Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 124 A real man cannot ask for external help!

It was a new day again. Li Wenyu was reading a book in the courtyard when he received a text message from Xiao Ma Ge, saying that he and the pig-raising brother had arrived in Beijing together.

As soon as the two of them checked into the hotel, they started waiting for Lao Li's dinner.

Old Li decisively sent a text message, gave the address and let the two of them go over.

At around 11 a.m., Li Wenyu met Xiao Ma and his partner outside a restaurant. He smiled and shook hands with each of them, saying, "Boss Ma, Boss Ding, we've known each other for a long time."

"I was really optimistic about NetEase Games, which is why I exited it in early 02. Now I'm short of funds for further development, so I have no choice but to let it go with a heavy heart."

The three of them walked towards the private room while chatting and laughing. The pig farmer was not angry at all. It seemed that he had worked hard to make NetEase popular.

Old Li was the first to pick the big peach?

But in 01 and early 02, Lao Ding just hoped to sell NetEase.

Anyone who was able to buy stocks at that time, regardless of whether they supported him or not, was extremely determined and decisive, and had extraordinary vision.

You have vision, courage, determination and money. If you don’t get rich, who will?

Li Wenyu's cashing out of more than 10 billion yuan has significantly interrupted NetEase's momentum of continued appreciation.

Let his wealth and fortune be slightly affected.

The pig farmer laughed and said, "Boss Li, you're making a lot of money because of your ability, but this is too jealous. Pony and I are planning to get you drunk to death today. If you're a real man, you can't ask for help from outsiders!!"

The three of them entered the private room. Xiao Ma Ge himself had a good alcohol tolerance and could drink many of his colleagues down. He also liked to persuade others to drink.

The intention from the beginning was to get Li Wenyu drunk.

The pig farmer is not bad either. He is the one who often takes the initiative to organize dinner parties for the entire Internet. There are no major conflicts among them.

The pig farmer also just wants to get people drunk.

and so……

At around 1:00 p.m., when Lao Li saw Xiao Ma Ge and Yang Zhu Ge's assistant bodyguard escorting the two men who had lost their memory back to the hotel, he was slightly tipsy but still walked steadily.

Quan Zhixian drove over to pick him up. Li Wenyu took a sip of mineral water and said with a smile, "Xiaoxian, can you help me ask about the internet broadcasting rights for movies like My Sassy Girl? If I want to buy them, what price will IHQ offer?"

"I can buy the exclusive online streaming rights for My Sassy Girl for ten years for 50 RMB."

Quan Zhixian was stunned for two seconds before suddenly realizing, "Director Li, are you launching a new website again? Did the CEO of one of your internet giants come up with this exciting idea during a dinner?"

Old Li laughed, "No, I drink with them just to get them drunk."

While chatting and laughing, he took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Dong Li.

Ask Xiao Dong, who has been frequently reading scripts with the crew of A World Without Thieves or rehearsing scenes with his opponents in private.

What is the price for the exclusive online broadcasting rights of Huayi's films, such as those of Lao Feng?

The quotes he gave to big names and mobile phones ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands for ten years of exclusive rights.

It may seem like a small amount, but it’s a lot to buy at one time!
Is this price expensive or cheap? If you look at it from the perspective of the future, countless people will complain that Lao Li is not a human being and that the money he gave is too little.

For example, the famous TV series "Empresses in the Palace" was sold to LeTV for 2000 million yuan for exclusive rights for five years.

The exclusive revenue for "Empresses in the Palace" is 400 million per year.

But this TV series has generated more than 5000 million in profits for LeTV over the years.

The problem is that at that time, the government had already taken the fight against piracy seriously, and the entire network was deeply involved in the fight. The fact that "Legend of Zhen Huan" was able to sell for so much money was because they were not worried about other websites hosting pirated resources.

It’s only 2003 and National Day has just passed!

LeTV was only established next year, and it rose to prominence by purchasing the online copyrights of over 5000 movies and the broadcasting rights of over 9 episodes of TV series at crazy low prices.

How much did LeEco spend in the early stages to acquire so many things? It must not be expensive. If it were expensive, Jia Yueting would have had no money at all.

Thanks to its crazy copyright library and other messy gimmicks, LeTV's market value once reached 1700 billion yuan.

The copyright library he holds can even be sold to China Mobile, China Unicom, Youku, Tudou, etc.

In the future, Tudou and Youku will strive to go public in the United States. The copyright issue must be resolved thoroughly, otherwise they will have no chance of listing.

Now is the right time to make tentative contacts and purchase film and television copyrights.

At least Li Wenyu can use the HK$12 billion profit from stock trading to buy many copyrights with a little money.

You mean internet speed?
A few months later, on May 2004, 5, the number of telecom broadband users exceeded 16 million. Taking Shanghai as an example, the number of telecom broadband users in a single city exceeded 1000 million.

In 03, the download speed of Shanghai broadband users can be as fast as 3 to 4M, and the slowest is at least 1M.

In 2004, Shanghai launched the unlimited speed service for ports. The theoretical peak download speed for users downloading videos and games can reach 8M.

These are just the three major telecom operators.

The number of China's Internet broadband users exceeded 2005 million in 5000.

This might be achieved ahead of schedule in 04, because Li Wenyu has initiated several rounds of actions from the Internet to reality.

So LeTV was almost established and was frantically running around the country to acquire copyrights, while Tudou, which did not pay much attention to copyrights in the early days, was established in April 2005.

Youku was founded in June 2006.

"A Murder Caused by a Bun", which is more popular than the movie "The Promise", was created at the end of 05 and became a hit on the Internet.

Even YouTube was founded in February 2005.

Global online video groups were all established and rose to prominence during this period.

At its peak, Youku's revenue was US$119 billion, but it was beaten by LeTV in terms of genuine copyright.

You said that back when they were filming "Extreme Job," he reminded Chow Sing-chi that the online copyright for Kung Fu could be sold for money? Did he leak it in advance?

That doesn't really count. At that time, he said that such platforms would burn money.

A few months in advance is also equivalent to reminding Zhou Xingchi that he can try to sell the online copyright elsewhere.

YouTube in the United States was established two years later. Even if they sent people to contact each group and ask for prices, few would offer a high price for the Kung Fu Network copyright.

Downloading pirated content from the mainland Internet is not difficult at all.

When pirated products are everywhere, genuine products really can't be sold at a high price.

This gave Zhou Xingchi a surprise in advance and allowed him to calm down for a few months.

At the present stage in China, especially in the mainland, cinema anti-piracy efforts have only been underway for two years. Without a strong and comprehensive crackdown, it is really difficult to prevent online piracy.

Li Wenyu has never thought about how to make money from copyright in the next two or three years.

…………

after a while.

When Quan Zhixian was about to arrive at Time Media, she turned around and said, "They want 100 million RMB for the Chinese online rights to My Sassy Girl, and they only want an exclusive five-year contract."

Li Wenyu laughed, "Then let's not talk about it. Just pretend I didn't ask."

A blockbuster movie like My Sassy Girl has a good reputation among movie fans. Is it worth spending 50 yuan for ten years? million yuan can only buy the rights to movies of this quality.

How dare Jia buy 5000 movies at that price? Could he afford to burn 04 to 05 billion yuan in and ?

You have to know that even in the years when the country was cracking down on online piracy most rapidly.

iQiyi buys streaming rights for "My Love from the Star" for $30,000 per episode.

The genuine copyright of South Korean TV series before "My Love from the Star" was mostly between $1000 and $3000 per episode for online broadcasting.

The copyrights of ordinary film and television dramas, especially South Korean films and television dramas, are really not that valuable.

…………A little after four in the afternoon.

Li Wenyu met with Zhang Jin and Wu Jing in the big office.

At this moment, Pang Bing, Li Jiaxin, and Xiao Yang were also in the big office.

It has been two months since the filming of Extreme Job was completed. Xiao Yang started working on [Extreme Escape] starring Li Jiaxin, and the preparations have also been two months.

Produced and distributed by Time Media, Xiao Yang's first directorial work is about to start shooting.

Li Wenyu will test the acting skills of the two alternative male lead candidates, and once they pass the test, the filming will officially start.

Ten minutes later.

Li Jiaxin seamlessly transitioned between the two candidates' literary performances.

Old Li covered his face in a rare moment of embarrassment, sipping his tea and saying to Zhang Jin, "Your acting skills in literary dramas are a little behind Wu Jing's. You still need to work harder."

"Let's talk about it next time we have a chance. The crew of Shuiyuedongtian invited you to be the action director, but they haven't finished filming yet, so you should go over there and get busy."

The original trajectory is that Zhang Jin caught up with Cai Shaofen because of a drama.

That was mainly developed by Zhang Jin as Cai Shaofen's martial arts director. This time, there was Extreme Career first and then Extreme Escape.

Basically, Lao Zhang missed the opportunity.

Of course, Lao Zhang did not serve as a martial arts director. Other professionals were hired for the filming of Shuiyuedongtian, but it was also agreed that Zhang Jin would be there to help as soon as there was a schedule.

This is not only because he has strong martial arts skills, but also because the male lead Yu Bo in Shuiyuedongtian is also Li Wenyu's classmate and they have a good relationship.

Because of this relationship, Zhang Jin didn't have a schedule at the time, but he got it done after a few more words on the phone.

Zhang Jin taught Gao Yuanyuan and Quan Zhixian how to box for a long time during the filming of "You Who Came From the Stars" and then changed his contract. It would be no problem for him to make money by getting an additional job as a martial arts director.

As for Lao Zhang's acting skills, I can only say that he has few roles in "Extreme Job", is the fourth male lead, and most of the shots are group portraits, so he can only perform well.

Not as good as Wu Jing now.

Lao Zhang had to meet Wang Jiawei and was polished for several years in "The Grandmaster" before he transformed into an actor with an attribute of more than 70 points.

Zhang Jin was disappointed but nodded happily after hearing this. "Thank you, boss. I'm very satisfied that you can give me this opportunity."

This script came out before the filming of "Extreme Job" was completed.

Let him compete with Wu Jing in literary dramas.

This is a fair and honest loss, and it is quite open and honest.

Li Wenyu smiled and looked at Wu Jing. "Old Wu, your acting is slightly better than Zhang Jin's, but it's limited. So, [Extreme Escape] focuses on your personal action and escape blockbusters."

"But initially, audiences were drawn to the theaters by Sister Xin. This movie is just a popcorn hit. If the box office explodes, it's hard to say whether the outside world will think it was Sister Xin who carried the box office or you who carried the box office."

"You may be popular once, but if you can't keep up the momentum and can't carry the box office the next time, you'll flop again."

"Anyway, you should perform hard and seize the opportunity!"

Wu Jing nodded in ecstasy, promised a few words that he would fight with his life, and then he left with Zhang Jin.

Xiao Yang walked over and said with a smile, "Brother, when will filming start? You've already got a comic book-level storyboard."

"But once filming really starts, I'd still like to invite you over to take charge for a few days."

Starting from preparing for the filming of You Who Came From The Stars, to becoming an extremely professional assistant director.

Xiao Yang definitely has the ability to graduate from a professional school. As long as he is a graduate and has color comic storyboards, he can basically complete a theatrical movie step by step, and it won't be too bad.

But overall he still doesn't have much confidence.

Li Wenyu laughed, "Okay, I'll fly to Hong Kong Island on the 7th to start the group. You'll also be there for over a month."

"Relax and just play your best. Extreme Escape raised 2000 million yuan in advertising fees from Samsung, and also the clothing brand that Xin Jie wore in the play, shoes, and even rock climbing sports ads, etc."

When he starts filming, he will definitely fly over from time to time to take a look.

This is what Li Jiaxin begged for.

Ah Xin said that she used to fly around for so long, so it wouldn't be a big deal for Lao Li to fly a few more times.

Xiao Yang thanked him happily and left.

When there were only three people left in the room, Pang Bing spoke up, "By the way, Sister Xin, let's shoot this movie the way we want to shoot it."

"I'm just curious. You've already started acquiring exclusive internet broadcasting rights for film and television projects, and you're starting a new company?"

At this word, Li Jiaxin straightened up.

If Li's Weibo account had continued to be sold and raised funds, it would have been valued at $8 million. After Samsung's Lee Jae-yong, there are still new offers. Especially since Yangzhuge's Weibo post revealed this, it brought a huge wave of traffic to Weibo.

The latest offer from Time Campus is 2.5 million US dollars.

If he had not rejected all of them, Li Wenyu would have been the richest man on this year's Forbes Mainland Rich List, and the pig farmer would have had to give way.

He's already like this, and he's still trying something new?? This is so exciting.

At least Li Jiaxin also feels that whether she can shoot a new movie or whether the new project can become a big hit seems to be just so-so.

Li Wenyu shook his head. "The copyright is indeed being collected, and it may explode in the future, but don't forget that I want the exclusive broadcasting rights for the first ten years."

"These things won't be viable without a comprehensive, top-down crackdown on piracy. It's just like the box office performance of mainland Chinese cinemas before The Shock Wave."

"For three years, just pretend this project doesn't exist. It's just a gift of money to someone else."

"It's also a way to spend a little more money and wash off the smell of rich pork on me."

Fat Bing was stunned for a few seconds before he nodded, "That's right, there's too much money in the bank that's been sitting there untouched, it's too easy for people to get jealous."

"Then are you going to have dinner with Mr. Ma, Mr. Ding and the others tonight?"

Li Wenyu's laughter grew louder. "Eat! Brother Xiao Ma and Lao Ding have finally come here, so we have to make them feel welcome."

"That's at least eight drinks in four days."

"On the 6th, they will return to Yuedong and Pengcheng, and I will take Ah Xin with me."

It's not that he wants to cheat anyone on purpose. Those two are jealous of him making tens of billions and insist on getting him to drink. Drinking nine times in three days has become a hot word on the Internet.

Before the lunch break, the drunk Xiao Ma Ge refused to believe in evil and insisted on asking Lao Li to drink a few more times. He didn't believe that Lao Li wouldn't be able to knock him down after drinking.

Pang Bing and Li Jiaxin looked at each other.

…………

On the afternoon of June 10th.

Xiao Ma Ge and Yang Zhu Ge, who were feeling dizzy and a little confused, just walked into the first-class cabin of the airliner and started looking for seats to catch up on their sleep.

When Li Wenyu's greetings rang out, the two heads of the big factories stared at Lao Li as if they had seen a ghost. After a few seconds of silence, the pig farmer's mentality collapsed, "Boss Li, I give in. I surrender."

"I admire your alcohol tolerance. You can't drink anymore. Why did you catch up with the plane?"

Xiao Ma's face was also very pale. "The handsome guys nowadays are really cruel. Do you still plan to fly south with us to continue drinking?"

Having said that, he felt completely relieved when he saw Li Jiaxin and Pang Bing following Li Wenyu in.

It would be better if I didn't chase him to Pengcheng to continue forcing him to drink.

Otherwise, he would have to look for helpers in the entire Penguin Group, but when they came to force people to eat, Lao Li didn't look for helpers, and every time it was just the three of them eating.

Finding help in advance would make Xiao Ma Ge feel that his defeat was too tragic.

(End of this chapter)