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Chapter 175 The woman who eats both sides of the strait

There is no need to mention the premiere of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" in Ximending, Taipei. Except for the tickets being hyped up by those scalpers to a sky-high price of NT$2,500, Li Xuan did not appear in person at the evening premiere. In Taiwan, Lin Qingxia's influence is much greater than that of the others in the crew.

As Li Xuan expected, after Lin Qingxia sang the two songs "Only Remembering Today's Laughing" and "Laughing the World", the scene was full of joy. The audience shouted that Lin Qingxia sang it again, and almost opened the premiere of the movie to Lin Qingxia's solo concert.

Compared to his interest in martial arts movies, Taiwanese audiences are more enthusiastic than Hong Kong. Chu Yuan’s series of martial arts movies are not very popular in Hong Kong, but why is he still stabbed Diaoyutai at Shaw Brothers? It is because all the martial arts movies he filmed can basically sell NT$10 million in Taiwan!

Art and martial arts films, Taiwanese people at that time were just as good as this.

Sure enough, as soon as the movie was finished, the reporters in the theater began to ask the crew's main creators for interviews. But they were surprised to find that the crew's main creators had long disappeared, and only a theater manager was left in the theater to entertain them, the uncrowned kings.

Li Xuan was blocked by those reporters in Hong Kong once, and later he was exhausted from his power. So before the movie was finished, he greeted others early. However, they could not go back to the hotel to rest, but were invited out by Huang Zhuohan, the boss of First Pictures, to hold a welcome banquet.

When people talk about Beijing roast duck nowadays, the first thing they think of is Quanjude, and there will definitely be no second answer. However, in Hong Kong and Taiwan areas in 1981, people talk about Beijing roast duck. Although there are many answers they think of, there is one place that will definitely be mentioned, that is the Tianchu Restaurant located in Zhongshan District, Taipei City.

Tian Chu, the name of an ancient Chinese star official, belongs to Ziweiyuan among the three walls, which means "a kitchen built for all officials". Tian Chu is composed of six stars, so this Tian Chu restaurant is a six-story antique loft building.

People eating food from old Beijing in ancient buildings with ancient charms is a kind of elegant taste. Huang Zhuohan entertained Li Xuan and his group in the private room Songzhu Pavilion on the second floor.

"Come on, Miss Lin, try this authentic Peking duck and see if it suits your taste." Huang Zhuohan talked while tweaking the turntable, and a plate of roasted and cut Peking duck was delivered to Lin Qingxia's noodles.

The roast duck is very good, with thick meat, thin skin, crystal oil, and the master's knife skills are also very good. After a few cuts, the whole roast duck was cut into pieces of willow leaf strips, which looked very beautiful.

Lin Qingxia delayed it, so she wrapped a piece of duck meat in the pastry and took a bite, then nodded and replied: "It tastes really good!"

"Haha, I know that Miss Lin's ancestral home is from the north, so I specially chose this Beijing restaurant." Huang Zhuohan laughed, then looked at the others and said, "Please feel free to do it! Please-"

"Mr. Huang, you are so polite." Lin Qingxia replied slightly embarrassedly.

"Hey, how can you be rude?" Huang Zhuohan sighed and said, "Ms. Lin was invited to attend the inauguration speech of the US President this time, which is a great honor to the country!"

Lin Qingxia was slightly stunned when she heard this, then chuckled and said, "Mr. Huang praised it. This time she was able to attend the inauguration speech of the US President was only the authorities' care for the young woman."

"Oh! You can't say that..." Huang Zhuohan waved his hand and smiled: "Look at so many people in Taiwan, who can get the care of the superiors casually? Not to mention that Miss Chen Xiangmei personally suggested that Miss Lin attend."

Depend on!

Li Xuan was wondering at first why Huang Zhuohan was so polite to Lin Qingxia tonight. His performance was very average when he was in the Hong Kong movie test last time.

Now that the three words "Chen Xiangmei" are expressed, Li Xuan understands what he means.

Chen Xiangmei was the niece of Liao Chengzhi, director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in charge of Hong Kong and Macao affairs in the mainland at this time. Her grandfather was Liao Zhongkai's brother. Liao Chengzhi also mentioned in the previous article that he was the general manager of the Hong Kong mainland co-production of "Shaolin Temple". In the first half of last year, Liao Chengzhi had a heart bypass surgery in the United States, and all the food, clothing, housing and transportation were arranged by Chen Xiangmei.

However, although Liao Chengzhi is a senior official in the mainland, his niece Chen Xiangmei is an authentic American overseas Chinese.

Chen Xiangmei was a very active Chinese in the American political arena at this time. She married Chen Nade, the American "Flying Tiger General" who came to China to fight against the war in 1947. Later, Chiang Kai-shek lost to Taiwan, and she moved to Taiwan with her husband. Because Chen Nade made great contributions in the Anti-Japanese War, there is still a bronze statue of Chen Nade in the center of Taipei. Unfortunately, in 1958, Chen Nade unfortunately died of illness. After her husband passed away, Chen Xiangmei moved to Washington in 1960, and from then on, she began her dazzling second life.

In 1963, Chen Xiangmei accepted the appointment of President Kennedy in the United States to work in the White House and became the first Chinese to enter the White House. After Kennedy was assassinated, she joined the Republican Party and made great contributions in the Nixon presidential election in 1967. In 1968, Chen Xiangmei was appointed as the administrative committee member of the Republican Party and vice chairman of the finance. In 1970, Chen Xiangmei served as the vice president of Flying Tiger Airlines, becoming the first female vice president of American Airlines; and joined the American bank as the first Asian director. In 1972, she was even selected as one of the 70 most influential figures in the United States.

The most talked about is Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979. She has made great efforts.

In fact, as early as 1978, Chen Xiangmei began paving the way for Reagan's election for president and was one of Reagan's core advisers. Chen Xiangmei also became the head of Reagan's Asian affairs because of her deep relationship between the mainland and Taiwan.

Just like this time Lin Qingxia went to the United States to attend Reagan's inaugural speech, it was Chen Xiangmei's proposal, and the purpose was naturally to appease the Taiwan government. However, she showed kindness to Taiwan here, but on the other hand, she was not idle. As soon as Reagan took office, he immediately appointed Chen Xiangmei as the special envoy and went to Beijing to conduct a series of friendly exchanges with Deng Gong.

This kind of morning, you can have dinner with Mr. Deng and drink tea with Mr. Jiang in the afternoon. There are not many people in the world who eat both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Lin Qingxia has made friends with Chen Xiangmei now. No wonder Huang Zhuohan has become much more polite. He is a beggar in Taiwan. For people like Chen Xiangmei with huge political influence, it is better to have friends with each other.

Wait, Li Xuan suddenly thought of something? But...

"When I heard Mr. Huang praise me so much, I don't know whether to accept it or be modest." Lin Qingxia chuckled awkwardly.

Huang Zhuohan was slightly stunned, but immediately smiled and said, "Look, I was negligent. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, haha. Everyone eat roast duck, please!"

After such a joke, the atmosphere on the table improved a lot, and Li Xuan also tasted the taste of this roast duck. How could he say, the duck was roasted pretty well, but it was too much oil and it was a bit greasy.

"well……"

After three rounds of drinking, Huang Zhuohan put down his hand and sighed and said slowly: "I feel that in two years, Taiwanese movies will probably become more and more difficult to mess with when I see the reactions of those audiences in the evening."

"Haha, why? Isn't Taiwanese movies thriving in recent years?" Li Xuan replied with a smile. He also knew that Taiwanese movies would die in a few years and would not recover until the 21st century. But he couldn't talk about it here now. If anyone in the private room said he was exposed, Li Xuan would be dead.

"Oh, Mr. Li didn't know that he didn't work in a theater." Huang Zhuohan waved his hand and said in a drunken manner: "There is more strict in local movies than imported movies, and the taxes are higher. We local filmmakers like us have to go to Hong Kong to open a company to shoot movies and then take them back and sell them. I don't know what will happen in the future..."

"Haha..." Li Xuan quickly interrupted Huang Zhuohan with a dry laugh, and then continued: "Mr. Huang, you are drunk."

Huang Zhuohan glanced at Li Xuan, shook his head and said slowly, "Drunk? I really hope I'm drunk."

"Haha--" I couldn't continue this. Li Xuan smiled awkwardly, stood up and said, "Everyone, I'll go to the bathroom after a while."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xuan pulled away the chair and turned around and walked out.

"call--"

Li Xuan, who left the private room, breathed a sigh of relief. The old man Huang started talking nonsense when he got drunk. Li Xuan was really afraid that he would say something "big rebellious" and would rather come out first to hide.
Chapter completed!
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