Gu Biao and Ma Feng haven't seen each other for a long time, and they don't often contact each other.

Counting the days, Ma Feng was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in June last year, and now he has been working for 7 months, and it seems that he has not yet got the opportunity to go abroad, and he is responsible for relevant docking affairs in China.

Although the overall situation has grown a lot, and we have a more comprehensive understanding of the country's overall economic situation, we have not been able to absorb the advanced experience of capital to pay attention to the world.

However, there is no way to do this, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in 1982 must not be compared with the opportunity of the Ministry of Commerce to go abroad in 1994.

It is estimated that Ma Feng has passed the inspection period this year, and he has enough qualifications to get a project abroad.

Today, I met Wenying while visiting the lake, and Gu Biao inevitably asked more questions, wanting to know more about the recent situation of the Ma family.

Of course, Wen Ying knew everything, and during the conversation, Gu Biao learned that Wen Ying was still teaching at the School of Electronic Engineering, and was ready to teach An An to go to the sea in the future, and then see if her boyfriend needed her help. If so, she also resigned and went to sea.

As for the English corner and the translation agency by the West Lake, Ma Feng has very little care, and it is Wenying, the "boss lady", who is in charge of it, and some students at the same level are too busy with work, so they use the signboard of the translation club to supplement from the younger students and sisters.

It seems that Ma Feng still doesn't forget his roots, and for the business that made his fortune three years ago with the first pot of gold, he didn't completely rot it because he has more money now.

Gu Biao thought for a while and asked, "How has the translation agency been in the past two years? I remember that I was mainly engaged in translation and production at the beginning, and why is it that I have returned to the West Lake to be a field tour guide now." ”

Wen Ying: "Now there are a lot more foreign tourists than in previous years, and wild tour guides have to make money." I don't want money, I just learn a few more foreign languages - I only learned English in college, and I always feel that it is not enough, so I have helped my family take care of it for the past two years, and I can speak a few words of Japanese, and even understand the Cantonese accent of Hong Kong businessmen. It is still necessary to work practically and practice the most spoken English.

In addition, the dubbing studio has outsourced less business in the past two years, and it has not been able to receive work. I often call Sister Suizi in private. Since the beginning of the previous year, the number of dubbed films has been reduced, and the indicators that Hujiang Translation Studio can get from China Film Distribution and Projection Company are only a few films a year, and there is not much translation volume to squeeze the reserve. If you don't rely on wild guides, you can't support so many people. Fortunately, everyone is either formally employed, or they learn foreign languages as a hobby and earn some extra money part-time to survive. ”

Wen Ying's words were quite worried about the future.

Of course, this worry is not because of lack of money to spend, but because of the fear that there will be no way out for those brothers who are desperate to follow her boyfriend.

Gu Biao was slightly surprised at first, but then he was relieved when he learned more about the situation.

From the second half of 78 to 80, it was indeed a good time for domestic translation agencies to take over the private work of translation studios. At that time, Ma Feng's "West Lake Translation Agency" did indeed step on the outlet.

Since the second half of 1978, the Ministry of Culture and the Film Bureau have lifted the ban on more than 600 foreign films in one go, and as many as 433 films have been approved for import and preparation for translation that year. In 79 of the following year, more than 200 were officially required to be translated by the state, and more than 100 in 80 years.

So at that time, Ma Feng wanted to earn hundreds or thousands of yuan from the Hujiang Factory and the Qiantang Factory through the "contract system", and there were indeed many orders to take.

However, this prosperity was caused by the opposition and banning of the previous decades, after all, at that time, even many old films from the Chaplin era had to be translated from scratch. As soon as the mouth opened, a large amount poured in instantly.

After three years, the stock squeezed by decades has been translated, and the only list that can be received at this time is to pick from the new foreign films made in recent years.

It is said that there are a lot of new foreign films every year, but first of all, the Chinese people who translated in the past few years have not been tired of watching it, and the income can be guaranteed without introducing new cinemas. Moreover, after joining the harmony review, there are not many new foreign films that are compliant, and the country has no money to introduce blockbusters.

A combination of several factors, since 81 years in China, there have been many small contracted translation agencies that have starved to death one after another.

Ma Feng's "West Lake Translation Agency" is fortunately opened in a tourist city, and it can also transform back to do field tour guide business every year. If there are no cities with tourism resources, the contracted translation agencies will be closed directly.

In addition, YD started in 83 because of public security problems, and "Garrison's Expendables" was taken off the air, forming a strict investigation of violent foreign films.

This year, there are only 11 films left in the total number of imported films of China Film Distribution and Projection Company, and 443 of the three major studios are divided, and small factories have no chance at all - this data is what Wen Ying just told Gu Wei, and Wen Ying's source is actually the inside story that she usually called Xiao Sui and asked from Hujiang Factory.

Historically, next year, YD will pass a little bit, and the introduction of translation will be relaxed, but it is impossible to return to the good days of opening the floodgates and releasing water before 81.

From the 84 to the early 90s, the domestic industry rules will become: China Film only distributes 500,000 US dollars a year, introduces 15 films, all the old rules, buys out the production and approval of films, and does not share the account.

In other words, on average, each film will only give foreign capitalists more than 30,000 US dollars, and they will buy it for 5 years and release it casually.

Don't think that this number is too picky, foreign big film companies will definitely refuse to sell - historically, Stallone's "First Blood" was sold out of Chinese mainland for 5 years by Columbia Pictures for $30,000. It was introduced about 85 years later, and it caused quite a stir in China for a time. sold about 20 or 30 million yuan at the box office, which is a bloody profit for China Film distribution.

"The Terminator" entered China in 90, and it also cost China Film less than $100,000 to distribute. However, it seems that the Americans also learned well, and no longer allow you to put it for 5 years at a time, but change it to a maximum of 3 years.

Gu Biao fell into deep thought.

Of course, he can't look down on the little money of the translation agency. Although Ma Feng pays him dividends every year, Gu Biao doesn't even bother to check the account (because Ma Feng needed the relationship of Hujiang Studio to take the order, and Xiao Sui had a relationship, so it was actually equivalent to a dividend to Xiao Sui)

However, since others recognize you as a big man, you should look like a big man, and you must find a way for your brothers, so that you can be more convincing to the public in the future, and your prestige will be high.

Otherwise, leaving a "this big guy knows how to collect protection money, and when Ma Zai's business is depressed, he will kick it away and ignore it", wouldn't it be a bad reputation.

Gu Biao is the kind of person who asks his wife to make a documentary for him before he has a big hair, recording that he is "always correct, and he predicts that he is ironclad as evidence".

Therefore, he cherishes his legendary reputation very much, and does not want to be left with the impression that "the primitive accumulation stage is also as bloody as others, the money is not clean, and he does not recognize people".

Why did so many poor people hate the rich in later generations? Moreover, especially those who took advantage of loopholes in the early years of Qiu Gai to get rich? Didn't they just think that they were not called "strivers" but "vested interests," and that their original sin was not clean in the first place?

Gu Xiao hopes to clearly convince future generations of Chinese: Lao Tzu is not only rich, not only the richest man, but also very clean from the first pot of gold, but also very righteous, do not rely on the use of his brothers to squeeze the value away, there is no excuse for revenge!

Let's obediently kneel down and shout Dad!

So, Gu Biao naturally proposed: "Is the current situation of the translation agency still standing? If you are willing to change jobs full-time, as long as you have been screened and have the right ability, you can arrange some of them to go to the marketing department of Tiankun Entertainment." I'm looking for someone to settle in. ”

Wen Ying hurriedly smiled and said, "It's okay, isn't this a casual chat with Brother Gu, why do you become poor and crying." Besides, some of the people who came to join the company did not graduate, and even if they graduated, it was not easy to disobey the state distribution, how could they defect to foreign companies as soon as they graduated. ”

Gu Biao thought about it, this is indeed the truth.

In the early 80s, the state tuition-free college students, this is the trouble, you are obliged to serve the state, obey the state distribution. I have to work for a few years before I can talk about changing jobs.

Later generations of college students may envy the "package distribution", but from another perspective, the "package distribution" is also a constraint on the talented, just refreshing the incompetent big pot of rice.

College students who are really good at making troubles may want to see a way out of the system, and then pay 10,000 yuan for their tuition fees to "redeem themselves". It is better not to be a publicly-funded student than to have an obligation to serve the country.

Gu Biao nodded: "Okay, being a foreign-related tour guide is also a way, let's see it in a few years." Feel free to come to me if you have any difficulties. ”

Wen Ying thought for a while: "There is no big difficulty at the moment, that is, our family is subject to 'Zhao'an', and the contract system provides some tour guide services, and we have to pay management fees to the tourism bureau." But in the past two years, there are a lot of black tour guides and wild tour guides in private, and they also know foreign languages.

They are very good at lowering prices and soliciting customers, and they don't have to pay taxes and management fees. Some foreign guests knew the price of the black translation and refused to give it according to the price, so the business was a bit chaotic. Brother Gu, I'm not bothering you, I heard that you know the leaders of the tourism bureau, it would be nice if you could help say hello and rectify the market order. ”

"That's no problem, wasn't it a special rectification of economic crimes last year, and unlicensed operations and black tour guides were originally meant to be cracked down. Gu Biao agreed very happily this time.

He even thought in his heart:! I didn't know that after Mayor Qiu rectified the east line of the West Lake last year, your family was all whitewashed! Brother thought that you and Xiaoma were still black tour guides!

It turns out that it has been recruited, so of course it is a severe blow to those guys who are still in the dark.

"Then thank you, Brother Gu. Wen Ying hurriedly thanked her.

Gu Biao: "Do you know which groups of people there are? In which generation are the main activities, I will call Qiu Qing and ask him to take people to encircle (harmony) and suppress them." ”

Wen Ying hesitated: "I heard that it is mainly on Beishan Road, in the area of Gushan Baidi, near the cruise ship pier where black tour guides gather. The other two points, the Flower Harbor Fish Viewing and the Quyuan Wind Lotus/Yue Temple Cruise Pier, are also. ”

Gu Biao: "Okay, I originally came out to row today, and I went back to take the group of people in Gushan first." Do you have a phone here?"

Wen Ying shuddered and pointed to the phone.

Gu Biao called Director Qiu Qingqiu on the spot.

Then he drank almost all the coffee, rowed back to Gushan Wharf with Han Ting to return the boat.

Wen Ying watched Gu Biao drift away, feeling a little scared.