After the funeral of Mr. Lee Hsiao-wo, Ms. Leung Suk-yee took over as the new chairman of TVB under the nomination of Hui Guanwu.

Ms. Leung Suk-yee's inauguration process went very smoothly, which was very disappointing to many people who were waiting to see the joke. In their view, the Li family may not be without a competitive force. After all, Mr. Li Xiaohe is the founder of TVB, and he has so many relatives and friends to support him, if his family gets in the way, Leung Shuyi's employment process will not be so smooth.

But it's a pity that the Li family doesn't have the slightest nostalgia for the chairmanship of TVB, since the death of Mr. Li Xiaohe, Mrs. Li even sold the only shares to Xu Guanwu, making TVB completely his private property.

However, although it is private property, it does not mean that Xu Guanwu can act arbitrarily, in fact, because the media role of television is gradually becoming prominent, the Hong Kong government's control over television media is also strengthening, and Jiayi's application for revocation of broadcast restrictions has recently been rejected, and the two requirements for applying for a new license have been rejected, which made Sir Shao, who originally thought it was inevitable, spew a mouthful of old blood.

In order to win ratings, Lidi invited stars to talk about adult topics in the midnight program "Women I am the biggest", and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and there are many fruit dew pictures, and the authorities have recently issued a ban on broadcasting. A variety show with good ratings, but it died halfway through, which is regrettable.

In addition to banning adult-oriented programs, some advertisements have also received warnings. Or the model's clothing is too revealing, or the advertising slogan is too vulgar, or the propaganda is exaggerated, false publicity, etc., so that the three major TV stations have suffered. These days are busy dealing with the authorities.

The Hong Kong government is suddenly so concerned about the radio and television industry. Although there is also the problem that TV is becoming more and more presumptuous nowadays. But Xu Guanwu guessed that the biggest possibility was that the Hong Kong government wanted to control the television media to be their mouthpiece, speak for them, and prepare for possible future Sino-British negotiations.

In modern warfare, the role of public opinion warfare has gradually become prominent. Especially for the two negotiating parties who do not want to fight at all, one of the best ways to put pressure on each other is to use public opinion to put pressure on each other. And the Hong Kong government also wants to manipulate public opinion and play the public opinion card, so using TV broadcasting to confuse the people is naturally their best choice.

Xu Guanwu's worries are actually not unreasonable. In fact, in TVB's TV dramas, there are very few positive images of mainlanders. In the 70s, there was a stupid Ah Can who had never seen anything, and later there were Beigu, Beimei, Xiaosan, Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers, etc.

In short, the image of mainlanders in TVB TV dramas is inseparable from male thieves and women singing four words. is either a provincial and Hong Kong flag soldier who robs a house, or a Beigu who sells meat. Either he is an illegal worker who is smuggling, or he is a junior who seduces her husband...... The reason why TVB arranged it this way. In addition to catering to the psychology of the audience, it is more or less to cater to the Hong Kong government.

The British government has always been dissatisfied with the Chinese mainland's recovery of Hong Kong, even if the contract had been signed at that time, but the small actions behind it were still frequent, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the biggest threat to the West in the 90s, China quickly took the Soviet Union's place and became one of the most feared opponents of the West.

During China's reform and opening up in the 80s, the honeymoon period in its relations with Western countries came to a rapid end, and the Yinhe incident, the South China Sea plane crash, and the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia caused China's relations with the West to quickly enter a frozen period. Fortunately, at this time. Uncle bin Laden came out of nowhere and brazenly attacked the American mainland, so that the focus of the West finally shifted from China to Afghanistan.

The subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that the United States launched in order to fight terrorism were protracted, labor-intensive, time-consuming, material, and costly, which not only drained the US treasury, but also attracted all the firepower of the West, greatly alleviating the pressure on China at that time. In this respect, Ben. Uncle bin Laden deserves to be awarded.

China has also taken advantage of this period of rapid rise, after the United States knocked Afghanistan and Iraq down successively, looking back at China, which had been bullied before, it has quietly risen when he was not paying attention, and has become the second largest economy in the world after it in terms of economic scale, and at the same time he also has a huge amount of US bonds in his hands, which makes him jealous and dare not force China too much.

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Xu Guanwu didn't want TVB to become a propaganda tool of the British government in Hong Kong, especially he didn't like to rush to the mainland, so on the one hand, he asked Leung Shuyi to check and fill in the gaps by herself, try not to give the Hong Kong government a chance to make trouble, and on the other hand, try to maintain a neutral position and not easily express opinions on political issues.

Xu Guanwu said that the Hong Kong people have always had a bad impression of the mainland, and that in 49 years because they were fleeing the war, many mainlanders fled to Hong Kong. The properties they left behind in the mainland were later confiscated by the mainland government, which naturally made them very dissatisfied.

Later, people who smuggled into Hong Kong from the mainland were also dissatisfied with the poverty, backwardness, and political repression of the mainland. In addition, since the 70s, there have been a steady stream of smugglers from the mainland committing crimes in Hong Kong, and the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers have robbed the streets, which has also made Hong Kong citizens panic and uneasy.

So TVB is in a dilemma, Xu Guanwu does not want to become a propaganda tool of the British government in Hong Kong, and at the same time, it is impossible to become a mouthpiece for the mainland, and it cannot be biased towards the mainland or the Hong Kong government, TVB has to maintain a neutral position, impartiality, and not relying on it.

Unlike TVB, Li's TV Station, which is controlled by an Australian consortium, and Jiayi TV, which is controlled by Sir Sir Shao Yifu of the British Empire, are vying to become anti-. In the following years, he produced a large number of programs, exaggerating the poverty and backwardness of the mainland, the ignorance of the mainlanders, the ferocity and cruelty of the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers, and the shameless obscenity of Beigu and Beimei, etc., which had a very bad impact on the smear of the mainland.

Xu Guanwu couldn't control what other TV stations did, but he told Leung Shuyi to remain objective and neutral and look at the mainland from the perspective of development.

The mainland is now gradually developing, and although there may be problems in the middle, the overall situation is preference. The mainland's economy is growing, creating a lot of opportunities for Hong Kong, which is close at hand. Hong Kong manufacturing factories have moved north, and they can enjoy more favorable treatment in the mainland. Hire cheaper labor. This keeps their goods competitive. Even in the face of the equally rapidly rising Singapore. Taiwan and South Korea are still able to maintain their advantages.

Liang Shuyi originally did not have a good impression of the mainland, their ancestral home was Fanyu in eastern Guangdong, and they were considered fellow villagers with Xu Guanwu's family, and they also came to Hong Kong to escape the war. But there are still relatives and friends in the mainland, and there is still an ancestral property there. But then relatives and friends starved and became poor, and their ancestral property was later confiscated. This made Liang Shuyi feel very helpless.

After Xu Guanwu's persuasion. In addition, there are many rumors that have been self-defeating, which has made Leung Shuyi change her view of the mainland again. In addition, she has received a Western education and likes to consider problems from an objective and rational perspective, so as to avoid many wrong decisions made because of personal bias.

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The Hong Kong government has begun to rectify radio and television and exert pressure on television stations with unprecedented intensity. Xu Guanwu speculated that the Hong Kong government's move was subtly and gradually affecting the operation of the TV station. On the one hand, he asked Leung Shuyi to pay more attention to the quality of TV programs, reduce violent cesium and murder politics, and on the other hand, contact the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency. and a patriotic Hong Kong businessman and legislator. District councillors and others should put pressure on the Hong Kong government and not let them go too far and pick bones in the egg.

Although for the time being, the Hong Kong government has been under pressure, and it has been much more restrained on the surface. Because of this crackdown, the TV station is also a new one in terms of content. On the surface, it seems that things are going in a good direction. But in fact, this kind of struggle is long and arduous, and it often takes years to decide the winner.

Xu Guanwu had enough patience to persevere, and Britain also had patience to oppose the mainland, and the mainland also had enough willpower to resist Britain and peacefully subjugate Hong Kong.

The two strong wrestling, the Xu clan affected the pond fish, the undercurrent was surging, and the war was still going on.

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Time goes forward, during Mr. Leigh's funeral, news finally came from the United States, and they finally found Ms. Zhang Ailing after a lot of hardships.

is different from Xu Guanwu's original idea, the delay in this matter is not because Ms. Zhang Ailing cherishes her work, so she does not want to hand it over to others to adapt and make a movie. Rather, it was because the staff sent to the United States could not find Ms. Zhang Ailing herself. She has been living in seclusion in the United States since the '70s, constantly changing her residence, and once tried to move 180 times in three years. In the process of moving, everything that should be thrown away and what should not be thrown is thrown away.

As the saying goes, a broken family is worth a thousand dollars. Since a home is purchased, it always costs some money. When moving, some of them have to be discarded and repurchased, and the money spent more times is naturally like a river, which also puts Ms. Zhang Ailing in an economic dilemma.

In addition, her creative peak has passed, although she has also written after coming to the United States, but there are few works that can be published, which makes Ms. Zhang Ailing also quite frustrated, once reluctant to communicate with people, and in time with her close friends and even lawyers, most of them use letters and phone calls.

Frequent moves have made her whereabouts confusing, and it has also caused a lot of trouble to the people of the Xu Group. Fortunately, I finally found Ms. Zhang Ailing and applied to her to purchase the adaptation rights of film and television works.

After several years of seclusion and wandering, Ms. Zhang Ailing's financial situation is not ideal. In fact, when she died in the 90s, she was already a poor family.

The employees of the Hui Group sent to the United States couldn't help but be shocked to see that this famous Asian female writer was living in such an embarrassing way. Because there are also fans of Ms. Zhang Ailing in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and they are also the only two major fan gathering places in the Chinese-speaking circle. There are also many legends about Ms. Zhang Ailing, all of which say that she became famous a long time before she became famous at a young age, and she also wrote a lot of books and also earned a lot of money, and lived a rich child's life of wandering and wandering, just like the protagonist she described in the book.

After receiving the task, the employee also urgently collected Ms. Zhang Ailing's works to read, and then found a lot of gossip materials to do research, wanting to study what kind of personality Ms. Zhang Ailing is, and then adopt different negotiation methods for her character.

According to his speculation, Ms. Zhang Ailing was a person who was not very happy in childhood, and her mother abandoned her to study abroad when she was very young, and she still did not mince words when she came back a few years later. Her father was a son of a rich family, but because he didn't have to produce, the family was not very wealthy. Her stepmother also treated her badly and often instigated his father to abuse her. On another occasion, she was put in a confinement room for half a year, and she almost died of dysentery. This is also reflected in "Rolling Red Dust" written by Sanmao.

The indifference and ruthlessness of her relatives made Ms. Zhang Ailing also become extreme, and she also looked coldly at her only brother. Even the closest people to her, such as her friend Yan Ying and aunt, are also comparable, and every account is clearly calculated. In short, she is a very contradictory woman.

After the employee made a judgment in his heart, he also studied a lot of ways to deal with it, but when he actually saw Ms. Zhang Ailing, he was still deeply shocked to see her thin face living in a snail house. (To be continued......)