A film series in the Republic of China: The legendary Taoist priest in Shanghai

Grand Shanghai Ballroom.

Amidst the noise, the pure and beautiful White Rose stepped down and was replaced by the gorgeous and charming Red Peony.

"hypocritically……."

The noisy audience finally calmed down when Red Peony's moving singing voice rang out.

Boss Gu, who was the leader of the trouble, and several of his men suddenly felt splitting abdominal pains. They didn't have time to get into the bathroom before their pants were sprayed with yellow water.

Just now, Yiping was singing on the stage, when suddenly a Boss Gu in a suit and a few thugs led by him clamored for Bai Meigui on the stage to sing a false song.

Hypocrisy is a vulgar song, and White Rose, who has the image of a pure and beautiful lady, would not bother to sing it.

She is going to sing, and without her pure and beautiful character, the White Rose's status will plummet.

The two pillars of Greater Shanghai, Red Peony is beautiful and sexy, while White Rose is pure and lovely.

The two complement each other and correspond to the needs of different cultural and age groups.

Boss Gu asked Bai Meigui to sing obscene songs, which was tantamount to destroying the reputation of Da Shanghai.

Fortunately, Red Peony came to the rescue in time, otherwise White Rose would have no way to step down.

When the Red Peony song started, Boss Gu got the punishment he deserved.

Four servings of croton powder were enough for Boss Gu and his men to go to the hospital for enema and gastric lavage, and then have to stay in the hospital for a full month before they could get out of bed.

"Mr. Xu, you did this, didn't you?"

The dance hall returned to normal, with guests continuing to dance and drink.

Wencai and Qin Wuye were sitting at the same table. Qin Wuye asked Wencai about Boss Gu's sudden incontinence.

"That's right, Master Wu. I hurt your customer. I'll pay you one thousand dollars."

Wencai said he was going to take out a check.

"No need. Gu Yingxiong is not a guest. He is Feng Jingyao's dog. He just came here to bark."

"It turns out that he is Boss Feng's man."

"Feng Jingyao recently opened a Regent nightclub, which is larger than the Grand Shanghai and Paramount. The girls in the dance troupe are all naked, and there are free cigarettes. The Paramount lost many customers to the Regent, but the Grand Shanghai was hardly affected."

"Well, Shanghai has a lot of background. It's hard for Regent to steal customers from Shanghai by taking shortcuts, so they sent people to cause trouble."

"Mr. Xu, that's a good idea. I also plan to make some changes. Let's just upgrade the style of Shanghai."

Grand Shanghai and Paramount are the two largest nightclubs in Shanghai. Although they are in the same industry, they actually have no intersection.

The main attraction of Da Shanghai is singing and dancing, which is more artistic. Even the beautiful Red Peony only shows her white back, which cannot be considered as selling her sex appeal.

Paramount plays a gray area, promoting socialite culture to meet the needs of many men.

In the words of later generations, it is the difference between a vegetarian place and a meat place.

To open a formal venue, you need to have a solid foundation. The dancers and singers need to rehearse, the team needs to cooperate, and there needs to be choreography, which requires even higher talent from the singers.

The most important point is that Shanghai has its own songs, which is unique in the whole of Shanghai.

There are many nightclubs all over Shanghai, but the only nightclub that has its own exclusive song is "Da Shanghai".

A song of misty rain was sung throughout Shanghai. The more popular the song became, the more popular the Grand Shanghai Ballroom became.

Boss Feng is now engaged in diversified industries, mainly because the "two-year drug ban, six-year smoking ban" crackdown started this year in the Republic of China is in full swing, and Feng Jingyao's main business of opium has been severely affected, so Boss Feng is undergoing a karmic transformation.

If a gangster wants to transform, he can't just fry dough sticks and sell soy milk. The underworld cannot do without pornography, gambling and drugs. If he can't deal with drugs, he will deal with pornography and gambling.

Boss Feng decided to suppress the new Shanghai gambling dragon four.

Huang, Boss Feng will definitely unify the nightclubs in Shanghai.

But this will bring hardship to the original nightclub and casino owners in Shanghai.

The big group's dimensionality reduction attack, Boss Feng, backed by the French, can monopolize any industry they want to develop.

Uncle Qin Wu is okay. He is not actually a gangster. He owns a lot of legitimate businesses, such as spinning mills and cloth factories.

Besides, Boss Feng can’t take away Shanghai’s business.

Because even if Boss Feng was rich, he couldn't create a mature song and dance troupe in a hurry, let alone find singers like White Rose and Red Peony to fill the scene.

Moreover, Gu Chaoxian, the person sent by Boss Feng to be in charge of the nightclub industry, was just the uncle of Gu Yingxiong who had just caused the trouble. He was originally an opium dealer, and he didn't know how to play in the entertainment industry.

In his hands, the nightclub became a low-life sex den.

The performances were all low-end striptease and pole dancing, and I heard there was also a midnight show...

It's really disgusting. At most, it can attract small hooligans and old perverts. It's impossible to accept high-end business bureaus, celebrity cocktail parties, and rich people's birthday parties.

Boss Feng invested more than one million in Regent, but in Gu Chaoxian's hands it turned into a low-class strip club.

This made Boss Feng so angry that he scolded Gu Chaoxian so much that he almost crawled under the table.

Gu Chaoxian, a reckless man who came from the underworld, did not reflect on himself or go to Shanghai to copy homework. Instead, he sent his nephew to cause trouble.

What a loser! Not even worth a finger of Xu Wenqiang.

It’s no wonder that Boss Feng values Xu Wenqiang.

These days the gangs are more and more concerned with eating brains, and it's the 20s and they either have axes, fists, a few guns or they go to Shanghai alone.

In the 1930s, Shanghai was dominated by college students and those who played with their brains.

Now, Master Qin Wu, who is resourceful, strategic and wealthy, has also seen through it all.

The future of the cultural industry of the Republic of China will definitely be a watershed.

The lower the better. It is not enough to just dance with thighs and show your thighs. You also have to dance with body and pole dancing.

The higher the place, the more you can't just hang a white rose or a red peony sign outside the door. You have to develop cultural industries, promote singers into singing stars and artists, turn nightclubs into concerts, and even better, make movies.

Therefore, Qin Wuye Hinata invited the coal boss who most wanted to engage in art in the Republic of China to discuss important matters.

I don't know what's going on, but the artists in the Republic of China are all obsessed with money, and the only songs they write are those hypocritical songs like "Shanghai Nights" and "Shanghai Nights".

However, the formerly wealthy but vulgar coal bosses suddenly changed their ways and began to truly pursue art.

It may be that the end of the world is approaching, and some strange negative energy has infected the way of heaven and distorted the moral laws of the entire world.

"Yes, that's right. It's better to be specialized than to be diverse, and it's better to be refined than to be specialized. Shanghai can't compete with Boss Feng in terms of unlimitedness. It's better for them to stop doing thigh dances and turn the nightclub into a music palace, promote singers to make movies, and then take on advertising endorsements."

What Master Qin Wu was thinking about was only a vague and unformed plan in his mind, but Wencai said it all out in one breath.

In a nutshell, it's all about promoting singers, converting traffic, making movies and taking commercials to make money.

"Promote singers, make movies, do commercials, do commercials. Can singers do commercials? How to do it?"

"Simple, like this."

Wencai slowly took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms. They were the Beauty brand cigarettes that Playboys must smoke when they go to entertainment venues.

The Beauty brand cigarettes have a strong tobacco aroma, but the packaging is simple. There is an ugly abstract ink-and-wash beauty's head printed on the front of the yellow paper box. The painting style is still that of a woman with long braids from the late Qing Dynasty. The face cannot be seen clearly, and the words "Beauty brand cigarettes" are written on the back.

"you mean?"

"Yes, think about it, if Red Peony or White Rose endorsed Beauty brand cigarettes and put their portraits on the cigarettes, that would be an endorsement advertisement."

Master Qin Wu suddenly realized: "Good idea, brilliant!"

"But taking the advertisement is not enough for White Rose and Red Peony to be famous now. Let's talk about this later. Let's talk about the current plan first."

"Yes, let me talk about the current plan first. I want to hire Mr. Xu as the art consultant of Shanghai Grand, and invest in Shanghai Grand through art. As long as Mr. Xu helps Shanghai Grand write songs and gives Shanghai Grand cultural development suggestions, I can give Mr. Xu 10% of the net profit."

"Investing in art? Interesting. Master Wu, you are such a master. I even doubt that you are a reincarnated person or a time traveler."

"Rebirth, time travel? What is that?"

"It's okay, I just said two random words. Anyway, Master Wu, your idea is good, I agree with it."

Wencai actually also thought that the Republic of China is becoming more and more formalized.

First ban drugs, then ban gambling, so opening casinos is not a long-term solution.

You still have to find a regular job and make a proper living.

"Okay, it's a deal."

"Well, a gentleman keeps his promise."

The two hands were clasped together.