China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 254 Investing
In the past two years, as the company has grown bigger and bigger, He Hua's net worth has also continued to rise. He often doesn't know how much money he has without looking at financial reports.

At the beginning of the company's establishment, he attached great importance to clarifying the boundary between company property and personal property. In addition to the investment of the company's registered capital, every fund transferred into the company account will be marked as 'current funds' or 'private loans'. And I rarely make expenses in the name of the company, for fear that this behavior will eventually turn into stealing and being dragged into sewing machines.

Later, when the company gradually grew and his personal assets increased, he specially found a professional asset management team to take care of his industry.

And these teams are also very good at converting company property into the personal property of the client within the scope of the law.

For example, there is one trick that He Hua is very familiar with because he often sees the Huayi Brothers and the big and small kings using it.

The specific operation is as follows: the company boss purchases valuable collectibles, such as celebrity calligraphy and paintings, antique utensils, etc., and uses these artworks to decorate the company's facade or build a corporate museum, in the name of improving the company's image and taste.

These collections can be attributed to the fixed costs of the enterprise, and depreciation is included in the cost every year. my country's Corporate Income Tax Law stipulates: As long as they meet the requirements of "items that are not the main facilities for production and operation, the unit value is more than 2000 yuan, and "If the useful life is more than two years, it should also be regarded as a fixed asset." Collections, as fixed assets, can be depreciated every year, and will eventually be consumed as zero assets on the books.

However, the value of general collectibles will only increase. If you find a good collectible, there is even room for substantial appreciation, so the flexibility of the operation here is great.

Or you can also use the attributes and characteristics of assets to cleverly avoid S, thereby increasing the company's actual assets.

For example, after He Hua purchased real estate and cars, he used part of them for office purposes. In fact, Youhua Company was leasing He Hua's property (employee accommodation); and cars are often used for office use, and in some cases Counted as transportation for company employees (He Hua) on business trips.

In this case, He Hua can charge a certain rental fee from Youhua Company. For example, the company can pay He Hua a fixed monthly rent and include this part in the company's expenses. This can increase Youhua's income. The company's pre-tax expenses are listed to reduce the tax burden and also increase the cash flow of He Hua's personal assets.

With so many legal means, there is no need to resort to criminal means to avoid S.

In addition, the asset management team will also make some investments in accordance with He Hua's requirements.

As a well-known writer, screenwriter, director, and businessman, He Hua has a high reputation and public favorability, which is very attractive to most companies.

This factor was involved in the previous holding of 500 million original shares of Enlight Media.

In the second half of last year, He Hua made two major decisions. One was to seek participation in Qiyi’s Series B preferred stock subscription, and the other was ByteDance’s angel round of financing.

In He Hua's view, if these two things are successful, the company will get rid of the control of TV stations in the future and achieve self-production and self-sales, at least in the television field.

But the final result didn't make him what he wanted.

Qiyi is iQiyi. In August 2011, then Qiyi CEO Gong Yu launched Series B financing. After four months of competition, he ultimately lost to Baidu, which subscribed for preferred shares at a price of US$8 million.

He Hua had nothing to do about this. Of course, he could choose to increase investment, and there were many banks willing to lend him money. However, after considering the risks of continuing bidding and the continued investment of video websites, he finally gave up.

But what he didn't know was that his participation had shaken Gong Yu. Maybe if he worked harder, he would really succeed, and Baidu only spent 4500 million US dollars to get the shares.

Of course, it’s possible that Baidu won’t let go even if it raises US$1 million. After all, the video field is a vertical field with huge potential for Baidu. Baidu can not only seamlessly integrate Qiyi’s content into search and mobile services, but also Qiyi can rely on Qiyi to strengthen its competitiveness in the mobile field. You will know its importance if you look at Baidu's continuous actions in the future:

In November 2012, it acquired the shares held by Qiyi's second largest shareholder and became its single largest shareholder. In 11, it spent US$2013 million to acquire PPS and merged PPS with iQiyi. Since then, it has made frequent moves in many fields such as self-produced dramas, product construction, and solo broadcasts. In November 3.7, Xiaomi introduced investment into Qiyi and added an additional investment of US$2014 million.

So I really can’t comment on whether He Hua’s letting go is right or wrong.

As for ByteDance’s angel round, it went quite smoothly. At least there were no capital giants coming to compete with him.

In early March, He Hua visited the newly established ByteDance with his team and signed an investment agreement.

"Mr. Zhang, I have long admired your name."

"Director He, I am the same. I like your works very much, especially "The Lost Orphan". I think it is full of humanistic care."

He Hua originally thought that these IT professionals were not good at talking, but he did not expect that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming was very talkative.

The two chatted for about an hour, ranging from He Hua's works to some of his own product concepts and his usual wild imagination. Their conversation was interrupted until the legal team came over and said that the cooperation agreement was confirmed to be OK and the contract could be signed.

Zhang Yiming was a little embarrassed: "It's meaningless when you talk about it. It has delayed Mr. He for so long."

He Hua quickly waved his hand to deny: "No, no, no, I find it very interesting, especially the code world you talked about. I even have the urge to write a science fiction script. In addition, I can't wait to see the recommendations based on data mining you mentioned. What’s the engine like?”

"Is it because I like beauties, so it keeps recommending beauties to me."

"Yes, that's what I mean." Zhang Yiming laughed and wanted to elaborate, but was immediately reminded by the staff around him.

He Hua also noticed his movements, smiled and walked towards the door: "Let's go, we signed a contract and we will have a lot of time to chat. Is there any delicious food nearby? I like to chat while eating."

"Okay." Zhang Yiming's eyes brightened, and he found another point of common interest between the two of them.

The cooperation agreement was signed, and He Hua invested 1200 million and obtained 30% of ByteDance's shares.

A shareholder agreement for persons acting in concert was also signed. Of course, this is a prerequisite for He Huaneng to participate in the investment.

There is nothing to worry about, anyway, He Hua is not prepared to interfere with the management team's business operations.

Although I don’t know where ByteDance’s stock price will reach in the future, looking at the constant mentions on the player’s screen, it will definitely not be much lower. This shows that their management team is still operating very well.

"Pleasant to work with."

After signing, He Hua and Zhang Yiming shook hands with smiles on their faces.

In the days that followed, He Hua relaxed completely. The movie was finished and he was just waiting to go to Cannes in May. He didn't need to worry about other things. He had his own people to handle it, so he simply went to NJ to find his girlfriend. .

Liu Yifei was almost furious. Not only had she not been able to do her job well since her boyfriend came, but her weight had also increased. Now when she saw her boyfriend, she wanted to go up and give him a few blows. This is how domestic violence occurs.

The main reason is that He Hua is not a human being and looks for every opportunity to feed him.

Liu Yifei couldn't get up in the morning, so he went to the morning market and brought back a lot of delicious food. Who could stand it?
After finishing breakfast at around 10 o'clock, He Hua took her to find lunch at 12 noon. Plus dinner and occasional late night snacks, the weight would increase.

Fortunately, her scene has been filmed, otherwise the plot would have collapsed if Fat Ruan Wan appeared later in the movie.

"Come on, let's go for a night jog. I see your belly is coming out." Liu Yifei patted her boyfriend's belly while pulling her, trying to make him aware of himself.It's just that He Hua doesn't care about the changes in his body shape at all, and he doesn't hang out in front of the stage. What's wrong with the boss having a beer belly?style!

"Will you go or not? If you don't go, you won't be able to get into my bed tonight." Liu Yifei continued to threaten.

If you don't want to go, I won't go. I just feel a little tired these days and need to recover my physical strength.He Hua tilted his head and ignored his girlfriend.

Seeing that nothing she said had any effect, Liu Yifei couldn't help but feel a little irritable. However, her eyes moved and she quickly had an idea. She straightened her expression, took a deep breath, and then picked up her mobile phone to make a call.

After two beeps, the call was quickly connected.

Liu Yifei's voice changed instantly, and she choked with sobs: "Auntie."

He Hua felt something was wrong, stood up and asked, "No, who are you calling?"

After a while, Liu Yifei clicked on her phone to play:
"He Hua, you coward"

He Hua was scolded by his parents, and finally he was told: "It's dark on the road at night, don't worry Sissy goes out alone? Follow her quickly, I'm too lazy for you."

After hanging up the phone, he really had nothing to say: "Okay, Liu Yifei, you are really bad at it now, you can watch me in the future."

Liu Yifei ignored him, picked up the pillow on the bed and threw it over: "Hurry up and change your clothes!"

You're awesome, I won't let you call me daddy tonight, and my last name won't be He!He Huaqi's hands and feet felt cold.

It was just that he was no longer in that mood when he came back from exercising in the evening. It was not that he was overwhelmed with energy, but that he was delayed by other things.

"The people over there are so bullying, so we thought of speaking up together for Brother Zhuo." Lu Yang said cautiously on the phone.

"Come on, why do you still ask for my opinion?"

"Well, the main reason is that we want to do it in the name of the crew of "Xiu Chun Knife". Didn't we just finish working together? This will be more convincing."

This was the first time that He Hua encountered this kind of thing. He didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Besides, he didn't know the specific process. He couldn't listen to Lu Yang and others' one-sided words, so he hesitated:

"You? Who do you have?"

Lu Yang began to count the heads in detail: "Yawen, Qianyuan, Xuan'er, and the rest of us are still in the group."

"Okay, let me understand the situation first and get back to you later."

While He Hua was on the phone, Liu Yifei had already taken out her notebook and found relevant news.

He Hua himself thought this matter was quite simple, but he didn't know why it suddenly became so complicated.

At first, Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zhu took on a book with two male protagonists. Due to various reasons, the original initiators and investors of the project withdrew, and the project was taken over by someone with a bright star.

After taking over, many things including the script and actors have changed. Most actors can understand this situation. After all, the boss of the crew has changed. Please tell the crew carefully. If you can perform, you can get together and break up if you can't. Anyway, the stars are shining brightly. There is no shortage of money to terminate the contract, but I don't know why the crew wants to make such an announcement.

The announcement said: "Mainland actor" Zhao Wenzhuo's behavior caused the crew to stop filming, causing huge losses. After communication failed, the crew had no choice but to terminate cooperation with him.
Such an announcement is equivalent to throwing shit all over the actors. Who can bear this?

Zhao Wenzhuo immediately held a press conference to fight back, and pointed the finger at Zhen Bullet

Zhen Zhuan did not show weakness and joined hands with the crew to accuse him of having no professional ethics, not cooperating with the crew and other issues.

Over time, this matter became more and more serious, and more and more celebrities began to take sides.

There are a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan artists on the side of Zhen Zi and the crew, such as Shu Qi, Wang Jing, Chen Kexin, Huang Baiming, Yam Dahua, Wu Junru, Li Ming. There are many big names.

And Zhao Wenzhuo did not show weakness.

Yang Mi and Wang Kai may have been angered by the Hong Kong crew, and now directly support Zhao Wenzhuo, and Chen Xiao. Anyway, Xiaosheng and the others only use Xie Tingfeng, Shawn Yue, Tianting Yan and others.

So these three people took the lead and added some second-tier mainland artists to confront them directly.

Well, there have been several conflicts like this every year over the years, like the previous conflict between Zhang Baizhi and Fan Bingbing.

After He Hua understood it, he didn't care and directly sent a text message to Lu Yang: "It's up to you."

Liu Yifei pointed to the names of Chen Xiao, Yang Mi, and Wang Kai in the report and asked, "Should we say something?"

After all, He Hua is their boss, and the relationship between them is very good.

"It's not necessary." Whenever Yang Shoucheng said something, it was never too late for him to speak again.He Hua thought.

Half an hour after He Hua sent the text message, Lu Yang and others expressed their support for Zhao Wenzhuo through Weibo and the official account of "Xiu Chun Dao".

"It's a great honor to work with Brother Zhuo. Brother Zhuo gave us a lot of help during the whole filming process, including demonstrating the movements for our young actors over and over again, and being able to put down his body to do the matching. Our entire crew is very grateful, so we Believe in Brother Zhuo."

As soon as the news came out, the Internet became even more lively.

Moreover, Liu Yifei and Jing Tian added fuel to the fire. One liked it without saying anything, and the other liked it with a swipe of his hand. It was so fun.

Now the online criticism of Zhao Wenzhuo is gradually gaining the upper hand, but after all, the background of Hong Kong and Taiwan is there, and no heavyweights have ended up, so this matter has fallen into a continuous tug of war.

Now He Hua just goes online every day to watch the excitement, watching the celebrities who are taking sides one after another getting angry, and the dirty information in the past is dug out, and he feels very happy at the same time.

The way of heaven is reincarnation, who will the heaven spare.

(End of this chapter)