Chapter 409 Liu Shishi: You Have Always Been Shameless

In the early morning, Wei Yang was woken up by the ringing of the phone. He patted Liu Shishi, who was frowning in his arms, and answered the phone. Yang Tianzhen's voice came from the phone.

"Hello?"

"Boss, the big dog is dead."

What the hell? Calling me in the middle of the night because the dog died?

Wei Yang opened his mouth to curse, but suddenly reacted when the words came to his lips: "Which big dog?"

"The chairman of Xiaoma Pentium, Mr. Li, just got the news that he died of a sudden illness."

As mentioned before, Mr. Li of Xiaoma Pentium is a generous person. He regards himself as the big brother of the underworld. Many acquaintances in the circle call him Big Dog Brother.

Wei Yang sat up, put Liu Shishi down, put on his clothes and came to the side, and asked in a low voice: "Tell me the details."

Soon he knew the general situation. Time was tight, and Yang Tianzhen didn't know it very clearly.

It was just heard that late at night tonight, this underworld big brother suddenly fell ill in his private club and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but died.

It has just been confirmed that the person has passed away, and the news has not yet spread, but Yang Tianzhen has a friendship with a senior executive of Xiaoma Pentium.

The latter may have told Yang Tianzhen about this out of a favor or to think about a way out.

Xiaoma Pentium is not a small company in the circle, and Dagou is also a big boss. The sudden death of a person of this level has a great influence. After Yang Tianzhen got the news, he hurriedly notified the boss Wei Yang.

"You did a good job in this matter. Go and find out more information. Tell me anytime if there is any situation."

Wei Yang explained a few words and hung up the phone. He couldn't sleep after such a big thing happened.

He simply put on his clothes, sat on the sofa in the hotel, lit a cigar, and thought about the impact of this incident on himself and Blue Whale.

Boss Li of Xiaoma Pentium is not old, which Wei Yang has known for a long time, but he doesn't know the specific time, only a rough range.

The two have no friendship, and his illness is an emergency, which can't be avoided by reminding in advance, and Boss Wei is too lazy to care.

This kind of big brother in the underworld, who is in the entertainment industry, never leaves his cigarettes and alcohol, and he smokes and drinks a lot. He also has women, and staying up late is a common thing. With such a life state, the hidden dangers in his body can be imagined.

In addition, the failure of Xiaoma Pentium to go public at the end of last year was also a big blow to his career, and it is likely to be a cause of the disease.

He is 50 years old, has a poor physical foundation, and is at the bottom of his career. It is not surprising that anything happens.

As for the conspiracy theory in the later generations that it was suicide due to the incident, Boss Wei does not believe it.

Dagou died too quickly, leaving almost no time for anyone to react, and leaving too many hidden dangers and disadvantages, which directly led to the demise of Xiaoma Pentium. If it was suicide, at least it would not implicate his wife and children.

But no matter what, with Dagou's departure, Xiaoma Pentium, which was originally in a precarious situation due to the failure of the listing and the debt of the bet, is in danger.

When Xiaoma Pentium raised funds two years ago, its valuation was more than 3 billion, and it was snapped up by many institutions.

At present, the listing is not favorable and the prospects are bleak, but the hot thing is that under the general environment, this company is still valuable. It is said that Huayi had intended to acquire it last year, and the valuation was as high as 5.3 billion, which is definitely a first-tier echelon in the industry.

In addition, Xiaoma Pentium can not only sell for money, but also has many cards to play.

Holding Ning Hao, a genius director, he is close to the international director Wu Baige, and Zhang Yibai is also said to be interested in joining. Now the hot cakes in the film industry Huang Bo and the popular screenwriter Ning Caishen also have a deep cooperation with Dagou, and have multiple mature IPs under their names.

More importantly, Xiaoma Pentium is very popular in CCTV, and even in the early days of its fortune, there are many shadows of CCTV behind it.

It can be said that although the failure of the bet is very troublesome, Wei Yang feels that if Dagou is still alive, Xiaoma Pentium will never fall apart.

Just Ning Hao, as long as Dagou stabilizes him, from the perspective of subsequent development, Xiaoma Pentium is not without hope for a comeback.

After all, Bad Monkey Pictures, which Ning Hao has been working on, has a strong presence in the film industry in the next few years. Although it is not as good as those big companies, it is definitely no problem to support Xiaoma Pentium.

But the premise is that Dagou is alive. Now that he is gone, many things are completely different.

Ning Hao is a genius director, and Dagou can still barely win him over. Even if the former is independent, it is not difficult to cooperate deeply with their friendship.

Most of the other people are not Xiaoma Pentium's people, but partners. Dagou is capable, and everyone works together to make money.

Now that Dagou is gone, Xiaoma Pentium's Optimus Prime has fallen. Even Wei Yang still remembers that due to Dagou's mistakes, the internal equity was unclear, which eventually led to internal fighting, and the two sisters joined forces to sweep the widow out.

Anyone with a little ability and long-term vision would not continue to be bound to such a company.

In the end, the ace director Ning Hao left, many partners scattered, and Kong Ergou, the confidant chairman's assistant, joined Youzu.

The right-hand men and left-hand men also set up their own businesses. Zhong Lifang, who is known as a think tank, a frequent visitor to Huayuwen, and the royal housekeeper of the big golden retriever, opened her own company; Zong Shuai, who is in charge of brokerage business, took root in the traffic frenzy and became the agent of the top returnee who stepped on the sewing machine in the future.

Pony Pentium was valued at more than 5 billion at its peak, and once could impact the existence of giant companies in the entertainment industry, but eventually disappeared.

To be honest, Wei Yang felt a little bit sad when he saw this.

Like Pony Pentium, Blue Whale also relies heavily on him personally. Although it has started to develop comprehensively in the past two years, everyone is still used to respecting Wei Yang.

The advantage of this is that power is concentrated, Wei Yang has unprecedented voice, and as long as he can stay stable, the company will unite around him and develop rapidly.

The disadvantage is that it has poor independence and is easily affected by the rise and fall of the core.

To be frank, if Wei Yang dies suddenly like Da Gou, Blue Whale will not be much better than Xiao Ma Pentium, and it may even be worse.

At least Da Gou has a wife to take over. Although Blue Whale has Xiao Zhao, who is a company veteran and girlfriend, she is not legitimate after all, has no direct power, and can hardly control the situation.

The best outcome is that the parents take over the inheritance and entrust Xiao Zhao to manage it. In the absence of foreign debt, they will join forces with some more loyal executives to sell Blue Whale.

As for Xiao Zhao taking over Blue Whale and continuing to operate it, Wei Yang is not optimistic about her ability.

Perhaps Xiao Zhao can grow from an ordinary girl to a first-line big flower and accumulate considerable capital, but running her own artist studio and running a 10 billion-level entertainment group are completely different things.

Whether the senior executives, directors, and core creative staff can suppress it or not, the most important thing is the connections and relationships that Wei Yang has accumulated over the years, and even some backers.

When a person dies, the lights go out. Without Wei Yang personally spending a few years to slowly pave the way, people will not care about you.

Without connections and backers, taking over a cash cow company rashly is like a child carrying gold through a busy city, and who knows how many jackals and tigers will stare at him.

Now, the same is true for Pony. It may not be as perfect as Blue Whale, but with its size, it is enough to squeeze out a lot of oil.

In a sense, this behavior is considered "eating up the whole family", which is very immoral, but also very realistic.

Wei Yang is somewhat resistant to this approach from the bottom of his heart, but reason tells him that it is a big fool to be a moral role model at this time.

Apart from other things, "Heart Flower Road" co-produced by Blue Whale and Pony was originally controlled by Pony, but now it is estimated that they have no intention of it.

As one of the investors, Blue Whale is very likely to take over if it can get the publicity and distribution rights. Even accepting a portion of the share, the total profit is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

That's fine, Wei Yang doesn't lack this piece of fat meat. If possible, he is even willing to help Xiaoma Pentium in this project and let them make some money.

But this project can give up, but Ning Hao can't.

As mentioned earlier, Ning Hao's subsequent development is very good. This person who can become one of the leaders of mainland directors seems to have very few works in the later period, but his tentacles are all over the industry, and even join Huang, Xu and others to become a small mountain.

Wei Yang didn't want to bring Ning Hao under his command. He estimated that with Ning Hao's current strength, he might not be willing to work for others.

But his failure to sign a contract with Blue Whale does not mean that he cannot cooperate with Blue Whale.

Wei Yang is optimistic about his ability and prospects. Ning Hao will definitely lack backing and funds after his independent business. Both parties get what they need. Boss Wei is willing to be Ning Hao's new financial supporter and behind-the-scenes boss.

In this regard, Wei Yang believes that he has an advantage. He has laid the groundwork in the previous cooperation.

Ning Hao and Boss Wei have a very pleasant cooperation and a close relationship. Under the same conditions, the chance of choosing to join Wei Yang is very high.

Blue Whale has always lacked a heavyweight director. If Ning Hao is brought in as a stable ally, it will be a great improvement to the company's soft power and reputation.

Of course, there are definitely many companies eyeing Ning Hao. If Boss Wei wants to get what he wants, he has to spend more time.

In addition, Wei Yang is also willing to accept some talents from Xiaoma Pentium. Even if the executives don't come, many backbone middle-level managers of Xiaoma Pentium are also very attractive.

Wei Yang is not short of money. He doesn't care much about Xiaoma Pentium's film and television projects and some IPs. What he cares most about is talent.

Blue Whale is working hard, and the scale of Emerald Shrimp and Coral Entertainment is also constantly increasing. A large number of professional and mature talents are needed to help expand the territory.

In addition, Xiaoma Pentium previously acquired Cameron's Digital Kingdom, and Wei Yang also considered whether to start with this special effects company.

Blue Whale is currently mainly shooting story movies, but if it wants to expand its business, it will inevitably involve special effects blockbusters in the future.

With Boss Wei's personality, he is unwilling to hand over all the technical keys to others.

Blue Whale has also been cultivating a special effects team. This time, the movie "Time Travel Cohabitation", as well as "The Journey of Flower", "Ancient Swordsman" and "Joy of Life" series all have this team involved.

However, the team size and technical level are not first-class, and Wei Yang has been thinking about building a strong special effects team.

Digital Domain was founded by Cameron and participated in many Hollywood blockbusters. Even if it is not at its peak and has even had a bankruptcy crisis, the team and technical level are still very impressive, at least it is a good supplement and reinforcement for Blue Whale.

However, Data Kingdom is not weak in scale, coupled with large investment in special effects, low gross profit, and vague and uncertain future development.

It may become a money-eating burden that only eats but does not make money, which will affect and slow down the development of Blue Whale, so Wei Yang will inevitably have to consider it carefully.

…

"You say you won't eat up the family, but you're about to tear them apart in your heart."

After pondering for a long time, Wei Yang suddenly realized and couldn't help but laugh at himself.

Even with Wei Yang's picky eyes and barely passable moral standards, he was jealous of many aspects of Pony. Not to mention other companies that were far less confident than Blue Whale, who were eager to lie on Pony to drink blood and eat meat.

After extinguishing the cigar, Wei Yang stopped thinking about it, took off his clothes and took Liu Shishi to sleep as a warm baby.

As for the other things, there is no need to worry too much. If you can do it, do it. If you can't, forget it. It's conscienceless enough to eat "extinct", and it's too much to calculate everything.

Wei Yang knew that Yang Tianzhen knew it earlier, and other people would definitely notify him after receiving the letter, so he turned off his phone early.

When he got up the next day and turned on his phone, it turned out that all kinds of people had informed him, including Ning Hao's phone.

"It seems that things may be easier than I thought."

Wei Yang specially called Ning Hao back, and didn't say much. He just talked about the situation of Da Gou and made an appointment for dinner.

There were not many words, but both sides knew the meaning. Ning Hao was more decisive than Wei Yang thought.

He might not leave Xiaoma Pentium now. After all, it was too cold-blooded and ruthless to leave when the boss died, but he also realized the future of Xiaoma Pentium, so he contacted the retreat early.

Wei Yang believes that he may not be the only company that Ning Hao has contacted, but he is definitely one of the top priorities.

China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group may cooperate, but they are state-owned enterprises after all. It is too troublesome to bind them deeply, and it involves the team issue. Most people dare not get involved.

Huayi and LeTV are larger than Blue Whale, but one has Feng Kuazi and the other has just signed Lao Mouzi. Ning Hao may not be willing to go there to be the second.

The same is true for companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. There are too many famous directors, and Ning Hao's advantages are not enough to overwhelm those Hong Kong and Taiwan directors with rich resumes.

In this way, there are only a few companies with sufficient capital and who value him.

Blue Whale is definitely a better comprehensive company, not to mention that it has a personal relationship with Wei Yang and has had many pleasant cooperation experiences. The latter two are crucial plus points.

Wei Yang dare not say that Ning Hao is already in his pocket, but in this competition, Blue Whale is indeed far ahead.

In addition to Ning Hao, Xia Cong and Yang Tianzhen both called him. In addition to reporting the problem, they also proposed a talent acquisition plan.

There are not many artists in Xiaoma Pentium, and most of them are talented. Yang Tianzhen is not very interested, but he is optimistic about many talents in their team.

Including the person in charge, Zong Shuai, who was the head of Huayi's brokerage business in the early stage. He was poached by Dagou to be the vice president of Xiaoma Pentium. Later, Wu Moufan returned to China and joined Lemon Pictures as a partner.

In terms of qualifications, Yang Tianzhen is not even as good as this one, so he wants to bring his own deputy, and even mentions option rewards.

Xia Cong has the same idea. He has his eyes on a large group of people in Xiaoma Pentium. The list he listed is as many as 20 to 30 people. There are seven heads of subsidiaries, and this guy listed four.

Boss Wei's eyelids jumped when he saw it. He at least morally condemned himself. These two are really not human.

Wei Yang did not comment on the ideas of the two people. He did not say whether he supported or opposed them, and took a default attitude.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Yang couldn't help asking Liu Shishi: "Am I sometimes a bit arrogant?"

"No."

Liu Shishi, who was putting on makeup, shook her head: "In my impression, you have always been straightforward and shameless."

Wei Yang: "..."

I shouldn't have been soft-hearted last night, and I was too lenient...