Chu Xiangqian, who sold 4,000 bottles of tiger bone wine and got 12 million Hong Kong dollars again, was in a happy mood.

The markets of Thailand, Oman and Kuwait have been opened, and in the future, the consumption of tiger bone wine in other countries in Southeast Asia and the desert may increase by two or three times.

In that case, Southeast Asia and desert areas alone can sell hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars of tiger bone wine every year.

That's faster than printing money.

And as long as Chu Xiangqian is alive, this business will always be able to be done. In the future, the price will also increase little by little.

Maybe one day in the future, a bottle of tiger bone wine from the 60s can be auctioned for hundreds of thousands.

If that's the case, the tiger bone wine has really become the existence of the four major red wines.

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After having sufficient funds in hand, Chu Xiangqian set his sights on the construction of Universal Studios and the racecourse storefrontage, as well as the construction of two buildings.

The public bidding for design drawings has attracted more than a dozen Chinese and foreign companies.

The store on the street of the racecourse and the two buildings are easy to manage, and the local design team was selected to start construction directly.

Maybe the foundations of the two buildings have not yet been laid, and the stores facing the street have already been built.

Moreover, these two buildings were used for appreciation in the first place, so naturally there was no need to make that kind of weird design style of architecture.

There are too many real-life examples to refer to in a ten-story office building.

As for Universal Studios, the design of the drawings alone will basically not have results in three or five months.

And once Chu Xiangqian is dissatisfied with the design, he will go back and revise it, and it will take another month or two to go back and forth.

It is already fast to start construction next summer.

You can only identify the design team first.

After Chu Xiangqian bought the operation rights of Universal Studios in Asia, his first thought was to build antique palaces such as the Qin Palace and the Tang Dynasty City on the set.

In the 70s on Hong Kong Island, a Song City was also built, which was not large, but the crew stationed in it continued all year round.

And there are also a lot of tourists.

The boss of Songcheng wanted to expand several times, but unfortunately the surrounding land could not be bought at all.

However, with the decline of Hong Kong Island Film and Television, coupled with the failure of the boss's investment, Songcheng also operated for more than 20 years, and was demolished and sold in the late 90s.

Chu Xiangqian is naturally not worried that the Universal Studios he built will go bankrupt, and after the TV station is established in the future, he will definitely go to the bidding.

Even if the premium is two or three times, you have to buy the TV station's photo.

At that time, the demand for movies and TV series, the cinema will prosper for at least thirty or forty years.

In the new millennium, by targeting the tourist group to mainland guests, the business of the cinema will not only gradually improve, but may also prosper here for a decade or two due to the increase in mainland customers.

Besides, in the decades that Universal Pictures has been operating, there will definitely be a lot of classic movie characters, or animated characters.

Adding these characters to the studio can always maintain a sense of freshness.

After publishing his plans and expectations for the cinema to the public, he didn't expect the Celestial Empire to send someone to contact him.

They plan to send a team of ancient architecture masters to Hong Kong Island to participate in the design tender.

Chu Xiangqian naturally welcomed this with both hands and feet.

Anyway, the price of labor and raw materials in these years is low, and with the participation of domestic leaders, there is not much more money to keep improving.

The specially formed team of twelve people in China, after learning about Chu Xiangqian's request, took only a week to come up with the drawings of the Qin Palace.

Chu Qianqian looked at it, and felt that it was not much different from the Qin Palace he had seen in his previous life.

And the budget is only 12 million Hong Kong dollars, and the idea of starting construction has basically been determined.

However, agreeing too quickly is not necessarily a good thing.

Chu Xiangqian found five or six senior bigwigs from the history department on Hong Kong Island to find problems for hundreds of design drawings.

Not to mention, there were really a lot of problems, so in the end, Chu Xiangqian simply contributed his own money and invited the mainland team to Hong Kong Island, and people from both sides discussed and studied together.

After it was determined, the construction of the Qin Palace began.

After that, Tang City, as well as Song City, which imitated the Qingming Shanghe map, and even the Forbidden City were all made.

Fortunately, after Chu Xiangqian calmed down, he knew that there were too many ancient cities, and they all converged together, which was basically a duplication of resources.

Not many people will visit all four ancient cities.

After Chu Xiangqian temporarily handed over the design of the Qin Palace, all to the two teams of Hong Kong Island and Neiding, Margaret from London also called.

Speaking of several luxury companies, mergers and acquisitions of trolley luggage foundries, as well as the purchase of patents.

During this time, after Margaret and her team came into contact with more than a dozen luxury companies, basically no one was willing to give up the patent for trolley bags.

Even if some people are unwilling to give Chu Xiangqian, Standard Chartered Bank, and Hader and Ge Bai shares of their own companies because of the merger and acquisition of the luggage factory.

But no one will stupidly give up the patent of trolley bags, and at least get the production authorization of trolley bags.

Otherwise, in a few years, the luggage will be patented by the company, occupying the vast majority of the market share.

People are expanding aggressively and getting monopoly high profits, but they can only watch the luggage business slowly shrink, and even affect the sales of other bags under the company.

Everyone knows what to choose.

The trolley luggage factory and the company are priced at £5 million, and the patent is valued at £5 million.

In the end, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Chanel, and Armani joined forces to buy the foundry and patents.

Chu Xiangqian originally thought that he would get the OEM contracts of these luxury companies, but he was not stupid, and he knew that the profits of OEM did not seem to be high. But as long as the number of foundries reaches a certain level, there is a lot of money to be made.

And to be honest, the labor in Europe and the United States in the 60s was actually not expensive, at least not as outrageous as it was a few decades later.

Chu Xiangqian saw that Standard Chartered Bank, Hader and a few other ghosts had no opinions, and he simply didn't want to waste his energy on the foundry and be a shareholder with peace of mind.

And it is a shareholder of 5 luxury companies.

After getting 4% to 7% of the shares of 5 companies, Chu Xiangqian didn't care about anything, and injected all the shares of these companies into the M&S fund with his and Margaret's initials.

And in the future, it will be all handed over to Margaret to attend the shareholders' meeting or something.

Once the news broke that Margaret was the shareholder representative of these five companies, it could instantly detonate the European and American fashion circles.

This made Margaret so excited that she wanted to run to Hong Kong Island and find Chu Xiangqian to have a good relationship.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian excused himself and said that the later stage of the movie "Pear Girl" co-produced by himself with Meiguo Music and Decca Records will be done.

Get together at the Los Angeles ranch in a few days to avoid the hassle of flying around.

Margaret knew Chu Xiangqian's scruples, so she could only promise to meet in Los Angeles in a few days.

Before I knew it, it was the end of January, and it was only half a month before I left the New Year.

Chu Xiangqian had already told Xiao Laner and Hong Kong Sheng that he was going to Hollywood to watch the finished film of "Pear Girl" in person.

Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng didn't think much about it, they just begged Chu Xiangqian to go back to the capital to accompany them as soon as possible, otherwise, neither of them would dare to live in the Sanjinmen mansion at the front door.

There are only two solutions now.

Either take Sister Tao and Zhaodi to the capital together, or Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng live in the east wing of the front yard of the courtyard in Luoguxiang first.

Hong Kong Sheng and Xue Jinglan were willing to live in the courtyard, but Fei Fei didn't do it.

Linda and Alisa are not interested in the New Year of the Celestial Empire, but Feifei, the chick, has hinted more than once recently, and finally simply said that she wants to celebrate the New Year with Chu Xiangqian.

As for Fei Fei's own mother, she now has a new family, so she naturally spends the New Year with her husband in the New Territories.

Seeing that Chu Xiangqian planned to return to the capital for the New Year, but did not say whether he would take him back, Fei Fei was anxious.

first found Ehime as a helper and asked Xue Jinglan what she meant.

At this time, Xue Jinglan was also embarrassed.

Fei Fei has been to the capital, and she has some money in her hand, so she has no problem with food and accommodation, but she doesn't need Xue Jinglan to take Hong Kong Sheng to live in the mansion, but let Fei Fei live in a hotel alone during the New Year.

Xue Jinglan really can't do this kind of thing.

In the end, I had no choice but to call myself, and called Fei Fei to the mountaintop mansion with three shortages and one for a few mouths.

The car just entered the big house, and Ehime, who had a good relationship with Fei Fei and got along very well, pulled Fei Fei, who had just gotten off the car, outside the main house and muttered for a while, and the two entered the big house.

After some politeness and a lunch, the game began.

This time, Fei Fei tried her best to please Xue Jinglan, and when Ehime and Hong Kong students on the side saw Fei Fei with a pleading expression, they simply listened to the cards, unless it was a big beard, otherwise there was no beard.

It's about dismantling the cards and going to be a big beard.

At this time, Xue Jinglan felt that her luck in the afternoon was ridiculously strong, and she was happy in her heart, not only did she leave Fei Fei to eat at the top of the mountain mansion in the evening, but also at the dining table, and asked Chu Xiangqian, who was going home for dinner, if she wanted to bring Fei Fei back to the capital for the New Year?

Fei Fei was suddenly ecstatic, and looked at Chu Xiangqian with a face full of pleading.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xiangqian shook his head, just as Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong Sheng, and Ehime looked puzzled, and Fei Fei had a sad expression on her face.

Chu Xiangqian said, "The movie "Millie Girl" involves my overall plan for Universal Pictures. This time I went to Hollywood, and I had to bring the elite of the newspaper company.

Before the movie is released, hype this is not a movie.

So not only would Fei Fei follow me to Hollywood first, but more than 20 people from newspapers and film companies would fly over together.

After the movie is released, I will fly back to the capital with Fei Fei when I am about a child. ”

This time it was Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng's turn to pout, although Fei Fei was ecstatic in her heart, she didn't dare to show too much smile on her face.

I could only tell Xue Jinglan that I would take care of Chu Xiangqian's diet and daily life, and also hinted that he wouldn't mess around outside.

As soon as these words came out, Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng smiled.

The fact that their own man is an animal has long been realized by the two little daughters-in-law. If it weren't for the occasional overnight outside, Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng both felt that even if the two of them joined forces, they would be dismantled by Chu Xiangqian.

So having Fei Fei with her doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

Ehime pouted, and at a glance she knew that her eldest brother must be making excuses, maybe he was going to Hollywood to meet the princess in London privately.

Ehime lived on the ranch for more than a month, and she was so good with Sophia.

After one of the two learned some English and the other could speak some Mandarin, Ehime naturally knew a lot about Chu Xiangqian.

Margaret, on the other hand, did not keep her identity a secret when she was on the ranch.

Sophia not only mentioned Margaret to Ehime, but also told Chu Xiangqian about the Los Angeles gangster attack on the ranch.

Two days later, Chu Xiangqian first sent Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong Sheng, Ehime and the three sisters Zhaodi, who were willing to follow, on the plane back to the capital.

Then he took Fei Fei, Zhang Tianzhi, Tony Jia, Yuan Hua, Zhou Billy and Kumiko, Olivia, and 20 people from newspapers and film companies to charter a direct flight to Los Angeles.

Wrinkled Huai, who picked up the airport, and He Guanchang originally planned to send Chu Qianqian back to the ranch and rest for a day or two.

But now it's February 3rd, less than 2 weeks before the New Year, and the release date of the movie "Pear Girl" is only 5 days.

I took people directly to the office building of Universal Studios first.

When he was accompanied by several high-level executives of Universal to watch the finished film, the people of Decca Records and Magnesium Music also hurried to Universal Pictures.

After the movie was played, Chu Xiangqian was actually a little disappointed in his heart, but in the eyes of people from Universal, Decca and Magnesium Music, the box office of this movie is expected to exceed at least 10 million US dollars.

In other words, the box office alone should be able to save the capital.

Chu Xiangqian knew in his heart that if nothing else, the box office of this movie should be less than 17 million.

But if you make some news before the release and let more people know about this movie, it will be easy to have a box office of more than 20 million.

Maybe $25 million, and you can look forward to it.

If that's the case, the $4 million investment actually cost $2.4 million, and then the film was embezzled for a full $1.6 million.

In the end, the profit may be doubled.

At that time, let's not talk about magnesium music, at least Deka Records will definitely favor Chu Qianqian in film projects in the future.

will even take the initiative to let Chu Xiangqian preside over the film business to counter the offensive of Magnesium Music's control of Universal Pictures.

After the lights in the viewing hall came on, Mike Heilman, general manager of Universal, asked Chu Xiangqian bluntly, "Chu, what do you think the final box office will be?" ”

Chu Xiangqian thought about it, and finally said, "It should be more than 15 million US dollars." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only the faces of Decca Records and Magnesium Music showed smiles, but also several leading actors and directors of the crew.

On the contrary, it was the people from Universal Pictures who had an ugly expression on their faces.

Chu Xiangqian knew that he regretted not being able to invest in this movie in the first place.

But the three investors in this project are all major shareholders of Universal Pictures, and Universal is responsible for the distribution, not to mention that the management was not optimistic about it at the beginning.

Even if the management is optimistic, the three shares add up, and the shareholders of more than 9 layers are united, and the whole world can only be honest and obedient.

Chu Xiangqian can roughly guess the small abacus of the global management, the company has a money-making movie, and only their management can get bonuses.

Smiled and patted Mike Heilman on the shoulder and said, "If it really has $15 million at the box office, I would recommend that the board of directors give management and crew a bonus."

If the box office can exceed 20 million, I guarantee that Decca Records and Magnesium Country Concert and I will make due rewards for your efforts. ”

(End of chapter)