The island in the middle of the lake is the most valuable part of Wenai Lake, and one of the reasons why Zhou Fangyuan contracted Wenai Lake is the island in the middle of the lake.

In order to transform the island in the middle of the lake, the Zhou family really made great efforts, specially slotted pipes, built a two-kilometer-long pipeline, and connected all the water and electrical circuits to the island.

In addition, we have held many consultations with the municipal garden department and determined the scope of development according to national regulations.

It is a piece of land of less than 500 square meters, and near the top of the mountain, there are no old trees around, and the soil is relatively firm, which is the most suitable part for renovation.

The transformation process is also troublesome, the tree cannot be cut down casually, and the whole plant needs to be transplanted. The land above needs to be leveled, and the sand and gravel in the soil need to be sorted out. And most of this muck has to be transported, and it can't all be piled up on the island.

There are some small boats available in the city, but they are all chargeable. When Zhou Fangyuan got the preliminary transformation plan and cost, he kept making mistakes. The initial renovation fee alone will cost several million yuan. If it is an ordinary family, I am afraid that I will not be able to come up with such a sum of money in my life.

Fortunately, the Zhou family is now wealthy, and this money can still be spent.

Millions were scattered like water, and the project progressed quickly, and all the preliminary renovations were completed before the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, a large number of building materials began to be transported to the island.

The government also has regulations regarding the buildings on the island.

It must be a building that meets the regulations, and in this regard, Zhou Fangyuan also specially asked someone to invite a designer from the capital to design and build a plan for the Zhou family's island in the middle of the lake.

The final architectural plan was released, and what was presented was a small antique building complex.

This small building complex, to put it bluntly, is a large courtyard house, there are three main buildings, one of which is a three-story tower-style building, two are ordinary auxiliary buildings, and the three buildings are next to each other, and it is okay to say that it is a one-piece building.

There are also many matching auxiliary buildings, and the overall design scheme gives people a strong sense of antiquity.

There will also be a small pier on the edge of the island, and the concrete structure is paved with antique bricks and decorated with white marble handrails to create the feeling of a broken bridge. There are 328 steps between the pier and the main building, and there are tall trees on both sides, and you can also plant some flowers and plants as decorations, but you have to say hello to the garden department when the time comes.

In short, this project is not simple, and it takes tens of millions to completely and completely take it down. Among them, the material cost is a small head, and the transportation cost and labor cost all need to spend a lot of money. There is also the additional compensation fee for renovation, which is charged by the city.

The Zhou family agreed to it, either if they didn't do it, or if they wanted to make it beautiful. If you have money, you still pick and choose, it's really a bit cheap.

And this thing can be used as one of the landscapes of Wenai Lake in the future, although it is a private residence, but from a distance, between the lush trees of the island in the middle of the lake, you can vaguely see an ancient building, that feeling is also quite good.

Of course, although the city has collected various fees, it is not without compensation policies.

For example, the municipal government has reduced the land tax a lot, which is better than nothing.

When the project began, Zhou's father was too busy to see anyone. After all, this is the most important project in the Zhou family at present, and it is impossible to be too careful.

Zhou Fangyuan also got Xiao Li's news after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, saying that Vivendi had preliminarily negotiated there, and the other party was willing to sell Blizzard at a price of $50 million, of course, this is not the whole content, in order to negotiate this price, Xiao Li also paid a lot of other costs.

I won't go into detail here, but in short, counting the other considerations, the acquisition of Blizzard Games will cost nearly $100 million.

This is a full 800 million yuan with the soft sister coin, which is really not a small number.

But when he thought of Blizzard's dominance in the online game industry in the future, Zhou Fangyuan felt that even if it was expensive, it was worth it.

However, the funds he has in hand are limited now, and the most he can take out is 200 million yuan in cash. How many companies in history that were originally very potential, but because they overdrew too much money, the capital chain was broken, and finally withdrew from the stage of history?

So Zhou Fangyuan thought about it, and finally decided to pick up the money in his hand and buy as many shares as possible. It can only be like this, and in this acquisition, Xiao Li is the main investor, and he himself is temporarily following the other party's ass to beat the autumn breeze, and the repurchase of shares is in the future, there is really no need to grit his teeth now and insist on taking more shares.

So on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Zhou Fangyuan took a plane to Hong Kong Island, and then took a plane from Hong Kong Island and flew directly to Paris.

To fly from Hong Kong Island to Paris, even if it is a plane, it takes more than ten hours, and this time is a bit difficult for Zhou Fangyuan. His fear of heights has indeed slowed down a lot, but the flight of more than ten hours still makes him a little unbearable.

When the plane finally landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Zhou Fangyuan's legs were so weak that he couldn't walk. Xiao Li, who was traveling with him, was no better, only a little stronger than Zhou Fangyuan.

Walking out of the airport, Vivendi's pick-up staff had already arrived, a man and a woman.

The man is tall, the woman is beautiful, and they are all blonde and blue-eyed, Zhou Fangyuan's eyes subconsciously looked at the headlights of the Yanmar. Fortunately, he still knows what face is, so he didn't dare to keep staring at each other, he probably retracted his gaze after a few glances, and then got into the car with Xiao Li, and under the leadership of the driver, came to the hotel that Vivendi had specially booked for them.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Zhou Fangyuan and Xiao Li had breakfast, and Vivendi's car was already waiting outside the hotel. They got back into the car, and after more than half an hour, the two were in Vivendi's headquarters.

I have to say that Vivendi, as one of the world's top 500 companies, is really rich.

The headquarters is an office building with dozens of floors, and this entire building is the headquarters of Vivendi, which is a world of difference compared to Zhou Fangyuan's way of renting two floors.

Of course, Vivendi is the sky, and Zhou Fangyuan is the soil.

However, while he was amazed that the other party was rich, he did not feel discouraged, after all, he had only been reborn for less than a year and a half, and it was already very good to have today's achievements. And how many years has the other party been developing, if you don't even have this bit of style, then you will really be blind to such a top 500 name.

In charge of receiving Zhou Fangyuan, a vice president of Vivendi, in charge of the game entertainment business. What is it called Zhou Fangyuan didn't know, the other party was in French all the way, let alone him, even Xiao Li couldn't understand it.

Fortunately, Xiao Li brought a translator, who mastered the languages of English, French and Germany, and could basically pass through the whole of Europe.

The initial negotiations have been negotiated for a long time, and there are two main things today, one is to meet with the main personnel of Blizzard, Blizzard's headquarters is still in the United States, but the main personnel have already made a plane and came to Paris two days ago.

There is also the signing of the share transfer agreement, Vivendi owns all the shares of Blizzard, so the transfer agreement is a very simple matter for Vivendi.

The meeting with Blizzard's main personnel was also done in this conference room, and this time Blizzard led the team by Mike Mohuaimi, a young man with short hair and a good smile. He is one of the founders of Blizzard and is currently responsible for the company's operations. Traveling with him, there is also a fat man named Bill Roper, Zhou Fangyuan knows this person, this person is one of the Big Four of Northern Blizzard, and one of the executives who left Blizzard in 03.

The identities and status of these two people are enough to represent Blizzard.

When the two walked into the conference room, Zhou Fangyuan and Xiao Li stood up and shook hands with each other. However, it can be seen that these two people are not in a good mood. But it's right to think about it, as a senior management of the company, watching your company being sold back and forth as goods is a normal business dealing, but no one is in a good mood.

Zhou Fangyuan can understand their feelings, if his company is sold back and forth like this, his mood will not be too good. But he knows that this bad mood won't last long, and at the end of the day, these people are people who are focused on games and love games, and such people will only be happy that their games are popular, and they will only feel sad that their games are not popular.

This is concentration, and only such people can achieve real success.

Needless to say at the signing ceremony, Xiao Li invested 200 million yuan in soft sister coins, as well as shares in some other companies, and Zhou Fangyuan also invested 200 million yuan in soft sister coins to jointly buy all the shares of Blizzard.

When the contract was signed and the two sides exchanged agreements, Zhou Fangyuan felt like a big stone had fallen heavily, although the money in his hand was almost spent, but to be able to harvest a Blizzard, this price was completely worth it.

After signing the agreement, Zhou Fangyuan's affairs in Paris were all done.

In the following days, he and Xiao Li walked around Paris, as one of the important cities in the Western world, Paris has many cultural relics and monuments, which are worth visiting. And Paris also has every name of the romantic capital, and it is not easy to come once, and it is too much to say not to have a good time.

Mike: The others had already returned to the United States, but before they left, several of them met individually.

Zhou Fangyuan said that he didn't need Blizzard to relocate, just in the United States. However, he hopes that after Mike and the others go back, they will be ready to develop a new version of Battle.net, and since Blizzard has been taken down by him, the first thing he has to do is, of course, to relocate Battle.net to China.

The trend of copycats in China is serious, and now Internet cafes are full of pirated games, among which Blizzard's games are the most famous, and Dark, Warcraft and Interstellar have a large audience. It's just that these people can only play LAN, or network on a few gaming platforms, which are not professional enough, and they themselves use pirated games.

Therefore, Zhou Fangyuan wants to take out the genuine version of Battle.net, first fight a wave of piracy in the market, and then launch genuine games by the trend, and lay a solid foundation for the future game market.