Chapter 122 The Lei Family (Seventh update!)

  Peninsula Hotel, coffee shop.

  Because of the influence of Western culture, rich people in Xiangjiang like to have afternoon tea here, or to talk about things with people. Some old-fashioned businessmen like to go to Lu Yu Tea House.

  For example, Shao Yifu of Shaw Brothers likes to drink afternoon tea here, which has also caused some Xiangjiang stars to like to drink afternoon tea here, in order to meet Liu Shu by chance and get some opportunities.

  But Chu Huan came here today, not to see Shao Yifu, but to meet another person.

   Sitting by the window, Chu Huan ordered a cup of coffee, and sat there quietly waiting for his goal.

   It’s funny to say that, if other Hong Kong-language travellers want to build a new art city, most of them directly use the Kowloon bus to force Lei Juekun to submit.

  But now Chu Huan doesn't have this opportunity at all, or the chance is not great.

  When I read online articles before, the protagonist’s acquisition of Kowloon Bus seems to be facing only Lei Juekun, but in fact, the chairman of the board of Kowloon Bus at this time is not Lei Juekun, but Deng Zhaojian.

  Even Lei Juekun is not Lei Juekun at this time, but his brother Lei Juehua.

In 1932, the Xiangjiang government restructured Hong Kong’s public transport services and granted two bus franchises. The operating rights of Hong Kong Island were won by the China Bus Company jointly founded by Yan Chengkun and Huang Wangcai, while the bus operating rights of Kowloon and the New Territories were awarded by Tang Zhaojian, The Kowloon Bus Company formed by Lei Ruide, Lei Liang and others won.

  Deng Zhaojian, Justice of the Peace, Prime Minister of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Chairman of Po Leung Kuk, Councilor of Hong Kong University, was conferred the title of Lord of England in his later years!

  After the war, Xiangjiang was restored, and several other shareholders of Kowloon Bus planned to withdraw their shares. Lei Ruide then invited fellow villagers Wu Shichang and Yu Daosheng to become shareholders.

   It was in 1961 that the Lei Ruide family became the major shareholder of Kowloon Bus. At that time, the Kowloon Bus business was split and the bus business was still managed by the Kowloon Bus Company.

  However, the original real estate construction business was controlled by the newly established Kowloon Construction Industry, and was held by the Ng and Lui families, shareholders of KMB.

  After the business split, Deng Zhaojian listed KMB on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the same year.

Afterwards, under the management of Tang Shiu-kin, KMB continued to expand its business. In addition to building the Lai Chi Kok Depot with advanced equipment in 1965 and entering the Hong Kong Island market after the opening of the Submarine Tunnel in 1972, it also introduced the cost-saving "one-person control vehicle" in the 1970s. ” concept, higher capacity rear-engined buses and luxury buses to enhance service levels.

  According to Chu Huan’s investigation, Deng Zhaojian is currently the chairman of the Kowloon Bus Company’s board of directors, but the major shareholder of Kowloon Bus is Lei Ruide.

   It is not a very good time to acquire Kowloon Bus at this time.

   While Chu Huan was thinking about the situation of the Kowloon bus, a man and a woman walked into the coffee shop.

  The man is in his fifties, dressed in a suit, showing no sign of aging, and the woman is in her twenties, wearing a pair of big sunglasses covering half of her face.

   Led by the waiter, the two came to where Chu Huan was.

  Chu Huan also stood up at this time, and said with a smile: "Lei Sheng, Miss Li!"

  The person here is called Lei Juehua, Lei Ruide's eldest son, Lei Juekun's elder brother, and now the actual helm of the Lei family.

  The girl is called Li Jing, a popular actress of Shaw Brothers, because of her baby face, she is called the Queen of Baby Movie.

The relationship between the two is not simply a wealthy businessman adopting a female star. At the end of the 1970s, the two planned to get married. Unfortunately, Lei Juehua died of a heart attack, and Li Jing was never married. gamble.

  Li Jing used to be the first actress in Xiangjiang to live in a mansion on the top of a hill, but after she got into the bad habit of gambling, she finally died alone in the rented house at the age of 69, and was only discovered a few days later.

  The evening scene is bleak

  Lei Juehua looked at Chu Huan, who was not yet twenty years old, and felt a little envious in his heart. It's good to be young, and you can live up to the beauty!

  Actually, he already guessed the purpose of Chu Huan looking for him, but he still couldn't believe it. He saw the newspaper this morning, and there was Chu Huan's plan to set up a film company.

   And their Lei family is planning to rent out their theaters.

  Chu Huan was looking for himself at this time, and he couldn't think of anything else besides the cinema.

  If it was just Chu Huan, Lei Juehua would not have come to discuss this matter with Chu Huan in person, but who made the present Chu Huan be Cao Wenjin's future son-in-law?

   This face still has to be given.

   "Mr. Chu, I am afraid that many people have not guessed this step of yours. No one would have thought that you would enter the film industry!" Lei Juehua said with a smile on his face.

  Chu Huan smiled and said, "Lei Sheng is being polite."

  Lei Juehua didn't exchange too many pleasantries with Chu Huan. After a brief chat, they started chatting about renting out theaters.

"Mr. Chu, let's make it clear that Jiahe has approached us before, and we have been talking for a while, and we are quite satisfied with the cooperation. Now Mr. Chu suddenly intervenes, if there is no better than Jiahe Given the conditions, we are still more inclined to cooperate with Golden Harvest."

   "After all, now that Golden Harvest has Li Xiaolong, it is the second largest film company in Hong Kong, and it will also be a good promotion for our four theaters in the future."

  Chu Huan nodded slightly, and said: "It is true that our conditions are not as good as Golden Harvest, but there is one thing, Golden Harvest is definitely not as good as our company!"

  This business negotiation is different from other business negotiations. Both sides actually have their cards open, and there is no technical content. What they are talking about is who can give more benefits to the Lei family.

  So Chu Huan continued to speak: "So, I decided that no matter how much Jiahe paid Lei Sheng, our company is willing to increase by 20% on this basis. What do you think?"

  Lei Juehua showed an interested expression, "I thought Mr. Chu just wanted to play in the movie industry, but I didn't expect to be so serious?"

  Chu Huan laughed, and said: "Either don't do it, or do it well, this has always been my principle."

   "That's true, but as far as I know, Mr. Chu's film company has just been established, and there are no films in his hands. Even if we rent the theater to you, you are still losing money?"

  Lei Juehua asked Chu Huan in confusion.

  At this time, Lei Juehua really couldn't understand Chu Huan. The newspaper said that the reason why Chu Huan entered the film industry was nothing more than wanting to support a starlet.

   Is it just to support a starlet?

Chu Huan explained: "Any company starts from scratch. Although we don't have any film sources now, there are so many film companies in Xiangjiang, and they don't have their own theaters. If this is the case, our theaters will not Lack of movies."

  Lei Juehua nodded, this is a solution, but he still has some entanglements in his heart.

As he said before, Golden Harvest is now the second largest film company in Xiangjiang, and renting their theater to Golden Harvest will definitely enhance the reputation of their theater, but if it is rented to Chu Huan, although You can get some benefits in terms of price.

  But if the theater has not released good movies, it will also have an impact on the reputation of the theater.

  When doing business, you should not only look at the immediate interests, but also take into account the future interests!

Seeing Lei Juehua's hesitation, Chu Huan's eyes fell on Li Jing, Chu Huan said with a smile: "In addition, I can promise Lei Sheng one condition, if Miss Li sets up a film company in the future, their company's films can Prioritize the release time of the movie!"

  Chu Huan didn't know about Li Jing's future plans. If it wasn't for the relationship between Li Jing and Lei Juehua, Chu Huan would never have even heard of this woman.

   After all, she was a star in the 1960s and 1970s, and Chu Huan really knew very little about her.

  But since Chu Huan decided to open a film company, he immediately began to investigate the situation of Lei's family and the people around them.

   Li Jing and Shaw signed a long-term contract, but at the end of 1976, the contract between the two parties expired.

   With such a big tree as Lei's family backed, Li Jing must have some ideas.

   This is also the analysis result Chu Huan came up with after investigating Li Jing's situation.

  Li Jing, who is only 13 years old, dared to break into Zou Wenhuai's office to recommend herself when she was applying for Shaw's Nanguo Experimental Theater Troupe (the predecessor of the wireless artist training class). Such a character must have her own ideas.

  Actually, Li Jing did the same thing. After her contract with Shaw Brothers expired at the end of 1976, she immediately set up [Changtian Company] with director Rome to prepare for her career in the film industry.

   Sure enough, when Chu Huan proposed this condition, both Lei Juehua and Li Jing showed a smile on their faces.

There are business rules in the business world. If Lisheng Cinemas leases to Golden Harvest, then the management of Lisheng Cinemas will naturally belong to Golden Harvest. At that time, even if Li Jing sets up her own film company and wants to release her own movies, she also needs to work with Jiahe discussed.

   Due to Lei's family's face, Golden Harvest will definitely show Li Jing's movie, but it's unknown how many theaters it will be able to show.

  With Chu Huan's two conditions, Lei Juehua was really moved.

   It can also be seen that there is a real love between him and Li Jing.

  In fact, the Lei family also accepted Li Jing. It is rumored that after Li Jing got into the bad habit of gambling, the Lei family also helped her many times, but seeing that Li Jing never changed her bad habit, they gave up helping her.

  After more than two hours of negotiation, Lei Juehua finally agreed to Chu Huan's request and decided to rent Lei's Lisheng Cinemas to Chu Huan!

   "Lei Sheng, thank you, happy cooperation in the future!"

  Chu Huan shook hands with Lei Juehua.

  Lei Juehua smiled and said: "We are happy to cooperate, and I hope that you, Mr. Chu, can also become Xiangjiang's movie tycoon in the future!"

  Li Jing also smiled at this time: "I hope Mr. Chu can take care of me when the time comes!"

  Chu Huan said: "Miss Li is too polite, you are a popular movie star in Hong Kong, and having your new film join us will actually be a better help for our company."

   After the two parties agreed on the time to sign the contract, they separated!

   After finishing this matter, Chu Huan also breathed a sigh of relief, and the rest is to concentrate on dealing with the listing of Jiahu Textile!

   Thank you everyone~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)