Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 301 Coal and a Part of the Entertainment Industry

Cheng Ye's body, weighing over 200 pounds, lunged forward like a mountain of flesh!

Instead of retreating, Lin Xingzhuo advanced, precisely cutting into his opponent's arms. His left arm locked his thick neck like an iron hoop, while his right hand simultaneously gripped his right upper arm.

He pushed off the ground with both legs, twisted his waist and body rapidly, arching his back and pulling Cheng Ye's center of gravity towards himself.

Use your hips as a fulcrum! Utilize the leverage of leg thrusts and waist arching to generate power!

A classic wrestling move involving a neck snap and a back throw!

Cheng Ye's immense feeling of weightlessness lasted only a moment before he was lifted up by a clever force. In a dizzying moment, his bulky body was slammed hard onto the floor, raising a fine dust cloud.

Boom! ! !

A muffled thud! The scene fell silent instantly!
Only Cheng Ye remained, lying on the ground, groaning in confusion...

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Lin Xingzhuo trained in classical wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with his private coach Lin Roujia for a year, and finally he was able to put his skills to use.

That move instantly put the situation under control!
Classical wrestling represents the pinnacle of human unarmed combat.

It's difficult to kill someone with one punch. But nowadays, everywhere is concrete, so if you can grab someone and throw them headfirst onto the ground, you'll end up with a mess of tofu pudding.

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Zhao Jiaban's Wang Jinlong, Tian Wa, and Xiao Pengfei wanted to step forward, but Xiao Shenyang saw through their intentions and quickly stopped them.

He is a tough guy who fought his way up in the East Scala. He entered a martial arts school at the age of 13, but dropped out because he couldn't afford the 3500 yuan tuition fee.

During the filming of "A Simple Noodle Story", he also broke Yu Zecheng's arm.

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In Liaodong, there's a Scala and a Red Barbarian District, and those who can make it big are all top-notch swordsmen and gunners.

You don't even need to order alcohol when you go in; the bottles will just fly over to you.

Important: Watch your head!
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If we only discuss unarmed, low-intensity folk martial arts, wrestling is absolutely in a class of its own!
Because the ground is always hard, while a person's fist is not.

The damage from a fall comes from the ground and gravity.

Therefore, this kind of injury applies equally to heavy-weight individuals; the heavier the individual, the harder they are hit on the ground, and the greater the recoil they experience.

An ordinary person who is slammed to the ground will need a long time to recover their mobility, and while they are on the ground, they are basically at the mercy of others.

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Lin Xingzhuo clearly held back his strength at the end of that attack.

Otherwise, even if Cheng Ye wasn't crippled, he would have to stay in the hospital for several months after this.

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Of course, ground techniques such as wrestling and jujitsu are limited to low-intensity, one-on-one folk combat.

If you encounter someone with knives or guns, or a group of people ganging up on you, nothing you practice will be effective...

There was once a Mongolian wrestler who roamed Northeast China and was invincible, defeating many top fighters.

At that time, Zheng Li, who had not yet made it big to CCTV's "News Broadcast" and was still training at Heilongjiang TV's "News Night Flight," went to interview as a program reporter.

This guy drank two bottles of elm seed liquor and then started shouting:
"Listen carefully, you have a thousand chances to throw a punch, but you better not let me touch you even once. Once I do, you're in big trouble."

"Little sister, someone like you, dressed so elegantly and with such a steady voice, I, your brother, can... make you wail and scream like a banshee, unable to get out of bed for three days, do you believe me?"

This guy was drunk and started grabbing the reporter, who had just left campus, and picked her up. Zheng Li was so scared that she cried and couldn't break free.

Several TV station staff members tried to pull them apart but couldn't, and the interview scene was in complete chaos.

Later, this wrestler got into trouble with Liu Yong, and that was the end of it...

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Back then, Andy Lau was slapped in the face by Liu Yong in Shenyang City.

Andy Lau sought help from Simon Yam to help Old Zhao, and in the end, the Northeast King intervened to mediate.

The event was held in a lavishly decorated venue, with Wang Duanxuan, the Northeast China champion of the "Duoer Women's New Host Competition," in attendance. Li Wenxi was also invited to help resolve the matter.

Liu Yong, after drinking too much, boasted at the dinner table about his experience in dealing with top-level wrestlers.

"Never engage a wrestler head-on. Always keep your distance, stay calm, release the safety, and point the pistol at his forehead! Bang! That'll take care of him!"

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Xiao Shenyang didn't have Liu Yong's ruthlessness, so naturally he didn't dare to go out with weapons.

The human bomb vehicle Cheng Ye was instantly killed! The commotion was like a bombshell dropped on the third floor of the academy's broadcasting building!!
The Zhao Family Troupe has suddenly gone quiet...

The bystanders, including Da Bing, Zhao Weiguo, Huang Hong, Hua Shao, Zuo Yan, and Zhu Dan, sprang up like mushrooms after rain to try and break up the fight.

Several girls pulled Ah Dan, who had been beaten up, aside and scolded her for speaking recklessly.

Sister Zhu, the deputy director of the program center, who had been punched twice, was also called over by the program producer, Li Xiong, and given a severe scolding.

It's a tradition in the entertainment industry that they help whoever wins.
The rehearsal ended on a sour note.

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When Xiao Shenyang, Wang Jinlong, Ya Dan and others took the bus back to the hotel.

As the vehicle passed by the school gate, several Jinbei vans were seen, from which more than a dozen workers got out, carrying sickles, shovels, and other tools. The boy in the lead was lighting a cigarette with Xiao Ma, Lin Xingzhuo's executive agent.

Seeing the scene, Xiao Pengfei was still shaken and said, "Senior brother, you didn't fall for nothing! If a fight broke out, we'd be in big trouble!" Cheng Ye was completely numb from the fall, lying on his side in the seat, looking at the landscaping workers outside the car window, and muttered:

"A bunch of landscaping workers, what a joke! They're just a bunch of coal smugglers! Back when our master was smuggling coal in Northeast China, these guys were still wearing open-crotch pants!"

Wearing the coat Wang Jindong handed her, covering her injured area, A-Dan angrily said:

"If this were in Northeast China! Damn it! I'd call that buddy from the detachment I met at the Lu Mingchun dinner last time, and have those two bastards arrested and locked up for a few days!"

"If you don't get a confession, keep charging until you do!"

Xiao Shenyang interrupted, saying, "Stop talking nonsense, he clearly held back just now..."

Tianwa opened a box of Changbai Mountain Tianyun cigarettes with a purplish-red hue and a gold peony pattern, and said:
"Jinyuan Huwei Coal Industry is a company in Jinyang Province, which spans almost half of China. How can it still do greening in the provincial capital of Yuezhou? Is it that impressive?"

"These kinds of greening projects are all the local bullies' private plots; outsiders have no chance of getting involved!"

"Last year, several people from Wenzhou invested in the greening projects at the six major exits of Harbin, spending millions of yuan to grease palms."

"Finally, the project manager and supervisor both fell into an ice hole, and the group slunk back to the border..."

Click!

Tianwa lit a cigarette for Xiao Shenyang, who, holding the cigarette between his fingers, said:
"So, I think the Tiger Shadow faction has very strong connections, so we can't force them!"

Wang Jinlong, while wiping the iodine off his wife Adan's scalp, also said:

"I've heard that Jinyuan Huwei Coal Industry is quite powerful. They control several coal mines in the grassland province, and now they want to get involved in the coal industry in Northeast China..."

Xiao Shenyang exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Hmm? It seems our master is also investing in some kind of coal mining business?"

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Tiger Shadow Star Glory and his group returned to the Kaiyuan Mingdu Hotel in Lin'an.

Lin Xingzhu lit a cigarette in the room.

In his previous life, when reviewing Zhao Benshan's "Ma Dashuai" trilogy, Lin Xingzhuo developed a great interest in this Northeast King.

I read two autobiographies about him, namely "Entrepreneur Zhao Benshan" and "Turning the Tables: Zhao Benshan".

"The Biography of Zhao Benshan" is the only personally authorized biography of Zhao Benshan.

It chronicles his arduous journey of losing his mother in childhood and learning a craft from his blind second uncle, including his rise to fame with "Shuai Sanxian" and the stories behind his collaborations with Gao Xiumin, Fan Wei, and others.

The book "Entrepreneur Zhao Benshan" contains even more explosive material, detailing his business empire and leading to a lawsuit filed by Zhao Benshan. It also faced significant cuts and was removed from the shelves by Xinhua Bookstore.

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As early as 1990, after participating in the Spring Festival Gala and performing in "Blind Date", Zhao Benshan became a top celebrity at that time.

Of course, Zhao Benshan was not satisfied with his success in the entertainment industry.

He wants more than just fame; he wants power!
In 1992, Zhao Benshan, whose Spring Festival Gala performance "I Want a Home" was a great success, started his own company, named Shenyang Benshan Art Development Corporation.

Judging from the name, he seems to be involved in the arts, but his true intentions are not what they seem.

The company's business also includes an unexpected project: coal transportation.

Uncle Benshan took advantage of the natural advantages of Northeast China to become a coal boss. The coal business enabled Zhao Benshan to successfully earn his first pot of gold, making 1600 million yuan in just one year.

Subsequently, Zhao Benshan leveraged his online presence to expand into various sectors, including film and television advertising, steel, timber, and coal.

Through diversified operations, Zhao Benshan met a group of friends in Northeast China who ran herbal medicine experience centers, organized probability competitions, and ran English training classes.

In 2001, Zhao Benshan began to build a two-person folk opera industry chain. Coming from a farming background, Zhao Benshan was very good at structuring his own business model.

He signed many Errenzhuan (a traditional Chinese folk art form) disciples and established Liu Laogen Grand Stage in many places.

A theater can host at least 800 performances a year. If you operate such a theater matrix, your annual revenue will be in the hundreds of millions.

By 2003, after Benshan Media's "Country Love" achieved phenomenal ratings.

The "Country Love" series has made Zhao Benshan a fortune, far exceeding the value of Liu Laogen Grand Stage.

Country Love is very down-to-earth and has a very low cost, with a cost of no more than 250,000 yuan per episode.

However, there are hundreds of product placements, online premiere rights, fees for two-person broadcasts, exclusive online broadcasting rights, and so on.

He can earn at least ten million per episode.

Zhao Benshan immediately registered the trademark for Liu Laogen, whose brand value is at least several hundred million yuan.

By 2009, Benshan Media had become a large group consisting of thirteen wholly-owned subsidiaries, with total assets exceeding 10 billion yuan.

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After finishing a cigarette, Lin Xingzhuo scribbled on a piece of paper.

Seeing the Northeast King's expansion into both industry and entertainment...

It looks familiar!
This... Tiger Group's coal capital strategy...

Jinyuan Huwei Coal Industry Company started out in the coal industry.

Recently, Gao Yue's sister-in-law, Shen Mojun, has been trying to acquire some high-quality coal mines in Liaodong Province and grassland provinces.

Now, through Tiger Shadow Star Brilliance Culture Media Co., Ltd., Tiger Eye Vision Group, and Tiger Roar Kirin Cinema Circuit, we are venturing into the entertainment industry, film industry, and cinema chain industry...

Holy crap! No wonder conflicts arise so easily!

Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die.

The two companies are using the same business model!

(End of this chapter)