The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 253 Compromise
Xu Guanwu didn't know that Li Xiao and the old man had heart disease, he only knew that Li Xiao and the old man passed away suddenly. After his death, the three major British foreign firms had no interest in sending someone to take charge of TVB.So the largest private shareholder, Shao Yifu, stepped in and took over the chairmanship of TVB.

There are some reports in later generations that Sir Shaw started planning to take over TVB as early as the 70s, and gradually moved Shaw's business into TVB. In fact, it is all nonsense.

In the 70s, Shaw Brothers’ biggest competitor, Golden Harvest, was led by Bruce Lee first and then the Xu Brothers. The record-setting box office seemed to overwhelm Shaw Brothers.

But in fact, these are the only people that Golden Harvest can make a move, and the rest of them are not well-known.And Shaw Brothers not only has Fengyue films directed by Li Hanxiang, but also strange martial arts films directed by Chu Yuan, as well as Kung Fu films by Zhang Che and Liu Jialiang, as well as cult CULT films by Gui Zhihong and Mou Dunfu.

Although the box office of these films did not break Golden Harvest's box office record, each film made money.In particular, Shaw Brothers produces so many films every year, even with small profits but quick sales, the annual profit far exceeds Golden Harvest.

Just like Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", "Game of Death", and "The Way of the Dragon" made a huge profit of 300 million Hong Kong dollars before, but director Li Hanxiang made a fortune with his five films including "Affair" and "The Wind and the Moon". Earning 500 million Hong Kong dollars, the limelight is still the one that stabilizes Golden Harvest.

Shaw Brothers can earn at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars every year with movies, so how can they pay attention to TVB, which only earns a few million Hong Kong dollars?

Shaw Brothers really fell into decline. It was in the 80s, with the rise of New Art City, they broke box office records again and again; the old rival Golden Harvest won Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and other seven little blessings.

The succession of new wave film directors entered the film industry, causing Shaw Brothers' large-scale studio system to gradually collapse. Although it also used new directors such as Zhang Jianting and Wang Jing later, it was still difficult to reverse the decline.So Shao Yifu simply shut down Shaw Brothers and concentrated on running the TV station.

Although Shaw Brothers was eliminated in the film industry because of the big studio system, Sir Yifu Shao was pleasantly surprised to find that his system can still be used in TVB.

There are a total of two TV stations in Hong Kong, and TVB is the dominant TV station, just like Shaw Brothers in the 70s against Golden Harvest. Although the opponents have endless tricks, Shaw Brothers still sits firmly on Diaoyutai and occupies the top spot.

Therefore, Sir Shao Yifu can rest assured that the previous system will be implemented. All TV artists will sign long-term contracts, and if they don't sign, they will simply freeze.Anyway, apart from my wireless TV station, you have no other good places to go.

Driving his subordinates still adopts the previous method, supporting a few groups of people and then sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight.The struggle between several major producers is actually a replica of Zhang Che, Li Hanxiang, Zou Wenhuai, Fang Yihua and others in the early years.Suppress those who are in power, and support those who are not in power. In short, it is the way of the king.

And Sir Shao's large studio system is actually a closed-door policy in disguise.An artist lives, dies, and dies in a TV station. He can't go anywhere else and has no other place to go. He can only earn a meager salary and suffer slowly, hoping that one day he will be favored by the higher-ups, and then he will become famous in one fell swoop and become a hit. Earn a little more money, and then slowly grow old.

However, if the policy of closing the door to the outside world is strongly impacted by external forces, it will directly face the danger of collapse.

In the eighties and 90s, ATV has been weak and unable to break the monopoly position of wireless TV stations, so the impact on it is naturally not very strong.

But in the new century, due to the rapid development of the Internet, Hong Kong citizens, who were originally isolated, suddenly have a wider range of contacts.

However, in the mainland, which they have always looked down upon, the TV programs are getting better and better. The old TVB old routines, family fights and revenge for decades have not kept up with the pace of the times.When drama series from South Korea, Taiwan, and the mainland successively achieved amazing ratings in Hong Kong, TVB's large studio system also collapsed and disintegrated.

With the rapid expansion of the mainland market, many of TVB's former headliners and actresses have all gone to the mainland to seek gold, such as Ouyang Zhenhua, She Shiman, Luo Jialiang, Chen Haomin, etc., causing TVB to have a shortage of niches and actresses. There has been a large-scale resignation, and the actors who have been killed have to write the script themselves.

The TVB TV series are stale and old-fashioned, and they are also criticized by young audiences.Revenge is an old plot that is used to death, and because of the low investment cost of filming, there is no horse in the entire Three Kingdoms drama, and a certain actress wears a pair of boots for the entire drama.

At this point, even if Sir Yifu Shao is a media tycoon or a business genius, it will be difficult to recover from the decline, and he has no choice but to sell.

……

"Mr. Li, your illness should be cured as soon as possible." Xu Guanwu thought for a while.

"At my age, the burden of surgery is too much." Li Xiaohe said with a smile, "It is very likely that I will die on the operating table before the surgery is completed."

"Then if you reduce your work and rest at home, can you prolong your life?" Xu Guanwu asked.

"Lying at home waiting to die?" Li Xiaohe and the old man smiled, "In that case, what is the difference between it and trash, and what's the point of living like that? I'd rather die at my desk, it's worth dying like that."

"Would you like to hear how I created a wireless TV station?" Li Xiaohe suddenly said with a smile.

Xu Guanwu smiled wryly. Does he have any other choice? Can he say no?
"Yes, Mr. Li, please tell me." Xu Guanwu nodded willingly.

"That was in [-], when I went to the United States to discuss business..." Mr. Li slowly recalled.

Xu Guanwu listened quietly from the sidelines, from Li Xiaohe accidentally discovered the value of the TV station, to returning to Hong Kong to contact Shao Yifu and Yu Jingwei to apply for a TV license, but because they were all Chinese, they were rejected by the Hong Kong British authorities, and finally had no choice but to pull After joining HSBC, Hutchison Whampoa, and Times Life International, they were forced to give up most of their shares.From the opening of the stage to max out the popularity card and invite many guests, to imitating foreign TV programs to create "Happy Tonight", from filming the first short play to dozens of episodes now.From an advertising fee of only 300 million at the beginning of the stage to tens of millions of advertising fees now, from the earliest loss to the current profit...

Fragments of TVB's development are narrated from the mouth of Mr. Li. Many anecdotes and anecdotes are the first time Xu Guanwu has heard of them.I was also moved by Mr. Li's hard work in the past year.

"Mr. Xu, can you let me walk the last mile of my life in TVB?" Li Xiao suddenly looked at Xu Guanwu and asked after talking with the old man.

"This..." Xu Guanwu couldn't help being stunned. Hearing Mr. Li's meaning, it was clear that he didn't want to give up the chairmanship.

However, if he does not give up the chairmanship, Xu Guanwu will have to wait at least four years before he can enter TVB after his death.And four years from now, who knows how things will change?
Perhaps Mr. Li didn't want Xu Guanwu to take away the business he built brick by brick, but would rather destroy it himself?Selling all the artists to Li's TV station, making the show extremely bad, the ratings plummeting and leaving Xu Guanwu in a mess?
But if they snatch the wireless TV station and force Li Xiao and the old man to go down, then Xu Guanwu will really be in trouble.

After all, the 70s were not like the 80s. As long as you can make money in the 80s, you are good. Like Liu Luanxiong, the stock market killer. Although many listed companies scolded Liu Mang, his net worth reached billions of Hong Kong dollars in a short period of time, and he was still popular among ordinary people. Envy, its stocks have always been sought after by investors.

But people in the 70s still had a simple concept, and hated Xu Guanwu's plundering behavior.What's more, Li Xiao and the old man had heart disease, and if it spread, it would become Xu Guanwu bullying an old, weak, sick and disabled person. This reputation is really not good.

Buying the ancestral property from the poor and rich family, and taking it by force and bullying the old, weak, sick and disabled are completely different things.If it is the previous matter, people will say that the rich family should not be able to keep the family business, and they will respect the purchaser.But if you do the latter thing, it will really be blamed by thousands of people and destroyed.

It's not like Xu Guanwu turned around and made the whole of Hong Kong scold him because of this incident, so he couldn't help hesitating for a while.

"Mr. Xu is worried?" Li Xiaohe asked the old man.

Xu Guanwu smiled and scolded himself in his heart. He didn't do a good job of investigating before the acquisition, and now he is riding a tiger.

"Mr. Li, if you were in my position, what would you do?" Xu Guanwu suddenly asked with a smile.

Mr. Li was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, "I will choose to take over peacefully. First, I will send an assistant to the chairman to intervene in the company's operations. Then when the time comes, the assistant will become a regular."

Xu Guanwu thought for a while, "If it were me, I would do the same."

"Thank you for allowing me to walk the last mile in TVB." Mr. Li said with a smile.

Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "I was reckless. If I had known it would be such a trouble, I would have bought Jiayi back then."

"Jiayi TV Station is He Zuozhi's darling, he will not sell it to you." Mr. Li said with a smile, "Even Jardine Matheson, "Sing Tao Daily" and other consortiums are difficult to get from him Take advantage."

"He doesn't sell it now, but if he continues to lose money like this, he will be unable to support it sooner or later. At that time, he will not be able to sell it." Xu Guanwu smiled and said.

"Probably not. According to my estimation, although the ratings of Jiayi TV Station are not high, it still has some profits." Mr. Li frowned, "Their TV station has fewer people and less expenditure, and the cost pressure is not too great. , much more flexible than our wireless TV station.”

"The key is what if they change their business thinking?" Xu Guanwu smiled. "At that time, the cost will increase significantly, and it may not last for a few years. Let's wait and see."

"Let's do it and cherish it. It's actually a blessing to have an opponent in your life." Mr. Li nodded.

……

Xu Guanwu came back from Lee Garden with a depressed face, scolded the old fox as he walked, and said simply if he didn't want to give up his seat.Tell a lot of stories, and then say that you have a heart attack, which is a clear example of moral blackmail.

It's all right now, I bought a lot of stocks, but I can't be the chairman of the board of directors, so let's just leave it there and make ashes.Fortunately, there is also the title of assistant to the chairman, I don't know who to give it to.

Returning to the company full of sulking, Xu Guanwu returned to the company and immediately found Liang Shuyi.

"You went to negotiate with Mr. Li today, what was the result?" Liang Shuyi asked curiously.

Xu Guanwu grimaced, "You can tell by the expression on my face."

"It's not going well?! He doesn't agree to give up?" Liang Shuyi asked.

Xu Guanwu grinned, "That's about it, but he agrees that we send an assistant to the chairman to participate in the company's management. Who do you think is more suitable for this person to send?"

"This is a more appropriate way." Liang Shuyi nodded, and then glanced at Xu Guanwu, "You don't plan to let me be the assistant to the chairman, do you?"

"How come, you are the top leader now, and you will lose your position if you go to TVB as the second leader." Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "I want you to recommend someone, you'd better be mature and prudent, don't ask for merit, but for no fault."

"Then send Mr. Zhong Jinghui. He was an old man from TVB before. He has a good relationship with Mr. Li Xiaohe, and there is nothing to say about his character." Liang Shuyi thought for a while and said, "He is very popular in the entertainment industry, and he can It can hold a group of artists."

"That's it." Xu Guanwu nodded.

　I'm sorry, the power went out twice, and I didn't save the manuscript. This chapter is now coded!

　　
　
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