Chapter 141 Everything is ready

After secretly meeting those who were bribed, Gu Weiqi held a meeting with Meng Chai and Alice, and decided to promote some smart people with careers in the "Dragon King Society". After all, the officials who are now bribed are not reliable, and it is more prudent to only train and promote talents by themselves.

After inspecting for a week, Gu Weiqi personally promoted ten people, including Cha Mulong, Shi Yan, Mu Ping, and Yun Qing, to embark on a career path. Under the arrangement of those political axe officials who were paid a lot of money, all these people were smoothly arranged to the grassroots political axe departments in various positions, and it seems that it is not obvious now, and when these people grow up one after another in the future, they will be able to give Gu Weiqi a great boost to the industry in Myanmar.

One thing these people all have in common is that they are basically children of poor families, or simply orphans. And there are ambitions, but there is no chance. Now that Gu Weiqi has given them a great opportunity, they naturally have to seize it tightly. And relatively speaking, these people are easier to grasp and more reliable than those who simply rely on money and leverage, and it is up to them to see what they can achieve in the future.

When Gu Weiqi finished dealing with these things, "Jade Shan Fang International Restaurant", "Tang Dynasty International Supermarket" and "Tang Dynasty Cinema" also opened one after another. Due to the abundant commercial stores and funds, among the three industries opened this time, there are 20 hotels and 20 supermarkets, most of which are concentrated in the Yangon area, where the economy and consumption level are relatively developed.

The "Tang Dynasty Cinema Line" opened 28 theaters at one time, and a large-scale recruitment was carried out a few days before the opening of these industries, which was well received by the local political axe. After all, this means that it can solve the employment problem of many people and create huge tax revenues for the country, which they can't afford not to welcome, which means creating political achievements for local political officials.

In order to show the importance of Yangon Province, the local Yangon Provincial Governor Feng Wenzhe, the Minister of Commerce Fei Lianxin, the Minister of Labor and Employment Tao Tie, and the Minister of Industry and Commerce Shang Qingyun were present to congratulate them. Gu Weiqi held a grand drinking party on the same day, and some second-rate associations that were about to move still wanted to extort and extort some benefits, but when they saw these bigwigs present, they immediately dispelled their thoughts and put away their careful thoughts.

In this way, the chain stores of the three major industries have been successfully opened, and many port goods have been continuously transported to Yangon through the port, which has been welcomed by the locals because of their high quality and low price. In particular, bicycles, televisions, radios, etc. are relatively new to the poor and backward Burmese shopkeepers, after all, the Burmese shops at that time were not as good as the Huaxia in the 80s, and they were sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves.

In addition, Jade Kitchen International Restaurant has also dispatched many skilled chefs from Hong Kong, and the variety of delicious dishes prepared by the restaurant has also been praised by many dignitaries and high-class people. Invisibly, it has also laid a good foundation for the hotel's reputation, especially the high-quality service, which makes people feel at home.

On the opening day of the "Tang Dynasty Cinema Line", the "Super Bodyguard" was released, which was welcomed by the people. The beauties in the film, the thrilling martial arts action, make people very enjoyable. Although the whole country of Burma is not very rich, there are still many rich people. But the final box office was converted into only 20 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not as good as the small land of Xiangjiang. But no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat. And no matter how much, it has finally opened up a ticket warehouse, which is already very good in the long run.

Why did Hong Kong's films flourish so much in the 80s? That's because there is the support of Taiwanese film producers, and Taiwanese film companies can be said to be very generous for investing in Hong Kong films, as long as the Xiangjiang producers propose a story theme and list the star lineup, they may first come up with millions or even more cash to buy this plan, which is commonly known as 'buying film flowers'. In this way, there are naturally many benefits for Xiangjiang filmmakers, just formulate a script, bring in a few stars, and you can fool millions of investments.

And the most important thing is the protectionist protection of the Hong Kong film industry, unlike Western films, which have strict restrictions: a Hollywood film can only be imported in eight copies, that is, it can only be released in eight theaters at most. However, there are no such regulations for Xiangjiang movies, which has caused the popularity of Xiangjiang movies, which often suppresses blockbusters in the United States.

However, it is precisely because of Taiwan's relaxed conditions for Xiangjiang films that Xiangjiang filmmakers are blind and arrogant, and they regard the Taiwan area as the backyard of Xiangjiang film industry. Especially with the support of the consortium behind the eight major film companies in Taiwan Bend (including China Film, Scholar, Era, Long Xiang, Judeng, Changhong, Xiongwei, and Fugui), in order to make money, they are often shoddy.

So much so that in 1993, "Jigong" starring Zhou Xingxing was sold to Taiwanese film dealers for a high price of more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars. However, in the end, the Taiwan film merchants lost all their money, and this incident triggered the company represented by the eight major film companies in Taiwan Bend, including China Film, Scholars, Shidai, Longxiang, Judeng, Changhong, Xiongwei, and Fugui, to begin to negotiate with the Xiangjiang Film Industry Association on "how to curb the cost of Hong Kong films and reduce the remuneration of Hong Kong films".

But the blind and arrogant Xiangjiang filmmakers did not compromise, so that the negotiations broke down. As a result, in a fit of rage, the Taiwanese film dealers united to demand that the Taiwanese authorities relax restrictions on Western films, and the authorities were naturally willing to curry favor with the United States Godfather and announced that they would no longer limit the number of copies of Hollywood films.

In this way, how can Xiangjiang movies do better than blockbusters in the United States? This is how Hong Kong films were lost, and the reason why they lost the "back garden" of Taiwan was actually strictly because the Xiangjiang filmmakers themselves killed themselves. It is rumored that the person who went to negotiate threatened the Taiwan Bend Film Company, and the latter was capped, but the Xiangjiang Film Company would not give you the film, even if it was given, it could only be released for three months at most.

Of course, the businessmen of Taiwan Bend did not do it, and finally triggered the intervention of the political axe, allowing Hollywood movies to enter Taiwan Bend without restrictions, and later ...... Taiwan movies are also dead like this, think about it, Xiangjiang movies can't beat rice films, Taiwan is not an opponent, the real lose-lose is not good, hurting others and not benefiting yourself!

But now, Gu Weiqi has opened up two regions, Thailand and Myanmar, but he has found a way out for the future direction of Hong Kong films. And in the future, he will spare no effort to develop cinema chains in other regions. I believe that through his unremitting efforts, the film industry in Hong Kong will only get better and better in the future, at least it will not go down the old road of decline.

However, in order to make Hong Kong films go further and more prosperous, continuous efforts are still needed. The most important thing is that in the final analysis, we have to say that the quality is passable, as long as the quality is excellent, Hong Kong films will definitely not decline again. Otherwise, even if Gu Weiqi opened theaters all over the world, the quality was still not good.

In the next step, Gu Weiqi plans to return to Xiangjiang to pay close attention to quality and severely crack down on the undesirable phenomena of following the trend and shoddy manufacturing. But that's a later story, so let's not mention it for now.

Let's just say that Gu Weiqi's company has opened up the situation in one fell swoop under the word of mouth with a good reputation. Then he ordered a rapid expansion, after all, he has money and people in his hands, and he has deep connections, if he doesn't take the opportunity to exert his strength and expand more, he will be an idiot. And the more stores you expand now, the more revenue you will make in the future.

Under his personal supervision, in just two months, the number of hotels and supermarkets has expanded to 50, and the number of cinemas has also expanded to 48. In addition to Yangon, there are now branches and offices in various identities and major cities such as Magway, Mandalay, Tanintharyi, Nay Pyi Taw, etc. For now, however, Yangon is still the headquarters for all of Kooon's investments.

In addition to investing in hotels, supermarkets and cinemas, Gu Weiqi also began to invest in the "Tang Dynasty International Oil Company" and "Tang Dynasty Mineral Development Company" to extract oil and non-ferrous metals, such as silver, copper, lead, zinc, tin, etc., in addition to gold. He even bought a large area of land at a very low price, planted medicinal herbs, and invested in the "Tang Dynasty International Traditional Chinese Medicine Company" and "Tang Dynasty International Grain and Oil Company" to produce traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces and grain and oil.

In addition, he also introduced a production line for TVs, air conditioners and bicycles from Xiangjiang, and established "Tang Dynasty International TV Manufacturing (Myanmar Store) Branch", "Tang Dynasty International Air Conditioning Manufacturing (Myanmar Store) Branch" and "Tang Dynasty International Bicycle (Myanmar Store) Branch". After all, it is poor and backward, just like in the fifties and sixties in China, when the per capita wage level was very low, and the labor force was extremely cheap, and opening a factory here meant that you could save costs.

In addition, it has also invested in companies such as "Tang Dynasty Daily Chemical" and "Peculiar Toy Factory".

Even in order to grasp public opinion, Xue Rong also sent a group of talents from Xiangjiang to come over and founded the "Myanmar New Express".

Of course, in order to severely crack down on the black sheep who dare to enrich their own pockets, in addition to formulating strict punishment regulations, Chen Mobao also specially asked Chen Mobao to send a financial team from Xiangjiang to supervise the financial expenditure and income movements of various companies. In order to escort these companies, Luo Jianan also mobilized a group of reserve talents from the bank to open the "Yanlong International Development Bank (Myanmar) Branch".

Originally, the government of Myanmar did not allow foreign investors to invest in the financial and banking industries in the country for the time being. However, with the help of Gu Weiqi's money and the officials who bought it off, all these problems were solved. The bank was successfully opened, and for the sake of safety, a team of 30 elite soldiers was specially dispatched to be stationed in the bank for a long time to deal with various emergencies.

When Gu Weiqi finished all kinds of trivial things, three months had passed, and it was early December 1981.

In the past three months, the first film "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun" jointly produced by Oriental Charm and Donglai Company has been filmed. Even the post-production has been completed, but it has not been released for the time being, and it is now being hotly promoted. During this period, Gu Weiqi and Shao Yifu, the two big bosses, unanimously decided to jointly release the two theaters on New Year's Day in 1982 on the phone to form a scale effect.

In addition, Donglai Company's "Wrong Car" and "Street King of Fighters: Fury Fire Dragon" have also been produced. However, the "Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" directed by the King of Ink is still being filmed, which shows how inkbloc it is. But fortunately, Chen Xunqi urged him to speed up the progress, otherwise I am afraid that it would be even more ink.

As for the "King Kong Gourd Baby" drummed up by Lan Naicai and Gao Zhisen, it is even more necessary to say that it takes a lot of time to shoot hand-drawn cartoons. Especially before, the two had not yet filmed cartoons, so it was even slower.

In order to speed up the progress and for everyone to understand the production process of the cartoon, Chen Xunqi and Lin Zhenying have now put several directors who have produced "Once Upon a Time", "The Wrong Car", and "The Furious Dragon of the Street Boxer", including Liu Zhenwei, Lin Lindong, Dong Wei and others, have fallen over to help.

In addition to making frequent phone calls in Myanmar and remotely controlling various companies in Xiangjiang, Mi Guo, Yuben, Europe, Taibang, and the mainland, Gu Weiqi certainly did not forget the affairs of the three major military groups of "Fangs", "Iron Wolf" and "Peacock". But he's been busy these days, and he doesn't have time to free up his hands to annex them.

Until now, I have been busy for a few months, and I have seen that various companies are on the right track. Moreover, the 1,000 warriors trained by Meng Chai himself almost have a certain amount of combat effectiveness, and the most important thing is that some warriors who are good at camouflage and intelligence gathering have already entered the interior of these three major legions, and the powerful military goods have been shipped for many days, and now everything is ready and only the east wind is owed. I thought it was time to "eat" them, and then create the "Dragon Party", so that the future investment industries in Myanmar would be able to sit back and relax, and then I could go back to Xiangjiang for a good Spring Festival.