Chapter 330 Famous Collector

“Boss, the game company said that some of the features you wrote cannot be implemented.”

When Liu Hongmin heard Feng Kan’s words, he couldn’t help but frowned, “What’s going on?”

Feng Kan said: “They said that the computer hardware was not up to standard and the game would be very large. There was serious lag during testing. I told them that the hardware manufacturer was upgrading. Then they said that the CG file was too large to play smoothly unless it was decompressed when the game was installed. But in that case, the size of the game would increase dramatically and would occupy most of the memory space on the player’s computer, causing the computer to lag even when not playing the game.”

Liu Hongmin said in a deep voice: “Let the hardware manufacturers continue to upgrade. If one generation doesn’t work, then two generations. Then find some software companies to create a special playback plug-in for the game to separate the original CG file and the decompressed file so that the CG can be played normally.”

“Ok!”

Feng Kan hung up the phone, and Liu Hongmin sighed slightly. With the Warcraft incident, he had taken too big a step.

His understanding of computer technology is superficial, so he ignores the fact that the development of technology also takes time. Forcibly using money to accelerate the development of a certain technology is equivalent to forcing the growth of seedlings. If you want to improve the entire industry, other technologies must also keep up.

However, Liu Hongmin did not give up and was determined to implement the plan no matter how difficult it was.

Lao Su can’t hold on for much longer, he must form a group of interests in Lao Mei before Lao Su falls. In this way, he can minimize the impact in the following turbulent times.

Owning MGM is like driving a nail into the American propaganda. There was a lot of opposition from the Americans, but since Liu Hongmin took over MGM, he has always been law-abiding and honest in making movies, relying on strong storylines to get high box office and boosting MGM’s stock price.

The rest of the technology companies are like sand in the Internet industry. However, Liu Hongmin has always been willing to invest and has used money to develop a lot of high-tech technologies. Some technologies are suitable for cooperation with other companies, but Liu Hongmin did not hold these high-tech technologies in his hands, but only asked to share and obtain the right to use them.

As a result, all technology companies think that Liu Hongmin is a rich man. Of course, those with vision know that Liu Hongmin wants to make money with these high-tech technologies, and make money from Americans.

However, these people have confidence in the US taxation and measures to limit capital outflows. If you make money in the US, you will first be taxed by the tax bureau. If you leave the country with the remaining funds, you will also have to pay a departure tax, which can be as high as 40% to 50%.

Liu Hongmin could transfer out a maximum of 30% of his earnings, and the rest remained in the United States.

They had a beautiful idea, how could Liu Hongmin not know about these tricks? How could he be fooled?

After Liu Hongmin made money from the companies he acquired and invested in, he would immediately find a lawyer to avoid taxes. The large team of lawyers would save him at least half of the tax. The money that should have been taxed all went to the various charitable activities controlled by Liu Hongmin.

Of course, in order to conceal his true intentions, Liu Hongmin would also donate to charity funds controlled by other people. The charity funds controlled by Liu Hongmin’s important partners, such as Jobs and Cameron, would receive donations from time to time.

Others would return the favor by donating to the charity fund controlled by Liu Hongmin. Frequent donations and mutual assistance allowed Liu Hongmin to form a huge interest group in the United States.

As for how to get money out of the charity fund, there is a special financial team to do it. They are proficient in various methods, and buy other people’s collections or other valuable waste in the name of investment. This is also the reason why collecting is popular in the West. It is often heard that a painting can be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. But when this painting is brought to the public, everyone knows that it is definitely not worth it. The buyers also know this, so they brag about how artistic this painting is.

After being packaged as art, people will feel that these paintings are of high quality, even if the paintings are rubbish and not even as good as those of elementary school students.

Later, they found that it was more cost-effective to package painters than to package paintings. As long as one painter was packaged, all of his paintings would increase in value. Especially for those painters who had died, as long as they said that they were born at the wrong time, they could raise the status of the painters.

When Liu Hongmin first came into contact with it, he felt that only Westerners knew how to play with it. Then he knew why the value of those collectibles had been rising year after year and had risen to an abnormal level.

Many declining Western aristocrats make a living by selling collectibles. After hyping up a painter, they sell the painter’s paintings at a high price. After getting tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, it is enough for them to live a life of luxury for the rest of their lives. And in their warehouses, there are thousands of such works, and their family can survive for thousands of generations with these works.

Ironic, right?
Liu Hongmin also found it ironic, but he still participated in it.

He would not be foolish enough to buy those expensive dead things, but would follow the example of the painters who hype the most works.

Last year, Christie’s auction house in Hong Kong sold a painting of Mr. Qi’s words for 65 million Hong Kong dollars. After paying taxes, Liu Hongmin made 60 million Hong Kong dollars. When he bought the painting, he only spent a few hundred yuan, and the cost was negligible.

This painting was bought by Liu Hongmin’s charitable fund in the United States in the name of investment. More importantly, it was replaced with a fake painting before it was shipped out of Hong Kong. The real one was sent back to Beijing by Liu Hongmin and preserved in the basement.

Over the years, Liu Hongmin has made money in this way many times, and he has reaped rich rewards every time.

Because of his frequent sales of collections, Liu Hongmin soon became famous in the Hong Kong collection community. Many people wanted to exchange collection experiences with Liu Hongmin, and even wanted to return collections to him.

Liu Hongmin never refused any offer, but what he wanted most was ancient books. If there were any precious ancient books, he would rather pay money to exchange them with the other party.

It seems that Liu Hongmin suffered a loss, but in fact he is sure to make a profit.

Although Liu Hongmin has a lot of collections, they were actually bought from cultural relic shops like Rongbaozhai. If they can be bought from cultural relic shops, they themselves are not of much value. Not to mention Mr. Qi’s words, because when Liu Hongmin bought them, Mr. Qi’s paintings were not of much value either.

It’s not that our cultural relics personnel don’t know the value of things, but there is indeed a gap between Mr. Qi’s paintings and real works of art. His paintings suddenly appeared in the past two days, which was completely hyped by Liu Hongmin.

Liu Hongmin was killing two birds with one stone by transferring money from the United States to his right hand while raising the prices of Mr. Qi’s paintings.

(End of this chapter)