Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

"Really, you don't know him?"

Du Yongxiao looked at Li Zhaoheng and smiled, a strange smile.

Lee Zhaoheng was stunned, "Why are you laughing? No matter how much you laugh, I don't recognize him!"

"Li, you are so shameless, how dare you say you don't know me?" Lian Haodong said angrily.

"Hey, hey, hey, who are you, talking nonsense here? You know, I am a celebrity in Hong Kong, and many people know me! Don't think that just because you have seen me on TV and newspapers, you can slander me!" Li Zhaoheng pointed at Lian Haodong's nose with a cigar, "Mr. Du said on the stage just now that although Hong Kong values ​​freedom of speech, it is not a place outside the law. You can slander and slander as you like! This is a crime!"

"Li, stop pretending to be innocent here! Every time I talk to you, I record it! Do you still want to quibble?"

"Recording? Really? Why don't I remember talking to you?" Li Zhaoheng's heart skipped a beat and he said without changing his expression.

To achieve his status, he has already developed the ability to remain calm even if the mountain collapses.

The surrounding media didn't care about this and took pictures of him.

Li Tiansheng immediately stopped him, "Don't take pictures! We at Ricci reserve the right to sue you for infringement of your portrait rights!"

The media continued to snap.

It's the biggest news of the century. You'd be stupid not to take a photo of it.

Datou Wen took the opportunity to step forward and walked in front of Li Zhaoheng: "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, according to the regulations of our police force, upon receiving a report, the suspect must be taken to record a statement. Now someone is accusing you of being behind the scenes to set fires and kill people. So please come back to the police station with us!”

Lee Zhao-heng smiled slightly, biting his cigar and said: "I am a good citizen, and I should cooperate with your police investigation!"

After speaking, he turned to Li Tiansheng and said, "Call my lawyer. Remember, you have to make more phone calls and bring in more of those royal documents, lest these sirs can't hear clearly!"

"Yes, boss!"

"Then can we leave now?" Da Tou Wen continued to ask.

"Of course!" Lee Zhaoheng waved his hand to the people around him, "I'm sorry, but I can't excuse you for a moment! As the saying goes, those who clean themselves will clean themselves up! Please also pay attention to my situation. By the way, if nothing happens, I will Accusing someone of smearing and slandering me! I have always believed that Hong Kong law is fair and just!”

After saying that, Lee waved again, as if he were visiting a head of state, with a proud attitude, and walked straight out of the venue.

The venue exploded.

Countless media outlets caught up, hoping to get new revelations as soon as possible.

Du Yongxiao looked at this scene coldly. At this time, Li Jiacheng's boss Li stepped forward and said, "Du Sheng, you don't have to go so far, right?"

"What if it were you?" Du Yongxiao asked Boss Li, "What would you do? Others framed you for murder and arson, smeared your character, and smeared the honor of your company. I know what you would do?"

"Uh, this--" Boss Li was speechless.

Du Yongxiao looked at Boss Li and said the last words: "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you!"

…

As soon as the press conference ended, the whole of Hong Kong began to commotion.

"Big news! Big news! Lee Siu-heng, general manager of Ritchie Group, was taken away by the police for questioning and suspected of arson and murder!"

"Lee Siu-heng is suspected of major criminal cases and cooperates with the police investigation as a suspect!"

News like this is almost everywhere in Hong Kong, but the content of Ming Pao's press conference has become secondary.

For many caring people, they understand that the fact that Lee Siu-heng was taken away by the police is of secondary importance, but the fatal thing is that To Yongxiao settles in Ming Pao!

Since then, To Yongxiao has controlled the three major media in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Daily, Oriental Daily, and Ming Pao. Together with his Golden Harvest Film Company, he has become the leader of public opinion.

Putting aside the whole of Hong Kong, there are only a handful of people who can compete with To Yongxiao in terms of public opinion, and Lee's is one of them. Don't forget, Lee's is the major shareholder of TVB and an old friend of Shaw Brothers!

Ritchie's public opinion machine has not yet been activated, but if it is activated, it will be absolutely sharp.

…

Shaw's Mansion——

Near noon, today's well-known Ritchie Group Chairman Li Xiaohe and Shaw Brothers Film Company President Shao Yifu were talking at the table in the study of Shaw Brothers' single-family villa in the Mid-Levels of Taiping Mountain.

"I know what you mean by coming here to find me, but I really don't want to get involved in the struggle between your Li family and Du Yongxiao." Shao Daheng found a few documents from the neat files on his desk and handed them to Li Xiaohe.

"These are some projects that our Shaw Brothers have cooperated with the Du Group in recent years. Each project requires a large investment. Even if I don't think about myself, I still have to think about our Shaw Brothers. Instead of making enemies, it is better to make friends."

There was no surprise on Li Xiaohe's face. Instead, he picked up the cold coffee with a smile and took an elegant sip: "Uncle Six, I know what you mean. Of course I also believe that you are the only one in Hong Kong who can have both sides and have friends everywhere. Successful businessmen in the world, but these cooperation documents are not important. Most Hong Kong people will not understand who you are cooperating with or who you are friends with, and they do not care about these. What they care about is that Du Yongxiao in Hong Kong is now a family in the public opinion circle. Duda, everyone now knows that he is the true king of entertainment, the number one entertainment tycoon and movie studio tycoon in Hong Kong. As for Shaw Brothers, he has been reduced to a second-rate guy! "

"Are you using the provoking method? Do you think I care about these false reputations?" Shao Daheng stood up from the desk and walked towards the bookshelf.

Soon, he found the book he needed, opened it, and murmured in his mouth: "All conditioned dharma is like bubbles in a dream, like dew or lightning, and should be observed like this... If I can, I I can lend you this book to read.”

Shao Daheng walked quickly back to the desk with the book in his arms, handed it directly to Li Xiaohe and said, "It's only good for you, no harm."

Li Xiaohe looked at Shao Daheng quietly, but did not pick up the book: "The Diamond Sutra? I have read it many times. Indeed, I will have new experiences every time I read it. But compared to the Diamond Sutra, I I really like Li Zongwu's "Houheixue". There are no eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests. Besides, you owe me a favor, and you still owe me a favor. "

"Is it worth it? To use this favor so easily just to wipe the butt of your precious son?"

At that time, Shaw Brothers encountered difficulties in funding for the decisive battle with MP\u0026M, and Shaw Tycoon had no choice but to seek help from the outside world.

It's a pity that no one was optimistic about Shaw Brothers at that time, because D\u0026M Lu Yuntao had already beaten Shaw Brothers to pieces. Shao Daheng begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother, but got nothing and couldn't get any help.

Just when he was about to despair, and Shaw Brothers would be directly defeated and declared bankrupt, only Li Xiaohe, the head of the Lee family, reached out to him and took out all the Lee family's cash of 35 million Hong Kong dollars in one go to invest in Shaw Brothers. This helped Shaw Brothers overcome the difficulties.

It is precisely because of this that when Shaw Brothers established TVB, they actively invited Lijia to become a major shareholder.

It was also at that time that Shao Daheng made a promise to Li Xiaohe, I owe you the Li family a favor, and as long as you ask in the future, you will definitely pay it back!

"There is nothing I can do about it." Li Xiaohe said with a wry smile, "I only have three sons, and the most popular one is the second one. Now he is in trouble. As a father, how can I just sit back and ignore him?"

"That's it..." Shao Daheng picked up a box of men's menthol-flavored cigarettes from the table, struck a match, held the cigarette with very little nicotine in his mouth, and said in a weak tone: "For your help For my own sake, I can't refuse you anymore, but the ugly words are ahead, so I can only do my best. As for whether I can help, I have to leave it to fate. "

He had quit smoking for many years, and he started smoking again for the first time today. He felt very uncomfortable.

"It's not as complicated as you think, Uncle Six -" Li Xiaohe looked at the somewhat troubled Shao Daheng and said, "To put it bluntly, isn't everything just a battle of public opinion? When it comes to this kind of thing, you are very familiar with it. I have never been afraid of anyone! Although Du Yongxiao is powerful, he is still young and energetic. I think you can beat him. "

"Don't put it so lightly. Although Du Yongxiao is young, he is more cunning than many old foxes..." Shao Daheng paused here.

Li Xiaohe asked curiously: "Could he still be better than Lu Yuntao?"

Lu Yuntao, the big boss of E\u0026M, is the person that Shao Daheng admires the most in his life, and he is also the person he respects the most. At that time, Lu Yuntao forced Shao Daheng to almost go bankrupt. If he hadn't been on a plane to Baodao to attend a movie ceremony and suffered a plane crash in mid-air, I'm afraid that now The Hong Kong entertainment industry will be dominated by the Lu family.

"No, it's not victory, but a genius!" A somewhat emotional expression appeared on Shao Daheng's face, but his tone was light: "I also thought I could beat him. I thought he was young and energetic, but lacked concentration. But after getting in touch with him, I discovered that it was definitely a cognitive error! From a mere plainclothes policeman in Shixiamei, he turned into the number one police commissioner in China and a business super tycoon in just seven years. Eight years! It took more than twenty years to get to where I am now from making movies!”

Having said this, Shao Daheng put down his cigarette and patted the back of Li Xiaohe's hand gently like an elder: "So let me give you a warning, don't make enemies with him unless necessary! Although the Li family is a big family in Hong Kong, The power is huge, but the opponent is really an unpredictable opponent. He will let you know what fear is!"

"Fear? I am already so old and frail. For me, the only fear is that there will be no successor!" Li Xiaohe put away the feelings he had just unconsciously revealed and said to Shao Daheng with a smile.

Shao Daheng also laughed: "That's right. You and I are both old enough to know our destiny. Fear may be just child's play for you and me. What we think about most now is the successor. The same is true for Lee and the same for Shaw. ”

When Shao Daheng said this, his expression turned gloomy.

Li Xiaohe knew that this spoke to Shao Daheng's heart, because the relationship between Shao Daheng and his children was really bad, mainly because of his "confidante" Fang Yihua.

Fang Yihua was born in Shanghai in 1934. She was a popular singer in Nanyang in 1952. When they first met, Shao Daheng was moved by her beautiful singing voice. Fang Yihua's youth and independent energy were very much like those of back then. himself, so the two came together.

At the same time, after finding out about the conflict between Shao Daheng and Shao Daheng, his wife Huang Meizhen was still waiting for Shao Daheng to change his mind. However, when she heard the news that he had found a new man, she left Shao Daheng with her children in anger. Make a new love and part with the old love.

Shao Daheng's children did not grow up by his side, and when Huang Meizhen left, he did not make any efforts to stay. The children's emotional foundation for this father was weak. In addition, Fang Yihua's intervention and Huang Meizhen's departure , the children did not have a good impression of this father. They only knew that his father was a cold and ruthless person and did not like to be close to him.

The intensification of the conflict between father and son was a kidnapping incident.

In 1964, Shaw's eldest son, Shaw Weiming, was kidnapped in Singapore. For any father, the first reaction to such a serious incident would be panic and anxiety. However, after receiving a call from the kidnappers and knowing the amount of money they demanded, Shaw calmly put down the phone and continued to review the sample film, which made others feel very confused.

Shaw believed that since the conditions had been negotiated, the kidnappers would not threaten his son's life. As long as he gave enough money, it would be fine. It was unnecessary to consider other things.

Shaw's overly rational "wolf training" made his son feel discouraged. Anyone would think that his father did not pay enough attention to him and that he was a dispensable person.

Later, when his son tried to seek development in Shaw Group, Fang Yihua became the "head of the family", leaving Shaw's son with nowhere to "stay".

The children finally withdrew from Shaw Company to seek their own development, and since then, the children have cut off contact with him.

When Mr. Shao died, his sons and daughters had all developed well overseas and became wealthy. After all, after being "cultivated by the wolf nature" of a father like Mr. Shao, it was difficult for them not to be independent.

Therefore, when Mr. Shao died, everyone thought that his children would come back to stage a big drama of snatching the family property, but unexpectedly, none of his children wanted to inherit the inheritance, and it was inevitable to feel sad for Mr. Shao, the "philanthropist".

"Every family has its own problems." Li Xiaohe said, but his smile showed some unspeakable distress about life and family.

Li Xiaohe had an elegant and gentlemanly lunch in Mr. Shao's villa, and after the meal, he admired Mr. Shao's potted plant skills for a while before politely saying goodbye and leaving.

After leaving Taiping Mountain, Li Xiaohe's previous elegance and calmness disappeared. He picked up his long gown, got into the private car, urged the driver to speed up, and drove towards the police station where his son was detained.

During lunch, Shao Daheng nodded and agreed to help. According to the strength of Shaw's public opinion, it is estimated that Du Yongxiao would also have a headache if he encountered it.

Now what he needs to do is to bail his son Li Zhaoheng out of the police station as soon as possible, so as not to delay the time and add unpredictable variables.

At this time -

In the afternoon, the sun is shining brightly, and the whole of Hong Kong is presented in the light, every detail is visible!

In the study room of the villa, Shao Daheng looked outside through the window and sighed -

In the world,

Only the debt of gratitude is the most difficult to repay!