Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

Unbeknownst to Li Huai-ren and Teresa Teng, who were talking, Chen Yu-lian was looking at Teresa Teng with great envy, while glancing at Li Huai-ren with a slightly resentful look.

After breakfast, Li Huai-ren went back to school and also took Chen Yu-lian and Guan Jia-hui to school. Deng Li-jun stayed in the villa to practice singing. Everyone was busy with their own things.

On June 5, 1970, the fifth day of Phoenix Television's launch, Phoenix Television topped the ratings charts by airing two episodes each night of its opening drama "The Legendary Twins" and other programs such as "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf". It surpassed the ratings of both free-to-air television stations and paid cable television stations, namely "Rediffusion Television" (the predecessor of Rediffusion Television).

In the general manager's office of TVB, Li Xiaohe and Shao Laokou (Yifu) sat facing each other at the coffee table.

Li Xiaohe glanced at Shao Laokou and said:

"Our TVB finally managed to outmaneuver RTV, but suddenly a dark horse has appeared out of nowhere."

Phoenix TV is now experiencing strong growth, not only breaking the existing situation but also suppressing TVB and RTV.

"Sixth Brother, you're also a shareholder of TVB, do you have any good ideas? We can't keep this from you."

Old Shao looked up at Li Xiaohe, a thousand curses running through his mind.

"I'll give you a piece of my mind! We agreed that I would own the majority of TVB's shares. We got the TVB license, and a whole bunch of people from my Shaw Brothers film company transferred to TVB. And you guys are going back on your word?"

He even said he would transfer his shares in TVB to me before he died. I swear to him! Good people don't live long, but bad people live a thousand years. Your father and grandfather sold opium and lived to be 99.

Unless you're destined to die young, and you live as long as your father and grandfather, when will I finally have the final say on TVB?

Whether TVB is doing well or badly is none of my business.

Although he was very dissatisfied, his face was full of smiles as he said:

"This is simple: let those scoundrels cause trouble at Phoenix TV every now and then, so they can't work normally."

Or, why not have someone steal the filming footage of their newly completed drama series, leaving them without any television appearances?

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaohe immediately shook his head and refused:

"TVB is a law-abiding and legitimate company; such underhanded tactics are absolutely unacceptable!"

Upon hearing this, Old Shao almost slapped him across the face.

"You son of a bitch, your father and grandfather were both opium distributors at Jardine Matheson. What they did wasn't just despicable, it was enough to make your sons penile. And now you're acting like a saint in front of me? Where do you get your confidence?"

He thought this way, but said it aloud:

"Then poach people! Poach people with high salaries! Poach as many people as you can from Phoenix TV, preferably all of them!"

Secondly, Phoenix TV produces martial arts dramas, and TVB is also afraid of martial arts dramas, so they went to Jin Yong and bought all the television adaptation rights to his martial arts novels...

Li Xiaohe glanced at him and thought to himself:

"My Li family has been cursed for three generations by people pointing fingers at us. I've started to whitewash the Li family. How many people will remember that the Li family sold opium decades from now?"

But this stingy old man Shao, as if afraid that others would forget that the Li family made their fortune by selling opium, resorted to all sorts of dirty and underhanded tricks!

"Damn it, TVB is ostensibly managed by the Li family now. If these terrible ideas of Old Man Shao are exposed, won't it be the Li family who bear the responsibility? Old Man Shao is doing this on purpose, isn't he?"

He smiled and looked at Old Man Shao, saying:

"Your idea is not bad, but if you poach people from Phoenix TV with high salaries, TVB's already meager profits will be completely wiped out."

You know how greedy those British are. The cost of poaching people is too high, so they don't get any bonuses. Doesn't that mean they're always sending people to TVB to cause trouble for me?

After listening, Old Shao shook his head and said:

"Lisheng, we're not really going to pay such high salaries to the people we poached from Phoenix TV, causing Phoenix TV to collapse. Then TVB will be the only dominant station, and we can just cut everyone's salaries in half, right?"

Where else can these employees go besides staying at TVB? RTV is currently laying off staff and cutting salaries, so it's absolutely impossible for them to go to RTV.

"Those British guys would be overjoyed if they found out, why would they bother you?"

Li Xiaohe felt a sudden tightness in his anus, and his gaze towards Old Man Shao unconsciously became more wary, thinking to himself:

"As expected of Old Man Shao, only he would do something like this, turning his back on someone after they've served their purpose."

Since it was your idea, and you're also a shareholder and deputy general manager of TVB, this matter will naturally be entrusted to you, hehe.

He immediately smiled and said to Old Man Shao:

"Sixth Brother, I'll be handing over TVB to you sooner or later. This time, I'm entrusting you with the important task of poaching all the people from Phoenix TV."

As for buying the television adaptation rights to all of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, I'll discuss that with him personally..."

Old Shao was stunned. He didn't expect that simply offering a suggestion would cause him trouble.

Seeing that Li Xiaohe was again bringing up the idea of ​​him succeeding him at TVB, and knowing that Shao Laokou, who was eager to shift his focus from movies to television, knew he couldn't refuse, he could only nod and say:

"Alright, then leave this to me."

The next day, the HR staff of TVB took immediate action. They approached artists and employees of Phoenix TV, offering them high salaries and a range of benefits.

On that very day, more than a dozen people accepted the high salaries and various benefits offered by TVB and switched their jobs to TVB.

The matter was of great importance. After Wang Tianlin learned that TVB was poaching people with high salaries, Li Huai-ren happened to be on the set of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and immediately ran over to report the matter to him.

Li Huai-ren was stunned when he heard this. How could someone as stingy as Shao Lao-kou be willing to spend so much money to poach people?

He quickly realized that Old Man Shao would definitely win her over first, and then pull a fast one.

A thought struck him, and he immediately said to Wang Tianlin:

"Given Mr. Shao's stingy nature, how could he possibly poach people with high salaries and promise a whole bunch of benefits?"

It's only polite to reciprocate, Uncle Tianlin. How about this: you have someone poach people from Shaw Brothers and TVB with the exact same salary and benefits that Mr. Shaw offered.

Also, could you find someone to spread the word about how incredibly stingy Old Shao is, so more people know...

Later that day, stories of Shaw Brothers' stinginess were all over the place. For example, Shaw Brothers limited toilet paper to 10 squares per person per day; pencil fragments shorter than 5cm had to be exchanged for new ones; and the company canteen staff would knead spoiled steamed buns with baking soda water and then resteam them.