No. 12 Mount Galley Road, Chu Family Manor, third floor of the main building, rooftop swimming pool.
Chu Huan was wearing a T-shirt and big pants, with her feet soaked in the swimming pool. There was a bottle of iced Coke and some snacks beside her. She was looking at the scenery of Central in the distance. From here, she could clearly see the landmarks of Central.
Architectural Chinese Walk.
Sitting on the lounge chair next to the swimming pool was Wu Shuhan, wearing a simple and elegant long dress, holding some documents in her hands.
"Boss, Qi Dezun just called. Zhang Yuliang did not agree with Qi Dezun's suggestion. It seems that he does not want to sell his Wheelock shares!"
Chu Huan put his hands on the edge of the swimming pool, looked up at the blue sky, and said cheerfully, "It's just that the price has not been agreed upon, but it doesn't matter, it's time for Yutoubiao and the others to appear!"
Seeing Chu Huan like this, Wu Shuhan smiled and said, "Boss, are you not nervous at all at this time?"
Chu Huan turned around and saw Wu Shuhan, who was as elegant as a chrysanthemum without applying makeup, and asked with a smile, "Why are you nervous?"
Wu Shuhan said, "Now is the critical moment to acquire Wheelock. Wu Xiaohui called this morning. Wheelock's John Madden met with Jardine Newbijian at the Hong Kong Club last night. The discussion must also be about Wheelock.
Regarding the matter of Feng, the negotiations between Qi Dezun and Zhang Yuliang have also reached a deadlock. If John Madden takes the lead in selling his shares in Wheelock to Jardine, then your plan will be ruined!"
Wu Xiaohui, the deputy manager of the Xiangjiang Jiaku Investigation Department and Ma Jizu's assistant, is now responsible for intelligence affairs in Xiangjiang, and Ma Jizu is now in England.
Last night, Qi Dezun and Zhang Yuliang met. As expected by Zhang Yuliang, Qi Dezun really wanted to acquire Wheelock's shares in his hands. After listening to Qi Dezun's quotation, Zhang Yuliang immediately rejected Qi Dezun's acquisition request.
Chu Huan shook his head and said with a smile, "When it comes to doing things, although it is endless fun to fight against the sky, for some things, we have already done everything we can do, and the rest can only depend on God's will!"
Wu Shuhan nodded and said, "I understand the meaning, but considering the impact of this matter, I still can't do it like you, boss."
"Big heart?" Chu Huan said with a smile.
Wu Shuhan covered her mouth and smiled softly and said, "You are open-minded!"
Chu Huan laughed and said, "At least everything is within our expectations until now. If you are still worrying about gains and losses, then you really need to reflect on it!"
"yes!"
"Go and call Qin Peng!" Chu Huan said to Wu Shuhan.
Now the big game of chess has begun, and Chu Huan is about to make a move.
Qin Peng came up after a while, "Brother Huan, are you looking for me?"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "How are the preparations for the people you asked to prepare?"
Qin Peng nodded and said, "It has been arranged. They are all top-notch masters. They have been on the battlefield and have seen blood!"
Chu Huan said with satisfaction, "Yes, but as we have agreed, the first priority is to ensure our own safety. Above our own safety is the safety of those people. I don't want the task to be completed and our own safety to be the result."
injured!"
Qin Peng said confidently, "Brother Huan, don't worry, these people in Xiangjiang are nothing compared to our people."
Chu Huan shook his head, "What I'm afraid of is your proud and complacent thoughts. If others think the same way as you, then don't do it. I'd rather find someone else!"
Seeing Chu Huan's seriousness, Qin Peng hurriedly said, "I understand, brother Huan, don't worry, I will definitely ask our people to be more careful when the time comes!"
Chu Huan nodded with satisfaction.
Then Qin Peng left the rooftop, and after Qin Peng left, Wu Shuhan walked up again. Only Qin Peng and others knew what Chu Huan had just explained, and Wu Shuhan didn't know what Chu Huan was going to do.
Wheelock Headquarters!
John Madden sat there with an unhappy look on his face, and little Madden's face didn't look very bright either.
All this is because of yesterday's meeting with Newbikin.
Niubijian's attitude was the same as that of Li Jiacheng and Qi Dezun. They could accept the normal and reasonable price and guaranteed to raise the funds in the shortest possible time.
But if John Madden is asking for an exorbitant price, then I'm sorry, we can only settle down on our own!
Faced with such a result, John Madden could not be happy.
"Contact Swire's Shi Huaiya, Global's Pao Yukang, and Sihai's Guo Desheng. I want to meet them all within one day!"
John Madden is preparing to cast a wide net.
"Dad, I wonder if these people have joined forces to lower the price for us, Wheelock?"
Little Madden analyzed this matter.
John Madden shook his head and said, "The possibility is not high. There is only one Wheelock. It is impossible for them to unite on this matter. The only possibility is that these people are too stingy and want to get our Wheelock."
, and I don’t want to spend more funds!”
When he finished speaking, John Madden looked a little angry.
"Okay, it's no longer important to say this now. You'd better contact these three companies as soon as possible. I hope they can recognize the goods and afford the price!"
At this time, John Madden no longer had the confidence he had the previous two days.
Xiao Maden nodded and turned to contact Swire's Shi Huaiya, Universal's Pao Yugang, and Sihai's Guo Desheng.
John Madden met with three consortiums who wanted to acquire Wheelock in one day. This incident quickly aroused a huge response in Hong Kong.
‘Wheelock is waiting for a price, and the six major consortiums are showing off their unique strategies!’--"Sing Tao Daily"
‘Is it the lion that opens its mouth, or does it have eyes that don’t recognize gold and jade?’--"True Report"
The closer the Wheelock acquisition comes to this moment, the more it affects people's hearts. Basically, the slightest move by any party will attract everyone's attention.
Now that John Madden has met with Shi Huaiya, Bao Yugang, and Guo Desheng one after another, it is natural that the Hong Kong media will conduct various investigations.
Soon the media published the asking price of the Madden family.
"Wheelock's market capitalization before the suspension was HK$71.3 billion. Based on the shares held by the John Madden family, the price should be around HK$1.5 billion to HK$200 million. However, the Madden family offered a price of HK$500 million, which is significantly higher than their own.
The value of the company's shares in hand is more than double. It is obvious that such a price is unacceptable to those acquirers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But in an interview, John Madden also said that although the market value of Wheelock’s shares in his hands is low, the number of B shares in his hands is enough to make the acquisition
The investor controls Wheelock, which is a value that cannot be reflected in the stock price.
Mr. Guo Desheng, chairman of the Sihai Financial Group, also accepted our interview. Mr. Guo Desheng analyzed that although the John Madden family holds Wheelock shares, although the B shares have more say in Wheelock, all acquisitions should follow the market value, not to mention
, even with the B-share voice mentioned by John Madden, the value of Wheelock shares held by John Madden’s family still cannot reach the price of HK$500 million.”
"True News", which had obtained first-hand information, published a report that pointed out the truth and instantly made everyone in Hong Kong understand what happened.
It turns out that the Wheelock acquisition was deadlocked here!
John Madden wanted more cash, but the acquirer believed that the shares in John Madden's hands were not worth the price.
With this report, public opinion in Xiangjiang began to slowly change, and many people thought that it was the John Madden family that was behind the scenes!
But soon John Madden issued a statement through a newspaper he was familiar with.
Although John Madden admitted that his asking price was higher than Wheelock's current market value, John Madden also stated that the land in Wheelock's hands was of high quality, and the freighters controlled by Wheelock were even more
in this way.
Therefore, in the final statement, John Madden stated that they were not asking for an exorbitant price. In fact, their asking price was even lower than Wheelock's actual asset value.
The acquirer and the seller started a media war.
It was quite lively for the people watching, but for both parties involved, it was a kind of torment.
"Daddy, those people are obviously colluding on the price point. What should we do now?"
At this time, Xiao Maden could be said to have completely lost his previous pride and seemed a little decadent. Unexpectedly, after contacting these consortiums, no one could accept their prices.
John Madden looked equally dissatisfied, but did not panic. He calmly preached, "I don't want money, but I want Wheelock. It's just their dream!"
Seeing what John Madden said, little Madden immediately became energetic and asked quickly, "Daddy, is there anything you can do?"
John Madden leaned into Little Madden's ear and whispered, "You do this."
Little Madden's expression gradually became happy and he said, "I understand, don't worry, Daddy!"
"Well!" John Madden nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Go ahead and do this!"
"yes!"
Later, Madden Jr. left John Madden's office.
On the other side, Chu Huan didn't know that John Madden had already thought of some methods that he thought could raise the purchase price. Chu Huan was meeting with Chen Haichao in his office.
Two arcade games, "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man", have been officially launched.
Because of the success of "Donkey Kong", Langyan Games has become a benchmark company in the arcade game industry, and it has also given confidence to those sellers and arcade purchasers.
Therefore, these two games ushered in a crazy sales boom as soon as they were launched.
"There are 100,000 units of "Space Invaders" and 70,000 units of "Pac-Man" in North America, 100,000 units of "Space Invaders" and 70,000 units of "Pac-Man" in Europe, and 70,000 units of "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" in Japan.
50,000 units, 20,000 units each in South Korea, 10,000 units each in Taiwan, and a total of 100,000 units each in other regions around the world. In just half a month since its launch, the company has sold 700,000 arcade machines.
It brought sales of US$1.5 billion to the company and a profit of US$10.5 billion!”
Even though he had thought that these two games would definitely bring immeasurable cash to the company, Bao Tianming still couldn't believe it when he told these figures.
"The Indestructible King of the Great Village"
When he was in the company before, Bao Tianming asked the company's financial officers to calculate it many times to ensure that there was no error in the data.
"Because some companies purchase larger quantities, they sell to each other at discounted prices, so sales are less than $200 million, but the sales volume is very impressive!"
Chu Huan was not much surprised, because he had already guessed such a result.
Arcade games are different from other products. Such games are timely and everyone plays them freshly.
Therefore, when the game is first released, it will definitely lead to large-scale purchases, and in the later period, such sales will decrease exponentially.
Therefore, if a game company wants to develop in the long term, the most important thing is to continuously develop new games.
Only in this way can the company ensure its continued competitiveness in its future development.
What's more, "Donkey Kong" is the world's first dominant arcade game, which has brought great popularity to Wolf Smoke Games. Naturally, Wolf Smoke Games' arcade games no longer need to be like when "Donkey Kong" first came out.
That way, the market will be all over the world.
"Based on the market response from various places, these two games will bring nearly US$1.5 billion in profits to the company this month alone!"
700,000 arcade machines can be said to be an insignificant number compared to the entire arcade game market, but a large-volume sales wave will definitely not occur.
Therefore, within half a month of the launch of the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man", the profit can reach 10.5 billion US dollars.
But by the second half of the month, it could only provide a profit of US$4.5 billion.
Chu Huan frowned slightly. The gaming industry was originally an industry used by Chu Huan to make money. The current high profits made Chu Huan feel very happy, but to say how excited he was was not enough.
"How is the development of Famicom and handheld consoles going?"
Chu Huan asked Bao Tianming.
Although the life of the arcade game market can reach the end of the 1990s, the life of high profits will not be too long, only 10 years at most. However, Famicom and handheld consoles are different.
These two products will be the flagship products of Langyan Games in the next 20 years. With these two products, as long as Langyan Games announces open compatibility, then in the next 20 years, any company that tries to enter TV games will be
They are all inseparable from the Wolf Smoke game.
The profits brought by these two products are truly terrifying!
Obviously, Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke game is not simply following Nintendo's development route. The development route of Wolf Smoke game actually includes Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Sony, and even Blizzard, etc. in the future.
A series of company development routes.
Take the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man". In another time and space, these two games belong to different game companies, but just relying on these two games has made these two games
The two game companies became one of the most well-known game companies in the world at that time.
Nowadays, these two games are both Langyan games, and the influence and profits they bring are acceptable.
When Bao Tianming saw Chu Huan's calm expression, he couldn't help but admire in his heart. Sure enough, it was Chu Huan who could be so carefree and care about other things in the face of such crazy profits.
"Everything is in progress. Gunpei Yokoi speculates that the first Famicom trial machine will be launched at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. After three months of testing and game development, it will be ready next year."
Only then can it be put on the market.
As for the handheld console, because some technical difficulties have not yet been overcome, it will take until the end of next year to complete the production of the test machine."
A year and a half?
acceptable!
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Wait until the funds arrive at the end of the month, leave the funds necessary for the company's development, contact Xu Yi, and transfer the remaining funds to the company's accounts in major banks around the world!"
The profits from the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" just filled Chu Huan's shortage of funds at this time.
In order to acquire the shares of Ford Motor, Chu Huan directly invested 1.3 billion US dollars. Although he still had a lot of cash in hand, it was the working capital needed by each company. That is, Chu Huan did not buy it unless necessary.
It won't be used either.
Now, with nearly 2 billion US dollars, Chu Huan can play happily again.
Moreover, Chu Huan actually spent a lot of money during this period. First of all, just two days ago, Jerry Kohlberg called and said that the acquisition of North American Commercial Bank was nearing completion, which meant that Chu Huan
It’s time to prepare funds.
At the same time, Japan's acquisition of the Yomiuri Shimbun is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and I believe there will be results this year.
Finally, of course, it’s about the Wheelock acquisition.
In Xiangjiang, after Hehe International completes the acquisition of Wheelock, it will begin to gradually delist the two companies and privatize them, which will also require a large amount of cash.
Speaking of the situation in North America, something happened recently that made Chu Huan very satisfied. David Maxwell finally took over the ownership of bo for North American Black and White Media.
At this time, this company, which would become famous in the future, already belonged to Chu Huan.
However, in this time and space, after becoming Chu Huan's company, whether bo can achieve the achievements of another time and space depends on whether the management of Jiaku and North American Black and White Media can run this company well.
Chu Huan believed that he could trust them. After all, after taking over Bo, Chu Huan deliberately recalled Bo's business strategy based on his previous life, and then wrote a plan about Bo's future development plan and faxed it to David Marks.
Will.
With the memory of the previous life and the talents of this life, there is no reason why bo should be less developed than in another time and space.
The funds for the acquisition of Bo were already left by Chu Huan to the North American Jiaku, so they will not have any impact on Chu Huan's current funds.
"No problem!" After finishing speaking, Bao Tianming asked, "What do you think of the cooperation plan with Jayin Sarno?"
Jay Sarno's plan has been submitted, just three days ago, after the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" became popular throughout North America.
The arcade game market represents an emerging commercial market. Except for Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke game, this market is a brand new commercial market for everyone else at this time.
A brand new business market represents a gold mine waiting to be developed.
Everyone wants to get in and get a piece of the pie.
After seeing the popularity of the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man," Jay Sarno no longer had any doubts about this market.
So his actions became extremely fast.
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said, "I have already read the plan, and there is no big problem. But one thing you can tell Jieyin Sarno is that we have helped him find a bank in North America that can provide loans."
, he doesn’t need to worry about this matter!”
If you want to establish a nationwide chain of arcade arcades in North America, the amount of money required is simply astronomical.
The most important expenditure is naturally the number of arcade machines.
A simple calculation can lead to this conclusion. There are 50 states, 311 larger cities, and 3144 counties in North America.
Excluding counties and only talking about cities, there are 311 cities. If an arcade game hall is opened in each city, there will be 311 branches. Each branch requires at least two hundred machines. This is a machine. Only in the arcade
The purchase of machines requires US$155.5 billion, and the preferential price given by Chu Huan is 20% off, which is US$124.4 billion.
In addition to a series of expenditures such as decoration, rent, labor, water and electricity, etc., it is impossible to succeed without US$2.5 billion.
This is only the initial stage. In the top cities in North America, there will definitely be more than one arcade arcade, and the scale will definitely be larger.
If you include these, the subsequent cost may increase to 300-400 million US dollars!
Now according to Jay Sarno's idea, there are three investors in the arcade arcade chain!
Wolf Smoke Games, Jeinsarno and local city societies.
However, the local city associations are more involved as shareholders and do not take out cash, so the ones who take the money are actually Chu Huan's Langyan Games and Jeyin Sarno's family.
Langyan Games can naturally come up with the cash needed for its investment share, but it is difficult for Jeyinsarno.
So he needs a bank loan to complete his investment share.
Given that the arcade game market has just emerged and is only getting bigger, with at least ten more years of good times ahead, Chu Huan is not worried that there will be problems with this loan.
Since Jerry Kohlberg has made it clear that the acquisition of North American Commercial Bank has come to an end and that the complete acquisition will be completed by the end of this month or the beginning of next month, Chu Huan naturally hopes that this loan
I can now go to my own bank.
Why should you give up on a business that is designated to make money?
"Tell Jayin Sarno that the loan interest rate of the bank I helped him contact is the lowest in North America!" Chu Huan added.
After all, Jayin Sarno is the major shareholder of the new arcade arcade chain, and he has absolute say in the company. Therefore, if Chu Huan wants to get this customer, he still needs to provide certain preferential policies.
Bao Tianming nodded and said, "Understood!"
In fact, both Chu Huan and Bao Tianming misjudged Jayin Sarno's ambitions. The newly established Caesars arcade arcade chain achieved profitability in a very short period of time, and it was a huge profit.
After seeing this situation, Jay Sarno simply embarked on a development path of crazy expansion. In just five years, Caesars chain achieved a scale of 1,500 chain stores throughout North America.
Chu Huan’s Langyan Games holds 30% of the shares.
In the craziest period of the early to mid-1980s, this company alone brought Chu Huan more than 10 billion US dollars in revenue every year.
Jay Sarno has also appeared on the world's richest list many times and on the cover of Time magazine because of the Caesars chain.
In later generations, Jason Sarno was even called the giant who changed North America with games!
But Jay Sarno's glory only stayed in the 1980s. By the late 1980s, arcade games began to be slowly replaced by video games. The North American arcade market was also the first to begin to slump, but just like now
The same as the Hong Kong Ship King.
At that time, Jeyin Sarno simply believed that this was the law of market adjustment, and at that time Jeyin Sarno also began to be dissatisfied with Chu Huan's sharing of his profits.
So Chu Huan followed suit and after finally making a fortune, he officially withdrew from the Caesars chain!
But that’s all for another day!
Bao Tianming said, "If that's the case, I think there should be no problem with Jayin Sarno!"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Then I'll leave this matter to you!"
Bao Tianming nodded and said, "Don't worry!"
Chu Huan had a great harvest here, but Zhang Yuliang was very unhappy today.
Because someone sent him a piece of news that made him extremely shocked and angry.
If Cheng Zhitao is Zhang Yuliang's confidant in the business world, then Peng Guoliang is the talent Zhang Yuliang relies on most when dealing with some shady situations.
Peng Guoliang was not from Hong Kong, but from South Vietnam. After coming to Hong Kong, he killed a man over a bowl of barbecued pork rice. He later hid in the Kowloon Walled City and became a gold medal thug there.
But later by chance, he was discovered by Zhang Yuliang and stayed with him.
Specifically responsible for some shady things for Zhang Yuliang.
Ever since he learned that Chu Huan knew about his plan, Zhang Yuliang asked Peng Guoliang to find a group of people to secretly keep an eye on family members and the company.
Just today, Peng Guoliang brought bad news to Zhang Yuliang.
"Boss, through observation, a group of people are currently investigating the company's situation, and these people have already met with Cui Xiuying."
After speaking, Peng Guoliang handed Zhang Yuliang a stack of photos.
"According to our people's investigation, Cui Xiuying was driving home after finishing work at the company yesterday afternoon. She passed by a seafood shop and stopped to buy seafood. However, the person in the photo was also in the seafood shop while Cui Xiuying was buying seafood.
, he put a brown paper bag into Cui Xiuying’s leather bag.”
Zhang Yuliang said with a gloomy face, "How do you know that what the other party put in Cui Xiuying's bag was the company's information."
"Because our people have already paid attention to this person. He has been investigating the company's situation recently. In order to avoid alerting others, and because there were people who didn't know who he was at that time, they have not touched him."
Peng Guoliang replied.
Zhang Yuliang sat on the office chair and looked at the people in the photo. After being silent for a long time, he said with a gloomy face, "Why do you have to force me?"