「Wenzhou Tourism Bureau.」
News about Jiang Feng street vending in Wenzhou had spread far and wide. Many tourists ca specifically for him. The Tourism Bureau also realized Jiang Feng was perfect for promoting the city! In just the past few days, Wenzhou’s snacks had suddenly beco popular, and many people expressed their desire to visit.
Inside the Tourism Bureau, a group of people were reporting the situation to the director.
"Are you saying that tourism increased by 5% last week? All because of a street vendor?"
The director was quite interested when he heard this from his subordinate.
"And that’s not all," the subordinate reported. "The online search and popularity indices have both increased severalfold."
Hearing this, the Director of the Tourism Bureau was delighted. For him, figuring out how to boost the city’s tourism was the most important achievent.
With the current information age, the tourism departnts of major cities did their best to promote their cities online, even creating many catchy songs. Soone had suggested to Wenzhou that using the song "The Jiangnan Leather Factory Has Closed Down" as a promotional anthem would surely make it a big hit. But the Wenzhou Tourism Bureau had no intention of doing so, as this wasn’t exactly a positive image to cultivate.
Now, however, they could leverage Jiang Feng. By promoting Wenzhou’s cuisine through him, they could show more people the changes in Wenzhou. Director Li He imdiately had soone find Jiang Feng’s contact information, intending to reach out personally.
「At this mont, Jiang Feng was at ho petting his cat.」
The black cat had grown a bit, and its looks had improved even more. It was entirely pitch-black, with only its two golden eyes, making it very beautiful. Its head was especially round, resembling Little Black. It also felt good to pet.
Just then, Jiang Feng received a call from Li He, the Director of the Wenzhou City Tourism Bureau, who introduced himself right away.
"Boss Jiang, hello. I’m Li He, the Director of the Wenzhou City Tourism Bureau."
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP..."
Jiang Feng hung up imdiately.
He muttered to himself, These scamrs are pretty good nowadays; they even know my identity. Claiming to be the Director of the Tourism Bureau... why not just say he’s the mayor?
There were just too many scam calls and telemarketing calls these days. Calls about loans, real estate, renovations, insurance—they were endless. Jiang Feng usually hung up on such calls right away to avoid wasting ti.
At this mont, Li He was also a bit confused. What? I hadn’t even said anything, and he hung up? Is this for real?
Then, Li He dialed Jiang Feng’s number again.
"Hello?" Jiang Feng answered.
"Boss Jiang, I really am the Director of the Tourism Bureau," Li He said over the phone. "I’m calling because I hope to discuss your street vending in Wenzhou with you. We can provide convenient conditions and even pay a promotional fee. I’m not a scamr."
At that instant, the system’s voice also echoed in Jiang Feng’s mind.
[Initiate Wenzhou City Mission (2/2): Set up a stall on Wuma Street to sell crabs, serving 300 custors daily]
[Reward: Physical Enhancent]
[Extra Reward: Random Fresh Ingredients x10]
[Obtained: Crab Recipes x10]
[Accept?]
Jiang Feng paused for a mont. A mission at this ti!
Wuma Street was a comrcial pedestrian street for snacks, a blend of modern and classical architecture, typically attracting many out-of-town visitors. The street was packed with a huge variety of snacks. This ti, the requirent was actually to set up a stall and sell crabs!
Indeed, Wenzhou cuisine is predominantly seafood-based, and there are nurous ways to prepare crab. Whether it was Jiangxiansheng (a dish of raw, marinated local crabs), stir-fried swimming crab with rice cakes, or raw pickled swimming crabs, these were all local delicacies.
Jiang Feng was still on the phone. Hearing the system’s mission, an idea struck him.
So, Jiang Feng replied, "Director Li, I’m sorry. I thought you were a scamr just now. Actually, I do plan to set up a stall in Wenzhou next week. My plan is to go to Wuma Street."
Hearing Jiang Feng say this, Li He imdiately responded, "Wuma Street? That’s an excellent location! Have you chosen a spot yet? I can mark it out for you."
Jiang Feng was montarily stumped but quickly said, "I haven’t decided on a specific spot yet. I was thinking of contacting the street managent when I arrive to find a spot. Also, I plan to make crab dishes next week and will need a lot of good-quality swimming crabs. I haven’t found a supplier yet."
Li He noted all of Jiang Feng’s points and then imdiately said, "Boss Jiang, say no more. I’ll get this arranged imdiately. I’ll have one of the young lads from our bureau contact you shortly. We’ll prepare the stall location for you, and we’ll also arrange the swimming crabs. As long as you agree to let us use this for promotion, I’ll set up a special dedicated event. We will definitely give you an appearance fee. Of course, you know that since we’re a governnt departnt, the appearance fee can’t be as much as a private company might offer. However, I can approve 100,000 yuan. What do you think?"
Li He’s words left Jiang Feng sowhat stunned. Is it really this good? They’ll arrange the venue, provide the swimming crabs, and even give a 100,000 yuan appearance fee?
The money itself isn’t the main thing. No, wait, it does matter. 100,000 yuan is still money; if I can earn it, I definitely should. Having the city’s Tourism Bureau make the arrangents was certainly better than finding a place himself.
In fact, Jiang Feng’s appearance fee was worth far more than 100,000 yuan. His current online traffic was terrifyingly huge. If he were willing to participate in so comrcial activities, getting a 1 million yuan appearance fee would be very easy. This was just a governnt departnt project, so they couldn’t offer too much money. Jiang Feng had never previously thought of using his popularity to make money, and he didn’t particularly care about it.
However, Jiang Feng realized that his street vending journey seed to be changing. Previously, he had to find his own locations or contact managers. Now, the city’s Tourism Bureau was calling him directly. As long as he set up his stall here, they would arrange everything. This was truly incredible.
Jiang Feng said over the phone, "I don’t have a problem with it. I was planning to set up a stall anyway, and it will surely be known by many people, so a little promotion doesn’t matter. However, I hope the promotion focuses only on my stall and Wenzhou’s cuisine, without going overboard."
Li He imdiately replied, "No problem. I’ll have soone liaise with you on this. I’ll send soone over in a bit."
"Alright." Jiang Feng hung up the phone.
Things were starting to get wild. Jiang Feng had originally been wondering where and how to set up his stall. Now, everything was being arranged for him. From the sound of it, he wouldn’t even need to find a location himself; the authorities would arrange it.
Moreover, Jiang Feng had a feeling that this was just the beginning. Perhaps setting up stalls will often be like this in the future. To reach this kind of level just by street vending is quite rare.
「Wenzhou Tourism Bureau.」
That very afternoon, Li He convened a special eting to arrange the matter of Jiang Feng’s stall. Furthermore, the bureau would provide the funding, taking special responsibility for this event. The Tourism Bureau wasn’t particularly short of funds. Besides, they had annual targets. Money that was supposed to be spent had to be spent; it absolutely had to be disbursed. If it wasn’t spent, next year’s allocation would be reduced. This sum of money was to be used as promotional funds.
Once the staff mbers received their tasks, they quickly got to work. The promotion departnt released a video online, announcing in advance the location and ti of Jiang Feng’s stall. mbers of the project team went to Wuma Street and began constructing a dedicated platform for Jiang Feng. There was also a young man nad Li Yuan, responsible for contacting Jiang Feng and coordinating matters related to the swimming crabs. The local people here love eating swimming crabs, so there are many aquaculture markets. Seafood suppliers were especially willing to do business with them when the city needed to make purchases.
This ti, the stall setup was truly a grand spectacle!
Soon, the news about Jiang Feng’s stall was trending.
#BossJiang’sNextStallLocation#
Many netizens clicked on this hashtag to see.
"Wow, it’s the official account of Wenzhou Culture and Tourism! Is Boss Jiang collaborating with the culture and tourism departnt?"
"Wenzhou Culture and Tourism is going to ride this wave of traffic hard!"
"The next location is announced? I happen to be traveling there; I’ll go check out the excitent."
"Wuma Street? Then I can go take a look!"
"The snacks Boss Jiang made last week all seed to be Wenzhou’s specialty dishes, right?"
"Honestly, it was through Boss Jiang that I learned Wenzhou has so many delicious things. Before, I only knew about the Jiangnan Leather Factory!"
"Wenzhou is about to blow up!"
The popularity of this matter was considerable. No one had expected that simply setting up a stall to sell snacks could attract such a high degree of attention.
In fact, without realizing it, many netizens had beco fans of Jiang Feng. Most were casual fans—the type who would watch his videos for a bit if they ca across them. Because he had a large number of casual fans, many marketing accounts were editing and sharing clips of Jiang Feng’s videos. People would always stumble upon videos showing where Jiang Feng was setting up his stall that week and what he was selling. The more this happened, the more curious everyone beca about where Jiang Feng was currently and what he was selling.
This advance announcent, a change from his previous style, imdiately piqued everyone’s curiosity. Many people were planning to go to Wenzhou to taste the food made by Boss Jiang.
The video’s popularity was high. The Wenzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau really struck gold this ti.
Nowadays, all cities are vying for internet traffic. Wenzhou had managed to overtake on a curve. Furthermore, the tourism bureaus of many other cities were closely watching the situation in Wenzhou. Their idea was simple: poach him. Get Jiang Feng to co to their city. After all, Jiang Feng set up stalls randomly across the country anyway. Naturally, they all hoped he would co to their respective cities.
「Two days later, Jiang Feng arrived at Wuma Street to check his stall location.」
When Jiang Feng saw his stall’s location, he was sowhat dumbfounded. The stall was right in the middle of the pedestrian-only comrcial snack street; no cars or bicycles could enter. Jiang Feng’s stall was huge. It was a temporarily constructed building, and even various cooking utensils were already prepared inside. It was surrounded by iron railings. There was even a red carpet laid out in front.
Jiang Feng had never seen anyone set up a stall like this.
It was, in a word: ostentatious!
Sun Zhuangfei, his face full of astonishnt, asked, "Boss, we’re setting up here? This is our stall?"
Before Jiang Feng could speak, Li Yuan, the young man from the Wenzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau responsible for liaising with him, asked, "Boss Jiang, if there’s anything you’re not satisfied with, please point it out at any ti. We’ll make changes imdiately."
Jiang Feng replied, "No need. This is already great. This is more than enough! I’ll prepare the ingredients this afternoon and get all the crabs marinated. I’ll start business tomorrow morning."
Li Yuan nodded and replied with a smile, "Alright, no problem. Just let know if you need anything. The current online public opinion is excellent, and the hype is also high. The bureau is especially satisfied with this promotional campaign. It’s really all thanks to you!"
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