Times Shipping's acquisition of Tiexing Zahua, the dust has settled, and it is going through formal procedures.

"Boss, after the acquisition, we plan to let Tiexing Zhahua run independently for the time being, and then merge when the time is ripe." Morris, president of Times Shipping, is making a work report.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Hmm." Times Shipping will take the layout of digitalization, informatization and collectivization, so once adapted, it will cancel the signboard of Tiexing Zahua and incorporate it into the operation of the group system. ”

Morris said, "Well, I see. ”

Then, Morris reported: "Boss, the analysis of the people in the strategy department pointed out that the orders for ships have begun to accelerate this year, and it is expected that there will be a boom in ship orders in the past two years." The reason is that since 1999, global trade has accelerated, especially the rapid economic development of the mainland. In addition, there are many old ships that need to be 'dismembered' in the past few years, which may cause a scarcity of ships in the future. ”

Hearing this, Lin Zuhui also calculated that 'Times Shipping' has spent 13 billion US dollars to order new ships and sub-new ships, of which about 2 billion US dollars have been purchased for new ships, and the entire deadweight is about 15 million tons.

The continuous acquisition of South African shipping, sea and land containers, Tiehang slag Hua, plus the original Xiangjiang Shipping, Times Shipping owned and managed about 430 container ships, a total of 1.3 million containers; To this end, Times Shipping spent about $3.9 billion on acquisitions.

After acquiring the Norwegian shipping boss Bengesen Group and privatizing it, it spent a total of $2.6 billion to own and manage an oil and gas fleet of 11 million tons.

Last year, it entered the field of 'aircraft leasing', and is expected to invest 10 billion US dollars (half of the loan) within two years, and is expected to hold about 200 aircraft (an aircraft is 3~500 million Hong Kong dollars, mainly narrow-body aircraft).

Coupled with the investment in logistics, the entire Times Shipping has invested nearly 30 billion US dollars.

Lin Zuhui said decisively: "If you go to South Korea and the mainland to order a new ship worth 5 billion US dollars, even if the order is delivered after 2005, it doesn't matter." ”

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Morris nodded, knowing that the boss was optimistic about the outbreak of shipping.

But he was actually a little worried, in case the shipping was just a small outbreak.

The period of shipping outbreak is generally 5~8 years, but the trough is a cycle of more than 15 years.

But when it comes to New Era Group's cash flow and liabilities, Morris feels no problem.

"Okay, then the type of ship should be selected comprehensively considering the mainland economy and the European and American economies."

"Yes, oil and gas ships and ore ships can increase the proportion."

"Okay."

After Morris left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile, which is equivalent to a disguised 'monopoly' of shipping (16% is a monopoly).

He is not worried that because of the birth of the times shipping, it will affect the shipping market in 2003~2008. As far as he knows, soon there will be a shortage of ships in the world, and the shipbuilding of Times Shipping will affect the delivery speed of shipbuilding of other enterprises.

At most, it is just a small amount of influence.

And shipping began to fall only after Lehman, and it was not a short-term plunge, but a long-term continuous decline, which gave Times Shipping plenty of time to layout.

Times shipping in the past four years, a total of more than 35 billion US dollars invested in shipping, I believe that 2003 ~ 2008 will bring an average of 80 ~ 10 billion US dollars of profits per year, not counting the profits from the sale of ships in advance.

Of course, the sale is a chartered ship, and after 08 years, Times Shipping still has to maintain a certain strength in containers, oil and gas transportation, and it is impossible to make a fortune and leave.

......

Time flies, and it's May in a blink of an eye.

Friday, May 3.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, "Adventure Island" began its internal test in Xiangjiang, and many players in Internet cafes were already waiting.

"It's actually a pixel-style 2D game, everyone else is doing 3D games, and Ninth City is still doing 2D games." One player couldn't help but complain when he entered the game.

Soon, this player immediately began to apologize for what he just said, in the bright game world, the game characters dressed in personalized costumes and defeated all kinds of cute monsters, even players who are not interested in RPGs want to play it once.

What's more, the maps are colorful, and it's all free!

It costs a lot of money to make your character more personal, but even if you dress modestly, no player will point a finger at you. Of course, there are also players who choose a profession that can only fight monsters by themselves....

"Classic, produced by the Ninth City, must be a boutique!"

Soon, MapleStory received rave reviews from countless fans of the game.

........

South Korea, Nexon Corporation.

Nexon is a South Korean computer game company founded in May 1995 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

"President, something is wrong!" An employee hurried into the office of President Kim Shing-jae with an eager expression on his face.

Kaneshiro chuckled and hurriedly asked, "Is it the "MapleStory Island" in the ninth city of Hong Kong that is very close to the "MapleStory game" we are developing?" ”

It turned out that as early as the beginning of the year (2002), Ninth City released the game plans of "Adventure Island" and "Bubble Hall", and at that time, Korean manufacturers, who had always regarded Xiangjiang Games as a competitor, naturally noticed it.

As a result, Nexon was shocked because MapleStory and Bubble Hall were the development plans of their own game company, which had already been established in the second half of 2001.

At that time, Nexon carefully compared the posters and found that the similarity was very high, and then started to develop it with all its might, but it was still a long time behind.

"Yes, the similarity is almost as high as seven or eight percent, and if we publish it, we will almost be judged as plagiarism." The clerk said incredulously.

"Who, who's leaking?" Kim Seong-jae said loudly.

The clerk cautiously said: "President, according to the progress of a game development for three years, the Ninth City project has been established at least in 1999. ”

Jin Cheng Jae immediately said: "Nonsense, how can that be so similar." I don't believe it, I'm going to Xiangjiang to see for myself and arrange to book tickets immediately. ”

An Internet café in Xiangjiang.

Kaneshiro Jae wants to cry and play "Maplestory" without tears, and his left and right sides are also Nexon's R&D engineers, which is also very incredible.

"If we accelerate R&D, when will we be able to test it in-house?"

"It will take at least another year, and it will be full effort, after all, joining the team temporarily also requires an adaptation process!"

"Where's the Bubble Hall?"

"You can do it in the second half of this year!"

"What's the use of that, someone else will test it inside next month."

"Maybe it won't be the same?"

"Look at the poster."

Kim Cheng Jae didn't know whether to continue research and development for a while, after all, he had already invested so much.

However, if research and development continues, it is easy to be sued for infringement.

"No matter, go back and do some redesign changes, and continue to develop as usual." Eventually, Kim Shing decided to take a risk and continue with the development.

As everyone knows, it was his decision that made Korean games despised overseas, and the overseas results were miserable.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

.......

In May, taking advantage of the success of "MapleStory Island" in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Ninth City announced plans for "Audition" and "Running Martin".

For a time, the ninth city attracted great attention from the industry.

In the conference room of the ninth city, Lin Zuhui was having a meeting with the high-level officials.

He said: "This year, the four games will be launched, and the task of the operation department is very heavy, and I hope you will complete it well - the speed of overseas distribution and agency." ”

In the mainland, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other regions, the ninth city has established branches early, as well as cooperative relations with agents.

There are only a few gamers in Xiangjiang, and if they can't be represented overseas, then Xiangjiang's game industry will be greatly affected.

Zhu Xiaowen, the manager of the sales department, hurriedly said: "Boss, rest assured, our games are very popular in Taiwan, Japan, the mainland, and Southeast Asia, even in Europe and the United States, we have also achieved very good results." "Adventure Island" has confirmed agents in Taiwan, Macau, and the mainland, and then we will first attack Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Korea, and then develop Europe and the United States. ”

Ninth City has been established since 1994, and the overseas cooperative relations established over the years are the confidence.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "I always feel that there are moths going to come out in South Korea, but the Ministry of Justice has to keep an eye on it, if they dare to plagiarize, they must show them the color." In the field of culture, they have copied a lot of our Hong Kong copyrights, and they are hateful. ”

The person in charge of the legal department said firmly: "Boss, rest assured, once they plagiarize, it will be impossible for us to get their work out of Korea in the first place." Secondly, we will also seriously pursue litigation in South Korea and publish media to conduct public opinion offensives. ”

Yes, unless you don't want to go to sea, this is the current situation of Hallyu culture.

There are only a handful of Korean dramas in this life that have gone out, after all, Hong Kong dramas have been popular for almost ten years.

Even Hong Kong dramas are already tired in Asia, not to mention the copycat of Korean dramas.

As for the idol groups in South Korea, they have always been criticized by Asian countries, and fans don't buy it, and they can only be popular in South Korea.

After all, the Gangliu group has amassed a large number of fans in Asia, and it is difficult for them to betray their idols, and even abuse Korean idols. The advantage of being the first to occupy the market is very huge.

What's more, the Gangliu combination has evolved into 'version 2.0', and South Korea is still in version 1.0.

Finally, Lin Zuhui said to Gao Kelin: "Dungeons and Warriors", "Street Basketball", "CrossFire", you have to hurry! ”

"No problem, it will definitely be tested within two years, after all, we have already planned the plan."

For a player who has played for more than a year, the outline given by Lin Zuhui is already quite good; If you add to that the time he took out to experience and regain some of his memories, then time would be even faster.

The previous life of "Dungeons and Warriors" Hanbok was opened in 2005, and in this life, the ninth city will be tested in 2003, two years earlier.

Make it!

In fact, Lin Zuhui has already been a little overbearing, and he should have advanced it a year to avoid crashing.

Thinking of this, he felt that his survival should be shaken out more.

Anyway, it has run out in recent years, and the influence will always be there.

What's more, Heung Kong has cultivated so many talents in the cultural field, and there are still good works every year.

So there's no need to treat your memories as a treasure, just take them out as long as they are in line with the times!

........

Media Building.

Pan Cheng of DreamWorks came to the chairman's office.

In recent years, DreamWorks has supported most of the Heung Kong films, from "Infernal Affairs", "Sassy Girlfriend", to "Victoria Harbour Monster", "The Matrix 2", "Resident Evil 3" and so on, all of which have achieved good results in Hong Kong and overseas.

At least, at present, no one says that Hong Kong films are dead, on the contrary, Hong Kong films have moved to a new level, which is a perception at home and abroad.

It's not that these films have achieved very good box office and risen to a new level; Rather, these movies have a kind of depth, and that's what makes a good movie.

For example, the "Matrix" series is full of philosophy, and "Infernal Affairs" has changed from the previous robber films to more or less and has become in-depth; Even the movie "Victoria Harbour Monster" was originally a monster movie, but DreamWorks is set in an ordinary family and accommodates more elements, and the joys, sorrows, and absurd banters of the little people always tug at the heartstrings of the audience.

To put it simply, these movies have a soul and have driven the entire Xiangjiang movie very well. In addition, DreamWorks has invested in some literary films for many years and supported the development of Hong Kong films.

Therefore, Hong Kong films have already exuded a second spring.

"When will Kung Fu Panda be released?" Lin Zuhui asked with concern.

This is a Chinese-style cartoon that the media group invested a full $100 million to commission Pixar Animation to produce and distribute.

He is not worried about Hollywood pit his money, at least he can earn back the cost, the important thing is that the IP is DreamWorks, and the surrounding area is also DreamWorks, which is enough to ensure that DreamWorks makes a lot of money.

Of course, if the global box office is 600 million US dollars, DreamWorks will have to make a lot of money at the box office.

Pan Cheng said: "It will be released in the United States on June 18 and Taiwan Island in Hong Kong on June 20. He was a little excited and uneasy, if this was not an investment hand-picked by the boss, the board of directors of the group would be afraid that it would be strange if he didn't bother him.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "The movie periphery has been arranged, right?" ”

"It's arranged, and it's made to make the most of it."

"Hmm"

Next, Lin Zuhui took out five pieces of information at one time and handed them to Pan Cheng.

"There are five materials in it, and if you find someone to find a way to shoot it, you can shoot one or two films a year."

Pan Cheng took the information excitedly and said: "No problem, I will definitely find the most suitable director and screenwriter for them to make in-depth movies." ”

He knows that what the boss is pursuing is not the box office, but the connotation of the movie; And this is also where the changes in Hong Kong films have been in recent years.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "It's still the same sentence, the simple setting, the popular story, the unpredictable reversal, the exquisite rhythm, the ironic character antagonism, and the profound social care, this is what Hong Kong films should think about." There's nothing wrong with pursuing computer stunts, but if there's only stunts, then what's the point of seeing, just look at the dock. If Hong Kong films want to have their own style, they must make movies with depth. ”

Media groups are tasked with bringing 'Hong Kong Stream' to the world, and movies are no exception. Although the movies are all plagiarized from the Korean sticks of the previous life, they are now from Hong Kong.

He chose "League of Thieves", "Train to Busan", "Walking with God", "Parasite", and "The Gift of Room 7" as the targets of plagiarism, that is, he directly gave Korean movies to a country.

You must know that "Parasite" is a national treasure film in South Korea, with global awards and many Oscars.

Of course, the script that Lin Zuhui may write may not be as good as the screenwriter and director, but the subject matter is very clear, and it is very clear what to think about.

Pan Cheng said admiringly: "The boss's idea is very correct, I must keep it in mind, each of these five movies must be carefully prepared." ”

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Don't have any pressure, to put it bluntly, it is their job to choose the director and screenwriter!" ”

He doesn't believe that Hong Kong directors and screenwriters are idiots, and if they follow the outline, they can still shoot very poorly.

Pan Cheng took the information and left satisfied, he wouldn't ask who gave the script outline, it didn't matter anymore, because it had become the script outline of DreamWorks.

Soon, Zhao Zhenqiang walked into Lin Zuhui's office.

"Boss"

"Well, come on!"

Zhao Zhenqiang looked at the information on Lin Zuhui's desk, and was a little excited, this boss has found good materials again.

Of course, although the boss always gives him some good material, ATV's PD and writers also have a lot of credit, after all, what the boss gives is really just an outline.

"This is the outline of the two series "You from the Stars" and "The Inheritors", you take it and study it!"

"Good!"

There is nothing to copy in the TV series, and Lin Zuhui does not want to participate in the future. But "My Love from the Star" had to be plagiarized, because 'drinking beer and eating fried chicken' was too popular back then. As for "The Inheritors", the theme is similar to "Meteor Garden", but the inheritors are obviously more in-depth, and "Meteor Garden" is a pure idol drama.

"Here are three variety shows, namely "We Are Married", "I Am a Singer", "Where Did Dad Go", you can prepare it, you can take over the file in the future, or if there is a schedule, you can arrange it. There is no time requirement, just three years. ”

With the addition of the first four variety shows, 7 have already been arranged, and there are "The Law of the Jungle", "The Refrigerator is Coming", "Running Man", and "Running Man", which will be taken out in another three years.

Of course, the most important thing is the running man, which is the most influential of Han Zong.

Zhao Zhenqiang was already numb, thinking to himself where the boss got so many drafts!

"I remember clearly." In any case, he believes that what the boss values must be high-quality products, because the market has tested and explained the problem.

"Well, you pay attention not to leak it, prepare it a year in advance, and you will take it out a year in advance, so as not to have too many people."

"No problem!"

After Zhao Zhenqiang left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile.

Before, he wanted to take it out slowly, but now he feels that it doesn't matter, take it out early, and new works will emerge later.

And copyright has always been there, so why worry.

In fact, he watched a lot of variety shows in his previous life, but what he gave to Zhao Zhenqiang can only be said to be an outline, after all, variety shows are episode by episode, and there are mainly participating artists to play.

All he can say is a direction, some classic games have notes, and nothing else.

However, Hong Kong's Hong Kong culture has been systematized, and success is a matter of course.