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Chapter 326
This time Shen Fang rushed back to Yanjing and there was one more thing, that is, the matter of Wild Fox's acquisition of Benma Films finally came to an end.

Wild Fox Company spent 14.5 billion yuan to acquire all 58% of the shares held by the Li Ming family.And he took the initiative to fulfill the gambling agreement signed by Li Ming with CCB Culture before his death, and proposed to acquire 4.95% of the equity of Benma Films held by CCB Culture for 15 million yuan.

Knowing that Wild Fox was going to take over Benma Films, CCB Culture once wanted to withdraw the gambling agreement and planned to continue holding the shares, but Huo Mingda refused.With billions of dollars of financial support from Shen Fang, Huo Mingda dared to say no to any capital.Moreover, Benma Films is now a group without a leader, and it is just an internal struggle for power. As long as Wild Fox Company intervenes aggressively, it can immediately turn losses into profits and get on the right track.

Seeing that it was inviolable, CCB Culture did not force it. It did not charge the 10% interest marked on the agreement, but charged a symbolic 1000 million, which was regarded as bridge interest.It also leaves a lot of room for future cooperation with Wild Fox.

Wild Fox also gave back, promising that CCB Culture will be the first choice for fundraising when several of its subsidiaries go IPO in the future.CCB is very interested in Chengxing Tianxia, ​​Yiren Culture and Rong Zhixin. With Huo Mingda's promise, the relationship between the two parties has eased a lot.

On April 4th, Wild Fox Company, which holds 18% of the shares of Benma Films, convened the company's senior management to hold a shareholders' meeting. Horse Films will usher in its new owner.

"Good morning, everyone. I'm Shen Fang." Shen Fang looked around the conference room. Except for Huo Mingda, Qian Bin, and legal counsel Yi Yang who came with him, the rest of the staff were old employees of Benma Pictures. , Shen Fang is also very fortunate. Apart from its film and television copyrights and script library, the most valuable thing about Benma Films is the old employees who have worked in the industry for many years. If it takes a year or so, After the company fell apart, there was no longer any acquisition value.

"I'm old friends with everyone." Shen Fang said with a smile: "Mr. Zhong, Brother Ergou, and Mr. Lu have had dinner together several times. Director Qian and Director Shao have also cooperated with our company many times. The film "The Year in a Hurry" was jointly invested by the two companies. Although Mr. Li Ming died young, the Benma Film Industry he founded is still the common cause of everyone here."

When Li Ming was mentioned, everyone present shuddered. When they joined Benma Pictures, they were basically attracted by Li Ming's personal charm. They didn't expect that he would die of illness in his prime.But Li Ming didn't designate a successor, and the widow Jin Yan couldn't support the situation, and the two sisters-in-law were contacting outsiders to cash out.In the past two or three months, these high-level seniors in the company have seen it in their eyes and are anxious in their hearts.

Shen Fang continued: "I know that because of Mr. Li Ming's death, and the conflict between Mr. Jin and the two Mr. Li, many people in the company have already started to make new plans, making contact with others, and preparing to quit."

As soon as the voice fell, the high-level cadres present immediately began to discuss. Shen Fang stretched out his hand to press down to signal silence, and then continued: "If any of you here want to sell the equity in your hand, you can raise it now, and I will sell it according to the market value. Take over. After all, we are all working together, and you cannot lose money because of Chairman Li's unfortunate death." The former Benma Films was equivalent to a family business, with Li Ming as the chairman, his wife Jin Yan as the financial director, sister and The younger sister serves as a senior executive respectively, and several other relatives hold shares and hold important positions in the company.The two shareholders who are planning to withdraw their shares are both distant relatives of Li Ming, who hold 3% and 5% of the shares respectively. They are worried that after Benma Films changes to a new owner, they will not be as carefree as they were when Brother Gou was there.

Shen Fang arranged for Qian Bin and Yi Yang to initial an "Equity Transfer Agreement" with them, and they will transfer money with them after the meeting is over.Shen Fang shook hands with the two of them, sent the gift of the two of them out of the conference room, then looked at everyone and said, "If there is no one who wants to sell shares, it is the partners, partners and others who want to go forward with Benma Films. Colleagues, then in the future, I believe that Benma Films will not disappoint you all."

Shen Fang said to everyone: "I will announce the personnel appointment of Benma Films. I will personally be the chairman of the board of Benma Films. As a shareholder holding more than 80% of the shares, I will appoint Mr. Huo Mingda as the chairman of Benma Films. Executive director." This is the power of the major shareholders, and the minority shareholders present have no objections.

Seeing that there were no objections from the crowd, Shen Fang continued: "In order to carry out the work better, the board of directors decided to appoint Ms. Zhong Lifang as the general manager of Benma Films to be fully responsible for all the film and television business of Benma Films, and to hire Mr. Kong Ergou as the general manager of Benma Films. The deputy general manager of the film industry assists Mr. Zhong in his daily work." This appointment was a bit unexpected for others. When Brother Gou was alive, although Zhong Lifang was the general manager, Li Ming was more likely to discuss with Ergou. Zhong Lifang More like a puppet with the title of general manager.

Zhong Lifang was also very surprised. When Li Ming was alive, he had introduced Ergou to big shots in the Beijing circle many times, including Shen Fang who drank alone with them a few times.Although Huo Mingda is the executive director of the company, everyone knows that this is just a symbolic meaning. After all, Huo Mingda still has a lot of work with the Wild Fox Film and Television Group.Before the meeting, Zhong Lifang always thought that Shen Fang would hand over the company to Kong Ergou, who is relatively familiar with him, and she would be satisfied as long as she could be in charge of the operation again.She didn't expect Shen Fang to trust her so much.

Zhong Lifang looked at Shen Fang in disbelief, and then at Kong Ergou next to him, who gave her an encouraging look.

When Shen Fang and Huo Mingda discussed the personnel affairs of Benma Films, they had wandered between Zhong Lifang and Kong Ergou. As a senior person in the circle, Huo Mingda made a very accurate evaluation of the two.Li Ming himself is a general. He is aggressive, daring to fight, and will never give up in doing things regardless of the consequences and failing to achieve his goals.That's why I fell in love with Kong Ergou, who has the same personality. I often bring him with me and let him take charge of many projects.Zhong Lifang, on the other hand, is an all-rounder, grasping the overall situation, and good at checking for gaps and making up for omissions. Benma Films can develop healthily under the rampage of Li Ming and Kong Ergou, thanks to Zhong Lifang's aftermath.

Shen Fang agrees with Huo Mingda's analysis, but he is worried that Kong Ergou will have a gap in his heart due to job issues and will be divorced. After all, in Benma Films, many projects cannot be separated from him.Just when Shen Fang was about to use the tactic of delaying the attack to stabilize Kong Ergou and slowly straighten Zhong Lifang upright, Kong Ergou took the initiative to call him to meet him. After knocking Shen Fang on a bottle of good wine, he told him very bluntly: "I'm going With self-knowledge, it’s okay to play film and television projects, but if you let me manage a company, it’s estimated that you’ll be shut down in less than a year, so you don’t have to think about me, you should think about Teacher Lu Wei.”

Lu Wei should be regarded as the most famous screenwriter of Benma Films. Many well-known film and television dramas such as "Farewell My Concubine", "To Live", and "White Deer Plain" were written by him. Back then, Li Ming wanted to invite Lu Wei to the company , not only handed over the entire company's screenwriting department to him to manage, but also gave him 5% of the shares. Kong Ergou, who has been treated as a younger brother by Li Ming, only has 4% of the shares.After Li Ming passed away, Huayi Brothers had been trying every means to get in touch with Lu Wei, planning to lure him to Huayi Brothers.

On the second day after receiving the notification from Kong Ergou, Shen Fang asked Tian Zhuang to find Lu Wei.First of all, I assured him that the new company would develop according to the original plan, and that Wild Fox would provide more support. Secondly, I promised that Benma Films would be listed within two years, otherwise, it would buy back the shares in Lovell’s hands with twice the market value. It was the equity that really dispelled his dissatisfaction.

The next morning, Wild Fox Films and Benma Films jointly held a press conference, announcing that Wild Fox would acquire 21% of the shares of Benma Films with a capital of 81 billion, and that Benma Films would become Wild Fox Films Group An independent subsidiary under the system has independent film and television production and distribution rights.The company will hire Zhong Lifang as the general manager of Benma Films, and Kong Ergou as the deputy general manager, who will be directly responsible to the chairman Shen Fang.

Then Zhong Lifang announced the next step of the production plan of Benma Films. First, the post-production of "Ten Red Army" will be completed as soon as possible; secondly, the TV series "Young Marshal" and "Ordinary World" will be filmed; Established projects for the TV series "White Deer Plain" and the movie "Scorching Sun".

After the news that Benma Films merged into Wild Fox Company was released, the media people no longer had much desire. Shen Fang brought back a large sum of money from the United States and entered the Chinese film and television circle strongly.It has been less than two years since the establishment of Wild Fox Film and Television Company. It has already acquired three established film and television companies, Yiren Film and Television, Rong Zhixin and Benma Films, plus Chengxing Tianxia, ​​Bad Monkey Films, Huanxi Media and other large and small studios.Although Wild Fox Company has not yet been listed, its valuation has already surpassed Huayi Brothers to become a leader in the industry.If you add Beijing Culture, which is already on the market and has a market value of nearly 300 billion, Shen Fang's film and television empire has already taken shape.

Therefore, Shen Fang's acquisition of the headless Benma Films media staff is not too surprising. Even if Wild Fox announced the acquisition of Huayi Brothers one day, everyone felt normal.So at the press conference, the media people's concern for Shen Fang was on another issue.

"Mr. Shen, what do you think about Qin Mohan beating Qiu Ze in Hengdian yesterday?" Just as other media were looking for opportunities to ask questions, an entertainment reporter from Fox.com directly asked.

"It's okay to call, it's not a big deal." Shen Fang, who received a call from Qu Xiaoxiao yesterday, left a reply that made the media people dumbfounded and left with a smile.

(End of this chapter)