Chapter 192: You get what you pay for
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Now that both sides have become savvy, this condition is not so easy to say. Uncle Sixth has always been a stingy person, he just didn't understand the market before, so it made people feel very generous, but now that he understands that even two million dollars can be earned for the mainland, then Uncle Six's stinginess has been committed again.
If you insist on three million dollars, you can't do more, and if you do more, you can only ask a local construction company in Hong Kong to do the project. And Zheng Wenyun is not willing to give up such a good opportunity, since it is not easy to raise the price, then we will increase the amount.
"Shao tycoon, Mr. Li, otherwise, since you want to renovate the movie theaters, and some of them will be demolished and rebuilt, it is better to take advantage of the labor to take advantage of the cheap labor and tear down all the movie theaters in your hands now and rebuild them.
These movie theaters in Hong Kong are not young, most of them are old houses, it is better to tear them all down on this opportunity. The quality of the building on our side can be guaranteed, and we can do the most professional design in one step, so as to ensure that the space is fully utilized, not just tinkering. It's all over again, and our asking price is not high, five million dollars, including building the house and renovating everything. Finally, as long as you get the projection equipment, you can open your doors immediately. Zheng Wenyun said seriously.
"Five million dollars? Isn't it more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars? We don't plan to pay that much. Hearing that Zheng Wenyun actually asked for five million dollars in the end, the sixth uncle's hair exploded. Didn't I ask mainland construction companies to come in just to save money? Now that the money has not been saved, a lot of money has gone out, how can the sixth uncle, who is called a dime, accept such a price?
But except for the sixth uncle, Li Mingbao and the Xiang brothers are all a little moved. More than 100 movie theaters have been demolished and rebuilt, and they are built exactly according to the design of the movie theater, not any other house. If you really want to do this, five million dollars doesn't seem like a lot.
More than 100 movie theaters, such a big project, let these companies in Hong Kong do it, and if you don't let you pay 100 million Hong Kong dollars, it can be regarded as their kindness. Now you can get such good conditions for less than half the price, although the money is more, but the effect is better.
If you really get it all right, then the movie theater grade of the United Cinema Line will be improved a lot. Doubling the price is not considered black-hearted. It depends on Zou Wenhuai who is also thinking about whether it is really necessary to do this at this time, although there is more money now, but it is really good for the future of the United Cinema Line.
Li Mingbao was also moved by the price proposed by Zheng Wenyun, although such a price far exceeded his expectations, if he really wanted to do this, then the final investment in the theater would definitely increase greatly. Perhaps twenty or thirty years from now, the biggest investment in building a cinema is land and construction. Now, the biggest investment in a good movie theater is electronic equipment, that is, sound projection equipment. Buildings don't cost that much money. Although the land is valuable, the land of the movie theaters of the United Cinema Line is in the hands of their shareholders, and there is basically no leased land.
Perhaps before the establishment of the United Cinema Line, many movie theaters basically joined the three major cinema chains, and the real control was actually not in the hands of the sixth uncle. However, the establishment of United Cinemas means that the small shareholders in the major cinemas in the past have no place to stand. The first to be eaten by Li Mingbao were the small shareholders in the Shaw Brothers.
And the Golden Princess and Golden Harvest, who joined later, also worked hard to digest all their internal personnel. After all, if there are still small shareholders involved, those small shareholders will also enter the United Cinema Line, so that they can also obtain the equity of the United Cinema Line, and the banners of the Golden Princess and Golden Harvest will be weakened at that time. Therefore, for the safety of their own shares, before deciding to join the United Cinema Line, Boss Zou and Boss Lei spent their own money to receive the movie theaters in the hands of those small shareholders, so as to ensure that they had 20% of the shares in the United Cinema Line.
Otherwise, with the minority shareholders of those movie theaters, Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun would not be able to get such a high share. Of course, this is also a painful choice for Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, because when they acquired these movie theaters, they were all knocked out of a batch of liquidity without exception.
Otherwise, Zheng Wenyun's words just now would have touched their hearts immediately. Who doesn't love their cinema becoming modern and advanced? That not only means that the grade of your cinema will be improved, but also that the screen in the cinema will increase a lot, and more importantly, it can increase the ticket price.
There are so many benefits, some small problems now, can be completely suppressed, and when a new movie theater is established in the future, it will become simple to return to the original cost. But although Zou Wenhuai and they are excited, they just don't have much money in their hands, and they really have to spend so much money on decoration, and the liquidity in their hands is really not enough.
They not only have a movie theater in their hands, but also a film company, although the film company shoots movies and pays off quickly, but at least they must have money to make movie theaters, and they can't let the United Cinema Line squeeze all the funds they have in their hands, so what should they do if they make movies?
So after Zheng Wenyun tried his best to sell, several people in the conference room, two big factions appeared, one faction just felt that overhaul was a good way to save a lot of money for the future. The representatives of this faction are Li Mingbao and the Xiang brothers, Li Mingbao is in favor of repairing now, because he knows that in less than two years, Hong Kong's housing prices will rise faster than anything else, and Li Mingbao's status has been established more and more. And the Xiang brothers agreed, because they had listened to Li Mingbao's words before, and if they had Hong Kong dollars in their hands, they should spend them quickly, or they would exchange them for other currencies, otherwise they would lose money.
On the other hand, they are not in favor of large-scale construction. Among them, the most objectionable is Uncle Six, a person who regards cost as more important than anything else, and wants to spend a lot of money on his own, knowing that it is good for him to do so, but he is reluctant. And although Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun also disapprove, it is not because they do not approve in their hearts, but the money in their hands is really not enough, otherwise they are also in favor, who will benefit in the end after the movie theater is repaired? Isn't it just them, spending the money now, making more money in the future, who wouldn't count such a topic? As for Cui Xiaoming, who represents the interests of overseas filmmakers, he has become invisible again at this time, and it is not his turn to intervene in this matter at all, just report it when the time comes.
Seeing that the sixth uncle came out to oppose it all of a sudden, Zheng Wenyun was not angry, and he couldn't be angry with a character like the sixth uncle, and finally saw such a financial road, Zheng Wenyun at this time couldn't help but toss hard.
"Sixth uncle, you see that you definitely have to make money on this deal. You won't find anything so cheap in the whole world, except for our construction company. With only 40 million Hong Kong dollars, you can renovate the whole Hong Kong cinema chain, such a good business, even if you can't find it with a lantern, only we can complete it for you on time, according to the work and quality. It's better to save money by doing it together now than doing it slowly later, right?
In this world, money is unspent. Now we can use 40 million to do something properly, maybe in two years, even if we do, 40 million Hong Kong dollars will be at most half. At that time, it was really a loss. Therefore, this matter should be done sooner rather than later, and everyone will be able to be stable as soon as possible. Don't look at the big money all at once, but in the future, it will be called horror, and it will be added slowly, when will it be a head? ”
It is true that he has been in Hong Kong for many years, and the situation of the capitalist society is not at all comparable to that of ordinary officials on the mainland, and the means of doing business are not worse than those of these businesses in Hong Kong.
Of course, this is also Zheng Wenyun's person, if it is against ordinary people, let alone selling at a reduced price, even if it is parity, Zheng Wenyun may not take such a line, even if the other party is in dollars, this may not make Zheng Wenyun work so hard.
After all, there is no precedent for this matter, and who knows what will turn out to be the case. Chinese officialdom has had a law since ancient times, that is, to do more wrong, to do less wrong, not to do well, who likes political achievements, but there are troublesome political achievements, even if they will produce great achievements, the vast majority of people do not like to mix, because that not only means that there are political achievements, but also represents problems. It's not easy for everyone to get mixed up at this level, in case someone else finds trouble, a lot of things come out.
The reason why Zheng Wenyun is so active this time is nothing more than the group of people in front of him. Whether it is the sixth uncle, or Zou Wenhuai, Lei Juekun, or even Li Mingbao and the Xiang brothers, their status in Hong Kong is extraordinary, even if they cannot be compared with the top Hong Kong tycoons, but the industry they are in is special. Such a person, at a moment like this, everyone wants to win it over.
Li Mingbao and the others want to draw a line with the mainland, and the mainland also has such thoughts, after all, for such a thing as Hong Kong's return, some Hong Kong locals still need to wave their flags and shout, and they must remain neutral even if it is not good, and cannot be completely opposed. Li Mingbao and they now have such a cooperation, and they will look much better in dealing with them in the future.
In addition, there is also the big killer weapon of the dollar, which makes Zheng Wenyun, a deputy minister-level official in the mainland, can't help but become a peddler. Those who can be sent to Hong Kong by the mainland are more elite than ordinary mainland officials, and they know better how to play their own role, rather than being a mud bodhisattva. Therefore, it is not surprising that Zheng Wenyun made such a business move.
But Zheng Wenyun's efforts did not play a role in the sixth uncle, and the sixth uncle's determination to control the cost was unbearable even if it was a big benefit. So the sixth uncle still shook his head and said, "No, no, even if it is a big benefit." But in terms of cost, it is difficult for us to accept, you do this, the construction period is not long, at most a few months, and we will have to withdraw a huge amount of five million dollars at once, which is very troublesome. ”