Once Cheng Xiaoyu's life wandered between two worlds, like the stars hanging in the sky at the turn of day and night, he stood on the edge of the two worlds, looking for himself, at that time, he knew very little about what was now, and he thought very little, what would happen in the future, he knew even less, and he didn't think much. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Day and night, the flow of time rolls away, bringing his life like a bubble to another year of Christmas, the new year is coming, the old year is about to pass, these times appear in the waves of the years, the fireworks flow the years, the vicissitudes of life, just like the rolling waves.

In the blink of an eye, 2015 is coming soon, and this is also a year of special significance for Cheng Xiaoyu, because the world line in his memory ended on November 7, 2015.

For him, the world of memories and the flashy dream-like world outside the window are two completely different worlds, but they are two worlds in the same vein without gaps, but at this moment he has completely accepted the fact that he only belongs to this world.

As for those memories of another time and space, they have become some details, some joys, some fragments of life that cannot be picked up, like a bottle of wine that has been aged for many years, only occasionally taken out and slowly savored in the quiet of the night.

He seems to have completely become Cheng Xiaoyu of this world.

.......

Winter in Monterrey is not much different from spring, the scenery here is very different from the scenery in other parts of California, the rest of the place is just dirt hills, some green trees, along the road are some residential buildings and farmland, unpretentious, natural.

But Monterrey's landscape is a different story, with vast expanses of lush woods and endless wheat fields and the vast blue Pacific Ocean.

At the moment he was standing at The.Fish.Hopper restaurant in Cannery Street in Monterrey, the busiest commercial district in the area, with narrow sidewalks, almost no street trees, and buildings already clinging to the street.

Parking here is very tight, basically parking along the road, and it is difficult to find a parking space.

In the large green space, there are basically no trees, shrubs are also very few, to plant low ground cover, grass flowers, miscanthus grass, flower landscape, beautiful and ingenious, especially in the sun is very comfortable.

Today, during the Christmas holiday, he chartered the restaurant The.Fish.Hopper, called a lot of crew members who did not go home for the holidays to party here, and specially invited Konstantin and her daughter Catherine to come to Monterrey for a vacation, Justin Bieber and James Walker, who has been promoted to the president of the Los Angeles branch of Wells Fargo.

Every table at Fish.Hopper has a beautiful view of Monterey Bay, and the restaurant is famous for its seafood and professional Black Angus beef, and Cheng Xiaoyu often comes to eat with Catherine Blanchett, so she is familiar with this place.

In order to coincide with the arrival of the big man Konstantin, Cheng Xiaoyu specially ordered the restaurant to prepare countless sumptuous home-cooked chili vodka, accompanied by fresh oysters, crab cake sliders, bacon shrimp, crab stuffed olives, pickled beans and Dungeness crab meat lemon cups, all of which are popular dishes of Russians.

Cheng Xiaoyu raised his glass and said to Konstantin with a smile: "You must order the 'Ultimate Seafood Bloody Mary', which is a brilliant culinary creation, the perfect flirt between cocktails and appetizers." ”

He was accompanied by Catherine Blanchett in a Versace dress, and Xia Shamo was in New York because she was going to attend the New Year's Eve concert.

Xu Qinning has completed the acquisition and reorganization of AMC, and now as the chairman of the board of directors, she went to Huaxia to participate in the annual meeting of the "Xichu Film Group" after the successful reorganization, and she went with Duanmu Linsha, who was the secretary of the board of directors.

In addition, Xu Qinning also has to participate in the promotion of the "Xi Yu" and "Yu" series of mobile phones.

On November 11, Xiaoyu's birthday, "Xi Yu" did not skip the ticket, launched the first mobile phone "Yu", and invited three spokespersons, Xia Shamo, Xu Qinning and Justin Bieber.

Cheng Xiaoyu filmed a nine-minute commercial and wrote two advertising songs, one in English "Let.It.Go".

Wang Ou continued to work with David Gill to start the casting of the film version of "Resident Evil", while Chen Haoran went to Europe, because "Citibank" and "Taifeng Capital" had already settled.

Cheng Xiaoyu invited Konstantin to Monterrey for the acquisition of EMI EMI.

Konstantin raised his glass and toasted with Cheng Xiaoyu, then ordered a final "Extreme Seafood Bloody Mary", and then said to Cheng Xiaoyu: "I hope your recommendation is not wrong.....

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled, looked at the snow treasure dolls in "Frozen" placed around him, and said meaningfully: "Mr. Constantine, you know, I rarely make mistakes. ”

At this moment, the theme song of "Frozen" is playing in the stereo "Let.It.Go", which is a cartoon produced by "Xichu" for all ages, which landed in major theaters during the Christmas schedule, and set off a frenzy of movie-watching and quickly swept all countries around the world.

Konstantin smiled and said, "Congratulations on another success.... But you specially invited me over, didn't you want me to have confidence in the box office of "Titanic"? Our agreement does not include a box office share. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu accepted Konstantin's investment of 200 million US dollars, but he couldn't get a penny of the box office share, and Cheng Xiaoyu just used it to help him launder some of the money.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Mr. Constantine, in fact, you have another business to discuss, you should know that the private equity giant Guy Hands gave up on the judicial battle between him and the investment bank Citigroup on his 2009 acquisition of EMI. ”

Konstantin himself is also in banking and finance, of course, he knows Ge Hansi, the financial predator known as the European Buffy, he nodded and signaled that he knew.

Cheng continued: "This also means that Taifeng Capital has completely relinquished control of EMI Records, at which time Citibank has already launched acquisition negotiations with EMI Records, including syco music, a music rights management company jointly established by US private equity firm KKR and Bertelsmann of Germany, Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. ”

Everyone on Wall Street knows about this, and Konstantin can't be unaware.

Cheng Xiaoyu paused, and said very solemnly: "Now there is one more 'Sound of Rain Music Company'!"

Hearing this, although Konstantin had been prepared, he was still surprised, after all, EMI Baidai Industry is expected to sell for four billion dollars, he didn't expect Cheng Xiaoyu to have such great ambitions and want to swallow elephants.

Konstantin glanced at James Walker, who was sitting next to him, and said, "What's the matter? Wells Fargo didn't finance you enough?"

James Walker wiped his mouth with funds and said: "Although more than 4 billion US dollars is not much, it is really not small, although Wells Fargo took it out, and Mr. Cheng's qualifications and credit are no problem, but you are also in finance, of course you know that our bank naturally wants to be able to thin the risk as much as possible....."

Konstantin didn't know much about the music and entertainment industry, but so many big companies flocked to it, and naturally it was valuable, and he frowned and said: "The opponent seems to be a little bit unusually strong!

Only Cheng Xiaoyu knows that for his "Sound of Rain", the biggest competitors are Sony Entertainment and Universal Music Group, and in his memory, EMI EMI was finally spun off, and the two businesses of record and distribution were sold to Sony and Universal respectively, and finally sold for $4.1 billion.

The reason why it was split and sold was to pass the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. antitrust regulator, that is, the antitrust law is the biggest good news for Cheng Xiaoyu at this moment.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Mr. Constantine, you are wrong, it is precisely because I am a small company that I have an advantage! In November, Sony submitted an application for this transaction to the EU regulators, but the EU regulators issued a condition to Sony, that is, it must sell Virgin Britain (Virgin.UK), Virgin Europe (Virgin.Europe), and Virgin America (Virgin). U.S.) The deal is subject to regulatory approvals in Australia and Brazil for the global distribution rights to four best-selling music catalogues, including the UK's Famous Music (Famous.Music.UK), and 12 well-known singers, including Robbie Kravitz and Lenny Cruz. ”

"Sony is currently the world's fourth-largest music publishing company, behind Universal Music, EMI and Warner. Once this deal is completed, the company will become the world's largest company! It also means that they will face tough antitrust investigations!"

According to the FTC, EU regulators are expected to make a decision in the coming months on another, more controversial deal related to this, in which Universal Music Group plans to buy EMI Group's record business from Citi for $1.9 billion. ”

"Look, how much of an advantage this should be for us?" Cheng Xiaoyu directly used the word us.

At this moment, Chen Haoran and Yi Yunfei are lobbying in Europe for EU regulators to reject the transaction application, and even if they can't refuse, they hope to set up more obstacles for Sony and Universal.

Cheng Xiaoyu was talking to James Walker and Konstantin at this time, hoping that Wells Fargo and Konstantin's MFK Bank would lend to "Sound of Rain" so that he could complete the acquisition of all the businesses of EMI EMI.

At this time, he has a total of $1.9 billion in cash in Wells Fargo, which is an extremely large number, but it is still at least $2.2 billion short of his full acquisition of EMI EMI.

Of course, with 1.9 billion cash, it is no problem to borrow a little bit with his credit in rich countries to just buy the publishing business of Baidai, but the problem is that it is better for Citi to sell Sony than to buy only one business, unless Cheng Xiaoyu is willing to let Citi slaughter it, and even hundreds of millions of dollars more.

Instead of being slaughtered, it is better to eat EMI Momoyo whole in one go, so that Citi does not need to spend a lot of energy and money on public relations and lobbying for the US antitrust regulators and EU regulators, and there is no need to spin off and sell, and Citi will have a lot less trouble.

Cheng Xiaoyu also has the qualifications to negotiate with Citi.

Cheng Xiaoyu has consulted James Walker for a long time, and James Walker has promised Cheng Xiaoyu that he will receive at least $1.2 billion in financial support from Wells Fargo, but hopes that Cheng Xiaoyu can bring in an investor.

After thinking twice, Cheng Xiaoyu decided to pull Konstantin up, hoping that he could support him in buying Baidai......

In fact, at this time, Cheng Xiaoyu has not yet made a takeover offer to Citigroup, after all, he has not yet finished Konstantin, and today his task is to persuade Konstantin to become his own help in acquiring Baidai.....

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