The richest man

Chapter 11 Leaving Shaw Brothers
After negotiating with He Guanchong, the preparations for "The Snake-Shaped Hand" also began to speed up.

In two days, the movie will officially start shooting.

At this time, as the protagonist of this movie—Cheng Long, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, and he couldn't help calling his brothers to drink together at night.

"Brother Jin Bao, the movie I'm starring in will start work soon! I'm so excited, I'm going to be the leading role!!!" Cheng Long said to a fat man beside him.

This fat man is none other than Cheng Long's elder brother - Hong Jinbao.

Hong Jinbao entered the film industry relatively early, and debuted as a child star in 1961.So far, he has also starred in several movies, but the response is not enthusiastic.

However, Cheng Long's upcoming movie "The Snake-shaped Hand" is a huge hit.

With the serialization of "Zhu Xian", Zhang Jun's reputation has also increased, and countless book fans are looking forward to and curious about the movie "Serpentine Hands" he will shoot!
"Yuan Lou, you were lucky this time, and you were appreciated by the great writer Zhang Jun, and let you be the protagonist. You must seize this opportunity and act well in this play!" He was not jealous of the opportunity to become popular, on the contrary, he was very happy, and he couldn't help admonishing him.

Cheng Long nodded heavily: "I know, brother, don't worry, I will definitely seize this opportunity, no matter how hard I suffer, I am not afraid!"

Hong Jinbao nodded and smiled: "Well, that's good!"

After a slight pause, he continued: "I think Zhang Jun is very unusual, young and talented. The novel "Zhu Xian" is really popular. Many people say that he is the second Jin Yong. Follow him, It will definitely pay off."

Cheng Long scratched his head and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to be so powerful. At that time, "Zhu Xian" hadn't been released..."

Cheng Long couldn't help but be surprised by his good luck, it was a piece of pie from the sky, and it happened to hit him.

When the other brothers heard the words, they sighed in their hearts again and again, don't want to be envious.

……

Shaw.

Shao Yizhen frowned, watching his confidante Fang Yihua pour tea for him, but he didn't enjoy tea tasting at all.

"Zhang Zhenghao hasn't talked to us about "The Serpentine Hand" yet?" Shao Yizhen asked in a deep voice.

Fang Yihua shook her head and said, "No!"

"It's been so long and he hasn't come to see us. It seems that he has two minds!" Shao Yizhen frowned, his face was very displeased, obviously a little angry.

"Hmph, it's been so long since he hasn't come, he must have gone to Golden Harvest Film Company to cooperate! This white-eyed wolf, thanks to our plan to invest in the movie his son is going to make!" Fang Yihua scolded coldly.

"Zhang Zhenghao's son, Zhang Jun, is a talent. You go and find Zhang Zhenghao, I want to talk to him!" Shao Yifu was silent for a moment, and then said.

Fang Yihua heard the words, although he was reluctant in his heart, he still nodded and said: "Okay, then I will ask someone to call him over."

After speaking, he got up and walked outside.

……

Zhang Zhenghao was filming a film at Shaw Brothers Films, when he learned that Shao Yat-pin wanted to see him, he immediately put down his work and set off to go.

"It's time for a showdown!" Zhang Zhenghao thought to himself on the way.

He knew very well in his heart why Shao Yizhen wanted to meet him. The more noisy and hotter "Snake Shaped Hands" became, as the director of Shaw Brothers, he didn't actually go to Shao Yifei to discuss cooperation, and this would obviously make Shao Yifei more excited. Heart.

After a long time, Zhang Zhenghao came to the office building of Shaw Brothers Film Company, and then went directly to Shao Yizhen's office.

"Uncle Six, hello!"

"Oh, Zhenghao is here, please sit down."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while before getting to the point.

Shao Yizhen asked straight to the point: "Zhenghao, I heard that your son Zhang Jun is preparing to shoot "The Serpentine Hand", how can you say that you are also an old man of the Shao Brothers, your son wants to make a movie, why didn't you come?" Look for me, I am definitely willing to give young people a chance!"

Zhang Zhenghao said: "Sixth Uncle, my son is just playing around, how dare he disturb you? If the movie is not made well, it will cause huge losses to Shaw Brothers Film Company..."

"The Shaw family has a big business, and they are not afraid of a little loss. I heard that your son paid half of the manuscript fee for the entire book "Zhu Xian" in advance, and used it to make a movie! If the movie hits the market, the loss will be huge. Zhenghao , In my opinion, it's better to let your son shoot the movie "The Serpentine Hand" for Shaw Brothers, he will still be the director, but the investment will be made by Shaw Brothers!" Shao Yizhen said calmly, taking a sip of tea.

Zhang Zhenghao shook his head and said, "Uncle Six, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about this matter, because my son Zhang Jun has already reached a cooperation with Jiahe and signed a contract!"

"You actually cooperated with Jiahe?!" Shao Yipin's face changed, and he was very angry.

Jiahe is the arch-rival of the Shaw Brothers, and Shao Yizhen has been suppressing Jiahe, but Jiahe is too stubborn, and has already started to fight against the Shao Brothers.

"Yes, Sixth Uncle." Zhang Zhenghao nodded and admitted.

Shao Yi's eyes showed displeasure, and his face was gloomy, very scary.

Zhang Zhenghao was a little nervous. After all, the person in front of him was a well-known boss in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Zhenghao took out a letter of resignation from his pocket: "Uncle Six, my son Ah Jun established a film company and cooperated with Golden Harvest. I am going to help him. This is my letter of resignation!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhenghao handed the resignation letter to Shao Yifu.

Shao Yifu accepted the letter of resignation coldly, and said, "Okay, I accept this letter of resignation. I wish you a bright future in the future, and the movie will be a hit at the box office!"

After finishing his speech, Shao Yizhen got up, as if to see off the guests.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhenghao understood that it was time to say goodbye, so he also stood up, bowed and said to Shao Yipin: "Uncle Six, then I'll take my farewell first!"

"Ah."

……

The news of Zhang Zhenghao's resignation quickly spread throughout the Shaw Brothers, which attracted the attention of some people.

At this moment, the four brothers of the Xu family gathered together to discuss the matter of Zhang Zhenghao's resignation and his joining of the Zhang's film company founded by his son Zhang Jun.

"Brother, Uncle Six still doesn't agree with our joint venture to share the profits equally, or else we will learn from Zhang Zhenghao and switch to Golden Harvest!" Second brother Xu Guanwu said with a frown.

Xu Guanwen smoked silently, hesitating in his heart.

The movie script "Ghost and Horse Twin Stars" is his most recent masterpiece. Xu Guanwen wanted to make a joint venture with Shaw Brothers to get more profits. However, Run Run Shaw, who has always been "dictatorial", thought this request was too much. So he flatly refused on the grounds that the script was too bad.

Xu Guanwen was very reconciled, but he had no money and no theaters, so he was very helpless.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard the news that Zhang Zhenghao had switched to Golden Harvest, which made Xu Guanwen see another way out.

The four Xu brothers discussed here for a long time, and finally agreed to contact Jiahe first to see what the conditions they offered before making a decision.

Nowadays, Xu Guanwen is well-known and has the honorary title of "King of Comedy". If he switches to Golden Harvest, the conditions offered by Golden Harvest must be more favorable than those offered to Zhang Zhenghao and his son Zhang Jun!
(End of this chapter)