The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 387 Atari's Crash and Receiving Dividends

Currently, among a bunch of subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Hutchison is the largest. The large number of talents accumulated by Hutchison over the past decades has also enabled Hutchison to expand various businesses smoothly, such as ports, mining, etc. wait.

Hong Kong Electric is a public utility in Hong Kong and can only remain listed. Chen Zhiwen will invest some resources in Hong Kong Electric, but it will definitely not be the main one. Another Wharf, like Hutchison, is also a sole proprietorship, but its main business is still income. Rent has been like this since its establishment a hundred years ago, and the future direction is obviously the ownership and purchase of industrial and office buildings.

Therefore, Chen Zhiwen intends to give Hutchison a large number of good development and investment opportunities to make it a super giant in Hong Kong. the former kind.

However, this kind of thing is hard to say. There are too many opportunities in the mainland in the future. Except for a few large investments, he will also let the enterprises under his control play freely to a certain extent. Maybe each has its own destiny. For example, in the current situation where history has completely changed Under the current situation, the future domestic Internet structure may be completely different, and one of them may invest in one of the future "BAT".

Choosing one of these high-tech service companies may be worth the lifetime struggle of many large financial groups. For example, Li Zekai in the original history missed 20% of the shares of Fuji Xun. Otherwise, just looking at the paper data, his wealth will be No less than his old man Li Jiacheng.

"Okay, as far as I know, the debt ratios of the five real estate companies are not very high. I have to say that these people's vision is really good." Zhou Jiayang said: "When I follow up, I will find out more about Hong Kong's medium-sized real estate companies. As for the debt-to-asset ratio, I think that as long as the debt-to-debt ratio is not unreasonably high, we can invest in an appropriate amount. As for the capital, it is not a problem, and Standard Chartered Bank can handle it.”

"Well, let's cooperate with Standard Chartered." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, "Then try to use the loan funds as much as possible. During this period of time, the bank's loans are actually not available."

"Bill Winter is probably going to die of joy." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

"Then the investment strategy in Hong Kong for the past six months will be like this. For Hisense Bank, it still needs to absorb deposit funds, but it is a bit difficult to convert into foreign exchange recently, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"It's a little troublesome. Now many rich people or ordinary people in Hong Kong are trying to convert their Hong Kong dollars. This has caused the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar to fall. The official side is 5.8. The Hong Kong government may not be able to handle it. It is estimated that it will soon break 6. Yes." Huo Jianning replied.

"Don't care about these, just change it if you need to. The exchange rate in the future will only be lower. If you change it now, you will have a chance to earn it back in the future." Chen Zhiwen ordered without hesitation. In the original history, the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate fell all the way. 9.6, this is still official, and I don’t know how much it is on the black market.

"Okay, except for the most basic operations, I will convert everything into dollars or yen." Huo Jianning said.

"That's it for now. This economic crisis won't end in a year or two, and it's just the beginning. We just need to take advantage of it. When the best time comes, we'll see how the situation goes." Chen Zhiwen said .

If you don’t have much money in your hands, you just need to take advantage of the economic crisis when the prices of various assets are low. But if you have enough funds in your hands, it can save the market to a certain extent. With other unexpected benefits, everything he has done so far is naturally for the purpose of having more cards in his hands by that time.

Things in Hong Kong are properly arranged, and Hutchison and Hisense will do what they should do according to the requirements, while the other companies can just keep as they are. The main business of Wharf is Harbor City, and the main business of HK Electric is Power generation and other investment projects, such as Wharf's project in Wanwan, are not large in scale, so just follow the trend.

On the other hand, the investment projects in the Mainland, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway, due to sufficient funds, and the Mainland side also hoped to complete the project as soon as possible. In the past more than a year, several teams worked in a mode of people stopping machines and working in several shifts. In October, the 10km high-speed section of Yanjing section was built and opened to traffic at the same time. In this way, at least a small part of the congestion in Yanjing can be alleviated.

As for the United States, the U.S. government has not given any advice on the "foreign capital acquisition of Disney". According to the Morgan family, the White House has already known about this matter, but what kind of reply it will give has not yet been decided. , For the White House, this matter may only be a trivial matter, and it will take a while before there will be results.

Regarding this, Chen Zhiwen is not in a hurry. A normal large-scale cross-border acquisition will take one to two years or even longer. This is still a case of a good faith acquisition. If the acquired party is unwilling, it is basically impossible to succeed.

This kind of large-scale acquisition needs to entrust a large investment bank first. The investment bank will first use its own relationship to test the U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House. This is the first hurdle. The acquirer should stop the loss immediately, and at most give the investment bank hundreds of millions of dollars in disturbance fees.

And if the White House and the Ministry of Commerce agree, then formally propose the acquisition and find a way to get the acquired party to agree.

Afterwards, I will return to the Ministry of Commerce, but this is an official document. The Ministry of Commerce will also negotiate with the White House and the two parliaments on this matter. If they finally agree, the acquisition will be considered a success.

However, if it involves monopoly, it needs the approval of the anti-monopoly agency or the court.

If these processes fail later, the loss will be in the unit of hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, it is very important to obtain the verbal consent of the White House and the Ministry of Commerce in the first step, but this kind of thing involves a relatively large area.

Disney is not only an honorary brand in the United States, but it will also involve the employment of tens of thousands of people, etc., but this kind of thing is not a big deal for the White House or the Department of Commerce. It is normal that it will take a long time to queue up.

The matter entrusted by Henry Morgan is even simpler. To buy a farm, as long as you have money, you can do it, especially Argentina in South America, which is currently in a debt crisis. As long as you have US dollars, you can sell state-owned farms casually. Land reclamation can also be negotiated, all of which are permanent property rights. Many documents were sent to Chen Zhiwen's desk, which made him hesitate for a while. After all, no matter how rich he is, he feels that he can't spend too much on such a large area of ​​land. Among these, we can only choose some appropriately. After making a fortune in the Japanese real estate market or the American technology market in the future, the funds will be sufficient at that time.

The time is coming to the end of the year soon.

At the end of this year, a major event happened in the American video game market.

Because of the emergence of Midea, the game market in the United States has undergone serious changes from the original history, but some things are still the same. For example, Atari has always existed, but it is not as successful and rich.

In the face of the powerful Midea game, Atari had no choice but bought the game adaptation rights of "ET Aliens" just like the original history.

This "ET Alien" was released in the summer of 82. Only in the U.S. market, it won a box office of 4.3 million U.S. dollars, and the world has exceeded 8 million U.S. dollars. Almost all children who are not poor in the economy know about this movie. Little aliens, and these children are themselves big customers of video games.

Under this strong combination.Theoretically, the game launched must be a blockbuster, but it’s a pity that the Atari executives who were too eager to seize the 82 Christmas season were caught in a loophole when negotiating with Warner to purchase the copyright, and the result was that they dragged it until the end of October to reach an agreement , Atari spent 10 million US dollars to obtain the copyright fee of "ET Aliens". This time is only two months away from Christmas, and the production of game cards also takes two to three weeks, which can be left to Atari for research and development The time, only more than a month.

The game launched in such an emergency must have various problems, so the market gave a slap in the face, and a large number of people who asked for returns gathered in front of supermarkets and distributors across the United States. It was soon published in the newspapers, and Henry Morgan rushed to Hong Kong after knowing about it.

"Eric, Atari is completely finished this time. I inquired before I came to Hong Kong. Their cards sold almost 400 million cards during the Christmas season. Based on the price of each card at 80 US dollars, a total of 3 million Dollars, if you want to return the goods now, Atari will not only have to spit out the previous money, but if all kinds of procedures and losses are counted, it will lose at least [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars." Henry Morgan said.

"400 million copies? The attraction of this ET is really strong." Chen Zhiwen was a little surprised when he heard the data. Even his own "Tank War" didn't have such a high short-term sales during the Christmas season. It was caused by American movies. The popularity effect of IP is really too high. If an IP person who is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people can let some people in the world know, then some of them are willing to spend money. The order of magnitude is millions of millions, even surpassing the painstaking efforts of Midea. Several games.

Of course, this is also a marketing method. Long-term survival still depends on the quality, but the former is also very important. If Atari’s game this time is not too rubbish, but the playability is good, it will definitely make a fortune. .

"ET's popularity is too high, that is, the price of game cards is too expensive. Do you know that Warner hired some toy companies to manufacture ET's plush toys? In the past six months, they have sold more than 2000 million plush toys worldwide. , the sales are also 2 million US dollars, and Warner has earned more than 5000 million US dollars. These are just toys, and I don’t know how many things can be made in the future.” Henry Morgan said with a smile.

"It is true that once Hollywood succeeds, it will make money and make money." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, once this kind of IP or cartoon character becomes popular, the speed of making money is really no worse than that of some of the world's top 500. Let's talk about Disney in the future , although there are many kinds of businesses, the most basic foundation is a bunch of cartoon characters and superheroes.

"No matter how clever Hollywood's money-making methods are, it has nothing to do with us. If you can buy Disney in the future, maybe you can try it, but I am not here today for this." Henry Morgan continued: "Although all these years, Midea has surpassed Atari in terms of scale, but its various channels in the US market are no match. The main channels for your game console are various large supermarkets, right?"

"You mean, take over these terminal channels?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, most of them are actually free merchants. It's just that they signed an exclusive agreement with Atari at the beginning. Now that Atari has gone bankrupt, they can become Midea's channel. I think they are also happy." Henry Morgan laughed Said.

"That's okay, anyway, our channels are indeed not perfect." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, because the previous sales were very impressive, the sales in the European and American markets exceeded the production capacity in Asia, and the channels of major supermarkets are basically able to A certain degree of coverage has been achieved. Therefore, the entire Midea Group has not spent too much energy on developing other channels.

And as time goes by, no matter how popular a product is, it will gradually lose its popularity. In this case, it is necessary to develop other channels.

"Thank you for reminding me." Chen Zhiwen said again.

"It's nothing, actually, if I don't say anything, you will definitely think about it." Henry Morgan shrugged and said, "I came to Hong Kong this time, but I actually told you this incident just by the way. The most important thing is to represent our Morgan family. Go to the mainland."

"Is there any big cooperation?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Actually, it's just a big loan. Our family thinks that I have a good relationship with you, and you have a good relationship with the Mainland, so I'll be sent to find out first, and try my luck first. If the Mainland agrees, then we will There is a professional team here." Henry Morgan said.

"This is actually a good business. I believe that the domestic export industry will not be bad in the future, and there will be no problem in repaying the loan. But don't bring me into your affairs, I will not participate." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Hahaha, as I expected, don't worry, this matter will not affect you." Henry Morgan said with a smile.

Early the next morning, Chen Zhiwen came to Midea's headquarters building in Yuen Long. It was built two years ago. It is not high and only has 20 floors. In fact, it is just a temporary use.

"Old Lei, you should know about Atari's affairs, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"I know." Lei Shengli nodded and said.

"Yesterday Henry Morgan came to Hong Kong to find me and asked me to take over some of Atari's channels. It's no problem, but I want to take over more. There are so many game talents under Atari." Chen Zhiwen said.

Over the years, in the game market, Atari has been beaten by Midea, but the fundamental reason is that Chen Zhiwen, the prophet's golden finger, is too heaven-defying. All kinds of classic games have been released, and they can't play normally.

The technology of the Atari team is still very strong, which is what Midea needs, and it is also a relatively weak weakness.

(End of this chapter)