Establishing the New Era Commercial Empire

Now that the shops were settled, the only thing missing was NPC staff. Managing these shops was just like in real life, requiring people to run them.

If he was alone, he still had to do quests, fight monsters, and level up; where would he find the time to manage the shops? Therefore, recruiting NPCs was absolutely necessary.

Fortunately, there was a ready-made HR manager right in front of him, and Shen Feng naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity.

"Moore! I need to recruit some more personnel," Shen Feng looked at Moore and said with a smile.

Hearing Shen Feng's words, Moore, who was still in a state of shock, finally snapped out of it and put on a professional smile again:

"My Lord, I happen to have the job application information of all NPCs in Baofeng City. Please take a look."

With that, a massive NPC recruitment list appeared on Shen Feng's optical computer interface, detailing various business talents along with their specialties.

These commercial NPCs were also divided into grades. The higher the grade, the higher their business intelligence, basically resembling a human corporate model. He could hire high-grade NPCs to manage other NPCs, though the hiring cost would naturally be higher.

Lower-grade NPCs had lower capabilities but could be used for other tasks, such as waiting tables in hotels or doing chores in shops. NPCs with slightly higher combat power could also be hired as security guards or cargo escorts.

In any case, all the industries had been bought up by him, and what he lacked was manpower, so any NPC could play a role in their respective fields.

Looking at the dense list of NPCs, Shen Feng didn't choose carefully. After all, he still had tens of millions of gold coins; hiring a few NPCs was well within his budget.

He went directly to the sorting interface and hired all the top NPCs on the list, including: thirty special-grade commercial NPCs to manage the conglomerate, one hundred high-grade NPCs to manage the shops, two hundred mid-grade NPCs to purchase resources across Baofeng City, and finally, three hundred low-grade NPCs mainly responsible for transport and chores.

In total, these NPCs only cost Shen Feng 5 million gold coins. Currently, his shops didn't have many things to sell.

Shen Feng planned to use the remaining 10 million gold coins to have the NPCs purchase materials, equipment blueprints, and recipes that current players had no use for.

Right now, the prices of these things were much cheaper than equipment because no one had enough materials to craft them. Keeping them in the inventory only took up space, so when someone was buying, players would naturally be willing to sell.

And these things were the money-making method for the future.

Other players couldn't gather enough materials, but he could rely on NPCs to purchase them or post quests to gather them. Afterward, he could have NPCs craft potions and equipment from the recipes and design blueprints.

Finally, he would sell them back to the players at a high price, creating a perfect cycle. Wouldn't money flow into his pockets endlessly?

In his past life, many players relied on just a single small shop to make a fortune in the game, later buying cars and houses in real life, marrying beautiful and wealthy women, and stepping onto the peak of life.

Now, Shen Feng was merely executing this plan earlier and on a much larger scale.

The plan was set, but to execute it, these basic things alone were not enough.

The purchasing power of tens of millions of players in Baofeng City was limited, after all. He needed some top-tier equipment as bait to attract big bosses from other main cities to spend money in Baofeng City.

At this moment, the top-tier equipment he had obtained would come in handy.

It must be known that at the current stage, players were still in the Bronze and Iron era. If he released Gold-grade and Dark Gold-grade equipment, what a massive sensation it would cause!

Leveraging the influence of the equipment, he could definitely make money from other main cities. As a reincarnator, he was simply too smart.

Now, everything was planned; all that was left was to notify all players.

This time, his game forum account with 60 million followers would come in handy. The feeling of being able to do a live-stream sale in the game would definitely be a hit.

Shen Feng opened his optical computer and accessed the in-game forum.

He took screenshots of the dozen or so Gold and Dark Gold-grade items in his inventory and posted them.

The post title was: "New Era Commerce Chamber in Baofeng City is officially established! Grand opening sale, selling some top-tier equipment obtained by hand, guild bosses are welcome to bid."

The content below consisted of a series of equipment screenshots and the coordinates of Baofeng City.

After editing, Shen Feng directly hit send.

As soon as the post was sent, before he could even exit the forum, a massive number of followers tracking Shen Feng flooded the post, commenting and sharing.

Shen Feng casually scrolled through.

**Xiao Yanyan:** "The God has finally emerged! Establishing a commercial empire in the game? That's truly too cool! Not only is he powerful and handsome, but he also has such a business mind, I'm in love."
**Storm Mage God:** "My god, so much top-tier gear! I have to hurry and grab some!"
**Honest Man:** "Guild Master is the GOAT."
**Zi Se Xiang Wei:** "Guild Master, can you sell a few pieces to my sister, I beg of you (pitiful expression)."
**Mu Se Xiang Wei:** "I'm already on my way to Baofeng City!"
**Xiao Bao Bei:** "God Shi Tian, can you give me a piece of gear? I can help warm your bed at night."
…

A crowd of fans commented crazily as soon as the post went up. This was exactly the effect Shen Feng wanted.

In just a few short minutes, the shares of this post reached hundreds of thousands and were still rising continuously.

Shen Feng opened his account management page and discovered that after just one day, his follower count had surpassed 100 million.

"I must be the fastest person to reach 100 million followers," Shen Feng smiled and said to himself.

Currently, the stable online player count of the Meta-Universe had exceeded 1 billion, and registered users had surpassed 10 billion. With a global population of only around 15 billion, almost everyone except children and the elderly who couldn't enter the game had logged in under the state's encouragement.

Gaining 100 million followers in a single day was reasonable.

Just taking a single advertising contract could earn him tens of millions.

However, Shen Feng didn't care about this pocket change. His goal of development was the commercial empire within the Meta-Universe.

Closing the game forum, he returned to the game world.