By the time William saw ten companies, they either competed with the business of a few big nobles, or were simply companies in which those nobles had shares.
Just after noon, the media received news that these ten companies, plus the Grosvenor Hotel, were each eligible to participate in the Holographic Millionaire program four times a year.
As for these ten companies, except for the fact that they are all related to the business of those nobles, all of them have venues suitable for hosting shows.
Otherwise, in winter and rainy season, the program really needs to find some huge indoor venues to successfully hold it.
There is no problem if you visit William's museum once or twice temporarily, but if it happens too many times, no matter how good the security is, tens of thousands of people will flock into the museum densely, and it will be strange if nothing happens.
And if the Grosvenor Hotel dares to do this, he will wait to renovate it as soon as the show is over.
After the negotiations were settled, during the celebratory cocktail party in the evening, while everyone was talking, someone suddenly suggested that we simply buy Wembley Stadium.
In the future, each event will only charge a cost of ten pounds, but in addition to holographic advertisements, a large number of billboards can also be hung around the stadium.
If the operation is good, the cost of purchasing the stadium may be recovered within four to five years.
Unlike Grosvenor, a real estate developer, these ten large groups do not need to promote hotels.
What they care about is actually more advertising benefits, and advertising benefits outside of England.
The person in charge of England's largest supermarket chain said, "We can select the players for the official competition at the stadium and take them directly to their respective companies by bus.
Just like our shopping mall, we can definitely attract customers to the largest supermarkets."
"This won't work," Grosvenor shook his head. "The way to send the contestants to the venue will take at least half an hour, or even more than an hour. Who wants to wait in the stadium for such a long time?"
"Then we can invite some singers or other performers to warm up the show."
Grosvenor shook his head again and said in denial, "But this will increase the cost. If we only charge an admission fee of ten pounds, we will definitely lose money.
In a short period of time, singers and the like may want to participate for free, but as the number of performances increases, after all the free people come, do they have to pay?"
"Wait a minute," William suddenly interrupted everyone, "the stadium lawn is so big, you can completely hologram the venue or the head office where you need to advertise.
Moreover, with 90,000 people in the audience answering questions at the same time, it can not only avoid the situation of not being full, but also attract more tourists, right?"
The crowd was stunned for a moment, then became excited. Grosvenor, who had once hosted a gathering of more than 100,000 people, was well aware of the trouble involved.
Dozens of ordinary people entered his hotel. Although they were followed by spherical detectors throughout the process, when these people were looking for cards, not everyone was a gentleman as England boasted.
Just one night of noise caused hundreds of hotel employees to work overtime all night to sort everything out.
And if the official competition venue is holographically imaged on a huge lawn, there will be more holographic scenes to choose from.
People from England Petroleum even thought about setting the scene to an offshore drilling platform.
Will this advertising effect be better?
When they open their minds, some people even think of advertising for office buildings or stores in other countries.
William, who was originally worried that the new Wembley Stadium and Chelsea Stadium would compete for attention, became interested in this suggestion.
The new Wembley Stadium, which can accommodate 90,000 people, is designed according to the Champions League and Premier League cup competition venues, and the transportation is very convenient.
It won't cause large-scale congestion, and it's much safer to pull the audience into the stadium than in the open air.
Nothing has happened now, but if there is any big accident, the show will be suspended.
Another point is that since the holographic film is to be opened to other teams, including Wembley Stadium will also allow other teams to make less money and use this stadium to attract more people.
Of course, while there are advantages, there are also disadvantages. Putting aside other things, the acquisition cost alone is at least 800 million pounds.
This money is not worth mentioning to William, but other companies have to consider the payback period and profitability.
Thinking of this, William was extremely lucky that when he built Chelsea's new Stamford Bridge stadium, he chose a construction company from China.
The new Wembley Stadium was designed and started a year earlier than Stamford Bridge. Not only did it take seven years to build, but the cost also increased from less than 340 million pounds to 780 million pounds.
This cost can build 3.5 new Stamford Bridge stadiums, and it took China's construction company only two years to complete it. Although it encountered resistance during the acceptance, it took a year to complete the acceptance.
But comparing three years and seven years, it is obvious who is better and who is worse.
However, as costs have increased and the project has been delayed again and again, the property rights of the new Wembley Stadium are in chaos. It is not that simple to acquire the stadium from at least a dozen consortiums.
Therefore, after listening to Sunday's report, William thought for a moment, "You should know how chaotic the property rights of the stadium are.
And I heard that in addition to the cost of 780 million pounds, there is also a lot of foreign debt. If you want to get it all, there is no need to talk about it if it doesn't cost 1 billion pounds."
"No, no, no, Your Majesty the Duke, you definitely don't understand what's going on here," the boss of England's second largest insurance company said with a smile, "The industry I work in allows me to know a lot of things.
Although we cannot violate professional ethics, what I can tell you is that as long as we act quickly, buying the new Wembley Stadium is not as difficult as we imagined."
When William heard this, he couldn't help but tap his earlobe lightly. After gaining access to the confidential server on Sunday, it didn't take long to find out everything inside.
"To raise 1 billion pounds, I will provide 300 million pounds, accounting for 35% of the shares, each of you will have 4%, and the remaining 21% of the shares will depend on the situation.
Either give it to new collaborators, or give it to the company or companies that have helped me the most, or some new friends don’t intend to contribute.
Then we can only cooperate next time, is there any problem?"
The eleven big men from various industries in England looked at each other, shocked by William's vindictiveness.
As for what would help the most, it wouldn't be to force a few companies to kick a few big nobles off the board of directors for money and advertising benefits, or even dilute their shares and become ordinary shareholders.
This matter is a bit troublesome, but everyone is stimulated by the 21% shares.
And there is a small trap here. The shareholding is only 4%. If it is less than 5%,
If you want to join the board of directors, you have to look at the face of William, who holds 35% of the shares and has one veto vote.
There were twelve people present, and if William was dissatisfied, he could really kick one or even three of them away.
If this is the case, even if a super company like British Petroleum has less than 5% of its shares, there will be no results if it wants to cause trouble.
After making eye contact, the boss of British Petroleum said seriously, "Can you sign a holographic projection projection contract with us for several years?"
"The Millionaire show depends on the ratings, so I can't guarantee it, but I'm still sure of it in three years."
"Isn't three years too short?"
"I can't guarantee the TV program, but I have the final say on the broadcast of the holographic movie. You should all want to make more net profits and increase the stock price, right?"
"Hahaha", this statement immediately hit the point, and everyone present burst out laughing.
The company's stock price is directly related to its net profit. A net profit of 50 million yuan can increase the market value by at least 1 billion yuan.
Under the dual stimulation of advertising and market capitalization, eleven companies in England, all of which are leaders in various industries, only roped in the companies they cooperated with and made some announcements to the outside world.
Without much action, several big nobles could not bear the pressure and began to ask people to surrender to William.
"fk", hung up the phone, William threw the phone on the coffee table, lay on the sofa, resting his head on Jesse's lap unhappily,
Cursing, he said, "These bastards are all dukes or counts whose families have at least hundreds of years of history.
He actually surrendered without even resisting, which made it difficult for me to implement my subsequent plans."
"You just move too fast and pull in too many people," Abigail teased with a smile. "If you were the only one on the field, those big nobles might want to fight.
But you have already roped in a dozen or twenty large companies to fight together, and the nobles are not fools.
Even if you are kicked out of the board of directors, you can still be a shareholder who makes money. It is not so easy for you to take advantage of the opportunity.
What's more, it's impossible for other nobles to watch the media and ordinary people get substantial evidence about your fight with them, and some people take the opportunity to suppress them."
Hum, William curled his lips, but he knew in his heart that if he didn't make the other party surrender in an instant with a thunderous strike, other nobles would not be able to act so easily.
The longer it is delayed, the lower the deterrent effect will be to those with ulterior motives, and the matter will not end so easily.
Abigail sat over, lifted William's legs and put them on her lap, "Okay, you've had enough fun and show off your power, shouldn't you share some work with me?
Go meet Director Ridley and the others to discuss the filming of The Martian?"
William was stunned, "Ridley's script and preparations were completed so quickly?"
Looking at Jesse who was massaging William's temples with a smile, Abigail glared at William with dissatisfaction and said, "The script can still wait for you to make a decision.
But Ridley led a team of more than a dozen people to adapt to the gravity chamber that simulates the gravity of Mars for almost two weeks. If you don't see them again, these people will go crazy."
Put on your smart eyes and let Sunday call out the script, "Who is the starring role?"
Without Abigail's need to answer, William saw a familiar face, "Sunday, what is this guy's name?"
"Leonardo DiCaprio".
"But why do I smell Danny Archer on him?" William smiled and looked at the other candidate for the leading role, "What's this called?"
"Matt Damon".
"You are authorized to check it out for me. I remember I saw this guy seven or eight years ago when I was in Las Vegas for the first time. What was his name back then?"
William thought for a while and then smiled and said, "Should I call you David Webb or Jason Bourne?"
After hearing the question on Sunday, it took a full minute before he replied, "Sir, Mr. DiCaprio's real name is Danny Archer.
As for the other person, after entering C1A’s secret database, I did find a former Delta member named David Webber, who is very similar to the person in the gravity training base.”
"Hehe", William smiled at the corner of his mouth, "Let Gunnar from the Suicide Squad go and see him in the name of giving Chelsea tickets. He was a member of the Suicide Squad at the beginning, and beg me to let go of that bastard Danny Archer.
If you can't recognize them, look at the other person's palms to see if there are calluses from holding a gun for a long time.
Ask Archer again if there is any problem with this guy named Matt."
"Understood, sir, the order has been issued."
When Gunnar received the call on Sunday, he looked at the desk in front of him in confusion. After a while, he stood up, put on his suit, went to the ticket office to receive the tickets, and drove to the gravity training field.
When he saw this person named Leonardo, Gunnar only took a few glances and smelled the same kind of scent from this person named Leonardo.
After chatting with the crew, he took a break and asked Leonardo, holding a coffee cup, "Aren't you staying in Brazil? Why did you suddenly become a Hollywood actor?"
When Leonardo heard this, he shook his head helplessly, "I knew I couldn't escape your eyes."
Gunnar did not speak, but frowned and stared at the mercenary who had fought together back then.
Archer shrugged, "You know, eight years ago, after the African Blood Diamond, the killing of General Jet Frobbie and the shorting of Debs,
I received 20 million US dollars from Mr. Devonshire, bought a villa on the beach in Brazil, and spent the rest of the money on gold, and lived a comfortable and stable life for two years."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Everyone knows about you. Mr. Devonshire wants to know why you are called Leonardo," Gunnar frowned.
"Hey," Archer grinned, "One day I was on the beach outside my home in Brazil, and I was staring at the girl on the beach.
Suddenly I heard a shouting and saw an elderly couple saying "Leon, Leon" to me with excited faces.
I thought it was a scammer trying to steal my money, but I didn’t expect that the other person didn’t believe me when he saw me, so he took out his wallet and showed me the photos inside, and guess what.”
Gunnar rolled his eyes at Archer and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
Archer chuckled, "I didn't expect that the boy in the photo, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, really looked like me.
And that kid went on an outing with his friends more than ten years ago and never came back."
Gunnar was stunned. He really hadn't thought about this possibility. "Continue."
Archer shrugged, "You know me, I've been working hard to survive since I was ten years old. I would believe them, but I didn't expect to find someone to check and find that this couple really didn't lie to me."
"The next thing is very simple. For a person like me who has no real identity, I can do whatever I want while hiding in Brazil.
But how can I put my identity as an American to the advantage of deliberately rejecting him several times like playing hard to get, even if they knew that I was not their son, they still insisted on recognizing me as a relative.
So, within half a year, I became a member of the DiCaprio family.
And for people like me who have been working as thieves, liars, diamond dealers, and mercenaries in order to survive since I was a teenager,
There was no need to go to school, I have been acting every day my whole life, I just took acting classes for half a year, and since I was not short of money, I joined a few small theater groups with my own money, and gradually I started to become famous.”