Hong Kong Variety Show: The Development Notes of a Boss

Although Jiang Tiansheng was killed in the explosion while sitting in Fang Ting's car, this just proves that Fang Ting had nothing to do with the incident. After all, it was Fang Ting who was in the car at the beginning. If Jiang Tiansheng hadn't suddenly returned, it would have been Fang Ting who died.

The police never suspected Fang Ting, and naturally, the Hongxing side didn't suspect Fang Ting either, so after Jiang Tiansheng's funeral, Fang Ting left with ease.

After Jiang Tiansheng's accident, no one actively investigated the real culprit behind the incident. This was partly due to Jiang Tianyang's request, and partly because no one cared too much about Jiang Tiansheng's death.

Jiang Tiansheng only has a few confidants: Chen Yao, Chen Haonan, and Liang Ma.

As for Chen Yao, it was Chen Yao who secretly placed the bomb, and it is impossible for him to investigate himself.

As for Chen Haonan, although he was Jiang Tiansheng's confidant, he was the one who benefited the most when Jiang Tiansheng got into trouble. After Jiang Tianyang came to power, he looked down on the trivial matters in Causeway Bay. In order to win over Chen Haonan, Jiang Tianyang cancelled the leader's draw on the Causeway Bay gang. From now on, Chen Haonan was considered the real leader of the Causeway Bay gang.

In order to show his loyalty, Jiang Tianyang did not allow the investigation, so Chen Haonan naturally would not investigate privately.

As for Liang Ma, she was not Jiang Tiansheng's confidant, but rather Jiang Tiansheng's partner. When Jiang Tiansheng was alive, she naturally obeyed his orders, but now that he is gone, Liang Ma would naturally not cause trouble for herself for a dead person.

If a few of his confidants don't investigate the real culprit behind the scenes, it is even less likely that the leaders of other gangs will seek trouble for themselves.

More than a month after Jiang Tianyang returned to Hong Kong, he had finally finished his work and had established a firm foothold in Hongxing.

On this day, the third movie invested by Lu Yongqiang was released. Lu Yongqiang originally planned to keep a low profile. At the premiere, he did not invite any other people from the society except the investor Fatty Li.

Unexpectedly, on the day of the premiere, Jiang Tianyang actually brought most of the leaders of Hongxing to show his support. Since they gave him face, Lu Yongqiang naturally could not turn them away. When the movie was being shown, Lu Yongqiang personally accompanied Jiang Tianyang, sat next to him, and watched the movie with him.

Jiang Tianyang was watching the movie while chatting with Lu Yongqiang in a low voice.

Hearing the occasional laughter from the audience in the theater, Jiang Tianyang said softly, "Aqiang, judging by everyone's reactions, your film should be quite good. Have you calculated the approximate revenue?"

Jiang Tianyang finished speaking, and before Lu Yongqiang could open his mouth, Fatty Li next to him said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Jiang, the investment in this movie has already paid off in advertising alone. As for how much profit we make, it depends on the box office. Judging from everyone's reaction today, the box office of this movie should not be less than 40 million.

Let's take 40 million, for example. After deducting the theater and distributor fees, we can get 38% of the box office revenue, which is about 15 million. After that, selling various copyrights and discs should bring in more than 10 million. All in all, Aqiang and I can each get more than 10 million."

The last movie lost all the money. When the movie was released, Fat Li had a gloomy face the whole time. Now that the movie made money, he seemed very happy. It’s not that Fat Li is short-sighted and cares so much about the 10 million, but it’s a matter of face.

The previous movie lost money, but there were a lot of people complaining and saying all kinds of nasty things. Da Fei and Chen Haonan, who were at odds with Fat Lai, even went right up to him and said that Fat Lai was a fool. They even said privately that Lu Yongqiang deliberately tricked Fat Lai.

Although Lu Yongqiang did deliberately cheat Fatty Lai, this matter was brought up and made a lot of noise, which made Lu Yongqiang somewhat unhappy, so Lu Yongqiang asked Fatty Lai to invest in the new movie.

This movie made money, so Fat Lao Li naturally wanted to regain the face he had lost before. Originally, Fat Lao Li planned to wait until the total revenue came out before regaining his face, but when Jiang Tianyang spoke at this time, Fat Lao Li couldn't help but start showing off.

Jiang Tianyang didn't know much about the film industry. After Fatty Li finished speaking, he asked in surprise, "How can there be advertising revenue from making movies? Isn't it just about making money at the box office?"

Lu Yongqiang probably understood what Fatty Li was thinking, so he didn't interrupt him, but gave Fatty Li the opportunity to show off.

As expected, after Jiang Tianyang finished speaking, Fatty Li didn't give Lu Yongqiang a chance to speak. He opened his mouth and said, "Advertising revenue has always been the biggest part of a movie's income, especially for commercial movies. In a movie, you can quietly insert more than ten advertisements in the movie, each advertisement costs one to eight hundred thousand. With more than ten advertisements, the advertising revenue alone can be tens to twenty million.

For our film, in addition to advertising from Aqiang and several other companies, we also found seven or eight other companies to sponsor it. Mercedes-Benz and Lufthansa each contributed three million yuan in advertising fees, and all the cars and cell phones used in the film were also sponsored by these two companies, saving us millions in filming costs.

As Fatty Li finished speaking, Da Fei, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but say, "Fatty Li, if you say that, the advertising fees alone can make back the investment, then investing in movies is a sure win. How come I heard that you lost everything on your last movie? Did you lose tens of millions?"

After Da Fei finished speaking, Fatty Li was speechless. Da Fei was telling the truth. He lost a lot of money on his last movie.

At this time, Lu Yongqiang said: "There is no such thing as a guaranteed profit in this world. Not every movie is suitable for advertising, and not every movie can attract sponsorship.

The previous movie was an art film that told a story that happened more than ten years ago. The timeline was wrong, so it was difficult to attract sponsorship. In addition, the scene of the previous movie was simple, and the main plot took place in an apartment, which was not very suitable for advertising. Therefore, the previous movie basically had no advertising revenue.

Moreover, when investing in art films, people don't care about advertising revenue and box office revenue, but the copyright income and honor after the film wins an award.

This high risk means high returns. If the last film wins an international award, the copyright can easily sell for millions of dollars. Then not only can everyone make money, but they can also appear at award ceremonies and maybe even make international news. What a great honor that would be... Not to mention having a separate page in the family tree, at least they can sit at the same table with their great-grandfather in the future."

Seeing Lu Yongqiang speak, Da Fei didn't know what to say. He dared to confront Fatty Li in person, but he didn't dare to compete with Lu Yongqiang. To be honest, Da Fei owed Lu Yongqiang a lot of favors.

Not to mention that Lu Yongqiang introduced him to the red wine business, just talking about his son's last incident, Lu Yongqiang helped a lot, and Dafei has not yet repaid the favor he owes.

Jiang Tianyang was very good at winning people over. Seeing Da Fei feeling a little embarrassed after Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, he immediately said, "Aqiang, I came here not only to support you, but also to discuss the development of the club's nightclub with you."

"Over the past month, I've traveled around and learned about the operations of many nightclubs privately.

I've noticed that, aside from a few bars and nightclubs in Causeway Bay and Portland Street, nightclubs elsewhere aren't doing very well. For example, in Tuen Mun, aside from your Brothers Nightclub, the rest are barely making any money. One nightclub has been operating at a loss for almost the past six months.

Ah Qiang, I'm using the Tuen Mun pub as an example. I don't mean to blame you, I just want to know why the pub is not doing well."

After Jiang Tianyang finished speaking, Lu Yongqiang said, "Tuen Mun is not as prosperous as Causeway Bay and Bolan Street, which can attract a large number of foreign tourists. The places over there are basically doing business for local people.

My friend's nightclub stopped doing prostitution a long time ago. Back when the police weren't as strict as they are now, the gangs' nightclubs could make a little money by relying on women, but now that the police are strict, losing money is normal."

Before Lu Yongqiang became rich, there were five or six bars and three or four nightclubs in Tuen Mun. In fact, none of these nightclubs were formal venues. They all made money through gray businesses. They were either engaged in the flesh trade, secretly selling goods, or running gambling dens. Almost all of them were in name only and had a name but no substance.

After Lu Yongqiang became rich, he set up the Brothers Nightclub, which marked the first decent nightclub in Tuen Mun.

At that time, Tuen Mun was divided into four parts. Seeing that Lu Yongqiang's nightclub was making money, Dinosaur, Four Eyes and Zhao Tai followed suit and each opened a decent nightclub.

However, the consumption capacity in Tuen Mun is limited and it cannot support so many nightclubs. Later, except for the Brothers Nightclub, the nightclubs of others changed. They were no longer places for drinking and singing, but started to sell dog meat under the guise of sheep meat.

Like the bar that Siyan ran at that time, it was called a bar, but it was actually a stable. Almost no one who went to the bar drank, they all went in to look for girls.

There is also the Dinosaur Nightclub. It is called a nightclub, but it is actually a gambling den. People go there just to gamble.

The nightclub run by Zhao Tai went bankrupt in less than three months.

At that time, the society’s several nightclubs in Tuen Mun, whether it was Dinosaur, Small Eyes, or Lu Yongqiang, actually didn’t pay much attention to them. These venues were divided among the three of them and did not develop much, but could only barely maintain themselves.

Later, Luk Wing-keung took over the entire Tuen Mun, and all these messy venues fell into Luk Wing-keung's hands. Except for a few venues owned by social groups, all other venues were closed down by Luk Wing-keung.

In fact, Lu Yongqiang was also planning to close down the club's several venues, but the venues belonged to the club's properties and the club did not agree. Lu Yongqiang couldn't close them even if he wanted to, so he could only leave them alone.

Later, Jiang Tiansheng wanted to set up an entertainment service company and take back the management rights of several venues from the society. Lu Yongqiang agreed wholeheartedly.

Now, Lu Yongqiang is only responsible for sending people to look after these places, and they are run by people sent by the community. Whether the business is good or bad has nothing to do with Lu Yongqiang.

Before the police cracked down, these places could barely survive by selling dog meat under the guise of sheep meat. However, after the crackdown, they were basically in a loss-making state. Not only did they make no profit every month, but they had to pay the employees' wages. One nightclub had to pay a large amount of rent every month because it was rented.