Chapter 32: This day, I bumped into a man
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The two middle-aged men in the elevator looked at the source of the voice, saw a tall, handsome man, and thought it was a newcomer who had been tapped by an agent.
And did not pay attention to such a newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, but nodded to Si Li, a secretary to the side.
Si Li is young, and his position is not high, but he has access to the bosses, so he should be able to socialize, and as veteran cadres in the group, they understand the importance of socializing.
"Young man, the entertainment department is not on this floor, go to your agent first, do not wander around and affect other departments." One of the middle-aged people kindly reminded a sentence.
Shi Xie's entertainment headquarters occupies only a small flat floor in this building, which is an inch of land. The main work and artist training is done in other branches where the land is cheaper, and most of the newcomers who can come here are signed.
There is a reason for their reminder, since last year the whole entertainment industry hit a big winter, the top has decided to reduce their expenses in the second half of the year, this reduction plan is not sure how long it will last, they are more or less stretched in front of other departments, low profile if you can.
As the saying goes, if you don't keep a low profile, you risk shrinking even more.
Si Li immediately introduced, "Manager Gao, Supervisor Bao, this is Mr. Xie's brother."
It must not be Jicheng Xie, who is already in the group, but Jing Rong, the legendary junior who was ordered by Mr. Xie never to provide any help?
They have seen the photo before, the features do look familiar, but the difference in temperament is too big, a rush of eyes really did not recognize.
The two men's attitudes immediately changed, and Jing Rong asked the same question again, learning that Xi Gu's contract runs through the end of this month.
The original Xi Gu was already notorious at this time, and the company didn't know who had authorized it to add fuel to the fire to shake Xi Gu's "black material" wave after wave, a lot of black material is simply false, but at that time Xi Gu everyone shouted, no one cared whether it was true or false.
Xi Gu's company, Shengteng Entertainment, has been involved in a lot of shady business, and Xi Gu is not the only one who has been victimized.
If Xi Gu wants to jump ship, and there is no room for maneuvering, it is no longer worthwhile for them to make money, and only when Xi Gu can no longer fly high can they vent their anger.
Jing Rong remembers that in the novel, Xi Gu also persuaded several artists who wanted to commit suicide because they could not stand the oppression.
This is a man who has attempted several times himself to persuade others to live.
In fact, this stinky company, long because of poor business arrears for a long time, now heavily indebted, but the surface is shiny.
Shengteng Entertainment has maintained its apparent prosperity so well, using its finances to make jia accounts and conceal statements, that few people know they are faltering today.
If you want to buy it, you should do it now! And he would never want to buy it at the original price like Jicheng Xie did in the original.
Jing Rong asked Si Li to help him communicate his intention to acquire Shengteng Entertainment's shareholding to Xiang Zhou.
As for the pile of information, you don't have to look through it to know that this company is definitely not in it, Ling Xie will not let him go to such a company with a bad reputation in the industry.
Jing Rong soon received a weibo from his big brother.
Ling Xie : It's not worth it, change to another one.
Manager Gao told Jing Rong that Jicheng Xie had intended to buy the company before, but Mr. Xie never agreed.
Ling Xie's investments are always macro-strategic, not personal, and at this time Shengteng Entertainment does have several first- and second-tier stars such as Xi Gu, a pot of gold, and if you look at its apparent books, you may have to pay a large sum of money to acquire part of its equity.
Manager Gao: "Young master, according to its market valuation, it will cost us a lot to take it even if we initiate the acquisition intention."
Jing Rong said he understood that the price was not worth it to Ling Xie. It can be said that if Ling Xie had not insisted on not approving the letter of intent to acquire, Jicheng Xie would not have been so quick to disown him.
Jicheng Xie fell in love with Xi Gu at first sight and has always considered Xi Gu as his own bag.
In the original article, Jicheng Xie didn't know he was getting a mess, which is perhaps the origin of Shi Xie's gradual decline, as he paid far more than he actually needed to, up to a hundred times more, to become the biggest joke in the industry.
Hanqi Wu later said, "I have been sent money to my pocket, so I have to turn it away. Shi Xie this fat sheep, not to gnaw for nothing."
"What if I make its market value worthless and buy it at a low price? Do you think it's still worth taking?"
"That's for sure!" You know Shengteng Entertainment has several golden eggs besides the soon to be gone Xi Gu, that can make money.
Jing Rong whispered a few words to Si Li and waited for the show to begin.
Since it is a tumor, what is left in this world to do, do a garbage sorting.
The entertainment department has been chilling for most of the year, and it has been particularly cold lately. The intern came to life when he saw that Manager Gao received a youth about his age like a VIP.
According to them, this is Shi Xie's youngest son, who is not related by blood, but is highly favored.
I thought it was a and the second young as the eyes above the top, did not expect completely different.
The intern served warm water and got a thank you from the other party, so he was a bit excited.
Manager Gao looked at the intern too colorless, glared, immediately took away the warm water: "I will give you a new cup of coffee."
Before Jing Rong could say anything, Manager Gao personally went to the pantry to make coffee and get snacks, and when he came back, he saw Jing Rong pondering over the sofa.
It looks very deep, and is completely different from the thunder and lightning when talking about the acquisition just now.
For a while, I couldn't understand Jing Rong's nature, knowing that this person is a graduate of Film academy, so he won't just look at macro data for this piece of entertainment like the top, he should have some understanding of the market.
Seeing that it is a cold winter in the industry, the top simply cut back on spending and invest in other areas.
With this one in, maybe their film and television department can make a comeback this year, the thought of here high manager some passionate.
Manager Gao and others are trying to figure out this person's preferences, so they can throw their weight around, but the first time they face it, they are completely unable to understand Jing Rong's ways.
In fact Jing Rong just finished his business and started his usual daze, his brain needs a break to work for a while.
Jing Rong does not care if he disintegrated the original plot, and now it should have collapsed to the mother do not know it.
By the way, what did he just come downstairs for, oh, the phone! Forgot all about the business.
Office.
Ling Xie: " Jing Xiao said, let me talk to the president of Longhua about the loan, Shengteng Entertainment may have falsified accounts, do not let the loan?"
The implication is that Shengteng Entertainment is likely to take the loan and run away, knowing that Shengteng Entertainment's boss Shengteng Xu is not a Chinese national, even if he runs away to go abroad incognito is not difficult, once the person has fled again to find a needle in a haystack.
Xiang Zhou : "Yes, the young master's original words were like this."
Ling Xie: " How did Jing Xiao know?"
Xiang Zhou couldn't figure it out either, but suddenly something came to mind: "Could Dong Wu have said it inadvertently?"
Dong Wu generally refers to Hanqi Wu, even though his father is still alive, but Hanqi Wu is the helmsman of the entire Wu family.
Ling Xie is aware that his younger brother was very sticky when he was a child, but Hanqi Wu is not a person who is easy to get along with, and is unlikely to talk about such things like industry secrets.
Ling Xie thought about it, but called the bank president, who was surprised to learn that Ling Xie was planning to lend $80 million to Shengteng Entertainment, a company with stable assets like Shengteng Entertainment, and would soon receive the funding. It is basically a normal process.
Ling Xie thought of Jing Rong's reminder and called the IRS to ask about Shengteng Entertainment's tax situation in a friendly manner. If there is no problem on the surface and it can be hidden for such a long time, there must be a problem at some point or several points.
After hanging up the phone, Ling Xie thought: "If this is true, once the news is released, this company will be liquidated."
Xiang Zhou immediately blew up a rainbow fart: "Young master, what a blessing." Although meat and potatoes, but some people love to hear ah.
Sure enough, the corner of Ling Xie's mouth lifted slightly: "Hmm."
Ling Xie thought of Jing Rong's desperate attempts to convince himself not to give funds and snorted: "Isn't he sure he's an investment black hole? If you take it is able to collapse the same day or what?"
Xiang Zhou : "Even if it is really a black hole, you do not also invest."
Xiang Zhou still remembers clearly Ling Xie just a short time ago, saying: No one is allowed to help him!
Ling Xie did not invest in the film for his brother, he invested directly, not much, just eight zeros.
Ling Xie glanced at him coldly: "You too, get lost."
Xiang Zhou rolled out nimbly.
The manager heard that Jing Rong was going to the information department and sent him there personally like a Buddha, during which Si Li could not intervene at all.
The information department people or the first time to see the entertainment department of the manager so happy smile, to know the headquarters to cut investment expenses, the manager has always been the late mother face, this time each look tsk tsk.
The information department has only a few backbone people working hard.
As with all generations of large companies, the accumulation of long-standing problems, relying on nepotism into the company to eat iron rice bowls are not a few, these people often have acquaintances in the upper echelons of the Xie family, and some people are the old man Xie period left behind the sweat equity, even Ling Xie can not easily move.
For the emerging industry Xie family entered the market too late, the market has been almost eaten by other new companies, the whole Shi Xie is still in the transition of the stall, even if the reform is not overnight.
Just as the entertainment department is not taken seriously, so is the information department, which occupies an even smaller area than the entertainment department.
Jing Rong sometimes feels that Ling Xie is like a superhero who has to clean up the mess after Jicheng Xie's crazy creation, solve the many problems deposited internally, and be curbed by the board of directors, while Zhanhong Xie is only responsible for eating, drinking, playing and surfing around the world. Ling Xie had to create his own team and break through on his own, and successfully transformed several of his main businesses, and Jing Rong could see Ling Xie's ambition from the success of Lier Xie's transformation.
Jing Rong thought, he tried not to drag his feet, it would be good to help a little.
The technician who received Jing Rong did not turn on the phone immediately: "Do you suspect that the phone has been tampered with?"
Jing Rong wants to find the source, preferably the holder of those fruit photos: "It's not certain, but if the phone has been touched, it's either a virus or a problem with the hardware."
"You want to go back to the roots?"
"Think of it that way, and I know it's more difficult with just the phone."
Jing Rong got the phone and turned it off straight away. That technician agreed with Jing Rong's cautious approach and also said that although he could disassemble it, they were more familiar with the hardware and if it was a virus there was nothing they could do about it.
They do have a person in the technical department who is capable of checking this kind of problem, but this person rarely comes to work and is ready to submit his resignation.
Jing Rong, when he heard that he submitted his resignation, he wanted to hold his forehead, so you can't keep the best technical person in your department?
Although it is known that the main business of the Xie family is not in these places, but looking at the loss of talent for nothing, Jing Rong will feel very sorry for those high-tech talent in the original, have found fertile ground is the Wu family and several other companies forming new industrial chains.
"When will that expert come to the company?"
"He came according to the mood," at first is a high salary scout, only stipulate that the other party at least three times a week to come, "If he comes I immediately notify you?"
There are people around who are concerned about their conversations silently gave a thumbs up to this person to see this without a sound, it is smoothly added to the young master's WeChat.
While they were talking, at the exit reception, a tall, thin man with a stack of papers in his hand said curtly to a supervisor, "Why don't you take a look at our proposal first! We've really put a lot of thought into it!"
But no matter how the tall, thin man pleaded, the supervisor is not interested in these small companies that come to the door to invest, just a few sentences are dismissed.
Jing Rong also did not take it to heart, when walking out of Shi Xie building, first looked around, fortunately did not see Ying Qi, facing a special know how to cry two Omega, Jing Rong felt more horrible than talking about asset liquidation, he is really not good at dealing with feelings of people.
He saw the tall thin man just sitting on a chair with a disheveled face wiping his face, seems to be too much pressure, look at him blowing his nose just now is not crying it.
The man also did not know what came to mind, suddenly stood up, and turned the corner with Jing Rong collided with the papers spilled on the ground.
The man knew that he had bumped into someone, and apologized in embarrassment, Jing Rong said it was okay to help pick up together.
Only glanced at a few pages of the planning book, eh? Fun video, is not this the prototype of his world Shake X, Little X book, Fast X, etc. The overall level of entertainment in this world is later than the world he lives in, should also be set by the author of the time problem.
Now the other side is pulling for investment, but the conservative Shi Xie Information Ministry is unlikely to pass such an avant-garde proposal.
Almost the same problem as the entertainment department, the information department previously invested in several apps are losing money badly, the headquarters allocation of less and less, it is impossible to put money on this app with an uncertain future.
And there is a very important point, the general company bosses are Alpha, only Alpha as a leader to pull more resources, but also to make employees and shareholders trust, and the one in front of you, if you guess correctly, should be Beta.
Jing Rong, his heart beating a little faster, asked, "Where are you going to go next to get investment?" Immediately understand how far the immediate future has gone.
The other side looked at Jing Rong, really Jing Rong look too young, look is a teenager, top youth, can not be more.
He vaguely remembered that the other party seemed to be in Shi Xie's information department just now, and was probably someone who was looking for a job. He didn't have time to talk to this kind of young man now, but he had just bumped into someone, and it was his own fault.
Just casually replied: " Sen Pai technology bar, Sen Pai can not be, then Genbo ......"
A few more in a row, Sen Pai is the Wu family's industry, focusing on high-tech fields, the rest of the few are those companies that scum attack.
Sure enough this novel world is centered around a few protagonists, these haloes and golden fingers, all automatically flew over.
So close to give the golden finger to each other for nothing, remember the Wu family because of this unheard of Fun video, a national booster project, and the development of this app to overseas, glorified quality entrepreneurs.
Yes, an entrepreneur, not a capitalist.
Entrepreneurs, in any interpretation, have to assume more social significance and value than capitalists. This is how the Wu family has completely washed away its previous bad reputation.
Jing Rong was a little tickled, and to be honest he wanted to cut it off and do it: "How much investment do you want?"
Jing Rong does not know whether his own small coffers enough, not enough, then only to Ling Xie first overdraft a little, anyway, this golden finger said nothing can be given to that group of people for nothing.
There is no reason to grow others and weaken ourselves.
The tall thin man looked at Jing Rong this said is the wind is rain, have not seen what is said to invest, almost to burst foul mouth.
Do you think the investment is a cabbage, casually cast down, he has run off his legs this time, no one pays attention to him.
And look at the dress of this youth, is ordinary mall hipster, although the temperament is very good, but even if the family is still good, should not have any family take so much money to the child as pocket money it.
Because it is a new type of App, it was developed half without funds before it came out to pull the investment. And App market has been dominated by traditional media over the years, the market is almost saturated, before someone is optimistic, but still not willing to risk.
In order to scare Jing Rong off, the tall and thin man directly quoted a particularly high figure: "It's 2 million!"
A full 2 million, how about it, scared!
Children's home, don't just say wild things, careful to be beaten by society.
In fact, as long as 1 million, and then 800,000 is enough, let him first arrears of several months of wages to send, and then not send can only rely on the low price of cheap to send wages, he those who have followed him for a long time the old staff, even if they do not eat do not want them to even make ends meet.
Jing Rong was surprised for a moment: "Are you sure?"
Tall, thin man: "OK."
Look at the unlucky child scared, all right, uncle does not bother with you.
Who called this tall, big kid, too handsome, and good-looking people always have the privilege of making people tolerant.
Jing Rong : "Only this much?" You're not missing a zero, are you? No, Jing Rong, you've drifted.
Tall, thin man: "......"
This child, in the end do you know what you are talking about, 800,000 I have worn out my mouth. These days the App market is full of chaos, and now everyone is very cautious about investing, not to mention 800,000, and then drop a half people have to consider.
Jing Rong : "But do you have to invest in the company, is it okay for individuals to take a stake? Why not choose a date and sign up right away?"
A duck in the mouth cannot fly.
Even if I am investing in a black hole, I should be able to get a small SSR out this time.
Tall, thin man: "......"
This day, I road a random bump into a man, I ran for most of the month did not pull a point of investment.
And he said two million was too little and asked if it could be increased to five million.
I suspect he's assing me.
Where is this family, where are his parents, trouble to carry away this empty talk of the child.