The Shanghai Public Concession Bureau generally has 9 directors, and the directors do not pay their salaries. They choose each other and become general directors.

In the Industrial Department, the British always occupy most seats, while the Americans usually occupy two seats.

Before World War I, the Germans had a seat, and after 1915, the seat was transferred to the Japanese.

Chinese people have no seats in the Industrial Department and have no say in the public concession.

At this time, the chief director of the Industrial Bureau was Sims, a British man, and the Japanese director was called Shunichi Sakuragi.

Shunichi Sakuragi was born in 1882 and graduated from the Department of Political Economy of Imperial University of Japan.

In 1906, he joined the Yokohama Branch of the Toyo Steamboat Company and worked in the Hong Kong branch of the company in 1907. The following year, he resigned and joined the Nanman Railway Corporation. He was soon sent overseas to study railway transportation business.

He was transferred to Shanghai in 1914, served as the manager of the Shanghai branch of Nanman Railway Co., Ltd. in 1918, served as the chairman of the Shanghai Japanese Residence Mission from 1919 to 1922, and was elected as a director of the Public Concession Work Department Bureau in 1920.

He has always spared no effort to safeguard the interests of Japanese expatriates in Shanghai.

The news he received yesterday was that a Chinese movie alluded to the Japanese murder of Huo Yuanjia.

He didn't know much about Huo Yuanjia. Huo Yuanjia had already passed away when he came to Shanghai. For this reason, he went to the theater to watch the film "The Great Hero of Tianjin Huo Yuanjia".

The Chinese frenzy in the theater made him frightened.

He knew that the awakening of a nation often starts with some inconspicuous trivial things, just like Japan during the Meiji Restoration period.

Nowadays, Chinese people accept Western ideas, and some knowledgeable people have begun to awaken. This nation is opening its eyes and looking at the outside world.

So he made up his mind that no matter whether there were any plots that alluded to the Japanese in the film, such films that promoted patriotic ideas would be banned.

He used the rights of directors to convene the board of directors and proposed a proposal to ban the screening of "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia".

The British think that Sakuragi Toshiki is a bit of a big deal, just a movie. Although they have never seen a movie, they have finally seen reports in the newspaper.

This happened more than ten years ago. Besides, who knows if the Japanese were doing the murder of Huo Yuanjia.

What's more, this movie is very popular among Chinese people and tells the story of a martial artist who is very prestigious in Shanghai. The rash ban on the screen may cause protests from the Chinese.

With the attitude of not being less than having more things, the British became perfunctory.

As for Americans, Director Fei Xindun admired Lin Zixuan very much and called Lin Zixuan a good friend of Americans. Naturally, he helped Lin Zixuan speak, thinking that Sakuragi Toshichi's reasons were insufficient.

"You guys, please go to the theater to see the expressions on the faces of those Chinese people!" Sakuragi Toshi stood up and shouted, "Do you guys want to live in an awakened China or in an ignorant China? This country is changing. Shouldn't we do something?"

The British fell silent. From the newspaper, they knew that "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" promoted the spirit of martial arts and patriotic ideas, but they did not pay enough attention to it.

At this time, Shunichi Sakuragi looked at this from another perspective, and they couldn't help but not think.

"Isn't this a normal thing?" Fei Xindun asked, "You can't expect this country to be in an era of ignorance and backwardness. They will develop sooner or later."

"That's going to delay this time," Sakuragi Toshikazu emphasized, "This is in the interests of our countries in this country."

Finally, they held a vote.

Except for Fei Xindun's abstention, other directors agreed to ban the screening of "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" in the public concession, using the reason that the content of the movie was suspected of alluding to Japanese friends.

Summertime Picker Luxury Cinema received the notice as soon as possible and stopped the film screening two days after its premiere.

At the same time, Lin Zixuan began to screen "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" in the French Concession.

He acquired nearly half of the theaters in the French Concession and mastered most of the theaters in the French Concession through leasing.

If it weren't for the copy of this era that cost too much money, he could even let all theaters release the movie.

In this era, basically, this theater had just finished screening, and someone took the copy and rode a car to send the copy to another theater for screening.

Because film is too expensive, it is impossible to produce hundreds of copies of a movie. It is a plentiful to have ten copies to be screened in turn, so there is a screening mode like the first round of exclusive screening rights.

The movie was banned in the public concession, so the audience had to go to the theater in the French concession to watch the movie, which brought considerable pressure to the public security of the French concession.

Shunichi Sakuragi was very angry. He took the ban on the public concession from the public concession and went to the Public Directors Bureau of the French Concession to ask the French Concession to ban the film from the same, but the French were very proud and ignored him.

In "The Great Hero of Tianjin Huo Yuanjia", Huo Yuanjia beat the Russians, beat the British, and alluded to the Japanese, but he did not say bad things about the French. The French had no reason to ban the screening.

Feng Jingyao played a great role in this, and he had a close relationship with the French.

At the beginning, Feng Jingyao was quite hesitant. The Japanese were very powerful in the public concession and there was no need to offend him. He also advised Lin Zixuan to do business with kindness and make money.

However, when he saw so many people watching this movie in the theater, the theater's income increased exponentially, faster than robbing money, he didn't say anything.

Nothing can be done with money.

Many viewers are watching the show just for Huo Yuanjia to fight against Japanese people. The plot of the Japanese murder of Huo Yuanjia is the highlight of the movie. If you delete the Japanese plot, the audience will definitely be unsatisfied.

Shunichi Sakuragi was unable to threaten the French. At this time, Japan had no troops in Hongkou, so it could not form a deterrent force.

He had no choice but to sue the star film company, demanding that the court ban the film on the grounds of distorting the facts and maliciously slandering the Japanese expatriates, and demanding that the star film company apologize and compensate.

When Lin Zixuan heard the news, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Just fight a lawsuit. When the lawsuit comes to an end, the movie should have ended long ago.

The legal counsel of the celebrity film company is Gu Kenfu, who is confident that he will delay the lawsuit until one month later.

Moreover, this lawsuit may not necessarily be lost, because the plot of the Japanese doctor in the movie is real, and the only uncertain thing is whether Huo Yuanjia's death has anything to do with the Japanese doctor.

If you want to prove it, you may have to open a coffin and perform an autopsy.

Even if Huo Yuanjia died of poisoning after opening a coffin and autopsy, there is no way to prove that it was poisoned by the Japanese. Besides, in this era, Huo Yuanjia's family would not agree.

After all, this is a headless case, and it is unclear at all.

This is the one who goes to court with the Japanese, and the other is the one who goes to Jingwu Sports Club.

The celebrity film company apologized for the artistic treatment of Huo Yuanjia's deeds in the movie, and donated half of the movie's income to the Jingwu Sports Association. It hoped that the Jingwu Sports Association would be better and better, continue to carry forward the spirit of martial arts and defend the country.
Chapter completed!