Franchise God - Chapter 10



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Franchise God Episode 010

Chapter 3: Is this the network you need? (3)

“If you want to be crazy, then be crazy.”

After hanging up the phone, Ha Soo-young, who was listening from the side, shrugged her shoulders and muttered.

“It seems like the Seohae Hotel’s purchasing team is really anxious. It seems like there are a lot of guests specifically looking for our Songi.”

“It’s not the season right now. No matter how well you manage frozen products, it won’t work on non-frozen products.”

“Looking at all the chaos, it seems like the rich regular customers are really upset. What should we do?”

“What can I do? You have to keep pushing until the supply line is greatly expanded. They’re going to drive you crazy in the meantime.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol stared with strange eyes.

Ha Soo-young’s calm attitude gave off the feeling that she had experienced this kind of thing many times.

“And the Seohae Hotel isn’t the only luxury hotel. Why don’t you try checking out other hotel lines as well?”

“What if they bite off two hotels?”

“Isn’t that a good thing? Flowers in both hands.”

“The supply volume is insufficient. If we only have one Seohae Hotel, we can excuse the small supply volume, but if we have two, we’ll get cursed at from both sides.”

Of course, he wasn’t serious. Jeon Seong-ryeol was also seriously considering trying somewhere else if not the Seohae Hotel.

The reason he is joking like this is… … .

“Oh, don’t worry too much about the quantity. I’ll take care of that.”

“Didn’t you say that the limit is around 50kg per month?”

“It’s like a target line that was originally drawn to be surpassed.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol couldn’t help but chuckle inwardly at the expression on his face as if to say, “Why is someone you know so well doing this?”

He looks like a young man with a refreshing and lively appearance, but sometimes he speaks as if there is an old snake inside him.

‘Well, I’m not just going to be selling mushrooms.’

Jeon Seong-ryeol buys it from Ha Su-yeong for 450,000 won per kilogram and sells it for about 800,000 won. The Seohae Hotel will receive about 1.2 to 1.5 million won per kilogram from the final consumer.

50kg per month, purchase price 22.5 million won, 270 million won per year.

Considering the generous delivery margin, annual sales would be around 480 million won.

Of course, it is not a small amount of money. However, Jeon Seong-ryeol is already an agricultural product distributor with annual sales of about 9 billion won.

Mushrooms can be an important item, but it’s not something you should go all-in on to the exclusion of everything else.

Using Ha Soo-young’s pine mushroom delivery as bait to win the contract to supply to luxury hotels, and using that as a weapon to successively attack high-end restaurants in Gangnam and Jongno, increasing overall sales.

That is the blueprint that Jeon Seong-ryeol is drawing.

“Isn’t it strange?”

“what?”

“No, that’s right. It’s not the season right now, so where do you get 50kg of mushrooms every month? They’re not even frozen.”

“This guy too. Who in our company doesn’t think that’s strange? Everyone is getting a kick out of agricultural products, but who doesn’t know that it’s currently the off-season for matsutake mushrooms?”

“But why doesn’t anyone speak up?”

The male employee with a bushy beard let out a deep sigh at his colleague’s words.

“Hey, buddy. Is there a need to kill a goose that lays lots of eggs?”

“Even the boss knows something is off. But what? The mushrooms aren’t poisoned or contain heavy metals. They’re just not in season right now. As long as there’s no problem with the mushrooms, why are you trying to dig up your business partners’ trade secrets?”

“Aren’t you curious?”

“I’m curious. But it’s a hundred times better for the company to do well than to find a solution to the things I’m curious about.”

“…….”

“I wonder if that guy has a mountain where pine mushrooms grow well regardless of the season. Let’s keep our curiosity in check.

“Not very good.”

The employee who raised the question, Park Ki-soo, still looked slightly dissatisfied.

The bearded male employee, Joo Sung-cheol, was worried about that.

‘This guy, I’m going to buy this sometime soon.’

-Where do you get the mushrooms when it’s not even the season?

There is no employee of Seongryeol Distribution Co., Ltd. who does not have such doubts.

But not everyone crosses the line.

It’s not like it was stolen or mixed with harmful substances like heavy metals or radioactivity.

Thanks to Songi, sales also increased by 6%.

‘Even fancy restaurants are starting to take interest in us.’

Seongryeol Distribution is still not very good at supplying high-end restaurants. Sales are high, but the products it handles are mostly ordinary agricultural products that are needed by general consumers.

Jeon Seong-ryeol had always wanted to take control of the supply line for high-class restaurants that cater to the upper class.

‘People should play in the big water. That’s how they can make a lot of money.’

A distributor that supplies food ingredients to high-end restaurants and luxury hotels.

If you build that image, you can gain trust from most regular restaurants and increase your sales by leaps and bounds.

That was the reason why Jeon Seong-ryeol cherished Ha Su-yeong’s pine mushrooms so much.

Because we can always supply premium pine mushrooms, we will be able to break into premium hotels.

* * *

-Son, are you ready?

The solemn voice of my father’s avatar, the Galactic Tree, was heard.

Ha Soo-young, kneeling in a reverent posture, nodded slowly. Her expression was more serious than ever.

“Yes, Father. I am ready.”

-Okay. Then from now on, I will give you knowledge tailored to your level about why you should become a franchise god.

“Yes, father.”

Ha Soo-young waited for the next words with a pounding heart.

– Long, long ago, in the distant past, when the universe was smaller than a grain of rice, in that boundless darkness, a self began to sprout, and for the first time, the self became aware of its own existence, and began to harbor a desire to explore and question other beings… … Hey, kid! Don’t sleep and listen up!

“Oh, I didn’t sleep!”

-Wipe your mouth and make an excuse!

I saw it with my own two eyes, so how could it be a lie?

“Where are your eyes, Father? If a tree has eyes, is it a monster or a divine tree?”

-There is something called the eye of will. Even though I am rooted here in the backyard, I can see a thousand light years from where I sit.

“Hey, that’s ridiculous.”

-Anyway, listen carefully again. This time, don’t fall asleep.

The Milky Way Tree once again brought up the story of the universe’s ancient past, and Ha Su-yeong’s consciousness had already departed on a journey to Andromeda.

It means listening with one ear and letting it out with both.

-… … That’s all. Oh my, this father had a hard time looking through old data. Be grateful.

“I’ve heard it well. The prehistoric times were truly full of amazing things. I’m speechless at the thought that one had to overcome such adversity to become an ancient god.”

-Ancient God, Franchise God! Why do you keep bringing up old titles? Now that a new era has begun, you should get used to new titles.

The tips of the branches of the Milky Way Tree trembled in unison as if they were coughing.

-And from now on, I decided to give ten drops of the elixir per day.

“Huh? Father, why are you suddenly like this, Thank You Berrimer… No, no, are you trying to kill me right now? It’s so painful to take just one drop a day, and you want me to take ten drops?”

-Eat only one drop at a time. Instead, save the remaining 9 drops and take more later when your body adapts.

“Is there a reason you’re giving it to me in advance?”

-When you consume a certain amount of the elixir, the next stage of the training process that was locked will be unlocked. If I give you ten drops a day, even if you don’t consume them all, it will be considered as having consumed that amount.

“Ah! So you’re trying to quickly lift the restrictions that your father placed on the Milky Way Tree by using such a trick? That’s right!”

-You’re being quick-witted for no reason… … Anyway, I decided that it would be better to lift the restrictions that I, no, really, put on myself as soon as possible. Anyway, you can’t exceed 7 drops a week. Just save the rest.

“Okay, don’t worry.”

Ha Su-yeong returned in excitement, and Eun Ha-shin remained silent for a while before letting out a light sigh.

-If that guy quickly builds a building in Cheongdam-dong, he’ll start studying for the civil service exam more seriously…

Having a child is not always as one would like.