Chapter 437: Who's in For, Who's Against
"You're welcome, everyone, tonight is just a contemptible person and Uncle Six want to talk about some things in the film and television business. However, the contemptible people are very good in American affairs, and the teachers are rigorous, so it is not easy to return to China. If you want to catch up with your friends, you will be bothered by Uncle Six. ”
After Gu Biao finished politely greeting Sir Shao and greeting a few guests of honor, he took out the posture of half a host, and instead beckoned the others to let them not be polite.
Everything seemed so natural.
"Gu Sheng is at ease, and Professor Kissinger is rigorous in his studies, which is heard at home. "The first to say good things was Boss Zheng, who, as half of Kong Shangzhong's peers, was the most sensitive.
After all, those luxury and commercial real estate industries have no intersection with Gu Biao's business at all. Moreover, such an industry is also to help foreigners earn Chinese money, and Gu Xiao is not soft when he kills.
To say something undesirable: even if the Chinese do not buy a donkey brand Gucci Hermes Prada a year in the country, will the country have any loss?
Boss Zheng in the mid-80s was not as developed as he was later. The status of the rivers and lakes is one level weaker than that of the Er Guo and the Li family, and it belongs to the level of billions of Hong Kong dollars when all the values are collected together, while the other major families can cross the 10 billion Hong Kong dollar mark.
However, it is also very remarkable to let a businessman with billions of Hong Kong dollars speak so carefully to Gu Biao and not dare to be angry.
All of us have a family to do with each other.
And those Shaw Brothers female artists who don't know the truth are even more suspicious.
Shaw Brothers' current popular jade girl, Chen Yulian, who just played Wang Yuyan last year, refused to go to the mainland to play Xiaolongnu because she was too popular and afraid of being banned. Tonight, she also attended the dinner as a female companion for the dance, and finally began to regret it when she saw that Boss Zheng was so humble to Gu Biao.
With such thick thighs, if you can hold them well, you are afraid that the entertainment market of a small island province will be blocked. And this Gu Gongzi is really young and promising - although Gu Biao's age has long been made public, he has some temperament that he will only understand if he has been exposed to it with his own eyes.
However, there is no turning back from the bow, and some defections are missed, and there is no way to recover. What's more, Chen Yulian has more fetters to deal with - when the drama was finalized last year, she was still Zhou Yanfa's girlfriend, and the two have not broken up yet. Since Zhou Runfa's attitude at that time was "politely refusing and recommending the younger brother to replace him", Chen Yulian could only speak in the same voice as Zhou Yanfa.
In addition to "Sister Fairy", other female celebrities who have hesitated on the issue of going to the mainland have all been shaken and remorseful tonight, and their reactions are varied, so there is no need to repeat them one by one.
Gu Biao talked and laughed for a while among the thousands of flowers, touched the cup a few times, ate whatever he wanted like at home, padded his stomach, and was not polite to Sir Shao at all.
Then, he raised his glass and invited four or five top bosses to sit in the VIP lounge next door.
No one objected, and the scene was similar to Liang Jiahui calling a meeting of his peers in "Black Gold". At most, a little bit more equal, no one is as cowardly as the two late guys in the film.
After Gu Biao said two kind words, he got straight to the point:
"Everyone, I have cooperated with Uncle Sixth and Uncle Bao not once or twice. They kept teaching me that although I had a business in Xiangjiang, I was still not gregarious enough, and my style was similar to that of those young people in Silicon Valley.
I am prepared to listen to this opinion with an open mind. No, in January next year, my doctoral studies with Kissinger's supervisor will be over, and I will return to China in February. When the time comes, the time spent with everyone in Xiangjiang will definitely be very sufficient.
It's just that the time is too rushed, and I don't want to bother Uncle Six every time. Fortunately, I heard a few days ago that Kong Shangzhong's mansion in Pak Ka Road is going to be auctioned off by HSBC - I'll just say it, I want it. If anyone else wants to, they can bring it up tonight, we can't afford to cheapen the Britons at HSBC. ”
This is clearly asking everyone to sell him a face.
Kong Shangzhong's mansion is three times the size of the mansion on the top of Baijia Road bought by Ma Feng in later generations, and the perspective is broad, and the current valuation given by HSBC is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, or considering that after Brittania shorted Hong Kong Capital in July, the property market volatility has fallen a wave.
The proposed starting price of HSBC is only 100 million2, which is also compliant, and I am afraid that no one has the capital to take over the failed bid.
Gu Biao is now releasing his words, that is, he will not let HSBC get 200 million Hong Kong dollars or more, at most a little more than 120 million.
It's not that he's short of fifty or sixty million, but he mainly wants to try how much weight his face has, and he doesn't want HSBC to get his wish.
Boss Zheng thought about it quickly, and the first feedback: "Brother Fool really has no plans to buy a house recently, and he doesn't have hundreds of millions of spare money. But after all, this matter is auctioned according to the law, even if we all agree and do not bid, it is difficult to guarantee that others will not bid. Gu Sheng, you see if this is the truth. ”
"Then thank you, Brother Zheng doesn't make a bid, I will recognize Brother Zheng's favor, and you don't care about the others. Gu Biao set the tone easily and tightly.
As soon as he said this, Boss Guo and Boss Li also expressed no objection.
You can't wade into this troubled water.
On the contrary, Sir Shao and the charter boat king, who had the best friendship with Gu Biao, kept silent, and waited for the others to finish speaking before they spoke.
The charter boat king said in a consultative tone: "Sixth brother, since Gu Xian's nephew has a gregarious Yaxing, we will help him." When the time comes, you will immediately increase the price by 10 million and shout. And then I'll add another 10 million right away to overpower you.
When the auctioneer shouted 140 million twice, Gu Xian's nephew added another 10 million to cover me. Then let's wait and see, and believe that no one will come to stir up the situation again and take away the chips that you and I don't want to add again. ”
Sir Shao nodded hurriedly: "With the support of Brother Bao, Gu Xian's nephew is naturally stable this time, and I have no objection." ”
The circle of the top rich people will not be like Xuan Fantasy, and the auction will hurt the peace, because how many rich people on the earth, everyone has done intelligence work in advance and inquired, how can they go into battle shirtless at the last moment.
It is the nouveau riche who have been poor for a long time who are shouting indiscriminately.
Moreover, the shipping industry of the charter king is a very capital-intensive industry, and has always been HSBC's largest customer in Xiangjiang, and he has recently tried to install his eldest son-in-law on the board of HSBC, and he is almost successful.
(Historically, the eldest son-in-law of the charter king successfully entered the board of directors of HSBC in '84.) This is also one of the compromises made by HSBC after the release of the Sino-Cloth Communiqué in order to accept the name and ensure the smooth development of its business in China in the future. )
Therefore, at this juncture, as long as the charter king makes a gesture of shouting the price first and then retreating, other rich people who don't know the truth will definitely think that this is the HSBC instructive and wants to give the charter king a low price.
The ownership of the Confucian Mansion was completed in this way at an off-plate drinking party, and the dirty distribution of spoils was completed.
"Is there anything else Gu Sheng is interested in?" After the negotiation, Boss Zheng did not forget to praise and confirm.
Gu Biao waved his hand: "Boss Zheng said that I laughed, I am not greedy for anything, I just hope that I don't seem unsociable, and I have no desire for the rest." ”
There are so many words, but when the time comes, as long as Gu Biao makes a bid, and there is nothing to fight for, those people will naturally not fight hard.
A group of people inevitably do a little bit of favor with a gentleman, be generous to others, and recommend this and that to Gu Biao.
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After chatting about the auction spoils, the wealthy businessmen in the VIP room dispersed and returned to the outer hall.
The female artists of the wireless station saw a bunch of golden wallets coming out of it, and they greeted the cold and asked for warm words.
On this kind of small occasion, the total number of wealthy businessmen does not exceed 20, and everyone is relatively strict, and they will not poke out what they have seen here, so it doesn't matter if the scale of speech is a little larger.
Originally, on this occasion, Gu Biao, who was young, golden and handsome, should be the most sought-after.
However, most of the actresses in the circle are too old compared to Gu Biao, so they pasted Gu Biao a few cold faces, and they were not interested in seeing Gu Biao, so they turned to other rich people who were at least fifty years old and above to get acquainted.
In good conscience, if Gu Biao travels to the 70s, he can still meet many young, beautiful and well-known girls at Shaw Brothers.
However, in the mid-80s, the media industry in Hong Kong was already facing a reshuffle of emerging challenging forces, and many of the newly rising and well-known beautiful female stars in later generations were not Shaw Brothers.
For example, among the most potential actress rookies this year, Guan Zhilin is TVB's main competitor in the TV field, ATV's side.
And Mei Yanfang, the champion of the female singer group who just debuted in the same year as Zhang Xueyou, relied on the TV singing contest to make a movie, although she is only singing and has no plans to make a movie at present, but the backstage of people's connections is all from the Golden Harvest department, and it is impossible to join Shaw Brothers like Zhang Xueyou in the future.
From TV to film, Shaw Brothers is facing the problem of blood loss for newcomers. The fresh beauties who can come out in the past two years are several Hong Kong sisters selected by TVB, such as Yang Xueyi and Zhang Manyu.
At today's party, of course, these two Hong Kong sisters were also qualified to attend, they were slightly younger than Gu Biao, their faces were tender, and they gathered around Gu Biao to ask this and that, and Gu Biao was not easy to drive away.
After all, they are all 19-year-old girls, not deeply involved in the world, and they have just participated in the Miss Hong Kong competition, and they have never filmed a single drama. Gu Biao felt that they should not be too scheming, and they couldn't bear to show their faces.
In the eyes of other wealthy businessmen, no one thought much about it, but they just felt that this was a natural outpouring of Gu Biao's strength, and there were two Hong Kong sisters to accompany him when he drank wine.
"Gu Sheng, thank you very much for your support, I don't know how to say it, in short, I will act well. ”
After being persuaded by the two Hong Kong sisters just now, Gu Biao noticed a little girl who looked quite weak, and timidly came over to thank him.
Gu Biao took a closer look and recognized it as the "Little Dragon Girl" Li Xiaotong who was finalized three months ago.
He was slightly surprised: "You joined wireless?"
Li Xiaotong was a little surprised, and a little cramped and busy clearing up, and waved his hand again and again: "No, no, I am sponsored by you, how can I join wireless." It's just that Mr. Fang is kind, in order to let me play "Condor" well, I am allowed to go to TVB's actor basic class to audit classes even if I don't sign a contract with TVB. ”
Gu Biao nodded slightly, indicating understanding.
Even if the role of Xiaolongnu doesn't need any acting skills, if you let someone with no foundation play it, it is still easy to get into trouble. Shaw Brothers has a crash course, and Kendai is willing to train for a few months, which is the best.
Now "Shooting the Condor" is in full swing on the mainland, and "Condor" was originally planned to be launched after the year because of the filming, so Li Wantong is full of calculations, and she can accumulate about a semester of night school acting foundation before the start of filming, it depends on whether she works hard or not.
"Then are you working hard every day now, and how long do you have to take classes?" asked Gu Biao amiably as if the chief was inspecting.
Li Youtong replied obediently: "The school knows about my situation, and sometimes they let me go to wireless drama in the afternoon, plus night school." I didn't plan to go to university, so I would come out and work after high school, so I wouldn't be so tired from studying. ”
"By the way, then is your surgery perfect? There are no side effects, right?" Gu Biao subconsciously stroked the right side of Li Wantong's face, purely from a medical perspective.
Li Wantong instinctively stepped back: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I mean, I don't mind if you touch your face, the operation was quite successful, it's been almost two months, mumps is completely cured, and I don't feel anything abnormal." “