779 [Two Places Exchange Meeting]
Under Kang Jianfei's gaze, Anita Mui hesitated for a while and finally couldn't help saying, "Mr. Kang, I am very grateful for your cultivation over the years. Without your help, I might still be singing in the bar. But my conscience tells me that I cannot turn a blind eye to certain things, and I must do my best to help them. I respect Mr. Kang's political stance and don't want you to do it, so I decided to leave Fengxing Records because I am not suitable to stay in the company anymore, so everyone is embarrassed."
"You believe what the right-wing newspaper says, but what the left-wing newspaper says is lies?" Kang Jianfei asked with a funny look.
Anita Mui asked back: "American, British, French newspapers, and newspapers all over the world are telling lies?"
Kang Jianfei said: "In my eyes, those British and American newspapers are no different from "Next Weekly". The purpose of publishing newspapers is nothing more than sales and popularity. To put it bluntly, it is fame and fortune. What the newspapers say may not be true. When you don't see it with your own eyes or listen with your ears, don't draw final conclusions on something and regard it as the truth."
"But that thing did happen." Anita Mui actually wanted to present a lot of facts to refute Kang Jianfei, but she finally resisted and said nothing, so as not to have a stalemate with Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei put down his coffee cup, licked the coffee on his lips with his tongue and said, "Ten years ago, a group of young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong came to Beijing to petition, hoping to separate the sovereignty and governance of Hong Kong. Do you know what the final result is? [Chang^feng].[cf][wx]."
"Of course it was a failure." Anita Mui said.
Kang Jianfei said: "What I want to say is the young Hong Kong entrepreneurs who came to Beijing to petition, more than half of them. After visiting the mainland, they chose to invest and set up factories in the mainland to do business. Before they went to the mainland, they always regarded the mainland government as bandits. They believed that their assets would be confiscated after Hong Kong's return."
Anita Mui is still stubborn: "Entrepreneurs can easily change their original position as long as they see profitability."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "You are obviously ignoring the point. What I want to say is that China in the right-wing newspaper may not be the real China."
Anita Mui kept silent, obviously she felt that she could not reason with the stubborn Kang Jianfei.
"You are not the only anti-G artist in the company. I have never asked you to change your position," Kang Jianfei said with a smile. "If you really want to leave Fengxing Records, I will not force you to retain it. But I have organized a Hong Kong artist exchange group.,, I hope you can also participate. You can go and see what the mainland looks like with your own eyes, and it is not too late to make a decision after you come back."
Kang Jianfei said this. If Anita Mui still refuses to agree, then she is really ungrateful. She hesitated and said, "I am banned from entering the country by the mainland."
"It's okay, I'll clear it up." Kang Jianfei said.
Anita Mui frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to clear."
Kang Jianfei waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I know what you have done."
Anita Mui’s problem is really serious. It is not just as simple as publicly supporting the democracy movement. She also donated money for the "Yellow Bird Operation". Such behavior can be sentenced to jail if it is placed in the mainland.
There are only three most determined cooks in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, including Cen Jianxun, Anita Mui and Deng Guangrong. Both of them actually supported the Yellow Bird Operation. Deng Guangrong even personally came forward to spend money to find gang members to smuggle people.
In Kang Jianfei's opinion, Cen Jianxun and Deng Guangrong's behavior is easy to understand. They are both the bosses of film companies, and it is normal for opposing the mainland for the sake of the Taiwan market. Anita Mui is just a full person. You are just a singer. After reading a few newspapers, you donated money and performed charity. You are really a fighter.
In early May, after Kang Jianfei coordinated with him, the Hong Kong artist exchange group with a scale of 20 people went north to the mainland. The members of these exchange groups were all contracted artists from Oriental Entertainment Brokerage Agency, which had a strong resistance to the mainland regime.
Kang Jianfei believes that when these more than 20 people have a walk around the mainland and return to Hong Kong again, at least half of them will change their hostile attitude towards the mainland.
The misunderstanding stems from the lack of communication. At the beginning of reform and opening up, many Hong Kong businessmen were afraid of hostility to the mainland. As a result, after going to the mainland for inspection, they all moved their factories to the mainland.
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In the hotel private room.
The old man over 60 years old raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Mr. Kang, you have done a great thing this time. On behalf of all the comrades of the Hong Kong Branch, I would like to thank you for supporting our work."
"Where are you, President Zhou, you are so accused!" Kang Jianfei raised his neck and killed the wine.
If you are facing the former President Xu of the Hong Kong branch, Kang Jianfei is much more casual. President Xu's bones are very soft, so soft that they want to please Hong Kong rich and famous people.
The President Zhou in front of him is different. He participated in the negotiations on the return of Hong Kong and Macau throughout the process. He never retreated in the face of difficulties caused by British and Portuguese diplomats.
Although President Zhou was smiling at this time, he was calm and neither humble nor arrogant. His attitude seemed to be as intimate as Kang Jianfei's elders, but his words were very clear and actually refused to be a thousand miles away. The most rare thing is that he did not show off his authority from beginning to end, did not rely on his seniority, nor did he deliberately please him. He only placed Kang Jianfei in an equal position to communicate, making people unable to guess his ideas and actual attitude at all.
Kang Jianfei is worthy of being a diplomat who has been a diplomat for decades and has traveled all European countries. Kang Jianfei can't figure out the depth of this person at all.
President Zhou actually dislikes Kang Jianfei's decayed private life, but this does not affect his evaluation of Kang Jianfei. Not only is Kang Jianfei making money and becoming the richest man in Hong Kong, but more importantly, Kang Jianfei's attitude and influence towards the mainland.
Kang Jianfei, the Hong Kong people who stood up to support the mainland, was not the only one who sincerely praised President Zhou. What President Zhou sincerely praised was the record "Queen Avenue East" released by Kang Jianfei during the Spring Festival. This record had a great influence among Hong Kong people. "Capital" praised the reform and opening up policy, "Queen Avenue East" supported the return of 97 Hong Kong, and "Pearl of the Orient" sang a love and confidence and self-reliance for Hong Kong. "" aroused Hong Kong people's beautiful imagination of the capital. These catchy songs are more easily accepted by the Hong Kong public than the propaganda slogans of the left-wing newspapers. This has always been the shortcomings of the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency and its left-wing newspapers.
Putting down the wine glass, President Zhou said: "After the brothers split up, they will become unfamiliar if they don't move around for a long time. What is most lacking between Hong Kong and the motherland is communication. In recent years, we have also organized some folk and official exchange activities, which have achieved certain results. However, the exchanges between the two places have always been limited to the circle of leftist literary and artistic workers. This is also the work of those comrades in the South China Film Association has not been done well. The artist exchange meeting initiated by Mr. Kang this time was very welcomed by comrades from the Ministry of Culture, so I asked me to take them to thank you."
"I don't dare to take it. All I do is to do is a Chinese person," Kang Jianfei said righteously, "I will continue to promote the exchanges between the two local literary and artistic workers."
President Zhou said: "It's not just communication. The mainland has experienced ten years of catastrophe. Literary and artistic work was revived after the reform and opening up. Especially in terms of film, mainland movies are much behind the world. I have watched all your special effects blockbusters, which is very shocking."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "I have always been doing the exchange of movies between the two places. The creative spirit of mainland films is also worth learning from by Hong Kong filmmakers."
President Zhou smiled and nodded, saying, "Can Mr. Kang know a well-known writer in Hong Kong?"
"I know some, but I don't have close friends." Kang Jianfei said.
"The comrades from the Ministry of Culture are planning to plan a writer exchange meeting between the two places. I wonder if Mr. Kang can help me contact you in the center," said President Zhou.
Kang Jianfei was practicing Tai Chi and said: "If you want to talk about your influence among Hong Kong writers, no one can compare to Mr. Cha. President Zhou would be the best at asking Mr. Cha for help."
President Zhou said: "Mr. Cha cherishes his feathers so much."
Kang Jianfei then remembered that Jin Yong had retired completely and even planned to sell Ming Pao, and he didn't want to get involved in these troubles anymore.
In response to this, Kang Jianfei could only smile bitterly and said, "I'll give it a try."
Ni Kuang will definitely not be able to invite him. His sister Yi Shu will most likely not give him face. Li Bihua has a good attitude towards the mainland, and Lin Yanni is just a petty bourgeoisie...
To be honest, Kang Jianfei really feels that there is no need for writers from mainland China and Hong Kong to communicate. You can imagine a writer who writes urban romance and communicates with a writer who goes to the countryside. There is nothing to talk about in a completely different living environment and experience. Those who write serious literature probably look down on martial arts novelists.
The Ministry of Culture asked President Zhou to ask Kang Jianfei for help. I guess he thought Kang Jianfei was also a writer and a very popular writer, so he had a certain appeal in the Hong Kong writer circle. But Kang Jianfei's main business is a director, and he had no communication with those writers at all.
However, there are several well-known writers in Kang Jianfei's company. Wen Ruian is now the director of the screenwriter department of Oriental TV Production Company, Huang Yi is a long-term columnist of "Tiantian Daily". Zhang Xiaoxian, who has just become popular recently, is also a screenwriter and columnist of Dongshi Company. These three people can be used to make up for the numbers.
But these are all later stories, and everything has to be said when he comes back from Cannes. Kang Jianfei has also read several mainland literature books, and only a few likes for mainland writers. Ba Jin and Qian Zhongshu are old and probably won’t go back and forth to come to Hong Kong for exchange meetings. The younger generation, Mo Yan and the group of scar literature writers, Kang Jianfei has no sense of expectation from them.
There is only one Wang Xiaobo, and his article Kang Jianfei is the most comfortable to read. Moreover, Wang Xiaobo seems to be not famous at this time, so he can use it to package it. Since the establishment of Oriental Publishing House, there is still a shortage of a celebrity writer and works that he has promoted himself.
"President Zhou, I heard that there is a writer named Wang Xiaobo in the mainland. A friend of mine praised his works. Can you invite him to the exchange meeting?" Kang Jianfei asked.
"Is there any writer? I will inform the comrades of the Ministry of Culture." President Zhou had never heard of Wang Xiaobo's name.
If it is an exchange meeting organized by the Ministry of Culture, young writers generally do not have the opportunity to participate, but since Kang Jianfei took the initiative to mention it, it doesn’t matter if he adds one more person. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!