But now after reading the script, I realized what an outstanding talent this person is. Wang Sheng was born in 1907, and he will be 80 this year in 1986.

In his early years, he developed in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai, and was of the same generation as Shao Yifu.

One of his most outstanding achievements in business was when Hong Kong Island fell during the Anti-Japanese War. The island country's military announced the abandonment of the Hong Kong dollar and implemented the island country's ghost military stamps. At that time, the entire Hong Kong basically regarded the Hong Kong dollar as waste paper, but Wang Sheng was optimistic about the prospects of the Anti-Japanese War and felt that

Will definitely win.

While most people paid no attention to the abandoned Hong Kong dollars, he was buying up Hong Kong dollars on a large scale.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the British took over Hong Kong Island again. The Hong Kong dollars in stock were not enough, and it was announced that the Hong Kong dollars during the occupation period could still be circulated and used. Wang Sheng directly took hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars and rose up. He directly joined HSBC and became one of the directors.

At that time, HSBC didn't have as much money as Wang Sheng. If you wanted to print money, you had to wait for new machines and various materials to arrive. After all, after many years of war, it was not just Hong Kong Island that had been destroyed.

Britain at that time was also in ruins.

The hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in 1945 were much more than the 500 million of Inspector Lei Luo 20 years later.

In 1945, Wang Kuancheng was only 38 years old, and he was considered to be in the prime of life.

The second battle of this Wang's business war was when all the bent forces were defeated and fled from the mainland. People in Hong Kong Island were unstable, and the Hong Kong dollar depreciated significantly. He once again went crazy for bargain hunting and made huge profits.

Around the 1950s, a large number of tycoons like To Yuesheng came to Hong Kong from the mainland. Wang was the first to acquire land and build high-rise buildings in Hong Kong.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! To provide housing for the massive capital coming from the mainland, the big landowners became rich again.

As for Wang Sheng, why is it a bit unclear in later generations? That is because his patriotic deeds have always been suppressed at different stages. For example, during the Peninsula War in the 1950s, countless people knew that Huo Sheng had made great efforts.

Mr. Wang was not idle either, donating planes and materials, which inspired more wealthy people to respond.

From the 1950s to the present, there have been quite a few donations to various schools, education funds, welfare funds, etc. in the mainland.

He gradually became more transparent from HSBC and was no longer the super tycoon who joined HSBC in 1945 with a high profile.

For example, last year in 1985, Mr. Wang spent US$100 million to establish an education fund. The US$100 million in 1985 was used to support college students from the mainland and Hong Kong to study in Europe and the United States.

This is the study abroad fund.

It is considered a loan model of student aid. On the surface, it is used to finance students to study abroad by loaning you money. However, if you successfully study abroad and return to China to build a home, then the student aid accumulated over several years, regardless of principal or interest, will

It can be significantly reduced, or even the principal and interest are completely waived.

But after you finish studying abroad with the help of your student loan, you will stay in Europe and the United States without going home... Then the student loan and interest will be doubled from you.

After reading it, Zhao Donghuai couldn't help but sigh, "Such Wang is indeed worthy of admiration, but I'm a little curious. Last year, 100 million U.S. dollars were used as student aid in 1985. Why haven't I heard of such big news?

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Wang Sheng's deeds in the 1940s and 1950s were so long ago that Zhao Donghuai had never heard of them, so forget it. The US$100 million student aid fund that happened last year? How could this not happen on Hong Kong Island?

Mai Xunxiong immediately smiled brightly, "That's right. There are optimizations, beautifications, and enhancements in the script. In fact, the official operation mode of Wang Sheng's student aid fund is that US$100 million is used as the principal and is left in the bank."

"Every year, we only use this US$100 million in interest to support top students from across China to study abroad."

"Only the interest is not an amazing figure, and last year the number of study abroad places was 50 people..."

Zhao Donghuai suddenly realized, "Then the previous deeds were also processed?"

Mak Xunxiong shook his head, "During the Anti-Japanese War, he collected waste Hong Kong dollars, and brought hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to HSBC as a shareholder in 1945. It is all true. However, starting from the Peninsula War, he donated aircraft and various supplies... This old Mr. Wang gradually seemed like

Huo Sheng kept a low profile like that."

"I also learned about Lao Wangsheng's deeds from the newspaper about the student aid fund last year, and then I felt that if this biopic could be filmed, it would be much higher than Lei Luo and Lu Yuesheng.

Grade.”

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Okay, let's put the script here for now. I will discuss it with Shao Sheng in two days and visit Wang Sheng. There is still hope of making this kind of biopic."

The legendary life of Lao Wangsheng is really more meaningful when photographed than "The Lame Man", "The Love of Rivers and Lakes", or "The Emperor of Shanghai".

Besides, the original track directed by Wang Jing (Casino Tycoon: The Legend of New Brother) also involved the Anti-Japanese War and the fall of Hong Kong Island, reflecting the two people He Gambling and Fok Daheng, but in that movie, Ho Gambling was beautified.

It's too exaggerated.

It’s clear why you should praise someone but not others.

Why don't you think there is no biopic like Wang Sheng in the original track? Isn't that still... Hong Kong is suppressing it, and Lao Mai has no right to refuse Xiang Laoshi and Xiang Shisan's Yongsheng contract at will?

Therefore, Mak Hung-hsiung, including his apprentice Li Dawei who is now with him, can only make movies that glorify the bosses of the society, such as "The Legend of Jianghu", "The Lame Man", "Inspector of 500 Million", "The Emperor of Shanghai" and so on.

These piles of movies that glorify the big brother of the society are almost all produced by society capitals such as Xinji and Lianle. At most, they cooperate with theaters such as Golden Harvest and Golden Princess when releasing them.

Without Zhao Donghuai's practical influence to fix bugs, even if Lao Mai made the film (The Biography of Wang Kuancheng), it would not be released in theaters before the return, and it would not be released in Hong Kong Haowan.

But with the strength of people like Mak Hsiung and Li Dawei, if they really get the rights to shoot a biopic and can turn on the camera and do things well and shoot well, what they will produce will definitely not be better than (The Legend of Five Billion Inspector Lei Luo) or (

The Emperor of Shanghai (Shanghai Emperor) is over the years.

Li Dawei was the assistant director of the original Lei Luo two-part film, and was also Mak's beloved disciple.

Another example is Lao Mai's peak work (Black Gold), even if it is dragged down by Hua Zai's acting in the original version, it is still an inescapable classic.

This script is really copied from Lao Wangsheng's life experience, and it is a super successful movie script.

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On October 26, when Zhao Donghuai, Shao Yifu, Mai Xunxiong and others walked out of a hospital in Beijing.

Shao Daheng frowned and sighed, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. In June, we also said we would celebrate Wang Sheng's 80th birthday. He didn't find it troublesome and just said that we wouldn't do it in 80, but we will do it in 90..."

"It's best to wait until 97 to celebrate your birthday."

"In August, he also led a team to inspect the northwestern provinces in the mainland, hoping to play a certain role in helping those places promote development..."

"Why is it cancer..."

The night before yesterday, Mai Xunxiong came up with the script concept, and Zhao Donghuai wanted to contact Shao Yifu to visit him, but then he learned that Lao Wangsheng was hospitalized with liver cancer.

In August, he traveled to the northwest of the mainland for more than 20 days. In September, he returned to Hong Kong and stopped for a few days before flying to Shanghai to work on the education fund. He felt unwell at the reception dinner of the super boss. After a checkup, he was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer.

Then he was sent to the capital for medical treatment, which continues to this day, and his condition is not good.

When Zhao Donghuai and others came to visit, what was the old man's condition?

You all know how to deal with late-stage cancer, let alone 80 years old?

During the visit, when asked about Zhao Donghuai's desire to make a biopic of Zhao Donghuai, the old man waved his hands in embarrassment. However, it was Shao Yifu who said a lot of good things that made him reluctantly agree.

Of course, Shao Yifu actually doesn’t have that much face. It’s the old man’s embarrassment that makes him feel too flashy to write a biography about him. But Zhao Donghuai himself really has a lot of face. For people like Wang Sheng, he really appreciates people like Zhao Sheng.

.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, he still did not want the movie to use his real name (The Biography of Wang Kuancheng), but instead named it after his former pseudonym (Wang Wenxia).

Pseudonyms or pseudonyms were commonplace in the Republic of China era.

Calculated by their place of origin, Wang Kuancheng and Shao Yifu are both from Ning City, Zhejiang Province, but their status in Hong Kong is that Wang Sheng was a powerful figure in Hong Kong Island in 1945 and became a shareholder of HSBC. Shao Yifu is considered a junior who came to Hong Kong. Shaw Brothers Films is in Hong Kong.

The early development of the company was brought about by the second brother Shao Yifu.

After frowning and sighing, Shao Yifu wiped his glasses and said, "Actually, when I wanted to build a school in the Mainland, I was still studying like Wang Sheng. In the 1950s, he donated aircraft and materials to the Mainland, subscribed for public bonds first, etc. In the 1960s, he returned to the Mainland to donate schools...

…”

"However, the school in the 1960s did not use his name. It only built a Kuancheng Building last year, instead of going directly to Yifu Building like me."

Zhao Donghuai was also a little emotional. For a moment, he could only stare at Mai Xunxiong, "The more I know about Mr. Mai's deeds, the more respectable he becomes. If you make a good movie, you won't be afraid of insufficient funds..."

"If the war scene requires big scenes, we can shoot in the mainland."

In this era, if you want to shoot big scenes, the mainland really has the best and strongest options.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Sheng grew up in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai. He started working as an apprentice after graduating from elementary school. He relied on his shrewdness and talent to become the purchasing director of a large flour mill. The company manager is like a CEO. He constantly led the company to open branches and was highly regarded by the big boss of the flour mill.

trust.

In addition to serious flour mills, they opened trading companies to engage in canned food, woolen fabrics, lumber and other businesses, and engaged in real estate, ships, and clock factories.

From the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, they rushed to subscribe for public bonds, and then in the 1950s, they rushed to buy public bonds, etc.

After the fall of Shanghai, it was moved to a mountain city. The development of Hong Kong Island has always been in an upright manner. It is not at the same level as the three Shanghai tycoons who made their fortunes from opium.

Such a legendary tycoon, let alone (Emperor of Shanghai) (Lame Hao) (Lei Luo), is a million miles away from him, biographical movies such as (Ip Man) can't even compare.

The Huang Feihong series is different. Xu Ke’s version of the Huang Feihong series is indeed different in nature.

Mak Xuexiong nodded excitedly, "I will definitely make this one (The Legend of Wang Wenxia) well. As long as the actors' acting skills can keep up, and the script prototypes are so exciting and jaw-dropping, I feel that a Wang Wenxia movie can also be expanded into two episodes."

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Zhao Sheng said that he didn't care about the crew's financial problems at all, as long as he worked hard and made a good film.

Whether it is the two Hong Kong dollar wars that broke out in the rise of Wang Sheng, it can be filmed well. After Wang Sheng graduated from elementary school, he joined a paper mill, worked as an apprentice in a flour mill, rose step by step to become a director, a manager CEO, and then to his early life that exploded in industry.

I can take more pictures.

Ning City, Shanghai Development, Mountain City, Hong Kong Island Development...

Zhao Donghuai nodded, "I will call the relevant parties. You try to shoot as quickly as possible, but try your best. It depends on the situation."

When cancer is in its advanced stage, everyone can see it.

Wang Sheng, two descendants of those who studied abroad in Massachusetts, hurriedly returned to the capital to visit the doctor. The old gentleman told them to go back quickly and not to delay their studies.

His original words were, "When I live to be 80 years old, I have nothing to worry about anymore except wanting to make more contributions to the country and the nation."
To be continued...