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For Ye Bingcheng, this was a test.

Because Li Yang’s interview location was right in his territory.

So, he gave Li Yang a call.

Li Yang had just finished an exam at this moment.

"Brother, I just asked the railway side, and the number of passengers heading to Jiangbei increased by nearly ten percent just two days after your recruitment announcement was released. This is unprecedented at this time of year."

It’s not summer vacation yet, and neither universities nor high schools are out of session.

The college entrance exam is truly a few days away, yet even two days before the exam, the number of passengers has increased.

Given Li Yang’s influence online and Extreme Shadow Cars’ massive subsidies, he’s certainly thinking in this direction.

The passenger flow in Jiangbei is quite substantial; it’s a city of over ten million people, with daily passengers numbering more than six hundred thousand.

Now, the ticket sales have suddenly increased by sixty to seventy thousand, and without any major events happening, Ye Bingcheng wonders how much money Li Yang might lose this time.

Li Yang said, "Brother, don’t worry, Extreme Shadow Cars has already arranged enough buses to pick people up."

Is that what Ye Bingcheng is worried about?

He hurriedly said, "Brother, hiring a thousand people doesn’t require you to send out an announcement directly? You could easily recruit locally in Jiangbei. I see your recruitment lasts for seven days, but you probably will have to handle tens of thousands of people; there’s no way you can interview them all."

"It’s fine, it’s fine, barely any need to go through interviews, a few thousand would be great."

"Huh? Then this is..."

"Oh, my wife has been making money recently and wants me to squander a bit. But Extreme Shadow Cars can’t spend that much for now, so I thought of a way to give away billions."

The recruitment is real, but the main focus is marketing.

He wants to create his own culture of recruitment marketing.

In the future, he could easily spend some money and bring tens or even hundreds of thousands of people to a city.

He’s already arranged for Extreme Shadow Cars to set up dedicated stats centers at various train stations, bus stations, and airport high-speed rail stations in Jiangbei. As long as they can find a resume in the box, they can get reimbursed for the round-trip ticket and six hundred yuan at the office.

No need to go to the interview location, just take the reimbursement and have fun, chalk it up as a failed interview.

As for how many resumes are in the background, Li Yang knows very well. In total, there are more than six hundred thousand copies, most of which are not for applying.

The resume box was only open for two days and has now stopped receiving resumes, preventing them from knowing how easy it was to get the money and start exploiting the system.

Moreover, this is also a type of selection process. Those who aren’t tempted by the easy money and still choose to go to the interview likely will succeed, as they have clear goals and a correct attitude.

This event’s total cost is around eight hundred million, with plane business class and high-speed rail first or business class seats not covered for reimbursement.

Bringing other benefits counts as a gift for Ye Bingcheng.

Ye Bingcheng couldn’t find any point to refute Li Yang’s excuse.

This guy doesn’t treat money as money.

Speaking of willfulness, Ye Bingcheng has seen the big world, but no matter who it is, compared to Li Yang, it’s really nothing.

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At the very start of the recruitment, someone posted a thread on relevant forums.

"I’ve never seen such an absurd recruitment! They don’t even want us to go for interviews; they set up offices directly at the high-speed rail station entrance. You go over there, swipe your ID card, if there’s a related resume found, then give them your ticket and they pay money instantly! On top of the round-trip ticket price, they add six hundred yuan!"

A bunch of comments followed below: "?????"

"???"

"What the heck?"

"Seriously, it’s that absurd. Anyway, I never thought in my life I’d go out and find money. It gives me a bit of psychological pressure."

"No way? Is Li Yang really that extravagant?"

"It’s not just extravagance—it’s extravagance to the extreme! The queue is super long, and many people regret it on the spot... regret not submitting all their family’s resumes, so that not only they’d have a free trip, but also earn a few thousand bucks."

"Bro, is there still time to submit resumes now?"

"What do you think? If there were time, people from all over the country would rush over."

"Damn! I’m just brushing past this wild fortune!"

This isn’t a unique comment because a lot of people received money.

You can easily find someone familiar from your circle or friends to confirm this.

Then, the Extreme Shadow Cars website gets flooded.

Everyone loves gossip, especially the kind that might get them some money; these juicy details being guaranteed to be real make people really excited.

After a few days when the recruitment period ended, Li Yang took a glance at the feedback data from the Extreme Shadow Cars side, and only over seven hundred million were spent.

These days, Jiangbei’s taxis, restaurants, and hotels are quite busy with the sudden influx of tens of thousands of people, most of whom don’t have a residence here, hence being a consumer group.

Looking at the entire city, it seems to account for only one-twentieth.

But in reality, their daily consumption almost takes up one-sixth of the entire city.

Residents of the city can cook for themselves, rent or own their accommodations, which constitutes a constant coefficient for consumption.

A constant coefficient births a stable market.

Now it’s like giving a constant coefficient a 116% multiplier, making many things instantly more in demand.

Jiangbei has a lot of good food and beautiful scenery.

Most people from Extreme Shadow Cars definitely won’t have enough to spend over two days, so theoretically, most will have to contribute a bit when leaving.