Chapter 2225: Changing the Guard

If you have money in hand, how do you make it grow?

For many people, this is actually a difficult problem.

Of course, the amount isn't just a few dozen, a few thousand, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands—it's more.

For example, if you were given ten million, you might buy a luxury car.

But that's consumption, not making money grow.

How to make money is itself a very difficult thing.

Take Zhao Fusheng, for instance. His net worth now definitely exceeds ten billion US dollars, and that number is still growing.

Once Facebook goes public, that number might multiply by ten.

How is he supposed to spend all that money?

Buy luxury cars?

Buy luxury mansions?

Make investments?

No matter how he spends it, he has to admit that the rate at which the money is consumed lags far behind the rate at which he earns it.

For example, if he spends one billion dollars this year, his various subsidiaries could earn him two billion dollars.

So his wealth keeps increasing, not decreasing.

In his previous life, Zhao Fusheng watched a movie where the main plot was to spend thirty billion in one month.

Back then, he thought the movie was incredibly awesome!

It even came up with a ridiculous idea like fat insurance to complete the task.

But now, he realizes that was just a joke.

Once wealth accumulates to a certain level, it's very hard to make it disappear.

Unless you owe money to the bank and operate with negative assets, as long as a rich person's finances are healthy, it's almost impossible for them to go bankrupt.

The most obvious example is the super-rich in Hong Kong.

Each one is extremely low-key, but the amount of cash in their hands is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

The current Future Group is exactly like that.

Except for Future Film, which is a listed company with a large amount of cash raised, the rest of Zhao Fusheng's subsidiaries, including Future Investments, have very healthy finances and hold substantial funds.

When Zhao Fusheng told Fan Baobao to talk to Dong Chenxi about investments, he wasn't joking—it was the truth.

The funds Dong Chenxi can currently mobilize are at least three billion US dollars.

And that doesn't include the money Lee Boo-jin raised.

Moreover, under Zhao Fusheng's demand for stability, Future Investments has been scaling back its investment scale over the past two years.

In other words, Dong Chenxi now has a large sum of money but dares not invest lightly.

Or rather, even if she does invest, she needs to think it over very carefully.

But similarly, if she has Zhao Fusheng's backing, then it naturally doesn't matter.

Fan Baobao quickly contacted Dong Chenxi.

Upon hearing that Zhao Fusheng had sent Fan Baobao to her, Dong Chenxi didn't hesitate and directly allocated one hundred million to Fan Baobao's project.

Isn't that a bit too much?

When Fan Baobao heard the news, she was completely stunned.

This is just a plan to support female directors and screenwriters in China; we don't need that much money.

It's fine.

Dong Chenxi shook her head: "Your man is rich now, very rich. Since he's willing to let you come to me, it means he's very interested in this opportunity. So investing one hundred million is actually not much."

As she said this, she winked: "Boss's wife, even though it's art films, you don't want to invest in just two or three or even fewer, do you?"

Fan Baobao was left speechless.

She had to admit that Dong Chenxi made a lot of sense, and she was actually persuaded by her words.

To be honest, for Fan Baobao, she just felt she should do something, even if it wasn't to make money.

Of course, if she could help her husband make some money, that would be even better.

Although in reality, she knew very well that Zhao Fusheng didn't lack this money, and the time and money she spent could earn him much more in the same period.

But in Fan Baobao's view, that was still Zhao Fusheng's success.

Not something she had given him.

Zhao Fusheng naturally didn't know any of this. To him, since Fan Baobao, Zhou Yun, and the others wanted to do something, they should go ahead.

After all, it wasn't a big investment—just a few hundred million.

And in RMB at that.

Even if they lost this money, Zhao Fusheng could afford it.

That's the difference between the poor and the rich.

Soon, the project officially launched.

And surprisingly, it quickly caused a stir in the domestic film and television industry.

After all, this was an investment support plan specifically for female screenwriters and directors. In other words, as long as you were a woman with a good script in hand, you could apply for this funding.

Although it mainly focused on art films, under Yu Feihong's leadership, if a commercial film script was compelling enough, they would also invest.

Yu Feihong's reasoning was simple: most art films lose money, and they couldn't really lose all of Zhao Fusheng's investment. If a commercial film they invested in turned a profit, wouldn't that be even better?

Zhou Yun and Fan Baobao naturally had no objections; they respected Yu Feihong's opinion on this matter.

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Zhao Fusheng paid no attention to the commotion on Fan Baobao's side.

With Yu Feihong, a seasoned veteran, in charge, and Jiang Wen and others helping to promote it, even if they lost money, it wouldn't be much.

What he cared more about was the Future Group.

After formally signing the contract with Zhou Nianzu, Zheng Yao personally escorted Zhou Nianzu to Future Technology and announced the decision to restructure Future Technology.

Of course, she also personally announced the personnel appointments.

After all, Zheng Yao's prestige was very high throughout the Future Group.

Everyone knew that this seemingly amiable President Zheng was actually the person Zhao Fusheng trusted the most.

Although many people in Future Technology didn't understand the whole situation, they were all employees. Unless Dong Guoxiang himself raised objections, these people, even if they felt indignant for him or dissatisfied, wouldn't show it too obviously.

But it was clear that Dong Guoxiang was not dissatisfied at all; he accepted the appointment happily.

Just as he said to his trusted subordinates:

"I have never been suited for administrative management. Now that the company has someone who can do this job, why should I be unhappy? As for status, ha, do I need that?"

It is said that a wise person appears slow-witted. This saying fits Dong Guoxiang perfectly.

Anyone else would complain about the reduction in power, but he didn't. And the more he acted this way, the more trustworthy he became in Zhao Fusheng's eyes.

This is something others cannot match.