Chapter 111: The Lobbyist Comes to the Door

The sound of rain outside the window is subtle, and the fragrance of tea is curling in the house.

Atletico held the teapot in his hand and looked intently at the line of tea.

Fill the cup in front of the guest first, followed by your own tea cup.

Lao Jia has other things to do, and he has been away for a long time. Sitting across from him now was a middle-aged man who looked a little older. He wears a casual suit and no glasses, but he gives people the feeling of wearing a suit, tie, and gold-rimmed glasses, which reminds people of those financial elites who go in and out of Lujiazui in Shanghai and Hong Kong Island Central every day, and take care of hundreds of billions of funds under their hands.

Actually, this feeling is not wrong at all, and the person opposite is indeed a financial elite from Central. It can even be said that he is the head of the elite, because his title (title, position, title) is the chief executive officer of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Although the meeting between Atletico Madrid and Lao Jia is confidential, it cannot be hidden from those at the top who have resources and power, especially these guys who play finance. As soon as his plane landed, President Li of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange called to make an appointment, and when Lao Jia left, he arrived as scheduled.

Taking the tea handed by Atletico Madrid, Li Jia took a sip of polite praise and started his conversation.

He didn't rush to spread out his business, but started his daily routine. This person grew up in the northwest and studied at the School of Foreign Languages of Luda University as an undergraduate, and Ma's early experience was somewhat similar to his, and the two of them happened to talk about the changes in Luda and the development of the western region.

Of course, the similarities between the two end there. Atletico Madrid has neither the experience of studying in the United States, nor the qualifications to work in foreign companies, nor has he participated in major events such as the overseas listing of state-owned enterprises.

Following the line of work experience, Li Jia slowly shook out his purpose, he came to persuade and promote IPO (initial public offering) services.

It is said that banks are "borrowing umbrellas on sunny days and collecting umbrellas on rainy days", brokerages and exchanges are actually similar, the more eager enterprises are for funds, the greater the risk, the less easy it is to get their favor, but it is the bees that develop healthily and have abundant funds in enterprises, which are the objects they are eager to serve.

Knowing that people are not short of money, Mr. Li did not dwell on technical issues such as financing costs and handling fees, but just talked about the benefits of listing compliance to enterprises. He is very confident that Hong Kong stocks, which have been in development for a longer period of time, have the advantage of being more mature and more open than the mainland stock market, which is often convulsive.

"Overseas listing can be said to be the most important part of the reform process of state-owned enterprises. The reason why central enterprises want to promote them to overseas markets in the first place is to improve the corporate governance environment with the help of the mature and strict regulatory system of overseas markets and reduce the impact of human background relationships on business operations, and the performance of related companies also proves this. ”

"As for the benefits of overseas listing to private enterprises, it is impossible to say enough, otherwise those well-known Internet companies will not go public one after another. ”

Atletico smiled and interjected: "Then they got together to privatize and delist." ”

Li Jia was prepared for a long time and easily took this counterexample, "Chinese concept stocks are delisted from the NASDAQ because their stock prices have been depressed for a long time, and the controllers want to change the market to seek a higher PE (price-earnings ratio). Looking at the stock price of the goose factory, if it had been listed directly on the Hong Kong stock market, there would have been no such trouble. ”

In fact, there are many untruths in Lao Li's words.

Hong Kong stocks are known for strict supervision, and there are still "China Forestry Industry 00930" and "Xuguang High-tech 00067", which are the best pit goods, and the "fairy stocks" that do not pay for their lives have become characteristic products, and they can get a large amount of "tuition" every year.

As for the listing of Chinese network stocks on the Hong Kong stock market, it is a very unlikely event. The reason why those companies went to the other side of the Pacific to go public in the first place was not only due to the reasons behind the American venture capital such as Sequoia Capital and IDG, but also because the local exchanges such as the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange were not interested in it and could not give satisfactory valuations.

It is precisely because the main force has gone to the U.S. stock market that the goose factory has become the only seedling in the network technology sector of the Hong Kong stock market, and it has been favored by thousands of people to obtain a price-earnings ratio of 50 times, which is a big cut off from various conventional enterprises. What's even crazier is that a number of Internet companies that remain listed in the mainland are seeing that companies with inferior performance enjoy 100 times the price-earnings ratio in A-shares and make a lot of money.

Atletico naturally knew these things, but they didn't say anything about them. He smiled and listened quietly the whole time, only occasionally nodding politely, and his unmoved attitude was quite obvious. Naturally, this was also noticed by Li Jia.

Seeing that people were not interested in the overall listing, he threw out the backup plan and talked about Bee Pictures.

Putting down the teacup, he said with a smile: "By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, 'The Wandering Earth' has entered the 70s before film history, and we are also honored!"

Thanks to the continuous rise of the North American box office, the global box office of "The Wandering Earth" has successfully exceeded 5 billion yuan, which makes its ranking on the global film history box office list jump to 66, and it can rise several times every day There are nearly 30 films with a box office of 7~800 million US dollars, and every time the box office increases by millions of dollars, it can step on a competitor.

"Thank you. In fact, we are also a little surprised and lucky to have this result. ”

"There is no fluke, it is all well deserved," Li Jia waved his hand, as if to sweep away Atletico's polite modesty, "The domestic market is getting bigger and bigger, and the requirements of consumers are getting higher and higher, as long as you make a good movie that meets the demand, it is natural to reap an amazing box office." ”

"By the way, in addition to Director Zhang's 'Zhang Qian's Biography', what other big productions do you have below?"

Atletico Madrid glanced up at the other party, "For the time being, there is only one 'Fengshen List' in post-production, and the investment scale of other films is only medium." ”

Lao Li quickly grasped the point and asked, "Is it because there is a problem with the funds?"

"No, it's a team problem," Atletico reluctantly, "the current manpower and scale can only take on a big-budget film." ”

"Then don't you dare to go public soon? Bee Pictures' business indicators in the past were very good, and now it has created a record in Chinese film history, and now it is the right time to go public!"

Atletico nodded, "Thanks for the suggestion, I'll consider it." ”

As for whether he listened or not, only he knew.

Seeing that the other party's oil and salt did not enter, Li Jia did not stalk him, and quickly got up to say goodbye.

Atletico Madrid also got up, "Senior, I'll send you!"

"No hassle. ”

"It's okay, I'm just going to check out the Science Park. ”

Three minutes later, the elevator hall on the first floor of the hotel.

"Ding!"

The elevator opened, and a group of people stepped out of it and walked towards the hotel door.

When he arrived at the exit, Li Jia, who was combing his parted hair, stopped, turned around and said goodbye: "Ma Dong, please stay!"

The official title was changed, and Atletico Madrid also became official, stretching out his right hand to shake it, "President Li, goodbye!"

"Goodbye!" After completing the farewell hand, Mr. Li raised his hand and waved goodbye to everyone, and left the hotel with his two subordinates.

Seeing the guests leave, Atletico put down his hand, glanced at the corner of the hall without a trace, turned to the others and said, "Okay, let's go too!"

Everyone walked out of the hotel and got into the car that had just driven by.

The car started, and Atletico closed their eyes and pretended to sleep as usual, letting their thoughts sink into their minds, and using this time to watch the news.

Because the transfer of controlling stake in listed companies needs to report the relationship between the regulatory level, the news that Bee Mobile took over the Kupai Group has been exposed, and it has become one of the hot news in the financial pages of most Chinese media. As for the headlines, it is the news that Wanda sold its hotels and Rongchuang borrowed money to take over, compared with the big news of tens of billions, the bee billion takeover of the cool brand is really nothing.

In the illusory mental space, news of the same title from different media on both sides of the strait are densely arranged, and the keywords of news elements are highlighted in color, forming a huge color barrier, which allows him to see the difference and abnormality at a glance: not only are there obvious differences in the narrative of media reports, but the attitudes of the comments received by netizens are also very different, far beyond the scope of normal floating.

He was not surprised by this result.

In fact, he deliberately opened so many news stories with the same title precisely to study a related topic.

The more closed the living environment and the less information they get, the more likely it is for people to listen to and believe partially, and become narrow-minded and extreme.

Educators, orators, religious inventors, and insurance trainers throughout the ages have used this trick to a greater or lesser extent, but the best one has been used by the Southern Mission. No matter how highly educated you are and how knowledgeable you are, as long as you enter someone's training camp, it is difficult to escape the charming charm of "National Secret Project: 1040". Although Nanchuan advertises freedom to come and go, most people still can't help but pay for it, and then stay to eat cabbage and gnaw potatoes, just to realize the dream of 10.4 million yuan faster.

Originally, this kind of "closed training bath" trick was only used by a few people, but the popularity of smartphones and mobile Internet has expanded it.

The screen size of the mobile phone is limited, and only a small amount of text and pictures can be displayed, and the mobile phone has limited memory and home screen space, so only a small number of commonly used apps can be installed. Due to the limitations of hardware, people can only consciously or unconsciously accept a small number of messages from others' "selected recommendations", coupled with information overload encroaching on reading time, and repeated recommendations by machine algorithms to strengthen impressions, in fact, forming the effect of "closed brainwashing".

Over time, users of different applications and different mobile phone stations will have obvious cognitive barriers, and the growing phenomenon of contempt chain on the Internet, and even the escalating regional discrimination, all have a share of the "credit" of smartphones.

This is obviously an unhealthy and abnormal situation, and people of insight have noticed this problem and have come up with their own solutions.

As a believer in technological progress, Atletico Madrid believes that this kind of problem cannot be solved by asking questions and blocking complaints, and that the problems caused by current technology can only be solved by better technology, such as better and more rational news push and display rules, and AR glasses with a larger viewing angle.

Time flew by, and by the time he closed his eyes to study, the car had already passed through the city of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and drove a long distance northeast to finally arrive at the Hong Kong Island Science Park next to CUHK.

The location is quite remote, there are no large urban areas around, but it also has a beautiful scenery to its own. As far as the eye can see, there is a bay to the east, and the area with a distinctly different water color further away is the famous Plover Cove Freshwater Lake. If you climb the hill to the west, you can see the main city of Shenzhen, which is 30 kilometers away.

Due to the relationship between the export-oriented port trade and economy, before the 1950s, the core urban area of Hong Kong Island was confined to both sides of Victoria Bay, and later it had to be further developed in other areas such as the New Territories in the north, and a number of old and new towns were built and rebuilt one after another, focusing on the development of industry, maritime transportation and scientific research. The Hong Kong Science Park (HKSP), which was established in 2001, is a product of this policy.

The Hong Kong Science Park is an official-led, corporatized, and large-scale equipment sharing scientific research industrial park. At the outset, five major research areas were identified: Circuit Electronics, Information Technology and Communications, Precision Engineering, Biotechnology and Green Technology, with an attempt to secure the future of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry by helping the development of new and high-tech technologies.

Unfortunately, in order to reduce the vacancy rate, the Science Park had to open up to other types of R&D enterprises, attracting hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from high rents, and Bee Games (Hong Kong Island) also moved in a few years ago.

Beyond the cobblestone-shaped Charles Kao Convention Center, Atletico and his party soon arrived at the office area of Bee Tour Hong Kong Island. Because they are not start-ups that have settled in incubators, their office space is quite spacious, with thousands of them, which is a luxury on Hong Kong Island, where every inch of land is at a premium.

1 square foot is about 0.093 square meters, and the so-called Qianda office is actually only more than 100 square meters, which can be seen at a glance. Fortunately, there aren't a lot of staff here, and it's not too crowded.

Due to the high cost of local manpower, Beegame had to reduce manpower and entrust all labor-intensive tasks such as programming, art, and sound effects to Beegame's resource center in the mainland, and only retained positions such as R&D manager and operation manager. So what remains here are a group of "manager" level people, and the rank on the badge is not lower than P5/M5.

The reason for this is also related to the R&D environment on Hong Kong Island. Due to the lack of professional education and large companies, most game developers here start from hobbies and prefer to go it alone, and it has become the norm for one person to do planning, copywriting, numerical values, and development. Bee Tour Hong Kong Island opened and recruited new people, and did not deliberately reverse this situation, anyway, what they do here are some strategic and casual mobile games, with the help of the rear resource center, and "single" development is not a problem at all.

Shaking hands with everyone, Atletico Madrid saw their works, most of them were decent, but there were also a few eye-catching works, such as a martial arts game called "Wulin Qunfangpu". On the surface, it seems to be a martial arts game that fights monsters and upgrades, but in essence, it is a love game that brushes up on goodwill and accepts girls. He paid attention to the character design, although there was no obvious transparency and exposure, but each style was very attractive, and it was obvious that there was an excellent art director.