China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 707 705. The Mermaid is a box office sensation, and some people are unhappy

At the beginning of 2014, the Lunar New Year movie season brought a wave of surprises to the audience.

Then, "The Assassin 2" made a good start for the Spring Festival period.

But this is not the biggest news before the Spring Festival. The most popular topic online during this period is a game called "Honor of Kings".

Due to the widespread popularity of smartphones, Apple, at the request of Boss Cao, reduced the Apple tax on China from 30% to 15%, which allowed it to successfully enter the Chinese market, and the prices of its mobile phones are also consistent with international prices.

Today, the percentage of smartphone owners in China has already exceeded 85%, and even many elderly people in rural areas use smartphones.

After the game was launched on December 10, its simple operation, interesting battle settings, and Chinese-style game background immediately became a hot topic in the gaming circle.

In addition, Douyin, Weibo, WeChat, and Fei'e Video continued to promote this game, and 50 million people downloaded it in just one day after it was launched.

Students and some young people, in particular, quickly became addicted to this game.

Although the game mode of Honor of Kings is similar to that of League of Legends, LOL requires a computer, while Honor of Kings can be played with just a mobile phone.

Since the game has high requirements for mobile phone configuration, King of Glory even indirectly boosted the sales of 4G mobile phones before the Spring Festival.

Within ten days, the sales of mobile phones on the two platforms of Guangjingdong and Youduoduo reached more than 30 million units.

In particular, Huawei's newly released P7 mobile phone has occupied more than 60% of the market share.

December twenty-first.

At Feiyu Science and Technology Industrial Park, Cao Yu accompanied Lu Huateng and Liu Qiangdong to visit the park, which was expanded by another 100 acres last year.

Lu Huateng looked around and sighed with envy: "Brother, Feiyu Group is really different every year."

The current Feiyu Group owns Feie Video, Meituan, Youduoduo, Feiyu Technology, Feiyu Investment, Feiyu Entertainment and Feiyu Digital, which has just launched Douyin.

Any one of these branches is a leader in the industry.

Feiyu Investment has also invested in high-tech industries such as drones, automobiles, lithium batteries, mobile phones, and chips, with annual profits of nearly 100 billion yuan, and its future is limitless.

Among all industries, Feiyu Entertainment has the most mediocre performance, with profits of only over 6 billion this year.

Liu Qiangdong didn't even know what to say.

Just ten years ago, the two discussed starting Jingdong together. Ten years have passed, and the youngest brother has already surpassed the other two.

Cao Yu smiled and said, "This is all thanks to the help of my eldest and second brothers."

Liu Qiangdong then said, "Don't be so modest. If you hadn't helped me, I don't know what would have happened to Lao Lu and I."

Lu Huateng also agreed: "Dongzi is right. If it weren't for Brother Cao, there would be no WeChat, no King of Glory, and no League of Legends."

Cao Yu shook his head modestly and said, "I forgot to ask, how is King of Glory going?"

"There are already more than 4 million players. Sometimes at night, the number of people online at the same time can reach more than million. This is before G is popularized. It is expected to be even better in the future."

When Lu Huateng said this, he suddenly smiled and said to Liu Lingdong: "To be honest, I am the oldest among the three of us, but I think Brother Cao is the leader."

"Don't say that. I'll be distracted in a moment."

Cao Yu was indeed a little dizzy, but this was normal.

After all, he controls a large group company with more than 200,000 employees, not to mention the five million deliverymen.

Given this scale, Penguin and Jingdong can indeed only be considered younger brothers.

"It's okay, just float freely, we two brothers will hold you."

Lu Huateng joked, "Let's go to your office for some tea and then have a drink in the evening."

Liu Qiangdong suggested, "I heard that Feiyu Dance Troupe is full of beautiful girls. How about asking some of them to have a few drinks with the brothers?"

"What are you thinking? Those girls are not hostesses."

Cao Yu refused without even thinking about it. Feiyu's dance troupe was different from Hengtai's dance troupe.

Lu Huateng said with a smile: "Dongzi, when we get to the club, ask Lao San to find you eight or ten girls. They are from his company. This guy is very protective of them. I have never touched any of them."

There were no outsiders around the three of them, so they could talk about a lot of free topics.

As soon as I arrived at Cao Yu's office, Secretary Zhang Xiaotian came over and said, "Mr. Cao, the club has been booked for you."

Hearing the girl speak nicely, Liu Qiangdong subconsciously raised his head.

When he saw Zhang Xiaotian, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Are all the secretaries around the third brother so pretty? But when I saw this girl, why do I feel like I've seen her before?"

Liu Qiangdong looked at Zhang Xiaotian for a few times, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen this girl.

Zhang Xiaotian noticed that someone was looking at him, but he just glanced at Liu Qiangdong and didn't care. He nodded to a few people and left.

She often follows the young wealthy man Cao Yu and meets many bigwigs. In Zhang Xiaotian's eyes, a rich man like Dong Ge is already very ordinary.

After Zhang Xiaotian left, Liu Lingdong asked tentatively: "Brother, who is this secretary of yours?"

"Brother Dong, you are already married, you can't have any ideas about my secretary"

Seeing that Dong Ge seemed to be interested in Zhang Xiaotian, Cao Yu made a joke and introduced her, "She is a student at Shuimu University and is now my intern secretary."

"Oh, that's how it is."

Liu Lingdong did not ask any more questions, thinking that this girl might just be more pleasing to the eye.
Cao Yu also noticed Dong Ge's abnormality. The Cao family bloodline seemed to awaken in his heart, and he had an exciting idea.

Before rebirth, Milk Tea was Dong Ge’s wife. I also wanted to drink milk tea. Now that it’s delivered to my door, if I drink it...

After a while, he suppressed the thought. After all, Milk Tea was different from other girls. She was too ambitious and difficult to control.

At this time, Liu Qiangdong was still shaking his head and sighing silently.

"Comparing yourself to others is really frustrating. Brother Cao's secretary is really extraordinary."

He also knew what a secretary was. Was there any need to explain it to him?

He didn't dare to set his sights on his brother's woman.

The three of them drank tea for a while, and Lu Huateng suggested: "This year Hengtai won the championship, why don't you hire a good coach? And introduce a few famous foreign players, so that Huanyu team can win the championship again? No matter what, we can't let Ali and Lao Ma be so proud."

"What's the point of hiring foreign coaches and foreign players? Can Chinese football develop?"

Cao Yu's rhetorical question left Lu Huateng and Liu Xingdong speechless.

It is really useless to hire foreign players and foreign coaches. They have to lose as they should, and it is getting worse and worse. They have no face left.
At this time, Cao Yu smiled and said, "I have trained a group of children playing football abroad. When they are good at it, I will show the fans all over the country that China is not bad at playing football!"

The two asked curiously, "What are you going to do?"

"Then we will form a team with them and win back all the losses of the national football team, haha..."

"Bad, bad enough!"

Lu Huateng and his brother had also been hurt by the Chinese national football team, so when they heard this idea, they thought it was very interesting. However, their own brother's plan was indeed bad enough.

If your team beats Japan and South Korea, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the Chinese national football team?

However, it seems that those people have no shame. Where are you going to hit them?
Butt?
After joking for a while, Cao Yu said, "Brother Lu, I want to buy Singularity Literature."

"Haha, I knew you would want to buy this platform sooner or later. Sure enough, I guessed right."

Lu Huateng laughed and said, "After the New Year, we will go through the formalities. This platform will be more effective in your hands."

"That's it."

Cao Yu had wanted to buy Singularity Literature for a long time, but he had never had the chance to tell Lu Huateng.

As long as this company is incorporated into Feiyu Group, there will be a steady stream of literary works in the future that can be converted into film and television.

Moreover, he is also planning to turn famous IPs such as "Fights Break Sphere" and "Douluo Dalu" into animations first.

If possible, he even plans to promote Singularity overseas so that foreigners can also feel the power of Shuangwen.

This can also be considered a form of cultural export.

That night, the three of them drank and sang until midnight.

I was so happy after drinking that I recalled the hard work of starting a business, and was filled with emotion.

Although all three of them are top wealthy people, they still talked about love and family.

Lu Huateng: "Old Third, you are not young anymore. When are you going to get married? We are looking forward to the wedding."

Cao Yu: "I won't get married!"

Liu Qiangdong: "How smart! Being married is really hard."

Cao Yu: "But I have a child!"

"Ha ha."

Liu Qiangdong: "If you don't get married, you can keep dating and you don't have to worry about dividing the property. It's a really good idea."

Lu Huateng: "I feel that the third brother doesn't want to give up a forest for a tree."

……

After running around with various connections and getting together with Lu Huateng and the others, Cao Yu waited for the Spring Festival to arrive.

As for this year's Weibo Night organized by Feiyu Entertainment and Penguin, it will naturally be organized by the employees of the two companies. As a boss, you don't have to do it yourself.

On December 4, "Transformers 2" and "Avengers " were released in China, North America, South Korea, Japan and other countries.

"Avengers 2" directly took in billion US dollars at the box office, while this "Transformers" only took in more than billion. Even if it is released in some small countries, it will not affect the final results.

"Brother, you lose! You are not allowed to look for another woman in the future!" After the results of the two movies came out, Yang Mi was very proud.

Liu Yifei was also happy about this: "Brother Cao Yu, Mimi is right. Although we don't force you to get married, you already have a lot of girlfriends, so you have less time to spend with us."

"I didn't lose!"

Cao Yucai refused to admit that he lost.

Even if you don't have to look for a Chinese woman, it's almost enough.

But I can't help myself when it comes to South Korea and Japan. Besides, there are many beautiful girls waiting for me.

"1.4 billion versus 1 billion, how did you not lose? Brother, if you dare to default on your debt, Xixi and I will beat your son in the future!"

Yang Mi immediately refused: "We made a bet at the beginning. If the box office of Avengers 2 is good, you are not allowed to look for other women. You promised us at the beginning."

"Yes, that's what we said, but the movie that did well at the box office was Transformers 4, which earned 2 billion in China. How much did Avengers ? Only billion!"

Due to Yang Mi's outstanding performance in this Transformers film, Chinese audiences were very respectful to her, and the performance of Transformers 4 was indeed nearly million more.

"Brother, you are cheating! We are talking about the global box office."

Yang Mi was so angry that she was about to pounce over and bite someone.

Cao Yu hurriedly blocked her and said with a smile: "I was talking about the Chinese box office. Who told you not to make it clear in advance? Are you blaming me?"

"Brother Cao Yu, you can't be so dishonest!"

At this time, Liu Yifei naturally stood on Yang Mi's side.

Cao Yu held them both in his arms, one in each hand, and said with a smile: "How about this, let's call it a draw? I will try not to look for other people in the future. If other girls look for me, I will take it as an advantage and take it directly. How about it?"

"no!"

As expected, sisters are of one mind. Liu and Yang shouted in unison, and then Yang Mi spoke: "Brother, you are Tang Monk meat now. Don't I know the girls in the entertainment industry? I can guarantee that 90% of them want to throw themselves into your arms."

"Not necessarily."

Although Cao Yu knew that what Yang Mi said was true, he didn't want to admit it.

"What is uncertain is certain and certain!"

Yang Mi talked about the entertainment industry, and she was very knowledgeable: "Although you called for lowering the pay, even so, it is not a problem for first- and second-tier actors to earn 10 or 20 million yuan a year with their annual pay and endorsements. Who wouldn't be jealous? In the entertainment industry, you are the one who can create the most stars. Can any girl resist the temptation of fame?"

"Haha, am I that amazing? I didn't even know."

Cao Yu deliberately laughed and said, "Since you say I am Tang Monk's flesh, do you want to eat it?"

"Sissi, let's eat him up bite by bite tonight!"

"it is good!"

Liu Yifei was helpless in the face of Cao Yu's shameless behavior, as the entertainment industry is so chaotic.

Besides, how can we make men less lustful?
Unless it's hung on the wall.

There is nothing interesting to watch during the Spring Festival nowadays except for "making dumplings", but the ratings are still there.

Therefore, Douyin won the title of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

On December 30th, "Charlotte's Troubles" was taken off the screen, with a final box office of 2.6 billion.

On the 31st, the annual Spring Festival finally arrived, and the last movie produced by Feiyu Entertainment last year, "The Mermaid", was released.

Just before this movie was released, perhaps because everyone was preparing for the Spring Festival, the box office of "Assassin's Blade 2" gradually stabilized after the popularity in the first two days.

However, within eleven days, a total of 1.2 billion was achieved.

"Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", which was released at about the same time, was so bad that its reputation collapsed and it only earned more than 200 million yuan.

Now due to the release of the movie "The Mermaid", the box office of "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" has been falling again and again, and the daily box office is less than 3 million.

The box office of "The Mermaid" earned 2.6 million on the first day, and exceeded 4 billion in just 10 days. It even maintained a single-day box office of over 2.3 million for a week in a row, once again setting off a box office storm.

Everyone in the entertainment industry has become numbed by Feiyu's actions this year.

Since I can’t win anyway, I might as well not compete.

Although Feiyu Entertainment has made huge profits in the film market this year, Brother Chen Kai still refuses to admit defeat to Cao Yu.

He suspected that the brother Chen Kai in "Charlotte's Troubles" was Cao Yu mocking himself.

This is intolerable, what else can't be tolerated. !
Although he was so angry that he couldn't sleep for several days, now seeing that the box office of "The Mermaid" was so terrible, he was secretly glad again that he had made a wise decision to schedule "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" in the summer vacation.

I heard that Feiyu Entertainment won’t have any big movies this summer.

By then, the summer movie season will be dominated by "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain"!

But "The Mermaid" was not only a box office hit in China, but was also introduced to South Korea, Japan, North America, and Southeast Asia.

Although the North American box office was average, Cao Yu and Zhou Xingchi are now quite famous in South Korea, South Korea and Japan, so this movie achieved good results when it was released.

The film's leading actress, newcomer Chen Duling, also became famous because of the movie and was called the purest mermaid.

People also saw once again that Feiyu's ability to create stars is really terrifying. An ordinary person actually became a star because of a movie.

However, the most popular thing about this film is not the mermaid Chen Duling, nor the magical dance of Deng Chao, but the clip where Wen Zhang slaps his thigh and laughs.

This clip was soon posted on Douyin and became the most talked-about topic.

With the promotional effect of this video, the box office of Stephen Chow's movie has skyrocketed, and it feels like it is about to break another record.

This Spring Festival, in addition to the hit movie "The Mermaid", in terms of TV dramas, "A Servant of Two Masters" starring Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ne, Jiang Shuying and Guan Xiaotong also dominated the ratings during the Spring Festival.

Not only did the audience like the interlude "Meeting" in the drama, but Guan Xiaotong also successfully became the national daughter thanks to this drama.

But what the audience likes most about this drama is that the whole drama criticizes materialism and curses luxury goods.

"This bag is only worth a few hundred dollars, and it has stolen your youth. Is it worth it?"

"What is a luxury product? It is something that is used to deceive poor people by claiming that they like it."

"Those capitalists take advantage of girls' vanity. Not only do they cheat us out of our money, but they also turn girls into unwanted fairies. Silly girl, wake up."

Lines like this appear many times in the play.

Those luxury goods dealers wanted to refute and sue, but when they thought that the producer of this drama was Feiyu’s boss Cao, some of them dared not speak out.

After all, they didn't gain any benefits from the previous lawsuit, so how dare they confront Cao Yu again?
I heard that during the Spring Festival, the number of users of Boss Cao's Douyin reached nearly 400 million, which means that the company holds the right to promote its products.

Before the holiday was over, some luxury brands began to plan whether they should have a good talk with Boss Cao, give him some benefits and bribe Cao Yu.

If Boss Cao continues like this, his plan to brainwash and harvest the Chinese people will be completely ruined.

Ma Yun is not helpful, and the person who tied the bell must be found to untie it, so they can only look for Boss Cao again.

The person who is most happy about the hit movie "A Servant of Two Masters" is Guan Xiaotong.

She really didn't expect that this one movie would be better than all her previous movies.

The nation’s daughter, what an attractive title.

Some are happy and some are sad. Compared to Guan Xiaotong's happiness, there is one person who is unhappy.

That is Cao Yu’s goddaughter Song Zue.

"Father, you don't like me..."

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Song Zu'e came to Cao Yu's house, saying that he was here to pay New Year's greetings, but in fact he came to act like a spoiled child and cause trouble.

"When have I ever liked you?"

Cao Yucai didn't buy it and leisurely leaned back in the recliner drinking tea.

At this time, "A Servant of Two Masters" was still playing on TV.

The more Song Zu'e saw Guan Xiaotong on TV, the more he became dissatisfied.

You are not as good looking as me, nor as white as me, you just have longer legs, why are you more popular than me?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She came over and hugged Cao Yu's arm, blinking her big eyes cutely, and said aggrievedly, "Godfather, you liked me so much before, but now that you have Guan Xiaotong, you've fallen in love with someone else."

"What are you talking about? What's the matter with falling in love with someone else? Nonsense!"

Cao Yu was so angry at the little poem this girl said that he laughed at it. He even fell in love with someone else. Who of you two am I in love with?
Song Zu'e had no choice but to shake Cao Yu's arm and flatter him, "Godfather, since you haven't fallen in love with someone else, you should also arrange a hit drama for this good daughter."

At this time, Wang Xiaochen, who had returned to Yanjing early, came in with a plate of fruit.

"This is the little Nezha. He has grown so big now."

Wang Xiaochen put down the fruit plate with a smile, praised Song Zu'e first, and then said to Cao Yu: "Boss, the little girl said so, you should agree to her."

Cao Yu looked at the two of them and said, "Xiao Chen, let her play your daughter."

Wang Xiaochen was stunned: "My daughter? How old am I? How can I have a daughter this old?"

"Don't worry about that." Cao Yu said with a smile, "I promised last time to find you a drama to star in. Let's start filming this year."

Wang Xiaochen and Song Zue asked eagerly, "What drama? What's its name?"

"In "My Physical Education Teacher", I also partnered with Zhang Jiayi. Zu'e, you play Zhang Jiayi's daughter. Is this fair this time?"

"Godfather, I love you so much!"

Song Zue threw herself into Cao Yu's arms, hugged Cao Yu's head and kissed him.

(End of this chapter)