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Chapter 363: Taking myths as history, Liu Dehua's request

"Everyone, listen to me."

Zhang Chen stood alone on the stage, with his bodyguards blocking all routes to the stage to prevent him from saying something they didn't want to hear and causing these angry reporters to behave irrationally.

"As for the history of Southeast Asia, I believe that anyone with a little historical knowledge knows it." Zhang Chen saw that everyone looked at the people around them with pride, as if they had received orthodox historical education. He could only continue to add, "It is a history book that can withstand scrutiny, not compiled by later generations."

"Our country's history books are all handed down from the 13th century!"

The South Korean reporter was completely insane at this point. Everything he heard felt like someone was mocking him, including Zhang Chen's words, which seemed to be specifically targeting him.

Zhang Chen looked at the reporter, whose face was already red, and asked him, "Can a history book from the 13th century prove your country's 6000-year history?"

"Why not?!"

"Can your humans live for more than 1,900 years?" Zhang Chen looked at the other person as if he were an idiot.

"Who knows what happened back then? Dangun was our founding monarch, so it's understandable that he had some special abilities. Besides, even if he didn't live that long, it doesn't change the fact that Dangun created a glorious Joseon Dynasty in ancient times!"

"Alright, alright!" Zhang Chen waved his hand to interrupt him and asked the staff to take away his microphone.

This guy was still making noises without the microphone: "Leon, do you feel guilty and dare not debate with me?"

"Me?" Zhang Chen pointed at himself with amusement, "Don't you dare?"

Then, he looked at the insane reporter with disdain and said, "I just don't want to argue with you about something that has irrefutable evidence."

The guy wanted to rush onto the stage, as if to grab the microphone from Zhang Chen's hand to speak, but his body was directly controlled by Zhang Chen's bodyguard.

Zhang Chen looked at the reporters from other Southeast Asian countries around him and said, "You must have been very angry with this guy just now. I'm here to help you vent your anger."

The situation just now was very clear, that is, South Korea was fighting alone against so many Southeast Asian countries. If Zhang Chen wanted to deal with this reporter, it would be best to use the opponent's strength to his advantage and make the reporters from these countries stand on his side and speak.

"Some time ago, I asked someone to make a popular science video about the historical context of Southeast Asian countries. It contains a detailed chain of evidence, with mutual confirmation between relics, historical books, cultural relics, and historical materials."

"Leon, do you need our help?"

Many Southeast Asian journalists have great faith in Zhang Chen, a big star who enjoys a good reputation internationally.

In their view, Zhang Chen is a star with "great love". The "Chenxi Charity Fund" he established has now brought help to many poor people and specific groups in every country in the world.

Although the "Chenxi Charity Fund" cannot be compared with the Red Cross in terms of reputation, this emerging foundation has donated more than 100 million US dollars to many places, making many people feel a sense of gratitude towards Zhang Chen.

Of course, this does not include the Sakura Country.

Because since the establishment of the foundation, the Chenxi Charity Foundation has not donated a penny to the Sakura Country.

According to the foundation's official tone, they are supporting Sakura Country spiritually in its fight against natural disasters in a way that Sakura Country likes.

During the two most recent major earthquakes, Zhang Chen's personal legacy, the Dawn Foundation, sent a total of 500,000 blessings to the Sakura Country.

The specific form of expression is - a thousand paper cranes.

This operation made many ordinary people in the Land of Sakura feel very uncomfortable. When they received the relief supplies, they opened them and saw a box full of paper cranes. Although the government of the Land of Sakura urgently dispatched a batch of other supplies at that time, the people at that time were extremely devastated when they received the paper cranes.

However, the reporters on the scene today were not from the area where the two major earthquakes occurred, so they did not associate this incident with the incident for a while.

In his eyes, Zhang Chen is still a very trustworthy person.

So after Zhang Chen made this suggestion, he also made a verbal promise with other Southeast Asian reporters, promising to follow Zhang Chen in the publicity.

Seeing this interesting story, other Western journalists also began to express that they would follow up with the report.

“Don’t worry, Leon, we will go back and report what happened today, don’t worry.”

There are fun people all over the world.

Although this was a movie premiere, all the Western reporters had a great time watching a vigorous war of words between reporters from Southeast Asian countries. This was also something that the Western media loved to see, and of course they had to report it extensively after returning.

Zhang Chen looked at the reporters who were leaving with satisfaction, while those who stayed were all big stars invited by Jackie Chan.

At this moment, all the Chinese stars looked at each other.

They couldn't figure it out. Wasn't today supposed to be the premiere of "The Myth"? Why did it turn out like this in the end?
"This guy is still as domineering as ever."

In a corner, many Hong Kong stars looked at Zhang Chen and made some indignant comments.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Liu Dehua, who heard the whisper, shouted, "We finally came to the mainland for Cheng Long's movie premiere. Don't offend Zhang Chen again. Don't blame me for not reminding you!"

"Does he dare to ban all of us?" Some people don't believe it.

"He has already banned one group, so he is not afraid of banning another group." Liu Dehua looked at Zhang Chen on the stage with a complicated expression, "At first, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-fat didn't believe it either, but the facts have proved that Zhang Chen can really do it."

"We are doing well in Hong Kong Island, why should we come to the mainland to suffer the bullying of this family!"

"Now everyone in the association has a consensus, especially with the rise of Morning Light Cinemas, that the future of China's film market is in the mainland, and the development potential that we don't have in Hong Kong has reached its limit."

Liu Dehua sighed, his voice slowed down, and he began to explain: "If you want to gain a foothold in the mainland before the mainland's film industry officially takes off, the person you can't offend the most is Zhang Chen."

“Is it more powerful than the Central Film Academy?”

"China Film?" Liu Dehua thought for a moment and shook his head. "Now more than 40% of the screens in the country are directly or indirectly controlled by Zhang Chen's Morning Light Cinema. All the movies that want to be released now have to go to the Morning Light Cinema to discuss the release schedule instead of going to China Film. What do you think?"

"Has the Morning Light Cinema expanded to such a terrifying size now?!"

"So I say, don't even think about seeking justice for your predecessors!" Liu Dehua directly exposed some of these people's little tricks, "Don't let others use you as a gun, or you will get hurt in the end!"

"No wonder." Someone muttered to himself, "I thought that when the reporters were arguing today, Big Brother didn't send anyone to stop them. He even seemed to glance at Zhang Chen."

"Now that you mention it." Someone also reacted, and continued to speculate with a shocked look on his face, "I was saying that with Big Brother's influence in the international film industry, he would never let Zhang Chen cause such a big fuss at the premiere of his own movie."

"So, everything today was caused by Zhang Chen behind the scenes?!"

"Alright!" Liu Dehua reached out to stop these people and warned, "Don't make blind guesses about things without evidence. Do what you should do, and don't say anything without a beginning or an end to the matter!"

"It's fine, Huazai!"

Many people saw that Liu Dehua was a little angry, so they shrank their heads and dared not continue speaking.

Seeing that the group from Hong Kong Island had stopped their actions, Liu Dehua looked at Zhang Chen on the stage with a complicated expression.

He also didn't expect that the boy who was so enthusiastic and somewhat immature when he saw him backstage at the Spring Festival Gala would now grow up to be a nightmare for those in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

At that time, Sister Mei also wanted to introduce Zhang Baizhi from Hong Kong Island to Zhang Chen as his girlfriend. If this matter had been done with more care, would Zhang Chen, who became the son-in-law of Hong Kong Island, be lenient towards the Hong Kong Islander?
Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

When Sister Mei passed away, Zhang Chen didn't even go.

He even broke his promise to attend Sister Mei's farewell concert.

This incident caused many people in Hong Kong to criticize Zhang Chen for being unscrupulous.

But Liu Dehua, who knew the reason well, knew that Zhang Chen owed no one anything in this matter.

Sister Mei helped Liu Jialing, who was still an artist of Morning Light at the time, and made Hong Kong artists collectively break the news, so that Liu Jialing's incident was buried in various news. However, the biggest beneficiary of this incident was Liu Jialing of Hong Kong Island.

Liu Jialing's betrayal afterwards also proved that she was indebted to Sister Mei, not to her former boss Zhang Chen.

As the person who brought Hong Kong artists together, Sister Mui naturally has an unshirkable responsibility.

"It's a pity. Leslie refused to help because of the foundation, and Li Ming helped because of Tingfeng's problem."

Liu Dehua sighed heavily again. He didn't know what the future held for Hong Kong Islanders who wanted to enter the mainland market.

It seems that now, except for him and Jackie Chan who are not deliberately targeted by Zhang Chen, other artists have more or less hit a wall in the mainland market.

Because the mainland film and television companies did not clearly learn from Zhang Chen who was "banned", and Zhang Chen never admitted who he had banned.

Don’t think that this is the end of the matter. Instead, Zhang Chen took several actions to prove that the ban was real.

Therefore, many film and television companies in the mainland are also in trouble.

There was a ban order, but Zhang Chen did not specify who it was.

But Zhang Chen’s actions also tell you that if you use it, your movie will be directly removed from the shelves!
Therefore, mainland film and television companies had no choice but to use the simplest method.

One size fits all!
Simply abandon the actors and staff from Hong Kong Island!
Now, apart from Chen Kaige, a big director who thinks he will not be affected and hired Xie Tingfeng to shoot his new movie, other Hong Kong actors simply cannot get any film contracts in the mainland.

Even the behind-the-scenes workers in Hong Kong had their jobs squeezed out by a large number of Hollywood practitioners that Zhang Chen had transferred in from nowhere.

This is an all-round ban with no blind spots.

During this period of time, Liu Dehua has been worrying about this matter.

"No, I have to find a time to talk to Zhang Chen."

Liu Dehua's determined expression faded at a visible speed: "But I am not qualified to ask him."

He glanced at the group of reporters who had already left the scene, and his eyes lit up.

When it comes to influence in Southeast Asian countries, Andy Lau is not being conceited, but Hong Kong artists have much more influence than mainland artists.

Thinking of this, Liu Dehua straightened his clothes and walked quickly towards Zhang Chen under the gaze of the Hong Kong artists around him.

At this time, Zhang Chen was saying goodbye to Cheng Long and the others. Seeing Liu Dehua walking quickly towards him, he also looked at him.

"Brother Hua, what's the matter?"

As the host, Cheng Long naturally asked Liu Dehua why he came.

"Oh, I have something I want to discuss with Zhang Chen." Liu Dehua smiled and explained his purpose. "Jackie, I hope you can help me."

Zhang Chen looked at Liu Dehua thoughtfully, but did not refuse: "Then let's go together. I also have something to ask Brother Cheng Long."

Liu Dehua was stunned, then delighted.

What a coincidence! It seems that Zhang Chen has something to discuss with Cheng Long, and it looks like it is related to what happened just now.

This was exactly what Liu Dehua wanted.

The three of them left the crowd and found a small meeting room in the conference hall.

"Brother Hua, why are you looking for us?" As soon as he sat down, Cheng Long asked Liu Dehua why he came.

"Jackie, are you and Zhang Chen going to make a fuss about today's incident?"

When Cheng Long heard Liu Dehua's question, he did not answer, but looked at Zhang Chen who was sitting next to him.

Zhang Chen was sitting in the middle of the circular sofa at the moment, next to him were Liu Dehua and Cheng Long.

At this time, both of them looked at Zhang Chen, as if asking for his opinion.

"Yes, I do have this idea." Zhang Chen did not deny it, but admitted it openly.

"Do you need help?" Liu Dehua suppressed his inner excitement and asked carefully.

Zhang Chen looked at Liu Dehua strangely, hesitating: "Help."

"Look, our Hong Kong stars have quite a bit of influence in Southeast Asian countries. If all Hong Kong stars were to promote this, wouldn't it be easier?"

Seeing that Zhang Chen was still hesitating, Liu Dehua continued, "I know that Jackie and you have a great influence internationally, but in some small countries, our Hong Kong stars are not necessarily less famous than you."

That's a bit of an exaggeration.

Who are Zhang Chen and Cheng Long? These two Chinese people have captured the ears and eyes of people all over the world. They are the two Chinese people who have left the deepest impression on people all over the world. No third person can compare to them.

"Brother Hua, let's talk about your story. I believe you wouldn't come to help for no reason." Zhang Chen interrupted Liu Dehua who wanted to continue bragging about Hong Kong artists.

"This..." Liu Dehua paused with excitement, and said hesitantly, "Zhang Chen, after so many years, can you be more open to Hong Kong artists?"

"I have never said anything deliberately targeting Hong Kong artists. These are all blind guesses made by the bosses of the film and television companies in the circle." Zhang Chen flatly denied what he had done.

For something like this, he would let everyone know that it was his intention, and at the same time, he would let everyone know that he had never mentioned this matter on his own initiative.

Judging from the current situation, these two contradictory demands have been achieved, and it is impossible for him to easily overturn this hard-earned achievement.

"In fact, we hope that you can clearly state which people you don't want," Liu Dehua smiled bitterly.

"Brother Hua should have plenty of film contracts in the Mainland, so why do you take other people's affairs so seriously?"

"This is."

Liu Dehua was about to explain the reason, but then he thought of the grudges between Zhang Chen and the other party, and swallowed his words back.

Although this was the other party's last wish, it was obvious that Zhang Chen might not buy into it. It would be better not to say anything, so as not to cause trouble for Zhang Chen and add to the difficulty of this matter.

Seeing Liu Dehua wanting to say something but not daring to, Zhang Chen felt both emotional and sad.

Originally, his relationship with this person should have been relatively friendly.

Unfortunately, a series of events made them become more and more like strangers.

They each have their own things they care about, and the things they care about are conflicting with each other, which has led to the current situation, which was also beyond Zhang Chen's expectations.

"It's not impossible for people from Hong Kong Island to develop in the mainland."

Liu Dehua, who had been silent, was suddenly surprised and delighted when he heard Zhang Chen's words. He stared at Zhang Chen closely, waiting for his next words.

"You let the artists in Hong Kong gather together."

　There are still many excellent artists in Hong Kong Island. You may as well talk about your favorite Hong Kong Island artists, so that I won’t make mistakes when writing about some stars that you don’t like.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)