The Fourth Congress of Chinese Literary and Art Workers will be held on January 3o, including literature, drama, music, film and other literary and artistic industries, with a total of more than 8oo people participating.

The conference of representatives of film workers will be held on November 4 after the end of the Cultural Congress.

The standard of the Cultural Congress is very high, the main leaders of the country will attend, and the participants are all highly respected figures, Shen Chong is not qualified to participate, but the film workers conference has a qualification to attend.

It is absolutely a fool's dream to rely on a few speeches and a few reports to influence the formulation of film policy, so Shen Chong plans to stay in Beijing until the end of the film workers' conference, writing a feasibility report on "Hong Kong films importing into the mainland", and at the same time making friendships with officials from all walks of life in the film bureau.

The focus of his activities and communication with people is the film screening system.

In the 8O years, the monopoly of China Film Company's unified purchase and sales forcibly drew a gap between the studio and the film market, and the studio could not profit from the hot market and could not make money, so that the studio had no motivation and no ability to shoot high-quality movies.

Without good movies, the audience's needs will not be met, the market will be sluggish, and with the rapid development of the mainland economy, television sets have gradually entered thousands of households, so it is not surprising that the film market fell to the bottom in the early 90s.

This is like the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, one is full of interest, the other is hungry and thirsty, but they are blocked by the Milky Way, watching each other, drooling at each other, but there is nothing they can do......

Whether or not the monopoly of China Film Company can be broken is the key to whether the mainland film market can continue to be active.

Shen Chong admits that he has no ability to interfere, but he is still somewhat sure of the reform of the film screening system, because this is not a person fighting, this is a group of people fighting -- all the studios in the country have ideas, such as Wang Yang, the director of the Beijing Film Studio, who once wrote a letter asking for the reform of the screening system.

During the congress of film workers, the principal responsible persons of the major studios across the country will go to Beijing, and when the time comes, they will exchange operations and come up with some tricks, which is very likely to have positive results.

Unfortunately, plans don't change as quickly.

The day after the Film Bureau made a report on the "co-production", Shen Chong received a telegram from Fei Litong Guò.

The content is very simple, just a few words.

Apple interested in acquiring Visinetbsp; This surprised Shen Chong.

Historically, before the sale of Visica1c, Festra once took the initiative to go to Apple and offered $1oo, but was gorgeously rejected......

And now, Apple has taken the initiative to acquire?

To be honest, Shen Chong was very excited.

In July, August, and September, Visica1c sold nearly 130,000 copies at $99 each, and after deducting production costs and publicity expenses, the gross profit exceeded $1ooo dollars, which can be described as a perfect gold-absorbing monster.

If Shen Chong's main business is the computer industry, then no matter what, he will not give up Visica1c, but his main business is movies, which greatly reduces the value of Visica1c and becomes a chicken rib.

Visica1c is indeed very profitable, but it is just a spreadsheet software made by two programmers, not an office suite, the technical threshold is not high enough, although the United States has a complete copyright system, there will be no piracy, but there are no patents, so there will soon be copycats......

Office software is one of the most lucrative areas of the computer industry, and it won't be long before many companies will flock to it, and the competition is as fierce as the smartphone market in later generations.

Although Shen Chong has learned a lot of computers, he at least understands one truth - software, like movies, cannot be plagiarized perfectly, let alone something that can be made with just his mouth.

With the exhibition of computer software and hardware, in a few years, the opening of the office software system will become very complicated, the personnel will be in the unit of "hundred", the code will be in the unit of "ten thousand lines", and the cycle will be in the unit of "year".

In history, after two or three years, Visica1c was replaced by Lotus, and Lotus did not last a few years and was replaced by office, so if you don't put all your efforts and work hard, Visica1c will soon decline and will not have the long-term ability to attract money.

What Shen Chong values most about Visica1c is its patent for spreadsheets, because no office software can bypass spreadsheets, as long as you get the patent, you only need to sit at home in the future, and the licensing fee will roll in, comfortable and easy.

However, it is a pity that although the application materials were submitted early, and the top law firm was found, but before that, there was no software patent in the world, so the review process was very slow, after Visica1c was listed, its function of making a leap in office efficiency, and the huge market that followed, so that the approval of patents became more and more attention-grabbing, before Shen Chong came to Beijing, there was an issue of Time Magazine, and the floppy disk of Visica1c was used as a cover. All the computer bulls in it criticized Shen Chong's patenting move.

In this case, Shen Chong felt that there was a good chance that Visica1c's patent would not be obtained, because the lawyer in charge of the patent had called in September and vaguely reminded him that if he could become a naturalized citizen in the United States, it would be very beneficial to the acquisition of the patent.

However, Shen Chong has no interest in naturalizing in the United States......

If he couldn't get the patent, he originally planned to integrate Visica1c into Microsoft at the right time in exchange for a certain amount of shares, anyway, Microsoft will be the overlord of office software in the future, and Bill Gates's management ability is extremely strong, follow behind, don't have to work hard, and can get huge dividends every year.

But since Apple is interested, it is also a good choice to sell it.

In June, Apple conducted a round of external private financing, including Xerox Inc., Rothschild and other capital companies, as well as some individual investors, a total of 16 investors, at 1o per share. Bought a stake in Apple for $5, raising a total of $7.27 million.

Shen Chong was in the mainland at the time, and when he went to the United States, the financing had ended, and he didn't get anything, so he had to hire two stockbrokers to buy a little scraps from the periphery and talk about masturbation.

In 1979, Apple's annual sales were only 70 or 80 million, and it would definitely not have enough cash to buy Visica1c, and it would definitely take shares for it, which was a good opportunity.

Shen Chong is not a fruit fan, he is interested in Apple's stock because Apple will be listed next year, before the listing, the current shares will be resplit, one share becomes ten shares, and after the listing, the stock price soared to $29 on the same day, that is, now invest in 1o. $5, at least $29o can be recovered next year, and the return is amazing. (Note 1)

Faced with such a huge business opportunity, after hesitating again and again, Shen Chong decided to go back to Hong Kong.

Because he was poor and needed money......

After making up the production funds, the sales of Tetris soared, and by mid-September, more than two months, 4o million copies were sold, which could have sold more, but unfortunately the production capacity of the cassette company could not keep up, and the market was still in a state of hunger and thirst.

Cassettes cost $49 each. 99 US dollars, the ex-factory price is about 18 US dollars, but large-scale line and marketing, the cost is also a lot, a rough calculation, gross profit has 8oo look, with the increase of production capacity, Tetris' ability to absorb gold will be further enhanced, and as a popular game in the world for 30 years, the durability is also worth looking forward to.

But this money is not a salary, and you can't spend it as much as you want......

Unlike office software, video games and the film industry are closely related, Shen Chong will not give up this field, Activision has been expanding, poaching people everywhere, and the production and marketing of Tetris also requires a lot of reserves, so although it makes a lot of money, it is only a number on the books, and it can't be moved.

And the situation of the Rubik's Cube, it is a bit subtle, on the one hand, the sales volume is huge, there are more than 8o per month, but under the siege of many copycats and piracy, the sales momentum has dropped significantly, and the growth is weak, and the previous few months are advertising, and the competition is held, which has increased a lot of marketing costs, so the profit is not as good as before, Shen Chong's monthly dividends, only more than 2oo, and most of them can not be moved, one is because Li Kaiyuan's factory in Shenzhen was completed and put into production, before Christmas, It will take a lot of money to market new products, and secondly, Shen Chong will save money to do a big thing.

All he can freely use is a portion of Visica1c's profits and a monthly Rubik's Cube royalty of about $80,000.

It's a lot of money, but it's also a lot to spend......

With the popularity of Visica1c and Russia's cubes, the chain of stores in charge of Festra is also expanding rapidly, blossoming everywhere, even if two strategic investment partners are introduced, it still costs millions of dollars every month.

Akira Kurosawa's "Shadow Warrior" seems to be a bottomless pit, investing 2oo US dollars in May, but at the end of August, there was news from Japan that it needed to be refinanced, so Shen Chong invested another 2oo ...... (Note 2)

Rolling Stone separated, and Shen Chong injected $40,000 into Wu Chuchu's new company......

For the establishment of the Taiwan branch of Oriental Charm, Shen Chong allocated a budget of 1oo US dollars to Zhang Aijia in one go......

invested in Jin Shijie and others to establish Lanling Opera Workshop, Shen Chong waved his hand and spent more than 50,000 US dollars to buy a movie theater in Taipei, ready to be converted into a theater......

Its three magazines are all money-losing goods, and they have to fill in two or three hundred thousand dollars every month......

After all kinds of expenses, Shen Chong was very limited, so at the end of September, when he joined Hutchison Whampoa's business, he still used all the patents of the Rubik's Cube as collateral and got a loan, only to get 8oo US dollars.

And these 8oo are now all in the gold futures market, if you can exchange Visica1c for some cash and Apple shares, it is a very good business.

Shen Chong was in Beijing, feeling that his influence was still not enough, and his weight was not enough, and those heads and brains basically regarded him as a promising young expert, and when they talked to him, although they listened carefully, they didn't put it in their hearts......

Shen Chong needs to make a big move and tell them, I'm not a fluttering expert, I'm a local tyrant, a golden and heavy local tyrant!

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Note 1: See "Apple's Capital Rise and Fall Record"

Note 2: "Shadow Warrior" ended up investing nearly $1ooo dollars.

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