For the olive branch that Jiahe took the initiative to reach, Shao Yifu decided to accept it after pondering for a while, and invited Zou Wenhuai to his mid-level villa on the fifteenth day of the first month to admire the moon.

"Sixth brother, what is Zou Wenhuai's idea, why did he want to come back to see you after going out for a few years?" Fang Yihua asked suspiciously.

"In my opinion, he can't hold it." Shao Yifu said, "The investment of tens of millions of dollars in "Hejing Blood" has now recovered less than 10%, and if the box office in North America is not high, it is very likely to lose money. ”

"No, Bruce Lee's films sold well in those years, and Golden Harvest should be very rich. And he also released a lot of films this year, although they didn't sell at the box office, but they also made no money. Fang Yihua pondered, "You won't be dragged down by a film, right?" ”

"It's hard to say, although he made some money, he spent a lot of money on buying theaters and renting studios." Shao Yifu calculated, "If this "Hejing Blood" can't make back the capital, Jiahe will have to break his muscles and bones, and he won't be able to slow down for at least two or three years. ”

"Then what does he mean by seeing you, does he want to ask you to sponsor him?" Fang Yihua suddenly felt a little funny.

As a rebel general of the Shaw Brothers, it is not good to develop outside, and then ask the old club for help, I don't know what they think.

"No, I think you want to cooperate with me to fight against the Xu family." Shao Yifu said.

"Xu?! They really got off to a good start this year, and both movies have achieved high box office, which is popular and applauded! Fang Yihua praised, "It's just that it has been half a year since Jiahe, and it has already made a lot of noise, and the old club is going to be defeated." ”

"That Xu Guanwu is a talent, Raymond and I have wanted to enter Hollywood for a long time, but except for Bruce Lee, no one has succeeded. I didn't expect him to be able to easily earn hundreds of millions of box office ......" Shao Yifu sighed, "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the generation is stronger than the generation!" ”

"Sixth brother, you are the Dinghai God Needle, no matter how big the waves are, they can't wash you away." Fang Yihua said with a smile, "The Xu family is just a newborn calf, and in terms of foundation and influence, you still have to count the sixth brother." ”

"Dinghaishen Needle?! I'm also afraid of the fledgling Monkey King. Shao Yifu also said a little helplessly.

originally thought that after Cathay Pacific closed, Shaw Brothers could dominate in Hong Kong.

Unexpectedly, Cathay secretly supported the Shaw Brothers rebel Zou Wenhuai, and the newly established Golden Harvest could once compete with the Shaw Brothers with Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee died suddenly, and Golden Harvest was already in turmoil, but he didn't expect that he would kill Xu Guanwen halfway and carry the banner of Golden Harvest again.

After Xu Guanwen left Jiahe, he established his own cinema, and originally thought that it would be closed within a few months. Who would have thought that Xu Guanwu would make hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States.

Not only was the Xu family not dragged down, but it grew rapidly, and its momentum once overshadowed its old club Golden Harvest, approaching the hegemony of the Shaw Brothers.

Thinking of Xu's series of acquisitions, mergers, poaching, school construction, funding and other actions last year, Shao Yifu was faintly uneasy.

When the Shaw Brothers family was dominant before, the Hong Kong film industry was like a fish in a pond, calm and rigid; The establishment of Golden Harvest is like throwing a catfish into the fish pond, which quickly disrupted the entire market, broke the tranquility of the fish pond, but also added a bit of vitality to the fish pond.

But the establishment of the Xu family is like throwing a dragon into a fish pond. Although the dragon is small, it is not a fish pond that can be held, it will either fly to the sky one day, and swim in nine days and ten places; Or just eat all the fish and take over the whole pond.

……

The fifteenth month of the first month is full.

Taiping Shan Mid-Levels Villa, Sir Shao's Mansion.

Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang, Cai Changyong, and Liang Feng were the rebels of the Shaw Brothers, and a few years later, they came to this villa again.

The full moon is still the same, the villa is still the same, but the people are a few years older, and they can't help but feel a little emotional.

"Sixth brother, it's a New Year's greeting for you." Zou Wenhuai said with a smile.

"Raymond, I wish you a happy New Year." Shao Yifu also smiled, without a trace of displeasure on his face.

"Sixth brother, I remember that at this time in the past, everyone would come to your villa for a few drinks. Once Ah Chang got drunk and planned to jump into the pool to catch the moon. Zou Wenhuai said with a smile, "That scene, think about it, it's the same as what happened yesterday, as soon as I see this pool, I remember." ”

"Yes, third sister, give Ah Chang that bottle of 28-year-old Lafite, I remember that he liked to drink the red wine of that year." Shao Yifu commanded.

"Sixth brother, xiexie, you still remember my hobby." He Guanchang couldn't help but be a little moved, "I haven't seen you for a few years, sixth brother, you are becoming more and more immortal." ”

"In the past few years, I have hired a qigong master and practiced qigong for half an hour every day." Shao Yifu said with a smile, "After practicing, my ears and eyes are clear, and my mind is clearer than before." Raymond, if you're interested, let him pass you a few sets another day. ”

"Then the sixth brother of Xiexie." Zou Wenhuai said with a smile, "In the past two years, I have been riddled with mundane things, and I haven't taken care of my body, so I'm really uncomfortable now." ”

"Money can never be earned, but the body is your own." Shao Yifu said with a smile, "If you have time, you still have to take good care of it." ”

"That's what the sixth brother said." Zou Wenhuai also smiled.

A few people sat there chatting for more than two hours, all talking about their previous time at the Shaw Brothers, and nothing else at all.

Leaving the Mid-Levels Villa, He Guanchang asked Zou Wenhuai, "Lei Meng, do you think the sixth brother can agree with our suggestion?" ”

"I should be able to, I'm 80 percent sure." Zou Wenhuai said, "Although the sixth brother is close to old age, he is not confused. Xu's rise is imminent, if we don't unite with us and suppress him together, when Xu's really succeeds, our two companies will have no way to live. ”

"Why is this so, no matter how powerful the Xu clan is, it is impossible to drive us away." Liang Feng said disdainfully, "Didn't we beat their theaters into a sieve last year?" ”

"Last year was last year, and last year there were only a few dozen people up and down the Xu family, and they only made two or three films a year. This year, there are hundreds of people, and five or six films are being filmed at the same time. Cai Changyong explained, "Now that the foundation of the Xu family has been built, if it is not suppressed, it will turn into a dragon and fly straight to the sky when it encounters a storm." ”

"What a storm, what a dragon, Ah Cai, you can edit better than me, the editor of the magazine." Liang Feng said with a smile.

"Ah Cai is right, the Xu family recruited troops last year and has accumulated a certain amount of shili. And I heard that he is going to open an acting school to train professional film talents. He Guanchang said, "If there is no big plan, why do so much work?" ”

"Tossing so many things, I don't know what the picture is?" Liang Feng couldn't help but complain, "If I had so much money, I would rather go into real estate." The five tigers of Chinese real estate, taking advantage of this stock disaster, do not know how much money they have made. That's more than we make a hundred films. ”

"That's why this person behaves strangely, and I can't even see through these things." Cai Changyong sighed and said, "Investing in the construction of an performing arts school can also be regarded as attracting talents for yourself." But funding to make niche movies, and setting up a theater for it, I can't figure it out. ”

"This man has a lot of plans, and he is not a thing in the pool at all." Zou Wenhuai sighed and said, "If we can't defeat it by joining forces with the Shaw Brothers, sooner or later it will kill us." ”