Chapter 2 I am the successor, always ready

New York.

The time came to December 31, 1993.

Shao Diheng was bored in his villa waiting for his parents to come back, and then rushed to the airport after eating together.

Tomorrow is his fourth birthday, and they will return to Xiangjiang to celebrate with the two elderly people, as they have done in the past few years.

That's right, in this life, he was born on January 1, 1990, just ten years later than the previous life, no more than one day, no less one day, one more cheap post-90s one.

Four years ago, after his full moon, his parents took him away and settled in New York under the reluctant eyes of his grandparents.

However, my father still made an agreement with my grandfather that he had to settle in Xiangjiang for a month every summer and winter.

In this month, he was taken to the company by his grandparents basically every day to watch others make movies and record albums, hoping to cultivate his interest from an early age.

Shao Diheng liked Xiangjiang Entertainment very much in his last life, and in this life, he was able to witness it with his own eyes and experience the last prosperous era of Xiangjiang Entertainment, so he naturally took the opportunity to absorb all kinds of nutrients like a sponge.

This made his grandparents happy, and his parents did not resist, after all, they didn't let Shao Diheng take over the group at the beginning, and they just didn't want to restrict his freedom, but now that he has shown his love for the entertainment industry, they are naturally happy.

From his contact with the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang in the past four years, Shao Diheng found that some things in this life are still a little different from the previous life, the four kings of the singing industry still appear, and there are also two weeks and one dragon in the entertainment industry!

So what's the difference?

That is, the works are different, and their names are also somewhat different, for example, the four heavenly kings are called Liu Liqin, Zhang Shige, Li Tianming, and Guo Huanxie.

The two weeks and one dragon are called Zhou Madu, Zhou Xingfu, and Pang Yilong.

And their works are completely unseen and heard by Shao Diheng, but their experiences and styles are similar, Zhou Madu became an instant hit in the film industry with his role as a big guy, Zhou Xingfu is known as the king of comedy, and Pang Yilong has gained a firm foothold in Hollywood with his witty kung fu.

Although their works did not appear in the previous life, the quality is not bad at all, so from another perspective, they may just be another group of people with similar faces.

Just like Shao Diheng himself doesn't know if he is Shao Daheng, or Shao Diheng who has obtained Shao Daheng's memory, or even if Shao Daheng does not appear, there will still be Shao Diheng in this world.

This is the infinite possibility of parallel worlds!

Back to Shaw Brothers' company, he was founded by his grandfather Shao Qianlou in the 20s, at the beginning it was just a small film company, and after his hard work, he dominated the entire Xiangjiang film industry in the fifties and sixties, and it was at this time that he met the later second wife, Shao Diheng's grandmother Fang Fanghua.

Fong soon began to join the management team with his business talents, helping Shaw Brothers build his own TV station, and until the early 90s, the group owned eight TV stations across Asia, Europe and the United States!

At the same time, the development of the film company has not been left behind, and it still firmly occupies more than half of the annual box office of Xiangjiang!

In addition, Shaw Brothers has a fifth-largest cinema chain in North America and a total of 16 newspapers in many countries!

However, Shaw Brothers has not yet been listed, and the absolute right to speak is still firmly in the hands of Shao Qianlou and his wife.

Many media have said that if Shaw Brothers is listed, then Xiangjiang will not be the four major families, but the five major families! And it is the only family that does not involve real estate!

As for Shao Diheng's own parents, they are not fuel-efficient lamps.

Father Shao Yuncheng is the only son of Shao Qianlou and Fang Fanghua, it is rumored that before Shao Yuncheng was born, the development of the Shaw Brothers encountered a bottleneck, and there was a faint trend of decline, and there were many opponents sniping in movies and television, and even Fang Fanghua became more and more irritable because he had not come out for many years, and scolded many old employees.

Later, because Shao Yuncheng was born, the two husbands and wives were very relieved, which meant that they gave the world a lot of money, but they kept a lot of talents.

The Shaw Brothers also broke through the shackles and ushered in rapid development again, so Shao Qianlou directly helped this son change his name to "Yuncheng", which means "time comes to run, and the horse is successful"!

In addition, Shao Yuncheng has two brothers and two sisters, but they are all from Shao Qianlou and the eldest lady, after the eldest lady passed away, they all left Xiangjiang to develop their own careers, and had no intention of taking over the Shao family, and Shao Diheng has not seen these uncles and aunts in recent years, I am afraid that they are afraid that they will be arrested when they return to Xiangjiang, and they will never be able to leave again.

After Shao Yun became an adult, he also learned from several half-brothers and sisters, left Xiangjiang, became a financial analyst on Wall Street, and later opened his own investment company, earning hundreds of millions of assets in just a few years!

And her mother He Meiqiong is the third daughter of the He family in the casino Haohai, because her father He Hongjing has several wives, so there are more brothers and sisters.

She has loved fashion since she was a child, completed college at the age of 20, and founded her own fashion magazine and several fashion brands in the United States with a $1 million start-up fund given by her father.

waited until it was almost eight o'clock, and my parents finally came back, and as long as they were not on a business trip in the past few years, they would try to rush back to have dinner together.

At the dinner table, Shao Diheng swallowed the last bite of charcoal fire Kobe filet steak, and then said: "Dad, when I go back this time, I want to settle down directly in Xiangjiang, and enter primary school in Xiangjiang in the future!"

Shao Yuncheng was a little stunned by Shao Diheng's decision, but because Shao Diheng had been more precocious since he was a child, for example, he called himself "Dad" from the beginning of his speech to the present, while other children kept calling "Daddy" and "Dad" all day long!

Moreover, Shao Yuncheng, as an investment analyst, has a more rational personality, and after asking "Have you thought about it clearly?" and stopped talking after getting a positive answer.

On the contrary, his mother, who is a fashion designer, was already in tears at this time, and she persuaded Shao Diheng to stay, at least go back after finishing elementary school in the United States, and even when she was packing, she was slow to go, as if she hated having to go out.

In fact, since Shao Diheng confirmed that he was going to take over the Shaw Brothers, he has been thinking about how to save this group.

That's right, it's to save!

The development trajectory of this world is basically the same as that of the previous life, and Xiangjiang will return in four years, so now a large number of talents are draining, and the government has no intention of managing public security, and the entertainment industry, which is already a holy place for making money and laundering, is even more chaotic, with a large influx of unknown funds, resulting in the value of actors rising again and again, and it is not uncommon for an actor to roll several plays at the same time.

But in recent years, the upper limit of the box office has not risen, 50 million is still the ceiling, and even a large number of movies are rushing to be released, which seriously thins the number of moviegoers, causing the average box office of a movie to begin to decline, Shao Diheng knows that it is only three years at most, and the box office of a movie has 20 million, thank God!

So the box office has dropped and the value of the actor has increased again, what should I do?

So the actors, screenwriters, directors, and investors are even more in a hurry!

So a large number of shoddy movies have emerged in the market, but the audience will vote with their feet, and every time they finish watching it, they have to go home and wash their eyes, can't I watch it!

After reaching a critical point, investors found that they were not making money and ran away, leaving behind a lot of chicken feathers and broken hearts of the audience.

At that time, the credibility of the entire industry was irretrievable, coupled with the impact of Hollywood movies, so the decline of Xiangjiang Films was inevitable!

No snowflake is innocent during an avalanche, if Shao Diheng wants to stop the avalanche, he must at least be prepared when the snow first starts to fall, which means that he was born at least thirty years late!

Shaw Brothers was originally an empire based on movies, the Xiangjiang film and television industry collapsed, and the empire of Shaw Brothers is not far from toppling, does it really depend on selling newspapers and movie tickets to sustain itself?

Shao Diheng is sure that at the moment when the empire is about to fall, there must be a god-like superman to support it, and this superman must be radiant and can give the people of the empire the glory of beauty and hope for life!

And as a successor, you must always be ready!

So, if you want to temper your godhead, where should you start?