China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 716 714. With Douyin, the advantage is mine!
There were three men and four women sitting in the business box of the Hoshino Hotel Tokyo.

Among the three men, one is the world's richest man and the other is the seventh richest man in the world. Their combined net worth is over 100 billion US dollars.

The other man is the assistant of LV boss Arnault.

The four women, one is Lin Zhiling, and the other is Cao Yu’s secretary Gao Yala.

The other two women are none other than Japan’s popular stars Satomi Ishihara and Yui Aragaki. They were both called in by LV for public relations.

When the negotiations began, Arnault was ignored, which made him very unhappy.

But he needed help from others now, so he couldn't get angry. He suppressed his unhappiness and repeated what he had just said.

"Mr. Cao, we are all businessmen, and our purpose is to make money. We did have some unpleasant experiences before, but they are in the past.

I came here this time hoping to cooperate with Mr. Cao. In the future, if your company's actors endorse our LV and other products, we will also offer a satisfactory price."

He kept looking at Cao Yu as he spoke, and seeing that the other party did not respond at all, Arnault had no choice but to continue offering more tempting conditions.

"Brands such as LV, Gucci, Dior, and Bulgari have a huge market space in China. If we can put aside our past grudges, we are willing to exchange our company's shares for those of Fei'e Video."

He felt that the conditions he offered were already generous enough.

As long as the other party nods, it doesn’t matter even if I suffer a loss during the equity swap.

As a century-old brand, LV bows to a Chinese for the first time in all these years.

"Finished?"

Cao Yu picked up the teacup and took a sip. "You can cooperate, but I have only one condition. The price of your products in China must be 50% lower than the price in other countries. Otherwise, let's just get to know each other today, drink tea, make friends, and there's nothing else to say."

"50%?"

After hearing this number, Arnault felt that this Chinese man was going crazy.

I am willing to give you shares, so that our interests will be tied together. The higher the product sells, the more dividends you will get in the future.

Don’t you really understand this principle?

Does he want more?
Lin Chi-ling and Gao Yala on the side were also shocked.

Asking LV to cut its price by half? This request is indeed a bit excessive, and they would never agree to it.

Although they thought so, the two women were still conquered by Cao Yu's spirit and courage.

I guess Cao Yu is the only one who dares to make such a request to LV.

Seeing the Chinese man's indifferent expression, Arno said, "Mr. Cao, I came here with sincerity this time and sincerely hope to cooperate with your company. If possible, we can also authorize the establishment of a franchise store on your Youduoduo to enhance the brand value of Youduoduo."

This is his last trump card. Facing Cao Yu who does not play by the rules, he can only use it now.

Hearing this, Cao Yu was really moved this time.

LV has always been a physical store, and at most it has an official flagship store. It has never cooperated with any online shopping platform.

If such a big brand can really enter Youduoduo, then the reputation of this platform will definitely be raised to a higher level. When Youduoduo goes public this year, its stock price will definitely not be low.

Lin Chiling and Gao Yala, who were standing by, were a little anxious and really wanted to agree on Cao Yu's behalf.

As long as he agrees, Cao Yu can earn at least tens of billions every year.

Who is not moved?

But Cao Yu just pondered for a moment, then shook his head under everyone's expectant gaze.

"Haha, of course we welcome you to set up a franchise store, but as for the price, I still say, reduce the price by 50%."

Cao Yu’s answer completely confused Arnault.

I have put forward such conditions, and you still don’t agree?
If the price is reduced, what is the point of luxury goods? How can we reflect the class gap between people?
He immediately winked at Ishihara Satomi and the other person.

The two men understood each other, one picked up the public chopsticks to pick up food for Cao Yu, and the other picked up the wine dispenser to pour wine for Cao Yu.

As Ishihara Satomi poured the wine, she said, "Mr. Cao, don't just talk about business. Let's eat first. After dinner, there is a hot spring downstairs. Relax a little and we can talk tomorrow."

The two Japanese women were just about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, which was the prime of their life, and they had sweet looks.

Plus they didn't mention business, if a normal man heard this, he would definitely suspect that the two of them were inviting him to a hot spring, and then hehehe.
But what kind of women hasn’t Cao Yu seen?

He didn't even look at Ishihara Satomi and the other person, but said to Arno: "Can you agree? If not, don't waste your time."

"We can't promise that!"

Arnault is also one of the top ten richest people in the world and has a bit of a temper.

In his opinion, Cao Yu's request was completely unreasonable and insincere.

You ignored me and I still put on a smile, but you are just giving me a cold shoulder!

"rub!"

Arno stood up and looked at Cao Yu angrily. Seeing that he was holding the wine by himself, he squeezed out a word from his throat: "Go!"

After saying that, he left angrily with his assistant and two beauties.

"Ah"

Cao Yu smiled coldly and didn't mind at all.

He understood that the other party would definitely not agree to this request the first time.

But he still has a trick up his sleeve. Sooner or later, he will make these arrogant so-called luxury capitals in Europe bow their noble heads.

By then, if the other party is willing to lower the price, the prices of LV, Gucci and other products in China will be the lowest in the world, and wealthy people from other countries will definitely be willing to come to China to buy them.

At that time, it will not only bring in tax revenue, but also boost the tourism industry.

This is what Boss Cao is planning.

Secretary Gao Yala saw that the boss of LV was angry and left, so she advised: "President, the conditions he just gave us are already very generous, why don't you agree?"

Cao Yu asked back: "Why do you agree?"

"President, we still have to make money. After all, LV is the world's number one luxury brand."

Gao Yala still felt a little regretful that her man had missed a good opportunity.

"I want to make money, but I prefer to make money while standing straight!"

After Cao Yu finished speaking, regardless of whether the two could understand him or not, he hugged them and said with a smile, "They're gone, we'll eat by ourselves, and after we're full we'll go to the hot springs, and stay here tonight."

Lin Zhiling smiled and said, "Those two girls just now were both pretty good. Do you feel it's a pity?"

"It's a pity. They are not as good looking as you two."

Cao Yu said, picking up the 1982 Lafite in front of him, and said with a smile: "Come on, let's have a toast first."

He was still accompanying Lin Chiling and the others, drinking some wine, planning to enjoy himself after the meal, but Arnault was cursing in the car at this time.

"This Chinese is so abominable!"

"He is a newly rich man, but he really thinks he is so great that he dares to go against us LV?"

"50% price cut? Is he still asleep?"

"I must make him look good!"

Arnault felt that he had come all the way from Paris without stopping, with full sincerity to cooperate with you, and he had given you enough face, but in the end you were just dreaming.

Price cut?

Although our costs are not high, we will have to wait until the earth is destroyed to lower the price!

He immediately said to his assistant, "Notify the marketing department to launch a new product immediately and increase the price of the products in the Chinese market by 20%. At the same time, have the Chinese branch increase the publicity of our jewelry, bags, lipsticks, and perfumes as symbols of status!"

"Ok."

The assistant agreed, and then asked with some concern: "Boss, what if that Chinese guy has another trick up his sleeve?"

"A back-up plan? He is just promoting in movies and TV shows that our products are not worth that much money, but people are vain. As long as rich people are willing to buy them, there will still be people willing to buy them."

Arno sneered and said, "Increasing the price by 20% can also recover some of our losses. Let's see what Hua Xia Cao can do."

After making all these arrangements, he thought for a while and finally added, "The actors who watched the Fengma Show last year were not well-known and had no exposure. This year, we are looking for a few actresses in China to watch the Fengma Show. This time, we want to make the event more influential. We are also looking for some Chinese screenwriters to add our products to the show and make the film popular!"

After saying that, he looked out the car window at the country with a huge market in the east, and suddenly shook his head helplessly.

If Ma Yun wasn't so incompetent, how could I have endured the humiliation from Cao Yu!

……

This meeting between Cao Yu and the LV boss was conducted in private and few people knew about it.

However, that evening, employees of LV’s China department came up with a few advertising slogans and began promoting them domestically.

What kind of "package" can cure all diseases?

Any man who is unwilling to spend money on a woman is a poor loser.

There is no woman that cannot be wooed with a bag. If you cannot be wooed, buy two. What is the first bag for female white-collar workers? It makes you more eye-catching in the workplace.

What kind of bag a woman carries is a symbol of her taste and status.
……

This brainwashing propaganda full of routine began to spread subtly on the Internet.

They even invited some beautiful women to show off their wealth without limits through some live broadcasts and video platforms.
What they want is to create demand and make men feel fearful, thinking that if they don't spend money to buy high-end cosmetics and bags for women, they will be single all their lives and be poor losers.

Then, cultivate a group of fairies who earn 3,000 yuan a month but think that hundreds of thousands of yuan is a small amount of money.

Cao Yu, who was still in Tokyo, naturally knew that LV would not give up.

As someone who was once poor but is now very rich, he just doesn't want the Chinese people to be tricked by consumerism.

If you have money, you can buy luxury goods, even luxury cars or airplanes, and that is your freedom.

I am afraid that most people will be brainwashed by capital, and will spend ahead of time even if they have no money, which will lead to comparisons, and finally they will be heavily in debt and then be exploited by capital and become beasts of burden.

And the money continues to flow into the pockets of these ruthless capitalists.

Do you think LV will give back the money it earns to China?
It's good enough that they don't plunder.

However, he also knew that even if the other party took any action, it would not be done in one go, and it would definitely be a gradual brainwashing process.

Therefore, there is enough time to let the bullet fly for a while.

What he needs to do now is to continue to expand the influence of the Douyin platform.

After accompanying Lin Chi-ling to view the cherry blossoms, it happened to be the beginning of April. Lin Chi-ling returned to China to film a movie, while Cao Yu went to the United States.

In just over half a month, Douyin will be officially launched globally in multiple languages.

The competitions for the most beautiful campus beauties and the most beautiful idols in Japan and South Korea are almost ready.

Douyin's overseas company is controlled by Feiyu Digital, an independent company headquartered in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Cao Yu came to TokTik company. All the preparations had been completed. Now they were just recruiting staff and waiting for the boss's order to go online.

"Get ready for a new era!"

Cao Yu stood in the office on the top floor of the company, looking at the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Suddenly he opened his arms and shouted.

After inspecting the work here, he went to Marvel to confirm the projects of "Avengers 3" and "Captain America 3", and at the same time set the release date of "Minions".

He wants to make the most of these films as soon as possible.

After finishing all these, Cao Yu came to his own Chinese-style manor and prepared to rest for a while.

Just two days into my relaxing life, in mid-April, I suddenly received a call from Bob, the boss of Universal Pictures.

This old man hasn't been in contact with Cao Yu for a while since he had an unpleasant argument with him last time.

"Cao, I heard you were coming to the United States. Why didn't you tell me? Are you free tomorrow?"

"You can come if you have time."

Cao Yu understood that the old man probably still wanted to continue the cooperation, and originally planned to refuse. But then he thought that he might be familiar with the boss of LV, so he agreed.

The next day, Cao Yu was still immersed in the tenderness of several Japanese maids when Bob came.

"Bob, you're here early."

Cao Yu only washed his face and brushed his teeth, and asked someone to invite the old man in.

"Cao, long time no see, are you living well here?"

When Bob came in, he saw that the land he had bought for Cao Yu had now become a manor with pavilions and towers, just like China Park. He envied Boss Cao's happy life.

"It's an OK place to stay."

Cao Yu asked someone to pour a cup of tea for the old man, and then asked, "How have you been lately?"

“Not good.”

Bob has certainly been having a rough time lately.

"Fast & Furious 6" cost nearly million US dollars, but the box office was only over million US dollars, and the profit was less than million US dollars.

"Jurassic World" cost 1.8 million US dollars and has not yet been released.

The science fiction film "Pitch Black: Resurrection" was invested with more than 3 million US dollars, but the box office was only more than million, not even half of the cost.

Other movies also basically lost money.

And throughout the period of late 2013 and early 2014, there were simply no good scripts.

After the unpleasantness with Cao Yu, Universal's performance plummeted and even suffered losses. The board of directors was seriously dissatisfied with him. If he could not reverse the downward trend, he would most likely retire early.

He suspected that Cao Yu was his benefactor, and the current situation would have occurred without this benefactor.

Therefore, he came to Cao Yu with a shameless face to talk and ease the relationship.

Cao Yu looked at the old man with a sad face and smiled faintly: "No wonder Mr. Bob looks much older."

"Hey"

Bob sighed and complimented, "Without you, this year's Oscars would be meaningless, making 12 Years a Slave the biggest winner."

“Haha, this movie is pretty good.”

Cao Yu did not attend the Oscars this year because this year's Oscars have nothing to do with him.

"Okay."

Bob doesn't think much of black people and doesn't like this movie, but he doesn't know how to refute Cao Yu.

The two chatted for a while, and Cao Yu never mentioned the script of "Despicable Me 3", which made Bob very anxious.

Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "Cao, it's been two years since Despicable Me 2 was released, is the script for the third one ready?"

"hehe."

Cao Yu did not answer, but asked with a smile: "Bob, are you familiar with Arnault, the boss of LV?"

"Arno?"

When Bob heard the name, he didn't understand what Cao Yu meant for a moment.

The last time, it was because I helped Arno and others and invited Cao Yu to watch a wind horse show that the two of them had an unpleasant argument, so I didn't dare to say anything for the time being.

After holding it in for a long while, he said, "I've met him a few times, but we're not very familiar with each other. He just sponsored our movie."

"Oh."

Cao Yu nodded and asked, "What kind of person is he?"

Only then did Bob realize that Boss Cao wanted to know what kind of person Arnault was.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Arnault is a very resourceful person. In the past two years, he has acquired 34% of Gucci's shares and used some means to obtain 17% of Hermès' shares. He has also acquired several jewelers and several Italian clothing brands, making LV the world's number one luxury brand."

"That's it."

Cao Yu nodded. No wonder Arnault could become the world's richest man in 2021. He really has some skills.

But he suddenly thought of the jewelry that Bob had just mentioned.
You can use this thing to teach Arno a lesson and let him know how powerful you are.

It's not just you foreign capitalists who are brainwashed. You have to know that these are all leftovers from our Chinese ancestors.

Cao Yu was satisfied after getting what he wanted, and said, "Bob, are we friends?"

"Of course, we have been friends for many years."

Bob immediately smiled and said, "Cao, if you need my help in the future, just let me know."

"As for what happened last time, it's over. There's no need to mention it again. We are still good friends."

After Cao Yu finished saying this, he said, "Actually, I have already written the script for Despicable Me 3, but I am embarrassed to give it to you. If you hadn't come to me this time, Marvel might have filmed it themselves."

"luck."

Bob secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Marvel had shot the film themselves, he would have really regretted it.

He said anxiously: "Then we can start this project this month and strive to release it on June 1 next year."

"Okay, I'll go to Universal Pictures to see you tomorrow with the script and the contract."

Cao Yu has no objection to this plan. Marvel's "Minions" will be released this summer, and the two films do not conflict with each other.

After seeing Bob off, Cao Yu immediately called China and asked them to inquire about artificial diamonds.

He planned to announce the marketing secrets of diamonds to the public in China first, so that all Chinese people would know that the claim that diamonds are forever is a blatant scam.

The number of diamonds stored in the world is enough for everyone to have one, but capitalists deliberately develop them slowly and then sell them at sky-high prices.

What is this “one that will last forever”? Bullshit!
The value retention rate of diamonds is simply terribly low.

After these are exposed, if Arnault of LV is smart, he should agree to his request, otherwise.
Ha ha
Then don't blame me for being rude!
With Douyin, the advantage is mine!
(End of this chapter)