Chapter 16 Tapes

After the establishment of the Kowloon Alumni Association, various chapters have developed rapidly, especially the establishment of the Kowloon Secondary School Alliance, all schools are very supportive, even if it is a girls' secondary school, some schools have begun to send physical education teachers to guide, and many senior students have also begun to join the Kowloon Alumni Association.

The basketball team of Maryknoll Middle School was established soon, and the members were basically Fang Wanshan's original core team, such as Xiao Wu Xing, Du Zhou, etc., Fang Wanshan did not participate, as a pseudo football fan, Fang Wanshan came forward to organize the football team by himself, and the other three schools also organized their own teams. The competition was organized by Du Zhou and Ye Ziang, considering the difference between men and women, they were divided into two groups and ranked separately, and finally won an overall championship. Everyone is fighting with the gods on the court at will, and it is very lively. In order for the alliance to be successfully promoted, Fang Wanshan spent a lot of small prizes to reward the participants of the first competition.

Fang Wanshan's third sister joined, and the second sister also asked Fang Wanshan at home to give her an alliance management position, but the third sister didn't ask for it.

After the Kowloon Middle School Alliance successfully held a second league competition, 3 more secondary schools in the surrounding area applied to join, and they also set up their own clubs to join the Kowloon Alumni Association, Fang Wanshan instructed Du Zhou to accept them, and on the basis of the original award, a total of 1,000 yuan was added, and sportswear and drinks were also sponsored, and the naming rights were still SOHO. Various interest groups have also been set up one after another, Fang Wanshan himself organized a history interest group, Stephen Chow set up a literature group, and Fang Yuanyuan set up a music group.

Fang Wanshan didn't expect Stephen Chow to set up a literary group, which did not match his impression, a generation of comic star grandmasters, nonsensical grandmasters and those literary masters did not match each other. But Fang Wanshan didn't bother about it, he let him do it if he liked it, but he usually talked about some jokes and jokes, and said some life truths, hoping to enlighten him very much.

After Fang Wanshan established the Kowloon Alumni Association, he rarely participated in football games except for football games, and originally thought that those students who joined later didn't know very well, and the willingness in the mobile phone should not contribute to themselves, but in Fang Wanshan, he still saw a lot of unfamiliar member names from the number of newcomers growing every month. Fang Wanshan couldn't figure out how this was calculated, could it be that everyone's confidence and trust in this organization were counted as their own organizers?

In 1975, there were too many students who applied for work-study in SOHO during the winter vacation, so Fang Wanshan could only ask the eldest sister's drink shop and sunglasses store to help arrange some. In the 70s, Xiangjiang gave Fang Wanshan the feeling that prices were soaring, all walks of life were growing savagely, there was no little standardization, and the bottom black households in Dawei and Jiulongzhai were basically very sad, many did not know tomorrow today, and many disappeared without explanation. Since the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, after the end of 1974, the security on the street has improved, Fang Wanshan invested 1 million yuan to let Fang Yuanyuan's father Fang Jin help to set up an investment organization, just invest in those who have just come from the mainland, have a skill to open a small business, there are too many people here, although Fang Wanshan's electronics factory, SOHO fast food restaurant has absorbed a lot, but there are still many Chinese, and investing in each Fang Wanshan also makes them not give too much, all need a skill, or his money, it will run out in one day, Fang Wanshan can only look at these sadly。

Since 1975, the number of Vietnamese accepted by Heung Kong has increased, and some Vietnamese have begun to apply for loans. But Fang Wanshan resolutely refused to allow it, and deliberately emphasized that not a penny could be given to the Vietnamese. Because Fang Wanshan knew that many of the problems after the return of Xiangjiang were caused by these Vietnamese immigrants, and in the future, there were more and more Vietnamese refugees in Xiangjiang, so he could only guarantee that he would not spend a penny to help these people.

In May 1975, Li Yong and Wang Jian returned to Xiangjiang from Wanwan, at this time the black storm was still the most intense, but Fang Wanshan learned from other sources that the two had gone to Wanwan since last year, and now the investigation of their gang has little to do with them, just two disappeared minions. The two have helped Fang Wanshan establish various channels and relationships in Wanwan for nearly a year, and the two have also learned about the current situation in Xiangjiang in Wanwan, and they are very grateful to Fang Wanshan's two brothers. Fang Wanshan did not go over when he received the wind, but Fang Wanshan and Fang Qiang had a conversation, after the dialogue, Fang Qiang took Fang Wanshan's 500,000 to Li Yong and Wang Jian, in 1976, the boss above them went in, and after the escape of the escape, the two of them began to slowly gather their subordinates, and the territory was in Kwun Tong in the area of Kowloon Wharf, and they did not go to those flowery places. When the Vietnamese gang rose, the two had a bonus, and Quanli united with other gangs in Xiangjiang to hunt down the Vietnamese gang.

Everything on the bright side has nothing to do with Fang Wanshan, who is in middle school, and has nothing to do with Fang Qiang, who is now in love. In May 1975, Michelle began to have an official film contract, although it was a role, but at least it was the first step in the start of her career. As early as 1972, Mi Xue heard Fang Wanshan say about Miss Xiangjiang in the beauty pageant, and she wrote it down in her heart, until 1973, when the first beauty pageant was officially held in wireless, Mi Xue went to participate in it once, but she was eliminated when she entered the finals, which was very sad, but fortunately, Fang Qiang was comforted by her side. I have to mention here that Fang Wanshan has watched the beauty pageant throughout the whole process, and the goddess Zhao Yazhi in his heart also participated, and she is a popular candidate, but in the end, she still regrets missing the championship, and there is basically no news of her later.

After Mi Xue got that opportunity, she began to slowly become famous, and in 1976, she received Jin Yong's martial arts dramas "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and became famous as Huang Rong. The second brother Fang Qiang and her basically rarely meet, the two broke up at the beginning of 1976, Fang Qiang was decadent after the breakup, this time it was the first love of this relatively innocent teenager, Fang Wanshan didn't care much about him, that young man didn't fall in love a few times before he matured.

However, Fang Qiang didn't expect that a bigger blow was coming, the idol of everyone in Xiangjiang, the proud film and television superstar of the Chinese, Bruce Lee, passed away, and everyone in Xiangjiang was in grief, although Bruce Lee was the idol of idols, but Fang Wanshan was just a little sorry, like Zhou Xingxing's father who died, he couldn't do it.

After 1976, SOHO opened all over Xiangjiang, KFC also basically withdrew from Xiangjiang in 1975, and the eldest brother Fang Wanfeng is now the CEO of nearly 40 foreign fast food restaurants, and in September 1975, SOHO Catering Group Company was established, and Fang Wanshandu shares were held by his father, and the management was managed by the eldest brother.

At the same time, Fang Wanshan suggested to Fang Wanfeng that he should start to lay out the crooked breeding market, in fact, it is more suitable on the mainland, but now this time is not suitable. Since 1977, SOHO Group has entered into supply agreements with several large local farms in Wanwan and Heung Kong.

Looking at the success of his eldest brother, Fang Qiang proposed to Fang Wanshan to enter the video game market with Deng Qiang under the double blow of falling out of love and career, in fact, Fang Wanshan was still very interested in his old business, but after inspecting the total Xiangjiang and Wanwan markets, there are also word games at present, and the market is basically in the United States and Japan, so he rejected their proposal. Let them keep the current production scale first.

Fang Qiang was even more listless after Fang Wanshan rejected his proposal, Fang Wanshan saw it in his eyes, and discussed with Deng Qiang what electronic products could be made at present, and Deng Qiang recommended the radio to Fang Wanshan.

The radio was invented a long time ago, and now it is an integrated circuit radio. Fang Wanshan made a digital radio by himself when he was in college when he was in college, the technical content of this thing is really not high, Fang Wanshan immediately thought of the Walkman when he heard this, this is one more tape to play, in Xiangjiang for so long, Fang Wanshan has never seen this thing, and the current records are still made of film.

Fang Wanshan tried to ask Deng Qiang if he knew about the tape, but he didn't expect Deng Qiang to give Fang Wanshan a surprise. He had seen the tapes that Fang Wanshan said in the Polytechnic University, and they called them cassette tapes.

As soon as Fang Wanshan heard that the Polytechnic University had tapes, then there were people over there who knew this technology, so he immediately took Deng Qiang to the Polytechnic University, and Fang Qiang left it there. First found his uncle Lu Gaohan and asked him if he knew about tape technology, but he didn't expect his uncle to directly say that this was available in the 60s, and it is now sold abroad, and then asked his uncle to take him to see the playback, Fang Wanshan felt completely different from his impression, he was in junior high school in his previous life, but he had disassembled a few, and now he forgot it, but he still remembers the basic style.

According to Professor Wei Ping's lecture to Fang Wanshan, this is called a cassette recorder, which can record 120 minutes of sound in high definition, divided into two sides, and each side is 60 minutes. Fang Wanshan asked the price of this, and at the end, he drew a basic appearance of a tape recorder in later generations, and asked them to study the prototype on his behalf. After Fang Wanshan brought Deng Qiang back, he asked Deng Qiang to help him understand the technology of foreign tape recording. After finishing all this, Fang Wanshan began to prepare to deal with Fang Qiang's affairs.

Fang Wanshan found the second brother Fang Qiang and said:

"A woman, as far as that's concerned. It's not like you'll come back when you have the money in the future. ”

Fang Qiang ignored Fang Wanshan and continued to pretend to be busy with his own business, so Fang Wanshan directly took heavy medicine and said:

"Sister Lingling is busy, besides, it's suitable for the two of you to be together, she is an actor, I haven't seen any man, how old are you now, and your career is not good, she can take a fancy to you. ”

After waiting for Fang Qiang to think about it for a while, he continued: "Now she is not popular, and when she is popular, you will be even more self-conscious at that time." It's still time to make a lot of money now, and in two years, it's up to you to see if you're worthy. ”

Fang Qiang said angrily: "There is money to be made, now they are all selling electronic watches, it would be good for our factory director to be able to sustain it, and you didn't tell you to play video games, and now my classmates told me that foreign countries are very popular." ”

Fang Wanshan said helplessly: "It's all abroad now, there is no one here in Xiangjiang, we need to go abroad to compete, it's strange that our little arm can win." ”

Fang Wanshan still didn't say a word in his heart, now it's all a word game, the number of users is limited, the investment is large, and it will be eliminated in a few years, which is not cost-effective.

Fang Qiang didn't say anything when he heard his analysis, but just asked, "Then what do you say we use to make money?" ”

Fang Wanshan smiled and said, "Tape recorder."

Looking at Fang Qiang's confused expression, Fang Wanshan said that it was a tape recorder with a cassette tape.

Deng Qiang quickly found a company with this technology, which was a Dutch company, and half a year later, the prototype was also made. Fang Wanshan asked Deng Qiang to reach a cooperation agreement with the Dutch company to buy the tapes there, but the other side provided recording technology help.

These are all busy basically until July 1976, Fang Wanshan is about to go to the third year of secondary school, the second sister is also going to read the seventh year this year, uncle When they put this extremely ugly tape recorder in front of Fang Wanshan, Fang Wanshan almost didn't recognize what the hell it was, but when his cousin Lu Shu put a box of English song tapes purchased abroad into it and played it, beautiful music came out of it, Fang Wanshan had an experiment to retreat quickly, forward, the effect was good, and he later took a blank tape and tried the recording, but it was a little noisy。

Fang Wanshan decided to produce this first, and there is also the carrier of the tape, in March, Fang Wanshan asked the second brother Fang Qiang to run various record companies, and signed their singers' tape singing, especially emphasizing several singers in Fang Wanshan's memory: Xu Guanjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Teresa Teng, etc., Fang Wanshan also asked the second brother to bring Teresa Teng two new songs, one is "Childhood", and the other is Teresa Teng's original cover of the Japanese song "Walking on the Road of Life". Of course, the signature Fang Wanshan wrote with the wind, Fang Wanshan already planned to use this vest to plagiarize the cover songs of later generations in the future, "Childhood" is too classic, Fang Wanshan still wanted to become a hit with the card recorder this time, so he was ashamed to plagiarize.

Composing music Fang Wanshan also can't, this is Fang Wanshan found a professional, looked for it on the street of Temple Street, and hummed it to him by following the Netease cloud in his mobile phone. In order to be more secure, Fang Wanshan also asked his uncle to find a few English teachers in the professor and recorded a set of English learning tapes.

Wanda cassette tape recorder began to be in major newspapers and TV stations from mid-August, Fang Wanshan's funds were insufficient, so his father asked the bank to help him borrow 3 million before he eased up, his father Fang Yuansheng began to be frightened by his son, saying that he would not go, and later after Fang Wanshan's various persuasions, and his uncle helped him to reluctantly take out a loan.

On September 1, 1976, Xiangjiang schools began to open, and Wanda's cassette recorders began to be promoted in major shopping malls, university playgrounds, and in Kowloon through the Kowloon Alumni Association. Teresa Teng's new song "Childhood", "Walking on the Road of Life" and Xu Guanjie's Cantonese songs began to fill the total Xiangjiang, Fang Wanshan asked Deng Qiang to contact Li Yong, and after giving a benefit fee, he gave some tape recorders for free to play cassette songs in various clothing stores and restaurants, and English learning tapes at school.

Wanda unsurprisingly became popular, selling 80,000 cassette recorders in Xiangjiang in half a month, more tapes, and more than 500,000 boxes, and Teresa Teng's new songs and English teaching were sold the most in the mid-term. Wanda started to catch fire, and after a month, it entered the bend, all of which are of the same species and the same root, which is easy to accept. At the end of November, it began to open the Japanese market, and by the end of the year, the total sales of cassette recorders exceeded 2 million units, and the cassette tapes sold 15 million boxes.

Fang Wanshan's personal assets officially easily exceeded more than 200 million, and now it is completely profitable, and the second brother Fang Qiang doesn't want Mi Xue anymore, and his busy feet don't touch the ground every day. Beginning in 1977, Fang Wanshan will soon be 15 years old, already a half-old young man, at the beginning of the year, an organization found Fang's father and said that it was to help Wanda go public, but Fang Wanshan did not agree, Wanda is a cornerstone of his own electronics industry, and the arrival of the Internet era in the computer age is when he really shows up. Fang Wanshan is not short of money now, and now Fang Wanshan has two cash cows in his hands, SOHO and Wanda, and he is very rich.

In 1977, Fang Wanshan's small team members were also 15 years old, the Kowloon Alumni Association after more than two years of development, basically covering the whole Xiangjiang Primary and Secondary School, now Fang Wanshan is not very clear how many members, the Kowloon Alumni Association was also officially renamed the Xiangjiang Alumni Association in 1976, and the classmates of each general meeting now only publish the information of senior members, and the alumni associations in each district are distinguished by each district. At present, Fang Wanshan is mainly only in contact with senior members to guide them in the future, and most of the rest of the time Du Zhou and Ye Ziang are in charge, and he is basically only appearing in the finals of the competition activities in various districts, and the SOHO Group now provides no less than 100,000 yuan per year for the renamed Xiangjiang Middle School Alliance Competition, plus the operation of the alumni association, Fang Wanshan provides no less than 150,000 yuan per year for this organization.