The car was driving quietly on the road, Song Nianhui looked at the young man next to him who was complacent, and finally couldn't hold back after enduring it for a while, and asked: "Lin Sheng, why do you suddenly want the Bank of China to help lead the few companies that are still in the mainland?" ”

The drinking party had been over for a while, and he also saw that Lin Xiaozhi seemed to be in a very good mood along the way, and finally shook out the doubts in his heart.

The mainland's current predicament is well known to everyone in Hong Kong's financial circles. So before being invited, Song Nianhui guessed that most of the time the Bank of China invited them for gold. Since appointing him to take over the Kowloon Bank, the boss has asked him to start eating a lot of gold. At first, Song Nianhui really thought that he was just to increase the bank's ability to resist risks, and since the beginning of this year, the price of gold in the futures market has been rising, so he agreed to buy a large amount of gold and store it in the bank's underground vault.

However, until the cocktail party that just ended tonight, Lin Xiaozhi's various actions that seemed to have been prepared made him wonder if the young man next to him had been planning to sell gold to the Bank of China Group a long time ago.

Lin Xiaozhi's whole body fell into the leather sofa of the car, looking very relaxed. Anyone could tell that he was in a good mood right now. In fact, it was really good, after months or more than a year of planning, he finally threw the bait out of the bait, and what he did now was to wait patiently for the fish to take the bait, and then ......

"Shenzhen丨Ping An Insurance Company, Shenzhen丨Development Bank, Zhongshan Xiaobawang Technology, Sanshui Jianlibao......

Familiar names emerged from his mind one by one, and after Song Nianhui's question was asked for almost a minute, he slowly replied: "It's been a few years since 97, and I'm buying a future for myself."

Buying a future?

Yes, it is true to buy a future.

At the just-concluded reception, in the face of the Bank of China, which couldn't help but want to buy the gold in his hand, Lin Xiaozhi put forward a condition, promising that if the Bank of China was willing to help take the lead in investing in several companies and bring him a message to Beijing, then the Bank of Kowloon could accept the transaction in RMB and sell his bank's two tons of gold to the Bank of China Group.

did not mean to embarrass the other party, he asked the Bank of China to convey to Beijing on his behalf, but he organized a delegation to visit Beijing on behalf of part of the will of the Hong Kong entertainment industry. And his so-called leading shareholding is only four mainland enterprises, all of which are in Shenzhen, Special Economic Zone and Guangdong Province, which are close to Hong Kong. But each of them has some troubles, either local government participation, or complex shareholder composition, or Yu Crisp is the first listed company on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. If there is no government intervention, even if Lin Xiaozhi waits for Hong Kong's return, he will not see if he will have the opportunity to buy shares.

Ping An Insurance, Shenzhen Development Bank, Xiaobawang, Jianlibao, the reason why Lin Xiaozhi wants to invest in these four companies is indeed to buy a future for himself as he said.

Jianlibao is good to say, the famous Oriental Magic Water, the previous life Lin Xiaozhi played small and drank big, for the decline of this company that could have become China's beverage giant, he regretted it in the previous life, and after being reborn, there was a chance to change some regrets, he always wanted to try it.

Needless to say, Ping An Insurance, the future insurance giant in the mainland, Lin Xiaozhi once invested in several insurance policies for himself in Ping An, and he had to deal with it every year when he learned that the newly established Ping An had a share capital of only more than 40 million yuan a year ago, and his ambition could not stop swelling. Before his accident, it was a giant whose assets had swelled to trillions.

The same is true of Shenzhen Development Bank, which was newly established in 87 and issued 500,000 shares at a price of 20 yuan per share, with a market value of 10 million. As the first listed company after the establishment of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Development was merged by Ping An and renamed 'Ping An Bank' in later generations, when the market value evaluation once exceeded one trillion yuan, even if the shares that can be bought now, Lin Xiaozhi also bought a beautiful future for himself.

As for Xiaobawang Electronics, it is likely that many Chinese people are a little dismissive when it comes to him, thinking that this is just an electronic company that has relied on the prestige of Japan's Nintendo game consoles for a period of time. But few people know that Xiaobawang also has a reputation in China's electronics industry as 'China's consumer electronics West Point Military Academy'. From this electronic company born in the 80s, it has successively walked out of the founders or technical backbones of many enterprises, such as "BBK", "Jinzheng Digital", "Gionee Mobile Phone", "Zhigao Air Conditioning", etc.

Videotapes have been around for decades, and now they are nearing the end of their lives. If Lin Xiaozhi is not mistaken, it should be born in the early nineties, the predecessor of DR, that is, VCD. At first, he hadn't considered getting involved in hardware, but the idea came to him when he invested in the company and started to set up his own special effects processing company. After all, my company owns more than 100 movie copyrights, and it is indeed a pity not to make good use of it, and it is inevitable to think of more ways to use it.

Although he has more in his head, even if he can eat a bite, it will be enough to squander the list of mainland companies for several lifetimes. But those are either state-owned enterprises or central enterprises, and a few private enterprises have either not been born yet, or even he himself only remembers a name, and the operation is far less practical than these few, so he gave up his thoughts.

After coming back from the cocktail party of the Bank of China, two days passed in a flash, but Lin Xiaozhi felt regretful that he never waited for a call from the Bank of China, so that he was still somewhat confident, and his heart gradually sank, so that in the past two days, anyone who saw him was calm and unhappy, and it was not until Christmas Day that he was invited to participate in a small drinking party in the company between a few Canadian technicians and a group of technical maniacs from New Vision in Hong Kong.

"Are you used to living in Hong Kong, Harvey?"

In the spacious conference hall on the 14th floor of the Bank of Kowloon Building, Lin Xiaozhi temporarily forgot about the waiting for no response, and was looking at the brown-haired white man sitting on the sofa on the left, Greg Harvey, one of the two founders, with a smile on his face.

Before he arrived, Harvey was holding a piece of cake in his hand and chatting loudly with more than twenty young people. Seeing Lin Xiaozhi coming, Harvey, who had seen him a few times when he first arrived in Hong Kong, had an exaggerated smile on his face and gave him a thumbs up: "Cool, the weather here in Hong Kong is amazing, I feel like I'm working in Hawaii......"

It was snowing heavily in Canada at this time, and he was chattering about showing off when he was on the phone with Davis and his family not long ago. Not only can you enjoy the sunshine and warmth in the cold winter, but Hong Kong is also in the most comfortable season of the year. The company provides accommodation, distributes food subsidies, and after work, either go to Lan Kwai Fong to drink and fish for girls, or go to the beach to debauchery, several young technicians from SP who came from Canada have been doing well recently, and even Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but be a little envious when he heard about their daily itinerary.

No, foreigners will enjoy it too much.

Lin Xiaozhi waved his hand and said with a smile: "You guys are still used to living, I'm still worried that you are not used to the climate here in Hong Kong." ”

"Would you like a piece of cake?" A young white man with a thick tongue next to him was cutting a cake at the round table of the conference when he saw him coming, and raised the knife with chocolate and cream in his hand and asked.

"Then you're welcome"

He walked over with a smile, another Chinese technician handed over a paper plate, the young white man cut a cake for him, Lin Xiaozhi went over and took a fork himself, and walked to Harvey's side with it.

"Tastes good"

He took a bite and smiled.

Harvey shrugged his shoulders: "It was bought by Huang, and it tastes really good." But it's still a little worse than the chocolate matsutake cake at my house, but unfortunately I consulted FedEx, and damn it, they didn't want to mail it for me......"

The full name of Huang in his mouth is Huang Li, and he is the technical director of the new visual effects. When Xu Ke first established New Visual Effects, the position of president has always been held by his wife Shi Nansheng, and there is no such position as general manager, and Huang Li, the technical director, is the highest person in charge besides her.

Lin Xiaozhi didn't understand the foreigner's sense of humor, so he just smiled and didn't answer. He looked around, but didn't see Huang Li's figure, and asked in surprise, "What about Huang Liren?" ”

"I just got a cake on my head, it's time to go to the bathroom, it's already bad if you don't give us a holiday on such a warm day. We're working on narration right now, so you're not going to talk to me about work in a frustrated way, are you? ”

Looking at Harvey with an exaggerated face, Lin Xiaozhi smiled and shrugged his shoulders, "What ......do you say?"

"Well, I finally understand why all the bosses in Canada are willing to hire you Chinese......" he sighed as he feigned disappointment, "Say it,." What can I do for you......?"

"Okay, okay, I'm here today to see your habits? By the way, how did you use the equipment you bought from IH a few days ago? ”

As soon as he heard him lift the equipment, Harvey was excited. Initially, he was opposed to Davis's proposal to sell the company to them, but at that time, Sima Jie used the capital he brought in to them to buy more capital for recruiting technicians and replacing them with better equipment. Undoubtedly, Lin Xiaozhi's commitment is a matter of course. After coming to Hong Kong, Harvey said a series of high-end machinery and equipment, all of which they could only covet when they were in Canada. In a week, just to buy machinery and equipment, he spent more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars out of his pocket. Not counting the fact that I spent more than 9 million yuan on another set of new equipment for the new vision.

"Fantastic,. Give us some time to run in, with Huang's help, I guarantee that I will be able to catch up with the level of ILM when he filmed "Return of the Jedi" for two years......"

Before that, I only wrote professional software, and I had no experience directly engaged in the synthesis of film technology. Thanks to Huang Li, although the skills are a lot worse, but the new visual effects monopolized the special effects market in Hong Kong before, and they can eat some movie processing lists every year, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they have meat, so Huang Li and they have accumulated a lot of experience. This is also the reason why Lin Xiaozhi is willing to pay more than 16 million Hong Kong dollars for their dozens of technical personnel.

"Return of the Jedi?" Lin Xiaozhi thought he was talking big at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the "Return of the Jedi" that Harvey said was a movie shot by Industrial Light and Magic in 1983. With machinery that is not inferior to industrial light and magic, it also has hundreds of technical personnel, and has also developed a good synthesis software, but it still takes two years to catch up with the technical level of industrial light and magic seven or eight years ago, which shows the difference in the level of special effects in Hong Kong, and the great advantage of industrial light and magic technology.

Seeing that he suddenly stopped talking, Harvey thought he was not satisfied with this. After all, it was his own boss, and looking at the best machinery he had newly purchased for himself and others, he still said: "When the Star Wars series first came out, I always felt that the computer special effects applied in it were very clever, but it has been more than ten years ago, and some techniques have been gradually eliminated, which is backward." For example, if all of our technicians are mobilized and everyone cooperates, we can now almost make an effect that is not worse than the RU version of "The Empire Strikes Back". I said that it will be possible to catch up with "Return of the Jedi" within two years is just a conservative statement, I admit that the technology of Industrial Light and Magic is ahead of the whole world, but the gap with us has not widened to more than two generations, that is, the gap between the technology and the technology of one generation. It's just that since the birth of ILM, I heard that they have received orders for no less than 60 movies and TV series this year, and many of them have spent money to improve their skills. ”

He paused, took a bite of the cake and continued: "Industrial Light & Magic has a rich reserve of techniques, as well as hundreds of small software and patents developed by hundreds of technicians in the past to improve the effect of movies. So strictly speaking, we should be a generation and a half behind their skills. And as long as you're willing to burn money, we can make the special effects needed for the comic called "Resident Evil" that you showed us last time. However, some of the special effects can be shot with modeling and makeup first, and then processed with special effects later. But I'm afraid the cost won't be too low......"

As soon as he explained this, Lin Xiaozhi suddenly felt enlightened.

"Technically, as long as you can deal with Resident Evil, investment is not something you need to consider."

"Resident Evil" was a movie adapted from a popular game in his previous life, and Lin Xiaozhi never played the game, but he was still shocked when he saw this movie for the first time. Without the background of the game, to be honest, there may be some changes at the box office when it is released overseas. However, he recently had the idea to shoot this movie more than ten years in advance. And according to his estimation in the past few months, the world has not experienced a series of movie special effects such as "Jurassic Park" and "The Matrix".

The special effects needed in "Resident Evil" are less than one-fifth of "Jurassic", and the difficulty is far less than that of "Jurassic Park".

Lin Xiaozhi's fourth film has been confirmed