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On May 7, 1993, in Central, Hong Kong, the Phantom Building is located in the most prosperous area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Half of the 68-story building belongs to the Phantom Group, and the Phantom Company has just moved to the 48th floor.

In the spacious and bright office of the chairman of the board of directors on the forty-eighth floor, Xiao Ran stared at the surrounding high-rise buildings with his hands behind his back, and Wei Dongling was beside him. Although his position was not as high as the other buildings, no one dared to ignore the owner of this floor now.

Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling are both old, Wei Dongling is three years older than Xiao Ran, and now he is thirty-three years old, and Xiao Ran will be thirty years old in a few days. Wei Dongling, Xiao Ran's best assistant and best partner, is now becoming more and more sophisticated, and he has monopolized the highest-paid CEO in Hong Kong for four years. Now his annual salary is as high as 30 million, and he has been selected as one of the top ten CEOs in Asia for three consecutive years.

Xiao Ran has also changed, and three years is enough time for him to become more of a tycoon. He is still the richest Chinese in the world, and has allowed himself to rise in the ranking for three consecutive years, and is currently ranked 18th.

From 1985 to 1993, a full eight years, Xiao Ran's foresight and decision-making, coupled with Wei Dongling's implementation and gradual decision-making. In the first six years, the Phantom expanded at a high rate, and in the seventh and eighth years, the Phantom slowed down the pace of expansion and turned into a stable market.

With the efforts of Wei Dongling, the general managers of its subsidiaries and all the united employees, the Phantom Group has successfully transformed into a large-scale multinational group with three major industries as the core: entertainment media, electronic telecommunications and real estate in the past three years.

In the entertainment industry, Scholar Media, under the leadership of Bai Pengfei, even swallowed the Ming Pao Group, which controls countless newspapers, magazines and publishing houses in Hong Kong and overseas, and is almost comparable to Murdoch's News Corporation. In the television industry, ATV, with the support of the head office, has become the most influential TV media group in Asia through acquisitions and acquisitions.

In terms of music, Ethereal has also developed rapidly, with an increasing number of foreign singers, gradually expanding its influence, and making itself the leading record label in Asia. In terms of special effects, Infinite Vision still maintains its leading position in the world, and fantasy animation is enough to compete with Disney in terms of production standards.

In the film business, Phantom has always controlled the production of films, and at least half of the first round of films produced in Hong Kong every year is invested by Phantom. At a time when the local market is still monopolizing, Hong Kong films are becoming more and more influential in the world, and Hollywood has even deeply felt the threat from Hong Kong films, or rather from the Phantom.

A huge movie empire has been born, and Xiao Ran doesn't even need to take care of it himself. He's just waiting for a battle with Hollywood, but before that can happen, he'll have to deal with the mainland market first.

The chief's promise has been fulfilled, not only has the policy not changed, but the market is gradually opening up. Censorship has been opened up to Hong Kong publishers, and the videotape market has been opened up to allow joint ventures with mainland companies that can control 51 percent of the shares.

The only thing that has not yet been done in the mainland market is to open up the theater investment restrictions, but this day is also coming soon. Xiao Ran received the news that on the day of his birth, the political axe would send someone to congratulate him on his birthday and confirm the matter.

Xiao Ran can't even wait, overseas countries have already noticed the impact of Hong Kong films on their domestic film industry, and the French political axe, which has always been open to Chinese film networks, is currently preparing to introduce a protection policy for the domestic film industry.

If the Phantom can't get the mainland market again, then I'm afraid it will be difficult at that time. However, Xiao Ran is not worried about the complete shrinkage of the Hong Kong film market, because those areas are already inseparable from Hong Kong films. At present, more than 150 films are produced in Hong Kong every year, of which at least 30 are distributed worldwide, while the rest are generally distributed by regional surname.

It's just that if you can't get the mainland market again, the Hong Kong film industry will definitely have a bad time in the future. This is inevitable, if the original annual market share is reduced, the profit will be much smaller, and it is inevitable to be sad.

Wei Dongling and Xiao Ran were talking about this matter just now, but what he was talking about now was another thing - Li Ka-shing wanted to buy Wheelock's shares in the hands of Phantom. Due to financing and other reasons, after two years of operation, Wheelock's current market value has reached 150 billion Hong Kong dollars, and more than 40% of the shares held by the Phantom have also been spread to 34% because of financing.

What Li Ka-shing wants is the stock in the Phantom's hand so that he can become the owner of Wheelock. In fact, as long as you get the Phantom's shares, you will be able to control Wheelock. Xiao Ran knows very well why Li Ka-shing did this, because the phantom has bad intentions towards Hutchison stock in recent years, and has repeatedly increased its holdings, as long as he wins another 15% of the shares, it is enough to threaten Li Ka-shing's position as chairman of the board.

Of course, Xiao Ran and Li Ka-shing's personal relationship is still very good, and they don't have a grudge because of business matters. Wei Dongling suddenly smiled, he remembered the scene when he started a business with Xiao Ran back then, at that time, many people were crowded in a 100-square-meter office, and even had to give up his general manager's office for meetings.

"Li Ka-shing is very strange, he wants to take Hutchison's shares and add cash to buy Wheelock shares!" Wei Dongling quickly put his mind back to business: "Now that everyone sees that telecommunications are promising, why should he give up the interests in his hands? ”

Xiao Ran's gaze finally moved back, but his face was full of smiles, and he spread his hands lightly and said, "Don't forget, we have been so ruthless in acquiring Hutchison stocks recently, it is impossible for him not to know." If it is negotiated, plus the equity in our hands, it will be almost 20 percent, which is very threatening! ”

Wei Dongling has been in the mall for so many years, of course, he is no longer the inexperienced kid back then, as soon as he heard Xiao Ran say, he immediately understood: "You mean that he saw that our company was developing so fast, and he was determined to give up the chairman's position, and then he was happy." Wheelock will operate Wheelock for another two or three years, and then sell it again......"

Xiao Ran nodded, if he remembered correctly, Li Ka-shing was planning to enter the United States or the British telecommunications market. He remembered very clearly that Li Chaoren once made hundreds of billions of dollars selling telecommunications companies in Britain and 70 billion yuan selling telecommunications in the United States.

Wheelock's business is now not limited to sales and the like, but also into the hotel and other industries, and there is definitely hope that it will double in value in two or three years. Wei Dongling nodded, he felt that this deal seemed to be a big loss for the Phantom, but one of the Phantom's core businesses now is electronic telecommunications, and it has successively acquired telecommunications companies and mobile companies in Europe and the United States, as long as this business can be integrated, it will definitely be very advantageous.

Li Ka-shing is interested in nothing more than this, he knows that the Phantom will definitely do it, and exchange the position of Chairman Huang for control of Wheelock, which is absolutely a happy situation. Thinking of this, Wei Dongling nodded and said, "It seems that this deal is a good deal......

"However, I am worried that Li Ka-shing's target is Hong Kong Telecom, and if he becomes the owner of Hong Kong Telecom, it will be a big trouble!" After thinking about it, Xiao Ran still thinks it is unlikely, the current Hong Kong Telecommunications is still in a monopoly state, and there is no reason for it to be successfully acquired by Li Ka-shing.

"Forget it, don't mention this. How's the invasion of the mainland? Now that the other businesses have entered, only entertainment media is missing! Wei Dongling looked at Xiao Ran with a mocking face and smiled sneeringly, Wei Dongling was not responsible for the entertainment media, mainly Xiao Ran was making decisions, no wonder he was happy to watch jokes.

Xiao Ran glared at the kid and sat down on the sofa to think. The only fortunate thing is that the status of Hong Kong-made films in the mainland is absolutely deep-rooted, and they do not need to enter as imported films, but can be released directly. However, this damn release still has to be handed over to China Film.

At the beginning of the year, China's political axe decided to introduce ten foreign language blockbusters a year, and in July, it was the first "Outlaw World" to enter the mainland with this qualification. Xiao Ran sneered, it was just a "Outlaw World", in order to snipe at this film, the Phantom and other four major companies will release this year's highlight in the summer. Two of Phantom's three summer blockbusters are action movies of their kind, trying to make Hollywood's first step in China a complete failure.

"It doesn't matter, I'll be able to catch up with you soon!" That being said, Xiao Ran is still a little depressed, Chengji Infrastructure has just bid for a project of tens of billions in the mainland, which is simply incomparable.

After finalizing some things, Xiao Ran went home. Lin Qingxia has been resting recently and has not started the play. In fact, there is no need to take on so many dramas at all, and the production cycle of Hong Kong films is getting longer and longer, and the average cycle of blockbusters has generally reached one year. A big star like Lin Qingxia, who is worth tens of millions, only receives two dramas at most a year, and generally only one play.

Xiao Ran is very proud of this, the long production cycle turns out that it can not only make the film more and more sophisticated, but also indirectly extend the life of a certain theme. For example, the martial arts films, which have begun to decline now, still maintain extremely vigorous vitality, which is his unexpected gain!

When she returned home, Xiao Ran saw Lin Qingxia teasing her one-year-old son and two-month-old daughter. Quietly walked behind her, and suddenly hugged her: "How is it, are you bored at home?" ”

"Where is it, I am at home with my son and daughter, I don't know how happy I am!" Lin Qingxia glanced at Xiao Ran, which made Xiao Ran feel bored. After teasing the two children again, Lin Qingxia turned around and looked at Xiao Ran and said, "By the way, your birthday banquet is almost ready, and the invitation stickers have basically been sent out, don't be busy with work these days, accompany the children at home, and accompany me!" ”

Xiao Ran suddenly felt aggrieved, where did he not accompany Lin Qingxia. Last year, he also took a month to accompany Lin Qingxia to go around the world for a walk, and also bought some properties, which is also called not accompanied? complained to her with a bitter face: "You know I've been busy with the post-production of "Jurassic Park" recently, and I can't take a break at all. ”

Historically. Hollywood completely opened the door to the Hong Kong market with "Jurassic Park" and knocked on the door of the world market. And now, Xiao Ran is going to do the opposite, he wants to return this film to North America in its original form.

However, in the film, he is just a producer, and Liu Mei and Liang Jun are the directors. After the two directors have collaborated on several films in the past two or three years, the tacit understanding is getting better and better, and they have been in love for a long time. In addition, Liang Jun is very good at this kind of large-scale scene production, of course, he is the right person.

Only now did Xiao Ran discover that Chinese directors were not incompetent, but were restrained by the stingy Hong Kong movies in history. And now that they have absolutely large enough display space, even Xiao Ran was shocked by the large number of talents that have emerged.

The most typical is Wei Changqing, who was not very relieved when Xiao Ran handed over "This Killer is Not Too Cold" to him, so he specially pointed out how to shoot it, and sent Chen Musheng to assist in the shooting. When the film was released, Xiao Ran was taken aback, although this film has become unrecognizable under the different techniques of various directors, but it is still a classic comparable to the original.

Returning to the topic of Fang Cai, the fate of "Jurassic Park" in North America can be imagined. This Hong Kong-made film, which has an investment of more than 100 million yuan for the first time and reached 150 million, specially rented a small island in Southeast Asia to make this small island to make a completely real location, which is also the only Hong Kong film with a production time of two years.

However, this is not a work that Xiao Ran really wants to use to impact Hollywood, because this film is actually very Westernized in a sense. What Xiao Ran longs for is the urban martial arts "Chivalry", which is a film that can interpret oriental culture.

The script of that film was completed last year, and after the inspiration of the Phantom screenwriter team who gathered the top screenwriters in Hong Kong, this script is held by ordinary directors, and I am afraid that they can direct a good film.

But apart from Xiao Ran, who else can use all the Phantom screenwriters who have reached more than twenty at will? Of course there is, even if this film is not directed by Xiao Ran, it must go through this procedure.

As with the previous rules, Xiao Ran finalized the entire structure after communicating and discussing with the screenwriter team, and left a lot of tails for the sequel. In terms of plot, it is extremely rich and perfect. The result is a complete and scientifically logical world, in which some scholars and professors have also participated.

"What are you thinking? If you don't want to accompany me, forget it! After Lin Qingxia had a child, she seemed to have become much younger, and she was always smiling and singing: "Also, don't you look at your son and daughter!" ”

Xiao Ran sighed helplessly and put his head up......