Hong Kong's new giants

Chapter 506 [Private conversation between women]

North Point, Media Building (redevelopment of the former Lok Kee Building).

Wanhui Media has moved into the Media Building as a whole. As for the original News Building, they did not choose to rebuild it immediately, but leased it out for rent collection.The reason is simple, the rent has been so high in the past few years, isn't it a waste of time/money to rebuild, at least it will have to start rebuilding in the second half of the year.

The reason for the relocation is that the office area of ​​the News Building is only about 10 square feet, which cannot meet the needs of the ever-growing Wanhui Media.

The new Media Building is a newly rebuilt Grade A office building with 22 floors and a total floor area of ​​26 square feet.

Lin Zuhui paused downstairs. The words 'media building' shocked his soul.

Wanhui Media has not developed much in the paper media in recent years. At present, it is mainly the "Daily Daily", the first-selling mass newspaper in Xiangjiang, "Economic Daily", the second-best-selling financial newspaper in Xiangjiang, and Ming Pao Group ( Ming Pao), the best-selling magazine "Men's Wear", etc.

Because of being "unpretentious" in the paper media, Xiangjiang's gossip magazines have recently shined brilliantly. The three gossip magazines "Next", "Apple Weekly" and "East Weekly" have occupied the top three best-selling magazines in Xiangjiang. Magazine.

The gossip magazine under Wanhui Media has not only started to go downhill, but even Lei Weipo is planning to quit.It can't be stopped, someone offers an annual salary of nearly [-] million, which is to create a new record in the media industry.

What is the concept of an annual salary of nearly 2500 million? Currently, the most profitable magazine in Xiangjiang is Zheng Jinghan's "Next Magazine", which can achieve a net profit of more than [-] million a year.

When he came to his office, Lin Zuhui drank tea while thinking about Wanhui Media's future plans.Paper media, comics, games, and Greater China Portal will be its four major industries.

Paper media will not disappear, but will exist in the form of the Internet.

After a while, Long Jingchang came to Lin Zuhui's office and reported to him.As the CEO of Wanhui Media, although he is also the CEO of a listed company, it is not wrong to say that he is Lin Zuhui's retainer.

Because of Lin Zuhui's listed company, his status is "one word and one word". No matter whether it is an investor or a board of directors, they all have blind trust in him.

"Boss, the "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard Entertainment in the United States has sold 80 sets, accumulating a lot of initial funds." Long Jingchang said with a smile.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Leave them alone and give them the greatest freedom. What I value is the prospect of this industry. No matter how much money they make in the short term, it is not a problem for them to use it for further research and development and to expand the team."

In fact, Lin Zuhui played "World of Warcraft" before it was released, and he also made a special opinion, that is-the new operating system-right-click to move, left-click to select-was established.This point was immediately adopted by the team and implemented in "World of Warcraft 1".

No matter how much he earned in the early stage, Lin Zuhui didn't mind Mike Mohamy and the others spending it, and he didn't mind giving the R&D team the highest salary in the industry.The more active they are, the more money Wanhui Media will make in the future.

Long Jingchang nodded and said: "Well, there are more than 20 people in the team at present, and I have asked Mike Mohamy to recruit several Chinese or Asian game development engineers for us to participate in the development of "World of Warcraft 2" .”

Lin Zuhui said: "Well, we can set up a game development department early next year. "Pokémon" is a big game IP."

Blizzard's four boutique games: "World of Warcraft", "Diablo", "StarCraft", and "Hearthstone", the first three of which were all developed in the 90s, even without Lin Zuhui's intervention, they will still appear.Of course, Lin Zuhui will pay attention to Blizzard.

When investing in Blizzard, Lin Zuhui didn't care about the early profits at all, and the best time to return is when online games come out.Of course, the most important thing is that the company can sell at a high price in the future.

"Okay, I took note."

Finally, Lin Zuhui said to Long Jingchang: "In addition to the game field, you have paid attention to the Internet in recent years. I am very optimistic about its prospects. Maybe we will enter this field in the future."

As the CEO of the group, Long Jingchang does not need too much professionalism, but he needs good management skills and the completion of the tasks assigned by Lin Zuhui.

"Well, I must strengthen my studies in this area."

At this moment, Long Jingchang was a little surprised. First came the comics, then games, and now the Internet. He was not surprised by the boss's ambition, but by the boss's long-term vision.Now is the prosperous period of paper media. If other bosses have achieved such achievements, they would have already enjoyed the fruits of victory on the credit book, while their own boss is always thinking about the future.

After Long Jingchang left, Luo Bencheng from Wanhui Comics Club came to his office. The comics industry is currently the most important industry of Wanhui Media, not one of them, so Luo Bencheng is also a member of the group, and he also serves as the director of the company.

Lin Zuhui said: "Assemble a comic team for me. This time I have greater requirements for the artist and plot concept of the comic. It is a big production, and I hope to become the fourth big IP of our company's Japanese comic series. "

In fact, Wanhui Media's three major Japanese manga IPs are actually very good in painting, and the more they draw, the better they are. At least they have the success of several major publishing houses in Japan.The Japanese see that Wanhui Media has so many big IPs, but they are just envious and jealous.

Luo Bencheng suddenly became excited, because all the themes (outlines) hand-picked by the boss must be classic works, that's right, the boss's vision and ideas are really genius.

"No problem, Boss! Now our comprehensive strength of comics, even if we go to Japan, we can still rank among the top five comic publishing houses. Although there are some flaws in the early stage, it has become much better now!"

Lin Zuhui nodded. He didn't dare to invest too much in the early stage. Now that Wanhui Comic Club has funds and talent reserves, it has naturally improved in all aspects.

He directly handed a piece of information to Luo Bencheng, and said: "A friend told me that there are very few pirate-themed comics, including in the Japanese comics industry. So, he conceived a pirate-themed comic, and you will form a team later , you can use this information as an outline.”

Robben knew it well, regardless of whether he had the friend of the boss or not, but he couldn't talk nonsense.

"As far as I know, there is only "Little Heroes of the North Sea" in Japan for the theme of pirates. In my spare time in the past few years, I have also learned a lot of Japanese manga, and the theme of pirates is indeed rare."

Lin Zuhui said: "For a big comic IP, the plot is more important than the artist, and the world background/setting determines the attractiveness of this big IP. This is why our company has never had a fourth big IP. I Personally, I am quite optimistic about the outline I gave you, but it is only an outline after all, it can only be used as a reference, and real talents are needed to complete the plot and drawing, so don’t waste it.”

Luo Bencheng nodded, and said seriously: "Don't worry, the boss, we are now strong and strong, and there is no shortage of talents."

Wanhui Comic Club implements a division of labor and cooperation between the plot and the artist; unlike Japan, the implemented cartoonist also participates in the plot conception.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that the main writers of Wanhui Comics will not participate in the plot conception, nor does it mean that the Japanese main writers participated in all the plot conceptions; in fact, everyone is a team to complete a large work, but the proportion of participation is different.

The outline of the manga "One Piece" handed over by Lin Zuhui is actually a messy memory. After all, even if you read it, you have almost forgotten most of the small plots. Most of the world background and settings are remembered, so I can only say A material reference is provided.

For another example, "Pokémon" has more than 900 kinds of Pokémon. Who can remember clearly, and the attributes of each Pokémon are even more complicated.

Therefore, the team is still very important and can contribute more to the 'perfection' of this work.

In addition to making good works, Wanhui Comics has also done a lot of work. For example, the company's management team is strong, and it has made great contributions to exporting copyrights and rights protection overseas; in addition, the price of Wanhui Comics' booklets and animation exports, Cheaper than Japanese ones, it aims to establish an early 'bait' and lay the foundation for making big money in the future.

Villa No. 36 Shi Xun Road (formerly Chartered Taipan House).

Li Jiaxin showed Ms. He a tour of her mansion, with a bit of pride in her eyes.There are less than 200 garden-style detached villas in Hong Kong, and there are even fewer hilltop villas, but she owns one.

"How is it? Is it not as good as Xu's mansion?" Li Jiaxin said with a smile.

Ms. He said angrily: "Smug! You know it well, we don't live in Xu's mansion, how can it be as luxurious as yours?"

An enemy in the previous life, a best friend in this life, and the leader of the celebrity circle.Miss He and Li Jiaxin have a celebrity circle, and they are the two with the most status.

Li Jiaxin suddenly started to gossip: "How is your relationship recently?"

Ms. He's expression darkened, and then said lightly: "That's it!" Then she continued: "You will have a drink with me later!"

Li Jiaxin is the owner who shows off everywhere, and immediately said: "Okay! Our LEIT Group has recently acquired a second-class estate in Bordeaux, France--Luchen Family Estate. I happened to take a few boxes. Treat you tonight. Bottles of good vintages to taste."

The LEIT Group’s successful acquisition of the Luchen family estate has aroused great repercussions in France and Xiangjiang. Xiangjiang even set off a wave of buying red wine estates in Bordeaux. Possibly, most small and medium-sized manors will be sold.

There are more than 60 wineries listed for sale in the Bordeaux area every year, so there is no shortage of goods.However, it is very difficult for Bordeaux wineries to make money, because the labor union there is strong, and the operation methods must strictly follow the laws and regulations of the Bordeaux region, and it is impossible to improve labor efficiency.

Ms. He is already very familiar with Li Jiaxin's character, so she naturally doesn't care about these small things; in fact, the two got together because of Lin Zuhui's relationship at the beginning. Li Jiaxin is Lin Zuhui's woman, and Ms. He is Lin Zuhui's good friend. The relationship between the two companies is good, and there are many business cooperations.

But gradually, the two did become good friends and best girlfriends.

To put it in a very realistic way, the so-called friendship means that the two parties can use and cooperate with each other. If they can't use each other one day, the friendship relationship will fade away.If the disparity in status is too great, it is naturally difficult to become friends.

Ms. He hugged Li Jiaxin's son again, she couldn't put it down, she thought it was very cute and smart.It wasn't until the servant called for dinner that she reluctantly handed Lin Wenjun to the nanny.

During the meal, the two women chatted while drinking.

Miss He suddenly asked: "I have a question, you are not allowed to pass it on!"

Li Jiaxin looked like I was that kind of person, and then said: "Well, keep it secret for you!"

Ms. He asked cautiously: "Your condition is so good, is there anything about him that deserves your grievances?"

Li Jiaxin was taken aback, it was difficult to answer this question, anyway, she never thought about leaving Lin Zuhui, because she followed Lin Zuhui very early, and her thoughts had already been fixed.

After thinking for a long time, Li Jiaxin said: "I don't know, anyway, I never thought about leaving him, there is no reason, I haven't considered this question for 8 years, so I can't answer you."

Ms. He secretly cursed Lin Zuhui's "wolf's ambition" and got her hands on it.Of course, she won't spread rumors indiscriminately, and she can't afford to offend Lin Zuhui.

"Then let me ask this question differently. Your man is very caring. You spend very little time with you, so you have no objection? I'm not trying to provoke the relationship between the two of you, I'm just asking!" Miss He said sincerely .

Li Jiaxin pursed her lips and said, "It's impossible for you to provoke my relationship with Brother Hui. Our son is over two years old and we have a good relationship! Let me tell you, lest you be curious, I don't think it is necessary to stick to each other every day. Let's go together, my man is super strong"

Miss He blushed immediately, and said in a broken mouth, "Why are you telling me this!"

Li Jiaxin smiled and said: "You want to ask about our private affairs! By the way, is your guy as good as my brother Hui!"

"Go, you said everything!"

At this time, both women had drunk a lot of wine, and their faces were slightly flushed.

So Ms. He couldn't help but said: "Your man can really last for two hours, and that's not how he brags about showing affection!"

Li Jiaxin said: "If you don't believe me, you will pull him down, otherwise, why do you think he is flirtatious!"

(End of this chapter)