"What is it? I'm all ears. "
Wu Qingcheng immediately relaxed after resolving the biggest problem, and she started to laugh and talk.
Ouyang Shuo asked, "I'm very optimistic about the video game industry and would like to find a professional to cooperate with. Are you interested?"
Ouyang Shuo had no reason to let go of the video game industry. How could investing in a movie satisfy his appetite? His goal was to develop the entertainment industry and become a big shot in the entertainment industry.
Glamorous Studio was the first target that Ouyang Shuo had set his eyes on.
Wu Qingcheng's eyes were filled with wariness. "You want to buy my studio?" Wu Qingcheng was no stranger to mergers and acquisitions in real life.
Now that the other party held the lifeline of Country and Beauty, it was hard to reject.
Glamorous Studio was Wu Qingcheng's lifeline. She would not allow anyone to touch it, not even Shanhai City. Wu Qingcheng had already made up her mind to fail.
"It's not a takeover." Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "It's a capital injection. I want to inject 200,000 gold coins into Glamorous Studio in my own name. I want 40% of the shares and I won't interfere with the studio's operations. Shanhai City would also be able to provide support in various aspects when it came to filming. Not to mention, the Bank of the Four Seas is more than happy to provide a loan for Glamorous Studio's next movie. How about it, are you interested? "
Ouyang Shuo's conditions were not harsh. He knew how to achieve a win-win situation and only wanted to make the cake bigger. He didn't want to reap short-term profits before the peach was ripe.
Wu Qingcheng's heart thumped when she heard that. She realized that a huge opportunity was right in front of her.
Even in the video game industry, the movie industry was a money-burning industry. Wu Qingcheng couldn't afford a single movie even if she invested all her money. She needed to find a partner.
If Country and Beauty couldn't recover its capital, Glamorous Studio would declare bankruptcy. Therefore, the best way was to find a big shot to cooperate with.
Without a doubt, Shanhai City was the biggest player in the China region. Shanhai City was not only the biggest shareholder of the Bank of the Four Seas, but they were also very powerful. More importantly, they could provide all the necessary facilities for filming.
Most importantly, they weren't greedy. They didn't try to control the studio and promised not to interfere with the studio's operations.
Clearly, this was purely an investment.
In the wilderness, there was no better partner than Shanhai City. In the past, Wu Qingcheng had fantasized about cooperating with Shanhai City, but unfortunately, she couldn't even enter the royal city.
If it wasn't for the fact that Ouyang Shuo's image in the outside world was that he didn't care about women and had even cruelly rejected the love of Feng Qiuhuang, Bai Hua, and the other top goddesses, Wu Qingcheng would've really thought that he had some ulterior motives towards her.
"I agree."
Wu Qingcheng nodded without hesitation. Even if there was a huge pit in front of her, she still had to jump in.
"The opportunity is fleeting." Wu Qing Cheng was a decisive woman.
"Straightforward!" Ouyang Shuo nodded. "That's all for today. Someone will contact you later."
Ouyang Shuo had no intention of personally managing the entertainment industry. He wanted to hand it over to Song Jia. Apart from investing in City-Toppling Studio, Ouyang Shuo would also take out another 800,000 gold coins to recruit more big shots in the entertainment industry.
A one-time investment amounted to a million gold coins.
In this way, the funds in Ouyang Shuo's possession shrank once more, and he was only left with 5,000,000 gold coins.
But if he really wanted to operate the entertainment industry, 1,000,000 gold coins seemed somewhat insignificant.
In order to not use up too much liquidity, the best way was to proceed step by step. He would first invest in two or three movies, and then use the profits to expand the scale of the business.
The matters in the middle were complicated.
Ouyang Shuo believed that with Song Jia's ability, she would definitely be able to handle it well.
After Wu Qingcheng left, Ouyang Shuo sent a letter to Song Jia, explaining the matter in detail. At the same time, he also transferred 1,000,000 gold coins to Song Jia.
From now on, Song Jia would take over the matters of following the filming of Beauty of the Country and Rivers and investing in City-Toppling Studio.
Ouyang Shuo was looking forward to an unimaginable entertainment industry that would completely explode in the next two years, bringing in a huge amount of cash for Shanhai City.
After the interlude, Ouyang Shuo and his group set off again.
And just as Ouyang Shuo was pacifying the three counties of Lingnan, the dormant Leopard Army finally made a move.
October 20th, South Sichuan Province's Guilin County, Xuanwu Pass.
A year ago, the City-State of Northern Sichuan and the City-State of Xiangnan joined hands. While the army of Shanhai City was stalled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they brazenly dispatched their troops and occupied Guilin County.
Guilin County was the northern barrier of South Sichuan Province, and also the northern barrier. Its strategic location was extremely important. The only passageways connecting the south were Guiping Pass and Xuanwu Pass.
In the battle to defend the pass, Guiping Pass was eventually defended by Shanhai City's army. Later, it was expanded into the Withered Fortress and became the headquarters of the Leopard Army. The other pass, Xuanwu Pass, was unfortunately occupied by the allied forces until now.
Today, Xuanwu Pass had been impregnated by the allied forces. And on this day, Anbei General Zhang Han led the second corps of the Leopard Army and slowly approached the fortress.
The Leopard Army was responsible for guarding the northern border, and its commander, Han Xin, personally led the first corps to guard the Withered Fortress. The second corps led by Zhang Han set up a permanent camp near Xuanwu Pass to monitor the allied forces.
During the year of confrontation, the second corps and the Xuanwu Pass had constant conflicts and friction. Unfortunately, Xuanwu Pass was an impregnable pass guarded by 50,000 allied forces, making it difficult for them to take it down.
As such, the allied forces at the pass remained unmoved even when they saw the second corps of Shanhai City launching another attack. It wasn't surprising that the other party would launch such an operation once a month.
"Look, they're here again!"
"Hahaha, a bunch of fools. They're asking for it."
The allied forces on the walls of the pass mocked the allied forces.
At the center of the second corps, Zhang Han was riding on a horse, staring at the pass not too far away with a complicated expression.
It had been a year!
The second corps had endured for an entire year.
"It's finally time to end this," Zhang Han muttered to himself.
With a wave of Zhang Han's flag, the central army slowly retreated, revealing 32 elite steeds pulling eight cold cannons at the forefront of the formation.
These cannons weren't cannons of the Ming Dynasty, but a modified version of the seventh research institute, codenamed P1.
Compared to the cumbersome cannons of the Ming Dynasty, the P1 cannon had been greatly improved. Most importantly, the barrel, frame, and other components had been replaced with cast iron.
Not only did this greatly reduce the chances of the cannons exploding, it also reduced the weight of the cannons by 50%.
The problem with the high industrialization rate was the low conformity rate of the P1 cannons, resulting in a severe shortage of production capacity. Currently, they could only produce a dozen or so P1 cannons that met the requirements every month.
The main problem was that the industrialization of the territory had only just begun, and the technological level was still too low. Most of the components couldn't be machined, so they had to be polished manually. Not only was it time-consuming, but the precision wasn't high either.
The second change was the resetting of the frame system.
The Ming Dynasty cannons were made of two-wheeled carts, making it inconvenient to transport them. For this reason, the Seventh Research Institute specially combined the latest industrialization results to create an all-steel four-wheeled carriage for the P1 Cannon.
The wheels of the carriage were also specially designed, making them twice as wide as normal wheels. At the same time, they were equipped with a gear system. With four steeds, they could easily move a cannon, greatly increasing the mobility of the cannon.
Of course, due to the lack of rubber tires, the carriage still had its flaws. Not only could it not keep up with the steeds, but it could also easily get bogged down in rainy weather and muddy roads.
Moreover, they were on the main road. If they were marching in the wilderness, it would be even worse. They wouldn't even be able to cross a small hill or a ditch, let alone a mountain or a swamp.
To transport the eight cannons from Shanhai City to the Second Division's camp, the combat department took a full month, and they suffered a lot along the way.
Once the cannons got bogged down, it was almost impossible to drag them out.
There were a total of 12 cannons transported from Shanhai City, but only eight reached the frontline. The remaining four were scrapped during the transport.
Because of this, the P1 cannon didn't even have a chance to be used in the Battle of Lingnan.
The third change was the essence of the P1 cannon.
After Liu Mo and the others' research, combining the advantages of the Spanish and British cannons, the P1 cannon finally achieved projectile firing, achieving a historic breakthrough.
This way, not only did it increase the range of the cannon, but it also made it possible to bombard the top of the city, or even inside the city. Cannons were no longer useless for sieging a city, they could only bombard the city gates.
The P1 cannon was more of a siege weapon, and its first target was Xuan Wu Pass.
At the same time, in order to complement the projectile firing, the P1 cannon was also equipped with a special aiming device, greatly increasing the accuracy of the cannon. It was no longer dependent on the experience of the gunner.
In order to calibrate the aiming device that matched the P1 cannon, the Seventh Research Institute conducted thousands of bombardment tests outside the city, collecting the original orbital data bit by bit, before the final product was completed.
The three changes mentioned above were only the P1 cannon, which was the biggest improvement compared to the Frang machine cannon of the Ming Dynasty. There were more than 20 other small modifications, each of which was the blood and sweat of the researchers.
As the "Atlantis Mimic Aircraft Manufacturing Technology" was slowly digested by the Seventh Research Institute, coupled with the help of industrial revolution products such as steam engines and textile machines, the territory's industrialization level was expected to reach a new level by the end of the year.
By then, the Seventh Research Institute would start the research on the P2 cannon.
It was conceivable that the P2 cannon would be the real killing machine, and it might even change the way of war, truly introducing firearms into cold weapons, and play a decisive role.
The current P1 cannon was just a small test.
Even so, it was more than enough to give Xuan Wu Pass a hard time. With the help of this cannon, Zhang Han was confident that he would be able to take down the pass within a day and wash away his previous humiliation.
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