Hong Kong Entertainment 1979: A Beating Up the Manager at the Start

Chapter 146 was dug up

In fact, the impact of "Wrong Carriage" was far more dramatic than Shi Nansheng described.

It wasn't until Lai Siu-tin came to his office and told him that the record sales of "Wrong Car" had reached a staggering 30,000 copies.

Su Rui has now become the representative singer of Time Records in Taiwan, without exception.

That signature song, "If There's No Wine to Sell," has become a household name in Taiwan.

Even on Taiwan's music charts, it completely crushed other songs from the same year.

Li Jiangbo slammed his hand on the table and excitedly shouted three times, "Great! Great! Great!"

He stood up and paced around his office, pondering how to expand the influence of the film and the record.

Actually, there are reasons why this song became popular.

At that time, the political pressure on Taiwan was extremely high, and in the entertainment industry, they would rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go free.

Taiwanese audiences have grown tired of martial arts films and romance novels, and their desire for more diverse entertainment has reached its peak.

The sudden emergence of "Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?" at this time ensured the film's inevitable success.

Li Jiangbo walked back and forth about three or four times, then stopped, leaned on the table with both hands, and said very quickly, "First, Sister Nan promoted the film and record to the whole of Southeast Asia."

"Secondly, Mr. Zhao, we will increase the promotion of our films in Hong Kong."

"Third, Mr. Pan must cooperate with Wang Zuo, and the publicity efforts of Zhu Sen and Wu Qihua will be fully entrusted to you."

"Director Li, buy more songs and try to get Su Rui to release another album at the end of the year or the beginning of the new year."

Everyone nodded in unison, "Yes, boss."

Afterwards, Li Jiangbo asked about the other artists in the company.

At first, Li Xiaotian spoke normally, but when he mentioned Mei Yanfang at the end, his expression became somewhat awkward.

Li Jiangbo hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Amei?"

Li Xiaotian shook his head. "It's not Amei's problem, it's her mother and her two brothers."

"While you were away from the company, three people came to the company every day to cause trouble, demanding that the company improve her daughter's treatment."

Li Jiangbo looked at Li Xiaotian with a puzzled expression, "Wasn't a contract signed back then?"

Li Xiaotian shook his head. "Sigh! That family is like scoundrels, they don't acknowledge her at all! They think Anita Mui is famous and making a lot of money, so they want more."

"Isn't this a family matter? Why are they coming to the company?"

"Ah Mei had been hiding from the three of them and was also living in the dormitory. Since they couldn't find Ah Mei, they had no choice but to go to the company."

Li Jiangbo nodded. "Okay, I understand. I'll handle this. Where is Amei now?"

"I went to Japan with the group and just left today. I was planning to go today too, but when I heard you were back, I decided to go a day later."

Li Jiangbo lit a cigarette and waved to signal everyone that they could get back to work.

After everyone left, Li Jiangbo fell into deep thought.

Anita Mui's problem isn't a huge one, but it's not insignificant either. However, if it's not handled properly, it could very well create a rift between the artist and her company.

Moreover, he realized that this was not a simple domestic dispute.

He then called Brother Dao.

After a brief inquiry, he learned that Warner Music was behind it all.

Warner Music tried to entice Anita Mui with the offer of going solo, but she refused.

After being rebuffed by Anita Mui, the Warner Music representative contacted Anita Mui's mother.

What followed was the family feud that Li Xiaotian had mentioned. After Li Jiangbo hung up the phone, his eyes gradually turned cold.

If Warner dares to poach his people, then he shouldn't blame him for retaliating in kind.

However, Li Jiangbo hasn't figured out how to start yet.

Actually, Warner Music only really has three famous artists: Danny Chan, George Lam, and Tsang Lo-tak. The others are only moderately famous.

Who should we target?

Li Jiangbo was somewhat conflicted; he figured it was impossible to poach Danny Chan at the moment.

After all, Danny Chan's career was still on the rise, and Li Jiangbo didn't know what conditions he could use to poach him.

George Lam and Rupert Tsang are in the same boat, both in the prime of their careers. And George Lam's wife, Ng Ching-yuen, is a high-ranking executive at Warner Music! Don't even think about it.

Wait, George Lam? Ng Ching-yuen?

When Li Jiangbo thought of those two names, he immediately thought of someone.

That's Ye Qianwen, who stole her best friend's husband and married her own master, and is known as the modern-day Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu.

Thinking of this person, Li Jiangbo's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

He decided to target Ye Qianwen, and incidentally help Wu Zhengyuan as well. After all, this girl was a formidable weapon; Wu Zhengyuan, you couldn't handle her.

If we can hold on to this, we can't let someone else steal our husbands away.

Speaking of Ye Qianwen, this girl has a very rich romantic history.

First, she dated a rich second-generation from Taiwan.

Then she started dating Fei Xiang, the singer of "A Fire in Winter".

Later, she also seemed to have a rumored relationship with Tsui Hark, who invited her to star in his movies multiple times.

It is said that Shi Nansheng even traveled to the United States because of this.

Li Jiangbo didn't know if bringing this woman to the company would have any impact on Xu Jing and Shi Nansheng.

Who cares? It's better to die for a fellow Daoist than for myself!

Li Jiangbo is no saint. If you want to poach my people, you'd better be prepared for his retaliation.

As for Danny Chan and George Lam, we'll deal with them slowly once his entertainment empire is fully established.

Thinking of this, Li Jiangbo immediately called Shi Nansheng and asked her to come to his office.

A short while later, Shi Nansheng arrived in front of Li Jiangbo.

"Boss, you were looking for me?"

Li Jiangbo gestured for her to sit down. "Sister Nan, are you familiar with the film companies in Taiwan?"

Nansun Shi shook her head. "I'm not very familiar with it. The release of 'Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?' was entirely due to Director Hu's efforts; I didn't actually do anything."

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Li Jiangbo nodded. "It's alright, I'll call Mr. Xu in Taiwan."

"After that, you should contact her. Try to thoroughly understand the Taiwanese market by the second half of the year."

"Okay, boss."

"There's one more thing. There's a film company in Taiwan called Guilin Film Studio. You should get in touch with them."

Shi Nansheng asked curiously, "Is this Guilin Film Company very powerful?"

Li Jiangbo smiled and nodded, "Yes! He has a powerful background. The boss is Ma Yonglin, the younger brother of President Ma of Yuanta Group."

"No problem, I'll contact you as soon as possible."

Li Jiangbo rubbed his chin. "After we get in touch, let's see if we can poach one of his artists."

"Who?"

"Ye Qianwen".

Shi Nansheng's expression kept changing; she couldn't figure out Li Jiangbo's purpose for a moment.

They already knew that the owner of Guilin Film Studio had a powerful background, yet they still wanted to poach his artists.

However, Shi Nansheng didn't ask any further questions and simply nodded in agreement.

In fact, Li Jiangbo had already seen through Shi Nansheng's concerns. But he couldn't say it outright. Ma Yongsen was just dabbling in the entertainment industry and didn't have much passion for it. If he wasn't mistaken, Ma Yongsen would close his company and retire from the entertainment industry next year.

When he retired from the entertainment industry, Ma Yongsen introduced Ye Qianwen to Wu Zhengyuan of Warner Music.

Thinking of this, Li Jiangbo said, "Let's make contact first and build a good relationship. Maybe we won't even need to dig; they'll just come to us on their own."

Shi Nansheng nodded, opened the door, and went out.

Li Jiangbo sat on the sofa and picked up the phone to make a call.

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