Hong Kong's new giants

Lin Zuhui lamented that he had finally made it through.

Liang Zhenxun came to Lin Zuhui's office and reported: "Boss, all foreign exchange positions have been closed. A total of 13.8 billion profits have been made, and 18.8 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash have been withdrawn."

Let the New Era Group close its positions in advance to avoid Lin Zuhui's ability to be too amazing.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Not bad. It looks like we can save 100 billion Hong Kong dollars this year."

Now he has to start focusing on cash flow.The world has changed a lot. Just because the business is doing well today, I can’t just do this kind of business. If there is sufficient cash flow, I can have extra cash and can enter other industries at any time.

Development without forgetting stability, stability without forgetting development, this will be the strategy of New Era Group in the future.

Liang Zhenxun said with a smile: "It must be more than that. The company not only returns profits, but also returns costs. According to the current real estate market, the cash in the account at the end of the year may be more than 120 billion."

To put it simply, the previous investment costs are also returned together with the profits, so the estimated annual profit of 150 billion is actually far more than the return of the funds.Of course, spending money is also very expensive. Now the land is often hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions, and the purchase of land is several billion a year.

Although the New Times Group invested 105 billion in the Canary Wharf project in the UK this year, the project was completed by issuing bonds and loans.

"It seems that I have to work hard to find a project!" Lin Zuhui said with a smile.

Liang Zhenxun responded: "This time the foreign exchange made a huge profit of 13.8 billion. If the French resort brand is acquired, it is almost equivalent to a project that the boss made for nothing for the company. And the three US stocks invested in are really very profitable. Momentum has issued two non-recurring dividends this year, as high as US$38 per share. The market value of our US stocks has reached US$7.5 million, and the book profit is US$3 million... So, I think it should be given to the boss and Director Wang (Wang Lingyin) ) pay more robes.”

His subordinates complained against Lin Zuhui. Although Lin Zuhui owns 49.5% of the shares of New Times Group, if it is Lin Zuhui's job to run the company well, it is obviously not Lin Zuhui's job to make so many non-recurring profits, so he should be rewarded heavily.

Lin Zuhui waved his hand and said, "Forget it, we've set up the chastity archway, so why bother?"

"Ok"

It is true that Liang Zhenxun's move will make Lin Zuhui feel good.Regardless of whether his thoughts are sincere or not, Lin Zuhui feels that he has every right to enjoy the annual fee of tens of millions.

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Beginning in July, girlfriends beat boyfriends in Xiangjiang, because ATV's "My Sassy Girlfriend" began broadcasting in early July, which caused a huge response in Xiangjiang, and the ratings even broke records.

"My Sassy Girl" is a low-cost small production + sensational + youth idol, which combines the freshness and delicacy of Japanese idol dramas, the romantic feelings of European literary films, and the nonsense and funnyness of Hong Kong movies, and evolves into a sensational story.Its story is actually quite old-fashioned. It tells a "reunion" story about how a woman who just lost her boyfriend can get rid of her psychological shadow and regain her true love. The plot of the film is not complicated.The biggest feature of the film is the portrayal of a "Sassy Girlfriend" character that was rarely seen in previous films. "Women beat men" has also become the film's biggest gimmick.

At this time, the "Hong Kong TV Series" dominated by ATV has been completely accepted by audiences in Hong Kong, and even in the whole of Asia, and has gained a very large influence.The truth is actually very simple, Lin Zuhui plagiarized all classic 'Korean dramas', and summed up the style very well.

Lin Zuhui sometimes has an inexplicable sense of refreshment, because he can wipe out the future "Korean wave" all by himself, and slaughter a country by one person, which makes people feel so refreshed.

The point is, once the style is determined first, will the future Hallyu still appear?

If Xiangjiang's plagiarism is followed, wouldn't it become nondescript and ridiculed by others?

As for the current series, Lin Zuhui still has some in stock, but he plans to wait for the Internet age to talk about it; of course, maybe Xiangjiang's screenwriters can create better works, and he may not need to take them out.

What Lin Zuhui is most familiar with is not the drama series, but the Korean variety shows in his previous life. Since he likes to watch Korean variety shows repeatedly, he still has memories of almost many game plots.In other words, around the late 90s, Hong Kong variety shows will also start.

Why not do it now? The first is because there are not so many Hong Kong-style idols, and Hong Kong-style variety shows need Hong Kong-style idols; Otherwise there is no desired effect.

For example, in 1997, the first Hong Kong-style variety show "X-MAN" (in fact, there are also interviews and music shows), then it will take at least 2000 to release "Love Letter" and "Infinite Challenge", and there will be more in succession Published "The Birth of a Family" and "Runningman".

By then, the Internet will be able to see these Hong Kong variety shows.

Chapter 511 [Can't make others laugh]

Asia Pacific Financial Building, Hengjin Investment.

Lin Zuhui convened a core high-level meeting. There were nine people attending the meeting, and Chinese accounted for five people; not all were financial professionals, but there were accounting and auditing.

All the high-level executives have relaxed expressions on their faces, because Hengjin Investment has recently made a lot of money in foreign exchange and gold.

Although these investment projects are all from the hands of the boss, the boss has never treated them badly. Every time they make a profit, they will be rewarded according to their merits. At the end of the year, they will distribute more bonuses to everyone.

Therefore, their salaries are not lower than those of some Wall Street elites, and the pressure is far less than that of Chinatown elites.Because almost every big investment is made by Lin Zuhui himself.

Lin Zuhui looked at the information in his hand. This is the US stock information compiled by Hengjin Investment. It mainly includes three aspects: information technology, healthcare, and finance. There are hundreds of stocks with detailed information and analysis.

According to Lin Zuhui's memory, these three fields rose in a mess in the 90s. He just bought casually. From now to the beginning of 2000, he can still earn more than 4 times the profit (exponential increase).

What's more, he can still analyze many high-quality stocks such as information technology stocks, health care stocks, and financial stocks.

The increase of Microsoft and Oracle alone is more than 20 times. Of course, these two stocks have almost been bought.

Yahoo and Amazon have not yet started their businesses, but this does not prevent Lin Zuhui from earning money, because these two companies were listed in 1996, and then in four or five years, the market value may increase by as much as dozens of times.

"I plan to use 100 billion Hong Kong dollars to invest in securities. I also read your analysis on which stocks to buy, and then make a selection. The company organizes the purchase." After finishing speaking, he handed the top-secret information to George.

George is also an old partner, and immediately said seriously: "No problem, BOSS. We will definitely use offshore companies and multiple accounts to minimize influence and maximize security."

Hengjin Investment currently holds three US stocks, namely: Microsoft 2%, Starbucks 10%, Nike 3.9%, and the market value is about 7 million US dollars.This time Lin Zuhui chose Hengjin Investment to undertake 100 billion, which is also a measure to share risks, because the funds in the family office are almost 400 billion.

Of course, Lin Zuhui also planned to spin off Hengjin Real Estate invested by Hengjin, and put it into a trust fund in the future, entrusting it to Octopus Bank, and the beneficiaries were Wang Lingyin and his two sons.

As for the growth of other women's wealth, anyway, Lin Zuhui can now get a large amount of dividends from listed companies every year, and can buy assets and invest for them.

Lin Zuhui continued: "I will recruit new elite talents for Hengjin Investment and expand its scale. This company will be my key investment channel in the future, so I hope you will continue to work hard and work hard."

"Yes, boss!" Everyone said in unison.

There was a hint of joy on their faces. They knew that the boss had a family office that was competing with Hengjin Investment, so they didn't expect that the 100 billion securities investment would fall into Hengjin Investment's account this time.After all, the more funds managed, the greater the salary and status of everyone, which is what everyone likes to see.

In fact, Lin Zuhui is also balancing the strengths of the family office (family, emphasizing services) and Hengjin Investment (personal, emphasizing investment); because he has too much wealth and too many family members, he does not want to put wealth in one basket.

After arranging 100 billion funds, Lin Zuhui estimated that he still has 50 billion in cash, so he went on to say: "Get through the investment channels for the Taiwan and South Korean stock markets for me as soon as possible. I need to invest in the finance of these two regions, so you have to Set up offices in these places."

These two areas are casually invested and will not invest too much money, mainly for planning after the financial crisis.And even if you invest now, you can still make a lot of money. For example, investing in Taiwan's Hon Hai, it is said that in 1993, it invested 1000 million (the current market value is about 50 billion), and it can return 20 to 30 billion (including annual dividends). Double the rate of return, it's a dead end.

George said: "Korea Securities opened the 'direct investment channel' to foreign capital last year (1992). Taiwan Island is currently in the leading stage of QFII investment (Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors), and the government has double restrictions on investment quotas and individual stock investment caps. Neither area is difficult if we invest on a small scale.”

Lin Zuhui nodded. He naturally knew that Taiwan Island was opened to overseas Chinese in the 80s, but it was only an indirect investment.Although South Korea has opened up the 'direct investment channel', foreign capital cannot exceed 7% of a stock, so they have to be taught a lesson by the Americans in 1998, obediently let it go to 50%, and then open it to 100% a few months later %.

There is a funny thing, that is South Korea during the Asian financial crisis, the stock market fell to 40% at one point, Koreans found that foreign capital was still selling, everyone shouted 'Why don't you come to buy the bottom', but the foreign capital still ignored it and continued Selling, the Koreans saw that it was still falling, and quickly handed over their bargaining chips. Foreign capital did not buy the bottom, so the Americans negotiated with South Korea and signed a series of unequal treaties, such as unlimited shareholding, allowing foreign capital to acquire Korean companies (including hostile takeover), since then, Korean conglomerates have replaced major European and American shareholders.

Here is the key point, which is to allow foreign capital acquisitions, not to allow European and American capital acquisitions.At that time, Lin Zuhui will also bring capital to acquire some Korean non-core assets, and there is no problem in drinking soup.

"I don't invest too much in each stock. I don't like to invest in a stock with too much weight, and I like to diversify my investment."

"Okay, we will arrange it as soon as possible."

After the meeting, Hengjin Investment began to run at high speed like a clockwork machine.

In fact, Lin Zuhui always felt that his career started after the Asian financial crisis.

But now, he is just in the stage of 'building high walls, accumulating food widely, and becoming king slowly'; and money is definitely not a cold number for him. He has so many wives and children to support, why not work hard to make money reason.

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DreamWorks has made great moves in recent months, disbanding many film practitioners, and causing the entire film industry to look sideways.

Some people say that without the two box office guarantees of Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie, DreamWorks has become unworthy of its name; Dissolution is also reasonable.

Then again, it is reasonable for the ATV Group to withdraw from the non-profitable film industry after making so much money.Therefore, not many people are gloating. After all, DreamWorks has earned more than 5 million yuan for Lin Zuhui. Relying on Chow Yun-hua, Zhou Xingchi, and Li Lianjie, DreamWorks has dominated the Xiangjiang film industry for five years, and even Golden Harvest dared not try its edge.

What's more, no one in Xiangjiang knows that DreamWorks is just a "girl-picking toy" of Lin Zuhui. It is said that the company was opened to chase after Wang Zuxian.

In this way, he also dominated Xiangjiang for five years. Who dares to say that DreamWorks is not successful!

Pan Cheng came to Lin Zuhui's office and reported: "Boss, the reorganization of DreamWorks has been completed, please give me instructions!"

It turned out that all of this was arranged by Lin Zuhui, who wanted DreamWorks to be reborn from the ashes, so many employees were dismissed.

Lin Zuhui asked: "What is the cost of Xiangjiang filming, please tell me!"

Pan Cheng felt a little 'helpless'. The boss had been running a film company for so many years, and he hardly ever worried about the company's affairs. He didn't even know some common sense in the Hong Kong film industry.It is conceivable that such a film company has achieved such brilliant results, and the main credit is still its own boss.Of course, only two of them knew about it.

Because of this, Golden Harvest has never stopped thinking of poaching Pan Cheng, and Golden Harvest did not poach people with high salaries, but encouraged Pan Cheng to set up a film company and cooperate with Golden Harvest.

Pan Cheng naturally dismissed it, not to mention that he knew that without the boss, he would not be able to produce good movies at all; even with his annual dividends and salary from DreamWorks, he did not need to rely on Golden Harvest to invest in the film company.

"Okay...the investment cost has risen in recent years, and there are many Hong Kong movies costing tens of millions of dollars every year."

Lin Zuhui immediately asked: "The top ten box office charts in Xiangjiang, I'm afraid they can be on the list with more than 2000 million yuan? Are you not afraid of losing money?"

Pan Cheng said with a smile: "Everyone is ambitious and wants to make a fortune overseas, so the investment is huge. For example, Cheng Long's "Flying Eagle Project" invested 1500 million US dollars in the past two years, and the box office of Xiangjiang was only 3900 million, half of the cost. He didn’t take it back, he was trying to break into Hollywood. Xiangjiang movies are still very brilliant in Asia, and the local box office of Hong Kong movies is only [-]% to [-]% of the overseas box office.”

Xiangjiang Film is still NB, and its overseas box office has surpassed its domestic box office by a lot, which means it is still No.1 in Asia.

Lin Zuhui suddenly realized that in addition to the box office, there is also a large part of income from disc copyrights; however, it is estimated that the income from disc copyrights will plummet, because copycat VCDs have begun to rampant, and collective protests broke out in the entertainment industry in his previous life.

"With such a large investment, many people lose money, right?"

Pan Cheng nodded and said: "The martial arts films have suffered the worst losses in the past two years. Luo Wei invested 1800 million in filming, and only got back less than 200 million. His life savings are gone. Luo Wei's film will go bankrupt soon. Still There is Liu Dehua, who invested 4000 million yuan in movies this year, and Maggie Cheung will spend 400 million yuan for two days of acting, so looking at it now, it is too bad that he will have to sell himself for a few years."

Lin Zuhui immediately said: "Invite Andy Lau, we want to shoot a big investment commercial film."

Pan Cheng said excitedly, "No problem!"

He has blind admiration for his boss. The boss said that he wants to copy Hollywood, which may be more profitable than some Hollywood movies.

In fact, Lin Zuhui also has no confidence, what if the water and the soil are not acclimatized?

However, no matter what, this B, he is set!

Therefore, Lin Zuhui took out a document and handed it to Pan Cheng, saying: "This is the outline material for our large-scale production movie. It is a sci-fi plus suspense production, and it is also a series of movies."

Hearing the series of movies, Pan Chengcheng's eyes lit up, this is a money-making tool.

Pan Cheng couldn't help but looked at it for the first time. He was very familiar with his business and knew Hollywood very well, so he would not be unfamiliar with the business.

"resident Evil"

Umbrella Corporation...Hive...Red Queen...Zombie (the word doesn't appear in the movie)...

Lin Zuhui said with a smile:

"Find someone to re-edit the plot, but since we are going to be a 'Hollywood copycat', we naturally have to learn from their style. The plot needs no brains, and the fighting should be simple, refreshing, and shocking. The heroine must be beautiful and sexy, and it is best for us. If you train yourself, you must have the ability to shoot action movies. Liu Dehua is very popular in Taiwan and South Korea, and he can play an important role."

"Before filming, several leading actors will conduct military training for three weeks... There are also some details, which are marked, so pay attention."

Pan Cheng listened carefully, afraid of missing it, and then said: "Three weeks of militarized training will increase the cost. However, there is no need for the heroine to use a big name. Liu Dehua's social status is relatively high. How much does the boss plan to budget?"

Lin Zuhui waved his hand and said, "You can figure it out. This movie is the key movie for our Phoenix Nirvana. It takes a long time to prepare and a large investment scale. It is inevitable. Cheng Long can invest 1500 million US dollars, and we can do it. We don't need to make much money , as long as you don’t lose too much money. If this result is achieved, it means that ‘copying Hollywood’ is a good idea.”

Pan Cheng was taken aback, and said: "The investment of 1500 million US dollars is really too big. Even if the Hong Kong box office is 4000 million Hong Kong dollars, and the overseas box office is 6000 million, plus other income, I am afraid that it will lose [-]-[-]%. After all, Andy Lau does not have the strength of Hollywood. "

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "1500 million is just the highest budget, and it is estimated that it will not be that much. Besides, this movie has other copyrights. I plan to make it into a game. Its value is far more than 1000-1500 million US dollars. The specific cost depends on you." It’s okay to figure it out and save some money.”

Originally, the Resident Evil of the previous life was a movie adapted from a Japanese game in 1996, so this IP will not lose money anyway.

"I know, I must have formed a good team, and learned Hollywood's special effects and computer technology to complete this work."

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "Remember, now we may only make two or three films a year, but it must be the film with the largest investment in Xiangjiang. Otherwise, my DreamWorks film company would make people laugh."

Pan Cheng nodded and said, "Yes!"

Chapter 512 [Cooperation of two media tycoons]

In Xiangjiang, ATV Group is a leading communication company. In addition to TV stations/satellite TV stations, it also has influential wholly-owned subsidiaries such as YG Entertainment, DreamWorks Films, and record companies.

Because of this, Lin Zuhui's status in Xiangjiang is far from being comparable to that of other real estate developers, not to mention that he is also the largest factory owner in Xiangjiang, the king of ready-made garments, the king of comics, and the media tycoon...

Dreamworks suddenly released rumors that they wanted to learn from Hollywood and make big-budget commercial films, which immediately made people puzzled. Pan Cheng was right, right?

Also, as the boss of ATV, could it be that Lin Zuhui didn't care and allowed Pan Cheng to waste money like this?

For a while, there was a lot of public opinion, and there were many unfavorable comments, because DreamWorks did not have 'Cheng Long'.

Lin Zuhui didn't worry about these things, he was just playing around anyway, the important thing was to snatch the IP of "Resident Evil".

It can also be used as a game IP. Overall, it is impossible to lose too much.

Most importantly, Lin Zuhui can feel proud.

"Resident Evil" can be regarded as a creative sci-fi film, and DreamWorks is also regarded as the representative film company of Xiangjiang, and Lin Zuhui is the boss of DreamWorks.

Who will say that Xiangjiang has no science fiction in the future? Dreamworks will teach him to shut up!

Both "Resident Evil" and "The Plague of Python" had to be filmed!

In the previous life, the richest man in Ma could film "Kung Fu Tao" in order to realize his dream.

Lin Zuhui's money is many times that of his, so why can't he invest in a movie just to play a zombie!

In fact, Lin Zuhui hopes to use this movie as an opportunity to drive the growth of the entire Xiangjiang movie.Koreans were also able to shoot a series of wonderful sci-fi and disaster films such as "Han River Monster", "Train to Busan", "Snowpiercer" and "Haeundae" in their previous lives, so Xiangjiang will also shoot these films in this life.

This B, he set it up.

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In the waters south of Hong Kong Island, Lin Zuhui entertained Murdoch, an Australian media tycoon who came to Hong Kong, on his super yacht.

Murdoch personally came to Xiangjiang to visit Lin Zuhui, the purpose is self-evident, that is for Dragon TV.

In the previous life, in the hands of Murdoch (Murdoch), Asia Satellite TV really shined, with dozens of channels, a total audience of 3 million people, covering nearly 60 countries.The content is also rich and varied, such as Hollywood blockbusters, American programs, British programs... Satellite channels have been set up in almost many Asian countries, either wholly owned or jointly owned, and the industry has grown very large.