The person who came was naturally Li Ka-shing, followed closely by Li Zekai. As soon as Li Ka-shing heard Xiao Ran's words, he smiled bitterly in his stomach. At his birthday party for Xiao Ran, every celebrity in the society wanted to come in, and invited

A few of those who arrived did not want to come. Of course, those who were really unavailable were not included.

Of course, Li Ka-shing does not need to be afraid of Xiao Ran, but based on the friendship between the two, there is no excuse for him not to come. Moreover, he also needs to bring his son to get to know more people so that he can have enough connections in the future.

Li Ka-shing still didn't quite understand that Xiao Ran would rather invite some people from the film industry than invite some famous celebrities. He always felt that with Xiao Ran's identity and status, there was no need to get involved with those stars and movie people.

He shook hands with Xiao Ran with a smile, and then asked the bodyguard to hand over the gift to Xiao Ran. Xiao Ran opened it and saw that it was really a national treasure. It was actually a Guanyin with a gold crown and a jade. Not to mention its value, he didn't know where Li Ka-shing was.

Collected.

"Old Li, thank you so much. I don't know what I can give you in return for accepting such a treasure!" Xiao Ran smiled happily and caressed it before giving it to the servant to put down.

"What's the gift in return, Mr. Xiao, why are we still mentioning this!" Li Ka-shing burst out laughing and introduced Li Zekai: "This is my eldest son, you have seen it! If you have the opportunity in the future, you might as well support him.

"

"Brother Xiao, I wish you good luck and longevity!" Li Zekai's mouth was very sweet. In fact, his appearance was very delicate, and he had a shadow of Li Chaoren.

Xiao Ran carefully looked at this young man who planned the largest acquisition case in Hong Kong in history, nodded and said: "Zekai, learn from your father, he is a strong man in business."

After welcoming wealthy people such as Cheng Yutong and Lee Shau Kee respectively, Patten, the governor of Hong Kong who had been in office for a year, also came. Xiao Ran rushed forward with great enthusiasm. If others didn't know better, they would probably think that he and Patten have been close friends for many years.

: "Mr. Governor of Hong Kong, you are finally here, what an honor it is!"

"Where is it!" Patten felt a burst of cold sweat break out on his forehead. Facing Xiao Ran's warm and hypocritical smile, he couldn't relax no matter what. Especially when he still remembered what happened last year.

, which is even more of a fear.

Not long after he took office last year, he began to implement the British strategy and repeatedly attacked the mainland. He even planned to attack the film industry. Xiao Ran was fine at first. However, once this stupid politician actually talked nonsense to reporters, saying that Hong Kong movies needed

Reform and so on.

Xiao Ran was immediately angered. No one could touch his territory, not even the King of Heaven. At the moment, while Soros was preparing to launch an attack on the pound exchange rate peg, Fang Xiaoqiang launched an attack on the pound with six billion US dollars.

That battle was an earth-shattering one. Under the attack of international speculators led by Soros and Fang Xiaoqiang, the British pound was teetering on the edge. The British government spent a huge amount of money to support the market, but to no avail. At the same time, under the new intelligence,

Next, the media controlled by Shuxiang and ATV in the UK each launched several scandals, immediately causing the ruling party to come under repeated attacks.

Afterwards, Phantom made more than one billion US dollars from this, and accidentally leaked the reason for launching the attack to the British authorities. As a result, Patten was almost scolded to death when he returned to China to report on his duties, and he almost became the first Hong Kong governor to be dismissed.

.Since then, Patten has been in awe of Xiao Ran because he now knows who can be offended and who cannot be offended.

To be honest, Xiao Ran really wanted to remove Patten from power, but unfortunately he failed. Patten is a politician, and letting him manage Hong Kong is originally the strategy of the British Hong Kong government. Otherwise, would it be possible to leave the great Hong Kong to the future?

China? So, Xiao Ran almost succeeded.

Since Patten didn't dare to mess around, Xiao Ran also gave up the idea for the time being, at least before he did anything, there was not enough evidence. He talked to the Hong Kong governor duplicity for a few words. At this time,

The Vice Minister of Culture sent by the mainland finally showed up.

However, the person who came surprised Xiao Ran. He never expected that this so-called deputy minister was actually Huang Qun, whom he had met in Yindu before. But Xiao Ran vaguely remembered that Huang Qun would indeed be Huang Qun in the future.

One of the high-ranking members of the central government has never been the deputy minister of culture.

Seeing Xiao Ran, Huang Qun immediately smiled. Accompanied by his secretary and bodyguards, he came up to him and shook hands with Xiao Ran: "Mr. Xiao, I'm afraid you don't remember me! I'm Huang Qun."

Xiao Ran suddenly felt confused, and soon figured it out. The most likely thing is that the central government regards Hong Kong movies as an important leader in Chinese-language movies, so Huang Qun, who had interacted with Xiao Ran, naturally became a deputy

Minister, to facilitate communication.

After understanding this, Xiao Ran's mind immediately became alert and he said with a smile: "Of course I haven't forgotten it. Last time I was still wondering why you asked Jiang Zhiguang to convey that thank you to me!"

"We'll talk about it later, go ahead and sit down!" Huang Qun smiled at Xiao Ran and immediately regained his indifference. However, because of his elevated status, he seemed a bit majestic.

After entering, Huang Qun was arranged to get to know Yang Qi and the others. Xiao Ran and Lin Qingxia then shuttled among the crowd, laughing and chatting endlessly, but they didn't know how many business deals were concluded at this banquet.

After being busy for a while, Xiao Ran took the time to sit down next to Li Ka-shing. Wei Dongling was talking to others. Li Ka-shing's son Li Zekai had fled somewhere, which meant they were discussing business.

Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling have already considered that Hutchison should be in their hands. In Xiao Ran's impression, the development of Hong Kong Telecom in the 21st century is far less than it is now. It is okay as an investment object. If you want to use it for yourself

It would be uneconomical to operate.

Therefore, exchanging Wheelock's equity for Hutchison Whampoa would be beneficial to both parties. Li Ka-shing obviously understood this and was very cautious. Xiao Ran waved his hand, took a glass of water, and took a sip.

He took a breath and said, "Lao Li, Wheelock, we can sell it to you! However, I want to know your sincerity."

Li Ka-shing smiled. He was also very optimistic about the telecommunications industry. However, if Wheelock and Cheung Kong merged, Cheung Kong would be the largest company in Hong Kong. Perhaps, it could operate for a few years, and then it would

If you sell it, you can still make a lot of profit.

"You know that the current market value of Hutchison Whampoa is 180 billion, and Wheelock's current market value is 150 billion." Li Ka-shing was obviously prepared and immediately gave a plan: "I will sell 10% of He Wong's shares.

I’ll give you Huang’s equity, plus another 1.2 billion in cash, in exchange for 20% of Wheelock’s equity in your hands!”

Xiao Ran nodded. He actually had no objections to such a plan. The day before yesterday, Phantom had increased his holdings of Hutchison Whampoa Holdings to 20%, plus the 10% transferred by Li Ka-shing, which was enough to become Hutchison Whampoa's largest shareholder. However,

, but they still have to study the specific price.

The deal was basically finalized. When all the guests had left, Xiao Ran, Huang Qun and Yang Qi were all talking about this extremely important matter at the edge of the swimming pool. When Xiao Ran came in

, Huang Qun waved to him.

After everyone sat down, Huang Qun said seriously: "You all know that the central government plans to cultivate Hong Kong as a base for Chinese films, and you must all know that a draft of this opening-up law has been prepared. Now the central government wants to know more about it.

What you mean is that you can take a look at this draft first!"

He took out several pieces of information from his briefcase and handed them to Xiao Ran and the others. Xiao Ran browsed them carefully. The content of this draft was not very complicated. First of all, in the market for DVDs and other ancillary products, Hong Kong capital was allowed to have a 100% stake in mainland China.

Fifty-one equity, which means seizing control.

Then there is the censorship system. The censorship system provides several restrictions. Naturally, anti-social propaganda and feudal superstition are prohibited. However, what makes Xiao Ran frown is that nudity is also prohibited. Propaganda of feudal superstition is prohibited.

This point also made Xiao Ran vomit blood. The "Big Brother" back then died tragically due to this point.

Moreover, the scene should not be too bloody and brutal, which is a bit conceptual. Xiao Ran believes that the definition of blood is not easy to determine. The most typical one is "Mong Kok Night". There is actually no blood in this film. However, the results are being submitted for review.

At that time, several shots at the end were still deemed bloody, and in the end they had to be made up for with black and white shots.

The key lies not in restrictions, but in the classification system. Without a classification system, it would be difficult to classify the film market in a targeted manner. It is no wonder that Hong Kong films in the 21st century are blindly producing bad comedies, because this is the only way to avoid touching the mainland.

Censorship. The consequences are visible to everyone. The type of any work needs to be coordinated. If you always tell the same story blindly, you will suffer from aesthetic fatigue.

If this is the case, a third-level film like "Erotic Man and Woman" that is absolutely not pornographic will definitely not be able to go to theaters. This is definitely a very fatal key. If there is a rating system, the audience will have the ability to enjoy the film.

Guidelines.

The next step is distribution. In terms of distribution, there is still no feasible plan given by the above, and it is still left to China Film Company. This is simply bullying, giving it to China Film Company for distribution? Are you kidding? It has this

A professional marketing and distribution team? Give China Film a 100 million box office, and it can turn it into 10 million.

What was left was the theater chain. This time, theater investment projects were finally opened up. However, when Xiao Ran took a closer look at the numbers above, he was immediately dumbfounded—foreign capital was only allowed to control a maximum of 49% of the equity.

Yang Qi and the others were also dumbfounded. With this restriction, investment in theaters would come to naught! Don’t think that all mainland businessmen are stupid. At this time, anything you do can make more money than investing in theaters. Moreover, investment in theaters requires a lot of time.

It takes a long time to earn back profits, and few other industries take this long.

Speaking of which, who is willing to invest in theaters? According to their respective surveys and calculations, mainland China will need at least a thousand theaters in two to three years, with each theater having at least six screening rooms, which is 6,000 screens. And the United States only has two

There are 20,000 screens for a population of 100 million, so the figure of 6,000 is only for three years.

How much does it cost to invest in building a thousand high-quality theaters? Based on current prices in mainland China, it would cost at least two billion. And don’t forget, this does not include the audio-visual equipment in the theater.

With billions of investments, how many businessmen in mainland China dare to invest in theaters? It is simply an impossible task. Pan Disheng and the others have already said hello to the bank and have begun to raise money to invest in theaters. Now

This sudden move would literally kill them.

"No!" As soon as Yang Qi's words came out of his mouth, he knew that his tone was not very good, so he immediately softened and said: "Such a condition is difficult to establish, and it is not good for Chinese-language movies!"

Pan Disheng and the three of them naturally agreed. If they were stuck here, it would be a big trouble. It was definitely not the result they expected. Huang Qun only glanced at them briefly and then turned his attention to Xiao Ran. He knew that Xiao Ran was the

The person who can make the decision: “What do you think?”

Pan Disheng and the others kept a close eye on Xiao Ran. They were all led by Xiao Ran. As Phantom opened up the market, they had made an unknown amount of money following the Phantom in the past few years. No matter how stupid they were, they knew how to choose the right leader.

Xiao Ran pondered for a moment. In a sense, this draft is definitely a major opening up by the mainland government. If he and the chief minister had not had two in-depth discussions on the cultural and entertainment industry, the central government would regard Hong Kong films as domestic films. This would

I'm afraid it's hard to get.

He also fully understands the various restrictions in this draft. After all, Hong Kong is still under British rule. He believes that true and complete opening up will only occur after the handover in 1997, but before that, he must work hard for Hong Kong.

He has to fight for a chance to survive, otherwise everything he has done before will be in vain.

However, he dared to assert that this draft is definitely not the final result. Since the central government regards Hong Kong films as its own, it should also understand the difficulties of Hong Kong films, especially when France has begun to prepare for the introduction of protectionism. Therefore, this should

It is a test from the central government.

In this moment, he thought a lot, and finally shook his head and said: "I have no objection to the opening of video tapes and other ancillary products. There is a small difference in the censorship system. China Film continues to monopolize distribution, which is difficult for us to accept.
Chapter completed!