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"Mr. Xu, this is the document just sent from Hongmeng."

Xu Liang took it and took a look, then took out his cell phone and dialed.

It rang for a moment and then connected.

"Mr. Xu."

"Old Sun, Youku is developing well."

Sun Yan said respectfully: "Thanks to your reputation, Mr. Xu, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to go online for three days and have more than 5 million registered users."

"Now that the first shot has been fired, what do you think next?"

"Mr. Xu, we have discussed something, please correct it."

"You speak."

"We feel that celebrity documentary interviews are a hot topic, and with the foundation laid by your interview, we can make it into an online series, similar to "Dialogue" and "A Date with Luyu".

Then make money through post-advertising. "

"Your idea is good, but with the domestic copyright environment, you can't make money."

“It’s true that you can’t make money domestically, but you can definitely make money internationally, especially in Western countries with a good copyright environment.”

"One program cannot support a website."

"We plan to put some documentaries, advertising videos, song MVs, dance videos, and copyrighted short videos that we have acquired previously. In addition, we have also edited some film and television clips.

There are currently 43,894 videos with 153,000 minutes, allowing users to browse for a long time. "

Thanks to Xu Liang for acquiring Universal Pictures and Universal Music.

The former owns the copyrights of nearly 6,000 Hollywood movies, more than 1,000 documentaries, and more than 600 TV series.

The latter also owns the largest number of music copyrights in the world, including of course the copyrights of music MVs.

In addition, Hongmeng has acquired various copyrights under the leadership of Xu Liang over the years.

As soon as Youku was launched globally, it collected nearly 50,000 videos.

"That's not enough."

Xu Liang said directly.

"Mr. Xu, we have surpassed almost all websites on the market."

"What we want is not to surpass others, but to be unique. Look at the planning project you have at hand. According to what you said, all the videos were prepared by us. Are there any users involved?

Youku is a Chinese video website. What is the foundation of a Chinese video website?

It’s not how many videos we put on it, it’s how many videos users upload on it.

Otherwise, I might as well make a long video website, why bother? "

Sun Yan was nervous and sweating like rain. As the president of Youku's global development and directly responsible for China's business, he failed to understand the development intentions of the big boss, which was a big loss for him.

"Mr. Xu, I will hold a meeting immediately and make a new plan based on your requirements."

“Don’t worry about this yet.

Although the strategic development direction of Youku that you led before is wrong, the tactics are still good. First use those previous videos to build Youku’s video library, and then let the group attract traffic to it.

Let’s cultivate some users first.

Half a year later, Youku had a certain foundation and launched a "Youku Global Video Contest". After users upload their videos to the website, all registered users of Youku can like and comment.

Each user can only like once per day.

Videos with the most likes are ranked higher.

In terms of prizes, the top 10,000 people in the world will receive a cash prize of US$1,000.

The top 1,000 in the world will receive a cash prize of US$10,000, as well as an NBA Warriors regular season ticket or a Premier League Manchester United ticket.

The top 100 people in the world will receive US$100,000 each and a digital camera as a gift.

Top ten in the world, US$500,000 per person, one trip to Universal Studios in seven days.

The top three in the world will receive US$1 million each, a photo signed by the idol, and a chance to have lunch together.

Also, you contact the technical department and come up with the real-time ranking system as soon as possible. "

"Mr. Xu..."

Sun Yan's tone was a bit complicated.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

"No, no, no problem, very good. I just think... Mr. Xu, you are really a genius!"

"Stop flattering, I'll see the results in half a year. If Youku doesn't have 30 million global users before the video contest starts, be careful I'll fire you."

"Mr. Xu, I will work hard to meet your requirements as soon as possible."

"Well, let me report my requirements to Mr. Xie, and by the way, elaborate on the details of the 'Youku Global Video Contest'."

After finishing his instructions, Xu Liang hung up the phone.

Sighed slightly.

When running a business, there are still too few people who truly have a strategic vision.

Within Hongmeng, there are four and a half people who have been recognized by him over the years.

One is Xie Wen, chief operating officer of the group, one is Yu Jun, president of Bing, one is Li Haizhen, who is about to become the CEO of Hongmeng Network, and the other is Lei Jun, who has been transferred from the position of president of Kingsoft Corporation to president of Kunlun Computer.

The remaining half is Qian Santai, the president of No. 1 store.

By the way, newly joined Universal Pictures president Ron Meyer also counts as one.

The rest are only relatively good professional managers.

But this is also normal. Top talents are always in the minority.

"Mr. Xu, these are the information of Hongyan's direct subsidiaries that Mr. Xia brought over," Lu Hui said.

After taking it, I briefly turned it over.

The information is divided into three parts.

Representing three companies respectively: Kowloon Tourism, Sanwei Mining Company and Harvest Agriculture Company.

Kowloon Tourism currently has three projects.

The 50 million-yuan Jiulongyu tourist resort has begun operations.

300 million is being invested to develop Songcheng and Prince Heng's Mansion.

Also planned for development are Qingfeng Village and Jingtang Ancient Village.

They are all tourism projects in Yidu, Xu Liang’s hometown.

Although Sanwei Mining Company is named mining, its business is actually divided into two types.

One is mining, and the second is the newly invested and constructed potash fertilizer business.

We originally planned to mine potassium mines in Laos, but we basically gave up after going on a field survey.

The traffic is so bad.

Even if it is mined, it cannot be transported out.

If it was just like this, he could still overcome it, but the millions of bombs left over from the Vietnam War completely cut off all his thoughts.

Let’s just make fertilizer honestly.

Finally, there is harvest farming.

It is also the company with the largest investment in Hongyan.

It invested 1.41 billion Chinese dollars in cash and 6.765 billion Chinese dollars in debt, integrating 13.29 million tons of domestic soybean processing capacity and 3.25 million tons of refining capacity.

If the processing capacity of peanut oil and corn oil is included.

Harvest Agriculture’s overall oil crop processing capacity exceeded 21 million tons.

There is also an additional 8.46 million tons of feed processing capacity.

It accounts for 30% of Huaxia’s soybean processing capacity and 23% of its feed processing capacity, ranking first in the industry.

Abroad, a soybean processing plant in Thailand and Vietnam has added 560,000 tons of soybean processing capacity to Harvest Agriculture.

In South Korea and Japan, the oil extraction industry has been integrated, and the remaining companies are basically giants.

And they obviously have experience being cheated by the Big Four.

Would rather lose money than sign a high liquidated damages.

In order to reduce his own losses and realize cash quickly, Xu Liang agreed.

At the end, I couldn't help but frown.

Although it had been expected, the 1.39 million tons of soybean reserves were still too much.

In just one or two months, the price of international soybeans has dropped from more than 9,000 yuan/ton to the current 2,302 yuan/ton.

This is equivalent to a loss of 3,700 yuan per ton.

The overall loss exceeded 5 billion Huaxia coins.

Fortunately, he made enough money, otherwise he would have died of physical pain.

After pondering for a moment with the information, he called Qiu Mingcheng.

"Mr. Xu."

“What is the overall reserve capacity of Harvest Agriculture now?”

"5.9 million tons, but not all soybeans, but also corn, peanuts and other oil crops."

"Too little. This year we will increase the company's reserve capacity to 10 million tons, half of which will be used to store soybeans."

Through this soybean crisis, we can see how important good reserves are to an oil and fat company.

The key harvest agriculture is not only soybeans, but also oil crops such as corn and peanuts, which are also the bulk of imports from abroad.

"Understood. Mr. Xu, there is something I need you to decide on."

"What's up?"

"Now the international soybean price has dropped so fiercely that it has completely lost all the gains from July last year to now. So some agricultural companies in the southern hemisphere that we worked with last year are contacting us and asking if we still want soybeans.

They can provide cheap spot soybeans. "

"Of course, but remember to keep the price down. Also, don't do too much at one time. With so many soybeans flooding into the market this year, soybean prices will definitely fall."

After responding, Qiu Mingcheng continued.

"Mr. Xu, the price of soybeans has dropped. After many agricultural companies in the southern hemisphere suffered serious losses, many of them must have gone bankrupt. Therefore, I think we should take the opportunity to send out an acquisition team to establish our own soybean production base in the southern hemisphere."

"Mingcheng, are you thinking long-term?"

"Without your advice, I wouldn't have thought so much."

Xu Liang smiled and told: "Soybean investment in the Southern Hemisphere should not be limited to one country, but be as diversified as possible. Also, when making acquisitions, the main focus is on acquiring shares of local agricultural companies. We should not directly intervene."

No matter which sovereign country it is, it is impossible for a foreign company to directly own a large area of ​​agricultural land in its own country.

Therefore, it is important to find a vest.

"OK."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Liang continued to deal with today's work.

I was busy until the afternoon before returning to the villa in Repulse Bay.

An Kaiyue was chatting with her mother when she saw him coming.

After the old lady glared at herself, she left some space for the young couple.

"how do you feel today?"

"It's pretty good, just a little busy."

Since Wang Lingxiang came over, her working hours have been strictly limited.

Except for one and a half hours in the morning and one and a half hours in the afternoon every day, you cannot work at other times.

This makes the career-oriented An Kaiyue very uncomfortable.

But the old woman couldn't offend her, so she was very free.

"Lao Sun is here in the company. You are only responsible for strategic decisions. Three hours a day is enough."

"That's all."

An Kaiyue said helplessly.

"By the way, let me tell you some good news. The Wei family has compromised. They are willing to sell us all the 35.2% of Master Kong's equity they hold, but the asking price is relatively high."

"How many?"

"$500 million."

It's indeed a lot higher, but it's not too exaggerated.