Chapter 173 Knowing Yourself and Knowing Your Enemy
"Second uncle, what do you think of the entertainment industry?"
Li Huayong's words greatly surprised the other three people in the room. Originally, everyone saw Li Huayong muttering there for a long time, looking like a master in the world, plus he pointed out that Uncle Li was the biggest competitor of this merger and acquisition, to be honest, everyone still had a lot of expectations for him, hoping that he could say something "constructive opinions".
I didn't want to wait for a long time, but I actually waited for such a sentence. What about the entertainment industry? Do you still need to ask, who doesn't know that the world is very good now, and the entertainment industry is simply full of flowers.
Lin Yinghu thought that Li Huayong was a hillbilly who had never seen the world, and then he gushed about how good the current market in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry is, and how to make money making movies.
"Everyone else doesn't say it, let's just talk about Lao Lei, Lei Sheng's background is very clear, he started with Kowloon Construction and Kowloon Bus, why does he have such a high status in the rivers and lakes now? It's not because he has a golden princess shadow line in his hand, and he also let him catch up with the good world....."
Li Huayong listened to him patiently, and when Lin Yinghu was almost dry, Li Huayong smiled and asked: "Is it really so easy to make money in the entertainment industry?" Then I have a question, why do I rarely see you top billionaires investing in the entertainment industry?"
"This...."
Lin Yinghu was so choked by Li Huayong that he couldn't speak, but Lin Wei helped her second uncle speak:
"Why not, look at Uncle Shao. ”
No one answered Lin Wei's words, whether it was Li Huayong or Lin Yinghu, they just glanced at Lin Wei, and no one took this stubble.
It must be admitted that Uncle Shao Liu is of course a wealthy man in Xiangjiang, and he is even one of the most famous rich people in Xiangjiang. However, then again, the reason why Uncle Shao Liu is famous is entirely because he has been mixing in the entertainment industry. This is also caused by a characteristic of the entertainment industry, the so-called "it is easy to seek fame and difficult to seek wealth", in fact, everyone knows that if it is only compared to wealth, then Uncle Shao is really not enough in the whole Xiangjiang.
Don't look at the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang now, which is extremely hot, but to be honest, Li Huayong is actually not optimistic about this industry. Not to mention that Li Huayong is a traverser, he knows that the good situation of the entertainment industry in Hong Kong has only been less than 10 years, even from the perspective of investment, the entertainment industry is not a good investment direction. It's not that the rate of return of this industry is not high, but the industry is full of too many uncontrollable things.
When you invest in a movie or a TV series, it's hard to know in advance whether the thing you make will be popular or not, and whether you will make money in the end. Li Huayong watched YY in his previous life, and saw many peers who traveled to join the entertainment industry, and then made a movie and made a TV series, but Li Huayong thought that this was really taken for granted.
To give a very simple example, Xing Ye's "Journey to the West" is classic enough, but this is one of the few loss-making works of Xing Ye back then. What does this mean? It shows that film and television works are very time-sensitive. Li Huayong can fully imagine that if he is now excited to join the entertainment industry, and then move those classic works of later generations to this era. So the consequences of doing so:
Well, maybe in a few years, I will become famous because of these works, but now, I may lose even my underwear. Therefore, as a famous saying in the investment world: the entertainment industry accepts irrational investment, and the real rational investment is never invested in the entertainment industry.
Li Huayong prides himself on being a sane person, so he has never considered the idea of mixing in the entertainment industry, maybe when he has money in the future, he can invest a little money in this circle to play, just like those coal bosses in Shanxi in later generations, but he hopes to make a fortune with this, to be honest, Li Huayong thinks that this is not reliable at all.
"Yongzai, we are now studying how to deal with Fourth Uncle Li, no one is discussing with you whether the entertainment industry is profitable or not, what are you doing with these things inexplicably?
"Of course it does!" Li Huayong's eyes were blazing:
"Now that we have determined that Fourth Uncle Li is our main opponent, it is necessary to figure out his true intentions, guess what he thinks, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, if we figure out what he thinks, we can formulate our next action plan. ”
Li Huayong looked at Lin Yinghu: "Second uncle, do you think Fourth Uncle Li is a sane person?"
"Well, it must be so. ”
"So among Lei Sheng's several industries, which one do you think Fourth Uncle Li values the most?"
Lin Yinghu looked at Li Huayong thoughtfully: "Yongzai, what do you mean to ......?"
"That's right!"
Li Huayong said very firmly: "We have all walked into the misunderstanding of thinking just now, Lei Sheng's core industry is the Golden Princess, yes, so we all focused on this just now, which is actually a bit crooked, because I can now be sure that Uncle Li is most interested in the construction of Kowloon, so we need to work hard in this direction to increase our chances of winning." ”
The reason why Li Huayong made such a judgment is also caused by a characteristic of the real estate industry in Xiangjiang. What does Uncle Li do? He is a well-known real estate developer in Hong Kong. And the big real estate developers in Xiangjiang have a habit of raising a construction team that is completely their own. This habit is different from that in China, due to the large number of construction enterprises in China, although the construction industry is strongly related to the real estate industry, it is rare for domestic real estate developers to have their own construction team. The most common model in China is for construction companies and real estate developers to form so-called "strategic partnerships". "For example, many engineering bureaus under Huaxia Construction General Manager have this kind of relationship with those well-known real estate companies in China, which means that where your real estate developer develops, I will do it with you.
However, the situation in Xiangjiang is different, the big real estate developers in Xiangjiang like to build their own houses, Li Chaoren has "Yangtze River Infrastructure", the Hu family has "Changhe Construction", and so on. One of the most excessive is the Wang family of Chinachem Group, that is, the one who was kidnapped and disappeared later, and made his wife the "richest woman in Hong Kong", when they developed real estate in their early years, from survey, design, construction, and even to later property management and even maintenance, they were completely doing it themselves, and there was no need for others to interfere at all.
It is precisely because of the habit of the real estate industry in Xiangjiang that Li Huayong made a judgment: what Uncle Li really values is actually the construction of Kowloon, as long as the construction of Kowloon is in hand, then Princess Jin is not a problem.
Lin Yinghu is also a decisive person, after listening to Li Huayong's judgment, he and Lao Lu glanced at each other:
"Yong Zai means that Kowloon Construction is the key to the entire merger and acquisition case, as long as Lao Lei is persuaded to sell Kowloon Construction to us, then Fourth Uncle Li is likely to retreat and lose interest in Princess Jin?"
Li Huayong nodded: "It should be like this." ”
"That's okay, then let's focus on the construction of Kowloon. Brother Quan, come on, let's study what to do next. ”