Shen Fei finally decided to meet Han Sanping.

But before that, he still asked someone to inquire about the recent movements of the Huayi brothers.

Sure enough.

I really let Shen Fei fight~ Listen to something.

"Historiography?"

Shen Fei's brows furrowed, and when he heard the name, he was slightly surprised.

"Yes. "

Li Wei said to Shen Fei: "It seems that China Film, Huayi Brothers and Jewel Pictures have recently co-authored. "

"Jewel Pictures?"

Shen Fei's face suddenly became ugly.

As far as he can remember, he really knows the name of this company.

In 02, Leslie Cheung planned to direct his first film.

The story is set in Qingcheng in the fifties, the love of a woman and two men.

For this "Stealing Hearts", he set up a company with his lover, and asked He Yiping, the screenwriter of "New Dragon Gate Inn", to go to the local area to collect style and improve the story.

With the connections he has accumulated in the Hong Kong circle, Zhang Guorong has found a number of big names such as Ou Dingping, Zhang Shuping, and Hetian Keiko.

Later, the media speculated that Director Zhang was ambitious and wanted to make a shocking work.

Because the story takes place in Qingcheng, it is best to speak Mandarin, and the heroine of the movie is set to be Ningjing.

The actor is Hu Jun, who previously starred in "Lan Yu".

The director of "Lan Yu" is Guan Jinpeng, who introduced Hu Jun to Zhang Guorong.

At that time, after Hu Jun finished acting in "Lan Yu", he once became a male god in the gay circle, and his brother admired him very much.

After meeting with Ning Jing, Leslie Cheung also drank a drink with Jiang Wen and asked for some tips on how to make movies.

originally wanted to invite Zhang Jinzhan, the executive director of "Farewell My Concubine", to help, but unfortunately Zhang Jinzhan wanted to mix with Quentin Tarantino in Hollywood, so he could only make another appointment.

In addition, Song Chengxian also looked for him and wanted him to play another man, but he couldn't cooperate.

For more than two consecutive months, Zhang Guorong traveled back and forth to Yanjing and Hong Kong Island, and the script changed several drafts, and the team gradually took shape.

Originally, the company planned to prepare in a low-key manner, but I didn't expect to be targeted by the media and tracked all the way.

On March 8 of that year, Hong Kong media suddenly exposed the script of "Stealing Hearts", and also announced the process of Zhang Guorong going to Ludong to see the scene.

The crew had to take back all the final scripts, and the location selection plan was temporarily canceled.

After deceiving the media, he secretly went to Ludong.

After watching the scene, Leslie Cheung felt that there was a distance from the imaginary story, so he made up his mind to rewrite the script.

That month was the release period of "Different Space", and in the face of the sluggish Hong Kong film market, Leslie Cheung stood everywhere and cheered up, wanting to inject some vitality into Hong Kong films.

Unexpectedly, he himself lost his life.

Soon after, Leslie Cheung had nightmares, coupled with gastrointestinal problems, his spirit deteriorated, and he even had auditory hallucinations, and his temper became more and more irritable.

At first, the media said that he hit an evil spot when filming "Different Space", and later speculated that he was very likely to suffer from depression.

Despite this, he still traveled between Yanjing and Hong Kong Island to prepare "Stealing Hearts".

In that half a year, Zhang Guorong had an extremely tormented life, had several mental breakdowns, and it is rumored that he tried to commit suicide in November.

On April Fool's Day the following year, Zhang Guorong jumped and became a legend. The movie "Stealing Hearts" was naturally not made.

Later, people learned that in fact, even if he didn't suffer from depression, the movie was ill-fated.

Today, if you don't get it right, you will be hacked.

At that time, the sunset of Hong Kong Island Films, and the investment that Zhang Guorong found came from Yanjing Gem Pictures.

The project was submitted to the Cultural Administration for approval, but the approval was not obtained for a long time.

A few years later, Gem Pictures suddenly disappeared, and the registration information related to it could no longer be found.

It turns out that this company is laundering money with film and television dramas!

That's right!

What Shen Fei knows is that what this Jewel Pictures is doing is money laundering.

Anyone who has watched "Breaking Bad" knows that money laundering is a tiring job.

In the play, Lao Bai made drugs and got a large amount of stolen money.

How much can he earn as an ordinary teacher?

It certainly can't be deposited in the bank.

You can't take cash for high-value purchases, so you have to wash the stolen money.

The lawyer gave him the idea of setting up a donation website, and then having hackers donate huge sums of money to the website through retail investors around the world, and the money would be laundered.

But the number of donations soon couldn't keep up with the huge profits of Lao Bai's drug sales.

had to let Lao Bai's wife, who was a financial worker, appear on the stage and set up a car wash.

In this way, the income from the car wash can be accounted for, and the stolen money can be laundered into legitimate profits.

Anyway, so many people wash their cars every day, and it is impossible for the police to track them down.

But soon, Lao Bai's profits from a batch of products were tens or even millions of dollars.

With such a large amount, the car wash can't be washed.

In the end, Lao Bai's wife had no choice but to set up a warehouse and store the stolen money and cash in the warehouse.

The earliest mode of operation of "money laundering" is really similar to what the old white wife did.

However, it is not a car wash, but the Chicago mafia in the United States buys coin-operated laundry machines, opens laundries, and adds illegal income to the settlement of the day.

It doesn't matter if the washing machine room makes money or not, because it's just a shell, as long as the stolen money washed in turns white, the purpose will be achieved.

Later, this shell was turned into a movie.

In 1992, among the 15 best-grossing movies on Hong Kong Island, Zhou Xingxing occupied seven of them, and that year was known as the "Year of Zhou Xingxing".

Among them, "Truant Weilong II" is the annual box office champion of Yongsheng Pictures.

After "The Gambler" and before "God of Food", most of Xingye's movies were cooperated with Yongsheng.

This is also the reason why he was repeatedly denied a visa to immigrate to Canada in the future.

The lawsuit went to Canada's highest judicial body, and the court found him a "member of a criminal organization".

Shen Fei has always felt that many times, some things are not without reason.

Just like Zhou Xingxing, many fans later felt that he was innocent.

But is he really innocent?

As early as when Zhou Xingxing debuted, there was an inexplicable relationship between him and the "gangster".

In 1988, he went clubbing and met Li Xiuxian.

Director Li then pulled him to star in "Thunderbolt Pioneer".

And the financier who invested money in Li Xiuxian on Hong Kong Island was Xu Xiyuan, Xu Xidi's godfather in the future, and Yang Dengkui, who had a gangster background.

In those years, bent commercial movies pulled the crotch, and a lot of hot money poured into Hong Kong Island.

The rivers and lakes suspected that Yang Dengkui's investment in the movie was money laundering.

Later, Boss Yang also pulled Jack Li and gave tens of millions to create "Zhengdong Film" and shoot five movies such as "Fang Shiyu" and "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng".

And whether it is Li Xiuxian or Jack Lee, Yang is extremely generous.

Invest tens of millions, eh, I'm just playing!

He is so generous that even the current Shen Fei is ashamed of himself.

After all, their goal is to make money, and other people's goals seem to be to lose money.

It's outrageous!

But at that time, he was indeed a big water hose for filmmakers on Hong Kong Island, and he was so famous that everyone knew about it.

In fact, in Shen Fei's view, whether it is "Yongsheng" or "Dengkui Pictures", throwing money at movies is related to the changes of gangsters on Hong Kong Island.

The Hong Kong Island gangs can be traced back to the early 20th century, when the British did not have so many people to run Hong Kong Island, and it was not enough to get some Ah Sanlai.

The flow of people is mixed, the trade is abundant, and everyone has it, and after holding each other together for a long time, gangs have been formed, and there is an organization like "Yiyongtang".

The gangsters became the civil defense force, and they also helped to manage things, and the British turned a blind eye.

In 1909, the head of the Yi Yong Hall, Hei Guren, held the first Hongmen Conference, and then the gangs became more and more organized and structured, divided into ranks, prefixes, and even elections.

Among them, the most powerful is the word "and", which controls almost the entire Hong Kong Island, with nearly 100,000 members.

At the end of the 40s, Lao Chiang was defeated and retreated, and Lao Chiang's men ran to Hong Kong Island, ready to do something.

Among them, Lieutenant General Ge Zhaohuang of the military command rebuilt the Inner Eight Halls in Yangcheng, and then fled to Hong Kong Island and founded "14K".

"Fourteen" is the birthplace of the gang, No. 14 Baohua Road, Yangcheng.

"K" is Lao Jiang's side.

There is also a major general of the military commander, Xiang Qian, who has made a new Ngee An.

In the early fifties, Xiang Qian was expelled by the British, and he left his position to his son Xiang Huayan.

And Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng are also his sons.

The former is the Dragon Five in the "God of Gamblers" series of movies.

And the latter.

In "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", Mrs. Hua gave the name Tang Bohu "Painting Saint", what did Zhou Xingxing say?

"I can't afford that name..."

After all, this is Zhang Min's ex-boyfriend!

Before the establishment of the Hong Kong ICAC, gang members had always been in the same league as the police. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

They help with the management of things, do underground business to make money, and the police take money from them.

Layers of black money are collected to form a huge fortune.

So there was Lame Hao, and there was Inspector Lei Luo with 500 million.

Until Shen Fei was reborn, Wang Jing's fat man still remembered these two friends, and after filming "Chasing the Dragon", he filmed "Chasing the Tiger and the Dragon".

Unfortunately, in 1974, the ICAC vigorously cracked down on corruption.

Lu Le, the prototype of Lei Luo, ran to the bend when he heard the wind.

His good friend Zeng Qirong, the director of the military-uniformed police station, was also wanted, leaving his son Zeng Zhiwei to work hard in Hong Jinbao's martial arts, and later became one of the "Seven Monsters of New Art City".

During this period, "New Ngee An" became the leading gangster.

Seeing that the government's crackdown has intensified and the audit of illegal income has become stricter and stricter, the gangsters have mixed into the film industry like Zeng.

But it's not about doing martial arts, it's about investing.

Not only local gangsters threw money, but also many bigwigs with unclear backgrounds in Wanwan and Aomen, who also threw money in.

For example, Yang Dengkui opened a song and dance hall in his early years, and later established the eighth TV station in Wanwan.

During the period of engaging in the entertainment industry, Yang Dengkui was still one of the crooked corners, holding both black and white forces.

To a certain extent, these bigwigs threw money and contributed to the golden period of Hong Kong films that began in the 80s.

It's just for the arts, for people with illegal purposes, money laundering is the right thing to do.

There are many ways for gangsters to launder money, such as opening a night club or restaurant to inflate revenue, and then making an auction to speculate on sky-high prices to avoid capital traceability.

But these are either slow or expensive to attribute, and they are not as affordable as making movies.

There are two advantages to investing in films: the first is that the tax rate is low, especially on Hong Kong Island, which was a British tax at the time, and the entertainment industry was protected.

The other is that it is difficult to trace the flow of money.

Filming movies, there are a lot of cash transactions, props, scenes are miscellaneous, and after filming, you can withdraw after filming, or shoot shootout movies, action movies, bombardment, who knows how much money you spent on it?

So the gangsters invested and played all kinds of tricks.

For example, the inflated cost, saying that it is a few million, but in fact, it is only one million or even hundreds of thousands, and the real cost is small, so is it okay for me to give the star a sky-high salary?

Another example is to set up a shell company, buy movies, pull them to sell overseas, and use local regulatory loopholes to inflate the box office, so that black money becomes movie profits.

The box office injection is here.

In addition to being able to launder money, you can also soak in a bubble of female stars, in case the movie really sells out, and you are famous to make money, why not?

So gangsters often have to find big names to act, so that the movie has a guaranteed box office.

Even if the real box office flutters, a fake number can fool the past.

And some underworld people later really fell in love with movies, and even turned back to shore for this.

For example, Chen Huimin, while acting in movies, mixed with the underworld, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Supporting Actor.

and Chen Shenzhi, who worked as a film consultant for Galaxy Imaging.

In addition to making bad movies and laundering money, you can also come to the real thing.

Invite the most famous superstars to spend a lot of money on venues, scenery, costumes, and props, spend black money for box office, and sell them for copyrights for profits.

When the gangsters infiltrated the Hong Kong circle at their worst, many big names were pointed at guns and made movies.

The heroic deeds of Cheng Long and Liu Dehua are known to many people.

Don't listen to Cheng Long's bragging, as if no one on Hong Kong Island dared to touch him, when filming "Fire Island", wasn't he still arrested and filmed.

When Leung Jiahui went to France to film "Lover", he was suddenly broken out by the two and wanted to be forced to go to the Philippines.

Or did his wife Jiang Jianian go to see a certain bigwig, saying that when he finished filming "Lover", his worth would also rise: "Wouldn't it be more cost-effective for you to find him again?"

In short, making a movie is much more cost-effective than Lao Bai's car wash.

Recalling the Hong Kong Island movies at that time, Cai Songlin of Wanwan Scholar Pictures calculated an account: "At that time, we had more than 200 films a year, and we had more than 10 billion Taiwan dollars operating filming on Hong Kong Island at most, which was the heyday and the most beautiful time. "

Referring to gangster money laundering, Cai also said: "Hong Kong films have a seven-day fresh, that is, a seven-day film. It's good to make fake accounts. "

But.

Flowers are not red for a hundred days, and people are not good for a thousand days.

In a bar in Tsim Sha Tsui in 01, an old director celebrated his birthday and accepted seven apprentices.

After the halfway through the wine, the apprentice knelt down and said, "Master, we are sorry for you, there is really no way to mix up this business." "

Ye Zekun, the director of the Hong Kong Island Screenwriters Association, witnessed this scene.

At that time, I thought: "The Hong Kong Island movie is over." "

At that time, no one invested money in Hong Kong films.

Wang Jing's later generations also said in "Round Table Pie" that the refusal to come to the money over there caused a huge trauma to Hong Kong Island films.

Unlike when he filmed "Tricky Expert", he dared to start work on the words "Andy Lau and Stephen Chow".

In fact, after the return to the motherland, the mafia forces on Hong Kong Island have escaped and become good, which is also a big reason.

You didn't see Ni Yongxiao in "Infernal Affairs", why did you go later?

This part of the investment was cut, coupled with the film protection policy of crooked pig brains, which led to a large-scale invasion of Hollywood, which directly killed half of the Hong Kong film market.

Since then, the golden age has come to an end.

When "Different Dimension" was released, Leslie Cheung cheered up Hong Kong films and dragged his sick body around to promote them. But when he was preparing to shoot "Stealing Hearts", he hated a lot in his heart, that is, there was no investment from Hong Kong people.

"When an investor on Hong Kong Island sat down with me to talk, I felt that it was nothing more than a business. I'm not talking about a business, I'm going to make a good film. I, Zhang Guorong, have contributed so much to the Hong Kong Island song and film industry, won so many honors, and won glory for Hong Kong, why don't they support me?"

This is Zhang Guorong's original words, which shows how angry he is.

And the last person who supported him was Gem Pictures in the mainland, a man named Historiography.

It is ridiculous to say that things in the future world would have been filmed a few years earlier, with the urine of the gangsters on Hong Kong Island, they would have to intervene if they didn't get it right.

Later, the gangsters did not invest in movies, but the money for the historiography that helped Zhang Guorong was not serious money.

In Shen Fei's impression, this Boss Shi made a fortune, but he has a great background.

In '92, the sea prevailed!

In the United States, a company named "Huachen Daxia" opened the first overseas listing model and publicly issued stocks.

The person who operated this matter was an associate professor named Xia Dingjun.

Back then, Professor Xia went to sea from Huaguo University of Finance and became the vice president of Qionghai Huayin Trust and Investment Co., Ltd.

In the following year, in order to expand Yanjing's business, Yanjing Huayin was established.

Historiography is his staff.

Prior to that, he had worked in the bank for more than ten years, and he was proficient in business and had outstanding abilities. Xia Dingjun was very important to him, and soon promoted him to department manager, and the funds and finances were under his control. In 1992, Professor Xia was busy going to the United States to go public and hand over Beihuayin to the historian. Unexpectedly, Historiography united with a few colleagues to engage in embezzlement of 250,000 yuan. This was a huge amount of money at the time, but Xia Dingjun used his connections to preserve the historiography.

In the years that followed, historians called him "Teacher".

However, after Huachen went public, Professor Xia did not get the due benefits from the partners, and the other party only returned part of the loan, which made Professor Xia very dissatisfied.

Subsequently, Professor Xia established Haide International, preparing to get a cement company to the United States, and had no intention of taking care of Yanjing Huayin.

As a result, the authority of historiography is expanding day by day.

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