Chapter 301: A financial disaster caused by a fall
On October 15, with the launch of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Asia Television began to lead the ratings champion.
On the first day, the first episode of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" premiered, and the average rating reached 48%. This is not only because some viewers are reluctant to give up "Su Qier", "Xiangcheng Prodigal Son" and other TVB hot dramas that are gradually entering the **.
More are that some viewers are ready to wait to see the replay of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" at noon the next day. In this way, you will not miss the TVB dramas such as "Su Qier" and "Xiangcheng Prodigal Son", but you can also enjoy "The Legend of Deer and Ding" when it is rebroadcast at noon!
However, the image of Chen Xiaochun in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is insulated from handsome and handsome. On the contrary, it looks like "poor and frustrated", which is the opposite of the "handsome and rich" that is popular in TV dramas now.
After watching the first episode, an audience member questioned on the phone: "This kid popped up from there, why did he let him play Wei Xiaobao?" ”
The telephone operator of Asia Television said: "You are not satisfied with Chen Xiaochun's performance, if you have those shortcomings, you can leave a message by phone, and I can report to the director!" ”
"It's not that he didn't act well, but this person is not handsome, he is only a little kid of 1.5 meters, why should he play Wei Xiaobao?" The audience still asked.
"Produced by Mai Dangxiong, and Mr. Zhang Shaojie all think they are good!" The operator emphasized.
"But, can't you find a handsome person to play Wei Xiaobao?"
"In Wei Xiaobao's original work, he is not handsome at all, but he is a little ruffian!"
"Forget it, it's hanging up for the time being! If you don't shoot well in the back, I'll call you and scold you to death! ”
"Why?" The operator lady suddenly felt aggrieved.
"With your Asian TV, can I scold the director and boss? Only you, the little girl's delicate voice, scolding you, listening to you cry, it must be so cool! The viewer said.
"Sir, you're perverted!" Miss Operator inhales.
"Hahaha" arrogant phone drops.
With noon the next day, after the rerun of the first episode, more and more viewers began to be hooked.
The second episode of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", which was broadcast on the evening of October 16, immediately attracted 53% of the ratings of the entire Hong Kong. All of a sudden, most of Hong Kong's TV screens were locked in the program "The Deer and Ding Ji".
In the next few days, the ratings of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" began to rise. 56%、61%、67%
With the popularity of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Wei Xiaobao played by Chen Xiaochun has begun to become a new generation of idols admired by many citizens.
Wei Xiaobao is not handsome or rich, but he always has super good luck. A series of mistakes made Wei Xiaobao not only a good brother of Kangxi, but also the apprentice of the famous helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society on the rivers and lakes, and had an outstanding status in the rivers and lakes.
Wei Xiaobao made full use of his own resources, so that he could get a lot of benefits and the favor of beauties. Of course, although Wei Xiaobao has a lot of opportunities to become a martial arts master, because of his lazy surname, he does not have the perseverance to persevere.
In fact, a character like Wei Xiaobao lacks perseverance and is only clever. In the real society, it is always hit hard, and it can only be scratched.
However, in the TV series, Wei Xiaobao is so successful.
After watching it, people can't help but feel that YY is extremely cool!
Therefore, as long as you perform "The Legend of Deer and Ding" well, it is simply unreasonable not to be popular!
"Mr. Zhang, the average rating of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is almost 70%, and the peak is 83%! Now TVB's ratings have once again been completely trampled under our feet! Mai Dangxiong was very excited, "Whether it is TVB's "Shanghai Tang" or our "Huo Yuanjia" and "Silkworm Transformation", the ratings are not as good as "Deer and Ding Ji"! According to the current situation, it will become a ratings myth! ”
Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "Hong Kong's popularity is just the beginning, and then we have to take advantage of the hot iron to promote to the mainland, Taiwan, Singapore, Yueben, South Korea and other places, and selling more copyrights is the king!" ”
In the 80s, Hong Kong's film industry was relatively successful in developing the international market. However, Hong Kong's TV dramas are relatively inferior.
Here, it's not that Hong Kong TV dramas can't be good, in fact, Hong Kong was already at the pinnacle of many themes in the Asian film and television industry in the 80s.
In addition to war films, science fiction films, disaster films, and historical dramas, they are not very good at it. Other themes, whether it is fashion films, romance films, comedy films, action movies, martial arts films, etc., are of a very high level.
It's just that Hong Kong's TV dramas are not very well promoted in the international market. If American dramas have not swept the world, and Asian Korean dramas have not formed a climate with the trend of "Dae Jang Geum", the imitation of Hong Kong films has staking the market in Asia, and the achievements will be limitless.
"The promotion of TV dramas, no matter what happens to me, I just take care of the film!" As one of the few gold medal TV drama producers in Hong Kong, Mai Dangxiong prefers to interpret the plot to the extreme.
Of course, sometimes it is inevitable to deviate from the script, but Mai Dangxiong's partner is also the madman screenwriter Xiao Ruoyuan, who can make up a very exaggerated plot at any time to match Mai Dangxiong's ideas.
Jin Yong's original work such as "The Story of Deer and Ding" has Zhang Shaojie's guidance. Mai Dangxiong actually didn't follow the script, and many plot details were thrown away by him and played better than the original script.
—————————— the hit of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", although it brought laughter to Hong Kong citizens.
However, Margaret Thatcher, a fall in the Great Hall of the People in Yanjing, has brought a heavy blow to Hong Kong's economy!
Since September 27, Margaret Thatcher Yenching has fallen, and Hong Kong's economy has been devastated like an earthquake.
Some time ago, the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar was still 6 Hong Kong dollars to 1 US dollar. But with Margaret Thatcher's fall in Yanjing, it was used as a fuse.
The exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar fell rapidly to HK$7.5 to US$1.
Almost every day passes, the Hong Kong dollar depreciates to a certain extent.
Because of people's concerns about the future of Hong Kong. In the black market, there are even people who exchange 20 Hong Kong dollars for 1 US dollar.
Of course, with the sharp fall of the Hong Kong dollar, many shopping malls are worried about the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar into waste paper. As a result, some shopping malls only accept foreign currencies such as US dollars, British pounds, and Japanese dollars.
For the chaos of the economic crisis in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Governor shirked his responsibilities and said: "The depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar is due to the Bank of China's selling of the Hong Kong dollar to put pressure on the British political axe, so that the Yanjing negotiations can win the initiative." ”
A Chinese diplomat said: "It is understood that 'Bank of China Hong Kong' has never taken the initiative to sell the Hong Kong dollar." On the contrary, the British capital sold Hong Kong dollar assets to exchange for foreign exchange and fled, which is the main culprit of the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar! ”
At the same time, instead of taking measures to stabilize the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, China's political axe condemned the British political axe, but deliberately created an atmosphere of panic and used Hong Kong's future as a bargaining chip to create pressure on Yanjing.
In short, Margaret Thatcher's ** fell.
The Hong Kong stock market has also accelerated its decline, and the Hang Seng Index will even fall to more than 670 points by December. If you start from the high of 1810.2 points on July 17, 1981, the decline is a full 62%!
And Hong Kong's property market is in a state of full collapse!
Industrial land in Kowloon Bay fell from HK$360 psf in December 1980 to HK$25 psf in October 1982, a drop of 93%. The price of high-end residential buildings on South Bay Road in Hong Kong has dropped from more than HK$1,200 per square foot to HK$540 per square foot, a drop of 60%! The price of ordinary residential buildings has also dropped from HK$1,000 per square foot to HK$660 per square foot, a drop of 35%!
At the same time, the rent of the property has also plummeted!
The monthly rent of Grade A office buildings in Central has also dropped from HK$30 per square foot to about HK$20 per square foot, a drop of 33%!
Some real estate developers in Hong Kong who have been making great strides in acquiring land in the past few years have tasted the bitter fruits.
For example, Hongkong Land, the largest real estate company in Hong Kong and the core enterprise of the Jardine Matheson consortium, has fallen into the predicament of depreciating land prices and high debts, and has to sell assets at low prices to repay debts.
Among them, the Hong Kong Telephone Company, a subsidiary of the Jardine Matheson family, was sold to the Great Eastern Telegraph Company. The Hong Kong Electric Company was also forced to sell to Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
Of course, the Jardine Matheson Consortium is the deepest pioneer here, but the century-old operation has enabled the Jardine Matheson Consortium to sell the assets of its subsidiaries and be able to tide over the difficulties.
Among them, the real estate company that hurt Hong Kong citizens the most may be "Jianing Real Estate".
Jianing Real Estate Company, initiated and established by Singaporean Chen Songqing, acquired Hanmei Enterprise for backdoor listing in 79. And it was pushed up to 17.9 yuan in 1980 in 11 years by Zhan Peizhong, a gold medal player, and issued new shares at high prices many times to acquire a large number of enterprises.
In just a few years, Chen Songqing has continued to expand his business, covering transportation, shipping, tourism, insurance, real estate, finance, catering, hotels and even entertainment. With a presence in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, Jianing has become a diversified group of more than 200 companies.
Because the performance announced by Jianing Real Estate has always been powerful, it is regarded by the market as a promising white horse stock.
However, in fact, Jianing Real Estate's excellent performance is nothing more than fake accounts. With fraudulent performance, he borrowed huge loans from banks and continuously raised funds from investors. At the same time, in order to win the trust of investors, Jianing Real Estate has distributed more than one billion Hong Kong dollars in dividends to shareholders since its listing, as if it is a real blue chip stock.
However, in 1982, after the collapse of Hong Kong real estate.
U-Ming Bank, which has loaned $800 million to Jianing Real Estate, began to doubt Jianing Real Estate's ability to repay the loan. In addition, it began to stop lending to Jianing Real Estate, and at the same time, U-Ming Bank hoped to apply to the court for the liquidation of Jianing Group.
In the face of U-Ming Bank's doubts, as well as the doubts of many investors.
Chen Songqing, chairman of Jianing Real Estate, still insisted that in the first half of 1982, Jianing Real Estate's net profit reached HK$269 million within six months, and a dividend of HK$0.12 per share was distributed.
However, in October 1982, after U-Ming Bank filed for bankruptcy liquidation of Jianing Group. Jianing Real Estate's share price fell sharply again
(To be continued)