Nearly six years later, in the second half of 2009, Alan Wilson officially resigned as chairman of the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Group, as a very important helmsman in the history of Coca-Cola, in a media interview a year after his resignation, he talked about the acquisition in early 2004, talked about the half-hour conversation that had left a name in film history at that time, and talked about Li Qian.

He said, " Before we met, we had collected information about each other, very detailed, so I knew that Qi was the real operator of Minghu Culture, and at that time, no matter from all angles, my assistants told me that Li was an artist, a singer, a great musician, a lead singer, an actor, a director, and so on, he had many identities, he was an all-rounder in art, but he was not a businessman, he was very concerned about the acquisition, but he would not interfere in the specific negotiations, because he was a very self-aware person。 Later, when he made an appointment to meet me, I was surprised, and so did my assistants. ”

"We talked as we walked, and we talked for about half an hour, and the outside world has always been very interested in what we talked about in this half hour, in fact, it is very simple, this process is that Li is constantly breaking his image in my mind. In the end, though, we came to an agreement. ”

"Lee may not be a good businessman, he is not as good as the others, but he is a brilliant strategist, he knows what he needs to do and when, and he is extremely decisive! In fact, it turned out that although we made a good business, we got rid of the burden of a continuous loss for many years, we got a lot of relief, and we had a lot of cash to put many of our factories in order, but the deal was negotiated, and Lee gained more things. Far more than we could have imagined at the time, and my assistant reminded me of it!"

"I later learned that he was the kind of real leader. In his art empire, he rarely interferes in specific operations, he has Qi to do everything for him that he can not do, but he sets the framework for the development of the whole company, sets the direction, and at critical moments, he says what he says, Qi never objects, he doesn't need to convince anyone, as long as he thinks he should do it, his friends will trust him and follow him without doubt!"

"So, for three billion dollars, we've sold a rich gold mine! The irony is that we can sell it two or three years later, and in those two years, we don't even have to do anything about it. However, we didn't know it at the time. ”

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On Tuesday morning, January 20, 2004, the U.S. Department of Commerce officially approved the acquisition of Columbia Pictures by Clear Lake Culture.

At this point, the acquisition is completely complete.

From the moment the U.S. Department of Commerce approved the acquisition contract, Columbia Pictures has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Lake Culture in a legal sense.

On the same day, Columbia Pictures CEO Glen Charles held a press conference to announce his resignation as CEO of Columbia Pictures.

He said that he was very reluctant to reform halfway, but at this time, he was not willing to wait for the acceptance of Minghu Culture as a left-behind CEO, so he chose to resign and hoped that Minghu Culture would be able to run the company well after entering Colombia.

After the press conference, he calmly left the office building of the Columbia company under the supervision of the company's relevant personnel and with his personal belongings.

That afternoon, at an internal high-level meeting, another resolute vice president announced his resignation — the kind that strongly resisted Colombia's takeover by a Chinese company.

After the afternoon meeting, Columbia Pictures officially announced that the company's senior office meeting had decided that the company's senior vice president, David Emmerch, would temporarily act as the executive president to maintain the normal operation of the company and wait for the reception of Minghu Culture.

All of a sudden, the turmoil in Colombia attracted the attention of the whole United States.

Although they have been in turmoil for many years in the past, and the frequency of top management changes is definitely the fastest among the seven major Hollywood studios, this time, after all, it is different from the past.

Columbia Pictures has changed owners.

Wednesday, 21 January 2004, morning.

Witnessed by countless reporters, countless cameras and video cameras, a Bentley stopped in front of the Columbia Pictures building, and Qi Jie, the general manager of Minghu Culture, officially stepped into the office building of Columbia.

Before walking into the building, Qi Jie turned around and smiled and nodded at the reporters, which appeared on the front pages of major newspapers and online news platforms in the United States on the same day and the next day, and appeared frequently on many TV programs - this means that Minghu Culture, a Chinese company, has really come!

However, to the slight disappointment of the reporters and many people who watched the excitement, Li Qian, who was standing behind Qi Jie when he first reported on the signing ceremony, seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden after the two sides completed the signing.

In such a ceremonial and historical moment, he, as the true owner of Minghu culture, did not appear in front of the office building in Colombia with China Qi and walked in together.

In the morning of the same day, it is said that China Qi attended an internal high-level meeting of Columbia Pictures, and in the afternoon, Columbia officially held a press conference, and Qi Jie appeared on the rostrum of the press conference.

She announced three things:

First, Minghu Culture has officially announced its takeover of Colombia;

Second, there will be no changes to the current management structure and management personnel within Columbia Pictures;

Third, within three years, Minghu Culture will not carry out any large-scale asset splits, layoffs or salary cuts for Columbia Pictures, all of which are mainly focused on maintaining the stability and normal operation of the company.

However, Qi Jie did not give any plan for the change of the company's top management, which is widely concerned by the outside world, and even after announcing the three things, she did not accept reporters' questions, so she directly gave up the microphone, and the company's acting CEO David Emmerch said a few words briefly, and announced the end of the press conference.

The outside world has interpreted this that Minghu Culture has acquiesced to the position of acting CEO of David Emmerch, and tacitly acquiesced that he will continue to handle the company's daily affairs before Minghu Culture officially completes the overall takeover of Colombia, but in order to remove the word "agency" and officially take over the company, David Emmerch obviously needs to go through a period of investigation.

Moreover, the U.S. press has widely speculated that Minghu Culture should send two or three Chinese to senior management in Colombia to oversee the company's operations and represent the will of the parent company, Minghu Culture, to oversee the accurate and uncompromised implementation of the parent company's intentions.

In addition, it is widely speculated that Hollywood producer John Days, who has been very close to Minghu culture and has almost become the spokesperson of Minghu culture in the Western world, may ascend to the sky.

However, these questions have not yet been answered.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, the ubiquitous paparazzi in Hollywood had already discovered Li Qian's traces - he and Liao Liao appeared leisurely in a restaurant in Los Angeles for dinner.

And after Qi Jie left the office building in Columbia that afternoon, she drove back to the mansion that Liao Liao had purchased in Los Angeles.

At least dozens of paparazzi waited outside the mansion all night.

That night, they didn't invite any guests.

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After dinner, Liao Liao curled up on the sofa and looked at the two people over there.

Li Qian and Qi Jie each held a thick stack of materials in their hands.

The company's development context in the past five years has been sorted out, which is very important, and the past history can allow Li Qian and Qi Jie to make the most correct interpretation of the company, and try to avoid negligence and mistakes for the development direction they have formulated for the company in the future.

At the same time, there are biographies and extremely detailed information about more than a dozen people.

From the company's successive executive presidents, vice presidents, and other senior managers in the past five years, to those who are considered qualified to enter the management of Colombia and are therefore included as candidates, the details of each person, what decisions they have made over the years, and how effective they have been, are in the hands of Li Qian and Qi Jie.

And in fact, they have been reading these materials since half a month ago.

Now that the acquisition has been officially completed, the next step is to spend time and energy to really take control of the company - it is obviously not enough to just buy it and not listen to the announcement.

As we all know, personnel issues are the most difficult and important issues.

The first thing is that they have to get the right person at the helm of Columbia Pictures as soon as possible – it must be someone from Hollywood, who must be familiar with Hollywood and the American way of playing, and preferably have some knowledge of Colombia.

Even if the candidate selected this time is only a transitional figure, his importance is still not overestimated - Colombia must not enter a long period of turmoil!

Otherwise, if the personnel and management continue to be turbulent, unable to keep up step by step, step by step, even if Minghu Culture can carry out a certain amount of blood transfusion for them in the future, it will not be able to withstand such management turmoil at all - and Li Qian will never allow himself to spend so much money to buy Columbia, but sit back and watch this company continue to decline, and even be directly removed from the Hollywood Big Seven!

Then this acquisition, which shocked China and the United States, will become a laughing stock.

Of course, Liao Liao felt bored watching them constantly flip through the information there.

After twenty or thirty minutes, after going through all the information on hand, Qi Jie finally spoke, and the first one said, "John Days is not suitable." He can be the spokesperson of Minghu Culture in Hollywood and can be at the helm of Oriental Dream Films, but he is not suitable to represent Minghu Culture in Colombia. ”

Li Qian pursed his lips, and then nodded slowly.

This is the first person Qi Jie killed, although this person has contributed a lot to this acquisition, and he definitely meets many selection conditions.

For example, he is familiar with Hollywood, he knows the rules of Hollywood, and it is not difficult for him to be familiar with Colombia.

But Li Qian still nodded.

He's really not a good fit.

He may be a very qualified, even very good producer, and he is also very capable of doing distribution and negotiations, but to let him take charge of such a large film company, especially a film company in turmoil, he seems to be a little lacking - his ability and experience are estimated to be poor.

But fortunately, it is not difficult to deny him, and he has already stated that he is not qualified to be in charge of Colombia, and he has even recommended someone else.

Subsequently, Li Qian asked, "What about David Emach?"

Qi Jie was a little hesitant when she heard this.

During the acquisition, David Emmerch, as the senior vice president of Colombia, although his attitude was ambiguous, he never publicly said anything against the acquisition of Minghu Culture, but praised Li Qian personally, and went to the company to talk to him in the morning, and he could also feel that he did not have much disgust with the acquisition of Colombia, and he also had a friendly attitude towards Minghu Culture from China.

This is a person who can cooperate - at present, for Minghu Culture, if you want to integrate into the Hollywood circle, as long as you don't dislike Minghu Culture, you are a person who can cooperate.

Moreover, John Days highly recommends David Emmerch.

As a person who knows Hollywood well, John Days himself may not be suitable to be the CEO of Columbia, but his advice on this candidate is still very relevant.

What's more, he is now the acting CEO of Columbia, and it is the least stressful personnel change plan for Minghu Culture to straighten him out and remove the word "agency".

But Qi Jie was still hesitant.

After a moment, she said, "Judging by the past information, David Emmerch is a conservative person. ”

Li Qian was silent, just nodded slowly.

After a pause, Qi Jie said: "Moreover, in the past, when Grunschare was the executive president, Grunschare was a staunch reformer, and the work of David Emmerch was to neutralize Glenschal's radicalism with a slightly conservative plan. So, it may be okay to have him as CEO for the time being, but in the long run, I remember you said, we need time. Isn't the reason why the company is cutting through the mess at all costs just to buy time to smooth out the Colombian side? If David Emmerch is the chief executive officer, maybe the company can stabilize quickly, but I think it is estimated that it will be difficult to make any progress and change. ”

Li Qian nodded again.

This is exactly what he is deeply concerned about.

John Days didn't know what he was thinking, so when recommending David Emmerch, he repeatedly emphasized that David Emmerch could bring Colombia the most important "stability" at this stage.

But what Li Qian needs is a moderate amount of stability, not turbulence, but by no means a conservative stability like David Emmerch - Colombia has been losing money for more than ten years, will it continue to lose steadily?

However, he was also hesitant: David Emmerch was indeed the least costly and least turbulent candidate known to date.

It's just not appropriate enough.

Qi Jie looked at Li Qian and said, "Or, let him do this first, and 'act' for a period of time? Then, let's slowly choose and see? When will we find a suitable candidate, and then replace him?"

Li Qian shook his head firmly.

Instantly, he stood up and walked around the large living room, as grim and silent as he had been when the acquisition had been blocked.

At this time, Qi Jie stopped talking.

In her heart, Li Qian is such a person: he has a firm goal and will never compromise. He will completely throw a lot of things to himself, and he has 100% absolute trust in himself. But at some point, something is so important that he feels that he can't stand upright, he will always find out first, and then immediately take over the thousand pounds of burden.

And, after a period of silence, he will make a quick decision.

There may have been some sacrifices, or maybe they weren't perfect, but as soon as he made his decision, the burden was immediately lifted from his shoulders - and in fact, he was right in the end.

For example, when he was just starting out, he was a little hesitant to cross the river and tear down the bridge in the face of a behemoth like Hua Opera, and he didn't know how to express his anger, but Li Qian firmly gave the direction: Since he despises me, then give him a little power!

Another example is the recent acquisition.

Three billion 1 billion seems to have spent a lot of unjust money, but Qi Jie knows that as long as the company can be revitalized after taking over Colombia, then, let alone hundreds of millions, even if it is an extra billion thrown into it, Colombia after the revitalization will still make them a lot of money.

It's just that she doesn't have the courage to make this determination and give that price to make a final decision.

And now, it seems, that moment has come again.

John Days was killed by himself and Li Qian, and now, David Emmerch feels that he is barely suitable, at least as a candidate for a transitional period, it should be considered suitable.

But Li Qian seems to have killed him.

Despite John Deiss's repeated recommendations, it was useless.

He has considerations in his heart that no one else knows and cannot understand.

Two or three minutes later, Li Qian sat back and looked through the information again, Qi Jie leaned over slightly, and saw that what he saw was not the analysis and resume of one of them, but the company's administrative analysis in the past few years.

After more than ten minutes, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Qi Jie, "What do you think of Glen Shire?"

Qi Jie was surprised.

Glen Shire's acquisition of Minghu Culture was very resolutely opposed and even a little disgusted, so he announced his resignation as soon as the acquisition was approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

This is a person who has a certain hostility towards Minghu culture.

He was not even included in the candidate for the CEO at all, and Qi Jie did not have his detailed information.

At this time, Qi Jie thought about it when he heard this, and said: "He is the person chosen by Coca-Cola that year, and he is not friendly to us." ”

Li Qian pursed his lips and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "It's okay!"

After a pause, he said, "I want to visit him tomorrow, and I plan to invite him to China to see the complete set of 3D technology that we are about to take shape!"

Qi Jie became more and more surprised.

3D technology has always been a high-level secret within Minghu Culture, and even if it is inside, it is only allowed to be visited and understood at a very high level and within a small range.

However, at this time, Li Qian said with a smile: "Judging from the policy direction since taking office, his transformation plan for Colombia, and the production plans he personally presided over, I think this Glenn Charles is a clear-eyed person, he knows where the shortcomings of Colombia are, and he has also formulated a plan that feels very insignificant." ”

"Even, I think he participated in the production of several films, I think he also accurately grasped the market, if my expectations are not bad, when those movies are released one after another this year, it should not be too bad!"

"It's just that he needs time, and our sudden acquisition should have disrupted his plan all of a sudden, making him a little too angry!"

Speaking of which, he seems to be starting to become firm, "except that he is a little too anxious, and his personality seems to be a little resolute, and it feels as if he lacks some of the tactfulness of being a senior leader...... Well, that's right, that's him. He's a good guy to take the helm. ”

Qi Jie looked at him, a little hesitant, "So...... Are you going to convince him, a man who is disgusted with our takeover of Colombia, to take the helm of Colombia?"

Li Qian laughed when he heard this, "So what!"

"I give him money, I give him time, I give him power!"

At this time, Liao Liao, who was sitting on the sofa next to him and felt that he was about to fall asleep, suddenly interjected, "tsk" twice, and performed with a pompous face, "Husband, you are so courageous!"

Qi Jie glanced at her with disgust.

Li Qian laughed, "Don't come to this set!"

Liao Liao stood up and said, "So, are you guys finished discussing it?"

Qi Jie put away the contempt on his face, thought for a while, and said: "If he doesn't see you at all, or if he is really disgusted with us, even if he has seen our 3D technology, he still refuses, and even, he doesn't approve of your idea, and he is not optimistic about the future of 3D movies...... What to do?"

Li Qian pursed his lips when he heard this, thought about it, and said firmly: "Judging from what he has done in the past few years, he is an enterprising person, and he has always been. So I thought...... It won't!"

Qi Jie shrugged his shoulders and looked at Liao Liao.

Liao Liao smiled, "He's so self-confident!"

Qi Jie also laughed when she heard this, and then, she stood up and said, "Okay, I agree." ”

Liao Liao snapped his fingers, "yes! It's finally over, so, next, how are we going to sleep?"

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