Chapter 230 Where is the company's money? How come not a cent is missing?
Friday, June 30th.
Yang Ruoqian, who had been looking forward to the settlement day for a long time, simply took a day off and stayed in his room playing games to pass the day as quickly as possible.
In his opinion, getting rich quickly in this quarter was a sure thing and there wouldn't be any unexpected circumstances.
Legal departments, record companies and public relations departments are working hard to shred money to resist the profits of live streaming, e-sports and surrounding industries.
Then the Shelter Company's 500 million wasted... the huge investment swallowed up the domestic box office revenue of "The Boys", creating losses.
Other more troubling revenues, such as the overseas box office of "The Boys", the "huge wealth" that is equivalent to an unexpected disaster, the major impact that Duan Run's interview team may have, etc., are things that need to be considered in the next quarter.
Even though it is very difficult to solve these problems, it is not something that can be done today.
…
It was evening, and after finishing their meal, Yang Ruoqian and Chang Zhiqing couldn't wait to sit on the sofa, casting a bad movie on TV while waiting for the system to settle.
The only good thing about bad movies is that you don't have to take them too seriously, and they're a great way to kill time.
Even if you go to the toilet and come back to watch it, it won’t affect anything.
If you are watching a blockbuster movie, you might miss some particularly important plot if you are distracted for a few minutes.
Time passed by second by second...
The system's familiar and friendly panel also popped up on time.
【Artist Training System 2.0】
[Company's profit and loss this quarter: profit 270913471.98. The company's profit this quarter has achieved a qualitative leap, but the system noticed that the host still attaches too much importance to short-term profits and deliberately ignores the fact that the payback period of some projects far exceeds that of the first quarter, and is too eager for quick success]
[In order to encourage the host to overcome favorable circumstances, the system will give the host an additional surprise prize on top of the 300,000 personal loss consolation bonus from last quarter. I hope the host can change his mindset as soon as possible.]
[According to the ratio of 1/10000, congratulations to the host for receiving a commission of 27100.00 yuan! ]
"No, what happened again?!" Yang Ruoqian felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him when he saw the number that was so different from his expectations. "That's not right. Even if all the company's projects suddenly took a boost these past two days and made sky-high profits, it's impossible for them to create a profit gap of 270 million all of a sudden!"
Even if the overseas box office of the movie and the income from live streaming sales were all received at once, it would be impossible for this quarter's profit to soar to a level close to 300 million!
Even if all the accidents happened at the same time and all possible subsequent profits were settled together, Yang Ruoqian would at least lose tens of millions.
There must be a huge mistake in some important link.
Which link is the most important in this loss plan?
Just by thinking about it, Yang Ruoqian could think of the answer - only "Titanic 2" which the Shelter Company is about to start filming.
This project, which is expected to cost 500 million yuan, is the largest and most important project in this settlement.
It is also the only possible project that could suddenly leave so much money in the account.
But the problem is that Yang Ruoqian has repeatedly ordered the shelter company to pay all expenses from the treasury before the end of June, and does not allow them to raise funds through loans or external financing.
Then why haven't they taken the funds till today? !
What happened? That's not right. Yang Ruoqian has ordered the shelter company to report to the group immediately if it encounters difficulties. Time is more important than money. We must not miss the opportunity just to save money.
Could it be that the Shelter Company itself has enough funds to complete "Titanic 2", a huge project estimated to cost 500 million yuan?
Even more impossible! With 500 million yuan in funds available at any time on the books, the company's overall assets and scale would not be small.
The Shelter Company is better than Spark Records. It is not poor, but at first glance, it does not look like a company that can come up with 500 million in cash.
If you don't take money from the company, you have to use full leverage.
Although the movies they made before were profitable, the profit scale of 500,000 was an overestimate, and it was far from 500 million.
So, what happened? Why didn't the Shelter Company take 500 million from the company as planned? Even though Yang Ruoqian was extremely anxious and wanted to know what happened at the Shelter Company, it was already time to get off work and all the employees were out of contact. If he wanted to know the whole story, he could only wait for two more days, until next Monday.
Yang Ruoqian was helpless and could only follow the system panel and continue looking down.
【A new milestone has been detected...】
[The company's profit this quarter exceeded nine figures, reaching a new milestone! At present, Kuiguang Group has become a truly leading local enterprise! ]
[In order to help the group grow smoothly into a large national enterprise, the system will give a development support award]
[It is detected that the Kuiguang Group is currently facing a large number of lawsuits. It is detected that the legal department of the Kuiguang Group is facing the dilemma of insufficient evidence. It is detected that the group's lawsuits are to safeguard the legitimate interests that the group deserves and the legitimate rights and interests of its artists]
[Milestone rewards have been issued: Evidence of the video blogger's malicious slander and rumor-mongering of "The Black Robe Inspection Team" has been delivered to the Group's Legal Department, and the internal audio recording of the program "The Voice of the Motherland" has been delivered to the Group's Public Relations Department]
Yang Ruoqian: “…”
System, if you want me to die, just say it directly, no need to beat around the bush.
The reason why Yang Ruoqian chose to set up a super legal department of unprecedented scale and huge cost was to deal with those large number of lawsuits that were impossible to win.
For this purpose, the group even hired an outsourced detective team to collect evidence that would be impossible to collect.
Whether it is a lengthy lawsuit or a joking collection of evidence, the purpose is to extend the cycle as much as possible and increase consumption items.
As a result, the system directly issued all the evidence as a reward? And it was very considerate and intelligent to send it to the company's legal department and public relations department. Yang Ruoqian couldn't even try to interfere and hide the evidence! This saved the huge expenses of the detective project and greatly reduced the lengthy time of the lawsuit.
What’s even more terrifying is that Yang Ruoqian originally just wanted to use the lawsuit to disgust those uploaders and video bloggers who took bribes to do bad things. As for whether to compensate or not, whether to get money or not…
He wasn't going to get a penny back.
But now, everything is different.
With irrefutable evidence, it is highly likely that compensation will be obtained from so many up users.
Although all these things combined are still not enough to make the judicial department of Kuiguang Group profitable, this pillar, which was originally regarded as one of the three pillars of Kuiguang, has already collapsed halfway.
The role that can be played has been greatly reduced! Moreover, due to the strategy of drinking poison to quench thirst in the second quarter, the pressure of losses in the third quarter is unprecedentedly huge, far exceeding any previous quarter.
"What should we do? Should we just give up the losses in the third quarter and make a profit?"
As soon as the discouraged thought emerged, it was forcefully suppressed by Yang Ruoqian.
Absolutely not!
With a ratio of 1/10,000, Yang Ruoqian would have to earn 3 billion to get 300,000! But even if he lost 1 yuan, the system would give him a consolation prize of 300,000 and a mysterious gift.
How can we give up the hope of failure just because of a temporary success?
In his previous life, Yang Ruoqian struggled for 10 years and finally succeeded. Now it’s only been a year, how can he give up so easily?
The third quarter, just reached the end!
If Mr. Yang had such a system but was never able to suffer a real loss, he would die with regret.
…
Soon, July arrived.
on Monday.
After two days of torment, Mr. Yang finally arrived at the company on time for the first time. As soon as he sat in the office, he anxiously called the finance department.
The man picked up the phone and greeted Yang Ruoqian excitedly, "Good morning, Mr. Yang! Do you have any instructions?"
On the last Friday of last month, Mr. Yang was playing games at home, but the group was bustling with activity.
Because their performance hit a new high this quarter.
270 million!
Many employees of Kuiguang Group are fresh college graduates with no work experience, such as top student Xu Changming; there are also grassroots or middle-level managers who are frustrated in large enterprises, such as Lin Cao.
But these people, whether they were newcomers or experienced, whether they came from big places or small places, were still shocked when they saw the grand occasion of making a profit of 270 million in one quarter.
Who has ever fought such a rich war? If this money was given to Lin Cao, he would dare to go to war with Yuefu directly.
To celebrate this great victory, the group's top management organized a rare meeting and awarded bonuses to many employees. With Yang Ruoqian's authorization and encouragement, things like awarding bonuses did not require his approval.
As long as the management thinks it is reasonable, they can issue it.
Yang Ruoqian didn't even mention the criteria for distributing bonuses, emphasizing that he did it at will, and almost forced the senior executives to give out more bonuses.
And the finance girl who answered the phone happened to be one of the recipients of the bonus.
She was extremely happy as she had just received 6,000 yuan and a commendation from her leader.
In other companies, a financial officer gets paid what he should get. What does it have to do with you if other businesses or projects of the company make money? On the contrary, once the performance is not good and starts to lose money, all employees in the company will be reduced in salary, under the pretext of "collective honor".
When performance is good, there is no salary increase and no bonus. When performance is poor, there will be a salary cut, job transfer or even layoff.
We can share the hardships but not the happiness. This is the current situation of most companies.
It is very rare to see a situation like the Kuiguang Group where everyone shares the profits.
Not to mention layoffs.
Rewards and punishments are fair, so employee morale is naturally high.
Mr. Yang, who was completely unaware of the matter, asked quickly, "Does your finance department have any records of the shelter company's financial withdrawals?"
The highly motivated finance girl responded very quickly: "Yes, Mr. Yang. I'll send you a copy right away?"
have?!
When Yang Ruoqian heard this answer, he was unhappy and suspicious.
At first, he guessed that perhaps the shelter company had encountered some non-financial difficulties and was unable to spend money to clear the way, and did not dare to contact him after get off work, so it had to be delayed.
But from what the finance girl said, the shelter company had taken the money.
If they took the money, why was there still so much balance in the company's account? How much money did they get for the 500 million project? Yang Ruoqian was completely confused and could only say, "Send me the information."
The finance girl's happiness could be heard from her tone: "Okay, Mr. Yang!"
Soon, Yang Ruoqian saw the relevant information on the computer.
When Yang Ruoqian saw what was written above, he was so unbelievable that he read out the relevant content directly.
"On June 29, I applied for a grant of 10,000 yuan from the company's finance department?!"
Yang Ruoqian rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was not mistaken. It was exactly ten thousand yuan.
My goodness, no wonder he said that he had a huge sum of nearly 300 million in his account. It turned out that the shelter company only took a symbolic amount of money! Ten thousand yuan?
For a project worth 500 million yuan, you only took 10,000 yuan from the company. Isn't that a bit too much for the company?
Thought he was holding it in for a long time, but ended up shitting it? Yang Ruoqian was confused, so he reached out and picked up the phone to call Cai Meng.
Without asking the truth, he would be very unwilling to earn the 270 million.
Soon, Cai Meng answered the phone: "Mr. Yang, good morning!"
"Cai Meng, how is the progress of your film preparations?" Yang Ruoqian pretended to know nothing and asked insincerely, "Have you encountered any difficulties?"
Cai Meng was confused and said bewilderedly: "Everything is going on in an orderly manner, Mr. Yang, you can rest assured."
Judging from the tone of his voice, it seems like he is not holding back.
We are very confident, at least the funds are ready.
strangeness……
"Oh..." Yang Ruoqian said calmly, and brought the topic to the issue that he was most concerned about. "It's just that I find it a little strange that you didn't use the budget I allocated to you."
“Do you have sufficient cash flow?”
Cai Meng smiled shyly and said, "I can't say it's enough, but I can still make it through before filming Titanic 2."
As he said this, he also expressed his feelings that Yang Ruoqian was a really good boss.
Even at this time, I am still concerned about the funding issue of a branch company.
It is obvious that a movie can make hundreds of millions, but they are so concerned about a movie with only 500,000 yuan investment. It is no wonder that others can be so successful.
Success is the accumulation of details one by one.
"It's enough money to make Titanic 2." Yang Ruoqian continued, "I'm a little curious about how you guys came up with so much money?"
Kuiguang Group made a lot of money from "The Black Robe Inspection Team", but the share was only 300 million, and the profit was only 200 million...
How did the Shelter Company get 500 million by magic? Cai Meng laughed again: "Boss Yang, you are joking. Although the movies we made are not as good as yours, they are still considered small masterpieces. With all the assets we have accumulated over the years, it is not difficult to get 500,000."
What?!
After hearing what Cai Meng said, Yang Ruoqian was completely furious.
500,000? !
How dare you? If you dare to spend 500,000 to shoot Titanic 2 today, will you dare to spend 5 million to develop a photolithography machine tomorrow?
The first work cost 500 million US dollars!
As a sequel, you dare to spend only 500,000? Yang Ruoqian was shocked by this statement and was speechless for three or four seconds. He was about to ask more questions, but suddenly remembered that Cai Meng had sent him a document before.
But at that time, Mr. Yang was slacking off and simply put the document aside without looking at it.
The answer to why they dared to spend 500,000 to shoot "Titanic 2" may be in this document.
In order to maintain his status as the boss of a large group, Yang Ruoqian said calmly: "Okay, no problem then I'll hang up, keep going."
After saying that, without waiting for Cai Meng to say anything polite, he hung up the phone, received the document at the speed of light, clicked on it and read it word by word.
The location was the cheapest. The actors were acting enthusiasts. The script was magical. The director was a name I had never heard of...
The final comprehensive cost is estimated to be no more than 500,000 yuan.
After reading it, Yang Ruoqian collapsed directly into his chair, his brain completely frozen.
It was a mistake and I was careless.
I was fooled by this kid Shao Yiqi!
This is not a big-budget sequel that pays tribute to the classics or the previous work, but a fucking copycat!
Yang Ruoqian and Shao Yiqi's thinking was wrong from the beginning.
The two originally thought that this movie was about the relationship between Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but they didn't expect it to be about the relationship between Sprite and Rabbi.
The boss of Kuiguang Group, a leading local enterprise, and an outstanding young entrepreneur, actually accidentally invested in a copycat film company? !
It turns out that his previous conversation with Cai Meng was not on the same channel at all?
The transformation that Shelter Company is talking about is to transform their company from producing low-cost art films to producing shoddy copycat films.
When Yang Ruoqian saw the extremely confusing movie title "Titanic 2", he subconsciously thought that the Shelter Company wanted to go all out and replicate a classic to become famous in one fell swoop.
The two of them were able to chat about such a completely different topic so enthusiastically and so fascinatedly that they even signed a contract directly...
No one realized anything was wrong.
Cai Meng thought that making a bad copycat movie would likely lead to a lawsuit from a big company. Even if the Shelter Company could win the lawsuit, it would probably be dragged into bankruptcy, so he wanted to find a financial backer?
This is why he was willing to sell shares in a film production company that was doing well.
However, Yang Ruoqian thought the exact opposite - he believed that the Shelter Company had to attract some investors to join in because it lacked the funds to fulfill its dream of making a blockbuster film.
A small misunderstanding directly led to the failure of Yang Ruoqian's plan which originally cost 270 million yuan.
"Shao Yiqi, you deserve to die!" Yang Ruoqian closed the document and shouted in despair, "You've hurt me so badly!"
Revenge must be taken.
But things have to be prioritized, and Mr. Yang’s top priority right now is to quickly think of a way to save the precarious third quarter performance.
Just as Yang Ruoqian was racking his brains, a phone call suddenly came from the front desk.
"Boss Yang, someone is looking for you, claiming to be the director of Chengyu Group."
Having his train of thought interrupted, Yang Ruoqian asked curiously, "Do people from Chengyu Group need to call us from the front desk?"
Wouldn’t it be OK to just contact them directly via WeChat or make a private phone call?
The girl at the front desk explained: "Mr. Yang, it's not Chengyu Media...it's Chengyu Group."
Chengyu Group...
Yang Ruoqian gasped.
It’s bad enough that there is a Chengyu Media that does bad things every day, but now after the small scam, the big one is coming?
(End of this chapter)
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