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In 2017, Gao Xiaosong interviewed Jackie Chan, and Gao Xiaosong asked a question that everyone was curious about, he asked Jackie Chan, "Jet Li's agent (Cai Ziming) was killed, but you all know who they are?" Jackie Chan replied bluntly: "We all know who they are, but there is no evidence." Jackie Chan also revealed that "he will write out all the dark things in the entertainment industry before he dies, and write them out by name and hand them over to a lawyer, but everyone should not guess, and they will not be published until a hundred years later." ”
These few words of Jackie Chan spoke to the darkness of the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Among them, Liu Jialing's abduction, Mei Yanfang's slap, and Cai Ziming's shooting are all representative events. Today we will talk about why Cai Ziming was shot. Why didn't Jet Li avenge Cai Ziming?
Before mentioning Cai Ziming, there was a man we couldn't get around, his name was David Luo, the son of director Luo Wei. When Cai Ziming appeared in Jet Li's life, David Luo had already appeared early and had also helped Jet Li solve economic problems.
In 1989 Jet Li and his wife Huang Qiuyan had a very depressed life in the United States, Jet Li made a living from martial arts training, in such a day he met David Luo, so David Luo recommended Jet Li to his father Luo Wei, Jet Li starred in the movie "The Dragon in the End of the World" invested by Luo Wei, in this movie Jet Li and Stephen Chow worked together once, and he also met the actress Li Zhi. But at that time, Jet Li did not know that David Luo only used him as a tool to make money and had been designing him.
After filming "The Dragon at the End of the World", David Luo recommended Jet Li to sign a contract with Jiahe Pictures, and Jet Li did not know that Luo David's mother Liu Lianghua was a senior executive of Jiahe Pictures. So out of trust in David Luo, and because David Luo said how good Jiahe Pictures was, Jet Li signed a 2-year contract with Jiahe Pictures from May 1989 to May 1991. The main content of the contract is that Jet Li will shoot 4 films for Jiahe in 2 years and receive HK$6 million in remuneration.
After signing the contract, Jet Li took the film seriously, and he also became popular again with the film "Huang Feihong's Top Gun" directed by Xu Ke, but when the contract expired, he only received 3 million yuan in compensation, which was exactly half the amount signed with the original contract. So Jet Li asked Jiahe for the reward he owed, what he did not expect was that David Luo and Jiahe let him ask for a salary without results, at this time he understood that Luo David was going to use the 3 million to trap him in Jiahe, so that he could make money for Jiahe and himself.
Faced with such a situation, Jet Li was very sad and angry, so he decided to return to the United States to calm down for a period of time, and as a result, Jiahe actually withheld his passport and "put" him under "house arrest" in disguise. Regarding Jiahe's behavior toward Jet Li, director Wang Jing later expressed Jiahe's attitude toward Jet Li at that time: "He is a mainland boy, and he can have enough ability to play him to death."
Just when Jet Li was upset about this, Cai Ziming appeared. Cai Ziming is also not an ordinary person, he grew up in Guangzhou, was the leader of the Guangzhou Children's Party when he was a child, later went to Hong Kong to contract large renovation projects, and then ran to the Netherlands to do business successfully, and was rumored to have a gangster background. In the mid-1980s, he returned to Hong Kong from the Netherlands and founded Fuyi Film Productions in 1988, his first film was called "Dragon and Tiger Club", according to Wen Jun, who had served as the chairman of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, Cai Ziming forced Liu Jialing and Wan Ziliang to go to the Netherlands to shoot this drama, and the male protagonist Andy Lau was shot at the head by a gun. As a result, the film was very popular after its release, cai Ziming tasted the sweetness, he put more energy into the film, and wanted to become a good producer like Xiang Huasheng.
For Cai Ziming, who wants to become an excellent film producer, Jet Li is naturally the object of his desire to win over, and it just so happens that he and Jet Li have a similar temper, he told Jet Li to help him cancel his contract with Jiahe and ask for the remuneration owed, as to whether he is willing to join The Rich Arts Film Production Company after this, he can make his own decision.
Cai Ziming didn't say anything big, he said just do it. At that time, Jet Li was filming the movie "Huang Feihong's Boy As Self-Reliance" for Jiahe, and halfway through the filming, Cai Ziming let Jet Li strike and hid Jet Li, and he also gave Jet Li 40,000 Hong Kong dollars as a settlement fee.
Jet Li's boycott made a big fuss at the time, causing a great sensation at the time, Jiahe's shameless behavior was also exposed, and "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Be Self-Reliant" could not find anyone who could replace Jet Li, and finally under various pressures, Jiahe paid Jet Li's remuneration, and Jet Li also successfully terminated his contract.
After the termination of the contract with Jiahe, Jet Li naturally will not forget Cai Ziming's kindness, he joined the Rich Arts Film Production Company, Cai Ziming became his agent, because of mutual trust, they did not even sign the contract. Cai Ziming is also very attentive to Jet Li and wants to push him to the international market, and Cai Ziming's work that pushes Jet Li to the international market is the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn". To this end, Cai Ziming contacted the famous Hollywood movie star Stallone, and got the approval of Stallone's agent, they only need to discuss the specific matters to sign the contract, and the heroine he found a kung fu actress Yang Ziqiong.
In order to make "New Dragon Gate Inn" a classic movie, on the morning of April 15, 1992, Cai Ziming and Yang Ziqiong chatted about "New Dragon Gate Inn" at the Nikko Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, and they also had lunch at the hotel at noon. That night, Cai Ziming went to see Jet Li again, he wanted to design some more novel movements with Jet Li, and they unconsciously chatted for 4 hours after dinner.
Jet Li could not have imagined that on the morning of April 16, Cai Ziming was shot by two gunmen when he stepped out of the elevator to go to the company. At 11:40 a.m. on the same day, Jet Li received a call from Cai Ziming who was shot to death, and at that time Jet Li couldn't believe that this was true, he froze all over, even the phone could not hang up, repeated three times, before putting the phone back in place.
The shooting of Cai Ziming caused a great sensation in Hong Kong, and Jet Li applied to the police for protection the day after Cai Ziming's death, during which time nine police officers protected him every day, and he was not staying at home, he stayed in the hotel for 9 months.
Also on the second day after Cai Ziming's death, the Hong Kong media received a call from a man who claimed to be a killer, who said that he was a mainland killer, hired by a Hong Kong film producer, to assassinate Cai Ziming for 1 million Hong Kong dollars, but afterwards only 500,000 Yuan, so he felt upset and wanted to expose the matter. However, the police judged from the guns used by the gunmen and the method of action, and guessed that it was a foreign killer.
There are now two theories about Cai Ziming's death. One believes that Cai Ziming is a Dutch gangster who has a vendetta against people and is rushed to Hong Kong by the enemy and shot. One theory is that he has offended some big men in the circle because he has made a difference in li lian's outstanding position.
But there is a fact that whether it is Jackie Chan or Jet Li, they all know who the murderer is, but they can't say it, because it will affect other people.
As for why the gunman did not shoot Jet Li? The reason is also very simple, many years later Jet Li was interviewed by the media, he said: "If an old hen will lay eggs, everyone wants eggs, and they will not kill the chickens." If the chicken dies and there are no eggs, there is no benefit to everyone. ”