1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 444 You are a major exporter

Huo Siqi took a long breath, exhaled the burning sensation in his chest, and then said, "Are you going to make such a big deal? This is not your character."

In Huo Siqi's impression, Zhou Yan is a relatively stable person.

Take the filming of TV series for example. If it were based on Huo Siqi's personality, their Qizi Company would have started filming at least four or five TV series by now. After all, they have so much money in the account, and they would feel uncomfortable if they didn't spend it.

Huo Siqi believes that money is money only when it is spent, and just numbers if it is not spent.

But Zhou Yan has been suppressing it, and so far, they have only filmed one movie, "Tai Chi Master".

This speed really made Huo Siqi a little anxious.

If they continue at this pace, when will they be able to become the leader in the domestic TV drama industry?

If Huo Siqi hadn't thought that Zhou Yan had a good sense for the film and television industry, he would have quit long ago.

Now, Zhou Yan has changed his style and directly asked for 50 million to invest in a movie.

Because of Zhou Yan, Huo Siqi also had some understanding of the movie "Titanic", but he only knew that the movie had a large investment and the director was famous, but he didn't know the details.

Being stared at by Huo Siqi, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Because I think this is a good opportunity. The crew of Titanic has indeed encountered some troubles recently, but I think there will be no problem with the revenue of this movie."

If someone else had mentioned this, Huo Siqi would not have even thought about it and would definitely not agree, but Zhou Yan was different.

Putting aside their relationship, Zhou Yan has always been proving his vision in the film and television industry.

Up to now, Zhou Yan has never lost money... It's not as simple as saying that he has never lost money. All the projects that Zhou Yan has handled have made huge profits.

Huo Siqi did not respond immediately. Instead, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of braised beef from the table. However, he did not put it into his mouth, but put it into the bowl.

After a moment, he asked, "Is it possible to replicate the success of The Sixth Sense?"

Zhou Yan and his team made a lot of money from investing in "The Sixth Sense", but Huo Siqi was jealous.

"I can only say that there is such a possibility, but I can't say that it is 100% certain when it comes to investment."

Zhou Yan also gave Huo Siqi a shot of prevention in advance to prevent him from losing money later and affecting their friendship.

Let’s explain the situation now. If we lose money, everyone will admit it.

"Of course I know this truth. Nothing in the world is 100% certain." Huo Siqi clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Let's do it. As long as we keep some of the money in our account so that it doesn't affect the normal operation of the company, you can take the rest. At worst, we can start over again."

Huo Siqi is not stupid. Although the investment this time is huge, they are making money very quickly. As long as they are closely tied to the Zhou family, there is no need to worry about not having ways to make money.

Besides, they only used the money they had already earned and had not borrowed money to leverage. Even if they failed this time, it would be much better than before.

In fact, the Zhou brothers already respected him very much. When they decided to start a company together, he was only prepared to take 30% of the shares, but Zhou Hong and his friends insisted on giving him 35% of the shares.

This 5% stake may not seem like a lot, but it is very critical.

If a shareholder of a company wants to have absolute decision-making power, he needs more than 67% of the shares.

If Huo Siqi only has 30% of the shares in Qizi Company and the Zhou brothers have 70% of the shares, then the Zhou brothers do not need his consent for any decision.

Now that he owns 35% of the shares, this situation has been eliminated. The Zhou brothers can no longer make direct decisions on whatever they want to do.

Of course, it is precisely because of the 35% stake that Huo Siqi is so devoted to Qizi.

If Huo Siqi hadn't used his connections to win a bunch of big clients for the company, how could they have gotten so much cash in such a short period of time?

"Qizi must leave some money. I think there should be no problem leaving 10 million."

"There will definitely be no problem keeping 10 million. You know, when we founded Qizhi, we only had a little over 1 million in total."

To be precise, it was 1.12 million. The bulk of the 1 million was paid by Zhou Hong, 100,000 was paid by Zhou Yan, and 20,000 was paid by Huo Siqi.

In fact, even if Qizi Company did not keep a penny, there should be no problem. After all, the company still has a lot of bills to settle, and some short-term accounts are enough to maintain the normal operation of Qizi.

Qizi Company's daily expenses are very small. The biggest expense is the rent of the office space, and they have already paid the rent for the next year.

The company doesn't employ many people, and most of them don't earn high salaries.

Because most of their company's work is outsourced to Dong Wenmiao Studio, and Dong Wenmiao Studio is now independent of Qizi, most of the designer's fees are borne by Dong Wenmiao himself.

To put it bluntly, Qizi is just a shell company and most of its work is as a broker.

"Then let's make this a deal. I'll talk to my brother about it later."

"You haven't told your brother yet?" Huo Siqi was very surprised, but then he smiled and said, "That's right, if you tell the second brother about this first, I'm afraid I won't get a share."

When saying this, Huo Siqi still felt a little resentful.

At that time, when investing in "The Sixth Sense", Zhou Yan also thought about letting Qizi participate, but Zhou Hong stopped it.

Zhou Hong’s idea was simple. After all, four million US dollars was not a small amount, and Qizi Company did not have much cash at the time, so there was no need to bring Huo Siqi in.

"My brother was also worried that the risk was too high and you would lose money." Zhou Yan also explained for his brother.

"Of course I understand this. How could I not understand Lao Er?"

Huo Siqi certainly understood Zhou Hong, but he must have felt very regretful for not getting on the bus with such a good opportunity.

This time Zhou Yan came to him, and he was so decisive, and also because he wanted to make up for his regrets.

Zhou Yan raised his glass and clinked it with Huo Siqi's. He then said, "Actually, the investment has not been finalized yet. Fox has not confirmed that it will accept our investment. I just want to finalize the money first so that we don't have any uncertainty when we negotiate the details later."

"Don't worry, there will be no problem on my side. However, the money in our account is not enough for 50 million US dollars."

"That doesn't matter. I can still come up with about 10 million US dollars on hand."

"Then the total is more than 30 million US dollars, and there are more than 10 million US dollars left. Do you want to get it from Zhou Entertainment?"

"Well, Zhou Entertainment made a lot of money from investing in The Sixth Sense. Although there is still a lot that has not been received, we can still take out more than 10 million US dollars."

Zhou Entertainment already had a lot of funds. When they invested in "The Sixth Sense", they directly put out 4 million US dollars as capital. Later, they received a lot of money, so they were definitely able to come up with more than 10 million US dollars.

Huo Siqi nodded, "Next, we need to think about how to get the money out."

"Don't worry. I predict that this matter will be discussed until at least the end of the year. We have enough time to operate. Zhou Entertainment already has more than 10 million yuan outside, so there is no need to cash it out." "Well, actually the second brother knows more about these things. He often operates these."

"Is it?"

"Of course. Last year, your Zhou family's total foreign trade volume accounted for about 0.2% of the country's total, and you earned a lot of foreign exchange."

"What?" Zhou Yan opened his mouth wide, a look of disbelief.

Seeing Zhou Yan's expression, Huo Siqi laughed, "Don't you know all this? Otherwise, why do you think the second brother doesn't think much of Qizi's business? Because compared to the overall business of your Zhou family, Qizi's scale is not enough."

"Is it really two thousandths, not two ten thousandths?"

"It's 0.2%, because your Zhou family started foreign trade very early, and our country's total foreign trade volume itself is not particularly high. Before this year, the pace of domestic foreign trade development was relatively slow. Last year, our country's total foreign trade volume was over 1.2 trillion yuan, and your Zhou family's total foreign trade volume was over 2 billion yuan."

At this point, Huo Siqi picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth, chewing it while saying, "Domestic foreign trade developed slowly in the past few years, and your Zhou family started early, so the proportion is still okay. But it may not be such a proportion in the future, because the country has been vigorously developing foreign trade in recent years, and the export data in the next few years will definitely be much higher."

Generally speaking, the economy is driven by three major drivers: investment, consumption and exports. China's economic development in recent years has mainly relied on investment.

Especially since the early 93s, the domestic economy has developed rapidly relying on investment, and by the growth rate reached more than percent.

Of the three major drivers, only export is left, and the country must find a way to increase exports.

Fortunately, because of the huge investment made before and many factories built, we have the basic conditions for exporting goods.

Because domestic demand is too weak, there is a certain degree of overcapacity, and this excess capacity must be exported in exchange for money.

However, Zhou Yan knew that China's export data would probably not show significant growth in the next few years because the financial crisis was about to come.

By then, no one will have money. Who will buy Chinese products?

The development of China's exports will probably only take off after it joins the WTO.

Zhou Yan just didn't expect that their family's exports would be so huge, with an annual export volume of more than 2 billion. He just didn't know how much profit this 2 billion export volume could bring.

No wonder when he wanted to invest in "The Sixth Sense" before, his second brother took out four million US dollars without blinking an eye.

This time, Zhou Hong might still be able to come up with the 50 million US dollars without any effort.

However, Zhou Yan thought that Huo Siqi should be brought along for this matter. After all, Huo Siqi had extensive connections in Yanjing, and he might need his help with many things in the future.

Since the matter was settled, Zhou Yan didn't say anything more and started drinking with Huo Siqi again.

However, both of them were relatively restrained in drinking, and after finishing the first bottle of wine, they didn't open another one.

For both of them, drinking half a pound is just right, making them feel a little tipsy but not uncomfortable.

If they open another bottle and each person drinks one pound, Zhou Yan will probably pass out.

The Dongjiu that Huo Siqi brought today is quite strong.

After drinking, the two of them sat on the sofa and chatted with a cup of tea each.

Huo Siqi suggested, "How about we call the second brother now and tell him about it?"

Zhou Yan thought about it and nodded, "Okay."

Then he picked up the phone next to him and called Zhou Hong.

The phone number I dialed was Zhou Hong's office number. After a few rings, someone answered. It was a girl's voice.

"Which one?"

Zhou Yan recognized the other person's voice immediately, "Are you Assistant Li?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, "Who are you?"

"I'm Zhou Yan."

"Oh, you must be Mr. Zhou's younger brother. He went to the bathroom and will be back soon. Don't hang up the phone and wait a moment." Li Qiu's voice became noticeably enthusiastic.

A gossipy smile appeared on Zhou Yan's face.

Once before, he called Zhou Hong's residence and it was Li Qiu who answered the phone. At that time, Zhou Yan even teased Zhou Hong for bringing his assistant home.

But at that time Zhou Yan was just joking and didn't take it seriously.

But now it seems that things are not that simple.

Zhou Hong has not changed his assistant for several years. The key point is that he did not see this female assistant when he went to Pengcheng before.

If she was really a female assistant, how come I didn’t see her the last time I went to the company?

Huo Siqi also noticed the expression on Zhou Yan's face and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, "Nothing, my brother went to the bathroom and will be back soon, let's wait for a while."

"Oh."

Li Qiu on the other side said, "Zhou Yan, I heard from your brother that you recently won a big prize. Congratulations."

Zhou Yan curled his lips, and his speculation in his heart became deeper.

Why would Zhou Hong tell her about this? This is not Zhou Hong's character.

Moreover, it is not reasonable for Li Qiu to directly call him Zhou Yan. Generally speaking, employees either call him Mr. Zhou or Teacher Zhou, and basically no one calls him by his name.

This Li Qiu might really be his second sister-in-law.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yan coughed lightly and said with a smile, "Sister Qiu, how are you doing recently? Come to Yanjing with my brother when you have time.

Being called Sister Qiu by Zhou Yan, Li Qiu was a little confused. She sighed and said, "I want to go out and play, but Zhou Hong is too busy."

Zhou Yan couldn't suppress the smile on his face any longer. Li Qiu didn't even call him Mr. Zhou, but called him Zhou Hong directly. No one would believe that there was nothing going on between the two of them.

(End of this chapter)