Chapter 260: Feeding the Tiger with Your Body
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Zhang Ruiming's silence didn't seem to be out of Wu Kaiming's expectations, he leaned close to Zhang Ruiming's ear and said: "What I'm talking about is not a dangerous thing, you just need to take the initiative to approach Fang Xiaoruan in the name of your father, and mention that the company under your father's name also wants to invest in the issuance of "Yongle Dynasty"...... I believe that because of the impact of this recent series of big storms...... He will definitely give you a good price, and at the same time, he will also reveal the inside story of these capital operations to you......"
Zhang Ruiming's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered the pile of contract evidence that Wang Baoyi hid in him, which involved many mergers and acquisitions, transfers, and share transactions, plus there were many transactions between affiliated companies, and although Zhang Ruiming had legal knowledge, he didn't know the unspoken rules of these industries, and even if there was no evidence in front of him, he couldn't understand the doorway inside at all, and at this time, he listened to the meaning of Wu Kaiming's words- As long as he is willing to give a bait, Fang Xiaoruan will honestly reveal these unspoken rules and trading insiders to himself, which is equivalent to him personally interpreting these evidence!?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruiming's heart was shocked, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find out the shady scenes in the film and television industry, otherwise even if the bag of contracts is placed in front of him, he will not be able to interpret and analyze it.
But...... Can you still trust the "former master" in front of you?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruiming glanced at Wu Kaiming, "Are you instigating a crime?"
As long as you don't really commit the crime yourself, as long as the principal offender does not constitute it, of course my so-called "instigator" does not constitute it......
Zhang Ruiming was not interested in playing tricks with him, so he changed his direction and asked, "How can you be sure that he will accept me so easily, who was still with Wang Baoyi a few days ago?
Wu Kaiming looked at Zhang Ruiming, and after half a sound, he said in an inaudible voice: "...... In fact, Fang Xiaoruan and Feng Binbin wanted to directly give Wang Baoyi one or two hundred million hush money, but Wang Baoyi did not agree. Think about it, how much money are they willing to give to you who hold Wang Baoyi's pile of key evidence in your hand? Let me tell you, as long as you say it, they are willing to directly give you dry shares and cash! But since you think I have some ulterior motives, no matter how I explain it, you won't believe it, then I will not say my own purpose at all, I only use actions to express my position, you think about what I said to you at the auction before, think about what I said to you now-I have already revealed all the truth to you! I also taught you how to discover the true colors of these people, so whatever my purpose is, what I do will still help you, right?"
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Ruiming looked at Wu Kaiming, the tall, elegant barrister had a mysterious look on his face, at this moment his eyes were clear, and he looked at himself honestly, what he said was indeed right, no matter what Wu Kaiming came for, but what he did at the moment has helped himself to a large extent, rather than leaving now, it is really better to listen to him, to test Fang Xiaoruan, and really see this circle.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruiming nodded and agreed to Wu Kaiming's proposal.
"That's good, I'll take you over directly, saying that you are interested in cooperating with them and opening the ......scene for you," Wu Kaiming said while preparing to take Zhang Ruiming to the banquet center, he took two steps, but found that there was no one behind him, and when he looked back, Zhang Ruiming was still standing in place, staring in one direction for a long time, he turned around, and before he could speak, Zhang Ruiming asked him a strange question.
“…… You said before that Fang Xiaoruan even invited a reporter from the Voice of the Times, what's going on......? I have dealt with a little bit before, I know that she is not the kind of person who can be easily bought, and that reporter also hates these shady scenes in the film and television industry, so why did she attend this Fang Xiaoruan's friend gathering today......"
Seeing that Zhang Ruiming's eyes were a little strange, and this question was even more confusing, Wu Kaiming understood what Chu Zhang Ruiming meant for a while, but he followed Zhang Ruiming's gaze, and saw that not far away, Ye Wenzheng, who was dressed in a chic style, accompanied her boyfriend, greeting Fang Xiaoruan and other people in a circle, completely lost her iron bones, and changed her face to be obedient and well-behaved.
He asked, what is this for? Does he have anything to do with this woman?
Wu Kaiming didn't have time to think too much, and immediately replied: "She? That's Fang Xiaoruan's goddaughter, that girl's father is Fang Xiaoruan's sworn brother, the relationship between the two families is very good, the villa she lives in now is Fang Xiaoruan's gift to their family, and ah, this Fang Xiaoruan and her father have always been a lifelong friendship, even the little handsome guy she is holding now was also found by Fang Xiaoruan, I heard that it is still "in the Yangtze River Star Youth Program"...... Anyway, the two are all wrapped together, and they are very cooked. This girl seems to have grown up in the United States, she just returned to China two years ago, the last time she wrote an article to scold Feng Binbin, it was completely accidental, Fang Xiaoruan also scolded her several times, today it is estimated that she is apologizing to Fang Xiaoruan with her new boyfriend......"
Hearing this, Zhang Ruiming suddenly understood in his heart, why Ye Wen was able to live in the Soviet-style villa in the city center, why she knew the inside story of the entertainment industry well, all of this made sense at this time - it turned out that Ye Wen and the Fang family had such a deep relationship!
Thinking of this, he had a better understanding of Ye Wen's "wild" spirit of advocating freedom and rebellion, growing up in such a family environment, all the splendid futures were arranged, and all the days were foreseeable, but it was also a kind of boring for her, so she would ...... herself
Forget it, it's all over, after knowing Ye Wen's true background, Zhang Ruiming smiled bitterly, and was not ready to ask more, just as he walked towards the lively banquet center with Wu Kaiming, Wu Kaiming did not let go of the obvious emotional fluctuations on Zhang Ruiming's face, and asked tentatively.
"What, look at you, you're quite familiar with her?"
"Not familiar, not familiar, just nodding friends. ”
Wu Kaiming glanced at his former apprentice and student, after a long time, he found that Zhang Ruiming was already very good at lying, at this time his face was as calm as water, at this time, he didn't say anything, and took Zhang Ruiming to the small cubicle where Fang Xiaoruan was at this time, at this time Fang Xiaoruan was talking and laughing with Boss Zhou, who was lied to by Wu Kaiming as "Guy Bay", and several people in the private room were hanging their hands and feet, and listened to Fang Xiaoruan's eloquent conversation with a respectful attitude.
“…… That's honest! Why are there so many bad movies now? It's all for these stupid people! These people just like to eat this bite! What kind of plot, tension, heritage, and annular structure...... It's all! These stupid people love to watch these little fresh meats and Mary Sue, and they don't buy it if they don't like to eat! They are just a bunch of stupid people! I say this in front of reporters......
"Yes, yes, we think so too, you see, I invested millions of dollars in Na Jia or something a few years ago, filming that "Tianding", which is said to be an award-winning international director...... Eh, this doesn't mean that Fang Dao you, you are a superconductor, that, I will continue, that surname is Jia Zhang or something, and he is also known as "the most in-depth filmmaker in China"...... It's all fucking bullshit! Millions of people went in and didn't hear a sound! The film was not allowed to be broadcast directly! I couldn't see a penny in return! That's a few million five years ago! I really can't help it, I still follow our Fang Daotou all these years and earn back some money, to be honest, only our Fang Dao can not only maintain artistic taste on the basis!Can also make a fucking fortune! I obey our Fang Ye!"
Hearing the explicit praise of the boss surnamed Zhou, to Fang Xiaoruan, it was nothing at all, and he didn't even shoot hard enough, he smiled, turned around, and saw Wu Kaiming coming over with Zhang Ruiming.
"Teacher Fang, this is ......"
"Hey, I've known our Zhang Jian for a long time! Lawyer Wu, you are still too considerate of my brother, and I want to introduce such an excellent prosecutor last year to me, but ah, I have known our Zhang Jian for a while, come on, let me introduce you, this is Prosecutor Zhang who has handled a series of major cases such as the "Nanjiang Group Case" and the "Tianjin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Case......"
Hearing that the prosecutor in front of him was the prosecutor who brought down a number of large groups and companies such as Nanjiang Group and Tianjin Pharmaceutical Chemical, these business bosses sitting in the audience had a moment of embarrassment on their faces, this is "a gathering of mice, a cat is coming"!
And Zhang Ruiming himself felt funny, although he knew that Fang Xiaoruan had a request for him, but he didn't expect that this arrogant movie maniac, an international director who was still invincible in front of everyone just now, would be so polite to himself, and his heart was suddenly a little fluttering. But he thought about it, now this Fang Xiaoruan knows that he holds his handle and has a request for himself, and after he gets the contract for tax evasion and money laundering, his little prosecutor doesn't even have a chance to enter his door.
And after seeing Fang Xiaoruan's attitude, the previous embarrassment on the faces of several bosses in this small cubicle was only for a moment, and they immediately got up and said respectfully to Zhang Ruiming.
"I have admired for a long time" "I have long heard of the name of Zhang Jian"
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After a few greetings, Fang Xiaoruan asked Zhang Ruiming to sit on the seat with Wu Kaiming.
Wu Kaiming, a monkey-like person, saw that the previous atmosphere was interrupted at this time, and picked out a word and asked.
"A few bosses were talking about some good things to make money? Let me see it. ”
"Don't, don't, lawyer Wu just killed all sides at the Carlsberg auction a few days ago, and competed with our director Fang to auction the rare "Twelve Banners of Landscape", which is a treasure of hundreds of millions, so please ask our lawyer Wu to teach us how to make money. ”
Wu Kaiming just smiled, he didn't answer the flattery of these people positively. Instead, he turned the direction and pushed the focus to Fang Xiaoruan and said.
"To make money, you still have to follow our director, to be honest, I don't have money, if I have money, I will try to invest in our director's movies, although the money is not much, but it can be regarded as adding firewood, give us director Wangwanghuo!"
Fang Xiaoruan waved his hand, half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Your lawyer Wu invested money here, then I really don't dare to accept it." ”
"Oh, is Director Fang ignoring our friendship for so many years?"
Fang Xiaoruan sneered and said, "It's not that I don't care about friendship, but the investment of people like you, and our film and television producers will not be willing to accept it." ”
"What? Is it discriminating against our legal profession?"
"It's not that you discriminate against your legal industry, but the producers don't like investors like your lawyers who are highly professional and don't have a lot of money, and to be honest, you lawyers can only come up with a couple of jujubes in bits and pieces, no matter how much money you want, you can't afford it, the movie is really going to smash, then you are the first person to jump up and sue the producer, in short, investors like you really can't get into the door of a bigger film and television company. ”
Hearing the real phenomenon in this industry, Wu Kaiming was not annoyed, and asked Fang Xiaoruan: "Then may I ask Director Fang Da, what kind of investor do you like the most?"
Seeing that Wu Kaiming threw out such a question, several bosses of various industries who were interested in following Fang Xiaoruan to make a quick buck all cast enthusiastic eyes at Fang Xiaoruan at this time, for fear that they would not be able to enter the eyes of this God of Wealth in this industry.
Fang Xiaoruan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was quite useful to the feeling of the stars holding the moon, he stared for a while, and slowly patted the pineapple armrest of the Ming-style bench with one hand, and said with a deep expression.
"Actually, the most welcome and nostalgic in our circle are the former coal bosses. ”
"What do you mean by that?"
"You think, the real good films in our country, like "Daming 1556", "No War in Beiping" or something, those are all films made around 08, at that time, the coal boss was beautiful! Rich! and like to invest everywhere, and this coal boss has an advantage, they have no culture!"
Hearing this, Zhang Ruiming became interested, why did this lack of culture become an advantage.
“…… You see, this coal mining is a very professional technical industry, and the underground coal pit is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, there will be gas leakage, water penetration explosion or something, which will kill people! So they, the coal bosses, must also follow the objective laws, abide by the regulations, respect talents, over time, they do anything, invest money outside, they also respect professionals like us, they are only responsible for investing money, at most they say which actress to sleep with, who to praise, and the rest of the things are not asked, let us be responsible for the professionals from the North Film Studio. I'll tell you the truth, that was the era when our film and television industry had the most creative freedom and the most able to realize our ideals and ambitions in the past few years.
Listening to Fang Xiaoruan's words, everyone felt suddenly enlightened, but they didn't expect that the big-bellied and tyrant-style coal bosses in this impression were so popular, and in addition to being surprised and incredible, it also caused many people to reflect.
I don't know who whispered, "Who is your least favorite investor?"
Fang Xiaoruan ignored the sourness, he replied along the way: "Hey, now, it's hard to say, since the wave of small coal mine closures began around 12 years ago, we have gradually not seen those coal bosses in our company, but some real estate bosses have come to talk about investment, these real estate developers...... It's not that they don't have money, it's because they are all doing real estate, understand the process, and understand management, so they have a lot of ideas, and the famous hall has begun to increase, and they like to manage our insiders, and often put forward some opinions, which makes us uncomfortable, but one thing, at least they will not interfere with professional details, which is much better than those investors later. ”
Hearing this, several real estate bosses at the banquet had embarrassed expressions, but they were also submerged in an instant, and everyone stared at Fang Xiaoruan with great interest, wanting to listen to who Fang Xiaoruan's least favorite investor was.
“…… Now in this world, what kind of big companies are we, network companies, the opening is the ratings, clicks, closed big IP, big data, they don't follow the rules at all, everything follows the data, which star has high traffic, they all set the person first and then the book, so how do we have to play the director......?
When Fang Xiaoruan talked about these few people, his head was slightly raised, obviously rating himself among these "few people".
Several people next to him also echoed, the voices of boasting were endless, Zhang Ruiming felt a little sick to his stomach when he heard it, and the scene in front of him made him feel disgusted.
But he remembered the idea that Wu Kaiming gave him today, which was a great opportunity to interject, and he felt a chord in his heart. At this time, he said to Fang Xiaoruan.
"Oh! I'm a little interested in hearing what Director Fang said so interestingly...... It just so happens that I have a spare amount of money at home, and I want to find a place to invest it, I wonder if Director Fang has any suggestions?"
At the moment when the snake is predatoring, the pupil will be instantly enlarged hundreds of times, and the entire pupil will become terrifyingly black, and at this time, many small animals that are preyed on will tremble in fright and fall to the ground paralyzed. And at this time, Fang Xiaoruan's eyes had instantly revealed this kind of viciousness.
"Oh, Zhang Jian is interested, then we ......" When Fang Xiaoruan said this, his eyes swept over everyone present, Wu Kaiming of course knew his thoughts, and said, "There is an acquaintance of mine over there, you talk first", and took the lead in getting up and walking out of this small private room, and the remaining bosses are also good at observing words and feelings, seeing that Wu Kaiming immediately said goodbye, and the few who stayed behind also realized that the atmosphere was wrong, they all got up and walked away, leaving the venue to Fang Xiaoruan to "negotiate business" with the prosecutor of the Jingang City Procuratorate.
"I don't know how much money Zhang Jian plans to invest?"
Seeing that there was no one around, Fang Xiaoruan spoke louder, he raised his head and looked directly at the young man in front of him, he wanted to see Zhang Ruiming's hole cards, and he also wanted to find out his offer and appetite.