The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 253: Acquiring Dian Niang, the Dream of a Little Rich Woman

"Director Zhang."

Bao Jianfeng, also known as Lin Tingfeng, is the founder of Dianniang.

When he received the news some time ago that Chenguang Group wanted to cooperate with their website, he was a little bit unbelieving.

You should know that Chenguang Group is currently the country's leading large-scale comprehensive group company, and its business scope has covered entertainment culture, Internet, film and television production, news media, real estate and other fields.

According to the evaluation reports issued by some institutions, the assets are at least tens of billions. As for more detailed data, it is difficult to estimate because none of the companies under the Morning Glory Group are listed.

But even the estimated tens of billions of assets are not comparable to Dianniao, a small company that has only been established for about a year.

Therefore, Lin Tingfeng was somewhat confused about the purpose of Zhang Chen's coming here.

"Boss Lin, I'm sorry to bother you by visiting you without permission."

Zhang Chen was very polite. After all, he was more or less a fan of online novels in his previous life, so he still admired the founder who could be said to have created the cradle of domestic online novels.

Without him, many people in China would have lost a big way to pass their time.

"Mr. Zhang."

"Just call me Zhang Chen."

Although Zhang Chen doesn't care much about how to address others, the title "Mr. Zhang" sounds a bit strange. Over the years, in addition to people in the company, his fans and the like also call him by his name, and it has become a habit.

"Zhang Chen, why are you here this time?"

"I'm in a rush, so I'll just say it straight." Zhang Chen stated his purpose after sitting down. "As you know, we have our own film and television production team, but film and television creation requires scripts."

"You mean, like Wang Shuo?"

"That's pretty much what it means."

There is a core in the capital's film circle, that is Wang Shuo. It is because of him that famous figures such as Zhang Guoli, Feng Xiaogang, Ge You, and Jiang Wen were born.

The reason why Wang Shuo became the core is because of his creative talent.

A good movie cannot be without a good script, and Wang Shuo is a person who can create good scripts. His series of film and television works such as "Sunny Days", "It Looks Beautiful", "Father and Son", "Beijingers in New York", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "I Love My Family", and "If You Are the One" have made him the most shining figure in the domestic film and television industry.

I won’t comment on other aspects of this person, but at this moment, there are indeed many directors and actors who regard him as a giant in the domestic film and television industry.

So when Zhang Chen asked for the script, Lin Tingfeng, who also had some knowledge of the literary circle, understood what Zhang Chen meant.

After all, many writers also take Wang Shuo as a role model and work hard for him.

"But." Lin Tingfeng looked embarrassed, "Compared with Wang Shuo's, the novels on our website are far inferior, and we are not professional screenwriters."

"It doesn't matter. For a movie or TV series, the most important thing is the subject matter and ideas. As for the script, our company will have a dedicated screenwriter to adapt it." Zhang Chen first gave Lin Tingfeng a reassurance, "Also, I wonder if you are interested in becoming the next Rowling?"

"Really?" Lin Jianfeng opened his eyes wide.

What is the ultimate goal of all novel writers in the world?

Then probably more than 80 percent of people would choose to be like Rowling without hesitation.

After all, being able to publish one's own works to the world, adapt them into movies, and have the box office of the movies be so dazzling, this is the ultimate goal of a novelist.

"Of course it's true." Zhang Chen continued to make plans. "Think about it. As long as you find someone to translate your novels into English or other languages, and then put them on overseas websites, if the sales are good, you can also consider publishing physical books. Isn't this a disguised way to earn money?"

"But no one will translate online literature like ours."

Lin Jianfeng is still self-aware. To put it nicely, today's online literature is called novels, but to put it bluntly, it is still a kind of inferior article. The mainstream literary circle really looks down on this group of people.

In this case, it is unrealistic to ask those who work as translators to translate their novels.

You have to know that today's college students are still high-end talents, and there are even fewer who can work as translators.

They can't even translate all the literary works of other literary masters, so how can they "lower their status" to translate online literature?

"It's nothing more than a matter of money. As long as the money is enough, everything will be fine."

"Well, we don't have any money either."

Lin Tingfeng smiled awkwardly.

The website has just started to operate a paid model, and the future prospects are still unknown. Even the current operating expenses of the website are stretched thin. How can they afford to hire some talents who are proficient in foreign languages to help translate their works?

Zhang Chen saw that Lin Tingfeng was a little embarrassed, but he didn't care. He was waiting for this sentence: "You don't have money, but I do."

"what do you mean?"

"Acquisition." Zhang Chen uttered two words.

"This won't work!"

Lin Tingfeng objected subconsciously.

This website is the result of his hard work. He is reluctant to sell it now that it is just starting to gain momentum.

"Boss Lin, listen to me." Zhang Chen waved his hand to signal Lin Tingfeng to continue sitting down. "Any business needs funds to develop, and a website like Dianniang needs a lot of funds to quickly occupy the domestic Internet literature market. If you want to go overseas, you need even more money."

"But."

"1000 million for 90% of your shares."

"This"

"1200."

It is rare for Zhang Chen to negotiate business by constantly raising his quote.

He usually lowered the price, but the amount of the acquisition today was indeed not large.

The properties under his name now provide him with more than 3 million RMB in rent each year. Among them, the Morning Light Building alone can bring Zhang Chen 2 million yuan per year.

In total, not counting the annual dividends from his own companies, Zhang Chen earns nearly one million a day just from rent.

"Xiao Xue, send someone to Dianniang in a while, and also start promoting Dianniang. Both the reader side and the user side need to be promoted properly."

Today's meeting lasted less than an hour in total, because Dian Niang is too small now.

Under Zhang Chen's financial offensive, for someone who has just entered society, an income of tens of millions is already unimaginable.

In the end, Zhang Chen spent 1300 million to acquire % of the shares of this company, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chenguang Group.

However, Zhang Chen did not make major changes to the company's personnel. Instead, he continued to employ Lin Tingfeng as the company's vice president and editor-in-chief, allowing him to continue to shine on this path.

This is just the beginning.

There is not only Dianniao on the market now. There are also many excellent websites on the female side that need to be negotiated with, but this is not Zhang Chen's business.

He just needs to make a start, and the smaller websites behind him will naturally know how to choose.

With online literature as a foundation, Chenguang Group will now have a decent copyright library in the film and television industry.

After all, although Zhang Chen remembered the general content of the novel, it was too unrealistic to ask him to replicate it 100%.

Firstly, he doesn't have that much reading capacity, and secondly, he doesn't have the time or energy to do this.

It would be more realistic to let the original authors create their works.

If he remembered correctly, the novel "Zhu Xian" had been published in Taiwan and had achieved good results. If this IP is well developed, the income from movies, TV series, games, and peripherals, as well as the influence it brings, would be a fortune that cannot be ignored.

"Go home first."

Acquiring an online literature novel website is not something that can be done overnight, and negotiating novel copyrights is not something that can be decided in a short period of time. Zhang Chen also needs to give his subordinates a detailed implementation plan in order for Chenguang Group to take a bite of this big cake.

After temporarily solving a big problem in his heart, Zhang Chen finally returned home after many twists and turns.

When I got home, I saw little Liu Yifei staring at the computer in the living room and laughing silly.

"Hey, you're back to life." Zhang Chen walked to her side and waved his hand in front of her.

"what?"

Liu Yifei opened her mouth blankly and turned to look at Zhang Chen. Her silly and cute look made Zhang Chen want to take a bite: "Wipe your saliva."

Liu Yifei finally came back to her senses after hearing this. She hurriedly lowered her head and wiped the corners of her mouth, but found that there was no saliva at all: "You lied again~"

"Huh?" Zhang Chen was shocked. "You didn't get angry?"

According to past experience, for every joke Zhang Chen made, Liu Yifei would retort ten times.

But Xiao Liu just complained, and it was more like acting coquettishly than complaining.

"Tsk tsk tsk, let me see what's going on." Zhang Chen walked around behind Liu Yifei, wanting to see what she was looking at.

Seeing Zhang Chen's actions, Liu Yifei hurriedly covered her collar and said, "Want to peek again?"

She was also frightened by Zhang Chen's two "peeping" and she was afraid to let Zhang Chen stand behind her.

Although the capital is not very hot in October, the temperature in Zhang Chen's home usually remains around 20 degrees Celsius.

For this reason, Liu Yifei would basically only wear a thin piece of clothing at Zhang Chen's house, and sometimes she would even run around the house in her pajamas.

In this case, there is no way a certain item of clothing would be worn.

"That's all you have." Zhang Chen looked at Liu Yifei's angry expression and swallowed the second half of his sentence.

"What do I have?"

"What two points?" Zhang Chen added tentatively.

"?" Liu Yifei was once again confused by the strange remarks of Zhang Chen, the old driver.

Poor her, she has grown up and learned a lot of strange sentences from Zhang Chen, but God has pity on her, she still can't understand words like this.

"When you have time, go read the poem 'Little Pond' by Yang Wanli, a poet from the Song Dynasty." Zhang Chen turned Liu Yifei's little head back and asked her to look at the computer screen with him. "Hey, little rich woman?"

"Yes, yes, yes, call me a rich woman from now on, I love it!" Liu Yifei finally remembered the important things from Zhang Chen's interruption, "Brother, I'm rich!~"

Liu Yifei stood up suddenly, stepped on the sofa with her bare feet, looked down at Zhang Chen, pointed at the computer screen with excitement and said: "NetEase's stock price is now 70 US dollars!"

“You seem to have 240 million shares?”

"Yes!" Liu Yifei raised her head and said proudly, "My current assets are $1.68 million!"

"Wow - awesome!" Zhang Chen clapped his hands a few times in agreement, and perfunctorily agreed, then asked, "Then, rich lady, can you move out of my house?"

This guy has been staying at home for more than half a year.

Don't think it's a good thing to have a sweet little beauty living with him at home.

Now he can only look but not eat, which is just torture for Zhang Chen.

"Do you find me annoying?" Liu Yifei asked with her hands on her hips and raised her eyebrows.

"You discovered all this?" Zhang Chen asked in surprise, eyes wide open.

"It's just to pay the rent. I have money now. Tell me, how much do you want?"

Liu Yifei won't give up easily.

She knew that it was time for the two of them to bicker again. Today, she was full of fighting spirit and wanted to defeat little Zhang Chen.

"I am the world's pop king, the chairman of the Morning Glory Group, and I have donated 2 million US dollars. I am an outstanding youth certified by the state. How could I lack your small donation?"

"I am a pop queen, the largest individual shareholder of NetEase, and a super beautiful girl with assets exceeding 100 million US dollars. How could I be short of your rent money?"

"Pfft, super invincible beautiful girl, I'm sorry, I really couldn't help it."

Zhang Chen held his stomach and laughed so hard that it started to wobble.

Although there is nothing wrong with this word when used to describe Liu Yifei, it has a different meaning when she says it.

Zhang Chen always felt like he was watching some kind of Japanese anime.

"You laugh again, you laugh again!?"

Liu Yifei was completely broken by Zhang Chen's laughter, which didn't hurt much but was extremely insulting.

Her face turned red, and she picked up the pillow and threw it at Zhang Chen.

"Stop, stop, stop," Zhang Chen said as he dodged the girl's continuous attacks. "Now that you are so rich, shouldn't you just lie down from now on?"

"from now on."

Hearing Zhang Chen's question, Liu Yifei stopped hitting him and fell into deep thought while holding the pillow.

She was just thinking about getting rich, and hadn't really thought about what to do with the money.

Normally speaking, after having enough money to eat and drink, the easiest and happiest option is to enjoy your future life.

But
"Brother, tell me." Liu Yifei was confused, "What should I do in the future?"

"Didn't I tell you that you've made so much money, wouldn't it be nice to just lie at home and do nothing?" Zhang Chen looked at his little sister with a smile, "You like to sleep in, so sleep as much as you can from now on."

"But." Liu Yifei opened her mouth blankly but didn't utter a word.

After a long time, she looked at Zhang Chen and asked back: "You are richer than me, but I feel that you are busier than before."

"As for me." Zhang Chen didn't know how to answer. "I have a hard life, but I also have things I want to do."

"Then I also have things I want to do!" Liu Yifei looked determined, as if she had thought of something.

"Oh?" Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you want to do?"

"A secret I won't tell you!"

"What secrets can you have from me?"

"Me!" Liu Yifei wanted to refute, but couldn't find any reason to refute.

From childhood to adulthood, she really has no secrets in front of Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen even knew exactly what size clothes she wore.

"Go ahead."

Zhang Chen also wanted to know what kind of person Liu Yifei wanted to be in this life.