1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 115 The Political Department Invited Me to Have Tea

1983 years.

There are still eight years left.

What happened during this period of time?

A few years ago, at the celebration of KMT's 80th anniversary, Taiwan Television Company put on a special show to show its loyalty, but it chose the wrong background music.

Once the program was broadcast, the police chief in charge of reviewing it was almost scared to death.

Then the entire Taiwan Television Company was investigated from top to bottom.

It was finally discovered that it was a sound engineer named Yang who found the melody of this song from an imported record and put it in the program. However, because it was a banned song and no one in the audience had ever heard it, it was used as the background music for the program.

Afterwards, in order to prevent such incidents from happening again, all relevant departments, from the National Police Agency to the Executive Yuan News Bureau, underwent strict re-training.

And the sound engineer named Yang is gone just like that, gone in the physical sense.

"Is it that awesome?"

After Zhai Yuan heard Shen Wei's story, an expression of surprise appeared on his face.

“It’s just that awesome.”

Shen Wei imitated Zhai Yuan's tone and said helplessly: "Boss, you are a bit willful this time."

Zhai Yuan nodded thoughtfully.

"Fuck! Michelle Pfeiffer left early!"

He suddenly regretted it and slapped his thigh: "If she had been allowed to reshoot the final Easter egg scene, the value of this movie would have been much higher in the future!"

Shen Wei stared at Zhai Yuan as if he were a monster, his eyes almost popping out.

Didn't you understand what I was saying?
Zhai Yuan asked, "Are you shocked?"

"I don't mind, but I'm worried that you'll be banned and won't be able to pay me."

"I thought you were concerned about me, but it turns out you were concerned about yourself."

Zhai Yuan looked at him with disappointment.

"Boss, that's not what I meant..."

Shen Wei suddenly felt ashamed. Although this boss sometimes did things in a clumsy way, he was still nice to him.

He was just about to say a few words to express his loyalty when he heard Zhai Yuan's voice again.

"I treat you as my own son. Can't you take responsibility for this matter for your father?"

"…I think you're still in no hurry."

Shen Wei was somewhat impressed by the boss for still being able to make a joke at this time.

Zhai Yuan laughed a few times and said nonchalantly, "Why should I be in a hurry? I want to film in Hong Kong, so I definitely won't sign the document to join the Freedom Association. This is the premise, right?"

“It doesn’t matter if you sign it.”

"Stop it, if you sign me, I'll be dead."

Zhai Yuan winked at him and said, "Under this premise, a movie made by a non-member like me cannot be shown in Taiwan, right?"

"Yes." Shen Wei nodded in agreement.

"What's the difference between that and banning me!"

Zhai Yuan directly grasped the key point: "Instead of letting those idiots issue a ban order to me, why don't I take the initiative to do things myself? I just don't want to do business in Taiwan. Prostitutes have the right to choose their customers, so why don't I, your boss?"

Shen Wei still looked embarrassed and asked, "But there is no need to deliberately provoke the other party, right? How will it end in the future?"

"You intellectuals are thin-skinned. People have put a knife to your neck, and you are still worrying about how it will end when you fall out with them."

Zhai Yuan patted his shoulder vigorously: "Now is the time to take the knife away and hit him a few times. Feel good first, and then talk about whether you can end it or not. We will consider it later."

An expression of "Master, I understand" gradually appeared on Shen Wei's face.

"What if Baodao insists on asking you to give an explanation?"

"explain?"

Zhai Yuan snorted disdainfully and slapped a few cards he received this morning on the table: "Who do I need to explain to for screwing around with my grandfather?"

'Dear Mr. Zhai Yuan, thank you for your continued support and contribution to the Hong Kong film industry...'

——Yindu Organization Co., Ltd.

'…Our association unites young talents from all walks of life in Hong Kong, aims to unite patriotic people and promote exchanges and development between the two places. We sincerely invite you to join us.'

——Hong Kong Youth Federation.

"…We crossed the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and spent 29 days of pleasant journey. We gained a deep understanding of the construction and development of the inland areas and realized that the word 'great' is not an empty word…"

——Hong Kong Diaoyu Islands Protection Association.

At this time, Hong Kong was still under the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong government.

Patriots can only form such civil society organizations to encourage each other to move forward.

Needless to say, Taiwan has a lot more money at best, and they will always have some freedom, using the economy to coerce a group of celebrities to speak out.

But as Zhai Yuan said, so what if you have so much money? Even prostitutes can choose their clients. I am a boss with tens of millions of dollars. Do I have to rush to make money from your film industry?

After the whole thing fermented, it sounded exaggerated, but in fact it only caused a sensation in such a small place as the entertainment industry.

Pang Ka Yin even called me and said, "My dad said you are great. If you can't make it in the film industry, you can come to our grain store and be a manager."

For the real bosses, this matter is just a joke after dinner. This kid in the newspaper is very powerful. He ate the food of Baodao and smashed the pot.

Then it was gone.

Li Jiacheng is in the real estate business, Peng Jiayan’s family is in the grain business, Xue Wanen’s family is in the electrical business... Who would care whether your island is banned or not.

The phone on the table suddenly rang.

Zhai Yuan picked up the phone, and Guan Weiming's excited voice immediately sounded on the other end.

"Boss, the person in charge of Disney just called and agreed to buy out the distribution rights of This Man From Earth for one million US dollars."

"Because this movie was on the news, right? Those damn foreigners are really calculating."

Zhai Yuan cursed with a smile, not at all surprised by Disney's sudden order.

"This Man From Earth" once again made the headlines because of the Red Song incident. The videotape orders from Formosa were gone, but the orders from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the United States and Canada surged again.

Look, who knows which cloud will bring rain.

"It's time to collect the movie profits from Princess Jin and Golden Harvest."

Zhai Yuan hung up the phone and said to Shen Wei, "If they dare to deny their debt, I will tell the outside world at the next press conference that everything was instructed by them. Cheng Shilong, Bald Man, Hong Xinbao, and Huang Baiming are all my best friends. Do you understand me?"

Living plague god!
Shen Wei felt that Zhai Yuan was emitting the aura of plague at this moment, and people in the film industry would definitely avoid him.

"Where are you going now?"

Seeing Zhai Yuan standing up and preparing to leave, Shen Weiduo asked another question.

“It’s not easy to be patriotic these days.”

Zhai Yuan stretched lazily, smiled and raised his eyebrows at Shen Wei: "The Political Department invited me to have tea at Mount Davis."

When Shen Wei heard the word "Political Department", his heart sank suddenly and his face turned ugly.

"Should I contact Assistant He and his boss, the congressman?"

"No need to contact me. I don't even dare to answer the phone."

Zhai Yuan pouted nonchalantly: "But I guess it's not that serious, otherwise if the news spread last night, they would have broken in and taken me away."

Shen Wei nodded and wanted to say something else, but he didn't know how to start.

It is more troublesome when it comes to the Political Department. The law can be enforced in other places in Hong Kong, but it doesn't apply there.

This department was established under the foreigners' Military X-5, and also cooperated with the Military X-6. No matter whether they were close to Taiwan or the mainland, they would be investigated. It was even more frightening than the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The deterrent effect of the phrase "I'd like to invite you to the ICAC for coffee" is far less than that of "I'd like to invite you to Mount Davis for tea".

"That should just be a routine question."

"I hope so. If my body is thrown into Mount Mosing, please remember to burn incense for me."

Zhai Yuan laughed with his teeth bared, which made Shen Wei feel a little amused and helpless.

Are you afraid or not?
…………

Cassette merchants from Hong Kong played red songs in Formosa.

This matter is still continuing to ferment.

"The Freedom Association and all its members have publicly issued a statement that Zhai Yuan is not a member of the association and his behavior is vile and despicable. We have now issued a super ban order against him." - Sing Tao Daily.

The entertainment circles in Hong Kong and Taiwan always seem to like using exaggerated words.

If Tan Yonglin is called the superstar, then Deng Lijun, who is more famous than him, should be called the superstar.

So much so that Zhai Yuan’s ban order was renamed a super ban order.

"Golden Princess and Golden Harvest cinema chains issued a joint statement to ban all films produced by the Jiuyi Entertainment Film Production Company, whose boss is the recent celebrity Zhai Yuan." - Oriental Daily.

When Zhai Yuan's identity was exposed, Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun both came to their senses, and the two competitors rarely issued a unified statement.

Unfortunately, Zhai Yuan had already used up all their screen time, and Shen Wei also took back more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars in box office net profit.

The entire filming of "While You Were Sleeping" cost less than two million, what a huge profit!
"Naive thinking and childish behavior. Instead of destroying their own future by pursuing patriotism, the young people in the housing estates should first find a way to fill their stomachs." - Ming Pao

Tsk tsk, Mr. Jin is still jumping back and forth as usual.

He also made corresponding judgments on Zhai Yuan's behavior, but unfortunately the news was a little behind the times, and he didn't know that Zhai Yuan had long since gotten rid of his identity as a housing estate boy.

There are many other newspapers.

But broadly speaking, it can all be chalked up to an open and veiled struggle between two factions in the newspaper industry.

Hong Kong's newspaper industry has not been this lively for a long time.

And just when both sides seemed to have stopped fighting.

Two explosive news stories were published in succession in the China-Hong Kong Daily News, Hong Kong's best-selling broadsheet.

"The Taiwan writer Sanmao accepted an interview yesterday and planned to hold a red song concert in Taiwan to break the authoritarianism." - China-Hong Kong Daily.

"Two people from Taiwan sneaked into Hong Kong to assassinate Zhai Yuan. They were arrested by the Political Department as soon as they landed. They have been taken to the White House in Mount Davis." - China Hong Kong Daily.

One stone caused a thousand ripples, and the entire Hong Kong news industry was in an uproar again.

This time, even the bigwigs outside the entertainment industry have noticed this matter and set their sights on Zhai Yuan, a little-known young man.

At this time, Zhai Yuan had no idea what was happening in the outside world.

He had already boarded the Special Branch's special car and was heading to the White House in Mount Davis, escorted by three police officers.

(End of this chapter)