HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 227 [227] The daily wage for a commercial performance during the Spring Festival is so good, what does it mean to be a superstar!
Previously, Qi Yuan owned 15% of Tencent's shares. If we add the current 30%, Qi Yuan's shareholding far exceeds that of Xiao Maju, the leader of Tencent.

Even after multiple rounds of financing and dilution through IPOs, the shares he holds will still be enough for Qi Yuan to dominate the business world.

Seeing such a good deal, Qi Yuan didn't hesitate and decisively invested the money.

Qi Yuan discovered that the price was higher than in his previous life.

He remembered that in his previous life, Li Ka-shing's son and another company provided financing to Little Pony, taking away 40% of the shares for $2.2 million.

That's understandable. With Qi Yuan as their spokesperson, QQ's user base doubled compared to the same period in the previous life, so the price naturally increased as well.

Little Pony made a condition to Qi Yuan: although Qi Yuan owned the most shares, Little Pony still had control of Tencent, and this could not be changed.

Qi Yuan didn't care. He was one of the founders of Tencent, and he already owned shares and had decision-making power. He didn't intend to actually take over Tencent and become its CEO.

He retains decision-making power, participates in decision-making when necessary, and provides some advice.

The most valuable asset of Tencent is Pony Ma and his team.

It was thanks to him and his team that those creative ideas and business plans came about later.

Without Pony Ma, the team has fallen apart, and Tencent might not be able to survive.

Qi Yuan understands this principle well: professional matters should be left to professionals.

He agreed to the foal's conditions: even if the foal didn't want to continue, he would keep it in the helmsman's position.

"Alright, you can go back now. I'll give you half after the New Year, and then we'll finalize a new agreement. I'm just destined to be a workaholic; I won't be able to celebrate the New Year this year."

Qi Yuan experiences both pain and joy.

He had originally planned to take a few days off during the Lunar New Year, but the arrival of the little pony changed his mind.

Rest my ass! Making money is the most important thing.

He will not sell his Wuliangye shares in the short term; two million US dollars is not a small sum for him.

If you ask him to produce two million dollars all at once, he will have half the cash on hand.

He plans to invest in "Infernal Affairs" after the new year.

Although we have a lot of money, we need to spend it everywhere, so we have to be careful with our spending.

He had no choice but to work harder and continue performing at commercial events during the Lunar New Year. With his current popularity, he was guaranteed to earn at least half of the two million dollars in a week during the Lunar New Year.

It's not that Qi Yuan isn't capable; it's mainly because time is limited. The Lunar New Year holiday is only about a week long, and even if you carried a plane, you couldn't make it to so many events.

After sending the foal away, Qi Yuan quickly summoned Zhang Hao and Li Xue back.

He's not planning to celebrate the New Year, so Zhang Hao and Li Xue shouldn't either.

At first, Li Xue and Zhang Hao were resistant.

Qi Yuan calmly replied, "Five times the salary."

"So be it, this year is over!"

If you do not despise me, I am willing to serve you like a dog or a horse!
The next day, which happened to be Lunar New Year's Eve, Li Xue and Zhang Hao flew to Guangzhou.

A generous reward will surely attract brave men; the ancients were right.

Zhang Hao and Li Xue had their New Year's Eve dinner at Qi Yuan's house this year. Li Xue felt very happy and didn't experience the pain of working overtime during the New Year.

She showed concern for Qi Yuan's parents and personally cooked two Northeastern dishes.

Li Xue has excellent emotional and intellectual intelligence, and she made Qi's parents very happy.

Qi Yuan looked puzzled; was she here to work or to meet her parents?

Li Xue euphemistically calls this "nanny-style brokerage," something she learned from Wang Jinghua.

To ensure her artists can focus on their work, Wang Jinghua also helps resolve any family problems they encounter.

As Qi Yuan's manager, it's perfectly reasonable for her to maintain a good relationship with Qi Yuan's parents, right? It's perfectly reasonable for her to help Qi Yuan establish a stable family life, right?

To please Qi's parents, she specially brought over twenty kilograms of authentic Wuchang rice from Northeast China; it tasted really good. New Year's Eve.

Li Xue edited New Year's greetings text messages and sent them to all her relatives and friends.

"Dear relatives and friends, Happy Chinese New Year! I wish you all a happy and enjoyable holiday! I'm a workaholic, and I'll still be on duty during the Spring Festival. Don't worry about me, although work is tough, the boss's New Year's Eve dinner is delicious!"

Fan Xiaopang, who was far away in his hometown in Shandong Province, was completely confused when he saw Li Xue's New Year's greeting text message.

New Year's greetings via text message are common, and she received many today, but she felt that Li Xue's message had a hidden meaning.

After looking at it again, she finally noticed something amiss.

???

This woman went to Qi Yuan's house to meet his parents? She's shameless.

Whether it was Li Bingbing in Northeast China or Li Xue in Guangzhou, they were both greeted by Fan Xiaopang quite a bit this Spring Festival. Fan Xiaopang wished he could make two paper figures and remotely cast a spell to deal with the two sisters.

After having New Year's Eve dinner.

Qi Yuan began working frantically, first traveling around Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

If I receive an invitation from a business in a major city and the price is right, I'll fly over and sing a few songs.

Making money during the Chinese New Year is really easy. Just then, a large shopping mall opened in Guangzhou, and in order to increase its popularity, they invited Qi Yuan to sing, spending a whopping 110 million yuan.

After the mall opened, Qi Yuan flew to Shanghai that night to take on a commercial performance, earning 90 yuan, achieving a daily salary of two million yuan.

Qi Yuan himself never expected that he would actually catch up with Shuangzi in terms of daily salary in 2000.

No, Shuangzi has 208 million, there's still a gap, he needs to keep working hard.

It's a bit of a pity that this was the only day during the entire Spring Festival that could rival Shuangzi.

The main problem is that the venues are too scattered. Often, after finishing a performance in a city, there's no time to catch a breath before having to rush to catch a flight. In a day, you can only do a few shows.

Except for that one day, Qi Yuan usually earns more than a million a day.

Each appearance involves singing only a few songs, with an appearance fee starting at 600,000.

Currently, the most expensive players in mainland China, such as Sun Nan, Na Ying, and Liu Huan, may not even be half the price of Qi Yuan.

By the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Qi Yuan had earned a little over ten million.

This achievement was made even after the workload had decreased in the following days.

Qi Yuan only needs to spend another four or five million to sell to Little Pony, and he will get 45% of Tencent's shares. This hard work during the Spring Festival will be worth it.

……

The Spring Festival of 2000 was a busy yet happy one for Qi Yuan.

Like him is Nicholas Tse of Yinghuang.

During this year's Spring Festival, Nicholas Tse held Dong Jie's hand and sang "Together for Life" at the Spring Festival Gala.

Riding the wave of popularity from the Spring Festival Gala, Nicholas Tse achieved nationwide fame, and his songs became wildly popular in mainland China.

However, the king of this Spring Festival is still "Fairy Tale".

It has been almost two months since Qi Yuan released his album.

"Fairy Tale" firmly occupied the number one spot on various music charts, and it has never been dethroned since it reached the top.

This is the power of a hit song paired with a top-notch music video. The music video for "Fairy Tale" has been repeatedly broadcast on television these days, and CCTV's music programs have also played it quite a bit.

Not to mention Nicholas Tse, even Elva Hsiao, Wang Lihong, and Jay Chou from Hong Kong and Taiwan all lost to "Fairy Tale".

Sun Nan from the mainland sang "Come back soon" so hard his voice was hoarse but it still didn't work.

(End of this chapter)