1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 392 Mr. Zhai is a good person

'The stock market is booming, and the market is full of joy. Prodigy Yuan shorted the Hang Seng Index and hit the target. Insiders revealed that he made a net profit of more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars this time. That night, he went to the hotel with the bombshell actress to celebrate...'

The picture accompanying the news is a candid shot of Zhai Yuan and the hot actress Li Zhi walking into the Peninsula Hotel together.

"You know what, Xiao Zhai has a good business sense. You lost a few thousand dollars by imitating others in stock trading, but Xiao Zhai made hundreds of millions. It will take you a lifetime to spend that much money."

In a residential building in Tai Kok Tsui.

Jet Li lay on the sofa, staring at the entertainment page of the newspaper in his hand with complicated eyes.

His wife Huang Qiuyan was kneeling behind him, stretching his muscles and massaging him. She glanced at the news headlines and couldn't help but sigh.

Then he continued to ramble, "It's just that he changes girlfriends too frequently. It's only because Hong Kong people are open-minded. If he were in his hometown, he would have been arrested as a hooligan."

"Xiao Jie, I think we should learn more from him. Didn't he buy more than a dozen properties in Yanjing? Let's go get one later. I heard that commercial housing is cheap now. We can buy one by shooting a movie. People in Hong Kong often say that buying bricks is worse than buying jewelry. Maybe the housing prices will go up one day."

"Did you hear me talking to you?"

Huang Qiuyan talked to herself for a long time without getting a response, so she gently pushed Jet Li from behind.

Li Lianjie suddenly came to his senses and said impatiently: "Okay, I know, let's talk about it later. If you want to buy a house, you should buy it in a big city in America. What do you know? Every household in Yanjing has a house. Who will I sell it to after I buy it?"

At that time, the mainland had just started its reform and opening up, and there was a strict household registration system, so most people thought this way.

Huang Qiuyan said "oh" as if she understood, and said hesitantly: "But Xiao Zhai has bought it."

"Too much money to burn!" Jet Li crumpled up the newspaper and said unhappily, "Besides, why do you keep mentioning him?"

Huang Qiuyan was slightly stunned, and then a smile appeared on her face.

I never knew my junior fellow apprentice was jealous. It was worth it for me to leave my job and come all the way to take care of him...

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"Sister Nan, here is the script of A Chinese Ghost Story. Give it to Lao Xu when you go to New Vision."

Zhai Yuan sat in the office, yawning and throwing a stack of manuscripts on the table. He then said to Shi Nansheng, "Also, let Cheng Xiaodong be the assistant director. The budget for this play is 500 million. I wrote a simple script. If we let Old Xu let his imagination run wild, it will probably go over budget. Let Cheng Xiaodong help him check it."

Among this generation of young Hong Kong directors, Zhai Yuan has always felt that Cheng Xiaodong is an unsung talent, especially when it comes to shooting certain types of action movies. Cheng Xiaodong is very capable of bringing out the majestic momentum of northern-style kung fu, and is very suitable to be paired with the romantic Xu Ke.

Although "The Secret of Life and Death", which was his first directorial effort, is not very famous, it is considered an excellent work of innovation and integration in the martial arts films in recent years. The character setting and atmosphere creation have influenced many subsequent martial arts films and TV series.

"Xiaodong is fine. He has worked with Ah Xu on two dramas before. It would be a waste of his talent to be a martial arts instructor."

Shi Nansheng knows Xu Ke's style best. In the past, she was the producer who supervised all the films. Now that the company has more and more business, it really needs to find someone to control his divergent thinking.

As he spoke, he flipped through the script paper in his hand.

Shi Nansheng raised his eyebrows and found that the handwriting was beautiful and different from Zhai Yuan's previous handwriting.

"Well, anyway, just follow this script and the result shouldn't be too different. Call me if you have any questions..."

Zhai Yuan continued to talk to himself, paused and said, "No, call my secretary."

Shi Nansheng looked up in surprise: "Secretary?"

Zhai Yuan smiled and said, "Yes, she is a top student at the San Francisco Business School and the daughter of the Li family, one of the four great families in Hong Kong. You will be handing over your work to her in the future. Are you surprised?"

Shi Nansheng was frightened and stunned.

The four great families of Hong Kong, the Lee, Ho, Lee and Lo, have been passed down for a hundred years.

The Li family refers to the Li Xizhen family. After the death of the third son Li Xiaohe, the previous head of the business world, his children were still young. His wife Li Lu Yanqun could only inherit 10 billion Hong Kong dollars to maintain the family business. However, with her strong woman style, the family business has been thriving in recent years and has become a representative figure of the Li family in the business world.

Shi Nansheng was inexplicably curious: Which branch of the Li family's daughter did Boss Zhai abduct?

Until ten minutes later.

Li Zhi knocked on the door and came in wearing a black professional suit, high heels and a pair of sweet thighs wrapped in stockings, which was completely different from her usual revealing outfit.

But there was still an innate charm between her eyebrows and eyes, which made her normal outfit seem a bit different.

"Mr. Zhai, Manager Shi, good morning."

Lizhi entered the office and greeted everyone politely.

Zhai Yuan smiled and nodded, then turned to look at Shi Nansheng and introduced: "Miss Li, my new secretary, she will be responsible for my daily work in the future. Remember to arrange a workstation for her."

Sharp branch?

From the Li Xizhen family?
This shouldn't be the case. Li Xizhen has 15 children, and the sons are in business and officialdom. Even the unpopular daughter married into a wealthy merchant family. If she really had this status, she would have been very successful in her own TVB. Why would she have gone through so much trouble to participate in the ATV beauty pageant, and even be bullied and reported in the newspapers, making it known to everyone in the city?

Shi Nansheng looked at the sexy and beautiful girl in front of him, his eyes full of curiosity.

Shi Nansheng smiled amiably at Li Zhi and asked, "If Mr. Zhai hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that Miss Li was from the Li family."

"Me?" Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this and didn't know how to answer.

Is it true that my home is worthy of being called a family?
Shi Nansheng knew that he had been deceived by Zhai Yuan again when he saw her reaction, and rolled his eyes at him. "Mr. Zhai told me that his new secretary is the daughter of Li Xizhen's family and has a strong background."

"How can I be so lucky?" Li Zhi laughed dumbly: "If I had a strong background, I wouldn't have been booed for a whole year."

He saw two women looking at him.

Zhai Yuan smiled and said, "Not yet, but soon. I just made a fortune in the stock market, and I plan to buy an identity for my secretary and develop some new business to raise the stock price when it goes public in the future."

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After Black Monday, the newspapers said that Zhai Yuan had made more than 500 million from his shop.

In actual terms, Zhai Yuan earned a total of HK$720 million from this stock market crash.

Nearly 1 million US dollars.

It sounds like a lot, but it depends on who you are comparing it to.

In 1980, Li Xiaohe died of a heart attack, leaving behind a lot of businesses. His widow, Li Lu Yanqun, split up and sold one of the businesses, the United Soda House, the factory to a local consortium, and the -Up and Yuquan soda distribution business to a Singapore beverage company.

The same cash out was around 700 million.

Before the Hong Kong dollar was pegged to the U.S. dollar in 83, Mrs. Li used the money to buy U.S. dollars, doubling her principal.

Before the Plaza Accord in 85, Mrs. Lee invested the money in Japanese yen, which then appreciated significantly.

In just a few years, a United Soda House snowballed into more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash assets under her hands.

An extended version of the Bentley is driving on the street.

Zhai Yuan is now preparing to meet this powerful woman in Hong Kong's business community.

"I heard that Mrs. Li has a team of more than ten financial advisors, so she is able to seize the opportunity every time and firmly maintain her position as the richest wife in Hong Kong."

Zhai Yuan sat in the car and smiled at Li Zhi beside him, "Uncle Zhao Liu told me that Madam Li is now planning to cash out her TVB shares. My Jiuyi Entertainment is only lacking TV in terms of film, television and music. I will take advantage of this stock market crash to push down the price and make up for the last shortcoming. In the future, the business can be developed in Guangdong and Guangxi."

"You graduated from business school, so this lecture is just an internship. By the way, we all have the last name Li, so you can build a good relationship and ask Mrs. Li to take you in as her adopted daughter. That way, you will be the only one bullying others in the entertainment industry in the future."

"Also, I have discussed with Uncle Zhao Liu that as long as I get a portion of the shares from Mrs. Li, we can work together to make a new TV series based on the current stock market crash. If the ratings are good, he will recommend me to the board of directors... When can you be free to go to the hotel to discuss the script?"

Lizhi had been listening carefully to the first half of Zhai Yuan's words until he finished speaking the last sentence, when a blush appeared on her cold pale face.

When he sent her to the hotel last night, she thought she was going to be murdered, but Mr. Zhai in front of her did not look as anxious as she had imagined. Instead, he actually took out a pen and paper and started talking about the script.

He said that it was through his own notes that the script paper in Shi Nansheng's hand came into being.

Finally, after learning that I graduated from a business school, he asked me to be his secretary and then hurriedly left the hotel.

Although today's newspapers wrote something about 'lingering celebration'.

But Lizhi knew,

Mr. Zhai is a good man.

Li Zhi asked softly, "There will be a Thousand Stars Charity Concert at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in two days. They want me to be the host. Can we wait until next week?"

"Charity concert? Where?"

“Hung Hom Stadium.”

Zhai Yuan nodded in understanding after hearing this, pondered for a moment, and stretched out his hand towards Li Zhi.

Lizhi didn't understand what he meant. She bit her lip and hesitated, then handed her little hand to Zhai Yuan, allowing him to take advantage of her.

Zhai Yuan was startled, and played with Li Zhi's fingers for a while, then said unhappily: "Phone, Secretary! If you want to offer yourself, can you please save it until next time you go to the hotel?"

Lizhi's face flushed instantly, and she hurriedly tried to pull her hand away, but Zhai Yuan continued to hold and caress it. She felt embarrassed and anxious, so she had to use her other hand to take out the phone and hand it to him.

"That's right. I'm a big boss. How can I carry a brick with me from now on?"

Zhai Yuan patiently persuaded him and made a few gestures: "Remember this in the future, this is for drinking water, this is for shutting up, this is for rubbing your legs, and I'm bringing my face closer so you can kiss me, you bastard~"

Lizhi: “…”

"Hey, Uncle Ho."

While Zhai Yuan was stroking Li Zhi's soft little hand, he called the number of Ho Sai-chu, a shareholder of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and the September 1st Daily Newspaper: "My secretary told me that the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals is going to hold a charity concert. How come I didn't hear about it?"

He Shizhu laughed through the receiver: "They are all singers and celebrities. You, a big boss, wouldn't be interested in it? But I heard that you made a lot of money in the stock market. You can sponsor this concert. We'll go find other rich people."

"I am heading to TVB, planning to get some shares of the TV station from Mrs. Lee Ho Hop."

Zhai Yuan first talked about what he was going to do, and then continued: "This year, we originally had a beautiful girl group ready to debut, but we were afraid that the influence would not be big enough. Why not take this opportunity to put them together? Don't worry, I will take care of the venue fee and other expenses for this concert. It is also okay to use all the proceeds for charity. I have only one request, that the concert must be the main venue for the artists under my company. In addition, if I successfully obtain TVB shares and join the board of directors, the concert can also be broadcast to Guangdong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Would you consider it?"

(End of this chapter)