Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

"Boss Wu, how come you have time to drink tea with me? This is really surprising."

In a seemingly ordinary teahouse, Wu Siyuan was meeting a group of special people.

Xin'an is a well-established restaurant in Xiangjiang. Most people can say that they are afraid to avoid Xin'an and will never take the initiative to get involved.

But what is surprising is that the person who invited the other party to have tea today was none other than Wu Siyuan.

He specially invited Ah Sheng, the leader of Xin'an, out, so naturally it couldn't be just to have a cup of tea with him.

In a small place like Xiangjiang, it is difficult for ordinary business people to avoid underground power like this. After all, there are so many of them that it is difficult to encounter them even if they don't want to.

Unless one is powerful enough to ignore them, it would be difficult for ordinary people to refuse to deal with them.

Wu Siyuan has been working in this industry for many years, so it is normal for him to have met or have some friendship with these people.

However, Wu Siyuan invited Ah Sheng out today not because of his own reasons, but because of Fei Peng's instructions, or in other words, his explanation.

To deal with Lin Daoqiu, it would be easy to get caught using normal administrative methods, and confronting Lin Daoqiu like this with an open flame stick is obviously not what Fei Peng wants to see.

So he decided to find another way to find someone else to deal with Lin Daoqiu. In Xiangjiang, there were very few people who did not buy Lin Daoqiu's face, and Xin'an happened to be one of them.

According to Fei Peng's understanding, Xin'an actually had a very unpleasant experience with Lin Daoqiu before, and later even used Ji O to come forward to resolve the incident.

But since then, Xin'an has not continued to trouble Lin Daoqiu, and they have been much at peace with each other.

It's not like Lin Daoqiu had no contact with Xin'an during this period. His theaters and studios have been paying protection fees to Xin'an every month. But most people don't know about this kind of thing. It seems that even Xin'an is not aware of it.

There is nothing we can do about Lin Daoqiu, but that is not the case.

The way Lin Daoqiu and Xin'an get along is that they can give you money, but they can't cause trouble.

And Xin'an didn't want to have too big a conflict with Lin Daoqiu, otherwise they would cause a lot of trouble if they were targeted by O's people, and in the end they would lose a lot of money.

But now the situation is different. After Wei Yixin left Xiangjiang, he was replaced by Fei Peng as the governor, and the tight spell on the heads of the Xin'an officials was suddenly lifted.

But Xin'an and the other gangsters didn't know about this at all, and they thought everything was business as usual.

If someone told them at this time that they could do whatever they wanted in the next period of time, Fei Peng believed that Xin'an and other people in the hall would be happy to enter the film and television industry that has grown the fastest in Hong Kong in recent years and make some money.

Based on their rules for doing things in the Tao, it is obviously impossible for them to make movies and make money honestly according to the rules. After all, these people were not doing legitimate business from the beginning.

In addition to helping them make money, the film industry can also help them launder their illegally obtained money, which is an even bigger incentive for them.

"Brother Sheng is so polite. Siyuan Pictures has been taken care of by Xin'an these years. I have benefited from it for so many years. I should invite Brother Sheng out for a cup of tea to express my gratitude."

Ah Sheng didn't believe what Wu Siyuan said at all. After all, they basically never met each other. Even when collecting money, Ah Sheng just sent his younger brother to Siyuan Pictures for a visit, and would not say that he came to the door on his own initiative.

As for Wu Siyuan saying that he wanted to thank himself, Ah Sheng didn't believe that the other party really thought so. After all, Wu Siyuan paid the protection fee that Xinan received from Siyuan Pictures every month, but he was absolutely dissatisfied in his heart.

willing to pay the money.

Just because he was afraid of Xin'an's strength and couldn't find anyone to help, Wu Siyuan had to hand over the money honestly every month.

But today is different from the past. Ah Sheng had already received the news that Wu Siyuan had surrendered to Fei Peng. This was really something beyond his expectation.

If Wu Siyuan is already a member of Fei Peng, then they will naturally not dare to collect the protection money from Siyuan Pictures in the future. After all, he is the governor of Xiangjiang, and he can punish them as he wants. Ah Sheng has no resistance at all.

room.

"Thank you, Boss Wu, for your understanding. If everyone thinks the same as you, it will be a lot easier for us to do things."

Ah Sheng smiled slightly at Wu Siyuan, but in his heart he was wondering why the other party was looking for him today.

After thinking about it, Ah Sheng felt that Wu Siyuan's purpose of inviting him to tea today was probably to use Fei Peng's name to scare him and make Xin'an stop going to Siyuan Pictures to collect money.

If this is the case, then Ah Sheng has no good solution. Naturally, he does not dare to go against Fei Peng, because if he does, he will definitely lose miserably.

"Actually, I came to Brother Sheng for tea today because there is something I want to talk to you about."

At this time, Wu Siyuan suddenly stopped smiling, and then showed a very serious expression. It seemed that what he was going to say next was the serious matter he wanted to discuss during his appointment with Ah Sheng today.

After Ah Sheng heard what Wu Siyuan said, he also nodded, then looked at the other person without speaking.

"The film market in Hong Kong has been very strong in the past few years. The highest box office has reached hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. If it can be maintained, the total box office revenue of Hong Kong in a year will reach an astonishing 3 billion."

Three billion sounds like a lot of money, but if it's just that, it doesn't seem very attractive.

After all, the box office revenue must be deducted from the share with Xiangjiang Cinemas before it falls into their pockets.

Nowadays, most of the movies that can sell well are invested by Lin Daoqiu, so the person who really makes the big money is actually Lin Daoqiu, followed by the stars who get huge paychecks.

"Boss Wu, although I don't know if what you said is true, I am not in the movie industry, so what do you mean by telling me this?"

Ah Sheng didn't understand why Wu Siyuan was telling him this. He was not a movie maker. No matter how much money he made at the Xiangjiang Film Market, it had nothing to do with him.

Hearing Ah Sheng's question, Wu Siyuan's serious face suddenly showed a smile.

"Does Brother Sheng really want to turn a blind eye to this kind of profitable business? Besides the local box office in Xiangjiang, the biggest revenue of Xiangjiang movies comes from selling the port, and the money is by no means smaller than the business you do.

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