Chapter 84 Departure
After sending the three people away, Jester looked at a cartoon script just sent by Phantom Studio.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has gradually become popular in the past few months, and the sales of the latest episode are even higher than those of Marvel's best-selling series of comics that have been sold for many years. Therefore, the fact that Jester promised to invest in the filming of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animation was dug out by the two authors of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" at the Vision Studio.
After looking through the script sent by Phantom Studio, Jester thought silently.
The script is fine, exactly the same as the popular cartoon he watched in his previous life, but what he is thinking about now is not whether to shoot it, but whether to start shooting it so early.
It's not a matter of money, he is really not short of money now.
After thinking about it, Jester decided to start production immediately. After all, it takes a lot of time to produce cartoons. After it is done, it takes time to broadcast it on the TV station, and it takes time to make the game by yourself. When "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is almost known to the whole country, his game will be almost done. At that time, his console was also released, and the game can be borrowed.
But this is going to happen next year.
Then Jester began to consider another plan. In fact, he had considered this plan early in the morning, but he had not decided whether it would be implemented. After all, it was a merger and acquisition plan involving tens of millions of dollars.
Jester has long been familiar with the DND rules that were born in 1974, and he is also very greedy.
And Jester knew that the world's earliest electronic RPG game was actually created by DND players on PC in order to facilitate their own group runs. This world's earliest commercial role-playing game and its rules will affect countless games in the future. Whether it is fantasy themes "Diablo", "Eternal Mission", "Ice Wind Valley", "Fallout", "Battle of the Siege", "Chaos Online" or other things such as "Exotic Soul-Suppressing Song", "Vampire: Redemption" and so on were born under the influence of DND rules. It can even be said that the shadow of DND can be found in almost all European and American RPGs in the future.
But it is not easy to get their copyright. Now the copyright of DND is in the hands of TSR, and now DND's desktop games are very popular, with sales of several million US dollars each year. Moreover, this company relies entirely on the copyright of DND to survive. It may cost a huge price to buy the DND copyright that Jester dreams of from them.
Of course, Jester, who knows the future value of DND, believes that it is worth it to spend no matter how much it costs, not to mention that the so-called huge price is only tens of millions of dollars at most.
Compared with its true hidden value, it is really a drop in the bucket.
At first, Jester didn't have enough money. After all, he had to make his industrial layout, he needed distribution channels, he needed high-performance display chips, he needed a lot of games to gain popularity, and so on, so the money needed to be used at that time. Now, with his company having enough remaining funds, Jester has the idea of purchasing DND copyrights under his command.
After thinking about it, Jester still couldn't resist the *** that DND gave him anyway. After drinking the third cup of coffee, he decided to buy the copyright of DND.
However, the copyright acquisition of DND is not much different from the direct acquisition of TSR. This is basically a plan for a company merger.
However, he doesn't need to discuss this matter himself. There are many professional institutions in the United States that specialize in the negotiation of acquisitions, so it's enough to pay for it yourself.
And I am indeed not good at this.
As for another worldview architecture that can be compared with DND rules, "Warhammer", this is what Jester will do in the UK in the future. Although the current game workshop has not yet launched the Warhammer Rule Book, the designer who designed the Warhammer Rule is already there. After returning from the mainland, Jester is preparing to go to the UK. In addition to establishing a European branch, he also needs to be poached.
Jester checked the progress of several R&D teams. Overall, he was quite satisfied. All game R&D plans are proceeding in an orderly manner.
Moreover, several new pet machines from the handheld machine R&D department are constantly being designed and can be delivered to Japan for production immediately. Moreover, the successful release of the Pokemon pet machine in Japan has also strengthened Jester's confidence and is also preparing to be officially released in the United States recently.
The starting ceremony was scheduled for the next player trial in New York, but at that time he was not in the United States, so Carly could only be responsible for it.
He wrote a few pieces of paper on the plan the company will carry out in the next half month, and then handed it to Mark Seney. Jester was about to arrive in Los Angeles. The special plane dispatched by the Civil Aviation Administration of China was scheduled to take off at 9 o'clock tonight and arrive in Beijing at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Jester was going to set off this morning, but because there were too many things in the company, it was delayed until now.
The scale of the entire mainland investment group is not large, with less than 100 people in total, and more than half of them are family members. For example, in addition to going to Jester's grandfather, his sister-in-law will also accompany him.
When he arrived in Los Angeles, Jester didn't book a hotel and went directly to his uncle's residence, where his grandfather and his sister-in-law were also here.
Jester chatted with his grandfather for a while and was urged to go to bed by his grandfather. After all, he had to fly for more than ten hours at night. After arriving, he had to attend a welcome banquet organized by the mainland. Moreover, long-term flights are still extremely tired for many people, so adequate sleep is extremely important.
At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Jester and his grandfather and the entire investment group gathered and rushed to Los Angeles International Airport, which is famously LAX Airport. The plane prepared by the Continental Aviation Administration was parked on the No. 4 apron.
When he saw the aircraft with the words China Aviation written on the fuselage, Jester was still surprised. He did not expect that at this time, the domestic civil aviation industry was equipped with the Boeing 747-200, which is still advanced in the world's civil aviation industry. Jester was familiar with this model of aircraft because he read an article, the VC-25A, which belongs to the US military, is the famous Air Force One special aircraft, which was modified from the Boeing 747-200.
After introducing Jester to an official from the Civil Aviation Administration sent by the mainland, he learned that this Boeing 747-200 was purchased by Deputy Director Hu Yizhou in the United States last year. Boeing had just delivered the goods a few months ago. This time, he heard that a large-scale Chinese investment group returned to China. The senior leaders personally instructed that they must be received with the highest specifications. Therefore, the Civil Aviation Administration sent their hearts this time, which is the Boeing 747-200.
However, when talking about the deputy director Hu Yizhou who purchased Boeing 747, the official of the Civil Aviation Administration was a little disdainful and directly scolded the prodigal son.
Jester just woke up and was a little overly energetic, so he was a little curious. After asking carefully, he found out that although this official worked in the Civil Aviation Administration, he belonged to the Ministry of Economics and Trade. The Ministry of Economics and Trade had proposed to purchase the Soviet Il62 on the proposal of the Civil Aviation Administration to purchase aircraft. However, this plan was rejected by Hu Yizhou, and his member of the Ministry of Economics and Trade was also driven to the marginal position by Hu Yizhou, who was monopolized.
In fact, Jester thought that the deputy director named Hu Yizhou was quite sensible. He was idle and had nothing to do, so he explained to the accompanying Civil Aviation Administration official: "In fact, the Il62 has a high fuel consumption, a small load, and a short range. The international route can only fly from Beijing to Japan and the Soviet Union. There are problems with the air conditioner. When the air conditioner is turned on, the water mist in the plane is very high, and sometimes it looks like it rains."
Unexpectedly, this civil aviation official also knew what he was good at. When he heard Jester say this, he became interested. While listening to Jester say this, he kept nodding. When Jester finished speaking, he sighed and said, "No one knows these people in our business, but the problem is that Il 62 is cheap. Do you know how many Il 82s can be bought for a Boeing 747?"
Seeing Jester shaking his head, the Civil Aviation Administration official stretched out four fingers and shook it: "Four frames!"
This price gap also made Jester secretly amazed.
However, before the Civil Aviation Administration's official finished speaking, he seemed to be intrigued and continued: "Actually, there is another joke about Il 62 in our bureau, which is about Premier Zhou."
When Jester heard Premier Zhou's name, he immediately felt awe-inspiring. This was one of the people he admired the most.
The Civil Aviation Administration official continued with a smile: "Once one time the Prime Minister was flying, one of his guards suddenly saw smoke coming out of the plane, and he was so scared that he was on fire. The guard ran to the cockpit in a hurry, shouting that it was on fire while running. After the captain at that time checked in person, he realized that it was either on fire, or Il 62's old problem. There would be problems when the air conditioner was turned on."
Jester laughed as he heard this anecdote.
However, after the Civil Aviation Administration official finished speaking, he sighed again and became a little depressed: "If you want to say that the American plane is indeed good, Boeing and McDonald's, you can't say it! But it's expensive. This is not the prodigal director Hu plans to continue adding new planes next year. This time he doesn't even look down on the Boeing 747. He directly intends to introduce Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Airbus A310, A320, McDonald's 82 and other things. You don't know. In principle, the above agrees. After all, international flights represent the face of our country, but our country has less foreign exchange. After the Ministry of Economics and Trade knows the procurement list of the prodigal director, he sees the final price, and his heart is bleeding."
"Agree?" Jester was a little confused. Logically speaking, the mainland is not so generous yet.
"Agree." The official of the Civil Aviation Administration nodded, but he immediately smiled, "But, agreeing is agreeing, but it is impossible to give him so much money. If you want to complete the list, we, Director Hu, who is a prodigal son, has to think of his own solution."
Jester smacked his tongue after hearing this. It was hundreds of millions of dollars, not thirty years later. How could a small director of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Mainland have such great energy?
While speaking, as a broadcast of Mandarin and English prompts rang, Jester knew that the plane was about to take off.
Chapter completed!