Volume 1 Chapter 197 Killing Two Birds with One Stone
"The senior management of Xinyibao Records revealed that the company is about to change hands, and the new owner is suspected of being Lin Xiaozhi, the rebel son of a wealthy family"
There was a newspaper on the table, and Lin Xiaozhi, who had just returned from Venice, had not yet washed away, and the tiredness in the corners of his eyes that could not be concealed also revealed that after the master's long journey, although he had rested for three or four days, he still could not fully recover.
"The media efficiency in Hong Kong is quite high"
Lin Xiaozhi put down the newspaper and bent the corners of his mouth into an arc, revealing the master's current good mood, "You have just finalized the following, and they have received a rumor over there, but I am very curious now, how did you persuade Xinyicheng to agree to sell Xinyibao Records to us?" ”
Zhu Zhishan sat on the chair opposite him, although the two had not seen each other for more than half a month, Lin Xiaozhi felt something different from this young man who was three years younger than him. Steady and mature, even Lin Xiaozhi himself didn't expect that before leaving Hong Kong for Venice, because he really couldn't find someone who could be reused, he temporarily hung up the identity of an acting executive director to Zhu Zhishan, and after explaining the bottom line that New Asia could accept, he asked him to lead the team to continue contact with the New Art City Company.
This move, Lin Xiaozhi was originally just to grind hard bubbles, wanting to touch the bottom line of the new art city, and he didn't expect Zhu Zhishan to negotiate, in his opinion, to complete this negotiation, he had to wait for him to return to Hong Kong in person, and meet the three giants of the new art city for a while. Who would have thought that he had just returned from Venice, and Xinya gave him a good news that could not be better. Zhu Zhishan didn't know what means Lu Dao used, but he really persuaded Mecca, the president of Xinyicheng, to relent, and agreed to sell his 50 shares of Yibao Records at a price of UU million Hong Kong dollars.
"It's easy to say, boss"
Zhu Zhishan replied unhurriedly, his face full of confidence: "This time I was able to persuade Mecca to agree to sell the new Yibao records, and I used it to lure and take advantage of it."
Lin Xiaozhi waited patiently for him to finish speaking, after returning to Hong Kong in the past few days, on the one hand, he was indeed a little tired after half a month of business trip; On the other hand, he has to find time to attend the old man's final judgment.
The Lin family's bribery case, which had dragged on for half a year, finally couldn't drag on, and the Hong Kong High Court held a final trial two days ago, convicting the old man of bribery and sentenced him to nine months and 17 days in prison in accordance with the law, far beyond the Lin family's imagination. However, it is also natural to think that since the bribery case of the top management of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was exposed at the beginning of last year, it has had an extremely bad impact on Hong Kong's business and financial circles. If Lin Jili hadn't been a bribe giver and was getting old, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to escape if he was imprisoned for a year or two.
Although the Lin family has already made arrangements in advance, the old man will definitely not suffer in prison, but after all, he is old, and he is the backbone of the Lin family. As soon as the old man entered, the atmosphere in the Lin family was very heavy and depressing, and even he was affected a little, after returning to Hong Kong from Venice, he did not come to work in the company for a few days. Although there is a tool like a telephone, there are some things that cannot be explained clearly in a sentence or two on the phone, so Lin Xiaozhi really doesn't know how Zhu Zhishan got Mecca.
Zhu Zhishan paused slightly, and continued: "This temptation is simple to explain, but it is not the key to success this time, the most important thing is that there has been an incident within the new art city recently, which made me see the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to move Mecca."
"What's the matter?"
Lin Xiaozhi's heart moved, and when he heard Zhu Zhishan say that there was something inside the new art city, the first thing he thought of was that Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen might be exposed.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhishan's words also proved his guess: "At the beginning of September, Huang Baiming, one of the three giants of Xinyicheng, built a new company called 'Baiming Pictures), Huang Baiming took out tens of millions of funds and asked someone to write a script "Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost", strictly speaking, it should be the fourth part of the "Happy Ghost" series of Xinyicheng. According to the news we heard about this movie, Huang Baiming not only asked Gao Zhisen to be the director, but also signed the 'Happy Girl Group, and the Hd band, people also joined the filming of this movie. As the president of New Arts City, Mecca didn't know about it at all, until Huang Jiaju, the lead singer of the UD band, revealed at the concert not long ago that they would join the filming of a movie at the end of the year and called on fans to support them.
As he expected
"It seems that Mr. Huang has helped us a lot this time."
Lin Xiaozhi's face smiled, although he had not been in contact with Mecca much, he had seen reports about him many times in the newspaper, and now he knew the root of this bald man's stinky temper, "Mecca must be going crazy"
Zhu Zhishan shrugged his shoulders, "Indeed, among the three giants of the New Art City, Mecca and Huang Baiming hold the most shares, and the other holds the least shares but has the most life, and the contradiction is irreconcilable. And Mecca is stingy and unwilling to accept the adjustment of shares, a few months ago, after Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen helped other film companies make films, the angry Mecca once publicly attacked Huang Baiming in the newspaper, and even proposed to remove him as a director, and even Lei Juekun, who has been in poor health in the past two years, was shocked and had to come out to reconcile in person. I think it is precisely because of this incident that Huang Baiming hated him that Baiming Film Co., Ltd. appeared. ”
Everything makes sense, Huang Baiming has an extremely special identity in the new art city, from the director to the starring actor to the training of the new artists below丨 He is in charge. At the beginning of the year, he and his confidant Gao Zhisen helped other film companies make movies, which had angered Mecca. Now Huang Baiming has set up a film company by himself, blatantly hiding from the people of the Megara Company to make films for himself. These actions not only made Mecca hate Huang Baiming even more and further intensified the contradictions between the three giants, but also made him start to be jealous of Huang Baiming's influence in the new art city.
So Mecca finally made a decision to sell the new Yibao record and began to cut off Huang Baiming's lineage. Whether it's the 'Happy Girl Group' or the Hd band, they are all Huang Baiming's people, after losing the New Art Treasure Record, Huang Baiming's subordinates can use a lot fewer signed artists, this Mecca is worthy of the top three of the New Arts City, not only hates others but also hates himself. would rather let the new art city that lost the new art treasure record break the bones, but also clean up the big enemy Huang Baiming, worthy of the movie tycoon who single-handedly created the myth of the new art city in the eighties, the word hero, Mecca definitely deserves it.
“…… At first, Mecca was reluctant to sell to us, but after Bai Ming Pictures was exposed, he couldn't sit still, and his tone was no longer as insistent as before, so I took advantage of the situation to raise the purchase price privately. Boss, you told me before that Xinyibao Records is strictly worth a maximum of 30 or 40 million, so when I talked to Mecca, I directly told him that Xinya was willing to buy half of the shares held by Xinyicheng at a price of UU million Hong Kong dollars, which was nearly 10 million higher than the 17UU million you proposed by your boss before. But I have an additional requirement for this, which is that New Arts City will help us convince Polygram Records to sell their shares to us as well. Mecca naturally didn't want to talk to Polygram, so I took the opportunity to start lowering the price, but unfortunately I could only press UU million Hong Kong dollars, which was 2 million higher than the low price given by the boss."
Lin Xiaozhi waved his hand absently, the smile on his face grew, and he looked at Zhu Zhishan, who suddenly stabilized and talkative, and was amazed in his heart
Half a month ago, Zhu Zhishan was only a middle-level manager of New Asia Film Company, but in the past half a month, he independently completed an acquisition involving tens of millions of dollars. Lin Xiaozhi didn't know how he spent the past half a month, and how could he think of taking advantage of the situation? How do you think of using everything you can to force the other side to sit down at the negotiating table with them? and his deliberate inflated purchase price, but offered a condition that was unacceptable to the other party, and then took the opportunity to reduce the price, all of which made Lin Xiaozhi, a reborn, also admire.
This is really a two-pronged acquisition, which not only makes up for the lame leg of New Asia Film Company, but also has its own record company and professional soundtrack team. At the same time, he has one more working subordinate, alleviating the need for high-level talents for Xinya Film Company, which has begun to grow gradually.
The more he looks at Zhu Zhishan, who is now mature, the more satisfied Lin Xiaozhi is, "It will cost two million more, and the acquisition will always produce a premium, which we can accept." Xiao Zhu, you have done a very good job in this matter, the executive director of the company, you continue to take over temporarily, and after you are fully adapted to the New Year, the important task of executive director will be done by you. By the way, the iron wants to fight while it is hot, and I approved UU's proposal to acquire New Yibao Records with 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. You go to Mecca and sign the contract before the other two of the Big Three get involved."
"Boss, I'll do it right away"
As soon as he heard that he had become supreme later, and became one of the company's senior executives before Zheng Fei, who had won Lin Xiaozhi's favor before, Zhu Zhishan, who was only twenty-five years old this year, was also flushed with excitement. Before Lin Xiaozhi's words spoke, he was like a fueled engine, full of horsepower, and quickly got up from his seat, and immediately left his office to contact Mecca in Xinyi City to sign a contract.
"This guy ......"
Lin Xiaozhi saw him leave, but he also felt his excitement. A year ago, when Wang Jiaan suddenly proposed to make him the executive director of New Asia Film Company, he was just as excited, even if New Asia had nothing at that time, it was completely a leather bag film company. Now, a year later, New Asia is no longer what it was a year ago. It has its own distribution and publicity team, with its own legal department and signed artists, although to Lin Xiaozhi's regret, due to limited space and other reasons, New Asia has never had its own professional photography team, but throughout Hong Kong, there are few more professional film companies than it.
It is not difficult to explain that Zhu Zhishan will be excited because of his status as an acting executive director.
Everything will be better, Lin Xiaozhi stretched, picked up the newspaper he put on the table, and read it.