Chapter 39 The Jiang Family
While drinking porridge, Li Kaiyuan stared at Chen Chong, "Did you pick up the treasure last night?"
"I had a very pleasant dream." Chen Chong called out, sat down opposite her, and asked, "What did Aunt Liu say?"
"It's nothing, let me move away quickly and don't let those reporters get in the way of Tianbao's school."
"that's all?"
"What else can it be done, you know, my mother is very biased." Li Kaiyuan licked his lips and said, "Who made Tianbao smart and have good grades? He has just made some money now, and he is thinking about sending her to study in the UK."
"Then you buy the house quickly." Chen Chong put a bowl of porridge in his mouth, then shook his head and sighed: "If you wake up in the morning, you won't be able to drink such good porridge."
Tianbao is going to school, and Aunt Liu is busy with the dumpling shop. Since returning to Great Wall Film Company, Li Tang wants to live there. They all leave home very early, only Li Kaiyuan, who cooks porridge every morning and waits for Shen Chong to come down to have breakfast together.
"Pretty!" Li Kaiyuan glanced at him and said with a smile: "Where do I live, you are going there just yet."
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Before the system is fully opened, Shen rushes around, like a headless fly, bumping east and poking around, scattered and disorganized, sometimes as he does, he even loses himself, and he is in a daze. He is busy with what he is busy with.
Now that we have a task system, we have goals and rewards, we are full of motivation to do things.
Shortly after arriving at Oriental Charming's office, the Taipei four-person group came together. The incident at the banquet last night made them quite nervous. In order to prepare for the record company, everyone even took out their old capital. If Shen Chong turned against him and stopped investing, the previous investment would be wasted.
Chen Chong grew up listening to Rolling Stone in his previous life. He also supported the Rolling Stone's 30-year concert and had a good impression of this company. He didn't care about the little bit of fuel in the Taiwanese music market. Now the system has clearly given the task, so he signed an investment agreement very readily.
The Duan brothers have good management abilities, Wu Chuchu and Peng Guohua are also outstanding. Chen Chong has no ambitions for music, so he only requires holding shares and reviewing finance every year. As for daily operations, he does not interfere. The generous investment and loose conditions make the Taipei four-person group overjoyed.
"Although I don't interfere in the company's operations, I want to recommend someone to become the contracted partner of the record company." Chen Chong signed the investment memorandum, put down the pen, and then said: "What do you think of Luo Dayou?"
"There is no doubt about Luo Dayou's musical talent. Even if Mr. Chen doesn't mention it, we will sign him." Duan Zhongtan said with a smile: "Actually, we signed an oral agreement with him last night. After the company was established, we signed him first."
"The first one to sign is Mr. Wu." After confirming the investment, the four of them were in a good mood. Peng Guohua patted Wu Chuchu on the shoulder and joked: "This is the one who can sing the best among the four of us, and he is a singer at least."
"Go and go." Wu Chuchu pushed away Peng Guohua's hand and said seriously: "Luo Dayou's style is more Western rock music, which is completely different from the popular campus folk songs in Taiwan now. It is not easy to be accepted by the market. If you sign him, it is very risky."
Chen Chong nodded secretly and admired Wu Chuchu's vision. He deserves to be the boss behind the scenes who created popular idols such as Little Tigers and Jimmy Lin. He has a very keen sense of the market.
In 1982, campus folk songs had already declined. Luo Dayou released the album "Zhihuzheye" and was criticized by many people, causing great controversy and social impact. In 1979, the fresh and natural musical style swept across Taiwan. If Luo Dayou rashly released an album with extremely subversive lyrics and music at this time, it would probably not be beneficial.
However, Chen Chong had no energy and no time to interfere in music production and distribution. As long as he did not let Luo Dayou go, he could do whatever he wanted.
"Mr. Chen." The phone rang at this time, "Director Xu is here."
"Let her go to the conference room and wait for a while."
"Since Mr. Chen has something to do, we won't bother you." Duan Zhongtan stood up and said, "With investment, we are just returning home. We want to go back to Taipei as soon as possible and get the company up as soon as possible."
"Yes, go back early and open early." Duan Zhongyi also echoed: "I heard that Luo Dayou has booked a flight ticket to Taipei in the afternoon, so we are also preparing to leave in the afternoon and sign him by the way."
Chen Chong kept them for a few words, but when they saw that they were determined to leave, he stopped insisting and asked the secretary to help book the air ticket, and then personally sent the group of four downstairs.
Back at the office, Chen Chong knocked on the secretary's desk and said, "Silkyu, notify Jiang Zhiqiang and ask him to come to the conference room to find me."
Qiu Siyu clamped the phone with her neck, and nodded while talking to show that she understood.
This secretary was recommended by Zeng Lizhen. He is ordinary in appearance and thin, but he has a gentle personality and a steady work experience. Shen Chong is very satisfied.
"Director Xu, why did he suddenly complete "Crazy Raid"?" Chen Chong walked into the conference room and said, "It caught me a little off guard."
"At the beginning, most of the content was done, but there were a few small places. I didn't agree with Tan Jiaming, but recently he was too busy and had no time to argue with me, so those places were handled according to my opinion, so it was completed in one go."
"Oh, so that's it." Chen Chong looked for a chair and sat down, and asked, "What is Tan Jiaming busy with?"
"Jiahe asked him to shoot a movie." Ann Hui explained: "He has been busy communicating with Jiahe recently and doing preliminary preparations."
"This is a good thing." Chen Chong nodded to express his understanding.
Tan Jiaming originally came to edit with friends, but now he has to work hard, so it is understandable that he has to leave in a hurry. Moreover, in Shen Chong's opinion, the details of "Crazy Joe" have no impact on the overall movie. It's just that Ann Hui, as the director, is obsessed with it, and Tan Jiaming is an uncompromising person. The two froze and drag it to the present.
"Where is the mother film?"
"It's put it in the printing company's vault." Ann Hui smoked, pointed to her dark circles, and said, "If there was a problem with the mother film, the investment of more than one million yuan would be wasted. I didn't sleep well last night and always had nightmares."
Chen Chong laughed loudly and was about to comfort Anhua Xu, but Jiang Zhiqiang knocked on the door and walked into the conference room.
"Mr. Chen, is there anything wrong?"
"Sit." Chen Chong spread his hands and motioned to sit down, and then asked, "Now that "Crazy Job" has been completed, I want to rent your theater and hold an internal movie viewing party this Saturday night. Can you see?"
"I think there is no problem." Jiang Zhiqiang thought for a while and said, "The film market this year is not good, and it is the off-season again. Even on weekends, there are not many viewers."
"Let's communicate with your family." Chen Chong said: "If possible, I'll quote a price for me. Business is business, favors are favors. You can't mess up the rules of doing business just because you work here."
"Okay, then I'll ask my elder brother later."
"How are the release preparations for "Crazy Job"?"
"We are all going according to the plan. The newspaper will start hyping up the murder case of Longhushan next week." Jiang Zhiqiang reported clearly: "The film schedule and poster posting location of each theater have been viewed by Sister Zhen and I. The advertisements of "Southern Movies" and "Hong Kong Film" magazine have also been negotiated. Now I will wait for Mr. Zhu to send the new poster here."
"It's great." Chen Chong praised and said in an old-fashioned manner: ""Crazy Job" is the company's first movie. We have never released it. You are from a movie family. If you have experience, the release is all up to you."
“I will do it with my heart.”
"What are you doing so reserved?" Chen Chong laughed and asked, "Are you very tired when doing things under Sister Zhen?"
"Not tired, Sister Zhen is very professional and has strict requirements. She can learn a lot."
"Nonsense." Chen Chong exposed his polite words and said with a smile: "Sister Zhen used to work on TVB. Like us, she knew nothing about the release of movies. What can you teach you? You are being scolded by her for being scared."
Jiang Zhiqiang smiled awkwardly. At this time, there was no way to see the calm and composed demeanor of the movie tycoon from him.
That day, after meeting Jiang Zhiqiang on the crew of "Crazy Job", Chen Chong immediately decided to recruit him, not only because of his outstanding film planning and distribution skills, but also because of his family background.
Jiang Zhiqiang's ancestral home is Foshan, and he is the same as Jiang Kongyin, the most powerful and romantic figure in Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Jiang Kongyin was educated by Kang Youwei and was the last imperial examination jinshi in the Qing Dynasty. He had a wealth of millions and was generous and romantic. He was an important and powerful figure in Guangdong's political arena at that time.
After the failure of the Huanghuagang Uprising in Guangzhou, it was Jiang Kongyin who came forward to help, and the seventy-two martyrs were buried. After the Wuchang Uprising, Jiang Kongyin came forward to urge the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhang Mingqi and the navy admiral Li Zhun to leave the Qing government, declare Guangdong independence, and work with various provinces to force Xuantong to abdicate. Therefore, after the founding of the Republic of China, political leaders such as Sun Yat-sen, Liao Zhongkai, and Hu Hanmin came to visit them in person.
Among these bigwigs, Liao Zhongkai, He Xiangning and Jiang Kongyin are close friends, and are frequent visitors to the Jiang family’s luxury house covering a thousand acres. His son Liao Chengzhi can be said to have grown up in the Jiang family and was even recognized by Jiang Kongyin as his adopted son. Liao Chengzhi is now the director and secretary of the Party Group of the Central Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and the director of the Central Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
Liao Chengzhi has a special status and a special status. He has a great influence among Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. If he can deal with this big shot, it will be of great benefit to his future development.
In the Chinese cultural environment, as long as you can get a little interpersonal relationship, many things will be much easier to handle.
After the liberation, the Jiang family disappeared, and their descendants were scattered overseas. Chen Chong did not have the ability to find Jiang Kongyin's immediate family who was close to Liao Chengzhi in the vast crowd. However, he knew that Jiang Zhiqiang's family and Liao Chengzhi must have a hot relationship, because at the beginning of reform and opening up, Shenzhen had just been established, and the mainland film market was not open to the public at all. Jiang Zhiqiang's father went to Shenzhen to invest and build a cinema. If it were not for Liao Chengzhi's relationship, how could he dare to be so bold with the Hong Kong people who change their urination when they see the wind... (Note 1)
Jiang Zhiqiang's father was engaged in the film industry as early as the 1950s and operated an independent cinema. He was the president of the Hong Kong Theater Chamber of Commerce. Jiang Zhiqiang followed him to Europe to buy films at the age of thirteen or fourteen. He was very interested in the film industry because of his influence. However, his father is in full swing and has a big brother to help him. He couldn't get involved in the family theater business. When he was bored, he followed Grandma Li to do odd jobs in the crew of "Crazy Job". So after receiving the invitation from Chen Chong, he quickly agreed to work at Oriental Charming Company.
After Jiang Zhiqiang left, Chen Chong said to Anhua Xu: "Director Xu, I want to invest in a new movie. Are you interested?"
Upon hearing this, Ann Hui put down her cigarette butt, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, "What movie?"
Chen Chong said word by word: "The name of this movie is: "Shisanlang of the South China Sea."
Chapter completed!