Xu Jinyang would never allow Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua to stay in office. Because the two of them are really like husband and wife, one is more stingy than the other. Their stinginess and dominance made Shaw Brothers movies have a formidable enemy, Jiahe, which could not have existed, which doomed Shaw Brothers movies to decline. If it hadn't been for TVB to take the lead and ATV to compete a little bit, Japan TVB wouldn't be able to develop. Although it is right to control the cost, but it is not humane to control the cost. According to the legend, Fang Yihua missed Li Xiaolong because of reducing expenses. At that time, Li Xiaolong offered a price of 10,000 US dollars for a movie, but Fang Yihua insisted on pressing it down to 2,500 US dollars Let him "start with a supporting role first." Li Xiaolong, who was splashed with cold water, later switched to Golden Harvest, Shaw's biggest rival at the time. Her management style was said to be too ruthless, and there were rumors that even Zou Wenhuai, the second in command of Shaw Brothers at the time, who had been in the company for many years, was "pissed off" by her [the Golden Harvest Company was established. Rumor has it that in order to save money, Fang Yihua even asked to confirm the actual number of extras. Fang Yihua also had to personally review those purchase orders, and even when the movie was released, he would freeze the panorama of the camera and check them one by one according to the number of props on the purchase order. Xu Jinyang felt that even if Shao Yifu knew that Xu Guanwen and Li Xiaolong developed so well later, he might not spend so much money.
Because Shao Yifu carved stinginess into his bones. Not only is he very mean to the employees below, he is not even generous to his own children. It is said that Shao Yifu's eldest son, Shao Weiming, was once kidnapped in Singapore. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 3 million, but Shao Yifu bargained with the other party. In the end, the kidnappers couldn't take it anymore and agreed to only accept 1 million. And Shao Yifu was not in a hurry, and it took several days before he went to Singapore to redeem his son. His son was kidnapped for 12 days. This is quite different from Li Bancheng who used 1 billion in exchange for his son Li Zeju back then. In 1970, Xiangjiang's "South Pole" magazine also published a story about Shao Yifu's "stinginess". The elderly in a nursing home in Xiangjiang saw Shao Yifu going in and out of the Rolls-Royce, so they wrote him a letter, stating their plight and hoping to get help. Later, Shao Yifu did send a check to the nursing home, but only 500 Hong Kong dollars was written on it. 0…ask for flowers…………… A person in the industry once commented on Shao Yifu's "stinginess" in this way: "Sixth Uncle Guhan is well known in the world." In fact, Shao Yifu's third brother, Shao Shanke, is even more "stingy" than him. He is comparable to Grandet described by the French novelist Balzac. . 0 But the third elder brother, Shao Shan, suffered from a stroke when he was less than 70 years old, and was paralyzed in bed all the time. It is precisely because of what happened to the third brother that Shao Yifu, who is also nearly 70 years old, suddenly realized: life is impermanent, money and wealth are not brought with you, and you will not take them with you when you die. Beginning in 1972, Shaw Yat Fu, who had been stingy and kept money for 65 years, was no longer keen on accumulating wealth, but began to be generous and charitable, and established the "Shaw Yat Fu Foundation" in 1973 But he is still very stingy with the artists under his banner. Compared with the high salaries of mainland artists in later generations, at this time, wireless artists are completely in a state of enjoying their food. Why did Zhao Yazhi and Li Ruotong have the opportunity to enter TVB but hesitated for several years before they were willing to give up the job of flight attendant, because the salary of artists in TVB is not as good as that of flight attendant 9!.