Because of his special nature, there are actually many TWs in this city, and JD can be said to be the intelligence center of Southeast Asia.
Even Hualian later...forget it, I can't say this.
Chu Huan didn't know if anyone was tapping his phone, but when facing an existence of HSBC's level, it was definitely not wrong to be careful.
So Chu Huan called Ma Jizu to his residence.
"Brother Huan, is something wrong?"
After Ma Jizu arrived at the villa in Repulse Bay, he went directly to Chu Huan's study and asked.
Obviously, Ma Jizu's phone call to Chu Huan just now, coupled with the fact that he was now called home directly, meant that there must be something that cannot be told to the outside world.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Find a few trustworthy people, preferably people from your hometown, to investigate the senior management of HSBC. You don't need to have a deep understanding, you just need to know their background and some personal preferences!"
Chu Huan was still a little wary of HSBC. He only asked Ma Jizu to investigate peripheral matters. Chu Huan did not intend to get involved in the internal affairs, but this was enough for Chu Huan.
If Chu Huan's order was given to someone else, that person would probably be very surprised, but not Ma Jizu. He didn't grow up listening to the legend of HSBC. He just knew that HSBC was very powerful, but he didn't know how powerful HSBC was.
No concept.
Even now he has become the head of the investigation department of Jiaku Consulting Company and knows something about HSBC, but so what?
Can he be as powerful as Brother Huan?
Ma Jizu doesn’t think so!
"I understand, Brother Huan, when do you want news?"
Chu Huan said: "The faster, the better!"
Ma Jizu did not hesitate and said directly: "Then I will arrange the people now!"
Naturally, Chu Huan didn't want to stay. He really needed to know about this matter as soon as possible.
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“Hang Lung Properties has increased the price!”
In the office of the chairman of Chinese Real Estate, sitting were Feng Xifen, who had just arrived at Feng Xifen Group, and Li Fushu, the general manager of Chinese Real Estate!
According to the rules of the two companies, when one serves as the chairman of the board, the other serves as the general manager of the company.
But it was Li Fushu who said Hang Lung Real Estate would raise prices, not Feng Xifen.
Compared with his younger brother Li Fuzhao, who is the chairman of the Far Eastern Association, Li Fushu is much less famous.
But as the third son of Li Guanchun, what Li Fushu did was not simple. In a few years, he would succeed Jian Yueqiang as the chairman of the Bank of East Asia. In fact, at this time, he had already arranged for his son to join the Bank of East Asia, and he would also serve in the Bank of East Asia in the future.
He will succeed Li Fushu and completely turn the Bank of East Asia, a bank founded by Feng, Jian and Li, into a family business of their Li family.
In Hong Kong in the future, when the Li family is mentioned, the first thing people think of is the Li Jiacheng family.
But in this era, when it comes to the Li family, it must be the Li Guanchun family.
In fact, Li Guanchun is the second generation of the Li family. His father, Li Shipeng, has already brought the Li family into a wealthy family. However, it is the second generation of the Li family, Li Guanchun, who really makes the Li family famous in Xiangjiang. Therefore, when Xiangjiang talks about the Li family, it is more
I would like to say it is the Li Guanchun family.
There were many reports in later generations that Li Guanchun only had three sons, but that was actually false.
The real situation is that Li Guanchun has 12 children in total, and the most famous Li Fuzhao is the youngest!
And Li Fushu, who is now in charge of Chinese real estate, is the third son, and the other son, Li Fushan, is the first Chinese judge in Hong Kong, not the chief judge!
One son, Li Fuhe, is the first Chinese vice-president of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and the other son, Li Fuqi, is the director of the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department.
In later generations, some people still say that TVB artist Li Guolin is the fourth generation of the Li family. This is actually a false rumor. TVB artist Li Guolin and the fourth generation of the Li family, Li Guolin, just have the same name and surname. They are not the same person at all.
Although Li Fushu let his son go to the Bank of East Asia, he stayed behind to buy real estate in China.
As for Feng Xifen, although he is the chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Land, he puts more attention on his own Feng Xifen Group. This has also led to the fact that Chinese Land has not been well-known in the real estate industry in Hong Kong.
There has been no fluctuation for nearly ten years!
However, Li Fushu defeated the Feng family and the Jian family in the East Asian banking business, but lost to Feng Xifen in the Chinese real estate business.
By the mid-1980s, the Feng family will be the first to drive out Chinese property owners.
But this Li Fushu is also a ruthless person. Since you won't let me have an easy time, then you shouldn't have an easy time either. With the mentality of fighting to the death, when Liu Luanxiong found Li Fushu, Li Fushu directly sold all their Li family's shares in Chinese Real Estate at a 'reasonable' price.
Sold to Liu Luanxiong at a price of .
This also allowed Liu Luanxiong to complete his business plan of swallowing the elephant and obtain Chinese Real Estate!
However, there were only some minor conflicts between the two sides at this time, and they did not become a conflict in the 1980s.
Feng Xunfen asked aloud: "How much did you add?"
Li Fushu preached: "5 million!"
Feng Xifen pondered for a moment and couldn't help but said: "It seems that this Chu Huan really wants the Chinese Bank. He knows that Lijiacheng is backed by HSBC, but he still wants to increase the price to buy it?"
Li Fushu said indifferently: "It doesn't matter whether he has the support of HSBC or not, what we should be concerned about now is whether to sell it to Chu Huan or not?"
As one of the oldest wealthy families in Xiangjiang, Li Fushu has his own pride. Although HSBC is powerful, it is a normal business transaction, and the highest bidder gets it!
Previously, Hang Lung's bid was the same as Lijiacheng's bid. They could sell Chinese Bank to Lijiacheng for HSBC's sake, but now that Chu Huan has increased the price, the situation is different!
No matter how overbearing you HSBC is, you can't delay us from making money, right?
In fact, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Li Fushu has set his sights on the Bank of East Asia at this time, and now the whole of Hong Kong knows that Chu Huan has a very good relationship with the Bank of East Asia, and even the most mysterious "
The finances of "Fantasy Comics" were handed over to the Bank of East Asia.
Therefore, Li Fushu hopes that when he takes over Bank of East Asia, he can still become a business partner who works closely with Chu Huan!
Feng Xifen had a different opinion, saying: "If the price increase is only five million, I would be more inclined to sell to Li Jiacheng. After all, Li Jiacheng is backed by HSBC. To offend HSBC just for five million is not worth the loss for us."
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Li Fushu has his own ideas, and Feng Xifen naturally also has his own ideas. Although the Feng family is a shareholder of the Bank of East Asia and does not have to worry about loans, HSBC has resources that his Feng Xifen Group needs.
Li Fushu sneered at Feng Xifen's statement and said: "That's easy to say. Does your company have a profit of five million this month? What is the company's stock price now? Let alone the stock price, it's the rent this year.
It has been reduced by 50%. With these five million, we can do a lot of things!"
Feng Xifen smiled and did not take Li Fushu's attitude to heart. He smiled and said: "Five million can indeed do a lot of things, but I have talked to Li Jiacheng before and he is also very concerned about the Chinese Bank.
Since he cares about it, and he has the support of HSBC, I think if he knew about Chu Huan's price increase, he would probably also increase the price.
We didn't have a choice before, but now that Chu Huan is bidding against Li Jiacheng, why don't we wait? Watching the two of them fighting, we can just reap the benefits, right?"
Feng Xifen knew that Li Fushu would definitely not care if he said that he also needed HSBC's resources. Instead, it would be better to bring Li Jiacheng out to talk about the problem.
Sure enough, after hearing what Feng Xunfen said, Li Fushu immediately smiled and said: "This is a good idea. Since both of them want it, let the one with the highest price get it. HSBC is definitely not short of money."
Yes, I originally thought that Chu Huan, who had not done much this year, would be recuperating, but I didn’t expect that it would be time to pay the final payment for the Golden Gate Tower soon, and Chu Huan wanted to acquire our Chinese Bank again.
If that's the case, then he shouldn't be short of money, right?"
Feng Xunfen pointedly said: "Wouldn't you know whether Chu Huan is short of money or not when you take the position of president of Bank of East Asia in the future?"
The Feng family was the first to withdraw from the Bank of East Asia, but that does not mean that he did not know about the Bank of East Asia.
Naturally, we can understand what Li Fushu meant by putting his son in the Bank of East Asia!
Li Fushu laughed and said nonchalantly: "Chu Huan is the best partner of the Bank of East Asia. Although your Feng family has withdrawn from the management of the Bank of East Asia, it has not sold the shares of the Bank of East Asia. So Chu Huan is good, and the Bank of East Asia is also
Enough!"
That is true, but no matter how good Bank of East Asia is, it is not as good as a group that it has complete control over.
However, Feng Xunfen did not tell Li Fushu this, but said with a smile: "Now that we have made a decision, let's see how the two families fight for it!"
Hearing what Feng Xunfen said, Li Fushu had no objection. He just said: "Then I will go and tell Li Jiacheng the news now."
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The news of Hang Lung Real Estate's price increase naturally quickly reached Lijiacheng's ears.
After receiving the news, Li Jiacheng almost didn't hesitate, and without even bringing out HSBC, he told Li Fushu that they, Changshi, were also willing to increase the price.
And it’s higher than Chu Huan’s, 136 million Hong Kong dollars!
One million more Hong Kong dollars!
Li Fushu smiled. Although he was not as generous as Chu Huan, one million was still money!
"Li Sheng, I will inform Hang Lung Real Estate about your quotation!"
Li Jiacheng said helplessly: "Brother Li, you Chinese real estate developers want to see us and Chu Huan bid against each other!"
Li Fushu said indifferently: "Li Sheng, we don't want to either. We can't afford to offend HSBC. We don't want to offend Chu Huan, a rising star. You also know his relationship with the Bank of East Asia!"
Li Jiacheng just sighed and hung up the phone without saying anything else.
Li Jiacheng was a little hurt by what Li Fushu said just now. Li Fushu only mentioned HSBC and Chu Huan, but did not mention himself. Obviously, this was because he was not qualified.
But what can be done?
Changshi is indeed thousands of miles away from Chu Huan now!
"Sooner or later I will reach the top of Xiangjiang!"
Li Jiacheng encouraged himself.
Regarding this matter, he did not tell Shen Bi. Lijiacheng also had its own pride. If he asked Shen Bi for help even with such a price increase, there would be no benefit except making Shen Bi look down on him.
So Chinese Real Estate was sitting on the sidelines watching the fight, while CK and Hang Lung informed each other of each other's quotations, hoping to watch them engage in a price war so that they could reap the benefits.
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The competition between Hang Lung Properties and Cheung Kong Holdings for the Chinese Bank continues, and on the other side, the competition between Black and White and Golden Harvest has also begun!
October 12th!
The black-and-white film "Double Stars" and Jiahe's "Double Dragons Go to the Sea" will hold midnight screenings at the same time.
The entire Hong Kong film industry is paying attention to this matter, because many people understand that the competition between Black and White and Golden Harvest is no longer a box office competition between just two movies.
This is also related to whether Jiahe can prolong his battle in Xiangjiang.
"I do not understand!"
Fang Yihua sat next to Shao Yifu, with an incomprehensible look on his face. For today's midnight show, Fang Yihua did not even go back to his residence, but stayed at Shao Yifu's villa.
Although Shao Yifu was already in his sixties at this time, he was still in good spirits. Even though it was almost midnight, Shao Yifu still looked energetic.
Obviously, at this time, Shao Yifu was also paying attention to this matter.
When he heard his confidante asking this question, he smiled and asked: "What don't you understand?"
Fang Yihua said: "Since Golden Harvest regards this film as so important, why do we still have to compete with black and white images? We could just change the schedule in the first place?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Shao Yifu knew Zou Wenhuai very well. He was in a very good mood at this time, so he was willing to talk more to Fang Yihua, so she said.
"Actually, it's very simple. The movie "Two Dragons Goes to Sea" was scheduled by Jiahe first. If Black and White Video has the same schedule as theirs, and Jiahe has to change the schedule for this, then Jiahe's reputation in Hong Kong will be
It's completely over. Even their only remaining distribution channel will be taken away by Chu Huan's black and white images. As for the studio... all the films of the Republic of China period in Hong Kong now, in addition to our Shaw Brothers films, there are also
Was the film shot at the Cathay Studios in Golden Harvest?”
Black-and-white images are now suppressing Golden Harvest in all aspects. The out-of-town distribution fee is less than that of Golden Harvest. Although the price of renting a studio is the same, the scenery of the black-and-white Tseung Kwan O studio is more grand, so now those small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong are more willing to cooperate with
Chu Huan’s black and white images were collaborated with, not Jiahe’s.
"In addition, the combination of Longgang, Xie Xian and Deng Guangrong is still very capable. Although Xu Guanwen's reputation is not small, he can only be tied with Xie Xian. Even if his younger brother Xu Guanjie is added, he is only one."
It's just Deng Guangrong. On paper, the movie "Double Dragon" has more box office appeal than "Double Dragon".
So Jiahe must go up. If you go up, you may still win, but if you don’t go up, you will just give up, and Jiahe’s market in Xiangjiang will be completely over!”
When he said this, Shao Yifu had a proud smile on his face.
Nothing makes Shao Yifu happier than watching his mortal enemy collapse before his own eyes.
Fang Yihua said with some worry: "If Jiahe collapses, the biggest beneficiary will definitely be Chu Huan. He can take over everything in Jiahe. At that time, we will be the only two families left in Xiangjiang.
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In the film industry in Xiangjiang, only Chu Huan's black-and-white images and Shao Yifu's Shaw Brothers are the only ones of this size to take over Jiahe. I believe that even if Jiahe is defeated by Chu Huan, Zou Wenhuai will definitely be more willing to sell Jiahe to Chu
Huan, not Shao Yifu!
With a proud smile, Shao Yifu's smile faded a little at this time, and then he sighed and said: "There is nothing we can do about this. In fact, this matter has been doomed for a long time, even if it didn't happen this time.
In this matter, Jiahe's decline is already doomed, and Chu Huan will still take over."
In Shao Yifu's opinion, Jiahe's failure was already doomed when he and Chu Huan decided to join forces.
Fang Yihua couldn't help but said: "Then we should have made some plans early. What if Chu Huan has integrated Jiahe's resources and used his hands to deal with our Shaw family?"
At this time in Xiangjiang, no one dares to underestimate the existence of Chu Huan, and this is also true in the film industry alone!
A glimmer of light suddenly flashed in Shao Yifu's cloudy eyes, and then he said: "If he wants to fight, he should have a good fight. I'm not old yet, and I don't think anyone knows the film industry better than me!
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The power of the old tiger is still there, not to mention that Shao Yifu only looks older, but in fact Shao Yifu is very energetic at this time.
A powerful opponent will not only not worry Shao Yifu, but will easily arouse Shao Yifu's desire for supremacy.
Yifu Shao had gone through so many things back then, but he was still not defeated, let alone the current situation!
Seeing this, Fang Yihua had no choice but to say: "Then let's first see who will win this battle!"
If you win, Jiahe will get a chance to continue its life. If you lose, Jiahe's business in Xiangjiang will be completely over.
Life or death!
"This is the time for life or death!"
Obviously, at this time in Jiahe, Zou Wenhuai also understood the impact of this contest on Jiahe.
He Guanchang looked at Zou Wenhuan who was somewhat determined, but at this time he didn't know how to persuade him.
I remember how high-spirited they were when they left Shaw Brothers. Several people sat together and talked about how they must lead Jiahe to glory, defeat Shaw Brothers, and prove their abilities.
During "The One-Armed Sword vs. the Blind Man", they were so happy when they were drunk in the office.
Li Xiaolong's "Tangshan Brother" broke the box office record in Xiangjiang, how high-spirited they are!
But this situation soon disappeared, and it all started after Chu Huan created the black and white image.
"If, if we had not chosen the black and white image of Chu Huan, would the result now be different?"
He Guanchang suddenly said this.
Zou Wenhuai glanced at He Guanchang and did not answer his question because Zou Wenhuai didn't know what the answer was.
But what is certain is that he did not blame He Guanchang for this seemingly weak statement.
Zou Wenhuai understood that He Guanchang was definitely not looking at Jiahe's decline, but was just lamenting Jiahe's current situation.
"Leonard, don't think so much. We may not lose this battle this time. Although Xu Guanwen has already gained some fame, this is his first time as a director. Xu Guanjie has never proven himself in a movie."
As Shao Yifu analyzed, Zou Wenhuai did not think he would definitely lose when faced with Xu Guanwen's "Double Stars".
He Guanchang could only nod his head at this time, and then said: "I have asked people from the company's publicity department to prepare, and I have also contacted people from the newspaper. No matter what happens at the midnight show tonight, it will be tomorrow."
Voices of praise for the movie "Double Dragon"!"
Although they believe that the combination of Longgang, Xie Xian and Deng Guangrong can beat the Xu brothers, they still need to make preparations.
Zou Wenhuai nodded.
He Guanchang glanced at Zou Wenhuai, and finally said helplessly: "The businessmen in Japan have also said that if this movie can't make money, they will only invest in Li Xiaolong's movies in the future and not other movies.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He Guanchang did not talk about other films, but Zou Wenhuai understands that if this film still hits the street, the capital behind Jiahe will definitely not
Let’s invest in other Golden Harvest movies!
As mentioned before, when Zou Wenhuai founded Jiahe, he did not have that much capital. Instead, he relied on Japanese funds and the investment from wealthy businessmen in his hometown to found Jiahe and take over Cathay Pacific.
But those funds are not to invest in Golden Harvest, but to simply invest in Golden Harvest's films. This is like a Hollywood movie studio. They are responsible for saving a project, but most of the funds are not provided by their studio.
, but obtained through bank loans or financing on Wall Street.
They will invest their own company's funds in only those very few movies that they think are likely to make money before filming begins.
But these are very few!
The same is true for Jiahe!
This is why it is said that if this movie fails, Golden Harvest will lose its market in Hong Kong.
Li Xiaolong's movies do make money, but Golden Harvest does not hold all the box office revenue. Instead, it cooperates with Warner to invest, and part of their Golden Harvest investment share comes from external funds.
In fact, very few of them were actually allocated to Jiahe.
If Jiahe Films can also make money from its films in Xiangjiang, those capitals will naturally be willing to put money in Jiahe so that they can continue to invest, and then continue to make money.
But now, except for Li Xiaolong's movies, Jiahe's movies are made at a loss for every one produced, so those capitals are naturally unwilling to put the money in Jiahe.
Because Li Xiaolong has gone to Hollywood, the speed of filming has obviously slowed down, and capital is not willing to wait.
"This is it, everything depends on watching this movie!"
Zou Wenhuai once again placed his bet on the movie "The Yellow Dragon Goes to the Sea".
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Compared to the gloomy and gloomy scene in Jiahe, the black and white image here seems much more relaxed.
The company didn't even retain anyone in the company because of this incident.
Fang Jianhui accompanied Xu Guanwen brothers to the cinema for the midnight show, but Chu Huan did not go to the black and white film or the cinema for the midnight show.
There are two reasons. The first one is that Chu Huan is very confident about the movie "Double Stars".
In this universe, Li Xiaolong did not die because of his existence, but he also went to Hollywood to develop. From then on, he could only take care of the market in Hong Kong, instead of dedicating himself wholeheartedly.
This gave Xu Guanwen an opportunity. Since "Double Stars" is still the same "Double Stars" and has more powerful black and white images than Jiahe in Another Time and Space, there will definitely be no problem at the box office.
Although Chu Huan doesn't know if Longgang's "Two Dragons Go to Sea" existed in another time and space, Chu Huan is sure of one thing. The one that can defeat Xu Guanwen will definitely not be this movie.
To say that Chu Huan is even more willing to believe this movie, perhaps Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Goes Out", which will be released in December this year, is more likely!
That's right, the title of Cheng Long's new movie has been decided, it is "Junior Brother Goes Out", the first movie he wrote and directed in another time and space.
However, because it lacks the accumulation of previous films, it is unclear whether Cheng Long's "Junior Brother" can achieve the same results as the film of the same name from another time and space.
As for the second reason, it is based on the first reason, that is, since Jiahe is definitely going to lose, why do you still pay so much attention to this matter?
So after Chu Huan finished her work at Jiahu Building today, she went straight back to the villa in Repulse Bay...Miao Kexiu's villa.
Originally, Chu Huan thought that Miao Kexiu and Cao Yunshang should have been accustomed to living together, but Chu Huan still underestimated the thinness of their skin. Unless it was under specific circumstances, the two of them would still live separately.
Two villas for living.
"Brother Huan, are you really planning to acquire Jiahe?"
At this time, Miao Kexiu and Chu Huan were lying on the bed. There was some ambiguous smell in the room. It was obvious that there had been a war here before.
Chu Huan did not hide anything in front of Miao Kexiu, and said with a smile: "If there is this opportunity, I wouldn't mind acquiring Jiahe!"
When Miao Kexiu heard what Chu Huan said, she couldn't help but sigh. Chu Huan had only been involved in the film industry for a few years. At first, everyone thought that Chu Huan founded a film company just for herself.
As a result, this film company became the second largest film company in Hong Kong in less than two years, and now it wants to acquire Golden Harvest, the third and once second largest film company in Hong Kong!
Is there any way to play tickets like this?
Miao Kexiu wanted to ask those who had said these words.
"Does Brother Long know about it?"
Those people have no way to ask, now they can only ask other questions.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Even if Jiahe wants to give up, it will only give up the market in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It will never give up on Li Xiaolong!"
No matter who acquires Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest will be able to get a large amount of cash, and this cash can just allow Golden Harvest to continue to develop in Hollywood!
But at that time, Li Xiaolong was really the only one left in Jiahe!
Just as Chu Huan and Miao Kexiu were chatting, the phone in the room rang. Chu Huan looked at the time, and it happened to be the end of the midnight show of "Double Stars"...