Hong Kong, Soong Mansion---

Song Zhichao was woken up by the maid early in the morning, saying that a guest had come to visit.

Song Zhichao didn't ask carefully, hurriedly washed up, put on a suit and tie, and didn't have time to eat breakfast, so he went to the reception hall downstairs.

In the spacious and bright hall, there was not only one guest, but four, all of whom were acquaintances--- including the two brothers Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Hong Kong film industry tycoon Zou Wenhuai, and Chairman Wu Siyuan, the current chairman of the Hong Kong Film Association.

These four are all bigwigs in the Hong Kong film industry and entertainment industry, among which the Xiang brothers are the big bosses of the original Yongsheng Entertainment, signed with the current kung fu superstar Jet Li, and the fast gunner director Fat Wang Jing;

Zou Wenhuai is the boss of Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company, needless to say, the big star of Golden Harvest Company, of course, is Jackie Chan JACK Chen, who once replaced Bruce Lee as Hong Kong's No. 1 action superstar, and also entered Hollywood;

As for Chairman Wu Siyuan, not to mention, he was the first film company in the Hong Kong film industry to establish a film company, discovered Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark and Leslie Cheung, and is now the first chairman of the Film Association.

Seeing the arrival of these four, Song Zhichao couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly asked the third sister-in-law of the maid to serve tea, and asked the four to sit down and talk in detail.

After sitting down, Wu Siyuan, as a representative, went straight to the point and told Song Zhichao that they came for a certain acquisition case of the "Hong Kong Film Group" this time.

......

It turns out that Song Zhichao's Song Group has a total of four pillar industries, namely Wanda Foreign Trade, Wanxin Investment Company, Wanda Electronics, and Phantom Entertainment.

As for the China Investment Bank, as well as Rosneft, they do not belong to Song Zhichao's full control, of which the China Investment Bank is a shareholder, and Song Zhichao is only the largest shareholder, with a veto power, but not the only controller.

The oil company is controlled by Song Zhichao's old father-in-law, General Yorke, and in the future it will be handed over to his grandson Alexander Jr. to take care of; as for some of Song Zhichao's hotel and real estate investments in the mainland, they belong to Wanxin International's investment activities, and they are not directly controlled by Song Zhichao; and Ericsson mobile phones, Nokia mobile phones, and Motorola mobile phones are all subordinate to Wanda Electronics.

A special mention should be made here for Phantom Entertainment.

Because this is the most important part of the "capital chain" in all of Song Zhichao's pillar industries, the reason is that the money comes quickly, and as long as the box office is collected, it can be recouped, so it has also become the "top priority" among Song Zhichao's four major industries.

In other words, since Song Zhichao used the thunderbolt method, in one fell swoop, he brought the Hong Kong film company that was like the Warring States dispute under his command, mainly with his own Phantom Entertainment, combined with Yongsheng Entertainment, Golden Harvest Film and other more than a dozen big-name film companies to join in, and established the "Hong Kong Film Group", striving to build a film aircraft carrier belonging to Hong Kong, get rid of the original situation that the major Hong Kong film companies are fighting each other, and gather centripetal force for the future development of Hong Kong.

Although this has great advantages, it can formulate the same goal and unify the rules, so that Hong Kong films will no longer follow the old path and avoid decay, but the shortcomings are also apparent, that is, the branches are big and the leaves are big, and many times policies and decisions must be decided by the board of directors of the "Hong Kong Film Group".

It's the same this time.

After the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Group, it wanted to swallow up the film and television resource market in one fell swoop, among which the film resources did not need to be considered too much, they had already been controlled by the film group, and the remaining small film companies with Taiwanese capital were not worried. However, in terms of TV resources, TVB and Hong Kong ATV are two hard bones.

TVB Needless to say, this is the Hong Kong TV empire that Mr. Shao gave up Shaw Brothers Film Company and worked hard to build, not to mention the talents, but also with strong financial resources, especially now that Mr. Shao is alive, no one dares to brush his tiger beard easily--- after all, Uncle Shao is a god-like existence, and has long become an idol and spiritual pillar in the film and television industry, even if a bold person like Song Zhichao does not dare to be a little inferior.

Since the idea of TBV TV Company cannot be beaten, the "Hong Kong Film Group" headed by Wu Siyuan, Zou Wenhuai and the Xiang brothers has set its goal on Hong Kong ATV, which has been competing with TVB.

Hong Kong ATV, formerly known as Hong Kong's "Li's" TV, in 1982, Qiu Degen settled in Li's and changed its name to "Hong Kong ATV".

Since then, Asia Television has always been known as the two major TV stations in Hong Kong along with TVB, and it is precisely because of the existence of Hong Kong ATV that Hong Kong has not been dominated by TVB.

Hong Kong ATV is also considered to be strong and talented, and has filmed many good films, such as "Silkworm Transformation", which is the most rated in Hong Kong, as well as the classic TV series "Hero Huo Yuanjia", "The Kindness of the Earth", "Walking to Tiger Mountain Again", "Amber Green Dragon" and so on.

Unfortunately, ATV's fate is changeable.

Due to the internal struggle for power, the Qiu Degen family has led to an extreme shortage of funds for ATV production in the later stage, which has caused the quality of TV programs to decline all the way, and the ratings of the whole Hong Kong have declined, both in TV dramas and in the production of variety shows.

Until 1988, the Hong Kong Lin Baixin family acquired 30.83% of the shares of Asia Television for 800 million yuan and became the chairman of the board of directors, and in 1994, it spent 1.3 billion yuan to further purchase shares, and since then Lin Baixin has held 67.5% of ATV's equity ratio and has become the absolute controlling shareholder.

Under the auspices of the Lin Group, Hong Kong Asia is still congested and resurrected, and in 1994 alone, it filmed three major dramas, "Blue Blood and Blue Sky Yang Family General", "Blue Blood and Blue Sky Pearl Flag" and "The King of Drama", and the ratings have risen steadily;

It can be seen that after ATV injected production funds, the entire TV station has a new year, and if it is managed well, it can return to the peak moment to compete with TVB.

......

In other words, after Song Zhichao single-handedly created the "Hong Kong Film Group", in order to win people's hearts, he entrusted Wu Siyuan, Zou Wenhuai, and the Xiang brothers with important responsibilities, and let them serve as the main directors of the entire group, becoming the four leaders of the group's development.

However, these four bigwigs are all idle people, and they are all ambitious, Song Zhichao hopes that they can have a vegetarian meal, as long as it does not affect the development of the group, it is OK, but the four of them want to annex ATV, so that the film group can include the two major genres of film and television.

Originally, this was a good suggestion, but TVB they couldn't gnaw it, and they wanted to gnaw on the bone of ATV, but they also found it a little hard.

On the one hand, Lin Baixin has a positive attitude towards the development of ATV, and there is no intention of selling ATV from beginning to end; on the other hand, ATV's current situation is that the new daughter-in-law is living a better life, and the disadvantages are about to be reversed, and the people are in unison; the last point is also the most important point, although the film group is eyeing ATV, it cannot use strength, the reason is that this Lin Baixin is not an ordinary person, he has a cousin who is also a Hong Kong strongman, that is, Hong Kong tycoon Lin Wannian!

To put it bluntly, Lin Wannian and Lin Baixin are cousins, and they both belong to the Lin family clan in Hong Kong. The brothers are both Hong Kong tycoons, and they help each other whenever they encounter something, so they are all of the same race.

And Lin Wannian has a good relationship with Song Zhichao, and Song Zhichao also respectfully calls the other party "Uncle Lin".

In addition to being the major shareholder of Song Zhichao's China Investment Bank, Lin Wannian is also a partner of Song Zhichao's Wanda Trading Company.

In addition, Lin Wannian's son Lin Jiahao and Song Zhichao are "old friends"; and Lin Wannian's daughter Lin Jiaqi married Fu Jiajun, as for the relationship between Fu Jiajun and Song Zhichao, the whole Hong Kong knows that the two are iron-clad "dead friends", and Song Zhichao's rise to Xiangjiang also relied on the help of the Fu family.

So many messy relationships are involved, which makes the four leading companies of the "Hong Kong Film Group" unable to do anything against "ATV".

The relationship is too complicated, and it affects the whole body.

Because of this, although the four leaders proposed the acquisition of ATV, they have always been superficial, but they have only passed the word with Lin Baixin's family, but the other party did not speak, did not agree, and did not disagree. The four dragon heads then died, feeling that this time they were going to be stillborn.

never thought that just yesterday, the Lin family suddenly replied that they agreed to the "Hong Kong Film Group" to acquire Asia Television with full authority, but there was one condition, the price code was 2.8 billion, and it was required that all the accounts be received within a week after the signing of the contract, and --- no bargaining!

......

"Uh......"

After listening to the narration of Wu Siyuan and others, Song Zhichao was also stunned.

Because the news came so suddenly.

For Song Zhichao, what is even more sudden is that the news that Lin Baixin agreed to the film group's acquisition of ATV hit the juncture of his desire to acquire Kang Yonglian's company.

That's right, the reason why Song Zhichao was unwilling to make peace with Kang Yonglian from the beginning was to annex his company--- and he was tired of swallowing it, but now, he can't swallow it, because he has to take out the funds in his hands to buy ATV, because the money belongs to the Hong Kong Film Group.

That is to say, today Wu Siyuan, Zou Wenhuai and the Xiang brothers are not here to ask for Song Zhichao's opinion on the acquisition of ATV, but to --- "forced debts".