England 1986

Chapter 138
Tanaka Kubo didn't quite understand why this Excellency changed his face again, so he could only stand up and bow slightly to apologize.

"Yes, your Excellency is what you said."

Allen put down his fork and stood up.

These islanders are very strange. It is useless to them to be kind and pleasant. The more arrogant and bad-tempered they are, the more they like it. Therefore, Allen has this attitude towards Tanaka Kubo, and he is always cold-eyed.

At the end of August, in the private room of the Old Tradford Stadium, Allen hugged his pet Xiao Huang expressionlessly, watching tens of thousands of fans booing collectively on the stadium below.

Today's game is the first time Allen came to Old Tradford to watch the game after the official acquisition of Manchester United. He heard that the team has not been in a good state in the past few days. He is a little free these days, so he came to the scene Watch the game once.

Unexpectedly, after watching the entire game for more than an hour, the current Manchester United team, how should I put it, is a bit like Zhang Fei's embroidery, which looks nondescript.

Especially Ferguson. Ferguson in a suit stood on the sidelines with a serious face, often bowing his head to give some orders when players passed by him.

But it didn't work at all.

The team still lost in the end, and it was still a zero-to-two loss.

This score was a bit embarrassing to lose.

Anyway, Allen doesn't know much about football, but he can see that Manchester United is not playing well on the field.

but this thing
The season has just started, and there is still a lot of time left for Ferguson, so let's wait and see.

The world's famous coach in the future, although he is not a fledgling rookie now, but...
That's the level.

Standing up, before Ferguson came to meet, Allen had already walked out of the field and was ready to go home before the players on the field left the field.

"Young master. The butler just called, and Sony's investment has been completed!"

"Oh? Let's go, go back quickly!"

Now is not the time to ask what happened, and I can't tell clearly on the phone, but as long as Huth says it's done, then Allen will have a bottom line!

Soon to be rich!
Thinking of this, Allen was a little excited when he just got into the car.

Sure enough, Ma Wuye grass is not fat, if he waits for him to do it slowly, and wants to get a large sum of money, I don't know how many years will have to wait!
"Master, are you back?"

"Ok!"

Allen nodded, holding Xiao Huang in his arms and motioning for Hut to go to the study to talk.

Hutt nodded and followed Alan.

As soon as he entered the study, Allen took off the grip pad on his left hand.

It was a piece of suede, with some small barbed wire sewn on it, and a small fixed belt on the back, with the suede side facing the palm of his hand, fixed on his left hand, so that Xiao Huang could stand on his palm and play.

Although the little bird is not too big now, at most thirty or forty days old, but as it grows up day by day, not only the color of its fur has changed, but its claws have also grown bigger.

Xiao Huang is still young, his hands are not light or heavy, and he has no protective measures. If he is good at holding it, he will be scratched if he is not careful.

"Master, I checked some information. The growth cycle of this kind of bird is about 55 to 60 days. The little bird can try to fly. They have to learn to fly before winter, and then migrate with their parents."

Hut watched Alan put Xiao Huang on the desk. After this period of feeding, he was fed with beef strips every day. It is gray in color, and after a period of time and another moult, it should be able to learn to fly.

Let Xiao Huang play by himself, Alan picked up a thick contract book on the table, this kind of book is for taking pictures, it just records some information briefly, and then it is the scene of signing the contract, Alan's side is his investment Consultant Matthias is in charge of signing, and Sony is the leader of the acquisition team Kubo Tanaka.

There are still some procedures for the rest, but as long as this is signed, it is generally considered to be settled, and the rest will be easy to handle.

Put down the contract book, pick up the information below, and look at the information listed above.

After negotiations between the two parties, Sony still bargained further, and finally reduced the investment amount to 15 billion pounds, which can be regarded as a price reduction of [-] million pounds.

For £15 billion, Sony acquired a 21% stake in 50st Century Earl Films.

From then on, Earl Pictures in the 21st century will be followed by a parenthesis with the words Sony written inside!
And this payment method is not a one-time payment. It will be paid in [-] months after the two parties have officially handed over the shares. Pound sterling, the last remaining half a billion pounds, will have to wait until the next ten months.

The time span is still relatively long.

Since the shareholding ratio of both parties is the same, there is no routine of 49% and 51%.

In the agreement signed by the two parties before the acquisition, it was clearly stated that since Sony has no experience in the film and television industry, although they are one of the shareholders of Earl Films in the 21st Century, they have no management rights, only the right to advise and monitor right.

In other words, even after the shareholding is over, how the company will develop in the future still depends on Earl Allen, and Sony people can enjoy rights such as dividends, giving advice on development, and checking the company's finances.

In a word, as long as it does not involve the company's specific business, Sony enjoys the rights that shareholders should have!

Although such a clause appears to be very strong and a little bit bullying, but
Sony thinks it is acceptable, anyway, they don't understand the film and television industry.

The purpose of their investment in the film and television industry is to expand their own publicity.

Sony's investigation team also knew that 21st Century Earl Pictures was a newly integrated group company, but those who play film and television don't pay attention to the historical background, and can expand the scale at any time if they have money.

The same is true of Columbia Pictures, with decades of history, right?

Didn't it mean that a few bad movies were made, the company lost the underpants, and was taken down by Coca-Cola?

And all the information on paper in Earl Pictures in the 21st century is consistent with the information investigated by their Sony investigation team, and they all exist. Even if he was established yesterday, what does it matter?
The size of the family is here, it is such a large group, there may be moisture in it, but for such things as film and television copyrights, who can say for sure how much the film and television copyrights of thousands of movies are worth?

Sony just wants to buy a boat ticket now!
Tickets for a cruise ship called 21st Century Earl Films.

As long as you invest in shares, everyone will be your own in the future.

The rest is money laundering or something.
All need Earl Allen to coordinate the overall situation!

Allen also gave Sony a sweet spot. Every year, a director or production team designated by Sony can shoot a film invested by Sony with an investment amount of no more than [-] million US dollars.

This condition seems weird, but the core is that Sony can appoint someone, or send someone, even if they themselves don't come to the UK, as long as the film is listed under 21st Century Earl Films!
This is convenient for some Sony executives or others to launder money. As for how much money can be laundered, Allen doesn't care, it depends on their own abilities!

And Sony also made a point of its own insistence.

For example, for the film and television works produced or shot by Earl Pictures in the future, they have the priority investment right!

A film and television company is a film and television company, and the films produced are not only invested by their own company, they will also need investors at that time!

These two are not the same thing. Film and television companies can invest in their own films, and they can enjoy the benefits if they own the main investment, but in order to share the investment risks, they must attract other investors.

But the copyright of the movies produced by the company is in the hands of the company, and hairstyle movies and the like also make money.

Therefore, Sony requires them to have limited investment rights in Earl Pictures' films, and Earl Pictures cannot accept their investment from the hostile competing companies they list.

After looking at the densely packed articles of the supplementary treaty, after picking out the most important ones, Allen nodded in satisfaction.

Generally speaking, it can't be regarded as Allen pitting Sony, it can only be said that Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer!
"Very good, well done! Let Matthias follow up, what about the first payment?"

"Master, don't you want to buy a production line in the United States? Sony will pay [-] million US dollars to Carl's company in other names, and exchange the rest into British pounds."

"Um"

Thinking of this, Allen has a headache about one thing, which is the issue of publicity.

This investment case is definitely not a small amount. Sony's people here are just to increase their influence. After the business is done, they must publicize it.

When the contract was signed before, it was also photographed, and the news will be announced after the first installment is settled here.

But this one-billion-pound shareholding and cooperation matter seems a bit garish, and Allen doesn't particularly want to be famous.

Some time ago, he wrote a letter to Charles to cry about being poor, and in the blink of an eye, he got more than a billion pounds. How can he cry to Charles about being poor in the future?

just in case
What should Charles do if he asks him to cry poorly?
Although the probability of this kind of thing happening is extremely small, the news of this kind of sudden wealth was suddenly publicized. A while ago, his interview with Alan was a little popular. Is it because of this reason that the people of the archipelago want to borrow Heat, take advantage of the wave?
Allen knocked subconsciously on the desk with his right hand.

Huth looked at Alan with a tangled face, and asked curiously: "Master, what's the matter with you? Is there something wrong with the contract?"

"No" Allen shook his head and expressed his concerns.

After hearing this, Hu Te smiled and said: "Master, you will be known to the world sooner or later. The interview a while ago was just a pre-dinner dessert. With your ability, there will be more such things in the future! Since sooner or later Yes, why would you resist? You are the pride of the Hill family, and you should accept such things."

"Fine."

After being told by Huth, Allen no longer struggled with it, so let's just lie flat.

A week later, in early September in Europe, the weather was calm, but early in the morning, the news in the newspapers injected new vitality into today's life.

Paris suburbs
In a very ordinary villa.

A head of slightly curly short hair, black and bright, and his complexion looks a bit like a young man of mixed race, holding today's newspaper in his hand. On the sub-page of the newspaper, there is a frontal photo of a blond young man on the picture. Very gentle.

The young man knew the man in the newspaper. He also watched the news interview on TV some time ago. He was some kind of earl of the British.

The reason why young people are so impressed by Allen's photos is that when the French reported him, they quoted Allen's words. Princess Diana, who is very famous in France, is this aunt.

The princess is so beautiful, she has countless fans throughout Europe, there are a wave of young and middle-aged people in their 30s and [-]s who admire her very much, and they have a deep impression of this earl under the love of the house.

And the news in the newspaper today is related to the earl.

A company from Asia, called Sony, spent 15 billion pounds to become a shareholder of a group under the earl's name, and took half of the shares!
This is the news, plus there is an unremarkable live photo of the signing of the two parties below.

And the main body of this propaganda is still the Earl himself.

as for sony
To be honest, their reputation is just like that now, the French don't care much, they only care about this amount, and Allen.

But the young man who read this report, and the series of bold and bold zeros in the newspaper, was a little moved.

He is only 20 years old this year. Looking at Alan, who is about the same age as himself in the photo, he feels that God is so unfair.

The other party is young, has countless servants, sits in a luxury car, and can even accompany the crown prince to visit abroad. It is said that he is also having an affair with the French favorite, the ballet goddess Sylvie Guillain.

And what about yourself?

Now also 20 years old, still bent in this stolen villa.

right.
The villa he lives in now, he investigated and found out that the owner's house was away on vacation, so he climbed over the wall and picked the lock to get in!
He has sold all the valuables in the house one after another in the past few days, leaving only a big bed for him to live in.

Originally, the income from selling things these few days was enough for him to be content.

But looking at the newspaper, this earl named Allen, with half of the shares in a company under his name, brought him more than a billion pounds in income!
The young man was a little jealous.

suddenly.
An idea filled the mind of the young man.

He heard that many of these nobles only cared about eating, drinking and having fun. Although this Earl Allen did not have a bad reputation, he was able to inherit the title at such a young age. Didn’t he say it in the interview? With the loss of his father and elder brother, there is nothing important in the family.

Now it is in the newspapers because of the sale of shares.

Doesn't this situation mean that the earl has a bit of prodigal talent?

It's okay for a normal person to sell the shares of his own property to outsiders, or to the islanders.

Since the earl seems to be easy to deceive.

Then, can I go - lie to him?
Once this idea appeared, the young man couldn't help covering his heart with his hands, his excited heart beating violently.

He is not greedy, as long as he can cheat tens of millions of pounds!
This money is enough for him to live in style for the rest of his life!
This is much more interesting than stealing a villa!
Thinking of this, the young man stood up and boldly used the phone in the villa to call the ticket center at the airport, planning to book a ticket to Cardiff.

PS: I’m going home late today, I’ll take a break and write slowly, everyone, go to bed first, and I’ll update slowly.

(End of this chapter)