Chapter 1473 1575. Seeking cooperation
Don’t think that HELLOGIRLS doesn’t have many fans, but that’s relative. Compared with most idol groups in the circle now, HELLOGIRLS’s number of fans is definitely a number that those idol groups look up to.
Nie Wei has thought about it. If he really digs these girls over, he will form a new group, then release a group album, and then make a group variety show.
At that time, he will definitely be able to attract all the fans of HELLOGIRLS.
As for the departure of the overseas members, it may have a certain impact, but Nie Wei knows about this group. The popularity of the overseas members is not high, and they are not out of the circle, so the impact is minimal.
If it were Yang Xiaoli and Xuanyi, Nie Wei would really have a headache whether to retain them again.
Negotiating with the girls naturally doesn’t need Nie Wei to come forward in person, just leave it to the staff below. Now the main issue is the girls’ contracts. Some of the contracts are with Huayi, which is simpler, and some of the contracts are with other brokerage companies, which is a bit troublesome.
There is a high probability that a lawsuit will be filed. It is obviously impossible to ask Fanxing to pay the liquidated damages according to the contract. Today's entertainment companies have no moral integrity at all. They dare to set the liquidated damages of a trainee's contract at 500,000 or even millions. As for famous artists like this, the liquidated damages are basically tens of millions.
You will definitely have to pay money in a lawsuit, but you don't need to pay so much. Generally, the agency can provide evidence of how much it has paid, and then we can compensate the approximate amount. Of course, Fanxing also needs to prepare how much income the artists have brought to the original agency. When the time comes, it will also be a bill.
Anyway, this matter seems complicated, but it is not difficult. After all, the most difficult stage has passed. The artist himself has the intention to change jobs, which is the most important thing.
Just like a football transfer, whether the team is willing or not is one thing, and the player's willingness is the key.
Sometimes even if the team is unwilling, but the player is willing, the transfer will eventually happen. For example, the captain of the Gunners team in a certain super league, that transfer was caused by the classic player's willingness.
Nie Wei was thinking when his cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw the number that made Nie Wei raise his eyebrows.
"Hello, Boss Wang." Nie Wei smiled and greeted him after answering the phone.
Boss Wang's hair has turned from gray to white in the past two days, especially his temples, which have completely turned white. He is suffering every day. Every knock on the door and every report from the secretary will make him tremble with fear.
There is still no progress in the clues of the mastermind behind the scenes. Huayi's market value has fallen to less than 10 billion. It only took one year from the original 100 billion group to now. Some people on the board of directors have questioned Boss Wang's leadership ability. It is said that a board of directors is preparing to convene to remove him, and many people are connected.
Boss Wang is not afraid of internal oppression. After all, he also has allies and his shares still occupy an absolute advantage, but the malice from the outside makes him panic.
The power of the manipulator behind the scenes is very terrifying. He manipulated Huayi's market value to fall all the way. He is like a greedy beast, staring at Huayi with drool, waiting for Huayi's market value to fall to its inner standard, and then swallow it up.
At this time, the company's internal staff proposed a solution, that is, to cooperate with large companies, and then use this as good news to promote, so as to achieve the purpose of saving Huayi.
This is a good solution, but what makes Boss Wang very angry is that the staff proposed the cooperation partner to be Fanxing Group.
Boss Wang was angry and helpless. He was angry that the staff had no vision, but he was helpless that the staff's vision was indeed very accurate.
Boss Wang thought about this solution for a long time, and finally had to admit that Fanxing Group was indeed a good cooperation partner.
But he couldn't bring himself to ask Nie Wei, and more importantly, he felt that it was useless for him to ask.
Why did Fanxing help him, based on friendship? Those previous crappy things had already consumed the friendship between him and Nie Wei over the years. The two sides could not be said to have hatred, but it was obvious that they looked down on each other.
Boss Wang thought the same as many people. It was out of consideration for the old friendship that Nie Wei didn't come up to take advantage of Huayi at this time. How could he expect Nie Wei to help?
You should know that it's not just the mastermind behind the scenes. There are countless entertainment companies in the circle who are quietly poaching Huayi's talents at this moment. In the past few days, according to Boss Wang himself, there are no less than ten companies that have contacted Zhou Xun and Huang Bo, and the purpose is self-evident.
Thinking of this, Boss Wang was furious. He grabbed the purple clay pot on the table and threw it to the ground.
With a loud bang, the purple clay pot was smashed to pieces, and Secretary Xu outside the door shivered with fear.
However, she didn't knock on the door to ask, mainly because she had experienced many such things in the past few days and got used to it. For example, she was really shocked at the beginning, thinking that something had happened to Boss Wang, but after knocking on the door, she only got a roar from the boss and was scolded for being innocently implicated.
"I don't know when this kind of life will end." Secretary Xu took out a small mirror and looked at her face. Her features were delicate, but the dark circles around her eyes could not be covered no matter how much makeup she put on.
The boss was upset, and Secretary Xu suffered as well.
She hadn't had a good sleep these days. After all, as a secretary, it made no sense for her to leave work until the boss left.
If it weren't for the good salary of this job, she would have wanted to resign. However, if she continued in this state, Secretary Xu felt that she might collapse before she made up her mind to resign.
After Boss Wang smashed the teapot, she gradually calmed down, and then she felt distressed.
The teapot of a famous late Qing Dynasty artist has a market price of more than six figures. The money is secondary. The key is that this teapot is in short supply and difficult to buy.
However, the feeling of distress came and went quickly. After all, he was irritated all the time, so he had no time to care about distress.
Boss Wang sat in the office in a daze, thinking of ways, but most of the time he was empty, regretting and struggling, and the staff outside also went off work one after another. Only Secretary Xu, who was guarding the door of the office, was still working hard.
When her best friend sent her a text message to ask her to have dinner and go shopping together, Secretary Xu could only refuse helplessly.
The result was that her best friend complained and questioned how long she hadn't played with everyone.
"I want to play, but what can I do? The boss is still in the office." Secretary Xu explained with a wry smile.
"Boss Wang is still working?" The girlfriend was surprised.
"What kind of work? Just idle. I guess he's trying to find a way. He smashes things every day. I think our company may really be ruined." Secretary Xu couldn't help complaining.
Under this kind of pressure, she felt that if she didn't say these words, she would suffocate to death.
"Okay, I'll buy you a gift later because you're so miserable." The girlfriend was considerate, which touched Secretary Xu very much.
"Alas..." After hanging up the phone, Secretary Xu sighed again.
At this moment, the door of the office suddenly opened, and Secretary Xu saw Boss Wang walking out with a tired face.
"Boss, what do you want?" Secretary Xu stood up quickly and asked, but he was complaining in his heart, but he must not give any instructions.
Boss Wang didn't answer, and stood at the door for a long time. Just when Secretary Xu couldn't help but start to sneak a glance at him, worried that he might have problems, Boss Wang finally spoke.
"Let's go off work."
Hearing this, Secretary Xu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, but he quickly concealed it and said solemnly: "Boss, what about you?"
"I'll stay for a while."
"Then I'll accompany you." Secretary Xu said politely.
Who knew that Boss Wang didn't refuse, but looked at her deeply.
Secretary Xu's heart jumped, it couldn't be...
"Okay, if you want to work overtime, stay." Boss Wang left this sentence and turned back to the office.
As the office door closed, Secretary Xu was also crying without tears, and she wanted to slap her mouth. She was too rude. If she didn't say that, would it be time to go off work now?
Looking at the watch again, it was almost eight o'clock. Secretary Xu couldn't help but sigh. It was obvious that her beauty sleep tonight would be gone again.
Boss Wang listened to the sigh outside the door and sneered. What kind of little tricks did Secretary Xu play when he thought he couldn't see it? This would be fine if it was in normal times, but now Boss Wang was annoyed, so he found fault with Secretary Xu.
It's not to mention that Boss Wang is in a better mood now.
In less than ten minutes, his mood got worse again. He even suspected that Secretary Xu was taking revenge on him because the reason for his bad mood was a report from Secretary Xu.
"A large number of comments that discredited Huayi appeared on the Internet, and soon occupied the top ten positions on the hot search list. Boss, what should we do?"
"Have you asked Fanxing? What did they say?"
"It's a commercial secret. No comment." Secretary Xu replied.
Boss Wang was so angry that he picked up the pen holder on the table and was about to throw it, but looking at the fragments of the purple clay teapot on the ground, he calmed down and finally put the pen holder down gently.
"Spend money and ask those YXH. They must have clues." After Boss Wang gave the order, he asked Secretary Xu to go out.
The door of the office closed again, but Boss Wang could no longer sit still.
Even the stupidest people should know now that the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is to annex Huayi, which is why he hit Huayi again and again.
Moreover, the opponent's move was very precise, from the perspective of business and public opinion, which was precisely Huayi's weakness at the moment. In the past few days, Huayi's market value has plummeted.
Boss Wang knew that he couldn't delay any longer. If he delayed any longer, Huayi would really be gone.
Thinking of this, Boss Wang picked up his mobile phone and dialed a number that had been deleted long ago, but was memorized in his mind and could not be forgotten at all.
"Boss Wang, what's the matter with you calling so late?" Nie Wei answered the phone and asked with a smile.
"Nie Wei, are you free? I'll treat you to dinner." Boss Wang asked.
"If you have anything to say, just talk on the phone." Nie Wei refused.
Boss Wang was choked and couldn't speak for a long time. Nie Wei said that it was okay and was going to hang up the phone. He came back to his senses and hurriedly said: "Nie Wei, let's cooperate?"
"Cooperation? Haha." Nie Wei heard these two words, thought carefully, and guessed Boss Wang's purpose.
After all, given Huayi's current situation, there is really no possibility of cooperation with Fanxing. Boss Wang should also be aware of this. So when Boss Wang suddenly proposed cooperation, combined with Huayi's situation, the purpose is naturally self-evident.
This is an open conspiracy. Boss Wang obviously knows that he can't hide it from Nie Wei, and he took the initiative to confess: "Nie Wei, give me a hand, I remember your kindness."
Hearing this, Nie Wei was unmoved.
It is too unprofessional to talk about feelings in business cooperation. Business cooperation should first talk about interests. Moreover, although Nie Wei has the final say in Fanxing, this group is not Nie Wei's personal interest. Why should he help for nothing?
"The premise of cooperation is mutual benefit. What do you want and what can you give? Have you thought about it, Mr. Wang?" Nie Wei asked with a smile.
Boss Wang really considered this point in detail.
In fact, he said he was thinking of a way these two days, but in fact, his mind was supplemented around this idea, so he was prepared for this.
"What we want is to cooperate with Fanxing on a 100 million-level movie project and at least an S-level variety show. The two projects do not need to be established in real projects. As long as an intention is officially announced to the outside world, we are willing to pay 20 million for this." When Boss Wang said the last number, he was really biting his teeth.
In the past, Huayi, 20 million was not a big deal, but for Huayi today, 20 million is no small number. The company's current available funds are less than 200 million in total, and Boss Wang is ready to sell some of the company's idle assets.
"I'm not short of money." Nie Wei replied with a smile.
Boss Wang frowned, thought for a while and said, "Two thousand, plus my Rolls-Royce."
"Boss Wang, do you think I'm a junk collector?" Nie Wei was also at a loss, but he also guessed from the conditions proposed by Boss Wang that Boss Wang must be desperate, otherwise he wouldn't even mortgage his car.
"Then what do you want?" Boss Wang asked with gritted teeth.
Nie Wei's unwillingness to pay was the most troublesome thing for Boss Wang.
"You suddenly proposed this cooperation plan, and I have not made any preparations, so you need to wait a while. After our company discusses and studies, we will give you an answer." Nie Wei did not say it directly, but used a delaying tactic.
In fact, Nie Wei wanted a lot of things, but sometimes it is not appropriate to say it directly. If you delay it appropriately, the other party's patience and bottom line will decrease over time, and it will be much easier to speak again at that time.
Boss Wang had no choice, but Nie Wei did not refuse it outright, which made him feel relieved.
"Then how long do you want?" Boss Wang asked.
"Three days?"
"No, that's too long. Just one night. I'll call you tomorrow morning." When Boss Wang heard three days, he immediately quit. Too many uncertain things could happen in three days. Boss Wang couldn't wait.