Chapter 24 Planning Before the Oil Crisis
The time came in May, and Li Ping'an's latest music album was also recorded. This time, Li Ping'an recorded a total of eight songs, namely "Right He".
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Once the album was released, it can be said that it shocked the world music scene again, and eight songs squeezed into the top ten in most music charts in Europe and the United States, especially in the United States, these eight songs completely dominated the top eight on the Billboard, creating an unprecedented miracle. Due to Polygram's full operation, the album eventually sold 45 million copies, and it also completely confirmed Li Ping'an's status as a music master.
Entering June, when the album was still selling well, Bantam Books launched two new books, "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" and "Red Dragon", which were newly "created" by Li Ping'an. Taking advantage of the popularity of the music album and Li Ping'an's reputation in the past, these two books sold 12 million copies in just one month.
The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series was later called another fantasy masterpiece after "The Lord of the Rings", and it is "the 'anti-traditional vanguard' of fantasy literature", it is not a fictional fantasy novel in the full sense, but a realistic world with realistic significance. Among them, the fantasy elements of court struggles, battlefield battles, travel adventures and magical confrontations are fascinating, and such a huge fictional "alternate world" must rely on the embedding of realistic factors in order to make readers feel the real existence of this "second world", which also makes this fantasy novel have its practical significance. In his previous life, Li Ping'an was a fan of "A Song of Ice and Fire", and in order to chase this drama, he only charged the website for three months with a membership fee.
As for "Red Dragon", to be honest, Li Ping'an is just to occupy the film and television copyright, of course, it is undeniable that this is a classic thriller novel, but Li Ping'an when he opened a bookstore in his previous life was purely a three-nothing and timid dick, although because of his habit of collecting classic entertainment works, he collected a large number of classic thriller movies and novels, but he didn't finish reading these works until he left the earth with the Taoist master and wandered on the earth, and the mentality at that time was to leave no regrets and hope to find a way to escape from these works.
All the media are becoming more and more enthusiastic about Li Ping'an, but unfortunately they can't force Li Ping'an to come out for an interview, only some tabloids report some speculative gossip out of nothing.
Li Ping'an, who was already accustomed to staying at home, rarely took the initiative to come to Zhuque Terrace, and at this time, Fang Menghua happened to finish afternoon tea with several leaders in the stage. Because there are very few people who have seen Li Ping'an, and there are no positive photos of Li Ping'an in the outside world, he was not recognized until he walked into Fang Menghua's office.
"I'm not at home with your beautiful young ladies! It's the first time you've taken the initiative to come to the station to see your mother!" Fang Menghua teased while pouring Li Ping'an a cup of coffee.
Li Ping'an prefers to drink tea most of the time, and coffee is not annoying but does not drink it often. Rolling his eyes helplessly, Li Ping'an took the coffee, "Your son and I are not yet adults!"
Fang Menghua looked at his son, who was already close to 1.75 meters tall, with some amusement, "If it were put twenty years ago, a person of your age should have children." What's the matter with my mom this time?"
Li Ping'an felt that his mother's double standard was very powerful, and whenever his father Shao Yifu had an ambiguous affair with a woman, his mother Fang Menghua would ignore Shao Yifu for several days, not because he was jealous, but because he had a more sense of presence in front of Shao Yifu. But in other words, since having Fang Menghua, who is both his confidante and a competitor, Shao Yifu has rarely been involved with other women recently.
"Mom, from now on, you help me raise cash, except for Bantam Books Publishing Group, American Dream Factories and Xiangjiang Comic Weekly, the rest of the shares including Polygram will be taken out of the bank loan, and then you will help me find someone, this person is called Cao Zhiming, who has just founded the "Hong Kong Economic Journal" with Lin Shanmu. ”
Fang Menghua almost knocked over the coffee cup in his hand, "Son, just Polygram's shares are worth 200 million US dollars, what do you want so much cash for?"
Li Ping'an did not elaborate with his mother, "It is not convenient to talk about it in the specific company, in short, after you come back in the evening, our mother and son will plan in detail." ”
In the evening, after Fang Menghua returned to the villa and had dinner with Li Ping'an, the mother and son closed the door of the study and began to negotiate.
Li Ping'an began to make tea for his mother Fang Menghua according to the usual practice, "Mom, you should have noticed that the recent Xiangjiang stock market is a little weird! A world-class stock market crash may be coming."
Although Fang Menghua trusts his son Li Ping'an very much, he is still a little worried, after all, once they make a mistake this time, their mother and son will be broken, "Are you sure this time?"
Li Ping'an brought the hot tea to his mother, "I should be eight points sure this time, but I need some professionals, this time you need to open a few accounts for me in a Swiss bank, I don't want to be targeted by those top families in Europe and the United States, and this matter must be secret, even on my father's side, after all, he still needs a big family on his side, and there will be extraneous branches." ”
Fang Menghua drank half a cup of tea in one go, and sighed deeply, "Okay!
Li Ping'an met Cao Zhiming the next day, Cao Zhiming at this time has not yet made a career, and he is not the god of the Xiangjiang River in the future. It's already mid-August, and the weather is still very hot, although the air conditioner in the living room is on, Cao Zhiming still feels that his back is wet, and Li Ping'an's aura sitting in front of him is too big.
"Don't be nervous, what I'm looking for you to do this time is very simple!" Li Ping'an tried his best to appease the young man in front of him, the reason why he found Cao Zhiming was because this person's evaluation in the future generations was still good, and he also knew how to advance and retreat. People who engage in finance are relatively dark, and Li Ping'an is not like being pitted.
"You said something, as long as I can do it, I will definitely satisfy you, Mr. Li!" Only those who know how to seize the opportunity can succeed, and Cao Zhiming has made up his mind to seize this rare opportunity.
"I'm looking for you this time and hope that you can do it for me, and I will inform you when the time comes, there is a million Hong Kong dollars in the leather bag on the table, and you take this million Hong Kong dollars to hire ten traders, with you as the core, and I will give you a notice when the time comes. Li Ping'an did not inform Cao Zhiming of the specific time and goal, and he tried to be foolproof.
Cao Zhiming didn't ask much, but resolutely stated, "I will definitely live up to you, and I will do my best to do things well!"
After sending Cao Zhiming away, Li Ping'an met with some other financial people one after another, this time the impact will be great, Li Ping'an is ready to minimize the risk as much as possible, and at the same time he will not put his eggs in one basket.