According to Hong Kong entertainment reports, Zu Yaoting was besieged by angry fans for two days. During these two days, Zu Yaoting never left his company, and those fanatical and angry fans did not let him go at all. Fortunately, they formed a "zu Yaoting group" and tortured Zu Yaoting in three shifts 24 hours a day. Zu Yaoting tried to escape twice with the help of bodyguards, but failed, and even his Jaguar coupe failed. He was overthrown by the fans who besieged him. Immediately afterwards, the Hong Kong government gave a clear response to the entertainment industry's joint report on Zu Yaoting, ordering all newspapers and magazines under Zu Yaoting's name to suspend publication for three months. After three months, he will be deemed as Rectification of the situation determines whether to allow it to be restored, and even the government has made its attitude clear, making Zu Yaoting the most despised person in Hong Kong.
In the end, Zu Yaoting was rescued from the siege of fans by a security company hired by his ancestors. Before Zu Yaoting finally returned home, he was scolded by his ancestors in turn before he could breathe a sigh of relief. His own father had very itchy teeth and beat him violently with a cane. The attitude of the Zu family was also very clear. Since it was Zu Yaoting who caused the problem, he must find a way to solve it. Don't always rely on family members to help wipe it. butt.
In desperation, Zu Yaoting spoke out through the media and decided to apologize and repent to Du Wei, Zhang Guorong and the people of Hong Kong through the media. That night, Zu Yaoting was escorted by the security company to TVB and apologized to Du Wei under the live broadcast of TVB. Wei and Zhang Guorong bowed and apologized. In front of the camera, Zu Yaoting cried bitterly and expressed regret. However, the public did not seem to buy it, and the abuse and attacks on Zu Yaoting remained unabated.
According to Li Mu's idea, he would continue to spend money to ask Xu Jianjun to hire people to stir up momentum in Hong Kong, with the goal of destroying all the media businesses under Zu Yaoting. However, Li Mu never expected that he would be killed in front of Zu Yaoting in front of everyone. The day after the Hong Kong media bowed and apologized, the entire ancestral family began to sell off their properties in a panic. Among them, all the descendants of the ancestral family under the age of 30 had taken an overnight flight to Australia. According to rumors, the capable family members People wanted to make the ancestral family disappear from Hong Kong. The ancestral family seemed to be under a huge threat, and they immediately began to flee Hong Kong without hesitation.
Even Zu Yaoting himself disbanded his media company and fled to Australia in panic with his wife and children. Only a few old men in their 50s and 60s were left in the entire ancestral family to deal with the properties at hand in Hong Kong at low prices.
Li Mu also heard the news, but he didn't understand why his family fled Hong Kong. He also thought that it might be the action of Du Wei's family, but Li Mu didn't know much about Du Wei's family situation, so he just I didn't study it in depth.
In the end, Zu Yaoting failed to have any substantial impact on Du Wei. Her song "Next Stop Queen" still ranked first on the Dragon and Tiger list. After Zu Yaoting's troubles, the Hong Kong entertainment industry began to have a negative attitude towards Du Wei. A different kind of care and support.
Makino Imaging has been contacted by many record companies one after another. Nowadays, many songwriters from mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan want to write songs for Du Wei. Even Jay Chou's company said that they want Jay Chou to write songs. , Fang Wenshan wrote two songs for Du Wei, and even hoped that Du Wei could lend her voice in Jay Chou's next album and sing a duet with Jay Chou.
Overnight, Du Wei seemed to be favored by the entire entertainment industry, but this may have something to do with Li Mu's new actions in the past two days.
As early as when Hong Kong entertainment groups were still jointly boycotting Zu Yaoting, Li Mu had already sorted out the operation plan for the online auction. Xiao Fangfang also represented Li Mu, Makino Technology and Taobao to release online charity auctions to stars in the entertainment industry. Specific plans and invitations were sent to all celebrities. As soon as the online charity auction plan was launched, it received strong support from celebrities in the entertainment industry. Almost all the celebrities who received the invitations said without hesitation that they would participate in Taobao and nurse the seedlings. As for the fund's charity auction, Li Mu was not in a hurry to know what they would donate for the charity auction. He just let them think about it and wait to see the results.
Liu Edong has put most of his energy into the preparation of the logistics company. Li Mu can only take the lead in the entire charity auction. Although Taobao also has employees who can afford this charity auction, Li Mu still wants to run it personally. This is the first charity auction in cooperation between Taobao and the Seedling Protection Fund. In his opinion, this is very important to Taobao.
Li Mu’s idea is to take advantage of the current early stage when netizens have little experience in surfing the Internet and are not knowledgeable enough to quickly build Taobao’s high-end brand image by leveraging the power of the entertainment industry. With a special name, coupled with the influence of several of its major platforms on the mainland Internet, it can achieve a win-win situation for all three parties with Xiao Fangfang and the celebrity group. Once this model is turned around, it will continue to bring influence and topicality to Taobao in the future.
Li Mu and Xiao Fangfang set a one-week registration time. All stars in the entertainment industry can participate in this charity auction. As long as they are willing and decide what to donate for this charity auction within seven days, they can directly become a part of the charity auction.
For celebrities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, they also attach great importance to this charity auction. With Makino Technology and Taobao participating, this is naturally a very important promotion, and it also has a charitable aura, so they are very serious about it. Think about what kind of items to donate to find the best balance between money and reputation.
Li Mu postponed the launch of the charity auction for a week. After getting all the registration lists and donated item information, Taobao staff will create promotional pages and copywriting according to the specific situation. The online charity auction will be held at seven At the end of the month, all the time in between is used for publicity and momentum.
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After arranging the entire implementation process of the charity auction, Li Mu calmed down and carefully considered his situation. Now his industry scale is getting larger and larger, and he is involved in more and more industries, especially Makino Technology and Taobao. The former has already It is recognized as a domestic Internet giant. The latter is also developing at an astonishing speed. I am afraid that it will not be long before its true value is revealed. The scale of the multi-billion valuation cannot be exceeded. Taken together, The most conservative estimate of his current net worth is over 10 billion. In 2002, this amount was really astonishing. Sometimes Li Mu would feel scared just thinking about it.
There are many reasons for fear. The most important thing is that deep down in his heart, he has never wanted to be exposed. Every time his name appears in media reports, Li Mu's heart skips a beat. He also knows in his heart that he has so many The industry cannot be hidden for long, and the longer it is hidden, the more worried I will be about the huge impact it will have on my relatives, friends and the entire society after being exposed. In the eyes of most people, I am just a person who made it by accident. A college student who entered 3321, and then made some money by relying on Alipay, a derivative of 3321, including his parents.
Li Mu is not worried about how he will shock other people in the society in the future. What he is most worried about is the relatives around him. If one day, his parents suddenly learn about his true situation from the media or other channels, Li Mu will even Worried that they might be frightened by this shocking fact and cause problems.
Moreover, the last time he was secretly investigated also made Li Mu feel a little vigilant. All his resume and capital situation cannot escape the eyes of interested people, so now he has to carefully consider two issues. The first one is security; the second one is security. The last thing is asset concealment.
Security work is relatively simple. Just spend money to hire some skilled people to protect yourself and your family's daily safety. As for asset concealment, you may have to put some thought into it.
Li Mu doesn't know much about large-scale financial operations. He can only ask Xu Jiaming for advice on such matters. At least he has the most comprehensive understanding of finance among the people he knows. And because his family is powerful, he has access to and views things. His rank should be much higher than that of ordinary people.
The two met in private. After Xu Jiaming heard the problem Li Mu was struggling with, he sighed softly and said, "Actually, I have wanted to tell you for a long time, but I see that you have your own ideas about everything, and you think very long-term. I thought you had your own complete plan."
Li Mu said with a smile: "I only have a complete plan for the development direction of products and future business. For other things, to be honest, I often have a bad debt in my mind. I just take it step by step in confusion. For example, my current situation, my parents I don’t know yet. My other relatives, my girlfriend, and my classmates all know nothing about my current situation. I didn’t tell them at first because I didn’t want to scare them and I wanted to find a gentler way. To explain, but..."
Li Mu was speechless for a moment, but Xu Jiaming answered: "But you found that your development was so fast that you didn't even expect it. You were afraid of scaring them so you concealed it, but you didn't expect that the development of things would make them worse. It’s getting harder and harder to accept.”
"That's right." Li Mu nodded and said, "I have roughly made a decision in the past two days. This summer vacation, I will gradually tell many things about myself to the people around me, starting with my parents."
Xu Jiaming smiled and said, "Well, this is a technical job. How are you going to make your parents accept the fact that you are now worth over 10 billion?"
Li Mu said: "I have entrusted a real estate agent to help me find a villa in the past two days. I want to buy a ready-made villa. Then I will bring my parents to Yanjing to live for a while, and I will slowly explain to them in the meantime."
Xu Jiaming nodded: "It's also a way."
Li Mu said: "I am involved in too many industries now, and there are a lot of companies with shareholding relationships. Now anyone can easily check my current assets as long as he has an acquaintance in the industrial and commercial department. situation, all shareholder information and equity ratio information are disclosed. This is really fucked up, so I would like to ask you how to remove or hide my name from companies such as Makino Technology, Taobao, and Baofeng Entertainment. stand up?"
Xu Jiaming said: "Isn't this simple? Register a few offshore companies and create a multi-layer holding system. Let alone ordinary people, even if the country wants to investigate you, you won't be able to find out."
Li Mu asked curiously: "Offshore company? It sounds familiar. What is the operating routine?"
Xu Jiaming looked at Li Mu like a monster: "Offshore companies just sound familiar to you? I'm really convinced by you."
After that, Xu Jiaming sat up straight and explained seriously: "Offshore companies are actually companies established in offshore legal areas. They have little technical content, but they are very impressive because of two things. One is that the local government will not collect You pay no taxes, and the other is that they will keep the information of companies registered in their own jurisdiction confidential. For example, you first register a company in Hong Kong, and then register one in the Cayman Islands through an entrusted service company. For a holding company shell, you can first use a company shell registered in the Cayman Islands to control your company in Hong Kong, and then use a Hong Kong company shell to control your company in China. In this way, the industrial and commercial system can only find the shareholder company. , but if you check it further, it will be completely impossible to check. If you don’t disclose it yourself, no one will know how many shares you hold.”
Li Mu suddenly thought of a saying he had heard in later generations. After being listed, Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent seemed to be registered overseas, but he had no idea what the specific operating mode was.
Xu Jiaming continued at this time: "It seems to be very simple in general, but in fact it is quite troublesome to operate. However, my dad has a professional operation team. If you want to operate like this, I can directly ask them to help you, oh yes Yes, including my Mingcheng Capital, this is how it is done.”
Li Mu said: "I want to operate all companies in this way, is that okay?"
Xu Jiaming nodded and said with a smile: "Of course, I will make a multi-level offshore company plan for you, then register the relevant companies and get through the intermediate links, you can use it as any company of your own." , it’s nothing more than that all the companies related to you in the industrial and commercial registration have become related to a company that you actually control.”
Li Mu nodded as if he understood, and then asked: "Are there many companies doing this? Will the higher-ups be targeted because of this?"
Xu Jiaming waved his hand and said: "No, the higher-ups are doing this much more easily than we are. Let me tell you, all private companies of a certain scale around the world will conduct offshore company operations, but they won't let you know." , in my opinion, the only private company in the world with a valuation of more than one billion US dollars that does not have an offshore company shell is Makino Technology."
Li Mu smiled and said, "There is also Taobao."
"I don't believe it." Xu Jiaming said with a smile: "Taobao is certainly awesome, but its current valuation is not as outrageous as one billion US dollars."
Li Mu said with a smile: "In my heart, Taobao's current valuation must reach at least 1.5 billion US dollars. Even if an investment bank wants to come in and gives me a valuation of 1.4 billion US dollars, I will not agree."
Xu Jiaming asked in surprise: "Is Taobao really so cruel?"
Li Mu nodded: "In my eyes, Taobao is now a big success, but investment banks may not believe it. After another month or two, some people should believe it."
Xu Jiaming gave Li Mu a thumbs up, smacked his lips and said, "You are still awesome, even the National Mint can't compare to you."
(End of chapter)