Huayu: Director started with art films

"Shameless!"

Fang Yihua's face turned red with anger: "How many people resigned?"

"I asked someone to do a count and found that more than 60 people had submitted their resignation reports, but in fact, quite a few people did not come to work."

He Dingjun calculated in his mind and said, "Probably more than 150 people."

“More than 150 people!”

Fang Yihua's face changed drastically. Not including the actors, the entire TVB staff is about 1500 people.

He Dingjun said: "Yes, about 150 people, and many of them are important positions."

More than 150 people left at once, many of them in important positions.

ATV's actions have caused TVB to become half-paralyzed.

"Damn it!" Fang Yihua clenched his fists and took a deep breath. "Inform the people below to hold on today. If there are not enough people, find a way. Don't let any mistakes happen in TVB's program."

"Okay, Mrs. Fang, I'll go now."

He Dingjun didn't dare to stay here any longer, for fear of being implicated by Mrs. Fang and thus affecting his future.

As soon as he leaves.

Fang Yihua, who had been unable to hold back any longer, directly picked up the pen holder on the table and smashed it to the ground, cursing.

It’s no wonder she was so angry, this move was really too mean.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a normal working day in Hong Kong, more than 150 people left TVB, nearly one-tenth of the employees. It may not seem like a lot, but almost every employee of TVB works at a high intensity and juggles a large number of tasks at the same time.

The word "roll" is very normal in TVB.

Suddenly, 150 people were missing, which meant that the work of these 150 people was now shared by the remaining people.

Regardless of whether these people accept these tasks passively or actively, the ones who will be criticized in the end are definitely those within the station.

"No, you have to give us an explanation."

The more Fang Yihua thought about it, the angrier she became. This matter couldn't just be let go. Otherwise, if ATV continued to poach people, then would TVB still be able to survive?
She turned and walked out of the office, telling her secretary to go into the room to pack up, while rushing to Uncle Shao Liu.

Even though Fang Yihua is the respected Sixth Aunt Fang Tai in the TV station, there are many people who are willing to give her face outside the TV station, but ATV probably won't give her this face.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have done this.

In Uncle Shao Liu's office.

Uncle Six sat at the table as usual, picked up the newspaper on the table and began to read.

He is 89 years old this year and has long stopped caring about the situation inside the station. The reason he still comes to the office every day is just because of habit, or out of helplessness.

His children parted ways with him many years ago.

Now, Uncle Shao has almost no relatives except his confidante Fang Yihua.

Fang Yihua is still young, and he officially became the executive director of TVB a few years ago. He has to come to the TV station to work every day. Uncle Shao naturally comes with him, to keep an eye on things and occasionally give some advice.

The door was pushed open, and Fang Yihua walked in angrily: "Sixth Brother!"

"What's wrong?" Uncle Shao put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at Fang Yihua who came in angrily, and said with a smile: "Who made you angry?"

"Not yet..."

Before Fang Yihua finished speaking, he waved to the secretary and said, "You can go out first."

"Okay, Mrs. Fang." The secretary nodded, turned around and left the office tactfully.

Her job was very easy, just looking after Uncle Shao Liu, adding water or helping him go to the bathroom.

"What's the matter? Why are you asking Xiao Wang to go out?"

Uncle Shao stared at her curiously.

Xiao Wang said he was a secretary, but in fact he was a personal assistant. He had been following them for seven or eight years and had always followed the rules.

Most of the work at some TV stations would not intentionally avoid her. After all, Xiao Wang was a secretary after all, and she would occasionally record some things.

"It's about ATV."

"ATV? What happened at ATV?"

When he heard that the matter was related to Asia Television, Uncle Shao's face became a little solemn. Ever since Li Yishu became the chairman of the board of directors of Asia Television last year, he felt that the situation was menacing.

Of course, it is not because of Li Yishu’s identity as an international director, but because of the art media group she founded.

The group does not have much business in Hong Kong, with only one film company, and it produces very few films. It mostly only participates in investment and incidentally in film distribution.

However, it still has some influence abroad. It has businesses in Japan and the United States, covering multiple media fields such as records, movies, publishing, distribution, etc.

Later in the middle of the year, it successfully acquired Jin Yong's Ming Pao Group.

She has completely opened up the media channels and is said to be developing a Chinese news website. All these things show that Li Yishu wants to develop in the media field.

"What else can we do? They are poaching our TVB staff again."

Fang Yihua gritted his teeth and said, "He Dingjun just came to report to me that ATV has poached many of our people. There are more than 60 people who have handed in their resignation letters, and more than 80 people who have not handed in their resignation letters but have not come to work. Adding them together, there are more than 150 people!"

"And there are people from all kinds of positions, hosts, actors, directors, directors..."

Listening to Fang Yihua's words, Uncle Shao frowned and asked in confusion, "Why are they hiring so many people? Asia Television is so small, aren't the existing employees enough?"

"I think they are either not good enough or they are deliberately looking for trouble."

Fang Yihua clenched his fists and said, "It must be that Huo Wenxi. He is so mean at such a young age. He made some money last year and started to make a big fuss. It's clear that he doesn't take TVB seriously."

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Asia Television must have made a profit last year. However, because it has been delisted, the outside world is not sure how much money it made, but it must have been several hundred million Hong Kong dollars.

The Miss Asia beauty pageant was so sensational, with beauties from 36 countries participating. From the start of the competition, the ratings almost beat TVB in the same period. If it didn't make hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, Fang Yihua would think that ATV was a waste.

"There's no need to be angry." Uncle Shao Liu said calmly, "It's just poaching. Didn't Lin Baixin also poach people with high salaries a few years ago, but you saw the result."

"It's different. It's different this time."

Fang Yihua said with a headache: "Lin Baixin has no overseas channels, but Li Yishu does. He has businesses in mainland China, Japan, and the United States. Last year, he not only sold a lot of TV drama copyrights to mainland China, but also cooperated with mainland TV stations in production. If they own the mainland market, it will not be a good thing for us TVB."

Hearing this, Uncle Shao Liu just remembered this matter. He frowned and asked, "So what do you want to do?"

Fang Yihua said: "We have to talk to the people from ATV. If they continue to poach people like this, how can we at TVB continue to operate!"

"I'm afraid this matter is not so easy to discuss."

Being able to poach people with high salaries is the other party's ability. It's not like Uncle Shao hasn't poached people in the past, just not that many, and they were all people in key positions.

"It's not that easy to talk about, but we have to talk about it. We can't just let them keep poaching people like this, right?"

Fang Yihua looked at Uncle Shao and said, "Sixth Brother, I'm going to talk to Lin Baixin and ask him to tell Huo Wenxi that there's nothing wrong with normal business competition, but if she wants to do this secretly, don't blame us for breaking the rules." "It's up to you." Uncle Shao thought about it and agreed to Fang Yihua.

Let her go talk to Lin Baixin.

This matter must be resolved.

Let Fang Yihua test the waters. If there is anything wrong, he will come forward. Whether it is for reconciliation or for the final say, with Fang Yihua as a shield, there will always be a little room for maneuver.

"Okay Sixth Brother."

Fang Yihua acted decisively and after getting Uncle Shao's consent, he immediately took out his mobile phone, found Lin Baixin's number and called him.

Although Lin Baixin was surprised that Fang Yihua came to find him, he still gave her face and made an appointment to meet at the Peninsula Hotel in the afternoon.

Asia Television.

In a large conference room.

Looking at the employees who were poached at the scene, Huo Wenxi said with a smile: "Everyone can rest assured that we at Asia Television are the most trustworthy. Since we poached you from TVB, we will definitely not pay so much liquidated damages for nothing."

"We have already put Director Li's promises to everyone into the new contract. I believe everyone has read it and signed it..."

After saying a lot of things, Huo Wenxi looked at the assistant beside him and waved at her. She took out a big bag from behind, unzipped it, and a bag full of red envelopes appeared inside.

"This year it's the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the day to start work. It's a Hong Kong custom to give out red envelopes when work starts, and everyone is lining up to receive them."

"After you receive the red envelope, someone will take you to familiarize yourself with your new position. I will give you half a month to familiarize yourself with your new position."

After saying that, Huo Wenxi handed the microphone to his assistant and asked her to invite everyone to come over to receive the red envelopes. He then stepped down from the stage and went to find Li Baoan who was standing anxiously beside him.

Huo Wenxi asked: "What's wrong? You were in a hurry to find me just now?"

"Mr. Lin just called and said Fang Yihua contacted him and arranged to meet in the afternoon."

Li Baoan said: "Mr. Lin suspects that this is to poach people from the TV station."

As an old subordinate of Lin Baixin, when Huo Wenxi started a war to poach people, Li Baoan must report to Lin Baixin.

"Fang Yihua?"

Huo Wenxi raised his eyebrows, smiled and shook his head, saying: "Call Mr. Lin back and tell him that you want to meet normally. Don't bother with anything else."

Li Baoan asked, "Director Huo, what if Fang Yihua causes trouble?"

"Looking for trouble? What kind of trouble can Fang Yihua bring to us? Is she trying to show off her Sixth Aunt's power in front of ATV, or is she trying to poach people from ATV like us?"

Since Huo Wenxi has decided to start a war of poaching, he has already prepared for the other side's counterattack, which is nothing more than poaching each other's talents.

But Huo Wenxi was sure that TVB would never do so, and even if they did, it would probably be just a passing fad.

TVB is different from ATV. TVB’s employees’ salaries are low. If they poach people from ATV with high salaries, should their original employees get a salary increase?
If the salary doesn't increase, the original employees will probably be dissatisfied. Why should the new employees be paid higher than their old employees?
If the salary is raised, given TVB's decades-long stinginess, how much can the salary be raised? One hundred dollars per person per month?

So this is an open conspiracy.

Huo Wenxi is certain that TVB will not engage in a poaching war with her.

The stingy habits that started from the time of Uncle Shao Liu cannot be changed overnight.

What's more, TVB is now stronger than ATV in terms of ratings in all time periods, with a market share of about 7-3.

Under such circumstances, TVB will not and cannot compete with real money.

Li Baoan glanced at the group of former TVB employees who were now ATV staff who were happily receiving the red envelopes, and whispered, "Director Huo, we have to pay 20 to 30 million yuan in liquidated damages for these people, and their wages will be 1 to 2 million yuan a month..."

"money is not a problem."

Huo Wenxi waved his hand and said, "In April, the headquarter group will conduct the first round of financing. At that time, we will strongly support our Asia Television's market share in Hong Kong. At the same time, we will open up our own satellite channel for Asia Television to increase our influence in overseas markets."

The satellite channel was first created by Li Jiacheng. At that time, there was no way to apply for a television station license in Hong Kong, so he found an alternative way and obtained a satellite TV license through his connections.

However, in 93, he sold Hong Kong Satellite TV to Murdoch, and the TV station was renamed Star TV last year.

At the same time, at the end of last year, it was announced that Phoenix Satellite TV Chinese Channel would be added this year.

Backed by Murdoch's News Corporation, Star TV currently has satellite channels in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other regions.

ATV had never thought about this before. After all, they couldn't even beat TVB in their home country, let alone enter the Chinese market in Southeast Asia.

But now that it has been acquired by Li Yishu, it is about to start raising funds in a big way, and the natural thing is to open a satellite channel.

At a time when the entertainment industry in Southeast Asia is still underdeveloped, relying on the last glory of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, we have cultivated a group of loyal overseas audiences for Hong Kong and mainland dramas.

Hearing Director Huo's words, Li Baoan breathed a sigh of relief and said nothing more.

Since the big bosses above have already made the decision, he, as a worker, just has to do what they say.

in the afternoon.

Lin Baixin and Fang Yihua met, and both sides were quite polite at first.

However, when Fang Yihua suggested that ATV stop poaching people, Lam Pak-yan simply shook his head and refused, saying that he had already withdrawn from the management of the TV station and would only serve as a shareholder and no longer hold any position.

Fang Yihua suppressed his anger and said, "Boss Lin, do you still want to keep poaching people from TVB?"

Considering Shao Laoliu's face, Lin Baixin said tactfully: "I don't know about this. You also know that Li Yishu is the chairman of the board of directors of the TV station now, and Huo Wenxi is his man. Asia Television started the reform last year, and now I have no say at all."

After hearing this, Fang Yihua knew that the other party was going to continue poaching people. However, considering that the person sitting in front of her was Lin Baixin, she couldn't say anything harsh.

After having afternoon tea, I rushed back to TVB.

He began to discuss countermeasures with He Dingjun.

Hengdian Film and Television City.

It was already the afternoon of the fifth day of the first lunar month when Li Yishu flew back from Yuhang.

Most of the actors in the crew have already returned, and the rest either gave notice in advance or had something urgent to do.

Li Yishu was not angry about this. After all, there were many things that needed to be resolved during the Chinese New Year.

But the filming has to happen, as there is not much time left for Lee Yi-su.

If we want it to be released early next year, we have to wrap up filming before April, and then give it to Xie Jin for a rough cut. He will do a fine edit after he returns from the United States after filming "Rush Hour."

Because I have rested for about ten days.

After the crew resumed filming, Li Yishu did not start shooting the final scene right away, but re-shot some of the previous minor shots.

After all the stage sets are ready.

"All parts in place."

"Turn on the machine!" (End of this chapter)