Chapter 18: Universal Music

The uncle's 46th birthday broke up unhappily in this family farce, and for Lin Ming, nothing has changed, and nothing will change.

On the contrary, he needs to make a lot of changes to this family.

At least he had to find a way to prevent his cousin from falling into the income of Lu Chengru, a pervert, to prevent his second uncle from being imprisoned, and to prevent Fang Muyu from absorbing fans..... There are too many headaches piled up on him, although he can completely leave the burden and sit idly by, but since he knows what will happen in the future, he must try to change it.

After all, no matter what, they are also their own relatives.

However, how to live life has to be lived. The sun rises and sets every day. But he has never stayed in mid-air for anyone's will. Many things cannot be solved in a day or two, and the top priority is to enrich yourself.

After returning that day, Lin Ming began to enter a new state of study again.

And when Lin Ming was studying hard, Peng Chen and his party, who were far away in Shencheng, Guangdong Province, encountered some trouble.

In fact, there is no trouble, in the past, there were a total of 5 people, Peng Chen, who led the team, was the general manager, and below was Li Xin, the manager of the Ministry of Commerce, and Li Xin's two subordinates, He Yuan and Liu Wei, and the lawyer Jiang Moyu, a returnee doctor from the law firm.

However, when applying for the relevant permits, He Yuan's ID card of the Ministry of Commerce expired and could not be processed. It's just a trivial matter to go back to the place of household registration to replace an ID card, or the user can get a temporary ID card locally. But on the first day, I have to go through the port to meet the customer immediately, so where is the time to do this. Customers don't wait for anyone, and the opportunity to meet this time was also arranged by Zhao Bin, just once. If you give up, next time you have to ask Lin Ming to beg Zhao Bin, and you have to ask for conditions. Therefore, Peng Chen, who knew that the opportunity was rare, decisively gave up He Yuan and asked him to stay in Shencheng on standby, waiting for their news while reapplying for the documents to go to Treasure Island.

He Yuan is a second-class university in China majoring in international business, although his academic qualifications are not as high as Li Xingao, who graduated from a university, but he has the advantage of professional counterpart. His stay in the deep city is a big loss for the negotiation team.

In fact, it is also to blame that this task is urgent, and the newly recruited employees immediately go to work. He Yuan had just entered the company when he was temporarily pulled over and forgot to check his documents. A more professional company will ask for a copy of the employee's ID card to apply for a salary card, so that the salary will be paid uniformly, which is more convenient.

Mingran Technology also intends to do so. If you come to Yuecheng some time later, you will definitely be able to find out that your ID card is expired and avoid such a situation.

But the matter has already come out, and there is no way, He Yuan himself is also very self-blaming, so he can only stay in Shencheng and wait for news.

He Yuan's inability to go made the negotiation team stained with a layer of haze on the first day. Peng Chen got up early the next morning and gathered with everyone at the hotel restaurant at 7 o'clock to have breakfast together. Zhao Bin was quite kind, sent a special car driver to pick up, at half past seven in the morning, the person sent by Zhao Bin to do the contact had already driven to the door of the hotel.

"Hello, Mr. Peng, I just talked on the phone. My name is Zhu Zhan, I am currently the manager of the marketing department of Shencheng Real Estate Branch of Tianfu Holding Group Co., Ltd., I am a native of Shencheng, Mr. Zhao instructed me to take you into the customs, and act as the accompanying Cantonese translator. ”

Zhu Zhan was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, very handsome, angular and serious. Dressed very professionally, with a straight suit and no smiles.

Peng Chen went up and shook hands with him, and said, "Hello Manager Zhu, when are we leaving?" ”

Zhu Zhan seemed to be very satisfied with Peng Chen's resoluteness, and said approvingly: "Mr. Peng is a business-talker, and he is quick to do things. Then I won't ink, and I'll set off for Nanhu Port now. Today is Wednesday's working day, and after 8 o'clock, there will be a lot of traffic jams in Shenzhen, delaying time, if there is no further ado, leave immediately. ”

"Okay."

Peng Chen's expression was also very serious, this big battle related to the survival of the company's crisis must be 100% successful. According to Lin Ming's words, this trip to the south must at least negotiate more than half of the large record companies in the entire port city and the treasure island in order to be considered a success.

But in Peng Chen's eyes, there is not half, only all!

It can be said that as long as you win all the song copyrights in these two places, you will almost take more than 80% of the Chinese music market, which is a big deal for Mingran Technology!

Nanhu Port is located in the south of Shencheng, across the river from the port city, and is separated by a deep river. In fact, the land of Shencheng and Hong Kong City is originally connected, but due to some historical reasons, the two need to apply for relevant documents, which is not as convenient as between provinces in the mainland. Before the opening of various ports in later generations, Nanhu Port was the only two customs clearance passes connected to the port city, and it was also the customs clearance port with the largest number of people in circulation. When Zhu Zhan drove there, there were a lot of people outside the Nanhu Port, and there was a fight with the railway station in the mainland, because the visa was a business visa, and the passage speed was very fast.

"Now the transportation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong City is not convenient, and you can only take a train to go through the port." Zhu Zhan helped buy tickets for Peng Chen and them at the station, and said: "I heard that Line 1 in Shencheng will be connected to Nanhu Station in Gangcheng, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"It shouldn't be straight, otherwise this port and pass will be meaningless." While waiting for the car, Peng Chen chatted with him for a while.

"That's just as well."

Zhu Zhan bought the ticket, and a car happened to come over, and everyone got on the bus. It is said that it is a train, but it is actually the subway East Rail Line on the port city side, which can go directly from Nanhu to Yau Tsim Mong District of Jiufeng Peninsula in Hong Kong City. However, their destination, the East Rail Line, did not reach directly, so they needed to transfer trains to the headquarters of Tin Fook Records in the New Territories.

Tianfu Records is a media company owned by the Zhao Bin family. The headquarters is actually in Baodao, and the port city is a branch, which is not large. In the past, it was Zhao Bin who said hello, and the Tianfu Company branch in Gangcheng was responsible for the reception and acted as an intermediary introducer.

All the record companies in Hong Kong City are actually connected by Tianfu Records.

The New Territories is not far from Nanhu, but the MTR has to go around a long way, so take a taxi to Sheung Shui Station and take a taxi directly to Yuen Long. Compared with the mainland, the port city is still very prosperous, with high-rise buildings and busy traffic along the way, and a strong modern atmosphere, which deserves to be one of the international financial centers.

In the car, Zhu Zhan had already made contact with Tianfu Records, and after arriving in Yuen Long, he stood in the prosperous Yuen Long Square and waited for more than ten minutes, and the people of Tianfu Records were late.

The person sent by Tianfu Records was very young, like an intern, and his attitude was not very enthusiastic, which made Zhu Zhan and Peng Chen, who paid attention to the quality of their work, frown and were very dissatisfied.

Zhu Zhan communicated with him in Cantonese for a while, and then beckoned Peng Chen and his party to follow the man to the underground garage.

On the way, Zhu Zhan whispered to Peng Chen: "Tianfu Media, the parent company of Tianfu Records, is a cousin of Mr. Zhao who is in charge, and the relationship between the two is average..... You know, there are a lot of infighting and dirty things in these big families, and it is already very face-saving for Mr. Zhao to be able to help you get in touch. ”

"Well, I'll save it." Peng Chen nodded, those who become big things are not informal, even if the connector here is a little arrogant, it doesn't matter. As long as the goal is achieved, let them successfully meet the owner of the entertainment company in Port City, and let him bend down and bow, it is not a problem.

Tianfu Records allocated to their group of people is not a luxury car, not even a commercial car. Zhao Bin sent Wang Qiang over, at least a Buick business worth more than 300,000 yuan, and when he arrived in Hong Kong City, Tianfu Records only dialed an old Toyota, with a small space in the car, and 6 people were seated, which was very crowded. Not to mention Peng Chen and Zhu Zhan, even Lawyer Jiang, who accompanied him, frowned. But the group didn't speak, Liu Wei was still the only woman in the same company, still squeezed in the back seat with everyone, didn't say anything, and everyone naturally remained silent all the way. But what is even more disturbing is that the young man who drove the car also played very hilarious music in the car, which was really disturbing and annoying.

The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and the morale of the group has dropped because of the loss of a general, He Yuan, and the attitude of this young man is really disgusting like eating a fly. But you can't be angry with him, this person is just a little minion under Tianfu Records, and he can't afford to lose his temper for this little thing Peng Chen personally went out to lose his temper.

Fortunately, the port city is not big, and it is about 40 minutes away from the destination, along the Qinglang Highway on the west line, and it will take more than 40 minutes to arrive at the Capital Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, where Universal Music is headquartered.

On the first day, a large dish came straight up.

No, no, the record company in Port City is almost monopolized by three top groups. One is Universal, the second is Warner, and the third is Emperor. Among them, it is the largest in the world, and its subsidiaries include many world-famous top record companies such as Shanghua Records, EMI Records, Polygram, Zhengdong Records, and Xinyibao Records, which are well-known all over the world.

However, one of the EMI records has not been acquired by Universal at present, and is in a relatively glorious state, two years ago, she just signed Sister Fei, a queen of heaven, for 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and now she is in the limelight, far from being half-dead and alive like ten years later.

After talking about the world, Peng Chen's next destination was Momoyo.

Designed by a world-famous designer, Universal Music's headquarters is 180 meters high, with a total of 34 floors, shaped like a sailboat, erected high, and transparent floor-to-ceiling windows covering the entire building.

In Cloud City, there is no such majestic office building.

Because they had been in contact for a long time, Peng Chen and his party were still respected when they got off the bus, and there were already people waiting at the door of the building. Several Universal Music staff members in suits and ties waited early, and there was nothing unusual about them getting out of a Toyota.

In Port City, there are quite a few big bosses who like luxury and low-key. A billionaire with a net worth of 10 billion still rides his bicycle to work every day. People in Hong Kong City are used to it, and they don't have a special eye for people.

"Hello Mr. Peng, I'm Connie Leung, Regional General Manager of Universal Music's Digital Business."

Liang Kangni shook hands with Peng Chen generously, but she spoke Cantonese, and Peng Chen also greeted her after Zhu Zhan's translation. Zhu Zhan is worthy of being a native of Shencheng, Cantonese is more fluent than Mandarin, and the meaning of the words is conveyed in three sentences and two sentences, which makes both parties very satisfied.

"Mr. Peng, I'm Jeff Bronikowski, Head of Universal Music Rights, mud howl." A tall foreigner also shook hands with Peng Chen, he spoke English, but the speed of his speech was very fast, even if Peng Chen was a graduate student of 985 University, he didn't hear it completely, he only knew the general meaning.

Fortunately, Li Xin, who was born as an English university teacher, also shook hands with Liang Connie and Jeff, and said their names to each other, and their fluent English skills made the two of them look sideways.

After greetings from both sides, under the leadership of Liang Connie, the group went upstairs and went to the conference room to officially start the negotiation.