Chapter 389: Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water (Beginning to repay debts, still owing 21 more to Lord Baiyinmeng)
Entertaining the delegation of the IEC Institute was originally just a private item brought by Gu Biao.
As for the donation work of inspecting Lanting Cinema and Song Liuling Museum later, it was just an amateur bypass.
After saying goodbye to Yamashita Yoshijiu, Gu Biao and Xiao Sui returned to Qiantang that day.
After staying in Qiantang for a day and saying goodbye to his family, Gu Biao took Xiao Sui back to Hujiang first, and then Gu Biao prepared to return to the United States alone.
Counting the days, it's already mid-March. Even according to the lunar calendar, it is already February, and the winter vacation has been over for more than half a month, if Xiao Sui hadn't been a senior internship, it would have been impossible for him not to return to school for so long.
Who made her and Gu Biao a long-distance relationship, to be exact, a long-distance relationship. You can mix together during the winter and summer vacations in a year, and it is inevitable that you will feel that the opportunity is rare, so try to get tired of it for a few days.
However, this short contact of more than half a month has made Xiao Sui's understanding of Gu Biao deeper. She found that her husband was not only powerful in business and politics, but also profound in human heritage, and he was a very discentive and very nice person.
The historical status of Gu's contribution to the preservation of the relics of the Song Dynasty is comparable to Lorenzo de' Medici's huge sponsorship of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper", the Duke of Edinburgh's reward of 1,000 pounds for Byron's "Don Juan", and the fact that a certain dragon has not seen the end of the dragon has become the leader of the silver alliance of "Back to 80 as a Boss".
Before leaving, Gu Biao explained to Xiao Sui, saying that he entrusted her with the work of connecting Xiangjiang with the entertainment industry. If Gu Biao was in the United States, Sir Shao came to the door because of Mr. Cha's martial arts drama and asked Xiao Sui to help deal with it first.
Because Gu Biao has changed the legal representative of "Lanting Cinema Group" to Xiao Sui, and asked her to help endorse her. In this regard, she naturally had to take the time to get in touch with the outreach work. Xiao Sui was originally from the literary circle, so it is appropriate to do this.
(The reason why it is a "group" is because as mentioned above, the state-owned assets have contributed with land, accounting for a certain proportion of shares.) This is no way, if you want to engage in the Hengdian model in China, it is impossible to be 100% foreign-owned, and the party that must give the land has a certain share, and the history of 94 years of Hengdian is only a collective enterprise, and the town government holds a large share. In addition, Gu Biao just gave the "legal representative" to his wife, it doesn't matter if this equity is rooted, the legal representative does not have to hold shares. )
The 83 version of "Condor Shooting" in history, it should be finished at this point, and Andy Lau's version of "Condor" is about to start. But since there is the butterfly effect of Gu Biao, Mr. Zha temporarily lost the hot potato of the adaptation right to Gu Biao in order to knock on the wireless aspect of disrespecting the indiscriminate magic change, so it is normal for these projects to be delayed for some time.
Anyway, it's not that the wireless aspect can't live without a certain drama, and now in Sir Shao's warehouse, the spare tire scripts that have not been looked at are piled up as high as the roof, and the quality is nothing more than uneven. If Sir Shao just pursues "keeping his subordinates idle and keeping them busy", it is absolutely not difficult.
On Gu Ao's side, the management of Lanting Cinema calculated that "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to the Politics of the Curtain" each need to occupy the studio park for about three months. "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" was launched in February, and it will be able to enter the later stage in May.
Considering that some of the creative staff of the two dramas overlap, leaving a month in the middle, "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" can be started in June, and the park can be vacated again in September.
Gu Biao instructed Xiao Sui that if the Shaw Brothers asked him to discuss the transfer and co-production of the adaptation rights, then the Tai Chi would be delayed until around September, and the Shaw Brothers would do something else first. If the price of the filming is right, the "Songcheng Street" can also be added in advance for the future "Condor" and "Condor", and other costume dramas with Song and Ming backgrounds can be filmed in the future after they are completed.
Anyway, Gu Biao is determined to support the Lanting Cinema project, and try his best to increase the influence here and attract Xiangjiang Capital and media resources.
Signs and fame don't happen overnight. The historical "Hengdian model" also took nearly ten years to make people across the country think of Hengdian when they mention film and television bases.
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After explaining and appeasing his wife, Gu Biao hurriedly took off from Hujiang, first stopped in San Francisco for two days, and then returned to Watsangton before late March.
This "winter vacation" took a month and a half, which was half a month more than the prescribed holidays of American universities.
When passing by San Francisco, he inspected Tiankun Entertainment up and down, focusing on the research and development progress of the PLAY-COMPUTER home computer project.
When the project was planned, it was decided that "mass production must be reached in May".
The actual results of the inspection were faster than Gu Biao expected.
Schulhoff management company is very well-organized, and those job-hopping technicians who were poached from Atari in January have also burst out with R&D capabilities that exceed expectations - it is said that the main reason is that Atari has focused on creating good money in the stock market in the past few years and despises the technical department, while Gu Biao's treatment, sense of achievement, and sense of belonging far exceed that of Atari, so the R&D personnel work harder.
The simple and crude project bonus and the "sales commission after the success of the project" incentive obviously hit the soft underbelly of these people.
"At present, the home machine in memory card slot mode has entered the final stage of stress test and compatibility test, and after running for another week to confirm that there is no problem, it can be sent to Hanle Electronics for test streaming. After a week of trial flow of small batches and run-in of the production line process, it can enter mass production.
In other words, the cassette machine will be able to enter mass production on April 1. The floppy drive has also entered the test, but there are still some bugs and stability problems, and it will be absolutely mass-produced before May 1. ”
This is Schulhoff's final promise to Gu Biao, and the progress of the stage is very clear.
Gu Biao also personally tested the game console for a whole day at the Tiankun headquarters in San Francisco, and played all the three fist products that have been developed, such as "American Cube", "Future Soldier" (that is, Contra), and "MapleStory 2".
And I tested the mainstream bugs that often appeared in the early FC side-scrolling games in the later generations, and found that there was no problem.
So he ordered: "Very good, at the beginning of April, the design of the cassette machine will be sent to Han Ting for trial production." In this way, the production capacity of Hanle Electronics throughout April can concentrate on the production of cassette machines. In May, let her switch to the production of floppy drive machines.
After the first batch of cassette machines is obtained, they will be shipped to several distribution warehouses such as San Francisco, New York, and Atlanta for storage, and do not rush to go on the market and ship them. Until the beginning of June, after the first batch of floppy drive models were in stock, we officially released them to dealers - the two models were released simultaneously. ”
After the completion of Han Ting's Hanle Electronics expansion work, when the household machine is fully produced, it can have a monthly production capacity of 500,000 units (of course, it requires workers to work 12 hours per shift, two shifts, and the employment situation in 83 years is so bad, the Special Economic Zone can recruit enough migrant workers who are willing to do hard work. There is no labor law restricting overtime. Historically, the "Millions of Migrant Workers Going to the Special Economic Zone" was formed around 84 years ago. )
However, considering that she only started to make money and plan in early February, even if the factory is ready-made, as long as it is renovated and some SMT core workshops are renovated to do dust-free transformation, it will take at least half a year to complete the complete expansion.
In contrast, it doesn't take too much time to buy SMT equipment and debug it - this is a problem of capital bottleneck, not a bottleneck of construction speed, and money can be accelerated.
After communicating with Han Ting many times, Han Ting could only ensure that a total of 600,000 units of inventory were produced for Gu Biao in April and May, and another 400,000 units were produced in June, achieving a cumulative output of 1 million units in the first half of the year.
In the second half of the year, starting from July, Gu Biao will be guaranteed to stabilize 500,000 units per month.
Therefore, when Gu Biao officially released new products to dealers, he could distribute 600,000 units at one time.
As for the cassette, Han Ting can also divide the production line to ensure that the three first-party masterpieces have 200,000 PCB cassettes when they are listed.
And the game floppy disk used in the floppy drive, and even the floppy drive components used in the game console, don't need to worry about it, those things are all produced by Sony, Tiankun Entertainment only needs to be responsible for providing the floppy disk version of the software, Sony will help with the torture.
Sony's family is big, and they have developed 3.5-inch standard floppy disks and floppy drives since the end of 81, and no mainstream PC computer manufacturers are willing to use them after more than a year of marketing. Gu Biao gave Akio Morita this opportunity, and of course Akio Morita will fully cooperate, so that Sony will take it seriously, and will definitely not tolerate the loss of the chain.
At that time, all floppy disks that leave the factory will be written in read-only mode at the production stage, and Akio Morita also promised that there will be no writable 3.5-inch floppy disks on the planet for a year or two to ensure that the floppy disk model will not induce piracy problems - unless some other hardware company cracks Sony's production process and illegally infringes Sony's patents to produce its own 3.5-inch floppy disks.
But this is undoubtedly a huge difficulty, in 83 years of the earth, if you want to create 3.5-inch floppy disk hardware, there are still a lot of technical bottlenecks that need to be overcome, and you have to go through a lot of R&D investment that Sony has gone through. Basically, no one will spend so much money to imitate it in two years, because this is not a small factory that can afford to invest in blood.
The giants can afford to invest in blood, but the giants themselves are too big to lose, the target is obvious, and it is easy to be sued by Sony through legal channels, unlike small factories that can play chicken stealth. In a word, it is possible to do it without fear of legal risks, and those who are not afraid of legal risks cannot do it.
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After all the aspects of the Tiankun household machine were arranged before it was put into production, all Gu Biao had to do was to wait and deal with the unexpected problems in the final stage at any time.
At the same time, he himself stayed in Wahshengton, followed Kissinger, and continued to engage in learning.
After taking a month and a half off, he had to spend more time obediently doing his studies to be worthy of his title as a doctoral student at Georgetown University.
In late March, and even throughout April, Gu Biao lived in Washington in peace.
After May Day, it is theoretically the beginning of a new semester at an American university. In addition to academics, Gu Biao also participated in many campus social activities, and sent away the last doctoral student, Sarah Sandberg, to graduate.
There are also a few master's students who also graduated together. Because Kissinger retired in May '83 this semester, most of the graduate students he recruited were of course planned to graduate at this time.
Only Gu Biao was recruited by him on an exception, and he didn't consider his retirement time at that time.
Therefore, by the end of May, Gu Biao was left with only one junior brother, Crown Prince Abdullah of the Kingdom of Jordan, who was still studying with him, and the other seniors and younger brothers and sisters had disappeared.
The official release date of the Tiankun home machine is also coming.
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