Hong Kong's new giants

Chapter 726 [Shake it all out] (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

The dust has settled on Times Shipping's acquisition of China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and it is going through formal procedures.

"Boss, after the acquisition, we plan to let the iron and steel company operate independently for the time being, and then merge when the time is ripe." Morris, the president of Times Shipping, is making a work report.

Lin Zuhui nodded, and said, "Yes. Times Shipping will follow the layout of digitalization, informationization, and groupization, so once it adapts, it will cancel the signboard of the iron and steel industry and integrate it into the group system."

Morris said, "Well, I see."

Then, Morris News reported: "Boss, according to the analysis of the people in the strategy department, the order for shipbuilding has begun to accelerate this year, and it is expected that there will be a boom in ship booking in the past two years. The reason is that since 1999, global trade has accelerated. In particular, the rapid economic development of the mainland; coupled with the fact that there are many old ships that need to be "dismembered" in the past few years, it may cause a shortage of ships in the future."

Hearing this, Lin Zuhui also figured out that "Times Shipping" has spent 130 billion US dollars to order new ships and sub-new ships, of which the purchase of new ships is about 20 billion US dollars, and the total deadweight is about 1500 million tons.

With the successive acquisitions of South African Shipping, Sea-Land Containers, and China Iron and Steel Company, plus the original Xiangjiang Shipping, Times Shipping owns and manages about 430 container ships, with a total of 130 million containers; for this reason, Times Shipping spent about 39 billion US dollars on acquisitions .

It also acquired the Norwegian shipping leader Bengesen Group and privatized it, spending a total of 26 billion US dollars to hold and manage an oil and gas fleet of 1100 million tons.

Last year, it entered the field of "aircraft leasing". It is estimated that it will invest 100 billion US dollars within two years (half of the loan), and it is estimated that it can hold about 200 aircraft (one aircraft costs 3-5 million Hong Kong dollars, mainly narrow-body aircraft).

Coupled with the investment in logistics, etc., shipping has invested nearly 300 billion US dollars in the entire era.

Lin Zuhui said decisively: "It doesn't matter if you go to South Korea or the mainland to order a new ship worth 50 billion US dollars, even if the order is delivered after 2005."

Morris nodded. He knew that the boss was optimistic about the outbreak of shipping.

But he is actually a little worried, in case the shipping is just a small outbreak.

The period of the outbreak of shipping is generally 5 to 8 years, but the trough is a period of more than 15 years.

But thinking of the cash flow and liabilities of the New Era Group, Morris felt that there was no problem.

"Okay, then the type of ship will be selected comprehensively considering the inland economy and the European and American economies."

"Yes, the proportion of oil and gas ships and ore ships can be increased."

"Ok."

After Morris left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile. He is equivalent to "monopolizing" shipping in disguise (16% is a monopoly).

He is not worried that the emergence of Times Shipping will affect the shipping market from 2003 to 2008.As far as he knows, there will be a shortage of ships in the world soon, and the shipbuilding of Times Shipping will affect the delivery speed of other companies' shipbuilding.

At most, that is the impact of earning [-]% less.

Shipping started to fall only after Lehman, and it did not plummet in a short period of time, but continued to fall for a long time, which gave Times Shipping enough time to plan.

Over the past four years, Times Shipping has invested a total of more than 350 billion US dollars in shipping. It is believed that from 2003 to 2008, it will bring an average annual profit of 80 billion to 100 billion US dollars, which does not include the sale of ships in advance. profit.

Of course, the sale is a leased vessel. After 08, Times Shipping still needs to maintain a certain strength in container and oil and gas transportation, and it is impossible to make a profit and leave.

Time flies, and it's May in a blink of an eye.

Friday, April 5.

At ten o'clock in the morning, "Adventure Island" started its closed beta in Xiangjiang, and many Internet cafe players were already waiting.

"It's actually a pixel-style 2D game. Everyone else is making 3D games, but The Ninth City is still making 2D games." After entering the game, a player couldn't help complaining.

Soon, the player immediately began to apologize for what he just said. In the bright game world, game characters dressed in personalized fashion and defeating all kinds of cute monsters, even players who are not interested in RPG want to play once. .

Moreover, the maps are also rich and colorful, and all of these are actually free!
Although it takes a lot of money to make your character more individual, even if you dress plainly, no players will point fingers at you.Of course, there are also players who chose a profession that can only fight monsters by themselves, so...
"Classic, produced by The Ninth City, must be a boutique!"

Soon, "Adventure Island" received praise from countless game fans.

South Korea, NEXON company.

NEXON is a Korean computer game company established in May 1995 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

"President, something is wrong!" A staff member hurried into President Jin Chengzai's office with an anxious expression on his face.

Jin Chengzai thumped, and quickly asked: "Is the "Adventure Island" in Hong Kong Ninth City very close to the "Adventure Island" game we are developing?"

It turned out that as early as the beginning of the year (2002), Ninth City released the game plans of "Adventure Island" and "Bubble Hall".

As a result, NEXON was shocked, because "Adventure Island" and "Bubble Hall" were the development plans of its own game company, and the projects had been approved in the second half of 2001.

At that time, NEXON carefully compared the posters and found that the similarity was very high, and then started research and development with all its strength, but it was still lagging behind for a long time.

"Yes, the similarity is as high as [-]% to [-]%. If we publish it, it will almost be judged as plagiarism." The staff member said incredulously.

"Who, who is leaking the secret?" Jin Chengzai said loudly.

The staff said cautiously: "President, according to the three-year progress of a game development, The Ninth City has already approved the project at least in 1999."

Jin Chengzai immediately said: "Nonsense, how could there be such a high degree of similarity. I don't believe it. I'm going to Xiangjiang to see for myself and arrange to book tickets immediately."

An Internet cafe in Hong Kong.

Jin Chengzai was playing "Adventure Island" without tears. His left and right sides were also NEXON's R&D engineers, which was also very incredible.

"If we speed up R&D, when can internal beta be tested?"

"It will take at least a year, and I will do my best. After all, joining a team temporarily requires an adaptation process!"

"Where is Bubble Hall?"

"It will be available in the second half of this year!"

"What's the use of that? Others will be testing it next month."

"Maybe it won't be the same?"

"Look at the poster."

For a while, Jin Chengzai didn't know whether to continue research and development, after all, he had already invested so much.

But if you continue to develop, it is easy to be sued for infringement.

"It doesn't matter, go back and make some changes to the design, and develop it as usual." In the end, Jin Chengzai decided to take a risk and continue to develop.

As everyone knows, it was his decision that caused Korean games to be disdainful overseas, and their overseas results were dismal.

Of course, this is something.

In May, taking advantage of the success of "Adventure Island" in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Ninth City announced plans for "Audition" and "Martin Run".

For a time, The Ninth City attracted the attention of the industry.

In the meeting room of the Ninth City, Lin Zuhui was having a meeting with high-level officials.

He said: "This year, four games will be launched. The operation department has a very heavy task. I hope you can complete it well-the speed of overseas distribution and agency."

In the mainland, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other regions, Ninth City has established branch offices and cooperative relationships with agents early.

However, there are only a few gamers in Xiangjiang. If it cannot be represented overseas, then Xiangjiang's game industry will be greatly affected.

Sales Manager Zhu Xiaowen said quickly: "Boss, don't worry, our games are very popular in Taiwan, Japan, the mainland, and Southeast Asia. Even in Europe and the United States, we have also achieved very good results. Agents have been confirmed in Taiwan, Macau, and the mainland, and we will first attack Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Korea, and then develop Europe and the United States.”

The Ninth City has been established in 1994, and the overseas cooperation established over the years is the confidence.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "I always feel that there are moths coming out of South Korea, and the legal department has to keep an eye on them. If they dare to copy, they must show them the color. They are in the field of culture, but they copy a lot. Our copyright in Hong Kong is really hateful."

The person in charge of the legal department said firmly: "The boss can rest assured that once they plagiarize, we will not be able to let their works go out of Korea. Secondly, we will also seriously carry out lawsuits in Korea and publish them in the media for public opinion offensive."

That's right, unless you don't want to go to sea, this is the status quo of Hallyu culture.

There are only a handful of Korean dramas in this life that have gone global. After all, Hong Kong dramas have been popular for almost ten years.

Even Hong Kong dramas are exhausted in Asia, not to mention the copycat Korean dramas.

As for Korean idol groups, they have been criticized by Asian countries all the time, fans don't buy it, and they can only be popular in Korea.

After all, Hong Kong stream groups have accumulated a large number of fans in Asia, and it is difficult for them to betray their idols, and even abuse Korean idols.The advantages of being the first to occupy the market are huge.

What's more, the Hong Kong Stream combination has evolved into 'version 2.0', and South Korea is still in version 1.0.

In the end, Lin Zuhui said to Gao Kelin: ""Dungeon and Warriors", "Street Basketball", and "Cross Fire", we must hurry up!"

"No problem, the internal test will definitely be available within two years, after all, we have already planned the plan."

For a player who has been playing for more than a year, the outline given by Lin Zuhui is quite good; if he takes the time to experience and regain some memories during the period, then the time will be faster.

The Hanbok of "Dungeon and Warriors" was opened in 2005 in the previous life, but in this life, the Ninth City will be tested in 2003, two years earlier.

in time!
In fact, Lin Zuhui has been a little bit overwhelmed, and he should advance a year to avoid a crash.

Thinking of this, he felt that his survival should be revealed more.

Anyway, it has been used up in recent years, and the influence will always be there.

What's more, Xiangjiang has cultivated so many talents in the cultural field, and there are still good works every year.

So there is no need to treat your own memory as a treasure, as long as it is in line with the times, take it out!

Media Building.

Pan Cheng from DreamWorks came to the chairman's office.

In recent years, DreamWorks has supported most of Hong Kong's films, from "Infernal Affairs", "Sassy Girl", to "Victoria Harbor Monster", "The Matrix 2", "Resident Evil 3" and so on. It has achieved very good results in Hong Kong and overseas.

At least, for now, no one says that Hong Kong movies are dead. On the contrary, Hong Kong movies have moved to a new level, which is the perception at home and abroad.

It's not that these movies have achieved very good box office and have risen to a new level; rather, these movies have a depth, which is a good movie.

For example, the "Matrix" series is full of philosophy, and "Infernal Affairs" has changed more or less from the previous robber films and has become more in-depth; even the movie "Victoria Harbor Monster" was originally a monster movie, but DreamWorks created it in the first place. The background of ordinary families accommodates more elements, and the joys, sorrows, joys, and absurd jokes of the little people always touch the heartstrings of the audience.

To put it simply, these movies have a soul, which has driven the entire Xiangjiang movie very well.In addition, DreamWorks has invested in some literary films for many years and supported the development of Hong Kong films.

Therefore, Hong Kong movies have given off a second spring.

"When will "Kung Fu Panda" be released?" Lin Zuhui asked with concern.

This is a Chinese-style cartoon commissioned by the media group to invest 1 million U.S. dollars and entrust Pixar Animation to produce and distribute it.

He doesn't worry about Hollywood stealing his money, at least he can make back the cost. The important thing is that the IP belongs to DreamWorks, and the peripherals are also from DreamWorks, which is enough to ensure that DreamWorks will make a lot of money.

Of course, if the global box office is 6 million U.S. dollars, no matter what DreamWorks has to make a lot of money at the box office.

Pan Cheng said: "It will be released in the United States on June 6, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan Island on June 18." He was a little excited and uneasy. If this was not an investment hand-picked by the boss, the board of directors of the group would be surprised if they didn't bother him.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Is everything around the movie arranged?"

"It's been arranged to ensure maximum utilization."

"Um"

Next, Lin Zuhui took out five documents at once and handed them to Pan Cheng.

"There are five materials in it. If you find someone to find a way to shoot them, you can shoot one or two films a year."

Pan Cheng took the materials excitedly, and said, "No problem, I will definitely find the most suitable director and screenwriter for them, and make a movie with depth."

He knows that what the boss is after is not the box office, but the connotation of the movie; and this is where the changes in Hong Kong movies have taken place in recent years.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "The same sentence, simple setting, popular story, unpredictable reversal, exquisite rhythm, ironic character opposition, and profound social concern, this is what Hong Kong movies should think about. There is nothing wrong with pursuing computer special effects, but if you only have special effects, then there is nothing to watch, just watch Hollywood. Hong Kong movies must have their own style, and they must make movies with depth.”

The media group is responsible for bringing the 'Hong Kong Stream' to the world, and movies are no exception.Although the movies are all plagiarized from Korean Bangzi in his previous life, they are from Hong Kong now.

He chose "Alliance of Thieves", "Train to Busan", "Along with the Gods", "Parasite", and "The Gift from Room No. [-]" as plagiarized targets, which is to directly distribute Korean movies to Yiguo.

You know, "Parasite" is a national treasure movie in South Korea. It has won awards worldwide and won multiple Oscars.

Of course, the script that Lin Zuhui may write may not be as good as the screenwriter and director, but the subject matter is very clear, and what it brings to people is very clear.

Pan Cheng said in admiration: "The boss's idea is very correct. I will definitely keep it in my heart. Each of these five films must be seriously prepared."

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Don't put any pressure on it. To put it bluntly, it's their job to choose the director and screenwriter!"

He doesn't believe that Hong Kong directors and screenwriters are idiots, and they can still make poor shots if they follow the outline.

Pan Cheng took the materials and left contentedly. He would not ask who gave the script outline. It was not important anymore, because it had become the script outline of DreamWorks.

Soon, Zhao Zhenqiang walked into Lin Zuhui's office.

"boss"

"Well, come here!"

Looking at the information on Lin Zuhui's desk, Zhao Zhenqiang felt a little excited. The boss found good material again.

Of course, although the boss always gave him some good materials, the PD and writer of ATV also have a lot of credit. After all, what the boss gave was really just an outline.

"Here are the outlines of the two serial dramas "My Love from the Star" and "The Heirs", you can study them!"

"it is good!"

There is nothing to copy from the TV series, and Lin Zuhui doesn't want to participate in it anymore.But "You Who Came from the Star" had to be plagiarized, because 'drinking beer and eating fried chicken' was too damn popular back then.As for "The Heirs", it is about the same theme as "Meteor Garden", but the Heirs are obviously more in-depth. "Meteor Garden" is a pure idol drama.

"Here are three variety shows, namely "We Got Married", "I'm a Singer", and "Where's Dad?" You prepare, and you can pick up the show later, or you can arrange it if there is a schedule. There is no time requirement. It can be arranged in three years."

Including the previous four variety shows, seven have already been arranged, followed by "Law of the Jungle", "Here Comes the Refrigerator", and "Running Man", which will be released in another three years.

The most important thing is of course the running man, which has the greatest influence on Han Zong.

Zhao Zhenqiang was already numb, wondering where the boss got so many manuscripts!

"I remember clearly." In any case, he believes that what the boss values ​​must be high-quality goods, because the market has already tested and explained the problem.

"Well, be careful not to leak it. If you prepare it one year in advance, you should take it out one year in advance to avoid too many people talking about it."

"no problem!"

After Zhao Zhenqiang left, Lin Zuhui smiled.

In the past, he thought about taking it out slowly, but now he thinks it doesn't matter, take it out early, and new works will emerge later.

And the copyright is always there, so why worry about it.

In fact, he watched a lot of variety shows in his previous life, but what he gave to Zhao Zhenqiang can only be said to be an outline. After all, variety shows are episode by episode, and the participating artists are mainly involved.

All he gave was to point out a direction, and some classic games also had notes, but nothing else.

However, Hong Kong's Hong Kong culture has become systematized, and success is a matter of course.

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