Sun Tao didn't have dinner with Li Xiaojun because Director Na Kang made an appointment with him.
The surname "Na" comes from Yehenala. There is a Manchu village named Yehe in SP City, Jichun Province, which is the hometown of this branch. There have been two or three queens here. The propaganda slogan of the cultural and tourism department is "The Land of the Phoenix" Of course, no one knows about it. Sun Tao wouldn’t have known about it if Wu’an hadn’t been relatively close to Siping. The cultural tourism promotion in Northeast China is simply hard to describe!
Off topic again.
Nakang didn't refuse Sun Tao when he made an appointment, so you see, many things are destined. Originally, Sun Tao was going to read Nakang's message, but Qian Sanjiang called and buzzed Sun Tao aside.
After offending Qian Sanjiang, Sun Tao thought of Wu Yanzu (Wu Yanzu said: What matters when you come out to hang out is influence. Networking is naturally a kind of influence). Since you have to have connections, you can't offend people casually. No matter what, Kang is now his. A colleague, the artistic director of a department directly under the Ministry of Culture, was invited for the first time... Sun Tao readily agreed.
If Sun Tao had read Na Kang's message first, according to his moral character, he should have refused immediately. After all, Li Xiaojun was still pregnant and the first three months was a more dangerous time.
Sun Tao waited until Du Juan came back and carefully explained her diet and careful care on the way back and forth, etc. before taking a taxi and leaving.
At 5:40 in the evening, Sun Tao took a taxi to the Datang Club on the Second Ring Road for dinner.
After getting on the bus and reporting his address, the driver kept peeking at him in the rearview mirror. Yanjing taxi drivers, who were usually very talkative, didn't know why they didn't say a single unnecessary word today. Sun Tao noticed this. Datang Club is probably an amazing place.
But considering that he didn't care about heaven and earth, how could a club be so awesome? The road was not far, so Sun Tao didn't talk to the driver.
……
Sun Tao was very wrong.
Datang Club is not a hotel at all. It has an antique gatehouse and a red door. The security guard at the door looked at Sun Tao coldly, his expression telling him: No one is allowed in!
Fortunately, Nakang and a middle-aged man were waiting for Sun Tao at the door early. They showed their membership cards and Sun Tao followed him smoothly into the deep compound...
Datang Club should be regarded as a non-governmental organization.
In Yanjing, there is one non-governmental organization on the Second Ring Road that is not a state institution: the Datang Club. (Nakang said that the Hong Kong Jockey Club also wants to build a branch in this area to promote economic, trade and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and the mainland, but this matter is still in progress.)
Sun Tao had never heard of the name Datang Club in his past life, but he understood it as soon as Na Kang explained it because he had heard of the "Taishan Club". Both are membership-based, and neither can be entered with money. You must meet N multiple conditions and be introduced by several old members before you can join.
The members of Taishan Club are all famous entrepreneurs, while the members of Datang Club are not famous, but they control many famous companies.
……
The club is not a hotel, but the catering and entertainment inside are of the highest domestic standards and are only open to members.
Na Kang is not a member, he just has a friend who is a member.
The club was full of real sculptures, and Sun Tao couldn't tell whether they were antique or refurbished, but when they saw Ma Yun wearing a pair of cloth shoes, everyone probably thought they must have been hand-sewn by old craftsmen.
Nakang's purpose in inviting Sun Tao to come was also very simple. Zhang Yimou had always advocated finding a little girl to sing "Jasmine" in the last eight minutes. The real treater happened to have an eight-year-old daughter.
Nakang introduced the family of three. The man's surname was Guan, and he was a famous drum calligraphy artist. Don't underestimate this profession. Before Peking Opera was regarded as the quintessence of the country, Beijing-style drums were the favorite of old Yanjing people.
The boy's surname is Guan and the girl's surname is Li. Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the girl is Guan Xiaotong. She looks old at the age of three. Either she has the same name or she is Guan Xiaotong.
The little girl has a well-educated family background and is very smart. She sang, danced and recited poetry, which was a great talent show.
After Guan Xiaotong finished singing "Jasmine", Na Kang approached Sun Tao and asked, "Director Sun, how is this child?"
"Yes!" Sun Tao nodded happily, "Very good, very good. It is said that dragons and dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. It makes sense. The key is that she not only has a good foundation, but also is generous and decent without stage fright. Not having stage fright is the most important thing!"
If someone has short hands and eats someone with a short mouth, Sun Tao drank the 1953 Moutai, ate sea cucumbers roasted with green onions, braised bear paws (origin unknown) and a bunch of unnamed dishes, so naturally he had to praise Guan Xiaotong. (The waiters in the club do not report the names of the dishes. Sun Tao probably took a quick look and saw that 85 points is the average. There are really a few who can be considered as working ladies even if they are in the film school. Of course, the girls in the film school are not only tall. Just beautiful)
Sun Tao grew up in the Northeast and worked hard in the south of the Yangtze River. He didn't understand the behavior and habits of the old Yanjing people. When people asked, he would just praise him and get into trouble.
Na Kang burst out laughing, Lao Guan and his wife were also smiling, "Come on, come on, Xiaotong, kowtow to Master!"
"Bang Bang Bang", there was a table between the two of them, and before Sun Tao could react, Guan Xiaotong had already kowtowed three times. Sun Tao didn't know what it was like to be a disciple in the southeast. I heard that it was tea ceremony and kowtow in the northeast, but few people followed the old etiquette. I didn't expect that I would meet him in Yanjing today.
Nakang, "Hahaha, if you were older and asked your child to recognize you as his godfather, Dagu would have declined long ago. If this child wants to enter the entertainment industry and become an actor, he will have to rely on you as his master." Come to lead the way.”
Sun Tao was still confused, but the attitude of Lao Guan and Li Ming towards him was no longer as harsh as before.
After kowtowing, the fate has been decided.
I have never seen such a battle before. It is such a niche thing to kowtow to become a disciple. This is even more niche than men and women in the cycling circle openly shooting wild guns on the road in Longjing Village. They are shooting wild guns on the road, and male and female riders are randomly paired up. A room, although it is sensational, there are still audio, video, and picture descriptions on Douyin, but Sun Tao has seen Huang Shengyi kneel down and worship Zhao Benshan... Whether Deyun Club has to kowtow to become a disciple is not available online.
Only then did Sun Tao react, "This, this, this, what virtues and abilities do I have? I'm not an old artist and I don't have any skills. You guys, this is a bit hasty."
Sun Tao was helpless. What should he do? Let him knock Guan Xiaotong back? How is it possible to accept this disciple? But what age is this...
Lao Guan, "Hahaha, Director Sun, oh, you shouldn't call Xiaotong her master. This child has a lot to learn from you in the future. Where can he develop, whether it's suitable for singing, dancing or acting, it doesn't matter. Your arrangements are..."
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February 10, 2004, Tuesday, 9:30 pm, lobby of Yanjing Hilton Hotel.
Sun Tao sat in the coffee bar in the lobby and ordered a cup of cappuccino and sat there quietly. He wore a golden nanmu bracelet on his left wrist, and in his right hand was a handle carved from Tian Huang.
These two things are Guan Xiaotong's apprenticeship ceremony.
The Guan family is a famous Jingyun drum player and has a lot of good stuff. Nakang also specially introduced the ins and outs of these two items to Sun Tao. The bracelet is an old collection of the palace, and the handle (treasure hunting rat) is from the Rongbaozhai that Mr. Guan had in his early years. I got it because after seeing Sun Tao planning "The Final Word", the Guan family felt that he must like this kind of thing, so he just fell in love with it.
Nakang and Guan Xiaotong's parents never said anything about letting their children participate in the eight-minute performance from beginning to end, let alone asking Guan Xiaotong to sing "Jasmine" at the end of the show. The performance was for him, but they didn't say anything!
But now Sun Tao thinks about it, Guan Xiaotong should not only sing "Jasmine" at the closing ceremony in Athens, but also "Ode to the Motherland" at the opening ceremony. Sun Tao rubbed Yintang: At twelve years old, I'm afraid this little girl will be too mature by then, but there is such a sense of fate in a person's connection.
Gift-giving is an art, and those who don't hesitate to give money to beautiful women are barbarians and outsiders.
……
Sun Tao was drinking coffee with his head down. When the light dimmed, a figure blocked the light.
Sun Tao thought that business elites should be like Zhou Shouzi and Cai Chongxin, but the person in front of him looked like Yue Yunpeng. Well, slightly stronger than Yue Yunpeng, this person is a bit taller, almost the same height as Sun Tao, at nearly 1.8 meters.
"Hello, Mr. Sun, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I'm Tang Lei."
In the last life, Sun Tao would read "Today's Statement" every day and saw too many scammers. Before going to see Nakang in the afternoon, he had specifically checked with Wang Yisheng. Their company had checked and verified Tang Lei's resume and level.
Now his appearance is the same as what Wang Yisheng said.
"Tang..." Sun Tao hesitated.
"Just call me by my name, or you can call me TONY."
Sun Tao smiled and said, "Then I'll call you Old Tang."
Tang Lei laughed heartily, "Fortunately my surname is not Wang... Waiter, Waiter, let's have a cup of American coffee..."
Tang Lei turned around after ordering coffee, "Actually, my understanding of investment is this. Investment is not investing in an industry or an idea, but in a person.
I am a very honest and straightforward person. I will tell you my request first and then we can continue. If you don’t agree, just treat it as a friend and we won’t lose anything. Of course, you don’t have to worry that I am a liar because my profit is from following your career. As the tide goes up, all boats are lifted. ”
Sun Tao rubbed the Tianhuang material handle in his hand and said, "It makes sense, let's talk about it."
"When I join your company, you can appoint me as CEO or special assistant to the president. In short, I need to have decision-making power. As for salary, a symbolic payment is OK."
Sun Tao smiled slightly and said, "Haha, please forgive me for taking the risk. What is your current salary?"
Tang Lei shrugged, "Almost one million, uh, US dollars."
Sun Tao: Damn it, are you pretending to be cool? Are you pretending to be cool? I am a reborn person who has worked hard for more than a year and feel that I have earned a huge fortune. You are a wage earner, but your salary for a year is almost the same as mine. Got it!
Sun Tao shook his head, "Let's just chat. Well, Old Tang, how is the weather in Malaysia now?"
Tang Lei laughed loudly, "I've already said that just give me a symbolic amount, don't be too eye-catching like a dollar a month, just be a little higher than the current manager."
Sun Tao, "2,500 a month, RMB. Including the year-end bonus, it's almost 50,000 a year, uh, it's also RMB."
Tang Lei curled his lips and glanced at Sun Tao, "It doesn't matter, now I want to take the lead. I want eight to ten points of all the assets you control."
Tang Lei took a sip of coffee and said, "Don't rush to agree. What I'm saying is that the assets you control are not the assets you own. In fact, after financing one after another, the equity you own is only about 20%."< br>
Sun Tao smiled and said, "I seem to have lost a lot out of nowhere."
The first thing that flashed in Sun Tao's mind was Li Ziqi. Li Ziqi cooperated with Hangcheng Weinian Company. Li Ziqi provided people and money for Weinian. Li Ziqi accounted for 49% and Hangcheng Weinian accounted for 51%; it looks very good. It was a good deal, but Wei Nian turned around and sold Li Ziqi's image rights, etc., to his own subsidiary. The transaction price was: one dollar!
The snail noodles endorsed by Li Ziqi began to be sold online.
So, how much did Li Ziqi, China’s number one internet celebrity on YouTube, get in the end from this deal?
Forty-nine cents, not even fifty cents!
……
Tang Lei ignored Sun Tao's hesitation and continued: "I have a rough idea of your thinking. How much money do you have to do so many things? You work so hard to write songs, novels, scripts, and plan. Invest in real estate...just to fill the holes in those websites you created..."
Sun Tao said calmly: "My few websites are not empty. Haitang.com made me several million last year. Although Dianping and Douban have no profit, the programmers I trained have now started to do financial software and training business. , we will probably be able to break even this year.”
Tang Lei smiled disdainfully, "Without a main business, I was so exhausted that I was half-dead with a hammer and a stick. When I look back, I might as well have not opened a company and just do some planning on my own and earn almost the same income.
Let me give you an example. There are two cold drink shops on a street. One works from dawn to dusk and earns hard-earned money throughout the year. The other introduces investment to rapidly expand its scale. When the scale becomes larger, it will have bargaining power. You understand, let me just say a few words that the purchasing price of Wal-Mart supermarkets in the United States is the lowest in the world. For the same product, if others pay only 2 yuan, it can be priced at 1.2 yuan! ”
Tang Lei glanced at Sun Tao and knew that no explanation was needed, so he continued, "The cheaper purchase price is just one of the reasons. Larger companies also have greater advantages in terms of tax exemptions and resistance to pressure..."
Sun Tao also understands this. I have never seen any city’s industrial and commercial, taxation, health, fire protection, urban management, etc. go to such giants as “Foxconn”, “Meituan”, “Vipshop”, and “Three Connects and One Express”. The trouble is, but for a small company, your invisible consumption cannot be calculated at all.
Tang Lei glanced at Sun Tao in surprise, as if he understood all this, "Okay, now my purchase price is cheaper than yours, and my consumption in all aspects is less than yours..."
In fact, he didn't need to tell Sun Tao to understand. Later, he would lower the price and bring down other cold drink shops on the street. When one company is the dominant one, he has the final say on pricing.
The battle between Meituan and Ele.me, Qingming vs. Xiaohuangche, you see them fighting, and think about it carefully that other people have been completely squeezed out of this competition. If it is darker, if there is another one between them Cross-shareholdings...
My thoughts turned back to the cold drink shops, the Mixue Ice City all over the country.
Tang Lei paused, "Promote this street to the whole city, the whole province, the whole country, and the world. That's what those multinational companies do. I'll do the math for you. It's a hard and exhausting job to open a cold drink shop." One million a year.”
Sun Tao gritted his teeth and said to himself: Why is a cold drink shop worth one million a year?
But he didn't interrupt because he knew that wasn't the point.
"Due to continuous financing, the owner's equity of another store dropped from 100% to 20%, but the market value of the cold drink shop has reached 100 million..."
This is a way of thinking that anyone who has watched "Rich Dad Poor Dad" probably understands, but in 2004 this was still a very cutting-edge thing.
Sun Tao looked at Tang Lei and said calmly: "No need to explain, I still have two questions. First, you have actually seen all my things. Why don't you do it yourself since you have the ability? Second, what do you think about this now?" Times, Dianping and Douban have room for survival. As you said, whoever has more money is more powerful. So what if there are bigger funds involved to grab business?”
……
Late at night, when Sun Tao returned to No. 155 Chaoyangmenwai Street, the light in the room was still on.
The moon was shining like water, and Sun Tao turned around and closed the door. It seemed that he was about to live a leisurely life. (End of chapter)