Chapter 14: Making Money Again
When I came to Martin's investment company on Wall Street, the company was busy at the moment, and people were in a hurry. Martin's office was even more smoky.
"Come on, man, sit down first! Mr. Schulke will come over later, William! Your information is still very accurate, now that the technology stocks of the Nasdaq have started to fall, we have found a lot of companies and investment banks to help us borrow stocks, and now not only us, but also some people are also not optimistic about technology stocks. Martin had a cigarette in his mouth, his hands pressed on his keyboard, and his eyes fixed on the computer screen.
"Really? Martin, my old fellow! You know I don't know much about this, I have to rely on the professionals, and all I can do is provide some information. Ji Mingzhe stood behind Martin, but he was dazzled by the stock market number graphics on his computer screen.
"But you know, often a piece of information is worth ten thousand dollars, and I didn't realize until today that I should have been born to do this, and I would have entered business school if I knew that I would study directing? I must be crazy. The two often talked about the structure and shooting skills of the film all night, fantasizing about winning the Oscar for director before the age of 30, and now Martin says this, Ji Mingzhe even suspects that the original Martin and the current one are not the same person.
Schulk hurriedly walked into the office and took out the team's agreement, the contract, for Ji Mingzhe and Martin to sign, and then slumped on the sofa.
"I really broke my leg, most of the stocks on the market were borrowed by us, you know? They looked at me like a fool, and we opened a lot of futures contracts to hedge the market, William! I hope you're right, we've got $900 million in it. If the stock market crashes as you mentioned, we're all going to have to jump off the building. Schulke was a little worried, as for Chi Mingzhe, who was very calm on the outside, but in fact, he was also a little panicked inside, afraid that if something happened, there would be no need to talk about anything, and he would be ready to reincarnate!
High-tech has been falling for several days in a row, but the magnitude is not much within the predictable range of the market, and some institutions even believe that it is preparing for a rebound in technical adjustment. Of course, most people think that the myth of technology stocks will continue, on Friday, April 14, the major rating agencies suddenly changed their faces, downgraded the ratings of technology stocks, pointed out that the risk and bubble storage, as soon as the market began to plummet, and many institutions were waiting, and some began to sell stocks, until the Nasdaq index fell from more than 5400 points to more than 400 points, and the entire market began to panic, and the network high-tech stocks finally collapsed. By April 16, hundreds of billions of dollars had evaporated from the entire stock market, and many investors had lost their money. A few days later, Chi Mingzhe divided the spoils with them in Martin's office, and took a check for $2.8 billion, and Chi Mingzhe thanked his father and Xiao Bowen in his heart for their souls in heaven, and he did not get carried away.
"Guys, I hope you stay tuned, and we'll see if there's any chance at the end of the year, and the speculators won't give up, so I'll go first." Ji Mingzhe was about to leave, and Martin expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Oh...... You're so sad for me, and I'm going to go crazy with you again in the evening. ”
"Martin, my good fellow! Calm down, we're going to be long. Ji Mingzhe gestured his finger and left Wall Street.
Chi Mingzhe came to the bank to cash the check, and in the reverent eyes of the account manager, he came to the Fifth Avenue located on the central axis of Manhattan Island, New York, this world-famous shopping street is crowded, which includes all the world's top brand stores, Chi Mingzhe is ready to spend here, he used to visit here when he was studying at New York University, but at that time it was just a poor student who could only look at it, walked into the most upscale bergdorfgoodman mall on the entire Fifth Avenue and walked around, and then entered the LV store to buy 7 limited edition women's backpacks, and bought two dozen suits in one breath at the Zegna men's clothing store"Yes, Lao Tzu is a rich man. In the strange eyes of the clerk, Chi Mingzhe filled in the delivery address and rushed to check out and leave. Of course, we didn't forget to give our cute little Xiujing a few expensive toys in the old FAOSchwarz toy store. He didn't miss it when he passed by the Piaget store, and when he came out, he had a $150,000 watch on his wrist.
Chi Mingzhe has a deep understanding of why women like shopping so much, on this extravagant street, anyone will not be able to stop buying, just want to care about tomorrow now. After tasting the delicious yellowfin trout, Ji Mingzhe boarded a special plane and flew back to Los Angeles.
Back at the record company, the gifts were handed out to the cheers of the girls, but of course Beyoncé and Kelly were still not here, and Ji Mingzhe was ready to hand them over. After the cute so-kyung got the toy, she kissed Ji Myung-cheol's face cracklingly, and even so-yeon and Mi-young kissed one of them in shame, not to mention our Miss Gaga-ga and Avril. Later, Chi Mingzhe, Perry and Huang Yiyu accompanied those theater managers to watch the edited version of "The Grim Reaper", and then negotiated and arranged the schedule. As the film's producer, Ji Ming-cheol began to launch publicity.
After spending $15 million in promotional funds, "The Grim Reaper is Coming" was released in the United States, and because it is a horror film, it is not available for all ages, but the first week of tickets reached $13.25 million, which was better than expected.
Chi Mingzhe founded another video website in Silicon Valley, which was the famous YouTube in later generations, and poached several computer software development talents from Silicon Valley through a headhunting company, one of which was actually Judd Karim, one of the founders of YouTube in the future. Chi Mingzhe put forward his ideas and ideas for this website, found a professional manager named Myron to manage the company, and arrogantly left a check for $200 million, and he left behind.
"Here Comes the Grim Reaper" did well at the box office, with $14.6 million in its second week and $15.9 million in its third week. On this day, Chi Mingzhe called Perry to the office to discuss whether to buy a company's flagship theater as the premiere of the company's future films. Perry thought about it for a long time and nodded in agreement.
Soon Chi Mingzhe set his sights on the United States United States for the United States Theater, which was built in 1927 by the United States Company, which was later merged into MGM. The theater is Spanish Gothic and has elaborate portraits of other Hollywood celebrities such as Bickford and Fairbanks painted on the walls. This theater is extremely luxuriously decorated, the walls and the top of all kinds of intricate sculptures carved in the light of the light like a palace, under the visit of the entourage Chi Mingzhe decided to take it, but this theater because of the age is very long, after buying it to spend a huge amount of money to renovate, so he deliberately lowered the price, when he learned that the Ace Hotel chain cinema is also interested in this theater, he no longer hesitated to spend 40 million US dollars directly to buy.
Then the renovation company paid $12 million to renovate, and when the Hollywood peers learned of Skyrim Pictures' big deal, they began to pay attention to this rival.
Ji Mingzhe knocked on Kelly's door at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night.
"Why did you come here at this time, weren't you in Beyoncé?" At this time, Kelly, who was wearing transparent pajamas, had a different style and was full of resentment.
"Hey...... Don't do that...... I miss you so much! You know, I can't promise you anything, but at least I promise you that I will make you worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life. Ji Mingzhe hugged Kelly and hugged her plump chest, sniffing her neck.
"William! You know that's not what I want, I love you! You know what? You brought me from my hometown to Los Angeles, I'm very grateful to you, and now I've made me famous overnight, I really don't know how to repay you, so I love you! Promise me! William, no matter how many women you have in the future, don't forget me, okay?" Kelly looked up at Ji Mingzhe with a mist in her eyes.
"I'm sorry! Kelly! It's my fault, baby...... I shouldn't have provoked you!I'm sorry!" Ji Mingzhe was a little moved, holding Kelly's head and kissing it deeply on the lips. Soon the atmosphere in the room heated up, kissing the tears on Kelly's face, Ji Mingzhe withdrew her pajamas and the two fell on the bed.
William...... I love you!...... I don't want to sing anymore,...... I'll give you a baby!hmm...... How......"
"I love you too!baby...... I promise you......"
The next day, at 8 o'clock in the morning, Ji Mingzhe got dressed, kissed Kelly who was still asleep, and came to the record company's studio to write a song "AllOfMe", which was written for Kelly and Beyoncé. Ji Mingzhe sat in front of the electronic piano and played slowly.
WhatwouldIdowithoutyoursmartmouth
Drawingmein,andyoukickingmeout
Gotmyheadspinning,nokidding,Ican‘tpinyoudown
What‘sgoingoninthatbeautifulmind
I‘monyourmagicalmysteryride
AndI‘msodizzy,don‘tknowwhathitme,butI‘llbealright……
"William, are you singing?" asked theNeptunes, the company's owner, pushing open the studio door,
"Is it okay to sing, can you make a record at this level?" Ji Mingzhe smiled.
"Of course, that's great! But you still have to adjust your breath, you sing it first, and I'll listen carefully." theNeptunes came to the stage and motioned for Chi Mingzhe to go to the recording studio in the middle of the room.
"Let's go!" theNeptunes picked up the headset.
With the help of theNeptunes, Chi finished recording the song, and theNeptunes asked him to consider releasing an album of his own, and as a gold medalist, he would have a good voice.
"The Grim Reaper is Coming" has been drawn, with a North American box office of more than $80 million and a global total box office of $140 million.
Ji Myung-cheol is ready to leave the United States and return to South Korea.