573 [Troublesome]
"Wuwuwu...Brother Fei, that producer is so fierce. He even said he was begging for food and set fire to DreamWorks. I don't dare to go out now." In the villa sent by Kang Jianfei, Li Lizhen covered her face with her hands and said in terror. There were two overlapping red palm prints on her left face.
"Stop crying," Kang Jianfei handed her a tissue and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Li Lizhen took the tissue and wiped her tears and said, "That's right, I took on a drama from Hongfa Film Company last month..."
In Li Lizhen's intermittent narrative, Kang Jianfei finally figured out the matter.
The so-called Hongfa Film Company is a small company founded after the Hong Kong film boom last year. There are not a hundred or eighty such film companies in Hong Kong.
Similarly, such small and medium-sized film companies are the main customers of Oriental Entertainment. When they make movies, they not only need to hire contracted actors from Oriental Entertainment Agency, but also need to rent equipment or sets from DreamWorks. Sometimes even behind-the-scenes personnel need to hire DreamWorks.
Li Lizhen has been unable to make it in recent years, and her pay has been around 300,000 yuan. Last month, Hongfa Film Company invited her to make a movie at a high price of 380,000 yuan, and Li Lizhen agreed happily.
Just after the filming of the movie, the producer held a grand finale banquet and asked the male and female protagonists to sit next to him.
The producer brought Li Lizhen to drink as soon as he came up. Li Lizhen reluctantly drank a few glasses, and felt uncomfortable in her stomach and refused to drink them again. The producer felt that he had lost face in public, and suddenly he got nervous and grabbed Li Lizhen's hair and slapped her twice. He forced Li Lizhen to drink a glass of wine, and then used the alcohol to touch Li Lizhen.
Li Lizhen was frightened by the producer's actions and quickly announced Kang Jianfei's name. She hoped that the other party would give up. As a result, the producer didn't take Kang Jianfei seriously at all, and said that she would burn Dream Factory if she got angry.
Halfway through the finale, the producer dragged Li Lizhen to check in. At this time, the director could no longer sit still. Li Lizhen was found by him at Oriental Entertainment Company. If something really happened, he could not get into the Hong Kong film industry. He hurried over and pestered the producer to drink and divert his attention. At the same time, he kept quietly winking at Li Lizhen.
After Li Lizhen understood, she quickly took advantage of the opportunity to go to the bathroom and ran out of the back door of the restaurant. As soon as she got home, she quickly called Kang Jianfei.
After hearing what happened, Kang Jianfei's face suddenly became gloomy and wanted to rain. Even if Li Lizhen was not his woman, Kang Jianfei had to take care of this matter, because Li Lizhen represented the Oriental Entertainment Agency.
If Li Lizhen is bullied and the company ignores her, it will make other artists feel heartbroken internally. For externally, it will give people the feeling that Kang Jianfei is easy to bully, and in the future, both cats and dogs can bully them.
"Who is that producer? He has a very strong tone." Kang Jianfei sneered.
Li Lizhen recalled: "I don't know very well. He seems to have his surname Li, but everyone calls him Brother Chen, and he seems to be the boss of the gang. He runs Hongfa Film Company."
Finally here!
The most troublesome thing about Kang Jianfei is not to compete for box office with Jiahe and Xinyi City, but to gang forces flock into the film industry. If they just charge some protection fees or something, DreamWorks' manufacturers are just giving them big photos, because they are afraid that these people will come to make money and launder money. They even use violent means to coerce the film staff, making the entire film industry dark.
Although the Xiang brothers founded Yongsheng Film Company a few years ago, they were at least more law-abiding and did not do anything like forced buying, selling or violent coercion.
But it is hard to say about the film companies opened by other gangs. These people may want to launder money and get a vote, or they just want to play with them when they are in a good mood, and can do all kinds of messy things.
"You have a good rest, I will deal with it." Kang Jianfei patted Li Lizhen on the shoulder and coaxed her to bed. He immediately picked up the phone and called Xiang Huaqiang's elder brother.
Xiang Huaqiang was very quarreled. He probably danced in a dance hall. After a while, he found a place to purse it and asked, "A Fei, what kind of wind is blowing today? It's rare for you to contact me on your own initiative."
Kang Jianfei asked in a relaxed tone and smiled: "Brother Qiang, is there any person like Brother Chen in Hong Kong?"
"Why, you have had a marriage with him?" Xiang Huaqiang asked.
Kang Jianfei said: "There are some small conflicts, I want to know about it."
Xiang Huaqiang laughed and said, "You are talking about Datouchen in Causeway Bay. He is a person with 14k De characters. I don't care about this matter. You can ask Chen Huimin."
What Xiang Huaqiang said was hard to deal with, that is, he was inconvenient to intervene.
Although the Hong Kong gang at this time is the most powerful, 14k is a lean camel bigger than a horse, and 14k will not easily conflict with 14k.
As for the relationship between Kang Jianfei and Xiang Huaqiang, it can only be considered ordinary. Moreover, Xiang Huaqiang is not the person in Xinyi'an, how could he provoke 14k in order to help Kang Jianfei come forward?
On the contrary, Chen Huimin, who often shoots movies for DreamWorks, is the real and most suitable middleman.
Chen Huimin and Datouchen belong to the 14k Dezi Duo. This person was in a bad situation when he was released from prison, but he became popular again in recent years. He had the final say in the entire Tsim Sha Tsui. Now Chen Huimin is still continuing to make movies, but filming is just a hobby for him. This guy went to participate in the World Elite Fighting Competition two years ago. He was 39 years old and took only 35 seconds to kill Japanese players.
In addition, Chen Huimin used to be a prison guard and was very fed in the prison system. The gang members feared the most were prison guards, so he had a good relationship with the big guys in Hong Kong. Even Xiang Huayan, the leader of Xinyi'an, gave Chen Huimin a better face.
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Kimbali Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.
More than 10 years later, there are high-end hotels and business buildings here, but at this time, nightclubs and gambling stalls are everywhere. When you walk on the street, you can see the "white noodles" horsemen selling "white noodles".
This is Chen Huimin's base camp. If he stands out and yells on the street, he can summon hundreds of younger brothers in one minute.
Disheng Nightclub, in a luxurious private room.
Datouchen chewed the peanuts peeled with the wine girl, revealing a big gold teeth and smiled: "Brother Min, why do you think of finding brothers to get together today?"
Chen Huimin smiled quietly and asked casually: "I heard from someone that Achen, you opened a film company?"
"Hongfa Film Company," Datouchen heard Chen Huimin talk about the film company, and thought Chen Huimin asked him to shoot a movie today. "Brother Min, you are a kung fu star. I run a film company. Why don't we work together to make a kung fu film?"
Chen Huimin was still laughing: "I have a DreamWorks film contract in my hand now and I don't have time to make other movies."
"What is DreamWorks? It's worth watching him with the filming of Kang. I'll ask DreamWorks to wait and wait until our brothers' movie is finished," Datouchen said and cursed, "I'll throw away his mother. There was a bitch who dared to leave quietly yesterday. I'll catch her to death next time."
"It's Li Lizhen's case?" Chen Huimin said.
Datouchen suddenly narrowed his eyes and then laughed: "It turns out that Brother Min, you have another purpose to ask me to drink today. Are you here to be a peacemaker?"
Chen Huimin said: "Everyone is friends, why do you have to be so irritated? I will have a drink the next day, and everyone sits together and drinks a few drinks, and things will be over."
Just in terms of his status in the gang, Chen Huimin and Datouchen are both bigwigs with 14k Deli, which can be considered equal. However, Chen Huimin currently controls the entire Tsim Sha Tsui area, while Datouchen can only manage a small area in Causeway Bay, and his connections and face are far less than Chen Huimin.
Datouchen chewed the fragrant fried peanuts and suddenly grinned: "Since Brother Min has spoken, then I, Datouchen, will give you this face. Let the person named Kang call Li Lizhen and punish him for three cups to apologize to me. I won't care about the previous incident and just pretend that nothing has happened."
Chen Huimin always had a smile on his face, but the smile on his face turned a little cold at this moment.
The whole thing was originally a bullying of Datouchen, which was nothing to the gang leader. But since Chen Huimin came forward to be a peacemaker, even if Datouchen stood on the equal side, he would be in the position of Datouchen.
If Datouchen promises everyone to sit down and forget their grudges, then Datouchen will give Chen Huimin a face, and Kang Jianfei will not be able to force his request to seek justice.
But now Datouchen is actually preparing to ask Li Lizhen to drink and apologize to him, which is to make it difficult for Chen Huimin to do. To put it in the eyes, it is completely ignoring Chen Huimin's face.
After the two of them drank a few drinks, Datouchen staggered and hugged a drinker on the sofa.
Chen Huimin walked out of the private room alone, took out his elder brother and dialed Kang Jianfei's phone number: "Mr. Kang, Datouchen agreed to everyone sit down and have a drink, but he asked Li Lizhen to apologize with him."
"I'll trouble Brother Min about this matter," Kang Jianfei thanked him first, and then said, "You haven't made an appointment to hold a bar one day?"
Chen Huimin said: "Not yet. If you are not available, then forget about this wine."
Kang Jianfei said, "Well, I just don't have time."
"Okay, I'm dead." Chen Huimin put away his elder brother, wondering how Kang Jianfei would handle this matter. 14k has not had too many internal strife over the years, and the cohesion is simply a mess compared to ten years ago. Although Chen Huimin and Datouchen belong to the same gang, the relationship between the two is not very good. Chen Huimin is very happy to see Datouchen who doesn't give him face to be defeated.
Business is about being kind to make money. Generally, businessmen have conflicts with gangs, and basically they are all surrendering and apologizing. However, Chen Huimin has had contact with Kang Jianfei many times. He intuitively believes that Kang Jianfei is not the kind of person who has knocked off his teeth and swallowed it into his stomach, so he is looking forward to Kang Jianfei's next performance.
To be honest, Kang Jianfei is not like dealing with people from the gang. He doesn’t have the benefits of a dime, and if he doesn’t pay attention, he will get into trouble.
But from now until the return of Hong Kong in 1997, Kang Jianfei wanted to make movies in Hong Kong, and the society was a hurdle that could not be avoided in any case. In the next few years, the more money the Hong Kong films make, the more gangs will come to make money from filming and making money. It will be a matter of time before and after a conflict occurs. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!