China Entertainment 2000

"His previous company was called Xia Ke Records. It was run by the former Golden Point Records founder and his wife. His only famous artist was Tao Zhe. It can be said that it was Tao Zhe's one-man company."

While eating late-night snacks and talking about the album "Black Willow" that brought Tao Zhe's status to a higher level in the music world, Zhou Yi's tone contained a bit of unexplained emotion.

Everything has pros and cons.

The advantage of Xiaoshoufang Record Company is that Tao Zhe himself has a great say. If it were a big record company, Tao Zhe would not be able to have such a large autonomy in "Black Willow", let alone the evening news in it. This kind of thing.

If you dare to show up, I will delete it for you.

Even if he is as good as Jay Chou at his peak, he will still be suppressed by the company when making albums.

There are some things that have completely different weights whether they are called it or not, even in the field of entertainment.

This is just like writing a novel at the starting point. Some things are obviously fine at first, but once reported, most of them will send you a marked form file to let you delete or modify potentially risky sentences.

In these days, Tao Zhe has no shortage of invitations from big companies, but because of a restriction issue, he has been working in small companies from beginning to end - even the new owner he has transferred to, Yishidai Entertainment, is just a A slightly larger small workshop.

When Tao Zhe started to fade away and wanted to switch to big companies such as EMI, Universal, and Warner, it was useless.

A has-been singer is not as good as a dog, even if you are Tao Zhe.

"Unless he's like you."

Qian Jiang wiped the corners of his mouth stained with chili oil, chewed the steak in his mouth, and said it with a smile - or in other words, he said it honestly.

After nearly thirty years in the industry, this is the first time he has seen a musician like Zhou Yi who has such a strong say in a large company.

It can only be said that we have encountered good times.

As for Warner, who was at the top of the last century, Zhou Yi would probably not even accept the contract conditions.

"That's only if Mr. Hui is willing to gamble. It's true that it wasn't just the Warner family that came to me back then."

Zhou Yi shrugged, put down his chopsticks gracefully and wiped his hands: "How are the venue preparations going?"

"According to your wishes, we have already built the scenery, and with the help of people from the spaceport, some scenes are absolutely 100% restored."

When it came to business, Qian Jiang immediately stopped joking and reported one by one.

Compared with side A, which has a strong personal licentiousness to Zhou Yi, the meaning of the song on side B can be said to have made Qian Jiang spend 120% of his efforts in preparation. Especially for the song "Drag Me Down", the MV involves aerospace scenes and the aerospace hero, and he is very clear about the meaning.

This was also the first time Zhou Yi accommodated others——

The space hero's time is very tight, and it is not easy to come out and meet Zhou Yi, a singer.

"It's three o'clock in the afternoon in two days. Don't oversleep then. Time is precious."

"no problem."

Zhou Yi's face showed a rare hint of expectation, and he made an OK gesture.

…………………………

The next day, early in the morning.

While Zhou Yi was still sleeping soundly in his dreamland, news about his once again dominant nomination for this year's Golden Melody Awards began to spread quickly through various print media, TV stations and the Internet.

It’s just that this time it’s different from Zhou Yi’s hegemonic finalists in the past. There are a lot more remarks like mourning one’s concubine——

Speeches such as "Zhou Yide is not worthy of the position", "Zhou Yi relies entirely on marketing", "Zhou Yi's album does not deserve to win awards", etc. are rarely seen in many newspapers, radio and television interviews, especially in Taiwan.

Many experts, scholars and professors went to great lengths to criticize Zhou Yi.

If Warner hadn't been prepared under Zhou Jianhui's instructions, and thus directly formed a scene of public opinion hedging, I am afraid that this public opinion against Zhou Yi would have formed in an instant.

In the Mainland, there are also public intellectuals who oppose Warner, but they still use the same old three methods to ridicule Zhouyi - pretending to understand something that they don't understand, leading young people into mischief, that's not how blue and white porcelain is written, etc.

As time went by, the war even intensified.

Cheng Hao himself was curious as to how Zhou Yi offended this group of people. Even if he tried hard, he would get burned, so he still had to argue some specious "Zhou Yi is about to end" on his blog.

In this era, most of those who can blog and have a certain influence on blogs are elite intellectuals who conform to public perception.

This is completely inconsistent with Zhou Yi's past advantage in leading domestic public opinion.

What's even more terrible is that the two major newspapers, "Southern Metropolis Daily" and "Beijing News", while congratulating Zhou Yi on the album's nomination, also roundaboutly slandered Zhou Yi——

"Love is not a tool for making money, music should not be tainted by money";

"Zhouyi once again set a record for the Golden Melody Award for Chinese singers, but why was it boycotted by many people?" 》

Pink Kiriki's advanced expression technique has really made many celebrities celebrate.

When it comes to the traditional newspaper industry, Cheng Hao's power is powerless.

It is true that she has been trying to figure out the reason, but in the end she found that the reporter who wrote these reports and Zhou Yi had nothing to do with each other, especially Cheng Yizhong, who seemed neutral in his speech in the report——

A real media boss, one of the founders of Southern Metropolis Daily and Beijing News.

Currently, he is deeply involved in the vortex of lawsuits. He has been in prison, but his disciples have published some of his previous internal comments on Zhou Yi in the newspaper.

"It is hard to imagine what kind of monsters these are."

Cheng Hao, who has found the industry more and more bizarre, frowned.

Zhou Yi was happy after glancing at the name and position.

Isn't this the progressive person who supported the King of Sleep in 24 years and made the King of Understanding have a brain hole, and then pardoned himself?

It's a waste of the name his parents gave him.

"Just get used to it. This kind of remarks will probably be common in the future."

Compared to Cheng Hao's annoyance, Zhou Yi, as the person involved, looked more comfortable, and even had the mind to look at the new potted plants that Cheng Hao had raised in her office: "At least until I quit the music industry, it will always be like this."

"Quit the music industry?"

Cheng Hao, whose sense of smell is gradually becoming sharper, caught the key words in the man's mouth, and the look between her eyebrows was suddenly stunned: "What are you talking about?"

For a moment, she even suspected that she had heard it wrong.

Zhou Yi's personal reputation is still constantly breaking the historical records of the Chinese and even Asian music scene. Why is he thinking about quitting the music scene?

"Don't worry, I will definitely not quit in the next few years. The new contract with Warner has not ended yet."

Zhou Yi raised his hands nonchalantly, crossed his fingers and placed them behind his head, looking into the woman's astonished eyes: "Although I am one of the shareholders, I still have to abide by the contract. But don't tell anyone about this. You are the only one who knows this now."

"What do you want to do after you quit the music scene?"

"I don't know, probably to enjoy life. Pop up on the Internet from time to time, have a private gathering or something."

"..."

Cheng Hao calculated in his heart that Zhou Yi's new contract with Warner will only last until May 2008...

With Zhou Yi's current level, the most likely possibility is that the contract will end, and he will participate in the 2008 Olympics held in his home country before quitting...

"This is really... surprising."

For some reason, Cheng Hao suddenly laughed, and it was the kind of smile that couldn't be stopped.

"Won't you give me some advice?"

"You are the boss, you have the final say."

"Oh, you recognize me as the boss now?"

"What do you mean, there will be a day when you are not the boss."

"Come and massage the boss's shoulders."

"Do you want a beautiful secretary to do this job?"

Zhou Yi was excited: "Okay."

"Find one yourself."

Cheng Hao smiled and rolled his eyes at him: "Don't be a jerk, otherwise people from Tencent will think you are in the wrong place."

After a series of negotiations, Guiyi and Tencent finally reached the last step--

Xiao Ma Ge will arrive at Guiyi at 10 am today to have the final communication with Zhou Yi, the actual controller. Basically, at this point, it can be said that it is a done deal if nothing unexpected happens.

As Cheng Hao said, he is the boss, he has the final say.

With the current valuation of Foxmail, it is unlikely to exchange a large number of high-growth Tencent shares, but it is not certain if money is added.

Foxmail + money can account for a fluctuation of 8-13%.

Coincidentally, Zhou Yi is very optimistic about Tencent.

An hour later, Zhou Yi, dressed in a suit, saw the bespectacled Xiao Ma leading the team. He didn't look like a big boss yet, and he was still in line with Zhou Yi's impression of the nerd temperament in the photo with Sohu's Lao Zhang.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Cheng, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. There's a traffic jam on the road in the imperial capital..."

After Xiao Ma's down-to-earth opening remarks to get closer, he took the lead in extending his hand and bowed slightly to show respect: "Just call me by my name, or my English name Pony is fine."

"Mr. Ma, you're welcome."

With Zhou Yi present, Cheng Hao habitually retreated behind him.

40 million US dollars and Foxmail, 13% of the shares, are the tickets given by Gui Yi to enter the market at this time.

Tencent has no objection to this price, but for this share...

They can't give 13%.

This is the point of disagreement between the two parties.

Tencent is not short of money at present, so their condition is 40 million US dollars + mailbox acquisition in exchange for 8% of the shares.

This is the condition that was set when Tencent was hit by Microsoft and Zhou Yi also had many connections behind him.

Of course, Zhou Yi would definitely try to lower the price.

After Tencent went public in 2004, its total market value was only 6.2 billion Hong Kong dollars. Even if Zhou Yi had a premium before the listing, 40-50 million US dollars should be enough.

After all, he still has an email company to be acquired, which is his valuable company.

In his impression, in 2005, when Foxmail's parent company encountered an economic crisis, Tencent took the opportunity to sell it and spent about 5 million US dollars.

Now Gui Yi is not short of money, and with his buff bonus, the estimated value is 8 to 10 million US dollars.

Therefore, at this stage, Zhou Yi directly moved out of Microsoft.

Apart from anything else, Microsoft, this old rogue, is his old acquaintance——

I, Zhou Yi, and Microsoft are dear friends who have fought together!