The construction background of the White Swan Hotel was that in 1978, when the strategic decision of "internal reform and opening up to the outside world" was about to be introduced, the National Tourism Administration formulated eight Sino-foreign joint venture hotel plans, namely, building 8 Sino-foreign joint venture hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing.

Boss Huo responded positively and found this White Swan Hotel.

Among them, Huo invested 50 million Hong Kong dollars, another Chinese businessman Peng Guozhen invested 12.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and the Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau invested 4 million yuan.

In 1981, the White Swan Hotel borrowed US$36.31 million from the Bank of China Guangzhou Branch.

According to the current exchange rate, the investment in the construction of the White Swan Hotel has reached nearly 180 million yuan.

The reason why the cost is so huge is not unrelated to the geographical particularity of the location of the White Swan Hotel, which reflects Boss Huo's personal preferences to some extent.

If the suggestion that the Guangzhou Municipal Government has chosen a location on Huanshi Road is really adopted, the construction of the White Swan Hotel may not be so complicated.

Just like Tang Huan, in conjunction with the operation of Zheru R&D Center, it tends to be practical and also invested in and built a hotel, but it was not so difficult.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that once the White Swan Hotel was built, it became a landmark of Yangcheng. The huge influence it produced was enough to pay back the fare.

Boss Huo, who has always been good at creating momentum, will add a halo to the world's richest man to stay for the newly opened White Swan Hotel this time.

Tang Huan deliberately kept a low profile at the production base in the Special Administrative Region. After personally inquiring about the preparations for the inspection, he went to Yangcheng with great fanfare.

As soon as he entered the boundary of Yangcheng District, he transferred to the brand new Rolls-Royce, traveled through most of the old city, and drove to the White Swan Hotel.

"This incident is a big mess." Looking at the crowd who was curiously looking around on the roadside, Tang Huan joked.

"How can you be slow to treat you?" Mr. Huo, who came to greet him, praised with a smile, "This is the first Rolls-Royce in Yangcheng, which just sets off your identity as brother."

Tang Huan smiled but said nothing. The word "face" is so knowledgeable.

After the driver wearing a big cap and white gloves stopped the car, under the guidance of the manager, Tang Huan walked into the White Swan Hotel, which had set several of the best in the country.

These records include: China's first modern large-scale Sino-foreign cooperative hotel designed, built and managed by itself; China's first high-end hotel with four doors open to the public; China's first hotel to operate Japanese restaurants in a hotel with Japan and Xiangjiang; China's first hotel to fully implement comprehensive computerized management; China's first hotel to use credit card to check out and implement eight foreign exchange payment methods.

It is worth mentioning that the implementation of the last two points relies on the computer informationization solutions provided by Zheru Xiangjiang Company.

In addition to fully supporting Chinese, the hotel management system also provides a graphical operation interface, which greatly reduces the difficulty of training for grassroots operators.

Tang Huan specially followed the process of this hotel management system and went through various departments in the White Swan Hotel.

When he heard Zhou Weikun's introduction that the other seven of the National Tourism Administration's eight major hotel construction plans will also adopt their own hotel management system, he ended his exploration with satisfaction.

"Brother, you are really a workaholic." Master Huo shook his head with a chuckle.

"Don't worry, I won't forget what I promised you. If you have any delicious food and drink, just go there." Tang Huan waved his hand and walked towards his guest room.

The architectural design of the White Swan Hotel is undertaken by the Chinese, but the interior design of Boss Huo insists on asking foreign designers from the famous American HBA Hotel Design Company to do it.

Therefore, the interior design of White Swan Hotel is definitely the highest-end in the mainland at present. Tang Huan really doesn’t see any shortcomings in hardware, so he simply directly experiences and evaluates the more important software services.

"I wonder what kind of flavor Mr. Tang likes?" the manager asked respectfully.

"Yes, order whatever you want. Then this dish is fixed and called the recipe of the richest man in the world." Master Huo smiled and did not hide his wishful thinking.

"Then from now on, I will eat and live here for free, and I will be treated as advertising fees." Tang Huan's complaint made everyone with him laugh.

"Let's have a roasted suckling pig." Tang Huan said, then turned around and told Xie Ning, "Aning, you are the one here. Come and order a few other special Cantonese dishes for me, and mix them with meat and vegetables."

After everyone dispersed, after the room was quiet, Tang Huan, who wiped his face with a hot towel, sat on the sofa and pondered the details of meeting Chief Deng, who was visiting the southern tour next month.

In 1984, after the four special zones, fourteen coastal cities will also open. Under the promotion of Chief Deng, China as a whole has begun to clearly get rid of the state of restraint, and it will be much more convenient for doing things on its own.

...

When it comes to the fact that the martial artists are fighting in private, Fang Yihua is unable to get an explanation from Hu Yinmeng, and the sentence "I have a lot of injuries here" left her speechless.

Next, Fang Yihua pinched her nose and bid for the latest TV series "Xinza Brother" with Huanya TV.

In the past, when TVB and Li competed with TV, they could still use some means that they could not be put on the table. For example, when the TV series "The Legend of Silkworm" was popular, the artist who encouraged the actor to disappear for a while.

But now DreamWorks and Universal TV's powerful strategic weapons are too deterrent, and Fang Yihua dares not use these methods at all, so as not to attract the crazy ambition of high-paying poaching.

Who can beat Tang Huan when fighting for financial resources? The British Land and Jardine Mahjong are just like this. Its reputation is so frightening.

Therefore, when Fang Yihua, who knew that the Dream Factory was engaged in innovation, had been preparing for a long time and collaborating with the Xiangjiang Police Office to shoot a TV series about fashion police, he just watched coldly.

At this stage, the image of the police in Xiangjiang is not as glorious as it is often associated with the impression that it mainly serves rich people. There are even more bad police officers in the movies. The people generally hold the idea of ​​"a good man is not a soldier". Stay away from this profession.

Against this backdrop, DreamWorks launched a TV series dedicated to the police in Xiangjiang. The future is really unpredictable, and only DreamWorks, which is not short of money, will be so fearless.

The experienced Fang Yihua is not optimistic about this TV series, especially DreamWorks, and it seems that he is trying. All the cast members are used to borrow Liang Chaowei and Zhang Manyu from TVB. On his side, he sent out unknown people such as Liu Jialing, Liu Qingyun, etc., and Wei Jiahui, the head of the screenwriter team, has never heard of it.

But after a traffic accident this summer, the social trend seemed to have changed.

This matter is related to Xiangjiang Fushang, the founder and chairman of Far East Bank, the founder and chairman of Far East Development Group. He is the person who originally purchased Li's TV from the Australian consortium in time and space, changed its name to Asia TV, and personally served as the chairman of the board.

The reason why Qiu Degen is talked about is that he has carried out many reforms to Li's TV, which has improved the ratings and finances of the TV station, turning losses into profits, and has become one of the few bosses who can make money among the shareholders of ATV who have been in contact for decades.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there is not much mystery here. The ways Qiu Degen and Run Run Shaw took were roughly the same, which was the word "frugality".

During the period when Qiu Degen mastered Asian TV, this policy was implemented very thoroughly and even a little mean.

For example, costumes are the same in ancient TV series, regardless of Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. There are rumors that Asian TV employees can only use four-frame toilet paper a day, and the New Year benefits are Far East Bank coupons, etc.

As for this time and space, Qiu Degen did not sell about 10% of his tvb equity in cashing out, and is still an important shareholder of tvb.

It is such an influential person who is involved in big trouble.

In the early morning of July 14, his fourth son Qiu Dacheng drove his girlfriend home drunk. When he passed the Kowloon Princess Road, he knocked down the police officer Zheng Menghui who was standing guard at a roadblock and dragged him hundreds of meters.

After Zheng Menghui was sent to the hospital, he died of serious injuries on the 23rd at the age of 20.

This case has not been finalized yet.

As a result, there has been a lot of debate on the positive value of social public opinion on the Xiangjiang police, and more and more people’s impression of this profession has begun to change.

Of course, tvb has noticed this change keenly and wanted to establish a project to operate it, but DreamWorks has already done all kinds of work ahead and there is really no room for operation.

After appreciating the sample of the TV series "New Senior Brother" with the idea of ​​trying it out, Fang Yihua couldn't help but take a breath, thinking that this previously unknown Wei Jiahui is very good at screenwriter.

As a youth inspirational drama, the story of "Xinza Senior Brother" is based on the Xiangjiang Youth Police Training School. It is a high school opened by the Xiangjiang Police since the 1970s. In addition to general studies, students must also receive discipline training. After graduation, they can be given priority to join the police force.

"Xinza Senior Brother" tells the growth experience of many teenagers who entered the school, from entering the school to graduation, and then entering the police force. It includes setbacks and developments in each person's family, society, career, love and other aspects.

Fang Yihua understands too much that this kind of story of rising from the grassroots, mixed with love, hate and love has always been the favorite of Hong Kong people. With the extremely novel police background, it is difficult not to attract people.

After urgent internal discussions, Fang Yihua formally proposed to Hu Yinmeng to purchase the first round of broadcast rights of "Xinza Senior Brother".

Hu Yinmeng replied simply, "I also like this TV series, Huanya TV. If you want it, you two will enter the bidding process."

Previously, TVB purchased some dramas such as "Bean Sprout Dream" from Dream Factory that the other party is good at producing, but basically has no competition with Universal Asia TV.

The reasons are, first, TVB's own production capabilities are strong enough, and second, although Huanya TV and DreamWorks operate independently, the bosses behind them are all Tang Huan. TVB does not want to let their own money be turned back and forth between the left and right hands, and eventually becomes a laughing stock of stupid people who have a lot of money.

Therefore, this is the first time TVB and Universal TV have bid for the same TV series as DreamWorks.

Given that Xiangjiang has a competitive TV station, DreamWorks, which claims to be "neutral", has formulated a slightly unique bidding process, that is, the two TV stations each have only three chances to raise their bids, and the one with the highest price will be obtained, in order to prevent one party from deliberately making trouble and maliciously raising the cost of the opponent's purchase of movies.

Fang Yihua had only complaints about this, and said with a high voice that DreamWorks and China Asia TV belong to two companies. This rule is clearly that you both take care of each other. DreamWorks will not slap China Asia TV on the price of dramas, and China Asia TV also tacitly does not let DreamWorks lose money, but once TVB joins, you may suffer from two attacks.

Who made this time behind? Fang Yihua had to bite the bullet and sit with Zhou Liangshuyi of China Television to play on numbers.

In the end, TVB spent millions and snatched "Xinza Senior Brother" from Universal TV.

Fang Yihua, who was secretly heartbroken, kept comforting herself, just as she was rewarded for the new artists Liang Chaowei and Zhang Manyu who were cultivating her own.

"Dreamworks is becoming more and more profitable. When I watched the sample "Xinzhao Senior Brother", I found a lot of advertisements from sponsors." Fang Yihua complained sourly.

"Don't everyone shoots like this now." Hu Yinmeng smiled and took the check from the other party, "Thank you, patron. By the way, I forgot to say that DreamWorks will give you a free high-standard "Xinza Senior Brother" press conference. At that time, Mr. Tang and the Director of the Xiangjiang Police Department should show up."

A look of surprise flashed across Fang Yihua's face, and then said dissatisfiedly: "You little girl is too jealous, why didn't you say it earlier? You should have hoped that TVB would miss "New Senior Brother"."

"Who will be unable to get along with the money? I really just remembered it." Hu Yinmeng waved her hand with a smile.

...

Fang Yihua felt that the money he spent was too valuable. On the day of the press conference of "Xinza Senior Brother", Tang Huan's Rolls-Royce with No. 3 license plate and No. 1 car of Han Yili, director of the Xiangjiang Police Department, were parked together side by side. The reporters were so excited that they held their cameras and took pictures for a long time.

Xiangjiang Police Department is a major customer of Zheru Xiangjiang Company. From file management to ID card system, everyone is a big project. Therefore, Tang Huan has long been familiar with the senior executives of Xiangjiang Police Department.

This time, the two sides started a cooperation on "Xinza Senior Brother", which was also a happy situation. The Xiangjiang police need to improve their image, and DreamWorks has also expanded their acting career.

However, there is another undefinable interest demand here.

Tang Huan had some supplies that needed to be transferred to Siam through the free port of Xiangjiang, and then sent to Funan where his uncle Han Anyuan was.

Although several major countries have agreed to this kind of transportation, the Xiangjiang police still need to protect the Xiangjiang police.

...

On December 22, "Xinza Senior Brother" premiered in prime time between 7:00 and 8:00 pm on TVB, which quickly caused a huge sensation. In addition to the faces of Liang Chaowei, Zhang Manyu, Liu Jialing, Liu Qingyun and other pink newcomers who were remembered by the audience, the number of people who applied for the police exam increased significantly, which was really exaggerated to the extreme.
Chapter completed!