New York.

Peter Liu, a Chinese-American, drove to work as usual, adjusted the car radio frequency to FM93.9, and prepared to complete this hour-long daily mileage while listening to the song.

"Today's new song express, we recommend to you a newcomer from the East, she has a special magic that is unforgettable when you hear it...", the music program host William said in a very fast tone as always.

"Hey William, she's no longer a rookie, she's an advertising star," interrupted William by another presenter.

"If you have seen the advertisement of Mercedes-Benz Motors, you will not forget the same song "new soul" that day, and the new song we recommend today is the talented female singer Annie from the original song of "new soul"!"

"Today I bring you a very nice song "Miss You" from Annie's album of the same name......

A familiar melody appeared on the radio, which made Peter Liu feel more familiar, as a fan of Liu Ruoyi, Peter Liu was familiar with every Chinese song of Liu Ruoyi, but it was the first time he heard it in English.

Compared with the timelessness of the original Chinese song "Meet", the English lyrics adaptation of "Miss You", although it is also quite lingering and rhyming, always has a little taste in Peter Liu's ears.

But for others who haven't heard the original Chinese version, the song sounds refreshing, with a poignant sentimentality.

Caitlin has a relatively ample budget for promotion, not only the radio channel, but also the music criticism, after taking the album around for public relations, with the album itself is indeed very good quality, coupled with a lot of public relations costs, it has received rave reviews for a while:

"Unbelievably good sound!" -- Rolling Stone music magazine op-ed

"The best newcomer of the year so far!" - Billboard Magazine Weekly Review

"The diva from the East, the most powerful female singer of the magical queen Deng" - the headline of the entertainment section of the Washington Post

"Hollywood may have another music superstar!" -- Los Angeles Times

......

Unlike Liu Ruoyi, who doesn't pay much attention to her first music album.

Caitlin, who is looking forward to making a career, has this good deck of cards in her hand, of course she doesn't want to mess it up, and the experience and connections that Caitlin has accumulated over the years have basically been used this time.

With so many resources mobilized, although the sales of Liu Ruoyi's first English album in the first week of release were mediocre, it was quite a superstar in public opinion.

Several of the biggest media outlets in the music industry have given very positive positive reviews, and it is clear that Caitlin has contributed to the huge promotion fee she has applied for.

With this pioneering public opinion publicity, plus Liu Ruoyi's music album "Annie --New soul" itself is indeed no problem, except for the few original works that Liu Ruoyi stuffed into are "new works" of classic English songs, the main songs are basically adapted from Liu Ruoyi's classic Chinese songs.

With such an album and dollars to the door, even the most discerning radio station will open the net to spread Liu Ruoyi's "new songs", and soon, under Caitlin's three-dimensional combination promotion method, Liu Ruoyi's English album sales began to rise.

In the first week, I couldn't see the charts, and in the second week, I climbed onto the Billboard music charts, although it was the bottom of the list, but also encouraged Caitlin to follow up on the plan, and in the third week, the sales exceeded 300,000 copies in a single week, and the gold record sales began, and began to enter the top of the Billboard music charts, and many songs appeared on the charts in turn.

This began to detonate the sales frenzy, and by the end of the fourth week, Liu Ruoyi's English album had surpassed the sales of 1 million copies of platinum in the United States!

For a newcomer who is releasing a record in Hollywood for the first time, it is extremely rare for the first album to achieve platinum sales.

However, this is not the end, as Caitlin adapted Liu Ruoyi's experience into a musical strange woman image and widely publicized it in the United States, the Yankees who advocate individual heroes seem to have been brainwashed, and they have been fans of Liu Ruoyi and become hot new stars in this period!

After a month of sales, the sales momentum of the album has not weakened, but has increased considerably! And in the face of the 100,000 copies of the $99 collector's edition vinyl released by Caitlin due to the snobbery, the market was sold out!

With such good results, Caitlin was no longer satisfied with simple publicity, but came to invite Liu Ruoyi to the United States for a tour of publicity. In the current heat, if Liu Ruoyi can appear in major cities in North America, it will inevitably add another fire to this craze!

In the early stage, more than one million sales, although each ordinary CD is priced at $19.99, the high-fidelity CD version is priced at $29.99, and the vinyl is $99, the total sales have exceeded $30 million! In this place where piracy will be punished and bankrupt, Liu Ruoyi's album sales have suddenly set a new record for single album sales since her debut.

Although there is still a gap in sales compared to Chinese albums, sales exceed the previous Chinese sales combined!

It's no wonder that celebrities from all over the world want to squeeze into the North American market, which is the real entertainment capital!

Hong kong. In the face of Caitlin's invitation, Liu Ruoyi was still a little hesitant to go or not.

There is nothing important at hand, the "Meteor Garden" movie has already been played, and the filming of another movie has not yet begun, so it seems that there is no problem in sparing a month to do a tour promotion.

Although being an artist is not too attractive to Liu Ruoyi, if she can really go out of Asia, gain a foothold in North America, and even leave her name on the Grammys, just like the previous Deng Tianhou to become a legend, for Liu Ruoyi, this is still quite interesting.

The problem is that there are two things Liu Ruoyi is a little worried about leaving, one is the oil futures trading of cornerstone investment, although it is said that it has made a lot of profits, but if it is not reviewed every day, Liu Ruoyi is still not at ease.

During this time, the position has been almost full again, and if you want to say that you are not worried about liquidation, it must be false.

Although it is said that in the United States, it is also possible to transmit reviews through the Internet, but there are many things to do on the tour, where can I still study these things carefully?

As for the second thing, Liu Ruoyi has just contacted Liang Baiheng, the former president of Peregrine, as a chess player with a considerable plan, Liu Ruoyi's cornerstone investment is not only to do futures trading, but also to enter more financial investment banking fields.

And Liang Baiheng is obviously a potential general talent of Liu Ruoyi in the securities business.

The person who threads the needle in the center is none other than Li Ergongzi!

At the beginning, Liang Baiheng swallowed Guangshengxing and achieved the market myth, but in fact, it was the old superman who had already revealed the king at that time who supported him behind him!

Because of this origin, at the recent meeting of the board of directors of Aurora Media, Liu Ruoyi casually mentioned that he lacked the talent of a general in the development of securities business.

At the first meeting, Liu Ruoyi and Liang Baiheng only had a preliminary acquaintance, Liu Ruoyi was quite familiar with Liang Baiheng, after all, the case of Peregrine had been carefully studied as a classic failure, and Liu Ruoyi could see the success or failure more clearly than Liang Baiheng!

Looking at the wrong market, this is only one aspect of Peregrine's failure, and more importantly, before Peregrine was forced to go bankrupt, Peregrine's overall assets were actually quite good, and it only needed a sum of tens of millions of dollars to get through, and it would be another world.

However, the Western capital that had originally negotiated directly repented at the critical moment and inserted a fatal knife into the heart of Peregrine, making this top investment bank in Hong Kong "die" instantly.

In the context of the Asian financial crisis at that time, it was really killed with one sword, completely defeating the top investment bank in Xiangjiang, and since then Xiangjiang has no flagship investment bank of its own.

From the perspective of Liu Ruoyi's later generations, the capitalization of huge mainland red chips in the future will fall into the mouths of several top investment banks in the West!

Since 2000, the Chinese giant has been listed one after another, bringing a wave of at least hundreds of billions of dollars to the top investment banks in the West, and the "counseling fee" for listing plus the so-called "strategic investors" original stock investment, every Chinese giant listing show is a "feast" for the top investment bank capital in the West!

If Liu Ruoyi had not been reborn and returned to this world, all this would have happened one by one, allowing Western capital and Wall Street financial giants to share the last wave of listing dividends in the 21st century financial market!

Originally, Liu Ruoyi was powerless in the face of all this, with her current size and prestige, even if she knew the result, it was useless, because these were not simply a deal.

Rather, it involves a series of complex operations, which is definitely not something she can shake now.

But when Li Ergongzi introduced Liang Baiheng to Liu Ruoyi, Liu Ruoyi seemed to see a glimmer of possibility to change the future, because Liang Baiheng is not an ordinary financial person, but a special person with the huge halo of "the father of red chips".

If such a character is used well, it is a key figure with great potential to change the orientation of the listing counselor of the giant enterprise in the mainland.

These characters have just picked up now, and Liu Ruoyi really has a bit of a headache and will miss the opportunity to leave.

Vivian didn't have a suggested position on such matters, so she could only grasp it by herself and think about it again, and Liu Ruoyi decided to talk to Liang Baiheng again before deciding.

"Mr. Liang, I have admired the name for a long time, and the last time I saw him in a hurry, I didn't have time to ask for advice on many things, which is a pity!" met again on Zhao Dashao's private yacht, and Zhao Shaodong, Li Ergongzi and others also got on the yacht together, but waited for the yacht to sail into the depths of the ocean.

Li Ergongzi and Zhao Shaodong both tacitly left the space to Liu Ruoyi and Liang Baiheng for a private chat.

"Miss Annie's words are serious!" Liang Baiheng said politely.

The last time we met, Li Ergongzi couldn't speak clearly, and Liang Baiheng didn't care too much about Liu Ruoyi, a small character in the cross-border investment circle in the entertainment industry, so he broke up after a few simple chats.

Today, I made an appointment again, Liang Baiheng communicated with Li Ergongzi before coming, and knew Liu Ruoyi's intentions, Liang Baiheng also learned about what Liu Ruoyi had done.

After this research and investigation, Liang Baiheng has greatly changed his image of Liu Ruoyi.

In the past, Liang Baiheng just thought that Liu Ruoyi was a star who was idle and bored to play investment, but after really researching and understanding Liu Ruoyi's investment history of almost no failure in the past, he completely changed his opinion and thought that Liu Ruoyi was a genius in the investment industry and went to the entertainment industry.

"Mr. Liang is an investment banking veteran, as a new investment banker, I sincerely want to ask Mr. Liang, how many mainland enterprises do you think will come to Hong Kong to list in the future, and will there be a chance that they will occupy half of the Hong Kong stock market in the future?"

Liu Ruoyi was no longer polite, but went straight to the point.

When Liang Baiheng heard this, his eyes lit up, and he asked rhetorically: "Now that mainland enterprises are only 10% of the Xiangjiang stock market, why does Miss Annie think that mainland enterprises will account for so much half of the Xiangjiang stock market?"

"Very simply, I personally believe that in the next ten or twenty years, the most active country in the global economy will be the mainland, and as a necessary means of capitalizing the development of enterprises, the listing of enterprises is naturally the only choice for many mainland enterprises. ”

"However, the capacity of the mainland stock market is limited, and the capital market has not been opened, so it cannot absorb international capital to invest directly in the stock market, and the US stock market is more aimed at new entrepreneurial enterprises, and most of the traditional finance, manufacturing and other enterprises have no chance to enter the US stock market. ”

Liu Ruoyi didn't think there was anything wrong with Liang Baiheng's rhetorical question, and really said her opinion.

These will become a reality one by one over time, and Liu Ruoyi is not afraid to say wrong.

"So that's the case, Miss Annie really deserves to study economics, it seems that the entertainment industry is indeed just your side hustle. After listening to Liu Ruoyi's opinion, Liang Baiheng's brows furrowed.

"I share Ms. Annie's view that the economic development of the mainland will be a long-term growth trend. But..."

"To say that mainland companies will account for more than half of the Hong Kong stock market in the future is an exaggeration. After all, as a financial center in Asia, Xiangjiang is not limited to competing in a certain place and a certain region, and the future expansion of the stock market is considerable. ”

"It's really not easy for mainland companies to account for half of the total, unless you decide to release all the giants with Chinese characters out for listing, there are still some possibilities. ”

Listening to Liang Baiheng's words, Liu Ruoyi breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang is really still old and spicy!

Although there is no Chinese giant state-owned enterprise listed at this time, people with a keen sense of the market have begun to discover certain trends and directions through some clues.