May 8, 1982.
Hong Kong Governor MacLehore stepped down and returned to his hometown in the UK. Many bigwigs from Hong Kong's business and political circles went to see him off, officially announcing the end of the "McLehore Era" in Hong Kong.
MacLeho is recognized as the most outstanding and loved by the Hong Kong governor in Hong Kong's history. During his tenure, he implemented measures such as the low-rent housing program, nine years of compulsory education, opening up new towns, creating the Independent Commission Against Corruption Office, building subways, local administrative reforms, and social welfare reforms, which made great contributions to the prosperity and development of Hong Kong and the improvement of life of ordinary citizens.
Major media reviewed McLehore's performance during his administration. The new Hong Kong Governor Youde was neglected, and ordinary citizens didn't care at all.
In this case, DreamWorks' "Happy Ghost 3 Happy Ghost" was released, and its film promotion was almost obscured by MacLeho's reports.
However, thanks to the reputation accumulated by the first two "Happy Ghosts", the box office of "Happy Ghosts 3" is in good condition, and the box office exceeded 1 million on the first day of its release.
The preparations for "The True Color of Heroes" have been completed, and the machines that print US dollars have also been made. In fact, they are just iron boxes as shells, and the messy lines inside are connected to control various signal lights.
Even in the United States, the current personal computer market has just entered its development period since its infancy. The rough counterfeit money making machine in the movie is simply science fiction for Asian audiences.
Seeing that the phone was about to worship the gods and turned on, Kang Jianfei suddenly received a call, and the content of the call made him both alert and laugh and cry.
The phone call was made by Qiu Degen, the boss of Far East Group. After the two of them had a few words, Qiu Degen revealed his true intention, which was to acquire Lishi shares in Kang Jianfei's hands.
Qiu Degen is in the parallel space, renamed Li's TV station to Asia TV Station, and the Miss Asia Beauty Pageant was also founded under him. ATV, hosted by Qiu Degen, was the most profitable and glorious period.
Kang Jianfei and Qiu Degenxu and Fushe were on the phone. Not only did he refuse, but he revealed that he was dissatisfied with the operating conditions of the TV station and wanted to sell the shares.
As soon as he hung up the phone, Kang Jianfei called everywhere, clamoring to hold another board meeting, saying that the TV station had suffered too serious losses this month.
After contacting the board meeting next week, Kang Jianfei asked someone to find out about Qiu Degen's background. There were no online encyclopedias in this era, so it was very difficult to check other people's information. Fortunately, Qiu Degen is famous in Hong Kong and it is easy to ask for a general question.
After some inquiry, Kang Jianfei realized that Qiu Degen was originally a movie player and had run several theaters. In the 1960s, Qiu Degen was spotted by the movie tycoon Lu Yuntao, and started making movies in full swing, fighting with Shaw Brothers.
As a result, when Cathay Pacific Telecom reached its most glorious development, Lu Yuntao encountered an air crash on his way to Taiwan, and Cathay Pacific never recovered. At that time, Qiu Degen's wife was also on the plane and was also Lu Yuntao's entourage.
After Qiu Degen died of his wife and boss's air crash, he sold his cinema and started other businesses. Hong Kong's famous Liyuan Amusement Park is his industry. His assets have increased several times in recent years, and he still has Far East Bank in his hands.
After figuring out the general situation of Qiu Degen, Kang Jianfei's pressure doubled, and the little money in his hand was far inferior to Qiu Degen. If Qiu Degen was determined to acquire Lishi, Kang Jianfei would not be able to compete at all, and he would kill him with money.
Kang Jianfei can no longer wait for next week's board of directors. He took Chen Shuli straight to the TV station director Martindale Jones appointed by Rio Tinto Mining.
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Martindale Jones has been having a bad day recently, due to the continuous losses of Lisboa. The group headquarters is already questioning his ability and demanding that Australia be built next week.
Damn yellow-skinned monkey!
Martindale Jones does not think he has done anything wrong. He attributed the reason for the failure of the TV station to the xenophobia and non-cooperation of Hong Kong employees.
In fact, there is no difference between right and wrong in the whole thing. It can only be said that working in a TV station in Hong Kong is very different from working in Australia. It can only be a failure to copy it by copying it in a blunt way.
Hong Kong's TV stations have been developing for more than ten years. Although they have various shortcomings and shortcomings, they have developed their own path.
When you go to a place to do things, you can’t think about changing the way you work locally, you can only force yourself to adapt.
For example, Xu Ke, who was successful in Hong Kong, was extremely difficult to make a living in Hollywood. The biggest problem is that Xu Ke has become accustomed to the way of filming in Hong Kong and cannot adapt to the United States at all. So Xu Ke has been in Hollywood and returned to Hong Kong shortly after, while Wu Yusen, who has adapted to Hollywood, has gained a foothold in the United States.
This is also the problem with several Australian directors. They are not trying to adapt to the Hong Kong routine, but to change Lissi into an Australian-style TV station.
After receiving Kang Jianfei's invitation, Martindale Jones slowly walked to the cafe near his home and waited. After reading a newspaper, Kang Jianfei came with the translator.
"Hello, Mr. Jones!" Kang Jianfei shook hands with Martindale Jones with a smile.
Martindale Jones didn't stand up, but nodded and said, "Please sit down. Is there anything wrong with Mr. Kang asking me out?"
Kang Jianfei said seriously: "Mr. Jones, as a shareholder of Lishi, I have the right to question your work ability. You have seriously affected the normal operation and development of the TV station."
Martindale Jones shrugged: "Mr. Kang, you don't have to say these words to me. I will go back to Australia next week, and Cra will send someone to be a director again."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Ri Tinto Mining is still interested in running a TV station?"
Martindale Jones probably left, and there was nothing to hide, and said, "Who knows, some shareholders want to withdraw their investment anyway."
Kang Jianfei said: "I'm afraid some shareholders want to withdraw their investments, but they have wanted to withdraw their investments but cannot find the one to take over?"
"You're right." Martindale Jones smiled.
In fact, this situation is normal. Those who have money to acquire Lishi are not interested, but those who are interested do not have that much money, because it costs at least hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to acquire the shares of three Australian shareholders.
However, Kang Jianfei's words were testing Martindale. He wanted to know if Qiu Degen had contacted Rio Tinto Mining first. If Kang Jianfei were Qiu Degen, he would quietly take down his 16.5% stake first, and then discuss the acquisition with the other three major shareholders.
It is precisely because of this that Kang Jianfei stabilized Qiu Degen on the phone and then came to communicate with other shareholders.
Kang Jianfei sighed, "To be honest, I have always wanted to do a good job in Li's TV station, but the situation is very bad now. If Rio Tinto Mining wants to take over the shares, I can go ahead."
"You?" Martindale Jones suddenly realized that his opportunity had come. If he had reached an acquisition agreement with Kang Jianfei, Rio Tinto Mining would make a big profit. Then the acquisition of the TV station was a successful investment, and no one would pursue the old debt that had made the TV station go crazy.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "I have no choice now. Either I withdraw my investment or acquire the shares in your hands. Otherwise, who can hold on if I continue to lose so much?"
Martindale Jones asked, "What price is Mr. Kang going to pay?"
Kang Jianfei calculated and said, "After acquiring Jardine & Standard Chartered shares, Rio Tinto Mining now owns 24% of Lishi's shares. According to your original acquisition price, it is already a huge hit."
Martindale Jones shrugged: "Impossible, there will be no failed investment in my hands."
Kang Jianfei sneered: "I can give you the original price it's already good, and I don't see what Lishi is like because you tossed it! Now, who will take over Li's TV station besides me?"
Kang Jianfei's words made Martindale Jones quite dismayed because when they acquired Lishi, Lishi was at the peak, and the ratings were steadily suppressing TVB, but now they have lost their glory.
However, Martindale Jones still shook his head firmly, stretched out six fingers and said, "Sixty million."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "You Rio Tinto Mining bought Lishi's shares for more than 40 million yuan, and then turned the TV station into a mess. Now you actually ask for 60 million yuan. You really know how to do business."
Martindale Jones sighed and said, "Okay. I can't make a decision anyway, I just want to discuss the price with you. The specific decision must be followed by the group headquarters. I will report your proposal to the headquarters as soon as possible, and hope we can continue to discuss it."
Kang Jianfei knew that this time there was absolutely no agreement, because Martindale could not make any decision and had to seek his opinion from above.
After leaving the cafe, Kang Jianfei breathed a lot of relief and took Chen Shuli to the next house.
After getting on the bus, Chen Shuli hesitated for a while and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Kang, are you going to get all the shares of Lishi? That's almost 200 million."
Kang Jianfei was too lazy to explain to her and blamed him: "Don't ask if you shouldn't."
"Oh." Chen Shuli shut up quite aggrievedly.
In the next half day, Kang Jianfei contacted the other two Australian consortiums, and the offer was outrageous. Davidson Press Group's 30% stake was actually worth 100 million yuan, which made Kang Jianfei so angry that he stuffed the guy's head into the toilet.
Since he still needed to leave some time for the three Australian consortiums to communicate with him, Kang Jianfei forced himself to stabilize himself. The next day, he started the filming of "The True Color of Heroes". But he could only pray in his heart, praying that Qiu Degen should not contact the Australian shareholders so quickly, otherwise once the money was spent, Lishi would belong to the Far East Group.
In the parallel space, Qiu Degen, who was not short of money, made a 50 million business into 100 million yuan when he first acquired Lishi shares, and directly used the money to become the major shareholder of the TV station.
Chapter completed!