Chapter 213 What we are optimistic about is the long-term future
At this moment, everyone in Danone's Hong Kong office is filled with sorrow.
"Fakyu! Fakyu!" Pier's curses came from the office. He rushed out the door angrily and yelled at his assistant, "Fakyu! What happened to the funds in the account?
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The assistant's expression was complicated: "Sorry..."
"I really don't want to hear any apology." Pier interrupted categorically, "I'll give you ten minutes to find a way to solve the account problem..."
However, before he finished speaking, he saw the door open and a white-haired Westerner walked in: "Pier, this is an order from the headquarters. All accounts here are frozen. This is why I asked your assistant to freeze the accounts first.
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Pier's eyes were a little flustered: "Mr. Sean, why are you here?"
The Sean sighed and shook his head: "Pier, let you acquire 10% of the equity of Yeshan Qingquan? Not only have you not bought any stocks, but you only have less than 3 million of the 35 million francs left?"
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"Sir," Pier quickly explained, "This time we encountered an irrational retaliatory rebound. If we continue to sell short, we still have a chance..."
Sean sighed again: "Oh! Pier, don't you know your mission? Has anyone arranged for you to come over and trade stocks?"
"Sir, I was wrong. Give me another chance. I am absolutely sure this time. I mortgaged my house to the bank!"
Sean laughed angrily: "Pieh, let's save some dignity for each other! You go and write your resignation letter right away. I don't want to see you again in half an hour."
"Sir, you can't do this! I didn't do anything wrong, it's true, it's just bad luck..."
Sean finally couldn't help but yelled: "What a shame! If it weren't for the old guys on the board of directors who were afraid of Danone's stock price plummeting, would you have been able to live in such a stable way? A loss of more than 30 million francs! I really want to go directly
Send you to jail!"
"..."
After Pier left in disgrace, Sean calmed down and called a meeting with all the employees in the office: "Forget about this bastard Pier. I will be responsible for this project now. You need to find a channel as soon as possible.
, contacted the top management of Yeshan Qingquan..."
"..."
After the meeting, Sean felt a headache when looking at this mess.
Since Ye Shan Qingquan suddenly became a sponsor of the World Cup, Danone headquarters immediately raised its level from "dispensable" to "try your best to fight for it." It also further increased the original 10% equity stake to 20%. However,
Then it will cost HK$200 million? If the acquisition cost is taken into account, at least HK$250 million will be needed? Where on earth will this money come from?
The other thing is to repair the relationship. Yeshan Qingquan was not very happy about the malicious short selling before, right? And it is impossible to not notice it at all. If the two fall apart, how can we use Yeshan Qingquan as a springboard in the future?
Pi'er's insanity is really killing people!
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Just when Sean was frowning, the stock price of Yeshan Qingquan slowly returned to stability. Due to the large-scale selling in Neizhou City, the price began to consolidate at a high level between HK$5 and HK$6.
Li Yuan was with Ren Li, and they were discussing the company's latest arrangements:
"Young Master Yuan, you did a beautiful job this time. Even the old man praised the third lady and you."
Li Yuan smiled and said: "This time I have repurchased more than 36 million shares. The current price difference is 4.8 yuan. Excluding one month's interest on short-term borrowing and other stock trading costs, the profit should be around 160 million Hong Kong dollars."
According to what was agreed in advance, Jiaojiao and I will get almost 65 million Hong Kong dollars."
Although Ren Li did not take the initiative to ask, Li Yuan still needed to take the initiative to explain the situation. There was no need to argue too much between him and the eldest lady. But after all, Ren Li was the housekeeper sent by the Huang family.
Sure enough, Ren Li smiled broadly: "That's good."
"Uncle Li. I have too many stocks in my hands, so I may need to slowly sell them out. Maybe the price won't be so high by then?"
"I know that. You need to have clear accounts. You will never sell at a low price. Everyone wants to make a lot of money."
"hehe."
"Young Master Yuan, how do you arrange it for the film company?"
"What's going on there?"
"For family purposes, it's OK to have a little fun, but it's very risky to invest heavily. After all, the entertainment industry is very chaotic, and it's impossible for an outsider to handle it. Even Boss Pan and Boss Lei failed, including Jiahe's Boss Zou.
Things are going downhill. If you have that kind of capital, why not do something you are good at?"
Li Yuan immediately understood what Ren Li meant: "Uncle Li, all the money comes from me. I will give half of the shares in the Yuan Universe to Jiaojiaowan. The film library will be given to me alone, and I will set up a separate copyright operation company.
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Since Huang Jiaojiao doesn't need to pay, Ren Li will have no problem here. He asked curiously: "How do you want to operate the copyright?"
"I will send it to mainland TV stations to broadcast, and by the way, it will be used to advertise Yeshan Qingquan and Tangzun Liquor."
Since the waste is being reused, Ren Li has no problem here.
"Shao Yuan, after the establishment of the Metaverse, do you have any filming plans?"
"Currently there is only one art film with an investment of only 2 million, and subsequent promotions will not exceed 1 million."
"I'm not asking about just one person." Ren Li didn't care about such a petty quarrel. Of course he knew that the art film was nothing more than a few friends messing around. "After the merger of several companies, the employees left behind now
They are still over 100 years old. Their contracts have not expired. Should they be arranged to work on new projects, or should they be given severance pay directly?"
"Hong Kong movies are so popular now, so it shouldn't be hard for those who remain to find jobs, right?"
Ren Li smiled and nodded.
After thinking for a moment, Li Yuan decided: "I don't like being a shady boss. Let's do a new project! Make two sequels: the "Rich and Rich" series and the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series."
"Wealth" is one of Debao's famous series, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also one of New Arts City's famous series. It is safer to shoot a series, and it can also effectively use Hong Kong resources.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ren Li nodded, this approach is safer. It may not necessarily make a lot of money, but the probability of losing money is very small: "What should be the problem with "Wealth and Power"
.Is it "A Chinese Ghost Story"? My brother and Xiaoqian are both popular stars, so their schedules may not be easy to arrange."
"If it's not easy to arrange, just change the actors. You can completely create a "Liao Zhai" universe."
"Liao Zhai universe?" Ren Li suddenly heard a new term.
"It's about turning the stories in "Liao Zhai" into an independent universe." Li Yuan is quite familiar with the big IP universe. In the future, Hollywood will be full of superhero universes. "For example, we can combine "Painted Skin" and "Fox"
"Xian" and other stories are put together and adapted into new stories. And they are connected through various clues."
"How can this be done?" Ren Li asked doubtfully.
"How do you know if you don't try? Anyway, we are just testing the waters, and a small loss is a profit."
"Okay then! I'll make arrangements!"
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Li Yuan doesn't care much about making movies.
The Hong Kong circle still has five or six years of golden period! It will be followed by a very long period of suffering, and it has not recovered even after decades. The only thing worthy of praise is these stars in the golden period. But now these few
A familiar face, and then it was still the same familiar faces.
As for the new generation in Hong Kong? As soon as Mr. Chen came out, the whole army was wiped out! (laughing and crying)
The situation in the Mainland is even more tragic. It will take fifteen or six years for Mainland movies to rise again.
And I got used to the high box office of hundreds of millions and billions later, but now I want to happily open the champagne tower when I break 10 million? Brother Yuan, I can’t afford to disgrace this person!
The reason why we made those two sequels was mainly to support workers. Anyway, the most important thing is the film library. Now that we have it, we are in an invincible position!
"Young Master Yuan, what should we do with Li Yuan?"
"What arrangements are there?" Li Yuan asked curiously.
When it comes to her company's business, the eldest lady has always been more Buddhist. Li Yuan is a little better, he is a little bit Buddhist. After finally being reborn, why are you busy making money?
"It's the company's strategy and future plans."
"Uncle Li, do you think Jiaojiao and I are the kind of people who are far-sighted and have lofty goals?"
Ren Li laughed and shook his head helplessly. He had long been accustomed to the behavior of this kind of young master and young lady - everything depends on doing whatever he wants!
But having said that, the Third Miss and Yuan Shao had a lot of troubles, and they didn’t know whether it was good luck or... good luck? Maybe this is just stupid luck for stupid people!
In Ren Li's eyes, the success of Yeshan Qingquan's listing was mainly due to the support behind the Huang family and the use of many human resources in the business and financial circles. He just didn't expect that Miss San and Yuan Shao were so courageous that they could
Such a big scene.
In fact, this is both true and false. To say that we do not rely on the influence of the Huang family at all? This is not very objective. But if there is no Huang family at all, it will only be more troublesome, cost more money, and take longer, Yeshan
Qingquan will still be successfully listed sooner or later.
So Ren Li still has some misunderstandings here. The Huang family is really not a decisive condition.
Of course, in the general view of the people around them, they are basically similar to Ren Li, who think that the Huang family is particularly important. On the contrary, they think of a certain "little follower", a mainland boy with good luck.
There is indeed a lot of prejudice in this, but it is also because of Li Yuan's "indisputable" attitude. Even the CEOs of these companies don't care much, so what else do they care about?
For Li Yuan, the Internet era is his real stage, and all these things in front of him are toys to pass the boring events. It doesn't matter if you have them, or if you don't have them, it doesn't matter. So I don't want to worry too much about them.
In other words, the only thing that interests him is the film library. Because it represents traffic. Only the film library is not for sale.
"Young Master, does the French Danone Group know about it?"
"Know!"
"They sent a representative to negotiate a stake in Yeshan Qingquan. I hope to meet you."
"Do you know their conditions?"
"The introducer didn't say anything. He only said that we would make an appointment to meet and discuss it in detail."
"There's no need to eat. Then don't waste time. I'll have a phone call with them! If we can reach a preliminary intention, we can let Jiaojiao lead the negotiation team to talk."
"also."
Regarding Danone's investment in shares, Li Yuan was all-powerful. Yeshan Qingquan was originally a listed company, and anyone could buy tradable shares on the open market. There was nothing that could be done to stop this.
"Hello, I'm Sean."
"Hello, I am Li, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yeshan Qingquan."
"Li, it's an honor to meet you. When will you be free?"
"Mr. Sean, there's no need to meet in person. Let's talk about your conditions first!"
"Okay! We Danone want to invest in your Yeshan Qingquan. We are a world-famous food and beverage multinational group with a high reputation around the world. We have an excellent management team and a mature sales network, and we are committed to...
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Sean said a long advertisement, and he was waiting for Li Yuan's reaction. Many times, many people will be flattered by being spotted by a large company like Danone, and they may get many unexpected benefits.
Unexpectedly, Li Yuan was not moved at all. After listening to these nonsense calmly, he asked: "Mr. Sean, what is the focus of your Danone?"
"Ahem." Sean couldn't help but get a little defensive, "Okay! Li! We want to invest in no less than 20% of the equity of Yeshan Qingquan. I hope you can give us a satisfactory answer. We still need two boards of directors.
For seats, you need to join the company management. The overseas agent of your products can be handed over to us, Danone. We hope that Yeshan Qingquan will become a new sub-brand of Danone. In order to express our sincerity, we are willing to use the average daily closing price after listing as the transaction price.
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After listening to this, Li Yuan was not even in the mood to talk nonsense. Let alone other things, what does the "average daily closing price" mean? It is true that the price of Yeshan Qingquan is more than 5 yuan now, but it also closed at 5 cents before.
Price, this average, isn't it Chiguoguo's money grab?
"Mr. Sean, we can issue 40 million new shares for you Danone, and you will hold 16.67% of the equity. Two board seats are available, but you only have half of the voting rights. That is, 8.89% of the voting rights. We Yeshan
Qingquan will operate independently and retain its independent brand. To show our sincerity, the allotment price of the new shares is HK$6 per share."
Since you Danone can talk nonsense, don’t I, Brother Yuan, know how to talk nonsense?
Sure enough, Sean seemed to have eaten 500 tons of rice fields. He shouted aggrievedly: "Li, please don't joke. The allotment price is higher than the market price? Then we won't buy the tradable shares?"
This is indeed the truth, but isn't Li Yuan... talking nonsense?
"Sean, I believe Danone is not an ignorant investor who wants to speculate. What you are optimistic about is the bright future of the Chinese market. A completely blank market with more than one billion consumers and almost unlimited consumption. From a long-term investment perspective,
HK$60 per share is not an exaggeration.”
"But you haven't put it into production yet? How can you guarantee that it will be successful? With our help from Danone, your possibility of success will be greatly increased."
"Haha, Sean, does Danone have an office in the mainland? Does it have a sales network in the mainland?"
Sean choked: "We have sales networks all over the world!"
"That means no." Li Yuan sneered, "You are not as good as our wild mountains and clear springs. Let's figure one thing out first. Do you need our help? Or do we need your help?"
"But you still don't have a product?"
"We were the first to see this blank market and became the first listed company. You should have understood how famous we are. Our products don't even need to be advertised!"
"Let's do this! Li! The bank's valuation is HK$1.3, and we can express our sincerity with an appropriate premium. You don't think that the bank's public valuation is random, do you? We also have very strict internal evaluation procedures at Danone.
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"Then please explain, what do you mean by the stock price in the public market? Do you need me to give you some common sense about stocks? The price of a stock is composed of two parts - one part is the actual value, and the other part is the long-term expectations. Otherwise, just put it directly
We have calculated the net assets per share into the stock price. Do we need to go to so much trouble? The current stock price of Yeshan Qingquan shows that the market is quite optimistic about us, and that is the best proof!"
"Okay, okay! Li, I come here with sincerity, and I hope you can negotiate with sincerity. Your conditions are too excessive. Our board of directors will definitely not pass it. Can you give me a real offer?"
"My price is sincere. But I can also make a step forward and give you a month to consider it. This will give you a chance to observe the performance of the stock price again."
"That's it!" Sean was a little disappointed, "See you later!"
"Goodbye! Haha."
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As expected, when Sean sent these conditions back to Danone's headquarters, he was immediately rejected - has China gone crazy?