After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 369 The houses are a bit lost

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At around 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Lin Hun and the others finally waited for Li Zhuo, who had been late, outside the studio.

This time he also drove the Bentley Flying Spur.

Li Zhuo got out of the car and shook hands with Lin Hun and the others who came over.

Meng Yuanyuan also got out of the back row of the car.

She also followed, and was accompanied by Shi Qi the whole time, leading her to play in the studio.

In the conference room, Li Zhuo quickly recognized the small team. There were only a few people in total, and they got to know each other after a few more conversations.

The atmosphere was good, we chatted for a while, and then signed the contract.

What Lin Hun brought was a standard contract. Li Zhuo read it carefully and confirmed that it was a normal contract, without those messy verbal and legal traps and ambiguities.

He invested 500 million and enjoyed 20% of all animation products owned by the studio and [-]% of the full copyright income derived from ip.

After confirming that there was no problem, Li Zhuo and Lin Hun signed the contract in triplicate.

After signing the contract, Li Zhuo transferred 500 million from his bank card to the studio's account.

There are clear restrictions on the use of this investment, which can only be used for animation production, personnel salaries, and office expenses. In fact, it is also to prevent the funds from being cashed out by the studio for pleasure.

Lin Hun also made a clear statement on the subsequent use of funds, with the largest expenditures in recruiting employees and animation production.

They chatted in the conference room for two hours, and then Li Zhuo and the others came out of the conference room.

The whole studio was beaming, and everyone had smiles on their faces, very happy, because they also have the father of the sponsor, and the situation in the future will definitely be much better than before.

It was already noon, and the studio wanted to invite Li Zhuo and the others to have lunch.

Li Zhuo said:

"You are usually very busy, and you have always been relatively frugal. I am not an outsider, so let's do whatever is convenient and save money. Eat whatever you want, and you won't have a big meal."

Lin Hun was a little hesitant when he heard it. He also felt that the simpler the better, but he couldn't really take the investors to the next door to have a bowl of small noodles for [-] yuan, right?Even adding a fried egg is only [-] yuan.

Is this a bit of a snub?
Looking at the Bentley driven by others, it seems that it is not appropriate to do this.

Seventeen quickly took the words and said:

"I don't eat big meals, but today is a happy day for us. Why don't we go to the farmhouse in the village? The food is delicious and not expensive, and it has rural characteristics."

Lin Hun also echoed:

"That's right, the farmhouse here is very good, 50 yuan per person, not expensive, and everyone will go there to eat."

"Okay, this is a good place to find." Li Zhuo agreed.

All six people in the studio were mobilized, and once the seventeen doors were locked, all of them walked along the river.

The employees in the studio were all interested in Li Zhuo, someone asked:

"Boss Li, is the car you are driving a Bentley? It looks very expensive, and I have never seen it on the streets of Quzhou City."

Quzhou is a relatively weaker place in Zhejiang Province, with many mountains and beautiful natural scenery, but its economy cannot catch up with other cities.

Li Zhuo replied:

"Yes, Bentley, there is a sign on the front of the car, the Bentley is fast, and it is a very comfortable car to drive."

"Bentley Mercedes, I saw it on Douyin, boss, how much did you pay for it?" Men are naturally interested in luxury cars.

Li Zhuo smiled and said:

"If you don't increase the price by 385 million, you can buy it, but I cut off the newly arrived show car at that time, so I spent an extra 15."

"400 million, my God, it feels like enough to buy my life." An employee said exaggeratedly.

Another employee nearby said:
"What are you talking about? It seems like you can't buy my life."

This sentence made everyone laugh.

Everyone saw that Li Zhuo was more approachable, without airs, and asked curious questions one after another:
"Boss Li, your car is so expensive, so the house must not be cheap, right?"

"Boss, how many companies have you started?"

"Boss, are you a rich second generation?"

Li Zhuo touched his nose, and briefly explained:
"There are two wholly-owned companies in China, and they also control an MCN Internet celebrity incubation company. In addition, they have invested in two game studios, and they also control two companies abroad."

"As for the house, how should I put it, I can't count it myself."

This sentence is telling the truth, but it sounds a bit like Versailles.

Even Lin Hun next to him was envious when he heard this, and couldn't help asking:
"How much is the most expensive house Mr. Li bought?"

Li Zhuo thought for a while and said:

"It's not too expensive. It can't be compared with a boss like Papa Ma. The most expensive thing is to buy a villa in the Imperial Capital Manor. I won't say how much it cost. Anyway, it's still a long way from nine figures."

The Imperial Capital Manor spent 8000 million, which is indeed a long way from hundreds of millions.

Everyone heard that although it was a bit cloudy, they all thought that he was a small onion tearer, in short, he was a second-generation rich man in the upper class.

Everyone chattered to ask him about his usual life, whether it was the Douyin saying that he listened to music every day and was drunk with money every night.

Li Zhuo turned his head and glanced at Meng Yuanyuan. She was walking behind with Seventeen, and she was pulling her sleeves to show Seventeen. She seemed to be talking to her about the clothes she was wearing, and she didn't notice Li Zhuo's movements. .

Li Zhuo said:

"Actually not. Of course, I may be an exception. Anyway, I am used to running around, and sometimes I am very busy. I spend less time in Hangzhou. Of course, some second generations may live like this, but None of the brothers I'm familiar with are like this, and they often have to work overtime."

This aroused everyone's interest, and they were surprised that the rich second generation actually had to work overtime...

We chatted all the way to the farmhouse in the village. This restaurant is also relatively simple. It is a normal farmyard decoration, but the main building is three floors.

The service staff in the store knew Lin Hun and the others, and took the initiative to take them to a private room on the second floor.

Lin Hun directly arranged for the local eight bowls.

Including Erbadu tofu hot pot, Jiangshan big white goose stewed in one pot, wild loach tofu pot, fried beef with fresh bamboo shoots, Fengxi small fish, fried wild vegetables, dried bacon and fish, dried vegetables and braised pork, etc.

It is called eight bowls, but in fact there may not be only eight bowls, this is a false indication.

There are quite a lot of pots in this farmhouse, and the price is not expensive. Only Jiangshan Big White Goose is stewed in a pot for more than 100 yuan, and the others are forty to fifty, which is quite cheap.

And the taste is quite good. Meng Yuanyuan, who has always been a bit delicate, likes to eat it. When Li Zhuo asked her, she replied that the tofu in the two soup pots tasted very good and she liked it.

After the meal, the group went back for a walk, and Li Zhuo sat in the studio for a while, watching them busy with their own affairs.

He watched the previous animation works of the studio with Meng Yuanyuan, and accidentally saw an ink animation called "Bai Yueer" on the director's computer.

He clicked on it by the way, and then watched it with Meng Yuanyuan.

This animation is awesome, Li Zhuo didn't know how to describe it after watching it.

It is definitely not an animation in the conventional sense, it is a family-oriented animation with a Jiangnan style.

The dubbing in it uses southern Jiangsu slang, and the screen also presents the life scenes of the water town in southern Jiangsu with the style of the Republic of China.

It is about a girl named Nannan who lives with her grandmother. She misses her mother who died from overwork and does not want to accept the fact that her mother has passed away.

She slept on the boat one night, and in a dream, she dreamed that her mother was rowing a boat to pick her up.

The girl said happily:

"I know you will come to pick me up!"

At the end, the director issued a knife, and floating in the river was the tiger-head hat that the daughter usually wears, which was woven for her by her mother before her death.

Beside the tiger hat, there is a little fish finally found its mother fish.

The language of the shots is extremely clean and restrained, the four seasons, the changes of the natural landscape, and the scenes of the reunion of big fish and small fish are all suggestive, pointing to the final ending.

This is the first time for Li Zhuo to see this style of color ink animation. It does not conform to the overall style of current domestic animation, but it is excellent.

In other words, this is the "Wenqingwen" in the animation industry. It is obviously of high artistic level, but it is also obvious that it is more difficult to make money.

Li Zhuo asked Lin Hun who made this.

Lin Hun replied:

"This is the work of Wolf Smoke Studio. It took two years to make it. The original artist of the animation is Wu Yan. She was born in Chinese painting and has a high aesthetic level. I am familiar with her. "Bai Yueer" is abroad. It is more respected and has won an animation short film award in France, but it is cold in China and basically no one pays attention to it.”

Li Zhuo checked Douban, and the score of this work is 8.5, but only more than 500 people commented.

The next comment caught his attention. He commented that this work has the style and taste of the Shanghai Animation Film Factory in the 80s.

But Li Zhuo felt that the aesthetic level and lens language of this short film should be surpassed.

Lin Hun is obviously familiar with this studio, he said to Li Zhuo:
"Mr. Li, the standard and ability of Wolf Smoke Studio is unquestionable. Just like us, their studio has never had more than 10 people, and the annual production of animation is about 10 minutes. The main reason is that they are limited by lack of money."

He glanced at Li Zhuo's face, and carefully recommended:

"This is really a very good animation studio. If you are interested, you can go and investigate it. If you think it's good, you can buy a share to help them. They are also quite difficult."

He felt that Li Zhuo was the one who was not short of money, so he watched over and helped each other, and recommended a timely one to his colleagues who had always admired him.

Li Zhuo smiled and said:

"I'm quite happy to support the rise of domestic animation. First drive Japanese and Korean comics out, and then get involved in the international arena for money."

In fact, domestic games have already started this journey. Relying on games, Tencent earned 180 billion US dollars from abroad last year. Yuanshen is also attacking cities everywhere, and 70% of its revenue comes from abroad.

Li Zhuo also read a news that even if tiktok is restricted in the United States, it actually already has 1.4 million users, accounting for one-third of the US population.

And it is basically the top few downloads in other countries.

In addition, the international version of Temu is also spreading rapidly in the United States, Australia and other places, and often dominates the number one download list on each platform.

There is also Xiyin, known as the Chinese version of Zara, which is also very strong internationally, selling its products all over Europe and the United States.

The export of culture and products cannot be achieved by shouting alone. It must rely on investment, development, and relying on a strong domestic market to win out the winners, and then start the process of global siege.

Li Zhuo very much hopes that the domestic entertainment and cultural industries, such as animation, online literature, games, film and television dramas, music, etc., can take up the domestic market share as soon as possible, and then export all of them to the international market.

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(End of this chapter)