During the honeymoon period between Xiao Ran and Lin Qingxia, the phantom and its subsidiaries did not stop at all. Wei Dongling is now too busy to get to the ground, first completely buying Dolby Laboratories for 20 million US dollars, and then it is Lucas's turn to be light and fidel and Skywalker.

The negotiations with Lao Lu did not go very well, the only fortunate thing is that the current Lucas company is at an all-time low, and the other major shareholders are quite dissatisfied with the performance, although Skywalker still has a certain market. But after negotiating with Wei Dongling, the vast majority of shareholders were moved, and successfully won 42% of the controlling stake at a price of 200 million US dollars.

The only thing that needs to be done is Lao Lu. But it's this damn stubborn guy who won't sell anything. Wei Dongling understands that the hard work of his own creation is sold like this, and it is not happy to change anyone. It's just that understanding is understanding, and business still has to be discussed. However, when Xiao Ran came back, the deal still couldn't be done.

In fact, Wei Dongling definitely didn't understand Xiao Ran's idea of making up his mind to completely acquire Light Demon and Skywalker. He understands the complete acquisition, and he knows very well that Xiao Ran has an indescribable desire to control and does not allow control to fall into the hands of others. However, everyone who really does big things has such control and hope.

This may be the reason why Xiao Ran would rather take out a mortgage than finance with a large consortium. Typically, Yindu tried to hope to be able to raise funds, but Xiao Ran refused very simply, and even rejected the financing plan from Cheung Kong.

What Wei Dongling couldn't understand was why Xiao Ran asserted that computers could quickly mature within three years and become one of the main tools for filmmaking. I don't understand, but he is still very convinced of Xiao Ran's decision, because Xiao Ran does not seem to have a record of decision-making failure in history.

Take karaoke, for example, this thing has been around for a long time before it became popular, but no one could have imagined that this thing could be so profitable. In just three months, Wei Dongling was shocked by the karaoke sales report submitted by Power, and in these three months, the sales volume was as high as one billion US dollars, and the profit was even as high as 400 million US dollars, not including the profits of production and manufacturers.

However, it seems that it is normal to think about it, after all, power holds this patent, which is an ironclad fact. The acquisition of the equity of Dolby and Lao Lu relied on this money. What Wei Dongling didn't expect was that after just two years of development, the global sales of karaoke in 1991 reached 18 billion US dollars, and the profit obtained by Power that year was enough to reach 3 billion US dollars.

This is completely in line with the laws of the market, every new thing appears and becomes popular is always accompanied by huge profits, and then the profits will gradually decline. Now that it is gradually coming to the end of the year, Dell's stock has skyrocketed, and so far, it has earned at least 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars for Phantom.

This is 1988, Xiao Ran heard Berkshire in the news brought back by Fang Xiaoqiang; After the news of Hathaway's listing in New York, after thinking for a long time, he finally realized that it was Warren Buffett's company. As a result, he immediately invested about $80 million in it, and successfully won about 10% of the controlling stake before going public.

The company lived up to expectations, appreciating about three times in a year. In addition to the fact that Cisco is still not moving, basically the shares of these two companies alone have added about 5 billion Hong Kong dollars to the Phantom's wealth.

With such a lesson from the past, Wei Dongling felt that he had no reason to doubt Xiao Ran's judgment. Even though it all seemed so incredible, he worked it. It's a pity that classmate Lu is really brainless, no way.

In the second half of the year, the Phantom basically stopped its exaggerated expansion rate, but stabilized its interests in a stable state. The operation of the subsidiaries is very good, especially ATV, which is currently planning to be listed under the meaning of Wei Dongling and Xiao Ran.

The only thing that annoyed Wei Dongling was the computer department, this department was like burning money, no, it was faster than burning money. This year, I invested a full 1.8 billion yuan to buy every kind of equipment I needed, such as a super graphics production station or something, and even invited many top American experts in this field, but I still haven't been able to make any achievements.

Wei Dongling felt that Xiao Ran's biggest failure so far was here, originally, he made a big hole here for no reason, but no matter how much money he had, he couldn't withstand it. However, sometimes he still thinks that with Xiao Ran's judgment, it is really impossible to smash on this.

Of course he didn't understand, Xiao Ran wanted a completely own technology. It's like throwing money at the end of the thinking stage, that is, they want to burn their own technology no matter what. In the future, mastering technology is mastering the world.

Of course, technology has to be patented globally, and Xiao Ran will never make the mistakes of the mainland. The most important thing is that he hopes to burn money and wait for the stocks of Dell or Cisco, or Microsoft and Berkshire to rise, and then Xiao Ran will never care how they burn it.

However, it must not be said that this money is worthless, at least at present, it is completely able to compete with Hollywood in terms of photoelectric special effects. Otherwise, what are the actions that go through the wall in "The Love of People and Ghosts" made? It's just that in the further development, there is a bottleneck, in fact, the world's computer effects have fallen into an unprecedented low ebb at this time.

On November 1, the honeymooner man and woman who had been going for more than a month finally returned to Hong Kong. Along the way, they had a great time, but they were immediately caught by Wei Dongling and extorted a Ferrari. Wei Dongling likes cars very much, which may be something he is relatively enthusiastic about.

After the jet lag, Xiao Ran went to see Rong Xiaoyi and Lin Yongqiang on the third day, Lin Yongqiang is now very good at business intelligence. This world fund is not doing badly, and its current assets have reached as high as 1.4 billion. Although he was in dire need of money to expand the acquisition, he still hadn't used the money here.

Coming to the Phantom's office as the chairman of the board of directors, Xiao Ran was very complacent for a while. Just thinking of this hellish board of directors, Wei Dongling and Fang Xiaoqiang, I felt bored. After bringing Tang Yan and Wei Dongling to him, and after asking about the situation, his fingers twitched like a villain dancing on his legs.

"Since Lucas doesn't want to sell, then we'll let him sell!" Xiao Ran smiled weirdly, things in the mall are like this, if you want to grow, you have to hurt the interests of others. He thought for a moment before asking, "How much liquidity does Power and Phantom have at the moment?" ”

"Because Mr. Xiao said hello in advance, I started to prepare half a year ago." Tang Yan said it almost casually, and his surname was not bad: "At present, I am making about $430 million on karaoke, and after selling other stocks and unnecessary real estate, I got about $100 million." Last time, Mr. Wei took 200 million from me, and now there are 330 million left! ”

"Phantom also now has 3.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, and in addition to the necessary liquidity, it can use 2.4 billion!" Wei Dongling obviously guessed what Xiao Ran wanted to do, and gave the answer with a smile.

"Power can leave 80 million US dollars, so it is only a little more than 500 million." Xiao Ran thought it was funny, he still wanted to buy a film company, but now he couldn't even do it to Lao Lu, and he only raised 500 million US dollars!

Xiao Ran didn't think about it carefully, the market value of the Phantom last year was only about one billion US dollars, and now it is extremely rare to be able to come up with 500 million US dollars of liquidity without a loan. Especially when he has not yet used the funds of his subsidiaries, and part of the industry is welded to Microsoft and other stocks.

"But ......" Tang Yan smiled, thinking that the sales profit of karaoke in the past six months is only so much, but there are agency fees paid by other companies, which is not a few: "However, we still have 200 million US dollars in karaoke production royalties!" ”

Xiao Ran was stunned, he didn't expect to be tricked by this foreigner, and he couldn't help but laugh with Wei Dongling. In fact, Xiao Ran can use loans to make acquisitions, not to mention anything else, but Dell is afraid that he can give a loan of one billion and eight billion US dollars. It's just that Dell is appreciating, and Xiao Ran thought of using it at a critical moment.

Three days later, Xiao Ran came to California accompanied by his entourage, he has been to many countries in Europe, but the United States has never been there! On this trip, he didn't contact anyone, but came quietly accompanied by Sunshine and Monkey and An Yuxuan.

California is one of the most famous states, probably more famous than New York, because of Hollywood. However, ILM's location is not in Hollywood, but on the famous Skywalker Farm in San Francisco.

Although the Phantom has a branch in California, it is located in Los Angeles, so no one was notified of the branch. It was not easy to meet Lu, but Lu was clearly interested in the mysterious guest from the Far East. So, after Xiao Ran was mysteriously busy for a while, it didn't take much time to meet this top cow man who was addicted to technology.

Lucas is still very young now, and of course, this is only compared to more than a decade later. It's just that, in Xiao Ran's eyes, this foreigner always seems to be a little older. In Lucas's office, the two looked at each other, judging.

Xiao Ran didn't know how many thoughts turned in his mind at this moment, if Lucas could be invited to join Hong Kong films, it would definitely be a rather fatal blow to American films. Unfortunately, such an idea is clearly unrealistic.

The first remuneration of this thing is that the current remuneration of Hong Kong films is far less than that of Hollywood, and even not as good as that of Europe, why is this attractive? Of course, it is equally important to have a good enough space to play and the overall environmental background of the Hong Kong film industry.

Thinking about this now is obviously a bit out of place, Xiao Ran quickly reined in his thoughts, looked at this old guy who had been mixed up all his life by relying on Star Wars, and said in English that he was already quite fluent: "Hello, Mr. Lucas, nice to meet you!" ”

Lucas just wondered why the Orientals were so interested in his company. Moreover, why do Orientals seem to like to acquire in the United States recently, doesn't the Oriental in front of him know that Sony's purchase of Columbia in the first half of the year almost caused a riot in the United States?

Of course Xiao Ran knew, however, Light Fiend and Skywalker were not Columbia, and it was only these two that he wanted to buy, not Lucas. So, he said very politely, "May I call you George?" So, George, you know that I already control forty percent of your company, and you should know how serious it would be if I were to go against you! ”

Xiao Ran is not worried, just with his current 40% equity, he will have a "separation" with Lao Lu, so that he can get a lot of benefits. Of course, his goal is not to split with Lucas, but to complete the Lightfie and Skywalker.

Lucas's face changed slightly, all he currently has is an absolute controlling figure of 51 percent, although he can have the right to decide on the company's decision-making. It's just that if Xiao Ran loses all this money, it will still put classmate Lu in a crisis, which he still knows very well.

Don't think that both Light and Fiend and Skywalker were founded by Lucas, that they are his wholly owned companies. Americans have always liked to raise money to avoid risks, and unless it is a very safe deal, they generally need to raise money.

Lu was still founded by financing, so Xiao Ran was able to acquire 40% of the controlling stake. This obviously gave Lucas a headache, and he felt that the guy in front of him had driven him to a crossroads with a very straightforward and also very vicious method.

"Mr. Xiao...... "Lucas is probably the second time in his life to pronounce it in such pinyin, and it feels very awkward. There was a look of a strong man breaking his wrist in his expression, which made Xiao Ran know it at a glance: "You don't need to blackmail me, I don't understand why you are trying to buy it wholly." However, I tell you very clearly, the Light Fiend will be able to make a lot of money for you in the future! ”

No way? Xiao Ran's eyes widened, and his expression of disbelief was undisguised. Listening to this tone, it seemed that Lu was planning to persuade Xiao Ran in turn and let Xiao Ran continue to invest, so that the light and demon could survive the current difficulties.

Lucas was indeed trying to persuade Xiao Ran so that he could get more investment. Because he suddenly felt that Dongfangs might be very rich, and if he didn't take advantage of it, he would simply be sorry for his parents: "You know, the light and magic are indeed in a very awkward position at the moment. However, I think that one more investment is enough for Light and Magic to break through its current situation and make a lot of money for all of us! Trust me. ”

Xiao Ran admires the Americans too much, he is here to talk about acquisitions, Lucas actually wants to arbitrage investment from him, and he can't help but admire the adventurous spirit of the Americans in business. I just know that I can't do it, but I still can't help but test it.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh, laughing so heartily that even Lucas behind the table was stunned......

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