It's been a long time since I last went to the stalls to find bargains.

Chen Yiyang looked at today's intel and felt like heading over to the stalls immediately.

But he still had to go to the 'Old West' educational structure in the morning.

He could only schedule it for the afternoon.

Fortunately, Li Dingjun bought the motorcycle for Chen Yiyang today that he had wanted.

So, Chen Yiyang didn't have to take a cab today. He used his phone to open the GPS and rode the motorcycle to 'Old West'.

Although it's already past eleven in the morning.

But the 'Old West' education institution was already packed with teachers.

Currently, there are over seventy teachers who haven't left the company yet.

Upon hearing that the company was sold and the new boss was coming to hold a meeting today, all the teachers came over, wanting to see which field the new boss planned to transform the company into.

After arriving at the institution, Chen Yiyang didn't go to the meeting room first, but instead went to the chairman's office to take a look at the institution's accounts.

Currently, it looks like 'Old West' is still under significant monthly cost pressure.

The main part of it is personnel salary expenses and the monthly rent of this building.

These two cannot be reduced at the moment.

As for personnel salary expenses, since the teachers no longer have classes, only basic salaries need to be paid. But it still costs a lot per month.

And the rent for the building definitely cannot be reduced.

Money-making companies build buildings, companies without money sell buildings.

If I choose to move the institution elsewhere for cheaper rent, it could cause the entire institution to lose morale, and more might choose to leave.

Thinking about it, Chen Yiyang still couldn't figure out what direction this educational institution could transform into.

I can't just face so many teachers in the meeting room and straightforwardly say that even though I bought 'Old West', I actually don't know what everyone will be doing in the future.

That'd be too discouraging.

So Chen Yiyang decided to go to the restroom to clear his mind.

Entering the men's restroom, Chen Yiyang saw several people smoking and chatting there.

Since Chen Yiyang hadn't formally met the employees here yet, they didn't recognize him, only turned sideways to make way for him to pass.

"Brother Hui, what do you think the new boss plans to do after buying this place?"

"How would I know? But he definitely spent a lot of money. Didn't you notice that after Mr. Hong signed the contract, he left without even saying a word?"

"Sigh, I'm just worried it's some rich second generation momentary interest, buying this place. Afterwards, not knowing what to do, leaving us to find our own paths again."

The complaining chatter from these people continually reached Chen Yiyang's ears.

Chen Yiyang also felt he had been impulsive coming here today to meet the teachers from the institution.

But he hadn't expected Hong Ming to run off right after signing the contract.

If Hong Ming was here, today would at most be the handover between the new and old bosses, just to get acquainted with everyone.

No rush to consider the next steps for the institution's transformation.

But now that Hong Ming took the money and ran, he had to quickly stabilize morale.

At this moment, a remark from outside the restroom caught Chen Yiyang's attention.

"Forget it, we're not only capable of teaching. I have a knack for speaking, the students like listening to my classes too. If we don't know what to do in the future, why not just become streamers?"

Yeah, why didn't I think of that.

Chen Yiyang suddenly had a breakthrough in his thinking from this comment.

What is this group of teachers most skilled at?

Their speaking skills.

Tutoring class teachers aren't like school teachers.

No matter how dull the school teacher's lecture, students still have to listen quietly.

But if tutoring class teachers don't make their lectures interesting, the students can't change their fate of having to attend tutoring, but they can complain to their parents about the teacher and request a different one.

So, this group of tutoring institution teachers are very skilled at turning dull content into interesting explanations.

Isn't this very suitable for being a streamer?

Ordinary streamers need good looks or great gaming skills for viewers to spend money.

But there's one type of streamer that doesn't.

That's the sales streamer.

The audience for sales streamers are there primarily to shop; looking good won't prompt them to spend money.

But as long as you introduce the products well, the audience is very willing to spend.

After all, this money isn't given as a reward for the streamer but spent on themselves.

Chen Yiyang's train of thought was fully opened.

He left the restroom and returned to the office, using the internal phone to call Jiang Yue, the current person in charge of personnel, over.

"Notify all teachers to come to the meeting room, we're going to have a meeting."

Before long, all the teachers had arrived at the meeting room.

With Jiang Yue leading him, Chen Yiyang walked into the meeting room.

"This is our new boss, Mr. Chen Yiyang." Jiang Yue introduced Chen Yiyang to everyone in the meeting room.

Applause immediately echoed through the meeting room.

No matter how young Chen Yiyang appeared.

The teachers in the meeting room were eagerly hoping someone could lead them out of the current predicament.

Surviving is better than nothing.

"Hello, teachers." After saying a few introductory remarks, Chen Yiyang got to the point.

"Everyone here today surely wants to continue staying with 'Old West' in the future.

I just took a look at your basic salaries, and they are all at the minimum wage line in Shan City.

This may be related to the fact that you used to earn commissions for teaching. So now that there are no classes, your income has significantly decreased.

Although the cost of living in Shan City isn't too high, this amount of money definitely isn't enough.

So, starting tomorrow, let's double your basic salary."

Chen Yiyang concluded his first speech.

The entire conference room buzzed with discussion like a boiling pot.

The salaries these teachers used to earn weren't actually low.

A teacher at the lowest level could earn about ten thousand per month if they taught steadily.

Whereas a star-level teacher could earn seventy to eighty thousand or even hundreds of thousands a month.

No matter how much they could earn before, now their basic salaries are all just over two thousand.

This amount of money isn't even enough to cover some teachers' monthly rent.

Now with Chen Yiyang doubling everyone's basic salary, no matter what, it's a very good thing.

At least survival won't be a concern anymore.

"As for the transition," Chen Yiyang asked curiously after the teachers finished their discussion, "do you have any ideas yourselves?"

"We've discussed this matter before," Jiang Yue said from the side, "and the opinion we came up with is to consider transitioning from offline to online.

We can create video courses and write educational materials online, then sell them to students. As long as we're not directly teaching, we can avoid the ban."

"Piracy online is quite serious. If the materials and video courses we create are taken by others and sold in bundled packages for just a few bucks, how should we address this?"

Chen Yiyang inquired.

"This." Jiang Yue was momentarily at a loss for an answer.

This is indeed a problem.

You painstakingly create videos and materials, selling them online for thousands, but others buy them and turn around to sell each piece for just a few bucks.

People are having a tough time, and many sell materials online for a few bucks to make ends meet.

Suing them is pointless; the damages might not even cover the legal fees.

This kind of thing is fundamentally hard to prevent.

Clearly, this isn't a good path.

"So what do you think we should do to transition?" a teacher inquired from below.

"What if we transition into a live-commerce agency, and you teachers become live-commerce hosts?"

Live-commerce hosts?!

The other teachers were taken aback.

This is quite a leap across different fields, isn't it?

They've seen online live streaming.

Sometimes they've had to teach online for special reasons.

But they hardly know anything about being live-commerce hosts.

"Why are we transitioning to do this? It's quite a big leap between fields," a teacher questioned from below.

"Because you are all teachers, you generally have a common trait, which is good speaking skills.

The most clueless person can only read a script for a product, but I believe you can introduce a product in a way that everyone likes.

Isn't this your professional expertise? In reality, it's not cross-field at all. Earlier, you were imparting knowledge to everyone; in the future, you would be communicating how great a product is to customers."

After Chen Yiyang finished speaking,

the discussion in the conference room continued for a long time.

But as everyone discussed more and more,

at first it seemed unreliable.

But after thinking it over,

they realized there wasn't much of a problem.

Both involve speaking to others,

both involve sharing dull and boring things in a lively way.

The form of expression might be different, but the fundamental principles are the same.

"I see there's not much opposition. So let's give this path a try first."

Chen Yiyang saw that although everyone in the conference room was discussing, no one was clearly opposing it.

So he instructed Jiang Yue, "Our agency's building is just sitting there. Let's find someone to renovate it in the coming days and set up a live-streaming room first."

"Understood, boss," Jiang Yue nodded, paused for a moment, and then asked, "But boss, what will we sell afterward? We don't have connections; even if we want to sell products, we need manufacturers to cooperate with us first."

"I'll find the manufacturers, you don't need to worry about that."

Chen Yiyang thought of his factory.

The Han Nibai Food Processing Factory might not directly produce finished foods.

But they previously supplied many chain restaurants.

Now those restaurants more or less sell their own products online.

For example, milk tea, hotpot base, hotpot sauces, various semi-processed ingredients.

These items can all be used for live-commerce hosts to try selling and see the effect.

Chen Yiyang planned to discuss with Liu Xiaoyue tonight, having Liu Xiaoyue directly connect with Old West, and help network for live-commerce.

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