Three bribed waiters working together to fabricate false intelligence to deceive him, and not a single one leaking information?

The probability wasn’t high.

After all, these waiters had no personal connection to Mr. Pei; they were just bottom-rung workers. How could they possibly be so loyal?

Most crucially, Li Shi, after analyzing Mr. Pei’s behavior, judged that this information was highly likely to be true.

What had Mr. Pei been doing recently?

He indeed wasn’t staying at the flagship store anymore, but instead frequently visited the Mingyun Villa store!

Moreover, both Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan were permanently stationed at Mingyun Villa.

All this was sufficient evidence that Mr. Pei had indeed shifted his focus to this area.

Mr. Pei had so many businesses under his control and was undoubtedly very busy. If he didn’t have plans or schemes for this area, why would he waste so much time here?

Just to release false intelligence to toy with Li Shi?

That couldn’t be possible; Mr. Pei wouldn’t be such a frivolous person.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the probability of this intelligence being genuine was extremely high. Mr. Pei had truly shifted the next stage of development focus for Slackin’ Internet Café to the Mingyun Villa store. He had prepared his next move long ago and was confident in heating the market environment in this area!

Thinking of this, Li Shi felt somewhat excited.

Jinzhou was only a second-tier city after all, and good investment opportunities were scarce.

Last time, Li Shi had spent money on a promotional campaign hoping to intercept Slackin’ Internet Café’s customer flow and achieve his investment goals earlier, but he ended up losing money.

However, the loss wasn’t substantial because shortly after he started spending, Slackin’ Internet Café’s flagship store became wildly popular, so Li Shi stopped burning money.

Moreover, after Slackin’ Internet Café’s flagship store became popular, it drove customer traffic throughout the entire street, and other stores more or less benefited as well.

This time, Li Shi definitely wouldn’t foolishly attempt to invest in Slackin’ Internet Café; he knew that was just wishful thinking.

But even so, he could still do something with the intelligence he currently had.

For instance, he could establish an early presence in the Mingyun Villa area!

The popularity of Slackin’ Internet Café’s flagship store had ignited the surrounding commercial environment, increasing customer flow to nearby coffee shops, bars, internet cafés, and so on. Even the rent for popular commercial spaces nearby had increased.

From this perspective, Mr. Pei’s claim about igniting the commercial environment around Mingyun Villa wasn’t necessarily an exaggeration.

If that was the case, what if he established a presence in the vicinity of Mingyun Villa right now?

For example, investing in several restaurants, coffee shops, bars, internet cafés, board game rooms…

Opening just one or two would suffice. When the commercial environment improved, these stores would start making money.

Even if Li Shi didn’t plan to operate them himself, he could sell them when the time came. There would naturally be buyers, and with a simple flip, he might make a huge profit!

The more Li Shi thought about it, the happier he became. This was the power of intelligence!

Although Mr. Pei was young, his vision and promotion abilities were unparalleled. Following in his footsteps couldn’t go wrong!

As for how much to invest…

Li Shi thought that the more you invest, the more you earn; the less you invest, the less you earn.

But as an investor, you definitely couldn’t put all your eggs in one basket.

So he would invest in one high-end internet café, one coffee shop, one board game room, and so on.

In terms of location, places like high-end internet cafés and board game rooms should be closer to universities, as college students were the main consumer group. This would also help intercept Slackin’ Internet Café’s customers.

Of course, Li Shi wouldn’t personally manage these stores. He would use his connections to persuade the owners of those chain Internet cafés he had invested in to open branch stores in this area, choosing the most trendy Internet café model.

Then Li Shi would just provide the investment.

Since he had already determined that investing in Slackin’ Internet Café was impossible, Li Shi could only settle for the next best thing: investing in others.

When the time came, he would ride on Mr. Pei’s coattails, and with a simple flip, he would surely make a considerable profit!

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Pei Qian didn’t know exactly who wanted to buy intelligence about the Mingyun Villa store, but it didn’t matter; whoever wanted to buy could buy.

The intelligence that Pei Qian deliberately released was indeed false, but it appeared more authentic than the truth…

Pei Qian’s true purpose was very simple.

It was to deliberately create a false impression that “the area around the Mingyun Villa store is about to boom,” attracting more people to invest in the area.

Whether they opened internet cafés, restaurants, or coffee shops, wouldn’t they all divert customer flow from Slackin’ Internet Café?

The Mingyun Villa store had been losing money because there were too few people in the area; the Mingyun Villa residential occupancy rate was low, and there weren’t many students at Jiaoda East Campus, which wasn’t particularly close anyway.

Things were already this bad, so if a few more stores came to divert customer flow, the Mingyun Villa store would surely lose even more money!

As for who would be the unfortunate one…

That would depend on who took the bait. Who told you to have ill intentions and inquire about Slackin’ Internet Café’s intelligence?

And buying intelligence without buying it from Mr. Pei, not letting Mr. Pei earn a single cent—this needed to be noted down to fleece you heavily later!

This matter probably wouldn’t have any feedback in the short term, as opening a store in this area would take at least a month of preparation.

So, Pei Qian didn’t pay further attention to this matter for the time being and continued working on other things.

Headwind Station was almost planned out, with locations for each station quickly finalized, mainly chosen in residential areas.

They couldn’t cover the entire Jinzhou City yet, but they had already covered a large portion.

Recently, they had been busy recruiting people, purchasing shelves, renovating, and so on. Optimistically speaking, in just over a week, Pei Qian would be able to inspect the first Headwind Station.

Besides this, there was another matter that Pei Qian had repeatedly considered: high-end dining.

Swan Lake Restaurant could no longer satisfy Pei Qian’s dining requirements for team building; he needed to create a restaurant specifically tailored for rapid spending.

During this period, Pei Qian had also given some thought to the location of this restaurant and its specific details.

Just the issue of location gave Pei Qian quite a headache.

He had initially thought of choosing a location in a relatively remote commercial area but felt that still wasn’t secure enough.

Because now, review websites already existed, and the internet was highly developed, making it difficult to hide such an exorbitantly priced restaurant.

Pei Qian couldn’t possibly make such a high-end restaurant an internal canteen exclusively for employees; the system wouldn’t agree.

This high-end restaurant had to be open to all consumers in Jinzhou City.

Of course, ordinary consumers definitely couldn’t afford it, but if a wealthy person wanted to come and dine, Pei Qian couldn’t rudely turn them away.

If it were in Jinzhou City, such as in Guangming District or Lincheng District, then if this restaurant were discovered, it would cover high-end clientele from an entire district.

After all, being the only high-end restaurant of its kind in all of Jinzhou, people wouldn’t mind traveling a bit farther for an occasional meal.

In this way, it might not necessarily make a profit, but it would lose much less money.

So, after some thought, Pei Qian decided that the location should be as far from the city center as possible, in as remote a position as possible.

After all, the fewer customers, the better!

After searching around, he found that the most suitable location had already been seen before.

It was the location of Slackin’ Internet Café’s Mingyun Villa store…