After separating from Wei Jingmeng, Shen Chong drove towards the Ambassador Hotel on Zhongshan North Road.

The Ambassador Hotel was built in 1964 and is the first five-star hotel in Taiwan.

But tonight, he had to go to the hotel.

"Crazy Robbery" is well-made, full of novelty, win-win box office and word-of-mouth in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has been shortlisted for seven nominations, it is a big hit in the Golden Horse Awards, and it will definitely win at the awards ceremony.

In fact, among the seven nominations for "Crazy Robbery", Shen Chong cares most about Zhang Aijia's Best Actress, and as for the other awards, he doesn't care much.

On the one hand, Zhang Aijia is his person, and on the other hand, he is doing a good job with this award.

According to the memories of her previous life, the Best Actress at the 1979 Golden Horse Awards was Lin Fengjiao, who played a mute girl in "A Small Town Story".

In this era, except for a very small number of actors such as Gui Yalei, most of the female stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan rely on beauty to eat, Hu Yinmeng once laughed at herself, saying that she only needs to go to the set with a head to make money.

Lin Fengjiao's acting skills are not outstanding, she can win the award, one is because the role is pleasing - as we all know, playing a disabled person is easy to shine at major film festivals, and the other is because there was no competitor in 1979 - Hu Huizhong of "Huan Yan" is a fledgling newcomer, while Xu Feng has no new ideas and breakthroughs in "Legend of the Mountain".

The registration time for the Golden Horse Awards is generally closed in early August, and in the previous life, "Crazy Robbery" was released in November, so I missed the 1979 Golden Horse Awards, and now, under the influence of Shen Chong, "Crazy Robbery" was released half a year ahead of schedule and happened to participate in this year's Golden Horse Awards.

After the script of "Crazy Robbery" was revised, the emotional conflict was strengthened, love, friendship and family affection were intertwined, the character image was rich, and the length of the film was also increased by more than ten minutes.

But "Erlin Erqin" is famous in Taiwan, Lin Fengjiao is hot, has many fans, is widely loved, the role of a dumb girl, coupled with the halo bonus of the 10th anniversary of the popular film company, the call for winning the award is very high, and Zhang Aijia is running around in Hong Kong and Taiwan, most of the roles she used to play were supporting roles, not even first-line actresses, and her momentum is obviously inferior.

Therefore, since September, Shen Chong has instructed his magazine to continuously publish review articles about "Crazy Robbery", and targeted to promote Zhang Aijia's acting talent, which is used to realize the real influence of "Film Times" and "First Film Review" in the Taiwanese film industry.

In the end, Zhang Aijia defeated Lin Fengjiao and won the Golden Horse Film, which made Shen Chong extremely satisfied - this shows that he has initially controlled the ability to influence the trend of public opinion in the film circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Back at the hotel, Shen Chong opened the suite he had booked but did not stay in, picked up the phone, and dialed the 24-hour service number provided by HSBC.

"Mr. Shen, I'm Kate." The phone rang twice, and it was connected, and a very pleasant female voice asked in English, "What service do you need?" ”

"Kate, you're on duty today." Shen Chong loosened his tie and asked, "In the past few days, what famous media have reported on me?" ”

"Wait a minute." After a while, Kate began to report: "Mr. Shen, according to the information we have gathered, in the past week, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist have all published content about you, and in Hong Kong, more than 20 media have reported on you. ”

"What did you say?" After Shen Chong returned to Hong Kong from the mainland, he was busy every day without touching the ground, and in the past two days, he came to Taiwan to participate in the Golden Horse Awards, so he breathed a sigh of relief and hid in the beauty boudoir to rest, so he didn't pay much attention to media information, he asked: "Is there anything particularly noteworthy?" ”

"Both The Wall Street Journal and The Economist are critical articles." Kate paused on the phone, then said, "The day before yesterday's Business Week, which was published in detail, reported in detail on your business activities. ”

"All of them?"

"Yes. These include Rubik's Cube, Apple, personal software chains, Activision Games, and several venture capitals in Silicon Valley last month. After analysis by Business Week, you believe that your assets, over $500 million, are one of the world's 5o richest people. ”

Shen Chong was stunned.

No wonder so many reporters are crazy tonight......

No wonder Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to see him......

When Shen Chong was interviewed by Forbes, it was during the negotiations for Apple's acquisition of Visica1c, so he talked about the concept of "knowledge economy" without exaggerating his net worth too much, and readers only thought that he was a lucky person who hit the head with pie in the sky.

In 1979, the general public didn't even know what a personal computer was, and Visica1c was a mouthful of software, let alone Visica1c, so for many people, Shen Chong's image of wealth was very illusory and unreal.

It's like a player with tens of millions of virtual game coins, in the eyes of people who don't play games, farts are not the same.

However, Rubik's cubes, chain stores, and video games are all things that ordinary people can understand, and the exposure of "Business Week" was labeled with $500 million, which immediately caused a sensation.

$500 million, in later generations, is only a fraction of the net worth of the bosses of major high-tech companies, but in 1979, it was really unbelievable.

500 million US dollars, equivalent to Hong Kong dollars, is 2.3 billion, and in the whole year of 1978, all the income from the sale of land by the Hong Kong government was only 2.9 billion...... (Note 1)

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, a medium-sized listed company has a market value of only a few hundred million.

Whether he really has a net worth of 500 million US dollars, Shen Chong doesn't know, and he doesn't care, even if "Business Week" is a world-class authoritative financial magazine, but it says it's worth 500 million, is it really worth 500 million?

Besides, when the money reaches a certain level, it is just a number on the books, and it doesn't mean much......

Loosening his tie again, Shen Chong asked again, "What are the reports in the Hong Kong media?" ”

"There was an exclamation."

Kate's concise answer made Shen Chong embarrassed, and after laughing, he asked: "Is there any result of the market research report on video recorders?" ”

"Yes, AC Nielsen has come up with the results this afternoon." Kate was familiar with the business, and she immediately reported: "As of January 1979, there were less than 60,000 VCRs sold in the United States, and the number of households owning VCRs was less than 2% of the total number of households in the United States." (Note 2)

"What about buying**?"

"More than forty percent of consumers don't know that there is such a product as a home video recorder, and more than seventy percent of consumers think that video recorders are too expensive."

"Okay, I see, thank you, Kate."

Hanging up the phone, Shen Chong touched his chin, sat at the head of the bed, stayed for a while, and then felt that the time was almost up, before he stood up, left the room, and walked towards the restaurant.

……

Participating in the celebration banquet, in addition to "Crazy Robbery", there is also the crew of "Legend in the Mountains" - although "Legend in the Mountains" is not produced by Oriental Charm, Hu Jinquan is now his own person.

Shen Chong reached an agreement with Hu Jinquan in Beijing to reorganize the "Jinquan Film Company" into "Jinquan Film Studio" at the cost of 8o Hong Kong dollars, becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oriental Charm.

"Legend in the Mountains" won five awards at the Golden Horse Awards: Best Director, Best Art Design, Best Cinematography, Best Soundtrack, and Best Recording, and the limelight was even better than "Crazy Robbery".

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, Hu Jinquan took the trophy and walked into the restaurant first, after he saw Shen Chong, he immediately beckoned and said: "Ah Chong, come here, I'll introduce you to a few people." ”

"Teacher Hu, I don't need to introduce you." Shen Chong saw the tall and thick black figure behind him, and immediately stepped forward, shook hands with a smile to welcome, and said, "Director Li Hanxiang, can you not know him?" ”

Li Hanxiang has a fat head and big ears, a burly figure, and an extraordinary bearing, he shook hands with Shen Chong and said, "I haven't seen Jin Quan for a long time, so today is uninvited, Mr. Shen forgive me." ”

"Wherever and where, Director Li can appreciate his face, it's my honor." Shen Chong stretched out his hands and said, "Please inside." ”

Li Hanxiang was one of the four major directors of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the sixties and seventies, with high seniority, great fame, and protégés all over the world.

However, after making friends with Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang will also know each other sooner or later - these two are sworn brothers, and they are friends who are irreversible.

After Li Hanxiang, there was a tall and thin middle-aged man, whom Shen Chong also knew, and he welcomed with a smile: "Boss Huang, hello." ”

"I'm sorry." The man's name was Huang Zhuohan, the owner of First Pictures, an investor and pedestrian of "Legend in the Mountains", he shook hands with Shen Chong and said, "Mr. Shen, I will celebrate with you tonight, and then go to my place tomorrow." ”

"Okay, okay." Shen Chong replied with a smile.

First Pictures is the fourth largest film industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan in addition to Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and Taiwan China Film, Shen Chong can't wait to deal with him more, and he is interested in buying the copyright of "Legend in the Mountains".

After Wu Dajiang, the soundtrack musician of "Legend in the Mountains", Chen Junjie, the photographer, and Zhou Shaolong, the sound engineer, Shen Chong finally saw the person he was looking forward to.

"Miss Xu Feng, hello."

"Hello Mr. Shen." Xu Feng was shortlisted for Best Actress this time, but she returned home, but looking at her expression, she was not disappointed, she smiled and introduced the people around her to Shen Chong: "This is my fiancé, Tang Junnian." ”

"Hello Mr. Tang."

Shen Chong is a shoddy business wizard who started with a golden finger, and Tang Junnian is a real business wizard, he founded Taiwan at the age of 22 alone, started by selling curtains, made 500 million sales in a year, and then created a Tomson Group with assets of 10 billion.

Xu Feng is an actor, won two Golden Horse films, one Asian Film Festival actress, and became a producer after retiring from filming, investing in the production of classic movies such as "Farewell My Concubine", and after her husband died, she ran Tomson Group and controlled this commercial aircraft carrier to develop steadily.

As an actor, producer, businessman, all can do the best, Xu Feng is a legend.

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Note 1: Figures from "History of Hong Kong Stocks"

Note 2: According to figures from 198o in Hollywood Films: A History of the American Film Industry Exhibition.

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