Chapter 249: Discerning Gold
"Ah Hong, I don't seem to see her, you shouldn't be alone today, right?" Xu Jiankui walked up to Li Xuan with a wine glass and said with a smile.
"She was a little unwell today and didn't come over!" Li Xuan explained.
"You idol lovers are envious of others! I was scolded by your sister-in-law that she didn't care about people. In order not to be used as a negative teaching material, I have already booked a one-week tour of Europe for two, do you have to reimburse me for the round-trip air ticket!" Xu Jiankui showed an expression of being affected by you.
The husband put aside all the affairs of a tens of billions of large companies, and accompanied his newlywed wife to his honeymoon wholeheartedly, and he went for more than a month, traveling all over Europe. Zhong Chuhong was called the happiest woman by the entertainment section of Hong Kong newspapers.
"This is a great opportunity for you to express your love to your sister-in-law, and you even want me to pay out of my pocket, aren't you afraid that my sister-in-law will be punished for kneeling on the keyboard when I go back?" Li Xuan scolded with a smile.
Xu Jiankui didn't react for a while, and was stunned for a moment before he understood what Li Xuan meant: "You people in the science and technology world are just not ordinary, and husbands and wives use keyboards instead of washboards when they quarrel! Have you already experienced it yourself? I'll go back and break the news to reporters, the news of your first couple in Hong Kong is very valuable!"
"I look like the kind of person who is sluggish! Ah Hong is notoriously virtuous, I say that she will never say two! The red flag at home does not fall, and the colorful flags flutter outside, not to mention how moisturized my life is now!" Li Xuan opened his mouth and said boastfully.
"I think after you get married, you are really a little different, more and more like the people in my generation! Being empowered by a master outside the world, the realm has improved very quickly!" Xu Jiankui smiled, "What about your confidante, you have the ability to bring her out and make a bright appearance in the open! Bunting fluttering!"
Li Zhi has not returned to Hong Kong since Li Xuan returned to Shanghai to accompany her grandmother before her wedding. It is said that she hired a foreign language teacher in Shanghai to learn English, and the idea of studying in the United States, which she had mentioned to him before, began to pop up again.
Li Xuan knew that she was playing a little temper, and she solemnly married Zhong Chuhong here, held a sensational wedding of the century, and then took her newlywed wife to her honeymoon. Enjoy a sweet private space. But Lizhi can only be an underground lover with no name, and there must be a lot of sadness and sadness in her heart.
In fact, after Li Xuan returned to Hong Kong, he immediately called the beauty to appease her with kind words. But Lizhi was angry. He had to go to the mainland to pick him up before he was willing to return to Hong Kong. Li Xuan felt that he couldn't get used to her kind of problem, so as not to be even more pampered and arrogant in the future, so he was ready to dry her first. What's more, he has just returned to Hong Kong, and there are a lot of things in the company.
"Who is this next to you?" Li Xuan naturally wouldn't say these things to outsiders. So I simply changed the subject. He had already noticed that he stepped forward with Xu Jiankui. A bearded white man in a navy blue suit.
"You, the famous name of the 'God of Wealth Li,' have already crossed the sea and shocked overseas! Quietly another 300 million US dollars were recorded in the account, and the bank's money printing machine is not as fast as you! This ghost guy is a senior executive of my financial adviser, Merrill Lynch, who flew from the United States to Hong Kong, hoping to get to know you through my introduction!" Xu Jiankui explained, and the two of them continued to talk in Cantonese until finally he said in English, "This is my new friend." Mr. Carter Friedman of Merrill Lynch!"
Li Xuan smiled and shook hands with the other party: "Mr. Friedman, welcome to Hong Kong!"
"Mr. Lee. I'm Carter Friedman of Merrill Lynch Bank in charge of underwriting and listing business, you can just call me Carter! We at Merrill Lynch are very interested in the upcoming IPO plan of Computer Park Company, and we hope to have the opportunity to have in-depth communication with you!" Friedman said frankly.
"Of course!" Li Xuan nodded, "Merrill Lynch Bank is one of the most reputable and powerful investment banks on Wall Street, thank you for flying all the way to Hong Kong! I also very much look forward to the opportunity to cooperate with Merrill Lynch!"
These were the words of the scene, and Friedman did not dare to take the smiling young man in front of him lightly. "Personal computer" is becoming one of the hottest terms in American society at the moment. The rapid growth of the PC market has also made Wall Street generally optimistic about the companies related to it.
Even Apple, which has been unsatisfactory in the past year and has been declining in market share, many securities institutions still recommend their customers to continue to hold Apple shares. The listed company of the Oriental Group, Aikang Computer, is unanimously optimistic about American investors. Now another computer-related company of Oriental Company has suddenly launched a listing plan, which naturally attracted the attention of the entire Wall Street.
Relying on the continuous large-scale investment of the parent company, it has been far ahead of other competitors in the entire computer retail market, and has also taken the lead in starting a global layout. Although it has been losing money, this is nothing at all in the eyes of Wall Street, who are looking at the future development prospects. As for the dollar, the last thing Wall Street lacks is the dollar!
"Mr. Lee, the whole of Hollywood is now complimenting you for your insight! The clip of ET and Elliott playing Mario Bros. together in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is very interesting, and I bought my daughter an FC, which is indeed a great game console!"
Friedman was not in a hurry, and immediately communicated with Li Xuan about the matter of the computer park company. He's used to this kind of business reception, and he knows exactly what to talk about. It can't be too strict, it should be relaxed but it can resonate with the other party, so he immediately found a good entry point and began to praise Li Xuan enthusiastically.
"ET Alien" has been released in the United States on June 11, and the ugly alien instantly conquered the entire United States, and Li Xuan's investment last year also reaped a huge return. Oriental Games' FC home console, which appeared in the movie for more than half a minute.
There is such a scene in the plot of the movie, Elliott, the little boy who brought ET home, plays "Mario Bros. Brothers" in front of the TV on the FC game console. Elliott's level was very good, and the plumber he controlled died in a few moments. So ET, who was watching from the sidelines, used a special function on the TV. Mario on the TV screen is like an invincible plug-in, not controlled by the gamepad in Elliott's hand at all, automatically advancing and jumping, much more powerful than when he controls it, and the little boy glared at ET very depressedly.
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", an alternative sci-fi movie with a touch of warmth and full of children's truth, goodness and beauty, is undoubtedly the most talked about topic in the United States this summer. This can also be seen from the horror box office of the movie, "ET Alien" swept the box office charts immediately after its release, and has been the North American box office champion for 6 consecutive weeks. It surpasses Star Wars that year and has a good chance of replacing it as the new highest-grossing film of all time.
Now everything that has anything to do with "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" is on fire. Oriental Games' FC home consoles have been sold out like crazy under the impetus of movies. The "Mario Bros. game" that appeared in the movie originally slowed down after more than a year on the shelves, but with the blessing of this booster, it began to erupt again like chicken blood.
Not long ago, news broke that Atari had offered Universal Pictures $20 million to buy the game adaptation rights to the movie. But it was already in Li Xuan's pocket as early as last year. The CEO of Universal Pictures is now estimated to have fainted in the toilet crying. Universal Pictures originally thought that it had made a good deal, and it recouped half of the production cost of the movie by just relying on one advertising placement, but it didn't expect to end up suffering a big loss.
Oriental Games spent only $4 million, which brought an incredibly rich return. This is said to have been collected and analyzed by Harvard University as one of the most successful and successful business operation cases, and will soon appear in the teaching of MBA courses in the next semester.
And Oriental Games took advantage of this ET craze and launched a number of alien games in one go. For example, on the FC game console and the GameBoy handheld console released simultaneously, there is a small game called "ET Boarding the Ship Home". The content of the game is very simple, that is, ET keeps jumping up and down in the air, step by step, boarding the springboards, which are fast or slow, constantly moving back and forth, and finally arrive at the spaceship.
If the player can't control the rhythm and fails to jump to the next springboard at the right time, the ET will lose a life once it is empty. After losing three lives, the game is GameOver!
In Li Xuan's opinion, the quality of this game can only be regarded as a basic level, and it is far from being a classic game. But fans of the game are still buying like crazy and having fun. Judging from the player feedback collected by the game magazine "Game World" under the Oriental Group, the reputation of these new games launched by the Oriental Game Company is not bad.
In another time and space, Atari was playing the game adaptation of "ET Aliens", which led to the collapse of the entire North American home game console market, and Li Xuan naturally would not repeat the mistakes of the past. In the past year, the three major game R&D centers in Hong Kong, the United States and Japan under Oriental Games Company have proposed no less than 30 alien game ideas, and only 6 have been developed and approved for listing. These games may not be classics, but they definitely contain enough sincerity and are not shoddy. (To be continued......)