The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 351
Xu Guanwu's idea of ​​retiring had just emerged, and then something happened that immediately knocked him out of his life.

While he was away from Hong Kong, Golden Harvest Company secretly got in touch with Zeng Zhiwei, and then spent a lot of money to poach him.

When the news reached Xu Guanwu in the United States, he was taken aback and almost suspected that he had failed.But it turns out that he has no servants, and Zeng Zhiwei has indeed defected to Jiahe.

Xu Guanwu was very puzzled by this. He asked himself that the treatment of these people was not bad, and the dividends and high salaries could be distributed to 200 million a year. Why would someone betray them? !
But he forgot the truth that the human heart is not enough, no one will know how to be satisfied.If you make a thousand, you want to make ten thousand, if you make ten thousand, you want to make a hundred thousand, if you make a hundred thousand, you want to make a million...

The salary Xu Guanwu offered was indeed high enough, but when Golden Harvest offered higher conditions, they still poached him away smoothly.

The condition that Golden Harvest offered Zeng Zhiwei was that he would invest in the establishment of a company for him. I would pay for all the personnel, funds, and theaters. You were in charge of making the film and I was in charge of showing it. The box office share was also high enough.This is equivalent to being your own boss and working for yourself.

Zeng Zhiwei thought he had a flexible mind, and made several blockbuster films in Xu's, with a total box office of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.As for the box office in other places, it is even higher. The copies in Nanyang, Taiwan, South Korea and other places have sold a lot. As for the box office in North America, it is even higher. It is a green ticket.

The global box office totaled more than 3000 million Hong Kong dollars, but he only got less than 100 million, which naturally made Zeng Zhiwei a little unwilling.So when Golden Harvest offered to invest and let him be his own boss, Zeng Zhiwei quickly left Xu's and joined Golden Harvest's banner.

Zeng Zhiwei did not sign a work contract with Xu. He was brought by Hong Jingbao before. As a member of the dragon and tiger warriors, he was neither necessary nor qualified to sign a contract at that time.Although there was a rapid improvement all the way, the contract issue has not been resolved.

Xu Guanwu didn't know that he hadn't signed the contract, and no one else had reminded him. Zeng Zhiwei still got paid and promoted as usual, but he was not bound by the terms of the contract, so he was happy to pretend to be stupid.So it happened that after he switched jobs, he found out that he hadn't signed a contract in the past few years.

Zeng Zhiwei's high-profile job-hopping from Xu's to Golden Harvest caused a stir in Hong Kong for a while.

Xu's has developed extremely rapidly in recent years, and the company's profit has increased by more than [-]% every year, which is very rare in the Hong Kong film industry.Moreover, it surpassed its predecessors Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, firmly ranking first among the three major film companies in Hong Kong, and is well-deserved as the number one overlord of Eastern Hollywood.

But it is such a high-level executive of the overlord in the film industry who now jumps to the old rival Golden Harvest in a high-profile manner. It is like slapping Xu's big mouth in front of all Hong Kong citizens.Not only did all the outsiders see the joke, but it also made Xu's face ashamed for a while.

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The Xu brothers, who are high-level executives of the company, expressed a low profile about this. They just said that they cherished the time they worked together and wish Zeng Zhiwei a smooth job in Golden Harvest!
As a big boss, it is natural to maintain face to get by, but the younger brothers under him naturally have no scruples, and immediately jumped out, aiming at Zeng Zhiwei and Jiahe with a pair of fierce bombardments.

The first to jump out were the dragon and tiger martial artists under Fatty Hong, and the second-tier and third-tier artists of the company.He also criticized Jiahe for poaching people's corners, which is a very despicable act.And he expressed his firm belief that he would never be poached by Golden Harvest.

Facing accusations from Xu's lower-level employees, Golden Harvest's martial artists and entertainers also jumped out to fight back, saying that people go to high places and water flows to low places. The Xu brothers lived in villas and drove sports cars, but their subordinates even bought houses. I'm sorry, it's just a mean profiteer.How can Daheng Zou be so proud, willing to pay others to start a company, work for himself, and no longer be angry with others.

As for the despicable behavior of scolding Jiahe for poaching the wall, it is even more ridiculous.Your Xu family can have so many talents, and all of them were poached from corners.You guessed better about meanness.The so-called good birds choose trees to live in, and Xu's treatment of others is naturally no one wants to stay there.

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You come and I exchange words between the two sides. At first, it was just Xiaoyu Xiaoxia who jumped out to scold, and took the opportunity to show off the photos on the page.But the random bombardment also caused many people to be shot while lying down, and as a result, heavyweights were blown up.The first one to jump out was Kung Fu star Chen Guantai, who actually took the fight passively after laying down the gun.

When Golden Harvest's employees gave an example of betraying their boss, they also included Chen Guantai, who had switched from Shaw to Xu.Chen Guantai said in an interview after laying down the gun that his contract with Shaw Brothers had expired at that time, and Shaw Brothers had a lot of talents at that time, so he had no intention of renewing his contract.It happened that the Xu family was eager to pass on an olive branch, so he left the Shaw Brothers to join the Xu family.

Chen Guantai added another word, "All of this is done aboveboard, unlike someone who wants to leave but also sneaks away."

As a result, this sentence hit Zeng Zhiwei's painful feet, and he couldn't help jumping out, claiming that he had contributed a lot to Xu's, but he had received very little.He chose to change jobs because he felt it was unfair, but Golden Harvest favored him a lot and even paid for him to start a company, which is really the best company in the world.

Hearing what Zeng Zhiwei said, Leung Sook Yee also jumped out and listed the data to prove that Zeng Zhiwei earned more than 150 million Hong Kong dollars during the three years in the Xu family, which is considered a high-income group among all Hong Kong filmmakers.And he still had two films that were not successful, but the company still didn't care about it and gave him the dividends.So Zeng Zhiwei is lying.

Zeng Zhiwei refuted that the company made more money, and the box office profits he created exceeded tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.And his own income is only more than 100 million, which is very small.Afterwards, he revealed the decision made by Xu's group of seven, implying that Xu's seemingly generous is actually stingy, and that he got a lot of money and only shared some soup and water with everyone, and even decorated himself as the most humane person in Hong Kong. My son's company really has to set up a memorial archway even if it is a female cousin.

For Zeng Zhiwei's disclosure of the company's commercial secrets, the Xu brothers were naturally very disgusted.The seven-person group meeting is the highest decision-making level of the company, in charge of all the affairs of the company, it can be said to be Xu's biggest business secret.Now that Zeng Zhiwei leaked some insider information, it is tantamount to letting the outside world know about Xu's high-level operations. This is a very dangerous thing.If you don't stop him immediately, if something unexpected comes out later, the Xu family will really be in danger.

Before the Xu brothers could speak, the eldest brother Hong Jingbao jumped out first, and shouted at Zeng Zhiwei to stay on the front line, otherwise the brothers would not have to do anything.

As soon as the eldest brother speaks, it really works. Zeng Zhiwei knows Hong Jingbao's strength. There are so many martial arts brothers who follow him to make a fortune. Everyone must be strong.If Zeng Zhiwei still wants to recruit dragon and tiger warriors to film in the future, then Hong Jingbao must not offend him.

So he closed his mouth resentfully, and no longer responded to all the rumors from the outside world.After the war of words for a period of time, no new information was released, and gradually there was no media to follow up.

What surprised everyone was that despite the chaos in Hong Kong, Xu Guanwu, one of the helmsmen of the Xu family and a Hong Kong media tycoon, never showed up.

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When Xu Guanwu received this news, he was really shocked beyond measure.Even Zhao Yazhi was ready to pack her luggage and return to Hong Kong with Xu Guanwu to deal with affairs.But Xu Guanwu stopped him with a wave of his hand.

He does not intend to return to Hong Kong to work as a firefighter now.If there is something that requires the big boss to take action, it not only reflects the incompetence of the subordinates, but also makes him, the boss, exhausted.

It sounds like a big deal, but it really doesn't matter.Xu's family is full of talents, there are not many Zeng Zhiweis, and there are not many Zeng Zhiweis. Moreover, the seven-person group meeting he founded was originally set up for the decentralization of power.

Each of the seven people has one voting right, and as long as more than half of them can't pass the project, this avoids the situation of monopoly and reduces the power of individuals to a minimum.What's more, Zeng Zhiwei's success also depends on the company's system, no matter the funds, personnel, props, etc. are all under the overall control, so that the director can save a lot of time and energy.

Switching to the second film company, first of all, the system is different, and cooperation is bound to be timid.Moreover, this set is the advanced experience that Xu Guanwu learned from Hollywood. If Golden Harvest wants to imitate Xu's system, the first thing is to make a big adjustment to the company structure, which will inevitably affect the power of some veterans. The resistance encountered is naturally very strong.

In addition, Jiahe does not have as many talent reserves as Xu's, and because Xu's salary is relatively high, Zeng Zhiwei left alone, not even being able to poach an artist.This also depends on the superstar manager company founded by Xu Guanwu. The artists are all managed by the core layer. The cost of only digging a single star is quite high, and the liquidated damages alone are enough to drink a pot.And digging brokers can't guarantee anything, the brokers under Xu's company are only responsible for general affairs, and the company is responsible for the core affairs.Even if one or two brokers are poached, it will have little impact on the company as a whole.

There are not as many film talents as Xu's, only relying on these artists under Golden Harvest, Zeng Zhiwei's room for development is also limited.It’s as if Zhou Liang Shuyi took Seven Gentlemen to jump to Jiashi in the 70s. It’s not because it’s hard for a smart woman to make a living without rice, so she had to leave Jiashi in the end; It will also end up in a situation where no one can use it.

Golden Harvest's current popular Xiaosheng is only Liu Yong, and Xu's side not only has Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, Yuan Biao and other popular stars, but also TVB TV stars. It can be said that there are a lot of talents, much stronger than Golden Harvest.

Furthermore, when it comes to talent, Xu Guanwu feels that although Zeng Zhiwei has quick talent, there are clever sentences but no good chapters.Without Xu's talented screenwriters as a structure, his movies are limited even if they are good-looking.Just like the "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" he insisted on filming, he lost a lot of money.In the 80s, "Owl" and "Little Cop" and other dramas have many funny plots, but the box office is a sad reminder.

So Xu Guanwu concluded that Zeng Zhiwei would not have a very happy stay in Golden Harvest.What Jiahe likes is his ability to make money, but Zeng Zhiwei's ability to make money depends more on the assistance of other members of the Xu family.Now without the help of these brothers, it's hard to say how long he can survive.

Moreover, Zeng Zhiwei is rebellious by nature, and he can't stay in any company for long.When he first entered the film industry, Zeng Zhiwei was with Master Liu Jialiang, then with Hong Jingbao, and then with New Arts City.Tired of staying in New Art City, he returned to Hong Jingbao's side, but after following for a while, he jumped out to start his own company.But Huang Yulang, who planned to invest in him before, went bankrupt, and he could only use the funds of Taiwanese film companies to film. As a result, the hot money from Taiwanese film companies entered Hong Kong in a large scale, and the Hong Kong film circle was in turmoil.

In the end, in response to that sentence, when the tide receded, I saw who was swimming naked.Sure enough, once the hot money from the Taiwanese film studios was withdrawn, the Hong Kong film industry was full of wailing, and most of them were just fishing in troubled waters.

(End of this chapter)