After Spielberg and Scorsese left, Jimmy was not in a hurry to leave, and said another thing, "According to the information I got, among the thirty works shortlisted for the Mao Dun Literary Award, yours is among them."
"curse"."
"Thirty?" Yu Dong was a little surprised, because in August he received news that the number of works that could be selected for the Contradictory Literature Award was twenty-five.
Jimmy smiled and explained: "It was twenty-five at the beginning, and then five more were added. It doesn't matter whether it is thirty or twenty-five. What I want to tell you is that some people are questioning your "Curse"
》.”
"Doubt? Why?" Yu Dong asked.
"They disputed that the novel was ineligible."
"Doesn't that apply?"
"In terms of time range, they believe that "Curse" was released in 1999, and the time range of this Contradictory Literature Award is from 1995 to 1998. Your novel exceeds the limit."
Yu Dong frowned, "Really? How do I remember that "Curse" was released at the end of 1998?"
"It was released at the end of the year, December 31, the last day of 1998. We announced that it would be released at 23:59, but it was actually released on the next day. These people just cling to this point and insist on saying this
This novel has exceeded the limit.”
Yu Dong curled his lips and said, "What's so ridiculous about this? The ISBN and edition are printed on the book. The edition of the book we sold at that time must have been in 1998. They can't deny this, right?"
"The edition is December 1998, but people don't recognize this and insist that you have exceeded the limit."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, probably understanding what the other party wanted to do.
People must also know clearly that the book number and edition of "Curse" meet the selection criteria of the Mao Dun Literary Award, but they must seize the release time to make an article. The purpose of this is of course not to make the jury cancel the selection of "Curse"
After all, qualifications cannot be denied in black and white.
However, there is no way to cancel the qualification, but it can affect the mentality of the jury.
If this matter causes some public opinion in the future, it will be very detrimental to Dong. Yu Dong is still young, and if the judges want to award him the Conflict Award, they will definitely need to give up some courage.
At this time, the judges' courage may have been dampened by this incident. In order to prevent some quarrels later, they may have excluded "The Curse" to save trouble.
It's a psychological warfare.
However, the Mao Dun Literary Award has not announced which 30 novels are shortlisted, so the voice of doubts is very small. After all, once you question it, it is equivalent to telling others that you already know the candidates for the Mao Dun Literary Award, which also proves that the judges
Internal information will leak.
Although the news has indeed been leaked, everyone only tacitly understood it and did not discuss it with any fanfare.
Regarding the Contradictory Literature Award, when Yu Dong went to Yanjing before, Tong Qingbing specifically told him about this. At that time, Tong Qingbing was mysterious and confidently told Yu Dong that he would most likely win the award, as if he had received it in advance.
What inside information?
At that time, the selection of candidate works for the Mao Dun Literature Prize had not even begun.
"By the way, do Yu Hua and the others have any works included in the selection?" Yu Dong suddenly asked.
Jimmy nodded and said, "Of course, Yu Hua's "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood", Wang Anyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", Su Tong's "Bodhisattva Barbarian", Alai's "The Dust Has Settled", Mo Yan's "Rich and Fat Buttocks",
Zhang Ping's "Decision", Yan Lianke's "Flying Days", Zhou Meisen's "Made in China"... Most of the thirty candidate works this time are books from our company."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. Even if he didn't win the award this time, the winner would definitely be from Deep Space Company.
The Mao Dun Literary Award usually awards three to six works in each session, with four and five works being the majority. This time, there are probably four or five works. The ones who are more likely to win the prize are Wang Anyi, Alai and others.
In fact, there is no surprise, because most of the well-known writers in China have signed agency contracts with Deep Space. These people are already famous. Coupled with the operation of Deep Space, these people's reputation has become higher and higher, which makes people feel
It seems that all famous writers are related to deep space.
Jimmy looked at Yu Dong with a smile again, "You don't care about the Mao Dun Literature Award at all? You don't care about your own works, but you care about Yu Hua and the others."
Yu Dong smiled smartly, "It doesn't matter, I'm still young and I still have a lot of chances to win this award."
"Then have you ever thought about when the next one will be held? Next year, it may be four or five years, and you will be almost forty years old by then. If you take it again at that time, you will still be the youngest
winner, but if you don’t get it next time, you will probably be over forty by the next time. Among the thirty authors selected this time, Alai and Yu Hua are younger. If they win next year,
, one of them is 41 and the other is 40. In other words, you will most likely not be able to win this record."
Yu Dong didn't attach much importance to the so-called youngest winner, and he didn't expect Jimmy to even check the age of the selected author.
"As the same saying goes, I am lucky if I win, and I am lucky if I lose. In recent years, my desire for awards has become less and less."
"Forget about other awards, but this is the Mao Dun Literature Award after all. Even if you don't think about yourself, you still have to think about Chinese literature."
Yu Dong twitched his lips, "What's your logic? Do you think I won the award because of Chinese literature?"
"Isn't it? If you think about it carefully, what important literary awards are there in China now? Especially for novels, there is no one. Just this contradictory literature award is still in a state of half-death, which means that this year's attention is to be
The high point is, except for writers in the literary circle, how many ordinary people paid attention to it before?"
"Indeed." Yu Dong nodded. What Jimmy said was true. The previous Contradiction Literature Awards didn't get much attention.
The reason why this year has attracted so much attention is actually very simple, that is, the award-winning writers are all very famous.
Let’s not talk about the existence of Yu Dong’s foul play. Just talk about Yu Hua, Wang Anyi, Alai, Mo Yan, Su Tong, among them, which one is not top-notch in the literary circle?
In comparison, the four writers who won the last Mao Dun Literature Award were Wang Huo, Chen Zhongshi, Liu Sifen, and Liu Yuming. These four writers were Chen Zhongshi, who earned a lot of fame among the public readers through "White Deer Plain".
The other three, Wang Huo, Liu Simen, and Liu Yuming, are tied together, but none of them can match the fame of one of them, Yu Hua, among ordinary readers.
Precisely because of Yu Hua, Su Tong and Wang Anyi, the attention of this Mao Dun Literature Award has suddenly increased a lot.
Seeing Yu Dong pondering, Jimmy continued, "In my opinion, this award needs you more than you need the Contradiction Literature Award. If the Contradiction Literature Award wants to increase their influence, they must do something
There must be some breakthrough, and the award needs to be awarded to some truly influential works. Only in this way can this award have international influence."
"international influence."
Yu Dong curled his lips. It was not that he looked down on the Contradiction Literature Award, but this award was not open to the outside world. Since it was not open to the outside world, it would naturally be difficult to have international influence.
Even a highly regional award like the Goncourt Literary Prize will occasionally be awarded to foreign writers, and this will become more and more frequent in the future. The jury also knows that if you want to gain international attention, you have to
Open the prize to the international community.
However, the purpose of establishing the Mao Dun Literature Prize is to encourage Chinese writers, and naturally it will not be open to the outside world.
As for what Jimmy said, of course it is fallacious, but it is not completely unreasonable. At least his approach can deceive many people.
Yu Dong joked, "Do you want to sell your theory to the judges of the Mao Dun Literature Award?"
Jimmy smiled and shook his head, "Aren't you running away with this? It will have a bad impact on your reputation. However, we can find someone to write this theory in a column in newspapers and magazines for ordinary readers to see. If
The judges accidentally saw it, it must be the best."
Yu Dong smiled, it was quite normal for Jimmy to do such a thing.
"Let's put aside the matter of the literary award for now. Tell me about the matter of Kaiji Dentsu. How is the contact with it going?"
Seeing that Yu Dong took the initiative to ask about this matter, Jimmy was quite happy and said with a smile, "What is certain now is that Shi Zhengrong does intend to make BenQ completely independent, not just as a foundry of Acer Group, but to make BenQ completely independent."
Become a company with its own brand. Another thing is that if we want to win over BenQ Dentsu, we may need to acquire all the companies under their name, and Shi Zhengrong will not allow us to pick and choose in the middle."
"It's understandable. How much money do you think you can get?"
"If the operation is good, it should cost 400 to 700 million U.S. dollars. If you slowly work with them, you should be able to get some money."
Yu Dong shook his head, "We can't delay."
It really cannot be delayed. At this time, the Acer Group has just been broken into parts. It is a time of weakness. Shi Zhengrong needs cash and is also looking for suitable cooperation targets. Now can be said to be the best time for Deep Space to win over BenQ.
If we wait for a while and wait until BenQ is completely on the right track and truly has its own brand, then acquiring them will not be a question of more money or less, but a question of whether they are willing or not.
Deep Space Company now has an advantage in talking to Shi Zhengrong about acquiring BenQ. In this era of rapid Internet development, if Acer wants to develop their personal computer business, it is best to find a network content provider to form a strategic alliance.
In China, Lenovo has just reached a cooperation with AOL, and Acer will naturally become impatient. At this time, the emergence of deep space can be said to be the right time.
"Four to seven hundred million US dollars is not expensive." Yu Dong continued, "Has their group's current revenue exceeded US$100 million?"
"No, but it will be soon."
"Isn't that right? BenQ's companies are basically technology companies, and acquisitions do cost more money. And didn't you want to enter the LCD industry before? After acquiring BenQ, this matter was also achieved.
Already."
Jimmy curled his lips, "I'm just interested in their LCD business, otherwise I wouldn't even take a look at it for so much money. If AU Optronics develops well and goes public directly in a few years, how much profit can it make for us?
Less money.”
"Okay, just negotiate with him on the basis of 400 million to 700 million. Besides, the money is given to Acer now, and you can earn it back from them later, but it will only be a matter of time."
Jimmy smiled and said: "That's true. If we reach a cooperation in the future, Acer will spend tens of millions of dollars on advertising alone every year. Someone from them has approached us before and said they hope to put some advertising in the movies we make.
."
"Is it possible that we can offset the payment for the acquisition by discussing advertising cooperation in advance? If they are willing, we can give them a slight discount, which will also reduce the financial pressure on our company. It is a win-win situation.
"
"If they are willing, this is of course a win-win situation, but for Acer, cash is very attractive to them, and they are definitely more willing to let us transfer the money into their accounts so that the dismantled group can
We need to quickly gain a foothold, so even if we can deduct it, it will only be tens of millions of dollars at most, not too much."
"Okay, tens of millions of US dollars is not bad. If the final negotiation is not ideal and it exceeds 700 million US dollars, will our company have enough money?"
Jimmy nodded: "That's enough. Amazon's stock has increased a little, plus the reduced royalties and copyright fees, there is still 1.2 billion US dollars in the company's account."
"So much?" Yu Dong looked surprised. He thought the company's account was about to bottom out. "So, it's more than enough for us to win over BenQ Group."
"It's not that simple." Jimmy said with a twist of his lips, "The current BenQ Group is only a semi-finished product. It is simply unrealistic to rely on this foundation to quickly build a country. After we win the BenQ Group, we will still have to spend money to acquire some companies.
BenQ Group has expanded to a considerable scale. Therefore, we need to set aside some money to do these things. I can tell you clearly that the money in our company account is simply not enough. In addition, don’t look at BenQ’s mobile phone manufacturing
It is in full swing, but in fact it is still a foundry model. It lacks core technology and cannot go far in the future. After we move in, we must completely change the shadow of the foundry on BenQ Group."
After hearing Jimmy's analysis, Yu Dong nodded unconsciously. Having Jimmy take charge of the overall situation really saved him a lot of trouble.
The acquisition of BenQ Group is of great significance to Deep Space, which means that their company's business scope will at least double, from the software industry to directly entering the physical industry.
Now, whether it is LCD, personal PC, or mobile phone business, everything is solved at once.
Then again, BenQ Dentsu seems to be designed for Deep Space Company. The companies under the group, except for medical care, are basically the businesses that Deep Space Company is preparing to enter.
Chapter completed!