China Entertainment 1997

Cao Xuan's two concerts in South Korea had slightly more guests.

The main reason is that many Korean singers want to come over to take advantage of the popularity, and Cao Xuan also wants to support star singers, so there are only a few more guests on average.

However, the number of songs is about the same as usual. In domestic concerts, each guest sings two songs. In Korea, there are a few less famous ones who only sing one song.

Speaking of which, Cao Xuan has many connections in South Korea and some assets, but he is not very familiar with the artists in the entertainment industry.

The one I am most familiar with is the Queen of Hallyu Lee Jung-hyun, and Kim Hee-sun, who starred in the movie "Myth", has also met several times. The others are basically rarely encountered, and some people's names cannot be remembered.

However, Cao Xuan basically knows all the bosses of several film and television and entertainment agency companies in South Korea, and has met a few of them more than once.

For example, SM Company, South Korea's number one entertainment agency, what many people don't know is that Cao Xuan has shares in this company.

The companies Cao Xuan invested in South Korea mainly focus on games, such as NEXON, which developed "Bubble Hall" and "Dungeon and Fighter".

Cao Xuan has been laying out this company for a long time. He borrowed some Korean contacts and took 45% of the shares in one go. He has continued to increase his shares in the past two years, and as of now, it is almost 60%.

It’s not that we can’t continue to get more shares, but if this continues, it will force away the founders and core team.

Cao Xuan's purpose is to make money, not to rob the company, but to kick out the core team. The company has become an empty shell, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Of course, Cao Xuan has always been on guard.

He has been asking Box Games to maintain high-density contact with this company. If possible, Cao Xuan would not mind hollowing out the company and then moving the core to Box Games.

In addition to NEXON, Cao Xuan has also successively invested in and acquired some game companies, such as the company that developed "Cross Fire"

NEOWIZ and other companies.

These shares were gathered together, and Cao Xuan set up an investment company to specifically manage and supervise these share assets.

Unless people in the industry, many Koreans don't know that the person who controls a small half of the Korean gaming industry is a Chinese.

But even if they knew, it would probably be fine.

After all, even for giants like Samsung, the largest shareholder is actually an American. As long as Koreans are still in charge of the company, Koreans will mobilize the spirit of Ah Q to comfort themselves.

Although Cao Xuan is the major shareholder and shares more than half of the profits every year, at least it is still a Korean company...

Although Cao Xuan mainly invests in Korean games, it does not mean that he does not invest in other companies at all, especially Cao Xuan's hometown entertainment industry. If appropriate, he would not mind investing in a wave.

Game companies have abundant cash flow. Although several companies have not produced their peak games, their annual income is still considerable.

On the premise of not affecting the company's development, Cao Xuan will receive a certain amount of dividends every year. The little money adds up, and the funds that can be used in a few years are quite considerable.

It happened that SM and JYP were in the stage of rapid rise and needed financial support. More importantly, they were covetous of the Chinese market in Cao Xuan's hands, so they hit it off.

JYP has a little more shares, about 10%, and SM is strong, it is estimated that it only has 5%.

The source of the shares of these two companies is very complicated, with various companies interspersed under them, and Cao Xuan's shareholdings are different, so we can only make a comprehensive calculation.

There is a saying that both families are a little wary of Cao Xuan, and the shares offered are extremely limited. After all, Cao Xuan is a well-known entertainment boss in China, and they are afraid that if they fail to borrow their strength, they will be eaten by Cao Xuan.

In fact, they also thought too much. Cao Xuan really didn't care about them. His intention to acquire the shares of these two companies was very simple.

The Hallyu era is about to begin, and the shares of both companies are sure to appreciate.

Cao Xuan can't stop Hallyu, so let Hallyu make money for him...

Moreover, if you take the shares, you can count as infiltrating the enemy. If a conflict occurs, you can still cause trouble without being able to counterattack.

besides. He really has no intention of joining or even annexing these two companies.

To be honest, the Korean Wave is very strong, but the real profit points are actually in China and Japan and other countries, and the plates are limited.

Cao Xuan himself does not want to engage in the so-called era of idol traffic in China, and has too much time to worry about the Korean Wave.

By the way, you can just make quick money by buying at the bottom. Once the peak period of the Korean Wave is over, the market value of these entertainment companies will be just that. Cao Xuan's game company assets in South Korea can beat them.

If he really wanted to make money in South Korea, he wouldn't be too lazy to deal with these entertainment companies and would directly work with the eldest princess to usurp the throne of Samsung. Then it's called big business...

Cao Xuan usually doesn't get involved in the operations of the two companies, and only meets with the two leaders a few times. However, this time he came to South Korea to hold a concert, and the two leaders collectively came to ask for something.

As mentioned before, the concert of a world-class king like Cao Xuan is a very rare stage.

Especially for newcomers who have not debuted or have just debuted, it is an important resume. There are several well-known singers around the world. In their early years, they first sang at the concert of a senior leader.

When Liu Tianxian came up with the album before, he planned to ride on Cao Xuan's popularity. Naturally, South Korea also had this idea.

Of course, the popularity is not in vain. For example, for this Korean concert, both companies helped Cao Xuan invite important guests to support him.

SM invited Ahn Chi Hyun, and TVXQ will be included in the Japanese concert later. JYP head Park Jin Young personally performed, and also brought several popular artists from the company.

Coupled with the fact that Cao Xuan himself found Li Zhenxian and Kim Hee Sun, the lineup of the Korean concert can be said to be luxurious.

The newcomers that the two companies intend to promote are two girl groups.

The name of JYP’s girl group is [WG], its full English name is [Wonder Girls], and translated into Chinese it is [Wonder Girls].

They just debuted at the end of last year, and they are a new group that JYP currently favors.

SM's girl group has not yet debuted. It was originally planned to be in the middle of the year, but they really couldn't bear to give up the good opportunity of Cao Xuan's concert, so they planned to debut early at Cao Xuan's concert.

The English name of this girl group is [Girls' Generation], which is translated into Chinese as - [Girls' Generation].

If the number one heroine in Chinese entertainment dramas is Liu Tianxian, then the number one heroine in Korean entertainment dramas is basically the one taking turns within Girls' Generation.

There are a lot of successful ones who write about Chinese entertainment heroines but not about Liu Tianxian, but there are very few Korean entertainment heroines who don't write about girlhood.

Cao Xuan is actually not very familiar with Korean male and female groups. Most of his knowledge of them depends on their domestic influence.

There is no doubt that Girls’ Generation is the most influential Korean girl group in China.

Even Cao Xuan, who is a bit blind to Korean actresses, can easily identify three or four of these nine leg sperms.

Compared to whether Girls' Generation will debut at his concert, Cao Xuan is more concerned about whether the unspoken rules of the Korean entertainment industry are true.

I want one to fight nine!

Before the concert, Cao Wen... no, Cao Xuan met Girls' Generation and Miracle Girls respectively.

However, Boss Cao's moral integrity was still there. He just encouraged and advised them as a senior and boss, but he almost lost himself in the adoration of the Oppas from the girls.

Damn it, no wonder those colleagues in Korean entertainment are desperately trying to conquer Girls' Generation. Most people really can't hold it.

In the last concert in Korea, Girls' Generation and Miracle Girls appeared separately and each sang a single.

Later, Girls' Generation danced with Cao Xuan to two songs, which was specifically requested by Cao Xuan. It was just a bad taste.

After things like today, no matter how popular Girls' Generation is from now on, they will always add a prefix - debut as a backup dancer at Cao Xuan's concert.

In the absence of the eldest princess, Cao Xuan's affairs on his heart have not made progress, and he has no intention of staying in Korea longer.

After the concert, he went directly to Japan and held three concerts in Tokyo Dome.

Tokyo Dome is a stadium in Japan, home to the Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Professional Baseball League, and has also hosted many major events.

In addition to sports, Tokyo Dome also has a strong influence on the Japanese music scene, with countless super celebrities holding concerts here.

For example, Michael Jackson in 1987, Madonna, the world's pop queen in the 1990s, and major popular singers or groups in Japan.

In the Japanese music scene, countless singers are proud to hold concerts at the Tokyo Dome, and some fans even regard idol idols holding concerts at the Tokyo Dome as a major resume.

Domestic rumors say that the Tokyo Dome must have a certain status before it can be held. Most singers won't approve it at all. This is actually a false rumor. In fact, as long as you pay money and don't waste time, you can book the venue.

However, one thing to say is that the venue fee is not cheap and ordinary singers cannot afford it. Even if they can afford it, the concert will not make much money due to the high cost. It means that honor is greater than profit.

At the same time, in the eyes of many Japanese, it is a shame that the Tokyo Dome attendance is less than 30,000.

This has led to the fact that many unpopular Japanese singers do not have the financial strength to go to the Tokyo Dome, and many foreign artists cannot gather so many fans.

As a result, holding a concert at the Tokyo Dome has become more and more popular, and it has even become a great honor.

TVXQ is known as Asia's top band, and one of the things that fans talk about is that they have held many concerts at the Tokyo Dome, proving their popularity in Japan.

When Cao Xuan came to Japan to hold a concert this time, he didn’t make a second choice and went straight to the Tokyo Dome.

At that time, some people thought that he was too big a fan. With his popularity in Japan, it would be absolutely fine to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome, but holding three concerts in a row would be a bit risky.

However, these people still underestimated how popular Cao Xuan was in Japan.

There were 50,000 tickets for a single show and a total of 150,000 tickets for the three shows. They were all sold out in less than two hours after the tickets were opened, breaking the fastest sales record for a foreign singer held by Madonna.

So far, TVXQ has not held a concert at the Tokyo Dome.

Cao Xuan doesn’t know if he is the first Asian singer besides Japanese singers to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome, but he is definitely the first Chinese singer.

After all, it is not unusually difficult for a Chinese-speaking singer to support an audience of 50,000 people in Japan.

Apart from Cao Xuan, the only qualified person is probably Teresa Teng, but when she was active in Japan, the Tokyo Dome had not yet been completed.

Others, such as Zhang Tianwang, may also have the influence of winning, but they have never played in the Tokyo Dome here.

The largest concert held by individual Chinese singers in Japan was held by Wang Fei, Jay Chou and Mayday at the Tokyo Budokan.

The number of people in a single game is more than 10,000, and the number of people in two consecutive games is only 25,000+, which is only about half of the Tokyo Dome, and most of them are Chinese.

As for Cao Xuan's 150,000 tickets, more than 80% were from Japanese fans. When news spread back to China, there was another commotion.

However, Cao Xuan no longer cares about the record of "the first person in XX", he is almost numb.

If holding a concert in the Tokyo Dome is something to write home about, then the two concerts he held in South Korea also broke the record for Chinese singers, and he was the first in the following concerts in Dubai and Qatar. .

If the second and third stages of global tours in Europe, America, Australia and Africa were spread, there would be even more records. Counting them one by one would be enough to write a short paper...

There was nothing to talk about in the Japanese concert. The more interesting process is that this concert invited Masami Nagasawa and Yui Aragaki from the fan club back then.

The two little girls back then are now artists. Yui Aragaki is still in her infancy, and Masami Nagasawa is already a popular little girl in Japan.

The big screen showed the scene of several people from the fan club singing "The Wind Rises" together. After a few years, the three of them sang "The Wind Rises" again on the same stage.

Well, the two male fans who also sang along five years ago were forcibly ignored.

In fact, Cao Xuan wanted to find those two male fans, but unfortunately one of them went abroad to the United States, and the other entered the Tongliao Dragon Field to realize enlightenment because he injured someone in a fight.

So we could only find two people, Masami Nagasawa, who happened to be artists as well and were willing to come over to check their faces, so we all hit it off.

After the concert, Cao Xuan's loyal fan Masami Nagasawa shyly invited Cao Xuan to have dinner.

Cao Xuan was in a dilemma. He didn't dare to act rashly at the time because Loli broke the law. Now the legal problem is gone, but will sleeping powder be immoral...

………

In late March, Cao Xuan left Japan and went to Dubai and Qatar to hold two concerts.

The scale is not particularly large. The one in Dubai has about 20,000 people, and the one in Qatar is about 35,000 people.

However, Cao Xuan's visit to these two countries still caused a great sensation in the local areas.

Only now did Cao Xuan realize that he had so many wealthy fans.

There was a member of the Qatari royal family who was crazy about Cao Xuan's songs. He tried every means to invite Cao Xuan to his home, and then pointed to a luxury car in an underground garage and asked Cao Xuan to choose it as a gift.

Cao Xuan was not interested in cars, but he took a fancy to the fan's Arabian horse.

His eyes are piercing, his body is pitch black, he is fat and strong, tall and well-proportioned, his hair is shiny and smooth, his voice is powerful, and his steps are as fast as flying.

Cao Xuan has been in the industry for so many years and has filmed many costume dramas, so of course horse riding is indispensable. For example, in "Xiu Chun Knife", he had several circus scenes.

After being part of the crew for so many years and going to the grassland, Cao Xuan has seen not tens of thousands but thousands of horses, and this horse is the most beautiful one he has ever seen.

Cao Xuan didn't have any hobby for Maserati or Lamborghini, but he was really attracted to this horse.

He was too embarrassed to be given away and expressed his willingness to buy it at a high price. He even didn't need to pay for the concert in Qatar and just gave him the horse.

Cao Xuan has made a fortune for so many years. Although he is not stingy, because he was used to being poor since he was a child, he is more responsible for managing his family, especially for himself. Most of the things he buys are based on practicality, and he does not deliberately pursue unnecessary things for enjoyment.

Unless that thing is something he particularly likes.

For example, this horse, he really likes it from the bottom of his heart, money and other things are secondary.

After all, it’s all about running the house, and there’s no need to hold on to money when you should enjoy it.

He works hard to make money just so that at this time he can do whatever he wants without thinking about anything else.

With a wave of his hand, Boss Cao also let this group of Qatari tycoons know what it feels like to be squandered with money. 4 million US dollars to buy a horse is not enough for more.

The wealthy fan was stunned for a moment, and then became extremely angry.

Not because Cao Xuan took away his love, but because Cao Xuan used money to insult him.

This batch of Arabian horses can be given away, but not sold!

Inviting idols to his home, selling horses at high prices, and killing people with a knife will spread the word about how he will be able to socialize in the wealthy circles in Qatar and even the entire Arabian Peninsula.

What a disgrace to the oil guys!

Therefore, this fan insisted on giving this Arabian horse to Cao Xuan without any money, but Cao Xuan definitely couldn't take it.

Arabian horses are not cheap to begin with. Although this horse has not participated in competitions to become famous, it is so handsome. I am afraid that the pedigree is not bad. If it is not pure blood, it will not be too different. The price will definitely not be lower.

Cao Xuan didn't know the market price, but he heard that some famous horses could be sold for hundreds of millions of yuan, so he wondered why this horse could cost more than 18 million yuan.

So the two of them became stubborn. The wealthy man wanted no money for life and death, but Cao Xuan was embarrassed to have sex for nothing and wanted to pay for life and death.

"Cao, you are insulting me."

"Ahama, listen to me, you must give me the money. I am very grateful if you are willing to give me the horse. I can't let my friend suffer."

The two of them were pushing each other, and then they almost got into a fight, making all the attendants and assistants around look at each other.

Is this the world of rich people?

If you two really don't want it, you can give me the money. I'm not afraid of insults.

The two argued for a long time, and finally came to a compromise. The wealthy fan named Ahama gave the horse to Cao Xuan, and Cao Xuan ordered two sports cars he liked for him.

Regardless of the difference in value between the two, the key is that the needs of both of them are met and everyone is happy.

More importantly, the two have made friends since then. Cao Xuan is very grateful to Ahama for his willingness to grow up. Ahama thinks Cao Xuan is very interesting, a fastidious person, and worth making friends with.

Inviting this new friend to come back to China as a guest and entertaining him, Cao Xuan said goodbye to everyone and ended the first stage of the "Strongest on Earth" global concert.

As for the Arabian horse he named [Wuzui], he had to stay in Qatar for the time being. He would wait until Cao Xuan returned to China to complete the formalities and find a stable horse farm before picking him up.

Although they had only been in contact for a short time, Cao Xuan fell more and more deeply in love with Wu Zui, and he wished he could hug him even when he slept.

It's a pity that the schedule is not enough, otherwise he would really like to stay in Qatar for a few days and spend more time with his precious baby.

As the sun sets, the horse gallops wildly, rides on the horse's back, feels the strong wind blowing in the face, and all worries are gone.

Cao Xuan was a little addicted, and he was still thinking about it while sitting on the plane.

No wonder Cao Xuan didn't understand the price of buying Lu Bu. One was Diao Chan and the other was Red Rabbit.

Give him two more BMWs, and that’s stuff... Ahem, even that little fat fairy is playing with eggs...

This one is a little short, I will make it up tomorrow