Shenhao's comfortable life

Chapter 537 Platinum Level Persuasion (for Subscription)
As a response to the excellent box office of "Iron Man", just last night, Walt Disney released news to the outside world, announcing the launch of the acquisition plan of Marvel Comics. Acquisition!
With the news released by Walt Disney to the outside world, the shares of Marvel Comics rose accordingly!The majority of the American people are convinced of this news, because Walt Disney announced the news with a gesture of certainty, so they plan to follow Walt Disney to have a sip of soup. For a period of time, Marvel's stock has reached its daily limit!
Of course, even if the stock appreciates, no one will doubt whether Walt Disney can acquire Marvel. In this country where capital is king, no one can remain indifferent to $30 billion.Today will be the first negotiation between Walt Disney and Marvel Comics.

It was under such circumstances that Xiao Zhu came to Fifth Avenue in New York, a world-famous business circle full of people coming and going. Xiao Zhu and Jessica came to the front of No. 417 building in a low-key way, looked up Looking at it, the headquarters of Marvel Tower is impressively listed.

This headquarters building is actually very famous. It has appeared in superhero films such as "Spiderman", "Iron Man" and "Hulk", and has become one of New York's landmark buildings in the film.

"Sir, who are you looking for?"

The receptionist was an "old woman" in her 30s. When Xiao Zhu came over, the woman was putting on makeup in front of the mirror, as if she had just come to work.

"We're looking for Mr. Stan Lee." Jessica stepped forward and negotiated with him.

"Do you have an appointment?"

The "old woman" said casually, and opened the newspaper while talking. This is the latest "New York Times". In the past few days, Xiao Zhu's name kept appearing on newspapers, but today, Xiao Zhu The frequently appearing position was occupied by a piece of news: Walt Disney announced the acquisition of Marvel Comics!

"Yes, our boss..."

Before Jessica finished speaking, Xiao Zhu took a step forward and said coldly to the old woman: "I don't care if you have received instructions from above, I think you should know my identity, tell Stan Lee, I'm here for the board, and if he doesn't come down to greet me within 20 minutes, then I'll treat him as not taking my investment seriously, and I'll turn around and leave."

What a joke, for the front desk receptionist of a big company, how could it be possible to greet guests with such a "negligent" attitude? Moreover, Marvel is a subscription company of The New York Times, and Xiao Zhu's name and photo often appear in The "New York Times" reported that under such circumstances, as the front desk of a large company, doesn't this "old woman" know Xiao Zhu?

No matter how you look at it, it looks like some usual negotiating means, and even this matter itself may have been ordered by Marvel executives. After all, Xiao Zhu came here to discuss the details of "cooperation", and from Marvel's point of view, Xiao Zhu It represents an individual, single and weak.

If the front desk is made to make things difficult for a little bit, and then executives like Stan Lee come forward to reprimand them and put on a good show of pretending to slap their faces, it will naturally bring the relationship between them closer immediately.Xiao Zhu in his previous life had actually encountered this kind of drama several times.

"Forehead"

The old woman was stunned on the spot, looking at Xiao Zhu's eyes, revealing a trace of fear, she almost instinctively looked to the side of the company, there was an office area, blocked by shutters, but now, the shutters have been lowered.

Xiao Zhu didn't say any more, but looked at the Patek Philippe on his wrist, and said, "It's 8:49 in the morning."

"Haha, Mr. Greeter, good morning, we meet again!"

At this moment, the figure of Stan Lee appeared in the office area on the first floor, and the old man strode towards Xiao Zhu, stretching out his hands enthusiastically as he walked.

Xiao Zhu shook hands with Stan Lee, looked at him with a half-smile and said, "I remember that there was a similar plot in the movie. This tried-and-true routine really wins the favor of others."

It's just that it would be very embarrassing if someone exposed it... Xiao Zhu didn't say this, but Stan Lee could also hear the implication.

He looked at Xiao Zhu apologetically, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Gerrett, you have misunderstood, today's incident was not my intention, and there is a force in the company that opposes your participation."

While speaking, Stan Lee invited Xiao Zhu to a lounge on the first floor, and explained to him the current situation of Marvel in detail.

The creator of Marvel Comics is Martin Goodman. He is a publisher and created Marvel Comics in the late 30s. During this period, although Marvel Comics has experienced twists and turns, the founder’s equity has been continuously diluted , But until now, Martin Goodman is still the major shareholder of Marvel Comics, holding about 30% of the shares.

Stan Lee is the brother-in-law of Martin Goodman. Most of the shares in his hands come from the scattered shares of Martin Goodman. Jack Kirby, a comic author who later joined Marvel, joined forces with Stan Lee to create the Avengers comics!
Jack Kobe, on the other hand, prefers the company to be acquired by Walt Disney. He believes that the company's acquisition by Walt Disney can bring greater benefits to the company. Jack Kobe is now the main author of Marvel comics. After all, Stan Lee Old, he mostly creates characters and story outlines, and then throws them to the creative department headed by Jack Kirby, and then a superhero comic will be born.

Therefore, the role of Jack Kobe is very important. Although he himself only holds about 5% of the shares of Marvel Comics, his influence ranks among the top three in Marvel!

According to Stan Lee, it was Jack Kobe who made things difficult for Xiao Zhu this time, and Jack Kobe controls Walt Disney’s voting rights in most cases, that is to say, his personal shares are equal to Walt Disney’s shares. Plus, close to 30% of the shares give Jack Kobe a huge say.

"So, Mr. Great, before today's negotiations start, I hope you can meet Jack Kobe, please persuade him."

In the end, Stan Lee said this to Xiao Zhu.

"No problem, take me to see Jack Kobe and give me half an hour."

When Xiao Zhu said this, he was straightforward, but Stan Lee was surprised for a while.

But then, Stan Lee still brought Xiao Zhu to Jack Kobe's office.

This is the third floor of the Marvel Building, which is also the core department of Marvel: the Creation Department. When Stan Lee brought Xiao Zhu over, countless employees fell silent. They paid attention to Xiao Zhu, and it has spread throughout the company. : Faced with the olive branch offered by Walt Disney, the company decided to take the lead in cooperating with Gretel Diao, a rich man from the East. This is really hard for ordinary employees to understand.

"That person is Gretel Diao!"

"It doesn't look like anything. It's only 1.8 meters. It's so thin. If I punch him, he might fall to the ground."

"Don't underestimate him. I heard that he wrote a novel called "The Hunger Games", which is very popular with women."

"Stupid woman!"

The entire office area was in chaos. In this situation, the door of the inner office was pushed open, and a man with a weakened figure came out of it. He came to Xiao Zhu with a smile on his face, and introduced himself: "You Okay, Mr. Gretel, I'm Jack Kobe, I heard you want to buy a stake in Marvel? Let me tell you, it's impossible!"

With a smile on his face and decisive words, in front of countless employees, Jack Kobe didn't give Xiao Zhu face at all!

Xiao Zhu's expression froze. He hadn't encountered such a scene for a long time since he was promoted to the fourth level of the An Yi system. He stared at Jack Kirby in front of him, and suddenly said, "Mr. Stan Lee, please help me and this gentleman." Arrange a quiet place, I need to have a good talk with Mr. Jack Kirby."

"No, I don't think you can bring anything to Marvel Comics except money, but Walt Disney can, it's a mature film production and distribution company, and its capital injection marks all the superheroes in Marvel Comics , will speed up to the big screen, so even if you offer three times the price of Walt Disney, I will choose to refuse!"

Jack Kobe said categorically, and with his words, the employees were in an uproar.

"My God, more than three times the price of Walt Disney, isn't that $90 billion?"

"How is it possible, is this Chinese man so rich?"

"Mr. Jack is right, what we Marvel need are channels and production companies! Not a pile of dollars."

Stan Lee's complexion was a bit ugly. Jack Kobe's words seemed to say that he contacted Xiao Zhu for money, but in fact, he was only willing to let Xiao Zhu become a shareholder. From the beginning to the end, he and Xiao Zhu did not talk about the complete acquisition of Marvel. possibility.Stan Lee believes that letting Xiao Zhu become a shareholder and then introducing Walt Disney is the best solution for Marvel.

To put it bluntly, neither Jack Kobe nor Stan Lee believed that Xiao Zhu had the ability to acquire Marvel.So at this time Xiao Zhu was frowning: According to his plan, he really didn't want to spend too much to acquire Marvel, but looking at the faces of these people, he was really upset!

Moreover, in view of the contradictions and demands of the two people, there seems to be some room for manipulation.

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhu took this opportunity to open the system panel, but this time, he directly opened the gold prize pool of Anyi Mall.

Ever since the An Yi system was promoted to the fourth level, Xiao Zhu has never drawn the gold prize pool. Even if the gold prize pool has been refreshed later, Xiao Zhu has not drawn a lottery, because unlike his previous life, Xiao Zhu has a high degree of comfort in this life. , and now it has reached platinum!And it has a comfort value of 150 points!He can directly split the platinum-level comfort points, and use them to directly purchase extraordinary items below the gold-level from the system, such as persuasion cards, etc. These are all items with incredible magical effects.

Compared with these, the things in the gold prize pool are not cost-effective.

It's just that Xiao Zhu suddenly had the idea of ​​"acquiring Marvel", which seemed impossible to him at the moment, so he opened the gold prize pool.

Looking at the reputation, the reputation value of 3000 million is enough for Xiao Zhu to directly drain the gold prize pool.

Click on the lottery draw, and an item appears in front of you: a black technology prop "Extraordinary Wings", which is a personal flying machine, which is of no use to Xiao Zhu, so continue to draw the lottery.

After smoking for a full 5 minutes, Xiao Zhu finally stopped. He got a platinum item:

Persuasion card:
Item Level: Platinum

Item Attributes: Extraordinary
Item function: In the next hour, tell the other party what you think, and make the other party accept it.

Item restrictions: 1. Please note that the idea of ​​intent to persuade must be logical. 2. The influence of the target must not exceed the "platinum category". 3. This item cannot be stacked.

This is it!

Seeing this card, Xiao Zhu's eyes lit up. He had successfully "persuaded" Wu Fan with a bronze-level persuasion card. Compared with that scumbag bronze, noble platinum is naturally stronger!And the highest level of the persuasion card is platinum!

"Mr. Gretel, please come in."

At this time, Stan Lee had "successfully" and "persuaded" Jack Kobe—if you ignored Jack Kobe's ugly face and the words "Don't try to convince me" that he kept muttering in his mouth.

Xiao Zhu smiled slightly, and strode in.

"Don't try to convince me, it's impossible!"

Jack Kobe sat on a chair with his legs crossed, and looked at Xiao Zhu playfully, with an attitude that he would definitely refuse.

Xiao Zhu opened the storage bar and chose to use the props. He looked at Jack Kobe seriously, and began to talk endlessly:

"First of all, Mr. Jack Kirby, I want to tell you that I am not alone. I own the shares of Warner Bros. and I am a shareholder of Warner Bros. In fact, among the eight major film and television production companies in Hollywood, Warner Bros.'s annual box office has always been the highest. Above Walt Disney, No. [-]."

Jack Kobe was taken aback for a moment, his expression calmed down instantly, and he sat up straight.

"Secondly, I have my own production company and agency company. I have superstars like Julia Roberts and future potential stocks like Scarlett Johansson under my command. I am also an author. Whether you admit it or not, I His work "The Hunger Games" has been registered in the United States and has achieved good results."

Jack Kobe nodded subconsciously. He is a rational person, and he would not feel that Xiao Zhu was cheating just because his grades in "The Hunger Games" were so good.

"Third, I told Stan Lee that my investment in Marvel Comics is US$16 billion, and only 15% of the shares are needed. With this money, Marvel can expand further without even looking at Hua Walt Disney's face, from now on, Marvel Comics will no longer be short of money, do you really want to rely on others to look at Walt Disney's face to do future creations?"

"Fourth, when I become a shareholder of Marvel Comics, I will integrate its resources. The resources of Warner Corporation will be shared with my company New Century Entertainment. If Marvel joins in, then it will also enjoy this. The production of the movie? The channel? Sorry, I have both..."

(End of this chapter)