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After discussing with Yang Meng, Li Hualong decided to shoot "Hong Kong Holiday" first.

Whether it is the later Li Hualong or the original Li Hualong, they all have the dream of being an actor, it is just a dream, they have not worked hard for it, they have never been to the movie shooting site, and they don't know how the movie was made.

Yang Meng learned that Li Hualong wanted to play the role of Li Jie, she was not surprised, but secretly happy.

Li Hualong thought that under the pretext of finding a suitable movie shooting scene for the movie "Hong Kong Holiday", he officially dated Yang Meng and went shopping, and the relationship between the two heated up day by day.

On January 16, 1950, Li Hualong registered and established a film company - Huayi Brothers Film Group Co., Ltd., the logo of this company plagiarized the later Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company, four rectangles represent him and his three brothers, and the full English name of the company is leesbrosfilmgrouppanylimited.

Li Hualong felt that it was not good to transliterate the word "Huayi" directly into "Huayi", while Leesbros could be translated as the Li brothers, and all four of his brothers had the word "Hua" in their names, and "Hua" had the meaning of "Huaxia".

Compared with Li Brothers Film Group, Li Hualong feels that the name Huayi Brothers Film Group is more upscale and classy.

After Huayi Brothers was incorporated, Li Hualong asked the staff of Ming Pao Newspaper to help him contact him and invite some film practitioners to join the company.

After more than half a month of hard work, the number of employees of Huayi Brothers Film Group has reached 12.

At the beginning of February, director Yue Feng, who had previously made eight films including "Three Smiles", saw the script of "Hong Kong Holiday" provided by Li Hualong, negotiated the salary, and he accepted the invitation of Huayi Brothers Film Group and agreed to be the director of this film.

Before the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Hualong and Yang Meng received Yue Feng's guidance to practice their acting skills.

Long before writing the script, Li Hualong had already finished writing "The Book of Swords and Enmity", and wrote 540,000 words, serializing about 2,000 words in the newspaper every day, and it would take nine months to complete the serialization.

Soon after writing the scripts for the two films, Li Hualong would find time every day to write his second novel, "Flying Fox on the Snow", and by the end of January, he had written more than 100,000 words.

"Ming Pao" is on the right track, even if Li Hualong, the boss, does not go to the newspaper office for many days, the newspaper can still operate normally.

Li Yisong has become the general manager of Hualong Real Estate, Li Hualong trusts his father very much, in fact, this company really doesn't have much to do.

Before the Chinese New Year's Eve, Huayi Brothers Film Group basically completed the preparation of "Hong Kong Holiday", preparing for the New Year, the eighth day of the first lunar month, which is the start of shooting.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Li Hualong went to work at the newspaper.

On this day, Li Hualong took a detailed look at the newspaper's income and expenditure, and since the establishment of the newspaper, it has lost nearly 50,000 Hong Kong dollars in total, not counting the manuscript fee of "Book and Sword Enmity".

According to Ming Pao's internal forecast, in the coming year, the newspaper's sales will continue to rise slightly, and after the Chinese New Year, it will basically be able to break even and start making a profit after half a year.

After work, Li Hualong invited every employee of the newspaper to dinner.

After dinner, Li Hualong returned home and saw his parents, eldest brother and sister-in-law, and fourth brother sitting in the living room.

"I'm back." Li Hualong smiled and said, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Hualong, it's the New Year tomorrow, don't go out again." Li Song said.

"Don't go out, stay at home with Grandma!" Li Hualong sat beside his mother with a smile and reached out to hold his mother's hand.

"Third brother, when are you going to shoot "Hong Kong Holiday"?" Li Huahu asked curiously.

"Filming starts on the eighth day of the first lunar month."

"How much does it cost to make a movie?" Li Huahu smiled.

"A budget of HK$100,000."

"What if HK$100,000 isn't enough?" Li Huahu asked.

"If it's not enough, increase the budget."

"Third brother, how much money do you estimate you can make by investing in this movie?" Li Huawen asked with a smile.

"It's hard to estimate, but I'm sure it won't be a loss." Li Hualong smiled.

Li Hualong chatted with his family for more than ten minutes, and then went upstairs to the house to sleep.

After the Chinese New Year, Li Hualong sometimes stayed at home to entertain guests, and sometimes went out to pay New Year's greetings, so it was not lively.

Li Hualong and Yang Meng are not yet engaged, but Li Hualong has regarded Yang Meng as his fiancée, and on the third day of the first lunar month, he came to Yang's house with two large bags of gifts to pay New Year's greetings.

When talking about the movie, Yang Meng smiled and said, "Hualong, I want to give myself a stage name." ”

Li Hualong asked with a smile: "Have you figured out what stage name to choose?" ”

"Summer Dream!"

"Xia Meng?" Li Hualong was stunned when he heard this, stared at Yang Meng a few times, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt like the situation in Jin Daxia's dream, the movie star Xia Meng, and said secretly in his heart, "It seems that Xia Meng's surname is Yang, if she is Xia Meng......"

"You don't think this stage name sounds good?" Yang Meng interrupted Li Hualong's thoughts.

"Nope!" Li Hualong shook his head with a smile, "This stage name is very good, I like it." ”

"If you like it." Yang Meng smiled sweetly, "What stage name are you going to give yourself?" ”

"I really didn't think about giving myself a stage name." Li Hualong thought for a moment and continued, "The stage name is my name - Hualong, and there is one surnamed Hua in the hundred family names. ”

A few days have passed, and on the eighth day of the first lunar month, "Hong Kong Holiday" is the start of filming.

"Hong Kong Holiday" was invested and filmed by Li Hualong, and he is the screenwriter of this movie, and he also serves as the male lead, so "Ming Pao" will naturally not turn a blind eye.

Before the filming of the film began, "Ming Pao" began to report the news related to "Hong Kong Holiday", including some inside information.

After several days of reporting by Ming Pao, more and more Hong Kong people began to pay attention to the film.

One day in late March, Li Hualong had just finished a day's filming work, dragged his tired body back home, and saw his father sitting in the living room drinking tea.

"Hualong, come and sit, I'll tell you something."

"What's the matter?" Li Hualong came to his father and sat down.

Li Yisong poured a cup of tea for Li Hualong, and Li Hualong took a sip of tea from the teacup.

"It's tiring to make a movie, isn't it?"

"I'm a little tired." Li Hualong smiled and sighed, "It's fun to make a movie, even if you are tired, you don't feel hard." ”

"I bought a theater today where you can show movies."

Li Hualong was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "Abba, why did you think of buying a theater?" ”

"You're not making a movie, you can't do it without a theater yourself, I learned about it, and the income from running a theater is quite good. Someone was going to sell a theater, and after I saw it, I thought it was quite affordable, so I bought it. ”

"If you run a theater well, you should be able to make money. In a few days, when I'm free, you can take me to see the theater. Li Hualong drank the water in the cup, put down the cup, and stood up, "Abba, I'll go take a bath first." We'll talk later. ”

After taking a bath, Li Hualong went downstairs to the living room and said with a smile: "Abba, I have something important to discuss with you." ”

Li Yisong was slightly stunned, stood up, and said, "Go to the study to talk." ”。

The father and son came to the study and sat down, and Li Yisong asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I want to do business with the Chinese Communist government."

Li Yisong frowned and said, "Do you know that there is a big risk in doing business with the Communist Party of China?" ”

"Yes." Li Hualong nodded and said, "I agree with some of the policies and propositions of the Communist Party of China, but there are also things that I disagree with. I believe that it will not be long before the Communist Party of China government will liberate Hainan. The KMT may be able to hold the Bay with the help of the people of the United States, but the KMT wants to counterattack the mainland, which is just a slogan and will definitely not be realized. I want to do business with the CCP government secretly, as long as I don't lose money, I can do it, but I don't want outsiders to know about these things. After all, the United States and the Communist Chinese government are now hostile countries, and Britain is closely following the younger brother of the United States, if the British and British governments know that I am doing business with the Chinese Communist government, the British government in Hong Kong will definitely suppress my business in Hong Kong. ”

"You're telling me this because you want me to help you?"

"Yes." Li Hualong smiled slightly, "That's what I think, find someone you trust to go to Macau to rent a warehouse, go to Macao as a transit station, and do business with the Communist Party of China." ”

Li Yisong pondered for a long time, and after weighing it, he felt that Li Hualong could secretly do business with Huagong, and said in a deep voice: "What do you think of your Uncle Fu?" ”

"Uncle Fu has been following you for so many years, it is worth believing."

"Uncle Fu" is named Bao Quanfu, the son of Li Yisong's old family worker, and has lived in the Li family since he was a child.

Back then, Bao Quanfu followed Li Yisong to the magic capital to work hard, and Bao Quanfu has always been Li Yisong's right-hand man in business.

Bao Quanfu's wife is named Li Simei, who is Li Hualong's cousin, that is, Li Yisong's cousin, if there is no Li Yisong as a matchmaker, Li Simei's father will definitely not agree to marry his daughter to the son of a long-term worker.

Li Yisong is the only son in the family, he treats Bao Quanfu as his own brother, and Bao Quanfu also respects Li Yisong as his brother.

"Then I'll let you Uncle Fu do things for you in the future, and go to Macau in a few days."

"There's no rush to rent a warehouse in Macau."

"Since you have made up your mind, let Uncle Fu come over, you give him a sum of money, let him do some small business, find out the way, and then you can make the business bigger in the future."

Li Hualong vaguely remembered that the full-scale outbreak of the Korean War was in June 1950, and in less than four months, the Chinese People's Volunteers crossed the Yalu River to fight in North Korea.

Li Hualong felt that after the full-scale outbreak of the Korean War, the United States government would definitely ask the Allies to embargo war supplies on the Chinese mainland, and he hoped that before the outbreak of the war, a large amount of war supplies would be purchased and shipped to Macao.

Macao is a colony of Portugal, Portugal is a neutral country, Macao is also neutral, and it is not difficult for the mainland-government to send war materials from Macao back to China.

Li Hualong, who was later in life, had read Fok Ying-tung's biography, and he clearly remembered that during the Korean War, Fok Ying-tung transported all kinds of war materials to Macao to obtain huge profits, and then directly transported war materials from Macao to the mainland. (The novel "Rise of Hong Kong 1949" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "dd" and follow, hurry up! )