First, we went to No. 10 Downing Street to communicate with the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Minister of Sports. Then we went to No. 12 Downing Street to exchange opinions with the heads of the Policy Liaison Group and the Consultation and Research Group.

The former is policy and the latter is propaganda.

In other words, if you agree to the former's policy, you will gain publicity support from the latter.

Then, Zhou Buqicai and Xue Baoshan held hands and walked back to their home at No. 4 Cowley Street.

"These guys are really wishful thinking!"

"Well, it feels pretty reliable."

Xue Baoshan nodded lightly.

Zhou Buqi said slowly: "Europe is an Internet desert and lacks a truly large Internet company. If Ziweixing Digital Media is split up, it will be based in the UK, which is enough to make them proud."

Xue Baoshan pursed her lips and said: "The UK is much better than the European continent. The English department here has some second-tier Silicon Valley talents, and it is more suitable for development."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, if there is an opportunity in Europe's Internet industry, it can only be in the United Kingdom. From a cultural value perspective, the United Kingdom is closer to the United States than to Europe."

This is very important.

The European Union is very white and left-wing. Its policies are heavily tilted towards the middle and low-income countries. It severely suppresses capital and imposes extremely high tax rates on large companies and wealthy people.

In contrast, Britain is more like the United States, with the two parties competing and compromising with each other. The main social discourse is "struggle to get rich" rather than "distribution to get rich".

In fact, "distributing wealth" is also possible. Europe is so developed, and under egalitarianism, it can also greatly solve social conflicts and reduce the gap between rich and poor.

But the question is how to solve the problem of work enthusiasm under distributism, and who holds the power of distribution.

Human nature is common, and idealistic saints are rare. Most people do evil if they have the power to distribute.

For example, organizations like UEFA, the Premier League, and La Liga collect all the profits of major clubs and carry out "unity," "fairness," "harmony," and "friendly" secondary distribution.

It's given to a few vested interest groups.

Another example is Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It is said that there is an economic crisis now. Spain's economy is in a mess, so it borrowed more than 40 billion euros from EU banks to solve people's livelihood. But after Spain got the money, it directly allocated a large amount of money and distributed it to big clubs. This allowed Real Madrid to make money this summer.

Able to spend more than 200 million euros, it has successively acquired top stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká, Benzema, and Xavi Alonso.

Depend on!

That was allocated to you by the European Union to provide employment for the common people, and you used it for player transfers!

In this kind of social environment, it is difficult for big companies and big capital to take root there.

What Zhou Buqi prefers is the concept of the "American Dream" and the "Chinese Dream", which call on everyone to rely on their own hands to work hard and get rich through hard work.

If everyone doesn't work hard, how can we create wealth? We cannot create wealth, let alone fair secondary distribution, and even the logic of distribution is gone.

From this point of view, it is easier to start a business in the UK than in continental Europe, and the employees are more diligent and serious. Instead of going on strike every day like France, thinking about retiring at the age of 30 or 40 like Germany, or early in the morning like Spain

I didn’t go to work until 11 o’clock.

Zhou Buqi continued: "The center of European football is in the Europa continent. The UK is a bit like the United States and is isolationist in the EU. Ziweixing Digital Media wants to engage in digital football, and this is their opportunity."

“Tilting the center of the football industry towards the UK through digital technology?”

"right."

Zhou Buqi responded clearly.

Xue Baoshan took a deep breath, thought slowly and said: "So the British authorities want to spin off Ziweixing Digital Media, just to do these two things well. First, to cultivate an Internet giant in the UK;

Second, promote the European football industry to tilt towards the UK."

"It can be regarded as their facade." Zhou Buqi shrugged, "Now the center of Europe is Germany, and there are really no big companies in the UK that can do anything."

Xue Baoshan looked around. There were very few people on the street. She raised her head and whispered: "What should we do? Do we want to split it up? The British authorities want to use you as a tool to run the high-tech football industry."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Businessmen are originally tools of politicians. Is there anything strange about it? It just depends on whether we can achieve unity of interests and whether everyone can get what they need."

Xue Baoshan heard the deep meaning in his words, her beautiful eyes sparkled, "Do you want to get more benefits from it?"

"Of course, cooperation is called mutual benefit and win-win. Otherwise, why should I respond to the call to break up Ziweixing Digital Media? We are doing legal and compliant business, and they can't force it."

The house on Cowley Street hired a British butler, a very gentlemanly man in his sixties. He was actually retired and worked part-time. When there were usually many people, he would go home. When there were few people, he would move in.

Come over to see the house and arrange some cleaning to come and take care of the housework.

After returning home, I found that he was arranging several housekeepers to clean the house.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Zhou Buqi went to the study, and then called several people in charge of Ziweixing Europe, Ziweixing UK, and Ziweixing Digital Media and asked them to come over for a meeting.

Let's discuss this matter.

This is important!

In fact, the moment the other party proposed to split up Ziweixing Digital Media, Zhou Buqi was tempted. Because of various interests considerations, he split the company Ziweixing Digital Media into a company headquartered in the UK.

The Internet giant that controls the football industry will truly serve his interests.

The UK is the core of Zhoubuqi’s business layout in Europe.

To ensure the smooth development of business and policy support, it is best to establish deep interest ties with the British authorities for mutual benefit.

Manchester United is one.

EMI was next.

Ziweixing Digital Media is the most important one. It has created an Internet giant around the football industry in the Internet desert of Europe. This will become a symbol of the UK similar to Big Ben!

…

The next morning, Zhou Buqi wanted to go downstairs in his pajamas to meet his guests.

Xue Baoshan stopped her and said angrily: "This is Britain, not the United States. You have to be more polite."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Oh, the dignity of a backward old empire."

Ten minutes later, Zhou Buqi put on his suit and tie, went to the small reception room on the first floor, and met British football boss David Dunn and a young man in his thirties wearing glasses.

This man's name is Decker Rick, and he is the president of Hawkeye Company.

Two months ago, Ziweixing acquired Eagle Eye Innovation Company for 7 million pounds and injected an additional 3 million pounds to help Eagle Eye survive the current economic crisis.

However, Hawkeye is still at a stage where it is unable to make ends meet and its business is not going smoothly.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Do you only provide technical services?"

Dyke said: "This is the case for the time being. We provide technical support for tennis matches. Through ball path tracking technology, we use technology to make more accurate decisions on referee decisions, making the game fairer, safer and more attractive.

.”

"Where's the equipment?"

"We will provide it and rent it to the tournament."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said: "In other words, your income can be divided into two parts, one is the rental income of the equipment, and the other is the technical support provided during the competition."

Dyke looked embarrassed and said, "This technology is still relatively new and has only been recognized in some tennis matches."

In other words, there is not much market demand.

If the demand is not large, it will be difficult for the seller to ask for a price, let alone rent and technical service fees. It would be good to receive money!

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Ziweixing is a big company, and big companies have the right to speak."

"ah?"

Deke's face was shaken and he was very excited.

It feels like something fun!

Zhou Buqi said: "The logic of Eagle Eye technology... let me briefly explain, is it to install high-speed cameras to capture the ball path at the millisecond level, and then use the video to assist in making penalties."

"Yes, that's it."

Dyke is the initiator of Eagle Eye technology, but he does not dare to be proud in front of Boss Zhou. Compared with other people's technical knowledge, Eagle Eye technology is really not worth mentioning.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's the price of the equipment?"

Dyke said: "The cost of a set of equipment is about 300,000 pounds. We...well, we can earn 20,000 pounds for one game. In the past year, we purchased a total of 10 sets of equipment to serve 135 tennis games.

The competition provided Hawkeye services and revenue reached £2.7 million."

10 sets of equipment, with a total investment of 3 million pounds.

In the past year, 2.7 million pounds were returned.

This rate of return is high enough.

Zhou Buqi then asked: "What about the depreciation of the equipment? 5 years? 10 years?"

Dyke replied: "It's hard to say. We don't have similar data yet. But according to our calculations, a set of equipment will last for 8-10 years. There is no big problem. The tennis game provides the Eagle Eye Challenge mode, which upgrades the equipment.

It’s not a lot of pressure.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, quite satisfied with this judgment, and then got down to the topic, "Get ready and try to enter the Premier League next season."

"Really?"

Decker was inexplicably excited.
To be continued...