The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 86
In 1973, the Hang Seng Index of the Hong Kong stock market plummeted from 500 points to more than [-] points. Some popular blue-chip stocks fell by at least [-]% and suffered heavy losses.

At the end of the same year, the Arab oil-producing countries announced that they would raise oil prices, and the price of oil soared directly from US$[-] to US$[-] per barrel.The oil crisis caused the United States, Germany, RB and other countries to fall into the worst economic recession since World War II.

Affected by this, the Hong Kong stock market plummeted again in 74, and the Hang Seng Index fell another 75% after plunging 60% last year!

Hong Kong's economy is in turmoil.

Affected by this, the real estate industry is also in a slump. The prices of completed buildings have dropped again and again, and unfinished buildings have also stopped construction and become unfinished buildings.

Xu Guanwu chose this opportunity to enter the market to buy bottoms.

With the hundreds of millions of funds earned from Hollywood, Liang Shuyi, with the support of Xu Guanwu, started a large-scale merger plan.

At that time, Hong Kong's economy fell across the board, countless real estate developers went bankrupt, and no one bought houses.

Units that originally cost 10,000+ to buy can now be purchased for only tens of thousands.

Liang Shuyi held a lot of Hong Kong dollars and threw money, like a dragon girl who is good at wealth and wealth.

With her generous investment, in just a few months, Xu Guanwu owns more than 20 commercial buildings and properties of nearly one million square meters, and has become a veritable land king in Hong Kong.

These 20 commercial buildings cost Xu Guanwu a total of [-] million Hong Kong dollars. Except for the ground floor, which is used to build a multiplex theater, the rest of the floors are all used for rent.It can earn Xu Guanwu more than [-] million Hong Kong dollars in rent every year.

The Xu Brothers Company has also changed from shotgun to cannon, from a frontage house of less than [-] square meters to a thousand-square-meter office building in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The four big bosses Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanwu, Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie were each assigned an office with a full [-] square meters, in which they could not only dance but even play ball.

"Wow! Changing to a new office, it feels different." Xu Guanying stood in front of the meeting room window, looking at the Victoria Harbor Road in the distance.

"Brother, our company has moved from a facade to an office building, and it can be regarded as a new stage." Xu Guanwu sat at the conference table and smiled, "Do you have any thoughts on the future development of the company?"

Xu Guanwen was sitting on the boss chair, looking at the scenery outside the window, he was full of ambitions, "Awu, now that the company has your capital injection, our financial resources can already compete with Golden Harvest. But there is still a lack of talent, so the first step I plan to dig people."

"Poaching people?!" Xu Guanjie was taken aback, "We have an agreement with Jiahe, and we cannot poach each other's corners. In that case, we can only start with Shaw Brothers."

"Well, that's exactly what I thought. Shaw's wages for employees have always been very low, and the employees complained a lot about it. I believe that as long as we can afford a high price, we will be able to attract many people." Xu Guanwen is confident He said with a smile, "I've already made a list, let's see who we can poach."

As Xu Guanwen said, he took out a list from the folder, on which was densely written the list of all the staff of Shaw Brothers.

From the high-level executives to the out-of-the-box Curry Fei, from the famous and popular movie stars in front of the people to the staff behind the scenes, anyone who can be named is among them.

Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanwu, Xu Guanying, and Xu Guanjie have all stayed in Shaw for a period of time, so they are naturally familiar with the characters on this list.

Xu Guanwu looked at the list carefully, looking for the people who had an impression in his mind.

Needless to say, the two directors Zhang Che and Li Hanxiang, in any case, it is impossible to come to the Xu Brothers company, unless after the closure of Shaw Brothers in the 80s.

It's just that by then, Zhang Che was already very old, and the waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead, and he had already been photographed on the beach by Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, and New Art City.

And Li Hanxiang probably had defected to the mainland at that time, and went to shoot "Listening to the Government Behind the Curtain" that he wanted to shoot the most.

Director Hu Jinquan still has some chances.

Xu Guanwu vaguely remembered that this great director first became famous in Shaw Brothers, and then went to Taiwan to make a few films, but despite his good reputation, he failed miserably at the box office.

As a result, no one dared to ask him to make a movie until the 90s and Tsui Hark co-directed Jin Yong's martial arts masterpiece "Swordsman".But it is a pity that the cooperation between the two is not thorough.

Halfway through filming, Tsui Hark and Hu Jinquan had friction.

Director Hu Jinquan quit the film in a rage, and even Yue Hua, who played Yue Buqun, also stopped acting, so Tsui Hark had to start again, which led to a sharp increase in costs, making "Swordsman" not very profitable.

Although the box office of the films directed by this director Hu Da is not high, he is a good player in terms of winning awards, and he has quite a wide network of contacts in the film industry.

Together with directors Li Hanxiang, Jiang Guangchao, Song Cunshou and others, they became brothers with different surnames and formed the "Seven Great Freedoms".

Everyone is naturally familiar with Li Hanxiang, the founder of Huangmei Diao, Fengyue Films, and Qing Palace Opera, and a generation of film masters.Jiang Guangchao is an entertainer, comedian, comedian, and apprentice of Ma Lianliang, a famous Peking Opera master.Song Cunshou, a well-known director in Taiwan, is good at shooting romantic literary films. His greatest achievement is to single-handedly discover star actors such as Lin Qingxia and Qin Han.

Shaw's popular male star Yue Hua, martial arts queen Zheng Peipei, Xu Feng and others are all his disciples, and there are countless other movie stars he found and promoted.

"If Director Hu Jinquan can be invited into the company, it will be a living Bodhisattva who can overwhelm the temple." Xu Guanwu drew a circle on Hu Jinquan's name with a pen, "Now this director Hu Jinquan should be filming in Taiwan."

After choosing director Hu Jinquan, Xu Guanwu scrolled down and saw Chu Yuan's name at once.

"Huh?!" Xu Guanwu couldn't help calling out.

"Why, second brother, do you have any suggestions?" Xu Guanwen asked curiously.

Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie also looked over together.

"I feel good about this director, Chu Yuan." Xu Guanwu said, pointing to Chu Yuan's name.

He remembered that he had read reports before that the director Chu Yuan was once known as "Chu Wan Wan", and he was best at making movies adapted from Gu Long's martial arts novels.

"Director Chu Yuan? He is indeed good, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to recruit him." Xu Guanjie said, "The box office of "72 Tenants" he filmed last year was second only to our "Ghost and Horse" at the box office, and even better than Bruce Lee's " "Enter the Dragon" is still going to be a blockbuster. How could Shaw Brothers let such a blockbuster director go?"

"Well, no matter what, let's try it first. What if it works?" Xu Guanwu drew a circle on Chu Yuan's name.

"Huh?! Second brother, why did you even choose the great director Hu Jinquan? Your appetite is really too big." Xu Guanwen pointed to Hu Jinquan's name and smiled, "He is a great director, so he may not like it. Our company."

(End of this chapter)