Chapter 111: Shanghai Beach
The owner of Shanghai Great World is called Huang Chujiu, a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, who started from pharmaceuticals and is a leading enterprise in Shanghai's pharmaceutical industry, known as the king of pharmaceuticals, and he has invested in many industries.
It stands to reason that he has a relationship with Feng Jingyao, because Feng Jingyao's ancestral home is from Yuyao.
However, although Feng Jingyao's ancestral home is Yuyao, Zhejiang, he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, so he prefers the Suzhou Gang, which is also the basis for the marriage between the Feng family and the Lin family.
The ancestral home of the Lin family is Wuxi, Jiangsu, and everyone is in a circle.
Feng Jingyao was attracted by the bright prospects described by Lin Zixuan and planned to invest in cinemas, and he and Lin Zixuan each contributed 500,000 yuan to set up a star cinema company with 1 million shares, and began to buy theaters in the French Concession on a large scale.
For theaters opened by foreigners, you can buy them if you can, but you can rent them if you can't.
In the French Concession, Feng Jingyao's power is very strong, as long as he takes the name of the Feng Chamber of Commerce and sends someone to inform him, those businessmen will generally not refuse.
Zhou Jianyun is in charge of this matter, and the current progress is relatively smooth.
After the acquisition of the theater, it was necessary to renovate the theater so that the theater could show sound films, and the time was still a little tight.
The cinema chain is the foundation of the film company, and Lin Zixuan wants to follow the practice of the big Hollywood movie studios to monopolize the cinema chain and thus control other film companies.
In this regard, there is no room for concessions, and it must be accomplished by any means.
However, like the nail households demolished in later generations, Huang Chujiu directly rejected Feng Jingyao and was unwilling to let go of the big world.
Feng Jingyao has always been very strong among the Chinese in the French Concession, he is a director of the French Concession Public Board of Directors, and controls the patrol houses and underground forces in the French Concession, helping the French to manage the French Concession.
Don't look at the usual kind look, but everyone knows that he is ruthless.
With such a big guy as his father-in-law, to be honest, Lin Zixuan's pressure is still quite high.
But Huang Chujiu is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
As a well-known industrialist in Shanghai, he has 21 pharmaceutical companies under his control, and with this huge pharmaceutical group, he firmly sits in the position of the king of Shanghai's new pharmaceutical industry.
In addition to investing in Shanghai World, the largest amusement park in the Far East, he also opened cinemas, bathrooms, cigarette factories and so on.
He also opened the World Day and Night Bank, which was open 24 hours a day, specifically for gamblers to lend money and collect deposits.
He even started real estate, borrowed money to buy land, built houses, mortgaged the house to the bank, borrowed and bought land, rebuilt the house and mortgaged it, which is similar to the real estate development in later generations.
He is not only a huge rich man in Shanghai, but also a businessman with a lot of brains, and Lin Zixuan is just a small fight compared to him.
He dared to refuse Feng Jingyao, but also because he was friendly with the Ningbo Gang, and the energy of the Ningbo Gang in the Shanghai capital market should not be underestimated.
This is a competition of capital and background, and in the final analysis, it is a conflict of interests.
Feng Jingyao was very angry, and the consequences were serious.
Shanghai Great World was built in the French Concession, and Feng Jingyao sent his subordinates to make trouble every day, but the patrol house turned a blind eye to this and ignored it.
Huang Chujiu found a group of people from the Chinese community to be security guards to maintain the safety of the big world.
Feng Jingyao directly killed this group of people, killed people and threw them into the Huangpu River, saying that the bloody rain was a bit too much, but at this time in Shanghai, it is normal to hack people to death.
The law and order in the concession is good, but in the Chinese realm, it is even more mixed and chaotic.
Huang Chujiu is also a person with a background, and he was unwilling to be so aggrieved, so he found several respected business giants to administer justice and put pressure on Feng Jingyao.
In Shanghai, Feng Jingyao could not cover the sky with one hand, and his influence was mainly in the French Concession.
What's more, he only has manpower and power, and he can't compete with these business giants in the capital market, and these people are not willing to completely offend Feng Jingyao.
So, under the peace of these people, both sides took a step back.
Feng Jingyao gave up the competition for Shanghai World, but the theater under Huang Chujiu's name had to be transferred to Feng Jingyao at the market price.
It was settled peacefully.
However, the grudge between Feng Jingyao and Huang Chujiu was settled, and this matter will not end in the future.
After Lin Zixuan heard Zhou Jianyun's report, he didn't react, in this era, if you want to get things done, you have to use some unconventional means, this is Shanghai Tang in the twenties.
He is preparing for the premiere of "Jinmen Hero Huo Yuanjia".
Not surprisingly, this time the first round of exclusive screening rights was obtained by the Summer Pacco Luxury Cinema, and the owner of the Summerpache Luxury Cinema is the Spaniard Remas.
He's a businessman through and through, and as long as he can make money, he doesn't care what films he shows.
He has watched "Jinmen Hero Huo Yuanjia", and he appreciates the martial arts scenes in it, plus Huo Yuanjia's status in the hearts of Shanghainese, he believes that this film will definitely be popular.
Since the end of June, the countdown to the promotion of the film has begun.
A large advertisement was placed in the "Declaration".
"The Great Wall will never fall, the martial spirit will never stop, and the life path of a generation of kung fu masters will be recreated, this is a movie you should not miss."
"Kung Fu, two words, one horizontal and one vertical, right, standing, wrong, falling. Only those who are standing are qualified to speak. ”
"Strengthen the country and strengthen the species, protect the family and defend the country, if you are Chinese, you will look at Huo Yuanjia."
Countless such advertisements appeared in newspapers and magazines, bombarding the nerves of Shanghainese, as if they were not Chinese without watching this movie, and articles reminiscing and commemorating Huo Yuanjia also popped up.
For a while, Huo Yuanjia's name resounded in the sky above Shanghai Tang.
According to later generations, this is called marketing advertorials.
Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association also took the opportunity to issue a statement, after highly praising Huo Yuanjia, he kept an eye on the film, hoping that the film could truly reflect the glorious life of Master Huo.
After a few days of disturbance, on July 7, 1922, "Tianjin Hero Huo Yuanjia" will be released.
The reason why this date was chosen was because Huo Yuanjia founded the Jingwu Gymnastics Association on July 7, 1910, which was the predecessor of the Jingwu Sports Association.
Very gimmicky and commemorative.
At the same time, EMI Records released a record on this day, called "The Great Wall Never Falls", which was mainly released in Beiping and Guangzhou.
The comprador Zhang Changfu knows the domestic situation very well, and this song will definitely be welcomed by patriotic young people in the north, and the Cantonese version is aimed at the people in Guangdong.
As a comprador, as long as he can make money, he doesn't care about the content of the song.
The time came on the evening of the 7th, and the summer Peke luxury movie theater was crowded, waiting for the movie to start.
When the film began to be screened, it started a boom in Chinese kung fu films.