With Gu Ao's own strength, even if he had the opportunity to chat with Sir Shao and Ship Chartering King, a wealthy man worth billions or even tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, he would probably have just made a few polite words and he would have nothing to say.

But if you can meet his preferences and know some of the confidential policy trends of the mainland's top leaders who are interested in Sir Shao and the King of Ship Chartering, the nature will be completely different.

Even if Gu Ao is just a small businessman, they can still win over it as a temporary "guest official".

This is a breakthrough point.

In Xiangjiang in 1979, when it comes to the status of merchants, the biggest brands were Huo Ye and the charter king. Because the 1970s and 1980s were the most golden bonus period in the global maritime industry, the charter king had container freighters of 20 million tons tonnage, and many port authorities around the world were at their peak.

When Gu Ao was just in junior high school in his previous life, he caught up with the return of Xiangjiang. The "famous Xiangjiang merchant" written in their extracurricular history literacy book only has the names of the charter king and the Chief Executive Dong, which shows that the charter king is

Even the Li family of real estate now has not had such a big name because the housing prices have not risen high enough. As for Sir Shao, it is just because of the identity of a media tycoon and is well-known, but in terms of money, it is one digit less than Mr. Huo and the chartering king.

So seeing that the chartered boat king was so interested in Gu Ao, Sir Shao was happy to be by his side and listened to Gu Ao posing in the dragon gate formation.

The focus of the two chatted was the famous 414 Open Event.

The 414 guesthouse in Hujiang, which was later the Xijiao Hotel, was specially provided at that time and was not open to the public. It was only when the leader came to Hujiang for a meeting.

In mid-July, Deng Weiren came to Hujiang to escape the summer heat. He felt that it was not good to do so, so he gave the Hujiang Tourism Director order: I will give you half a year to open all of them, including 414, and change them to hotels for foreign guests. We should not waste so much money to maintain, but only the central chief stays for a few days a year.

But in June, when the chartered ship king was completed at the first terminal in Taicang Port, he returned to Hujiang. He asked Mayor Peng to donate money to build a state-owned foreign-owned hotel, but Mayor Peng refused.

So in fact, if he had been two months late and waited for Deng Weiren to let go and ask, maybe this matter would have been done directly.

Of course, the charter king cannot know the inside story of the high-level decision making here.

But Gu Ao came prepared and they were about to be reorganized to the Foreign Investment Commission, so they could be transferred to all historical records and contextual documents related to foreign investment policies. Even if the leader has said or expressed his own sentence, he can find it.

Although the secret level of these things may not be open to Gu Ao, he can definitely read the historical contact records of Hong Kong businessmen and even subsequent internal decisions before Gu Ao came to Xiangjiang to do business.

So when I talked with the charter king, I talked endlessly and looked very confident.

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"So there is such a big misunderstanding here, he is just waiting to ask for instructions! Then Mayor Peng should tell me directly after the opportunity! What's the embarrassment?"

After the chartered ship king discovered the misunderstanding, he complained boldly.

"Maybe Mayor Peng thinks that you have offered to give money for free, but he rejected it, so I'm embarrassed to speak to you again. Maybe there is no chance." Gu Ao explained with a smile.

"Then Mr. Gu, can you tell me about Mayor Peng after you return to China?" The King of Shipbuilding was used to the fast pace of capital attention and did not think there was any procedural hypocrisy in it.

Gu Ao was embarrassed: "This is not very good. If you wait for two more months, the 414 external business period will be January next year. The pilot will be successful. If you don't change your mind, I guarantee that you will definitely get what you want. No one in the world doesn't want to donate money for nothing.

However, Uncle Bao, I think you should not let it go too much. After completion, the property rights can be donated to the country. The construction process should be supervised in your way. Otherwise, this matter may not be possible. Baosteel has been built for a year, and some foreign capital use is also extravagant and wasteful. We have also reviewed it publicly. There is still a lack of experience in managing a lot of money in China."

Gu Ao's proposal was very pertinent, and he immediately put himself in the position of giving advice to the charter king, winning the other party's favor.

Gu Ao didn't know that his words to eliminate misunderstandings had changed history.

Originally, the King of Charters was too lazy to put on his cold butt because of this misunderstanding. He had been waiting for the finalization of the White Swan Hotel in Yuezhou that Mr. Huo and Director Liao to discuss with him that he would re-introduce the matter of donating money to build a hotel with the later Mayor of Hujiang.

Finally, among the first eight joint venture foreign affairs hotels in the country after the reform and opening up, Huting in Hujiang was not only later than the White Swan in Yuezhou and Lidu in Beijing, but even later than the Jinling Hotel and only opened in 1984.

Now, Gu Ao just mentioned it casually, but the people in Hujiang overwhelmed the car. Because Mr. Huo’s White Swan was a joint venture, it involved a sensitive land policy. At that time, he promised not to occupy the land in Yuezhou, but to drive piles and fill rivers to build land, so the construction progress was very slow.

The richness of the ship charter king is actually pure donation and does not require hotel property rights, so there is no land problem: because the policy at that time only did not allow land to be occupied by capitalists, but it definitely supports land to be occupied by state-owned units, or the urban land should naturally belong to the state.

Without filling the river and building land, the construction speed will naturally be very fast and will be opened in the last 82 years.

Of course, this is not Gu Ao's original intention.

The project worth tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars was just used by him to approach him. He accidentally made it, and he personally did not get any benefits.

Seeing Gu Ao chatting and laughing so hard, Sir Shao and the King of Chartered Boat were so interested, the other drinkers around him naturally gathered around him, wanting to secretly observe what they were talking about.

Sir Shao also asked Gu Ao about his entertainment business, first asked about the industry prospects of the game console, and then naturally talked about the film and television aspects.

I heard that Gu Ao has advertising cooperation with many entrepreneurs in Xiangjiang and has also introduced overseas copyrights to broadcast in the mainland. Combined with the energy of Gu Ao just now, Sir Shao finally had the idea of ​​truly examining Gu Ao from the perspective of career cooperation.

The senior officials he knew in the mainland were as big as Gu Ao.

But Sir Shao has never encountered any of them who can actually introduce Hong Kong and Macao copyrights to the mainland for sale.

The main reason is that no one in the mainland knows how to operate such a business, and there is no choice at all.

"Oh, it turns out that Mr. Gu has a deep cooperative relationship with Hujiang Factory, one of the three major studios in China. He also knows the leader when he is submitted for review?" After Sir Shao learned about this, he began to put down his airs and made friends with him very kindly.

Gu Ao smiled and modestly: "I dare not act like it, it's just a normal channel for review - Oh, by the way, my female companion, Miss Xiao, her father is from the provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and her mother is also a star in the Hujiang Factory. She is also familiar with the producer director there."

"So that's the case, then we can really cooperate." Sir Shao nodded and gave a look to the side. A woman in her forties who had already been waiting for a smile came over.

That was his concubine Fang Hua, who now helps him manage the daily affairs of film companies and TVB, so when it comes to specific entertainment industry topics, Sir Shao, who is old and declining, will ask his concubine to help him check and discuss.

For this matter, he has recently faced many family crises - Sir Shao has only two sons, both of whom were born to his wife. However, after he handed over the executive work of the film and television company to his concubines, his sons thought he would leave his property to his "aunt" and turned against him, and had just announced that he had severed the father-son relationship.

As for the fragments that Gu Ao said just now, Sir Shao just glanced at the ear and saw based on his experience that there were not many truly valuable upper-level relationships, so Fang Hua asked him to identify Xiao Sui's quality.

Seeing that the other party didn't see the rabbit or show off his eagle, Gu Ao could only be more radical.

He winked at Xiao Sui.

Xiao Sui had just talked to Fang Hua and talked about what people in the circle had heard, so she took out a few pages of thin manuscript paper from her handbag.

That is the outline of the script of "Hujiangtan". Because the script itself has tens of thousands of words and more than one hundred pages, it is too thick and not suitable for cocktail parties. The outline of a few thin pages is just right.

Xiao Sui pretended to be a little naive, as if the other party was able to chat with Fang Hua, and asked for advice: "Aunt Fang, what I just talked about is my family. I am a screenwriter. I heard that you are the director of TVB. This is our mainland script. You don't mind helping to see if there are too many aesthetically behind Xiangjiang compatriots."

"You wrote it?" Fang Hua confirmed with inquiring eyes.

"I write."

"That's really not easy. He is a beautiful writer. Mr. Gu is such a blessing. No wonder he praised you. Brother Six thought I was talented back then, so he praised me." Fang Hua was not ashamed of considering himself a concubine.

But it may also be that she is too smart. In order to give Sir Shao face in front of others, she can make Sir Shao look charming and attract women to be loyal and devoted, so she deliberately lowers her attitude in a crowded situation.

For a moment, Xiao Sui's expression was a little stiff, but she knew she was acting, so she held back and tried to imitate Fang Hua's expression of "not counting on status but only seeking favor".

However, Fang Hua only watched "Hujiangtan" for a while and realized that Xiao Sui was really useful.

Not at all like a contemporary mainland writer without any commercial vision.

She asked Sir Shao for advice with her eyes, and Sir Shao also gave her a look, and then Fang Hua asked, "Does the script be brought?"

The script itself is good, it can only be said to be a stepping stone. There are too many good scripts for TVB. But if a script that is still considered a good one and has a new force behind it that can cooperate, it is worth taking it a little seriously.

"Oh, I put it in the car with me. My sister likes to create anytime and anywhere, and throw the manuscripts into the car." Gu Ao explained appropriately, and then naturally a waiter went to get it.

Sir Shao looked at Gu Ao and changed slightly again.

"It's rare that everyone has a common interest - Uncle Shao. Actually, I don't want to just do copyright business. I wonder if you are interested in returning to the mainland to film a film?"

"Business is business, but TV series still have to control costs." Unexpectedly, Sir Shao was very engaged in business and was unwilling to confuse friendship with cost control.

"That's right, but as long as you have an intention, everything else is easy to talk about. To be honest, I really want to praise Sister Xiao, money is not a problem. Are you young, and profits are spent. If Uncle Shao is interested, I can bear some of the extra expenses.

I don’t want to take a stake in the overall copyright. At worst, if you see the copyright of this film in the mainland, I will invest in it. Hong Kong, Macau, Bay and overseas, all of it is yours. If you think that my friend is worthy of me..."

"You can talk to Ah Hua. I'm old and can't figure it out."

Gu Ao tried a few more words, but he knew that he could not speak in detail and seemed too impatient.

Since the other party has left a first-line cooperation opportunity, the remaining additional conditions can be added slowly.

More importantly, Gu Ao noticed a bunch of blonde and blue-eyed British people and noticed the movement here.

"Sir Shao, this young guest is...you are very happy to talk." The visitor spoke in English.

Sir Shao replied fluently in English: "Oh, Mai Du, I'm really accompanies me. This young man is a copyright holder from the mainland. Don't look at his youth. His entertainment products have opened up in Japan. He is really the first person to dare to try it out. He dares to talk about co-production with me now, and he also said that he doesn't have to invest a lot, and if he wants to do it, he's the best in Asia..."

"Good, lucky to know. I think the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang is worth learning from. It is because Mai Mai has managed well in the past ten years to make the related industries so prosperous." Gu Ao did not wait for the translation. As soon as Sir Shao finished speaking, he directly spoke to Mai Mai in more fluent English, and even his accent was very consistent with Mai Mai's Scottish flavor.

"Mr. Gu is very good at English. There are few people in the mainland who have received such professional training." Mai Du was very surprised.

"I was once trained as a diplomat, but has the country's economy been opened? Everyone is a little collapsed and hidden. There is no hope for the career, so it is better to do business. Is it good to catch a mouse?" Ao's word, an atmosphere of envying the corrupt and degenerate lifestyle in the West was brewed between the lines. (It is the "atmosphere" translated by the word ethos, not only the Chinese word itself)

Nowadays, people in China are born to be a bad person, so when they come outside, they can't even deceive others.

But if they envy the British and American lifestyle, there will be more people who believe in it. This is a bit like East Germany and West Germany go to commit suicide to bury moles, one bury one is accurate.

The reason why it is accurate is that in addition to the fraudulent decline, there are more than ten times the real decline, and they really risked their lives to cross Berlin Wall.

Mai Du talked to Gu Ao for a little while and knew that Gu Ao wanted to talk to Sir Shao about the possibility of co-production between the two places. He didn't care and left directly.

However, after Mai passed away, there were naturally other British people responsible for specific work who would come to test Gu Ao's quality.

A British man with a somewhat sinister expression but soon returned to normal came over and showed goodwill: "Mr. Gu, I am Wilson of the 51st Brigade, Captain. I heard you like our Hong Kong lifestyle very much? Are you interested in betting horses?"

The British army stationed in Xiang was mainly mountain soldiers of Nepalese, but there were also local Scottish soldiers of a brigade. The brigade commander was usually a lieutenant colonel, so the captain was only a middle- and low-level officer, or an intelligence officer.

A "small character" like Gu Ao is not suspicious yet, and he is not worthy of sending a big shot to test him, so he is just a routine business.

"I have no interest in gambling. If I want to bet, I have to bet on things I can control. How can I let my destiny be held in the hands of others."

"That's even better. There will be no gambling tomorrow, and Happy Valley will just block the game. You can go to two golf games after the horse race."

Captain Wilson thought to himself: If mainland officials want to use the rich businessman's skin to do something ulterior motive, with the poverty on the other side now, you can tell that it is Xibei goods in a game of golf.
Chapter completed!