Singapore on April 9, 1981.

Citizens have fallen into a frenzy for the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!

It's been a long time since the citizens of Singapore have been so captivated by a movie! The last time there was a sensation like an empty alley, it was a Bruce Lee kung fu movie in the early 70s!

After Bruce Lee's films, Hong Kong films have dominated Singapore's box office market.

However, as Singaporean audiences watch more and more Hong Kong movies, the amazing nature of the past is gone.

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is different!

Compared with the Hong Kong films of the past, this film is a thoroughly revolutionary innovation, from the concept of filming, to the technology used, at least more than 10 years ahead of the entire world film counterparts!

It is this epoch-making visual impact that makes the audience who has seen this movie can't help but want to watch it again, and the citizens who hear others boasting about this movie can't help but want to see it!

On the streets in the morning, at least 200,000 citizens were at the door of the cinema to buy movie tickets for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!

The more difficult it is to buy movie tickets, the more viewers will join the queue to buy tickets!

"It's a big sale, it's a big sale!" Tsui Hark looked at the long queues one after another, and was once again extremely excited.

The success of "Datang" in Hong Kong and Taiwan is predictable, because the original work of "Datang" was originally a household name in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

However, the popularity of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in Singapore is far less than that of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it is even more rare to achieve such a huge success!

"Hehe, this proves even more that "Datang" is a good movie!" Zhang Shaojie was also very excited and said.

There is no doubt that the popularity of the movie "Datang" has brought fame and fortune to the crew. Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaolong, Yuan Heping, Lin Qingxia, Wu Dairong, and Wan Ziliang may all become millionaires because of the box office dividends of this movie.

At the same time, Tsui Hark also ended the past state of half-red and not purple, and became the leading director of Hong Kong's new wave martial arts films!

Lin Qingxia is a jade girl from Taiwan's Qiong Yao drama, and has transformed into an international martial arts superstar.

Wu Dairong, a Singaporean boy, has also begun to become popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, and his salary has risen to 200,000 Hong Kong dollars!

Of course, it is Zhang Shaojie who has benefited the most, and he has successfully realized the management of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" into a cultural brand spanning the three fields of comics and movies!

———————————— Singapore, there was a light rain in the evening.

In the drizzly and misty night.

Zhang Shaojie was in the hotel, reading some books, and suddenly the manager of the hotel came to tell him that there were heavyweight guests in the Singapore publishing industry who asked to see him.

Upon further questioning, it was learned that it was the person from Singapore's largest publishing company, "Press Holdings".

Zhang Shaojie expressed interest in meeting each other.

Soon after, the hotel manager introduced the visitors into Zhang Shaojie's room.

"Mr. Zhang Shaojie, congratulations on the box office success of "Datang" in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore!" A woman in her 20s smiled and said, "I'm Li Huiling, assistant to the president of the newspaper holding company!" The others are my lawyers and bodyguards! ”

Zhang Shaojie gave a large number of the young woman and smiled: "Miss Li's visit is not just to congratulate me, a stranger, right?" ”

Li Huiling smiled: "Hehe, of course, I came with sincerity in cooperation!" ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled and said, "Oh? I want to hear about it! ”

"As you may know, Newspaper Holdings is one of the most dominant companies in Singapore's publishing industry! In fact, we have been paying attention to the original work of your "Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" for a long time, but we have been contacting Yulang International Company to publish it. Yulang has little interest in publishing cooperation in Singapore! And we haven't been able to get in touch with you, so," Li Huiling said straight to the point.

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" sold 100,000 movie tickets in Singapore in one day and one night. Such an amazing movie box office made the original work of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" begin to attract the attention of the publishing industry!

There are 19 newspapers in Singapore, 18 of which are controlled by Singapore's "Press Holdings" company. The Press Holdings Company is controlled by Mediacorp, which in turn is controlled by Temasek Fund

In short, SPH is a supergiant that monopolizes the newspaper and publishing market in Singapore!

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "I hope that this cooperation can be successful, and I hope that we can achieve more cooperation in the future!" ”

"An excellent writer like you, Mr. Zhang, will always be our most popular partner!" Li Huiling said with a smile.

After both parties have signed the publication agreement.

Zhang Shaojie officially handed over the publishing rights of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in Singapore to the Press Holding Group.

The newspaper holding group gave Zhang Shaojie 15% of the royalty remuneration, and made a promise that "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" would have a circulation of more than 50,000 copies per episode.

Even if the sales volume of each episode is less than 50,000 copies, the newspaper holding still pays the manuscript fee according to the minimum standard of 50,000 copies.

Such an agreement is enough to show the sincerity of the Singapore monopoly giant.

—————————————— April 10, 1981, it was sunny.

After finishing the promotion of the film in Singapore, Zhang Shaojie returned to Hong Kong with a tired body.

It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel thousands of miles.

During this period of time, Zhang Shaojie successively went to Taiwan and Singapore to promote "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and the people he came into contact with and the affairs he saw were very different from Hong Kong, where he had lived for a long time.

These differences, through Zhang Shaojie's observation, thinking, digestion and absorption, make his thinking more mature and three-dimensional.

He knows that the world is not an either/or, but full of diverse castes.

No matter what kind of society it is, everyone is actually trying to pursue happiness, but some people have pursued it, and some people have never pursued it.

What is the criterion for happiness?

It's hard to say!

Some people may think that economic prosperity is happiness; There are also people who believe that career success is happiness; Others believe that a happy marriage is happiness; Of course, there are those who think that freedom of speech is blissful

Zhang Shaojie gradually thought, what is his happiness? Is it the fame of everyone in the world, or the wealth that comes from a steady stream, or the romantic and moving love?

In the end, Zhang Shaojie found that he was essentially a patriotic literary and artistic youth. Zhang Shaojie is proud of the 5,000-year-old splendid history and culture of the Chinese nation from the bottom of his heart.

However, in modern times, China's culture began to decline along with the decline of economic and political status. Because of the economic and cultural decline, the Chinese people in modern times have lost more and more self-confidence and pride!

Historically, China has always been at the pinnacle of the world economy, culture, science and technology, and many other fields during the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

A period of obscurantism in Europe, when Arabia was happy to do business. The world's major manufacturing industries are concentrated in China! At that time, China, whether it was clothing, food, housing, transportation, culture, education and entertainment, was at the peak of the world.

While Europe was in a closed, obscurantist and small city-state, China was a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands, even millions.

In the Song Dynasty, the European nobles who came to China on Arab merchant ships were shocked to find that the soldiers who watched the gate in front of the city gate of the Song Dynasty also surpassed the small nobles and small lords of Europe.

Later, China's compass, China's gunpowder, China's papermaking, printing, porcelain, silk, and textile technology were successively spread to Europe by the Arabs and Mongols, changing the history of the development of civilization in Europe.

China's papermaking and printing technology ended the ignorance of Europeans and rekindled the fire of civilization in Europe.

Gunpowder technology spread to Europe, changing the pattern of warfare in Europe.

The compass and other nautical instruments made the Europeans begin to have the ability to sail in the ocean, which indirectly helped the Europeans start the Age of Discovery

History has played a joke on China – during the Song Dynasty, Chinese merchants sailed merchant ships to the Indian Ocean and even to northern Africa.

In the literature of the Song Dynasty, there are more than 100 anecdotes from different countries and regions. It can be seen that the world discovered by the people of the Song Dynasty is not even inferior to the European voyages.

Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty led tens of thousands of troops to the South Seas seven times, with a long voyage and many visits to regions and countries. Far more than the early Portuguese and Spanish Age of Discovery.

However, history has played a joke, after Zheng He went to the West seven times, China has increasingly begun to tend to the policy of "closing the country to the outside world".

Especially after the Qing Dynasty, only Guangzhou was left as a port for foreign trade and exchanges.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the envoys sent by the Queen of England came to China again with a sense of reverence for the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

However, when the British envoys arrived in China this time, they saw only yellow-skinned people, low buildings, and people who did not pay attention to hygiene.

After arriving in Yanjing, the capital of China, the British envoys were regarded as envoys from small states who came to pay tribute. In fact, the British envoys were ordered to come and establish diplomacy, as well as trade and trade negotiations.

Qianlong was not interested in the explanation of the British envoy's intention, and just gave the British envoy some gifts, which was regarded as asking Huazi to send away.

After seeing the poverty and backwardness of the Chinese people during the Qing Dynasty, the ignorance of the emperor and the ministers of civil and military affairs, and watching the sky. The British envoy departed angrily, and wrote a detailed account of the current situation in China at that time, and presented it to the British king and political axe.

Decades later, the British came to China in large numbers again, but this time, not with the mission of establishing diplomatic relations, as they had done in the past. Rather, it was carried with opium, cannonballs, and colonial plans

Since then, since the Opium War, China has experienced war, turmoil, poverty, and division for more than 100 years.

It was not until 1949 that the situation of being divided by foreign powers and divided by warlords in modern times began to largely end. However, after the founding of the Republic, although it has successfully tackled key problems in cutting-edge military technology such as atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, missiles, rockets, and satellites, China has still not become rich in the economic field, and in the cultural field, it is even more backward than in the economic field.

In the past, Western countries could set up a few cannons in front of the coast to carry out colonization and extortion.

Nowadays, Westerners, after they are no longer able to bring China to its knees by force, are in the economic field, and they can make huge profits in China by selling some workshop products with very low technology content in the name of luxury goods. Hollywood movies, Western magic, and Japanese animations and games can all run rampant in the Chinese market.

There is still a long way to go to change this cultural backwardness!

(To be continued)