Chapter 279: Meager Strength
"Asia Pictures is a subsidiary of ATV Media, and we have some cooperation with ATV in the past! Guangdong Provincial TV wanted to purchase a batch of movies and TV series from us, so we recommended several works to Yuedong TV including "Xinhai Double Ten", and the other party is still considering it!" Li Xuan said.
In fact, there was a very famous incident between the KMT and the CCP this year, that is, Liao Chengzhi wrote an open letter to Chiang Jingguo and sent it to Taiwan by telegram. This has been hailed by public opinion at home and abroad as another attempt by the mainland to improve KMT-CPC relations after the "Ye Jiutiao" in 1981!
Liao Chengzhi's father was Liao Zongkai, a famous politician in the early days of the Kuomintang, and Liao Chengzhi and Jiang Jingguo were friends when they were young. So at that time, Liao Chengzhi started with "respecting the country and my brother", if Jiang Jingguo personally replied to the letter, it would be difficult to say a lot as a younger brother. So he contacted Song Meiling, who lived in the United States, and her elder came forward and wrote a reply to refute Liao Chengzhi's letter.
"Mr. Chiang, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, I hope that the two sides of the strait can finally achieve reunification. Both you and Mr. President have always emphasized that there is only one China! Cross-strait relations involve complicated issues left over from history, and I don't understand politics, and I can't mention anything of constructive significance!
However, from 1949 to the present, those generations born after the separation of the two sides of the strait have started families and started businesses one by one, and have begun to become the backbone of Taiwan society! Many children from other provinces have their ancestral homes all over the motherland, but they have never been there. For them, place of origin has been reduced to a geographical term without much emotion!
If in another 30 years, when the children of the children also grow up, the blood ties between the two sides of the strait will be even weaker. It's like Hong Kong now. The younger generation's sense of identity with China is getting lower and lower! Therefore, if the older generation does not make some efforts, the next generation will want to solve this problem left over from history. It's only going to get more and more difficult!" Li Xuan said sincerely.
Although he wears a Hong Kong skin, he was brainwashed by our party for many years in his previous life. The concept of one China has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Maybe it was a little inappropriate for him to say these words today, but Li Xuan still didn't hold back.
Jiang Jingguo pondered for a while, but just smiled at him. And Li Xuan was also very knowledgeable, and quickly shifted the topic to other aspects. Li Xuan stayed in the Seven Seas Mansion for a full hour and a half, and this long-term exchange made his impression of Jiang Jingguo no longer the cold historical figure in the history books!
And the bigger takeaway is that this meeting itself sends a signal. President Jiang attaches great importance to Li Xuan and Dongfang Electronics Group. In the first half of this year, Jiang Jingguo had just undergone surgery for an eye problem. And Li Xuan also found that his whole body was a little swollen, which was likely to be the sequelae of the use of diabetes control drugs, and it can be said that President Jiang's health was not very good.
Since the second half of the year, the number of appearances of Xiao Jiang in public has also begun to decrease, and the opportunity for ordinary people to see him is very rare. However, Xiao Jiang mainly invited Li Xuan to his official residence to chat, and the following personnel were enough to understand the direction of the wind that this represents, and also reduced a lot of resistance for Dongfang Electronics Company's next layout in Taiwan.
After meeting Taiwan's No. 1 and No. 2 figures, Li Xuan's most important task on this trip was completed. The rest is a more relaxed itinerary. Of course, it is also very important to repay Li Xuan, who readily accepted a joint interview with a number of Taiwan media and sang praises to Taiwan under the leadership of President Chiang. The Taiwanese media are also much more talkative than their Hong Kong counterparts. The questions asked were all even, and he would never ask him what the relationship between him and Li Zhi was in front of Li Xuan.
At present, Taiwan is still in the era of martial law, and all newspapers and media are under state control. It's not that journalists don't want to ask some gossip questions that readers and viewers like to see. However, the relevant people of the Ho Nai News Bureau have already greeted them in advance, and they must not embarrass the VIPs.
It's ironic to say. The foundation for Taiwan's take-off was laid under the dictatorship of Chiang. In the post-Chiang dynasty, Taiwan entered the so-called democratization. But the democratically elected presidents are becoming more and more disappointing. The Kuomintang lost the support of the people because of corruption and was overthrown by the DPP. As a result, after the DPP's A-bian came to power, he was even more unbearable than the KMT.
The other three regions of the Asian Tigers are in a similar situation. The foundation for South Korea's economic take-off was laid during the independence-disarmament administration of Park Chung-hee. So much so that decades later, South Koreans still miss this warlord leader. His legacy was even able to help his daughter, Park Geun-Hye, become South Korea's first female president three decades later.
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew is also a well-known dictator, and he even engaged in intergenerational succession, pushing his son Lee Hsien Loong step by step to the position of the country's top leader. As for Hong Kong, it has always been colonized by the British government, and it has nothing to do with democracy.
After the return to the motherland in '97, the mainland government gave Hong Kong greater autonomy in accordance with the principle of Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong. As a result, Hong Kong, which is governed by the Hong Kong people themselves, has become more and more unbearable, and needs to rely on various policy transfusions from the mainland to maintain its economy.
Any move taken by the SAR Government will be criticized by the democratic-provokants and journalists who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic with a magnifying glass, and then a large number of special criticisms will be made with a large number of false reasoning. As a result, the SAR government is restrained in everything it does, and it has no courage at all. In the end, the evil consequences caused by the Hong Kong people themselves, but under the deception of public opinion of well-intentioned people, they detained all the and urine basins on the heads of the mainland.
In addition to being interviewed by Taiwanese media, Li Xuan also accompanied Zhong Chuhong to various activities as a mascot. The influence of his reception by President Chiang Jr. has spread rapidly. For example, in addition to participating in the Golden Horse Awards, Zhong Chuhong's trip to Taiwan also carried out further in-depth cooperation with Taiwan's China Television Company as the vice president of ATV Group.
The cooperation negotiations between the two sides went more smoothly than Zhong Chuhong expected, and the two TV stations soon reached a consensus on a number of issues such as co-production of TV series and personnel exchanges.
"You look relaxed as a producer, you seem to be very sure of the final Best Film Award, right?" Li Xuan asked Zhong Chuhong with a smile.
Zhong Chuhong frowned: "I'm not rated, did I know the result in advance! Anyway, I won't go home empty-handed!"
"Xinhai Double Ten" is a tribute film made to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, and it also has the gimmick of co-production between Hong Kong and Taiwan. From the perspective of stressing politics, the organizing committee of the Golden Horse Awards did not dare to let it go home empty-handed.
At the beginning, Taiwan's China Film Company was originally going to cooperate with Shaw Brothers Film Company, but it was cut off by Asia Pictures in advance. This is also the first time that Asia Pictures has shot this kind of Yan Sรน film with the theme of historical revolution, for which Zhong Chuhong specially arranged a budget of 3 million Hong Kong dollars.
Coupled with the 2 million invested by Taiwan's China Film Company, the total investment of this "Xinhai Double Ten" is as high as 5 million Hong Kong dollars. In Hong Kong, there were less than ten films that grossed more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars last year, and "Xinhai Double Ten" is definitely a big-scale movie of this era.
Such a film with a huge investment and correct politics only won one best director in the three heavyweight awards of Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director. If the jury also awards the final finale Best Film Award to "Xinhai Double Ten", the relevant parties will probably be unhappy.
Because of this, Zhong Chuhong and the general manager of China Film Company next to him, the two nominal producers, all had calm expressions. And the final result was indeed not everyone's expectations, "Xinhai Double Ten" really won the Best Picture Award.
Li Xuan also watched this "Xinhai Double Ten" last year, and after spending 5 million yuan, the scene of the film is still relatively grand. I wonder if Yuedong TV will introduce this movie in the end?
If they report to their superiors and get permission, Li Xuan can ask the Hong Kong newspaper to follow up. The incident was hyped up as an affirmation by the mainland that the Republic of China had replaced the Manchu Dynasty, and then further extended to a kind of goodwill released by the mainland to the government of the Republic of Taiwan.
This can be regarded as Li Xuan, a descendant of Yan and Huang, who has contributed his own modest strength to promoting cross-strait reunification. (To be continued......)