Chapter 614: Shameless to see Murdoch
The second son of "Li Superman" wants to "fly solo", which is not a trivial matter in Hong Kong and even in the Chinese business circle, which has attracted the attention of all parties for a while. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoYou must know that Li Jiacheng is the richest man in Hong Kong, and even the richest Chinese on the surface, and his every move naturally attracts everyone's attention - and this is still a big matter related to the future of Cheung Si and Hutchison.
To a certain extent, Li Zekai's "solo flight" has made it clear to all circles in Hong Kong that Li Jiacheng's arrangements for the heirs of the Li family -- that is, Li Zeju, the son of the Li family, will keep his business, and Li Zekai, the second son of the Li family, will start a business. In this way, the inheritance of the property of the Li family, which everyone has been worried about, has been solved, which can be regarded as stabilizing the confidence of Cheung Kong and Hutchison investors to a certain extent.
However, in this way, everyone is even more curious, how much money did "Li Superman" give his second son as the funds for "flying solo", you know, this involves the distribution of the Li family's huge property.
didn't let the melon-eating crowd speculate for a long time, and soon, a piece of hot news completely satisfied everyone's curiosity and doubts.
On the third day when Su Chenyu and Li Zekai became "Hong Kong partners" on a luxury yacht, "Sing Tao Daily" broke a big news - "MGM and Hutchison Whampoa reached an agreement to acquire 50% of the shares of Startv in the hands of Hutchison at a sky-high price of 500 million US dollars."
In the eyes of ordinary people, this news is not exciting at all, at most it is just a surprise that MGM has entered Hong Kong in a big way. However, in the eyes of insiders, this news contains too many things, and it is too exciting.
The most critical of these is that the start-up capital given by "Li Superman" to Li Zekai, the second young master of the Li family, can be determined, which is undoubtedly the $500 million that MGM acquired from StartV. In the upper-class community in Hong Kong, no one knows that it has always been Li Zekai who has been managing startv on behalf of Hutchison Whampoa, and it has been rumored a long time ago that startv is the "capital ammunition" prepared by "Li Chaoren" for the second son.
Now it seems that if this is the case, Li Zekai's $500 million in cashing out startv will definitely be used to "fly solo", and it seems that the action is not small, after all, it is $500 million, not $5.
In addition, what everyone didn't expect was that Murdoch's News Corp. was talking to Li Zekai about acquiring Startv's shares?
You know, MGM has been amazing in recent years, with the full rise of its core industry MGM Pictures, coupled with the successive entry into new lines, Mira Max and other production companies, it is no exaggeration to say that the current Hollywood is dominated by MGM. Don't believe it, just look at the box office rankings in recent years, MGM has produced, distributed and produced films that almost dominate the top few on the list, and it really crushes giants such as Time Warner, Paramount, Disney and 20th Century Fox.
In addition to killing all sides in the core film industry, MGM has also continued to expand its peripheral industries, such as the wholly-owned acquisition of Marvel and Blockbuster, two major upstream and downstream industry companies. This is nothing, after all, no matter how big you do around the film industry, it is just a film company, but this guy has directly put his foot into the media industry, which makes many people feel explosive.
A world-class film company is not terrible, but a world-class media group is a bit scary, and after MGM took over Sky TV from Tianchen Fund, it can be regarded as officially stepping into the media circle. The most important thing is that under Peter Chenin's drastic reforms, Sky TV, which was originally a money-losing commodity in the hands of News Corporation, actually made a profit of 100 million pounds that year with the newly arrived Premier League broadcast.
Truth be told, Sky TV's sudden success at MGM has taken many people by surprise and made some people feel a big gloom on their faces - like our News Corp. Mr. Murdoch.
Yes, Murdoch felt that he was fooled by Su Chenyu, and he gave up the Sky TV shares in his hand so easily, and at this moment, looking at Sky TV, which has an annual profit of nearly 200 million pounds, Murdoch feels as if he has been dogged.
However, this is not the most painful, the most painful thing is that he met this guy surnamed Su in Hong Kong again, and he specially intercepted his own Hu.
After getting the news of MGM's acquisition of startv, Murdoch really wants to kill people, this Nima has a grudge against himself, doesn't he?
However, this time, regardless of whether Su Chenyu is a plague god or not, Murdoch has to talk to him, because he wants to use the favor that Su Chenyu owes him - when Su Chenyu fooled Murdoch, he promised to help him enter the Hong Kong market and the mainland market. However, Murdoch turned his head now and felt that Su Chenyu was probably "painting cakes" for himself, and he felt that it was better to use this favor first, and not to give himself an "expired invalid" at that time.
In fact, the most important thing is that startv is really important to Murdoch's News Corp., because it is a crucial step for News Corp. to enter the Hong Kong and Chinese-language media circles. Moreover, Murdoch has also decided to use Hong Kong as a bridgehead to radiate the influence of News Corp. to the mainland, and once the mainland government relaxes its control over the media industry, he can rush in to grab the jackpot in one fell swoop.
In any case, Murdoch and News Corp. must plant the flag in Hong Kong, and there must be no mistakes, so Murdoch decided to find Su Chenyu to repay his favor and ask him to sell Startv to himself - he has already found out, Su Chenyu is a wholly-owned shareholder of StartV through MGM.
Moreover, Murdoch knew that Su Chenyu was absolutely in Hong Kong now, otherwise, this guy would not have been able to get Li Zekai so quickly, so as to sell him the shares of Startv.
Murdoch naturally had Su Chenyu's contact information, so he dialed it directly......
At this time, Su Chenyu, who was accompanying Zhong Chuhong through the two-person world, knew that he had been "targeted", so he directly picked up the phone and connected it, and then he was embarrassed.
"Oh, Mr. Murdoch, it's been a long time, haven't you been in touch?"
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"Ask me to have afternoon tea at The Peninsula Hotel tomorrow?
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"The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow? Okay, let's do it tomorrow. ”
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"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow afternoon. ”
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Hung up the phone quite awkwardly, Su Chenyu couldn't help but smile bitterly, hey, it's okay now, Murdoch recognized him this time, he had to see him, and he couldn't even push it off.
None of this is a problem, the key is that Su Chenyu is really shameless to see Murdoch......