Video Game Empire

According to information collected by Li Xuan, William Winton's wife, Caroline Winton, worked as an editor for the Sunday Telegraph in Australia for three years before coming to the United States. ︽ After resigning from the Sunday Telegraph, Caroline left Sydney and came to Harvard University to study for a master's degree in journalism.

She joined the New York Post after graduating from Harvard, where she met William Winton in an interview. After the Caroline married William Winton, she resigned from the New York Post and joined William Winton's political team, responsible for handling the account and communicating with the media.

The "Sunday Telegraph" and "New York Post" where Caroline Winton worked before are newspapers owned by News Corp. It was through the line of Mrs. Murdoch that he established a close personal relationship with William Winton, a young and strong figure in the American Republican Party.

William Winton is said to be interested in representing the Republican Party next year for the Maryland Senate seat. If there are media groups cheering for him behind his back, his road to election will undoubtedly be much easier. While News Corp. failed to acquire Maryland's most influential "Baltimore Sun", it succeeded in acquiring several regional tabloids in the state.

Political elections in the United States are actually a game of competition to burn money. Spending a lot of dollars may not be able to choose, but not spending dollars certainly not. And Murdoch has been one of the main sponsors behind William Winton in recent years. This is also an important reason why William Winton is willing to come forward for Murdoch this time and make a stumbling block for Eastern Electronics.

Although News Corp. can't afford to eat broadcast companies now, it won't be certain after a year or two. Although the premise of the acquisition is definitely the need to acquire the entire company. This is not what News Corp needs. But Murdoch can find a few partners who are interested in non-media businesses and work together to acquire the company.

so. The real reason for Murdoch's obstruction was to keep an opportunity for News Corp to buy broadcasters in the future. But for the future. Who can tell! In the case that Li Xuan had already reacted and came to the door, Murdoch felt that there was no need to continue fighting with the other party, after all, he and the Dongfang Group did not have a direct conflict of interest.

So Murdoch very rationally chose to reconcile with Li Xuan. Being able to eat the "South China Morning Post" to establish a fulcrum for News Corporation to expand its business in Asia has been a pleasant surprise for him.

For Li Xuan, his first priority now is to eliminate all interference for the Dongfang Electronics M&A company. Selling the South China Morning Post would dismantle an enemy, and it was a good deal for him. In addition to recovering a sum of cash, it can also allow News Corp.'s newspapers in the United States to stop the attack on mergers and acquisitions.

as early as early November. Under the unified coordination of the headquarters, various companies under the Oriental Group began to intensively sign advertising cooperation agreements with the three major public television networks in the United States, CBS, CBS, and CBS for the next year. After receiving the benefits of real money, the three major TV stations will naturally not turn their heads and turn their faces away. When reporting on the acquisition of Dongfang Electronics, the positions of the three TV stations were relatively fair.

However, the field of newspapers in the United States is relatively scattered. There are more than two dozen large newspapers with a daily circulation of more than 500,000 copies. Oriental Group only places some advertisements in a few newspapers with the greatest circulation and influence, such as "Daily News", "USA Today", "Wall Street Journal" and so on.

Because of this acquisition, there were various malicious attacks against the Oriental Group's acquisition company. Most come from the print media. After the newspapers under News Corporation changed from black to fans, it can greatly reduce the pressure of public opinion on Li Xuan.

"Mr. Executive Committee members, regarding some of the projects within the company raised by His Excellency Rodriguez from the Ministry of National Defense. It involves the issue of cooperation with the US government. The Oriental Group is willing to carry out these sensitive businesses under the supervision of relevant departments. Divestiture. And with the consent of the Department of Defense, find a suitable new seller for these businesses in the United States!

And in the process. The Eastern Group is willing to accept the strict supervision of the US government and military to ensure that relevant secrets will not be leaked. Thus harming the national interests of the United States! "

At the special hearing held by the Committee on Foreign Investment for the M&A company of Dongfang Electronics Group, Li Xuan stepped forward for the first time. As the chief representative of the Oriental Group, accept relevant inquiries from the committee.

In the past, the Oriental Group submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment, various detailed information related to the merger and acquisition as many as tens of thousands of pages. After completing the preliminary review, the committee questioned the Eastern Company on a series of issues of concern to them.

The first problem that the Oriental Group needs to face is to prove to the executive committee that the Broadcasting Corporation, the largest public television network in the United States, will still maintain its objective and impartial media position after being acquired by the Oriental Group, and will not be Use by foreign hostile forces.

Except that some of its subsidiaries have some external shareholders because of their listing and cooperation with other companies, the entire Oriental Group is completely Li Xuan's personal assets. Li Xuan has successively established a number of offshore companies in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and other places to hold the entire Oriental Electronics Group.

In order to convince the US government that the acquisition of the company by the Oriental Group was a purely commercial act, Li Xuan, for the first time, showed the complex equity structure within the Oriental Group to the outside world in a concrete and complete manner.

If it wasn't for Li Xuan's own initiative to disclose it, I believe that with his financial team through a number of offshore companies, after a complex equity swap, even if the United States came to investigate, it might not be clear.

Before, some tabloids in the United States once published articles speculating that the Oriental Group has a lot of government capital from Red China, and Li Xuan is just a puppet placed on the table by some invisible forces.

As far as Li Xuan understands, this kind of remarks not only have a market in the American people, but even the American political circles have a prejudice against the Eastern bloc. As the number one power in the world, many Americans find it unacceptable that a Chinese rather than an American is the richest man in the world. They don't want to believe that Li Xuan's wealth myth is simply relying on his own ability.

And this time. Li Xuan not only disclosed all the information of the Oriental Group to the Committee on Foreign Investment, but also did not miss the entire development process of the company over the years. If there is a choice. Li Xuan is naturally unwilling to show the entire Oriental Group in front of others without reservation.

After all, the more cards you keep, the more mysterious your image will be in the eyes of your opponents. When competing, the more likely it is to overcome the enemy by surprise. And like now, after all its own information is released naked, although the hearing held by the Committee on Foreign Investment will not be made public, all documents submitted by Dongfang Electronics will also be classified as confidential information. But Li Xuan believes that competitors only need to spend some means to obtain these materials completely.

The various information about Dongfang Group does not say anything else, Li Xuan is only in the arcade business, and the total profit he has grabbed in the past four or five years has exceeded 5 billion US dollars. Such sky-breaking data is enough to make countless people drop their jaws. I believe that after reading these materials, the executives of those big companies should never underestimate the seemingly inconspicuous game industry.

This is naturally not good news for Li Xuan, because of his current actions. The game industry is likely to attract more giants to join the competition. The price he paid for the acquisition of the company seemed a bit too high.

But the reason why he is willing to disclose the details of the Oriental Group is not entirely because of the acquisition of the company. The current Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. is no longer the fledgling new company that it was two or three years ago. With Li Xuan being the world's richest man for two consecutive years, and with the rapid expansion of the group's total assets, it is impossible for the US government to continue to ignore the influence of the Oriental Company.

Compared with other foreign companies planning to do business in the United States, Li Xuan has a natural disadvantage, that is, he is a Chinese. Although Hong Kong is still under British rule, even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher does not believe that the British Empire can continue to retain this pearl of the Orient.

In fact, after the Hong Kong dollar crisis. After the British government found that Beijing-Beijing's stance was still tough, it had already begun to make comprehensive concessions. The return of Hong Kong has become the general trend and the focus of negotiations between the two sides. It has moved to the follow-up questions such as how to complete the handover.

Regardless of the overall improvement in U.S. relations with China in the past two years, it now seems to be entering a honeymoon period. But Americans' guard against and vigilance against the communist red regime never went away. And Hong Kong is too close to the mainland, and is about to be taken back by the Chinese government after 1997.

This also led to the possibility that Li Xuan and Dongfang Group would be affected by Chiyu. Become one of the prevention objects of the US government. Therefore, he must cut the Eastern bloc from the mainland government in advance and prove to the US government that he is a mere businessman. Otherwise, once on the blacklist of the US government. The future development of the Oriental Group will definitely be difficult.

In fact, in the past two years, American capital has extended an olive branch to Li Xuan. If Li Xuan wants to solve the problem once and for all. The best way is of course to accept the recruitment of the American consortium. Although Li Xuan is now the richest man in the world, in front of those big financial groups, he is like a baby who just learned to walk.

As long as they are allowed to put their tentacles in, Li Xuan can't stop the other party's constant penetration. Maybe after two or three years, the Dongfang Group will no longer have the surname Li. Therefore, Li Xuan has never agreed to other capital's peeping on the Oriental Group, and chooses to develop independently, which is obviously a much bumpier road.

It is precisely because of this choice that he needs to control an influential media company in the United States to resist some shady tricks.

Taking advantage of the fact that Li Xuan has placed a heavy bet on President Reagan and has a good relationship with the other party, after the Dongfang Group has proved its innocence naked, Reagan has enough reasons to refute those who are against Dongfang Electronics. People with tinted glasses.

The foreign committee's hearing on the Eastern Bloc lasted a day. As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the venue, he was surrounded by dozens of media's long guns and short cannons.

"Mr. Li, it is said that after the acquisition of the company by Dongfang Electronics, there will be large-scale layoffs! Some trade union leaders have even sent a letter of protest to the Council of Foreign Rulers, expressing their firmness in the acquisition! Is this true? "

Li Xuan took a look and found that the question was a blond female reporter with a TV station badge.

He smiled at the other party, and then said in a confident tone: "These are all baseless rumors. Long before the Oriental Group signed the acquisition agreement with the company, I was introduced by the chairman of the company's board of directors, Mr. Bradshaw. A friendly meeting was held with the leaders of the major unions involved in the company.

Oriental Group has always been very willing to listen to the voices of its employees. In my philosophy, every employee of the Eastern Company is an equal part of the entire group. Whether in Hong Kong or Silicon Valley, many subsidiaries of the Oriental Group have been ranked among the top in the survey of companies that graduates are most willing to work for for several consecutive years!

I can solemnly promise here that after the completion of the acquisition of the company, Dongfang Electronics will not conduct large-scale layoffs in the United States for at least two years! On the contrary, Orient Group will increase investment and create more jobs for American society!

We have explained the specific plan to the executive members of the committee in detail, and those baseless malicious rumors can be restrained! I hope that all friends in the media industry can abide by the necessary professional ethics, and do not distort the facts without a bottom line in order to grab news. The Oriental Group will reserve the right to take legal weapons to defend its own reputation! "

After answering a few questions, Li Xuan finally escaped the reporters' continued harassment and drove away under the **** of his assistants and bodyguards.

"Old Han, when is the fastest time to come out?" Li Xuan asked Han Peng who was sitting next to him after getting in the car.

"At least until next week!" Han Peng said with a frown.

According to repeated simulations by the team behind the scenes, the probability of the acquisition of Dongfang Electronics being approved by the US Investment Committee is over 90%. But until the final result is settled, no one can guarantee that there will be an accident.

"If it takes so much human and material resources and is still rejected, we can only accept our fate! You continue to stay in Washington these few days to make your last effort. I'm going back to New York first, Ah Hong's The due date is tomorrow!" Li Xuan said calmly.

The Oriental Group spent more than 50 million US dollars in media public relations, political public relations and other aspects. That was definitely a lot of money in 1983. You must know that in the 1980 US presidential election a few years ago, Reagan received only $29.4 million in public campaign funding.

If this merger is not approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, it will definitely be a major blow to Li Xuan and Dongfang Group.

But for Li Xuan now, none of this has caused the arrival of his first pair of children to be more important. That's right, according to the doctor's examination, Zhong Chuhong was pregnant with a pair of twins this time. The first birth was a twin, which was definitely a big test for Zhong Chuhong, a new mother. Just in case, she had checked into the best private obstetrics and gynecology clinic in New York early.

And Li Xuan naturally did not want to miss the great moment of accompanying his wife to welcome the birth of a new life. To him, career and money are just a series of ten or arbitrary numbers in the bank account. Even if the acquisition of the company by Dongfang Electronics fails, the wealth he has now is enough for him to spend a lifetime. (To be continued..)