"Yes, Hutchison has already acquired their TVB shares from HSBC and Times Life, and now, I already own 90% of TVB's shares, so I naturally want to take over TVB." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Shao Yifu asked: "I have long heard that Chen Sheng's business strategy for Hutchison is to only develop core businesses, such as real estate, docks, and trade. ”

Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "Compared with Hutchison's existing main businesses, TVB is naturally a small business, but I don't care how much profit TVB can bring me, it doesn't matter if I lose money, what I want is a TV station." ”

"Then Chen Sheng is going to drive me away?" Shao Yifu asked.

Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, "No, but, Shao Sheng, can you really stay and work for others willingly?" ”

"This" Shao Yifu was silent, when TVB was first established, Shao Yifu didn't take this TV station seriously, he only joined because of the invitation of his friends, and only invested 2% of the shares, and the reason why Li Xiaohe invited Shao Yifu was because he valued that Shaw Brothers Cinema had a lot of shooting resources and could complement the start-up TVB.

But no one could have imagined that it had only been more than ten years, Shaw Brothers Cinema was hung up and beaten by a rising star, and the once indifferent wireless became the overlord of Hong Kong's TV, and his friend Li Xiaohe was seriously ill and could not operate the TV station for a long time, so Shao Yifu slowly took control of TVB.

Because Shao Yifu knows that Li Xiaohe's body is absolutely not good, he is the potential owner of TVB in the future, even if the three major foreign banks want TVB in the future, they will face a situation where the management is all controlled by him, besides, the foreign bank is to make money, as long as he pays for it, he will definitely be able to buy their shares.

It's just that Chen Zhiwen, who is much more powerful than him, won the absolute controlling stake of TVB, and he fell into a dead end all of a sudden.

Let him work for someone else? That's really difficult, once one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong, no matter how much he declines, he will not fall to this point.

"Chen Sheng, is there really no room for negotiation?" Shao Yifu frowned and asked, it seemed that he could only discuss, there was nothing to exchange on his side.

"TVB, I definitely want it." Chen Zhiwen said: "If Shao Sheng is interested, he can become a non-executive director of TVB and participate in the management of the company by the board of directors. ”

Shao Yifu is a person with good vision and ability, but the attribute of "picking" is too strong, and the reason why Shaw Brothers Film Company has declined is not because it has missed Li Xiaolong and Xu Guanwen in a row? made the competitor Golden Harvest earn a huge amount of box office, so as to hang Shaw Brothers in turn.

In the history of TV stations, although TVB still developed very well in the 80s, all TV series were popular, and the reverse output was exported to various Asian countries, but the root of the bane was also buried at this time, although the stars were very famous, but the income was too low, so low that second-tier stars were similar to wage earners, and third-tier stars, that is, most people who were familiar but didn't know their names, basically had to do some other side jobs to live.

Although celebrities are also jobs, stars from all countries around the world have finally moved towards high incomes, which is an option in the market, and forcibly suppressing their income by monopolizing in Hong Kong will only backfire, and after all contracts expire in the 90s, these people all went to the film industry.

"Chen Shengdu owns 90% of the shares, so what's the point of me being a director?" Shao Yifu laughed at himself.

"Shao Sheng, you decide for yourself." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

"I need to think about this, what about TVB's personnel, Chen Sheng is going to do this now?" Shao Yifu said with some regret, there is really no way, the other party has 9% of the equity, and it is richer, so he can only give up, but so many people who follow him have to ask.

"Shao Sheng's team can stay and continue to run TVB, as long as they cooperate with my policies in the future." Chen Zhiwen said.

The reason why Shao Yifu was not kicked out directly, in addition to Chen Zhiwen's appreciation for his charity in the mainland in the future, another reason is that the current TVB is still inseparable from the filming base of Shaw Brothers Film Company.

Chen Zhiwen doesn't really care about the cost savings, but if it suddenly disappears, TVB will immediately fall into very big trouble, which is definitely not something that can be solved in the short term by throwing money.

Therefore, it is still necessary to stabilize Shao Yifu, even if he wants to leave, let him choose for himself: either you leave, or you stay and work for me.

Shao Yifu will definitely leave by himself, this kind of person is like this, so he will avoid driving the other party away, it is too embarrassing, there is no need to be so ugly, how to say that the other party is also a business tycoon-level figure.

It's a pity that he has a special plan for TVB, Shao Yifu's extreme character ruined his Shaw Brothers Film Company, and Chen Zhiwen will not let him ruin TVB again.

On January 16, 1976, a piece of news shocked the entire entertainment industry that Hutchison Whampoa had acquired 90% of the shares of TVB, and had reached an agreement with the current chairman of TVB, Li Xiaohe, and general manager Shao Yifu, who immediately resigned from the TV station, and TVB officially entered the Hutchison era.

Today's TVB is not a listed company, so no matter how famous it is among the public, it is not obliged to hold a press conference if it changes its shares, and TVB itself is the largest gathering point for journalists in Hong Kong.

The company changed hands, and it was natural to hold a management meeting immediately, but for the industry he didn't understand, Chen Zhiwen would not interfere at will, but made an appointment with Liang Shuyi, Shao Yifu's right-hand man on TVB.

"Hello Chen Sheng." Seeing Chen Zhiwen, Liang Shuyi did not feel nervous like many people, but behaved very peacefully.

"Miss Zhou, please be seated." Chen Zhiwen waved his hand.

Fang Yihua, the most famous female head of TVB in later generations, doesn't know where she is now, and now TVB has a strong woman, that is, Zhou Liang Shuyi.

In the original history, in another year, she became the youngest deputy general manager in the history of TVB, and then left to the newly established Jiayi TV station, because of the various environments of wireless at that time, so that she had no room to rise.

After arriving at Jiayi, she also became the deputy general manager of Jiayi with her own efforts, but in fact she was the real manager of Jiayi and became one of the six core figures known as the "Six Gentlemen of Jiayi".

It's a pity that no matter how talented you are, you can't bear the birth defects of Jiayi TV: the time of the golden program must broadcast educational programs, after the collapse of Jiayi, Liang Shuyi turned to politics and became a two-term parliamentarian, and then in the 90s, she entered the TV station of Yuan Li, which has been renamed Asia TV, and fought against her old club wireless for several years.

It wasn't until later that ATV was unable to return to the sky, so Liang Shuyi went to politics again, from the City Council, the Legislative Council, the Executive Bureau, the Tourism Development Board, the Trade Bureau, the Airport Authority Board, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Consumer Council, etc., for more than ten years, she served in a dazzling amount of government affairs, and many of them still became the chairman and became a political elite.

In the final analysis, people like Liang Shuyi just like to constantly challenge themselves, and once they are no longer challenging, they want to leave.

Chen Zhiwen is naturally willing to do his best to keep such a person, TVB has a big goal in his planning, which is enough to keep her busy for a long time, and such an ambitious person may be able to find places that he can't even think of.

"Miss Zhou, what do you think about the future of TVB?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Chen Sheng, TVB surpassed Li's in market share as early as three years ago and became the largest TV station in Hong Kong, but the competition of TV stations has always been based on ratings, and ratings are such a thing, sometimes a TV series can change, so, before we completely defeat Li, we can't talk about peace of mind, in addition, the Hong Kong government also established a TV station called Jiayi a few months ago, although there are many restrictions on the golden program, but there are many business tycoons behind this company, which cannot be underestimated." Zhou Liang Shuyi said skillfully, obviously ready for a long time.

"And how do you think you can surpass them thoroughly?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile, this is indeed as Liang Shuyi said, although since the 80s, wireless has been pressing Li (ATV) most of the time, but it has not been able to extinguish it, but in some years, ATV made a hit, and the pressure was given to TVB, until the decline of the entire Hong Kong movie, the two families did not distinguish between life and death.

"Long-term broadcasting of high-quality TV series and a large number of new dramas, as long as it lasts for a few years, is enough to destroy Li's profitability and make the shareholders behind them withdraw their shares." Zhou Liang Shuyi said: "I think it's very good to shoot martial arts, although Li Xiaolong has passed away, but his influence is still there, we find those martial arts that have been verified by the market and make them into TV series, as long as they are willing to spend money, it is difficult to think about it." ”

"Look at your appearance, have you mentioned it to Shao Yifu before?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile.

"Yes, I mentioned it, but because I needed to purchase too many copyrights and the cost of filming was relatively high, it was rejected." Zhou Liang Shuyi said.

Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "If you want to shoot Jin Yong's martial arts film or Gu Long's, it's no problem, I can pay for it, but the number of classic martial arts filmed is also limited, what should I do after I finish filming?" ”

"Then you can only make a self-made drama." Zhou Liang Shuyi said: "TVB's current self-made dramas are not bad, but what is more troublesome now is that many of us used the resources of Shaw Brothers Film Company before, and many screenwriters left with Shao Yifu this time, and in the past year, the filming staff and screenwriters will be more nervous." ”

"If you don't have enough people, you can recruit again, if you can't find it, go outside to dig, or go to Lidi to dig." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Yes, indeed." Zhou Liang Shuyi nodded and said.

Chen Zhiwen continued: "However, a mature TV station must always cultivate talents by itself, especially since there are only two or three TV stations in Hong Kong, and sometimes you can't dig it if you want to. ”

"What Chen Sheng means is to increase the number of people in the wireless training class?" Zhou Liang Shuyi immediately understood what Chen Zhiwen meant.

(End of chapter)