Tang Bo was willing to help him form a mercenary army, which could be said to be in Gu Weiqi's hands. When he knew that the other party was a killer, he changed a few thoughts, in his previous life, he knew that the Xiangjiang community was rampant, and the decline of Xiangjiang movies had a lot to do with the invasion of the community. Now that he has entered the film industry, and he has Tang Bo as the trump card in hand, he naturally has to take precautions and prevent problems before they happen.

"And what's the name of our mercenary legion?" Tang Bo asked.

"Let's call ...... 'Dragon King'. I hope that all mercenaries will be like a dragon and become the king of mercenaries. ”

"Well, Dragon King? That's a good name! ”

"After the mercenary corps is regularized, I propose to support another community. But your injuries haven't healed yet, and you have to take your time and don't rush it. Now let's discuss the future development plan of the 'Dragon King'. In my plan......"

The two discussed it secretly, and it can be regarded as a temporary plan for the future development of the "Dragon King Mercenary Group".

However, what neither of them expected was that a casual decision today would create a multinational mercenary group with global power in the future. It provides a strong security guarantee for the development and growth of Gu Weiqi's entertainment empire, business kingdom and financial dynasty. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

When Gu Weiqi arrived at the company the next day, Lin Zhenying told him that the main actors of "Mr. Zombie" had been contacted, and the female ghost was looking for Wei Hagihua of Phoenix TV. He didn't have a problem with that. However, Hong Jinbao asked him to help make a cameo appearance in the film "Scary".

Gu Weiqi thought about it anyway, "Mr. Zombie" is not in a hurry to shoot now, and besides, "The Grandmaster of National Arts: Starting from Scratch" is still in hot theaters, and the later stage of "The Diamond Robbery" is almost ready, and his own theater is not worried about no films being released. Another important reason is that he had a good relationship with the Hong family class, and when he came back later, it was convenient to second, so he agreed to help him.

After sending Lin Zhenying away, Gu Weiqi reviewed a large stack of documents and continued to tinker with the novel.

One month passed in a flash, and it was April 1981. At that time, "The Grandmaster of Guoshu Starting from Scratch", which was released for 37 days, had already received a full 30.1 million box office, making it the first film in the history of Xiangjiang to break through 30 million. This is also a milestone blockbuster in the history of Hong Kong films.

Ming Pao - "Blockbuster news: The box office of 'Guoshu Grandmaster' from scratch broke through the 30 million mark! ”

China Entertainment Daily - "Hot news: Just last night, the first film with a box office of 30 million in the history of Xiangjiang was born! ”

Oriental Daily - "From 'chasing girls' to 'lifting little hands', and now 'starting from scratch of the master of national arts', looking at the movies shot by Donglai Company, the author found that one has received a higher box office than the other, and now it has created a box office miracle again, which marks the strong rise of Donglai Company!" ”

Sing Tao Daily - "30 million blockbusters were born, which means that Xiangjiang Films is truly maturing and the golden age is coming!" ”

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With the hype in the media, Gu Weiqi, who has always been relatively low-key, has become a big celebrity. And Donglai Company, which was not well-known, also made many Xiangjiang people know about his existence, and in one fell swoop became a well-known film production company in Hong Kong like Shao's and Jiahe. It can be said that a "National Art Grandmaster: Starting from Scratch" made Gu Weiqi and the company both fame and fortune.

And with the media reporters preaching that the golden age of Hong Kong cinema has come. Originally, the box office potential of this movie has been almost tapped, and now the attendance rate is less than 50%. After all, it's been more than a month since it was released. But with the media hype, the attendance rate miraculously showed a trend of small universe explosion again.

And with the popularity of this movie, the business of many martial arts gyms has suddenly improved. Even some martial arts halls sent a thank you plaque to Donglai Company, which Gu Weiqi did not expect; Of course, some people feel that his kung fu is not as good as the performance in the movie, and they want to compete with him.

But he's too lazy to be bored to compete with others, and he won't do this kind of thankless and unbeneficial.

At the same time, the "Guoshu Theme Restaurant" also opened. On the opening day, Gu Weiqi invited all the popular Huadan Xiaosheng of Phoenix TV and the heads of various companies to come over, it can be said that the scene is quite large, and with the TV station can report, it suddenly opens up the popularity of the restaurant.

And it was at this time that Jiahe followed the trend of the "Bagua Grandmaster of Guoshu" starring Cheng Throat, Shao's follow-up "Taiji Grandmaster of Guoshu" starring Zheng Shaohagi, and the "Eight Extremes of Guoshu" starring the bald Mecca of Xinyicheng were released one after another. In addition, there are some independent production companies that see that the movie with the theme of "Guoshu" is so gold-absorbing, and in order to make a fortune from the east wind, they have filmed various grandmasters.

For a while, all kinds of grandmasters sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, what "Kung Fu Mantis Grandmaster", "Guoshu Xingyi Grandmaster", "Wudang's Tai Chi Grandmaster", "Shaolin Arhat Boxing", "Emei's Chasing the Wind Short Fight" and so on, all of them were all released together, and the consequences can be imagined.

For example, the three film companies of Jiahe, Shao and Xin Yicheng can make some money because they have the support of the theater chain behind them. However, neither the plot nor the action design are as exquisite as Gu Weiqi's work, after all, they are all works that were made in a hurry. So even if you make a few points, it's limited.

And some independent production companies without theaters have nowhere to release their films, and they are screaming. Even if it was a fluke to be released in some scattered small theaters, because of the shoddy production and poor quality, it was still released in a hurry for three or five or seven days, and the result was naturally nothing.

However, with the astonishing box office of "National Art from Scratch" exceeding 30 million Hong Kong dollars, many rich people have seen the huge profits in it, and many rich people have begun to secretly enter the film industry. It seems that two film companies have popped up in the past few days, one is "Oriental Charm International Film Company" and the other is "Dark Horse International Film Production Company".

As soon as these two companies were founded, they launched a huge propaganda offensive in the "Oriental Daily" and "Ming Pao," which attracted the attention of countless people for a time. However, Gu Weiqi didn't care about this, but what he didn't expect was that the film "The Grandmaster of National Art Starting from Scratch" would break through the 30 million Hong Kong dollar mark.

In fact, he still underestimated the box office gain brought by the super era of movies, and Xiangjiang people are not reluctant to spend money to watch movies. The point is whether this movie is worth everyone's money to watch. is like the first "best partner" movie to break through 20 million Hong Kong dollars two years later, and it is directly more than 26 million, far exceeding other films released at the same time.

Why is that? Because the "best partner" is so well made, the audience is willing to buy tickets.

And the same is true of "The Grandmaster of National Art from Scratch", which is very well produced in all aspects. And the genre and plot are extremely novel, which eventually caused a sky-defying box office income. became the first blockbuster to break 30 million Hong Kong dollars.

After the opening dinner of the "Guoshu Theme Restaurant", Gu Weiqi received a call from Tang Bo.

Now Tang Bo's injury has already healed, and Gu Weiqi gave him 100 million Hong Kong dollars half a month ago to start the official formation of the "Dragon King Mercenary". Tang Bo called him tonight, telling him that he had recruited five right-hand men, and the mercenary group team was done, and asked him if he wanted to come and meet them?

Gu Weiqi thought that it would not be good to meet them, and after asking the location and learning that it was in the "Starlight Bar" in Lan Kwai Fong, he drove over.

Speaking of Lan Kwai Fong Bar Street, it is a short, narrow, L-shaped cobblestone alley between Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar Street in Central, Hong Kong, which originated in the early 70s of the 20th century. The streets are lined with Western-style restaurants and bars, which are the most popular places for entertainment celebrities, tourists and middle- and high-income people in Hong Kong.

However, Gu Weiqi has been reborn for so long, but he has never come to play. It's almost ten o'clock now, but the streets are still full of traffic, and you can see through the flashing neon lights that all kinds of old boys and sisters who like to hang out in nightclubs. The sound of energetic music came out, and it seemed very lively.

Gu Weiqi slowly drove the car to find the "Starlight Bar", and after getting out of the car, he strode in. I saw the men and women in the bar, writhing their bodies to the sound of loud music. He glanced at it casually, and went straight to the box that Tang Bo told him on the phone.

Arriving in the box, Gu Weiqi saw at a glance that Tang Bo was leisurely drinking with five people, one of whom was a young Western woman, a white man, a black man, and two who were obviously Asian.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is our boss, Mr. Gu Weiqi." Tang Bo introduced: "Boss, these are the right-hand men I found, their names are ......" and so, and soon introduced the people present.

The woman was originally a member of the Polish Mobile Reflection Combat Unit, named Alice, nicknamed "Rattlesnake". This woman is also twenty-four or five years old, with blonde hair and blue eyes, a hot body, wearing a dark blue backless slip dress, not smiling, giving people a cold feeling.

One of the two Asians is a Swiss-Chinese, a former member of the Swiss Royal Guard, nicknamed "The Gun King", and calls himself Lao Bing. This person looks to be about thirty-four or five years old, with a face like a knife and an axe, sharp eyes, and a chill that rejects people thousands of miles away.

Another Asian is a Taibang fighter named Meng Chai and nicknamed "The Raptors", who is in his twenties, has a well-proportioned build, has white strips of cloth wrapped around his hands, has dark skin, and slightly curly brown hair. But the eyes were shining, revealing a strong smell.

The black man was originally a German task force member Morse, nicknamed the "Munich Tigers", about 30 years old, covered in muscles, tall and large, about two meters in size, sitting there like a small mountain, giving people a sense of majestic and unshakable.

The white man was originally a member of the United States Navy SEALs, Kelson, nicknamed "Blood Shark", this person is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with black hair and blue eyes, and a high nose bridge, and is a typical Westerner.

The five of them glanced at Gu Weiqi and nodded, with obvious disdain in his eyes.