A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 311: Negotiations on investment collapsed, incompatible father-in-law and son-in-law

Wang Dazhuang looked at his leaky little cotton-padded jacket with a bad look. He was so disloyal right after they started dating. What would happen in the future? It would affect the entire Wang family.

"Dad~" Wang Yidi cried coquettishly, "We are just borrowing it for a while and will return it to you later."

"Return? Then thank you. I hope you didn't burn it for me." He shook his head helplessly, a wry smile on his face. He had no way of refusing his daughter's request. "You have to tell me what you want such a large sum of money for. There's no way you two can spend it all."

After hearing his father's relaxed tone, Wang Yidi diligently ran to massage Wang Dazhuang's shoulders and talked about the problems encountered by Chen Jinnian's company, with the focus on the newly established special effects production company.

After some narration, Wang Dazhuang roughly understood the whole story, but what he was most concerned about was not the money issue, but his daughter's issue.

"Didi, you're still young and just started college. Your long life has just begun. How can you be sure that the guy by your side in the future will be him? What if..."

Before he could finish, Wang Yidi clenched his fist and hit his father's shoulder hard, then turned his face and walked out.

"Come back, come back to me, is it okay if I don't say anything?"

Wang Dazhuang immediately got up and chased after her, pulled his daughter back and comforted her. He was really afraid that Wang Yidi would go out and complain to her grandfather, and it would be hard to say who would be the one to deal with whom.

"I didn't say I wouldn't give it, but there must be a plan and a charter. Is it the company's money or the family's money? Is it a loan or an investment? How can we ensure the security of the funds? These are all issues."

He spoke earnestly, but Wang Yidi turned away angrily, not wanting to listen to his father's nagging. Finally, he knew to compromise, "How about this, you call him over, I'll talk to him, and you listen from the side, okay?"

As a result, Chen Jinnian was inexplicably involved in a negotiation that he had never expected, and even after being led to the study by Wang Yidi, he was still kept in the dark.

"I don't need investment for now. I don't want to accept external investment."

He looked at Wang Yidi and Wang Dazhuang in confusion, not knowing what the father and daughter were up to.

"You are very short of money for the special effects department you are planning recently, so I came to ask my dad to help you solve the funding problem." After Wang Yidi finished explaining, he gave him a look to let him continue.

"Hey, I thought it was something else." Chen Jinnian said with a lingering smile, "The special effects production department is always short of money. It's a bottomless pit. Special effects technology is constantly being advanced, and equipment and hardware are also being upgraded. In this situation, no amount of money is enough to burn through."

"The key is whether there is such a huge demand in the market. If not, why would I maintain such a large team and use such expensive technology? So I have prepared a team of sufficient size and do not need a large capital injection for the time being."

After the micro-film was shot, it entered the post-production process. Now the special effects department is working on it while polishing it. It will take three months to polish it out to a length of dozens of seconds.

With tens of millions of dollars worth of basic equipment and ninety days of team effort, what he pursued was to show off his skills regardless of the cost, and finally achieve a stunning effect on New Year's Day.

As for the returns, that will happen next year or even the year after. After "Wolf Warrior 2" gives the Chinese film market a shot of adrenaline, there will be no shortage of big-budget visual effects blockbusters being launched in China.

"What about other things, TV series, movies, etc.? Instead of looking for other people to drink and socialize to get investment, it's better to ask my dad."

Wang Dazhuang's face turned blue. What a good girl! How could she rush to give money to someone?

"Ahem." He cleared his throat to remind his daughter of his words, then said, "I plan to invest in your company and inject some cash flow for turnover."

"Is the investment in the name of the company? Sorry, Uncle Wang, I don't accept investments from listed companies."

Chen Jinnian knew that Wang Dazhuang was the CEO of a listed company, but he had no idea about his actual control over the shares he held in the listed company. Moreover, listed companies were only responsible to shareholders and pursued short-sighted economic interests, so he would never let a wolf into the house.

Even if this wolf is Wang Yidi's father.

Wang Dazhuang immediately noticed his attitude and asked without hiding anything, "Are you not accepting the company's investment, or are you not accepting my investment?"

“There’s no difference.”

After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, the atmosphere in the study suddenly became tense.

"Are you afraid that I will interfere in your company?" Wang Dazhuang asked with interest.

"I'm afraid of more than just that. You're a professional manager and you know much more than I do. The most realistic question is, if the company develops well enough, will you push forward with the IPO plan?"

"of course."

In response to Chen Jinnian's question, Wang Dazhuang gave the answer without hesitation.

"See, this is our fundamental disagreement. I will not take the company public. I pursue absolute control over the company."

The current goal of a company going public is nothing more than fame and fortune: the enhancement of brand power and the rapid expansion of personal wealth.

If these are removed, the equity will be diluted 100%. At that time, he will no longer be the owner of the company, and the company will enslave him instead. What's worse is that once his ideas are inconsistent with those of the company's shareholders, he may be kicked out.

"You are too naive. Without external investment and capitalization operations, can you develop on your own?"

"Just wait and see. I'm not in a hurry. I'll see him build a tall building and entertain guests."

Hearing the two people arguing with each other, Wang Yidi suddenly felt very tired. They should not have been allowed to meet and communicate. Wang Dazhuang looked down on Chen Jinnian, and Chen Jinnian was extremely wary of Wang Dazhuang.

Obviously, TV dramas are all about conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so why is it a conflict between father-in-law and son-in-law in her family? Seeing that the talks broke down, she directly dragged Chen Jinnian out of the study and went straight to the bedroom on the second floor, so that they could turn a blind eye to it.

Although Wang Yidi's grandmother was very old, she had sharp eyes and ears. When she saw her granddaughter coming out of the study with her boyfriend with a resentful look on her face, she knew what had happened and quietly reminded Wang Qing to go to the study to take a look.

"What are you looking at?"

Old Master Wang stared at the chessboard, stroking the chess pieces in his hands as he played chess with himself. "The boss has more tricks than the hairs on Monkey King's body. He and Xiao Chen are not the same kind of people at all. It would be strange if they could urinate in the same pot."

"Old man, please don't talk badly about your son behind his back. You might not like it when you hear it later."

"Oh, am I wrong? Is there anyone like him in our family? I don't know who he takes after. Fortunately, Didi doesn't have his personality, otherwise he would annoy me to death."

"Who else can he look like? He looks like you." Wang Yidi's grandmother said with a smile, "Don't think I don't know what happened to you back then."

"Nonsense! How can they be the same? I'm dealing with an enemy contradiction. Chairman Mao said back then that the essence of American imperialism is to cause chaos, fail, cause more chaos, fail again, and ultimately perish. Now, those clowns in the south are doing this. Do they really think we don't know who's behind it? Just wait and see. Sooner or later, we'll knock them all down one by one."

"Snap", there was a crisp sound on the chessboard, and he used his cannon to capture the pawn that had crossed the river.

When Wang Qing heard the two elders arguing, she stood up with a smile, but instead of going to find Wang Dazhuang, she went straight to the second floor.