The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 92 Bomb Threat
In the first issue of "Daily Daily" after the suspension of publication, Zheng Shi'an published the article "Mr.
The article vividly describes how stingy and lonely Sir Shao Yifu is, which makes people laugh.

For example, Sir Shao Yifu kept a BMW in Happy Valley. During the racing season, Sir Shao only paid ten yuan for betting on the horses.One day, I saw a person betting on a horse with a sum of five hundred yuan, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the company's production manager.After returning, Sir Shao immediately began to reorganize the company's finances.

There was another time when director Yue Feng was filming a film and asked screenwriter Xu Guo to be the interim director.After filming, the director of the production department, Zou Wenhuai, paid Xu Guo 1000 yuan as a director's fee according to the rules.

When Boss Shao knew about it, he ordered the accounting department to negotiate with Xu Guo, asking him to "discount" and only charge 800 yuan.Xu Guo felt that his personality was humiliated, so he simply tore up the 800 yuan check, "Boss Shao will not be rich if he has more than 200 yuan, and Xu Guo will not be poor if he is short of 200 yuan."

There was another time when a martial arts film was filmed on location, and many dragon and tiger martial artists were hired.Sir Shao was afraid that his subordinates would pay the bill, so he specially sent a female staff member to carry a large bag of steel coins.Every martial artist has to sign and draw a deposit to receive the money, and the martial artist thinks it is degrading to the personality and announces the strike.

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These deeds were collected by Zheng Shi'an from the defected employees of the Shaw Brothers studio. After being polished by him and the editor of the newspaper, they were published in the "Daily Daily" in a grand manner.

These anecdotes are naturally not new in the "independent kingdom" of the Shaw Brothers studio, but it is rare for the general public outside the studio to hear such anecdotes.

Especially since the death of Lu Yuntao of MP & GI, Sir Yifu Shao has almost become the king of the Hong Kong film industry.Even though Golden Harvest came out later and repeatedly attacked Shaw Brothers, Shaw Brothers' status remained firm.It also made Sir Shao Yifu's reputation stand firm.

After the poaching battle broke out, the Shaw Brothers was able to gain the support of so many celebrities, which shows the status of Sir Yifu Shao.

But it is also because of this that the general public is very interested in celebrities like Sir Shao, especially the gossip and jokes of these parents.

After the article "Sir Shao's Elaboration from the Beginning" was published, it immediately aroused the attention of the public.

The distribution of 20 copies is enough to make "Daily Daily" appear in every corner of Hong Kong.

There are people talking about it in tea houses, restaurants, streets and alleys, and it is regarded as a joke after dinner.

The reputation of Sir Shao's loneliness spread throughout Hong Kong in an instant, and he became the object of people's ridicule, which also caused the glorious image of Sir Shao Yifu to collapse overnight.

In particular, "Daily Daily" also listed Shaw's manual salary list in recent years. Among them, although the great director Zhang Che has hundreds of thousands or over one million in box office revenue for each film, his director's fee is only [-] Hong Kong dollars; Stars Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei are all hits, but their salary is only [-] Hong Kong dollars; as for the supporting roles, it is even more miserable, their monthly salary is only a few hundred dollars, which is no different from that of factory workers.

In the 70s, Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei were highly praised by the great director Zhang Che, and starred in many blockbuster martial arts movies. They were much more popular than Cheng Long, and they were heroes in the hearts of countless young girls.

When the general public sees their beloved stars, who are glamorous and energetic on the screen, but so poor in private, they can't help but shed tears of sympathy for them, and scold Shaw Brothers for mistreating their stars.

This created an atmosphere of public opinion favorable to Xu Guanwu. If he goes to court in the future, it will also affect the jurors' attitude towards him.

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Sir Shao naturally refused to give up after being exposed by the "Daily Daily".

Zheng Shi'an is not afraid of being sued by Shaw Brothers, because the few anecdotes he selected have been 100% confirmed, and he dared to publish them only if they are true.There was no intentional fabrication of facts to slander Sir Shao's reputation.

In order to deal with Sir Shaw's two lawsuits, Xu Guanwu also hired ten of the most outstanding lawyers in Hong Kong with a lot of money, and fought with Shaw's swords in court to the end.

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During the trial of these two lawsuits by the court, the war of public opinion continued, which aroused the attention of the general public.

Among them, Shaw's main positions are "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily", as well as its two magazines "Southland Film" and "Hong Kong Film and Video".

The main position of the Xu Brothers Company is the "Daily Daily", which is distributed free of charge.

After several consecutive days of free distribution, with the help of Shaw Brothers and Xu Brothers' shocking news, the circulation of "Daily Daily" has been rising steadily, and has reached the mark of more than 30 copies per day.

However, because "Daily Daily" is issued for free, the advertising revenue is still unable to keep up with the cost, which means that Xu Guanwu will continue to invest money in it.

Seeing the increasing sales of "Daily Daily", several major newspapers in Hong Kong couldn't help but feel a little bit excited, and they also wanted to issue their own free newspapers.

But after cost accounting, it was discovered that although "Daily Daily" is currently a fire, it is burning its own money.

Xu Guanwu had to pay [-] cents out of his own pocket for every newspaper delivered.

The delivery volume of 30 newspapers means a loss of 5000 yuan.

Forty-five thousand yuan a day, more than 5000 million a month.

No newspaper can afford such a huge loss.

"This person is simply burning money, he is simply a lunatic." Every knowledgeable media person in Hong Kong has an account in mind, and has already calculated the loss clearly for Xu Guanwu.

Xu Guanwu has to inject millions of dollars into the newspaper every month to maintain the operation of "Daily Daily".

At that time, the market value of "Ming Pao" was only 2000 million.

It is equivalent to saying that if Xu Guanwu loses money like this, it is equivalent to destroying a "Ming Pao" in a year.

The attitude of taking money inappropriately like this immediately startled a group of people.

Reports about Xu Guanwu in the newspapers also suddenly increased, and everyone was guessing how much money this 30-year-old young talent had to squander.

For a while, Xu Guanwu became a celebrity with a high exposure rate.

Xu Guanwu did not expect that the public opinion war with Shao Yifu would produce such a miraculous effect.

But he thinks it feels good to be famous.

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Just when Xu Guanwu was happy to see the balance of public opinion, which was heavily tilted towards Shaw Brothers, and gradually tilted towards himself, Zheng Shian, the editor-in-chief of "Daily Daily", found him anxiously.

"Boss, this was discovered by the cleaners of the newspaper this morning." Zheng Shi'an took out a paper package wrapped in newspaper from his handbag and said.

"What's inside?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help asking coldly seeing Zheng Shi'an's nervous expression and a trace of fear in his eyes.

"Yes...it's a bomb!" Zheng Shi'an swallowed and said in a hoarse voice.

(End of this chapter)