Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1089 Tian Yuan
The path that Nan Yi arranged for Hadithin was not a bad one for him. Perhaps because of the influence of his childhood experiences, Hadithin had never been a peaceful person, and the not-so-serious business just suited his temperament. He readily accepted Nan Yi's arrangement and took the 32 million rupees (1 million US dollars) given by Nan Yi to try to wade through the golden waterway.
Kochha was not slow in her actions. After Nan Yi talked to her about the details of Labor Media, she started to contact Essel Group and at the same time looked for candidates for the president of Labor Media.
On the morning of the sixth day in Mumbai, Nan Yi received a list of candidates for president that Kochhar was looking for. Without looking at the names, just looking at the surnames, there were Kapoor, Bachchan, Hussain, Khan, and Dil.
Nan Yi was not sure about the last three, but he had some idea about the first two. There was no need to say much about the Kapoor family, as he knew there were the elder and younger Raz, and behind them there was the female teacher in 3 Idiots, whose name was unknown. It was said that this family ran through the entire history of Indian film. As for Bachchan, he knew there were two actors, the elder and younger Bachchan, but he was not sure about the other family members.
After glancing at the list, Nan Yi turned to the back page to read the introduction of the candidates. After reading Rajiv Kapoor's information, he directly ruled him out. Kapoor's family was too powerful. Since the 1930s, three generations of women in the Kapoor family had married into many powerful families. The marriage network was so complicated that they could no longer be simply regarded as a film family.
Of course, this is not the point. The most important thing is that the Kapoor family has great influence in the Indian film and television industry. The leader is weak and the generals are strong, making it difficult to control them. Moreover, the Kapoor family members do not need to work for others.
Ravivar Bhaduri, a member of Bachchan's wife's family, was also quickly ruled out by Nan Yi. The Bachchan family is a relatively simple performing arts family with not much to draw on, and Ravivar's own resume does not have anything eye-catching.
The third candidate is Mansoor Khan, from the Hussain family. His father is Nasir Hussain, his uncle is Tahir Hussain Khan, he has an older brother and four cousins. One of his cousins has a familiar name, Aamir Khan, a former tennis player and now a slightly famous young man in Bollywood.
Mansoor Khan has studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Cornell University , and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a rich academic experience and attended prestigious universities.
There is a saying that goes, those who do not graduate from prestigious universities are not necessarily untalented, and those who can enter prestigious universities are almost certainly not bad. Moreover, Mansoor Khan attended three prestigious universities in a row, majoring in computer science, film-related, and economics respectively.
His directorial debut, "The Romance of the Condor Heroes" in 1988, was not only widely acclaimed but also a huge commercial success at the box office, making Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla new stars in India and paving the way for the musical romance genre in Hindi films.
After that, he did not rush to make his second film, but started working as a screenwriter and producer. It was not until 1992 that he made his second work "The King and the Rest", and this year he made his third film "The Price of Passion". Without exception, the leading actor in his three films is Aamir Khan, as if Mansoor Khan was just trying to escort his cousin on the road to becoming a movie emperor.
Skipping Mansoor Khan's information, Nan Yi looked at the information of the other two candidates. In the end, he felt that Mansoor Khan was the most suitable one. So, he called Kochha and asked her to continue digging deeper into Mansoor Khan's information. Then he asked someone to buy all the videotapes of Mansoor Khan's three films.
During the break of watching the film, Ikeda Karikyo called Nan Yi and reported the list of invited "teachers", such as Iijima, Shiraishi, Asaoka, Asakura, etc. These names sounded familiar and he could even compare their looks. Nan Yi pretended not to know and asked Ikeda Karikyo to send him the photos.
No matter how much knowledge you have, it is just accumulation without any use. You must be low-key and not let others know that you are qualified to be a postdoctoral fellow.
When Nan Yi was watching "Cold and Warm World" in order of time from recent to ancient, eating iced watermelon and enjoying the natural breeze fanned by the maid with a peacock feather fan, Liu Zhen called him and said that it had snowed in Beijing, she had gone skiing at Dayang Longma Ski Resort, and the unit was organizing a warm winter tour to Qiongdao so that everyone could enjoy something cool in the winter.
He chattered on and on, talking about a lot of trivial things.
Coincidentally, after Liu Zhen hung up, Zhao Shixian also called and said that she planned to invest in building a real ski resort in the suburbs of Beijing. Since there are many places suitable for building ski resorts near Beijing, she predicts that the ski resort will face fierce competition after it opens. She does not plan to operate it for a long time, and will sell the ski resort after the cost is recovered.
Nan Yi just listened and agreed without expressing any different opinions.
There is nothing much to say. So far, there is only one formal ski resort in China - the Yabuli Ski Resort in the Ice City, which is only open to domestic professional athletes and foreign ski enthusiasts, and does not accept ordinary tourists.
If Lavender Real Estate builds a formal ski resort in the suburbs of Beijing, it will actually become the first ski resort in the country open to ordinary people. Just based on this gimmick and the good spending power of Beijing's trendsetters, I believe it will soon pay back the investment, and soon people will be jealous and follow suit. Zhao Shixian's strategy is completely correct.
However, Nan Yi plans to wait until the project starts. If Zhao Shixian does not think of building a few holiday villas near the ski resort to circumvent the "no more villa projects" regulation, and then develop some projects such as BBQ, winter fishing, and black pits, he will remind him in time.
Since you don't plan to operate for a long time, you have to dig out unlimited profits in a limited time.
The next day after Nan Yi finished watching the three movies, he went to the airport to pick up Sophie Marceau and took her to the hotel. He was then pinned against the wall by Sophie Marceau, and then suffered torture that was more brutal and tragic than the Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty.
When the wind stopped and the rain stopped, the two stood in front of the window and talked about "The Kama Sutra: A Love Story".
Nan Yi learned from Sophie Marceau that this movie was a project of Mira Nair, an Indian female director who has been in Hollywood for many years. She received a scholarship from the University of New Delhi to study at Harvard. In 1988, she shot her first feature film "Good Morning Mumbai", which won the Cannes Golden Camera Award and 25 other international film festival awards that year, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. As a result, she became famous in documentary films.
After introducing the basic information, Sophie Marceau said, "Adam, I am very optimistic about this project."
"Why?"
"I had a very pleasant chat with Mira. She is a very thoughtful person. I will invest not only in this project, but also in her future projects."
It seems that Sophie Marceau and Mira Nair are attracted to each other.
"Oh, have you found the actress yet?"
"Not yet. Mira means to go to the UK to find an Indian-British actress. It's hard to find actresses willing to take part in the role in India."
Nan Yi chuckled, "This Ms. Neil is quite wise."
The two didn't talk much about the movie. After staying in the hotel for a while, they went out to the street...
Sophie Marceau pestered Nan Yi for two days, then abandoned him and joined Mira Nair who had flown over to select locations for the film .
Sophie Marceau is not only an investor in "Kama Sutra: A Love Story", but also a producer. During the filming, if there are no other trivial matters, she will follow the crew throughout the whole process. It's not that the producer must do so, but she has already decided to invest, write, direct and shoot the film herself, and she needs to learn.
Before leaving, Sophie Marceau left Nan Yi an unfinished script called "The French Rose", a story based on the life of Marie Therese Charlotte.
During the French Revolution, Louis XVI was convicted of treason and his family was tortured in prison, especially his daughter Charlotte, who was only fifteen years old when she was arrested. In order to force her to tell the truth, the jailers stripped her clothes and took turns to beat her.
In the end, Charlotte could not bear the torture and admitted Louis XVI's treason. She was forced to sign a false statement that her mother had raped her brother.
Because of her false statement, her parents were eventually executed, and her brother Louis XVII was also treated inhumanely in prison. He could only eat one meal a day in prison and was not allowed to go out to urinate or defecate. Everything had to be done in a cage. In the end, Louis XVII was tortured to death at the age of eleven.
In the end, Charlotte was the only one left in her family. She tried many times to end her life by cutting her wrists and taking poison, but all failed. After being released from prison, she became a prostitute and suffered all the sufferings of the world.
After the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, Louis XVIII came to power and Charlotte was invited back to the palace. She regained power and took ruthless revenge on those who had harmed her. She tortured to death all the jailers who had bullied her, blew up all the Jacobin clubs, bombed the Pantheon of revolutionaries, and killed the exiled revolutionary leaders.
There is another saying that Charlotte once sent people to avenge Napoleon's corpse. She ordered people to urinate on Napoleon's body, dig out Napoleon's eyeballs, and cut Napoleon into pieces. However, Napoleon's tomb was guarded by someone, so this did not succeed.
Later, Charlotte married her cousin Louis XIX. However, because she suffered a lot, she had no children in her life and lived to be 72 years old.
Charlotte's life was highly sympathized by people, and many writers wrote biographies for her. It was not surprising that Sophie Marceau chose to film her story, but Nan Yi was full of worries. Liberation had become a habit for the French, and the movie was also full of liberated ideas, especially the clothes. He couldn't accept that this dead woman wanted to take selfies.
Moreover, he did not think Sophie Marceau was suitable to play Charlotte. If he were asked to choose, he would choose the female lead in "Pirates of the Caribbean" because she was strong and the effect would definitely be good.
"What's the name of this actress?"
Nan Yi racked his brains for a while, but he couldn't remember ever paying attention to "her" name.
He let it go soon and stayed at Peacock Villa reading stories written or narrated by every Dabbawala compiled by the Dabbawala Association.
After the labor group took control of the Dabbawala Association, it improved the treatment of the Dabbawalas. Therefore, the group had to subsidize the Dabbawala Association every year, but at the same time it also upgraded the business of the Dabbawala Association, integrating urban express delivery business into it, and collected stories from each Dabbawala in the name of producing Dabbawala books.
In essence, the labor group is collecting social data. By summarizing and cross-comparing the household appliances, food, daily chores and road customs of thousands of households, it can draw many conclusions that are very effective in improving the accuracy of marketing.
In between reading, Nan Yi had a phone call with Zhao Xianjie, who was studying at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. After sufficient communication and on the basis of respecting the other party's wishes, he asked Zhao Xianjie to transfer to the University of Dornan to continue his studies after completing this semester, move to Dornan after graduation, and establish a mechanical industrial enterprise there.
I also talked on the phone with Daniel Nan. This guy wanted to drop out of school and start a business when he was a sophomore, but was persuaded by Nan Yi to return to Massachusetts to continue his studies. Now he has graduated and founded Arbiter Capital, which focuses on investments in visual graphics and gaming.
Daniel comes from the Hebrew word "God is our judge", or in layman's terms, God's chosen people, referring to the Jews. According to Scarlett, Daniel has Jewish ancestry. Nan Yi suspected that she was talking nonsense, because he did not see any Jewish characteristics in Daniel.
However, regardless of whether it is true or not, Daniel himself seems to have regarded himself as a Jew, following some Jewish customs and getting close to some Jewish classmates. He founded Arbitrator Capital, which has funds from both Nan and himself, as well as investments from Jewish foundations and Jewish classmates.
Daniel lived up to everyone's trust and had a good vision. He invested in Westwood Studios, which produced Dune, before it released Command & Conquer. The game sold 36 million copies and within three months, his investment increased by 16 or 17 times.
In addition, he also invested in the British company Bullfrog, whose flagship products include "The Great Stranger", "Theme Park" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Nan Wuwei spoke highly of "The Gods Must Be Crazy". It can be said that Daniel invested in this company at the instigation of Nan Yi.
Unexpectedly, not long after he acquired the shares, news came out that Electronic Arts (EA) was going to acquire Bullfrog. The dictator used Bullfrog as a springboard and became a small shareholder of EA through a stock swap agreement.
Electronic Arts is an amazing gaming company that has acquired most of the best-selling sports games on the market through mergers, including Need for Speed , Madden NFL, FIFA International Football, NBA Live 95, etc.
It can be said that the Sanctioner's investment in Bullfrog was an unexpected success, because Nan Yi did not know that Bullfrog would be acquired by Electronic Arts. In his previous life, he did not even know that the Chinese name of EA was Yidian, not to mention its expansion.
In addition, Daniel also plans to invest in Japan's Jiafukang, which previously had the very best-selling "Girls Mahjong" and the slightly less popular "Street Fighter", and is now developing the "Resident Evil" with an unknown future.
Unfortunately, Jiafukang's financial situation was very good, and its sales channels in Europe and the United States were very smooth. Daniel could not provide the resources that the other party wanted, so the other party politely declined his investment.
Now, Daniel has set his sights on Ubisoft and Blizzard.
After the call, Nan Yi learned about the specific affairs Daniel was carrying out and also updated his understanding of the gaming industry. Nan's company will not enter the current stand-alone game field in a big way, but will always keep an eye on it. He wants to plan for future games that he has never seen in his previous life, and he also wants to make some gold from online games to start the layout of games and e-sports.
The e-sports he wants to develop is different from the professional gaming teams in the general sense. First of all, his e-sports development will only be carried out in the top few universities in the world, and he wants to recruit professional players with high IQ and high culture. Secondly, he is not interested in games, but in preparing for the era of unmanned operations.
Just like what he had talked about with Ueto Masami a few years ago, what he needed was a remote unmanned machine operator. Unmanned excavators, unmanned submarines, unmanned aircraft, and even unmanned spacecraft, all kinds of unmanned machines that required micro-control all needed drivers.
