Many people who are not familiar with the details of history in later generations vaguely believe that the admission rate of the college entrance examination in the early years is very low, and the further you go, the more difficult it will be.

But in fact this does not correspond to the statistics.

Those who have really read the statistics know that in the 79 and 80 years, the difficulty of passing the domestic college entrance examination has dropped off a cliff, and the intensity of competition has flattened a lot at once. The proportion of those who passed the admission was not only more than double that of the 77th and 78th classes, but also showed an inflection point in the follow-up trend.

The reason for this current situation of "competition is suddenly less intense" is because of the state's good policy of "allowing educated youths to return to the city on their own even if they are not admitted to university and are not recruited and accepted by factories, government agencies and institutions in the city" in 79.

Because many of the educated youths who were stuck there to squeeze the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination did not necessarily really want to go to university, but more because they had no ambitions and just wanted an excuse to go back to the city.

As soon as the new deal came out, those who were not so determined, or knew that they were absolutely hopeless, did not bother to take the exam and rushed back to the city.

However, from another point of view, although the nominal admission rate has increased from "280,000 for 6 million" to "400,000 for 3.7 million", many candidates who took the 79th and 80th exams still said that they "don't think that this year's college entrance examination is easier than the previous years".

The reason for this phenomenon is that there are actually many students at the 77 and 78 levels who only sign up but abandon the exam, accounting for a large number of bases. Because everyone is just idle in the countryside, they don't report it. 79 years later, these people are too lazy to act.

82 years later, with the rectification of economic problems, those who returned to the city to be unemployed or "flexibly employed" found that "they still had nowhere to make a living after returning to the city", so they squeezed back to the examination room again, resulting in the competition intensity of the college entrance examination rising again.

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In this way, those who choose to continue the college entrance examination this year may find a little cheaper. And those who are bold enough and willing to engage in more economic activities will also earn money in at least two years. However, if you can't find a new way out after two years, it is estimated that some people will be in trouble. ”

After chatting with Ma Feng about the recent situation, Gu Biao had a rough idea of his heart, and he was also inspired a lot.

He realized that the business of translating and importing external publications can now be touched, as long as you find state-owned film studios and publishing houses that are willing to outsource.

Of course, if you only do this step, it is nothing more than to earn a little outsourcing translation fee, and after a big movie is finished, it will cost two or three thousand yuan -

At that time, foreign language talents were scarce, and the cost of translation was not much lower than that of originals. The manuscript fee given by the film studio is much higher than that of the publishing house, because the script and lines are often very concise things, but the cost is a lot.

So many times it can reach seventy or eighty yuan per thousand words, and a script or line of tens of thousands of words is indeed worth two thousand yuan.

(Even for today's online writers, the cost per 1,000 words of the screenwriter is much more expensive than that of a novel.) Novels can easily water millions of words, while scripts are only tens of thousands of words, and the unit price will go up. ）

However, even if it is the three major domestic film studios, there will be no more than 5 foreign films that really need to be translated and matched every year, so the biggest bottleneck in this business is the lack of demand. (Don't underestimate the scale of the introduction of dubbed films at that time, there were more than 30 films a year, but not all of them were released nationwide.) Half of the three major studios and half of the remaining small studios combined)

In addition, there are some rough films with only twenty or thirty manuscript fees per thousand words, which do not need dubbing, and directly play subtitles, the scale of these movies is relatively large, there may be hundreds of them every year, but they can't get a public screening license and don't play them to the society.

Small theaters that belong to many departments have on-demand benefits, and they can't be seen without a certain identity. (If your status is high enough and your eyes are not good, you can also skip the subtitles.) Directly invite two men and women who understand foreign languages to translate and dub at the same time while playing. At Gu Biao's Foreign Affairs College, some classmates took over this kind of task, temporarily interpreting foreign films for leaders, and they had no money to get it, so they had a working meal. ）

Ma Feng's current two business deals are only two or three hundred yuan for translation fees, which obviously belong to this kind of internal on-demand film that cannot get a public screening license. If it weren't for the low grade and high requirements, it would not be the turn of a newcomer like him.

When Gu Biao first went on an envoy as a diplomatic assistant, he only deserved to practice with Albania.

If you want to make much more money than translation, you can only find another way, which is to go overseas, at least register a copyright agency company in Xiangjiang, and then resell the translation with copyright to make a little difference, or even rely on more radical operation methods to find a new business model in addition to the copyright fee.

In this case, the profit should still be considerable.

First, Gu Biao knew which foreign films and Hong Kong films were more optimistic when they were introduced in the early 80s, and the studios were willing to pay high prices, and they would indeed be popular in the future.

Second, Gu Biao can use his own signboard to mediate operations and help be a lobbyist.

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Thinking of this, Gu Biao asked a question he was most concerned about: "How did you get the business relationship here?

In the conversation just now, Ma Feng's compulsion was suppressed for a long time, and at this moment, seeing that Gu Biao had something he couldn't understand, he could finally be energetic: "Actually, it's not that strict, although my dad is a drama artist, he knows some people in the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles." It's a pity that the studios in the province are too small.

If this business wants to become bigger, it must at least have something to do with Jinling Film Studio, and it is best to go to Hujiang Factory - if you know relevant friends from the Jiangnan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles or Hujiang City, help me introduce them together. Let's translate the film and translate the novel, and there is a lot that can be done later. ”

When Ma Feng said this, he seemed to suddenly think of a new idea, and temporarily changed his words and asked: "By the way, Brother Gu, your school must be the first in China in terms of foreign language authority." None of your classmates want to take on private work?

If you think you can afford to buy and sell in this area, I can leave all my belongings to you. You eat meat, I drink soup - I know how many catties we have, a teacher and college student in the English department can still mix in the city. No matter how big I want to be, others don't care about me at all.

If you are willing to come forward to be the representative of this 'non-profit English learning club', I will give you a hand and do the specific work. When you take out the brand of the Foreign Affairs Academy, the appeal is different in the first place, and you must still know a lot of propaganda mouths.

Inspired by this, Gu Biao immediately began to think about it in his heart, and said to himself:

"I also have some relationships, my hardcore female classmate Ye Kun, her father is the head of the Jinling Military Region Art Troupe, and her mother is a senior director of Jinling Film Studio.

There are also Xiao Sui and Yan Ping's father and sister, who is the vice chairman of the Hui Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles/Writers Association. It's a pity that Hui Province doesn't even have a provincial-level film studio. However, Xiao Sui's stepmother Su Ping is a very famous actor, and she often follows Director Ling and Director Xu of Hujiang Studio to make films......"

When Ma Feng heard this, he hurriedly instigated: "Brother! This is really a drought and a waterlogging." Alas, you have been in the circle of top schools in the capital for two years, and you are not an order of magnitude at all for a person like me who lives in a small place. If I had such good resources as you, I would have expanded the livelihood of the translation agency tenfold!

What are we hesitating about, you just need to borrow my relationship, help me introduce, and then the results will be counted on your head. When you make money, you take the lion's share first, and I'll divide the rest with the others, and you don't have to do any work! I know you're doing big things, and you can't watch a translated film and draw thousands of dollars. ”

Ma Feng's vision is very clear, he knows that the most difficult thing at the moment is not to find cheap labor and translators, but to make others believe in their signboard and be willing to give them the list. So even if the façade and marketing take away two-thirds, others should make some hard-earned money.

When Gu Biao heard this, he was also a little moved.

In 1979, for him, he could only do some second-hand dealers' business.

To open a factory in the country, it would be suicide - there will be no problems in two years, but as long as you wait until 82 to concentrate on the economic problem, many people will go in.

Therefore, if you want to officially open a factory and engage in industry on the mainland, you will have to survive at least 83 years. (Actually, it's better to be 84, because 83 also needs YD).

And if you want to establish a brand mentality first, occupy this blue ocean, and get involved in some legal media products when the folk customs are so simple, it is indeed very cost-effective.

At this time, Gu Biao only had one last worry left, and he couldn't keep it in his heart:

"Historically, Ma Feng seems to have been unable to run a translation agency, and he had to go to Wuzhou to wholesale small commodities and subsidize the translation agency.

In the end, after several years of hard work, the idea of 'serving small and medium-sized enterprises, finding information matching services for both supply and demand sides, and making it easy to do business in the world' was born.

If because of my appearance, Ma Feng is too easy to make cultural products, will it lead to the disappearance of Ahri Baba in the future?"

However, after only worrying for a while, Gu Biao made up his mind.

"Anyway, history has been changed so much by me, who is still worried about what will happen in 15 years! Maybe it does a good job of selling books and films, and maybe future generations will directly follow Jeff Bezos's Amazon route to cut in. ”

Thinking like this, Gu Biao completely strengthened his determination.

"Yes, I'll take the big head, you take the small head. I'll help you liaise with business and support the countertop. Specifically, when I come back from Iraq, I'll talk to you in detail during the summer vacation - my friend is still studying for the college entrance examination, and I guess I won't be available recently. ”