Hong Kong's new giants

Li Baoan said: "Well, the progress is going well, and it is expected to be completed next week. The short-term loans below 15.6 have also been settled, and I plan to pay them immediately."

Lin Zuhui nodded, and immediately said: "Do you know why the short-term loan?"

Li Baoan replied: "I know, the stock market is hot now, and the boss plans to raise funds through a rights issue, and raise cash to repay the funds!"

"Let's do a share placement. We need to arrange a share placement in the past two months to raise 20 billion yuan."

"Okay, I know!"

Rights issues, allotments, convertible bonds, etc. are all in the same form, but the details are slightly different.

After a while, several core executives also came to Lin Zuhui's office, and everyone looked at Lin Zuhui with admiration.

Although these people are experts in TV, they are not experts in capital operation. Lin Zuhui easily expanded the ATV Group, which made everyone amazed.

Who would have thought that Li Chaoren's family would sell Dragon TV!

After all, Dragon TV is chasing Asia TV, and everyone thinks it will surpass Asia TV this year. After all, it has five channels, and it will be able to broadcast Cantonese programs soon.

Everyone never dreamed that it was Li Zekai who advocated the sale, because he wanted to establish his own business and needed a large sum of money.

This transaction made Li Zekai famous in Xiangjiang, because he sold Dragon TV at a high price, and in less than three years, he made three times the profit. He can be called a real "Little Superman".

These people didn't know that it was Lin Zuhui who bought the horse bone with a thousand dollars, and directly offered a price that Li Zekai could not refuse.After all, Lin Zuhui knows that if the Li family wants to sell, the only way is to pay a lot of money, and to be ahead of Murdoch in Australia.

Of course, everyone also knows that Lin Zuhui has devoted himself to the expansion of ATV Group at any cost for the sake of "Hong Kong culture".

"Dragon Satellite TV, Chen Qingxiang is still the chief executive for the time being. We need to boil frogs in warm water and slowly change the program format of Dragon TV. The first thing that needs to be changed is Dragon TV's self-made programs. You can come up with a plan later. .As for the four relay channels, we will talk about it later, and keep the status quo for now."

Selina Chow nodded and said, "Okay, we got it. Dragon TV's self-produced programs are not very good, and they need to be completely changed according to our model, adding more Hong Kong cultural elements."

Zhao Zhenqiang said: "In this way, our investment in drama series needs to increase again. It is estimated that it is more reasonable to shoot about 35 to 40 episodes per year."

在亚视没有起来前，无线每年大概拍摄20～25部；而如今亚视每年拍摄在30部～35部，再增加5部也是合理的。

Lin Zuhui said: "The two self-produced satellite TVs must be differentiated. Asia Satellite TV can focus on 'music' and 'idols', and Dragon TV can focus on 'dramas'. In the future, they will come up with two relay satellite channels, focusing on news and variety shows. That is to say Said that in the end there were only two channels that broadcast European and American programs.”

Emphasis is not exclusive. After all, Hong Kong culture has not yet fully developed and is still in the foundation stage. In the late 90s, it should be the time when Hong Kong culture fully developed.

Everyone nodded!

Zhao Zhenqiang raised a question: "Boss, should Hong Kong culture variety shows be put on the agenda?"

Although "Music Bank" is considered a Hong Kong stream program, it does belong to the music category.

Lin Zuhui said: "You can do more programs about Hong Kong stream idols, such as celebrity interviews, but they are still 'music' and 'idol' programs in essence. As for Hong Kong stream programs, you need to explore slowly, but don't rush. At present, our programs still focus on 'international programs' and 'old Hong Kong programs'."

Internationalized programs are to sell copyrights and increase world influence, while 'old Hong Kong-flavored programs' (prize doormen, comedians save the earth) are to take care of old-fashioned audiences.

In a few years, when there are more and more Hong Kong-style idols, Lin Zuhui will launch "Hong Kong-style variety shows" such as "X-man", "Infinite Challenge", "The Birth of a Family", and "Runningman".These programs are very familiar to Lin Zuhui, and it takes no effort at all.

"Okay, we will develop steadily!" Zhao Zhenqiang said in admiration.

Lin Zuhui nodded in satisfaction, the entire ATV Group is ultimately serving the "Hong Kong culture", this is Lin Zuhui's original intention.With the ultimate goal of exporting "Hong Kong culture", more practitioners and jobs, earning a lot of foreign exchange... form a pillar industry for Hong Kong.

What Lin Zuhui gets from this kind of career is not monetary happiness, but a kind of spiritual happiness and a powerful influence.

Because of this, he would happily participate in it.

Of course, every time I come to ATV Group, enjoying the admiration of handsome men and beautiful women, it is also a very comfortable feeling.Aside from the high-ranking celebrities in his eyes in the previous life, in this life he is a small person in front of him. If he has a crush on any female celebrity, the female celebrity will take the initiative to send it to his door.

Chapter 5 and Three [It's not your world anymore]

The Xiangjiang stock market performed very well in the first five months of this year (1993). The good results of the increase of more than 5500% also made most investors a lot of money. From less than 5 at the beginning of the year, it has broken through to 7200 in mid-May point.

Lin Zuhui's personal investment company, Hengjin Investment, also made a huge profit of nearly 10 billion because it started making futures contracts at the beginning of the year.

In terms of real estate, since the beginning of the year, luxury property prices have risen steadily, especially in April and May, with sales prices rising by 2% in two months.Driven by luxury buildings, the prices of small and medium-sized residential units soared again, with the average price approaching the mark of 2 yuan per square foot.

Driven by residential buildings, the rent and selling price of Xiangjiang office buildings have risen sharply. The Grade A office buildings in Central and Wanchai have risen by about 2% in less than half a year. More than 3%, and the central area may reach a 4% increase.

As the prosperous business district spreads from the core area to the fringes, the shopping malls and shops in Xiangjiang also perform well, especially Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, North Point and Tsim Sha Tsui on Hong Kong Island.From the perspective of Causeway Bay, since the opening of Sogo Department Store and the completion of Times Square, the number of people in the area has increased sharply, attracting many large chain groups to open branches nearby, causing the rent in this area to rise sharply.At this time, the rent of Hong Kong’s shops ranked first among 12 major cities in the world. Among them, the rent of a shop in Causeway Bay was 3429 Hong Kong dollars per square foot per month, and a buyer offered 19 per square foot to buy it, but it was put on hold because the business was reluctant to sell.

Real estate developers, agents, and real estate speculators are all smiling. Foreign capital has begun to invest in Hong Kong's securities and real estate, intending to get a piece of the pie.

Saturday, October 5.

In the morning, Lin Zuhui had a small meeting with the real estate core executives in the office of New Era Group.

He said: "In mid-May, the Hong Kong government announced the annual 'Official Land Auction' plan, and the stock market skyrocketed immediately. From this point of view, the property market will continue to be strong for several years. Therefore, we will have three years from 1993 to 1995. We should not lag behind Sun Hung Kai and Henderson Land in the next year, so as not to cause insufficient stamina in the future.”

In the past year or so, New Times Group has not been as aggressive in land purchases as before, but it has maintained its leading level among Hong Kong real estate developers. The fundamental reason is that there is not enough money.

Chen Bin nodded, and said, "Because of the boom in real estate, our company's profits are continuously generated, which can indeed strengthen land purchases. But now major real estate developers are boldly chasing high prices, and official land auctions are not so easy to win." landed."

This is true, the better the market is, the more people will chase up and buy; the worse the market is, the more timid and cautious everyone will be.

In any case, New Times Group will strengthen its land reserve as much as possible in these three years; as for [-]-[-], it will naturally not chase after the high. The year and a half itself is the last madness. On the contrary, it has to take advantage of the high goods.

Therefore, in the recent official land auction, if there is good land or luxury land, New Times Group will try to get as much as possible, after all, there will be a lot of cash flow.

The real estate of Xiangjiang still occupies the absolute source of profit of the group. Although the New Times Group has successfully diversified, the investment in overseas and mainland China has not yet produced much return.

For example, the rent of properties in Manhattan does have a net profit of more than one billion yuan per year, but the interest on that investment needs to be paid nearly 7.5%, and the current annual rate of return of the eight skyscrapers is 4%.This is still a case of buying at a low price, otherwise it is estimated that the rate of return is only 6-[-]%.

Therefore, it is not easy for Yankees to make money. In the previous life, a large number of Chinese enterprises in the Mainland bought Manhattan office buildings after 2010. At that time, the price was high, and they lost all their underwear.There are also companies that come to Hong Kong to buy properties and land, but they hardly make any money and become leeks for Hong Kong real estate developers.

The level is really bad!

The deep-seated reason is that it has only been opened for decades, and everyone's international business vision has not yet been cultivated.

After chatting with you about the general direction of the company's real estate, everyone left the office with confidence and devoted themselves to work.

……

Happy Valley, Ho Tung Hotel.

In the karaoke box on the 15th floor, Yang Shoucheng, Cheng Long, Huang Yulang and other friends were having a party while drinking and singing.

During the discussion, everyone discussed the 'doll' (comic pattern) design of T-shirts, and Huang Yulang talked endlessly, as if he was No. 1 in Xiangjiang comics.

Huang Yulang finished his sentence from Stanley in the second half of last year. He was sentenced to 4 years and actually served 2 years.When he was released from prison, there were journalists, his former staff and apprentices "waiting" in front of Stanley Prison.Mrs. Huang was still as arrogant as before, he clenched his fists and said: "I, Huang Yulang is still popular in the market!"

However, the reality is cruel. At this time, Xiangjiang’s comics industry has undergone great changes, that is, the new genre—the Japanese comic style has occupied the mainstream position, followed by the high-quality local comics of Ma Rongcheng and Shangguan Xiaobao.The low-quality comics that are full of violence and pornography in the market have been gradually abandoned by the market, and even suppressed by the Hong Kong government.

Huang Yulang can indeed live a fairly comfortable life with a bald pen in his hand, but if he wants to reproduce his glory, it is undoubtedly a dream.

Yang Shoucheng is also the boss of a media company now, and he has a good understanding of the situation of Xiangjiang's comics industry, so he said: "Now the T-shirts outside are printed with Pikachu, Bulgaria Seed, Charmander, Squirtle... Also printed are Conan, Sakuragi Flower Road, etc. In the entire Xiangjiang comics industry, the style of Japanese comics is absolutely dominant again.”

Huang Yulang said unconvinced, "That's succumbing to the power of money. Recently, I'm calling on some well-known cartoonists in Hong Kong to discuss the development of local comics again. I believe that Hong Kong people still like local comics."

Yang Shoucheng said with a smile: "With your ability, naturally you don't have to worry about having nothing to eat. But do you know how many people Wanhui Comic Club supports? Lin Zuhui and I are considered good friends. It will become a pillar industry of Xiangjiang. As far as I know, the profit of Man Fai Comics this year may exceed 8 million Hong Kong dollars."

Huang Yulang was taken aback, and couldn't help saying: "Impossible! Even if they have some overseas markets, how could they have such a high profit."

At its peak, Yulang Organization had an annual profit of just over 1 million yuan, which is why there were so many overseas publications; in just a few years, Wanhui Comic Books had an annual profit of more than 8 million yuan.

Don't say that Huang Yulang doesn't believe it anymore, I believe many people won't believe it.

Yang Shoucheng patted Huang Yulang on the shoulder and said: "I'm still making a rough estimate. Others made a profit of 5.5 million Hong Kong dollars last year, only in the comics industry. Wanhui Comics is not only doing comics, but the comics industry chain. Manga, anime, and manga peripherals are all being produced. Their toy factories are very large in the mainland, contributing a lot of profits. If you think about the Ninja Turtles back then, you will know how big the profits are.”

Huang Yulang was immediately discouraged. He had read "Pokémon" and found that there are many kinds of Pokémon in this comic, and they are very popular among comic fans, especially the big yellow ears "Pikachu". Famous throughout Asia.

"I don't understand why a Hongkonger wants to bring Xiangjiang comics into the style of Japanese manga!" Huang Yulang complained.

Cheng Long said: "It's easy to understand. It is in line with the world and Asia. The same is true when we make movies now. We will consider the Hollywood market. In this regard, we have to convince others. Lin Zuhui's status in Hong Kong is far from Comparable to those real estate developers, the 'cultural port' he opened has brought a large industrial chain to Hong Kong and added thousands of jobs."

Everyone agreed one after another. On this point, everyone can't lie.

Although everyone is Huang Yulang's friend, everyone must remind Huang Yulang that Hong Kong comics are no longer your world.

……

It has been almost two years since "Manke SHOW" was born, and it is the No. 1 sales volume in Hong Kong. The local sales volume in Hong Kong is 27; plus the very normal sales in overseas and mainland China, the sales volume of each issue can reach 35 copies.

Of course, based on the profits of "Manke SHOW", even the main writers and screenwriters of Wanhui Comics' Japanese Manga Department cannot afford to pay their salaries.Coupled with the income from comic books and overseas copyrights of animation, it is possible to earn back the cost and make a slight profit.

The real profitable income all comes from comics, and from the peripherals of the three head works of "Slam Dunk", "Detective Conan", and "Pokémon"-dolls, figures, theater versions, and live-action versions Wait around.

The important thing is that the biggest profit source country/region is actually Japan, a big manga country.

Therefore, Wanhui Comics has aroused the attention and vigilance of the Japanese comics industry, and some Japanese comics even took risks to imitate and plagiarize similar themes, which also aroused Wanhui’s lawyer’s letter.

Copying "Detective Ke Lan" is fine, after all, this copyright is difficult to define, "Detective Ke Lan" still has references to "Sherlock Holmes".

However, "Pokémon" is a manga that integrates pet cultivation and fighting, and if it is plagiarized, it is almost guaranteed.

Although, the works of Wanhui Publishing House have also been criticized by the Japanese manga industry-the overall quality (painting) is not as good as Japanese manga works. It was originally a good material that is as famous as "Dragon Ball" and other excellent Japanese works, but it turned out to be "copycat Japanese manga" resulting in a decrease in quality.

This is probably the last self-esteem of the Japanese!

In fact, the criticisms from the Japanese manga industry are somewhat justified, but they have not affected the best-sellers of "Slam Dunk", "Detective Conan" and "Pokémon" overseas and in the mainland.

After all, the subtle quality is slightly poor, and it is difficult for comic fans to notice; in fact, the main writers of Japanese manga at Wanhui Comics, their salary is too high, so it is already enough to hire two outstanding Japanese manga writers for each work. It has reached the highest budget; as for the chief writer of local comics in Hong Kong, he will do the work of supporting the chief writer of comics.

As for the cartoonists trained, they can only draw some other works on "Manke SHOW", and there are no works that can become best-selling overseas.

Chapter 5 and four [private conversations between women]

North Point, Media Building (redevelopment of the former Lok Kee Building).

Wanhui Media has moved into the Media Building as a whole. As for the original News Building, they did not choose to rebuild it immediately, but leased it out for rent collection.The reason is simple, the rent has been so high in the past few years, isn't it a waste of time/money to rebuild, at least it will have to start rebuilding in the second half of the year.

The reason for the relocation is that the office area of ​​the News Building is only about 10 square feet, which cannot meet the needs of the ever-growing Wanhui Media.

The new Media Building is a newly rebuilt Grade A office building with 22 floors and a total floor area of ​​26 square feet.

Lin Zuhui paused downstairs. The words 'media building' shocked his soul.

Wanhui Media has not developed much in the paper media in recent years. At present, it is mainly the "Daily Daily", the first-selling mass newspaper in Xiangjiang, "Economic Daily", the second-best-selling financial newspaper in Xiangjiang, and Ming Pao Group ( Ming Pao), the best-selling magazine "Men's Wear"...etc.

Because of being "unpretentious" in the paper media, Xiangjiang's gossip magazines have recently shined brilliantly. The three gossip magazines "Next", "Apple Weekly" and "East Weekly" have occupied the top three best-selling magazines in Xiangjiang. Magazine.

The gossip magazine under Wanhui Media has not only started to go downhill, but even Lei Weipo is planning to quit.It can't be stopped, someone offers an annual salary of nearly [-] million, which is to create a new record in the media industry.

What is the concept of an annual salary of nearly 2500 million? Currently, the most profitable magazine in Xiangjiang is Zheng Jinghan's "Next Magazine", which can achieve a net profit of more than [-] million a year.

When he came to his office, Lin Zuhui drank tea while thinking about Wanhui Media's future plans.Paper media, comics, games, and Greater China Portal will be its four major industries.

Paper media will not disappear, but will exist in the form of the Internet.

After a while, Long Jingchang came to Lin Zuhui's office and reported to him.As the CEO of Wanhui Media, although he is also the CEO of a listed company, it is not wrong to say that he is Lin Zuhui's retainer.

Because of Lin Zuhui's listed company, his status is "one word and one word". No matter whether it is an investor or a board of directors, they all have blind trust in him.

"Boss, the "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard Entertainment in the United States has sold 80 sets, accumulating a lot of initial funds." Long Jingchang said with a smile.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Leave them alone and give them the greatest freedom. What I value is the prospect of this industry. No matter how much money they make in the short term, it is not a problem for them to use it for further research and development and to expand the team."

In fact, Lin Zuhui played "World of Warcraft" before it was released, and he made a special comment, that is - the new operating system - right click to move, left click to select - was established.This point was immediately adopted by the team and implemented in "World of Warcraft 1".

No matter how much he earned in the early stage, Lin Zuhui didn't mind Mike Mohamy and the others spending it, and he didn't mind giving the R&D team the highest salary in the industry.The more active they are, the more money Wanhui Media will make in the future.

Long Jingchang nodded and said: "Well, there are more than 20 people in the team at present, and I have asked Mike Mohamy to recruit several Chinese or Asian game development engineers for us to participate in the development of "World of Warcraft 2" .”

Lin Zuhui said: "Well, we can set up a game development department early next year. "Pokémon" is a big game IP."

Blizzard's four boutique games: "World of Warcraft", "Diablo", "StarCraft", and "Hearthstone", the first three of which were all developed in the 90s, even without Lin Zuhui's intervention, they will still appear.Of course, Lin Zuhui will pay attention to Blizzard.

When investing in Blizzard, Lin Zuhui didn't care about the early profits at all, and the best time to return is when online games come out.Of course, the most important thing is that the company can sell at a high price in the future.

"Okay, I took note."

Finally, Lin Zuhui said to Long Jingchang: "In addition to the game field, you have paid attention to the Internet in recent years. I am very optimistic about its prospects. Maybe we will enter this field in the future."

As the CEO of the group, Long Jingchang does not need too much professionalism, but he needs good management skills and the completion of the tasks assigned by Lin Zuhui.

"Well, I must strengthen my studies in this area."

At this moment, Long Jingchang was a little surprised. First came the comics, then games, and now the Internet. He was not surprised by the boss's ambition, but by the boss's long-term vision.Now is the prosperous period of paper media. If other bosses have achieved such achievements, they would have already enjoyed the fruits of victory on the credit book, while their own boss is always thinking about the future.

After Long Jingchang left, Luo Bencheng from Wanhui Comics Club came to his office. The comics industry is currently the most important industry of Wanhui Media, not one of them, so Luo Bencheng is also a member of the group, and he also serves as the director of the company.

Lin Zuhui said: "Assemble a comic team for me. This time I have greater requirements for the artist and plot concept of the comic. It is a big production, and I hope to become the fourth big IP of our company's Japanese comic series. "

In fact, Wanhui Media's three major Japanese manga IPs are actually very good in painting, and the more they draw, the better they are. At least they have the success of several major publishing houses in Japan.The Japanese see that Wanhui Media has so many big IPs, but they are just envious and jealous.

Luo Bencheng suddenly became excited, because all the themes (outlines) hand-picked by the boss must be classic works, that's right, the boss's vision and ideas are really genius.

"No problem, Boss! Now our comprehensive strength of comics, even if we go to Japan, we can still rank among the top five comic publishing houses. Although there are some flaws in the early stage, it has become much better now!"

Lin Zuhui nodded. He didn't dare to invest too much in the early stage. Now that Wanhui Comic Club has funds and talent reserves, it has naturally improved in all aspects.

He directly handed a piece of information to Luo Bencheng, and said: "A friend told me that there are very few pirate-themed comics, including in the Japanese comics industry. So, he conceived a pirate-themed comic, and you will form a team later , you can use this information as an outline.”