The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Jiang Peiyao cooked a simple meal of three dishes and a soup at her brother-in-law's house.

Even a simple meal for two is better than ordering takeout.

Speaking of his 1.2 million yuan mansion, the night view is truly unbeatable.

Sit and watch the entire Huangpu River.

Jiang Peiyao also has rooms here; you can stay anywhere you like.

However, tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, and the trainees will be the main performers there, so she will definitely have to go back to practice.

Before 7 o'clock, after saying goodbye to her brother-in-law, Jiang Peiyao found her brother-in-law's parking space in the underground parking lot.

Two more super-sized cars have been added; they must each cost several million.

One is a large SUV with a red "B" logo, and the other is a silver-gray Aston Martin convertible.

Given her brother-in-law's situation, buying a car is like buying a toy; there's no surprise at all.

On the other hand, she herself is already a rising star in the entertainment industry at a young age.

It's quite extravagant that he was driving a white convertible Phantom.

It's not that this kind of car is uncomfortable to drive.

Rather, it's not that her income and status are worthy of such a top-of-the-line convertible sports car.

Her brother-in-law gave her a car worth 1500 million yuan as a gift.

I wasn't used to it at first, and I was very careful wherever I went.

That's the main thing.

With a car of that caliber sitting under her, anyone who sees her will immediately wonder, "Who is that girl?"
Is he here to experience life in the entertainment industry?

No, she's just here to make money.

All they could think about was how to make more money.

Otherwise, the Phantom's insurance alone would cost nearly 100,000 yuan a year, and if you drive it around to buy snacks, the monthly fuel cost would easily exceed 10,000 yuan.

Fortunately, her current income isn't too high; she still earns around a million a year.

This kind of income is practically negligible in the entertainment industry.

Her brother-in-law is the one who stands at the top of the entertainment industry.

Since she started driving the Phantom, she's lost even her usual suitors.

I'm happy to have some peace and quiet.

The trainee camp is located in the eastern suburbs, a well-known area of ​​luxury residences in Shanghai.

The building they lived in was a genuine king of the building, a large villa covering seven acres.

If dozens of people don't live in this kind of house, you'd be afraid of being haunted if you got up to use the toilet at night.

It would be very comfortable if more people lived there.

Because both the huge swimming pool in front and the backyard so big you could easily play soccer there offer excellent comfort.

Jiang Peiyao went to her room on the second floor. Her room was better than the average one, and it had a huge terrace where she could sit and enjoy the evening breeze.

Life is so pleasant.

The trainees were paired up in a room, and she happened to share a room with Shen Wanning, a girl known for her traditional Chinese style.

Even his brother-in-law commented that Shen Wanning had some talent.

They will definitely be able to secure a place in the entertainment industry in the future.

It is clear that her future prospects are limitless.

Shen Wanning was still practicing yoga in her room; she had a petite figure.

Most female celebrities in the entertainment industry are like this; their advantage is that they are very photogenic.

The downside is that the areas that should be convex aren't convex enough.

Aside from that, the female trainees actually all have pretty good figures.

After all, they were all selected from tens of thousands of female contestants.

How could it be bad?
Shen Wanning knew that she had gone to the big boss's house. She had been in the trainee camp for so long, and that was the only time she had gone to see the big boss with her.

There was no more chance after that.

Not to mention her, apart from Phoenix Yang Chaoyue and Yang Xiaoxiao, none of the other people have ever met the big boss.

"Peiyao, why are you back so soon?"

"Of course I came back to practice dancing. My cousin went to Hong Kong to buy an apartment, and my brother-in-law was home alone. I even cooked him a meal."

He seemed quite pleased with himself, and indeed he was.

Jiang Peiyao smiled happily. Shen Wanning was usually very aloof, and he looked like a particularly beautiful white moonlight.

You don't see much desire in her; you just want to protect her.

"Your cousin bought another apartment?"

"Yes, she's going to Hong Kong to buy an office building. My brother-in-law is going to build an office there. Maybe we'll all be going to Hong Kong in the future."

Jiang Peiyao quickly changed into her tight-fitting dance costume in the room. Since they were all girls, she wasn't embarrassed at all.

Shen Wanning sometimes likes to sleep naked.

What is completely out of character for her is her exaggerated sleeping posture.

I often fall asleep sprawled out on my back.

Fortunately, each room has two separate beds, and even Yang Xiaoxiao, a rich second-generation, couldn't find any fault with such living conditions.

A 600 million yuan villa in Shanghai, that's no joke.

If this kind of house were moved to a hilltop location like those in Hong Kong, it would start at four billion.

The villas on the top of Xiangjiang Mountain are just that extravagant.

"Peiyao, do you know that some of the girls in our trainee camp have seen their popularity skyrocket after they started making short videos together? It seems like becoming an internet celebrity wouldn't be a bad idea," Shen Wanning asked her.

Jiang Peiyao nodded, "Of course I know. Actually, this was my brother-in-law's idea. You know, Xinteng Live is originally my brother-in-law's business."

"They just completed a valuation of 3 billion over there, and my brother-in-law cashed out 900 million yesterday. There are 50 of us trainees, and it's impossible for every one of them to debut successfully."

"If you can accumulate tens of millions of followers by shooting short videos during this trainee period, and then go to Xin Teng's live streaming, your annual salary will start at tens of millions. That income is no less than that of debuting, and may even be much better."

Xinteng Live is a newly established startup in the short video field under Tencent Video Group.

Shen Wanning definitely knows this; she often sees short videos from there.

It's all about luxury cars, showing off and then getting slapped in the face.

Then don't overdo it with creating too many exciting plot points.

How can such a low-quality short video content production company be valued at 3 billion?
"I seem to remember that Xin Teng Live was only established last year?"

"Yes, it was my Uncle Fu who set it up. My brother-in-law gave him 200 million and spent another 600 million to buy the headquarters building there for them to use. He himself said that the monetization speed of the live streaming industry is beyond imagination."

Jiang Peiyao said, "My brother-in-law also said that although there are differences in the looks and talents of our trainees, if we were to put them in the circle of internet celebrities, they would definitely be at the top level. Make good use of this time as trainees. Those who cannot debut can directly sign up to become internet celebrities and have a guaranteed annual salary of over eight million."

Eight million?
Shen Wanning certainly didn't doubt what Jiang Peiyao said, after all, she was the only trainee who could contact the big boss anytime, anywhere.

For big bosses, eight million is actually about the same as eighty dollars in their pockets.

A dazzling electronic music festival in 2016.

The investment is as high as 200 million, with 100,000 people singing on the same stage, as well as the world's top 100 DJs, rock bands and top singers.

The reason for such an extravagant event is mainly to celebrate the arrival of a brilliant 2016.

It was also through this stage that they, the trainees, were collectively propelled to great heights.

Do you know how many people watch those kinds of stage performances?

If something has a standout feature, it's bound to become a hit.

Shen Wanning admired the simple-minded Phoenix Yang Chaoyue the most.

Despite slacking off the whole time, she managed to maintain a popularity level comparable to the other girls.

She has countless supporters.

In terms of professional skills, Yang Chaoyue is definitely at the bottom among the fifty trainees.

of course.

She works very hard and practices harder than anyone else.

However, dance is something that often requires practice from a young age.

Starting to learn after eighteen is like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

No matter who comes in first place among the trainees, she will always be number two.

That's really strange.

Jiang Peiyao had only been learning dance for a few years. It was only after her brother-in-law rescued her from a shady factory in Beijing that she officially began to learn about these things.

Back then, she had a top teacher in the industry who was specifically assigned to teach her.

Over the years, it transformed from an ugly duckling into a little swan.

If a boy saw them practicing together, he would definitely say it was a beautiful sight.

All I can say is that the fifty girls in the trainee camp each have their own plans.

Many people, knowing they won't be selected, simply focus their energy on making short videos and becoming internet celebrities.

As it turns out, even a casually filmed video of a trainee competition, which already had a lot of popularity, can go viral online.

Gaining followers is also quite easy.

It's like a few girls playing badminton in the back.

They're having a barbecue party, and there's even a dancing party.

The overall effect is a picture of tranquility and peace.

Once they lose interest in debuting, they'll find that these days are truly wonderful.

The big boss only pays them three thousand a month on the surface.

The number of rewards given behind the scenes was surprisingly large.

It's like giving everyone 100,000 yuan during the Lunar New Year.

After the Spring Festival, when work officially resumes, each person will receive a shopping card worth 100,000 yuan and a cash bonus of 50,000 yuan as a reward.

In addition, they can also take on advertising deals within the group.

For example, Shen Wanning wears a Deer Antler Coffee label.

Annual salary of 180 million yuan as a spokesperson.

You think this is a small amount of money?
Her family is considered relatively well-off among trainees; her parents only earn a little over 300,000 yuan a year.

She herself is only a sophomore in college, but after joining the trainee camp, she was able to immediately earn an annual salary of over two million.

How many people can do it?
Not to mention Yang Chaoyue, that simpleton. She was someone who would sign up for work if she was paid 3,000 yuan a month, but now she's making 3 million.

Even Yang Xiaoxiao was happy to call Lao Yang and say that she no longer needed him to support her, which shows that the income was extremely high.

As for the others, they also earn several hundred thousand a year, more or less.

As long as you don't compete for those few debut spots, they are very happy.

Only a few top contestants can secure a spot in the debut lineup.

Jiang Peiyao doesn't need to compete with her.

She's already calling the big boss her brother-in-law, what else is there to argue about?

So, once you stop thinking about competing for those last few debut spots, the trainee competition can actually be really fun.

Stay in the best rooms, eat the best meals, and have a dedicated chauffeur-driven V-class driver to pick you up and drop you off whenever you go out.

They can earn several hundred thousand a year.

As long as they don't put pressure on themselves, they don't have any performance evaluations.

Going out there and getting an annual salary of eight million is a perfect stepping stone to a better life.

The next day is the Lantern Festival, which is also the fifteenth day of the lunar year.

The company gave everyone a day off, and in the afternoon everyone rushed to Chongming Flower Sea to participate in the company's internal dazzling electronic music festival.

This is destined to be a carnival for young people, and also a time for middle-aged people to reminisce.

When Koyote, who sang "Spark," stood on the stage, did you still remember those keyboards you used to smash?

When organizing large-scale events, Tengying Group has always spared no expense.

This electronic music festival even booked the entire Flower Sea Island to host a 100,000-person party.

Whether it's Koyote's Spark or Zero Band's Believe in Yourself.

They all bring an inspiring power.

All of this also means that Tencent Film Group is about to usher in a new golden age.

On stage, Shen Wanning, Yang Xiaoxiao, and Jiang Peiyao led everyone in a wild dance.

There are also super-exciting guests like Qiao Mei, Ming Ming, and Fu Tuan.

The moment the music starts, the opening is a nostalgic look back at youth for middle-aged people.

After the two of them finished singing, the fan dance "Wa" made its unique appearance.

This was a celebration for countless middle-aged people, and the undisputed progenitor of the Korean Wave in that era.

And when the globally popular song "Ari Ari" plays, everyone starts dancing along.

So much so that when Psy appeared, even Gangnam Style couldn't surpass that frenzy.

It's safe to say that Tencent Pictures is absolutely serious about spending money.

There's no exaggeration, only more exaggeration.

All the songs are energetic dance tracks.

It's worth mentioning that an hour has passed and there hasn't been a single song by a young male idol.

Tencent's reputation for never inviting young, attractive celebrities to its events has always been well-known.

In addition to these super energetic tracks, there's also this year's hottest anime hit, Miirei's Gokuraku Jodo.

This is truly a carnival for young people.

Besides Gokuraku Jodo, the next song to appear is Ayumi Binzaki's "My All".

Countless people were moved to tears.

This includes Zhang Wanyi, who came all the way from Beijing to attend the group's Lantern Festival Electronic Music Festival, and Liu Qing.

Interns are recent college graduates, and now they see so many classic idols who dominated an era.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't moved.

Most electronic music festivals can't even get all these idols together; just getting one of them on the show is enough to guarantee a huge hit.

Tencent Pictures Group can use 200 million to invite everyone to come and commemorate an era, while also using old songs to tell everyone.

Youth is fleeting, but we must forge ahead.

In addition to the famous singers who have already taken the stage, the Korean song "Seven Years of Love" will also be performed.

Anyone who has played Audition Online will be very familiar with it.

And also "Dancing Diva", "Sun Never Sets", and Mina's "Telephone Romance".

Nboby, etc.
These are all popular songs that swept through an era.

It can be said that when a little girl wearing oversized sunglasses performed "Nocturne" with Jay Chou on stage near the end of the entire electronic music festival, the whole audience went wild.

The 2016 Brilliant Electronic Music Festival organized by Tencent Video Group exceeded everyone's expectations.

I thought it was just an internal celebration within the group.

As it turns out, the entire celebration revolved around this magnificent era.

2016 arrived as scheduled.

Wishing everyone a happy and fulfilling new year, filled with family reunions.

I wish everyone could find their true love in the new year.

May wealth flow in abundantly.

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The electronic music festival ended three days ago.

The online buzz remains alarmingly high.

The video quickly garnered 5 billion views across the internet, and generated over 100 million discussions online.

Everyone knows that Tencent Group is rich, but it's still a bit surprising that it's this rich.

So much so that countless people expressed their feelings online, saying that if Tencent Video were to organize another electronic music festival like this, they would rush there to attend, even if it were in the sky.

As for the benefits of holding an electronic music festival, Shen Wanning and Jiang Peiyao opened short video accounts for the first time.

Each gained over a million followers.

Phoenix Yang Chaoyue is even more impressive, gaining over three million followers in just three days.

The latest episode of the trainee competition has set a new record for online variety shows.

It's fair to say that the 200 million yuan was well spent, not to mention the Tencent-affiliated brands that will continue to emerge in online live streams.

That's right, they are now also known as the Tencent Film Group.

After all, there are simply too many physical stores in the offline market.

After Bobo Milk Tea changed its business model and stopped charging franchise fees, more than 850 stores successfully joined the franchise in just one month.

This is still the result of their rigorous screening process.

By February, the number of individual investors applying to join had reached 3,500.

Among all the milk tea brands, it has truly achieved a leading position.

Such an exaggerated speed of development has made Chu Qiuyan the most popular college entrepreneurship goddess on the entire internet.

No one can compare to him.

The founder of Ofo, who used to be in a dominant position, is now in a mess.

Chu Qiuyan has truly become the campus's undisputed entrepreneurial goddess.

Do you think such a title is useless?

Little did they know how much organic traffic it could bring to offline stores.

And Bobo Milk Tea's market value in Hong Kong has officially exceeded eight billion.

The first listed company in the milk tea industry.

After the three-month deadline, the sales ban will completely end in June.

Tong Zhelan still holds approximately 12% of the shares in Bobo Milk Tea.

There are still quite a few, including Yang Mi and Zhao Liying.

If the stock price can remain at this high level after March, everyone can cash out at least several hundred million yuan from their shares.

As for Chen Pingsheng himself, he still has 13%.

Because of the random increase, he will most likely cash out another half of his shares.

Using this money to complete the market layout of Guangzhou Tenghui Department Store is just right.

December 2016, 2.

Boiling Sheep officially went public in Shenzhen.

The issue price per share is less than 12 yuan, and the total market value is around 80 billion yuan.

Chen Pingsheng also owns approximately 15% of the shares in Boiling Sheep.

With the same six-month lock-up period, whether the stock price rises or falls after six months depends on how much money he can cash out.

Having reached this point, Tengying Group now owns three listed companies.

These are Tencent Entertainment, with a market value of 320 billion.

Bobo Milk Tea and Boiling Sheep both have a market value of around 8 billion.

Compared to those truly giant corporations, his is nothing.

Compared to ordinary companies, this is already a super-large group.

Not to mention that Deer Antler Coffee and Teng Hui Department Store are also queuing up to go public this year.

He felt that having one or two companies go public each year would be the ideal situation.

This year also saw the emergence of Xin Teng Live, a live streaming platform with tremendous potential for profit.

Chen Pingsheng felt increasingly excited about his life.

He wouldn't be surprised if he bought a headquarters building in Hong Kong in the future.

My wife is back from Hong Kong.

Speaking of the land price per square meter there, there's a lot to complain about.

The best office space in Hong Kong costs about HK$45 per square foot, which is about HK$500 per square meter.

High-end office buildings typically have a single floor size of between 2500 and 3500 square meters.

In other words, the monthly rent for a single-story office building is approximately 160 million yuan.

Song Yanxi spent a full 15 billion, which is equivalent to more than 16 billion Hong Kong dollars, to buy four floors of office space in the top-tier IFC.

There are many large companies inside, such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC.

There are no manufacturing or internet companies in Hong Kong.

There are even fewer tech companies.

Its main industries are concentrated in local public services such as finance, insurance, cross-border trade, real estate, logistics, and shipping.

It's fair to say that if Tencent Pictures wants to go international, it has to go to Hong Kong.

Teng Hui Capital moved there and didn't need a separate four-story office building at all.

Song Yanxi also wanted to rent out three of the floors, keeping only one floor for her family's group to use.

The three floors are rented out, and the annual rent is about 40 million yuan, which is better than nothing.

Chen Pingsheng waved his hand in refusal, "There's no need for that. Do we really need that little bit of rent?"

“Hong Kong’s international trade is doing very well. I plan to dedicate one floor there to build an office for Teng Hui Department Store, mainly responsible for the procurement of high-quality goods from around the world.”

"Give the other two floors to Tencent Entertainment. I've always thought that Hong Kong's artist training programs far surpass those in mainland China. Look at mainland China, as long as someone has a little bit of popularity, they can act in movies, regardless of whether they're wide-eyed or have a perky nose."

“It’s hard to survive in Hong Kong without acting skills. For the long term, I plan to set up the artist training class in Hong Kong.”

Song Yanxi felt that what he said made sense; it was just a few tens of millions of yuan in rent per year.

It's fine if we don't make any money.

Since it's useful to our own group, it should definitely be used by our own group.

Chen Pingsheng also asked her if she wanted to attend the entertainment industry event together, but Song Yanxi thought about it and declined.

The main reason is that my older child is about to start school, the second semester of third grade.

She had to go and take her to school.

And the little kid at home is behaving strangely; he actually likes to play with the family's chicks.

We absolutely have to force her to change.

In short, there are still a lot of things to do in the capital, and she needs to go back and deal with them for a few days before she can come back.

I'll definitely bring the little kid along then.

She's almost two years old; she should know how to be her parents' sweet little darling by now.

Chen Pingsheng took her to the airport that night; he had bought a private jet in China but hadn't used it at all.

Otherwise, he should have bought it a long time ago.

Applying for a flight is quite a hassle.

Many people who buy private jets mainly use them when traveling abroad, and rarely use them domestically.

His wife is also quite busy; after spending the money, she has to go back to take the kids to school.

Peng Ying and Liu Fen from the family had already come over, and they had been taking care of the child during this time.

With seven or eight people from the complete affairs team stationed outside the house all day, there's absolutely no need to worry about the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)