Chapter 315 Movies, real estate, toys (7K chapters, please subscribe~)

  Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it’s October of this year!

   One thing is very important for black and white images in October.

  As the first satellite company of black-and-white video, Xu's film "Ghost Horse Double Star" will be released this month.

  Located in the Tseung Kwan O studio, main building, screening room, Chu Huan finished watching the sample of "Ghost and Horse Twin Stars", Fang Jianhui sat next to Chu Huan, with a smile on his face.

   "Brother Huan, what do you think of this movie?"

  Fang Jianhui and others have already watched the sample film, and agreed that this is a very good movie, which may become the company's blockbuster this year, so they set it as the company's most important movie this year.

  Chu Huan came to inspect the Tseung Kwan O studio today, and happened to watch this movie in advance!

  A movie that created Xiangjiang box office champion, can it be worse?

  Chu Huan said with a calm smile: "It's pretty good, it's fun, and it should be a hit!"

With Chu Huan's attitude, Fang Jianhui felt confident, and said proudly: "The company has already regarded this movie as the most important movie of this season, and has given top-level publicity strategies. It will be released on the 13th!"

  Chu Huan nodded indifferently, and said, "You can discuss these things yourself!"

  Chu Huan no longer cares about the actual operation of the black and white images. What Chu Huan is most concerned about now is when the company will be able to win Golden Harvest!

   Golden Harvest's position in Xiangjiang became more and more embarrassing. In another time and space, Golden Harvest was able to succeed because it discovered Xu Guanwen in time after discovering Li Xiaolong.

  In addition, at that time, apart from Shaw Brothers, Xiangjiang had no company that could influence him, but it is different now.

  Li Xiaolong has completely put his main battlefield in Hollywood, and in Xiangjiang they have a strong opponent of black and white video, which almost took away all the interests of Golden Harvest in Xiangjiang.

  In addition, from this year onwards, none of the Xiangjiang local films invested by Golden Harvest have sold for money, which made the consortium behind Golden Harvest less active in investing in Golden Harvest.

   This caused Golden Harvest to fall into an endless loop.

  Although Golden Harvest also learned from the black and white video before and set up the Emerging Director Grand Prix, it was a pity that it was not as successful as the black and white video, and in the end it only ended up losing money and making money.

   For this reason, Zou Wenhuai, who is far away in Hollywood, hurried back to Xiangjiang, hoping to stabilize Xiangjiang's basic position!

  So in August, it was reported that Golden Harvest would invest in a major production in Xiangjiang, and it was scheduled for October this year.

   "What's the situation with Golden Harvest's new movie?"

  Chu Huan sat there and asked Fang Jianhui.

Fang Jianhui said: "Golden Harvest really put a lot of thought into it this time. They invited director Long Gang to direct their new film, and at the same time invited Xie Xian from Xie Brothers Film Company and Deng Guangrong from Taiwan to act as the two men. host."

   "Longgang?" Hearing the director's name, Chu Huan frowned slightly, not because the director was not well-known in Xiangjiang, but because the director was too famous in Xiangjiang at this time.

  In terms of commercial films alone, in the early 1970s, some people called Xiangjiang directors Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, Chu Yuan, Luo Wei, Cheng Gang, Long Gang and Liu Jialiang as Huashan's seven masters in swordsmanship!

The reason why Chu Huan frowned is that in April this year, Golden Harvest was in charge of releasing a movie "Twenty-eight Hiroshima" by Longgang, and the content of this movie was similar to that of Chu Huan before his rebirth. The ending of the "Eternals" I filmed is the same, and the theme of using a black man to kneel down to the explosion is similar.

This made Chu Huan very disgusted when he knew it at the time, and directly ordered Fang Jianhui to use the company's best movie at that time to snipe this movie, and personally found Shao Yifu, and then Shaw Brothers also took out their company's best movie to snipe this movie. Movie.

  Combined with the influence of public opinion at the time, criticizing Longgang for making this movie was nothing short of HJ's behavior. In the end, Longgang lost everything for this movie!

   "What did Golden Harvest think? You still want to use Longgang's movie to make a comeback?"

  Chu Huan did not expect that after a few months, Jiahe not only failed to learn a lesson from this matter, but even dared to find Longgang to shoot a movie.

Fang Jianhui also sneered at this, and said disdainfully: "Golden Harvest has no other way. Li Hanxiang is the director of our company, Zhang Che, Chu Yuan, Cheng Gang, and Liu Jialiang are the directors of Shaw Brothers, and Luo Wei has now been hired by everyone. Hong Kong is blocked, and now these top directors in Xiangjiang, except Longgang, have no one to use.

  However, Golden Harvest may also feel that one Longgang is not enough, so they recruited Xie Xian and Deng Guangrong to lead the battle! "

   Xie Xian, Xie Xiaochu's father, needless to say, he became famous in the 1950s and was a popular figure.

  Deng Guangrong, who is still developing in Taiwan, and Qin Han, Qin Xianglin are also known as the three major literary and artistic niches in Taiwan.

  However, for later generations, Deng Guangrong is most famous for investing in the two films "Carmen in Mong Kok" and "Days of Being Wild" by Wang Shajing.

  Wang Shaggy's first film "Carmen in Mong Kok" was a hit at the word-of-mouth box office, which made Deng Guangrong pay special attention to Wang Shaggy, so he invested in Wang Shaggy's second movie "Days of Being Wild".

   As everyone knows, Wang Sunglasses, who just became famous, started to fly, and he is no longer floating.

  The attributes of a great director of literary and artistic films have exploded. It doesn’t matter how much money you invest, whether you are the boss or not, and whether your audience will understand. Anyway, I have to make myself happy.

  So this movie costing 40 million Hong Kong dollars only had a box office of more than 9 million in Hong Kong. Deng Guangrong was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. In the end, he had to brace himself for the sake of face and said that he had made money investing in Wang Sunglasses' movie.

  But the real situation is that since then, Deng Guangrong has never invested in Wang Sunglasses again.

   As for Wang Sunglasses, relying on his status as a great director of literary and artistic films, he turned around and created his own Zedong Films, and got Japanese investment.

   As for Deng Guangrong, it's up to you!

   Fame and profit are all mine, the boss who loses money will do it!

   At that time, Wang Sunglass already had a place in the international film industry. Otherwise, according to Deng Guangrong's background, it is estimated that someone would have to kill Wang Sunglass!

  Speaking of Deng Guangrong, the relationship between Deng Guangrong and Xie Xian is actually very good.

  In the 1960s, Deng Guangrong formed a band called "Silver Rats" with Xie Xian, Zhang Chong, Chen Ziqiang, Chen Hao, Qin Xianglin, and Shen Feifei.

   And these seven people sworn brothers and sisters of the opposite sex!

  Big brother Zhang Chong, originally the director of Shaw Brothers, is also an actor, but what left the deepest impression on people was in the first part of "Five Lucky Stars", where he played the boss of two counterfeit banknote groups who likes to wear white clothes.

  Second brother Xie Xian, of course there is no need to introduce too much.

  The third brother Chen Ziqiang, Xiangjiang's gold agent, Cheng Long, Zheng Yuling, Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Manyu, Zhong Chuhong, etc., were all brought out by him.

  The fourth brother, Chen Hao, is a senior screenwriter of Xiangjiang, with a detached status in the entertainment industry.

  The fifth child is Deng Guangrong, who was one of the top three directors of Taiwanese literary and artistic films in the early days. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he became the best candidate for the big brother of Xiangjiang Jianghu movies. Zhou Runfa has to be the second brother in front of him!

The sixth child is Qin Xianglin, who was also one of the three leading actors in literary and artistic films in the early days. Later, he came to Xiangjiang to develop. The most famous one is the American ginseng in "Five Lucky Stars". It is the story of Shuangqin Yilin between him, Qin Han and Lin Qingxia.

  The youngest, Shen Feifei, is the pistachio in the eyes of Xiangjiang audiences, but if you want to say whether this person is good or bad, because about Nam Jieying, there is always a question mark!

   "When will their movie be released?" Chu Huan asked directly.

  Fang Jianhui smiled and said, "It's also the 13th of this month!"

Chu Huan was stunned for a moment. Although the movie "Ghost Horse Twin Stars" has not yet been released, it can be seen from the scale of the promotion that black and white images attach great importance to this movie. In addition, this movie is now very popular at the box office in Xiangjiang. The powerful comedian Xu Guanwen.

   Jiahe is so brave enough to compete with black and white images?

Fang Jianhui then explained Chu Huan's doubts: "Actually, they were the ones who made the film first. I know Brother Huan, you don't like the director Longgang, so you directly decided to let Xu Guanwen's "Ghost and Horse Twin Stars" compete with the other party. Already!"

  After Chu Huan finished listening, he showed a satisfied expression, and Fang Jianhui said, "You understand my thoughts more and more."

  Fang Jianhui smiled and said: "That is necessary, besides, I don't like the director Longgang, his **** is so **** crooked!"

  Chu Huan is very satisfied that Fang Jianhui can stand in the same position as himself in this matter.

  After chatting with Fang Jianhui for a few words, the two walked out of the screening room.

  Fang Jianhui proposed to sit in the office, but was rejected by Chu Huan. After the black-and-white film was moved to the Tseung Kwan O studio, Chu Huan hadn't seen it yet, so he just took advantage of this time today to wander around.

Now the Republic of China area of ​​the studio has been completely completed, and half of the costume area has been built. In addition, in the Tseung Kwan O studio, the Yunhai Convenience Store and some other living facilities have also entered. There is also a small bank, the Bank of East Asia, and artist apartments. Apartments and staff apartments have also been completed.

   But even so, various construction sites can still be seen here and there at this time.

   After walking around for a while, Chu Huan left the Tseung Kwan O studio and went to Hang Lung Properties!

  After entering October, Hang Lung Properties still has another important matter to deal with, and that is to pay the remaining 230 million Hong Kong dollars to Golden Gate Tower to Hongkong Land!

  He Bingguang, the general manager of Hang Lung Properties, was already waiting for Chu Huan at the company.

   "Chairman, Hongkong Land has sent a notification letter, expressing the hope that our company will pay the final payment of the Golden Gate Building before the 10th of this month!"

  For this fund, Chu Huan has already made plans, and the profits of Youth Toys in the past few months are enough to easily cover this fund.

   "Tell them that on the 10th, the company will deposit the funds into their accounts on time."

  He Bingguang naturally knew that Chu Huan had already prepared the funds, and now talking about this matter again is more to remind Chu Huan.

   "Tell me about the company's situation this year!"

  Chu Huan sat there and asked He Bingguang.

In fact, Hang Lung Properties has not gotten out of the impact of the stock market crash. According to the current situation of Hang Lung Properties, the company's rental income this year is only 14 million Hong Kong dollars, accounting for 28% of the company's operating income. That is to say, the income of Hang Lung Properties this year is only 50 million Hong Kong dollars. Hong Kong dollars.

   It seems that the profit is not as high as that of Youth Toys for a week, but Hang Lung Properties' land reserves and properties will increase several times when Hong Kong's real estate industry develops again in the future.

That is to say, Chu Huan now has a youth toy, plus the money he earned during the oil crisis before invested 50 million into Hang Lung Properties. Otherwise, according to the previous situation of Hang Lung Properties, it will take at least a few years for Xianyu to turn around .

   "The other party has not responded to the matter of contacting Huaren Real Estate that the chairman explained before. However, HSBC and Cheung Kong have also participated in the acquisition of Huaren Bank. Now the situation is a bit unclear!"

  Compared with repaying the balance of the Landmark Golden Gate Building, Chu Huan actually gave Hang Lung a bigger task to acquire the Chinatown located on Pedder Street in Central!

  Although the price of the Chinese House does not seem to be as high as that of the Golden Gate Building, this is mainly because the Golden Gate Building can be used, but if the Chinese House is bought, it will have to be rebuilt!

  At the beginning of the 20th century, the Central District of Hong Kong Island was dominated by foreign firms, and there was no place for Chinese businessmen to enter the Central District.

  At that time, a real estate developer built a commercial office complex in Queen's Road Central. After the building was completed, Chinese people rushed to occupy it and rent it.

  Foreigners always think they are superior and disdain to live in the same building as Chinese. Foreigners who have paid the deposit have withdrawn their rent.

  So this building became the "independent kingdom" of the Chinese, and the name of the building was changed to "Chinese Bank".

  Hua Ren Xing got its name from this.

  Later, the Huaren Bank became the asset of Huaren Real Estate, but now Huaren Real Estate intends to sell this property. After Chu Huan learned of the news, he immediately ordered He Bingguang to contact the other party to discuss the acquisition.

   "HSBC and Changshi really got involved!"

  Chu Huan sighed lightly. If he hadn’t appeared, Huarenhang would have been jointly acquired by HSBC and Changshi, and then Changshi and HSBC would rebuild Huarenhang. Later, it became Changshi’s headquarters.

   "I will follow up on this matter!" Chu Huan said to He Bingguang.

  Since the matter has involved HSBC, He Bingguang is not enough to watch, and the next step is to compete with HSBC.

  I thought that the contest between the two sides would not start until next year, but I didn't want to bring this matter up now.

  However, HSBC was able to sell all the rights and interests of China Bank to Cheung Kong later. It can be seen that HSBC did not care too much about China Bank, so this time it should be purely commercial competition without involving too many other things.

Afterwards, He Bingguang reported to Chu Huan about the purchase of the land. After having youth toys, these companies under Chu Huan have survived the plight of shortage of funds. The funds from "Fantasy Comics" continue to be used to invest in youth toys The flagship stores around the world were built, and the profits of Youth Toys were handed over to Jiaku Consulting Company, and then part of it began to flow out to other companies under the name of Chu Huan under the calculation of the Finance Department.

   Among them, Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties are the most.

   There is no way, the land price in Xiangjiang is too cheap at this time, if you can’t buy more land during this time, it will be a crime!

  For example, just last month, Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties jointly purchased the Saixi Lake site on Braemar Hill Road in North Point at a price of 80 million Hong Kong dollars from Swire Properties.

Saixi Lake covers an area of ​​864,000 square feet. After joint discussions between Lu Qi and He Bingguang, they plan to build 925 large residential units ranging from 1,260 square feet to 1,640 square feet, shopping malls, parking garages, etc., with a total building area of ​​1.32 million square feet. The land cost per square foot is only 64 yuan, which is very cheap.

Then the two reported the plan to Chu Huan. Under Chu Huan's instruction, the site will not be moved this year, and construction will start after next year. Based on a two-year construction period, Xiangjiang's real estate industry will recover when it is completed. And Hang Lung Properties and Huhua Properties will also make a fortune!

  At the same time, it purchased a large amount of land in Pok Fu Lam Road, Tsuen Wan, Boundary Street, Fuk Wing Street and Guilin Street, Dragon Ball Island, Tsing Yi Lot, etc. During this period, it also fought several price wars with Sun Hung Kai Properties.

  Now it is not considered Huaye City. The combination of Huhua Real Estate and Hang Lung Real Estate is the only one among Xiangjiang Huazi Real Estate in terms of land reserves.

   After coming out of Hang Lung Center, Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Building.

   Here, Chu Huan called Shen Bi, the general manager of HSBC.

  Shen Bi heard that Chu Huan actually wanted to discuss with him about the Chinese bank, and smiled and said that this matter is an important development plan set by HSBC, and it is imperative for the Chinese bank HSBC!

  Chu Huan naturally didn't take this kind of official talk to heart, and then said that no matter what, everything can be discussed, so everyone might as well make an appointment to meet and have a good talk.

   Sure enough, Shen Bi didn't have any objection to Chu Huan's suggestion.

   Then the two parties agreed on a time to meet, and hung up the phone!

On Chu Huan's side, because of the birth of youth toys, Chu Huan once again got sufficient funds to continue to expand his territory. On the other hand, as Chu Huan's most important opponent this year, Li & Fung Group, during this period of time, Life is not going well!

Just like the grand occasion when Youth Toys R Us opened, Li & Fung Group was worried, because Li & Fung Toys delegated the management rights of Disney animation peripherals to other toy retailers in Xiangjiang, resulting in the traffic flow of Li & Fung Toys City. Extremely slippery.

   "How about taking back the management right?"

  Feng Muying proposed at this time.

"Can't!"

Feng Hanzhu objected immediately, and then explained to Feng Muying: "Although the revenue of Lifeng Toys has dropped a lot, the order volume of Disney Animation in Xiangjiang has increased because of the increase in sales of Disney animation peripherals. This also indirectly allowed Xiangjiang's toy manufacturers to increase their orders for raw materials.

  So although the sales and profits of our toy city have declined, the company's physical profits have not declined much!

  If we take back the management rights now, we cannot guarantee the sales of Disney animation peripherals in Xiangjiang, and naturally there is no way to guarantee that the supply of raw materials will remain the same as before.

   In addition, if it is withdrawn, the reputation of our Lifeng Toys in Xiangjiang will be over, and at the same time, all the retailers will be completely pushed to Chu Huan's side!

   At that time, if Chu Huan releases the peripheral production rights of "Fantasy Comics", then our Lifeng Toys and Lifeng Trading will be affected! "

  Hearing Feng Hanzhu's explanation, Feng Muying was a little annoyed.

   "This doesn't work, that doesn't work either. Is it possible to just watch our market being squeezed by Chu Huan little by little? If this is the case, the other party will swallow it sooner or later!"

  Feng Guojing said from the sidelines: "It's impossible to swallow, the basic disk around Disney animation is still there, at most, the profit cannot be compared with before!"

Feng Muying said: "Business is sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Now we can afford our profit point, but what about the future? If the real estate industry in Xiangjiang recovers, the rents of chain stores in major shopping malls will inevitably rise. How many profit points do we have to fill this hole."

  Feng Muying's words made everyone fall into silence.

   Yes, their current profits are still enough to support Li & Fung Toys’ expenditure, but what about in the future?

  Everyone understands that Xiangjiang's real estate industry will definitely recover. At that time, where will Li & Fung Toys go?

  Although there are no near-term worries, there are long-term concerns!

   At this time, Lifeng Toys has fallen into a dead end. If Lifeng Toys can't find a way to break the situation, then it may be a year or two in the future, and Lifeng Toys will disappear completely.

   This is not alarmist talk, but the situation is such a situation.

   "Why don't you just sell Lifeng Toys directly!"

   At this time, Feng Muying suddenly preached.

  Feng Hanzhu and Feng Guojing were taken aback by Feng Muying's proposal.

   But Feng Muying seemed to feel that her proposal was very constructive, so she continued to preach.

   "Now the value of Lifeng Toys is still there. If we let the wind out, there must be many people who want to get it. If we wait another two years, I am worried that even if we want to sell it, no one will want to buy it!

  We can even sell Lifeng Toys directly to Chu Huan. I think Chu Huan will be very happy to take over Lifeng Toys. This will not only expand their company's sales scope, but also expand their sales channels.

  Most importantly, we can save 30 million Hong Kong dollars in compensation! "

The verdict on "Fantasy Comics" suing Lifeng Toys has come down. After two months of trial, the court has made a verdict that Lifeng Toys has lost the lawsuit and paid 30 million Hong Kong dollars to "Fantasy Comics" under the condition of publishing an apology. economic loss fee!

   Originally, it was impossible for this lawsuit to end so quickly.

  But in the court, Luo Decheng, the representative of "Fantasy Comics", presented the most favorable evidence, which was the photos and statistics of the imitation "Fantasy Comics" peripherals sold in major toy stores of Li & Fung.

  There is no need to continue this lawsuit.

   Lifeng Toys failed completely.

   Just entering October, the court finally pronounced a verdict!

   Feng Guojing could not accept selling Li & Fung Toys. After all, he was the person in charge of Li & Fung Toys, and he was also responsible for the first project of Li & Fung Group after returning to Xiangjiang.

  If he sells his first project in Li & Fung Group, it will also be an important stain for Feng Guojing to take over Li & Fung Group in the future.

   "Can't sell!"

Feng Guojing directly expressed his attitude, and then he said to Feng Muying: "Uncle, Lifeng Toys is a subsidiary of Lifeng Group. It was established when Grandpa was alive. When everyone mentioned Lifeng Toys , will think of Li & Fung Group, if we sell Li & Fung Toys, what will outsiders think of Li & Fung Group?

  At that time, they will say, we people don't feel bad for selling our fathers! "

  Hearing what Feng Guojing said, Feng Muying's expression froze. He cared about his reputation. If he gained such a reputation in Xiangjiang, he would not be able to accept it.

"In addition, if we just sell it like this, outsiders will say that we can't beat Chu Huan, and then admit it. If other companies have ideas about other businesses of our group in the future, don't we have any chance of confrontation? Under the circumstances, do you want to sell other businesses of our company?"

   "In that case, how much of our Li & Fung business can we sell?"

  Feng Guojing persuaded seriously.

  Feng Muying was a little depressed, and asked directly: "Then do you have any other options?"

  If it is not sold, there must always be a way to deal with the current problems. Otherwise, Li & Fung Toys will no longer be a profitable company in their hands, but a burden.

  Feng Guojing pondered, if he had a better way at this time, he would have taken it out a long time ago, why wait until now!

   But he knew that Lifeng toys must not be sold!

   After thinking for a long time, Feng Guojing could only say that if he wanted to keep Lifeng Toys, he needed more toys for sale, more toys of world-renowned brands.

  Only in this way can the sales of Lifeng Toys be increased and profits increased.

   "Daddy, uncle, I plan to go to Europe and America again during this period of time. As long as we can get more agency rights, I believe those companies will also be willing to cooperate with us.

  In any case, Li & Fung Toys is still the largest toy retailer in Southeast Asia! "

Feng Hanzhu was the first to express his agreement, but he also wanted to appease his brother, so he said to Feng Muying: "Brother, I think what Guojing said is reasonable, and our sales are only in Xiangjiang. In the whole of Southeast Asia, the profits in other regions are still very objective, if we admit defeat in this way, it is indeed inappropriate!"

  Feng Muying sighed and said, "I don't want to sell Lifeng Toys either. Since you both have the same idea, let's do what you want first!"

   Seeing that Feng Muying no longer insisted on this matter, Feng Hanzhu and Feng Guojing breathed a sigh of relief.

   At this time, Feng Guolun suddenly came to the office with a look of surprise.

   "Daddy, uncle, brother, there is a big order, big order!"

  Facing Feng Guolun who was so pleasantly surprised, the three of them immediately looked at each other. In the end, Feng Muying was the first to ask: "What order?"

   "Europe, a European garment company, just asked our company if it can accept a large order of 100 million Hong Kong dollars!"

   Garment export has always been one of the most important industries of Li & Fung Group, and Li & Fung is also one of the largest garment exporters in Xiangjiang!

   "100 million orders?"

  The three people in the office all showed surprised expressions. This is the largest single garment order since the opening of Xiangjiang.

   But what kind of company is the other party? Such a large amount?

   Also, the next chapter is at eight in the morning~~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)