The year 80 seems to be an eventful autumn, as soon as the new year changes hands, and before it has stopped for two days, several major consortia want to buy the art and art cinema line, and at the most they will have to lease it for a few years. The headaches came one after another, which made Xu Guanwu a little blindsided.

To be honest, for Xu Guanwu now, the Art and Beauty Cinema Line is actually a rabbit on Chinese New Year's Eve, more of it is also a piece of meat, less it is also a piece of meat, it is tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Making a profit of 40 or 50 million Hong Kong dollars a year may be against the sky for others, but for Xu Guanwu, it is just a piece of cake. The pocket money he gives to Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia every year is not only this amount.

It didn't matter if he gave it to these consortia, but he looked down on the virtue of these consortia in making a mess of everything in order to make money. If the art theater line is handed over to them, it goes without saying that in order to make money, all films will naturally be released. For a while, it must have disturbed the Hong Kong film industry, what Fengyue films, three chicken films, follow-up films, etc., as long as they can make money, anything can be released.

It's like in the 90s, five cinema chains in the Hong Kong film industry competed for hegemony, Jin Sheng, Yonggao, Golden Harvest, Oriental, Xinbao, and five cinema lines, each cinema line needed at least 50 movies, and five theater chains needed at least 250 movies. Such a huge demand is like a shot in the arm, and the stimulated Hong Kong films have developed rapidly in the next two years, and the output of films has surged from about 100 to 300, which is three times the previous output.

But in the past few years, the number of Hong Kong filmmakers has not increased significantly, which is equivalent to dividing everyone's talent into three points, and the movies made are naturally more difficult to watch and less beautiful. So in those years, although Hong Kong films prospered infinitely. Everyone has filming whether they are popular or not. Stars with box office appeal run multiple crews a day. There is no time to rest when they make money, and for them it is the golden period of shark fin rice.

But for Hong Kong films, all his vitality was overdrawn in just a few years, which made Hong Kong films decline rapidly a few years later, and entered a period of decline in advance.

All of this has such and such factors, but it is also inseparable from the consortium's pursuit of profit and the battle for cinemas. It can be said that it is the negligence of the theater company that can release any bad film. Only then did Hong Kong filmmakers be unscrupulous, and they dared to make bad films. As a result, it damaged the reputation of Hong Kong films, which were quickly stolen by American blockbusters.

Xu Guanwu has worked hard for many years, and it is easy to make Hong Kong films prosperous, and even lead it to Hollywood in the United States. Naturally, I don't want these consortia to mess around and ruin the foundation that he has so easily laid. Therefore, for him, the art theater line must not be lost, this is a gesture.

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Lei Juekun felt very embarrassed, he was a super-rich man with a net worth of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars before, and Xu Guanwu was still penniless. So when he faced Xu Guanwu, he still had a sense of superiority.

Today, Xu Guanwu is Hong Kong's richest man. His personal assets are at least more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, which has completely surpassed him. Hong Kong was originally a place to watch people put on dishes, but now when Lei Juekun sees Xu Guanwu again, he no longer has the high-minded momentum he had before.

On the other side, Lei Juekun can't offend several major consortia, Nanyang, Taiwan, Hong Kong, there are actually countless consortia, most of these consortia are family businesses, and they are usually inconspicuous. But once there is a conflict of interest, these families immediately reveal their hideous side.

Although Li Ka-shing has been called the richest man in Hong Kong for many years, he also said that there are actually many people in Hong Kong who are better than him in terms of property, but they are only unnoticeable because of their lack of fame. And the real estate tycoon Wang Dehui was kidnapped before he was kidnapped, in fact, his reputation was also not obvious, looking at his usual food and clothing, who would know that he was still one of the top ten tycoons in Hong Kong?

Now that Xu Guanwu, an emerging rich man, has faced these family consortia, Lei Juekun also feels that things are a little difficult to do.

In his opinion, although Xu Guanwu is now worth a lot of money, he is still rising too fast and his foundation is too shallow, and compared with these families who have struggled in Nanyang, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for a hundred years, they are still opponents who are not enough to class.

On the other hand, these Chinese families have deep roots, and their biggest investment is not only in the real estate industry, but also in the manufacturing industry, transportation industry, etc., and it stands to reason that they will not watch movies in this business. But now that they are running to forage for food, does it also prove that they are not as beautiful as they imagined?

Lei Juekun thought about it, he really couldn't make up his mind, on the one hand, he didn't want to offend Xu Guanwu, after all, he was now a popular fried chicken, and the speed of his rise not only did not slow down, but it was still accelerating, and no one could predict how high he would reach in the future. Besides, Xu Guanwu is still young, and there is still a long way to go in the future. And it can be seen from the speed of his rise that even if he doesn't have a dime now, he will make a comeback in less than two years.

The so-called boxer is afraid of being less strong, but in fact, why is it not the case in the shopping mall? Young people have opportunities, don't bully young people to be poor, who knows if the people you look down on now will succeed in the future? When Zhou Xingchi was playing tricks on TVB, he was once scolded for "being like a dog", and he still remembers it many years later, and he is still haunted by it.

Lei Juekun naturally did not offend Xu Guanwu like now, so that he would compete with him in business in the future. You must know that the most profitable business under Lu Dao is Kowloon Development, while Xu Guanwu has four major real estate groups, Cheung Kong Industrial, Hutchison Whampoa, Hopewell Property and Henderson Land, it may not be impossible to beat Kowloon Development in the real estate business.

Moreover, Xu Guanwu has a close relationship with HSBC, and Lei Juekun has too much business to cooperate with the bank, if he offends HSBC, the god of wealth, then the Lei family really shouldn't be mixed up in Hong Kong. What's more, Lei Juekun knows that he is old, and he will definitely pass on the position to his son in the future, and he also knows that his son's business ability is not as good as his own, and now he can barely cope, if he dies suddenly one day, can his son still keep the Lei family's family business? ! At that time, Xu Guanwu was in his prime, and it was not difficult to erase the Lei family casually.

Thinking of this, Lei Juekun couldn't help but secretly regret that he had sold Yimei Cinema to Xu Guanwu when he knew that Lu Dao had sold the Art Cinema Line. The province is now sandwiched in the middle. Cause so much trouble.

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Knowing the way to his own ability. Unable to maneuver between the two tigers at all, Lei Juekun immediately smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and left, leaving only the problem to those Chinese consortiums and Xu Guanwu.

Hong Kong Yueming Building, Cantonese cuisine is a must, especially steamed grouper, it is said to be the best in Hong Kong, once created a feat of steaming 100 catties of grouper. This record has not been broken in Hong Kong to this day.

At noon, Xu Guanwu took Liang Shuyi to the downstairs by car, and then was immediately invited to the second floor, the "Toad Palace" Pavilion.

"Mr. Xu, it's been a long time." Lei Juekun was originally drinking tea, and when he saw Xu Guanwu walking in, he quickly stood up with a smile and said.

"Mr. Lei, it's been a long time." Xu Guanwu also nodded and said, "This Miss Liang Shuyi, the manager of Brilliant Cinemas." You've seen it before, right? ”

"I've seen it, I've seen it." Lei Juekun nodded. After greeting Liang Shuyi, the three of them sat back at the table again.

"Mr. Lei, I don't know what's the matter with inviting me here today?" Xu Guanwu asked with a smile, "Is it because the Hong Kong film market is good now, and the Art Cinema Line has made money recently, so you want to increase the rent?" ”

"Mr. Xu is joking, in fact, I don't have the heart to raise the rent now." Lei Juekun shook his head and said, "I'm like I'm carrying a burden now, I knew that I would sell Lisheng to you directly that day." ”

"Okay, if you sell it now, you can buy it now." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "The price is negotiable, how about 10 million Hong Kong dollars?" ”

The four cinemas in the Lisheng Cinema Line are all leading cinemas in excellent locations, and although the price of HK$2.5 million has exceeded the market price by a lot, it is also worth the money.

Lei Juekun couldn't help but smile when he heard this, "If I had known that you were paying such a high price, I would have sold it to you a long time ago." But now it's not so easy. ”

"I know, those consortia found you, right?" Xu Guanwu asked with a smile.

Lei Juekun nodded, "They also want to buy my theater, and the bid is similar to yours." ”

"That's okay, how much they give, I'll add two percent." Xu Guanwu smiled.

"Mr. Xu, don't you know who they are?" When Lei Juekun heard Xu Guanwu say this, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Those people are not easy to deal with. ”

"I know a little bit about them, I know that they are worth a lot of money, and they have a certain amount of power in Nanyang, Taiwan, and Hong Kong" Xu Guanwu nodded and said, "If I offend them, not only will my business in Hong Kong be in trouble, even if it is Taiwan, the business in the Nanyang area will also be in trouble." ”

"In that case, then you still have to compete with them, aren't you worried about your own way out?" Lei Juekun couldn't help but ask in surprise when he heard Xu Guanwu say this.

Xu Guanwu smiled, "In fact, our company's main market now is no longer in Asia, but in the Americas. To be honest, the business in Hong Kong is only a small part of my business. The Nanyang market, the Taiwanese market, may be very important to other film companies, but for me it is actually insignificant. If those consortia want to straighten out people, let them straighten things out, and I won't compromise with them. ”

"Young man, don't be so angry." Lei Juekun waved his hand and said, "Doing business is about harmony and making money, why bother to be a sinner for no reason?" Besides, things are not without room for turnaround, and they have not reached the stage of life and death. ”

"What do you mean, Mr. Lei?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"Actually, this time I want to be a peacemaker and let everyone sit together and have a good talk." Lei Juekun smiled and said, "Those consortia just want to make money, they are worried about being stuck by the theater business, so they want their own theater." But if you can dispel their worries, then you don't have to fight for this art theater chain. You don't have to fight to death anymore. ”

"You mean, let me promise Brilliant Cinemas that they will accommodate them in terms of schedules?" Xu Guanwu looked at Lei Juekun and asked.

"Yes, your brilliant cinema chain has several halls in each theater, and you can show four or five movies at the same time, even if you give up one place to those consortia, you still have three or four places available." Lei Juekun nodded and said, "Since there is a solution to the matter, why do you have to make such a fuss?" ”

"What you said does have some truth, but I'm afraid that people will force people step by step. When the time comes, if I nod my head in agreement, people will still think that I am cowardly and afraid, and they will eat me. Xu Guanwu smiled.

"With your current status, Mr. Xu, how can it be so simple for them to eat you? Aren't you afraid that chrome will damage your teeth? Lei Juekun said with a smile.

"Mr. Ray is really joking." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "For your sake, I let you do today's peacemaker." ”

"Okay, Mr. Xu is really happy." Lei Juekun nodded and said, since Xu Guanwu agreed to him to be a peacemaker today, it proves that he has preliminarily accepted his proposal, and today's negotiations can be discussed.

At this moment, I heard another footstep downstairs, and then several people walked in haughtily. (To be continued......)