Thinking of Huaying's current situation, Qin Sheng quickly reacted: "So that's it."
If Huaying always wins by quality and takes one steady step at a time, Yunsu Group may not be tempted. After all, in the animation industry, even if it is Yunsu Group, it will have to pay a certain price if it wants to successfully suppress Huaying in the field where Huaying is best.
For Yunsu Group, this is obviously not worth the loss.
But what if there is a loophole in the animation itself
For example, Muxuxing is no longer merely satisfied with its current position in the animation industry. In addition to simple animation production, it has begun to gradually plan and build theme parks, animation professional colleges and other new projects that are destined to continuously consume large amounts of funds, in order to pursue higher reputation or historical status
At this time, Huaying still seemed to be bright and prosperous, as if the entire company would have a qualitative leap as long as the theme park opened. But in fact, due to the tight capital chain, the company had become shaky and could fall down at any time.
For those investors who want to take over Huaying Animation, now is the best time to act.
Qin Sheng looked away and whispered, "So you want me—"
"You can do something, or you can do nothing." Mu Suxing said, "As long as, at least on the surface, you can create the illusion that Tengkong Entertainment cannot come up with funds to help Huaying in a short period of time - that's enough."
This is not the first time that Huaying Animation has faced the risk of a broken capital chain.
As early as when he decided to spend 1 billion to produce a CG animated film that was not optimistic, Huaying Animation's funds were once stretched due to the theme park. It can be said that as long as "Harry Potter" flopped at the box office, Huaying Animation would become the second Qianye Entertainment and be divided up by other companies.
At that time, Yunsu Group did not get involved.
Firstly, there was the bloody example of the failure of Qianye Entertainment's CG animation, and the movie schedule at that time was already bloody enough. For the major powers that coveted Huaying Animation, there was no need for them to get involved themselves. They only needed to wait for the box office results and then wait for an opportunity to act.
The second is the variable of Tengkong Entertainment.
It has long been no secret that Mu Suxing holds shares in Tengkong Entertainment. Whether from a personal perspective or from an interest perspective, Tengkong Entertainment is destined to be and will only be Huaying's most solid ally. In other words, even if Huaying's box office really suffered a setback at the time, with the help of Tengkong Entertainment, it might have a short-term hard time, but it would always get through this difficult time.
In other words, Huaying at that time actually still had a way out.
In comparison, this time, Muxuxing's actions were undoubtedly blocking his own retreat.
"Without enough bait and just the right opportunity, Yunsu Group will not take risks easily." Mu Suxing said calmly, "You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Only if I block this road, Yunsu Group will really take the bait. In fact, the more easily Huaying looks, the deeper Yunsu Group will fall into it."
"What about you?" Qin Sheng asked.
"Tengkong Entertainment can play along, but the tight capital chain of Huaying is real. Once Yunsu Group is gone, they will not stop until Huaying is dead. By then, with the burden of the theme park and the school, once the capital chain of Huaying is cut off, not only the animation, but also Huaying Comics and Jingzhi Interactive Entertainment will be implicated, and the entire company will collapse."
"How are you going to end it then?"
***
It's another working day.
After a quick breakfast, Chang Guanghua quickly returned to his workstation. As a cartoonist in the "Detective Conan" project team, he has a lot of work to do. Of course, most importantly, he is also very interested in the animation itself and can't wait to turn the text script into beautiful shots.
As soon as he sat down at his seat, he looked up and saw Mu Suxing passing by in the corridor outside, so he greeted him, "Good morning, Director Mu."
The young man looked over when he heard the voice, nodded slightly at him, and then kept going deeper into the room.
After watching the boss disappear from the end of the corridor, a colleague suddenly said, "Hey, Chang Guanghua, do you feel that the atmosphere in the company seems to be getting more and more tense? In the past, when Director Mu passed by, he would also take a look at our work situation and chat a little. Unlike now, he doesn't even bother to look at us on weekdays."
Chang Guanghua didn't think too much about it: "Maybe it's because of work. For people like us who are only following one project, we are usually very busy. Director Mu is fighting on three fronts, so he must be even busier. Now everyone is busy catching up with the progress, so it's normal for the atmosphere to be tense."
The colleague did not stop talking because of this answer, but asked mysteriously: "Do you think this matter is related to Yunsu and the others?"
Chang Guanghua was a little surprised: "What do you mean?"
"I read in the news that Yunsu has acquired a number of companies over the past six months, including animation companies, film and television companies, and game companies. It seems that they are also planning to acquire LeTu? I feel that Yunsu is about to make a big move."
"Not really?" Chang Guanghua half believed and half doubted: "Other companies are fine, but Le Tu is one of the top three amusement park brands on Bluestar, and its annual net profit is not much less than Yunsu. Can Yunsu take over such a big company?"
…
Putting aside the employees' private discussions, Mu Xuxing walked straight to the office at the end of the corridor after passing through it.
When he pushed the door open, Mu Xingxue was already waiting there.
"How's The Old Man and the Sea going? Have you encountered any problems?"
"What kind of problems can artistic animation have? At most, there will be some disputes over certain artistic choices. Just talk it out." Mu Suxing said nonchalantly, sitting down on the sofa opposite him and pressing his forehead: "You didn't ask me to come here just for this, right? Just tell me what's going on."
Mu Xingxue knew that he was busy recently, so he didn't want to waste time on small talk. He just asked, "What do you think about Yunsu's situation?"
"What do you think?"
"Looking at Yunsu's posture, it is obvious that they are planning to build a business chain that is no less than Huaying's. Although Yunsu and Huaying have different focuses, according to Huaying's development trend, unless we give up the live-action film and television, we will sooner or later be against Yunsu." Mu Xingxue said slowly: "I just want to ask for your opinion, to see if we should strike first."
Mu Suxing raised his eyes and looked at him: "How do you want to strike first?"
"Uh..." Mu Xingxue asked in surprise: "You agreed?"
"Animation production is my hobby, but hobbies are hobbies and business is business. Since Yunsu wants to compete with us for business, isn't it natural for us to cause them some trouble?"
That being said...
Mu Xingxue couldn't help but look at him again.
Unlike the recent period of time when he was worried, Mu Suxing now looked as calm as usual. Even after listening to him talking about the interests involved, he seemed very calm.
It's like... He suggested to make trouble for Yunsu, fine. But even if there is no meeting today, it's also fine if Huaying does not respond to Yunsu's acquisition.
"What do you want to do?"
Mu Suxing's question timely pulled him out of that weird feeling. Mu Xingxue shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He murmured, "We don't know what Yunsu's specific plan is at the moment. However, since they are interested in acquiring small and medium-sized companies, we can start from there to give them some trouble. It's a pity that Yunsu is only acquiring film and television companies at the moment and has not made any clear big moves. Otherwise, the four major film and television companies on Blue Star alone would be enough for them to suffer."
The two discussed for a while how to cause some trouble for Yunsu - to be precise, Mu Xingxue and Mu Suxingting.
"I have no objection, just do as you say."
After getting Mu Suxing's permission, Mu Xingxue stopped worrying and focused on how to cause trouble for Yunsu. Just before Mu Suxing left, he casually asked, "By the way, how is the progress of Detective Conan?"
Muxiuxing replied: "Soon."
But as to what exactly "soon" means, probably only Mu Xuxing himself knows.
At the same time, Mu Xingxue, with the permission of Muxuxing, also began to make trouble for Yunsu with great interest.
Specifically, they competed with Yunsu for the companies they wanted to acquire, raised the price and ran away. Yunsu had acquired the excellent animation, game, and comics teams in the company, and tried to poach all the talents they could, and poached those on the acquisition list in advance. So when Yunsu completed the acquisition, it found that although the company was acquired, the talents were almost gone.
until-
On August 3, Yunsu Group announced that it had completed the acquisition of Baiyun Culture.
If Yunsu Group's previous acquisition actions seemed like small-scale operations, then when Baiyun Comics, which ranked among the top three in sales on Blue Star, and even the entire head office, were owned by Yunsu Group, no one could comfort themselves by saying that Yunsu Group only regarded animation as a promotion channel for games.
This behemoth, which has never truly entered the animation industry, finally showed its fangs at this moment.
On August 20, Yunsu Group began large-scale personnel transfers.
After a certain degree of integration of the acquired small and medium-sized companies, a new Yunsu Animation was formed. The comic IPs under Baiyun Culture changed hands, and the original company executives were all replaced by Yunsu Group's parachutes.
In this regard, Yunsu Group explained: "Yunsu Animation is just a newcomer in the animation industry after all. We are also referring to the practice of Huaying Animation: let people who are good at animation to make animations, and let people who are good at business management to manage the company. I believe that under this coordination, Yunsu Animation will get better and better."
This personnel reshuffle, which caused numerous upheavals in the industry, ultimately failed to stir much in magazine news or among ordinary people.
On August 30th, Huaying Animation received a strange invitation.
Fang Lian used the adjective "weird". He felt that after Yun Su had poached a lot of talents from Huaying, he was still able to remain calm - he could even say that he had a very good attitude and expressed his desire to invite Huaying to discuss cooperation - it was no exaggeration to say that it was bizarre.
Muxuxing ignored Fang Lian's complaints and just asked, "Did you only invite us?"
"That's not the case," Fang Lian thought for a moment, "It seems that there are several animation companies that have produced high-quality animations."
Muxuxing nodded: "I understand."