The King of Soft Rice in Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 512 Division
Liu Xiaoli's arrangement was not out of suspicion or concern for Xue Kaiqi. With the simulation system in place, it was almost impossible for her to be tricked, especially since her family had two sets of supplies.

In fact, in the simulations involving Xue Kaiqi so far, she has been very obedient and quite capable.

As mentioned earlier, girls from Hong Kong and Taiwan are easier to train than girls from mainland China. Among them, middle-class girls from Hong Kong who have money but no means of production are even easier to train than girls from Taiwan.

So besides Xue Kaiqi, Liu Xiaoli has also been training several others, one of whom should have made a name for herself through the Miss Hong Kong pageant.

Therefore, this arrangement is mainly because the two of them together can achieve a synergistic effect greater than the sum of their parts.

Xue Kaiqi is quite capable, but she occasionally acts out. Liu Fanping is very steady, but sometimes she is too steady, which turns into insecurity. However, when they work together, they complement each other, which is quite amazing.

However, this is not without its drawbacks. Because Liu Fanping is too focused on stability and has become a couple with Xue Kaiqi, he tends to leave all the work to Xue Kaiqi and slack off on his own. Therefore, it is necessary to give her a suitable responsibility.

After much thought, Liu Xiaoli came up with this idea: since Liu Fanping was more obedient than Xue Kaiqi, she could find an excuse to have her keep an eye on Xue Kaiqi, but without telling her. In this way, if she had something to do, she wouldn't slack off and could help her better manage the film and television company with the Hong Kong entertainment industry label.

Acquiring Golden Harvest is a big plan, and it was planned long ago. As mentioned before, although they don't need the profits from the entertainment industry, they should still keep the media channels in their hands in order to control them.

Moreover, everyone agreed that someone should be kept in a place where they could see and touch him, and where news could be sent out at any time.

Therefore, all private capital in the mainland entertainment industry is doomed to fail. Whether it's Huayi Brothers, which has some influence, or Orange Sky Entertainment, which is preparing to make a big splash, Bona Entertainment has a strong background and cannot be touched too much, but it will also be targeted and weakened.

Let's not even talk about Huayi; the two kings are already in the bag, now it's just a matter of when the US will choose to file a lawsuit.

Orange Sky's success story is quite simple. Although Wu Kebo was backed by Japanese capital and had also won over Wang Jinhua, his real takeoff came from the acquisition of Golden Harvest.

After all, the Hong Kong entertainment circle still had some lingering glory at that time, and Orange Sky Entertainment established connections with them after acquiring Golden Harvest.

Unfortunately, Wu Kebo was too arrogant and obsessed with finance. He never thought about making movies properly, failed to poach Feng Kuzi from Huayi Brothers, and was tricked by the Hong Kong entertainment circle. Naturally, his career was short-lived.

However, at the time when Orange Sky acquired Golden Harvest in 07, Wu Kebo did seem to have an edge over the two big kings and was a rising force in the mainland entertainment industry.

Therefore, as long as Golden Harvest was acquired before him, Orange Sky would be a toothless tiger, and it would be easy to deal with it. The Japanese money is not so easy to take.

This is what Xue Kaiqi meant when she said that Liu Xiaoli was using Stephen Chow as a figurehead to establish her authority. Even if someone is a native of Hong Kong, as long as they are not in the entertainment industry and do not have a strong enough background, these sly people in the Hong Kong circle will still take advantage of them. Especially since the 90s, the mainland's unlimited subservience has fattened their appetites.

Of course, this method alone was not enough to completely intimidate these insects, so Xue Kaiqi was unaware that Liu Xiaoli had also brought Li Yunxin into the picture.

The team's current plan is that Angela will represent and control foreign capital in the mainland entertainment industry, Gao Yuanyuan and Fan Bingbing will represent and control mainland capital, and Liu Xiaoli and Li Yunxin will represent and control Hong Kong and Taiwan capital.

In any circle, a monopoly by the upper echelons will attract crackdowns, especially in mainland China where officialdom is paramount and the system is completely different from Hollywood. Therefore, this superficial separation while secretly engaging in collusion is more suitable for the environment.

Representation and control do not mean dominating others; it is merely a way of positioning oneself. In the mainland entertainment industry, when people mention foreign capital, they think of Angela's Mingdeng Media; when they mention mainland capital, they think of Gao Yuanyuan's Fangyuan Culture and Fan Bingbing's Xingyao Media; and when they mention Hong Kong and Taiwan capital, they think of Liu Xiaoli's Hongchuan Pictures and Li Yunxin's Jinwu Media.

Therefore, besides Huayi and Orange Sky, there are many other targets that need to be targeted, the difference being that they cannot be directly suppressed.

Leaving aside Bona Film Group, Sir Yang's film company is also involved. He's currently overwhelmed with various trivial matters. While the troubles he's encountered aren't crippling, they've kept him too busy to attend to anything else. In the end, they're just local bullies in Hong Kong, and for women like them who have systems and can team up, they're not difficult to manipulate.

The most typical example is that "The Myth," which was supposed to be released last year, has been lost somewhere.

As for the media companies that emerge later, whether it's Pegasus Media, LeEco, Enlight Media, or Alibaba and Tencent representing IT capital, there's no need to pay too much attention. As long as they occupy their niche first, with their strength a few years from now, it will be easy for them to block these guys and confine them to the second tier.

Wanda will have to put in a little more effort, as their cinemas are being built rapidly along with the expansion of the plaza, and the movies will have to rely on cinemas to attract audiences for at least a long time.

Of course, we're talking about movies that are genuinely designed to serve the audience.

Although Alibaba and Tencent also have their own cinema chains, the latter has built a few stylized cinemas as a hobby, while the former is known by many for its reputation of "whoever it invests in will fail".

Getting back to the main topic, things in Hong Kong have been mostly resolved, with only one issue remaining.

"When I face Li Yunxin, how am I supposed to explain this?" Liu Xiaoli sighed as she got out of the car back at the villa in Qingshui Bay.

Liu Qianqian certainly couldn't afford such a deal, especially since she now has her own ideas and goals.

Therefore, Liu Xiaoli had to personally come forward to discuss the division of benefits with Li Yunxin. In this way, the fact that she also had a system could no longer be concealed.

Although they had some guesses based on the information Liu Qianqian brought back after each gathering, plus Yang Mi's supplementary analysis, they just couldn't be sure.

Then, Yang Mi had already taken the blame for something before, and now they're doing this again. It's hard to say what they'll think.

"If only Sisi were as capable as Fiona," Liu Xiaoli thought to herself as they entered the villa.

Then I heard my daughter's voice: "Leave the things with me, I'll tell Mom."

She was standing at the top of the stairs, talking to a woman dressed as an assistant, and waving to her mother when she saw her.

"Go do your own thing, Grace," Liu Qianqian casually instructed, then went to Liu Xiaoli, nodded to Xue Kaiqi first, and then held up the documents in her hand: "Grace helped me organize the information on Oriental Film Industry, and there are a few issues that seem to be different from what I imagined...

“Let’s talk in the study,” Liu Xiaoli said, while the quick-witted Xue Kaiqi made an excuse and slipped away.

Upon entering the study, Liu Xiaoli did not immediately ask any questions. Instead, she secretly observed her daughter while looking at the documents.

After handing the documents to her mother, Liu Qianqian sat on the sofa and started looking through other files, appearing very serious and focused, which made Liu Xiaoli feel a sense of unfamiliarity.

Since her birthday last year, her daughter seems to have finally started to mature. She's stopped being noisy and impulsive, and has begun to pay more attention to things at home, which worries her a lot.

(End of this chapter)