Chapter 699 All the trump cards revealed

Chapter 699 All the trump cards revealed

The company has invested a lot of resources in the operation of Allure Girls Group.

With the dual traffic support of Penguin Group and Fan Wumian, their popularity in mainland China has surpassed that of Korean idol groups, becoming one of the most popular idol groups among young people in Asia.

The group of nine people is too bloated. If they appear on a show or participate in an event together, it is often inconvenient and some members lack the opportunity to be exposed. The limelight is all stolen by Baby Yang, Biting Kuo, and Ng Chia-ni.

The acting industry does not have such high requirements for appearance. If you are too beautiful or handsome, you may be easily regarded as a "vase" by the audience. Among the popular idol girl groups, the main competition is face and figure. Advantages such as singing, dancing, and personality are often overlooked.

Therefore, the company adopted the "squad" strategy early on, dividing the entire group into three teams, and occasionally making public appearances together.

For example, if you want to take on commercial performances, you need to find all nine members and the quoted price is 100 million RMB. But if you only look for a small team of three people, it may only cost or RMB, which can help increase the income of the members themselves and the company.

Guo Biting's teammates are Yui Aragaki from the island country and Liu Xiyun, a female singer from the mainland. They are often invited to activities in Taiwan Province, Southeast Asia, the mainland and the island country.

Especially in the island country, countless fans like Yui Aragaki and are also obsessed with Guo Biting's mixed-race appearance. Since the team was established after the Spring Festival, they have earned four to five million yuan from the island country market, and the total revenue has exceeded 900 million.

The mainland team led by Wu Jiani is also not bad. Its team members include Shi Xian, Fan Wumian's "little cow" classmate, and another beautiful member from the mainland who is good at singing and dancing. Their total revenue this year is close to 600 million.

Although the team that Baby Yang and Janice Man belong to is quite popular, its performance is at the bottom.

The main problem is that the Hong Kong market is too small and they don't have other representative works. For now, they can only rely on their appearance and lack highlights.

Compared with the benefits brought by these girls, what impressed Fan Wumian the most was that most of the members of the Alluring Girls Group had found opportunities to tease him. If he was thick-skinned and black-hearted enough, it seemed that he could really turn this girl group into what netizens jokingly called a "harem group."

However, he does not want to turn the girl group he has created with great difficulty into a large-scale Shura field just for the fun of "stamp collecting".

These girls live together day and night. If they talk to each other and find out that they have been cheated, and they stand up together to cry and complain, the situation will be much more serious than a house collapse.

The night I learned that Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin were willing to sell.

Guo Biting came to his house in a low-key car, wearing light-colored jeans and a black tank top.

After meeting, the two worked in the study for a while, sweat dripping down their chins and onto the floor, feeling very refreshed.

Don't rush to take a shower, just rest for a while first, and then you can go to the bathroom to change the scene.

at this time.

Coming down from the desk, Guo Biting wiped her sweat with a piece of paper and said to Fan Wumian with a bright smile:
"In the afternoon, I went to Shenzhen with several teammates to watch the trainees' training. The variety show "Idol Producer" was being recorded. The director asked me to say a few words, but I didn't know what to say, so I just encouraged them. Next, the company will promote a boy group with 12 members and a girl group with only 4 members?"

Fan Wumian replied:

"Well, it won't have much impact on you. Fans often change their minds and fall in love with other people. Adding a few more choices will allow young people to happily chase stars, which will help increase market share."

"I heard that several companies in South Korea are cultivating the so-called 'second-generation girl group', and the model is similar to your Allure Girls Group. I don't want to give up the opportunity to make money."

"We need to grab the big cakes and not let go of the small pieces of fat meat. There are many brands in the market that want to find celebrities to endorse their products, but not everyone can spend hundreds of millions of yuan a year. Some endorsement projects with a small amount of hundreds of thousands of yuan and commercial performances with insufficient budget can be handed over to newcomers."

Relying on their relationship, Guo Biting got some extra resources from Fan Wumian, and her career flourished and her popularity grew.

She took Fan Wumian's arm and continued with a smile:

"South Korean artists are well-known in Southeast Asia. The news said that you invested 1 million yuan in Benshan Media. I think it would be better to use the money to acquire South Korean entertainment companies directly. That way, you don't have to worry about their competition. The fans of those South Korean girl groups often slander and attack us. It's like they have a problem with their brains."

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is interested.

Guo Biting was only talking about South Korean entertainment companies, but Fan Wumian unexpectedly associated them with Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin.

He had previously felt that the collision of the two acquisitions was a bit too coincidental and too smooth.

However, since he had sent people to contact these two companies, and the subprime mortgage crisis officially broke out today, it seemed reasonable for them to decide to sell off their shares and cash out one after another.

Hearing Guo Biting mention the cherry-picking mergers and acquisitions of South Korean entertainment companies, Fan Wumian subconsciously thought of the possibility that he himself had also been manipulated by capital.

Suppose there is a force strong enough to influence both Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin's current parent company Ford at the same time, and it also knows that Fan Wumian is interested in these two companies, so it takes advantage of the situation and sets up a trap. This is very worthy of vigilance.

".Wait a minute, I seem to be in trouble."

It's a good time to consider serious matters while your mind is clear and your spirit is high.

Fan Wumian sat on the sofa with his arms around Guo Biting, his arm draped over her shoulders. It can only be said that as a goddess of literature and art, there are gains and losses. Some advantages are not too prominent, but it cannot be said that there are none at all. Following the new idea that suddenly emerged, he began to think carefully.

First of all, if there is really someone behind the scenes pushing for this.

So the fact that Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin agreed to be acquired is either a bargaining chip thrown out by the other party in exchange for other interests, or it is to divert his attention to achieve other purposes.

Combined with today's official outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, all Fan Wumian could think of was that his short selling on Wall Street and his market crash on the mainland were the only two things that qualified him to attract the attention of powerful enemies, and that they could use Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin to target him.

The combined value of these two companies is over a billion dollars, which is not a small scale.

Marvel Entertainment is a listed company. If Fan Wumian wants to deal with Ford Group or the board of directors of Marvel Entertainment in a very short period of time, he does not have that kind of power yet. This shows that if it is really a capital conspiracy, the other party must be very strong.

Let’s assume that if I follow the other party’s plan and take the bait, what kind of changes will occur?
Fan Wumian soon realized that the biggest disadvantage of taking on two projects in a row was that it would drain his cash so much that he would have no energy to work on other projects.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but frown.

Because Fan Wumian suddenly realized that he had played all his cards recently and he had to play them all quickly.

Due to the continuous reduction of holdings and cashing out in the A-share market, there are not many securities assets left to sell, which has long been a problem for international hot money.

After today's further share reduction, the total assets of the three companies, Boshi Fund, Shanzeiwang (Huaxia) Fund and Xinhua Insurance Group, left in the stock market are less than 500 billion yuan.

The rest are real estate, gold, government bonds, shares of non-listed companies, cash, etc., which cannot be further used to target hot money in the A-share market.

If Fan Wumian doesn't dump the market, these hot money will have the opportunity to frantically push up A-shares. If they take advantage of his acquisition of Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin and run away with the money to invest abroad, the blow to his reputation will be enormous.

At first I thought, “That shouldn’t be the case.”

Then I thought that even if it was impossible, it was possible, as it involved the gains and losses of hundreds of billions of dollars of international hot money and the plan of Washington to suppress and curb the development of the mainland economy.

He did not dare to underestimate the ability of those big Wall Street companies and the elite think tanks in Washington, D.C. to set traps and harm people.

Fan Wumian vaguely realized that someone might be setting up a trap against him, but he didn't have a good countermeasure.

If you don't follow the other party's wishes and insist on refusing to accept the toast, then what you will face is probably not a setup, but being eliminated physically.

Faced with internal and external troubles, he has recently been under pressure to reduce his holdings, continuously suppressing the popularity of A-shares. During this period, northbound funds continued to pour in with nearly US$200 billion, but failed to push up the A-share index.

Up to now, he has basically done everything he can.

The time of rise is too short and the ability is limited after all.

If Fan Wumian guessed correctly, Marvel Entertainment and Aston Martin are really gifts given to themselves by certain forces in the United States.

He had a vague feeling that this might be the other party's last act of goodwill, hoping that he could take the benefits and leave, rather than continue to sell off his holdings and offend the other party to death.

With Goldman Sachs Group turning against the bank and Bear Stearns, one of the world's top five investment banks, on the verge of collapse, time is running out for international hot money.

If Fan Wumian is determined to hold on to these hundreds of billions of hot money in the A-share market, the countless institutions and wealthy businessmen involved behind the scenes will probably want to kill him and bury him with them.

Keenly aware that some people might do something desperate, Fan Wumian's heart was pounding and a huge sense of crisis emerged in his head. He then had the idea of ​​finding a way to confirm whether he was really being targeted.

Think about it.

He called Manager Qi late at night and instructed:
"You go and communicate with Ford Group and tell them that you want to acquire Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover at the same time, with a total offer of $25 billion."

Manager Qi was middle-aged and was already lying in bed getting ready to sleep. Hearing this, he replied with an embarrassed tone:

"That's unlikely. That's not how you bargain. Aston Martin offered $7 million, which means it's only for Jaguar and Land Rover, so the total offer is $18 billion? Ford does want to sell them, but the last offer they made to us didn't include Aston Martin. Jaguar Land Rover alone is $25 billion."

Fan Wumian said truthfully:
"I wanted to test whether there was someone behind the scenes helping me to make the deal and divert my attention away from the A-share market."

"Maybe someone will give me some benefits in exchange for me making concessions and not targeting the $300 billion or $400 billion of hot money in the A-share market."

"It's okay to give it a try with such a high price and low return. Ford acquired Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin mainly to kill British car companies and improve its brand image. Now it's useless to keep such a money-losing product in hand. It will only drag down Ford's financial report." (End of this chapter)