China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 352 Chapter 350. Xiao Tiantian’s tangle (4-in-[-], [-]K)

When Xu Xin came to Yanjing this time, she was originally invited to take a look.

If there are benefits, she can invest a little. Now it seems that spending tens of millions of dollars to invest in a company that doesn't even have core competitiveness is too risky.

Moreover, after the LOL global competition, Fei'e Video's influence has greatly increased, and it has recently been revealed that it will start a second round of financing in the near future. It is said that several investment companies are holding back their energy and preparing to invest in Fei'e Video.

Lu Huateng had already made plans with Cao Yu, and he came prepared this time, intending to trick Hua Yi.

Seeing that the situation was almost over, he finally said: "10% of the shares is too little for us Penguins. I plan to pay 6000 million US dollars to take all 20%."

"Why are the prices getting lower and lower?"

Wang Zhonglei had a dark look on his face. Boss Ma offered 4000 million and took 10% of it. Now if you open your mouth, our 2000 million will be gone.

"If it's just 10% of the shares, we Penguins don't want it."

Lu Huateng said and looked at Ma Yun.

Ma Yun looked at Wang Zhongjun.

Wang Zhongjun looked at the table and thought to himself: "Did Lu Huateng do it on purpose? He has a good relationship with Cao Yu, so he came here to play this trick on purpose?"

At this time, Lu Huateng continued to laugh and said: "Huayi is an old entertainment company after all, and I am still very optimistic about it. If you can produce some excellent films in the past two years, I may increase my holdings next year."

"Could it be that Penguin is just investing and making money?"

Wang Zhongjun thought for a while, raised his head and said to Ma Yun: "Mr. Ma, what do you think?"

"Since Mr. Lu is optimistic about Huayi, I can give up my 10%, but the price cannot be less than 4000 million."

Ma Yun smiled and said: "Mr. Lu doesn't want Huayi's market value to decrease."

"Although the amount of financing in the market can explain the level of market value, it mainly depends on future operating income. Mr. Ma should know this better than me."

Lu Huateng said with a hidden smile, and then looked at Wang Zhongjun: "20%, up to 7000 million, if possible, I will take it."

"Ten million is missing. Do you agree or not?"

Wang Zhongjun glanced at Ma Yun to see what his opinion was.

Ma Yun hesitated for a moment, then thought about core competitiveness, and felt that giving up 10% might not be a bad thing, so she nodded lightly.

As a result, this strange financing finally ended. Although Lu Huateng got 20% of Huayi's shares, many people felt that Penguin would probably fall into a pit.

After sending everyone away, brothers Ma Yun and Wang Zhonglei talked about this financing in the hotel box.

"Mr. Ma, are you wondering if Lu Huateng has any other purposes?"

Although Wang Zhongjun felt that Lu Huateng might be doing it to make money, he was still unsure.

"As long as it can help Huayi go public, it doesn't matter if he has a purpose."

Ma Yun took a sip of tea and continued: "However, what Wang Xing said is not unreasonable. In the past two years, you must make profitable films, otherwise even if you reluctantly go public, the stock price will not be very satisfactory."

"I know this. For movies, we are already looking for good scripts. This year's three TV series have very good ratings."

Wang Zhonglei nodded in agreement and said: "We have already made tens of millions in profit from "Snail House", and the next film "My Leader, My Group" will not be too bad, and the last one "The Deer and the Cauldron" will be finished soon."

"That's good."

Ma Yun nodded: "However, the movie cannot be released. What plans does Mr. Wang have here? Tell me about it?"

Although Ali is not as good as Jingdong now, it is developing well. If it can succeed in the entertainment industry, it will definitely be good for the development of the group.

Wang Zhonglei had no choice but to say: "Last year, all three films were lost to Feiyu. We are now asking Director Feng to look for suitable scripts and strive to get the project approved after the Spring Festival."

"We must not lose money again."

After chatting for a while, he suddenly said: "Mr. Wang, the reason why Penguin is developing so fast is because their game industry is very profitable. I once said that Ahri does not know how to make games. Do you think about this? "

"game?"

Brother Wang Zhongjun was stunned and asked, "We don't understand."

"You can learn if you don't understand, but if you really can't, you can wait for Huayi to go public and find a game company to cooperate with."

Ma Yun once said in the West Lake Sword Discussion that games are harmful to people and he cannot slap himself in the face, but if Huayi does it, then there will be no problem.

"Row!"

Wang Zhongjun also knows that games make money. Penguin's World of Warcraft and LOL, plus the QQ game platform, generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue every year, which makes them jealous.

On the other hand, Boss Cao finished writing the script of the movie "If You Are the One" and breathed out: "Get the license for this movie first, and then I can go to Hangzhou with peace of mind."

Find your subordinates and ask them to take the script for filing. How can you ask your secretary to arrange the flight?

"Ding Ding Ding"

The music on the phone started ringing.

"Brother Lu, how are you?"

"Done it, got 20%."

"That's good, as planned, you have the opportunity to reveal the idea of ​​​​the "TS Earthquake" script to Huayi and the others."

"no problem."

Just after hanging up, the phone rang again, but it was Xu Xin from Capital Today.

Cao Yu: "Mr. Xu, why do you suddenly think of me?"

Xu Xin: “I would like to ask you about Fei’e Video’s second financing plan.”

Cao Yu: "I've been too busy recently. We have a movie to be released soon, and we plan to put the second round of financing after the National Day."

Xu Xin: "Then I will definitely support Mr. Cao."

Cao Yu: "Mr. Xu can vote, I welcome him with both hands."

Xu Xin: "But Mr. Cao, tell me how much you plan to raise this time, so I can be prepared."

Cao Yu: "Haha, 15%, one billion US dollars, this is the minimum requirement."

Xu Xin: "One billion US dollars?"

Xu Xin was a little surprised when he heard this number.

The first financing of Fei'e Video was also 15%. She and Sequoia competed and finally divided up a little more than 1 million. In just over a year, Boss Cao asked for one billion when he asked?

"Is it much? You should have seen the value of our Fei Ge video."

Cao Yu has a complete plan for the development prospects of Fei'e Video, and one billion US dollars is really not that much.

Moreover, he needs a sum of money to do a big thing. If this thing is successful, the future benefits will be even more immeasurable.

"I see."

Xu Xin naturally knows the prospects of Fei Ge. Not to mention that it is the largest video website in China. After the LOL competition, it has become famous all over the world and even has an English version.

To be honest, from this point of view, a billion dollars is not too much.

But at this moment she was feeling emotional and regretful.

I feel that the 8% I once invested has doubled in value and is considered a successful investment.

What I regret is that I didn’t bite the bullet and get all the 15% the first time. It seems I’ll have to pay more this time.

After hanging up the phone from Xu Xin, Cao Yu called Zhou Juan and gave an important instruction: "Recruit people immediately, looking for talents who understand big data and cloud computing!"

"Mr. Cao, what is this?"

Zhou Juan was a little surprised. Why did Mr. Cao suddenly think of doing this?
"Don't ask me about this yet, just do it. You don't have to worry about funds. There are not enough domestic talents, so you can recruit them from abroad! As long as they are talented people, are willing to join the company, and can make achievements, we will give them a house! "

"Send a house?"

Zhou Juan looked at the boss with a look of disbelief. The Olympics were about to happen, and the price of houses in Yanjing was soaring, but the boss wanted to give it away directly?
"Let talents have no worries."

Cao Yu explained, and then said: "This matter is very important to the future development of our company, and you must pay attention to it."

"I understand." Although Zhou Juan didn't understand it very well, since Mr. Cao said this, he must have a reason.

After Zhou Juan left, Cao Yu leaned on the chair and said to himself: "Mr. Ma, if you don't want to engage in big data, then I will do it first. The future is the era of big data. When smart phones become popular, big data will enter the era of big data." All aspects of people’s lives are so important to the development of enterprises!”

"It's just that one billion US dollars is enough? Are we going to build a Feiyu Industrial Park?"

However, Cao Yu also knows that this matter is difficult. Not only does it require a large amount of talent and capital investment, but the current building will definitely be smaller by then.

Although he had this plan in his mind, Cao Yu was not too worried about funding issues. Jingdong was about to go public, and by then his funds would have increased a lot.

In addition, the benefits from cooperation with Huawei are also good, and these are a steady source of funds.

Even if there is still a gap, with Feiyu's name, he can easily get a large loan from the bank.

"I can almost handle the entertainment company, but I don't know if I can handle the moth video and big data with only Zhou Ju."

Cao Yu leaned back in his chair and felt that although he was rich, he had few management talents.

"Compared to Ma Yun's Eighteen Arhats, it seems that I have to recruit more people."

Cao Yu still knew how much he weighed, and silently glanced into the distance: "It would be great if I had people like Cai Chongxin under me."

After finishing his business in Yanjing, Cao Yu came to Xiangshan Film and Television City.

The park is about to open, and the place has been completely renovated. According to Boss Cao's request, invitations to guests attending the opening ceremony have been sent out.

There were not only local government officials, but also some big names in the entertainment industry. As for the celebrities, Cao Yu only invited some people from the older generation who could be called artists.

In mid-September, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions".

This technical school for actor training looks like an art school, with a cloud of beauties.

All the actors attended classes from Hong Kong experts in the morning, practiced posture, chess, calligraphy and painting in the afternoon, studied characters and rehearsed sketches in the evening.

"It's done pretty well."

Accompanied by director Hu Mei, Cao Yu visited the crew.

"Jingtian, how are you doing lately?"

From a distance, Cao Yu looked at Jing Tian who was practicing with the teacher and asked.

Hu Mei smiled and said: "This girl is okay. She has made great progress. She just needs to polish her acting skills, but it's not a big problem."

"I can rest assured that."

Xue Baochai, a very important character played by Jing Tian, ​​is very important in the entire Red Mansions. If something goes wrong with her, the entire film will be ruined.

"By the way, Mr. Cao, I have been looking for the actor who plays Baoyu across the country these days, and I have received a lot of information."

"Oh? Take me to see it."

When Cao Yu heard this, he immediately wanted to see Jia Baoyu, who had the biggest headache right now.

Arriving at director Hu Mei's office, Cao Yu received a stack of information on young boys.

"Yang Yang, participated in "Dream of Red Mansions"."

Cao Yu looked at this person's information and remembered that this young man had indeed played Jia Baoyu, and he was considered a handsome guy at the level of a military arts school. However, it seemed that he still didn't match the Baoyu he had in mind.

"Ma Tianyu seems a bit old, and he doesn't have the rosy air of Jia Baoyu."

"Oh Hao. Singer"

"Chen Xuedong, model."

……

Cao Yu discovered that he actually knew many of the people in his hands, some of whom he had met before he was reborn.

It's just that although these people are relatively handsome, he is still not satisfied.

Hu Mei on the side looked at Boss Cao frowning and flipping through the information one by one, feeling troubled in her heart.

Although the information she picked out were all handsome guys, it couldn't be said that they completely met her requirements. It's just that the filming of this drama will start during the Spring Festival next year at the latest, and if it continues, she doesn't know how long it will take.

Cao Yu didn't speak. He flipped through seven or eight pieces of information and suddenly saw a more familiar name.

Xiao Zhan!

"He also invested in the material?"

At this time, Xiao Zhan was only a middle school student, and his face was full of childishness and his cheeks were round, but he still had the handsome and attractive look he would become in the future.

"This kid is pretty good. Let him try it out during the National Day."

Cao Yu pulled out two pieces of information and handed them to Hu Mei: "And Ou Hao, let him come for the audition as well."

"Mr. Cao has a good vision, and I think this child is fine."

Hu Mei put the information away and asked her assistant to notify it, and then said: "Mr. Cao, I heard that director Li Shaohong has also begun preparations for her "Dream of Red Mansions". What do you think?"

"She hasn't given up yet?"

Cao Yu was stunned for a moment. He thought that his last audition was so big that Li Shaohong and the investors would give up, but he didn't expect that he was also making preparations.

"I heard that director Li Shaohong insisted on making it and said he wanted to make a classic, and the investors also agreed."

"Then let them shoot."

Although Cao Yu felt that this was a waste of resources, he couldn't stop others from taking pictures.

Besides, people also need to make money to eat.

However, he still warned: "Director Hu, we leave it to you. We can use real scenes and try not to build a studio. I dare not say it is comparable to the 87 version, but it cannot be too inferior."

"Don't worry, Mr. Cao."

Hu Mei has directed many classic historical costume dramas, so she is still confident about this.

"Haha, I'll leave first then. I'll leave this to you. Don't forget to attend the opening ceremony of the film and television city in a few days."

There was no problem here, so Cao Yu planned to return to Hangzhou and come back before the park opened.

Just as he left Hu Mei's temporary office, a girl looked at Boss Cao in the distance.

"Should I go talk to Mr. Cao and tell him that I also want to join Feiyu Entertainment?"

"But I have signed a ten-year contract with Mr. Lu. If I leave, it will be a breach of contract. What about liquidated damages?"

"These days, I have also seen that the actors in Feiyu Entertainment are very good. If Mr. Cao thinks that my acting skills are not good and is unwilling to let me join, it would be too embarrassing."

"However, I am his fellow countryman, and I am also working hard to improve. Do you want to explore his tone first?"

"The liquidated damages are several million. Where can I get so much money?"

"But if I don't continue to stay in Starlight, that man in the future will..."

"Do you want me to ask Mr. Cao to borrow some first? He should be very rich."

"Although I am a fellow countryman, several million is not a small number. Why should he lend it to me?"

"What if he makes some outrageous demands?"

"Mr. Cao is so handsome, if he wants me...will I agree?"

The girl named Jing Tian was still struggling and hesitating, but she found that Cao Yu had already sat in a car.

"Mr. Cao! Wait a minute!"

Seeing that Boss Cao was about to leave, he shouted quickly and wanted to chase after him. However, the sound insulation effect of the car may have been too good. The people in the car did not hear the girl's shouts at all and walked away directly.

"He's gone, and I don't know what will happen next time."

Jing Tian took two steps after him and finally stopped, looking at the car getting farther and farther away, regretting that he had been too timid just now.

(End of this chapter)