"Okay, okay! Look at you, you really don't have patience."
After selling for a while, he was kept silent. Seeing that Lin Chaoyang was about to hang up the phone, Luan Walter quickly told the matter.
"Time magazine wants to interview you, the kind on the cover!"
Lin Chaoyang was really surprised when he heard this.
Luan Walter said proudly: "How is it? Is this good news?"
"certainly."
After all, it is one of the three major American weekly magazines, with extraordinary influence and cover treatment. Lin Chaoyang doesn’t care at all, and he is somewhat famous and famous.
"Is it your publisher who contacted me?" he asked.
"It has nothing to do with us. Time magazine took the initiative to take the photo. It seems that you still don't realize the power of the "Lin Chaoyang phenomenon". Lin, what I just said is not an exaggeration.
As a phenomenal figure of the year in the American cultural circle, you are completely worthy of the cover of Time magazine.
Luan Walter's words are not a compliment. Over the past period, the sensational effect of Lin Chaoyang and his works in the American cultural circle has been really rare.
If Lin Chaoyang had not returned to Xiangjiang now, he would have become the darling of the media.
When the publicity department of Random House discussed, the discussion was that if Lin Chaoyang was an American, he could become an idol of the whole nation with just a little package.
After half an hour of cross-border phone call, Lin Chaoyang ran to the kitchen to see his meat. He was indeed stewed on the stove. This morning, Tao Yumo said he was greedy for pig's trotters.
Stewed pork trotters with soybeans is a hard-working dish. Remove hair, soak, blanch, stir-fry sugar, and stew it. - It is not easy to make without three hours.
That is, Lin Chaoyang has the time to cook such dishes recently.
Of course, the more important reason is that the two little guys at home are about to officially start summer vacation after school today, so I have to celebrate.
In the evening, all those who go to work and school go home. When they come to the kitchen door, they smell the scent that floats out.
No one could walk anyway.
"Dad, when can I eat?" Dongdong's greedy saliva almost leaked out.
"It's almost done, go and set up the dishes!"
Dongdong's fat figure immediately rushed between the restaurant and the kitchen. Although there was a nanny at home, Lin Chaoyang and his wife could still exercise their children to do things within their ability.
"Dad! Brother steals food!"
Yan Yan, who was guarding the side, suddenly shouted, Lin Chaoyang looked back and saw Dongdong with both hands behind her back.
He looked nervous and had not had time to wipe off the oil stains on the corners of his mouth.
Tao Yumo came over and picked up a pig's trotter and stuffed it into Dongdong's mouth, "Eat it! You little girl will complain to you in one day!"
Yan Yan said aggrievedly: "It was him who stole the food, why are you talking about me?"
"You eat one too!" Tao Yumo knew that the girl felt unbalanced when she saw her brother eating secretly, so she stuffed a piece into Yan Yan's mouth.
The little girl immediately smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed.
"This little thought!" Tao Yumo whipped, and stuffed a pig's trotter into his mouth, and immediately showed a satisfied expression on his face, which was exactly the same as Yan Yan.
"You still have the face to talk to her!"
As soon as Tao Yushu came over, he saw Tao Yumo taking the lead in stealing food.
"I have such a big workload recently, what's wrong with eating some good things?" Tao Yumo said with a sarcastic remark.
Tao Yushu shook his head. No matter when, as long as he was criticized, he would definitely have a lot of words waiting.
After returning from the United States, Tao Yushu fulfilled his promise and promoted Yulang's agency to acquire Sugar Games.
After a fierce "negotiation", the company's valuation was set at HK$580 million.
Sugar Game has only been established for three and a half years, with less than 200 employees. The net profit last year was around HK$45 million, and the valuation of HK$580 million was significantly higher. The reasonable price should be around HK$400 million to HK$450 million.
The extra premium of more than 100 million is actually paying for the IP influence of several games under Sugar Games.
The year before yesterday, "Xuanyuan Sword" was released and sold over 150,000 sets that year, and the cumulative sales have exceeded 194,000 sets so far. In April this year, "Xuanyuan Sword 2: The Heroes of Gods and Demons" was released, continuing the hot momentum of the first part.
The sales volume exceeded 100,000 units in the first month of listing, and so far the cumulative sales have reached 227,000 units.
There is also the popular game "Legend of Sword and Fairy", which was blessed by the original comics and became very popular after its release last year, achieving an amazing result of 380,000 sets.
In addition, the casual strategy game "Monopoly" that started with Sugar Games has also been released for two generations, with a total sales of 55,000 sets.
With three games, "Monopoly", "Xuanyuan Sword" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy", the basic structure of the sugar game is solid. Even if you don't want to make progress in the future, you can eat it for a few years just by relying on your old capital.
However, Lin Tai is a decent person and cannot be too ugly to look at. The acquisition uses 50% cash and 50% stock.
The original equity ratio of Sugar Game was Tao Yumo: Tao Yushu: Yulang Institution = 50%: 40%: 10%.
Because it is a 100% equity acquisition, Yulang Institution needs to pay 522 million yuan, including HK$261 million in cash and 261 million in stock.
The stocks used for acquisition are issued by additional issuance. In theory, Yulang Institution only paid a financing fee, but actually paid less than HK$2.9.
With the additional issuance of the company's stocks, the shareholding ratio of each shareholder will also decrease accordingly. However, because Tao Yushu's shareholding ratio of Yulang Institution was only reduced by 1 point, the exchange was nearly 120 million yuan in cash.
In addition, Tao Yumo also obtained a 3.5% stake in Yulang Institution.
In this way, the equity of Yulang institutional that Tao Yushu can control has been restored to more than 67%, and its control over the company has become stronger than before.
The sisters paid nothing more than the equity of Sugar Games, but the problem was that Sugar Games was still under the control of the sisters, but they had just changed their names. This is the beauty of capital operation.
Sugar Games has developed rapidly since its establishment for more than three years and has become the only game company in Xiangjiang and even the entire Chinese-speaking world.
Yulang Institution has made strategic investments in Sugar Games earlier. The development of Sugar Games in the past two years has also boosted the stock price of Yulang Institution.
After the announcement of the acquisition, it immediately triggered a strong response from the market.
In the past two years, while the industry is developing steadily, Yulang Institution has continuously extended its tentacles to the animation, games and copyright derivative fields, and has achieved good results.
Now that Sugar Games is going to acquire a promising game company, the stocks immediately attracted enthusiastic pursuit from investors.
On the day the news was released, the company's stock price was positive and rose in response.
In the next three or four days, the stock price rose first and then fell, and finally stabilized, and the market value of Yulang Institution successfully exceeded the HK$5 billion mark.
Sugar Games belongs to the emerging electronic game industry, and its development in recent years is obvious to all. Excellent works are frequently released. Yulang Institution acquires it under its jurisdiction, which can strengthen the linkage between company businesses in the future and has a bright future.
The stock price and market value hit a new high, fully demonstrating the market and investors' recognition of the acquisition.
Less than four years after its establishment, the company's valuation was nearly HK$600 million. After the acquisition, the cash obtained was only HK$140 million. Tao Yumo was very proud recently.
Of course, I am really busy. Although the acquisition case of hundreds of millions of yuan is the one with my own left hand and right hand, the procedures are still formal.
As the acquired party, she must cooperate with Yulang organization to perform a series of due diligence work.
"You have only been there, and the Yulang agency will be even busier in the future," said Tao Yushu.
"I'm not like you, I like to take care of everything. As the boss has done all his work, can I make a living by doing it?
Just leave all the work to them. If you do it well, do it. If you don’t do it well, get out!"
After being a boss for several years, Tao Yumo has gradually grown into a qualified black-hearted capitalist.
Tao Yushu opened her mouth and was about to "teach by example", but then she thought that if she took over the company in the future, it would be impossible for her to listen to her in everything.
Then I stopped my preaching idea and changed to a relaxed topic.
"After the acquisition, more than one million yuan is obtained, what are you planning to do?"
Hearing this, Tao Yumo's face smiled like a chrysanthemum.
When she thought about getting 140 million Hong Kong dollars soon, she felt the urge to jump up.
"I haven't thought about it yet."
"Buy a yacht!" Lin Chaoyang suggested.
Tao Yumo shook her head firmly, "What are you doing for buying that thing? Being arrogant and extravagant!"
"Then buy a car or a house?"
Tao Yumo thought about it, "No. The house in the middle of the mountain has been empty. How big can I live alone? I don't like driving."
The house in the middle of the mountain was a million-dollar mansion given to her by Lin Chaoyang a few years ago. Tao Yumo loved to be lively and lived in Shenshui Bay. The house was left for three years, and the ash fell on several floors.
Fortunately, it can appreciate. House prices have risen by 30% in the past two years, which is exaggerated than grabbing money.
When she was young, she rushed to drive Tao Yushu's motorcycle, but now she is getting older and has no interest in these things.
She turned around and gave it to her nephew to drive the big Benches that she won by bet with Du Feng.
In contrast, the fact that making money itself makes her feel more accomplished.
"You don't want to use this money to trade stocks, right? I advise you, don't listen to Maggie!" Lin Chaoyang advised.
Tao Yumo ignored his witty words, thought for a while, and said, "There is nothing I want to buy. Then take out 20 million and give it to the brothers in the company!"
"~ General Administration Tao is angry!" Lin Chaoyang exclaimed and asked again, "You pay for the bonus to the employees yourself, is it a loss, right?"
"It's not a matter of whether to suffer losses or not. Everyone is fighting to make money, just to make money. Everyone has made contributions to the company's development so well."
When you live a thousand years of life, you treat people as animals and when you share money, you are not vague, which is very consistent with Tao Yumo's usual style.
"I've divided the money so that they can continue to work hard for you, right?" Tao Yushu teased.
"Look at what you said, can they get so much money for other bosses?"
The Sugar Game has less than 200 employees, and the average number of employees per person is 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.
After selling the company to share the money for employees, such a boss does not exist in Xiangjiang at all.
Tao Yushu did not object to his sister's behavior of giving money to employees. The most important thing in the cultural industry is content, and the content is created by talents.
The contribution of those hardworking employees to achieve such great results in a short period of time is beyond doubt.
It is a wise decision to spend some money to win over core talents, but it is still too rough to spend money like this.
"In the future, these employees will be granted options by the company based on their performance," she said.
"Options are options, and they won't delay my money."
Tao Yushu felt that her sister had always been obsessed with money, but she didn't expect that she was so determined in giving money, which made her feel that it was really not in line with her sister's personality.
Finally, Lin Chaoyang revealed the secret in one sentence, "She is thief, she is about to take over Yulang's organization, can't she win over her basic base first? Sugar Game is her base camp!"
Tao Yushu suddenly realized in his heart, and looked at his sister with a calm look on his face.
"The company is going to hand it over to me soon, you guys care about that much!"
Lin Chaoyang joked, "See you? Mr. Tao is called having a strategy and planning."
He said he wanted to hand over the company to Tao Yumo, but how could Tao Yushu feel at ease to hand over it to his sister a listed company with a market value of billions of Hong Kong dollars?
According to her plan, after the sugar game was acquired, Tao Yumo had to go to Yulang's agency to be her deputy first.
Gradually become familiar with the company's business.
Then, the company will be handed over to her depending on the situation, and this time will not be less than one year.
Tao Yushu said: "Do you think it's so easy to manage a listed company?"
"How difficult can it be? When I take power, the first thing I do is to change the name of the company, what is the name of the 'Yulang Institution', it's so vulgar!"
Tao Yumo has been very proud recently and is ruthless in complaining about her own sister's aesthetic taste.
In fact, Tao Yushu doesn’t like the name Yulang Institution much, but when he first acquired Yulang Institution, it was in turmoil.
She didn't have strong control over the company, and she felt that changing the name would be more likely to cause trouble, so she continued the name.
After that, the company developed better, and she had stronger control, so she didn't care about such things anymore.
From this idea, we can also see that Tao Yumo acts more outward and bolder than Tao Yushu.
"I have a lot of ideas. I'll talk big when you really get your home!" Tao Yushuya stole her sister.
It’s not that she doesn’t support Tao Yumo, but she is just afraid that her sister will suffer from the loss of courage and diligence.
"Wait, it will surprise you then!"
The success of the sugar game undoubtedly greatly inspired Tao Yumo's business confidence, and now it can be said that he is ambitious.
After saying this, she did not forget to show off: "By the way, you don't know yet, do you? Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal
The Asian version wants to interview me!"
Lin Chaoyang pretended to be surprised, "Oh! It's amazing, I've become a commercial giant!"
Tao Yumo snorted at him, "Sarcastic."
"How is this called sarcastic? Brother-in-law, I am really happy for you. Yumo is amazing. How old is he? He has appeared in such an important financial media, proving that your business achievements have been recognized by authoritative media!"
The pleasant praise made Tao Yumo smile happily, "The main reason is that you have vision, brother-in-law, you can see my talent at a glance and give me some advice! The sugar game has come to this day, and your brother-in-law will also be your contribution."
"I'm just giving some idea. The real hero is still you. You sisters are the boss of the mall."
When Tao Yumo heard this title, her face looked a little disgusted, "What a king flower! Brother-in-law, you are still a writer. We are called the two-beauty competing show!"
Lin Chaoyang clapped his hands, "This is a good statement! Look, Yumo is still talented, I can't do it!"
"Where are there."
Tao Yumo was dancing with her eyebrows sang by Lin Chaoyang, and her eyes were smiling like crescent moons.
Tao Yushu looked at the two live treasures and looked amused and crying.
At this time, Lin Chaoyang said again: "It's a coincidence. You said the Wall Street Journal is going to interview you, and there will be media going to interview me in two days!"
Just as Lin Chaoyang was praised, Tao Yumo was overjoyed, and he was not at all wary and said in a respectful manner: "Is that so? Which media?"
"It's also from the United States, Time magazine!"
As the old saying goes, the smile will not disappear, it will only shift.
Lin Chaoyang smiled so hard that his teeth grinned and looked terrified. Tao Yumo couldn't laugh anymore. Her eyes slammed Lin Chaoyang's face, and her mouth became unwilling, looking a little unhappy.
At this moment, she couldn't tell that Lin Chaoyang was just tempted by her.
On the surface, he praised her, but in fact he took the opportunity to praise himself, and finally attacked her in disguise.
Fortunately, she was so happy just now, she was so cunning!
"Time" Weekly - · It's really amazing!" Tao Yumo wanted to make a few sarcastic words, but the pit Lin Chaoyang dug just now was too deep, so she could only say something sour.
"On average."
The more modest Lin Chaoyang was, the more uncomfortable Tao Yumo felt. He was in a good mood and was completely ruined now.
"snort!"
She was in a bad mood and turned her grief and anger into appetite. She ate for a while, chose the dishes and left the dining table.
"Haha!" Tao Yushu held it in for a long time and couldn't help laughing.
Lin Chaoyang chuckled and said, "This girl is so arrogant when she has a little bit of a small achievement. She must be hit."
"You, it's so bad!"
After dinner, Dongdong put forward his first wish for summer vacation: "Dad, I will go to watch "Chinese Heroes" tomorrow!"
"Chinese Heroes" is an animated feature film co-produced by Lin's Film, Yulang Institution and Shanghai-US Factory, with a production cycle of 12
In months, this efficiency is very high for a 90-minute animated feature film.
The reason is nothing more than sufficient investment in the movie. As an animated feature film, the investment of "Chinese Heroes" is as high as 12 million yuan.
You should know that in 1999, the Shanghai and the United States factory used all the factories to create the "Bao Lotus Lantern" and invited a group of celebrities to join the dubbing and promote the investment, and only invested 12 million yuan.
Compared with the 12 million yuan in 1999, the 12 million yuan now is a huge sum of money. Combined with the cheap human resources of Shanghai and American factories, the production efficiency of "Heroes of China" is naturally not slow.
The release date of the movie in Xiangjiang is scheduled to be held on July 1, and you can harvest pocket money from primary and secondary school students during the summer vacation.
"You can watch a movie, go and wash the bowl first." Lin Chaoyang said.
"oh."
Life is not easy, and young winter sighs.
The next morning, Lin Chaoyang and his two children ran to the cinema under the Lin Family Theater to watch "Chinese Heroes".
Because Yulang's organization is now in the hands of Tao Yushu, the ATV version of "Chinese Heroes" starring He Jiajin has not been born. This animation adaptation is the first animation film and television adaptation of "Chinese Heroes".
As the popular Hong Kong comic king in the 1980s, the status of the comic fans in "Chinese Heroes" needs no further description. This classic comic is animated for the first time and countless comic fans are looking forward to it.
As a publisher, Lin's Pictures has also spent a lot of effort on publicity.
There are promotional posters of "Chinese Heroes" everywhere along the bus, subway, inside and outside the theater. Its popularity is no less than that of Hong Kong blockbusters.
After buying the ticket, he entered the cinema. Dongdong was so excited that it seemed that the engine was installed on the indigo.
Yan Yan is a girl and has no interest in "Chinese Heroes", so she sat quietly aside.
Lin Chaoyang leisurely glanced at the situation in the cinema hall. It was morning, and most of the people were sitting in the cinema. Unlike the imagination, they were all Xiaodouding. Most of the cinema were young people in their twenties.
It's normal to think that "Chinese Heroes" has been serialized since 1980, and it has been twelve years since then. The group of Xiaodouding, who was chasing comics in stationery stores, has grown up.
"Chinese Heroes" has a grand world view, many characters appearing, and the plot is ups and downs, and it has not yet been completed.
Therefore, at the beginning of the adaptation, Lin's Film and Yulang Institution formulated a trilogy plan, which began in 1992.
A theater version is released every two years.
By 1996, Ma Rongcheng's comics will be completed with the third part of the theatrical version, giving "Chinese Heroes" a perfect ending.
The patch ad ends and the movie officially begins.
The first plot of "Chinese Heroes" revolves around the tragic disaster of the Hua family. When wanted by the government, Hua Yingxiong took the red sword and escaped onto the piglet ship to the United States, and Hua Yingxiong was sold.
I went to Turtle Island to work as a miner.
He fought against foreign mine owners on Turtle Island, became a disciple of Jin Ao and Zuidian. He gathered good martial arts and sword skills, and then fought a desperate battle with the brothers, the murder organization, and the Black Dragon Association.
In the end, the sword saints helped each other, and the villains Qian Wuyi and Jin Taibao were defeated. The adaptation of the story ended with the Chinese hero immigrating to the United States is not amazing, but the original work is restored very well, especially those of senior painters from Shanghai and American factories.
Joining has improved the style of "Chinese Heroes" by two levels compared to the comics.
While ensuring the original work's realistic and delicate style, it integrates into the ink style that Shanghai Film Studio is good at. The whole film is full of chic and elegant martial arts style.
"It's so good!" After coming out of the cinema, Dongdong was still feeling a little unsatisfied and asked Lin Chaoyang: "Dad, when will the next movie "Heroes of China" be released?"
"Waiting for you to go to the sixth grade."
"Ah! It's so long?" Dongdong was disappointed when she heard this answer.
Lin Chaoyang smiled. Two years was indeed too long for a child who was just ten years old.
After playing outside for most of the day with her two children, she returned home in the afternoon. Nanny Adi said there was a call from the United States.
Lin Chaoyang thought it was a reporter from Time magazine to contact him, but the phone called back and it turned out to be Robert Gottlieb.
Chapter completed!