The famous five-star Mandarin Hotel, 5 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, today showed a completely different scene from the past. There were a few more people at the door than usual, and if you were careful, you would also find that the security level had been improved a lot.

Although the Mandarin Hotel, as one of Hong Kong's well-known five-star hotels, has many local celebrities and well-known politicians visiting Hong Kong, it is unlikely that such a scene would have occurred unless distinguished guests have arrived, but in fact it is.

Simon Kaissaac called the lobby manager: "How's the drinks going?" ”

"It's been prepared as you told you, Superintendent." The lobby manager looked respectfully at the Englishman in front of him, even though he was at least ten years older than the other party. But there is no way, who called him just a professional manager recruited from the local area, and the other party is a British manager sent by Hongkong Land, although he is only in his early thirties, but he has served as the chief operating officer of the Mandarin Hotel as soon as he came, only half a level worse than the general manager of the hotel.

Despite the impact of several waves of local Chinese capital rise in the 70s and 80s, and the divestment of its stake in Jardine Matheson, which has completely become a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson, Hongkong Land's position in Hong Kong is much less than it once was. However, as a veteran British company that has gone through more than a century of ups and downs, there are not a few local Chinese businessmen who covet it, relying on the heritage accumulated in the past century, it has a large number of real estate in Hong Kong, and is still one of the largest real estate developers in Hong Kong.

"Well, don't forget to send a team of high-quality service staff to the past, today are all celebrities in the local film and television and media circles, if they can get their recognition of our Mandarin Hotel, the hotel can definitely get more than just monetary benefits!"

"Yes!"

For Simon Kaisark to take it so seriously, the guests who came today are naturally not ordinary people. Four days ago, the Mandarin Hotel received a call from the Media Asia Group, saying that it was going to buy the top two floors of the Mandarin Hotel for a party, and the invitation was either the owner of a local film company or a media tycoon. Rao is a British-owned Mandarin Hotel that pays more attention to word-of-mouth and rarely advertises, and knows very well how important it is to have a good relationship with these guests. Therefore, the general manager of the hotel, who was about to go on a business trip, personally explained the matter to Simon Kaisserk before leaving, for fear that a mistake would make the guests unhappy and make the Mandarin Hotel lose a group of high-class customers.

The time was just past nine o'clock, and Lin Xiaozhi came to the Mandarin Hotel in advance. As the initiator of today's meeting, he had to be early. However, Lin Xiaozhi obviously guessed wrongly about other people's expectations for this party, and when he arrived at the Mandarin Hotel, there were already a few guests who had received the invitation and arrived earlier than him.

"Lin Dong ......"

Seeing Lin Xiaozhi walking into the hall, he was sitting on the sofa in the lobby on the top floor of the Mandarin Hotel, laughing and talking, while admiring the Victoria Bay not far from the transparent glass wall in front of him, one of the several people found him and immediately got up to greet him, it was Li Xiuxian.

"I thought I had come early, but I didn't expect you to come earlier than me!"

Li Xiuxian, the boss of Universal Pictures, Chen Xunqi, the owner of Yongjia Film Company, Zhang Guozhong, chairman of Yineng, and Chen Qiang, president of New Asia and Media Asia, all four of them came earlier than him.

"Mr. Zhang was the first to come, and I just came!" Chen Qiang said with a smile that although it was the first time he was invited to the party, he was very excited.

The legend of the Mandarin Club has already spread in the circle in the past year. Although this commercial alliance was established at the end of last year under the initiative of Lin Xiaozhi, it has only been a year. But in the past year, most of the members of the organization in the department, especially Li Xiuxian, Chen Xunqi, Zhang Guozhong, and several film company bosses who signed distribution agreements with Debao Cinemas, such as Chen Xunqi, have earned millions more than in previous years, not to mention Li Xiuxian, relying on the few movies he discovered that the star 'went back to his parents' to shoot for him plus the discounts given by Debao Cinemas, at least tens of millions more than in previous years.

Zhang Guozhong is undoubtedly the one who made the most money among the three, his entertainment film company shot seven films last year, although most of them were small and medium-sized costs, and there was no shortage of medium investments such as "91 The Condor Heroes", because of the help of Media Asia, he blocked a lot of troubles, and earned 30 or 40 million Hong Kong dollars more than in previous years, which can be described as a lot of money.

Last year, a total of nine people received the invitation of the Wenhua Club for the first time, and Lin Xiaozhi himself was only ten people, although the number of people was small, they were all influential in the circle. Although Chen Qiang is the president of Media Asia, he was not invited to join the Wenhua Club last year, and this year's invitee, Lin Xiaozhi, personally sent an invitation to most people through his hands, including not only many bigwigs in the circle, but also giants in the media industry.

His eyes swept over several people, and Lin Xiaozhi's smile was very genuine. Last year, a total of 10 people were invited to join the Wenhua Club. Liu Jialiang was invited to meet the occasion, and secondly, he wanted to acquire the rights to dozens of films owned by his discontinued film company. Sammo Hung and Shum Jianxun have now become vice presidents of Golden Harvest, and they are about to replace He Guanchang as the president of Golden Harvest, but Shum Jianxun chose to leave because of his political ideas. Xu Guanwen and Deng Guangrong were coerced to join, and they were somewhat reluctant at first.

Therefore, except for Li Guoxing, who is in Australia and New Zealand to discuss the release of "Resident Evil" and can't come back, these four people should be regarded as his real 'own people' in the Wenhua Club. Chen Qiang is simply the president of Media Asia, Li Xiuxian and Chen Xunqi needless to say, Magnum and Yongjia Film Company have long been invested by him to become a satellite subsidiary of Media Asia. Zhang Guozhong is the same, although Lin Xiaozhi's shares are not as good as him, but in the past year, he has personally participated in the distribution and film investment, and unconsciously has completely tied Zhang Guozhong and his entertainment to his chariot.

The five of them are relatively familiar, Lin Xiaozhi rarely puts a shelf in front of people, so he just stood and chatted a few words and then returned to the sofa and sat down, some waiters brought wine with plates, and several people each chose a cup or held it in their hands, or put it on the coffee table next to them, Lin Xiaozhi then said: "The others are estimated to have to wait for the meeting to come, since Mr. Chen arrived before me, he must have talked to you about who will come." ”

Chen Qiang did not deny that it was the first time he was invited to participate in the Wenhua Conference, and he was indeed surrounded by three people to ask about this just now, in order to integrate into this circle faster, he did as Lin Xiaozhi said, and showed off his knowledge.

Lin Xiaozhi didn't care about this, he just said it casually, so he didn't wait for Chen Qiang to explain, so he diverted the topic: "At the end of last year, I launched this Wenhua Club, with the intention of letting everyone hold together and concentrate the scattered resources in their hands, so that the outside world no longer underestimates the strength of our film industry." Because it is a loose commercial alliance, so there were no rules and regulations at the beginning, and since the beginning of this year, I have been busy working for it, although during the period we have gathered twice, every time people have not arrived, we just sit together for a meal, chat at the table, and see that the period of the year has arrived, and there is time to invite everyone to gather again, which is somewhat regrettable. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xunqi, who had four eyebrows, stroked his beard and joked with a smile: "Lin Sheng, you want to envy us, since the beginning of the year, the market value of Media Asia has exceeded 10 billion in less than a year. You, a rich man, are now recognized by the media as the existence of three shocks in the Hong Kong entertainment industry if you sneeze. If it's just hard work, I, Chen Xunqi, don't say that it's hard for a year, even if it's ten years, I'm willing. ”

Li Xiuxian also looked envious and jealous, he and Chen Xunqi, who got the news before the listing of Media Asia, both got hints from Lin Xiaozhi that they could buy some cheap original shares of Media Asia from him. Because he likes to invest in real estate and rarely touches high-risk stocks, he only symbolically bought 100,000 shares with him, but Chen Xunqi bought nearly one million shares from Lin Xiaozhi in one go.

As a result, after the listing of Media Asia, the stock price rose wildly. Although Li Xiuxian sold the stock on the seven-yuan line at a high price, he was far less calm than Chen Xunqi, and it was not until the shares of Media Asia were close to ten yuan that they were thrown out one after another, and the investment of less than two million changed hands in just a few months and earned more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

He is also self-aware, knowing that he is not more talented than Lin Xiaozhi, so although he is envious of his opportunity, he is not jealous, but he is very jealous of his friend Chen Xunqi's windfall by relying on Lin Xiaozhi, so he also found an excuse to knock Chen Xunqi a few big meals, and every time he thinks of it, he still can't help but regret and envy.

Regarding Chen Xunqi's joke, Lin Xiaozhi just smiled and didn't answer, he saw that Li Xiuxian's face was a little annoyed, thinking that he was worried about Zhou Xingchi's contract, and immediately persuaded: "Brother Xian, Ah Xing's contract is about to expire." If you can't stay, forget it, although Ah Xing suddenly became arrogant in his heart, he still knows how to repay his kindness, otherwise he wouldn't have taken your low salary of 400,000 yuan to make two movies for you. ”

When Li Xiuxian discovered Zhou Xingchi from many artists in TVB, and then brought him into the film industry, because he was a big director and the other party was just an existence that even played the third male lead, he issued a contract that was not too good for the newcomer, but it was not bad. Originally, it was nothing, but no one thought of it. After receiving several of his movies, Zhou Xingchi became a little famous, and last year he became famous in one fell swoop with the "Gambling Saint" invested by Media Asia, and then many nonsensical blockbusters such as the "Gambler" series and "Truant Dragon" pushed him to the position of the new generation of Hong Kong comedy kings.

Therefore, Universal Pictures, which is holding Zhou Xingchi's contract, is extremely embarrassed. With Zhou Xingchi's current salary starting from at least four or five million Hong Kong dollars for a movie, if you want to sign him for a year or two, you have to give him a sky-high contract with a price of far more than 10 million, and you can't even think about signing it for three or five years.

There are only three film companies in Hong Kong that can give Chow Xingchi this contract, Media Asia is one, Golden Harvest is one, and Yongsheng is also one, and even Xinyicheng, which has just made a big hit by filming "Best Partner 6" and has a surplus at hand, can't give it to him, let alone his Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures.