Hong Kong Variety Show: The Development Notes of a Boss

As Xu Huayan finished speaking, Chen Yaoqing's face changed. "Boss Xu, you're really destroying the bridge. We agreed on the terms back then, and now that Boss Jiang is gone, you're going to change your mind?"

Xu Huawen spoke up, "Brother Chen, you can't say that. I'm not trying to destroy bridges, but the situation is different now. When we were negotiating, we agreed to work together to bring down Boss Jiang, but what about now? Boss Jiang is dead for no apparent reason, and you and Brother Du didn't do anything, yet you're getting a 20% profit for nothing. This deal isn't a loss for you."

Du Lianshun looked at the Xu brothers unkindly, then said in a cold voice, "Boss Xu, if that's the case, then we should reconsider whether to support you as the leader. Perhaps Brother Chen and I should go to Boss Huang to test the waters. Maybe they'll be more generous."

Xu Huayan's eyes flashed with cruelty, and then he said with a smile: "Brother Du, why are you still the same as when you were young, always so impatient?

Aren't we sitting here today to discuss something? This discussion is the fundamental way to solve the problem. Don't just flip the table and say harsh words.

"Brother Du should know the reason why Huang Jun's wife was murdered. Huang Jun has been single for so many years. He is a man who is deeply in love. Are you so sure that he won't bring up the past after he takes over?"

Back then, Du Lianshun offended a red stick from the Number Gang and was chased by dozens of people. At that time, he happened to meet Huang Jun and his wife having a midnight snack at a roadside stall.

In order to save his own life, Du Lianshun led people to the roadside stall where Huang Jun was eating. In the end, he saved his life, but Huang Jun's wife had an accident.

At that time, Du Lianshun was just trying to save his life and never thought that such an accident would happen, but people did die because of him. Afterwards, Du Lianshun and Huang Jun had been at odds with each other. Huang Jun even sent someone to assassinate Du Lianshun. Du Lianshun knew that he was in the wrong, so he did not retaliate after being assassinated.

Later, the previous leader came forward to mediate. The leader at that time had a very high prestige, and with his intervention, Huang Jun calmed down. However, he continued to confront Du Lianshun afterwards.

Xu Huayan's words left Du Lianshun speechless. Xu Huawen then smoothed things over, saying, "Fifty percent! This is the limit my brother can do. If it's more, then we can just go our separate ways."

Xu Huawen's words were the final word. It's not that Xu Huawen's words were effective, but that 50% was the bottom line that both parties could accept.

The four people on Xu Huayan's side joined forces and fought with Huang Jun for almost a week. Xu Huayan took over as the leader of Xinji.

After Xu Huayan took office, he immediately announced that Xinji would undergo a comprehensive transformation, abandoning many of its previous gray industries and focusing on the entertainment industry. He established a film and television production company. As soon as the company was established, it immediately announced that it would prepare to shoot three large-scale films, with an investment of no less than 50 million for each film.

In addition to producing movies, they are also preparing to directly acquire a cinema chain.

In addition to its continuous activities in Hong Kong, Xinji has also made a series of moves in the north. First, it invested in several TV series, and then invested in the construction of a film and television city. In short, it behaves like a boy who spends money, causing a big stir in the entertainment industry.

While Xin Ji was making a lot of trouble, Hong Xing seemed to be very low-key and there was no movement on the street. The leaders were all busy with their own business. The leader Jiang Tiansheng stayed in the north for a long time. He missed the monthly gang meeting three times in a row.

The reason why Jiang Tiansheng stayed in the north for a long time was because of the battle with Hongxing and Xinji.

Jiang Tiansheng commanded eight gangs to smash and destroy Xinji's place at the same time. This battle was really exciting and allowed everyone to see the Hongxing's ability to act.

But afterwards, Director Shi came directly to Hong Kong to warn Jiang Tiansheng, saying that although Hongxing did not touch the gray industry, it had not changed the style of the Hongxing Triad group at all. At its root, it was still a criminal force, and Jiang Tiansheng was the leader of the criminal force and was the target of the government's resolute crackdown.

Director Shi's words frightened Jiang Tiansheng. After that, Jiang Tiansheng went to the north, saying that he was going there to invest, but in fact he was going to visit the leaders there.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. During this half year, there was not much change on Lu Yongqiang's side, and his several companies have been developing steadily as planned.

The new factories of the clothing company and the food company in the north have been completed and put into use. The food company has invested in three supporting breeding bases. Lu Yongqiang plans to invest in several more in the future, but the specific number of investments depends on the subsequent development of the food company.

As for Lu's Real Estate, Lu Yongqiang has sold many of the company's properties and land in Gangcheng. Now the company's development focus is in the north. Lu's Real Estate has developed three high-end real estate projects in the north, investing nearly 2 billion yuan.

In the past six months, Lu Yongqiang has focused his main energy on the beverage company, opening up the market with two tea beverages, black tea and green tea. Now the beverage company not only produces tea beverages, but also has entered into functional beverages, fruit juices, soda and other businesses, with a total of more than ten products.

The other companies are developing well, but the film and television company is a bit lagging behind. This is the second film invested by the company.

Liu Wei, obsessed with winning awards, spent six months filming the film, and nearly two months editing it. During this time, Lu Yongqiang invested over 10 million yuan. Liu Wei then excitedly entered the Venice Golden Lion Award, but then nothing happened. The film didn't make a splash, and it was a complete loss.

Fortunately, he found two scapegoats, otherwise Lu Yongqiang would have wanted to kill Liu Wei.

When Lu Yongqiang first knew that Liu Wei was planning to make an art film, he felt that it was unreliable, so he asked Fatty Lai and Wuliang to participate in the investment.

After Wuliang passed away, Fei Lao Li found a way to get his share of the investment. In this film, Fei Lao Li accounted for 60% of the investment.

The initial estimated investment was 15 million. Lu Yongqiang paid 6 million, accounting for 40% of the share, and Fatty Li and Wuliang each paid 4.5 million, accounting for 30% of the share.

In order to get Wuliang's investment share, Fei Lao Li spent about three million, which added up to an investment of almost eight million.

Later, everyone added a total of 12 million in investment in proportion. Fatty Li paid 60% of the 12 million, which was more than 7 million.

In total, Fat Lai invested nearly 15 million yuan in the entire movie.

This investment is not too much, but it is not too little either. If this film can win an award, it can make a lot of money just by selling the overseas copyright. Even if it does not win an award, it can be nominated at a film festival and it will be no problem to make back the investment.

However, it made no splash at the film festival, and naturally the overseas copyright could not be sold, so the film had to be brought back to Hong Kong for screening.

It was a bad movie, so Lu Yongqiang naturally didn't want to spend money on promotion. He just released it without any fanfare, so there was no hope for box office success.

On the first day of the film's release, the Hong Kong box office took in less than a million, only 760,000. On the second day, it fizzled out, with less than 400,000. On the third day, it dropped again, to just over 200,000. After three days of screening, major cinemas pulled the film from their shelves, leaving the total box office at less than 1.5 million.

Fatty Li is not a generous person. After losing more than 10 million, he dared not cause trouble for Lu Yongqiang, but he did not intend to let director Liu Wei go.

But Liu Wei is Lu Yongqiang's man after all. As the saying goes, when beating a dog, you have to look at the owner. If you want to cause trouble for Liu Wei, you have to look at Lu Yongqiang's attitude first.

In recent years, many associations in Hong Kong have invested in the film and television industry, not because they can make money by making movies or TV series, but because investing in filming can not only launder money, but also allow them to get close to those big stars. These two points are the main reasons that attract many association leaders to invest in the film and television industry.

However, almost all the companies under Lu Yongqiang's name are formal, so he doesn't need to go to the trouble of laundering money, and Lu Yongqiang has no idea about those big stars.

Therefore, Lu Yongqiang has never paid much attention to the film company. His only purpose in investing in Liu Wei to make a movie was to advertise his own industry.

When the movie was released, not only did the food company's sales soar by 30%, but the catering company's prices were also increased by 100 to 200 million yuan.

The first movie Liu Wei made indirectly brought Lu Yongqiang hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, so Lu Yongqiang invested in Liu Wei to make art films even though he knew that the films might lose money.

Before filming this movie, Lu Yongqiang was already prepared to lose money, so he didn't take the loss of tens of millions of dollars seriously.

The first movie made a lot of money, which made Liu Wei very proud. The second movie was a disaster, and Lu Yongqiang took the opportunity to teach him a lesson. So recently, Lu Yongqiang has been treating Liu Wei badly.

Liu Wei brought the script for the third movie, and Lu Yongqiang asked him to revise it three times, and still hasn't said whether it's okay or not.

Lu Yongqiang just wanted to give Liu Wei a warning, but this caused Fatty Li to misunderstand. He thought that Lu Yongqiang was also dissatisfied with Liu Wei, and the reason he didn't cause trouble for Liu Wei was that he didn't want to ruin his good reputation.

If Fatty Li had this misunderstanding, Liu Wei would be in big trouble.

Fatty Li has a lot of bad habits, including being stingy, jealous, sloppy, lustful, greedy, etc. However, the reason he has been able to survive in the underworld for decades is not because of good luck, but because of his caution and quick thinking.

Among all the leaders of Hung Hing, the most cautious one is Fat Lai. Back then, Chen Haonan led people to burn down his publishing house, causing him to lose millions.

At that time, although Chen Haonan was the confidant of Big Brother B, he did not even have a big identity in Hongxing, and was just a small fry.

A scoundrel caused him to lose millions. Fatty Li just cursed the heavens and the earth afterwards, but did not take any revenge.

If this happened to any other leader of Hongxing, even if it was Brother Ji who was a fence-sitter, Chen Haonan would have had the grass on his grave taller than a man.

There are tens of thousands of people on the Hongxing roster. The "Four-Nine Boys" are just the lowest level of the gang, while the "Big Boss" is already the decision-maker of the gang. The gap in status between the two is so huge that even if Fatty Lai sends someone to kill Chen Haonan, the gang will not pursue it. The "Four-Nine Boys" are just dispensable cannon fodder in the gang.