Chapter 568: Troubles and turns

In addition to letting Zhou Yanhong play the role of Zhang Yimou in the film "Hero", Yang Xing also values ​​Zhang Yimou's future potential. No matter how polarized the evaluation of him in China, he undoubtedly has real materials and likes to challenge himself. This can be seen from his achievements in directing the opera "Turandot" and the large-scale landscape performance "Impression" series. This has not yet been mentioned his amazing performance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics a few years later.

Yang Xing wanted Zhou Yanhong to appear in Zhang Yimou's drama because she felt that this was a great opportunity to make her famous in China. After all, although she is very famous overseas, she lacks a Chinese work that impressed domestic audiences with great importance. When Yang Xing instructed Zhou Yanhong to transfer to domestic sales, her exports have been greatly successful and it is time to sell domestically.

At the same time, Yang Xing is still taking Zhang Yimou's own idea. Is there no way to be a director? His fame itself is the guarantee of the success of a work. Yang Xing wants Xingguang Entertainment to strengthen cooperation with him. After his guidance, Xingguang Entertainment is now a large-scale art entertainment company integrating film and television, animation, singing, news, publishing, brokerage and artist training in Asia. The company's business is also developing into various entertainment derivative fields.

For example, the Starlight Entertainment City under construction is an example. This entertainment city has a film and television theme park that integrates shooting, tourism, and leisure and entertainment functions. Starlight Entertainment also intends to copy it in other places in the country. With related entertainment products such as toys, star pictorials and other related entertainment products, Starlight Entertainment has already gained a lot of benefits from it.

Since Starlight Entertainment's first masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions", broadcast on CCTV during the Spring Festival, its ratings have soared, setting a record for domestic TV series. Its overseas version has also triggered a craze for curbing in South Korea and Japan. Its appearance is another masterpiece similar to "My Fair Princess" and "Meteor Garden". Starlight Entertainment decided to make a fuss while the heat is hot, and prepare to arrange another large-scale musical "Dream of Red Mansions" to start the original cast of the TV series. After all, most of them are singers, and the role of the director has not yet been decided. Yang Xing considered that if he could convince Zhang Yimou to take action, the box office would be very guaranteed.

From the perspective of international trends, mergers of large international multinational entertainment groups are becoming more and more intense. Entertainment groups such as Warner and Australia News Corporation have already controlled several of the most powerful major film companies in Hollywood at the time. Warner Films, CNN News and Times Magazine are affiliated with Warner Group. News Corporation has various entertainment media such as Fox Films and Wall Street Journal, which penetrate each other and form a complex relationship, which also complements the advantages of various industries. The investment in Hollywood blockbusters is now calculated in units of billions, so as not to declare the company bankrupt if a film is made.

Starlight Entertainment is barely qualified to be the king in Asia, but it is still not enough to compete with the giants internationally. However, the cultural and entertainment industry is very regional, and Chinese people may not buy it for the good movies sold in the United States. Americans cannot understand Chinese TV series such as "Dream of Red Mansions". However, the penetration of American culture has always been very strong. Now East Asian countries can still resist stubbornly by relying on cultural protection. However, if they fight back continuously for a long time, they may become American cultural colonies.

Therefore, Yang Xing has always advocated that Xingguang Entertainment should develop multiple categories of culture and art, and even niche dramas, musicals, dance dramas, operas should be involved. Traditional domestic music, dramas, folk songs, etc. cannot be ignored. He did not intend to establish a small "Ministry of Culture", but he did his best to protect national cultural heritage and combined with contemporary art to make it appreciated by both the elite and the masses.

With this idea, Yang Xing picked up the script of "Hero" in his hand to give Zhou Yanhong specific guidance, and also explained the future development direction of Xingguang Entertainment that he had just considered. This set of rhetoric combined with political culture made Zhou Yanhong stunned. With admiration, Yang Xing pulled Yang Xing to a bed battle again. Yang Xing became even more obsessed, asking him to guarantee that she would definitely get pregnant after filming "Hero".

May in southern Europe is a sunny and pleasant vacation time, but the few people sitting on the Greek island where Yang Xing bought it were not good-looking. Qian Yiming and Yang Xing looked at the information provided by Oden Rothschild, who had always acted as liaison officers, and they were not very good-looking. This time they got together, and what they wanted to discuss was that their plans were in trouble and the carefully constructed capital chain was problematic.

"It can be confirmed that someone is taking action in the United States. Our financial derivatives transactions encountered strong interceptions. Not only did we block several acquisitions in the United States, but some people deliberately fought with us in the futures and options markets. A few business that should be sure of was ruined. Because you told me not to directly conflict with others to avoid leaking the plan, I did not continue to investigate." Qian Yiming reported the latest progress and added his personal feeling. Obviously, they were targeted. The progress of raising money in hedge funds was much lower than expected. The familiar financial futures market also made him feel a little overwhelmed.

Yang Xing rubbed his eyebrows and carefully considered what was wrong. This time he bet a lot, and it was impossible to not reveal the news. But he never expected that the United States would react so quickly. He didn't know the existence of Brown's report at this time, but his two-life experience made him feel that the situation was wrong. "What help can the Rothschild family give us?" Yang Xing asked Oden.

Auden showed a strange look and sighed: "The family has always regarded the act of withdrawing from the US business outlets during the American Civil War as the biggest failure in family history. As a result, he gave up his international financial hegemony to several major American families. After two world wars, the Americans completely controlled the lifeblood of international finance, and the family consortium fell to the embarrassment of relying on others. So this time the United States came to us, and the family said that they could only hide it for the time being for you, but they could not choose to stand on your side to start the war."

Yang Xing frowned when he heard this, and understood that this was probably the limit that the Rothschild family could do. The meaning in his words indicated that it was obvious that the one who targeted them this time was not easy, but the American consortium. Due to the strength of the other party, the Rothschild family, which had been silent for a long time, did not want to be strong with the American consortium, so they could only help each other. Now that being able to sit here and reveal some top secret information to Yang Xing is a preferential treatment for their partners.

"Morgan and Mellon?" Yang Xing stroked his chin that had grown stubble and looked through the information provided by Rothschild. He felt that it was a wise move to find them. In addition to Rothschild's connections, their intelligence network did have more core secrets than Yang Xing's subordinates.

This does not mean that the intelligence agencies carefully built by Yang Xing are incapable. With Yang Xing's huge financial support, they are better than many intelligence agencies in small and medium-sized countries. But now, it involves the century-old secrets of European and American financial families. The accumulation of history gives them many advantages over Yang Xing's intelligence units. From now on, they can see the difference between these two American consortiums behind the scenes.

This time, I found someone against them. Yang Xing's intelligence department searched and found the identity of the opponent. The information brought by Auden could immediately figure out who was behind the scenes. It can be seen that one more way would be more guaranteed. If he wanted to just take over the profit, I was afraid that Yang Xing and the others would fall into the trap now.

Of course, Yang Xing also knew that the Rothschild family would not have good intentions to disclose the opponent so generously. Yang Xing learned from the investigation that Rothschild's family business spanned Europe and the United States, and was the financial overlord of Viagra for a while. In the United States, a group of agents were very much supported in the United States to help manage the affairs of the New World. Morgan and Rockefeller were both agents. However, the storm changed in turn and the Rothschild family was kicked out of the United States. Morgan emerged as a new force. After the development of underwriting US Treasury bonds in the Civil War, he successively underwritten the national debts of France, Mexico, Argentina and other countries, and gained the reputation of "creditors all over the world".

All this is very similar to the original history of the Rothschild family. It really corresponds to the saying "The Yangtze River pushes the previous waves, and the previous waves die on the beach". Rothschild was overthrown by his former subordinates and lost the financial throne. The grudges and hatreds between the two major families have been entangled for a hundred years, and it is hard to write about. Therefore, the Rothschild family told Yang Xing directly that their opponents were probably the idea of ​​sitting in the mountains and watching the tiger fight.

Yang Xing still knows these two major American consortiums, and he can even tell that among the two consortiums, it is probably the Mellon family who is the main force. The Mellon family has a long history and has hundreds of large enterprises including finance, aluminum, oil, coal mines, shipbuilding, steelmaking and other industries. Take Mellon Bank as an example, its assets under management are as high as 30 billion US dollars, making it one of the 25 most powerful banks in the United States.

The Mellon family is also one of the biggest aiders of the American conservatives. In the family, Richard Mellon Skeve, known as the "American right-wing king". It was with his continuous financial support that the American conservatives chased and attacked President Clinton, and finally led to the Lewinsky sex scandal. Moreover, he donated to conservative think tanks such as the "Heritage Foundation" and the "Federalist Association" year by year, with the goal of providing an ideological basis for the contemporary conservative movement and cultivating policy decision makers.

No wonder the American conglomerate with such conservative ideas is eyeing Yang Xing. After all, the shadow of Chinese politics behind Yang Xing is quite obvious. Even if he moves the company headquarters to Hong Kong, it is difficult to eliminate the suspicion of Mellon's family. China Star International's business in the United States has been smooth sailing in recent years and has attracted attention from all walks of life in the United States. Now that President Bush Jr. has come to power, the political atmosphere in the United States is generally right-leaning, and it is not too surprising to set obstacles for Yang Xing and others.

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