Sitting in the Boeing 747 modified business plane, Wang Lie felt that his life was about to reach a peak after many hours of chatting and laughing with many American business celebrities and press bigwigs invited by the Times Group.

Five months ago, he had been to China once, but that time, he had no identity to identify.

Even the female supervisor sent by the foreign affairs department to receive them introduced the guests with the words "Dr. Wang An and his son".

Wang Lie felt very aggrieved at that time.

He can only be a tail yard behind his father, and, his son.

My brother is also the one who wants to inherit more than $2 billion worth of stocks!

Five months later, though, everything is different. When he came to China for the second time in his life, he had already become the "CEO of Wang An Computer Company".

Although I couldn't see a very high-level leader this time, I could only get in touch with the relevant personnel in charge of the economy, foreign investment, and foreign trade, and give guidance to China's top entrepreneurs, but it could be regarded as finding a place to go.

Times Company's business jet, of course, has been modified, and the pattern cannot be as cramped as the ordinary 747 civil aviation.

Because Times Company often organizes American social elites to go to all over the world to guide the country, there is a strong demand in this area, and it is worth doing more professionally.

An ordinary Boeing 747 civil aviation aircraft can carry three or four hundred passengers, while the "Air Force One" of the same modification is rated to carry only 70 passengers. There are generally no more than 20 dignitaries, and the remaining 50 are orderlies. }

The Boeing 747 of Times Group is several times more luxurious and relaxed than civil aviation, and slightly worse than Air Force One, which is considered a mediocre.

The whole plane carries about 100 people, and the number of service personnel and VIPs is 55 to 5, and all VIPs can have sleepers and sofa seats with coffee tables.

Sitting next to Wang Lie throughout the whole process were the heads of several media subsidiaries under Times Group.

including Ted Turner, founder of CNN News;

There's also Charles Dolan, the founder of a paid cable TV channel called HBO.

Speaking of HBO, later generations of Chinese still have a relatively late understanding of it, and people who began to pay attention to American dramas at the beginning of the 21st century may have known HBO from "Band of Brothers".

The impression of him is that "it seems that within two years of Spielberg's filming of "Saving Private Ryan", Americans began to fry cold rice on cable TV, trying to replicate the success of such war blockbusters."

As for younger and novice lovers of American dramas, it may be more than ten years later to know HBO from "Game of Thrones". Some people even mistakenly believe that HBO history is shorter than Netflix {Netflix}.

But in fact, this is a very old cable TV company, which was established in 72 years. In the mid-80s, HBO was already one of the two pillars of Time Warner's cable TV industry, alongside CNN. One of the two does serious reality content, and the other does American dramas.

However, at that time, HBO was only partially owned by Time Warner and appeared as a collaborator, not as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time Warner, and the founder Charles Dolan still had a considerable proportion of the shares. {At the same time, Ted Turner also had a large number of CNN shares in his hands, and now CNN has not been wholly acquired by Time Warner, but only cooperatively owned}

It was not until the beginning of the 21st century, when the wave of "Band of Brothers" had passed and the HBO payment model could not withstand the tide of Internet piracy, that the founder, Charles Dolan, sadly felt that he could not keep up with the Internet era, sold all his shares to Time Warner, and let the other party reshuffle.

The ins and outs are a bit far, just to explain how Wang Lie's trip to China is surrounded by "talking and laughing and having no white contacts", and on his sofa, he is sitting on the left and right are the hegemons of the two major content fields in the American cable television industry.

This also means that Wang Lie's trip to China, whether it is fame or humiliation, will be magnified by the media ten times or even a hundred times.

It was a meeting under a microscope.

However, so far, Wang Lie is very satisfied with his performance.

Because of these few hours of chatting on the plane, everyone was very pleasant. His insight really makes people feel that they can't hear the flaws, anyway, they are all commercial routines that can't be verified on paper, which has attracted frequent nods from the two bigwigs in the American cable TV industry.

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The American guests finally landed on time at the Beijing airport, and the reception staff sent by the relevant departments also diligently and without mistake made all preparations for receiving the airport.

Wang Lie saw at first glance that there was a heroic and elegant young girl in the crowd, where she was commanding and laughing freely with the leader of the delegation. But the scene was not suitable at the moment, and he couldn't go over to talk.

In the convoy of pick-up and drop-off, there were even several Lincoln cars, although they had foreign license plates - the Americans did not know that these Lincoln cars were borrowed by the relevant reception department when they asked a wealthy domestic businessman to borrow the Rolls-Royce limited edition.

Anyway, Gu Biao and Lincoln can't let go, so of course they have to use American cars to pick up American guests.

In the Times Group, some media people are not coming to China for the first time, so when they see these Lincoln cars, they can't help but be amazed. Undoubtedly, in their eyes, this is undoubtedly one of the symbols of China becoming more open and wealthy.

"Oh, this must have been prepared by Gu Biao, I don't think there is a second businessman in China who can play the role of a bond with the American business community. Ted Turner sighed to himself, and happened to be listened to by Wang Lie, and he felt a little uncomfortable listening to it.

Although we chatted for several hours on the plane just now, they really didn't talk about what acquaintances they knew in China, so Wang Lie couldn't help but ask while getting in the car: "Is Mr. Turner and Gu Biao very familiar?" ”

Ted Turner smiled rightly: "He's been on Larry King's first installment." When I decided to start Larry King's live talk show, I talked to Gu several times in private to determine whether his level and stance would cause trouble and whether he would be accepted by the mainstream audience.

I remember very well that on that occasion, Gu Wei also won the cross-examination guest secretly arranged by Larry Kim's prickly head, and said what Secretary of State Haig said nèi mù, and dismissed the military expert who had served under Haig for many years in Vietnam. Now, Larry King Live is our top-rated talk show on CNN. ”

The past that Turner said was four years ago, during the Falklands War, because at that time, Gu Biao took advantage of the situation to criticize some unscrupulous colleagues who did not pay attention to the issue of electromagnetic compatibility. And his opponent naturally had to fight back, and Larry King boasted of the fair and neutral effect of the show, so the two sides hit it off and immediately closed the secret measures to fight back against Gu Biao, but they were still brilliantly resolved by Gu Biao.

In the past four years, as Larry King's live talk show has become more and more popular, it has established the status of the first live debate talk show in the United States. The issue of Gu Biao, who was at the level of a mountain monster back then, was also interpreted and analyzed by more American news people. It's like a red scientist studying "Dream of Red Mansions".

Therefore, Gu Biao now has an additional identity, that is, as a benchmark case for American TV debate talk shows, for people to study.

Wang Lie was still studying for a PhD four years ago, so he didn't know much about the business situation. In addition, he has always had a kind of "my father is the most awesome among the Chinese, and I am the second awesome", which also makes him unwilling to study more of other Chinese peers, and always feels that "to learn how to do a good business, it is enough to learn from the top white elites in the United States, why learn from other Chinese, those people are more spicy chicken than ours, and they will only get worse and worse the more they learn."

So he didn't know much about Gu Ao's many cases and deeds back then.

At this moment, listening to Ted Turner's admiration is so high-spirited, my heart suddenly feels bad.

He would rather turn his head and talk to HBO boss Charles Dolando for a while.

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The motorcade of American entrepreneurs soon drove to the Diào Yú Tái State Guesthouse, which is still an old place for Wang Lie.

After arranging the stay, the Chinese reception staff became more approachable, giving the Americans the opportunity to chat privately - not that the reception staff were not kind and polite before, but they were more cold and polite before, and they were more diplomatic.

Naturally, Wang Lie couldn't wait to step around, looking for an opportunity to open his mouth under the pretext of official business.

The hard work paid off, and a few minutes later, he really caught a chance.

"Miss Ye, can I ask you a few questions about the itinerary? ”

Taking advantage of Ye Kun's passing, Wang Lie put on a very gentlemanly appearance and occupied a booth in the tea bar on the side of the hall.

His excuse was business, and Ye Su couldn't help but go.

However, this is just a semi-enclosed booth, not an isolated box, and there is nothing to sit in. This kind of occasion was originally used to talk about some first-time business exchanges, and it was relatively quiet.

Each table is at least four or five meters apart, and there are fences and curtain-style screens that only expose the head and neck after sitting, so that they can speak in a low voice so as not to be heard by outsiders.

Ye Su sat down as he said: "What does Mr. Xiao Wang want to ask? ”

A waitress next to her came over with two cups of coffee, apparently Wang Lie had already ordered an order before Ye Kun sat down, and told the waiter that he would wait for the drink to expire.

Ye Kun and the waitress walked away a few steps, which was considered to save face for the other party, and then pushed the cup euphemistically: "I don't drink coffee, just say something if you have something." ”

Wang Lie cleared his throat: "Miss Ye, I still said the same thing last time, I admire your talent and cultivation, we can make friends." Last time, you said that your house was a little inconvenient, so I went back to find out about the situation.

It's been five months since we first met, and as far as I know, you should be convenient, could you consider my suggestion? ”

Ye Kun's face turned slightly cold, and politely refused: "Mr. Xiao Wang, we have work discipline, and we can't have personal relationships with foreign guests beyond work, please don't interfere with my career." ”

"It's only a lot of money to be a diplomat, but our Wang An Computer is a big company with a market value of $4 billion. ”

Ye Kun said pityingly: "I don't want to tell you more, Mr. Xiao Wang, I hope you recognize the current situation." The reason why we also received a courtesy reception this time is for the sake of Time Warner's organization, and also for the major media companies under Time Warner to see the new business atmosphere in China——

Not every guest invited by the times has reference value for us. I want you to be a little more restrained, so it's good for you as well. I am for your good, lest thou sin against those whom ought not be offended, and there shall be many after me. ”