legendary trader

Chapter 879 Chapter 880
Hearing the story of Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin, Chen Fan knew what was going on.

At the end of the Warring States period, Qin destroyed the six kingdoms to complete the great unification, Qin Wang Yingzheng ascended the throne as the emperor, the eternal emperor of Hua Kingdom, after all, he was the first emperor.

Although he is not familiar with the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and he doesn't know whether King Qin's achievements surpassed those of them, he still holds the title of number one.

"This is a historical drama, so it has a bit of a martial arts flavor. How come no one pays for a gamble?"

After Chen Fan figured it out, he asked.

"The focus of this movie is precisely on chivalry, but the real reason behind it is that political struggles are rarely involved. The domestic market is like this now, and it is not interested in martial arts or costume dramas.

Now domestic audiences prefer to watch movies with modern backgrounds. Even movies about high-level assassinations with political tinges in modern times are more eye-catching than making such movies. "

Xie Kai said, "The evaluation data given by the evaluation team is like this. If this film is shot, it will definitely lose money."

Chen Fan hadn't seen the materials of this movie, so he naturally couldn't understand that Xie Kai's focus was on the "Xia" while ignoring the behind-the-scenes driving force of Assassin Qin.

Of course, Chen Fan has long forgotten who was behind the plot to assassinate Qin. Maybe he saw it when he was studying history, but now he can't remember clearly.

"Chen is always because of the two characters in it?"

Xie Kai had already recollected it, and guessed that Chen Fan came here to ask Director Zhang why he wanted to make this movie.

In fact, he really thought about investing money in it before, so he could get acquainted with Director Zhang first. Even if this movie is successful, then Director Zhang will definitely take care of them in the next movie and give them a certain share of investment.

However, Xie Kai was a little worried about the fundraising situation later on. Mr. Zhang only raised 8 million yuan, and the gap was at least 1.2 million yuan. Under such circumstances, Xie Kai naturally retreated a little bit. No guarantees were made.

"Not in the domestic market, but also in foreign markets?"

Chen Fan went to the United States this time, and only then did he know that the film market in the United States is the big ticket warehouse for global movies. Last year, the total box office revenue of the film was 90 billion yuan. There are so many countries in Europe, and there are many countries around the country that are popular in China. For a country influenced by Huaguo culture, Chen Fan suddenly felt that talking about the domestic market with Xie Kai seemed a bit one-sided.

"There may be a certain market in East Asia. Other markets are basically unfamiliar with martial arts films, that is, local Chinese will spend money to watch them, and I have not found that Westerners are interested in Chinese martial arts films."

Xie Kai also told the truth, but the meaning behind the words is still obvious. From a business point of view, although Director Zhang is famous, the probability of this film hitting the market is very high.

Chen Fan was also a little helpless, took out a box of cigarettes from the drawer, took out two, handed Xie Kai a cigarette, lit it himself with a lighter, and handed the lighter to Xie Kai.

The flame burned the tobacco leaves inside the cigarette, Chen Fan took a deep breath, and then let it out long.

"It's hard to recover the 2 million investment?"

Chen Fan asked suspiciously, although he knew that domestic movie box office didn't seem to be very high, but recently he went abroad a lot, and sometimes he went to watch movies there when he was free, although most of them couldn't understand, and there were no Chinese subtitles under the movies , but Chen Fan could still understand the story of the movie even with guesswork.

During this period, Chen Fan also realized the huge box office of the movie.

"I can't afford it, Mr. Chen. Last year our domestic box office was only less than 9 million yuan. How could we spend 2 million yuan to make a movie? Isn't this a clear loss of money?"

Xie Kai smiled wryly, he could see that Chen Fan was not giving up, and he would be determined to go his own way in a while, so he had to use data to speak.

"With a box office of 9 million yuan, it is not difficult to recover the investment of 2 million yuan."

Chen Fan was surprised.

"no."

Xie Kai was a little confused at the moment, and it took him a while to sort out his thoughts and said: "Mr. Chen, the movie's investors can only get one-third of the box office, and the other two-thirds go to the theaters and the box office." The issuer, of course, has to pay taxes, that is to say, if the investment of 2 million yuan is to be guaranteed, the box office must be at least 6 million yuan, and the national box office is only 9 million yuan a year, so how can it be possible to recover the investment."

"Is that so?"

After listening to Xie Kai's call, Chen Fan was convinced that if he invested money in this film, he must have lost blood and it would be too difficult to make money.

"Although Director Zhang said that he will use his relationship to strive for global distribution, but Westerners know nothing about martial arts, and no one will watch the film when it is sent there. Our domestic films basically do not pay attention to the foreign market. It is not that they don't want to , but it’s useless, the water and the soil are not acclimatized.”

Xie Kai said.

Now that Chen Fan knows the stakes, it's no wonder that Director Zhang's face is useless. He still invested some money because of the cooperation in the past, but if he really wants to throw money into it, no one really cares about it. Willing to spend money for nothing.

"They are still looking for investors, right?"

Chen Fan said suddenly, his words really frightened Xie Kai, he had already heard that Chen Fan was determined to invest in this film.

"The 8 million people don't belong to me, right?"

Chen Fan continued to ask, and seeing Xie Kai shaking his head, Chen Fan said without waiting for his response: "Take a message over there, we vote."

Speaking of this, Chen Fan still hesitated a little, and then said: "It's really hard to decide on this first, and you understand what I mean, are those two roles important?"

Chen Fan still didn't say the number in the end, obviously he already knew the result of the money thrown out.

"This drama is actually mainly a man's drama, and there are not many female roles, but of course there are also such sayings as female first and female second."

Xie Kai really gave up. Having said so much, Chen Fan still wants to invest money, and the meaning is very clear, that is, he wants the role.

"No more than 5 million, those two characters, I think you seem to know what they are?"

Having said that, Chen Fan stared at Xie Kai and asked.

"Mr. Zhu of Blue Ocean Entertainment has approached me before, so I know what they mean very well. They are very smart. They planned to invest some money before, but they slipped away after knowing the story, and they helped introduce me."

Xie Kai said helplessly.

Chen Fan was slightly taken aback, but soon sneered again and again, really taking himself here for something.

"Let's talk to the other side and pass on the conditions. Since it's a man's show, it won't be too much trouble to get those two roles. 5 million, no more."

Chen Fan said to Xie Kai.

As for what Xie Kai could say at this moment, he could only nod with a wry smile.

After Xie Kai left the office, Chen Fan also pondered in his heart, feeling that Lin Qingyu and Che Xiaoya should not continue to renew their contract with Blue Ocean Entertainment.

As soon as he thought about it, Chen Fan immediately took out his mobile phone, told Lin Qingyu and Che Xiaoya what he meant, and suggested that they should not continue to sign a contract with Blue Ocean Entertainment, because they knew on the phone that the two women still have about two years left in their finances. It's just expired, this time is not short, and it is troublesome to forcefully terminate the contract, and it is easy to lose character.

I can only stick to it for another two years, and the contract will not be renewed when it expires, and I will leave directly.

However, from the conversation just now, Chen Fan also noticed that Xie Kai and Mr. Zhu from Blue Ocean Entertainment are still in contact with each other, but then Chen Fan shook his head, not wanting to continue thinking about these things.

He didn't pay much attention to the company's operations, but he still paid attention to the investment income. So far, the company's investment in the entertainment industry is still in a situation of winning more and losing less. The profit can completely cover the loss, and it can make money every year. Nearly [-] million yuan, basically [-]% of the projects can recover the investment and make money, so Chen Fan is even more lazy to ask his subordinates.

On the weekend, Chen Fan attended a party in the small circle, and Zheng Xiaopang also came. Everyone was a little envious of Chen Fan going to the United States to buy an electric power company and a natural gas pipeline company. It is true that these two projects will lose money. Unless it encounters natural disasters and man-made disasters, it is basically an industry that guarantees income from droughts and floods.

Of course, the premise is not to expand investment casually.

In fact, in the United States, many power companies are still losing money, but most of them are not the main business, but other investment projects, especially the high depreciation of new projects or the high operating costs of old equipment.

In the United States, the power industry is a relatively competitive industry. The on-grid electricity prices of major power plants are all based on bidding, which is still a little different from the domestic unified on-grid electricity prices.

Therefore, for enterprises, production cost is still very important.

As far as the power plant of the Portland General Electric Company purchased by Chen Fan is considered relatively advanced in the same industry in the United States, the cost control is also good. As long as some of the profits are reserved every year as technology upgrade funds, and the investment is not blindly expanded, The business risk is still small.

As for the pipe network company, the competition is relatively small, and there is a certain degree of monopoly in it. The threshold of investment is not something that everyone can ignore.

In addition, when I heard that Chaofan Investment had basically reached an agreement with Southern Investment Group, and it was about to fully acquire the public utility assets of Southern Group around the imperial capital, everyone burst into congratulations.

To be honest, if it wasn’t for the Southern Investment Group’s package sale of these assets this time, the total price would be a bit high, and many young masters and ladies present would still be willing to spend their pocket money to buy one or two assets to enrich their small wallets.

As for the end of Keyuan's investment, well, if it is the assets of the Imperial Capital or Shencheng, Zhang Jianjun may run faster than Xie Kai.

Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang didn't say a word about the two port projects next to the imperial capital that are about to be merged into one port. In fact, so far, only a very small number of people know that Southern Investment Group intends to sell these two port projects. People, the news did not spread at all, which is why the Southern Investment Group dared to raise a high price.

As long as Chaofan Investment does not agree, they don't have to worry about it. As long as the news spreads, it is really hard to say whether Chaofan Investment can compare its strength with other institutions.

Naturally, Chaofan Investment does not want more competitors to appear, so naturally sometimes it has to think more about it, such as paying more money.

Of course, it is also possible that the news has spread, but no one has responded. After all, these two port areas are close to the largest port in northern China, and this competitive pressure is not small.

After the party, on the way home, Zheng Xiaopang squeezed into Chen Fan's car, and asked the driver to drive back to his own car.

"I checked the account. If this port is bought, in addition to the billions of dollars reserved in the bank for backup, it can be put into the market at any time. There is not much money in the domestic market."

Zheng Xiaopang has been at the resort for the past two days, but after knowing the news about the two ports, he still made up his mind. If he can afford it, he doesn't need to sell the rice yuan in the foreign exchange market. The Huayuan deposit in the company's account It is enough to complete this transaction.

As for the money that will be invested in the next few years after buying the port, it will only be [-] to [-] million a year. According to the current Chaofan Investment Company's own hematopoietic ability, it can also survive, and there is no pressure at all.

Even if they are really short of money at that time, just reduce Xie Kai's investment business.

"Finally, we really don't have any pressure, but the bank comes to us from time to time and asks if we want a loan, hehe"

Zheng Xiaopang smiled on the side.

"I don't care about him, let's take it down first, anyway, I don't lack the money, even if the money is really tight at that time, it is fine to use the rice yuan reserve or borrow from the bank.

My Yikes company has also made frequent moves in recent months, but they have not used my funds. They are all acquired with loans from local banks. They say that in this way, the bank's network will help us deal with some obstacles. "

When Chen Fan said this, he spread his hands and smiled: "Then, I will believe it."

"That's the power of capital."

Zheng Xiaopang smiled and said, "It seems that in the future, we must learn to borrow some loans from the bank when we have money."

Immediately, Zheng Xiaopang changed the subject and asked again: "Why didn't you consider getting a bank loan from the United States when you bought the assets in the United States?"

"I'm running out of time. If I sign the agreement here and go to the bank later, how favorable the loan terms do you think those banks will give me when they know about my agreement with a time limit?"

Chen Fan said with a smile.

"A rich man with the surname Chen in China, hehe"

Zheng Xiaopang joked.

Although Chen Fan acquired Portland General Electric Company and Off-Road Energy Company very quickly, and he only leaked his face at the last moment of signing the contract, both the US and domestic media have noticed that in the domestic reports, he used The word "rich man surnamed Chen" refers to Chen Fan.

Originally, Li Yihong wanted to follow Chen Fan's wishes and suppressed the report, but the US side had already spread the word.

Now, the Enron asset division feast has not yet started. Although there are multiple projects under negotiation at the same time, they have not been able to reach a final agreement. The capital is not in a hurry, but the media is.

After knowing that Huaguo Capital took the lead in acquiring Enron's two assets with good profit prospects at a premium, it naturally made a big report.

Of course, there are other interest groups behind this, and their purpose is nothing more than to speed up the negotiation and turn the foreseeable benefits into actual benefits as soon as possible.

And now, it is said that a breakthrough has been made in some negotiation projects, and a final agreement is about to be reached.

"It is said that the South Group bought Enron's power plant assets in York State at a high premium this time, and the syndicate was unwilling to provide loans for the premium, which forced South to sell those assets aggressively."

Zheng Xiaopang said leisurely.

(End of this chapter)