Qi Dezun's betrayal midway basically determined the outcome of the 'Bull War'.
Even later, after discussions, the milk company attracted the listed company Chinachem Real Estate to reorganize its own real estate company, but it was already too late!
On November 28, Land announced unilaterally that it had exchanged 51% of the shares of the dairy company. So far, Land had achieved a decisive victory in this ‘cattle purchase war’.
Those shareholders of the dairy company who were still waiting on the sidelines finally couldn't sit still at this time and went to the offices of Yee Fu, Dolly or Pedder Street in Central to exchange Land shares.
Just two days later, Land announced again that it had exchanged 80% of the shares of the dairy company and announced that it would extend the share exchange proposal to December 15.
On December 15, Land announced that it had exchanged 90% of the shares of the dairy company.
Subsequently, in accordance with the Heung Kong Ordinance, Landmark will conduct a compulsory acquisition from the remaining dairy company shareholders.
Since then, the "Niu War", which had a profound impact on the history of Xiangjiang's commercial wars, has come to an end.
At this time, Zhou Xinian also chose to leave the milk company and resign from his position as director.
"Phew, the fight is finally over!"
At Fengwu Securities, Cao Yunshang looked at the contents of the newspaper and let out a sigh of relief.
Chu Huan sat next to him and laughed softly: "The two families are fighting each other to death, how can you be so excited?"
Cao Yunshang chuckled and said, "It's so enjoyable. This battle was so ups and downs that it was breathtaking!"
Then Cao Yunshang sighed: "In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the share exchange plan proposed by Land Land is not suitable for the shareholders of the dairy company, but they still chose to exchange shares in the end!"
Chu Huan also agreed: "There is no way around it. Compared to the dairy company, those shareholders are more optimistic about Land's future development prospects, so they would rather suffer a temporary loss. This is the natural gap between the two parties."
Cao Yunshang said with some worry: "But when I think that Land Land actually won the milk company without spending a penny, I think Land's arrogance will be even more arrogant from now on!"
Chu Huan said nonchalantly: "Even if this incident hadn't happened, don't you think Land's arrogance wouldn't be arrogant?"
Cao Yunshang rolled her eyes at Chu Huan: "Aren't I worried about you? Since you are determined to be in the real estate industry, you will definitely run into Land and Land in the future. Won't it be troublesome then?"
"Haha!" Chu Huan laughed loudly: "I am a person who has not even established a real estate company, and now you are worried about me that I will compete with Land and Land in the future. If outsiders hear this, I am afraid they will laugh out loud!"
Cao Yunshang curled her lips slightly and said nonchalantly: "I don't care what others think, anyway, I just know that you will definitely be able to compete with Land Land when the time comes!"
This is trust without reason.
However, Chu Huan was very satisfied with this kind of trust. He took Cao Yunshang into his arms and said with a smile: "Maybe one day, you will be the wife of Landmark Taipan!"
Cao Yunshang was startled by Chu Huan's words. She turned around in Chu Huan's arms, leaned against Chu Huan's body, and looked at Chu Huan in surprise: "You want to acquire Land?"
"Why don't you want to? I think there is no company that does real estate business in Xiangjiang that doesn't want to acquire land!" Chu Huan said seriously.
Seeing Chu Huan's serious look, Cao Yunshang didn't speak for a long time, and then suddenly broke away from Chu Huan's arms and preached a little crazy.
"If you want to acquire Land, I'm afraid it's not that easy. You must first become a shareholder of their company, so that you can truly play the poker table...
No, even if you get on the poker table, there are still a lot of troubles. By the way, you said before that due to the acquisition of the milk company, Land's equity has become more fragmented. We can secretly acquire some of Land's shares...
But this process must be done carefully to prevent Land and the people from Yihe from discovering it, which means that this process will definitely take a long time.
Also, moreover, if you want to get the land, you must go up against Jardine. According to Jardine’s influence in Hong Kong, even the Hong Kong government will be alarmed, and the Hong Kong government will most likely
, must be on the side of Yihe.
These problems are not easy to solve..."
Seeing Cao Yunshang walking back and forth, looking like he was frantically analyzing the possibility of acquiring land, Chu Huan once again took Cao Yunshang into his arms and said with a smile.
"Okay, that will happen a few years later. It's too far to think about it now, so let's solve the immediate matter first!"
Cao Yunshang circled around again and took the initiative to hug Chu Huan. Because of the excitement just now, his cheeks were slightly red, "Liu Zhiyuan is already operating, with 50 million Hong Kong dollars, he will buy the Hang Seng Index in batches at the end of this month.
It can be completed.”
In late November, Chu Huan finally decided how to maximize his extra 58 million profits. He set aside 8 million in cash as working capital and used the remaining 50 million to buy the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index again.
After the stimulation of the "Bull War", the Hang Seng Index has broken through to the 800-point mark at this time, but this is not the end.
By March next year, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index will break through the 1,770 point mark, more than doubling in value. This is the most tangible benefit to Chu Huan.
"Didn't you say that the stock market in Xiangjiang is a little abnormal? Why are you still buying the Hang Seng Index?" Cao Yunshang leaned into Chu Huan's arms and asked softly.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "At least at this stage, it seems that it has not reached its peak."
Cao Yunshang saw Chu Huan's confident eyes and said nothing.
...
While the whole of Hong Kong was paying attention to the 'Bull War', one person had already set his sights on the establishment of the Fantasy Comics Club.
This man is called Huang Yulang, and he is now the boss of Yulang Book Company!
In fact, Chu Huan thought about something wrong. At this time, Huang Yulang was not working for others, but had become a boss, and this was not the first time he had become a boss.
Huang Yulang, formerly known as Huang Zhenlong, was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province in 1951.
When I was 7 years old, I came to Xiangjiang with my father. I came from a humble family, so I started to make a living after graduating from middle school.
When he was 13 years old, Huang Yulang joined the Times Comics Club as a part-time job. He had a special talent for comics. He secretly learned to draw in his spare time, and he could actually draw human figures and ghosts.
Unfortunately, he had not yet been promoted to a painter, the painting club was in recession, and Huang Yulang was fired.
Huang Yulang, who was only 15 years old, was an ambitious man. After he was fired, he did not seek a job. Instead, he pestered his father to lend him 1,000 Hong Kong dollars and became his own boss. An artist opened a comic book company and published "The World of Laughter".
Figure books (comic books).
But the good times didn't last long, only 5 issues were published, and the company lost all its capital and closed its doors.
By 1969, Huang Yulang had already started his own business several times and held office several times. He had not made any money, but he had learned a lot of skills.
With no money on hand, he had no choice but to pick up a bald pen and work as an artist at Haiyan Publishing House. He drew a set of "Little Silly Fairy" under the pen name of Huang Xuansheng. This set of comics attracted the attention of Ding Xiaoxiang, a celebrity in the comics industry, who was very optimistic about Huang Yulang's painting talent.
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At this time, the "Superman" TV series in North America was booming. Ding asked Huang Yulang to produce a series of "Son of Superman". Huang Yulang had a contract with Haiyan, and in order to "hide Hai Feiyan", Ding gave Huang Zhenlong a pen name.
——Huang Yulang.
"Son of Superman" became a best-selling doll book after its publication. From then on, all the doll books drawn by Huang were signed by Huang Yulang, and not many people knew his original name.
"Son of Superman" became popular, and Huang Yulang relapsed into his old addiction as a boss, so he jumped ship and opened Diamond Publishing House.
Huang became popular for a while, but due to poor financial management, the publishing house changed owners.
Huang Yulang worked as an emperor with the new boss. In addition to being paid for painting, he also had to participate in dividends.
In 1971, Huang Yulang became the boss again and established Yulang Book Company.
Judging from Huang Yulang's life experience during this period, we can know that this person is an ambitious person.
At this time, he not only had his own book company, but also wanted to start his own newspaper like Jin Yong did.
But now, the matter of running a newspaper can only exist in his plan.
At this time, Huang Yulang was holding a copy of "Sing Tao Daily" in his hands, and the focus of his attention was not the news in "Sing Tao Daily", but an advertisement!
The content of the advertisement is actually very simple, it is a cartoon.
In the comic, a young man wears ancient costumes and makes an attacking stance. In front of the young man, eighteen majestic Chinese dragons attack the young man's opponent with violent winds and rain.
On one side of the comic, there is a passage marked: Is this the "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon" in your mind?
Marked on the other side is another paragraph: On January 1, 1973, Fantasy Comics opened a brand new door to martial arts for you!
Looking at this advertisement, Huang Yulang looked gloomy. At this time, Huang Yulang was already a banner of Xiangjiang Comics. Except for Shangguan Xiaobao, Huang Yulang did not take anyone in his eyes.
But now that this new fantasy comic has appeared, he has to take it seriously!
After the time entered December, due to the end of the "Bull War", the major newspapers in Hong Kong returned to the previous situation and published other advertisements.
At this time, advertisements for fantasy comics suddenly emerged, and advertisements had been published in major newspapers in Hong Kong for half a month.
This successfully aroused the interest of Xiangjiang comics fans.
There are also some publishing industries who are very interested in this. Who is this new comic magazine? It is so rich that it has been advertising for a comic magazine for such a long time.
If previous recruitment advertisements are included, Fantasy Comics has actually been in the sight of Xiangjiang citizens for nearly two months.
Huang Yulang didn't take Fantasy Comics seriously at first, but when he found out that the boss behind Fantasy Comics was actually Chu Huan, he had to be very alert.
Huang Yulang didn't believe that Chu Huan knew anything about comics, but Huang Yulang had to admit that Chu Huan was very capable in business.
When Chu Huan founded Black and White Video, he did not personally direct or star in a movie. Now, it is not relying on his financial ability that has turned Black and White Video into the third largest film company in Hong Kong.
The first film directed by Hung Kam-po in Black and White broke his own box office record and exceeded one million box office, and then the second film "San De Monk and Chung Mi Liu" released this month set a new record.
Fifteen days after its release, the box office has exceeded the record of one million, and it is on its way to two million. Now Hong Kong film magazines are praising Hung Kam-po for creating a new formula for Hong Kong Kung Fu movies.
As a result, Hong Jinbao claimed in the interview that the reason why he was able to think of such a martial arts style was because he accepted Chu Huan's suggestion and came up with such an idea.
Regardless of whether this is true or not, with two consecutive films that have exceeded one million in box office, Hung Kam-bao has officially secured his position as a first-line movie star in Hong Kong.
Naturally, the reputation of black and white images becomes even louder.
Not to mention the great director Li Hanxiang who has a Dinghai Shenzhen version of the black and white video.
Facing such an opponent, it is impossible to say that Huang Yulang is not worried.
After learning that the boss behind Fantasy Comics was Chu Huan, Huang Yulang immediately launched an investigation into Fantasy Comics.
This investigation was not trivial, but the result shocked Huang Yulang.
As expected, Chu Huan used his money-making ability and hired Kamikura Yasuo, a general under Osamu Tezuka in Japan, to take charge of the daily work of Fantasy Comics.
At the same time, 16 Japanese painters were recruited... Tomioka Masaru was regarded as an ordinary painter by Huang Yulang.
But Huang Yulang has his own pride. This opponent needs to be taken seriously, but he must not lose his prestige.
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Huang Yulang thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and paper and began to write an article. Huang Yulang quickly finished writing a few hundred words, and then called his secretary.
"Send this statement to Tiantian Daily and ask them to publish it tomorrow."
The secretary took the statement and glanced at it briefly, only to find that it was Huang Yulang's statement criticizing fantasy comics.
Of course she knew about fantasy comics. They were in the newspapers every day, so it was difficult not to know about them.
It's just that the first issue of this comic magazine hasn't been released yet, so why did it arouse the dissatisfaction of my boss?
Although he had doubts in his heart, the secretary did not dare to ask. Everyone knew that Huang Yulang was arbitrary and no one was allowed to have different opinions on his opinions in the company.
"yes!"
After agreeing to Huang Yulang's instructions, the secretary turned around and left.
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At this time, Chu Huan did not know that Huang Yulang had already regarded him as an imaginary enemy, but came to the set of Shaw Brothers Clear Water Bay to visit!
It's not Li Hanxiang's new movie, but the movie "Chu Liuxiang" directed by Chu Yuan, starring Ti Lung, and adapted from Gu Long's novel "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang"!
Chu Huan and Shao Yifu originally made a bet on the box office of the two movies "The Big Boss" and "Young People". The content of the bet was that if Shaw Brothers' "Young People" won the box office, Shanhai Cinemas would provide a box office every year.
The monthly schedule will be full of Shaw Brothers movies.
If the black-and-white version of "The Big Boss" wins at the box office, then Chu Huan can select a director and an actor in Shaw Brothers to shoot a movie for the black-and-white movie every year.
The box office of the movie "The Big Boss" has completely beat that of "Young People", so naturally Chu Huan won the bet.
Originally, Chu Huan was a little worried at first. By using people from Shaw Brothers, he was indirectly helping Shaw Brothers to promote people, so Chu Huan never made up his mind to use people from Shaw Brothers.
But with the establishment of Fantasy Comics, Chu Huan's thoughts slowly changed.
If you want fantasy comics to become an instant hit, you need a variety of publicity methods.
What kind of publicity method can compare with the release of a blockbuster movie?
Didn’t you see that at some point in the future, whenever a movie, TV series, or comic adapted from a novel is released, it will lead to electronic subscriptions to the original work.
This is a process of mutual support.
So at the beginning of November when the 'Niu War' was in full swing, Chu Huan found Shao Yifu and asked him to fulfill their bet.
Although Shao Yifu regards Chu Huan as one of his most important opponents, he is not a person who breaks his word. However, during the negotiation process with Chu Huan, he also made it clear that Chu Huan would not borrow money as he said before.
Zhang Che's.
Naturally, Chu Huan would not borrow Zhang Che, he would borrow Chu Yuan.
Shao Yifu had no choice but to agree, and then Chu Huan borrowed Ti Lung, who was absolutely handsome in the film industry at this time!
Of course, as for the screenwriter of the movie "Chu Liuxiang", Chu Huan still found Ni Yu.
Although the two of them had some unpleasantness when they were preparing for the filming of Li Xiaolong's movie "Fist of Fury", Chu Huan never thought about being friends with Ni Zhen. I give money and you do things. This is the relationship between the two parties.
"Director Chu, how was the filming of the movie?"
After Chu Huan arrived at Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay studio, the crew of "Chu Liuxiang" took a break.
Chu Huan came directly to Chu Yuan.
Although Black and White Image and Shaw Brothers have a hostile relationship, that is a matter between Chu Huan and Shao Yifu. Chu Yuan is only a contracted director of Shaw Brothers. Now that he is helping Black and White Image make movies, he will naturally do the same when facing Chu Huan.
Very polite.
"It went very smoothly. Regarding the release on the 15th next month as mentioned by Mr. Huan, there is definitely no problem!"
Although the movie "Chu Liuxiang" is still in the filming stage, Chu Huan has already set a release date, January 15, 1973!
In fact, if this movie can be released on January 1st, this time will be the best.
But this is not the best time to maximize profits.
First of all, if this movie is released at this time, the opponent he will face directly is Li Xiaolong's "The River". In this era, if you want to compete with Li Xiaolong's movie, you are basically courting death.
Even the movie "Chu Liuxiang" is no exception.
At the same time, Chu Huan had previously promised Li Xiaolong that Shanhai Cinemas would give its full support when his movie "Crossing the Dragon" is released.
By the 15th, the popularity of the movie "Enter the Dragon" in Xiangjiang must have been halved. At that time, Shanhai Cinemas can also download "Enter the Dragon" and leave Jiahe's own theater
This movie is released online.
"Then the next period of time will be troublesome for Director Chu. After the movie is released, I will send a big red envelope to Director Chu!"
Chu Huan smiled and said to Chu Yuan.
It is a pity that the contract signed between Chu Yuan and Shaw Brothers was too long, and it would have continued into the 1980s. Otherwise, Chu Huan really wanted to sign Chu Yuan to Black and White Video.
If Black and White Image at this time can have two great directors like Li Hanxiang and Chu Yuan, then Black and White Image will really not have to worry about the box office of their company's movies in the next ten years. What's more, at this time, Black and White Image has a growing number of
Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long and Xu Guanwen.
"I've known for a long time that Mr. Huan is quite generous to his employees, but I didn't expect that we can enjoy it this time too!"
Chu Yuan and Chu Huan were joking.
"The purpose of making movies is to make money. Once you make money, naturally everyone will be happy." Chu Huan said with a smile.
"Huan Shao is still more generous!" Chu Yuan spoke the truth this time.
Everything is good when making a movie in Shaw Brothers. The only thing is that the budget is stuck. An established film director like Chu Yuan is better off. If it is replaced by a new director, it will really be too much.
Immortal to death!
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So stingy!
Even a director like Chu Yuan, when his box office performance was not satisfactory in the later period, could almost be described as "swept out" to describe the situation when he left Shaw Brothers.
At that time, Chu Yuan made several movies in succession and wanted to use "Dragon" to restore his reputation. At that time, Chu Yuan had already issued an announcement in Shaw Brothers. As a result, Fang Yihua was completely under one person in Shaw Brothers at that time.
, took the notice directly to Chu Yuan's office, and tore up his notice in front of Chu Yuan.
And he reprimanded loudly: "Who asked you to make Tian Long Ba Part? Can you compensate for the loss? Chu Yuan, you don't know how to make movies!"
It can be said that Chu Yuan at that time was the most embarrassing film director in the entire Shaw Brothers!
"That's natural. As long as Director Chu needs it, he can come to me at any time. Then Director Chu, you will be able to truly know how generous I am!"
Chu Huanyi gave a meaningful sermon.
Chu Yuan also understood what Chu Huan meant, but he just smiled and didn't say anything.
At this time, Chu Yuan's treatment at Shaw Brothers was very good. Naturally, he never imagined what kind of treatment he would receive one day in the future.
Seeing that Chu Yuan did not respond, Chu Huan did not continue the topic. After chatting for a few words, Chu Huan came to Di Long's side.
Ti Lung, wearing a black costume, is really handsome at this moment.
To put it bluntly, compared to today's Dillon, those little fresh meats of later generations are no different than one or two blocks apart.
However, it may also be because Di Lung always shoots costumes and needs to wear a headgear, which caused Di Lung's hairline to recede so much that even Lord Baylor pales in comparison to him.
In Xiangjiang, in addition to Di Long having this trouble, there is another person who also has such trouble, and that is Qiu Guan.
Qiuguan's ancient costume looks chic and elegant, but in fact Qiuguan is a Mediterranean person and has been wearing a wig for many years.
The only time he made his image public was at the funeral of his ex-wife, and he was called a bitch by Deng Guangrong...
"Young Master Huan!"
After meeting Chu Huan, Di Long, like Chu Yuan, was very polite.
He also understands that judging from the current situation, the rise of black and white images is unstoppable and will inevitably become a force that cannot be ignored in the Hong Kong film industry in the future.
As an actor myself, there is no need to offend a powerful film company boss for the sake of Shaw Brothers.
Another person who was later kicked out by Shaw Brothers!
Ti Lung's situation is not much better than that of Chu Yuan. As one of Shaw Brothers' most box-office actors in the 1970s, with the decline of Shaw Brothers' influence, Ti Lung no longer has box-office appeal.
As a result, he was abandoned by Shaw Brothers!
Fortunately, the movie "A Better Tomorrow" was released later, which revitalized Ti Lung's career. Otherwise, there would really be very few viewers who could remember Ti Lung in future generations!
"How about, what's the difference between shooting for black and white and shooting for Shaw Brothers?"
Of course it's different. The treatment for black and white films is really great. Not to mention the extra salary, even the lunch boxes we usually eat are better than those at Shaw Brothers.
I thought so, but I definitely can't say that. After all, Ti Lung is still a contracted actor of Shaw Brothers.
"Everything is fine. Thank you, Mr. Huan, for taking care of me!" Di Long said politely.
Seeing Di Long's attitude at this time, Chu Huan understood that Di Long was just like Chu Yuan now, and it was not easy to poach him.
I can only try slowly.
But Chu Huan will definitely not follow up on the follow-up matters personally, and will just leave it to Black and White Image to handle it himself.
After chatting with Chu Yuan and Di Long on the crew for a while, Chu Huan went to Shao Yifu's office again. In fact, the main purpose of coming here this time was to meet Shao Yifu.
"Ah Huan, I remember that we are already an alliance, why do you still want to help Jiahe?"
After Shao Yifu saw Chu Huan, he suddenly became somewhat dissatisfied.
At this time, Chu Huan and even Shao Yifu couldn't say anything in such a strong tone.
The thing that makes Yifu Shao dissatisfied is actually the screening of "The Way of the Dragon" by Shanhai Cinema.
"Uncle Six, I didn't help Jiahe with this matter. Besides, when we agreed on this matter with Brother Long, we hadn't formed an alliance yet. Uncle Six, you can't let me be a little person who doesn't keep his word."
Human?"
Chu Huan didn't pay much attention to the sermon.
He understood what Shao Yifu meant. He said it was for Li Xiaolong's matter. In fact, he just wanted to give himself some psychological hints to remind him not to forget that the alliance between Shaw Brothers and Black and White Image was now, and Jiahe was their enemy!
Shao Yifu said: "You can only make Jiahe more proud, and it will not do any good for our plan."
Chu Huan said: "Uncle Six, to be fair, even if Shanhai Cinema did not release the movie "The Way of the Dragon", do you think the box office of this movie in Hong Kong would be poor?
At this time, it is hard to say that Li Xiaolong’s status in the Hong Kong film industry is at its peak. It would not be the same with or without our Shanhai Cinemas!"
Since Shao Yifu didn't really want to break up with Chu Huan because of this matter, he naturally wouldn't really fall out with Chu Huan.
After just talking about Chu Huan breaking the agreement between the two of them, the matter was over.
Chu Huan left Shao Yifu's office indifferently.
The next day!
Not long after Chu Huan got up, Cao Yunshang came to Chu Huan's apartment: "Brother Huan, someone scolded you in the newspaper!"