Start by trimming cow hooves

There is a lot of public information on the Internet, which is relatively easy to find.

After receiving Suri's call, secretary Amanda immediately asked people to collect information about the new hotel on the Bund.

In about the past hour and a half, a briefing note was quickly compiled and sent to Suri's personal email account.

Follow what's on the briefing.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, located at No. 2 on the Bund, was funded and built by two state-owned enterprises in Shanghai. The total announced budget was 1.2 billion yuan, which is less than 200 million US dollars.

It makes sense to think about it. If it weren't for the coordination of state-owned enterprises, it would be difficult for ordinary people to take over a historic protected building on the edge of the Bund and develop and renovate it.

A few years ago, Suri had a chance.

But he didn't have enough funds on hand at the time. Even if he heard the news, he would not put so much cash on a luxury hotel project with a low return rate and a long investment cycle.

It doesn't matter now.

If you really acquire it, you will just spend 1% of your assets to have fun, but the enjoyment will last for many years.

According to some design drawings he found online, staying in the hotel will allow you to enjoy the incomparable night view of Lujiazui, including the Oriental Pearl Tower and several tall buildings, all at a glance.

The briefing also stated that Jiang International, the major shareholder of the Waldorf Astoria on the Bund, also holds 99% of the shares of the nearby Peace Hotel. According to Suri, as long as the price is right and the right chips are given, the acquisition project should have a good chance of success. .

After all, the site selection work for S Electric Vehicle Company's super factory is about to begin, and many cities are vying for this big project.

Compared with the previous two years, Suri's strength and influence in the mainland are no longer the same.

Some time ago, he made special arrangements to allow him to wholly invest in building a new energy automobile factory, which is one of the best evidences.

I believe that the Shanghai stock market is very happy to use the hotel acquisition to build a good relationship with him.

Once the Gigafactory is truly implemented, it will be a large-scale foreign-invested project worth US$1 billion. It has the opportunity to become the city's new business card, bringing in a large amount of tax revenue and employment opportunities.

…

Due to time difference.

Secretary Amanda was ready to ask someone to ask, but she still hadn’t been contacted for a while.

Su Rui was not in a hurry. In the afternoon, he held a meeting with the working group responsible for the listing of Netflix Entertainment to discuss the details of tomorrow's listing. He also met with several big guys in the Wall Street asset management industry to introduce the development of the next few years. planning.

If several Wall Street giants favor Netflix Entertainment, tomorrow's listing will be very smooth, and it will be difficult for the stock price to fall.

Behind several asset management companies, there is trillions of dollars worth of terrorist capital involved. A few casual operations can support the stock price.

We just have a chance to chat casually. Suri is very confident about the listing tomorrow, and these asset management giants have sent a group to inspect, which also shows that they are very concerned about the market prospects of Netflix Entertainment.

In a blink of an eye.

In the evening, Suri took Yuko Hoshino for a ride on a rented yacht and visited the night view of the buildings on Manhattan Island. During the period, he also circled around the landmark Statue of Liberty and enjoyed Mexican food on the deck table.

Before seven o'clock in the evening, they took the car back to the hotel, sat in front of the computer in the study room of the suite, and logged into the Netflix entertainment platform.

"Holy Grail", which has been in preparation for a long time, will finally be launched online tonight.

Putting her long legs on the desk, Hoshino Yuko asked:

"Publish this big-budget new drama on the day before it goes public? It seems that you are very confident in it. Otherwise, the ratings are not as good as expected. Once the news gets out, it is likely to affect the company's stock price after it goes public. trend.”

The so-called "most beautiful legs in Hollywood" were placed in front of him. Even though he had been playing with them for a long time, he still looked particularly eye-catching.

Suri explained:

"The sample footage for the first episode of "The Holy Grail" was edited last week. I have watched it and I think there is nothing wrong with it. This fantasy drama is very unique, and the actors' acting skills are also very good. Except for the special effects, which are a little bit boring, everything else It’s already great, and the chances of failure seem extremely slim to me.”

What he said about the special effects was that it was compared to many commercial blockbuster movies.

The average production budget is 8 million US dollars per episode, and even with very low actor expenses, most of the sufficient funds are spent on special effects, and the effects presented are not bad.

In addition, at the end of 2010, the picture quality of both LCD computer monitors and LCD TVs could not be compared with that of more than ten years later. This is probably why Suri always felt a little bit uninterested.

Even a veteran drama fan like him, who has watched countless movies, felt that the effect was great after watching his own homemade drama "Holy Grail".

In the eyes of other viewers, elements such as "Sealed Artifacts", "22 Sequential Paths to God", "Steampunk", "Cthulhu Mythology" and other elements are full of freshness, which is enough to open their eyes and make them unable to bear it. I sighed with emotion - "It turns out that TV dramas can still be filmed like this."

Whether it is production funding, world view, plot excitement, cast, etc., "Holy Grail" has the potential to be comparable to "Game of Thrones", and even surpass it in many aspects.

If nothing unexpected happens, the "Holy Grail" series is likely to continue filming for many years, and then spawn movies, novels, animations and other peripherals.

After the last discussion with the screenwriting team, Suri has completely taken the rights to adapt the novel into his own hands, and plans to work with "The Gunslinger" to create the "Holy Grail" novel starting early next year.

The board of directors of Netflix Entertainment does not care how much money can be earned by publishing the novel. The only requirement is that various adaptation rights can only be sold to Netflix Entertainment at a suitable price.

When the subsequent option rewards are unlocked, Suri will become the largest shareholder of this company. He has no idea of ​​selling shares of Netflix Entertainment in the short term. When he needs money, he can just pledge the loan, so he readily agreed to the board of directors. requirements.

At seven o'clock in the evening.

The new drama "Holy Grail" is launched on time, and the company's backend has made preparations in advance to further expand the server capacity.

Even so, there was still a slight lag, maybe because there were too many viewers waiting to watch the show, or maybe the hotel's internet speed was too slow. After refreshing two or three times, Suri successfully started playing the first episode.

At the beginning of the story, there is a bustling town, with an exaggerated steam car, emitting large clouds of white mist, slowly passing through the lively streets.

The camera swept across the street, and you could still see a priest wearing a white robe and a sun symbol on his chest, walking out of the Sun God Church and joining the flow of people on the street. The believers made strange gestures to say hello to the priest.

The camera turned again and entered a classically decorated, slightly messy room. A young man with blond hair and blue eyes was seen lying in a pool of blood. There were obvious wounds on his temples, and there were items used in mysterious rituals around his body. , written on the brown paper at hand - "Night is coming."

There is also a gun next to it. The style of the gun is completely different from modern times, and it is decorated with mysterious patterns.

As time passed, when the shadow covered the body of the blond young man, the sacrificial patterns on the ground were seen squirming, and the wounds on his temples healed rapidly.

Soon, with a violent heartbeat, his pupils glowed, and the next second, he began to breathe heavily... (End of Chapter)