Chapter 249: Mercury Fallout
After some indescribable mediation, Gu Biao finally sent the Monaco sightseeing group and director Bertolucci and his party away.
Before leaving, he also carefully accompanied Princess Kelly and Princess Tiffany to the south for a tour. When I was in Qiantang, I also found Director Qiu to arrange a cool mansion for the members of the Monaco royal family, of course, in the form of commercial leasing.
Gu Biao also took the opportunity to learn about the development and changes of the tourism industry in his hometown in the past six months, talked to Director Qiu, and conveyed the latest attitude above.
The cross-selling business with the Monaco state-run shipping company began in an orderly manner.
The filming intention of "The Last Emperor" has also been finalized, but there will be no substantial progress for at least a few months, because the two sides still have to be busy with the creation, submission for review, and enrichment of the script outline. Therefore, both parties were originally scheduled to consider the official start of filming after the Chinese New Year in 1982, which was previously in the preparation period.
Because of the separation of the right to create and review the film script, the review belongs to the General Administration, and the specific details of the creation are solved by the foreign party, so it fell into the hands of Gu Biao without hesitation.
Gu Biao could only ask his girlfriend Xiao Sui to share his worries and polish him. After all, as a historical drama, the main line can follow the original autobiography "The First Half of My Life", and Gu Biao doesn't have to interfere too much.
He only needs to set a few tones and stuff some absolutely necessary private goods, and the rest can completely rely on Xiao Sui's creative ability.
Xiao Sui was still a little unconfident when she received the job, after all, she has been creating her own immature works recently, and she can't even do a good job in the script of "The Legend of the New White Lady" that Gu Biao handed over to her at the beginning of the year. Now that she has been asked to write "The Last Emperor", she has no confidence in herself.
Only Gu Biao knows that Xiao Sui cannot be blamed for the failure of "Xinbai" before, but mainly his own requirements: the historical "Xinbai" has too many changes to the traditional legend and too strange design. Gu Biao couldn't memorize the plot, so he didn't know how to instruct.
can only wait for Xiao Sui to write a version, then he said that it is not good here, that it is not good, and let her continue to change, but there is no explanation of what it will become.
It's a bit like Party A doesn't know what he wants, so Party B's designer has no brains when he comes to ask for instructions, and only after Party B's design plan comes out, Party A knows that "this design is exactly what I don't want".
I'm sure anyone who has ever been a designer will understand this madness.
Xiao Sui has never experienced this kind of "proposition design that Party A doesn't know what he wants", she has always been free to create by her own artistic ideas, and she has been exhausted.
In addition, when she received "The Last Emperor", she vaguely knew that Gu Biao had just done something "acting on the spot", so she thought that Gu Biao was to comfort her feelings, so she gave her a movie script that could be famous all over the world for her to create and comfort her.
Xiao Sui has such a strong temperament, it is inevitable that she will have a little mood with Gu Biao for a month or two, which is almost a cold war - she can accept Gu Biao acting on the spot, but she hates that men treat feelings with a "transaction/compensation" attitude.
She can unconditionally pay for Gu Wei's career, work together, and let her do whatever she wants. But Gu Biao used fame and fortune as a compensation price for acting on the spot, and she couldn't accept it.
Fortunately, the summer vacation was almost over at that time, and Xiao Sui was proud and returned to Hujiang to study. After the two sides calmed down for more than a month, the distance became beautiful, and the misunderstanding was gradually resolved under Mina's mediation.
Xiao Sui finally realized that "my husband did not seek the right to write the script on the project "The Last Emperor" in order to compensate for the harm he did to me after he acted on the scene", although "The Last Emperor" is an unplanned part of Gu Ao's plan, but it is indeed of great significance to promote the openness of the domestic cultural industry.
After untying the knot in his heart, Xiao Sui re-entered the empty state of the spiritual platform and threw himself into creation wholeheartedly.
In this process, Gu Biao did not urge, he was always very tolerant and introspective.
He knows that most things in the world can be exerted with subjective initiative, urging and expediting, but only real artistic creation cannot be urged.
You need to give the artist time and opportunity to wait for inspiration and wait for the flow. Especially the kind of pure art that has no business rules to routine, it is useless for people to force her if they are not careful.
This kind of understanding and tolerance of art also brought Xiao Sui's heart back a little, making Gu Wei's rear more tranquil and harmonious after experiencing the test of wind and rain.
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Three months passed in a flash.
The clock of history crept into the end of 1981.
In the past three months, Gu Biao lived in a simple place and did not travel for a long time, and finally followed the leaders of Director Bao, Deputy Director and other leaders to promote the big project of sorting out and canceling the technology of the "Machine Science Office" to the final stage.
Anyone who can set up a clever name to cheat and abduct and lift the ban on imports through a third party in a roundabout way has basically been done. In the end, there is really nothing left to do, and there is no way to pile up time. Dozens of large-scale scientific research institutes coordinated by the state have worked together to complete this big game of chess under the coordination of the "Machine Science Office".
Meanwhile.
In the outside world, the few seeds initiated and planted by Gu Biao have also taken root and sprouted with the efforts of people from all walks of life, and are steadily advancing.
(The specific work content of this scene as an official, let's get over it like this, in fact, I wanted to jump out of this plot as soon as possible.) But I was afraid that it would be more abrupt, so I wrote a two-step layout and a fuzi first. When the protagonist is no longer an official, you can write as you like. At the same time, I hope readers understand that many things can still be done even if you are not an official, such as in an identity similar to Huo Ye. )
Since the first batch of medical equipment replacement consumables from China and Morocco arrived at the port of Beirut in Syria in early November, the trade trust between the two sides has risen to a new level.
Today, the second shipment has also arrived at the port and the third shipment has been shipped. Moreover, the contents of this third shipment have also been upgraded from medical equipment and consumables at the beginning to ammunition and other military supplies, all of which can be adapted to French weapons.
It's too easy to leave evidence for weapons like this, after all, equipment will remain, and there will be wreckage if it is blown up.
But ammunition is much better, and there is no proof of death after it is used, as long as the stock is not large, you can buy it as you go, and it is simply hidden.
Soon, in Lebanon and Syria, there were strange cases of "dart" rocket launchers made by the French in the 70s and firing Chinese-style temporary modified ammunition. It's just that because the Lebanese attackers are very hot-blooded and basically won't be captured alive by the Israelis, they may not be exposed for a year and a half.
The French artillery and rocket artillery, as well as copycat ammunition, began to appear, all of which were not high-tech trade.
The Venezuelan and the Ministry of Ordnance Industry were quite satisfied with this result, after all, a slight change had consumed a lot of stocks during the period of tension with the Soviet Union, and at the same time created considerable foreign exchange.
No one has dug deep into whether such a transaction has other meanings, but really feels that the transaction itself is very profitable, even if there is no back-up move, it should be supported.
The fourth batch of supplies that China will ship out at the end of December will go beyond the previous "Syria/Lebanon" final customer scope.
The cargo will still be transported to Monaco and secretly unloaded and transshiped, and then most of it will continue to Syria, but some of the surplus will be transferred to the battlefields of the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in Central America.
The reason for the surplus is, of course, that after three consecutive waves of "consumables" were delivered to Syria, some materials on the Syrian battlefield were temporarily saturated. If you hoard more, there is a risk that you will be captured and exposed by the enemy in the battle before you have time to finish the battle. For the sake of international reputation, I can only endure it and make less money.
At the same time, Monaco is a small country and a widow, and after making money, it is not very tolerable to waste capacity and profits, so the extra part allows Chinese ammunition to enter the Central American market.
Throughout the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua were engaged in a civil war on a small scale, but it was able to fight for a long time.
There is no need to dwell on the specific causes and effects of such a small civil war. In short, after the death of Nicaragua in the late 70s, there was a risk of becoming popular, and then the Americans intervened and supported the armed counterattack of the asset level.
The French and Soviets actually had a small amount of support for the People's Song Army over there, but the Soviets gave away weapons for nothing in order to export Song Life. The French, on the other hand, wanted to make a little money, but at the same time did not want to offend the United States, so they secretly smuggled something under the guise of the Monegasques.
Unexpectedly, the younger brother Monaco was not willing to earn only a few dollars for errand freight, and wanted to earn higher profits, so a drama of "brand dealers selling fakes at the same time" was naturally staged.
This kind of thing, even if it is exposed, is very understandable to Europeans and Americans - people with a little business common sense know that it is common for dealers to secretly betray the brands they endorse and sell fakes for the sake of higher profits.
If you go to the counter of a brand store to buy bags, shoes, or watches, you can buy fakes, but once the dealer is discovered, the distributor will often be banned from distribution and face lawsuits and compensation.
Although the markets of El Salvador and Nicaragua are many times smaller than those of Syria and Lebanon, at least an order of magnitude worse.
However, the significance of this business is definitely not small.
Because this shows that Monaco, the "general distributor of French goods on the dark web", has begun to shop fakes among its global customers. Fakes from China have broken into the "American distributors" under this general distributor.
The overall expansion of the follow-up cooperation, which has spread virally to trade with Argentina, is already a matter of course.
In addition, the second chess piece laid by Gu Biao has also reached the stage of imminent implementation - his girlfriend Xiao Sui spent two or three months to complete the preliminary draft of the Italian authorized script of "The Last Emperor", and once again sent it to the relevant departments in Beijing.
The review results are not bad, and if you make a slight change, you can start filming after the New Year.