Siheyuan: I am Jia Dongxu's cousin

After the four of them had a cup of tea, Zhang Weiguo said, "To be honest with you three shipping lords, I have something to ask of you today."

Bao Yugang smiled and said, "There are not many things that Zhang Sheng can do that make you say the word 'please'."

Hearing Pao Yue-kong's teasing tone, Zhang Weiguo smiled bitterly.

Indeed, since Zhang Weiguo came to Hong Kong Island in 1966, he has not had much contact with local Chinese capital. The only two disputes were the pharmaceutical disputes between the Flower Garden Daily, Sing Tao Daily and the Zhang brothers.

"Ship Charter King, let me be frank. You should all be familiar with Kowloon Dockyard, right?"

"Kowloon Dockyard?" Pao Yue-Kong was stunned for a moment, then said, "Mr. Zhang is talking about the one in the hands of the Hong Kong Island government."

“That’s it, but now I’ve captured it on camera!”

As soon as Zhang Weiguo finished speaking, Dong Haoyun took a deep breath and exclaimed, "What! You took a picture of it?"

"Yes, I took it from the Hong Kong Island government just last week."

"But……"

In fact, in Dong Haoyun's eyes, the value of Kowloon Dockyard itself was not enough to make him lose his composure. What really amazed Dong Haoyun was that Zhang Weiguo could actually get Kowloon Dockyard from the British Empire.

Although Tung Chao-Yun was known as the shipping king, many people in Hong Kong and even in the surrounding areas still respected him. But the British capital was not so easy to get along with.

"Don't be surprised by Dong Chuanwang. Everyone has his own way, and British Capital is not a monolithic entity."

After Zhang Weiguo poured tea for the three people again, he continued, "I invited you all here today to help take care of the Kowloon Dockyard."

"This..." The three of them looked embarrassed.

In the 40s, the shipbuilding technology of Kowloon Dockyard was impeccable, but now it may be a bit unsatisfactory.

Zhao Congyan was the first to speak: "Mr. Zhang, you also know the current situation of Kowloon Dockyard. It's not that we don't want to help, it's really..."

Even without Zhao Congyan's subsequent words, Zhang Weiguo knew what he meant. It was nothing more than backward technology. At the same price, the quality and tonnage were far inferior to those of Fuso and South Korea.

Zhang Weiguo waited until Zhao Congyan finished speaking before he spoke: "I understand what the three ship kings mean. I am not asking you to go to Kowloon Dockyard to buy ships now, but to wait until a year later."

"Zhonghua Heavy Industry has invested 5 million Hong Kong dollars in Kowloon Dockyard to re-introduce technology to Kowloon Dockyard."

"Zhang hopes that after the new ship is built, you can help test its quality first."

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Zhang Weiguo said again: "You ship tycoons can take the ship first, and then consider whether to buy it after confirming that it meets your requirements."

"Since Mr. Zhang has said so much, I, Bao, have nothing more to say. When the time comes, the first ship will be left to my Global Shipping!"

Dong Haoyun was still thinking about Zhang Weiguo's words. When he heard what Bao Yugang said, he immediately came to his senses and thought to himself, "Old fox!"

In fact, we can also hear from Zhang Weiguo's words that Zhang Weiguo's purpose in approaching them is nothing more than to take advantage of their title as the shipping king.

Think about it, the three largest shipowners in Hong Kong have all bought ships from Kowloon Dockyard, so you can still say the ships are not good. Moreover, Zhang Weiguo also offered to use them first and pay later, so what is there to hesitate about? If they are really not good, then just give them up!

After all, if your ship really has quality problems, would you, Zhang Weiguo, have the nerve to ask us to buy it!

In this case, if I agree to Zhang Weiguo's request, I can also get a favor from him, which is a win-win situation.

"Mr. Zhang, then let's leave this second ship to our Dong Shipping!" Dong Haoyun said quickly after he figured it out.

"You guys..." Zhao Congyan was about to speak, but when he heard Dong Haoyun's words, he could only smile bitterly and said, "Zhang Sheng, the third ship will be left to me."

"Thank you, all the shipping kings. I will offer you a cup of tea instead of wine. Thank you, three shipping kings, for giving me this honor."

After that, the three of them started chatting about family matters.

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The next day, Zhang Weiguo drove to the Zhonghua Building and told Lin Qing, "Lin Qing, go back and focus the transportation business that our Zhonghua Group needs on these three shipping kings."

"Good boss!"

Since the three shipping tycoons, Pao Yue-kong, Tung Chao-yen and Chao Cong-yen, gave him such a favor, Zhang Weiguo was not a stingy person. Although the overseas transportation of the Flower Group had a lot of intersections with the three shipping tycoons, it also used a lot of other shipping companies.

Now leaning towards the three shipping kings can be regarded as a small return of favor.

After explaining this matter, Zhang Weiguo continued to deal with today's affairs.

Inside the Shaw Brothers Film Building.

Run Run Shaw said to Zou Huaiwen in front of him, "Huaiwen, Shaw treats you well, right? If you have any conditions, just tell me, and I will do my best to fulfill them for you!"

"Mr. Shao, I thank Shaw for your cultivation over the years." Zou Huaiwen bowed to Run Run Shaw and said firmly: "But I still want to open my own film and television company."

Seeing Zou Huaiwen's persistence, Run Run Shaw knew that he could not keep him, so he had to say, "Oh..., okay!"

In fact, although the two seem to have a good relationship now, in fact, the conflict between them has long reached a point where it cannot be reconciled.

The essence of the problem is that Shaw Brothers was too stingy and the salary they offered was too low.

Zou Wenhuai joined Shaw Brothers Film Company in 1957 and was promoted to production manager in 1960. In the same year, he was promoted to deputy general manager and production manager. This shows that Zou Wenhuai's work ability is unquestionable.

But even though Zou Wenhuai had been promoted to deputy general manager, Shaw Brothers was still very stingy with his salary.

Even until 2000, Shaw Brothers' employees' salaries were still very low, and there were even many news reports of Shaw Brothers employees demanding their salaries.

Although Run Run Shaw was very stingy with his employees, he was a great person.

In his previous life, the Shaw Building where Zhang Weiguo lived was donated by Run Run Shaw. Even in a university with a little fame, there is basically a Shaw Building donated by Run Run Shaw.

The departure of Chow Wai-man not only made Run Run Shaw lose his right-hand man, but also brought a competitor to Shaw Brothers - Golden Harvest, which was also the beginning of the decline of Shaw Brothers.

After leaving Shaw Brothers, Chow Wai-man founded Golden Harvest Company with Ho Kuan-chang and Liang Feng, and attracted many famous actors by offering salaries much higher than those of Shaw Brothers.

Famous film and television stars such as Bruce Lee, Sam Hui, and Jackie Chan were once actors of Golden Harvest.

Zou Wenhuai's road to fame at Golden Harvest was also quite bumpy.

In the second year after Golden Harvest Films was established, Raymond Chow hired the newly emerging Bruce Lee with a high salary. Bruce Lee did not disappoint Raymond Chow, and his first starring role, The Big Boss, set the highest box office record for movies in Hong Kong since the opening of the film studio.

The second film, "Fist of Fury", broke the Asian box office record. After that, the films he starred in, such as "Way of the Dragon" and "Enter the Dragon", are also childhood memories of many people born in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.

However, God is jealous of talented people. Bruce Lee passed away due to illness only three years after joining Golden Harvest. Coupled with the suppression of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest was facing the dilemma of bankruptcy.

However, Golden Harvest Films is just like the main character in the novel. Whenever it faces difficulties, there will always be an old man to save the situation.

In the second year after Bruce Lee's death, Xu Guanwen joined Golden Harvest Films. What surprised Zou Huaiwen was that the first film Xu Guanwen made, "Ghosts and Twins", which he did not think highly of, directly pioneered a new comedy style and won the box office championship in 74 with a box office of more than million, allowing Golden Harvest to breathe a sigh of relief from the siege of Shaw Brothers.

In 77, Sammo Hung also joined Golden Harvest. In just two years, Golden Harvest not only broke out of the siege of Shaw Brothers, but also became the largest Chinese-language film production company in the world.

In 1979, Jackie Chan joined Golden Harvest to fill the vacancy left by Bruce Lee.

With the support of Golden Harvest and his daring character, action films such as the "Project A" series, the "Police Stories" series, and "Rumble in the Bronx" allowed Jackie Chan to enter Hollywood and become the second international kung fu superstar after Bruce Lee.

Golden Harvest also took advantage of Jackie Chan's fame to completely defeat Shaw Brothers.