February 23, 1986, Lantern Festival.

China Film Import Company, and even the entire China Film Corporation, are still immersed in the horror of the box office of "Terminator" and "First Blood".

Relying on an average of five or six cents a movie ticket, from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, it actually created a total amount of 30 million yuan in movie-watching income, and the interests attributed to China Film Import Company were about 12 million. Even if the inflated official exchange rate is fully excluded and converted into dollars at the black market exchange rate, it would be at least $1.5 million.

In other words, even if it is really bought at the original price before Gu Biao gave China Film Import a 0.5% discount, China Film Import has already returned to its original cost in only half a month and has earned half of the net profit.

And this craze will certainly be fine if it continues for a few more months. In small places where you need to swap copies to play on a rotational basis, it is possible that it will continue to be popular even in the second half of the year. At that time, the profit margin of China Film Import will not be more than ten times.

It's a pity that because of the country's fanatical obsession with foreign exchange reserves during the same period, it is not allowed to be counted in this way. Even if you see that it is very profitable to buy American blockbusters like this, the country will still not allow China Film Imports to expand the scale of imports to make money-

said that the country only spends 500,000 US dollars a year on film and television imports, which is 500,000 yuan, and not one more. After all, if these 500,000 yuan is spent, no matter how much you earn, it is only to earn Chinese's money, and if you can't earn foreigners, it is not a real foreign exchange earning.

However, even the big leaders who let China Film import the Chinese characters are so red that their eyes are red-eyed, but it is completely inappropriate for Gu Biao.

Relatively speaking, the news that "at least tens of millions of major consumers are rumoring Gatorade and Tiankun learning machines" makes Gu Biao feel more at ease.

After all, even if you have a box office of $30 million each? That's just about the same amount of money Gu Biao made in the U.S. market a few years ago with these films. And if you want to pile up $30 million in revenue in the Chinese market, it means that you may have to go to the cinema to watch your movie, which is already an impossible number, after all, the urban population is less than 300 million.

Gu Biao has more important things to care about at the moment.

Mina's first store in the interior of Kentucky's hometown of Chicken officially opened near Hubin Road in Qiantang.

In January, after acquiring the Kentucky fried chicken brand in the United States, before returning to China, Gu Biao went to Watsington to meet with his teacher and old friends, gave Kissinger Business Consulting a consulting fee of $500,000, and asked Professor Ji to travel to China in person at an appropriate time.

This is not a rebellious operation, because Americans have this tradition, and the former president who leaves office can attend a business meeting for $200,000 at a time, let alone the former secretary of state who has been out of office for 10 years?

It has been a practice for many years to give the former secretary of state $200,000 for an appearance fee, and if you want to go on a long-distance business trip to other continents other than North America, it is slightly more expensive, up 50%, which is 300,000.

Gu Biao gave 500,000 yuan, which is enough to respect the teacher. It's not too much, it hurts the rules to attract hatred - this kind of thing, other multinational groups have a conventional offer, if you suddenly raise the value of the first XXX, other multinational groups will isolate you.

At the same time, on the other hand, the influence of inviting Kissinger again in '86 was very different from that in '83 or even earlier. This is because 83 years ago, although Kissinger had not been secretary of state for six or seven years, he was, after all, the director of the Center for Asian Studies at Georgetown University's Waltz School of Foreign Service, and he represented the international relations academic circles of the United States. In addition, it was only a few years since the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and the United States at that time, so the influence would be greater.

In 86 years, the number of awesome foreign guests seen in the local area has increased by an order of magnitude, and it will not be so sensational. The identity of the family is a pure business consulting company, and the business scope is to "provide service consulting for American enterprises and brands to trade cooperation with China", so it is a serious business service request to take Gu Biao's "help the American brand Gatorade/Kentucky fried chicken to carry out dialogue and cooperation promotion".

In addition to Kissinger, Gu also contacted the US ambassador Winston Lord - this did not change any history, because in the original history, when Kentucky fried chicken opened its first restaurant, Winston Lord personally came to cut the ribbon and speak, Gu Wei just respected history.

Of course, because of respect for history, Gu Biao would not give money to Winston Lord. He is still a serving American official, how can Gu Biao use money to corrupt others.

Gu Biao only gave enough face in the way of invitation, and also greeted Secretary of State George Scholz. In the end, Gu Biao also arranged the most luxurious and luxurious travel conditions for Mr. Winston Lord in Qiantang, and sent all the American guests to the hotel he opened in Lanting Cinema, which was in line with the standard of service of the White Swan in Guangdong.

As for Lanting Cinema is too far from the city, 30 kilometers by car, this is not a problem, Gu Biao specially imported 3 Lincoln cars for American guests, two of which are extended versions, for pick-up.

Historically, American Lincoln cars did not begin to enter China through formal channels until 92 years, and informal channels could be brought forward to 90 years.

And Gu Biao casually operated and advanced this history by 4 years. The few Lincolns he has in hand should be the only Lincoln in China this year. Originally, the customs and relevant departments did not approve it so quickly, but when they heard that Gu Biao was going to receive the US ambassador and His Excellency Kissinger, who had already retired, to participate in the event, they made a big splash of the pen.

As for the tariffs, Gu Biao must have paid them in full.

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When Winston Lord came to Cambridge Airport, Gu Biao personally took someone to pick him up.

Still, he underestimated the local enthusiasm.

Originally, Gu Biao just wanted to pick up people in a low-key manner, and then talk about other things specifically during the ceremony, there was no need to make too much red tape from the beginning.

It's a pity that the title of "American Ambassador" is taken too seriously by the local authorities.

So it became a bunch of provincial and city leaders who lined up to greet each other at the airport.

Fortunately, Winston Lord has also been in China for several years, and he has a Chinese-American wife who is very familiar with China's national conditions, so he didn't make any trouble.

However, he also knew his mission this time and the care that Secretary of State Schultz gave him on the phone, so he always regarded Gu Biao as the host, and divided his main energy to chat with Gu Biao about business, and the rest of the red tape was just a void and a little bit of blame.

This scene, starting from the airport, has made many people in the system envious.

"That's right, today is a big boss involving American brands and American capital, please Lord to stand on the platform, and we have all become a foil. This posture is not far from the boss of Coca-Cola, who went to Beijing five years ago, or the boss of Boeing, who went to Beijing three years ago. ”

There are a lot of knowledgeable officials, such whispers.

What they said was the same situation at the time. Because the U.S. ambassador and even the former U.S. secretary of state often stand up for multinational giants.

When the big bosses of the Coca-Cola Company and Boeing come to China to invest and cooperate, the ambassadors are even more angry than the top leaders of the local provinces when they stop there, but when these ambassadors talk to the big bosses of multinational groups, they are on an equal footing, and this leads to the fact that people in the province often have to be shortened by the big bosses of Coca-Cola and Boeing.

It's just that no one cared about this in previous years. In the eyes of the Chinese people, Boeing and Coca-Cola are such rich and super-capitalists that rival the country, shouldn't they have more aura than the cardinals in the province?

Now, it is nothing more than this foreign-funded boss who "acquired a traditional big brand and big company in the United States" and replaced it with a yellow-skinned and black-eyed one-

Strictly speaking, it is not yellow-skinned and black-eyed, because the current owner of Red Bull Group and Kentucky Fried Chicken is Mina, who is more than half of white blood, and in the eyes of unskilled Chinese, she must not be regarded as a perfect foreign capitalist like a goddess.

After Winston Lord finally got rid of the red tape, he took his wife and walked up to Gu Biao to be polite: "Gu, I have long heard that you are a close disciple of His Excellency Kissinger, and I hope that in the future, we will have more opportunities to contribute to Sino-US cultural and commercial exchanges, and I also hope that the Chinese and American people can better understand each other's popular lifestyles."

This is my wife, surnamed Bao - she is a Chinese-American, a writer, and was born in Hujiang, in this regard, I have a lot in common with you, I heard that your girlfriend is also from Hujiang and a writer. ”

As soon as Winston Lord finished speaking, her wife Ms. Bao also came over to greet her, shook hands with Gu Biao, and found Xiao Sui's shadow in the crowd, obviously doing her homework for today's foreign affairs activities in advance, and wanted to cooperate with her husband to join the host's favor.

Ms. Bao has been characterized as "Chinese-American" in later encyclopedias, but strictly speaking, she should be counted as "Chinese-American", which is the most accurate wording of Ambassador Lord himself.

Because Ms. Bao was born in China, her ancestral home is Mingzhou, and she was born in Hujiang. It's just that when I was born, it was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and part of the Chinese territory of Hujiang fell, so I was born in the concession. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, when he was seven or eight years old, he followed his father, who was a diplomat of the Republic of China, to the United States, and now he is in his 40s.

Winston Lord was so close that it really made the other people who greeted him even more red-eyed.

"Winston Lord actually took the initiative to get close to Gu Biao? And said that he and Gu Biao should have a common language? You represent the United States, do you need to be so flattering to Gu Biao?"

However, an even more embarrassing scene soon followed.

For this set, Gu Biao was quite caught off guard.

He hadn't investigated Winston Lord at all, and he didn't know that his wife was a Chinese-American female writer and a native of Shanghai, and he didn't expect Winston Lord to find this kind of entry point.

"That...... It may be a bit misleading. You're talking about Miss Xiao. Gu Biao said as he gently brushed Xiao Sui in a more polite and indifferent manner, stood beside him, and then clarified,

"She's my ex-girlfriend, but she's been busy with her own business in the past two years, and we have a lack of communication opportunities, so ......"

This is more embarrassing, it turns out that Gu Wei's fiancée of the beautiful writer may be in a state of "former" at present.

Rao is Winston Lord has been diplomatically tested for a long time, and knows that when he sees people, he talks about people and talks about ghosts, so he immediately rounded up the topic: "Mr. Gu is really true temperament, and he has a wide range of hobbies......"