Xu Guanwu didn't know that Li Xiao and the old man had heart disease, he only knew that Li Xiao and the old man died suddenly. After his death, the three British-owned foreign banks were not interested in sending someone to take charge of TVB. Therefore, Shao Yifu, the largest private shareholder, was ordered to take over the chairmanship of TVB.

Some later reports said that Sir Shao began to take over TVB as early as the 70s, and gradually moved the Shaw Brothers industry to TVB, but in fact, it is all nonsense.

In the 70s, although Shaw Brothers' biggest competitor Golden Harvest first had Bruce Lee and then the Hui brothers successively took the lead, the box office records seemed to overshadow the Shaw Brothers.

But in fact, these are only a few people who can take advantage of Jiahe, and the rest of the people are not famous. And Shaw Brothers has both Fengyue films directed by Li Hanxiang, strange martial arts films directed by Chu Yuan, kung fu films by Zhang Che and Liu Jialiang, and cult films by Gui Zhihong and Mou Dunfu.

Although these films did not break Golden Harvest's box office record at the box office, each film made money. In particular, Shaw Brothers produces so many pieces every year, even if it is a small profit and quick sales, the annual profit is far more than that of Golden Harvest.

It's like Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", "Game of Death", and "Raptors Across the River", the three fierce films made 3 million Hong Kong dollars before, but director Li Hanxiang earned 15 million Hong Kong dollars with five movies such as "Romance" and "The Legend of the Wind and the Moon", and the limelight is still stable for Golden Harvest.

Every year, with movies, Shaw Brothers can earn at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, how can they put TVB, which has a profit of only a few million Hong Kong dollars, in their eyes?

The Shaw Brothers really fell into decline in the 80s, with the rise of New Art City. broke box office records again and again; The old rival Jiahe won seven small blessings such as Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, and Yuan Biao. All of a sudden, the lucky stars shine like a tiger with wings.

New Wave film directors have entered the film industry one after another. caused the Shaw Brothers' large-scale studio system to gradually collapse, although it later also used new directors such as Zhang Jianting and Wang Jing, but it was still difficult to reverse the decline. So Shao Yifu simply turned off Shaw Brothers and concentrated on running the TV station.

Although Shaw Brothers was eliminated in the film industry because of the big studio system, Sir Shaw Yifu was pleasantly surprised to find that his system could still be used on TVB.

There are a total of two TV stations in Hong Kong, and TVB is a dominant one, just like Shaw Brothers against Golden Harvest in the 70s. Although the opponents are constantly coming up with tricks, Shaw Brothers still sits firmly in the Diaoyutai and occupies the top spot.

Therefore, Sir Shao Yifu can rest assured that the previous system will be implemented, and all TV station artists will sign long-term contracts, and if they don't sign, they will be directly hidden. Anyway, you don't have any other good places to go except for my wireless TV station.

The subordinates still use the previous method, support a few factions of people and horses, and then sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. The struggle between several major producers is actually a copy of Zhang Che, Li Hanxiang, Zou Wenhuai, Fang Yihua and others in the early years. If you are powerful, you will suppress it, and if you are not powerful, you will support it, in short, it is the way of the king.

And Sir Shao's large-scale studio system. In fact, it is a policy of seclusion and seclusion in disguise. Artists are born, old, sick and die in the same TV station, and they can't go anywhere else and nowhere else to go. can only earn a meager salary and slowly suffer, looking forward to one day getting the favor from above, and then becoming famous in one fell swoop, and then making a little more money, and then slowly getting old.

However, if the policy of closing the country to the outside world is strongly impacted by external shili, it will directly face the danger of collapse.

In the eighties and nineties, ATV has been weak and unable to break the monopoly of TVB, and the impact on it is naturally not very strong.

However, in the new century, due to the rapid development of the Internet, Hong Kong citizens, who were originally closed, suddenly have a wide range of contacts.

And in the mainland, where they have never looked down on it, TV programs are getting better and better, and the old stalks and routines of TVB, family fights and revenge for decades have been unable to keep up with the pace of the times. When dramas from South Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China achieved phenomenal ratings in Hong Kong, TVB's big-studio system collapsed and disintegrated.

With the rapid expansion of the mainland market, many of TVB's original leaders and Hua Dan all went to the mainland to pan for gold, such as Ouyang Zhenhua, She Shiman, Luo Jialiang, Chen Haomin, etc., which caused TVB to have a small shortage of livelihoods and Hua Dan, and even screenwriters have resigned on a large scale, and the actors themselves have to go into battle to write scripts.

TVB's dramas are clichéd and old-fashioned, and they are also criticized by young audiences. The old section of revenge is used until death, and because of the low investment cost of filming, there is no horse in the entire Three Kingdoms drama, and a certain actress wears a pair of boots throughout the play.

At this point, even if Sir Shaw Yifu is a media tycoon and a business wizard, it will be difficult to recover the decline, and he will have no choice but to sell.

……

"Mr. Li, it's better to cure your illness as soon as possible." Xu Guanwu thought for a while.

"At my age, I can't afford to do surgery." Li Xiao and the old gentleman smiled and said, "It is very likely that I have died on the operating table before the operation is completed." ”

"Then if you cut down on some work and recuperate at home, can you still prolong your life?" Xu Guanwu asked.

"Do you lie at home and wait to die?" Li Xiao and the old gentleman smiled, "In that case, what's the difference between it and waste, what's the point of living like that?" I'd rather die at my desk, it's worth dying like that. ”

"Would you like to hear how I created TVB?" Li Xiao and the old gentleman suddenly smiled and said.

Xu Guanwu smiled bitterly, could he have any other choice, could he say no?

"Yes, Mr. Li, please speak." Xu Guanwu nodded willingly.

"It was 1965, when I went to the United States to discuss business...... Mr. Li slowly recalled.

Xu Guanwu listened quietly on the side, from Li Xiaohe accidentally discovering the value of the TV station, to returning to Hong Kong to contact Shao Yifu and Yu Jingwei to apply for a TV license, but because they were all Chinese, they were rejected by the British authorities in Hong Kong, Zuihou had no choice but to pull HSBC, Hutchison Whampoa, Times Life International, and was forced to give up most of his shares. From inviting many guests to the opening of the station, to imitating foreign TV programs to create "Happy Tonight". From filming the first short drama to dozens of episodes now. From the opening there was only three million advertising dollars. Up to now, tens of millions of advertising costs. From the earliest loss to the current profit......

Clips of TVB's development are told from Mr. Li's mouth, and many anecdotes and secrets are the first time Xu Guanwu has heard of them. I was also moved by Mr. Li's hard work in that year.

"Mr. Xu, can you let me finish my life in TVB?" After Li Xiao finished talking with the old gentleman, he suddenly looked at Xu Guanwu and asked.

"This ......" Xu Guanwu couldn't help but be stunned, listening to Mr. Li's meaning, it was clear that he didn't want to give up the chairmanship.

But if he doesn't give up his chairmanship, Xu Guanwu will have to wait at least four years before he can join TVB after his death. And four years later. Who knows how the situation will change?

Maybe Mr. Li didn't want Xu Guanwu to take away the career he had built brick by brick, and would rather destroy it himself? sold all the artists to Li's TV station, made the show extremely bad, and the ratings plummeted to Xu Guanwu and left a mess?

But if he forcibly seized the TVB and forced Li Xiao and the old gentleman down, then Xu Guanwu would really be in trouble.

After all, the 70s are not like the 80s, as long as you can make money in the 80s, you are good, like the stock market killer Liu Luanxiong, although many listed companies angrily scolded Liu Mang, but in a short period of time the net worth reached billions of Hong Kong dollars. It is still the envy of ordinary people, and its stocks have always been sought after by shareholders.

But after all, people in the seventies were still ruthless and simple. I still hate Xu Guanwu's cunning and plundering behavior. What's more, Li Xiao and the old gentleman have heart disease, and when it spreads, it becomes Xu Guanwu bullying an old, weak, sick and disabled, and this reputation is really a little unpleasant.

Buying ancestral property from a down-and-out rich family and forcibly plundering and bullying the old, weak, sick and disabled are completely different things. If it is the previous matter, people will say that the rich man deserves to keep the family business, and he will also respect the buyer. But if you do the latter thing, it will really be ruined.

Xu Guanwu didn't seem to be scolded by the whole Hong Kong because of this incident, and he couldn't help but hesitate for a while.

"Isn't Mr. Xu worried?" Mr. Li Xiao and the old gentleman asked.

Xu Guanwu smiled, and secretly scolded himself in his heart, he didn't do a good job of investigation before the acquisition, and now he is bound to ride a tiger and retreat.

"Mr. Li, if you are in my place, what should you do?" Xu Guanwu suddenly asked with a smile.

Mr. Li was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "I will choose to accept it peacefully, and first send an assistant to the chairman to intervene in the operation of the company." Then wait until the time comes, and the assistant will turn positive. ”

Xu Guanwu thought for a moment, "If it were me, I would do it too." ”

"Thank you for allowing me to complete the zuihou mile on TVB." Mr. Li said with a smile.

Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "I was reckless, I knew it was so troublesome, I just bought Jiayi in the first place." ”

"Jiayi TV is He George's heart, he won't sell it to you." Mr. Li said with a smile, "Even the consortiums such as Jardine Matheson and Sing Tao Daily are difficult to take advantage of him. ”

"He won't sell it now, but if he loses money like this, sooner or later he won't be able to support it, and he won't be able to sell it when the time comes." Xu Guanwu smiled.

"Probably not, according to my estimates, although the ratings of Jiayi TV are not high, there is still some profit." Mr. Li frowned, "Their TV station has few people, less expenditure, and the cost pressure is not very large, which is much more flexible than our wireless TV station." ”

"The point is, what if they change their business philosophy?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "When the time comes, the cost will increase significantly, and it may not last for a few years." Let's see. ”

"Let's do it and cherish it, it's actually a blessing to have an opponent on the road of life." Mr. Li nodded.

……

Xu Guanwu came back from Lee Garden with a depressed face, scolding the old fox as he walked, and said it simply if he didn't want to give way. I have to tell a lot of stories, and then I say that I have a heart attack, which is a clear moral blackmail.

It's good to get it now, I bought a lot of stocks, but I can't be the chairman of the board of directors, so I'm leaving it there and idle. Fortunately, there is also a title of assistant to the chairman, and I don't know who to give it to.

After sulking and returning to the company, Xu Guanwu returned to the company and immediately found Liang Shuyi.

"You went to negotiate with Mr. Li today, what was the result?" Liang Shuyi asked curiously.

Xu Guanwu made a bitter face, "Just look at the expression on my face." ”

"Not going well?! He doesn't agree to give way? Liang Shuyi asked.

Xu Guanwu grinned, "That's pretty much it, but he agreed that we should send an assistant to the chairman to participate in the management of the company." Who do you think would be more appropriate for this person to send? ”

"That's a better way to do it." Liang Shuyi nodded, and then glanced at Xu Guanwu again, "You don't plan to let me be the assistant to the chairman, right?" ”

"How come, you are the number one now, and it will be more difficult to go to TVB to be the second in command." Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "I want you to recommend someone, it's best to be old and serious, not to seek merit but to be without fault." ”

"Then send Mr. Zhong Jinghui, he was an old man of TVB before, and he had a good relationship with Mr. Li Xiaohe, and he didn't say anything about his character." Liang Shuyi thought for a while and said, "He has a high reputation in the entertainment industry, and he can also suppress a group of artists." ”

"So be it." Xu Guanwu nodded. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sorry.,The power went off twice.,There's no manuscript to save again.,This chapter is now coded!