Chapter 292: Water Monster Project
On September 14, 2006, at lunchtime, Xu Teng and Chen Daqiao talked for half an hour, taking a step back from their respective principles, and two of the ten high-quality dramas of Shenzhou Media Group every year can be in the Hallyu mode. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
However, Xu Teng insisted on another principle and did not back down, and would never hire Korean stars to participate in the production of film and television dramas of Shenzhou Media Group.
This is what makes Chen Daqiao incomprehensible.
The lunch of the consortium's annual meeting was held at the Sky Restaurant on the 24th floor of the East Asia International Hotel, which was the tallest building in China until the 80s, and the tallest restaurant in Asia during the earlier Republic of China, which hosted many high-ranking leaders of the Republic of China, including another elder Jiang and his wife.
After the liberation, the restaurant was converted into housing, and at the end of the 80s, it was remodeled into a sky restaurant, but unfortunately, the glorious era is gone.
Today, it is a membership-only club of the Huayin Foundation, built according to the most luxurious standards and employing the country's top chefs.
The morning session was a little off-topic, because Chen Daqiao and a certain master director really wanted to choose a well-known Korean star to participate in the production of the annual Chinese New Year blockbuster.
Chen Daqiao has promised the director that he will definitely persuade Xu Teng, and for this reason, he also did the work of Xu Ma and Zhang Liying, and asked them to help persuade him.
Again, the answer is no.
This makes Chen Daqiao very incomprehensible, he can't get along with money, other domestic film and television media companies are doing this, and now is the hottest period of the Korean Wave, every TV station is broadcasting Korean dramas, especially Mango Channel.
The plate of Italian dumplings that Xu Teng ordered was actually more like a domestic ravioli, with onions, cheese powder and tomato juice mixed together, a little weird.
Xu Teng can't say that this is not a delicacy, but it is really a little weird.
He has finished eating this plate of Italian dumplings, drank half a cup of soup, cleaned his lips with a napkin, Chen Daqiao's beef brisket pasta is still more than half, and during the ten-minute dinner time, Chen Daqiao is emphasizing how other domestic companies are doing, telling Xu Teng that they can't get along with money and can't be enemies of the market.
Xu Teng didn't say anything, let Chen Daqiao continue, he took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Director Tu, the person in charge of Skynet, Skynet's second contract - smearing South Korea, high-level.
Finish texting.
Xu Teng put the mobile phone in front of Chen Daqiao and let Chen Daqiao see it clearly, "In view of the fact that we have invested a lot of money, the biggest competitors now are several major consortia in South Korea, so I want to ask you to do a favor, the Korean Wave is already popular enough, and if you can add less fuel to your own people, then add a little less." ”
"Good!" Although Chen Daqiao agreed, he still felt that Xu Teng, the senior leader of the consortium, was making a big fuss, even if he invited a Korean star to join the filming of the Chinese New Year blockbuster, he would not sell one more Kia.
Besides, Shenzhou Media does not invite Korean stars, Huayi, China Film, and Bona will also invite, there are not 1,000 domestic TV drama producers, but 800, who doesn't want to invite Korean stars to support the ratings, now is the era of Hallyu.
Xu Teng seemed to see through Chen Daqiao's thoughts, took back his mobile phone, thought for a moment, and asked Chen Daqiao, "Do you know what I am most unhappy about?" ”
"What?" Chen Daqiao simply stopped eating, took a sip of red wine, and looked at Xu Teng with a smile, he was not willing to challenge Xu Teng, a young senior member of the consortium, but he had already agreed to the director.
He thought it was a trivial matter, but he didn't expect Xu Teng to be so stubborn.
“solidarity! Team spirit! We are suffering from the ravages of the Korean Wave, and the image of South Korea has been elevated by flattery for no reason, which has caused us to encounter more risks in our investment and marketing, and some people still want to hire Korean stars. Do you really want me to admit the strength of Hallyu, and even I have to bow to Hallyu? Xu Teng has always been like this, he was very angry in his heart, but he said very calmly, but he still had to tell Chen Daqiao, "You really annoy me, especially ...... you let Zhang Liying and my mother interfere in the internal affairs of Hua Teng's department." ”
Syllable.
The crystal wine glass in Chen Daqiao's hand fell to the ground and shattered.
"So, for the first time, and for the last time, I tell you, don't disgrace me at the annual meeting, even if you think it's a small thing. This is a war, and if you really think you can't beat Hallyu, at the afternoon meeting, you can formally ask me to resign. Xu Teng finished his words very calmly, got up and left the table.
Fortunately, during the annual dinner, the distance between each table was far away, and the other co-partners who were dining here did not hear Xu Teng's words.
Otherwise, Chen Daqiao would really resign in the afternoon.
This is the trouble of handing over a controlling stake in a business to someone else, even if you are the founder of the company, you may be eliminated if you go against the will of the controlling majority shareholder.
This incident was not an accident, nor was it a purely trivial matter.
Xu Teng didn't control his emotions well because the pressure he was under was very huge, chips, panels, storage, smartphones, cars, ...... His direct opponents are all Korean conglomerates that have an advantage, or even an absolute advantage.
Since 2006, the decisive battle between Huateng and the Samsung consortium is about to begin, and Xu Teng now does not even have a 1% advantage and chance of winning.
From getting up to leaving the restaurant, Xu Teng's face was indifferent, hiding anger.
Although the co-partners present did not hear the conversation between Xu Teng and Chen Daqiao, they could roughly guess that in two days, the three major industries of chips, panels and storage under Galaxy Capital will be transferred to Huateng.
Xu Teng's pressure can be imagined.
At this juncture, Chen Daqiao dared to touch the prince's reverse scales, and he must have been caught in the head by the revolving door of the hotel.
Everyone continued to bow their heads to eat, talk about each other's business, exchange ideas, and pretended to be unaware, who went to comfort Chen Daqiao now and wanted to open something, I was afraid that it would be even more embarrassing.
The official media is half responsible for the rampant Korean wave in China, almost not reporting negative news about South Korea, and allowing South Korea's high-end technology and developed country image to form a strong soft power.
The operational efficiency of Skynet is quite fast, and on the third day, a plan for the Black Korean offensive was drawn up, with more than 40 pages, involving all aspects, requiring the cooperation of many parties, and the scale of funds required every year is not small.
The plan of action is called the "Water Monster".
Xu Teng received a report in the morning, approving Skynet to start the implementation first, and then explore new improvement plans, and by the way, forwarded a copy to Chen Daqiao, so that Chairman Chen was sober.
The central government's decision to promote the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Area plan is to deepen industrial cooperation, mutual benefit and common development in the Northeast Asian Economic Zone, effectively promote the industrial upgrading of the three countries, and effectively ensure that the economies of Japan and South Korea smoothly pass through the process of "de-industrialization".
Whether it is the European Union or the North American Free Trade Area, after ten or twenty years of development, it will accumulate amazing results.
The short-sightedness of Western politicians in economics is reflected in one point: the prosperity of the financial industry is based on capital-intensive industries, and the prosperity of capital-intensive industries is based on labor-intensive industries.
The textile industry is a labor-intensive industry, the traditional low value-added industry, the simple loss of the textile industry is not terrible, but with the loss of the textile industry, it will inevitably lead to the loss of the chemical industry, and eventually lead to the loss of the financial industry.
Once the China-Korea FTA is established, it will be beneficial to the Korean industry within ten years, and ten years later, I am afraid it will be very dramatic.
South Korea is a small economy, which can fully adapt to the development of China's economy, gradually transform in the competition of the market, and ensure the sustained growth of the national economy, but behind this adjustment, in fact, the large-scale migration of South Korean industrial consortia to China is the end.
Therefore, in the case of the China-Korea Free Trade Area, the Chinese side is welcomed by the government, the South Korean side is welcomed by the consortium, and the Huayin consortium is the damaged party - the industrial sector is damaged, and the real estate, finance, and cultural industries are benefited.
Everyone has their own plans, Chen Daqiao's current plan is to acquire Marvel, form a trans-Pacific film and television empire, and then go to South Korea to invest in film and television companies, shoot Korean dramas and introduce them to China, and sell well in Southeast Asia.
This is Chen Daqiao's Pacific project, and once it succeeds, with the Asia Satellite TV and Phoenix TV owned by Shenzhou Media in Hong Kong, he feels that he has realized his dream of becoming a media empire tycoon across the Pacific.
What a capitalist idea, what a great international ideal!
Xu Teng can agree to buy Marvel, but it is impossible to agree to invest in South Korea, because Chen Daqiao's investment in South Korea is to use Hallyu to expand its share in the domestic market, which seems to be a pure business plan that completely violates the overall interests of the Huayin consortium.
Today is a big day.
If all goes well, the three major technology industries of chips, panels and storage of the Huayin Consortium will be transferred to the Huateng system and will be taken over by Xu Teng.
Xu Teng arrived at the venue an hour early, stood alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the conference room, ordered a glass of Hennessy VSOP, and enjoyed the dawn and morning view of Shanghai.
Several other bigwigs in the Huateng department, Li Dongsheng, Liang Weigen, Chen Daqiao, Guo Yongzhe, Chen Yongnian, and Chen Jian, six people entered the venue with a smile while talking.
Among the six people, three are surnamed Chen.
If you add Chen Anbang of Dongchen Construction Group, Chen Zhixin of Huateng Automobile, and the senior person in charge of Huateng Department, the surname Chen simply accounts for 7/10.
This probability even Xu Teng finds strange, and it is not difficult to explain that Jianghuai Province is a large province surnamed Chen, Chen Yongnian, Chen Anbang, and Chen Jian are all Jianghuai businessmen, and Chen Zhixin is also from Jiangzhou...... This is the main reason why Xu Teng established Huateng Automobile and chose Chen Zhixin from many executives of FAW and FAW.
It's easy to have a common language, which is easy to communicate and coordinate.
Everyone didn't seem to expect Xu Teng to come so early, and they were slightly stunned when they saw Xu Teng drinking in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
Chen Daqiao was very embarrassed, he was reprimanded by Xu Teng in the restaurant two days ago, and he was also laughed at by all the joint partners, and he had both anger and fear in his heart, and he didn't dare to vent.
"The prince came early." Li Dongsheng motioned for everyone to be silent, and he said hello to see the movement.
"The stakes are high, and today is a little early." Xu Teng only listened to the voice, and knew that several co-partners of the Huayin Consortium had arrived, and he did not turn around to greet everyone, still looking at the morning scene outside the window, "The transfer of the three major technology industries to Huateng is imminent, if you have any opinions, it is still too late to oppose now!" ”
"Such a big thing, we must have no opinion on our side, I'm afraid that Bo'an will not accept it, haha." Li Dongsheng laughed dryly, looked left and right, and was sure that everyone would have no objections.
Last night, Li Dongsheng and Liang Weigen gathered everyone together and explained clearly that there was something inside the Huateng department, and they discussed it internally, and they were not allowed to let the people of the Bo'an department see jokes anymore.
Although everyone is a partner of the Huayin Consortium, the head is different, Li Jinfen and Zhang Liying are responsible for the Bo'an department, and Xu Teng is responsible for the Huateng department.
Li Dongsheng did not directly criticize Chen Daqiao, because the relationship between the two is good, many things can't be said too directly, the specific meaning is still very clear, Xu Teng has been under a lot of pressure recently, don't provoke Xu Teng for trivial things, and make Xu Teng annoyed.
Until this moment, Chen Daqiao still felt that everyone was making a bit of a fuss, he just asked Zhang Liying to say a word for him, promote a business, let Xu Teng change his decision, allow Shenzhou Media to absorb Hallyu elements, maintain his hegemony in the domestic market, and finally go to South Korea to invest in a media company and directly participate in the production of Korean film and television dramas from the capital level.
How big of a deal?
A small investment of hundreds of millions!
Patriotism is patriotism, business is business, Chen Daqiao feels that the Xu family should distinguish these two points more clearly, he feels that Xu Teng is blindly rejecting the Korean Wave, blindly patriotic, and blindly populism.
What Chen Daqiao thinks, Xu Teng actually knows very well in his heart.
Xu Teng just didn't expect that in addition to worrying about Chen Anbang, he also had to worry about another Chen Daqiao.
For a long time, Xu Teng has always felt that the institutional model of the Huayin Consortium is perfect, but this is not the case, and Xu Teng is keenly aware for the first time that the conflict of interests will distort a person's will and form a confrontation.
Just as a heroic civil war will break out within the Avengers, a small problem of principle that is not handled well can become a big problem.
Heroes, everyone enjoys the highest honor, superior to others.
The same is true for each of the associate partners of the Huayin Consortium.
Xu Teng carefully analyzed his competition and discord with Chen Daqiao in the past two days, and finally came to a conclusion that the share distribution within Huateng's department was not sufficient, his shareholding in Huateng Company was too high, Chen Jian ranked second, and everyone else was insignificant.
From Chen Daqiao to Li Dongsheng, there are more or less dissatisfaction, and this dissatisfaction started from the expansion of Huateng Company at an annual meeting this year...... The result of the share expansion has disappointed those who had previously had too high expectations, and the most disappointed one was Chen Daqiao, who received the least quota.
People's inner world is complex, and there are some things that Chen Daqiao himself may not be aware of.
Xu Teng did not intend to back down.
"The funds for the acquisition of Marvel are paid directly by Huateng Company, and the accounting method belongs to the capital injection of Shenzhou Media Group." Xu Teng not only does not plan to back down, but also wants to expand Huateng's controlling stake in Shenzhou Media Group, and is ready to withdraw Chen Daqiao at any time.
Everyone was speechless in surprise, this was indeed a prelude to forcing Gong Chen Daqiao.
Previously, when Phoenix Satellite TV and Asia Satellite TV were incorporated into Shenzhou Media Group, the shareholding ratio of Huateng Company and Galaxy Capital in Shenzhou Media had increased to 47%, and the founders and senior management such as Chen Daqiao and Wu Xiaoyin held less than 30% of the shares.
Huateng Company expanded its capital and shares again, and it was a capital injection of 3.15 billion US dollars, which basically declared that it was an absolute controlling company, and Chen Daqiao had to get out of the game at any time.
"This thing...... Prince, let's discuss it again, shall we? Liang Weigen finally spoke, looked at Chen Daqiao, whose face was pale, and signaled the other party not to be in a hurry to object, he had completely angered the prince, and now it must be Chen Daqiao's tragic death if he continues to fight.
Every joint partner of Huayin actually has a very fearful thing in their hearts, that is, the controlling stake of the enterprise belongs to the consortium.
"Mr. Liang, the purpose of the Huayin Consortium is not only to make money, right?" Xu Teng has no room to back down, he has already thought of a suitable candidate to replace Chen Daqiao, even if this matter will have a lot of ripple effect, he must continue to implement his ideas.
He must fight against the Korean Wave, go against the market, and if he wants to suppress the Korean Wave, the breaking point is in the Shenzhou Media Group.
"Yes, the prince is right, but everyone is their own people, so if you have something to say." Liang Weigen was a little confused about the situation, and he didn't know if Xu Teng really wanted to replace Chen Daqiao immediately, and decided to make peace with the mud and not choose a side.
"I've said everything I need to say, I have invested so much money, and I will never admit defeat." Xu Teng took out his mobile phone and quietly forwarded the "Water Monster Project" as a group email to all the joint partners of the Huayin Consortium.
A few seconds.
Li Dongsheng, Liang Weigen, Chen Yongnian...... Chen Jian collectively looked at his mobile phone and browsed the newly received emails, and generally understood that Xu Teng had decided to suppress the Korean Wave at any cost and start an all-out war during the time period when he was preparing to receive the three major industries of chips, panels, and storage.
Xu Teng said that "he will never admit defeat", that is because Huateng is weaker than the Hyundai consortium in the three major fields of automobiles, chemicals, and heavy industry machinery, and the three major industries of chips, panels, and storage that are about to be received are even more in an all-round weakness in front of the Korean-funded Samsung consortium.
He must now find a way to get rid of South Korea's false image of a high-tech power little by little, so that consumers can understand that the technological gap between China and South Korea in the field of consumer industry is not large.
If this pseudo-image can't be torn off, Huateng will always suffer at the marketing level.
With the same configuration, Samsung mobile phones can sell 1,000 yuan more than the Huateng series, with 15% more gross profit, and Hyundai can sell hundreds of thousands more than the Huateng series, how can this compete?
Who is responsible for this situation, the people, the media, or the government?
Xu Teng said unceremoniously that the media accounts for more than half of the responsibility, all kinds of editors kneel down first when they encounter the Korean Wave, all kinds of flattery, and those hosts of TV stations have weak legs as if they have no knees.
There is an old saying among the Chinese that foreign monks are good at chanting, and when they look at themselves, they are all shortcomings, and when they look at foreign countries, they are all advantages.
If it's 2015, Xu Teng wouldn't be bothered, the key is now 2006, when the Korean Wave is surging, now who says that China's technological level is not inferior to South Korea, everyone is a neurotic!
Never mind!
Anyway, Xu Teng will not admit defeat, his "water monster plan" will use 450 million RMB every year to eliminate South Korea's image as a developed country, expose various Korean scandals in 360 degrees, and make every effort to add fuel to the fire.
Three years later, he will review the second phase of the "Water Monster Project" according to the implementation of the "Water Monster Project".
The "Water Monster Project" is only one aspect, Xu Teng also needs to give full play to the power of the TT Network Alliance and Shenzhou Media, and needs to lobby upper-level institutions such as radio and television, and the media platforms across the country are flattering South Korea, and he doesn't want the larger platform of Shenzhou Media Group to become one of them.
Xu Teng sent the "Water Monster Plan" to all the joint partners, including these Huateng partners in front of him, and gave them a few minutes to read the plan, and then turned to look at everyone, "We will not succumb to the market, we will not succumb to the trend, we will create the market and change the trend." (To be continued.) )