In the tea restaurant of the Peninsula Hotel, Shao Yifu sat in his old seat where he had drunk tea for decades, drinking afternoon tea and behaving calmly, without showing the slightest influence of public opinion.

Qiu Degen said with a smile: "Sixth brother, this time you can be given an army by that descendant. ”

Shao Yifu said with a smile while drinking tea: "The general is not counted, but it is indeed a little troublesome." ”

Qiu Degong and Shao Yifu met in the late 50s, when Shao Yifu was a Nanyang film tycoon, but when he returned to Hong Kong to start a business, he was still poor and white, and Qiu Degong was just a self-made small courtyard businessman.

The two initially had a pure business partnership, and then Lu Yuntao entered the Hong Kong film industry, and Qiu Degen became Lu Yuntao's general. For the next ten years, Qiu Degen and Shao Yifu were hostile.

It wasn't until after Lu Yuntao died in the plane crash that Qiu Degen got rid of his theaters, and the largest theaters were all sold to Shao Yifu, and the two became personal friends.

Qiu Degong looked at Victoria Bay in the distance and said with a smile: "We haven't had tea together for more than two years." ”

Shao Yifu said: "Brother Qiu, you have done well in the past few years, where is the time to drink tea?" ”

The two chatted about trivial matters, and after finishing the old story, Shao Yifu said: "I heard that Kang Jianfei's "Looking for Qin" is going to be filmed in Songcheng? ”

Songcheng is a new historical and cultural amusement park invested by Qiu Degen, which is full of imitation Song Dynasty ancient buildings, which began to be built three years ago and has been completed one after another so far.

"I don't know much about this, Song Cheng is the third child in my family." Qiu Degen smiled and asked, "What, does the sixth brother want me not to take over the business of Phoenix Terrace?" ”

Whether it is TVB or Phoenix Channel, to put it bluntly, they don't have their own studios. TVB usually shoots on the Clearwater Bay set, but that set is owned by Shaw Brothers Pictures, and TVB needs to pay rent for filming on the Shaw Brothers set - although this rent is very cheap.

As for Phoenix TV, it only has its own studio in the TV station building, so in the past, Lishi's costume dramas were far inferior to TVB's costume dramas.

And now Kang Jianfei wants to shoot "Looking for Qin", and the cost of going to the mainland or Taiwan to shoot is too high, and it is thankless to choose the location and set up the scenery by himself, and the most ideal is to shoot in Qiu Degen's "Song City". There are all kinds of antique buildings there, and you only need to pay a rent, and even the effort to set up the scenery is saved, and the real scene effect will be much better than TVB's set up scenes.

Shao Yifu said in a very kind tone: "I'm not so domineering, where can I stop Brother Qiu from letting you do business." However, the production of the drama of Phoenix Terrace is good, and presumably the rent is a little more expensive, and they will accept it. ”

Qiu Degen had some contempt for Shao Yifu's little weapon in his heart, and he actually spoke up in person for such a thing, and lowered each other's identities in vain. He originally built Songcheng to make money, as the only antique building complex in Hong Kong, there will inevitably be many costume dramas filmed in Songcheng in the future. And Kang Jianfei's Dream Factory and Phoenix Terrace are both potential big customers. You must know that it cost him more than 60 million yuan before and after the construction of Song City, and I don't know when Lu Dao will be able to return to its original capital, Qiu Degen will mess around if he has a problem with his brain.

Sometimes, friendship is friendship, business is business, not a friend's words, patting the chest can be done.

However, the friendship between the two for many years was there, and Qiu Degen still said: "That's okay, I'll talk to the third child." ”

After afternoon tea, Shao Yifu walked out of the Peninsula Hotel, ignored the reporters who were squatting for interviews, and took the car back to the TV station.

When passing by Fang Yihua's office, Shao Yifu heard his concubine losing his temper again, and couldn't help but frown and walked in, and after sending everyone else away, he said: "The people below should be scolded for doing something wrong, but it's better not to send out this nameless fire." ”

Fang Yihua threw a form on the table and said: "This is the ratings of the first two days, and the ratings of "Thousands of Rivers, Thousands of Mountains and Always Love" are about to fall below 20 points! Since Kang Jianfei's decrepit boy held a press conference, many people are now scolding TVB, and even the ratings of variety shows are dropping. ”

"So serious?" Shao Yifu was a little surprised, generally speaking, no matter how much trouble the TV station makes, it will not affect the ratings. The audience watched the news and scolded at most two sentences, which station should be received or which station should be included when watching TV at night.

Fang Yihua picked up a pile of newspapers on the leather chair and said, "Look at it, how are these newspapers written?" What do we say about unfair competition, and what do we say about TVB's bullying and dominating the market. The most infuriating thing is that someone from the jǐng side came to question me just now, saying that they suspected that I had something to do with the case of Mo Shaocong being threatened! ””

"If you can't solve the problem by getting angry, think about how to do a good show." Shao Yifu patted Fang Yihua's arm and said.

Fang Yihua forcibly suppressed the fire in her heart and said: "I am ready to let "Thousands of Rivers, Thousands of Mountains Always Love" end early, and then launch the Jinyong martial arts drama. ”

Shao Yifu nodded and said, "It's also a way." ”

Jin Yong's drama has always been a good medicine for TV stations, but the copyright fee of Jin Yong drama is too expensive, and TV stations generally prefer to adapt Gulong dramas with cheap copyright fees. Like Xiao Sheng, who jumped from Lishi to TVB at the beginning of this year, this person is known for Jin Yong martial arts dramas, but in the two years he has been in Lishi, he has suggested several times to make Jin Yong dramas, but they have been rejected by the TV station, because it is too expensive to shoot Jin Yong dramas.

When a Jin Yong martial arts drama is filmed, the copyright fee for Jin Yong accounts for almost half of the production cost, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will overspend and lose money.

(Note: Because most actors are paid a fixed salary, the labor costs when filming TV dramas are generally included in the administrative budget of the TV station.) In other words, the average production cost of the production cost of "Sister Tuogun" filmed on Phoenix Channel is 15,000 per episode, excluding the remuneration of the producer, director, screenwriter, actor and other staff)

Shao Yifu returned to his office, took out a cigar and lit it. In fact, he rarely smokes, but recently he has been angry with Kang Jianfei, and the frequency of smoking has begun to increase again.

As soon as Kang Jianfei's remarks at the press conference came out, it was earth-shattering in Hong Kong's industrial and commercial circles, and many people were waiting with great interest to see how Kang Jianfei, a newborn calf, fought against Shao Yifu, a big tiger.

Although Kang Jianfei and the major media did not name Shao Yifu, Hansha's description is already very clear, and even Shao Yifu has become a topic of conversation and joke in the rich circle.

Some newspapers were afraid of Shao Yifu's reputation, and just talked about things around the bend; For the sake of sales, some newspapers are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and even publish Kang Jianfei's words word for word.

In the newspapers, Kang Jianfei was likened to Don Quixote rushing to the windmill, a tragic hero and victim through and through. In particular, the "Hong Kong dream" mentioned in his speech has also resonated with many people, because 80% of Hong Kong's more than 5 million people have immigrated in the last 30 years, and they have experienced a Hong Kong dream together.

And the new immigrants who have only come to Hong Kong in the past 10 years regard Kang Jianfei as an entrepreneurial idol and stand on Kang Jianfei's side clearly. Because they, like Kang Jianfei, are suffering from all kinds of discrimination and suppression, and they also hope to have the same career success as Kang Jianfei.

As for the "Xiangjiang Morning Post", it did not go unattended as Kang Jianfei called for, because after the continuous explosion of the news, many readers who like to read gossip became its loyal audience, and the sales volume has since stabilized at more than 10,000 copies. It can be said that the "Xiangjiang Morning Post" is also the winner of this incident, although its editor-in-chief was severely beaten, but the owner of this newspaper made a lot of money.

And Zheng Shuying, a woman, was not so lucky, she would be recognized and spat even when she went out, so she had to hide in Malaysia in despair.

Shao Yifu is naturally not easy to mess with, so he won't make small moves like Fang Yihua, all he has to do is to directly choke Kang Jianfei's neck. Having afternoon tea with Qiu Degen today is just one of them, and he will ask the head of the Hong Kong Electrical Inspection Department to come out for dinner tomorrow.

After decades of mixing in Hong Kong, Shao Yifu still knows a lot of people. Make an appointment to eat and make a little bit more, although you can't let the electric inspection office directly shoot DreamWorks movies, but you can get a few more shots and a few more cuts at a critical time, and make Oriental DreamWorks die.

At this time, the scale of electrical inspection in Hong Kong was very large, but it was much stricter than in the mid-80s. It doesn't matter if Lu Mimi shows her ass, but movies that involve mainland politics or smear the image of the mainland are all shot, such as "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", "Cousin, Hello", "Domestic Lingling Paint" and other movies that had a great impact a few years later, and they will definitely not pass the inspection of the electrical inspection office now.

This is because the British authorities in Hong Kong have avoided friction with the mainland, but after the Sino-British negotiations on the Hong Kong issue broke down, the British no longer had so many scruples. Even if the plot of the movie blackened the mainland to death, it was also reflected in Hong Kong, and at that time, the electrical inspection office had almost no substantive effect, and any film could pass.

But now, the electrical inspection office can find all kinds of reasons to card Kang Jianfei's film, and it will not leave a false mouth.

Of course, Shao Yifu's hand doesn't last long, otherwise he would have used this trick to deal with Zou Wenhuai earlier, where would there be the rise of Jiahe? At most, it temporarily caused trouble to Oriental DreamWorks and made Kang Jianfei lose a lot of money.

After Shao Yifu was provoked by Kang Jianfei, he also wanted to play black in anger. But now that the contradiction between the two sides is made public, when something happens to Kang Jianfei, whether Shao Yifu did it or not, he will definitely be the first to be suspected.

What made Shao Yifu scruple the most was what Kang Jianfei said - Kang Jianfei is still young and has countless opportunities to make a comeback, while he Shao Yifu is already in his 80s, and he doesn't have so much jīng strength to fight with young people. really forced Kang Jianfei to be in a hurry, and burned TVB's film library, which was a bamboo basket for nothing.

Shao Yifu has a high reputation, but Kang Jianfei is not a small horn that can be sent casually, not that he can be pressed down.

Hong Kong is not a place where anyone can cover the sky with one hand, but Huo Daheng was suppressed by Hong Kong Yingzhèngfǔ, and the Hong Kong government directly used administrative means to cut off the water and electricity of Huo Daheng's real estate, but now others are more and more nourishing. At that time, there was a lot of movement in the mainland, and there was no time to care about Huo Daheng, a red capitalist, who was completely carried by Huo Daheng with his own strength.

Shao Yifu's secretary knocked on the door and came in, handed over an invitation and said, "Chairman, Kang Jianfei asked someone to send it!" ”

Shao Yifu opened it and saw that it was actually Kang Jianfei's 21-year-old birthday banquet invitation.

In the past two years, Kang Jianfei had never invited Shao Yifu, and then he suddenly sent an invitation, isn't it a disgusting person? Shao Yifu directly copied it and threw it in the trash. (To be continued.) )