Chapter 81 Partnership

"How was the audition?"

"Not bad, I feel the role is suitable, but the result still depends on the producer's opinion."

"What kind of drama is it? Which company?"

"A suspense fantasy drama with a Republic of China background, called "Wuxin the Monster Killer", also a web drama, produced by Tangren Film and Television." "

The Tangren from "Legend of Sword and Fairy"?"

"Yeah."

"Ha! I said web dramas will definitely be the future development direction, look, isn't this the end of an old traditional film and television company."

"..."

Seeing the two men sitting opposite chatting heatedly, Li Qin couldn't help but roll her eyes in her heart.

She originally thought that there was an extra Zhang Ruoyun between her and Meng Bai, but she didn't expect that she was actually the extra one.

It's a pity that she had specially touched up her makeup when she was on the crew just now, but it was really in vain.

Li Qin silently made a note for each of the two men in her little notebook. Fortunately, Meng Bai still remembered whose territory he was in. After chatting with Zhang Ruoyun for a few words, he gradually turned the topic to business.

"Lao Zhang, if the drama you auditioned for is selected, when will it start filming?" Meng Bai asked.

Zhang Ruoyun thought for a while and said, "I asked the director who auditioned for me, and he said that because it is an adaptation of a series of novels, the script has not been finalized yet, so the earliest it can start filming is at the end of the year."

There is still half a year until the end of the year, which is enough time to film another drama.

"What about Teacher Li?" Meng Bai asked, "When will your schedule be free?"

Li Qin thought for a while and said, "I have a drama that I filmed last year to be broadcast next month. There will be some promotional activities during the broadcast period. It will be around the end of July before I can free up time."

Meng Bai nodded, "That's about right. I asked Brother Yi a few days ago, and he just finished filming a drama and is going to take a break. In this case, let's tentatively start filming "Soul Ferry 2" in August. Are you all okay with it?"

Li Qin and Zhang Ruoyun naturally had no objections. After all, this was actually discussed a long time ago, and they also deliberately set aside time.

The filming of "Pendulum 2" has been temporarily confirmed, and Meng Bai talked about the second thing he came here for today, which is about the financing and investment of Leshi Pictures.

He briefly introduced the general situation to the two of them, and finally said: "In short, I have a total investment quota of 10 million here, and now there is still a vacancy of 1.5 million. Do you have any interest in joining together?"

Ever since Qin Lan and Meng Bai talked about the financing of Leshi Pictures, he has been thinking about this matter for some time.

At first, he was thinking about using asset mortgages and other means to get 2 million and invest with Qin Lan.

But then he thought that he is now a partner of Leshi.com, and he is still the kind of influence. In this case, why not go directly to Leshi to talk about this kind of financing, and open a separate one yourself, why bother to get together with others?

Do it as soon as you think of it. Meng Bai went directly to Liu Jun and expressed his interest in Leshi Pictures' B round of financing, and wanted to see if he could also participate.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jun told him the next day that he could organize his own group and gave him an investment quota of 10 million, and he could buy it at a discount.

This surprise was a bit too big.

Later, I found out that this matter was specially approved by Boss Jia. The main purpose was to further strengthen the relationship with Meng Bai. After all, Arclight Films is now an important partner of Leshi.com's content side.

In fact, Meng Bai was not the best treated. As several other important partners of Leshi.com's content side, they all received a large "deal" from Leshi this time.

Zhang Guoshi, who was already a natural person shareholder before, directly issued 12 million shares in this round of financing; Gao Dajin, who has a good relationship with Boss Jia, also received 5 million shares in the name of the company; and Guo Xiaosi, who has cooperated with Leshi Films on several "Tiny Times" films, won 5 million shares at a preferential price of "one yuan per share".

In comparison, Meng Bai's "preferential treatment" seems insignificant.

But it is reasonable to think about it, after all, his Arclight Films is currently just a "small role". Those people are currently better than him in terms of status or contribution to interests, and it is reasonable to have better "treatment". What

he is more concerned about now is that he really has no reason not to invest this time.

He calculated that according to the "discount discount" given by Leshi.com, he can buy 10 million shares for about 8 million.

In other words, even if he invests the money and sells it immediately, he can still reap more than 20% of the profit.

Of course, this is just an analogy. This kind of share transfer in the primary market is very troublesome and cannot be traded freely like in the secondary market. But even so, it is enough to show the sincerity of Boss Jia.

It has to be said that Leshi.com still attaches great importance to content. After all, "celebrity shareholders" are just for face, and these content producers behind the scenes are the real "inside", which must be firmly grasped.

Since he has the qualification to enter, Meng Bai will not waste it. 10 million, oh no, it is 8 million investment. He certainly can't eat it alone, so let's call everyone together. The

first person he contacted was Qin Lan. As the saying goes, give a favor and return a favor. If he didn't have the news of this sister, he might have missed this opportunity.

Qin Lan was stunned for three seconds at Meng Bai's invitation. Originally, she wanted to take this "little brother" with her, but she didn't expect that she would be taken away by the other party in the end.

But she didn't refuse. Anyway, she had to invest, and it didn't matter where she invested, not to mention that she could earn more here. So she took out the 3 million that she had originally planned to invest with several other "star shareholders" and transferred it to an asset management company newly registered by Meng Bai called "Qiming Venture Capital".

Later, Meng Bai contacted Wu Bai again and asked if he was interested.

This was an olive branch. After all, he had always intended to recruit Wu Bai. Wu Bai obviously understood what he meant. After thinking about it for a few days, he decided to accept Meng Bai's kindness and invested 1.5 million.

Qin Lan's 3 million, Wu Bai's 1.5 million, plus his own 2 million, that's 6.5 million, and there is still 1.5 million investment quota left.

Meng Bai thought about the people he knew and had a good relationship with, and it seemed that only Zhang Ruoyun and Li Qin had spare money to invest. It happened that both of them were in Shanghai, so he asked them out to ask if they were interested.

After listening to Meng Bai's introduction, Li Qin and Zhang Ruoyun both fell into deep thought. This is not an ordinary venture capital, but a project that is sure to make money. Although Meng Bai did not say it, both of them knew that it was not just a simple investment of money to agree to it. There were also heavy favors hidden behind it.

"I can do it." Li Qin did not hesitate and was the first to speak: "I can give one million."

The relationship between her and Meng Bai was already a mess, so she was not afraid of deepening it.

Zhang Ruoyun, who was standing by, heard this and smiled bitterly: "Why don't you add another 200,000 so that I can invest more."

He used to film with his father and played many roles, but the pay was not much. Now he is working on his own and gets more, but after all, he is not famous and has been working for a short time, so he really doesn't have much savings.

"Okay, adding another 200,000 is no problem." Li Qin said without blinking: "It's okay, if you have financial difficulties, I can take all 1.5 million."

She has not touched the share of more than 2 million from "Soul Ferry". Adding the pay for filming in the past year, she is now a standard "little rich woman".

"No, 300,000 is good enough." Zhang Ruoyun hurriedly stopped the "extravagant" Li Qin, and then looked at Meng Bai and said seriously: "Teacher Meng, I won't say more, I'll take tea instead of wine, I'll remember it."

"Okay, okay, we can all make money." Meng Bai said with a smile.

Very good, now the 8 million is finally collected. I just don't know how much benefit this money can bring if Leshi Films can really merge and reorganize.

(End of this chapter)