The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 148 Two Purposes at the "West Lake Sword Contest"

"Even historical figures like Confucius and Li Qingzhao didn't have statues built for them. Gong Li thinks she is worthy of having her own statue on a commercial street?"

On October 10, a piece of news about a statue of Gong Li being built on a commercial street in the city center sparked controversy among local citizens.

"If there really is a statue, it should be of Zhang Chen. How many hundreds of millions did Gong Li donate?"

On October 10st, the day when people were discussing whether to build a statue of Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen was invited by Ding Sanshi to go to West Lake in Hangzhou.

"Boss Ding, long time no see."

Zhang Chen bought NetEase stocks not only to make money, but also to participate in the "Second West Lake Sword Conference".

If he is not in a hurry, he can actually wait until the next session. Xiao Ma Ge will also be eligible to attend next year.

But who made him have to meet Jin Yong before 02?

Zhang Chen has many ways to meet Jin Yong, or in other words, in his small country, there are only a handful of people he wants to meet but cannot meet.

However, Zhang Chen always adheres to the idea that "chance encounter is the perfect start".

Just like he was willing to register an account on Penguin and wait for Brother Ma to contact him.

When doing business, Zhang Chen mainly adheres to the principle of "only those who are willing to take the bait will do so". It is you who beg me, not me begging you.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Chen is also interested in the Internet."

Ding Sanshi was quite curious about this big star who suddenly became a shareholder of the company.

At the same time, he was very happy, because this was a guy with big thick legs.

Think about Zhang Chen’s lavish spending some time ago.

Isn’t this NetEase’s savior?

"I know a little bit." Zhang Chen smiled modestly. "I heard that there was a forum for Internet companies in China last year. I have also been learning about the Internet recently, so I wanted to come and take a look out of curiosity. I just want to trouble you to get me an admission ticket."

"This is not my credit. If you had asked Mr. Ma for an invitation directly, I believe he would have been very happy to oblige."

Internet companies this year are all facing a problem.

That is how to operate the company under the premise of the bubble bursting.

So the theme of this session is also called "Management, Profit and Growth".

"Let's go. This is my first time here. I'd like to trouble Mr. Ding to introduce me to some 'heroes'."

It is said to be an Internet enterprise forum, but they are using the name of Mr. Jin.

Everything we say revolves around the so-called "moves" and "fighting methods".

Perhaps this is the origin of Internet slang.

Zhang Chen followed Ding Sanshi to a hotel located by the West Lake.

Since it is a forum, there will naturally be a host, an audience, and guests.

Zhang Chen and Ding Sanshi arrived later, so the venue was already full of audience and some guests.

"Zhang Chen? No one told me that Zhang Chen would be here too?"

"Are you sure? This is a forum for Internet companies. Zhang Chen was invited by the organizer to perform?"

"Are you okay? Who would be willing to invite Zhang Chen to perform?"

The moment Zhang Chen entered the venue, all the audience began to whisper and discuss the purpose of Zhang Chen's visit.

But some people reacted more strongly than them.

"Zhang Chen! Can you sign an autograph for me?"

As expected, Zhang Chen had put a pen in his pocket before coming.

"Everyone, let's not disturb the order of the meeting, okay? Then I'll take a photo with everyone."

Being blocked from getting autographs all the time was not a good thing, so Zhang Chen could only speak out to stop the enthusiastic audience.

"As expected, he is a big star. He is much more popular than us old-timers."

"Zhang Chen, you broke your thigh because of Director Wang."

The person who was speaking was Mao Daolin. Although Zhang Chen had no direct contact with him, Sun Fangping had once contacted Wang Zhidong, but her hope to acquire shares in Sina was not successful.

This incident not only caused Sina to lose a major financial sponsor, but also lost one of the biggest news topics for the news portal. Thinking of this incident, I wonder how many Sina executives regretted it so much that they broke their legs.

"Mr. Mao, you're joking. It was just not the right time at the beginning. Maybe there will be another chance in the future."

In the future, Sina will be an indispensable part of the entertainment industry. If you don’t want to cut you off, you must have a certain degree of control over Sina’s voice.

Otherwise, if this famous gathering place for gossip goes crazy, it will disrupt Zhang Chen's development rhythm in the entertainment industry.

"Zhang Chen, you and Mr. Mao haven't met yet, but why is it that the fate that has come to me has given me two problems?"

Zhang Wei is the business development director of Star Media, owned by media tycoon Murdoch.

The two problems she mentioned were actually the two times that Zhang Chen angered singers at the music award ceremony hosted by Channel [V], a channel under Star Media.

"Boss Zhang, you can't blame me for this. I was just fighting back in self-defense."

"I know. I'm not here to accuse you. I'll come and sit for the show when I'm free. I've made appointments with your company many times, but you didn't respond to me. This time I've caught the real culprit."

"Dialogue", an interview program launched by Spoon TV last year, is dedicated to inviting social elites to visit the program to discuss recent news events and hot topics.

Zhang Wei is currently the host of this talk show.

At the same time, she is also the host of today's "West Lake Sword Discussion".

The person who has been the most discussed among the domestic public recently is naturally Zhang Chen.

"Haha, come over and sit down if you have time."

Once you enter Vanity Fair, you have to accept its ups and downs. It took Zhang Chen ten minutes to walk from the entrance to the inner venue before he finished greeting some corporate CEOs and government officials in the venue.

Everyone at the scene was curious about Zhang Chen's purpose of coming here.

Zhang Chen also did not let Ding Sanshi tell others that he was a shareholder of NetEase.

So everyone started this year's "West Lake Sword Contest" with different thoughts.

Perhaps because of the presence of Zhang Chen, the big money sponsor, every CEO who took the stage boasted about the future of the Internet.

Some say that the scale of the Internet market will reach 1000 billion in the future, while others say that the future of the Internet lies in mobile phones.

In short, everyone is wondering where the future of the Internet lies and how they should gain a share of the benefits in this future that they will enjoy.

Just when he was listening "attentively", Zhang Wei pointed out to him:

"I'm sure everyone here is curious about what our big star Zhang Chen is doing here. How about we invite him to come up and say a few words?"

This was not included in the original agenda and was also Zhang Wei's impromptu idea.

Logically speaking, as a mature host, she should not arrange for guests to go on stage without their permission, which would make the guests embarrassed in public without any preparation.

But as someone who is extremely sensitive to news, she thinks Zhang Chen must have a purpose for coming here. No matter what the purpose is, he must have something to say. Does Zhang Chen want to speak on the stage or in private? In her opinion, if Zhang Chen wants to speak in private, he can just wait in the lounge next to the forum to find the person he wants to find after the forum ends, and there is no need to come to the scene in a big way to accept the audience's autographs, because in her analysis, Zhang Chen is not a vain star.

So, in the end, she decided to follow her inner guess and chose to let Zhang Chen go on stage.

When she finished speaking, everyone at the scene turned to look at Zhang Chen.

Some are surprised, some are expectant, and some are skeptical.

Zhang Chen did not disappoint Zhang Wei's guess. Under the gaze of everyone, he slowly stood up.

Faced with even louder applause than before, Zhang Chen came to the podium.

"I came here to learn from the CEOs who have been exploring the Internet for many years, and to see where I can invest my remaining spare money."

Zhang Chen also thought about holding a prediction conference here to talk about what the future Internet will look like. When people look back on his speech today, will they be surprised to find that all his predictions have come true?

But after careful consideration, I gave up this tempting idea.

It's nice to be popular, but making money comes first.

He released some ideas for future generations ahead of time, which undoubtedly added a lot of competitors to himself.

His greatest advantage is his foresight. Only by mastering information that others don’t know can he stay ahead in the world.

So, what was originally intended to be a long talk turned into a show of wealth.

The meaning is also obvious.

I’m Zhang Chen, and I’m rich!

In this year of the Internet bubble, many Internet companies are facing a stage where they are short of funds and cannot find investment. He is not sure whether his words are useful, but as he said to Pony Ma at the beginning, if they are short of money, just come to him.

Everyone at the scene was talking about how to catch "fish" on the Internet. Zhang Chen was thinking about how to catch all those who claimed to be fishermen.

"Well, thank you Zhang Chen for your statement. It seems that Zhang Chen is still optimistic about the future of the Internet. Aren't all the CEOs thinking about how to survive and develop in such a adverse situation? Now the first answer Zhang Chen gives you is - find him."

Zhang Wei didn't expect that Zhang Chen's speech was so brief that he didn't even give her time to organize her words.

However, with her strong ability to respond on the spot, she still grasped the key points of Zhang Chen's speech.

Then, seeing that Zhang Chen had nothing else to say, she invited Zhang Chen to sit down again.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly changed after Zhang Chen finished his speech.

If we say that in the first half of Zhang Chen's speech, everyone was discussing a feasible development direction, and everyone was thinking about working hard to make more money in this direction.

Then in the second half of Zhang Chen's speech, the topic of discussion turned to their own corporate culture and future development prospects.

In the eyes of many viewers, this forum has become an investment promotion conference.

Zhang Chen also listened with great interest. He was not pretending, because every successful company founder is basically a qualified speaker.

No matter whether the content is empty or not, at least it will not make the whole scene cold.

Zhang Chen also learned something from these people's speeches.

The first is Zhang Chaoyang, the current leader of the domestic Internet industry. His attitude towards Zhang Chen is indifferent, and he seems to be quite confident that he does not need help from others.

The initiator of this forum, Mr. Ma, instilled his ideas into him, and the whole speech was full of "moves" and "tactics".

Ding Sanshi is much more pragmatic. NetEase is currently in a critical period of life and death. With Zhang Chen's capital injection, although the company's stock price is still below $1, it still faces the risk of delisting if the stock price does not exceed $30 within 1 days.

So the topic of his speech changed from the future of the Internet, which he had originally intended to talk about, to the development history and future direction of NetEase.

It was just like an entrepreneur explaining his prospectus to investors. The purpose was to get more money out of Zhang Chen's pocket so that NetEase could get through the current difficulties.

"Old man, would you be so kind as to come and taste the Rainforest Longjing I just got to see if it's authentic?"

After the forum ended, Zhang Chen started his second target in this forum - Mr. Jin.

If 02 was the beginning of the vigorous development of the film industry.

02 was also the year when TV dramas based on Mr. Pai’s novels began to become popular in mainland China.

As an emerging entertainment and media company, Morning Light Entertainment has received many high-quality scripts in the past two years. However, these scripts are still far behind the TV series based on Jin Yong's novels, which have a huge fan base.

Therefore, if one wants to make further progress in the film and television industry, then the novel remake rights in Mr. Jin's hands are naturally the top priority.

"Oh? I didn't expect Zhang Chen would be willing to drink tea with an old man like me." Old Master Jin was also very surprised. He had also thought about the purpose of Zhang Chen's visit, but he didn't expect that the purpose would be him.

Zhang Chen's words about having just bought the pre-rain Longjing tea meant that he was well prepared.

"I dare not refuse the invitation of a big star, haha."

"I am sorry to bother you, old man. Please come this way."

The two of them left the scene side by side, like old friends who had not seen each other for many years, under the gaze of everyone.

"Mr. Ding, you came here with this person. Can you tell us the real purpose of his coming here?" Mr. Ma knew that Zhang Chen came here with Ding Sanshi, so he went to Ding Sanshi to inquire about the news.

"I'm not sure, but it looks like he's here to make friends with Mr. Jin."

Ding Sanshi still remembered Zhang Chen's request and did not reveal Zhang Chen's identity as a NetEase shareholder.

"He went through so much trouble just to see Mr. Jin. I don't know what he wants."

"No one knows what this person is thinking, just like we never expected him to spend $2 million to build a stadium."

"You missed a sentence, gratuitous."

"Hiss, I feel bad for him just thinking about it."

"He makes more money in a year than all of us combined, so he has the capital to be so willful."

No matter how the entrepreneurs who stayed at the scene speculated, Zhang Chen could not hear it.

He has now come to a teahouse by the West Lake with Mr. Jin.

After asking the store for a set of professional tea sets, Zhang Chen took out the Rain-Predawn Longjing that he asked Xiao Xue to buy specially.

There are casual ways to drink tea, and there are also more sophisticated ways to drink it.

In front of the literati Jin Yong, Zhang Chen naturally chose to drink in an elegant way.

The water used is from Hupao Spring and the tea sets used are old tea sets that the store has had for many years.

Clean the cup, warm the tea set, wash the tea, shake the incense, and add water, all in one go.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Chen is such a song and tea lover at such a young age."

Jin Yong couldn't help but praise Zhang Chen as he saw how skillfully he made tea.

Zhang Chen naturally wouldn't tell him that this was a skill he had learned in college when he took an intermediate tea artist certificate in order to get extra credits.

He also picked up the freshly brewed tea and took a sip of the fragrant tea.

"Mr. Cha must be very curious about why I came to have tea with you?"

　A large chapter of 4000 words, today's update of words has been completed!

　　Since the release of the game, a total of 189 monthly tickets have been received, leaving 200 tickets short of the 11 monthly tickets required for additional chapters.

　　I'm going to write a 2000-word chapter of my draft. Let's see if you can let me release the extra chapter before 12 o'clock.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)