Chapter 561: Humility
Although Xiao Sui wanted to participate in the literary award sprint, he avoided coming to Qiantang to accompany Gu Biao.
But Gu Biao obviously will not lack confidants and beauties who study at night with red sleeves and fragrance.
On the first day back in Qiantang, after having a small gathering with his family and talking about his farewell, Gu Biao made a long-distance call with Mina that night and cared about how Mina was doing recently.
He didn't even mention his whereabouts, so Mina, who had a keen sense of smell, took the initiative to speculate and asked, "Are you back in the mainland?"
Of course, Gu Biao would not deny it, and he was honest and indifferent.
Mina immediately said diplomatically and obediently: "Well, I happen to have some Red Bull business, and I want to come to Qiantang to cook it, wait for me." I'm tired of staying in the north, and the winery has poor business in the summer, and there is no business to do with those Lucians. ”
This is very gentle and considerate, and it will not embarrass the man at all, and will not even remind the other party to pay attention to the pitiful point of "you are half a year when you hang others".
Gu Biao is also from the Foreign Affairs University, and he is very careful about these extraneous meanings, just a word from Mina, he was so moved that he was about to shed tears.
Mina is still the most careful.
"Waiting for you. "Gu Biao has a thousand words, just simplified into a sentence waiting for you, no more.
However, considering that in 85 years domestic businessmen could not buy special planes, even civil aviation did not have flights on specific routes every day. Mina, on the other hand, is far away in the north, and it will take two or three days to get to Qiantang in a hurry.
Gu Biao inevitably had to live a few days of unbridled wild horse life without a girl around him, so he decided to spend a day to inspect the industry he invested in Qiantang, and then accompany his family, and then go to the "Grand View Garden" to play a trick, and the right to cool off.
The relatives at home didn't have much to say.
My sister has been taking care of the business all the year round, and my father is still diligent as the director of his central enterprise.
Gu Biao's two cousins are also conscientious and self-contained, and they don't see much tendency to become conceivable because they have money. Especially the lobby brother Gu Tao, who is the director of the whole office and the air-conditioning workshop in the factory, business is good in the summer, and there are more people looking for him to approve the strips, but he is very self-denying and does not stretch out his hand-
With the scarcity of materials in the country for 85 years, although air conditioning is expensive and very few people can afford it, the output that can be allowed by the state plan is even less.
The two brothers relied entirely on their own legal income and the reasonable distribution of the unit, and each shared a two-bedroom and one-hall house in the newly developed new village in the north of the city to rent, and also took their eldest uncle to live in the bungalow to spend his old age. Because it was his son's legitimate money, the old man finally had nothing to say, and he didn't feel that it was detrimental to the evening festival, so he enjoyed it obediently.
As for the younger sister Gu Mei, she also graduated from high school a month ago and passed the college entrance examination.
However, Gu Mei was just a scumbag who was responsible for selling cuteness and causing trouble, and the current market was very different from Gu Miao's sneaking back then, and the competition was very fierce, so Zhejiang University and Qiantang University didn't have to think about it.
In the end, Gu Mei was only admitted to the city's business school, a junior college, and even the major was subject to the adjustment and distribution.
Fortunately, the family did not expect anything from her, and her eldest brother did not even go to college, so the family was already very satisfied.
Gu Biao went home this time, and when they met for the first time, they saw the admission letter of the little sister, and rewarded her with a bunch of French goods, and promised to help their family apply for visas and invite everyone to travel abroad in the future.
(Of course, Gu Biao himself didn't have time to accompany them, so he could only have a translator as a guide, and at most a bodyguard.) I believe that Gu Biao's enemies will not feel that these people have the value of being tied, because the relatives are already far away, and they can't threaten Gu Biao anything. Including Gu Biao's stepmother, there is no threat value, at most, only the father and sister have threat value, and they have to have a few more bodyguards when they go abroad. )
As for Gu Biao's business in Qiantang, he spent a day inspecting the CD factory of Tiankun Music and the Lanting Cinema across the Chengnan River.
Gu Biao originally felt that the production of CDs was not too technical, and the management and workers should not have much sense of belonging and pride in the company, but just took money to work.
However, when I went to see it in person this time, I realized how easy it is for today's workers, especially those who have just received recruitment quotas from the expropriated land and who were still farmers two years ago, to be satisfied with the question of "the meaning of work".
In the case that Gu Biao did not take care of it at all, the production line spontaneously organized two shifts for 24 hours to start.
Gu Biao felt a little puzzled - at present, there are not many records that can be released by the first party of Tiankun Music, and there are only a few singers under it, such as Zhang Xueyou, Li Keqin, and Zhou Huimin, and at most at the end of the year, there will be another Andy Lau.
Among them, Li Keqin did not shoot MV publicity for him because he only had talent but no looks, and it was inconvenient to pack, and his sales were a cut worse than Zhang and Zhou.
In addition to these people, Tiankun's CD factory can only OEM orders from other music distribution companies, and these orders have obviously not yet opened the market channel, and the sales volume is not large.
Therefore, there is no need for the factory to open 24 hours a day, and the production capacity is absolutely sufficient. And now that we are starting work 24 hours a day, maybe in October or November, we will stop work for a while due to excessive inventory, and it will not be worth it at all.
After Gu asked the manager of the factory, he found out what was going on.
"I heard in the city that most of the factory's products are exported to Xiangjiang (of course, Xiangjiang is Chinese territory, but what is sold there is also exported), and even a few are sold to Yuben and the United States.
From the leaders of the relevant departments in the city, to the workshop directors, to the workers, they were all very excited, and they set up a military order to work hard for 200 days. We have never seen 100% of our Chinese self-made high-tech products that can be sold to the United States and the United States. ”
This answer made Gu Biao cry and laugh.
Although, the truth can't be miscalculated.
On the one-third of an acre of land in Qiantang, the Tiankun game machine that had been OEM for a year and a half at the West Lake Electronics Factory was originally manufactured, but the CPU was imported after all, and it did not belong to the "100% domestic product", and later the game console industry formed a scale, and the OEM was moved to the Special Economic Zone by Han Ting.
Strictly speaking, before Gu Biao's debut, he sold Qian Yang's complete sets of helium-making equipment to the U.S. Department of Energy in the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machinery, which can be regarded as a real "100% Chinese-made technology equipment sold to the United States".
However, it was also an accident in an emergency, if it hadn't been for the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 79, the U.S. Department of Energy would have asked for goods suddenly, it would have been a Praxair or Air Liquide order.
In Gu Biao's eyes, the technical content of a CD factory is at most similar to that of the 92 chiefs in history when they inspected the "Xianke VCD". Although the latter is 7 years late, it is with a V after all.
During the inspection, the person in charge of the factory, as well as the leaders of the relevant departments in the city, raised some doubts. (Of course, according to Gu Biao's level before he left the system, anyone in Qiantang who was lower than Qiu Qing was not considered Gu Biao's personal "leader", at most equal)
"Mr. Gu, why are the records of several Chinese singers in Xiangjiang able to sell to the Japanese and American markets? Is it because Chinese pop music has such a high status Chinese in the international community? Then you really give us a long face. ”
The process of asking these questions, if you really want to write a little bit of pretending to be a slap in the face, it is no problem to have two or three chapters alone, and you can vent heartily.
However, Gu Biao is a realistic person, and he doesn't want to pretend to be forced by bullying his mainland counterparts with narrow vision, so he directly unravels the mystery very sincerely:
"It's nothing, although there are sales in the United States, but the album "Kiss Goodbye" currently adds up to tens of thousands of copies in these two countries, and it's been a month. As for the people who bought it, although I don't have detailed data, I can also pack tickets, and most of them are bought by Chinese people in Japan or Chinese Americans-
Well, just like Teresa Teng can go to the Kennedy Center for a concert, and those South Korean artists can also hold a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, do you think it's all white people? It's not overseas Chinese and Korean. ”
Of course, the 85-year-old Nanbang artist has not yet reached this level, and Gu Biao is just casually talking about the common sense of Korean entertainment in the S-M era in later generations. Anyway, the audience doesn't know how the entertainment industry is developing now, and they won't help it.
As for taking Wanwan people as an example, Gu Biao originally blurted out that "just go to the USC concert in Los Angeles with Zhou Jielun, aren't they all Chinese watching."
In the end, when the words came to his mouth, he stopped suddenly, knowing that this example would definitely be a goof, so the temporary processing was replaced by the example of Teresa Teng.
Moreover, Gu Biao's words are definitely justified - perhaps some officials were Zhang Xueyou's fans back then, and they would refute "Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye" has become popular all over Europe and the United States, and has even become the top record on the sales list in the Netherlands.
But in fact, those are mainly contributed by overseas Asians, and it can't be said that whites don't buy it at all, but at least a small half of it can't be accounted for.
In fact, this can be easily explained from "why Zhang Xueyou sold the most in Europe in the Netherlands in history" - because, in history, Zhang Xueyou took refuge in Polygram Records when he debuted.
As we all know, in 1982, when all mankind defined the CD music standard, the three major standards defined the initiators, namely Philips, Sony and Polygram.
But more people may not know that PolyGram is actually a record company with a Philips capital background and a record company run by Philips' outgoing executives. In other words, it's the music company that Philips spun off.
In fact, when humans defined CD in '82, it was about the same as Philips Sony. And Sony just didn't build its own record company and music company at the beginning - Akio Morita felt that it was not cost-effective to start from scratch, so he endured it for a few years, and after the 85 square agreement yen was worth it, Akio Morita used the strategy of buying, buying, buying and buying to turn Columbia Records into Sony Records, and only then did he complete Sony's music industry layout.
As we all know, Philips is the leading company in the Dutch technology industry, and Polygram is also a Dutch company, so Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye" has sold the most and best in the Netherlands in the history of Europe, not entirely determined by strength, but because the Netherlands is the publisher's nest.
Now Gu Biao's Tiankun Music mainly relies on the Sony system in overseas channels, so it is not surprising that Zhang Xueyou's records sell the best in the book and second in the United States.
In the future, not only Zhang Xueyou, but also all the singers and artists operating under Tiankun Music, their market structure will be like this - until the time when "Sony Records" is established in the future, and Gu Biao has to meet with Akio Morita and build his own channels completely.
"It's not surprising that overseas Chinese and Asians are buying Chinese pop music records. Alas, we were so excited, thinking that it was the purebreds and white Americans who were moved by our pop music. ”
When they heard Gu Biao's answer, the person in charge of the factory and the relevant personnel in charge of the city's economic department all felt sorry.
But at the same time, they have a little more admiration for Gu Ao's humility.
"Mr. Gu is different from those nouveau riche who get a few opportunities to go abroad to do business, and they are so arrogant that they can't do it.
If others sell 100% domestic high-tech products abroad, they still don't know how to blow it up, and at least let the provincial TV station and provincial newspaper dedicate a prime time or a front page to report this achievement.
Look at Mr. Gu, who sold millions of dollars worth of CDs overseas, he didn't take credit at all, and he took the initiative to clarify and puncture, saying that it was not a matter, this is called a tycoon. ”