent scripts to you early this morning and wanted you to choose.”

     “Then why are you sighing?”

     “I didn’t win the postcard.” Sister Ying was sad. When she thought that Zhou Qunfang was so lucky, she should have slept with her last night and used her luck!

     Zhou Qunfang: “…”

     It really fits the saying that the more you can’t get, the more you want it.

     I remember how Sister Ying didn’t care at first. Later, she only bought ten blind boxes. After she didn’t open them, she turned her attention to the lucky draw event. As a result, she didn’t win the lucky draw, so she became more and more excited.

     She said: “It’s okay, let’s go buy blind boxes again, and I’ll help you open them this time.”

     Sister Ying smiled immediately: “I’ve been waiting for you to say this, get up and have breakfast, and then we’ll go buy blind boxes after breakfast.”

     Zhou Qunfang: “…”

     When she went to have breakfast, Zhou Bingyan contacted her and said that he was jealous again because he didn’t attend the bonfire party last night.

     Originally, Zhou Bingyan was going to spend the New Year’s Eve with Zhou Qunfang, but he opened a postcard from the blind box, and after he became a hot topic because of the dugong, the company contacted him , they said that a major variety show had a guest involved in prostitution and was in jail, so they needed someone to save the show and re-record.

     The sponsor of the variety show thought that his image was very good and could restore everyone’s good impression of the variety show, so they specifically asked him to go.

     He was weighing the relationship between work and his girlfriend, and Zhou Qunfang said happily: “It just so happens that Sister Ying is going to go with me. I was going to ask you to give her the bed. Now it’s all right, you don’t have to give it up.”

     Zhou Bingyan: “…”

     Although he was sour on his face, Zhou Bingyan was still very happy in his heart. He confirmed Zhou Qunfang’s speculation-this limited edition postcard can really bring people good luck!

     He didn’t hide it and told the agent directly about it. Then he didn’t know whether it was the agent or the assistant who spread it.

     There are many people who want to be famous in the entertainment industry. Some of them think that they have acting skills and good looks. They are not famous just because of bad luck. With the mentality of “better to believe it than not to believe it”, they all buy blind boxes online.

     Agents: “…”

     It feels like this group of stars are trying something very new.

     Taking money from people is a matter of loyalty.

     They tried their best to buy a lot of blind boxes on Xingzhou Island, so when Zhou Qunfang and Yingjie went to buy blind boxes, they found that there were only more than 200 boxes left in the first batch.

     Zhou Qunfang: “???”

     What happened? Why were the blind boxes almost sold out in just a few days?

     Yingjie asked the salesperson: “When will your blind boxes be replenished?”

     The salesperson said: “The second batch of blind boxes will probably have to wait, because the design team will add the newly designed postcards to them, and the island owner must stamp them first, then process and pack them, and finally ship them here for sale, so we got a notice of about ten days.”

     In other words, if you miss these two hundred blind boxes, you will have to wait ten days to get the second batch.

     Yingjie was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so she gritted her teeth and bought two hundred blind boxes.

     After spending 6,000 yuan, she placed all her hopes on Zhou Qunfang, the European emperor: “Whether I can get back the 6,000 yuan depends on you.”

     Zhou Qunfang: “…”

     Like a gambler who has gone crazy, they can’t help but gamble because the temptation of this postcard is too great!

     If they can get a large order of hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan, what is 6,000 yuan?

     Sister Ying said to the salesperson again: “Please leave a message for us to the island owner, hoping that she will produce more limited edition postcards next time. Don’t say 30 yuan, I am willing to pay 300 yuan or 3,000 yuan.”

     The salesperson smiled and said: “Okay, we will help to convey it to the boss.”

     Her calm attitude obviously showed that she was immune to it after hearing these words many times.

     Zhou Qunfang and Yingjie returned to the holiday cabin to open the blind boxes. They each opened 100 boxes. Yingjie opened them until her hands were tired but didn’t see a single one. She wanted to cry but had no tears: 

     “It is said that there are often no good things in the last inventory, because the good ones have been picked up long ago. Today, I saw that it is indeed the case!” 

     Zhou Qunfang comforted her: “I still have a few boxes here, there is still hope!” 

     Yingjie took a look and felt hopeless. More than 190 boxes have not been sold, only a few boxes are left, which is lower than the probability of winning 5 yuan in a lottery!

     She made up her mind to “quit gambling”, but Zhou Qunfang patted her thigh: “Yingjie, I have made such a great contribution, you should treat me to a meal!” 

     Yingjie’s eyes swept over, but suddenly widened. 

Really, really It came out ?!

 

 …

 

     Just after New Year’s Day, Li Yaolin had not yet started to arrange work tasks for the new year for various departments, and she received a new mission issued by the system.

     The last time I received a mission was during the National Day, and the mission was a limited-time special task. If you failed, there would be no reward or penalty. This time the mission is different. It adheres to the past style. If you fail, it is very likely that there will be no reward, and the satisfaction of the sea god will be deducted.

 

   【Task: Within one year, receive more than 500,000 tourists from home and abroad, including more than 30,000 overseas tourists. (Unfinished)

     Description: With the efforts of the island owner, the number of tourists received by Xingzhou Island in the second half of the year exceeded 300,000, but in order to let the sea god have a happy holiday, the island owner’s steps cannot stop here, please keep up the good work. 

     Complete the task to get a random reward. 】

 

     Li Yaolin: “Good fellow, there is no cash reward for this mission?”

     The little mermaid who came back from vacation also came online. It asked with a little doubt: “With the current wealth of the island owner, will he still care about that little cash reward?”

     “No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.”  

     Li Yaolin looked at it with a smile, “Besides, if there are more rewards, I can give you a raise. Otherwise, you earn 800 yuan a day and spend it all on a night club. You can’t save much money, right?”

     Little mermaid: “What’s the point of saving money? People don’t need it. Buy a house on the ground.”

     Li Yaolin: “You didn’t even refute the disco.”

     Little mermaid: “…”

     Li Yaolin poked it: “To be honest, this New Year’s Eve, there are programs everywhere and it’s very lively, only the mermaid square is a bit deserted, why don’t you do something fancy to attract tourists?”

     Little mermaid: No one likes sunglasses.jpg

     It said: “I still have to handle the use rights of more than 10,000 hectares of sea area, so I won’t chat with the island owner!”

     After saying that, it ran away with the briefcase that turned out from the harpoon.

     Its words reminded Li Yaolin to think carefully about the use of the nearly 10,000 hectares of sea area other than the “Lancelets Nature Reserve”.

     Don’t make blind plans, it’s best to play its role as much as possible to contribute to the task of receiving 500,000 tourists.

     With the current average daily number of tourists on Xingzhou Island, it is not difficult to receive 500,000 tourists per year, but the difficult part is the 30,000 overseas tourists.

     The cities with the most overseas tourists should be first- and second-tier cities. For small fourth- and fifth-tier cities like Yóushì, which are not within the economic radiation range of first-tier cities and have no airports, there will be few overseas tourists coming here throughout the year, let alone 30,000, even 10,000 is hard to find.

     The petrochemical company has connected with the import and export crude oil trade business, and some foreign guests came last time. However, even if these foreign guests can be developed into tourists in tourist attractions, there will not be 30,000 foreign guests in a year!

     As a boss, you have to give full play to the strengths of employees as much as possible, so Li Yaolin decided to leave these difficult problems to employees.

     “How to attract 30,000 overseas tourists a year?” 

     Vice President Qi, who received the task, pondered, “Overseas tourists include compatriots from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, so our goal does not have to be aimed at foreign tourists, we can try to attract tourists from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan!”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     What, it turns out that overseas tourists do not refer to foreign tourists?

     I have learned a lot. It is safer to leave these things to capable people!

     “However, it is not easy to attract tourists from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. First of all, we lack communication with those regions and are not familiar with their customs and habits. Secondly, there are many islands in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and there are many tourists flowing into them. It is difficult to export them in the opposite direction.”

    Li Yaolin nodded: “And the situation there is a bit complicated recently, and it is difficult to carry out tourism work there.”

     Vice President Qi agreed with her and said: “Wenhua Travel Agency should have a way to transport overseas tourists. Boss, on the basis of the existing cooperation, we can deepen the cooperation with Wenhua Travel Agency!”

     “In this way, wouldn’t it be necessary to open the business of receiving group tourists? And this will inevitably change our existing ticket purchasing mechanism.”

     Vice President Qi didn’t quite understand why Li Yaolin insisted on letting tourists grab tickets online or queue up on site to buy tickets. Is it meaningful to pursue such fairness?

     He said: “In fact, the tickets for group tourists are all bought by travel agencies, which is no different from tourists using other people’s ID cards to buy tickets for others. If the boss is worried that there are too many group tourists in the travel agency and there are not enough tickets for other tourists, it is better to limit the number of group tourists… As long as the overseas market is opened, there will be no need to worry about the lack of overseas tourists who travel independently.”

     Li Yaolin frowned and thought hard: “What you said makes sense, but this kind of cooperation is bound to give profits to travel agencies. Tickets must be discounted, right? Accommodation must be arranged, right? Food must be solved, right? Entertainment projects must also reserve a share for group tourists, right? This is not a small project.”

     “Moreover, the purpose of our cooperation with Wenhua Travel Agency is to attract overseas tourists. If group tourists are limited to overseas tourists, what will our mainland tourists think? Will they think this is a privilege for overseas tourists?

     “If we receive tourists from mainland groups, how can you ensure that the proportion of tourists from home and abroad will not change too much? Because once there are fewer tourists from overseas groups, and there are too many tourists from the mainland who sign up for tour groups, there is no reason for travel agencies to leave money unearned, right?”

     Deputy General Manager Qi was speechless, thinking, with the current business model of Xingzhou Island, there would not be much loss even if there were no overseas tourists, so why must we attract overseas tourists?

     He didn’t ask, and said, “Then I’ll think of another way.”

     After he finished reporting his work and was about to go out, he suddenly remembered something and turned back and said, “By the way, boss, I heard from the news that there will be a meteor shower tonight, starting around eleven o’clock and lasting until the early morning. The stargazing effect on our island is so good, maybe we can observe the meteor shower. How about arranging a stargazing live broadcast event? By the way, promote our “Stargazing Observatory.”

     Li Yaolin then went to search for news, and sure enough, there was a report on New Year’s Day, saying that it was a meteor shower in the Quadrantids.

     “Well, OK, go and arrange it!”

     Li Yaolin wanted to know what the difference would be between watching the system’s “meteor shower” spectacle on the island and watching it outside the island.