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Volume 3 Chapter 9 Negotiation

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    With the increase in money and fame, Shen Chong gained a lot and lost a lot, such as friendship. When he got together with Yan Hao and Xu Anhua, he could no longer find the casual atmosphere between friends that he had before.  The two of them were much more reserved.  Shen Chong had nothing to do about this. After all, in the past year, he had not interacted with them much in time and frequency. In the past, he had similar status and like-mindedness, so he could talk freely. But now, the relationship between the boss and his subordinates  When a relationship is a foregone conclusion, an invisible gap will naturally appear between the two parties, affecting communication. ?????????????????????????????????????? During the gathering, there were no new topics, the only thing we talked about was "Kagemusha".  Because Shen Chong's multiple rounds of investment ensured sufficient funds, the filming of "Shadow Warriors" went very smoothly. It has now entered the post-production stage and is scheduled to be released in March. Yan Hao and Xu Anhua will be able to return to Hong Kong before the Spring Festival.  Shen Chong didn't pay much attention to the movie "Kagemusha". Firstly, it has Akira Kurosawa's golden name and its quality is guaranteed. Secondly, this movie was jointly invested by Toho and Fox, so the distribution was naturally handled by them.  Two companies are in charge, one is Japan's largest film distribution company, and the other is one of the seven major Hollywood distributors, without his intervention.  The investment in "Kagemusha" was nearly 10 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to almost 100 million yen. Based on the information in Shen Chong's memory and his understanding of the current situation of the Japanese film market, this movie will almost certainly not be able to recover the cost by relying on the box office, so he invested the most  The advantage is that a gambling agreement is set up in the agreement. If the box office does not reach the ideal figure, after the film is screened, in addition to the TV station screening fees, all third-party screening rights, such as video tapes and other media in the future, will be shared.  The copyright will belong to Oriental Charm Film Company, so if nothing else happens, this drama can be regarded as the first world-class production produced by Shen Chong's film company.  After staying in Japan for another week, taking stock or acquiring companies, and dealing with seven or eight companies, Shen Chong chartered a plane, took a few others, and set off back to Hong Kong.  "Dong Haoyun loves ships so much." In the first-class cabin, Shen Chong flipped through the latest issue of "Far Eastern Economic Review" and said to the elegant-looking young man in a suit sitting opposite him: "Now the shipping industry is in a downturn.  Sri Lanka, he also bought new ships on a large scale, commissioned Japan to build the world's largest oil tanker, and acquired a British shipping company. He competed with Bao Yugang for the world's shipping king. I think something will happen sooner or later. " "Mr. Shen is talking about it.  , Now that the U.S. economy is in recession, the shipping industry is sluggish, and oil prices are soaring, it is quite unwise for Dong Haoyun to buy ships and compete for the reputation of the shipping king. In comparison, Bao Yugang has a more long-term vision. "  The man closed the same magazine as Shen Chong in his hand, and then said in detail: "In 1977, Gibson Ship Brokerage Company selected the world's ship kings, and Bao Yugang ranked first with a scale of 13.47 million tons, which was higher than the second place of Japan.  Sanguang Company has doubled the price. However, since last year, Bao Yugang has been selling ships on a large scale. The prices are much lower than the market price. The ships that cannot be sold are even dismantled and sold as scrap metal. Recently, he has been aggressively acquiring Wharf warehouses.  I think he wants to give up shipping and go ashore to engage in real estate. The real estate market in Hong Kong is very worthy of investment, but the shipping business will not see improvement in the short term. So what if Dong Haoyun becomes the world's shipping king?  It is difficult to make a U-turn. Once a loss is made, it will be irreversible and it will be impossible to turn around for more than ten years. "According to history, Dong Haoyun died two years later, leaving a huge mess for his son Tung Chee-hwa, and then Tung Chee-hwa left.  It took more than ten years, and with the help of the mainland government, to finally digest the debt left by his father Shen Chong was traveling through the party, but this person in front of him was not. He could see the fate of the Dong family from clues.  , it can be said that he has a sharp vision and is a great talent.  This man, named Yuan Tianfan, graduated from the famous Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. After working as a teacher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a year, he switched to the bond department of HSBC Bank. Last year, he was recruited by Shen Chong to help him deal with debt.  He was responsible for managing the financial business. This time, he was in charge of the acquisition of Sony shares from the Mitsui Consortium. The completion was very beautiful. He bought 10,000 shares of Sony UU for only 100 million U.S. dollars, and the price per share was still  For less than 10UU yen, it can be said to be a huge profit - just one week after buying the shares, Sony's stock price broke through the 10UU yen mark.  "Mr. Yuan, Wharf is an asset jointly owned by Land Group and owns a large amount of high-quality real estate. They will not sit back and watch Yugang Pao swallow it. If two tigers fight, one of them will be injured." Shen Chong put down the magazine, picked up the wine glass,  He said: "In the meantime, is there any chance to steal one?" "There must be a chance." Yuan Tianfan also picked up the wine glass, touched it lightly with him, and asked: "I just don't know who Mr. Shen wants to steal?  "Of course I stole the Land Group." Shen Chong smiled and said, "I am a petty person. I will take revenge on anyone who offends me. I recently started filming a movie and I plan to use the Hong Kong Land Group as a location."  They actually charged me 1 million Hong Kong dollars in location fees. I want to get this money back.¡± ¡°My father told me before.I can offend anyone in this world, but I can¡¯t offend women.  Yuan Tianfan took a sip of wine and said, "Now I feel that I would rather offend a woman than Mr. Shen."  " When Shen Chong heard this, he laughed and said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you, I'm not that far yet. "" In 1978, Pao Yugang bought Wharf 10UU from Li Ka-shing for more than 40 yuan.  The shares accounted for about 18% of the total shares. However, it did not make any big moves later. Now the share price of Wharf is only about 1 yuan, and the stock value is seriously low." Yuan Tianfan analyzed clearly: "According to my judgment, Bao Yu.  There has been no movement for the past year. They are raising funds secretly. They will soon take action again to challenge the status of the major shareholder of Land Group. Now is a good time to enter the market. " Shen Chong was about to answer when he heard.  Someone spoke in Japanese behind me. When I looked back, I saw it was Momoe Yamaguchi. She was trying to get over the obstruction of the flight attendant and enter the first class cabin.  "It doesn't matter, let her in." Momoe Yamaguchi walked up to Shen Chong in small steps, bowed, and then muttered something in Japanese. Shen Chong couldn't understand it, but judging from her expression, she should be apologizing.  of.  When the flight attendant saw this, she translated it in English. Although she was a little bumpy, she explained it clearly. As expected, she came to apologize, saying that she didn't know that the agency had put forward so many harsh requirements.  "Miss Yamaguchi, there is no need to apologize." Shen Chong waved his hand and said in English: "Business is business, and favors are favors. The agency is also protecting your interests, so there is no need to be harsh. You do your job and film well.  , That¡¯s it, I won¡¯t blame you.¡± After listening to the flight attendant¡¯s translation, Yamaguchi Momoe bowed again and left.  "Momoe Yamaguchi is quite polite." Yuan Tianfan looked at her back and said, "She has more temperament than several Hong Kong actresses I have seen." "Hers can no longer be called temperament, it should be called aura.  "There are very few actresses with such aura in the world." Shen Chong chuckled and said, "I don't really like her appearance, but I appreciate her innocence, as if I were looking at a lotus flower." "Yes.  Is there still such a thing as aura in the entertainment industry? " "Yes, but it's rare." Shen Chong returned to the previous topic and said, "How to attack the Land Group?" "The Land Group probably has it.  Wharf 20 shares, if Pao Yugang wants to increase their holdings, they will definitely absorb the shares of small shareholders. "Yuan Tianfan said: "But the Land Group has made business mistakes in recent years and suffered continuous losses, and the liquidity on hand is not enough to support it.  In this war, we can preemptively purchase a certain number of Wharf shares and then use them to replace the high-quality real estate of the Land Group. If the capital is sufficient and the timing is right, I estimate that we can obtain the Land Group at a price that is 30% lower than the market price.  "You can handle this matter." Shen Chong didn't know much about the specific operations of finance, and he didn't have the time to study it.  "What good stuff can I get from the Land Group?" Yuan Tianfan was very confident. He was not polite and just said: "Thank you, Mr. Shen, for your trust." "By the way, are there any news about the TV station?"  "Yes, everyone has it." Yuan Tianfan moved his body, changed his sitting position, and said, "They have agreed to cooperate in principle, but they still need to interview Mr. Shen on the details."  , I went to them to cooperate, but they all resisted me and clearly didn't trust me." Shen Chong laughed at himself and said, "Now that I've dropped bombshells one after another, I finally started to believe it." "This is human nature.  "Yuan Tianfan said with a smile: "A year ago, if someone told me that a person could make $500 million a year from scratch, I would have thought he was crazy, or he was just bragging." "Mr. Shen's rise is too incredible.  , so no one believes that you really have so many assets." Yuan Tianfan continued: "And the TV station plan is completely a money-burning plan. If nothing else, Mr. Shen, just your promise to become the chairman of the board of directors.  You will invest at least 200 million as working capital every year. If you lose more than 100 million, you will make up for the loss out of your own pocket and make up for the losses of other shareholders. This is completely crazy. If you don¡¯t have enough capital, who will  Dare you play with me? " "I have plenty of money." Shen Chong laughed and said, "I can't bear to let the child fall into the trap. I got rich too quickly and had no power, so I had to spend money to buy the power of these people.  Otherwise, the Hong Kong government will not give me the opportunity to do TV. " "Money cannot be converted into momentum, and it will be all in vain. I know this and understand it, but I don't understand why Mr. Shen is so persistent in restarting Jiayi TV?  "Yuan Tianfan said: "H is the best choice for TV station business in Hong Kong. It is a listed company. With Mr. Shen's financial resources, it is not difficult to become a major shareholder.  " Shen Chong shook his head and smiled without saying a word. JiayiTelevision Station Ia1 was the third free commercial radio and television station in Hong Kong. It opened on September 7, 1975 and closed down on August 1978.  Unlike H and Li TV, Jiayi TV only has one Chinese channel. Its channel emblem is a ring-shaped hexagon composed of six 1-degree angled lines, which represents the "six arts" of Chinese Confucianism - etiquette, music, archery, and imperial court.  , Shu, Shu, and also represent the six major shareholders of Jiayi TV, namely the Lin Bingyan family, the founder of Hang Seng Bank, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong Commercial Radio, as well as "Sing Tao Daily", "Overseas Chinese Daily", "Business Daily"  ¡·.  Among the six shareholders, Commercial Radio is the largest shareholder. Ho Zuozhi, the founder of Hong Kong Commercial Radio, is one of the descendants of the famous Hong Kong wealthy family "Ho Family" and is a relative of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho.  Due to the restrictions of the TV license, Jiayi TV can only be used as a teaching TV to broadcast science and education training programs from 10:00 to 20:00 and 9:00 to 11:30 in the evening. However, even so, in just three years, it has  He produced fifty or sixty TV series, which was definitely considered prolific in the 1970s, including many classics, such as Jin Yong's first TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", starring Michelle Wong Rong. After being filmed, it became a sensation in Hong Kong and created a  The first of its kind in martial arts TV series.  After "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" became an instant hit, Jiayi TV quickly rose to the top, surpassing Lai TV and becoming the second most watched TV station in Hong Kong, putting a lot of pressure on H.  However, Hong Kong is a small territory, the market is limited, and the competition is very fierce. Jiayi TV Station has inherent deficiencies. It was not prepared to participate in the war between TV stations. However, it later discovered that if it did not fight, the ratings would not be guaranteed, and without advertisers, it would be self-destructive.  .  So I borrowed 15UU from the Bank of East Asia, poached people, recruited people, and started filming TV series on a large scale. When Jiayi TV was first established, it had only 15 employees. Before its collapse in 1978, it had more than 700 employees, and most of these people were  He was hired with a salary that was at least double that of H. As a result, the financial pressure doubled.  Behind H are HSBC and Hong Kong's wealthy family, as well as the full support of Shaw Brothers. Li's TV is backed by a British consortium. Among the six shareholders of Jiayi TV, Jardine Matheson's main business is not in TV media at all.  It was just a name. Hang Seng Bank was initially very interested. However, after investing huge sums of money in 1977, it found that it was burning too much money but could not make any money. It immediately backed down. The other three newspapers were all  With the strength of Hong Kong Commercial Radio, it could not support such a big plate, so in August 1978, Jiayi TV was liquidated and closed down without warning.  Shen Chong¡¯s plan is to find a few new partners and start broadcasting Jiayi TV again. The TV station is a very good tool for integrating various forces.  Hong Kong Commercial Radio has a television license and media production experience, so it is naturally one of its partners. In 1976, JiaTV broadcast Taiwan's highly rated drama "Hong Xiguan and Fang Shiyu", which attracted a lot of viewers. JiaTV also followed the route of martial arts dramas.  First there was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then there was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".  However, Jiashi failed to maintain its ratings and the economy was in dire straits, so it could only be supported by an injection of capital from Lin Xiufeng, the son of Hang Seng Bank founder Lin Bingyan.  In 1978, Liang Shuyi joined Jiashi from TVB, triggering a wave of poaching. Important TVB employees who came with Liang Shuyi included Liu Tianci (assistant general manager and creative supervisor), Shi Shaoming (program director), Lu Guozhan (program promotion director), and Ye Jiexin  as director), Lin Xuhua (data collection manager).  Many famous actors and directors changed jobs together, and most of the actors in the TV series "Family Change" also changed positions.  Liang Shuyi spared no effort in launching the "July Offensive".  But at this time, the government had already begun to intervene to investigate Jiashi¡¯s financial problems.  "Before the "July Offensive", the artists of Jiashi went out in droves to perform a float parade in the hot weather, visiting various regions in Hong Kong to promote Jiashi programs; newspapers also sold advertisements.  The offensive results were mediocre. Although there were good performances, the cost was extremely high.  As a result, the top management needed surgery to stop the bleeding, and Liang Shuyi was forced to resign. Also resigning were Shi Shaoming, Ye Jiexin, Liu Tianci, Lu Guozhan, and Lin Xuhua, known as the "Six Gentlemen" incident.  (Another theory is that these six people jumped to Jiashi) On August 1978, a notice appeared outside the Jiashi Building: "Our company is in operational difficulties and will cease operations from now on. As for the salaries and wages of our employees,  , will be handled in accordance with the law and strive to be resolved quickly. As for the relevant progress, we will gradually announce it separately. "Jiayi TV has produced many TV programs that are regarded as classics by TV fans, including "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Condor Heroes."  Heroes] etc.  Tsui Hark, Selina Chow, and Cheng Yuling all worked in television stations.  After the collapse of Jiayi TV, the Jiayi TV Building became today's Radio Television Hong Kong Building.  Unlike the other two TV stations in Hong Kong, "TVB" and "ATV", Jiayi TV only has one Chinese channel.  Its Taiwan emblem is a ring-shaped hexagon composed of six lines with an angle of 0 degrees, which represents the "six arts" of Chinese Confucianism - etiquette, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics; it also represents the six main arts of Jiayi TV  The shareholders are the Lin Bingyan family (one of the founders of Hang Seng Bank), Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong Commercial Radio, and Hong Kong ThreeThere are several Chinese newspapers - [Sing Tao Daily], [Overseas Chinese Daily] and [Business Daily] (among them, only Sing Tao Daily continues to be published today). Among the six shareholders, the commercial radio station has the largest dominance.  The commercial radio station even once established the "JiaShi Football Team" to promote Jiashi, but later gave up due to the collapse of Jiashi; it is worth mentioning that Wu Huangrong, who was working at the commercial radio station at the time, was the leader of the team. ?? Blind poaching, high salaries for actors and workers. In addition to high fees, the salaries of actors and staff are also very high.  When Jiashi was first established, it only had a few people. In order to win over the elite, it poached talents everywhere, especially large-scale poaching from TVB. In 1978, the number of employees reached more than 700.  Especially in 1977, Liang Shuyi, the program manager of TVB who was very good at doing things, persuaded the backbone members of the team to collectively switch to Jiashi, causing a sensation.  At that time, Liang Shuyi's conditions were very generous, including a high salary, joining the board of directors, being fully responsible for all personnel and programs, and never disturbing her use of money.  At that time, many actors in tvnR could not resist the temptation of high salary and switched to Jiashi.  There was a fierce tug-of-war. TVB artist Shi Xiu was locked up in a hotel. The company did not allow him to transfer to Jiashi and asked him to immediately receive three times his salary and return to TV. The head actress Huang Shuyi was in a different place at the time. She wrote to Liang Shuyi,  She planned to join Jiashi, but Liang Shuyi was very happy after seeing it and immediately asked Shen Yueming to come to Canada to sign a contract with her.  Hung Suk-yee asked for a price of 10,000 yuan (at that time, an artist who paid 5,000 to 6,000 yuan was already considered a special grade artist, and 10,000 yuan was simply the highest price in Hong Kong), but Liang Shuyi immediately agreed without thinking about it.  As a result, TVB got wind of the news and signed a contract with Huang Shuyi at a higher price before Jiashi.  "The Dream of the House" filmed by Jiashi in 1977 even took a fancy to the actor Wu Weiguo who had played Jia Baoyu on TV, so he hired Wu Weiguo with a high salary to play Jia Baoyu again.  When he left TVB, his monthly salary was only 10 yuan, but after joining Jiashi, his monthly salary was 50 UU yuan, plus some other income, his monthly income was over 10,000 yuan.  It can be seen how generous Jiashi was in those years, but at the same time it also planted the seeds for financial difficulties in the next few years.
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