Chapter 144: A Word for the Devil
After pressing Akimoto Yasushi to the negotiating position of the empty glove white wolf, Gu Cheng obviously had the absolute initiative in the negotiations. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"I want to promote Renren and YY in Fuso, but this bargaining chip is far from enough - as long as I am willing to give up the position of the partner, no matter who I give it to, they can negotiate with Ai Hui Records or Sony Records on my terms. In that case, why do I have to choose you as a surrogate? Are your connections and qualifications in the circle valuable? ”
Gu Cheng's words were very straightforward, hitting Qiu Yuanyasu's weakness.
Yes, although Akimoto Yasu has mediation and connections, this is not the most scarce resource in this transaction.
This dead fat man is replaceable, and Gu Cheng can find another spare tire.
Qiu Yuankang broke out a cold sweat for a while, squeezed out a smile that only a man understands, and then euphemistically tried to signal Gu Cheng that he naturally had another private supplement afterwards.
Quan Baoya was angry for a while, and she was almost about to go into the pillow and slandered Gu Cheng to drive this hateful dead fat man out.
Fortunately, Gu Cheng reacted decisively and directly rejected Qiu Yuanyasu's proposal.
"No, just say anything right here, and don't expect to send me any secret terms of the deal in private."
Gu Cheng knew very well that if he didn't explicitly refuse that kind of deal, maybe in a few days, Yasu Akimoto would stuff the little loli such as Yuko Oshima, Atsuko Maeda, and Eina Ono into his bed for him to ravage.
He has no shortage of women, and he has never even played with such a cold and innocent Fuso little beauty as Maki Horikita, how can he look for those wild girls who are not good-looking.
Yasushi Akimoto saw that the negotiation was cold, and finally tried to struggle: "That...... Why don't you give you a symbolic amount of money and I will leave you 20% of the future AKB48 brokerage company? I really couldn't have any more, I almost didn't have any equity left, and the 20% was already squeezed out of the share that was planned to be given to other partner record labels. ”
Gu Cheng didn't look down on AKS's equity at all, so it was a big fart. However, he saw that the heat was almost over, and he didn't want to delay Qiu Yuanyasu anymore, so he put forward his request straightforwardly.
Very straightforward way.
"I don't like your equity. However, in the future, I will win the exclusive online broadcast rights of AKB's music videos, and I can give you 100 million yen a year - this is an addition.
In addition, you can help me to bring a message to Sony, I intend to set up a joint venture with them in Fuso to establish a subsidiary of Alipay, and I will allow Sony to add a local financial institution in Fuso, and the total capital will be 30%. I want to get a third-party network payment license in Fuso, which will be used for the network canvassing business of Renren/YY in Fuso in the future. ”
Akimotoyasu's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed, "I'm just a musician!" How can there be energy to influence the financial world, you think too highly of me. ”
"Please listen to my request! I'm talking about a third-party network payment license, not an online financial license, just payment! It's not as hard as you think. Sony sells PS digital games online, and the B2C online payment accepted is not small, right? As far as I know, they also have a business of paying other brands.
Besides, you're just bringing a message, invite someone from Sony Music, and whether the rest of the matter works out or not, I can support your AKB48 project. ”
When Gu Cheng said this, he made Qiu Yuankang a little quieter.
Historically, there was a big gap between the license required by Alipay and the license required by Yue Bao later. To do online financial fundraising, the nature is very serious, Ma Feng later simply got an MYbank license for this reason, and got all kinds of franchise permissions.
And later, with Alipay's going overseas, Dongyi cooperated with Dongyi's local banks and established a joint venture subsidiary to obtain a financial license, which realized Alipay's "Incheon landing". When I went to the Three Kingdoms, I also cooperated with PayTm, a local company in Ahsan, and Ahri and Ant Financial were only responsible for the holdings, and the operation was still owned by PayTm.
Therefore, there is never a trivial matter in the business involving financial payment, and governments around the world are very strict in controlling the suspicion of illegal fundraising.
Fortunately, Gu Cheng didn't have any move to absorb savings and pay interest, he just wanted to play the edge ball from B2C online payment to C2C online payment, and this kind of thing has been done by Sony on Fusang's side, but C2C has not become bigger, Sony is more just selling its own things. (It is equivalent to the difference between Jingdong and Taobao)
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After understanding that he was only responsible for the errand boy role of "the devil asked me to bring you a message", Akimoto Yasusu was not embarrassed to stay at Asakusa Villa any longer, and said goodbye awkwardly.
Before leaving, Yasu Akimoto only tactfully mentioned one thing to Gu Cheng: I heard that the NICONICO website in Dongyi is also cooperating with S-M Company in the "Girls' Generation" draft, and it will also involve fans in the online paid voting business in the future. If Gu Cheng can get this third-party payment license in Dongyi first and provide a positive precedent, then it will be easier for him to help find Sony's people to mediate, and the success rate will be higher.
Regarding this proposal, Gu Cheng naturally signaled that the other party did not need to worry, it was already in his plan - he was in Dongyi, and he had relatives who were high-ranking officials in the Ministry of Culture and Sports. With some high-level officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they also had friendships and political achievements on the issue of the "Kaesong North and South Development Zone" that year.
Dongyi's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for both diplomacy and commerce. Gu Cheng is very sure to get the entry license for foreign-funded online payment.
Hearing that Gu Cheng was so sure, Qiu Yuankang officially hit the road.
Although he doesn't have much energy, he knows a lot of people in major record companies. And after all, wealth moves people's hearts, wealth and wealth promote people to take risks, and Akimoto Yasu knows best how much benefit he has personally after this matter is promoted - in the next three years, who is popular in the Fusang singer circle and who is not popular, it is up to him to decide. In the future, it will no longer be possible to produce Ayumi Hamasaki, Masa Gon, Namie Amuro, Mika Nakajima, and Hikaru Utada...... Such a SOLO goddess too. The era of SOLO will pass with the rise of Internet MV videos, and the future will be mostly a combination of parts.
So within a few days, he helped Gu Cheng bring the words.
It uses the model of fox and fake tiger.
Sony Music didn't plan to ignore it, but then it couldn't stand Yasushi Akimoto's repeated Amway, "After AKB is established in the future, it can become a national-level girl music group, and fans from all walks of life will definitely not be less for the status and appearance rate of their idols in the team", Sony felt that there was nothing to lose by talking, so he agreed to give it a try.
Akimoto's outlook is actually not a lie, but it is more optimistic. Because in another time and space, four or five years later, this kind of atmosphere of rewarding and striving for a position has taken shape in the Fusang idol world.
Because there are too many girl members in the group, more than 100 people, many of them don't have the opportunity to appear on the camera, and they can't get singles, and then AKS will hold a "reward vote" event, and whoever gets the most votes will release the single.
Certified fans who bought last year's AKB full set of records will be eligible to cast a free vote. If you want to vote more, you have to reward with real money, which was initially 600 yen a vote, and then gradually rose to 800 or 1000.
If converted into RMB, it is about more than 50 yuan per vote.
Later, after 2012, AKB gradually became popular in China, and Mayu Watanabe pointed out that Hara Rino can absorb tens of thousands of tips from Huaxia every year for assists. In total, Huaxia brain-dead fans will donate more than 5 million yuan to AKB idols every year.
The votes of Chinese fans only account for less than 20% of the total votes of AKB Asia, and excluding the free tickets for VIP users of the full set of DVDs, AKB receives about 20 million or 30 million yuan worth of tips and assists every year.
Such a large sum of money is not much less than the free likes of real-name users of the "Girls' Generation" activity in neighboring countries and the flowers sent by paid users Alipay. In order to support such an activity, especially for the authentication of network users, it is indeed necessary to land an Alipay localization product on Fuso's side.
Sony Music people don't have any vision for Internet finance, and they don't see any profit model for Alipay. In their view, Alipay is just a service company that does not make money and provides convenient supporting facilities for other industrial links.
Therefore, they do not pay for it, only provide relationships and help operate licenses, and they account for a small share, and Sony has no objections.
In contrast, they are more afraid that after Gu Cheng masters the Fusang version of Alipay, once he monopolizes the market in the future, he will no longer provide free payment and promotion convenience to Sony and other interest groups.
For this point, Gu Cheng sent the company's CFO Liu Qian to discuss repeatedly with Sony, as well as the Japanese bank invited by Sony, to reassure the Fuso people. Later, the two parties signed some off-market contracts, and the preferential conditions were the same as the preferential agreement between Legend Entertainment and Alipay before Sun Zhengyi became the owner of Legend Entertainment.
The cooperation intention was reached at the beginning of June, and the specific details of the negotiation will continue for a period of time, and it will be completed at the end of the summer vacation; However, Gu Cheng himself no longer needs to worry about the terms.
After the initial intention was reached, Gu Cheng reached a consensus with Yasushi Akimoto on the cooperation and sponsorship between AKS Agency and NICONICO Video Network.
After Qiu Yuankang got Gu Cheng's conditions, he continued to look for Ai Hui Records and Universal Music Non-stop, and promised various candidates for AKB48 in the future to ensure that the interests of the newcomers cultivated by major record companies were equal. We also awarded Ota Productions and Watanabe Entertainment Hiroshi Creative Contracts to ensure the size and amount of creative rights purchased from these production companies every year.
Eventually, after a busy few months, the AKB48 group was formed about a season earlier than the same period on another plane - just in time for the end of the '05 summer to start in August.
But now this AKB48 is obviously very different from AKB48 in another time and space, because the internal closed trainee stage has been greatly compressed, and the beautiful girls who have basically passed the singing and dancing posture are selected, and they will immediately be stuffed into the online talent show, and the audience popularity and judges and guests will compete for the first-line team members, and the album will be popular.
This model is still different from the draft that emerged in neighboring Huaxia and Dongyi this year, in Huaxia and Dongyi, those who lose in the semi-finals will be directly finished, and there is no system of dance and performing arts talent reserves. And AKB is strict in and wide out, and after Yan is selected, he is not popular and only gives a basic salary to sit on the cold bench, and will not drive people directly.
In addition, Akimoto Yasushi later designed a set of "graduation" system, making AKB a style similar to a campus group, where girls who are not popular pay some salaries and dance with them for three or five years, and then "graduate" to make room for a seat. (It can also be seen that the acting life of Fuso girls is generally squeezed very short, girls who have no core competitiveness, and even women who are worried about A and V, are abandoned in a few years of old age and decay.) )
Of course, that's all for later.
Gu Cheng is here to seize the power of the media's value judgment, not to save the beautiful girl who has lost her footing in Fusang.
As long as Yasu Akimoto's layout can help promote Renren and YY, he will not interfere with Yasu's specific operations on acting issues.