Age of Dreams

The original theater line had 5,010 movie screens. According to legend, Paul Allen was sold to Xiao Qi for 2 billion US dollars.

At present, there are only 2,000 movie screens in the Aldern Cinemas. If the price is calculated by comparison, it will not exceed 900 million US dollars at most.

But the price cannot be calculated like that.

Everyone in the industry knows that the price Paul Allen sold to Xiao Qi was only a symbolic $1. Could it be possible that the Aldern Cinemas could be sold for $0.5?

And it was Paul Allen who asked Xiao Qi at the time. He wanted to buy it, so he lowered the price to Xiao Qi.

Now it is different. Now it is Xiao Qi who begs Taifeng Capital to buy the Aldern Cinemas, so the price should go up a bit.

"We haven't made a decision on the specific sale or not, but we can have a preliminary negotiation." Robbie said, "I will bring this sincerity back to the executives to discuss, as long as most people think it's okay, then The transaction can be successful. Otherwise, it can only be said to be sorry."

"It doesn't matter, the business is not righteous, we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future." Li Dachao pretended to be generous.

He wouldn’t tell Robbie that his father Li Chaoren had told him that although it’s important to make good friends with Xiao Qi, it’s even more important to maintain a close friendship with Xiao Qi. So in the first round of helping Xiao Qi with errands, he must be Do it beautifully.

There are still some things that Li Chaoren didn't say to his son, but Li Dachao understood in his heart.

If it waits ten or eight years for Li Chaoren to leave, and after he separates from his younger brother, if the relationship between himself and Xiao Qi is not salty, then even if the person inheriting most of the Li family’s property is himself, I’m afraid one day sooner or later. The name of Hong Kong's richest man will fall on his younger brother.

Then people will have something to say.

"Look at Li Dachao. In vain, he inherited Li Chaoren's 28 billion US dollars, plus his own billions of dollars, but was defeated by his almost self-made brother. What a waste!"

"So, the predecessors planted trees and the descendants took advantage of the shade. It is not necessarily good. Look at Li Xiaochao, who is struggling, and Li Dachao, who is relying on his father, the gap will immediately come out!"

"..."

Things like that are definitely ugly.

Li Dachao usually appears in people's sight with a dull image, but it does not mean that he is dull, on the contrary, he is very smart.

So Li Chaoren asked him to do the things Xiao Qi entrusted, and he also knew that this was the best way to win a relationship with Xiao Qi.

You help me, I help you, come and go. Isn’t it familiar?

Of course, what Li Dachao said now is purely a negotiation strategy. At the beginning, he expressed his attitude, and now he explained that he would not let him slaughter him. This intermediate degree must be thoroughly mastered in order to be in the negotiation. Advantage.

Robbie is not a newbie either. He was not surprised by Li Dachao's reaction.

"Mr. Xiao Qi is very optimistic about the Aldern Cinemas. We feel proud, because everyone knows that as long as Mr. Xiao Qi sees things, the price will be doubled in the future." Robbie said, "So, If Mr. Li, you don’t offer a price that appeals to us, I am afraid this business will be difficult to negotiate."

"Mr. Robbie, you are wrong about this." Li Dachao said: "If Xiao Qi bought the company himself, it must be extremely worthwhile. But this is different. This is a gift Xiao Qi gave to his confidante. Just like the movie theaters in Huaguo, you will know that these movie theaters are still huge losses in general? Starting from the establishment of the kiwi movie theaters line. Xiao Qi fills in hundreds of millions of dollars every year. This kind of business, if It was Xiao Qi who made it himself, and he had sold it a long time ago."

Robbie nodded.

The purpose of Li Dachao's appointment with him for negotiation was of course stated at the beginning, so he had learned a lot about the Kiwi Film Group before he came, and knew that Li Dachao did not lie at all, and indeed the theaters have been losing money.

But he couldn’t agree with Li Dachao’s words, "What you said happened to prove that Mr. Xiao Qi is far ahead. Think about it, if this movie theater line doesn’t make money, he will give it to his own woman? He will be there. After the establishment of the domestic theater chain, I went to buy the theater circuit, and then came to buy the Odern theater circuit? It is not such a squandering if you have money? If you net some loss-making business to your own woman, don't you be afraid of her Unhappy?"

Li Dachao immediately raised his mind to beware.

Sure enough, it was an old fox, who simply pointed to his heart.

In fact, Li Dachao himself thought so too, but he couldn't figure out why Xiao Qi was so optimistic about the future of the film market.

Because the input and output are simply not proportional.

Thoughts flashed, Li Dachao smiled, “This is Xiao Qi’s private matter, we don’t need to talk about it for the time being. Regarding the situation of Odern’s theater line, we also did some investigation and evaluation before. According to its country and city And the surrounding environment, we feel that the offer of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars to Aldern Cinemas is very sincere."

While speaking, he put a piece of information in front of Robbie.

In investigating the situation of the Aldern Theater and the Weiyou Theater, Li Dachao spent more than 7 million US dollars, but he also obtained the most detailed data.

The think tank originally thought that giving 810 million US dollars was the right price, but considering that this time he was asking someone to sell him, Li Dachao himself decided to increase his offer by almost 50%.

Robbie was taken aback for a while, picked up the information and looked at it for a while, then slowly nodded, "I think this offer reflects Mr. Xiao Qi's sincerity. But we have to go back and discuss the details. "

This is indeed the case. Robbie knows the situation and annual revenue of the Aldern Cinemas basically. He feels that Xiao Qi's 1 billion offer is very shameful. He didn't expect it to be 1.2 billion US dollars.

Taking into account the revenue of Aldern Cinemas in recent years, which is basically a super meager profit of about 5%, Robbie believes that if it can appropriately increase another one or two billion US dollars, it is not impossible to sell it.

Li Dachao breathed a sigh of relief, and as Robbie stood up, shook hands and said: "We look forward to good news from Mr. Robbie."

...

Li Dachao deserves to be the son of workaholic Li Chaoren. In just an hour, he went to a large golf course in the suburbs of London to play golf with the Duke of Saatchi.

Duke Saatchi is 73 this year, but he is still very strong, speaks very clearly, and is full of energy.

After the fight, Li Dachao was already exhausted and sweating profusely, but Duke Saatchi gave a simple wash, still looking full of vitality.

"Mr. Duke, you are the best at this age I have ever seen." Li Dachao sipped his coffee and exclaimed sincerely.

"Hehe, I'm old. If I'm ten years younger, I still have to swim 1,000 meters a day. Now I can only swim 200 meters. They are afraid that I will be injured." Duke Saatchi smiled and said, "Mr. Li, can see Come out, you rarely exercise, right? Mr. Xiao Qi is much better than you at this point."

"Oh, have you met Xiao Qi?" Li Dachao was taken aback, "but I didn't listen to him."

"That was the first two years. Mr. Xiao Qi went to a dinner prepared by Motorola in New York. I saw him at that time, but there were so many people at the time and he didn't know me." Duke Saatchi sighed, "At that time I wonder why emerging talents such as Amazon, Oracle, and Green Pine Capital are eager to join Mr. Xiao Qi. At that time, Mr. Xiao Qi’s fairy company was relatively well-known, but it was far less than it is now. And I’m mainly based on the real economy, so I didn’t join in the fun. Thinking about it now, I’m really too conservative! If I rushed in and got some shares of Dreampad, where would I get Branson’s turn today? Kind of proud of the little guy?"

"Haha." Li Dachao smiled. Today is not the first time he has heard others sigh like this.

People who want to come to the British to do business are still very conservative, so they often miss opportunities in emerging industries such as the Internet, and Xiao Qi’s Fairy Company is the same.

"I already know your purpose." Duke Saatchi said, "The Weiyou Cinema is a gadget I made when I was young, and it's not really how to make money. If Mr. Xiao Qi wants it, I will sell it for $600 million. Give him, I also make some money from the world's richest man!"

"what!?"

Li Dachao was horrified. He did not expect the negotiation to be so smooth this time.

Didn’t Duke Saatchi be the most rigid?

Why is it so easy to talk?

Although the price of 600 million US dollars is not cheap, it is more than 10% cheaper than the first offer to Taifeng Capital!

"Of course, don't be too busy to be happy, I have a request." Duke Saatchi laughed.

I knew it!

Li Dachao nodded, "You said, as long as it is a matter of money, you don't have to worry, Xiao Qi is willing to make more friends."

"Is my old man someone who is short of money?" Duke Saatchi glared at him~www.readwn.com~ I am not short of money! It is said that 600 million is 600 million! "

Of course he is not short of money. In fact, the richest man in Britain is a bit worse than the two families in India, but he is not an authentic British person.

Li Dachao asked, "Then what is your request?"

He has now noticed the word "request".

Usually this meant that he asked Xiao Qi to do things.

Then it would be easier to handle it. Not only did it smoothly buy the Weiyu Cinemas, but it also made this old man who has a strong influence in both political and business circles in the UK owe Xiao Qi a favor, which is more important than money. .

Oh, I forgot to say that Duke Saatchi is also one of the shareholders of Taifeng Capital.

"Haha, it's nothing, you can ask Xiao Qi to call me, the phone says it's more convenient." Duke Saqi smiled and showed his yellow teeth, with a cunning look. (To be continued...)