MC Bookstore Chapter 22 Dog Food Rock Sugar Turtle
Chapter 22 Dog Food Rock Sugar Turtle
Whether it was the Shaw family father and sons, or the Shaw brothers.
Both originated from Tianyi Film Company, which was founded in Shanghai in 1925. The name is the same as that of the son of a certain shameless singer, meaning "the best in the world".
However, Tianyi Film Company was only established for one year before its film set was destroyed by a fire.
Rumors circulated that the fire was caused by human intervention. Other film companies in Shanghai taught the Shaw Brothers to learn how to conduct themselves before doing business, which also taught the Shaw Brothers that they needed to find a powerful backer to succeed in business.
So in 1926, the eldest son of the founders brought his second son to Hong Kong and established Shaw Brothers, re-establishing film studios and making films. The development was extremely difficult.
The third brother took the sixth brother, Shao Yifu, to Southeast Asia, where they used a dilapidated silent projector to tour the countryside and show movies, thus completing their initial capital accumulation.
This seemed incredibly amazing to Chen Guanjiang!
With a dilapidated projector, and a silent one at that, they showed movies in the already impoverished rural areas of Southeast Asia, and in just four years in 1930, they bought more than ten theaters.
What's even more amazing is that in another five years, the number of theaters soared to more than 110, plus 9 amusement parks. The speed at which they made money was like a myth.
The film industry in Shanghai was profitable in the 20s, resulting in the emergence of more than 100 film companies. Tianyi Films, which made a lot of money, was even ostracized by local forces and had its studio burned down.
Given the speed at which Shaw Brothers accumulated its wealth, it should have made even more money in the Southeast Asian market in the 30s. It's even more amazing that Shanghai film companies didn't rush to compete for it, nor did the local Southeast Asian tycoons try to get a share!
However, if one examines his first wife's background closely, all doubts will be resolved, and his wealth and success will seem perfectly reasonable.
In 1926, when Shao Yifu went to Southeast Asia with his third brother, he met Yu Dongxuan and his goddaughter Huang Meizhen. The three of them often traveled together.
It's just a mystery why this wealthy Southeast Asian woman and the daughter of a Singaporean businessman always bring this poor boy from Shanghai, who carries a tattered projector, along when they go out to play.
In short, after being with the two of them, Shao Yifu's career began to soar.
Even the eldest brother, the founder of the family film company, and the third brother, the guide who brought him to Southeast Asia, could not suppress the rapid rise of this sixth brother. Yet, the people of Southeast Asia were not envious of his wealth.
In 1937, Shao Yifu and Huang Meizhen finally got married after a long period of love and marriage, and subsequently had four children, two sons and two daughters, making them a family with both sons and daughters.
It was in this year that Shaw's career reached its peak, with a theater chain consisting of 120 theaters.
Since then, even today, apart from Singapore after its founding, there are still 120 theaters in Southeast Asia.
Even after Southeast Asia's economy took off, there were no further breakthroughs in quantity.
It is worth mentioning that after Yu Dongxuan's death, Shao Yifu and Huang Meizhen had no more children, and he also had no children after marrying Fang Yihua. It is possible that he was too saddened by his elder brother's death to have children.
Last year, when his youngest son was kidnapped at his doorstep and a ransom of HK$100 million was demanded, Shao Yifu calmly went to the screening room instead of paying the ransom and watched a movie.
However, this fourth young master was quite skilled in martial arts. During the transfer, he risked his life to jump out of the car and escape, preferring to be seriously injured and risk becoming disabled rather than give the kidnappers the opportunity to get the million-dollar ransom.
However, in the same year, Shao Yifu spent millions of Hong Kong dollars on legal fees to destroy Golden Harvest without batting an eye, which shows how filial the fourth son is to save money for his father.
If time were delayed further, after Huang Meizhen's death, both her sons and two daughters would have gone to Southeast Asia to develop their careers.
Even after Shao Yifu passed away in 2014, not only did none of his children come to see him off, but his two sons and two daughters also refused to take a single penny of the hundreds of billions of assets he left behind. It's truly amazing!
Although paternity testing technology has emerged, it is not yet mature, thus the child becomes "Schrödinger's child".
Any powerful person who comes from humble beginnings likes to claim that they started from scratch, but how many of them truly did? The truth is, they can't withstand scrutiny.
Who is Chen Guanjiang? A master at confusing right and wrong!
Three consecutive "suspected" articles left Shaw Brothers speechless, while solid evidence left Golden Harvest speechless, and even Zhou Daheng could not escape being framed.
Based solely on these speculations and a few old photos, even if Yu Dongxuan were still alive, let alone already dead, he would be guaranteed to be unable to defend himself.
Crumpling the HK$10 check in his hand, Chen Guanjiang said angrily to Shao Yifu, who was getting up to leave, "Do you think I'm a beggar? I want HK$100 million!"
"are you sure?"
Shao Yifu sat back down in the main seat, his face grim, and said, "I'll accept HK$10 to keep quiet and avoid trouble, but HK$100 million would be making an enemy."
"So what if we become enemies?"
Yu Dongxuan, or rather the Yu Rensheng family, is no good either. In the last century, they tricked 80,000 "piglets" into going to Southeast Asia to mine, and then swallowed their hard-earned money through "tokens" and "accounting".
Furthermore, to ensure that the piglets would not escape, they set up "hawks, pigeons, and ducks" in their own mines, resulting in the burial of countless people's remains in other places.
Chen Guanjiang didn't consider himself a good person, but he was different from this kind of beast who would devour people without spitting out the bones. He had no qualms about cheating this Southeast Asian beast and leaving his dog in Hong Kong.
Moreover, if Koko Media wants to grow and become stronger in Hong Kong, it must enter the two largest information fields: horse racing and current affairs news.
Among them, the Hong Kong horse racing book was almost monopolized by the Oriental Daily News. Anyone who wanted to enter the horse racing book field would have to fight with the Ma family.
The supporters of Oriental Daily News were the Sun family and Eu Yan Sang family of TVB, as well as the On and Shaw families.
Compared to the other three, Shaw Brothers was really not respectable enough to be bullied.
"HKD 100 million, are you sure you don't want it to be exposed?"
"I'll step on an ant and promise you, you idiot! Hong Kong people don't lie to Hong Kong people!" Chen Guanjiang patted his chest and promised.
Upon hearing this, Fang Yihua's fingernails dug into her palm, and she was so angry that her pupils darted around and her whole body trembled.
"Give me the negatives."
Shao Yifu, true to his seasoned experience, stopped dwelling on these issues and wrote another HK$100 million cheque, saying, "Remember to invite your father to Xiafei Road to choose a coffin!"
Chen Guanjiang presented the photo and IOU with both hands, saying, "Let's not talk about those unhappy things. Uncle Liu, please try this. It was specially ordered for you."
Shao Yifu glanced at the rock sugar turtle and said meaningfully, "I'm old, my teeth aren't good! You're young, you can still bite it."
"Of course! I can eat anything, soft or hard." Chen Guanjiang smiled and picked up a piece to eat, his eyes full of nonchalance.
People who have been turtles often have bad memories when they see turtles, so it's normal for them to be a little irritable. Chen Guanjiang doesn't care about being called a dog biting a turtle.
For those from humble backgrounds who want to rise quickly, they have to work hard in difficult circumstances, adapting to any situation and swallowing everything...