Hong Kong Film Intelligence King

Chapter 279: A Gentleman's Friendship Is As Light As Water

"Are you questioning me?" Uncle Liu gripped his cane tightly, the veins on his hand bulging.

Wang Dao remained calm: "Shouldn't we question it?"

"Sixth Uncle, you are also a scholar."

"You should know that we never judge a person based on their current state."

"To accomplish the affairs of the king and the world, and to win fame both before and after death."

"You've helped the foreigners disrupt the connection between Hong Kong and our hometown."

"This has created a rift between Hong Kong and my hometown."

"You should know that before you, Hong Kong's connection with its ancestral home lasted for two thousand years."

"What the Westerners couldn't do in fifty years, you accomplished in just over a decade with a television station."

"When you knelt before the Western Queen, when you offered this title, did you ever think about..."

Wang Dao looked at him with a half-smile.
Is Hong Kong going back to its homeland?

Deng Deng!

Uncle Liu's face suddenly turned a little pale.

Wang Dao sighed:

"Sixth Uncle, although you will surely live to be a hundred, you are already over seventy."

"You're giving me the impression that you're bullying an old person!"

Sixth Uncle forced a smile:
"Aren't you just bullying this old man?"

He took a breath and steadily brewed tea for Wang Dao.

Wang Dao shook his head inwardly. These old foxes were truly skilled at maintaining their composure; he needed to learn from them.

Uncle Liu pushed the tea forward: "Please have some tea!"

Wang Dao tasted it and exclaimed in surprise:
"Biluochun tea?"

"I thought it was black tea!"

Uncle Liu suddenly said, "Ah Dao, are you really from Hong Kong?"

“Absolutely genuine.” Wang Dao shrugged. “My file is perfectly clean.”

Uncle Liu shook his head:
"You don't give me the feeling of a young person."

"On the contrary, it's people my age."

Wang Daozhi shook his head:
"That's impossible, I'm only twenty."

"It will be another fifty years before you reach your age!"

Sixth Uncle asked again:
Will Hong Kong really return to China?

Wang Dao looked at him strangely:
"Sixth Uncle, you control a television station, and you have countless pieces of information every day."

"Others may not know what's going on here, but you don't either?"

"Even the foreigners themselves don't think it's a good idea for Chongqing to retain Hong Kong; only that woman in Chongqing is still daydreaming."

"Otherwise, how could I have managed to slash him?"

Uncle Liu was horrified:

"It's actually true?"

"What do you mean, really?" Wang Dao asked, confused.

Uncle Liu said with a wry smile, "I'm talking about foreign capital fleeing Hong Kong."

“It must be true!” Wang Dao was even more puzzled. “Others can’t see it clearly, but Uncle Liu should know it.”

Is the recent stock market crash a result of economic laws?

"Isn't this all man-made?"

Uncle Liu was restless.

“These things are no secret in our circle,” Wang Dao said bluntly. “How did I make my fortune? Of course, by hitching a ride on the foreigners’ coattails.”

"In the stock market, the power of Chinese businessmen is not enough to wield influence."

"Even if those two big families behind you came together, they wouldn't be enough."

"Moreover, the investment was in their foreign firm's stock."

"If they didn't orchestrate this themselves, who else would have the ability to orchestrate it using a foreign firm?"

Sixth Uncle said irritably:

"You still claim you were just hitchhiking?"

"You always just smash the pot!"

Wang Dao shook his head:
"What was that little bit of money I had the first two times?"

"Just a small ripple."

"Only on the third attempt did we achieve something." Uncle Liu smiled wryly, "Can you stop being so modest? Even Jardine Matheson, one of the four major foreign trading companies, can be considered to have achieved something?"

"Are you kidding me?"

"If we weren't related, I wouldn't dare talk to you like this."

Wang Dao was greatly surprised:

"what?"

"Are those managers of foreign trading companies really that arrogant?"

"You control Hong Kong's only TVB television station!"

"Do they dare to give you attitude?"

Uncle Liu said speechlessly:
"They are the capital of the four major foreign trading companies... How dare I resist them?"

Wang Dao scoffed at this:

"You're overthinking it."

"If it were me, what do you think I would do to him?"

Sixth Uncle then asked:

"what would you do?"

Wang Dao laughed heartily:

"That's a secret!"

Uncle Liu shook his head:
"Slippery!"

He thought for a moment and asked,

"Are you really sure the trading company is absconding?"

Wang Dao sighed.

"Sixth Uncle, is that not what you mean?"

"Isn't that what you really want to ask whether the foreigners are actually running away?"

Sixth Uncle tacitly agreed.

Wang Dao answered with great certainty:
"That's right!"

“I can tell you definitively that once the connection between Chongqing and our hometown changes, the so-called four major trading companies will immediately undergo changes.”

Sixth Uncle pondered for a moment and said:
"Jardine Matheson, Swire, Hutchison Whampoa, Wheelock..."

"You've already acquired Hutchison Whampoa, leaving only the other three companies."

Who is trying to run away?

"Whedon?"

Wang Dao mocked:
Where does Wheelock want to go?

"Its business is complicated, but it has no core business. If it wanted to run away, it wouldn't know where to run to."

"I would not use it to set up a trap even if I wanted to."

Uncle Liu didn't believe it:

“Swire’s business is very solid, and Jardine Matheson is the top of the four major foreign trading companies.”

"Surely these two companies aren't planning to run away?"

Wang Dao sighed:

"Sixth Uncle, you need to get more information."

"My news was everywhere before, how come you didn't see it?"

“I acquired Hongkong Land; that’s Jardine Matheson’s core asset!”

Uncle Liu's pupils contracted, and he said incredulously:
"Is it really Jardine Matheson, the head of the four major foreign trading companies?"

Wang Dao calmly said:
"Sixth Uncle, I wouldn't lie to you about something so trivial!"

"As you know, those of us in business are the most knowledgeable about the local situation."

"There is still a certain disconnect between government officials and ordinary people."

"Our data directly impacts end consumers."

"Jardine Matheson is very certain that Hong Kong will return to China."

"So, they're going to run away!"

"Especially after what just happened."

Uncle Liu asked casually:

"What's going on?"

"Isn't this just pretending to be ignorant when you know the truth?" Wang Dao was very dissatisfied with his sixth uncle's attitude. "Of course, I've had enough of buying property!"

"If you keep talking like that, we have nothing more to discuss."

Uncle Liu said speechlessly:
"Who would believe something like this if I told them?"

“Jardine Matheson is the top of the four major foreign trading companies. Its status in Hong Kong is unmatched, even by the Governor and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.”

"You're going to run away with such a big trading company?"

Wang Dao countered with a question:
"If a foreign firm were to leave, what would be the reason?"

Uncle Liu thought for a moment, then suddenly said:
"Survive!"

clap clap!

Wang Dao clapped softly:

"That's right!"

"It's all about survival!"

"Everything else is an illusion."

“For a foreign firm like Jardine Matheson, patriotism has nothing to do with it.”

"Being able to pay taxes to Chongqing every year is already patriotic enough."

"For them, the most important task now is survival!"

"I'm willing to pay any price just to survive."

"Just you wait and see, this company will definitely run away within three years."

"And it's the kind that's earth-shattering."

"Of course, these three years are also their last chance."

Uncle Liu's heart stirred:
"What do you mean?"

Wang Dao smiled and said:
"If we don't run now, we won't be able to escape!"

Uncle Liu was dumbfounded!

He took a deep breath.

"Ado, you're too young and impetuous."

I know you have energy.

"But don't forget, that's Jardine Matheson!"

"The largest foreign firm in Hong Kong, the one with the most abundant capital."

These words are as unbelievable as a little guy in a South Korean past life telling everyone that he wanted to have enough of Samsung.

However, Wang Dao's single sentence silenced Sixth Uncle:

"Land is in my hands!"

Uncle Liu was at his wit's end!
Jardine Matheson's incredible strength lies in one of its core industries, which has created a legend.

Hongkong Land is one of Jardine Matheson's core assets!

If Sixth Uncle were Simon Yam, the head of the Jardine Matheson Group, he would never have allowed Hong Kong Land to fall into the hands of Wong Tao.

But now, unfortunately,

That's how Landmark fell into the hands of Wang Dao.

Uncle Liu choked quite a bit.

He had a lot to say, but it was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it!
There's absolutely no way to put it into words.

They'll only be bringing shame upon themselves!
The business world is like a battlefield; everything is judged by results.

Compared to Jardine Matheson, Leung Kwan and Wong Tao are relatively weaker.

It's said to be relatively weak, but that's because they acquired Hongkong Land while also acquiring Hutchison Whampoa.

This is a truly solid achievement!
This is an achievement that ordinary Chinese people can hardly aspire to.

Based solely on this battle, even Sixth Uncle had to bow down to his personal subordinates.

They've already become tycoons!

Uncle Liu's face turned red from holding it in, so he had to change the subject:
"Alright, let's not talk about Jardine Matheson anymore."

"I lost the bet we made at the beginning of the month."

"A bet's a bet, so I'm selling you my movie theater chain!"

Wang Dao chuckled and pulled out a check, signing it for forty million.

"It wasn't for nothing that I spent so much time chatting with you."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Liu almost refused to sell anymore. "How dare you say that?!"

"You mean you were just chatting with me?"

"You're clearly trying to annoy me!"

Wang Dao said earnestly:
"Sixth Uncle, I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart to you."

"I wouldn't tell this to just anyone."

Uncle Liu paused, seemingly lost in thought.

He was momentarily lost in thought, and when he came to his senses, he found that two beautiful women had appeared in the office at some point.

One is Le Huizhen, and the other... I don't know her.

"This is Sandy, our top lawyer," Wang Dao introduced them.

Sixth Uncle, with a dark face, said to Le Huizhen:
"Ah Zhen, you must keep a close eye on Ah Dao."

"He was young and rich, and very attractive to the opposite sex."

"You old rascal!" Wang Dao laughed and scolded. "It's only because it's my Ah Zhen. If it were anyone else, wouldn't you have successfully instigated them?"

Le Huizhen disagreed:
"What's wrong with a capable man marrying several women?"

"There are plenty of people like that in Hong Kong!"

"Besides, having another sister can help me keep an eye on Adao."

She said smugly,

"No matter who comes, I will always be the first wife!"

It has only been ten years since Hong Kong abolished polygamy.

Many people simply don't follow the rules set by Westerners.

Many people in the general population practice polygamy, and the wealthy practice even more so.

Wang Dao looked at Yue Huizhen speechlessly:
"Wife, your answer has fallen right into Uncle Liu's trap."

"You should say this: a man's heart cannot be held."

"If he really wants to cheat, no matter how much you try to restrain him, he will still cheat."

"I really don't want to cheat. Even if a woman climbs into his bed, he won't be tempted."

Sixth Uncle casually said:
"Yes, I won't be moved by love, but I'll be sexually attracted."

Wang Dao laughed heartily:

"Sixth Uncle, you really are a seasoned womanizer!"

Everyone remained silent.

Sandy moved very quickly:
"The contract has been drafted."

"Sixth Uncle, if the examination shows no problems, then please sign it!"

Sandy seemed not to hear their conversation; her professionalism was impeccable.

Uncle Liu carefully examined the document and then signed it.

Wang Dao pushed the check forward.
"It's a pleasure doing business with you, Uncle Liu!"

Sixth Uncle held his hand and said:

"You are young and have a lot of promise!"

Wang Dao laughed heartily:

"Sixth Uncle, you can't flatter someone to death these days."

Sixth Uncle shook his head and turned to Yue Huizhen, saying:
"Ah Zhen, it's a shame you're not an actress. Why don't you come to the station and act in a few TV series? I'll have them write a few scripts for you."

Wang Dao stood up, put his arm around Le Huizhen, and left.
"I wouldn't dare to film under Uncle Six. He exploits his workers too much; it's like skinning them alive."

Uncle Liu smiled and shook his head.

But once Wang Dao and the others disappeared from sight, Sixth Uncle's face turned extremely gloomy.

Fang Tai walked in and was shocked by what she saw:
"Sir, where do you feel unwell?"

Uncle Liu shook his head:
"It's nothing, I just had a fight with Adao!"

Fang was furious:
"The kingly way?"

"How dare he?"

"I'll send someone to give him a good scolding!"

Uncle Liu looked at her incredulously:
"What did you say?"

"I'll send someone to reprimand him!" Fang Tai repeated.

Uncle Liu was so angry he laughed:

"He is the richest Chinese person, and he is also the taipan of Hutchison Whampoa."

"Even the governor has no right to reprimand people."

"You're sending someone?"

"Who do you think you are?"

Fang Tai was shocked:

"how come?"

Uncle Liu said in disbelief:
"You don't know Ado's identity?"

Fang Tai asked blankly:
"All I know is that he is a newly emerging leader of Chinese businessmen."

She seemed to be frightened.

Uncle Liu found out immediately.

His concubine has been busy with television work lately and hasn't read the newspaper at all.

Uncle Liu sighed, beckoned, and Mrs. Fang quickly ran up to take Uncle Liu's arm.

“Wang Dao, Li Qiankun, Han Bin, and Chen Guozhong are not people who can be insulted casually.”

"Before, he was a hero from humble beginnings."

"When a common man gets angry, blood splatters within five steps."

“Back then, we were like porcelain; we couldn’t confront these people head-on. We needed to befriend them.”

“After that, we had the advantage over them.”

"Now, he's a high-ranking executive at a foreign firm."

"Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major foreign trading companies, has been acquired. What is our Jade Channel compared to the power of these foreign trading companies?"

"The carp has transformed into a dragon."

"And who has the right to criticize them?"

"Even the Governor wouldn't dare!"

Fang Tai quickly said:
"Sir, I was wrong!"

Sixth Uncle smiled:
"Remember what you say now. When you see Wang Dao in the future, be more polite. It won't hurt."

“After all, Lok Wai-Chun also came from our TVB Jade Channel.”

Fang Tai's eyes widened:
Didn't you just have an argument with him?

Sixth Uncle admitted with a smile:

"That's right, they had a fight."

"However, our kind of argument is an open and honest one."

"Speaking of which, I really have to thank him."

Fotile employees were stunned:

"Should we thank him?"

Is something wrong?

Judging from your face, you've been scolded, haven't you?

You should thank him for this?

What are you doing?

Uncle Liu sighed deeply:
"Yes!"

"That's the kind of ability Wang Dao has. He scolded me, but I still have to thank him later."

Isn't that incredible?

Fang Tai nodded vigorously.

"Correct!"

Sixth Uncle exclaimed in admiration:
“Heroes emerge from youth!”

"Please arrange for my education donation to have another destination later."

Fang Tai laughed:

"This is a good deed, but is it Amei or Wudu this time?"

Uncle Liu shook his head with a wry smile:

"neither!"

Fang Tai was stunned.

"It's my hometown!"

Fang Tai was stunned.

Sixth Uncle sighed:
“I was born in Huating, and it’s time for me to give back to my hometown.”

Mrs. Fang pursed her lips, wanting to speak, but Uncle Liu glanced at her and said instead,
"Hong Kong will be returned to China in just over a decade."

"Wang Dao told me that many foreign firms' capital was about to flee abroad."

“Our hometown will definitely be taken back to Hong Kong.”

Fang Tai's expression changed drastically.

Sixth Uncle said calmly:
“I’m already seventy-three. Even if Hong Kong returns to China, I’ll be ninety by then—if I’m still alive.”

Fang Tai quickly said:
"Master, you will surely live to be a hundred years old."

Sixth Uncle laughed:

"That guy Wang Dao said I could live past a hundred."

Fang Tai was speechless. She was extremely curious. This didn't seem like an argument. What exactly did the two of them say?
However, since her sixth uncle wouldn't say anything, she couldn't get any information out of him.

Sixth Uncle patted her hand:

"Don't overthink it. Find an excuse to thank Ado later!"

Fang Tai was utterly speechless. So you really want to thank him?
What kind of bewitching potion did Wang Dao give Sixth Uncle?

Le Huizhen also asked Wang Dao:

"Honey, what were you talking about with Uncle Liu just now? He didn't look too good."

Wang Dao speaks the truth:

“I was really annoyed by some of the things he did, so I yelled at him to his face.”

Lok Wai-chun and Sandy both glanced sideways.

Good heavens, someone actually dared to insult Uncle Six?

That's really bold!
"What's your expression?"

You know the saying, "The friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water."

"Although I scolded him, it was for his own good."