Soon after Li Hualong acquired Yonggao Company, Li Huawen's daughter Li Linyu brought her fiancé Li Guoneng to Li Hualong's house as a guest, and stayed at Li Hualong's house for dinner.

After Li Hualong got off work, he saw Li Linyu and Li Guoneng, and said with a smile: "Guoneng, you haven't come to my house as a guest yet, is there a happy event to announce today?" ”

Li Guoneng is three years older than Li Linyu, and the two have been formally dating for more than four years, Li Guoneng has a master's degree and a master's degree in law from Cambridge University, and is now a practising barrister in Hong Kong.

Li Linyu graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree, and she met Li Guoneng twice before she went to college, but the two did not know each other well and did not talk a few words. During college, Li Linyu and Li Guoneng had a lot of opportunities to get in touch, and after getting acquainted, they had a good impression of each other and naturally began to fall in love.

In the eyes of outsiders, Li Guoneng was able to marry Li Huawen's only daughter Li Linyu as his wife, and it was Li Guoneng who climbed high, but Li Hualong didn't think so, he vaguely remembered that it was this person who became the first chief judge of the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after returning to Hong Kong, and served for a long time.

Li Hualong feels that with his understanding of the future trend of global economic development, in the next 40 years, the assets of the entire family can continue to grow, and he is more willing to marry with a political family than with other business families, of course, the premise is that there is a real relationship, if there is no relationship, even if they are barely together, they will not be happy.

"Yes. The wedding will be held on the 10th of next month. Li Guoneng smiled and turned his head to look at Li Linyu who was sitting beside him.

"Third uncle, I don't believe it. My dad didn't tell you when I was going to get married. Li Linyu said angrily.

Li Hualong smiled noncommittally, came to Li Guoneng and sat down, patted Li Guoneng's thigh, and said, "Lin Yu is a good girl." You can't let her down. ”

"Li ......"

"Call me Third Uncle." Li Hualong interrupted with a smile.

"Third Uncle," Li Guoneng assured, "Please rest assured, Third Uncle, I will be good to Lin Yu for the rest of my life." ”

"Don't learn from me, be single-minded." Li Hualong said with a smile.

"I will." Li Guoneng nodded, a happy smile on his face. looked at Li Linyu and continued, "Being able to marry Linyu is the greatest happiness in my life. ”

"Don't be numb, you just know it in your heart." Li Linyu grinned. "Third uncle, I'm getting married, what gift are you going to give me?"

"Uh, gifts...... Li Hualong smiled and pondered for a moment, "Say, what gift do you want?" ”

Li Linyu thought about it, shook her head with a smile and said, "I don't know either." Hehe, it's too insincere for you to ask that. ”

"I won't give you any big gifts for the time being. Later, the third uncle will introduce a good project that is particularly profitable to you. ”

"It's very profitable, how profitable is it?" Li Linyu asked with a smile. "If I invest one million, I can get hundreds of millions of profits, hundreds of times the return on investment, which sounds quite high, but the base is too small and not attractive."

"If you want to have a larger base, you can do it. Invest $100 million, ten years later. Returns of more than ...... 10 times, satisfied? ”

"Satisfied. Thank you, Uncle San. ”

"Lin Yu, aren't you afraid that your third uncle will make promises?" Li Yi let loose and joked, "If you lose your dowry, it's too late for you to cry." ”

"I believe that the third uncle's investment vision will definitely not let me suffer." Li Linyu pursed her lips and smiled.

"In order to live up to your hopes, I will spend more time looking for investment projects for you." Li Hualong said with a smile.

"Third uncle, don't make me wait too long." Li Linyu smiled.

"Before your child goes to college." Li Hualong smiled, changed the topic and said, "You're getting married, your second brother is older than you, recently, did your parents urge him?" ”

"Rush it, they hardly talk about it in front of me."

At the beginning of this year, Li Shenghua's girlfriend Wang Mingquan gave birth to a daughter, although Wang Mingquan gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, but the daughter followed Li Shenghua's surname.

More than a month later, on Saturday, May 10, Li Guoneng and Li Linyu held a grand wedding at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, attended by thousands of guests.

A few days later, Li Hualong left Hong Kong and went to Los Angeles, the main purpose of his trip to the United States was for "Jaws", which had just completed post-production.

In Stephen? Accompanied by Spielberg and Universal Pictures executives, Li Hualong watched the finished film "Jaws".

"Wonderful, more exciting than the "Jaws" I watched in another time and space!" Li Hualong muttered to himself.

Li Hualong firmly believed that the movie "Jaws" would definitely be a box office hit, and after watching it, he stood up, applauded, and competed with Stephen? Spielberg shakes hands.

"Stephen, you're such a genius, Jaws is so good that it can't set a new box office record, but I'm sure it's going to beat all the previous Universal films."

"Jaws wouldn't be as exciting as it could have been if it hadn't raised the budget!" Stephen? Spielberg faintly praised Li Hualong.

"Such a good movie should be known to all fans." Li Hualong smiled and deliberately paused for a moment, "Universal Pictures spent five million dollars to promote the movie "Jaws", I want all the people in the United States to know that we have made a great movie......"

After Li Hualong became the owner of Universal Pictures, he raised the production budget of "Jaws" to a budget of 15 million US dollars, and spent nearly 13 million US dollars, and did not spend the budget.

Li Hualong felt that "Jaws" was worth Universal Pictures' investment of $5 million for it, and the total investment of the film was only $18 million, plus the production cost.

In the time and space where Li Hualong lived in the later generations, the global box office of "Jaws" exceeded 400 million US dollars, and Li Hualong still remembered these at this time, and he believed that Universal Pictures had been able to make "Jaws" a huge success at the box office.

Long before "Jaws" was finished, Li Hualong knew Steven? Spielberg finished filming the film and will make a sci-fi film for Columbia Pictures. is the alien movie classic that set off a sci-fi craze with "Star Wars" - "Contact of the Third Kind".

As a young man, Steven? Spielberg had watched New Jersey's meteor showers with his father, and from that moment on, he had the idea to create Contact of the Third Kind. In 1964, Spielberg, who was only 18 years old, wrote and directed the sci-fi feature film "Firelight". He completed the screenplay at the age of 16 and shot it on a measly $600 budget, and the film was Spielberg's first commercial success, netting him $100 after its theatrical release. It is worth mentioning that many of the scenes in "Firelight" are exactly the same as in "Contact of the Third Kind".

1970 year. Spielberg completed a short story called "S", in which he recounts a peculiar experience with UFOs.

At the end of 1973, Spielberg, who was busy with the post-production of "Rampage", signed a contract with Columbia Pictures to shoot a science fiction film. Phillips and Julia? Phillips.

Spielberg initially wanted to make a documentary or a low-budget film about UFO believers, but he later decided to make a film that relied on technical skills. And they thought that the $2.5 million shooting budget was far from enough. He borrowed a quote from the end of "Weirdos" and named the film "Watchtheskies", and he rewrote the story to revolve around the Blue Book Project.

Spielberg found Willard? Heyk and Gloria? Katz, Katz recalled, "The flying saucer actually landed on Robertson Avenue in West Hollywood, and I said to him, 'Steven, this is the worst idea I've ever heard. ’”

December 1973. Spielberg found Paul? Schrader wrote the screenplay and planned to start filming in late 1974, but later because he was preparing for the filming of Jaws. Spielberg postponed filming of "Watchtheskies."

"Jaws" has not yet been released, and no one except Li Hualong thinks that the film will definitely be a box office hit and will win rave reviews.

Li Hualong didn't want Spielberg to cooperate with Columbia Pictures, and wanted to get a kick in it, for this. He told Spielberg that Universal Pictures was willing to invest $20 million in science fiction films. Let Spielberg let go and let him do whatever he wants.

There aren't many directors who don't want to direct a film with a larger budget. Francis, the director of "The Godfather"? Ford? Coppola once said, "If you're going to make a good movie, make it as good as possible." If somebody lends me $200 million, I'll borrow another $300 million and make a really great film. ”

To a certain extent, Li Hualong agrees with Coppola's view that many genres of good movies are made by money.

With Spielberg's permission, Universal Pictures approached Wayne, the CEO of Columbia Pictures, and offered to pay $200,000 to terminate the contract between Columbia Pictures and Spielberg.

At first, Wayne was angry, feeling that Universal Pictures was insulting Columbia Pictures, but the person in charge of negotiating with him told him that Spielberg wanted to increase the film's budget, and if the budget was less than $18 million, the film's production would be delayed indefinitely.

Wayne didn't understand why Universal Pictures was willing to bet heavily on Spielberg, the young director, and he was relieved to think that the owner of Universal Pictures was the richest man in Hong Kong, and he knew that since Universal Pictures had come forward, if he didn't break the contract with Spielberg, Columbia Pictures wouldn't benefit.

Wayne was not a good talker and did not immediately accept Universal's offer, and after several rounds of negotiations, Universal Pictures eventually offered Spielberg $600,000 to terminate his contract with Columbia Pictures.

After getting the money, Wayne was not relieved and revealed the matter to the media, and after media reports, negative words such as "gambler", "layman" and "arrogance" became Li Hualong's nickname. (To be continued)