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First, we went to No. 10 Downing Street to communicate with the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Minister of Sports. Then we went to No. 12 Downing Street to exchange opinions with the heads of the Policy Liaison Group and the Consulting Research Group.

The former is policy and the latter is propaganda.

In other words, if you agree to the former's policy, you will get the latter's propaganda support.

Then, Zhou Buqicai and Xue Baoshan held hands and walked back to their home at No. 4 Cowley Street.

"These guys are really planning to do what they want!"

"Well, it feels pretty reliable."

Xue Baoshan nodded lightly.

Zhou Buqi said slowly: "Europe is an Internet desert and lacks a truly large Internet company. If Ziweixing Digital Media is split up, it will be based in the UK, which is enough to make them proud."

Xue Baoshan pursed her lips and said: "The UK is much better than the European continent. The English department here has some second-tier Silicon Valley talents and is more suitable for development."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, if there is an opportunity in the European Internet industry, it can only be in the UK. From a cultural value perspective, the UK is closer to the United States than to Europa."

this point is very important.

The European Union is very white and left-wing. Its policies are heavily tilted towards the middle and low-income countries. It severely suppresses capital and imposes extremely high tax rates on large companies and wealthy people.

In contrast, Britain is more like the United States, with the two parties competing and compromising with each other. The main argument in society is "struggle to get rich" rather than "distribute and get rich."

In fact, "distributing wealth" is also possible. Europe is so developed and egalitarianism can also greatly solve social conflicts and reduce the gap between rich and poor.

But the question is how to solve the problem of work enthusiasm under distributism, and who holds the power of distribution.

Human nature is common, idealistic saints are rare, and most people do evil whoever has the power to distribute.

For example, organizations such as UEFA, the Premier League, and La Liga collect all the profits of major clubs and carry out secondary distribution of "unity, fairness, harmony, and friendliness." To a few vested interest groups.

Another example is Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It is said that there is an economic crisis now. Spain's economy is in a mess, so it borrowed more than 40 billion euros from EU banks to solve people's livelihood. But after Spain got the money, they directly allocated a large sum of money to big clubs. This allowed Real Madrid to spend more than 200 million euros this summer, successively acquiring Ronaldo, Kaká, Benzema, and Xavi Aaron. Suo and other top stars are in the bag.

Depend on!

That was allocated to you by the European Union to solve the problem of people's employment, and you used it for player transfers!

In this kind of social environment, it is difficult for big companies and big capital to take root there.

Zhou Buqi prefers the concepts of "American Dream" and "Chinese Dream", calling on everyone to rely on their own hands to work hard and get rich through hard work.

If everyone doesn't work hard, how can we create wealth? It is impossible to create wealth, let alone fair secondary distribution, and even the logic of distribution is gone.

From this point of view, it is easier to start a business in the UK than in continental Europe, and the employees are more diligent and serious. Instead of going on strike every day like France, thinking about retiring at the age of 30 or 40 like Germany, or early in the morning like Spain I didn’t go to work until 11 o’clock.

Zhou Buqi continued: "The center of European football is in the Europa continent. The United Kingdom is a bit like the United States and is isolationist in the European Union. Ziweixing Digital Media wants to engage in digital football, and this is their opportunity."

“Tilting the center of the football industry towards the UK through digital technology?”

"right."

Zhou Buqi responded clearly.

Xue Baoshan took a deep breath, thought slowly and said: "So the British authorities want to spin off Ziweixing Digital Media because they want to do these two things well. First, cultivate an Internet giant in the UK; Second, promote the European football industry to tilt towards the UK."

"It can be regarded as their facade." Zhou Buqi shrugged, "Now the center of Europe is Germany, and there are really no big companies in the UK that can do anything."

Xue Baoshan looked around. There were very few people on the street. She raised her head and whispered: "What should we do? Do we want to split it up? The British authorities want to use you as a tool to run the high-tech football industry."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Businessmen are originally tools of politicians. Is there anything strange about it? It just depends on whether we can achieve unity of interests and whether everyone can get what they need."

Xue Baoshan heard the deep meaning in his words, her beautiful eyes sparkled, "Do you want to get more benefits from it?"

"Of course, cooperation is called mutual benefit and win-win. Otherwise, why should I respond to the call to break up Ziweixing Digital Media? We are doing legal and compliant business, and they can't force it."

The house on Cowley Street employs a British butler, a very gentlemanly man in his sixties. He is actually retired and works part-time. Usually when there are many people, he goes home. When there were fewer people, he moved over to look after the house and arranged for some cleaning staff to come over and take care of the housework.

After returning home, I found that he was arranging several housekeepers to clean the house.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Zhou Buqi went to the study, and then called several people in charge of Ziweixing Europe, Ziweixing UK, and Ziweixing Digital Media and asked them to come over for a meeting.

Discuss this matter.

This is important!

In fact, Zhou Buqi was tempted the moment the other party proposed to break up Ziweixing Digital Media. Because of various interests considerations, it would be in his interest to spin off the company Ziweixing Digital Media and turn it into an Internet giant based in the UK that revolves around the football industry.

The UK is the core of Zhoubuqi’s business layout in Europe.

To ensure the smooth development of business and policy support, it is best to have a deep interest relationship with the British authorities for mutual benefit.

Manchester United is one.

EMI was next.

Ziweixing Digital Media is the most important one. It has created an Internet giant around the football industry in the Internet desert of Europe. This will become a symbol of the UK similar to Big Ben!

…

The next morning, Zhou Buqi wanted to go downstairs in his pajamas to meet his guests.

Xue Baoshan stopped her and said angrily: "This is Britain, not the United States. You have to be more polite."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Oh, the dignity of a backward old empire."

Ten minutes later, Zhou Buqi put on his suit and tie, went to the small reception room on the first floor, and met David Dunn, the British football boss, and a young man in his thirties wearing glasses.

This man's name is Decker Rick, and he is the president of Hawkeye Company.

Two months ago, Ziweixing acquired Eagle Eye Innovation Company for 7 million pounds and injected 3 million pounds to help Eagle Eye survive the current economic crisis.

However, Hawkeye is still at the stage where it is unable to make ends meet and its business is not going smoothly.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Do you only provide technical services?"

Dyke said: "That's it for the time being. We provide technical support for tennis matches. Through ball tracking technology, we use technology to make more accurate decisions on referee decisions, making the game fairer, safer and more attractive. ."

"Where's the equipment?"

"We will provide it and rent it to the tournament organizers."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said: "In other words, your income can be divided into two parts, one is the rental income of the equipment, and the other is the technical support provided during the competition."

Decker looked embarrassed, "This technology is still relatively new and has only been recognized in some tennis matches."

In other words, there is not much market demand.

If the demand is not large, it will be difficult for the seller to ask for a price, let alone rent and technical service fees. It would be good to receive money!

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Ziweixing is a big company, and big companies have the right to speak."

"ah?"

Deke's face shook and he was very excited.

It feels like something fun!

Zhou Buqi said: "The logic of Eagle Eye technology... let me briefly explain, is it to install high-speed cameras to capture the ball path in milliseconds, and then use the video to assist in making penalties."

"Right, that is it."

Dyke is the originator of Eagle Eye technology, but he does not dare to be proud in front of Boss Zhou. Compared with other people's technical knowledge, Eagle Eye technology is really not worth mentioning.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's the price of the equipment?"

Dyke said: "The cost of a set of equipment is about 300,000 pounds. We...well, we can get 20,000 pounds in revenue for serving one game. In the past year, we purchased a total of 10 sets of equipment to serve 135 tennis games." The competition provided the Eagle Eye service and revenue reached £2.7 million."

10 sets of equipment, with a total investment of 3 million pounds.

In the past year, 2.7 million pounds were returned.

This rate of return is high enough.

Zhou Buqi then asked: "What about the depreciation of the equipment? 5 years? 10 years?"

Dyke replied: "It's hard to say. We don't have similar data yet. But according to our calculations, it is not a big problem for a set of equipment to serve for 8-10 years. The tennis game provides the Eagle Eye Challenge Mode, which upgrades the equipment It’s not a lot of pressure.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, quite satisfied with this judgment, and then got down to the topic, "Get ready and try to enter the Premier League next season."

"Really?"

Decker was inexplicably excited.

The reason why he agreed to sell Hawkeye Company to Ziweixing was that entering the football field was the biggest motivation. The appeal, popularity and spread of football are much greater than those of tennis.

Zhou Buqi continued: "However, football is different from tennis, and the application mode needs to be adjusted. There is no challenge mechanism in football. Crossing the line means crossing the line, and the referee must be prompted in time. Well... your eagle eye technology, reaction time How long is it?”

"Reaction time?"

"It's the time to tell if the football has crossed the goal line."

"Well..." Dyke pondered for a moment and said slowly, "If you just want to feedback the results, this is very fast, 3 seconds is enough. If you want to display the video footage of the Eagle Eye technology and connect it with the live broadcast of the event, Maybe just half a minute."

Zhou Buqi was very satisfied, "Okay! Then get ready! Mr. Dunn, let's work on this together."

Want to spin off Ziweixing Digital Media into an independent company?

The British authorities will have to show some sincerity.

In addition to tax, land, policy, recruitment and other preferential treatment, there must also be business considerations. Hawkeye technology is actually not complicated at all. The technical principle is very simple and can be promoted in the British arena first. This is of great significance to the promotion of football technology.