Chapter 1021 Yang Ming’s Previous Profession!

Krikorian has always been a legend in Las Vegas, although he did not monopolize the gambling industry in Macau like Ho Hung-yen did.

Yang Ming had been to Las Vegas in his previous life and often heard of him.

Krikorian died in his home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles in 2015 at the age of 98.

At that time, Yang Ming was unable to cooperate with Krikorian.

Unexpectedly, this time, because of the acquisition of MGM-United Artists, he really had to cooperate with him.

Krikorian was in his seventies. At this time, he was not only wearing a suit and sunglasses, but also smoking a cigar.

It was difficult to meet him in Las Vegas.

Sir Yang, the chairman of the Empire Group, was different.

"Hello, Sir Yang."

Krikorian handed the cigar to the assistant next to him, and then greeted and shook hands with Yang Ming.

"Hello, Mr. Kirk."

Yang Ming shook hands with the other party.

Go into this more than 30-story luxury hotel.

These days, Yang Ming lives in the presidential suite of this five-star hotel.

There is everything here, including food, drink, entertainment, and gambling. However, Yang Ming is not interested in these things, and he will not let Chen Zhenhua and his people touch these things.

When Yang Ming checked into the presidential suite here.

Standing on the balcony of the presidential suite, he could see the desert in the distance.

In fact, the city of Las Vegas is developed along the valley, which is long. Except for the houses in the valley, there is desert in the distance.

Because of the low rainfall throughout the year, 90% of the water in Las Vegas comes from the Colorado River. This is a desert city that is extremely dependent on water resources.

Here, this city is completely for the rich and gamblers.

Whatever you want, you can get it here.

It is lunch time now.

Krikorian invited Yang Ming to have lunch together in the most luxurious western restaurant in the hotel.

In addition to Yang Ming, Lin Xiuzhi, He Chaoxuan, Park Jinhui, and Yuan Tianfan accompanied Yang Ming to have lunch with Krikorian.

Yuan Tianfan has been in contact with Krikorian during this period.

The two are quite familiar with each other.

The two sat down to have lunch in the luxurious restaurant, and Yang Ming found that it was authentic French food.

"Sir Yang, I heard that Lafite has been acquired by you now."

At this time, Lafite was not so well-known, but people who liked to drink red wine had heard of it.

Historically, Yang Ming knew that the reason why Lafite was so famous was entirely due to the hype of the Rothschild family, who took advantage of the opportunity to cooperate with Hollywood and often implanted Lafite into movies.

Even Hong Kong movies later often appeared Lafite.

This is a continuous advertising implantation.

The audience heard and watched a lot, and really thought that Lafite was the best red wine in the world.

Krikorian also liked to drink red wine. When he heard that Lafite Winery was completely acquired by the Empire Group, he was naturally a little surprised.

"Yes, it was acquired."

This acquisition was really nothing to him.

In the future, Lafite will still be cultivated as a French luxury product.

Yang Ming picked up the glass of red wine in front of him and toasted with Krikorian sitting opposite him, and then drank half a glass.

The French food here is very authentic.

When lunch was over.

It was already 14:30 in the afternoon.

Yang Ming, Krikorian, and Yuan Tianfan met in a conference room to discuss the acquisition of MGM-United Artists.

Historically, Krikorian resold MGM twice and bought it back twice, mainly because of his real purpose.

For Krikorian, MGM could not bring him much profit, and even the valuation did not increase.

For his real purpose, it played a very important role.

It was precisely because of that that he resold it twice and bought it back twice.

It means that if the price offered by the Empire Group is right, he is still very happy to sell MGM.

"Sir Yang, do you know why I want to buy MGM?"

"I guess it has something to do with Las Vegas."

"Sir Yang, you are a very good businessman. You guessed it right away. It is indeed the case. Most of the current Hollywood movies are losing money. However, it does play a very important role in other uses."

Yang Ming knows.

Hollywood blockbusters at this time.

Many movies have box office revenues of millions or even tens of millions of dollars, and the highest has box office revenues of over 100 million dollars. However, compared with the future Hollywood blockbusters that can easily make tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars, they are really far behind.

In addition, these Hollywood movies with high box office revenues may not have really sold that many box office revenues.

This involves Yang Ming's previous life.

Obviously, this is indeed the biggest use for Krikorian.

Yang Ming knew that as long as he took down these Hollywood movie giants and got the right movie script, it would still be very profitable.

"Sir Yang, let's put it this way. Your subordinates have been talking to us for a long time, and the price is not bad. However, if you agree to acquire MGM-United Artists, we can continue to cooperate, and I will agree to sell the film company to your Empire Group."

Continue to cooperate with Krikorian?

Yang Ming guessed what it was.

However, this is very risky.

Although Krikorian has an inherent advantage as a Las Vegas gambling tycoon, it would be very troublesome if he was found out.

Yang Ming's main business in his previous life was to do these things, and he knew it very well.

"Mr. Kirk, there are great risks here. The Empire Group is doing legitimate business, so there is no need to take risks."

"Sir Yang, please consider it first."

The two sides finished the preliminary talks.

Yang Ming and Yuan Tianfan returned to his presidential suite.

Yuan Tianfan just understood some of it, but not very well.

At this time, in addition to Yuan Tianfan, Lin Xiuzhi, Alina, and Park Jinhui were also here.

Yang Ming said: "This Mr. Krikorian, on the surface, is in the gambling industry, or even the film industry business, but in fact, it is not, but involves financial means."

Financial means?

When Yang Ming said the word money laundering, Yuan Tianfan was really surprised.

Yuan Tianfan was very smart and knew what it was immediately.

"Now Krikorian can sell MGM-UA to Empire Group, but he hopes to continue to cooperate with us to do that kind of thing after selling this movie giant to us."

"Boss, if that's the case, it's troublesome."

Yang Ming is indeed in trouble.

He was in this business in his previous life, so he was chased by the FBI for a long time and hid from the FBI.

Now he really doesn't need to cooperate with the other party on these things.

At this time, Krikorian is very clear that if Empire Group wants to get rid of MGM-UA, it must cooperate with the other party.

For Yang Ming, this is not a good thing.

Chapter 2!

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