Hong Kong's new giants

Chapter 746 [2004 Years]

Monday, October 3.

New Era Group headquarters.

Lin Zuhui sat in his office seat, looking at the stocks on the computer, very leisurely.It is hard to imagine that he is the chairman of the board of directors of many large groups, and he manages 40 global employees, but he is so idle.

In fact, Lin Zuhui has already laid out the perfect management structure of his company, and now he is more of a spiritual symbol.

New Times Group, Media Group, Octopus Financial Group, and LEIT Group are his four major group companies;

As for Xiaomi Technology, it is completely handed over to Zou Kaixuan. If she does well, she will do well, and Lin Zuhui will not interfere if she does not do well.

Lin Zuhui looked at the Penguin stock price on the computer, which had risen to 12 Hong Kong dollars per share, and nodded in satisfaction;
It can be regarded as a successful listing, and the market value has reached more than 200 billion, which can be described as very popular.

This market value is not an exaggeration. When Shanda was listed this year, its market value was 150 billion RMB;

The Penguin game is still more promising than the Shanda game in the previous life.

After withdrawing his eyes, Lin Zuhui leaned back on the chair and meditated.

Jingwei Capital is too eye-catching, investing in companies with great potential such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Penguin, Ali, Kingston, Activision Blizzard, etc. Once these companies have a market value of hundreds of billions in the future.

Then Lin Zuhui is the walking treasury.

Very troublesome!

So, he has to deal with it!
First of all, before the subprime mortgage crisis (2007.11), the stocks of Apple and Amazon should be cashed out, and the holdings should be reduced to 5%.As for the remaining 5%, holdings will continue to be reduced before 2015.

Of course, now the five women, Guan Jiahui, Li Jiaxin, Li Zi, Lin Zixia, and Monica, bought 911-0.5% of the stocks of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft after the September 0.9 incident.

Secondly, Jingwei Capital holds the shares of Ali and Penguin, which will be very huge even after listing; therefore, Lin Zuhui plans to include most of the shares in the "Lin Zuhui Family Foundation" at that time, saying to the outside that he is his "pro-son" , using charitable funds to leave a fortune for the children of the direct family.

As a rich man of his level, there are too many ways to hide wealth, so there is no need to worry about money.

"Boss, here is the annual financial report and dividend plan, I'll show it to you." Liang Zhenxun put a document on Lin Zuhui's desk.

Lin Zuhui took the information and read it carefully.

Last year, the profit of New Era Group was 612 billion Hong Kong dollars, an increase of 21%.

As the previous layout comes to fruition, the profits of New Era Group are soaring every year.

Even the mainland can contribute nearly 20 billion in profits every year, and it is still growing; of course, the proportion of the mainland in New Era Group's revenue is not high, only less than [-]%.

Times Shipping has become the biggest driving force for New Times Group's profit growth. The ships built in the early stage have been delivered one after another, and the shipping situation is getting better and better.

But in 2004, the global economy grew faster and the trade increased greatly, so the price of sea freight soared naturally.

简单的举个例子：到了2004年，一年租期的VLCC型油船平均日租金高达 55000美元/天，好望角型散货船平均日租金高达61000美元/天。而在2003年，这两型船舶的平均日租金分别为34000美元/天和31000美元/天。

The nearly doubled increase shows how hot shipping is now.

This is not the end. When the shipping cycle comes, it is normal for the price to increase several times.

According to Lin Zuhui's guess, in the shipping situation from 2004 to 2008, not only the price has increased several times, but also there is not enough ships, so there is no need to worry about the situation where there is a price but no market.

The other industries of the New Times Group have also experienced significant growth, except for the real estate development of Heung Kong.

"The dividend payout involves 220 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is not bad, and I believe investors will be very satisfied." Lin Zuhui put down the information and said.

Liang Zhenxun said with a smile: "I must be very satisfied. You must know that the dividends paid by other companies this year may be cut in half compared to last year, or even dividends in scrip. After all, last year Xiangjiang Real Estate and the economy suffered from SAS damage. We New Times Group's business is mainly distributed globally, so the impact is not very big, to put it bluntly - it is to earn money from abroad and spend it on Xiangjiang investors."

After speaking, he couldn't help being proud!
New Times Group is the real global enterprise.

"Okay, just follow this plan."

"Okay, boss!"

After the New Era Group pays dividends, it still maintains a cash flow of 1160 billion Hong Kong dollars in its account, which is very competitive.

In the next five years, the cash flow of New Era Group will grow exponentially, becoming a full-fledged cash cow giant.

When New Era Group released its annual financial report and dividend plan, the citizens of Xiangjiang were shocked.

"Isn't it that Hong Kong's economy was not good last year? Why did New Times Group pay 220 billion Hong Kong dollars in dividends? I'm afraid that apart from Changshi, there is no company in Hong Kong whose annual income can reach other people's dividends, right?"

"New Era Group is a global enterprise with business all over the world. And it has always been ahead of HSBC Group, which is the most powerful thing."

The citizens were amazed at the huge dividends and high annual net profit of New Era Group.

There are also media who describe New Era Group as "making money from all over the world to support the people of Xiangjiang". Some media have also found through investigation that more than 10 people in Xiangjiang work for Lin Zuhui.You know, the number of employed people in Hong Kong is only 320 million.

The important thing is that the overall income of citizens who can work for Lin Zuhui must be extremely high.

"The number of employed people in Cyberport has exceeded 1, and Hong Kong's technology industry is on the rise!"

"The number of employed people in the cultural industry continues to rise, and it is truly one of the three pillar industries."

"Xiangjiang shipping has surpassed Singapore and continues to become a global shipping powerhouse."

After one piece of news was disseminated to the citizens, everyone discovered how much influence Lin Zuhui had in Xiangjiang.

If Li Chaoren is a world businessman and the pride of the Chinese, then what is Lin Zuhui?

Industries with high added value, such as technology and culture, all come from the media group and lead the development of the entire Xiangjiang.

Some media directly commented that without Lin Zuhui, Xiangjiang would not have cultural and technological industries, and the entire GDP would be reduced by about 20%.

For a while, Lin Zuhui became the object of discussion among Xiangjiang citizens after dinner.Of course, this has become commonplace, after all, the technology and cultural industries have been on the rise for nearly ten years.

Not long after New Era Group released its annual financial report, the media group also released its annual financial report, which shocked the entire Xiangjiang River for a while, and even overseas people paid attention.

The media group's net profit in 2003 was as high as 600 billion Hong Kong dollars, of which non-recurring profits were 465 billion Hong Kong dollars (the sale of ICQ), and normal profits were 135 billion Hong Kong dollars.

In terms of dividends, the media group is relatively stingy, and only pays out 30 billion Hong Kong dollars in dividends; after all, more than 2003 billion of the profits in 200 are Microsoft shares.

Public outcry!

Unlike other companies in Xiangjiang, the media group is a pillar enterprise and leader of Xiangjiang's technology and cultural industries, so its status is particularly high.

Today, the media group has handed over such a 'report card', which is enough to boost the confidence of the entire Xiangjiang economy.

"You can be dissatisfied with Xiangjiang's real estate hegemony, but you must not be dissatisfied with Mr. Lin Zuhui!"

"Without Mr. Lin Zuhui, Xiangjiang's economy would never be so developed."

"Well, from today, I'm no longer jealous of Mr. Lin Zuhui's luxurious life, that's what he deserves."

All of a sudden, praises for Lin Zuhui flooded in.

Cyberport.

Lin Zuhui came to the ninth city and listened to the work report of the president Gao Kelin.

"Global online game revenue is growing gratifyingly. Our Ninth City has a large number of high-quality online games, and we are working hard to open more and more servers overseas. This year, the revenue is expected to increase by at least 30%." Gao Kelin said confidently.

Lin Zuhui nodded, he was not surprised by this growth rate.

If he remembers correctly, "Dungeon and Fighter" and "Cross Fire" are more profitable online games than "World of Warcraft". Of course, this data may not be true, and it may also be the ranking of a certain region or country.And "Adventure Island" can also be ranked among the top ten most profitable online games. In this way, The Ninth City is equivalent to holding three of the world's most profitable online games.

"How many full-time employees does Ninth City currently have?" Lin Zuhui asked.

"There are about 3900 full-time employees, and Xiangjiang has about 3300 local employees." Gao Kelin replied.

There are less than 4000 employees, which is not a lot. It can only be said that it is enough for now.Once an online game comes out, it doesn't mean that the team can be disbanded. On the contrary, the team has to be strengthened, because the update of the version is very important, otherwise old players will be lost, and new players will not be attracted.

"Okay! The Ninth City can be said to have more than ten gold mines, but it cannot be said that we can make money lying down. These gold mines need to be mined properly. That is to say, the subsequent versions of these games must keep up. Bugs and deficiencies must be updated in a timely manner; in addition, overseas operations and agents must also be paid attention to.”

"I remember!"

"How is the market performance of "Dungeon and Fighter"?"

"It is very popular among gamers in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The sense of competition has won rave reviews from everyone, which is very attractive."

Lin Zuhui nodded with a smile and said, "Sure enough, there must be competitive elements in order to be more perfect."

"Dungeon and Warriors" has inherited a large number of features of many home consoles and arcade 2D fighting games, and centered on task-guided character growth, combined with dungeons, PVP, and PVE as supplements, and has the same equipment and level changes as other online games .

In short, its success is justified. It is not in the same genre as "Legend of Hot Blood", "Ragnarok", and "Miracle MU". "Dungeon and Warriors" belongs to the action role-playing ARPG fighting online game.

now.

The ninth city has "Legend of Hot Blood", "Ragnarok", "Miracle MU", "Adventure Island", "Bubble Hall", "Martin Run", "Audition", "Cross Fire", "Underground "City and Warriors" and "Street Basketball" are ten best-selling games developed in Korea in the previous life; many original online games have also emerged. They also rely on the development of Xiangjiang's game industry to achieve high-quality games and are very popular overseas.

With the current copyright of the game, The Ninth City can rest easy. Of course, it will not stop. It just means that Lin Zuhui will no longer interfere.

Seoul, Neople Corporation.

As the first company to develop Neople, the most representative and successful online game in Korea, it has encountered big troubles in recent years.

First of all, Xiangjiang Ninth City released the same type of online games shortly after the development of many projects, which led to project adjustments or even interruptions, and the company suffered a lot of losses;
Secondly, the games developed by Neople are not popular overseas. Although they are represented by overseas companies, the agency fee is very low soon, and the follow-up share is also very unsatisfactory.In the final analysis, Xiangjiang Games occupies a large part of the online game market in overseas countries, especially in the huge mainland market. Xiangjiang Games occupies about 80% of the market, and the remaining 10% are original games from the Mainland. Korean games only have a few to 10% of the market.

In the end, even the Korean local game market is being swallowed by Xiangjiang Games.It is very puzzling. Generally speaking, it is difficult for foreign Internet to gain a firm foothold in Korea, but Xiangjiang's games are very popular among Koreans (nonsense, they were developed by Koreans in their previous lives).

"President, "Adventure Island", "Audition", and "Bubble Hall" represented by Modern Entertainment have more and more players in Korea, and their share is also increasing. If we don't produce high-quality games, we can only watch Watching the market lose to Xiangjiang Games, not to mention the overseas market.”

Jin Chengzai said unhappily: "Then what do you say?"

The executive immediately said: "Abolish those games that are almost homogeneous, and re-establish the project. It is precisely because the company insisted on continuing to develop games that are homogeneous with Xiangjiang, that caused several products to fail. If we re-establish the project, then With the development of the Korean game industry, I believe we can come up with better products."

Jin Chengzai suddenly felt dizzy, and the executives had already directly criticized him for insisting, but he didn't dare to refute, because many people in the company were already questioning him.

"But the company's current financial situation is all supported by several games of "Paradise". Well, to establish a few more projects, this is the way we must go."

Neople is also quite powerful. With the game "Paradise", it can earn nearly 2500 million U.S. dollars in revenue every year; otherwise, if it failed several products, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

This also proves in disguise that online games are real money.

the other side.

Lin Zuhui was sitting in the office, a little absent-minded, because he had already completed the layout of the game industry and could no longer intervene.

Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" has been tested in Europe and the United States. If there are no accidents, Activision Blizzard will sell 100 billion U.S. dollars in five years. There is no problem at all. (In the previous life, Blizzard's profit in 2008 was already 13 billion US dollars)
So at that time, Lin Zuhui will definitely release the rumors and sell Activision Blizzard.

After all, he is also worried that it will fall into his hands. He dare not think about more than 600 billion US dollars. Yankees are not vegetarians.

As for the mere 100 billion US dollars, Lin Zuhui believes that the problem is not big.

At present, Activision Blizzard is developing better than in the previous life, especially Activision, which has also developed many high-quality games, and its value is also very high.

And Lin Zuhui is very kind to the employees and management of these two companies, he adopts no management interference, high salary and high year-end bonus; because of this, Activision Blizzard was also selected as the happiest company in the United States.

By doing this, he naturally hopes to increase his influence, distribute a lot of profits to the management and employees every year, and gain people's hearts.And Lin Zuhui can also get a lot of dividends every year. The important thing is that he is looking at the funds from the sale.

Activision Blizzard can bring him about $110 billion in revenue, and The Ninth City is obviously more, possibly tens of billions of dollars, of course, in the long-term.

Money is so damn easy to earn.

(End of this chapter)