novelhk Chapter 196 Sister who gives money, brother who eats for free
Chapter 196 Sister who gives money, brother who eats for free
Strictly speaking, Query has not signed a contract with any record company. Universal Records, which has been helping him release albums around the world for a long time, only has a cooperative relationship with him, and they have not signed an affiliation contract.
Query's agent Oliver is not an agent of Universal Music Records. Like his artists, he started from scratch and established the OVI agency. He has signed many artists so far, and most of them are attracted by the Query brand.
IS Independent Music Studio is ostensibly managed by Oliver, but those who know the inside story know that Oliver is just a stand-in pushed to the surface by Query who is afraid of trouble and does not want to be disturbed.
The top management of Universal Records naturally knew this, but why were they willing to accommodate Query's capricious album releases and lack of business style for more than a decade even though they knew it was impossible for them to sign Query and that the other party had his own music studio? In addition to the fact that Query and IS, which it controlled, could indeed bring them long-term cooperation and considerable profits, their president Lucio Grange actually knew that Query's true identity was not simple.
He speculated that Query was involved with the European giant Larich Group and its behind-the-scenes family, otherwise the Larich Group would not have explicitly hinted to Huanyin to cooperate with Query from the beginning.
Larich Group is not the capital behind Huanyin, but the Vivendi Group, which Huanyin relies on, has always maintained a stable cooperative relationship with Larich. As one of the largest media and entertainment multinational groups in the Western world, Vivendi's business covers many entertainment fields such as television, film, music, publishing, games, and the Internet. Of course, it will also have intersections with the Larich Group, which is also headquartered in the European bullfighting country.
The Lariche multinational group, which has remained "low-key" and ranked tenth in the world year after year regardless of how the world's richest man changes, does not have much conflict with Vivendi in its main business.
Vivendi focuses on media and entertainment, while Larich is involved in finance, securities, financing, insurance, tourism, welfare foundations, etc. Only the first three sectors have more cooperation with Vivendi.
By the way, Larich is Yu Yu's "family business" and the culprit that makes Fiona curse Yu Yu every time she sees her hair falling out after washing it. Running a multinational company with a wide range of business and global coverage, if she is not losing hair, she is definitely slacking off.
Given the relationship between Fiona and Vivendi, Huanyin can definitely cooperate with her as much as possible within his ability.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, such a project created with money to cooperate with her is like a joke, which is completely disrespectful to the correct development prospects of the company and the musicians. But in the eyes of the president of Huanyin, if he can please the boss of Larich by spending some money, it is a great thing that will fall from the sky and chase him. That boss is a big boss that their big brother Vivendi sometimes has to ask for help, and he controls 1/3 of the economic lifeline of Europe.
What does this mean? Another third is in the hands of the Rothschild family, and the rest is distributed to other European companies.
As for what ability Fiona Alaric, the head of Larich, has to run the group to be comparable to the Rothschild family, the answer is very simple, because she, like the Rothschild family, has an aristocratic background, but she is more low-key.
It is well known that the Larich Group has been a "family business" of the nobility since its inception, and its background is unfathomable after a century of operation. The highest noble status in Rothschild's history is only the baron, and Alaric is still the only hereditary duke in the Bullfighting Kingdom except the king, and is also one of the extremely rare nobles in Europe and even the world.
Fiona Alaric is the eldest daughter of the current Grand Duke Alaric, the "Eldest Princess", a strong woman and the CEO of the family business, the Larich Group.
Therefore, in the eyes of Lucio Grange, the president of Huanyin, as long as he can successfully connect with Ms. Alaric, any price paid now will be worth the initial investment.
Although he was not very clear why the other party suddenly contacted him, asked about the progress of the implementation of the Huanyin China Continent plan, and asked him to help arrange a few "averagely famous" artists from China Continent for inspection.
But Lucio was smart. He knew that there were some things that should not be asked, so without saying anything, he found the mainland project leader and asked him to cooperate with Fiona's requirements.
"Ms. Alaric, they..." Zhou Yuan, the person in charge of the Ring Sound Continent project, looked at Fiona hesitantly, because he was not sure what kind of result the other party wanted.
Fiona knew the answer when she saw his hesitation: "Someone agreed, right? Not surprising at all. I say, there is no such unbreakable relationship in the world. It's just that the benefits gained are not enough to convince oneself to bear the cost of betrayal. Just agree to it. It won't cost much to support a few small stars."
Fiona sighed, as if she had known the result a long time ago, but she also felt a little regretful and resentful about it.
She sent people to investigate the six so-called good brothers of her younger brother. She didn't think that they could stay good brothers forever just by saying they were good brothers. There were many cases of brothers turning against each other, and relatives could also kill each other. Yu Yu, the heir, should know this better than her, not to mention that they were not real brothers.
They are all children from "ordinary" families in China. They may be able to share the joys and sorrows, but what about when they become rich and powerful? In the final analysis, different classes have different values and perceptions. They can still regard Yu Yu as a "brother" with whom they have common topics because they don't know Yu Yu's true identity and background. They just think he is an unfavored illegitimate child. But what will happen after they know it?
In fact, deep down in her heart, Fiona did not think that the deceased Grand Duke Alaric, her grandfather, hated Yu Yu's existence. On the contrary, he valued him, so he was almost ruthless and harsh in demanding that Yu Yu do everything to the extreme from the moment he was born. At least he never asked her to do so, and he was never strict with his father.
He placed the hopes of the entire family on his grandchildren, even though Yu Yu was just a precocious toddler at the time. The ideas of the older generation were as corrupt as this conservative family, including the family business. Fiona didn't know how long it took her to revive Larich.
If he really didn't like Yu Yu, her brother might not live to adulthood.
There are too many people who curry favor with the powerful. Fiona doesn't understand why Yu Yu, who has been precocious since childhood, would turn into a brainless, hot-blooded boy when faced with these realistic problems and unconditionally believe in those people.
She wanted to use this method to test Yu Yu and let him see what kind of people his so-called brothers really were. Of course, it would be fine if he continued to choose to be friends with them after seeing clearly, as long as he did not continue to naively believe in brotherhood. As long as the interests were the same, Fiona also had many friends.
"Tell me, who agreed to the dinner for the signing?" Fiona looked at Zhou Yuan with a smile.
"That's the problem, ma'am," Zhou Yuan said with an embarrassed look on his face, "all six of them agreed."
? All? Fiona's face froze, and she reacted instantly, gritting her teeth a little: "Okay, very good, you just protect them!"
"Then...our plan..."
"Just do what you have to do," Fiona quickly adjusted her mood. She looked at Zhou Yuan expressionlessly, as if everything was still under her control. "You agreed to it even though you knew it was a Hongmen Banquet. Interesting. By the way, send Yu Yu a similar invitation for cooperation. We missed him before, and now we are short of one person, so let's add him."
Zhou Yuan didn't understand Fiona's intention. In his opinion, although those seven people were indeed talented, their ages were no longer suitable. The entertainment industry was a place with rapid updates and iterations. He was more inclined to directly sign young new stars who had no qualifications but potential.
Maybe this is a little fun for rich people? Spending money on celebrities of her age? But the gossip pages say that this aristocratic princess and the head of Larich has always had a special liking for young men in their twenties, although they are also updated very quickly...
Zhou Yuan was puzzled but didn't dare to ask, so he asked his subordinates to send an email to Yu Yu's agent. At first, she sent emails to everyone but missed Yu Yu, and he thought she only wanted to invest in pure porcelain. In the end, the seven people had to be packaged together, and the condition she gave was that they had to cut off their relationship with others.
What a childish and evil taste.
Li Mu didn't know the relationship between Yu Yu and Fiona, but he knew the relationship between Query and Huanyin. When he received this email, he was a little unsure whether it could be regarded as a flood that flushed the Dragon King Temple, so he chose to forward the email to Oliver.
Oliver understood the content of the email immediately. Speechless and helpless, he called Yu Yu and asked, "Did you quarrel with your sister again?"
"Pay attention to your words, Mr. Rosenkranz, and also pay attention to your role. You are my agent now, and you should speak on my side. So it should be Fiona who is picking on me, not me and her. Thank you."
Judging from the fact that he only said one sentence while Yu Yu directly responded with a long string of replies, he and Fiona were indeed unhappy.
'Well, what did she do to upset you?'
“She first sent this email to the other six people.”
Oliver was slightly stunned, but soon realized what Fiona was doing. He laughed out loud: "You are the president of a multinational corporation, why would you use such, uh, childish means to test others for you? Is this a test, or is she just trying to play a prank on her brother?"
Yu Yuxu stared at the content of the email and said, "If your ex-girlfriend is not the latter, then you should eat the email for her."
What really made Yu Yu unhappy was not Fiona's temptation to his brothers, but that she was just using the brothers' friendship of more than ten years as a means to play pranks on Yu Yu and make him unhappy. Fundamentally, she didn't care about them, nor did she care whether they were important to Yu Yu.
"Don't talk nonsense. I have a very good relationship with my wife now. I was only in a relationship with your sister for three months many years ago. You haven't even graduated from college yet." Oliver knew that Yu Yu was venting his anger on others, so he didn't take his resentment to heart. "So what? What do you want to do? You can just go back and kick her out of the position of president. She may say that she doesn't care and wants to retire, but she will definitely curse you in her heart."
"That's true, but why would I do something that would hurt my own business?" Fiona is actually quite suitable for this position, and he is not cut out for business. Yu Yu will not make things difficult for himself. "What else can I do? Accept it, go get the signing fee and have a meal. I finally want to give some money to my brother, but I have to find an excuse. This sister is really dishonest."