Volume 7 I've Been Here Chapter 1006 Bloody Banknotes
Those attending the party included representatives from Paramount, 20th Century Fox, other small film and television companies, Liberty Film Capital representative and Pan American Film Investment Partner Sophie Marceau, technical representatives from Elk Company, Cameron and his technical team.
After investing in "Brave Heart", Sophie Marceau's reputation as a "sucker" spread in the film and television industry. In the past two years, she did not have to look for investment projects in person. She just had to wait for others to come to her. She invested in many low-cost productions, with both losses and profits. But after looking at the overall account, it was okay, she did not lose money, and she also outperformed inflation and bank interest.
Movies should not only tell the stories in the film well, but also tell the stories behind the scenes well.
For example, some films have clearly calculated all factors before filming begins, have attracted a large amount of investment, and have a guaranteed box office. As long as the film is completed, it is a sure profit. It may also have kidnapped the audience's patriotism, so anyone can see it as a good project that is sure to make money.
However, when promoting the film, these favorable factors must never be mentioned, and instead some "inspirational" and "explosive" stories must be made up, about how the actress asked for an exorbitant price and acted like a big shot, how the backup actress didn't ask the price and came when called, how the director ran out of money and sold his house to finish the film, and so on. It must be exaggerated and full of positive energy.
The same is true for "Titanic". The behind-the-scenes story also needs to be prepared. Cameron has neither integrity nor restraint in budgeting. This is a consensus among all investors, and this can be used well.
On the eve of the film's release, rumors spread that 20th Century Fox and Paramount were tricked by Cameron and were determined to go bankrupt in order to make "Titanic", which was considered a warm-up for the film's promotion.
It is true that "Titanic" is a big gamble, and Cameron is an even bigger gambler. The initial budget and the part that Cameron will definitely exceed can really bring down a company if it is not done properly. Therefore, during the preparation, it is necessary to find more investors to share the risks.
Sophie Marceau did not try every means to squeeze into the "Titanic" project, but was invited to be an investor. Her share was not large, only 5 million US dollars, and there was an additional 3 million US dollars of over-budget investment share.
On the contrary, the Elk Company in San Francisco, which has nothing to do with film and television, has squeezed in by various means. Its investment is more than that of Freedom Film Capital, up to 10 million US dollars, but its funds are mainly invested in the research and development and iteration of shooting technology.
After making breakthroughs in video decoding technology, Milu has taken "video" as a major technical research direction. At present, Milu has become a quasi-unicorn company in the video field, with many patents and unique algorithms.
For Milu, what attracted him to the Titanic project was the technology and R&D capabilities of the production team behind the scenes.
In the short term, Milu will step into the field of film and television special effects and make some money from green screen cutouts. In the long term, it will contribute to Nan Yi's dream of "turning science fiction into reality."
Nan Yi is both realistic and dreamy. He is convinced that the gap between the rich and the poor in the world cannot be completely eliminated, but with the advancement of science and technology, the contradiction between the rich and the poor can be effectively alleviated. One day, the contradiction between the rich and the poor will move from existence and non-existence to the stage of virtuality and reality.
The rich own real yachts, sports cars, and aircraft, and hold real beauties in their arms. The poor can also have the same things as the rich, except that they are virtual and created with technology. For example, the American cockroach energy blocks of the Qiqiao Research Institute are "transformed" into the desired delicacy by the use of technology that cannot be named yet. What you see is delicacy, and the impact on your taste buds is also delicacy.
Of course, the eater of this delicacy may have never tasted the real version, but that’s okay, it will taste just as he imagined.
3D movies, 3D games, cloud universe, etc. will all become stations and gas stations for Nan Yi’s science fiction dream. Nan Yi’s original intention has not changed. He still wants to take the path of achieving common prosperity, integrating virtuality into reality, and the entire earth will enter an advanced stage of distribution based on demand.
"Bad girl, you peed all over your grandma."
While Nan Yi was on the phone, Fang Mengyin, who had not yet gone out, came over and kissed her great-granddaughter, but Nan Ruoqi rewarded her with a kiss.
Perhaps it was because Fang Mengyin's tone didn't sound like blame, Nan Ruoqi was not scared, but giggled instead.
After finishing the call, Nan Yi walked over to Fang Mengyin, with a teasing look on his face, "What a pity, what a pity, this is Ruoqi's boy's urine today, I should save it to cook eggs for grandma."
"You little bastard, just make fun of your grandma. Take your precious daughter over." Fang Mengyin handed Nan Ruoqi to Nan Yi with a scolding look, then turned around and walked into the house.
"hehe."
Nan Yi played with Nan Ruoqi for a while, and then took her to the Lavender Garden in the New Territories.
What Nan Yi and Zhao Shixian had said at the beginning has become a reality. The 100 acres of land in Fan Shengzhi's Poultry Research Institute have been planted with lavender. It is the season when lavender blooms. Nan Yi rides a bicycle with Nan Ruoqi through the paths among the lavender, smelling and singing the fragrance of the flowers, and from time to time they stop and look up to point at the freshwater and saltwater fish in the fishway.
The lavender in the entire lavender paradise is arranged in a horizontal row running from north to south, and there is a fishway running from east to west suspended in the air (the fish are kept in a transparent tube). You can see the flowers when you look down, and you can see the fish swimming in the air when you look up. The fishway is divided into left and right semicircles, with freshwater fish on the left and saltwater fish on the right. They are all colorful and very beautiful fish.
"That one is a line butterfly fish, that one is a dwarf loofah fish, and the one next to it is a spotted cardinal fish... colorful angelfish, minnows, eh, who put such an ugly horseshoe crab in there." Nan Yi was surprised for a moment, and continued to say to Nan Ruoqi: "Horseshoe crabs are not only ugly, but also taste bad, stinky, and their blood is blue. They are very good things. Dad can sell them to buy Ruoqi a lot of toys."
As Nan Yi kept muttering, Nan Ruoqi widened her eyes, her gaze following the fish swimming in the fishway, and her little hands stretched out restlessly.
After watching the fish for a while, Nan Yi became worried about Nan Ruoqi's neck, so he took it to a small poultry garden preserved in the park - it was divided into two parts, one side was sculptures, with every species that had been in the Poultry Research Institute, and the other side was living things, with colorful and beautiful species such as the white-bellied pheasant, long-tailed chicken, guinea fowl, etc. being raised here.
Whether it is the rattle or the lavender paradise, they are all colorful. These are the props that Nan Yi prepared for Nan Ruoqi to let her know the colors of this world. Using real objects is definitely better than using picture albums.
In the poultry garden, Nan Yi would still introduce the name of each bird to Nan Ruoqi. Although he knew that Nan Ruoqi could not understand and it was unlikely that any memory would be left in her still developing hippocampus, the beautiful and wonderful feeling would leave an imprint deep in her brain, and when she grew up, it would be reflected in her behavior one by one.
After staying in the Lavender Garden for nearly two hours, Nan Yi took Nan Ruoqi to the Adler Clinic.
Adler Clinic is located on Pok Fu Lam Road, not far from Queen Mary Hospital. As the hospital does not have a clustering effect, patients will not come to the Adler Clinic next door just because Queen Mary Hospital is "full". Therefore, the clinic does not have any stranger patients visiting it now.
However, it seems that the clinic does not need ordinary patients to break in on their own. Adler Clinic is positioned as an aristocratic hospital, and the fees are absolutely expensive. They are determined not to do business below $1,000. Any patient who wants to come in to see a doctor for a headache or fever will be charged thousands of dollars. It is not that they want to rip people off, but to refuse politely. The subtext is that our place is very expensive, and if you have minor illnesses, go somewhere else.
Adler Clinic is a non-profit hospital. Even if the clinic makes a lot of profit, Nan cannot take the profit away. The money can only remain in the hospital and be used to improve the quality of medical services and medical research, such as building the hospital, paying staff salaries, buying medical equipment, and conducting medical research.
The most Nan could do was to register certain medical research projects under the name of the Adler Clinic, take advantage of some research funds, and then transfer the project information when the results were about to be produced.
In short, the general goal of the Adler Clinic is to improve medical technology to solve the diseases that may occur in the Nan family and the Nan family members. It does not have much pursuit of profit. The reason why it does not want to receive general patients is simply to concentrate on tackling difficult and complicated diseases.
Nan Yi and his companion arrived at the lobby of Adler Clinic, where the clinic's director Cheng Yuanhua and his assistant were already waiting.
"Nansheng."
Nan Yi nodded to Cheng Yuanhua and handed Nan Ruoqi to Tianxian. Upon seeing this, Cheng Yuanhua immediately asked his assistant to take Tianxian to the pediatric department, and then led Nan Yi to his office.
After pouring a glass of water for Nan Yi, Cheng Yuanhua started talking about work.
"Nansheng, the clinic has sent several doctors to Guangdong Gaoguanle People's Hospital for exchange and study. They are experts from the ophthalmology, neurology, endocrinology, and surgery departments."
"Very good, very targeted. Many elderly people in rural areas in the mainland have cataracts, glaucoma, and there are also many patients with... stroke and diabetes. It should be able to help a group of people and gain valuable experience." Nan Yi said, and then asked: "How much funding was given?"
"Changle is a small place. We only gave 500,000 yuan in funding, and 500,000 yuan worth of medical equipment. Medicines are more troublesome, so we didn't bring too much."
"Well," Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "The money should be spent on practical things, and the benefits should fall on the patients. In order to ensure this, we don't need fame. We can give it directly to anyone who wants it. Sometimes we can also be more proactive."
Cheng Yuanhua nodded and continued, "An HIV team consisting of five medical staff has rushed to Runing, Zhongyuan, and conducted random tests on blood sellers at a blood collection point. A total of 31 people were tested, and three of them were positive."
Before HIV became widespread, albumin used in domestic hospitals was basically imported from abroad. After HIV became widespread, in order to prevent the introduction of HIV, blood products such as plasma, human serum albumin, and globulin were strictly controlled for import.
Albumin is widely used clinically to treat shock, burns, surgical operations, cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy, sharp depletion of blood volume caused by excessive blood loss during childbirth, as well as the treatment of chronic nephritis, hepatitis, diabetes and other diseases. The demand for albumin is huge, so before import control, the country introduced large amounts of foreign capital, technology and equipment to build blood product production companies.
Once an enterprise is established, it naturally needs raw materials to start production. As a result, blood stations in some places have ushered in the spring of the market economy. In addition to the plasma needed by hospitals, they also vigorously purchase plasma, buy and sell it, and make a profit from the difference in price.
Although voluntary blood donation has been advocated since 1978, the plasma needed by hospitals today is still mainly sourced from paid blood donations. One is the buyer and the other is the seller, and both sides pay the money and the goods. There is no deception and no moral burden. There is no big problem in treating plasma directly as a commodity.
After all, a blood station is a place where plasma is collected. It doesn't matter whether the collected plasma is directly injected into the body of a patient in need or used for extraction. They are professional match and the price difference is what they deserve.
Unfortunately, some people are jealous of this business. Some hospitals directly skip the blood stations, post flyers saying "Donating blood is glorious, saving lives and healing the wounded" on the billboards at the entrance, and start the plasma collection business.
The hospital does this, and its expertise and functions are all suitable. All I can say is that it doesn't matter who does it.
Originally, it would have been fine if only blood stations and hospitals did this, after all, they are all professionals. However, around the end of the year before last, the export of blood products was liberalized. Now biopharmaceutical companies have a larger market, and the demand for raw materials has naturally increased.
In some places in the Central Plains, not only medical-related units have started collecting blood and plasma, but even those who have nothing to do with it have also flocked to this market. Some small vendors who used to sell needles and thread on the streets saw this and thought, "This business is worth doing."
Think about it, these people usually sell things by delivering them directly to the customer's doorstep, and their sense of service is top-notch. Although they have to change to a new business now, they must not lose their sense of service, which is the corporate culture that is turning into a trust.
As a result, a group of small vendors became bigwigs. They walked directly into the mountain village, borrowed a desk and bench from the village primary school, and set up their stalls in the threshing ground.
It was fine at the beginning. They used full blood collection, which means the needle was inserted into the vein and the blood flowed into the blood collection device. After all, it was a high-end and highly professional business, and the blood head still knew to find a barefoot doctor for help, or he would learn from others and knew the basic operation of boiling the needle in boiling water.
Even if this basic operation is omitted and needles are used crosswise, there is still a probability issue, and the probability of contracting some disease is still relatively optimistic.
Later, a buyer for a biopharmaceutical company discovered that most of their company's raw materials came from Runing. Taking his boss' words "treat the company as your home" to heart, he reported the matter, discussed it at the meeting, and formulated a new strategy - to reduce logistics costs and cut down on intermediate links, so as to reduce the profit margin for middlemen, and to establish a single procurement station directly at the source.
It is a bit complicated to explain single collection in a more scientific way, but it is relatively simple to explain it in popular terms. The basic principle is that 800 ml of "whole blood" is extracted from the blood donor's body, which fills two large bags. The blood is then put into a centrifuge and spun around. After purification and separation, the top half is retained and the bottom half (red blood cells) is returned to the blood donor, who also receives thirty to fifty yuan in blood selling money.
In other words, single collection involves a process of extraction and re-infusion.
After the popular explanation, let’s explain the working principle of the centrifuge in a semi-professional way.
The centrifuge commonly used in single-collection stations is divided into 12 small pots, each of which contains two bags of blood. The centrifuge rotates very fast, and the blood bags are often broken. The core of the centrifuge will be contaminated by the blood, and the blood collection station will only throw away the blood bags that are severely damaged, and replace them with other blood bags if the damage is not too serious.
During this process, the blood collection needle is always inserted into the vein of the blood donor. Due to irregular operation, the red blood cells transfused back to the blood donor may not be only his own, but may be from other people.
When this happens, the blood seller can start shouting: "Who is it? Who is it? Your blood is mixed with my blood. Do you have smelly feet? Will you infect me?"
Smelly feet are just a joke, but HIV is no joke. Blood transmission is one of the ways HIV is transmitted.
“Are there any foreigners in the group?”
"have."
"This is not a very glorious thing. It is not good for a foreigner to expose it. Write a letter to the local health department, explain the situation, and then withdraw the people. After the matter is made public, send people there again."
Nan Yi said this, and in front of Cheng Yuanhua, he called Nan Guo Bank and transferred 10 million Hong Kong dollars from his personal account to the account of Adler Clinic (Hong Kong).
"I will donate it anonymously, and don't reveal my name. 2 million will be used to purchase relevant medical supplies, and the remaining 8 million will be used to purchase daily necessities, mainly for children, snacks, toys, clothes, stationery, and overdue tuition and miscellaneous fees, as comprehensive as possible.
You can also buy some cigarettes and liquor for the adults. Compared with medicine, the infected adults need mental relaxation more. Alas, only a few dozen dollars each time, and the lives of two generations are ruined. "
Nan Yi felt very uncomfortable, he didn't even remember about this, and it was not he who suggested to send out the HIV team. It was the Light of Life under the medical team who discovered this and reported it to the medical team. Then the Adler Clinic spontaneously went to check it out on the spot.
"Okay." Cheng Yuanhua nodded again, "There is another group going to the west to provide medical assistance, mainly to water-scarce areas. This group has more funding. In addition to medical assistance, they will also conduct water source sampling tests and donate water extraction costs to villages that cannot afford to dig wells.
Many diseases in water-scarce areas are caused by insufficient water intake or drinking unhygienic water. If we want to improve the health of local residents, we must start with the water source. "
"Very good. We can connect with Dream Town. Dream Town will be responsible for the well digging fee. It is not legitimate for Adler Clinic to pay for this. It may cause some troubles for the New York headquarters."
The Adler Clinic is registered in the United States and is a non-profit hospital certified by the IRS. The reason why it needs IRS certification is naturally related to taxes.
According to the U.S. Revenue Code, nonprofit hospitals are eligible for income tax exemption and can issue tax-exempt bonds. At the same time, nonprofit hospitals are included in one of the five categories of licensed recipient organizations, and companies can be exempt from part of the tax when donating to them.
Except for the first installment of start-up funds allocated by Nan, all subsequent funds of Adler Clinic came from donations from Nan's American companies. That is, while Adler Clinic received funds, it also saved Nan some tax expenses.
Of course, the United States is not generous in spreading its benefits to the whole world. The Adler Clinic wants to transfer funds from its New York headquarters to branches outside the United States , which requires very complicated operations. In order to facilitate the operation of branches in the future, financial separation is already on the agenda.
Non-profit hospitals are the general direction of medical development in the world. For example, almost all hospitals in Japan are private hospitals, but at the same time they are non-profit hospitals. It is almost impossible for medical-related institutions with profit-making purposes to obtain establishment licenses in Japan. In Germany, about 40% of private hospitals are non-profit, and the number of public hospitals is decreasing every year.
Nan Yi and Cheng Yunhua chatted for a few more sentences, and then Tianxian came back carrying Nan Ruoqi. After learning that all of Nan Ruoqi's physical indicators were normal, Nan Yi bid farewell to Cheng Yuanhua and carried Nan Ruoqi back to Fang's Manor.
In the afternoon, after a nap, Nan Yi made himself a cup of tea, then glanced at the lower right corner of the computer and saw a new email notification. He leisurely drank half a cup of tea before opening the email system.
The first email came from Xi Changhe of the Coconut City Branch of the Southern Bank. The general content of the email was that Qiong Province was going to establish a Qiongfa Bank. The development route had been established, and it would first merge the five trust companies in the province and then absorb the credit cooperatives in the province.
This step was a bit critical. When the real estate on Qiongdao was booming, the credit unions on the island issued a lot of loans and were also directly involved. Nan Yi knew that five of the credit unions had many problems of their own and were poorly managed. Not only were a large amount of funds piled up in real estate, but they also had many bad debts, which were roughly estimated to be worth 20 to 30 billion.
The reason why Nan Yi knew it so clearly was that in 1992, many credit unions in Coconut City were raising funds. At that time, he had the opportunity to step into the credit union field and collected information about the Qiongdao Credit Union. Moreover, the Nanhai Development Group was the major shareholder of a credit union in Coconut City. Nan Yi had heard Hu Guanghua talk about many inside stories of credit unions.
Xi Changhe sent an email about Qiongfa Bank, of course, not just to spread information, but also because Duan Wenxuan, on behalf of Qiong Province, extended an olive branch to Nanguo Bank and wanted to invite Nanguo Bank to become a shareholder of Qiongfa Bank.
Thinking with the back of his head, Nan Yi could also figure out that the original intention of establishing Qiongfa Bank was to solve the bad debts left over from 1993 and the unfinished buildings and idle land on the island.
Nan Yi switched out of the email system, called out another data system, searched for data, and quickly retrieved the information about Qiong Province: there were more than 600 unfinished buildings on Qiong Island, covering more than 16 million square meters, 18,834 hectares of idle land, 80 billion yuan in accumulated funds, and the bad debts of the four major banks alone amounted to 30 billion yuan. Two securities companies in Qiong Province suffered heavy losses from direct investments in real estate.
This is just the state-owned assets. There are still a lot of bad debts on the private side, not to mention the triangular debts, there are debts of fifty, six, seventy or eighty cents. You owe me, I owe him, he owes him, and he owes you. It goes around and around, either to the bank or to people who have disappeared. In short, it is impossible to figure it out.
The next few years will be a low period for the real estate market. It is almost impossible to revitalize the unfinished buildings on Qiongdao Island, unless the island is allowed to operate special businesses like those in Macau, which is of course a fantasy.
After the real estate bubble in Qiongdao, Rachel's Non-Performing Asset Management Company has acquired high-quality unfinished buildings in the hands of private individuals in Coconut City, transferred part of them to Dream Town, and kept part of them in its own hands. Anyway, the prices are cheap, and they were all acquired at a price that was reduced to 20% or 30% after the bubble was eliminated. Houses that were worth 40 to 50 million yuan at the peak were purchased for only a few hundred thousand to 1 or 2 million yuan.
Lai Huri once told Nan Yi the postmodern stories of the real estate tycoons on the island. They were like the monsters in Journey to the West. Some of them were protected by someone and left in a somewhat desolate manner, while those who were not protected by anyone hid from the outside world or ran away abroad. Some were penniless and had nowhere to go. Lai Huri had received several tycoons with whom he had had some interactions before, who only asked for a bowl of fried noodles and a pack of cigarettes.
Just three or two months ago, these tycoons were still driving Mercedes-Benz, holding mobile phones, and accompanied by beautiful women. They frequented wine and women every day, always claiming to catch up with Britain and the United States, and they would punch Buffett and kick Di Ming.
After reading the information, I continued to read the email. At the end, Xi Changhe attached his own opinion: he was not optimistic about the future development of Qiongfa Bank and did not recommend investing in it.
Nan Yi replied to the email and agreed with Xi Changhe's point of view.
According to normal procedures, although Xi Changhe, the person involved, does not agree with a certain project, it must be reported. The Information Planning Committee will conduct a review and evaluation and then provide feedback. Under normal circumstances, the opinions of the person involved will continue to be maintained.
Because rejecting a project will not involve real-time losses, the audit assessment is relatively relaxed. If you are launching or joining a project, the audit will be extremely strict, after all, it involves a considerable amount of capital investment.
After replying to the email, Nan Yi called Lai Huri. It was a bit noisy on the other end and he could hear the noisy sound of slogans.
"Where is it?"
"Watching the Dovetails and the Phoenix train in the gym."
The project system of Dream Town includes a Coconut Tree Sanatorium, which will receive high-quality customers from all over the world for recuperation in Coconut City in the future. The charges of the sanatorium will be top-notch, and the service level must naturally also be top-notch.
The swallowtail cap is the nurse cap, which refers to the nursing team of the Coconut Tree Sanatorium. They will be responsible for the medical care of the sanatorium in the future; the phoenix is the waiter, who will be responsible for all other service work of the sanatorium except medical care in the future, mainly divided into two parts: life and business.
"How are the girls practicing?" Nan Yi asked with a smile.
"The instructor team fully understands your spirit, master. They train for combat rather than for show. They are serious and hardworking, and they have also put forward slogans that are accurate to the millimeter."
As Lai Huri was talking, he looked at the Fire Phoenixes who were training below. He saw the girls in the front row using the self-developed "cup tracking device" to quickly move across the table. The girls in the back row quickly followed and placed tea cups and notebooks on the table. After they were done, the instructors would check them with infrared rangefinders and spirit levels. If any of them failed, they would be scolded.
The girl who was scolded felt so aggrieved, but she had to endure it. During the training period, she would get a salary of 2,500 yuan per month. When the training was over and she officially started working, her salary would start from 3,000 yuan, and there would be a lot of benefits waiting for her. She had finally squeezed in after passing through layers of screening, so such a little injustice was nothing.
Not far from the Fire Phoenix camp was the training team of the Swallowtail Hats. The girls were divided into pairs. One of them acted as a prop with raisins stuck on her calf to represent the affected area of skin disease, while the other one switched between various tools to simulate the treatment process.
Next to them, there were three groups of girls practicing acupuncture. They had the steadiest hands in the entire swallowtail cap team. Acupuncture would be their major, and they needed to practice to the level of being able to inject the needle into the vein no matter where it was.
"Are there any pretty girls?"
"Boss, they are all carefully selected, and each one is beautiful."
"Don't mess around."
"Boss, who do you think I am? I will continue the requirements you set. I will strictly prohibit any relationship between men and women within the company. If there is a relationship between the lower-level employees, one of them must leave. Both the middle and higher-level employees must leave."
"That's good. Office romances can bring bad atmosphere, affect work efficiency, and cause leaks. If you encounter an extreme case where one party cheats on a colleague and the other party kills him, then Dream Town will be in chaos. If the cheating partner is the boss, the matter will be even bigger, and it is not impossible for Dream Town to close down because of this.
The office is a place for work, and employees should leave their emotions outside the office. Office romances should be absolutely prohibited, even if some people say Dream Town is inhumane. "
"clear."
"Let's get down to business. Let's screen and see which unfinished buildings in Coconut City we can take over, two or three."
"No more. I've eaten everything worth eating."
