Chapter 2174 Return the favor

It’s the New Year, it’s lively and prosperous.

Zhou Buqi's main task is to take care of the children. Men look at children differently than women, with thicker lines. That day, it was snowing outside, and he wanted to put clothes on the children and go have a snowball fight in the yard.

As a result, as soon as she put on two pieces of clothes, Ning Yameng noticed her and stopped her in time, fearing that the child would catch a cold. Aunt Xue and Wen Zhixia were also brought in to stop it, but there was nothing they could do, so the plan fell through.

The children started crying when they couldn't go out to play anymore.

Zhou Buqi was unconvinced, put on his coat, and went outside to find the security guard. Then they got a small cart and each person had a shovel, loaded the cart with snow, and then unloaded it into the living room of the villa.

Ten minutes later, three large snowdrifts appeared in the living room of the luxurious villa home.

"Xinxin, I took my brothers and sisters out to have a snowball fight!"

Zhou Buqi looked at his proud work and shouted from downstairs to upstairs.

After a while, the laughter of joyful children could be heard.

Many people don't know why.

When they came to the living room and took a look, everyone took a deep breath.

Oh my god!

You can really do it!

This is a rebellion!

Zhou Buqi was seen rolling around in the living room with Niannian, Xinxin, Ningning, Zhouzhou, three daughters and one son, and goddaughters Jiang Bingjie and Dilireya. He was one against six. The snowball fight was so lively.

Snowballs were flying all over the room.

The mahogany floors and leather sofas worth hundreds of thousands were soaked in snow. In fact, I'm not afraid of soaking in the snow, but the temperature in the house is so high that the snow melts after a while and turns into stains.

Having money is not such a waste!

After a while, Aunt Xue, Wen Zhixia, Xue Baoshan, Wu Yu, and Ning Yaxian, members of the family committee, all rushed over and criticized Zhou Buqi for being so willful.

The children hid behind their father, fearing punishment.

There was no other way, so Zhou Buqi stopped playing snowball fights with them. After only a few minutes of playing, the children were all covered in sweat. Although the room temperature was high, the snow was cold and the children's little hands were all red from the cold. It was almost time to stop.

With the remaining snow, I started building a snowman.

Zhou Buqi went to the bathroom, took out three plastic bathtubs for bathing the children, and piled the snowmen in the bathtubs so that the snowmen could be moved.

The living room was busy.

Ning Yaxian went to find gloves and put them on the children before playing in the snow.

Aunt Xue called Ning Lu, Yang Mi, Yan Qiqi, and Li Xinwan. Everyone held a rag in hand and began to clean the living room as much as possible.

Everyone is busy.

The children's clear and melodious laughter made everyone's hearts feel warm. Even Wu Yu became envious and wondered if she would get pregnant and have a baby this year.

Zhou Buqi took the children and built three large snowmen in three bathtubs. He also fetched potatoes, carrots, celery, and bamboo shoots from the kitchen to decorate them, and then moved the bathtubs to the outdoor balcony.

Through the three-layer sliding window glass, you can look at the three snowmen on the balcony. Each snowman is waving a celery flag in his hand and waving towards the room with a smile.

Wen Zhixia was helpless, knowing that if the three bathtubs were left outside to freeze for a few days, they would definitely freeze. This is definitely his biological father, but he can really ruin a good thing.

In order to prevent chemical materials from affecting children's health, these three bathtubs are specially designed as luxury goods for children. They were purchased from Denmark and cost more than US$500 each.

Then, she drove Zhou Buqi away and stopped letting him look after the child.

In fact, he also knows that he has a lot of things to deal with, and he can't always let the children cling to him like this. There is indeed nothing important during the Chinese Spring Festival, but there is still overseas business.

And indeed it is.

When Zhou Buqi returned to the study, he saw a lot of fresh mail. Without a secretary to sort it into files, it was very messy. He simply did a filter and selected Changyou's emails to read.

Don Mattrick sent back from the United States a comprehensive analysis of the latest trends in EA and the possibility of acquiring take-two.

The content of the email has more than 1,000 words. This is just a refined analysis outline. There is also an attached Word document with more detailed instructions.

Zhou Buqi doesn't have time to read the detailed analysis of various arguments.

Just looking at the results is enough.

The conclusion is clear.

It works!

Zhou Buqi responded with one word without hesitation: "Action."

Then there was the email sent back from Japan by Ren Yuxin, which briefly introduced the progress of many cooperation intentions with Konami, Capcom, and Nintendo.

Finally, there was some good news.

Changyou spent US$63 million to acquire 2 local start-up game studios, 1 medium-sized game studio and 1 small game company, and obtained all the intellectual property rights of their 19 games.

The names of these 19 games are also listed.

Zhou Buqi is not an experienced gamer. After reading it, he didn’t know any of them. He simply replied: “When cooperating with Nintendo, we can use Hollywood DreamWorks Animation, saying that it can promote the cooperation between Nintendo and DreamWorks Animation to develop A series of 'Mario Brothers' movies have helped Nintendo's game IP become the number one entertainment IP."

The number one IP in the entertainment field is of course “Disney Princess”.

"Star Wars" and "Avengers" are also very popular.

The total sales volume of the "Mario" series of games exceeds 600 million copies, ranking first in the world, more than "Tetris". However, without the promotion of the Hollywood film industry, the "Mario" IP is only influential in the gaming field.

If we can take advantage of resources and establish a cooperative relationship with Nintendo, we can not only help Changyou get the rights to adapt games, but also help Ziwei Star get the rights to adapt movies, then everyone will be happy.

Finally, it was Lao Zhang’s email from Europe.

Let's talk about the procurement fraud case. The perpetrators have been recruited. The total purchase amount is 500 million US dollars. The 7 of them have received a total of 45 million US dollars in rebates, which is much less than Zhou Buqi had expected. few.

Of course, European laws are so strict that they cannot carry out cash transfers blatantly, but adopt a relatively hidden form of investment.

For example, Changyou's European vice president sets up a personal studio, and then Ericsson invests in the studio... The money goes into the studio's account, and it can be spent entirely by the vice president. The whole process is legal and reasonable, and it is not easy to be discovered.

This type of operation occurs all over the world.

The same is true at home.

However, domestic capital supervision is still relatively loose, and there is no need for similar operations between private enterprises, and they can transfer money blatantly.

Some institutions that are not private enterprises cannot be so obvious.

It can be transferred in a similar way.

For example, a large state-owned enterprise or official organization cooperates with Meng Houkun to establish a joint venture. Meng Houkun invested 100,000 yuan and held 1% of the shares, while large enterprises invested 100 million yuan and held 99% of the shares.

At first glance, it doesn’t matter that Meng Houkun only owns 1% of the shares.

But the amount of equity is meaningless at all. The key is to see who has control. Meng Houkun can easily rely on his control to slowly transfer the 100 million to his own account.

After three or four years, when the company ran out of money, it announced that the investment had failed and the company went bankrupt.

But if an investment fails, there must be a high-sounding reason, right?

Technically difficult fields such as chips, operating systems, biopharmaceuticals, chemical materials, industrial software, and aerospace engines have become the hardest hit areas.

Money was spent and the project failed.

Anyway, it is a high-precision project. If it fails, it will fail. It is normal.

In fact, the real handler is already extremely rich.

Of course, Meng Houkun would definitely not do this. He has such a background and connections, and he can become a millionaire through such means, but he doesn't need to.

The money he earned from Ziweixing allowed him to live openly and openly in the sun, and to be on the Hurun Rich List openly and openly, without having to find a way to transfer the money to a bank in Switzerland and hide it.

Zhou Buqi didn't find it too strange.

However, Lao Zhang then said one more thing. Changyou will make a series of purchases next. This purchase is not office equipment, but infrastructure, including optical fibers, cables, base stations, tower masts, etc.

Zhou Buqi called Lao Zhang.

Lao Zhang almost stopped scolding, "Damn! What time is it, and you just called me?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Why, why don't you watch the Spring Festival Gala despite being jet-lagged?"

Zhang Chaoyang said angrily: "I'm in London, and I'm so jet-lagged. I can watch the Spring Festival Gala during the day!"

Zhou Buqi said: "We have business, isn't work more important than sleep?"

"What's the matter?"

Zhang Chaoyang's voice was lazy, and he was very annoyed with this bastard boy.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What is the infrastructure procurement you are talking about?"

Zhang Chaoyang said strangely: "You don't know? There are no network signals in many places in Europe and the United States, or the signal strength is not enough. If Changyou's branch is located in a core area, the land price will be very expensive and the area will be small. Move to the surrounding areas , it is necessary to build some Internet infrastructure to ensure the smooth transmission of information."

If we were to set aside a park in the suburbs to build a headquarters in China, the relevant government infrastructure would keep up, and there would be no need for companies to do it.

Enterprises can’t do it even if they want to.

This kind of telecommunications projects are all state monopoly projects and must be handed over to specific departments.

It's different in Europe and the United States.

There will also be preferential policies for attracting investment, and the government will also provide various conveniences. Take the Purple Star Farley Building in New York, for example. The New York authorities spent nearly US$2 billion to renovate the building. After the renovation was completed, it was leased to Purple Star International.

However, Europe and the United States have small governments that provide more money and policies.

More things need to be done by enterprises themselves. How to do and plan, how much power and bandwidth are all decided by the enterprises themselves.

For example, Changyou wants to build branches in relatively remote places in Hamburg, Madrid, and Stockholm. The network signals in these places are insufficient.

You just need to find a way to solve the problem yourself.

Of course Zhou Buqi knew about this.

Ziweiyun’s overseas business is basically done in this way. Ziweiyun’s data centers can only be located in very remote suburbs with almost no network facilities.

This requires Ziweixing International to handle these things on its own, either by buying the equipment itself or by spending money to hire relevant communications and telecommunications companies to do it.

Zhou Buqi said: "I know, what do you mean? Changyou wants to purchase equipment, do you want to do it yourself?"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "That's not the case. We still have to outsource it to a professional company. The key is who to choose. Didn't you say you owe Huawei a favor? What I mean is that there is no need to bid, and we can directly negotiate with Huawei. This is not Office equipment is not next to ordinary employees.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "That makes sense."