Suzhou China.
In mid-April, in the Jinshu Film and Television City Scenic Area in the west of the city, the beautiful spring peach blossoms have come to an end. However, due to their frequent appearance in various film and television programs in recent years, and the month-long Peach Blossom Festival held by the film and television city this year, , there are still so many tourists recently, and the organizers could only take measures to limit the number of visitors again during the busiest days, which inevitably aroused heated public opinion again.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jinshu Film and Television City is already the most famous man-made scenic spot in China.
When visiting the Taohuawu area, you must go to the Sansheng Stone to take photos. This is Thursday, April 13th.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the area was once again surrounded by a film crew. Tourists passing by were about to protest for a while, but seeing a group of girls in ancient costumes and figures who were quite outstanding, they couldn't help but quiet down and instead gathered around to watch.
Many people also recognized that this was the contestant from the model competition that CCTV has been broadcasting in the past two months.
I didn’t expect to see a real person.
Coupled with the attire at this time, many people couldn't help but think of one word, picturesque beauty.
Not long after, another face that was even more familiar to the public appeared, Shen Gui, the famous model who, together with Jian Xin, Tao Yuelei, Jiang Mi and other girls, had won a lot of fame in the world. Moreover, compared to Jian Xin and Tao Yuelei, who mainly focus on overseas, Shen Gui's popularity or popularity in China is higher because of last year's "In Time", which was very popular among young bourgeois young people.
If the security team hadn't stopped them, the other party would have been working. Many tourists would have already come forward to ask for autographs, so it would be best to take photos with them. However, although they could not come forward immediately, there were still many people who deliberately stayed and waited, just for some last contact opportunities.
The first CCTV Model Contest, which CCTV One and Elite China finalized their cooperation with last year, was launched in early March, with one episode every Saturday, for a total of eight episodes, and it has now come to an end. It is expected to be completed at the end of April, and the top three in the competition will go to the United States to participate in the 2000 Elite World Elite Model Competition Finals.
Not to mention the follow-up, because the ratings are very good, CCTV and Elite have initially finalized their cooperation intentions for the second phase next year.
Simon knew about this project from the beginning, and once again lamented the degree of openness in this era. Of course, there will be similar programs more than ten or twenty years later, but the ones that can be on CCTV are still CCTV. Anyway, Simon No impression.
Obviously they also knew that they occupied the most popular attraction in the Taohuawu area. In order to avoid taking too long and causing public outrage, a total of sixteen model contestants, together with the staff, were organized and neat, taking photos, photography, solo POSE, Group POSE, host commentary, etc., a series of processes were officially completed in just over an hour.
However, when I finished my work, it was already approaching five o'clock in the evening.
All the tall girls and the staff evacuated smoothly, but Shen Gui was surrounded by a group of people when she was about to leave, asking for autographs and photos. Now that she had determined her career development strategy towards the domestic market, Shen Gui also showed great patience. In this scene This made a group of girls who left on the battery car envious and looked forward to having a similar scene in the future.
After being surrounded for seven or eight minutes, everyone else had left. Shen Gui was able to escape under the protection of security guards. She took her assistant and got into a smaller battery car with An Xiaohan, the president of Elite China Branch, who was waiting nearby.
After the car started and left the enthusiastic crowd, An Xiaohan smiled and said, "Isn't it great to be a big star?"
Shen Gui just smiled. She also noticed the envy of the younger fairies when they left. However, thinking about some of the girls whose appearance was not much worse than hers, it was unavoidable that the former wave was worried about the latter wave.
But of course I won't say it out loud.
An Xiaohan noticed Gui Shen's expression and hesitated for a moment, but didn't say anything.
In fact, the group of girls just now, or starting from the early auditions for this project, An Xiaohan received certain instructions from Chen Qing, and the content is not difficult to imagine.
The best, of course, is reserved for someone big.
Moreover, considering that there are too many people staring at this group of goblins, there are simply more wolves than meat. In order to avoid getting entangled, some outstanding ones have been quietly screened out in advance and did not participate in this program at all. Instead, they were sent by Chen Qing Take it away, the beauty is hidden in the golden house.
It is conceivable that those selected will inevitably become competitors to the girls around them.
However, An Xiaohan also understood that she could not get involved in these things. Being in this circle, I have never seen anything. For example, Shen Gui and the others are very lucky. An Xiaohan does not deny that he occasionally feels jealous in his heart. If they are replaced by others, well, she is just an innocent agent anyway. .
The two of them did not return to the station with the crew, but rushed to the foot of Dayang Mountain to meet Chen Qing, who had returned from the United States a few days ago. They invited Chen Qing to have dinner together in the evening.
Shen Gui took out a makeup mirror from her white Gucci bag to check her makeup. She heard An Xiaohan call Chen Qing to confirm her location. After An Xiaohan closed the call, she asked: "Sister Chen is in Jiangnan. Over there?"
An Xiaohan nodded and couldn't help but sigh: "Online games, it's really... Guess how much Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment made in the past year?"
Shen Gui shook her head. She didn't care about such things. She had been busy in recent years and didn't even have time to follow the trend and play online games in private. She just smiled and asked, "How much?"
An Xiaohan glanced at the driver and assistant in the row in front of him, paused, moved closer to Shen Gui, and whispered into her ear: "260 million, net profit."
Shen Gui does know that there are many super phenomenal video games in the world that sell a billion US dollars in revenue, but she also understands the concept of a yearly net profit of 260 million in the domestic market. She can't help but Some people were stunned: "Really?"
An Xiaohan motioned her to keep her voice down and said, "Of course it's true. I heard everyone talking about it at a dinner party in Beijing a few days ago. Many people were gearing up and wanted to get in and get a piece of the pie."
Shen Gui is a girl with a very clear stance. Even if the money does not fall on her, she still understands the weight of a certain man in it. She can't help but say: "They shouldn't be a threat to Jiangnan Mutual Entertainment, right?"
"Of course, in terms of technology, content, channels, etc., the advantages of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment and other companies cannot be compared with others," An Xiaohan said with a firm tone, and just continued: "However, I think if they are smart enough, , they should take the initiative to let go of some markets, well, it seems that they are already doing this. After I heard the news, I checked online and found that online game companies have been blooming in the past two years."
Shen Gui can also figure out the joints. A big tree attracts the wind, not to mention such huge profits. If you eat alone here, you will definitely be targeted.
Thinking of this, Shen Gui shrugged like a Westerner: "Don't think about it. It has nothing to do with you and me anyway. Let's just do our part in peace of mind."
When An Xiaohan heard what Shen Gui said, he could only smile and nod.
I really can only envy you.
The two chatted casually, left the film and television city area, changed cars, and came all the way to the Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment headquarters at the foot of Dayang Mountain.
It was already after get off work hours, but the office building of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's headquarters was still busy. Just looking at this lively scene, the two women couldn't help but think, if this kind of company doesn't make money, who will
The two of them didn't know that the reason for this was indeed because Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's performance was so good. Furthermore, they were given enough salary, bonuses, and overtime pay, so of course the employees were very motivated.
However, on the other hand, it is also because of the current lack of IT talents in the country, especially top IT talents, that companies such as Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment use one employee as two people.
no way.
Fortunately, if you think about working here for one year, adding up the salary, bonus, etc., many employees with some qualifications can get 100,000 plus. With the current housing prices, they can even buy a house in Suzhou City, which is nothing for everyone. Complaints, after all, many people in this era only have a salary of two to three hundred yuan.
Of course, the high salary strategy is also a last resort.
If you don’t give it, the person will run away.
In the current circle, whether they are first comers or late comers, whether they are dragons crossing the river or local snakes, in order to poach people, everyone is using their hoes like crazy. After all, online games are so profitable that a saying that they are more profitable than drug trafficking and more legal than drug trafficking has quietly spread.
Gui Shen and the two arrived, while Chen Qing was still in a meeting.
Regarding the performance summary of the first quarter, as well as a summary of a series of projects currently being operated and developed by Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment.
The reason why I attended this meeting in person, which lasted for an entire afternoon, was also because of the brilliant performance of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment.
At the end of 1998, Chen Qing told her boss that Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment expected annual revenue of 120 million yuan and a net profit of 30 million yuan, which was surprising. Chen Qing boldly predicted that the revenue in 1999 would exceed 50 million yuan. billion, and the net profit is more than 100 million.
However, it turned out that she was still too conservative.
Even with the competition from Lineage Online, Xiangshan Technology, Hudong Global and other large and small companies outside the circle, the previous year in 1999, with the three main titles of "Paradise", "Counter-Strike OL" and "Happy Farm" In 1999, Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's revenue from the game business alone exceeded RMB 800 million, which was a full 60% higher than the expected revenue of RMB 500 million.
Not only that, with an ultra-high net profit rate of nearly 30%, the game business's full-year net profit also reached 260 million, not counting the share paid to overseas developers of games such as "Lineage".
In a word: Make crazy money!
As a result, even if Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment and other companies try their best to hide financial data, all kinds of information will inevitably spread rapidly. In order to avoid arousing resentment, even though many adjustments have been made in terms of equity and other aspects, each company still has to add some mitigation measures after the beginning of the new year.
Shen Gui and An Xiaohan waited patiently for more than half an hour before Chen Qing ended the meeting.
Everyone gathered together and went to the nearby club-style Chinese restaurant and asked for a small private room. Not long after the three women sat down, another guest arrived, which was Zhu Momo's mother, Mo Yiling.
Mo Yiling was obviously surprised to see Shen Gui and An Xiaohan there. This also made the other two women, who were quite smart, realize that they might have been pulled as a shield.
I just don't know what Mo Yiling wants to talk about, but Chen Qing obviously doesn't want to talk to him.
Is it Zhu Momo
Mo Yiling was powerless to interfere in the affair between his daughter and a certain man. What's more, if he really wanted to talk about it, he wouldn't go to Chen Qing.
In fact, it is also for mutual entertainment in Jiangnan.
In order to attract the entry of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment and other new Internet technology companies, the local government provided very generous tax exemption conditions. To put it simply, it is tax-free for two years and halved for three years, and there will also be corresponding subsidies.
Moreover, as long as the conditions for high-tech companies are met, basically, as long as the policy does not change, there will be permanent income tax benefits in the future.
Referring to some cases in the West and China, under normal circumstances, high-tech companies are unlikely to be profitable for many years. Therefore, the most important thing about similar discounts is subsidies. So much so that there are countless cases of subsidy fraud all over the country, and it even later formed an industry.
No one expected that Jiangnan Mutual Entertainment would gain such momentum.
Mo Yiling made an appointment with Chen Qing for dinner this time, just to discuss whether Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment could make some contributions to the district in advance.
Seeing that Chen Qing had brought two other people over, Mo Yiling roughly understood the other party's attitude. However, she was not the kind of person who would give up easily. She didn't mention it at first, and probably invited them directly after dinner. Shen Gui and An Xiaohan left first. The two women had no choice between Chen Qing and Mo Yiling. They instinctively sided with Chen Qing. After all, Mo Yiling did not have much direct relationship with them. After hearing this, they looked at Chen Qing. Qing, after receiving confirmation, stood up and left.
When only Chen Qing and Mo Yiling were left in the box, seeing that the hint was ineffective, Chen Qing got straight to the point: "Aunt Mo, you may also know that we have made enough concessions in the past two years, and we can't make any more concessions. .”
Mo Yiling also got straight to the point: "The problem is that you didn't give many benefits to the district."
This is the truth.
However, it is also an inevitable choice.
A district in SZ City, no matter how big it is, is only a department-level organization. This also means that for high-quality enterprises like Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment, let alone within the jurisdiction, even the entire SZ City can only try their best to win over them.
As for whether the county magistrate is worse than the current person in charge, it all depends on the background of the person being controlled. Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment, if we talk about its background, the word "Tongtian" is not an exaggeration at all.
For this reason, the various benefits and balances adopted here are pitifully few in the district.
For example, Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's shares, some of the state-owned assets it actively introduced came directly from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. There are also some private financings. Based on some information, Mo Yiling can roughly guess what is going on behind the scenes.
In the final analysis, the strategy adopted by Chen Qing is to "grasp the main contradiction". To put it bluntly, one's own side is the shield. Whichever side of the contradiction may pose a threat to one's own side, one should operate on that side.
In the box.
Both women were straight to the point, and the atmosphere couldn't help but feel a bit tense.
After a while, it was Chen Qing who spoke first: "Aunt Mo, we are serious businessmen, and many of the chickens placed here are not yet ready to lay eggs. Well, I mean, what do you want, the premise Can I promise you?"
Mo Yiling did not answer directly, but took out a stack of materials from the bag he carried with him: "Let's first talk about Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's financial report for the past year, Xiaoqing, don't you think the transfer of benefits is too obvious? So much money has been transferred abroad as a share, and the losses in other businesses other than games have also been too great?"
If it were anyone else, Mo Yiling might feel guilty when he took out the materials, but Chen Qing was not affected at all: "Aunt Mo, it's useless if you use this as a bargaining chip. If there are any objections from the district, , as long as the request is made, we can freely cooperate with the audit."
Seeing that Chen Qing was indifferent, Mo Yiling was not disappointed. He still pressed the material in his hand and said: "It's not in line with the rules, but it's against reason. Xiao Qing, you are so smart, you should know better than me. In China, reason is often better than reason." Rules are more important.”
"The problem is," Chen Qing blinked: "Our majority is foreign investment."
"Foreign investors in China must also abide by our rules, otherwise they will not last long."
The two strong women, big and small, had a lot of back-and-forth for more than half an hour, and finally reached a tacit understanding.
Chen Qing promised to invest an additional US$300 million specifically in the new Internet technology field in the next two years, including purchasing land to build employee dormitories and providing venture funds for start-up companies to cooperate with the district's expansion east of Dayang Mountain. Plan to establish a new technology industrial park.
As long as the plan is completed, based on the original large-scale pole pattern of Suzhou with one for cultural tourism and one for industry on the east and west sides, with Dayang Mountain as the dividing line, the entire Huqiu District will form a small pole pattern, with culture and entertainment on one side and culture and entertainment on the other. It's network technology.
In fact, plans for a new science and technology industrial park in the eastern part of Dayang Mountain were already being planned last year, and Chen Qing was just following the trend this time.
As for Mo Yiling, she originally hoped to win a share of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment for the district. After all, with the growth momentum of this company and the almost crazy stock prices of new technology companies overseas, if she gets some shares now, she will definitely win in the future. It will increase in value into a considerable amount of wealth.
It's a pity that Chen Qing obviously expected it in advance, and even if the initial investment of 1 billion yuan increased to 300 million US dollars, he did not let up on the shares.
This is also helpless.
After several consecutive sales, the Westeros system currently holds only more than 50% of Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment's shares, which is comparable to a majority holding. Any less will lose absolute control. Therefore, at least before the IPO, Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment’s shares will not be split and diluted. As for the rearrangement from the beginning of the year, it is basically a transfer of profits from other aspects and no longer involves equity transfer.