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Chapter 377 The Father of Hualan Films

What confused Zhao Shouhong the most was the other party's attire. He was wearing a well-fitting suit. Although the clothes were not expensive, they were very clean. His short hair was neatly combed. He was wearing a Tian Wang brand produced by Zhongchuan Watch Factory. Wristwatches, of course, are the cheapest of the three major brands of watchmakers.Now that the imperial court has not yet perished, there are not many people who dare to cut off their braids. Most of those who dare to walk around the land of Hualan in this attire are Japanese.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shouhong couldn't help but doubt the other party's identity. He raised his head and asked, "Are you from Hualan?"

"Yes." The young man said respectfully: "I am from Hong Kong, and I had a relationship with Mr. Huang Bin once. At that time, I expressed my desire to establish a drama club and use drama to arouse people's patriotic enthusiasm. As a result, Huang Bin Mr. Bin told me that after all, only a minority of people can see drama, so it is better to turn to more influential movies. Therefore, he recommended me to come to Zhongchuan to try, hoping to get funding from the governor.”

Zhao Shouhong was a little dazed when he heard it. He originally thought it was about Jiang Xia's uprising, but he didn't expect that it was the person opposite who wanted to find investment to make a movie.When he was recovering from his injuries in Guanghai City, Huang Bin watched several Peking opera movies at the cinema in Luchaogang.Unexpectedly, Huang Bin could see the influence of movies, and hoped to integrate drama into movies. This idea is still very advanced.

Hearing that this young man planned to make a movie, Zhao Shouhong became interested: "What's your name? How much do you know about movies?"

The young man raised his head and said: "My name is Li Minwei, and I graduated from St. Paul's College in Hong Kong. I have participated in drama and Cantonese opera performances when I was in school, and I am quite experienced in it. As for movies, I don't know much. I think I should It’s almost like a drama.”

"Li Minwei?" A playful smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Shouhong's mouth.One of the reasons why he has made such a big noise in China is to attract talents.Let those famous talents from the period of the Republic be able to work under his command, it seems that this goal has been initially achieved.

The name Li Minwei doesn't mean much to ordinary people, but to the film industry, it is a figure of Taishan Beidou level. The later Hong Kong star Gigi Lai is his direct descendant.

Li Minwei just this year, he is the pioneer of Hualan film industry, the father of Hualan film.In later generations, he once established Hualan's first film company, Huamei Film Company, in Hong Kong in 1913, and produced Hualan's first film in the same year.

Zhao Shouhong has always attached great importance to cultural propaganda, and he is naturally unwilling to let such a cultural pioneer go.Since the appearance of sound films, Zhao Shouhong has always hoped to vigorously develop the film industry and make this industry a window for the export of Hualan culture.But because of the lack of management and production talents, he can only take a compromise plan of shooting drama movies.

Although drama, as the quintessence of the country, has received a lot of praise once it landed in the Western Continent and the New World, most of the white people watched it as a novelty, and they got tired of it after a long time.It is precisely because of this problem that the first batch of Hollywood film and television companies that obtained sound film recording equipment were able to become famous in one fell swoop. With the romance film "Water Lotus", it was a big hit in the whole White Eagle Country.If today's Hualan films cannot make a breakthrough, I am afraid that drama films will soon be submerged in the feature films of the Western Continent and the New World.

Now that there is a young man like Li Minwei who has a high cultural quality and is determined to contribute to the film industry, Zhao Shouhong naturally has to firmly grasp it.

"Tell me what you think. It doesn't matter if you don't know movies. I have a lot of teams who have made drama movies. If you plan to establish a movie company, I can help." Zhao Shouhong said with interest.

Li Minwei nodded and said, "A few months ago, the White Eagle Kingdom movie "The Lotus in the Water" was released in Hong Kong, and I went to see it. I thought that since the White Eagle Kingdom can make such a good feature film, why can't Hualan make it? Come out, so after Mr. Huang Bin suggested, I decided to join the film industry. I can recruit actors from the drama club, as long as I have a good screenwriter, I can make good enough movies, and that’s not a problem.”

"Okay, I will fully support you." Zhao Shouhong jumped up happily: "As long as you plan to establish a film company, I will provide you with a filming crew and venue, and invest another [-] Yingyang."

"What do you invest in?" Shen Ruoxue pushed open the door, and walked in with Xiaocui smiling.Seeing Shen Ruoxue's peerless appearance, Li Minwei's expression froze, but then he returned to normal.Turning his gaze to Zhao Shouhong, Li Minwei had doubts in his eyes.

Zhao Shouhong introduced with a smile: "This is my wife Shen Ruoxue. My company's finances are all under her control. The specific investment needs her approval."

"Madame Governor?" Li Minwei hurriedly saluted, "My name is Li Minwei, and I plan to open a film company to make films like Hollywood Film Company." Li Minwei expressed his determination, but he didn't know that the woman in front of him was Hollywood Film Company behind-the-scenes boss.

Shen Ruoxue gave Zhao Shouhong a white look, and then said to Li Minwei: "I agree to support you to start a film company, and I agree to the investment from Governor Zhao, but Hanxing Group Company will hold [-]% of the shares. We will not interfere with you work, but also has priority to suggest and priority to shoot."

"What does this mean?" Li Minwei was taken aback.

Shen Ruoxue explained: "Sometimes we will propose the development plan of the film company, of course it is only for your reference. As for the priority shooting right, Hanxing Group has the right to pay you to help film the film, we will make various restrictions, of course Will pay enough. You must give priority to filming the movies we have designated, and you cannot use any excuses to shirk."

Li Minwei frowned and said, "I don't know how many movies the group company plans to make? If there are too many, wouldn't I also have the right to shoot freely?"

Shen Ruoxue smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will fully invest in such movies, and there will be no more than two movies a year."

Shen Ruoxue's words reassured Li Minwei a lot. In this era, the shooting cycle of a movie usually only takes one week, and two movies a year is not too much.Li Minwei nodded and said: "Okay, I plan to open a Minxin film company, and the headquarters will be located in Zhongshan City. I hope that the personnel and funds can be in place as soon as possible."

"No problem, I will solve it for you as soon as possible." Zhao Shouhong nodded and smiled.

After seeing Li Minwei off, Shen Ruoxue snorted coquettishly, "You won't play against me, right? If the father of Hualan Films makes any good movies, it won't be stealing the business from Hollywood Film Company."

Chapter 378 The Split of the Gongxing Society

"No way, I just intend to revitalize the Hualan film industry. Don't pay too much attention to the industry of the White Eagle Country, and be careful to use your emotions in the wrong place." Zhao Shouhong smiled and leaned on the chair: "After all, the Hollywood film company is Even if the White Eagle Company belongs to us, it is also a disseminator of the culture of the White Eagle Country. What we need is to spread the Hualan culture and let the whole world agree with us, which is even more important."

"You're right, it seems we need to pay attention to this little guy." Shen Ruoxue smiled.

"Is the lotus that comes out of the water very good? Can you let Zhongchuan's cinema show a few shows?" Xiao Cui, who loves watching movies, asked from the side. She has been watching opera movies recently.

Zhao Shouhong said numbly: "Ask your second sister, that's her company."

Shen Ruoxue said angrily: "What's wrong with my company? Isn't it the same as yours? It's okay, Xiaocui. I'll build a movie screening hall in the Governor's Mansion some other day. Let's watch it ourselves. We can see any movie."

"Really? That's great." Xiaocui's face was full of joy, while Zhao Shouhong rolled his eyes.These two women are really prodigal. There are only so few people in the family. Is it necessary to build a movie theater alone?Zhao Shouhong's heart moved. If he wanted to reduce the cost, wouldn't the videotapes and CDs of later generations be fine?Maybe I should speed up the development of electrical appliances. With my invincible existence, it would be difficult for Hualan not to take the lead in the electrical appliance industry.

Zhao Shouhong is thinking about accelerating the development of the electrical industry, but at this time the Central Plains Province is experiencing a major turmoil.The cause of this turmoil can be traced back to a long time ago.

As early as a few years ago, because of Sun Wenhai's "corruption case", the Gongxing Society began to split up.At that time, Zhang Taiyan was the first to attack, and led his Ningjiang faction to break away from Gongxinghui, and reactivated the original name of Guangfuhui. Sun Wenhai, Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin and others had no choice but to move the headquarters of Gongxinghui from Japan to Nanyang.

Although Huang Bin's Nanyuan School is also called Gongxinghui on the surface, in fact they are not affiliated with Sun Wenhai's Guangdong East School, and they basically go their own way.It was not until the eve of the last tragic Guangdong uprising that they united again in order to concentrate their strength to launch the uprising.

Among the several major factions that split from the Gongxinghui, the most radical one belongs to the Gongjinhui.When Sun Wenhai launched a corner revolution, he hoped to launch a revolution far away from the center of the imperial court.With aid from overseas, uprisings occurred in areas where the imperial court was weak, and the revolution spread throughout the country.

Sun Wenhai's idea is good, and the reasons are very good, but he has been through ten uprisings but has never been successful.At this time, some people began to question Sun Wenhai's decision. They thought that Sun Wenhai's corner revolution was too conservative, and they might as well blossom in the center and carry out uprisings in the middle and lower reaches of Longjiang.In this way, the connection between the imperial capital and the south can be cut off in one fell swoop, and the rule of the later Jin court can be quickly overthrown.

Under such thinking, Sun Wu, Liu Gong, and Ju Zheng from Zhongyuan Province, and Jiao Dafeng from Nanyuan Province agreed that the Gongxing Society was short-sighted, did not dare to emancipate the mind, and ignored the new army as a dead corner of the revolution.In addition, they engage in regional discrimination and only pay attention to the corner of southern China.He was too timid to launch an uprising in the hinterland of the Later Jin court.So they decided to step out and do it alone, splitting the Gongjinhui into the Gongxinghui.

This radical Gongjinhui was indeed vigorous and resolute in launching uprisings. Xiong Kewu, who launched the uprising twice in Zhongchuan, actually followed the resolutions of the Gongjinhui's high-level officials.Just for the convenience of purchasing weapons and ammunition and recruiting manpower, the Gongjinhui still bears the false name of the Gongjinhui. Xiong Kewu has thus become a cross-party figure.

The radical Gongjinhui suffered a disastrous defeat in Zhongchuan a few months ago. Not only was Xiong Kewu forced to evacuate from Chuchuan, but they also lost more than [-] members.Seeing that Zhongchuan's military strength is growing day by day, Sun Wu and others had to turn their attention to the Central Plains Province, their base.

Central Plains Province is located in the middle of the land of Hualan, and its provincial capital, Hanxia, ​​has very developed transportation, and is known as the 'thoroughfare of nine provinces'.Therefore, Hanxia is not only the heartland that the later Jin court valued, but also the territory that the great powers of various countries compete for.As early as the 60s of the [-]th century, following the failure of the Second Opium War, Jiangkou among the three towns of Han and Xia was opened up as a treaty port, and then the five ports of Saar, Teutonic, Luocha, Gaul, and Wa were established here. In addition to the State Concession, there are also management agencies such as the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, the Patrol Office, and the Consular Court, which are very different from the traditional Hualan system.

The management of these concessions has its own style, and it has become a blank area under the rule of the late Jin Empire, which is very convenient for the activities of the revolutionary party and the preparation for the uprising.

Not only that, Hanxia also has two places that are very beneficial to the uprising, that is, the enlightened new army of the Central Plains Province, and the Xiakou Arsenal that can provide a large amount of weapons and ammunition.Under the background that the Gongxinghui was torn apart and the Guangdong Uprising failed again, the local revolutionary organization Literary Society in Central Plains began to contact the Gongjinhui, hoping to jointly organize an uprising to combat the rule of the post-Jin Dynasty.

As early as September 9th, under the impetus of many revolutionary predecessors, the Literary Society and the Gongjinhui established a unified leading organization for the uprising.They decided to unite against gold and unify the command of the upcoming uprising in Jiangxia.Because none of them had any experience in armed struggle, they unanimously decided that Juzheng would be the representative, and Huang Bin and Song Jiaochu or Tan Renfeng would come to Hanxia City to command the uprising in Guanghai City, so as to preside over the overall situation of the Central Plains uprising.

On September 9, the two revolutionary groups held a joint meeting and finally decided to launch an uprising on October 24.Party representatives from all standard battalions of the New Army attended the meeting, at which the "Personnel Draft" and "Uprising Plan" were passed, and Jiang Yiwu was elected as the military commander, Sun Wu as the chief of staff, and Liu Gong as the prime minister.But soon something happened that almost disrupted the uprising plan.

The Nanhu Artillery Corps in the new army of the Central Plains Province happened to have veterans who had been discharged from the army. Because they had a good relationship with each other, the soldiers offered wine to the veterans to see them off.When there was too much wine on the wine table, the conversation naturally increased, and some people lost control and yelled loudly there.At this time, a patrolling platoon leader happened to pass by, and when he heard the loud noise in the barracks, he immediately sternly reprimanded the soldiers.

The leader of the soldiers is called Wang Xijiu. He is a veteran in the army for many years.From verbal quarrels to fist fights, the two sides were originally just orders from their superiors to their subordinates, but both sides fought a real fire.

Most of the soldiers drank a lot of wine, so they naturally didn't think about it as usual. As a result, some people who had made friends with Wang Xijiu opened the armory, took out a dozen carbines in reserve, and shot randomly at the officer's room.Fortunately, their guns were filled with blank ammunition for training, and they couldn't kill anyone at all, so it didn't cause a catastrophe.

Chapter 379 Unexpected situation

Guns can't hurt people, but things have become serious, and these sober soldiers simply decided to make a big fight.They pulled out three quick cannons from the ordnance room and planned to bombard the officers, but at that time, the artillery and shells of the Later Jin Dynasty were placed separately, and they had to divide their troops to rob the ammunition depot.As a result, the people who robbed the cannonballs had not yet returned, but they were suppressed by the cavalry of the Houjin Army. The soldiers who had no cannonballs or bullets had to throw away the quick cannons and disperse.

After the incident of the Nanhu Artillery Team, the two original governors, Rui Cheng, believed that if it was dealt with too strictly, it would damage the relationship between the Governor's Office and the new army.Therefore, he decided to loosen the outside and tighten the inside, but ordered the confiscation of the new army's bullets, and dismissed the soldiers who took the lead in making trouble.At the same time, the military and police force in the market will be strengthened, and strict inspections will be carried out to prevent accidents.In order to cope with the severe situation, the authorities then convened a meeting of officials and officials, and decided that the army would celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival ahead of schedule and not have a holiday on August [-].

On September 1911, 9, Jiao Dafeng, a member of the Nanyuan Provincial Party Committee, informed the Jiangxia Uprising Headquarters that the preparations for the October 28 uprising in Nanyuan Province were not sufficient, and please postpone it for ten days.In addition, Huang Bin, Song Jiaochu, the important leaders of Gongxinghui, failed to arrive in Hanxia, ​​and there was no one who could preside over the overall situation.

In fact, Huang Bin had already set off from Hong Kong by ship. Because of the [-] yen fund from Zhao Shouhong and the first sum sent by Sun Wenhai, he did not raise money in Hong Kong like in history.However, the self-healing nature of history is too strong. Huang Bin, who traveled from Hong Kong to Guanghai City by boat, had to take shelter in Fuzhou for several days due to a sudden storm, which resulted in a delay of time.

Song Jiaochu had already arrived in Guanghai City, but he didn't know anything about military command, so he decided to wait until Huang Bin, who was known as a soldier, and the two went to Hanxia together.For these reasons, the uprising headquarters decided to postpone the uprising, and on October 10, Hunan and Hubei provinces launched an attack at the same time.

The timing was well planned, but unexpected circumstances changed the format. In the early morning of October 10th, Sun Wu and others were preparing bombs in the Raksha Concession in Jiangkou.Due to the urgent need to rush to work, sparks fell into the gunpowder pool, causing a violent explosion accidentally, and Sun Wu was seriously injured.Raksha State patrols arrived upon hearing the sound, but fortunately the revolutionaries retreated quickly enough so that no one was caught.But in their busy schedule, they forgot important secret documents.

The military and police of the Raksha State quickly searched for the roster of revolutionaries, uprising announcements, flags and other items, and finally the secret of the uprising was revealed.The military and police of the Rakshasa Kingdom were quite panicked upon receiving the report, so they had to experiment twice to check its correctness.After arresting six people including Liu Tong, the military and police of the Luocha Kingdom were convinced that the list was authentic, and they immediately sent the list to the Governor's Office, and at the same time extradited the arrested persons to the Central Plains Provincial Authorities.

After receiving the roster, Rui Li, the two former governors, was furious. This time his approach was completely different from the last time. He immediately ordered the closure of the four cities and searched for revolutionaries everywhere.The commander-in-chief Jiang Yiwu decided to immediately notify the retreat, but before leaving the temporary headquarters, he was surrounded by military police.

During the fight, Jiang Yiwu took advantage of the chaos to escape through the back door, but most of the uprising headquarters were arrested.Ruicheng didn't dare to waste time, they conducted the trial all night, and soon Liu Fuji, Yang Hongsheng, Peng Chufan and other leaders of the uprising were beheaded overnight.In desperation, the Revolutionary Party decided to immediately launch an uprising at 10 o'clock in the evening on October 9th. However, Jiangxia City was heavily guarded, and the Revolutionary Party members of the standard camps could not get in touch. The plan for that night finally fell through.