Chapter 206 - 129: Three Milestone Rewards

Chapter 206: Chapter 129: Three Milestone Rewards

After that, he took the contracts generated by the game system and called Liu De.

"Boss!" When Liu De saw the new farm workers, he immediately guessed why his boss had called him over.

Zhang Lin handed the contracts to Liu De and instructed, "Take them to the personnel department to get registered, and give these contracts to Lin Mengyao. After that, have them start planting sweet potatoes in the area right next to the 1,000-acre peach orchard."

Zhang Lin had specifically chosen this location. It was adjacent to the peach orchard, on land that had previously been contracted by Kailin Investment.

No tourists would wander this far, so it was secluded enough.

"I understand, Boss." After receiving his instructions, Liu De led the farm workers away.

After returning to the office, Zhang Lin checked the farm’s Tiao Yin account again.

Besides the milestones for earning 30 million in profit and developing 10,000 acres of land, another one was nearly complete: gaining 10 million followers.

However, ever since they surpassed eight million followers, the growth rate had slowed down.

It wasn’t that the farm was any less popular; rather, the potential audience for this kind of content had become saturated.

Even if an event, a product, or a place has what it takes to go viral, its potential audience is always limited.

Once that audience is saturated, further promotion yields very limited growth in followers.

’Take that one guru online, for example. Isn’t he famous enough? Who hasn’t heard his sayings? "Keep women out of your heart, not out of your life," or, "Cherish a good girl, but don’t let a bad one go to waste"? But his follower count just won’t go up, precisely because his audience is saturated. It’s the same for Li Yuan Farm now. The audience for our current projects and events has been saturated. To get another rapid increase in followers, we’ll need a new attraction, a new viral hook.’

He didn’t have any ideas for that just yet, so for now, he could only rely on Lin Muxue and the operations department to maintain things.

All in all, he would be able to claim all three milestone rewards soon, and he was genuinely looking forward to it.

...

The next day, Liu De had the new employees start planting the fast-growing, white-fleshed sweet potatoes.

What Zhang Lin hadn’t expected was a hurried visit from Wei Yuan, the director of the Agriculture Bureau.

"Director Wei, what a pleasant surprise! Please, have a seat." Zhang Lin smiled and led him to the tea table.

After sitting down, Wei Yuan got straight to the point, unable to hide his eagerness. "President Zhang, I heard you hired a new batch of farm workers. Does this mean you have a new planting project?"

He still had his eye on Li Yuan Farm’s special fruits. If those fruits could be cultivated throughout You City, it would be a huge boost to the city’s agriculture.

"I do have a new planting project, and it might even be promoted on a large scale later on!" Zhang Lin smiled, not trying to hide it.

The fact that he had rushed over so quickly upon hearing the news showed just how closely he was paying attention to the farm’s activities.

Wei Yuan asked hurriedly, "Then can it be cultivated in You City? Our Agriculture Bureau can offer its full cooperation to your farm."

He didn’t even ask what was being planted.

First, he knew that anything this Boss Zhang was spearheading wouldn’t be simple. At the very least, it would be on par with those other special fruits, right?

Second, it might be a trade secret, and he had no intention of prying. He believed that if it were something he could be told, Boss Zhang wouldn’t hide it.

Zhang Lin nodded. "It can be cultivated in You City, and when the time comes, we’ll certainly need the Agriculture Bureau’s help. It’s just that, for now, we’ll have to wait a while."

"Waiting a while is no problem, as long as it can eventually be cultivated in You City!" Wei Yuan was satisfied just hearing this news.

He had been waiting for just this kind of opportunity.

Any of Li Yuan Farm’s fruits, if promoted, would become a blockbuster cash crop. Any local agriculture bureau would be fighting to welcome such a project into their jurisdiction.

The whole reason he had built a good relationship with Li Yuan Farm from the very beginning was for this exact kind of opportunity—the advantage of proximity.

Satisfied with the news, Wei Yuan left.

Suddenly, Zhang Lin’s phone sounded with a notification. It was a friend request. In fact, there was more than one.

He opened WeChat to take a look, and when he saw who was sending the requests, he frowned and immediately rejected and blocked them one by one.

’That’ll stop them from adding me. I already left the group chat; can’t they take a hint?’

’Fucking assholes. I don’t have time for them.’

Meanwhile, in a hotel in Ming City, Chen Hao and Wu Ling had already gathered with some of their old classmates.

After deciding to visit Li Yuan Farm, they had arranged to meet in Ming City. Now that everyone had arrived, they planned to use the pretense of a reunion to get Zhang Lin to come out, hoping he would then play host and save them a lot of hassle.

"Hmph. Looks like Zhang Lin thinks he’s too good for his old classmates. He won’t even accept our WeChat requests!"

"Yeah, I never thought he’d be so antisocial after graduation. There must be something wrong with him, right?"

"It’s not a personality problem. If there weren’t, a graduate from a top-tier university wouldn’t have ended up as a driver!"

"..."

Chen Hao said with a faint smile, "As his old classmates, we should have a good chat with him, try to guide him a little. When we get to Li Yuan Farm, we’ll just have the management call Zhang Lin over."

Wu Ling was very satisfied to hear this. She couldn’t wait to see what right Zhang Lin, a mere driver, had to act so smug.

After making their decision, the group set off for the high-speed rail station to catch a train to You City.