Chapter 226: Continuous Attacks

Wireless's wave of showy operations was a bit flashy.

But it had to be said that Wireless Television's influence was indeed not small.

Although the imitation was criticized, whether it was the contestants who wanted to participate in the *Fist King Tournament* or the contestants who participated in the *Hong Kong Beauty Pageant*, the enthusiasm was quite high.

There was no way; the reward conditions given by Wireless were not inferior to Asia Television's at all!

As long as they could compete for rankings and get rewards, who would care if Wireless's actions violated business ethics.

Then, Wireless crossed the river by feeling Asia Television's stones, and both programs were done quite decently.

Unfortunately, the contestants participating in the *Fist King Tournament* were limited to Hong Kong.

Most of them were fierce fighters in the triads.

Ahem, even Hong Hing's Sai Kung branch sent more than a dozen fighters to participate in one go.

Since it couldn't be stopped, then make good use of Wireless's platform!

Seeing the Sai Kung branch doing this, the rest of Hong Hing's branches followed suit.

Chen Haonan, Shanjie, and Datian Er of the Causeway Bay branch all participated, looking like they really wanted to make a name for themselves.

The fighters with a little bit of strength in the rest of Hong Hing's branches didn't miss the opportunity.

In private, rumors spread within the triad.

The content was very simple: they were humiliating themselves by participating in the *Unlimited Fighting Tournament*, and it was better to show their faces in the *Fist King Tournament*.

Obviously, the intensity of the *Fist King Tournament* was much weaker.

A large number of triad fighters participated, and the martial arts masters in Hong Kong naturally had concerns.

Added to the fact that the consumption of participating in the *Unlimited Fighting Tournament* before was too great, naturally, fewer people signed up.

By the time Wireless noticed the situation, it was already too late, and even if they wanted to make up for it, it was unlikely.

As for the contestants of the *Hong Kong Beauty Pageant*, they were obviously a grade worse than the beauty pageant of Asia Television in terms of beauty.

So what if Wireless had more fame?

Without the cooperation of numerous first-class triads, how could those top-tier misses working in mid-to-high-end nightclubs have the time and leisure to participate in beauty pageants?

Without these top-tier beauties, the overall appearance of the contestants in the *Hong Kong Beauty Pageant* held by Wireless would definitely be much worse.

The news reached Fang Yihua, who was responsible for specific affairs, and she was also quite troubled.

Shao Liushu's face was indeed very big, but wanting to persuade numerous first-class triads to help wasn't a simple thing, and enough benefits had to be given.

Obviously, Shao Liushu certainly wouldn't easily make promises and concessions.

Not only that, Wireless's popularity operation and traffic monetization for contestants were obviously not so brilliant, leading to not-so-good income for the contestants.

It was just that Wu Feng didn't mean to add insult to injury; otherwise, this wave would definitely have made Wireless lose both the lady and the army, and some things were not so easy to imitate.

Just the street stalls covering most of the prosperous areas of Hong Kong were hard for Wireless to handle.

And the shipping channels of numerous newspaper kiosks and convenience stores were not so easy to clear.

Of course, Wireless had Wireless's advantages.

That was the overall viewing population of the television station, and the promotion effect was stronger than Asia Television at this time.

But Wireless, whether it was willing to share part of the advertising time and give benefits to the outstanding contestants, was another matter.

Wu Feng was indeed not angry; on the contrary, he had a bit of a mentality of watching the show.

His mind wasn't focused too much on Wireless!

In the summer of '88, the European Cup started hotly.

Under Wu Feng's guidance, Asia Television produced a special program for the European Cup.

They invited a few so-called football experts to specifically comment on the European Cup matches.

Then, at Wu Feng's signal, they crazily hyped up the Netherlands team and the Soviet Union team.

Of course, they couldn't miss the host, the West Germany team!

As a result, after a few matches, the teams hyped by the experts all successfully advanced from the group stage and became the hot favorites for the final championship.

The subsequent quarter-finals and semi-finals were not much different from the experts' predictions.

This time, all the viewers who watched the television program subconsciously acknowledged the level of these football experts.

In the final, several experts crazily pushed the Netherlands team, which was recognized by most viewers, and the final result was not unexpected.

During this European Cup, Asia Television successfully launched several well-known football commentators.

At the same time, it also revealed its "professional level" in sports!

Allowing Asia Television to occupy quite a large advantage in sports commentary!

And Wu Feng's other goal was easily achieved.

Macau's casino didn't earn any money on the European Cup odds this time, and even lost quite a bit.

It was heard that the person in Macau was quite unhappy with this result.

But so what if he was unhappy?

If arrangements hadn't been made in advance, with the power of Macau's casino, wanting to get involved in the European Cup was not an ordinary difficulty.

Having achieved the desired result, Wu Feng just smiled lightly and hid his fame.

And another move against Macau's casino also began to exert its strength at the same time.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xinjie hurriedly washed up and went downstairs.

At the tea restaurant downstairs, he ate a bowl of pork liver porridge and a few pineapple buns, greeted a few familiar neighbors, and got up to go to the company.

Passing by a newspaper kiosk, he subconsciously stopped to buy a copy of *Mong Kok News* and a new issue of *Novel Monthly*; he was a loyal reader of these two newspapers.

After finally squeezing onto the subway, he had the leisure to open the two newspapers and carefully browse through them while the subway started moving.

He put the newspaper into his briefcase first, planning to read it when he arrived at the company.

He flipped through *Novel Monthly* first, turning directly to the latest chapter of *God of Gamblers*, and read it with relish while sitting on the subway seat.

That's right, he had recently become obsessed with the *God of Gamblers* novel serialized in *Novel Monthly*!

He himself had no interest in gambling and didn't play mahjong or cards. But the atmosphere in Hong Kong was there, plus the factors of the family environment, which led to him having ideas about making big money.

In the *God of Gamblers* novel, the protagonist relied on the tattered Feng Shui secret book from home to make a fortune step by step, and then under the guidance of a friend, successfully entered the gambling world.

Because of the help of the Feng Shui secret book, plus the protagonist's own strong luck, having just entered the gambling world, he was naturally invincible; almost every gambling game he participated in was a win-win-win.

It was so refreshing, making Zhang Xinjie feel quite comfortable!

The previous plot of the novel was the standard refreshing text routine, rushing from one refreshing point to another, making readers feel full of comfort, wishing they could directly replace the protagonist.

There were also brilliant Feng Shui techniques and all kinds of mysterious means, which were very much to the taste of Hong Kong readers, so the novel was naturally quite hot.

Unfortunately, in the content of this issue, the protagonist began to encounter setbacks.

Just like upgrading and fighting monsters, the protagonist only mixed in those underground gambling halls before, and the amount of winning and losing was actually not exaggerated; the protagonist also consciously controlled it.

Unfortunately, he couldn't stand the instigation of the "pig teammate" beside him, and then ran to Macau's casino to have fun.

Then, he encountered the dark hands of the casino!

"What are you doing? If you can't afford to lose, don't open a casino!"

Seeing this kind of plot, Zhang Xinjie felt somewhat aggrieved and couldn't help but mutter.

He had long since substituted himself into the protagonist's role, so he naturally felt quite unhappy.

Naturally, subconsciously, he began to compare the Macau casino that the protagonist was facing.

The novel plot continued; the protagonist relied on luck to barely escape this disaster.

But next, because of various reasons, the protagonist had to take the initiative to participate in the Gambling King Tournament held by the Macau casino, and this time the protagonist encountered quite serious Feng Shui suppression.

At this time, the novel described the Feng Shui layout of the Macau casino well, as well as all kinds of Feng Shui luck arrangements specifically aimed at gamblers; in short, what was highlighted was a black heart and poisonous hands.

Even an existence with such sufficient luck as the protagonist, after entering the Macau casino, his luck was suppressed, and finally, he lost to his opponent.

"Too much, really too much!"

Zhang Xinjie, who was completely substituted, wished he could tear up *Novel Monthly* and throw it away.

He only felt stuffy in his heart, and his view of the Macau casino was extremely poor.

"No wonder Macau's casino makes money every day; it turns out there is a special Feng Shui layout!"

Zhang Xinjie closed the monthly magazine at this time, and he was in no mood to continue reading.

Having read the plot of the new issue of the novel, besides feeling worried for the protagonist, it was the dissatisfaction with the Macau casino.

There were quite a few readers who had the same thoughts as him!

Then, the friends and colleagues influenced by them were naturally skeptical about this.

To say nothing else, if they wanted to play a game, they would probably not run to Macau to toss and turn.

There was no other reason; the content described in the novel was just too shocking.

Hong Kong residents were quite superstitious and attached great importance to luck and Feng Shui!

The novel content made them have a preconceived notion, and it was not so easy to turn it around.

Macau didn't notice the abnormality.

Originally, due to the large-scale popularization of electronic game machines of a gambling nature, their casino business was indeed affected, and the passenger flow clearly decreased.

Additionally, the audience of the novel was still a small number!

Even Jin Yong's novels were accumulated one by one in terms of influence and fame.

Besides, there were many entertainment methods in Hong Kong at this time, which was not the situation when Jin Yong's novels were popular.

A novel wanting to sell more than 500,000 copies in Hong Kong was simply an incredible thing.

The circulation of *Novel Monthly* hadn't broken through 200,000 copies at its highest.

That is to say, the number of readers of *Novel Monthly* was still limited.

Even if a certain story was particularly brilliant, it would at most raise the circulation to over 200,000.

If one wanted to spread the influence rapidly, the best way was to adapt it into television dramas and movies.

In fact, Asia Television had already begun filming the *God of Gamblers* television drama, which was considered a key project of a certain period.

And on the Fengrui Film and Television side, the first *God of Gamblers* movie, personally directed by the big director Wang Jing, had already completed filming and was currently entering the post-production process.

In fact, this high-achieving graduate from the University of Hong Kong had always been worried about the reaction after the movie was released.

Unfortunately, this was a filming task directly issued by the boss Wu Feng, so even if he was worried, he had to honestly complete the task; otherwise, how could he continue to mix in Fengrui Film and Television?

He was quite satisfied with his current situation and had no intention of leaving.

The environment of the Hong Kong film circle was not very peaceful!

Accompanied by the massive influx of capital from Taiwan, all kinds of messy things emerged one after another.

Film industry practitioners would be sent bullets or have guns pointed at their heads from time to time.

Which normal film industry practitioner could endure such stimulation?

The key was that they were forced to film bad movies, and they couldn't get their pay.

Such things didn't happen just once or twice; it was really too dangerous outside.

Fengrui Film and Television had the support of Hong Hing, the number one triad in Hong Kong, so basically, such dog-shit things wouldn't happen.

Boss Wu Feng was a sensible person and was quite generous to his employees.

As long as they could make money for the company, the company wouldn't skimp on generous rewards.

For a 20 million-level movie, Wang Jing, as a director, could get an income of 2 million; in other film and television companies, one wouldn't even think about such a good thing.

Not to mention, he also had great autonomy!

With a lot of money to earn and a relaxed and carefree life, only someone with a problem in their brain would choose to leave.

Wang Jing's ambition wasn't big; at least at this time, he didn't have the intention of setting up another stove.

Under these circumstances, helping the company film movies was naturally a duty-bound thing.

It was just that he felt that his boss seemed to be deliberately targeting that person in Macau!

Thinking about it felt incredible; that person in Macau could be said to be wealthy and powerful, and he didn't know where his boss got the confidence to play like this?

How could he know that the cash flow in Wu Feng's hands wouldn't be much worse than that person in Macau.

And the relationship between Hong Hing and that person in Macau would soon drop below the freezing point.

By then, whether that person in Macau would have the heart to care about the *God of Gamblers* movie was hard to say.

Thinking about it feels incredible; that person in Macau can be said to have great wealth and power, and I don't know where our boss gets the confidence to play like this?

Little did he know, the cash flow in Wu Feng's hands is not much worse than that of the person in Macau.

Moreover, the relationship between Hong Hing and that person in Macau will soon drop below freezing point.

At that time, whether that person in Macau has the heart to pay attention to the *God of Gamblers* movie is hard to say.

It is also because communication between Hong Kong and the Mainland is not smooth at this time that not many people have noticed that the Bubugao learning machines and game consoles produced by Wu Feng's electronics factory are already selling like crazy in the Mainland.

At the same time, many game cartridges designed in Hong Kong are also selling like crazy in the Mainland.

No one expected that the Bubugao learning machines and game consoles would be so popular!

The RMB in the hands of Wu Feng's company in the Mainland is beginning to accumulate rapidly.

He is also not polite at all, directly purchasing chips that can be produced in the Mainland from certain microelectronics factories through his Mainland company!

That's right, the chip production level in the Mainland at this time is considered a second-rate product even in the world.

The Bubugao learning machine is one thing, but the Bubugao home game console requires chips as core components.

His idea is very simple: since there is a need, he should help the crumbling microelectronics industry in the Mainland.

As for whether it can save them, that is not something he needs to consider.

(End of chapter)