Although Zeng Zhiwei is not small, he is not without competitors within the ATV Group. As the chairman of the board of directors of a listed company, Zeng Zhiwei believes that he is not qualified enough and has never dared to peep. If nothing else, this position should be held by the current chairman of the board of directors of ATV Group, Mr. Huang Xizhao.

The main competitor with Zeng Zhiwei will be Zhou Liang Shuyi, the current president of ATV Media Group. This strong woman's qualifications are no shallower than Zeng Zhiwei's.

And compared with Zeng Zhiwei, who was born at the grassroots, Zhou Liang Shuyi worked as a drama teacher at the Royal Academy of Music after graduating from university. Later, after returning to Hong Kong, she joined TVB, and after reaching a senior position in TVB, she moved to Jiashi as the general manager.

Although Zhou Liang Shuyi suffered a major setback in her life in Jiashi, after being hired by Li Xuan as the general manager of ATV Group, she has been conscientious in recent years, and the performance of the entire ATV Group has been thriving under her management.

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for Zeng Zhiwei to compete with Zhou Liang Shuyi, the CEO of the upcoming Asia Entertainment Holdings. But Zeng Zhiwei was unwilling to miss this opportunity, so he could only find another way.

Although the new listed company will still be the holding company of ATV Group, the appointment of the new company's management will need to be decided by ATV's board of directors. But everyone knows that the person who really has the ability to make the final decision is still the big boss Li Xuan, who usually seems to never participate in the daily management of ATV Group.

Zeng Zhiwei wants to reverse and win in the unfavorable competition situation with Zhou Liang Shuyi, and the only chance is to win Li Xuan's support. In fact, Zhou Liang Shuyi may not understand this. But the problem is that she doesn't have the opportunity to get in touch with Li Xuan.

In the past year, Li Xuan has gradually withdrawn from the management of daily administrative affairs. He focused his main energy on the formulation of the group's general direction strategy. and scientific research.

Of course, Li Xuan is not planning to cut off communication with the executives of various companies, and everyone can always come to him to communicate face-to-face when they have any important matters or unique opinions.

But this kind of exchange definitely does not include running for official positions, Zeng Zhiwei was also worried about what reason he was looking for to express his meaning to the big boss euphemistically. But before he could make any moves, the big boss Li Xuan had already taken the initiative to find him.

So Zeng Zhiwei flew to Beijing in person as soon as possible. Specifically, when negotiating with the mainland department to co-produce a film, the company's negotiators are naturally responsible. He only needs to find out the purpose and bottom line of the cooperation from Li Xuan, and then convey it to his professional team.

Li Xuan has managed Dongfang Electronics for several years. This large business empire with a total of tens of thousands of employees has slowly accumulated a lot of experience in looking at and employing people. As soon as Zeng Fatzi reported the results of Asia Pictures, Li Xuan guessed his thoughts.

ATV Group is preparing to form a new subsidiary, Asia Entertainment Holdings, and then list on the Hong Kong stock market. Li Xuan had already had a detailed understanding. Before the meeting of the board of directors of ATV Group. Huang Xizhao and Zhou Liang Shuyi took the specific plan and made a detailed report to Li Xuan and Han Peng, the president of Oriental Holdings.

Li Xuan and Han Peng had already discussed the management arrangements of Asia Entertainment Holdings, and decided that Zhou Liang Shuyi would be the chairman of the board of directors of the listed company, and Zeng Zhiwei would be the general manager.

As for Huang Xizhao, Li Xuan hopes that he can develop in the direction of politics. Long before Li Xuan acquired Li's TV station, Huang Xizhao had a lot of prestige in the Hong Kong film and television media industry.

After Li Xuan acquired Li's and renamed it the new Asia Television Station. With his large amount of money, ATV started from a TV station. It is now the largest integrated media group in Hong Kong across television, film, music, newspapers and other industries.

As the chairman of the board of directors of ATV Media, Huang Xizhao has more influence in the industry than before. As the saying goes, politics and business are not separated, Li Xuan himself is not very interested in politics, but in order to stabilize the company's position in Hong Kong, it is bound to introduce some spokespersons.

And Huang Xizhao is obviously a good choice, he is fifty-eight years old this year, and he seems to be old and stable in China. When he was at the helm of ATV Group before, compared with Zhou Liang Shuyi's sharp and fierce views, he was more moderate and good at compromise, and he was a figure acceptable to both the mainland and the Hong Kong government.

The Sino-British negotiations in the past two years can be said to have become a big show for ATV to show itself. While the competitor TVB was still fighting TV dramas and variety shows, ATV seized this special historical period and successfully opened up new battlefields such as political discussion programs and people's livelihood programs.

Hong Kong has always been a city that does not care much about politics, and those major affairs of the family and country have always been only the concerns of the elites, and ordinary citizens are more concerned about their own firewood, rice, oil and salt.

But with Hong Kong's future uncertain and Sino-British negotiations at an impasse, the city's attention to politics has never been higher. Hong Kong taxi drivers seem to have suddenly become Beijing-Beijing drivers 30 years later, and everyone can talk about the future of Hong Kong.

Asia Satellite TV is divided into international and local stations, with international stations focusing on politics, economy and people's livelihood, while Hong Kong and Taiwan stations focus on entertainment and sports. Through the Sino-British negotiations, ATV successfully transformed the international station into a news channel while ensuring ratings.

In the past, only the elite would care about the news, but now more and more of the middle class is becoming interested, because many people realize that much of this information may be relevant to their own vital interests.

This was also an important change in Hong Kong society in the 80s, and Asia Satellite TV was the first to capture this change in social thought. A series of discussion programs and people's livelihood final programs of the international station have attracted the attention of a large number of citizens.

Asia Satellite TV also takes it as its own responsibility to ask for the people's lives, and on many occasions dares to sharply criticize some of the Hong Kong authorities' governing policies. ATV's president, Chow Leung Shuyi, has established an outspoken image of a "female fighter" in the entire Hong Kong media community.

And every time Asia Satellite TV under the leadership of Zhou Liang Shuyi uses a series of sharp views to force the Hong Kong government to step down, Huang Xizhao, the chairman of the board of directors, comes out at the right time to play a round and communicate with the senior management of the Hong Kong government. Give each other a decent step down.

The two of them sang white-faced and red-faced on the other, and while not completely falling out with the Hong Kong authorities, they won Asia Satellite TV a high reputation among Hong Kong citizens! Li Xuan's strategy with Zhou Liang Shuyi and Huang Xizhao when they first met.

These strategies have paid off in the past few years, and Huang Xizhao is definitely a person to work with in the eyes of the governor, and his impression in the eyes of the top level of the central government in China is certainly not bad, which gives him the foundation to come to the forefront.

Li Xuan is preparing to resign from his post as a member of the Executive Bureau of the Hong Kong government, and will recommend to the Governor of Hong Kong that Huang Xizhao be replaced. Therefore, Huang Xizhao's focus in the future will shift to politics, and naturally he will no longer concurrently serve as the chairman of the board of directors of Asia Entertainment Holdings.

However, Li Xuan did not immediately tell Zeng Zhiwei the result, but watched Zeng Fatzi very cooperatively to show his conscientiousness in his work.

Asia Pictures shot a total of 21 films last year. In terms of quantity, it is the largest film company in Hong Kong. Although Asia Pictures does not have its own independent cinema chain, it has maintained a good cooperative relationship with the two major cinema chains of Golden Harvest and Golden Princess. And as the competition between ATV and TVB began to slowly ease. Asia Pictures has also become more closely involved with Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

It is precisely because of the good cooperative relationship with the three major cinema chains in Hong Kong that although Asia Pictures makes a lot of films every year, every film can guarantee a chance to be released. Of course, this also has to do with the generally high quality of films produced by Asian Films. After all, theaters also have to make money. Naturally, I don't want to give too much share of bad films.

An important reason for the good quality of the films produced by Asia Pictures is that the company strictly implements the standardization and process of film production. This is not to say that strict norms are used to stifle the imagination of the director, but to strive for excellence from the beginning of the script.

Without many revisions, the script does not meet the commercial selling point, and there is no possibility of initiating the project at all. After the film project is approved, the meticulous financial review process ensures that every penny is used for the filming of the film, and saves unnecessary expenses to the greatest extent. So as to control the production cost.

The 21 films shot by Asia Pictures last year grossed a total of 82.5 million Hong Kong dollars. Because Asia Pictures shoots and distributes by itself. Therefore, the proportion of the box office obtained from the theater chain is 50%.

Of the 21 films, 14 have made a profit at the local box office. Of the remaining 7 films, only 2 did not reach the break-even point after counting overseas revenues.

The total operating income of Asia Pictures last year reached 120 million Hong Kong dollars, more than half of which came from overseas markets, and the company's net profit was as high as 60 million Hong Kong dollars!

Hong Kong filmmakers in this era are happy, Hong Kong films have swept Southeast Asia, Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian markets, and many bad films can rely on overseas markets to achieve capital preservation. As a result, a large amount of money has frantically poured into the Hong Kong film industry, and the entire industry is in the midst of a flourishing and blazing fire!

With the sharp depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar at the end of last year, Hong Kong cinemas began to raise prices at the beginning of this year. The total box office of Hong Kong films this year, under the effect of inflation, is bound to make another big leap!

He Qing sat quietly and listened to the conversation between the two, originally she secretly warned herself before entering the door that she should be cold to Li Xuan. But in fact, there is no need for her to deliberately express her sense of alienation, Li Xuan's attitude towards her today has always been light.

This made He Qing feel a little lost inexplicably, but she listened to the conversation between Li Xuan and Zeng Zhiwei, and her heart was churning. After Li Xuan entered the door, in order not to let her be left out in the cold, he began to communicate in Mandarin.

Since even the big boss speaks Mandarin, Zeng Zhiwei naturally began to speak Chinese. When he first changed careers to enter the film and television industry, he was appreciated by director Liu Jialiang and was sent to Taiwan to make movies for two years, so Zeng Zhiwei's Chinese is not bad.

Zeng Zhiwei introduced the various numbers of Asia Pictures, and when the new Asia Entertainment Holding Company is listed, these materials will be made public, so there is no need to keep the situation secret.

Zeng Zhiwei often said tens of millions or even more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, but Li Xuan on the side looked unfazed after listening to it. Even when Zeng Zhiwei said that the company made a profit of 60 million Hong Kong dollars last year, Li Xuan still didn't have any excited expression on his face!

This is 60 million! When He Qing heard this number, as a bystander, he felt his blood gushing and was very excited! But Li Xuan, the person concerned, didn't care, it didn't feel like 60 million, but 6,000 yuan!

Even if it's 6,000 yuan, it's not a small amount of money for He Qing. She suddenly seemed to be in the same world as the man in front of her at all! He Qing felt a little ashamed of herself, but she couldn't help but be a little more curious about Li Xuan.

In fact, they didn't talk for a long time, only about ten minutes. He Qing had unconsciously completely changed his impression of Li Xuan. A man's best weapon to conquer a woman is power and money, although it is somewhat vulgar, but the reality of society is like this.

If you are a dick who can't even support yourself, how can you make a beautiful woman fall in love with you at first sight. Even if you have a good skin that looks handsome, you can attract the affection of the goddess. But when the impulse of the moment recedes and loyalty, there is not enough material foundation to guarantee it, and the goddess will still dump you!

Li Xuan actually deliberately communicated with Zeng Zhiwei in Mandarin, and Zeng Zhiwei was an excellent wingman today, fully setting off the glorious image of his boss Gao Fu Shuai.

When the waiter of Quanjude brought a plate of roast duck that had been sliced and skinned to the table, Li Xuan changed his previous indifference to He Qing and began to become enthusiastic about this little beauty, which made He Qing feel a little flattered.

"Have you ever come to Quanjude to eat roast duck before?" Li Xuan asked softly.

He Qing's eating appearance is very ladylike, the cherry mouth gently took a bite of the duck meat wrapped in crepes, and only after swallowing did he reply softly: "I haven't been here, I heard Rao Rao say that the price here is very expensive, it's not cost-effective!"

"Don't you have a salary? can't afford to eat a meal of roast duck!" Li Xuan asked with a smile.

"Before I made a movie, I only had to buy clothes and cosmetics! Like you, a big boss, tens of millions of dollars are not in your eyes!" He Qing said with a snort. She didn't even notice herself, and her tone towards Li Xuan was already a little different, with a slightly coquettish tone, just like chatting with a good friend.

"So little?" Zeng Zhiwei interjected at the right time.

In fact, Zeng Zhiwei understands very well that the remuneration given by the co-production crew to mainland actors is very low. Of course, this is relative to Hong Kong actors. Now the salary of Hong Kong's first-line movie stars has generally risen to more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and a special case like Xu Guanjie, as early as two years ago when he filmed "Best Partner", Golden Harvest gave him a salary of up to 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

However, the mainland cultural market has not yet begun to be marketized, and most actors still receive a fixed salary from the film studio to which they belong, and there is no concept of remuneration. The salary for filming China-Hong Kong co-productions is extra money for them, and this extra money is usually much higher than the dead salary paid by the film studio. Like He Qing, her salary in the Kunqu Opera Troupe in Zhejiang Province is less than 100 yuan per month, and the salary for filming "Shaolin Lay Disciples" is 1,200 yuan, which is equivalent to her salary in the unit for one year.

Zeng Zhiwei deliberately showed an incredible expression on his face: "It seems that the treatment of our Oriental Pictures is still very good! I will definitely help Miss He choose a suitable and good role, you must prepare well when the time comes! Our minimum salary is also 100,000 Hong Kong dollars!"

He Qing couldn't help but nod and smiled at Zeng Zhiwei.

"When you go to Hong Kong to film in the future, I invite you to eat Hong Kong-style roast goose at Yong Kee Restaurant, the taste there is no worse than here in Quanjude!" Li Xuan said with a smile again.

"Okay, it's a word, don't play Laipi!" He Qing has unconsciously entered the urn, and is full of interest in going to Hong Kong to film instead of rejecting it. (To be continued......)