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The person who came was naturally Li Ka-shing, followed by Li Zekai. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Ka-shing smiled bitterly in his stomach when he heard Xiao Ran's words, he Xiao Ran's life banquet, which of the celebrities in the society didn't want to come in, and a few of the invited people didn't want to come. Of course, those who are really not available are not counted.

Of course, Li Ka-shing doesn't need to be afraid of Xiao Ran, but with the friendship between the two, he can't say anything if he doesn't come. Moreover, he has to bring his son to meet more people so that he will have enough connections in the future.

Li Ka-shing still doesn't quite understand that Xiao Ran would rather invite some people in the film industry than some famous celebrities. He always felt that with Xiao Ran's identity and status, there was no need to be involved with those stars and filmmakers.

smiled and shook Xiao Ran's hand, and then let the bodyguard hand Xiao Ran a gift. Xiao Ran opened it and took a look, this is really a national treasure, it is actually a golden crown and jade Guanyin, not to mention the value, and I don't know where Li Ka-shing collected it.

"Lao Li, thank you so much, accept such a treasure, I don't know what to give back to you in the future!" Xiao Ran smiled happily, stroked it for a while before handing it to his subordinates to take it and put it down.

"What kind of gift in return, Mr. Xiao, do we still mention this!" Li Ka-shing immediately laughed and introduced Li Zekai: "This is my eldest son, you have seen it!" If you have the opportunity in the future, you might as well give him a hand. ”

"Brother Xiao, I wish you a blessed life like Nanshan in the East China Sea!" Li Zekai's mouth is very sweet, in fact, his appearance is very delicate, quite the shadow of Li Superman.

Xiao Ran carefully looked at the young man who had planned the largest acquisition in Hong Kong in history, nodded before saying, "Zekai, learn from your father, he is a strong man in business." ”

After welcoming Cheng Yutong and Lee Shau-kee and other tycoons respectively, Patten, the governor of Hong Kong who had been in office for a year, also came. Xiao Ran rushed forward enthusiastically, if others didn't know, they were afraid that they would still think that he and Patten had been close friends for many years: "Lord Hong Kong, you are finally here, this is really an honor!" ”

"Where, where!" Patten only felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead, and he couldn't relax at Xiao Ran's enthusiastic and hypocritical smile anyway. Especially when he still remembers the events of last year, it is even more of a fear.

Shortly after he took office last year, he began to carry out the British strategy, repeatedly attacking the mainland. even planned to attack the film industry, but Xiao Ran originally had nothing. However, once this stupid politician actually made nonsense at reporters, saying that Hong Kong films need to be reformed.

Xiao Ran was suddenly enraged, no one could touch his ground, not even the Heavenly King Lao Tzu. At the moment, while Soros was preparing to launch an attack on the exchange rate peg of the pound, Fang Xiaoqiang launched an attack on the pound with six billion US dollars.

The war was earth-shattering, and under the attack of international speculators led by Soros and Fang Xiaoqiang, the pound was shaky. The British political axe used a huge amount of money to support the market, but it was also to no avail. At the same time, under Guan Xin's intelligence, the media controlled by Shuxiang and ATV in Britain kicked out several scandals, which immediately caused repeated attacks on the ruling party.

Afterwards, the Phantom made more than a billion dollars on it, and then accidentally revealed the reason for the attack to the British authorities. As a result, Chris Patten was almost scolded half to death when he returned to China to report on his work, and almost became the first Hong Kong governor to be dismissed. Since then, Patten has been in awe of Xiao Ran, because he now knows who can be offended and who cannot be offended.

To be honest, Xiao Ran really wanted to remove Patten from power, but unfortunately he didn't succeed. Chris Patten is a politician, and he is in charge of Hong Kong, which is originally the strategy of Hong Kong's British political axe, otherwise will the good Hong Kong be left to China in the future? As a result, Xiao Ran almost succeeded.

Since Chris Patten didn't dare to mess around, Xiao Ran also gave up this idea for the time being, at least before he did anything, he didn't have enough handles. After a duplicitous conversation with the Hong Kong governor, the vice minister of culture sent by the mainland finally appeared.

However, the visitor surprised Xiao Ran. He never expected that this so-called deputy minister was Huang Qun, who had a relationship with Yindu before. But Xiao Ran vaguely remembered that Huang Qun was indeed one of the big members of the central political axe in the future, but he had never been a vice minister of culture.

Seeing Xiao Ran, Huang Qun immediately smiled, accompanied by the secretary and bodyguards, greeted him, and shook hands with Xiao Ran: "Mr. Xiao, I'm afraid you don't remember me!" I'm Huang Qun. ”

Xiao Ran suddenly felt a confusion in his mind, and quickly figured it out. Most likely, the central political axe regards Hong Kong films as an important leader of Chinese-language films, so Huang Qun, who has intersected with Xiao Ran, naturally became a vice minister to facilitate communication.

Knowing this, Xiao Ran's brain immediately became flexible, and he said with a smile: "Of course I haven't forgotten, last time I was very curious why you asked Jiang Zhiguang to convey that word of thanks to me!" ”

"Later, let's go sit down first!" Huang Qun smiled at Xiao Ran, and immediately returned to indifference, but because of his high status, this was a bit majestic.

After entering, he arranged for Huang Qun to get to know Yang Qi and them. Xiao Ran shuttled through the crowd with Lin Qingxia at this time, and the laughter and conversation were endless, but I don't know how many deals were negotiated at this banquet.

After being busy for a while, Xiao Ran took the time to come to Li Ka-shing and sit down, Wei Dongling was talking to the others. Li Ka-shing's son Li Zekai didn't know where he went, but they talked about business.

Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling have already thought about it, and Huang should be in his hands. In Xiao Ran's impression, the development of Hong Kong Telecom in the 21st century is far less than it is now, and it is okay as an investment object, but if you want to use it for your own operation, it is not cost-effective.

Therefore, exchanging Wheelock's equity for Hutchison is a matter that is beneficial to both parties, and Li Ka-shing obviously sees through this and is very sure. Xiao Ran beckoned, took a glass of water, took a sip before taking a breath and said, "Lao Li, Wheelock can sell it to you!" Still, I want to know your sincerity. ”

Li Ka-shing smiled, he is also quite optimistic about the telecommunications industry. However, if Wheelock and Cheung Kong merge together, Cheung Kong will be the largest company in Hong Kong. Perhaps, it can also be operated for a few years, and then sold at that time, and there will be a lot of profit to be made.

"You know that the current market value of Hutchison is 180 billion, and the current market value of Wheelock is 150 billion." Li Ka-shing was obviously prepared, and immediately gave a plan: "I will sell 10% of Hutchison's equity to you, plus 12 billion in cash, in exchange for 20% of your Wheelock!" ”

Xiao Ran nodded, he actually didn't have any opinion on such a plan. The day before yesterday, the phantom had increased its holdings in Hutchison Holdings to 20%, plus 10% sold by Li Ka-shing, which was enough to become the largest shareholder of Hutchison. However, in terms of the specific price, they still have to study it.

The deal was basically finalized, and when the guests were all gone, Xiao Ran, Huang Qun, Yang Qi and the other four were all talking about this extremely important matter on the edge of the swimming pool. Seeing Xiao Ran coming in, Huang Qun beckoned to him.

After they all sat down, Huang Qun said solemnly: "You all know that the central government intends to cultivate Hong Kong as a base for Chinese films, and you must all know that the draft of this opening up decree has been prepared. Now that the Central Committee wants to know what you mean, you can take a look at this draft first! ”

He took out a few documents from his briefcase and handed them to Xiao Ran, who browsed them intently. The content of this draft is not very complicated, first of all, the market for ancillary products such as video discs, which allows Hong Kong capital to have 51 percent of the equity in the mainland, which means that it has seized control.

Then there is the censorship, which gives several restrictions, naturally prohibiting the emergence of * anti-social propaganda feudal superstitions and the like. However, what made Xiao Ran frown violently was that nude shots were also forbidden on it. The promotion of feudal superstition also made Xiao Ran vomit blood, and the "Big Branch" died tragically on this point.

Moreover, the scene must not be too bloody and brutal, which is inevitably a bit conceptual. Xiao Ran believes that the definition of gore is actually not easy to determine, and the most typical is "Mong Kok Night", which is actually not bloody. However, when it was submitted for review, several scenes at the end were still determined to be bloody, and finally had to be made up for with black and white shots.

The key is not the restrictions, but the classification system, without which it is difficult for the film market to have a classification of surnames. It's no wonder that Hong Kong-made films in the 21st century are blindly making bad comedies, because only in this way do they not touch the mainland censorship. The consequences are seen by everyone, and the genre of any work needs to be coordinated, and always blindly telling the same kind of story will cause aesthetic fatigue.

If this is the case, a tertiary film like "Erotic Men and Women", which has absolutely no pornography, will definitely not be released in theaters. This is definitely a rather fatal key, and if there is a rating system, the audience can be said to have a guide to enjoy the film.

The second is distribution, in terms of distribution, there is still no feasible plan given above, and it is still left to China Film Company to do. This is simply bullying, take it to China Film for distribution? What are you kidding, does it have such a professional marketing and distribution team? For China Film, with a box office of 100 million, it can be made into 10 million.

The rest is the cinema chain, and this time the cinema investment project has finally been opened. However, when Xiao Ran took a closer look at the figures, he was immediately dumbfounded--foreign capital is only allowed to control a maximum of 49 percent of the shares.

Yang Qi and the others were also dumbfounded, this restriction means that investing in the theater has come to naught! Don't think that mainland businessmen are stupid, and they can do more at this time than invest in theaters. Moreover, it takes a long time for a cinema investment to recoup its profits, which is rarely the case in other industries.

Speaking of which, who wants to invest in cinemas? According to their respective calculations, the mainland will need at least 1,000 theaters in two to three years, and each theater will have at least six screens, which is 6,000 screens. In the United States, there are 20,000 screens for a population of 200 million, so the number of 6,000 is only in three years.

How much does it cost to invest in 1,000 high-quality cinemas? Based on the current price of goods on the mainland, at least two billion yuan is needed. And, don't forget, that's not even counting the audio-visual equipment in the theater.

With billions of investments, how many businessmen in the mainland dare to invest in theaters with such heavy hands? It's an impossible task at all, Pan Disheng and they have already said hello to the bank, and they have already begun to raise money to invest in the theater, and now they suddenly come to this hand, which is simply their life.

"No way!" As soon as Yang Qi's words popped out, he knew that his tone was not very good, and immediately said softly: "Such conditions are difficult to establish, and they are not good for Chinese movies!" ”

Pan Desheng and the three of them naturally agreed, if they were stuck here, it would be a big trouble, and it was definitely not the result they hoped to see. Huang Qun only glanced at them, then moved his gaze to Xiao Ran, he knew that Xiao Ran was the one who could call the shots: "What do you think?" ”

Pan Disheng and they stared at Xiao Ran tightly, they were all led by Xiao Ran, with the opening of the market by the Phantom, in the past few years, they have followed behind and don't know how much money they have made. No matter how stupid you are, you know how to choose the right leader.

Xiao Ran pondered for a moment, in a sense, this draft is definitely a big opening up of the mainland's political axe. If it weren't for the fact that he and the chief had two in-depth discussions on the cultural and entertainment industry, the central government would have regarded Hong Kong films as domestic films, and I am afraid it would have been difficult to win them.

He also fully understands the restrictions in the draft, given that Hong Kong is still under British rule. He believes that the real and complete opening will not appear until after the return in 1997, but before that, he must work hard to win a chance for Hong Kong films to survive, otherwise everything he has done before will be in vain.

However, he dared to assert that the draft was not the final result. Since the central government regards Hong Kong films as its own, it should also understand the difficulties of Hong Kong films, especially when France has begun to prepare for protectionism. So, this should be a temptation of the central government.

In this instant, he thought about it a lot, and finally shook his head and said: "I don't have a problem with the opening of ancillary products such as video tapes, there is a slight difference in the censorship system. China Film continues to monopolize distribution, which is difficult for us to accept. And the biggest problem is the theater, if we can't have absolute control, we can't do it according to the composition we have in mind, which makes us very difficult. ”