Chapter 263 Happy Comedian (Please subscribe to support!)
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After several days of negotiations, Zhao Qihang finally bought 54.93% of the shares of Pegasus Culture Media Company from Yao Manling for 1 billion Chinese yuan. At the same time, several film and television companies and individuals led by Pegasus Culture Media Company bought the subsequent copyright of "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" for 1.5 billion Chinese yuan.
On the second day after purchasing the subsequent copyright of "Fortune", Zhao Qihang, the new president of Pegasus Film and Television Culture Media Company, announced on behalf of Pegasus Film and Television Culture Media Company and its partners that he would prepare to shoot "Fortune 2" and announced that he would personally serve as the producer. Bai Ge, the executive director of "Fortune", will serve as the director of "Fortune 2". Du Feng, a famous film and television director, screenwriter and producer who is well-known in the entertainment industry for his expertise in shooting gun battle films, will serve as the producer of "Fortune 2". Tan Xinyi, Zhang Chen, Li Mengguang, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and big-mouthed goddess Lin Qi will co-star in "Fortune 2". The initial investment is planned to be 300 million yuan, with no upper limit.
From this, it is not difficult to see that while Zhao Qihang and others tried their best to use the original crew of "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" in "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands 2", their great ambitions were also clearly revealed.
Some people have even called for the goal of maintaining second place and striving for third place, which means getting a minimum box office of 2 billion yuan and striving for 3 billion yuan.
In addition, the TV drama copyright of "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" was finally sold to Qiyi.com for 350 million Chinese yuan.
In order to fulfill his promise to Long Zijin, Xu Kai asked Yao Manling and Mo Xiaobai for money.
What made Xu Kai happy was that Yao Manling agreed to lend 1 billion yuan to Xu Kai without any advice from Mo Xiaobai, and Yao Manling did not ask Xu Kai for interest. Yao Manling also told Xu Kai that he could pay her back whenever he had money, and she was not in a hurry to use the money.
What Xu Kai didn't know was that Yao Manling and Mo Xiaobai were quite happy about him borrowing money from her.
At the beginning, when Zhao Qihang approached Yao Manling, he was only willing to pay 300 million Chinese yuan to buy 54.93% of the shares of Pegasus Culture Media Company from Yao Manling.
Judging from the attitude Zhao Qihang showed at the time, if Yao Manling had negotiated on her own, it would have been good enough for her to sell the 54.93% stake in Pegasus Culture Media Company for 500 million Chinese yuan.
Later, at the suggestion and instigation of Mo Xiaobai, Yao Manling asked Xu Kai to help her talk to Zhao Qihang about this matter, and was prepared to pay Xu Kai 15% of the remuneration.
Who would have thought that, for Mo Xiaobai's sake, Xu Kai didn't ask Yao Manling for a penny of compensation.
As a result, Yao Manling owed Xu Kai a big favor.
In fact, after Mo Xiaobai and Yao Manling discussed it, Yao Manling was ready to spend 200 million to buy Xu Kai a yacht or a private jet to repay Xu Kai's favor.
But to be honest, spending 200 million on gifts at once would make even someone as wealthy as Yao Manling feel a little painful.
Now, after lending 1 billion to Xu Kai, the favor has been repaid and the 200 million has also been saved.
As for worrying that Xu Kai couldn't pay it back? There was no such problem at all.
Not to mention that Yao Manling had witnessed Xu Kai's ability to make money with her own eyes. Even if she didn't believe in her own judgment, she certainly believed in the judgment of Mo Xiaobai and Zhu Bing. One of them wholeheartedly recognized Xu Kai as his big brother, and the other was wholeheartedly following Xu Kai. She felt that such a Xu Kai would definitely not owe her money and not pay it back.
Of course, Yao Manling and Mo Xiaobai thought that by lending Xu Kai 1 billion, they would be even with Xu Kai. That was what they thought.
But in Xu Kai's opinion, this actually meant that he owed Yao Manling a favor.
You know, this is not a small amount of money. Not to mention anything else, just putting this amount of money in the bank and earning interest is not a small amount.
So this is definitely not a small favor.
But Xu Kai didn't say anything, because it was useless to say anything. He didn't like to owe favors to others, so he would definitely find a way to repay Yao Manling in the future.
With the 1 billion Chinese yuan from Yao Manling, Xu Kai let Long Zijin go ahead and do it.
Long Zijin then quickly found Liu Dong and talked to him about Xu Kai's investment in Jingdong.
Liu Dong was almost going crazy due to lack of money, but he still refused to give up too many shares of Beijing Dong.
Long Zijin discussed with Liu Dong several times before Liu Dong agreed to let Xu Kai invest 500 million Chinese yuan in Jingdong, accounting for 30% of Jingdong's shares.
After Long Zijin had agreed on everything with Liu Dong, Xu Kai came forward to sign the contract with Liu Dong and paid the money.
Then, Xu Kai simply signed a power of attorney for Long Zijin, allowing Long Zijin to exercise his 30% stake in Kyoto on his behalf.
Long Zijin suddenly became the second most powerful person in Jingdong, and his position in Jingdong was second only to Liu Dong.
Not long after, with the mediation of Long Zijin, Xu Kai bought 70% of the shares of Xingyun Express from Long Zijin's partners for 670 million Chinese yuan.
After that, Xu Kai injected another 1 billion Chinese yuan into Xingyun Express, allowing Long Zijin to start building airports, buying airplanes, and developing mid- to high-end express delivery business.
After this operation, Xu Kai owned 84% of the shares of Xingyun Express, Long Zijin owned 15% of the shares of Xingyun Express, and the remaining 1% of the shares was used by Long Zijin to reward management talents.
These things seem tedious and troublesome, but in fact, Xu Kai only did two things: taking the money and bringing his legal team to sign the contract.
As for other matters, they were all handled by Long Zijin, including the equity distribution of Xingyun Express.
In return, Xu Kai really didn't care about the affairs of Xingyun Express and Jingdong, and just let Long Zijin do whatever he wanted.
So what is Xu Kai busy with? Of course, he is busy filming "The Empress of China", "The Grandmaster" and "The Chase", as well as preparing for "Happy Comedians".
After layers of screening, Xu Kai personally signed more than 30 comedians to form the Happy Wheat comedy team.
In order to train these comedians, Xu Kai signed a number of talented and potential screenwriters and directors to write scripts and rehearse for them. Xu Kai even wrote three scripts himself, "Charlotte's Troubles", "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and "The Shameful Iron Fist", and personally directed their rehearsals to hone their acting skills.
At the same time, Xu Kai found three groups of contestants in the variety shows of this era.
One group is a sketch team mainly composed of actresses, led by Zhang Xiaosu and Zhen Xiaoling.
Zhang Xiaosu is a beautiful woman with a slim figure, sexy and fashionable, just like the White Bone Demon.
Zhen Xiaoling is a silly girl who is fat, occasionally crazy, neurotic, and likes to make fun of herself, but has a positive attitude and always has a smile on her face.
The combination of these two completely different styles should bring a strong visual conflict to the audience.
The second group consisted of just one person, Yang Tianci, a mime performer who made it to the top five in the country on a comedy variety show.
In order to show the diversity of "Happy Comedian", Xu Kai chose him against all odds.
The last group is the new generation crosstalk artist Wang Jian and his team.
However, this team does not perform crosstalk, but talk show.
Together with the Happy Wheat Team, Northeast Folk Art Troupe and Fuyun Club, the six starting teams of "Happy Comedian" are complete.
In addition, Xu Kai also prepared two substitute teams - the Love Laughing Sketch Team and the Jiangnan Quyi Acrobatics Troupe Team.
"Happy Comedian" is ready...
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