Huayu: From charlatan to great entertainer

Chapter 97 Xiao Mian Zhenghe
Zhuang Xu smiled and said, "It seems your parents really like reading Gu Long's works?"

Seeing Lu Kuan finish the can in one breath, Ah Fei also finished it with his head tilted back and wiped his mouth.

"I don't have any parents, I chose my own name."

Boss Lu looked at the capable young man with a smile, and thinking of his skillful killing skills just now, he wanted to recruit him.

The entertainment industry is a mix of good and bad, and dump trucks are common, so some things have to be guarded against.

Who knows where the next Zhang Tianshuo is, or people like Liu Zeyu, who may seem glamorous, but their methods are much cleaner than Zhang Tianshuo's?

"A Fei, you just saved me. Are you interested in coming to the mainland?"

Ah Fei was stunned, feeling that this man was a little strange, and shook his head quickly.

Boss Lu was not in a hurry. He drank beer and ate skewers while chatting with him.

"Your accent is quite strange. You can speak Cantonese well, but why does your Mandarin have a Northeastern accent?"

Ah Fei didn't want to pay any attention to him. He was already very tired from the flight and the journey, and he had just made a statement at the police station.

He squinted his eyes and thought for a while before he slowly said, "My ancestral home is in Yanbian. I am Korean. I learned Mandarin from my uncles in the gang when I was young."

Boss Lu looked him up and down again and said, "Fuck, no wonder he fights so fiercely, this is Xiaomian Zhenghe!"

Mian Zhenghe is a Korean who enjoys a high reputation in the Korean gang world. He is the prototype of the protagonist in the 2006 Korean movie "The Yellow Sea".

Lu Kuan thought: "When the Korean War broke out, a group of nationalist troops took Koreans with them and fled to Taiwan and Hong Kong. Maybe your ancestors were among them."

Ah Fei suddenly raised his head, and for the first time there was some light in his cold eyes. For Chinese people, tracing their roots is an instinct running in their blood.

The people in this land value family and inheritance. They don’t know where their home is, just like drifting duckweed with no roots.

"A Fei, come and help me. I'll ask someone to help you find your relatives in Yanbian."

Ah Fei was somewhat tempted. His job under Huang Pi was to look after the place and collect debts, which was very boring.

At such a young age, he is full of curiosity about the outside world.

"You...what do you do?"

"I'm a movie director. I have to travel around and shoot movies. You can be my bodyguard and just drive me. You don't need to do anything else."

"The mainland is very safe. I see you're not too old, so you can read some books when you have free time."

Ah Fei looked at him doubtfully. Is it safe?
If he had come a little late today, he probably wouldn't have been able to deliver the money.

"Okay, then I'll go back and do some things."

"good good good good!"

Boss Lu was very happy. With Xiaomian Zhenghe, he had no rivals within ten steps except for the dump truck and the muffler.

We should not be too optimistic about the bottom line of some special boxing classes. There are too many examples...

Zhuang Xu and Lu Kuan were walking under the street lights, each holding a can of beer. It had been a long time since the two brothers had crossed the road like this.

In the past, we would drink and sing in front of the Three Pure Ones in the Taoist temple...

Zhuang Xu's face was very serious. "Xiaolu, offend as few people as possible. What happened today is very dangerous."

Boss Lu agreed with this, but since he had a new life to live, he didn't want to be too timid and compromise.

Whenever you fight with others, you will always touch upon other people's interests. Some industries are zero-sum games, where it's a life-and-death struggle.

Fake business war: corporate espionage, word-of-mouth attacks, and shorting market value.

Real business war: snatching official seals, poisoning, and swinging sledgehammers!

"Brother, there are some things that, if you are not at the table, will appear on the menu." Zhuang Xu looked at him meaningfully. The real business wars he has been exposed to in this life are far more numerous than Lu Guang, so he had to admit that this was the truth.

Sometimes, it is things that push people forward, rather than people pushing things forward.

"By the way, Senior Brother, please help me."

"explain."

"You have a wide network of contacts. Please help me contact Ah Fei to get him deported. Also, please help me contact the bank. I want to use my shares in Blog.com to get a loan."

Before Zhuang Xu had the chance to ask him where the box of cash came from tonight, he was unable to follow Lu Kuan's train of thought.

"What are you doing again?"

"I can't live with you forever. I'm going to buy a house and clean it up so I can live in Beiping."

In 2002, Beijing still had a policy of settling down by buying a house, but it limited you to buying houses in the suburbs and satellite cities, and you also had to deposit 50 yuan in interest-free savings in the bank, which would be returned to you after 5 years.

Lu Kuan had no problem settling down because of the investment amount of Blog.com, so there was no need to go through so much trouble.

Boss Lu calculated the date and found out that he had to go back to Jiangsu Province to take the college entrance examination next month. After the exam, he would ask Sun Wenwen to take care of this matter.

Zhuang Xu thought that A Fei would soon be his bodyguard, and he now had his own job and circle, so it would be inconvenient to live together.

With the speed of Blog.com's development, many venture capital firms have already approached it, so pledging some equity is not a difficult task.

"By the way, Blog.com is burning through money very quickly, and your limited funds are running low. You need to make plans early."

Lu Kuan understood what his senior meant. The model of Blog.com was very simple and it would not be difficult for major Internet companies to imitate it.

If the website development is affected by funding issues, the current first-mover advantage will soon be overtaken.

In other words, Zhuang Xu felt that now was a good time to approach venture capital.

This was Boss Lu's latest income, which he didn't know about. In fact, he had already made plans in his mind and had already mapped out the expected income and expenditure directions for the future.

The remaining 1300 million yuan of funds from Hong Kong football gambling have gradually arrived, and he will continue to invest in blogs.

The profit from "Blind Well" will not be credited until March next year at the earliest. He owns 3/2 of the shares. As long as there are no major mistakes, the profit will be conservatively estimated to be in the tens of millions, which will be the start-up capital for the next investment or film.

Another thing is the revenue of "Whiplash," which will depend on the film's performance in Venice.

The film market in Venice is much smaller than that in Cannes. If we return empty-handed, not only will overseas copyright revenue become a problem, but domestic theaters will also be in trouble.

These days, apart from the works of big directors, the only way for novice directors to make a comeback is to export and sell domestically.

Even with Jay Chou's appeal, without the laurels of overseas film festivals, the film's profit prospects will be questionable.

"Let's wait a little longer on the venture capital side. Blog.com's true value hasn't been realized yet, and the valuation is at a disadvantage right now."

Zhuang Xu nodded in agreement. The website's efforts targeting entertainment stars have shown initial success, and strategies for cultural stars and grassroots stars are also being implemented.

The timing of the first round of financing is very important. Generally, companies either raise funds when they are starting up, during their growth period, or during their stable period.

Generally speaking, companies with new models must start looking for financing targets during the period of business growth.

Because financing has a time cycle, it takes 20-25 days for angel round entrepreneurs to get TS (investment agreement) from contact, and another month from due diligence and SPA (capital increase agreement) to payment. It takes even longer in the A round, and the total cycle is at least 2-5 months.

Therefore, financing companies must maintain their growth rate in these four or five months and cannot stagnate in core data.

The next explosive period of users and reputation that Lukuan has planned for Blog.com will not come until at least after the boiling point in 2003.

At that time, he will arrange for the company to carry out large-scale event marketing, and demonstrate its ability to guide public opinion in a healthy and positive direction and stabilize the situation in mass incidents.

This is the time point when the value of blog network is truly reflected.

(End of this chapter)