Chapter 427 Penguin's Actions and the Shocking Avatar

Liu Zhou's lead over the second place to become the richest man in mainland China caused a huge sensation when the list was announced.

Every year when the Forbes rich list is released, it causes quite a stir in the outside world, with the richest person attracting the most attention.

Since the beginning of the new century, everyone knows who the richest man is every year, but not much attention is paid to the second richest man, of course, except Liu Zhou.

Liu Zhou has been the second richest man in China for three consecutive years. Some of his fans and passers-by jokingly call him Liu Lao Er.

The main reason why Liu Zhou can have such a great influence as the second richest man and even catch up with the richest man is of course that he is a public figure who is well-known both at home and abroad.

Especially in China, as one of the four great domestic directors who became famous at a young age, his achievements have surpassed many veteran directors and accumulated a large number of fans for him.

At the same time, when he was still a student, he became the most popular best-selling author in the mainland at that time, and gained a large number of book fans, who were also his earliest fans.

Finally, Liu Zhou has made considerable achievements in directing and writing, and his career is also booming. Many people become his fans because he has achieved such a great career at such a young age.

With the support of these three parties, Liu Zhou's number of fans and popularity are no less than those of the top domestic stars. He is also one of the few public figures on Sina Weibo with more than 10 million fans.

So Liu Zhou's success in becoming the richest man in mainland China this time caused a frenzy among his many fans and created a huge wave on the Internet.

Coupled with reports from major domestic media at the time, the news that Liu Zhou became the new richest man in mainland China became the biggest hot topic at the time.

In fact, this news was reported not only in China, but also by many media in Asia and North America.

Because Liu Zhou is not only the richest man in mainland China, but also the second richest man in Asia, second only to Asia's richest man Li Chaoren. He also ranks 25th on the global rich list.

Liu Zhou's net worth is 1056.65 billion yuan, equivalent to 128.86 billion US dollars. Li Chaoren ranks 162th on the global rich list with billion US dollars.

Excluding the wealthy people in Hong Kong, this is the first time that someone from the mainland has entered the top 30 of the world's richest list.

Although the Country Garden daughter had a net worth of hundreds of billions in 2007, other wealthy people in the world were not affected by the financial crisis and their wealth did not shrink much.

At that time, Yang Huiyan was not even in the top 50. As for other times, no rich person from the mainland has ever made it into the top 100 in the world.

So this time Liu Zhou overtook Michael Dell, Google's two founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer and other well-known North American billionaires, which also caused quite a stir in the United States.

Liu Zhou is no unknown figure in North America, but his best-known identity in North America is still a director.

Therefore, this has aroused the curiosity of some media and the public. After all, no director has ever had so much wealth. Even the richest man in Hollywood, Star Wars founder George Lucas, has a net worth of only a few billion dollars.

With media reports, everyone knows that Liu Zhou is not only a director, but also the owner of the Golden State Warriors, the owner of the well-known Hollywood film company Summit Entertainment, and the chairman of the Nasdaq-listed Sina Group.

These many different identities also make the North American media more interested in Liu Zhou, not to mention that he is still so young.

With the release of the Forbes rich list, Liu Zhou's popularity in North America has also increased significantly.

However, when the news about Liu Zhou caused a huge heated discussion in the country, he was busy filming "Interstellar" at Ganquan Film and Television City in Yangzhou.

During that period, there were a large number of media waiting outside almost every day wanting to interview him, but in order not to affect the filming, he refused.

Even when some major official media wanted to interview Liu Zhou, he refused.

At that time, Liu Zhou felt that his popularity was already high enough and there was no need for him to show off anymore.

To be honest, he didn't expect that his becoming the richest man in mainland China would cause such a big stir, but he knew that it was always right to keep a low profile.

So during the filming, he refused all media contact. Not only himself, but he also asked everyone in the crew not to contact the media.

Later, when the media reporters realized that they could not interview Liu Zhou, they gradually dispersed.

Although they did not interview Liu Zhou, it did not stop them from praising Liu Zhou.

In fact, in addition to Liu Zhou’s fans and many passers-by who are interested in the news related to him, the domestic wealthy circle is also surprised at his great influence.

They also knew that Liu Zhou's momentum was already established. Not only did he have a strong mass base, but he also had strong connections at the higher levels.

More importantly, Liu Zhou is not only a business card to the outside world, but also a role model set by those above him.

Therefore, as long as Liu Zhou himself does not make any big mistakes, it will be difficult to bring him down in the future, and it will even be difficult to shake his position.

However, Liu Zhou's career is mainly concentrated in the Internet industry and the film and television industry. These two industries can be said to be emerging industries in China, and there is not much conflict of interest with the wealthy people who have risen from traditional industries.

Therefore, they would not have nothing to do and deliberately stand against Liu Zhou. Even the Taishan Society, which had previously had a conflict with Liu Zhou, has now stopped.

Perhaps only Duan Yongji, who was kicked out of Sina by Liu Zhou, and Liu Chuanchuan, who was humiliated by Liu Zhou, are still keeping an eye on him.

In fact, not only were they staring at Liu Zhou, but Liu Zhou was also staring at them. They had been ruthless to Liu Zhou in the past, so of course he had to fight back.

However, they are now all influential figures in the domestic business community and are highly valued by their superiors, so it is difficult for Liu Zhou to find opportunities to deal with them.

Ordinary handles cannot cause any harm to them, and may even help cover them up.

Liu Zhou had no resentment about this because he received the same treatment.

Therefore, as long as those people in Taishan Society do not make some principled mistakes, it will be difficult to bring them down, and now the higher-ups will not allow an open conflict between Liu Zhou and Liu Chuanchuan.

The impact this has caused is too great.

Therefore, the two sides have been living in peace in the past few years, waiting for someone to make a big mistake first.

Liu Zhou is not in a hurry. He believes that every penny he has earned since he became rich is clean, and there is no so-called original sin of the first pot of gold as questioned by many netizens in later generations.

On the contrary, those people in Taishan Society are not so clean, and they will do more wrong or even illegal things in the future because of their expansion.

Once the higher-ups discover their greed and parasitic nature, they will certainly not protect them as they do now, so there will be a chance to settle accounts with them in the future.

Liu Zhou has gradually come to his current position, and his only enemies are the people in Taishan Society. As for the grudges in the entertainment industry in the early days, he has long forgotten them. To be honest, those people in the entertainment industry are not worthy of being his opponents.

Now Liu Zhou can be said to have initially realized his career plan and has successfully become a capital in the entertainment industry. His future competitors will only be the three giants, the two Ma and one Wang.

Among the three, Xiao Ma Ge and he are good friends. Although there are many business competitions between their companies, it does not affect their personal relationship at all.

Jack Ma has some conflicts with Liu Zhou. After all, he is also a member of the Taishan Club. When Liu Zhou and Duan Yongji were fighting over Sina, he also publicly stood on Duan Yongji's side.

Although he tried to ease the relationship between them afterwards, Liu Zhou didn't want to have too much contact with him.

Although Liu Zhou admired some of the things he did, it didn't mean that he would flatter him and get along with him. Since they were destined to be competitors, there was no need for them to be friends.

He is not like Xiao Ma Ge, the two of them knew each other from humble beginnings.

As for Wanda boss Wang, Liu Zhou was not familiar with him and had only met him a few times.

But to be honest, Boss Wang will not be his competitor in the future. After all, he entered the film and television industry mainly to serve the real estate industry.

The main reason why Pony Ma and Jack Ma entered the entertainment industry was for traffic, but they have bigger ambitions and will layout the entire industry chain like Liu Zhou.

That is why they will be Liu Zhou’s real opponents in the future.

Now the two of them have begun to get restless, and because of Liu Zhou, they should both enter the entertainment industry ahead of time.

It is not clear yet whether Jack Ma is Liu Zhou or not, but Ma has already started to take action and is fully imitating Liu Zhou's industrial layout.

First of all, at the beginning of this year, Penguin Video was officially launched, and the layout of the film and television playback terminal industry began.

At the same time, as it has done in the past, it is preparing to acquire New Classics Pictures and enter the film and television production industry.

In addition, Xiao Ma Ge was very unethical and poached a group of people from Zhoushan Literature to set up his own online literature website and plan content production.

Although it seems rather crude, it also demonstrates the importance that Penguin Group places on the entertainment industry, from upstream production of high-quality content, to middle film and television production, to terminal playback platforms, all are covered.

In fact, it was only after Xiao Ma Ge learned about the situation in the entertainment industry that he realized how powerful Liu Zhou’s layout in the film and television industry was.

However, despite this, Xiao Ma Ge is also confident. In his opinion, there is nothing that cannot be solved by money. Coincidentally, Penguin Group now has plenty of money.

To be honest, he admires Liu Zhou very much. It can be seen that he has had a thorough understanding of the entertainment industry a long time ago, and has been building his own closed ecological loop step by step.

Everything else is fine, but what interests him most is his Zhoushan Literature, which has not yet gone public.

This company used to be inconspicuous, but as Zhoushan Literature began to operate the full copyright of many online novels, he immediately realized the value of this company.

In his opinion, Forbes magazine's valuation of Zhoushan Literature of only 3 billion yuan is too low. If Liu Zhou is willing to sell, he is willing to pay 5 billion yuan for it.

But he knew that Liu Zhou would definitely not sell it, so he didn't go and make trouble for himself.

Therefore, Pony Ma also specially arranged for Penguin Group to establish its own online literature platform, and the level of attention it attaches is no less than that of Penguin Video.

Although Zhoushan Literature has occupied more than nine-layer online literature market after acquiring Shanda Literature, Xiao Ma Ge is also confident that he can compete with Zhoushan Literature for a share of the market.

As long as it is an Internet company, Penguin Group has never been afraid. Its massive traffic is Pony Ma's greatest confidence.

Except in the e-commerce field, Penguin Group has never failed in entering other fields by relying on its huge traffic.

Xiao Ma Ge was also a little annoyed. If he had seen the value of online literature earlier and acquired Shanda Literature first, Zhoushan Literature would not have such a big advantage now.

Facing Xiao Ma Ge's aggressive attack, Liu Zhou was mentally prepared.

I believe that now that Pony Ma has taken action, Jack Ma should not have to wait too long. These two Internet giants will enter the entertainment industry with a lot of capital and can make the Chinese entertainment industry prosperous in advance.

The market value of the entertainment industry has been growing rapidly every year in recent years, but after all, the scale was small in the past, so even now, although it has attracted the attention of many capitals, the overall value is still not very large.

However, the future value of the entertainment industry is still huge. If we want to export our traditional culture through the entertainment industry, we first need to expand the entertainment industry and then make it stronger.

If you want to grow bigger and stronger, you need massive capital investment. When the coal bosses are unable to take over, only Internet capital has the interest and strength to invest.

However, these are still a bit far away, and large-scale investment of Internet capital will probably happen in one or two years.

Before this, Liu Zhou was the only big boss in the entertainment industry.

Now, the bosses of film and television companies in the circle are not as good as Liu Zhou. If it is not for communication within the industry, they cannot talk to Liu Zhou, let alone those celebrity artists.

So when Liu Zhou arrived at the premiere of "Avatar", except for a few people he was familiar with, almost no one dared to come over and say hello to him.

Although it has only been a little over a month, since Liu Zhou became the richest man, they feel that Liu Zhou's aura has changed a lot, which makes them even more awed.

Perhaps Han Shanping is the only person left in the circle who has known Liu Zhou for more than ten years and can chat and communicate with him easily.

After parting with Han Shanping, Liu Zhou also found his seat and sat down, and the movie began soon after.

Hundreds of industry insiders and ordinary audiences put on 3D glasses, ready to watch James Cameron's 3D blockbuster and appreciate the exotic scenery of the planet Pandora.

Uh, actually it’s Zhangjiajie~~~
Soon after the film started, exclamations of surprise were heard one after another in the cinema.

We are all knowledgeable people. We have watched several 3D movies before and have made sufficient preparations.

But Cameron is Cameron, just like the big ship 12 years ago, he once again shocked all the audience.

It's not that I'm ignorant, I just can't help it. It's like my mouth is not controlled by my brain and I make sounds completely subconsciously.

This was not the first time Liu Zhou had watched it. The effect brought by the IMAX metal screen was absolutely stunning. Even after many years, he was still shocked when he watched it again.

(End of this chapter)