Chapter 197: Old Golden Harvest
Huang Yinglong smiled bitterly, he hated his own mouth, and he always popped out some nonsense without going through his brain. Isn't Xiao Ran worthy of making rules? Every industry has a rule-maker. If Xiao Ran, the number one power person in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, can't even do this, it is obviously a mockery.
Xiao Ran's eyes showed a little smile, he liked this kind of rectum person. Regrettably, it is clear that Wong will not be able to appear in Hong Kong in the future. He smiled indifferently: "Mr. Huang, I'm not a person who likes to embarrass others. There are 10 million here, you can go anywhere you want, I think with your experience is enough to start a business, as for your 40 million loan, I will get it. ”
Huang Yinglong was taken aback, he thought that Xiao Ran was going to humiliate him, but he didn't expect Xiao Ran to give him 10 million after driving him away. stared at Xiao Ran's eyes in disbelief, and there was kindness in his eyes.
"Take it!" Xiao Ran smiled slightly, he really didn't want to hurt others, although sometimes it was always unavoidable: "It's okay to sell your company to the Phantom within three days, don't show up in Hong Kong for three years, live well, just live for your wife and children." ”
Huang Yinglong took the check handed by Xiao Ran with trembling hands, counting the zeros on it, he believed it was true. Now his resentment towards Xiao Ran has completely disappeared, although on the surface it seems that Xiao Ran ruined his career, it is clear that Xiao Ran's proposal will not harm the companies, and he only blames himself for being impulsive that day. Moreover, he didn't know the rules in the circle, and he was really grateful to Xiao Ran for leaving such a way to live for him.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Xiao!" Huang Yinglong bowed deeply to Xiao Ran, he thought that only in this way could he express his gratitude: "If there is an opportunity in the future, I will definitely repay you!" ”
Staring at Huang Yinglong's departing back with interest, he thought that this was a fairly outstanding person, maybe he could have some achievements in other places. This deal is absolutely no harm to Xiao Ran, Liwei, this cannot be calculated in terms of money. Although he was saddled with a debt of tens of millions because of this, it was obviously not a big deal.
Picking up the two reports and looking at them, Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile. Both of these reports were about Golden Harvest, one of which was given to him by Guan Xin, and the other was given to him by Lin Yongqiang. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of Ah Biao, Ah Biao had been sent by him to the mainland to do things, and he hadn't seen each other for a long time.
Lin Yongqiang is always much stronger than Guan Xin in business intelligence, unless Xiao Ran is very targeted to let Guan Xin and them investigate, otherwise Lin Yongqiang still has a certain advantage. Xiao Ran smiled, in this way, he was not afraid of being played by the mainland political axe on intelligence.
Guan Xin's report is very simple and powerful, and it is about the same as before. In this report, it is mentioned straight to the point that Zou Wenhuai negotiated financing with a company three days ago. It's just that he doesn't know the specific number, and he only analyzes that Zou Wenhuai's move is mainly to deal with the phantom.
Lin Yongqiang's report is much clearer, in addition to the above, it also lists the figure of this fund as 2 billion, and acquires 30% of the equity. It's just that this money is not paid immediately, but the first installment of one billion, and the rest will be invested within three months.
Xiao Ran finally couldn't help but sigh, Zou Wenhuai finally couldn't stand the pressure and wanted to fire at the phantom, but I don't know what He Guanchang thought. In that case, he had to fight. However, I have to admit that Xiao Ran may have been looking forward to Zou Wenhuai's actions in his heart. If Zou Wenhuai did not take the initiative to seek consortium financing, Xiao Ran would definitely not move Golden Harvest.
"Come on, Zou Wenhuai, I hope you don't get too weak, so as not to go down the old path of Shang Ruohai!" Xiao Ran muttered to himself, this kind of infighting was really not something he was happy to see. However, since Zou Wenhuai was preparing to launch an attack, there was no reason for him to sit down and wait for death.
In addition to being self-sufficient, what words can be used to describe Golden Harvest's actions? Xiao Ran couldn't think of it, he really couldn't think of it. Now that Phantom has no debt, and no outside financing, it is difficult for anyone to meddle with Phantom. Moreover, the Phantom can mobilize at least 5 billion in liquidity in one day, which is much more than the market value of Golden Harvest.
Xiao Ran is hesitating now, whether to strike first, or to allow Jiahe to make the first move, and then sweep Jiahe after giving the truth. In fact, there is almost no difference between the two methods for him.
However, another day, he received information again. It's just that this time the information is not as accurate as the last time, and this time the information is very simple. Golden Harvest once again joined forces with Toei, which also invested HK$3 billion. It's just that in this way, the equity of many directors has been diluted, and even Zou Wenhuai himself only controls less than 40% of the equity.
Toei and another company named Shimoda each had a controlling stake of 25 percent, and He Guanchang's equity was reduced to only 5 percent, and Cheng Long's equity, which was not very much, was even smaller.
When Xiao Ran heard Toei ask Shimoda to join forces to control Jiahe, he couldn't help but laugh. Toei had cooperated with the Phantom before, but it was only in the distribution, but after the Phantom obtained the theater agency, it indirectly became an enemy.
It is said that the film industry has coveted the treasure of the Hong Kong film industry since last year, and Toei has proposed investment and financing to Phantom several times to make films, but unfortunately they have all been politely refused. He felt that he was really a little clever, and he actually thought of controlling Golden Harvest in this way, and if he interfered in the Hong Kong film industry, he would make trouble.
However, this is clearly not as simple as it seems. Xiao Ran felt more and more interesting about this game, and now it was the remaining countries in Asia that could not be completely conquered. Especially the book is even more serious, and the phantom was not even able to acquire the theater chain there.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, coupled with the fact that Toei and Shimoda have invested the advance funds in Golden Harvest, Xiao Ran's mood is getting better and better. ATV is also preparing new programs, such as the Spring Festival Gala, which is modeled after the Spring Festival Gala. It's just that the difference is that this show is mainly about comedy performances and singing and the like.
This is a night very close to the Spring Festival, after Xiao Ran's family had a big snack and dinner, his mother quietly pulled Xiao Ran aside and asked: "Son, when will I be able to hug my grandson, you have to work harder!" Moreover, Qingxia is not small now, and it is not easy to have children when she is older. ”
Xiao Ran was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this before. He wasn't very old in the first place, if he had a son, would this ...... Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little funny: "Don't worry, isn't it your grandson, I'll definitely give you one when the time comes!" ”
Late at night, Xiao Ran and Lin Qingxia both returned to the room to prepare to rest, Lin Qingxia was next to Xiao Ran, and suddenly asked, "Do you like children?" ”
"I don't like it, it's annoying for children!" Xiao Ran was calculating some work matters, and then replied, only then did he realize what he said, and hurriedly turned his face to stare at Lin Qingxia and hurriedly explained: "No, what I just said nonsense, in fact, I like children very much!" ”
"I see!" Lin Qingxia was silent, she really wanted to have a child, but Xiao Ran's casual words revealed her true thoughts, which made her very depressed.
Seeing that Lin Qingxia stopped talking, Xiao Ran immediately realized that what he just said must have caused harm to his wife, and hurriedly kissed her earlobe affectionately and said, "It's really not, don't think nonsense." If you want to have a baby, then let's try to have one! ”
"It's okay, I'm not very fond of children!" Lin Qingxia didn't know what she was afraid of, or she felt that there was always something missing, so she tried to change the topic: "Jiahe now has two powerful companies joining, can you really deal with it?" ”
Xiao Ran looked at his wife with a depressed look on her face in a daze, knowing that she was deliberately concealing her wishes in order to take care of her own thoughts. At this time, Xiao Ran didn't know what to say.
Many people couldn't sleep that night, including Zou Wenhuai and his two friends. In fact, Zou Wenhuai's preferred financing object is still Mitsubishi, after all, the cooperative relationship between Golden Harvest and Mitsubishi is not a matter of one or two days. However, the Mitsubishi family has a big business, which can't help but make Zou Wenhuai start to worry about the usurpation of equity.
So, the last time I went to Yuben secretly, it was to get in touch with a good partner. Fortunately, the first thing he met was Toei, and Toei readily agreed to Zou Wenhuai's conditions. Of course, Mr. Zou also knows that Toei has always had ambitions for the Hong Kong film market, but now he feels that Toei is far less terrible than Phantom. At least in terms of strength, Toei is not much stronger than Golden Harvest.
Moreover, he also took a fancy to the company behind Toei with a market value of more than 10 billion, and a considerable part of the 3 billion invested this time was invested by that company. Speaking of Shimoda Company, the strange thing is that this company is an industrial business, but it also plans to enter the film industry.
However, it obviously doesn't matter, the company's assets are only more than 6 billion, and there is an investment fund behind it, which is still from Hong Kong, so it must be difficult to have any impact. The most important thing is that Mr. Zou was moved by the three billion. If you get these three billion more, it means that Golden Harvest has the absolute financial resources to expand overseas markets.
What needs to be understood is that Golden Harvest's liabilities account for a considerable part of the assets, and although the liquidity is quite huge, it is just that it is not used to invest in other industries, but it is strange that it does not die.
In this way, Mr. Zou was even more happy, thinking that Xiao Ran's miscellaneous pieces don't like to get paid? Let's mention it, now Golden Harvest has money. I want to think so, but this plan still has to be smooth.
The translator translated the words of a representative of Shimoda Company very clearly: "Chairman Zou, are you sure that your plan can be effective?" As I understand it, the Phantom is the company that has monopolized the market! ”
"Mr. Fujigang, please believe me, and believe in Jiahe!" Zou Wenhuai's confident and slow appearance is indeed very courageous, but the difference between courage and despair is often the same thought: "I have sent someone to discuss with some big stars, and I can impact the status of the phantom at any time!" ”
Zou Wenhuai was fortunate not to be burned by happiness, and only said that he could impact the status of the phantom, not drive out the phantom. If he really said that, I am afraid that he will immediately brush his sleeves and leave. Who doesn't know what the status of the Phantom is in Hong Kong now, and the structure of the entire No. 1 Entertainment Empire, just relying on Golden Harvest, if you want to play the Phantom, you are definitely not qualified.
The only thing that makes Zou Wenhuai embarrassed is that the Phantom has no debts, no loans, and no equity leakage, it is not easy for him to do something to the Phantom. And the movie is really not about playing to death, especially when the other party has abundant financial resources.
The current phantom gave Zou Wenhuai a very blocked feeling, the mouse pulled the turtle, and he couldn't find a place to start. In fact, it's him, Toei Company didn't have the idea of fighting the Phantom. If the Phantom is a listed company, or has raised funds, then there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. But now the Phantom is completely an iron bucket pattern, and there is a steady stream of karaoke making money for the Phantom, which is not easy.
The worst thing is that the only thing that can hurt the Phantom is Momentum, but Momentum has rarely participated in investments such as stocks in recent years, and has instead focused on industry. The most painful thing is that the power itself rarely makes more than one billion big deals, and it can't move the root of the phantom at all.
As a result, Zou Wenhuai knew very well that the only thing he could do was to try to restore Golden Harvest's reputation in the industry. In terms of distribution, he didn't dare to hope that he could win the distribution agency controlled by the Phantom, people are not stupid, the Phantom's tens of billions of assets are completely his own, and he has monopolized most of the film industry, which everyone knows how to choose.
What he wants to do is to win filmmakers and try to recruit excellent filmmakers. It's just that the vast majority of the real top masters are controlled by the phantom, and the other few are in the hands of Debao and Tianluo, which made Zou Wenhuai hesitate for a moment. He doesn't have enough time to train newcomers, and he can't afford to spend money on newcomers like the Phantom does.
Even if he was willing, the two major shareholder representatives next to him would never agree. Of course, he has other options, and he wants to enter Hollywood again. In the past, I failed because I didn't have enough financial resources, but now that I have enough financial resources, I can naturally do something in Hollywood.
He even came up with a plan to take a Hollywood production company, get a mortgage immediately, and then move to Europe. It's just that he didn't realize why he had failed before. Because his previous eyes were only focused on investment, Hollywood's share base for outside investors was particularly high, and it was difficult to make a lot of money except for encountering dead rats.
And he didn't realize why Xiao Ran stopped outside Hollywood with such huge assets. In any case, he is indeed more experienced than Xiao Ran in terms of impacting Hollywood. There is no doubt about this, and it may not be possible to succeed.
In any case, we can be sure that from the next day, the battle between Golden Harvest and the Phantom will begin. Although Xiao Ran was reluctant to have such an infighting situation, he seemed to have no choice......
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