The first hotel, The Shilla Hotel.

"That's why we're here."

Mitsui Suki smiled and said, "We heard that there is such a drinking party here in Hanguo. I asked my friends here to come to your cocktail party just to meet you......

Able smiled, "Then you see it now. Mr. Mitsui, what do you have to do with me?"

"Sony is willing to work with you, Mr. Smith."

Suki Mitsui continued to smile and said, "It doesn't matter if it's Sony Music, or Sony Columbia."

"What kind of cooperation is that?"

"I don't know Mr. Smith, are you interested in taking a stake in Sony Columbia?"

Abel couldn't help but raise his eyebrows - taking a stake in Sony Columbia?

He remembered Sony Colombia, which was essentially Sony's sole proprietorship.

Sony holds more than 90% of the shares and has full control over the Hollywood giant.

Even if it is open to its own shares, Sony, which has been holding for more than ten years, will not be able to let itself hold more than them.

"Not very interested." Abel said frankly:

"I've got MGM and DreamWorks. One more Sony Columbia, and I can't control it, it won't help me much."

Mitsui Suki was obviously stunned, he probably didn't expect Abel to refuse so directly.

Swap it out for any of the other Hollywood giants.

When you only have the opportunity to take a stake in any other giant, you will not hesitate too much.

Even if you can't hold a controlling stake, but you can get a certain amount of shares, you can hope to get the position of an executive director.

After getting the position of executive director, he has a certain amount of power in the company.

Even if he is excluded, he already has influence.

This is a temptation that is hard to resist for many entertainment giants.

If the other Hollywood six are willing to give Sony a stake now.

No matter how expensive the opening price is, Sony will consider it, and in the end, it will most likely be willing to buy shares.

Mitsui Suki didn't expect that Abel would refuse so simply.

He couldn't help but say, "Don't you think about it anymore? If you take a stake in Sony Columbia Pictures. Then you are in Hollywood, and you have two movie giants. This can be of great help to Smith Media's influence in Hollywood."

There have been eight in the past.

Later, there were six left, and the middle dream factory rose, which was once called the seventh.

In the present era when this Dream Factory was acquired and became a part of MGM.

There are only six major left, namely Disney, MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Fox.

Among them, Panasonic of Neon once controlled Universal Pictures.

But Panasonic's toughness is not as good as Sony's, and after a few years of loss, it can't bear it, so it has to sell Universal.

Two years ago, Vivendi in France accepted, and now the world is called Vivendi Universal.

And Colombia is Sony Colombia, controlled by Sony.

These six companies, along with a dozen other mid-sized independent film companies, are similar to DreamWorks Films.

It forms the backbone of Hollywood now.

There are independent distribution channels, and there are only six major Hollywood at present. ….

Other film companies, when releasing movies, can only rely on the help of the Big Six, or they can only find their own channels.

In the face of new challengers, the six major Hollywood companies will generally tacitly squeeze out.

It's like the dream factory it used to be. At its most glorious time, no matter what it did, it would be sniped and hindered by the Big Six.

When it comes to film distribution, the cost is more expensive than others......

This is a tacit agreement between vested interest groups that do not need to openly suppress the laggards.

Among the six majors, Sony Colombia has never been very popular because of its special Japanese capital.

In parallel time and space, if it weren't for the success of Parker's movie.

Sony can hold out for a few more years, that's really hard to say. After all, no one's money is blown by the wind, and you can't sit back and watch the black hole swallow money all the time.

Now the Spider-Man of Sony's Columbia movie has been snatched back by Abel.

Sony discovers that Columbian Films, and its hopes of future profitability are beginning to fade again.

It's just that the Sony family has a big business and can afford to raise a loser like Colombia.

But it's not a way to keep it like this.

No matter how rich Sony is, it can make money, and it can't sit back and watch Colombia lose money indefinitely.

After an internal weighing game, Sony finally found Abel.

The one who came over was Mitsui Suki, a member of the Mitsui family.

Speaking of the Mitsui family, it is a different story.

"Sorry ......" In the face of the enthusiastic Mitsui Suki, Abel still smiled and refused:

"I already have MGM. One more Colombia won't be of much use to me. On the contrary, it may make Smith Media more feared by other giants in Hollywood."

Abel is telling the truth.

Colombia has it, MGM has it all.

Film library, distribution channels, brand power, and reputation in the industry.

These things, the six giants of Hollywood, are basically the same.

For the other Hollywood Six Majors, one of the other Hollywood Six Film Companies, the only thing that is more attractive is the film library and copyright.

Other things, a lot of the time, are cumbersome.

Especially in terms of distribution channels, many of the six major film companies in Hollywood are overlapping and sharing each other.

Regardless of copyright, film library, and brand power.

With a Hollywood Six, that is, there is a real admission ticket to Hollywood.

As for the admission ticket, one is enough.

Because one admission ticket is enough to get you into the inner realm of your own people.

If you take another one, the others will unite and squeeze you.

They will fear that they will be the next target of Abel's annexation.

That would make MGM in Hollywood, and the enemies would be even more.

The benefits have not increased much, and it can be said that the gains outweigh the losses.

Seeing that Abel refused again, Mitsui Suki wanted to say something more.

Robbie Abbotie had already interjected at the right time and said with a smile:

"That's the end of talking, isn't it? Mr. Smith...... Please, there are a few gentlemen over here who want to talk to you."

The messengers have said so, and Mitsui Suki is not stupid. ….

Of course, I know that this is what Abel means that he will not talk to him anymore.

looked at Robbie Abbby, took Abel Smith, turned around and chatted with the envoys to South Korea from Huaxia, Neon, Qatar and other countries.

Mitsui Suki had to sigh and stop chasing after him.

At this time, Mitsui Fuyuko, who was with him, whispered:

"Father, it seems that he is really not interested. It's like my uncle at home, they said."

Suki Mitsui nodded, "Why don't I know? But Colombia is in trouble right now. This year's 7 films, all counted, have a total loss of $1.58 million......

Fuyuko Mitsui comforted her father: "This is the least loss in more than ten years. Isn't it? This is a good result under the leadership of your father."

The CEO of Sony Columbia, obviously called Howard Stringer, is not called Mitsui Suki.

Fuyuko Mitsui now says that Sony Columbia Films, it is under the leadership of Mitsui Suki that the losses can be reduced to such a low level.

This is because Mitsui Suki is the person within the Mitsui family, who is mainly responsible for the entertainment sector and is in charge of American affairs.

Here we have to talk about the time Sony for

The acquisition of Colombia was made to the Americans.

At that time, in order to reduce as many obstacles from the Americans as possible in the acquisition of Colombia.

Sony has promised the United States that even if Colombia is acquired, it will still be the Colombia of the Americans.

Sony doesn't have too many neon managers in Colombia.

So now you can find out that Colombian movies are now called Sony Columbia.

But its president, its chief executive, and those key management positions have always been Americans.

It is precisely because of this that the neon man imprint on the Colombian movie is relatively turbulent.

But Sony is not a fool, it spent so much money and only bought one naming rights back.

The key is that after so many years of title, Colombian movies have always been a cheat.

Losing money every year, Sony has been losing money.

Over time, neon people are not stupid.

When Americans are not so so, Neon People are gradually mixing sand with Sony Columbia, so that more Neon People can enter Sony Columbia Pictures.

Of course, the few on the head still don't dare to change to neon people, such as CEOs and the like.

Then it is too obvious to do it, and it is easy to attract the attention of Americans.

Neon Man's approach is a two-step process.

One step is to mix sand into the middle layer of Sony Columbia, and there are a large number of neon people, ghost elders from Sony headquarters, who enter Sony Columbia Films.

The second is to place a special adviser on the CEO of Howard Stringer.

The Special Adviser does not have any practical position in Sony Colombia.

But Howard Stringer and other senior executives want to be promoted and raised within Sony, and pay more bonuses.

Then we have to listen to the Special Adviser.

Suki Mitsui is the new special adviser.

It was after Spider-Man was robbed.

Sony sent a new person in charge to replace the original inactive consultant. ….

On the surface, Mitsui Suki and Sony Colombia have nothing to do with each other.

Secretly, Mitsui Suki is the invisible emperor of Sony Columbia, and even Sony Music's North American division.

As for why Mitsui Suki, he was able to become this emperor and not others.

The reason is also very simple. Who called him Mitsui, an important member of the current neon Mitsui chaebol family?

Who is called Sony, from the past to the present, in fact, has always been one of the important subsidiaries of the Mitsui Foundation.

In fact, Sony is not the only well-known company under the Mitsui consortium.

There are more than 270 direct and subsidiary companies and subsidiaries affiliated to the Mitsui Foundation.

Toyota, Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, etc., which are well known to Chinese people, are all owned by it.

Like the Toyota family, which is in control of Toyota cars.

The daughter of this family has always been married only to Mitsui. The son of this family has always been able to marry Mitsui.

After more than ten years, Toyota's crown prince no longer married Mitsui, but was engaged to a theater actress.

This has even become news in Neon.

Because Toyota actually didn't marry Mitsui.

Also married to a theater actress, what is the Gray Princess plot......

Then the neon man shut up as soon as he investigated.

It turns out that the theater actress, she is not a Cinderella.

This theater actress lives in a platinum area in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and she is either rich or expensive to live in such a place.

This theater actress, since kindergarten, has been studying at the study center where the neon royal family and the chaebol gather, and she and the neon princesses and chaebol ladies have been classmates since childhood.

She is also a member of the Idemitsu family.

And this family controls Neon's second largest oil company, a proper oil princess.

So in reality princesses

There are obviously very few plots with commoner boys, princes and Cinderella.

Even if there is, it often ends in tragedy.

Like Li Fuzhen, who is standing next to Abel now and has a big belly, is the best example.

Even if there is no Abel's appearance, Li Fuzhen's married life will be the same chicken feathers in the future.

In short, it can be understood that the Mitsui family is the neon Rockphil or Morgun. Or maybe it's one of the two plus a whole Koch.

There are several neon chaebols and consortia like this, and the most powerful ones are Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Fuji.

Below these four, there are a few others that are a little weaker.

In addition to being a bit feudal, the land area is small and the influence is low.

In other aspects, the chaebol on the neon side is basically the same as the consortium family on the American side, and the situation is similar.

And Mitsui Suki and Mitsui Fuyuko are important members of the Mitsui family.

Mitsui Suki is the head of the Mitsui family's entertainment business in North America.

That's why it's not who from Sony came to find Abel, but someone like Mitsui Suki, who seems to have nothing to do with Sony, but is actually the emperor of Sony, who came to find Abel.

Not to mention the father and daughter duo in whispering deliberations.

Abel's side, under the enthusiastic introduction of Robbie Abbotie.

He chatted with the envoys of the three countries in South Korea.

Among them is Mr. Wang, the Chinese envoy to South Korea.

"I'm very optimistic about Huaxia." ….

When smiling and chatting with each other, "China has the largest population in the world, a vast land and output. There is also a social attitude of hard work and conscientious work. You're going to develop, trust me."

In private, Mr. Wang, the envoy to South Korea, heard foreigners praise China so much.

Although there are in the media, it is in the media. In private, the attitude of Europe and the United States towards China has never been better.

Especially such an influential and high-status foreigner is so optimistic about China.

Mr. Wang immediately said, "Mr. Smith, Huaxia also welcomes businessmen like you to invest. We will welcome you with the best attitude, even the best strategy!"

With Abel in the United States, his influence grew.

The most important thing is that he became the nominal richest man in the world this year.

Countries around the world have paid much more attention to him.

It is in the time of frenzied investment promotion, and China is crazy to attract foreign investment.

Naturally, it is impossible not to see the existence of this person.

A lot of Abel Smith's material is even on the stage or something.

If you can lead this person to Huaxia and let him invest a lot of money in Huaxia......

There is no doubt that both from the perspective of the country and from the perspective of Mr. Wang himself.

can play a great positive significance, the world's richest man took the lead in investing in China!

No matter how you look at it, it's a great achievement!

Mr. Wang appeared particularly positive.

Abel said with a smile, "As early as last year, I already started to invest in Huaxia. Smith Capital (ChinaAMC) has invested more than a billion dollars in ChinaAMC."

Mr. Wang was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know about it.

His main job is to be in charge of Hanguo's side, and at most he will take care of neon.

He doesn't know much about domestic affairs.

But the Rabbit's diplomats, all of whom are top slick masters, chuckled and got the matter done.

Abel also focused his attention on the Katar messenger next to him.

The messenger had been talking to Abel just now, and at last he had the opportunity to be alone.

The messenger, Ben Khalifa, spoke to Abel for a long time.

But in essence, there is only one purpose, and that is the Qatar Investment Authority, which wants to put a sum of money into Smith Capital.

At this time, there was no such thing as a Qatar Investment Bureau.

This body will not officially appear until 2005.

But its prototype has been there for a long time, in the late 80s of the last century.

The Emier family in Qatar has begun to throw some of their investments abroad in order to increase profits

With the fall of the red bear, the speed of globalization became more and more apparent.

Qatar's foreign investment is increasing, but it is not yet systematic.

This is a wealth fund that has started late in the desert area.

After all, *** wealth funds originated in desert areas at the earliest.

As early as 1953, Cottway established the Cottway Investment Committee, which is the world's first national *** fund.

At the end of 2001, we are moving towards the present of 2002. ….

More than a dozen *** wealth funds have appeared in desert areas.

With so many of the same kind doing this, it is clear that Qatar's investment bureau is already in the pipeline.

For countries in desert areas, wealth funds are often regarded as a necessary financial supporting tool for the oil economy.

The meaning of this Ben Khalifa envoy is that Qatar wants to hand over about $10 billion in funds to Smith Capital to operate.

This kind of thing is for the vast majority of private equity funds, even public funds.

It's all a great thing.

Because the more funders, the more money raised.

This means that fund managers can get more benefits.

When the financial operation of the market is operated, more funds can also make the investment more abundant and more flexible.

To put it simply, within a certain limit, the more people who invest, the more people trust, the better.

To Ben Khalifa's disappointment, Able smiled and declined.

"Smith Capital has never been short of funders." Abel smiled and said:

"In the United States, there are at least 1,000 billionaires who want to give me the vast majority of their wealth to invest. But I refused."

"Because no one can achieve an annualized rate of return of more than 100%."

Let's put it this way, Warren Buffett has been playing investing since 1958.

By 2001, a total of 44 years, Buffett's total rate of return was 430,121.43%, an increase of 4,301 times, and the cumulative 44 years had an annualized rate of return of 21.5%.

This long-lasting achievement has allowed Buffett to kill 99.99999999999% of the world's people in seconds.

Even stock angel Peter Lynch can't compare to him.

Because Peter only lasted less than 20 years, and then retired, not as long-lasting as Buffett.

Because of this record, Warren Buffett is known as the god of stocks.

He is a god who is higher than the angels.

And Abel, although he has not been around for a long time, has not even been around for two years.

But in two years, he has earned much more profits for investors and customers than Buffett in ten years.

The yield is so exaggerated, and there hasn't been a single loss so far.

Too many people want to give their money to Abel to invest.

Ben Khalifa's Qatar thinks so, and many of the world's most advanced wealth funds in other desert countries have also come to contact Smith Capital.

Like Prince Waleed, he has approached Abel many times, a vague representative of the Kingdom of Tessa, who wants to invest in Abel and want to be Abel's funder.

But like today's Ben Khalifa, he was politely rejected by Abel.

It's not that Abel hates money and is hot, but the current Abel wants him to help make money and wants him to be a cash cow.

Then there must be a premise, and the premise is that the other party can bring other resources to Abel besides money.

Just like he accepted shares from the Texas consortium, Warren Buffett and others.

Now Abel, he wants it

It's not a simple money number anymore.

What he wants is the influence that can be brought by these figures.

Abel replied to the bin Khalifa messenger as he replied to Prince Waleed.

"Statoil is the newest investor at Smiths Capital."

He smiled and said:

"Smith Capital 7 after $50 billion. Privately, the eighth private placement was launched for the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, and the private equity investor was only one company, the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, and the amount raised was US$15 billion." ….

"Qatar and other desert countries can only consider the same as the Norwegian Petroleum Fund if they want to be a funder of Smith Capital."

With Abel becoming a shareholder of Statoil, and Norwegian Hydro Corporation.

The eighth fundraising investment of Smith Capital by Statoil Fund took place at the end of September this year.

As the eighth private placement initiated by Smith Capital, Norwegian Petroleum Fund invested in the subscription of the full amount of $15 billion.

Abel was telling Ben Khalifa when he said this.

Qatar or other desert countries want to do the same.

That would be the same as the Norwegian side.

Open up its stake in the national oil company and make Abel one of its shareholders.

Even if it's 1% or 2%, it's a little negotiable.

But it can't be without.

Like if it's Qatar, it's Qatar National Oil Company.

The company is responsible for its domestic and international oil and gas industry activities and performs the most important functions.

In 1995, the company had oil and gas reserves of 480 million tons and 7.07 trillion cubic meters, respectively, and oil and gas production of 23.75 million tons and 13.5 billion cubic meters, respectively.

In terms of production, it is especially in the natural gas sector, which is the second or third in the world all year round.

In the front, there has always been only Mao Xiong or Lang Yin.

This company is also the lifeblood of Katar.

As soon as Abel said this, Ben Khalifa stopped mentioning it.

For Katar, there is only one person in their country who has the right to talk to Abel about this.

That's their supreme Emily.

The messenger of Katar died down.

The neon messenger smiled and invited Abel to be a guest in the neon.

Abel directly said that he would go, but not recently.

It may not be until next year, because he will be back in the United States in two days.

On the American side, Abel still has a lot to do.

Including but not limited to Yin Lizabeth's Christmas Eve show, but also his life events.

With the help of Robbie Abbotie, Abel got to know all kinds of people here wave after wave.

In terms of neon, in addition to the Mitsui Suki of the Mitsui Foundation.

He also met with Mitsubishi's Iwasaki, and one of them came to the party.

It can be regarded as a blank neon connection with Abel, and he has drawn a few more strokes, at least getting to know a few more people.

The reception began at seven o'clock and lasted until more than nine o'clock in the evening, and everyone ended one after another.

The chaebols on the Han side were the last to leave.

After the people were almost gone, Abel called Li Zaixi and the others to a small living room.

Li Fuzhen was accompanied, and Li Xinyu could also participate in it.

But this little princess of the Saung Group, who has always had a little bit of literature and art, is not interested in this kind of thing.

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The island is handsome. But on Hong Kong Island, because of Huaxia, he has a little scruples. But it's different on Han Guo's side, he doesn't have any scruples about attacking Han Guo." ….

"Is he really just trying to make a move on the stock market?" Zheng Jiumeng couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

The shadow of the famous tree, Soros has been a sin for many years, and the relevant financial interests of small countries, who would not be afraid of him when it comes to him?

Especially the victims of Soros, when they mention him, they hate him even more.

In the financial crisis of '98.

As the first chaebol of the Han Kingdom at that time, the Zheng family was the family that was most affected.

After the impact ended, the Zheng family fell into a fierce internal dispute with the wealthy.

In the end, the Zheng family, the original No. 1 giant, was divided into three after that impact and infighting.

In the case that the eldest son has long since died.

The second son, Zheng Jiumeng, got the most profitable and important subsidiary within the group.

The sixth son, Zheng Zhunmeng, controls the current Dai Heavy Industry Group, which is the second most profitable and the second most important company in the family.

The fifth son, Zheng Xianmeng, inherited all the rest according to his father's will.

It stands to reason that Zheng Xianmengcai should be an important representative of the current Dai chaebol.

The reality is that the best assets of the current Dai Group, Auto and Heavy Industries, have become independent.

The other dozen or so enterprises are large, but most of them are heavily indebted, and the group also has to bear the burden of foreign investment.

After his father's death in March this year, the three sons were divided into Zheng.

Zheng Xianmeng's main lineage is the weakest now.

The first to become strong was Zheng Jiumeng.

Zheng Zhunmeng, who got the heavy industry group, is mainly obsessed with his career.

Zheng Jiumeng, the second son of the current Dai family, became the first representative of this chaebol family.

When it comes to the interests of the entire chaebol family, the Zheng family is represented by Zheng Jiumeng.

This is also the reason why Zheng Jiumeng, in this small chaebol team, has always been the biggest voice.

Because before this, their Zheng family was the first chaebol in the Han Kingdom.

It's just that the current Zheng family, hurt by the 98 financial crisis, and the family is divided, is no longer as good as the Li family.

In addition, Li Zaixi has two good daughters, so he is naturally the current leader of the chaebols.

Even if Zheng Jiumeng is unconvinced, unless he can re-reconcile the contradictions with the entire Zheng family.

Otherwise, the first chaebol will no longer be able to be the Zheng family.

"What Soros thinks, no one can know. Maybe not even himself. Because many times, Soros also has to do some irrational things under the coercion of international travel funds."

The goosebumps between the Han chaebols, Abel is not in the mood to know.

Now he just wants to cut leeks and earn some pocket money for Li Fuzhen, so he ignores the rest.

"What we need to do now is to continue to push public opinion."

Abel stated: "By speculating on the stock market of Hanguo, let Soros's attention only be on the stock market. If you're lucky......

Abel laughed and looked at everyone, "Maybe we can make some Soros money in the stock market."

Hearing him say this, the chaebols looked at each other, and they all saw the intention in each other's eyes.

It doesn't matter if you can make Soros's money or not.

The important thing is that everyone does this, and there is a real high probability that they can make a lot of money.

This "lump sum" is at least tens of millions of dollars, and may even be more.

This is very exciting for these high-level migrant workers placed on the peninsula by the United States.

"So be it." Lee Jae-seo was the first to say, "I don't have any doubts."

Zheng Jiumeng also hurriedly said, "I don't have a problem anymore."

Several others said the same.

It seems that in an instant, one is facing the vast majority of Han Guolee...... The invisible net of Han Guo shareholders extends from the Shilla Hotel to the entire peninsula.

98 financial crisis knots

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