Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 465 Two Cartoon Production Teams

Through the tits, I watched Pablo and his cousin Gustavo start digging a hole in the grass on the hillside of the manor with two shovels.

I just didn’t expect that after digging and digging, I actually dug out the money I had buried before.

Pablo cursed and buried the soil back, chose a new place, and said to Gustavo while digging, "It seems that we must find a way to transport the money to Switzerland."

Gustavo shrugged, "Then you might as well spend money to buy a team and a TV station. If not, spend some money to relieve the poor in Medellin. Or expand the armed forces."

Pablo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "We already have more than 5 gunmen, and this group of men is enough for us to deal with potential enemies at this stage.

And instead of blindly expanding the number of gunmen, it is better to spend money on these 500 people.

One elite is often more useful than 10 courageous cowards.

Any further expansion would be a waste of money. "

Gustavo did not refute Pablo this time because Medellin had just risen and did not have many enemies.

Pablo is also smarter than ordinary flour merchants and knows how to share profits with other forces.

Many gangs in Medellin have cooperated with Pablo, using his channels with 5% of the profits to transport flour to the United States.

Even though 5% is high, anyone with any brains knows that their belongings cannot be shipped to the United States, and no matter how high the commission is, they still make a dime.

However, as some people grow in power, they will inevitably find ways to open up channels for shipment to the United States.

But Pablo is not worried about this at all. He has developed several years ahead of others. If he is surpassed by others, he may as well quit Medellin.

Of course, when necessary, Pablo would not be kind and would just unite with other forces to eliminate potential threats.

After listening to his cousin's words, Pablo thought about it and thought it was a good idea to buy a team, buy a TV station, and spend some money to relieve the poor in Medellin.

But Pablo never thought about taking out the money he had hidden.

If you want to buy a team or something, you naturally have to make more money.

"By the way, I asked you to find someone to investigate the Chicago Mafia. Are there any results?"

Gustavo shook his head, "I only know that Frank and Russell, the big boss behind him, recently got in touch with a force that specializes in bank business.

Only in this way can we continuously transport large amounts of money to Panama City within 20 days.

As for which force it is, even the leaders of the Chicago Mafia don't know.

My guess is that Frank and Russell handled this themselves. "

Pablo thought about it and knew that a force that could easily transfer millions of dollars across the country to Panama City would not be easy to detect.

And if you really keep checking, the other party might find you first.

That's when the gunman comes.

“Then have someone keep an eye on the Panama City Airport and have someone call us once Frank arrives in Panama City.

When the time comes, send someone to keep an eye on Frank, and you can always follow him and find the people from the bank. "

Gustavo nodded, knowing that Pablo had to take the risk because he wanted to drop the large sum of money hidden in Miami back to Medellin.

Medellin Group not only does wholesale, but also retails.

There is actually no security check when flying these days. In other words, security check only relies on people and dogs, not various instruments.

In terms of inspection, it naturally appears to be very relaxed.

Therefore, many flour merchants used young girls to hide flour in their clothes and take them to Miami by plane.

And Pablo did even more. Dozens of kilograms of flour could easily be included in various goods shipped to the United States.

Even if five are detected in one ship, the flour merchants will not lose money.

The profit of shipping flour to Miami is more than 10 times. If two out of 10 people arrive safely, this business will be profitable.

In the future, Medellin will also invent small planes that cross Central America and fly from Mexico to the United States at low altitude.

Then airdropped flour packages, turned around and flew back to Mexico, then refueled in El Salvador or Nicaragua, and then flew back to Medellin.

If you take Miami, the flight distance is shorter.

After the Americans spent billions of dollars to set up a large number of radar surveillance along the border.

People in Medellin simply spent hundreds of thousands or millions to buy a medium-sized transport plane, carry several tons of flour, and land on a road with good conditions.

Move the flour away and throw it away on the plane.

Of course, this was more than ten years later.

When this fails, Medellin will invent the ultimate method.

Build submarines.

In the past, it was difficult to transport goods directly to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Now that submarines are available, we can all reach them directly.

The amount of flour transported every year has suddenly increased from a few hundred tons to one or two thousand tons.

Billions and tens of billions of dollars flow to South America every year.

This forced the United States to seek cooperation with Colombia to combat flour damage. In the end, even F16 fighter jets were sent out to combat the Medellin Group.

Unfortunately, the effect has been very poor. In the final analysis, some people tipped Pablo off.

Even the Colombian branches of the U.S. Central Clearance Bureau and the Anti-Reading Bureau had people bribed.

Zhongqing Bureau even cooperated with flour growers in the rainforest to resell flour into the United States to make extra money.

Gustavo nodded and said to Pablo, "It's not difficult to keep an eye on Frank, but I'm worried that it will anger them. After all, Russell's status in the mafia is not low.

If he only wants to cause trouble for us or cooperate with our opponents, it will have a great impact on our business. "

Pablo shook his head, "Remember when Frank asked us to help him buy 10 tons of grain?"

Gustavo nodded, and then his eyes lit up, "You mean, that guy is doing some tricks without telling Russell?"

Pablo smiled and nodded, “I must be hiding it from Russell and making extra money myself, but this is a good thing for us.

As long as Frank has his own little thoughts, even if he finds our people staring at him, he will not immediately fall out.

When the time comes, the worst possible thing is to give him a discount.

But as long as you know the forces behind him and provide him with fund transfer services.

A little discount is nothing. "

Gustavo also understood this, and then thought about it, "I'm still worried that the people at the bank will misunderstand our actions.

Once a war breaks out, it will be detrimental to everyone.

Otherwise, we can simply send Frank a batch of goods, or we can give him a 8% discount on future purchases.

Ask him to introduce him directly, so that while we are staring at Frank, the bank behind him is also staring at him.

If one person is not good, the banker might eliminate our people, or even Frank. "

Pablo had to think seriously now. For the sake of safety, if he were a member of the bank, he would most likely kill all the insiders.

Anyway, there is no shortage of people in the world who want to clean up their funds, but there is a shortage of banks with the ability and means.

One less customer means less profit at most.And as long as he continues to cooperate with Russell, Russell will not go to war with the people of the bank just for the sake of a subordinate.

Not to mention money.

"Okay, this is the right thing to do." Pablo looked at his cousin, "Do what you want."

Gustavo nodded quickly, took the shovel and left.

Pablo cursed at Gustavo's back. This kid must be unwilling to dig a hole, so he ran so fast.

Of course, Pablo still has a very high degree of trust in his cousin, otherwise he would not have taken him to dig holes to hide money.

It's a pity that Frank wants to contact Ichiro Matsuno but doesn't know how to contact him.

I can only say perfunctorily that this matter needs to be tested and tested by the person in charge of the bank.

Moreover, even if the bank intends to cooperate with the Medellin Group, it will conduct an investigation in advance.

This cannot be accomplished in a month or two.

This actually made Gustavo feel that Frank was not perfunctory with him.
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When Chu Qianqian returned to the ranch in Los Angeles and continued to stare at Pablo through his tits to see if Pablo had a manor and a place to hide his money, the movie "Millie Girl" started filming in Hollywood earlier than "Roman Holiday".

As a producer, Chu Xiangqian naturally had to appear at the filming scene. Even Mike Hyndman was brought to the crew by him to give support to Wrinkle Huai, He Yaochang and more than a dozen behind-the-scenes staff from Hong Kong.

Chu Qianqian knew what happened to him and could not stay in the crew forever.

In the end, most of the crew's affairs will be handed over to Wrinkle Huai and He Guochang.

Three days after the filming started, Chu Xiangqian felt that there was no problem, and then he felt relieved and handed over the production supervision to Wrinkle Huai.

Then he went to Universal's general manager Mike Hellman and asked for a share of Snakehead's box office share for the second and third weeks.

Mike's head immediately got big. After the theater learned that there was also a Drunken Master starring Guo Zhenhua, they didn't deliberately delay the movie and refused to give them a share of the box office.

But even according to normal rules, it is usually one or two months.

Many of the films produced by small and medium-sized film companies have to be delayed for several months, or even a year and a half, after they are released, before they receive the money.

Chu Xiangqian wasn't surprised when the money didn't arrive. He came here on purpose just to show Mike that he didn't want to delay the payment.

Then I took out the Tom and Jerry script that I had drawn in my free time these days.

Mike was busy writing hundreds of scripts. When he opened them, he was immediately attracted by Jerry, the little mouse.

As I read through it, it seemed more like a comic strip than a script.

As long as you find someone to make cartoons based on this book, the first 10 episodes of Tom and Jerry can be produced in a month or two at most.

However, Chu Xiangqian did not plan to find a Hollywood cartoonist to produce the film. There was actually no shortage of talent on Hong Kong Island.

All they lacked was production experience. Upon hearing that Chu Xiangqian wanted to recruit a mature animation production team to Hong Kong Island.

Mike thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Anyway, Universal has not made any achievements in comics, and it has not focused on animated movies.

In this case, Mike is eager for someone to jump out and compete with Disney.

Mickey Mouse's status in Hollywood at this time is actually very embarrassing.

It is true to say that it is one of the top eight in Hollywood, but no matter how good the animated films are, they cannot be as influential as the live-action films.

In the next two to 30 years, Disney's presence in Hollywood will always be very low.

To put it bluntly, actors and most directors cannot profit from Disney, so they naturally ignore Disney.

Even when Disney's animated movie was released, it took away the audience from other live-action movies, and it was too late to hate Disney, and the devil stood up for them.

Moreover, the production period of an animated movie usually takes two or three years, which means that Disney actually releases very few movies every year.

This also forces Disney to focus on TV cartoons in the future.

Compared with animated films, TV cartoons can be produced and broadcast at the same time, and the quality requirements will be much lower.

And as more and more families have TV sets, although Disney's revenue is not as good as that of live-action movies, the revenue ratio is very stable.

Other major Hollywood companies have also tried to produce animated films, but they have never been able to shake Disney's position in the animation field.

Naturally, I hope someone will jump out and compete with Disney.

That's why Mike agreed to the matter of a mature animation production team.

Chu Qianqian turned around and left the matter to Wrinkle's arms.

I was thinking again that when I get back to the capital, I would like to try using the Magic City Cartoon Production Factory to produce a few episodes of Tom and Jerry.

If it's not bad, then Hong Kong Island and Magic City will be produced at the same time, so as not to draw it quickly before it is broadcast.

The classic version of Tom and Jerry alone, that is, the manuscript version, has 161+3 episodes.

The hundreds of episodes that followed were not as good-looking and interesting as the manuscript version. To put it bluntly, it was still due to cost.

But the cost of production in Shanghai and Hong Kong is definitely only a fraction, or even a tenth, of that in Hollywood.

An outstanding cartoonist in Hollywood can earn several hundred dollars a month, which is equivalent to one to two thousand Hong Kong dollars.

Including the animation production team, both wages and production costs will be higher than those of Hong Kong Island and China.

An episode costs tens of thousands of dollars at least.

And as time goes by, the salary will definitely get higher and higher, and maybe you will ask for the share.

If you can cooperate with the Magic City Cartoon Production Factory, you might be able to produce an episode for three to four thousand dollars.

Before production, you can also draw a comic script for Chu Qianqian to read. This can also avoid the appearance of a drastic change in the style of painting and deviation from the humorous theme.

After settling the matter in Hollywood, Chu Qianqian flew to New York and stayed with Margaret for three days, discussing the interior decoration of the private jet, and then sent her on a special plane to fly to London.

Then I bought my own ticket to return to Hong Kong Island.

First, I contacted Matsuno Ichiro and gave him 3 bottles at the price of 1 Hong Kong dollars per bottle.

This little trickster Matsuno was so happy that he couldn't even close his mouth with laughter.

He also knew in his heart that this was his reward for taking people to the United States to work for Chu Xiangqian.

Otherwise, Chu Xiangqian said before that the share of tiger bone wine given to the island country every year is likely to be only one or two thousand bottles.

But this time, plus the previous ones, there are already two thousand bottles.

He received US$75 from Ichiro Matsuno, which is 300 million Hong Kong dollars, and then gave Matsuno 1 boxes of deer glue.

Another $40.

The total price is US$115 million. Chu Xiangqian will try to collect as few pounds as possible in the future, lest the pound depreciates faster than the US dollar in the future and suffers a loss in the exchange rate.

Chu Xiangqian made a lot, and Matsuno Ichiro actually made a lot.

This batch of goods has a profit of more than 30% at least.

But he had to be very different from his father, Matsuno, and Ichiro Matsuno would naturally feel dissatisfied with his biological father.

Coupled with the money earned by following Chu Qianqian in the United States, Matsuno Ichiro felt more and more that only by following Chu Qianqian would he have a better future.

(End of this chapter)