To add insult to injury, at this time, Poly Construction Company, in which Hopewell Real Estate Company was a shareholder, was liquidated and bankrupt, and the chairman of the board of directors, Paul Li, was arrested and imprisoned. Hopewell Real Estate Company has been affected again!

Previously, Hopewell Real Estate invested 9.9 million Hong Kong dollars in Poly Construction Company, and when Paul Li was reported by the Independent Commission Against Corruption for false accounts, bribery and other crimes, Poly Construction Company was liquidated and bankrupt, and the 9.9 million Hong Kong dollars invested by Hopewell Real Estate naturally turned into a bubble.

It's really a blessing, and the disaster is not a one-way street!

Affected by this, Hopewell Real Estate, which was already struggling, is now in a quagmire. not only lost 9.9 million Hong Kong dollars of investment, but also was implicated by Paul Li, which made the already not very good reputation even more stinky.

As a result, the stock price also fell, from the highest 30 Hong Kong dollars to 6 cents Hong Kong dollars, and the stock price fell nearly 40 times.

Other Chinese real estate companies such as Cheung Kong Property, Sun Hung Kai Properties, New Shijie Real Estate, etc., although their stock prices also fell during the stock market crash, but Hong Kong is the only one as miserable as Hopewell Real Estate.

Originally, if you were an ordinary person, you should not be able to survive under internal and external difficulties.

However, Hu Yingxiang, chairman of Hopewell Real Estate, is by no means an ordinary person, he himself graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, and his father is a famous taxi king in Hong Kong, and later turned to the real estate industry, which is also a powerful large real estate developer. Therefore, Hu Yingxiang can continue to hold on, and the donkey will not fall.

HSBC didn't give up on him completely, they still believed in his ability and kept giving him money to develop. But HSBC's money isn't blowing in the wind. After the '73 stock market crash, the Great Depression followed. The oil crisis broke out in '74. HSBC is also facing the problem of profitability, so the capital injection into Hopewell Real Estate is not destined to be too much.

That's why now Shen Bi thinks of using private funds like Xu Guanwu to support potential development companies like Hopewell Real Estate.

Xu Guanwu had also heard of the name of Hopewell Real Estate for a long time, and he also knew that the stock market crash had nothing to do with this company, and it was absolutely unwarranted to put it on the table, so he didn't have many reputation concerns about investing in him.

However, what Xu Guanwu is really worried about is that Hopewell Real Estate really has as much development potential as Shen Bi said? What if I lose it?

Xu Guanwu has not heard much of the name of Hopewell Real Estate, and he has the impression that Chinese Real Estate is relatively good. One is Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Asset, the other is Lee Shau Kee's Henderson Land, one is Kwok Tak-shing's Sun Hung Kai Properties, and the other is Cheng Yu-tung's new Shijie Real Estate.

I've never heard of Hopewell Real Estate, so should I invest in it? Xu Guanwu hesitated a lot for a while.

"Forget it, take a gamble!" After thinking for a while, Xu Guanwu finally made up his mind and said, "Mr. Shen Bi, how much do you think I should invest?" ”

When Shen Bi began to suggest that Xu Guanwu invest in Hopewell Real Estate, when he saw the stunned expression on his face, he knew that people were not interested in Hopewell Real Estate. Then I saw Xu Guanwu answer for a long time, and I knew that people were worried about their own face.

If Hopewell Land is the second person to recommend. I was afraid that Xu Guanwu didn't even want to think about it, so he refused directly.

Are you kidding, let me pay to save that mess?

But then Xu Guanwu actually agreed to inject capital, which couldn't help but surprise Shen Bi very much, "Although I really want to say that the more the better, I still respect your opinion." ”

"In this case, then I will invest 150 million Hong Kong dollars first, and you can help me absorb Sun Hung Kai Properties' shares with the other 200 million Hong Kong dollars." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"I'm the first to represent Chairman Hu Yingxiang xiexie you." Shen Bi said with a smile, "I will fight with you for a haode share with him." ”

"Okay." Xu Guanwu didn't care. His investment in Hopewell Real Estate is mainly to make Shen Bi happy, it is a good thing to be able to make money, even if he can't make money, it doesn't matter. It's just one or two hundred million Hong Kong dollars, and you can earn it back in minutes by making a movie, but Shen Caishen's love is not so easy to earn.

……

A few days later, under the operation of Shen Bi, Xu Guanwu obtained 40% of the equity of Hopewell Real Estate. With the help of HK$150 million injected by Xu Guanwu, Hu Yingxiang, chairman of Hopewell Properties, re-applied for a loan from HSBC, and after receiving another 100 million loans, he re-absorbed the stocks of retail investors in the market, consolidating his position in Hopewell Properties. This is actually another empty glove white wolf dominated by Shen Bi.

Xu Guanwu has become a major shareholder and partner of a number of real estate companies, and even Henderson has gathered half of the equity in his hands, so he has not paid much attention to the successful investment in Hopewell Real Estate.

What should I do in normal times, look at documents, hold meetings, and approve projects...... When I was free, I took the car to buy delicious food and went to Shaw Brothers Cinemas to visit the class, and the people who were engaged in Shaw Cinemas knew about it.

But the strange thing is that Boss Shao didn't stop anyone, and of course he didn't dedicate himself to meeting Xu Guanwu, as if he didn't know about it at all.

Xu Guanwu went too many times, and every time it was either fruit or dessert, the whole Shaw Brothers knew that he loved his wife.

Time passed day by day, and "Meteor Butterfly Sword" directed by Chu Yuan finally started filming, and the actor who played Meng Xing's soul was still Zong Hua, because Di Long and Jiang Dawei did not have schedules.

This film was filmed in the name of a leather bag company, and the plank road was darkly Chen Cang, and the actor was successfully borrowed from Shaw Brothers.

More than a dozen actors are all rented, and they are only more than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is really cheap. However, the salary is already more than that of them in Shaw Brothers.

On the first day they arrived at the crew, they asked Director Chu Yuan to drink, saying that they wanted to thank Director Chu Yuan for his support, so that they could go outside to make a little money. Otherwise, if you are trapped in Shaw Brothers Studios and get a fixed salary every month, you will have to starve to death sooner or later.

In addition to director Chu Yuan's new film, Hong Jingbao also started filming a new film "Loser". He was one of the seven members of the team and naturally reviewed projects faster than the others. From reviewing the script to determining the actors to reviewing the cost, it only took one meeting to get it done.

Because the drama "Loser" is mainly to praise Yuan Biao, of course, the leading role is none other than Yuan Biao. And the villain was originally supposed to be Chen Xunqi. It's a pity that this old brother is still doing movie soundtracks at Shaw Brothers, and he doesn't have the idea of going to the front of the screen yet.

No way. Hong Jingbao had no choice but to push out Feng Kean, who often plays the villain. Let him play the villain in the movie, the little prince.

Speaking of which, Feng Ke'an can be regarded as unlucky. Although there are many movies he has starred in, almost all of them are villains without exception, and all of them are villains with strong martial arts.

This probably has something to do with his appearance, he has no flesh on his face, and he doesn't look like a good person at first glance, especially with evil in his eyes, and he is succumbed to not playing a bad guy.

In fact, Feng Ke'an himself has a very big background, he was born in an acting family. His father is a famous Cantonese film director, his sister Feng Subo and younger brother Feng Jilong are all famous artists, of course, the most famous is his little sister Feng Baobao, who is really the most popular child star in the Cantonese film era, known as Hong Kong's Xiulan. Temple.

After "The Loser" passed the review, it immediately entered the filming stage. Hong Jingbao means to seize the time to shoot and strive to finish it within two months, so as to catch up with the release during the Spring Festival.

Seeing that everyone is busy in their own way, Mai Jia doesn't seem to be in a hurry, after filming "Salted Fish Reborn". For months, he didn't want to start making a new film.

Xu Guanwu didn't rush him. Let him toss.

Compared with Mai Jia, Zeng Zhiwei is undoubtedly much more active, "Li Sanjiao Shocks the Gate of Hell" has finally been completed after three months of filming, and is now in post-production.

This film is starring Yuan Hao, and the other Seven Xiaofu and Hong Jiaban are all kinds of chaotic, and the story is also absurd, and it is extremely spoofed.

Western 007 James. Bond, Red Dead Redemption in the United States, Popeye, the Blind Man in Japan, vampires, zombies, mummies, Hades, ......

But just listing these characters together already makes people feel out of tune, not to mention that this movie is really made.

After Zeng Zhiwei filmed "Fat Dragon Crossing the River" successfully, his confidence increased greatly, and he also had high hopes for this "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate", so he wanted to have a good schedule with Xu Guanwu, such as the Spring Festival schedule and Christmas schedule.

After all, there are many audiences in these two schedules, even if it is a bad movie, it will have a good box office, not to mention his ambitious work.

So after filming, Zeng Zhiwei had bad intentions, and he kept slowing down the post-production process and striving to release it on the Christmas schedule.

The whole company didn't notice Zeng Zhiwei's small movements, and everyone still did what they should do.

Cheng Long's "Drunken Fist" was filmed for more than half a year, and finally finished in November. Although the efficiency is surprisingly slow, after watching the sample film, Xu Guanwu is still very satisfied with Cheng Long.

To be honest, Cheng Long's works, except for those filmed by director Luo Wei in the early days, can see Cheng Long's intentions in all the other films.

Whether it is "Senior Brother Out of the Horse" or "Ajihua", or even the outdated work "Young Master Long", Cheng Long also filmed quite carefully, without the slightest laziness. Therefore, people can rely on this spirit to grow into a shijie-level superstar step by step.

is not like other actors who took on some bad movies to make money in order to make money, but they ended up going their way.

After watching the sample film of "Drunken Fist", everyone thinks that this movie is very good. Xu Guanwu immediately proposed that the film be released during the Christmas schedule, which is the highlight of the Xu Brothers.

Hong Jingbao, Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie, Liang Shuyi, Mai Jia and others did not object, but Zeng Zhiwei had a bitter face. His "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" dragged out post-production, just to delay it until the Christmas schedule, but now it was robbed by Cheng Long's "Drunken Fist".

As for the Spring Festival schedule, don't think about it, it must be the big boss's "Deed of Sale" to take the lead. Hong Jingbao is also rushing to shoot "The Loser", and it will be difficult to compete with him at that time. So Zeng Zhiwei felt a little like he was shooting himself in the foot.

"Mr. Xu, my "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" is also about to finish the late stage, can you arrange for me to be with Ah Long in the Christmas file?" Zeng Zhiwei suddenly spoke.

"Zhiwei, didn't you say that post-production was troublesome? Do you even want to find a dubbing? Hong Jingbao asked suspiciously.

Hearing Sanmao say this, Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help but be embarrassed. is now looking for a voice actor, which is one of the excuses for him to delay post-production, just to be able to delay the release of the Christmas file, but he didn't expect it to be used by Hong Jingbao as an excuse to block his Christmas release.

"The voice actor has been found, and he will have it right away." Zeng Zhiwei said with a smile.

"In that case, let's go back and test the movie." Xu Guanwu thought for a while.

"Okay, I see, Mr. Xu." Zeng Zhiwei suddenly smiled with an eyebrow.

……

In November, in addition to the completion of two films, Deng Lijun's "Love Jun Like a Dream" Asian tour finally came to a successful conclusion, with concerts covering Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Taiwan and other countries and regions.

The number of visitors exceeded 150,000 and the total revenue exceeded HK$3 million. However, because the concert was too high, the total cost was more than two million, so in fact, this tour did not make any money.

However, the signboards of Yisheng Records and Fumao Records really started their signboards through this tour, and further consolidated Deng Lijun's status as the first female singer in China, and also took the opportunity to integrate the resources of Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, making Yisheng Records truly a multinational chain record company.

So the potential value is still immeasurable. (To be continued......)