On December 23, "God of Gamblers" ushered in its first weekend night, and from 6pm that day, all theaters on Hong Kong Island were full, and there were countless people waiting in line for the next show......

"Oh, really, you have to come early to buy tickets...... "A couple in the queue complained.

"I didn't think there would be so many people coming to see it." The man said aggrievedly.

"Haven't you heard that God of Gamblers is good? How many people are waiting to see it on the weekend? The woman said hatefully.

"Is it really that pretty?" The man muttered.

"Of course it's pretty, I've already seen it, and this is the second time I've seen it." A guy in line on the side interjected, "People spent 30 million to shoot it, can it be bad?" ”

"Fa Ge is really handsome......" The interjector's girlfriend also shouted.

"Qi Bing's performance is also quite good, I've watched it twice, all to see her, hehe......" another queuer shouted.

A similar situation was staged in almost every cinema at the same time, and the news reached Zhongtian Film and Television, alarming Wang Fatzi, who was satisfied and proud to celebrate the box office breakthrough of 30 million - look at the recent comments in the newspaper, almost all of them are saying good things about "God of Gamblers", and they are all commenting on Director Wang's talent, it can be said that this has laid the foundation for this film to break through the box office record of Hong Kong Island film and television, and Wang Fatzi is indeed qualified to be satisfied.

Although speaking of which, the investment cost of this movie is really high, but Wang Fatzi's original goal is not to lose money, as long as he completes the requirements of Tianshao and makes a good film with a good reputation. Everything else is secondary.

But at this moment, the news suddenly broke out. The weekend erupted. The movie theaters are full, which is a surprise for Wang Fat!

After confirming the news, Wang Fatzi immediately called Wu Tian to report, but was told that Wu Tian had checked out of the hotel, and then called back to the mall, but he still couldn't find Wu Tian himself.

Under normal circumstances, every time Wu Tian arrives at a new place, he will ask Fan Xiaojian to contact the general person in charge of each project. Inform the contact number of Wu Tian's location - there is no mobile phone these days, and the roaming function of the pager is also problematic, which is really inconvenient.

For a while, Wang Fatzi was like a child who had just received a certificate of award, and he couldn't find his parents to boast about it, and he was in a hurry, only thinking that Wu Tian might have just left from Mingzhu City, and he was still on the way. I had no choice but to stay up all night, but I didn't want to be able to contact Wu Tian the next morning.

Wang Fatzi was anxious, and contacted Yang Xiaoya, Liu Xiaoqing and others, but there was still no news from Wu Tian, and he couldn't help but worry. Could it be that Tianshao is missing?

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Fan Xiaojian finally called. But it was to inform Wang Fatzi that Tianshao had arrived in the United States......

"The sky is small, Wang Fatzi said that "God of Gamblers" suddenly broke out on the weekend, since last night, the movie theater is full, and there are queues for a few streets......" Fan Xiaojian hung up Wang Fatzi's phone and reported to Wu Tian with a smile.

Wu Tian, who was chatting with Chen Jiahua, was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then laughed, it seems that his decision to spend an extra 10 million or 20 million is correct, "God of Gamblers" still has stamina, and the effect is even better than that of the previous life, not only breaking the box office record on Hong Kong Island is not a problem, but it is estimated that it will also create a miracle.

"Tian Shao, Wang Fatzi said that he has coordinated the cinema to increase the number of theaters and screenings of "God of Gamblers", Fan Xiaojian said with some excitement, "Well, Wang Fatzi said that if it weren't for Christmas Eve, it is estimated that the box office would exceed 40 million today." ”

I have to say that the schedule of "God of Gamblers" is not very good, the first release time is not a weekend, and the first time to catch up with the weekend, but it is Christmas Eve, so you have to miss a lot of audiences. Because of this, Wu Tian was still quite dissatisfied with the second child of the He family, and when he handed over the release of the movie to you, it was not for you not to take our 30 million films seriously, but to choose such a schedule, which is really infuriating!

But there is no way, after all, Tianzheng Film and Television currently has no advantage in the distribution area, and it is not bad to be able to get the New Year's file, after all, the He family also postponed one of their own films before giving up this prime time, even Wu Tian has nothing to say.

It is gold that always shines, and "God of Gamblers" finally achieved the success that should have belonged to it because of the big investment and the big production, and a generation of classics has finally been made more carefully and more demanding by Wu Tian, and it has finally radiated greater success than the previous life.

"Well, sue Wang Fatty, he did a good job, as for Christmas Eve tonight, don't worry too much about the impact, anyway, the main battlefield of this film is not Hong Kong Island, it doesn't matter how much you earn." Wu Tianchao Fan Xiaojian commanded.

"Hey," Fan Xiaojian responded, and said hesitantly, "Tianshao, is it better for you to praise him in person?" ”

Wu Tian smiled and shook his head, and said, "You just go and talk about it, I'm talking about business here." ”

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"Xiaotian, the IT industry here in the United States is relatively prosperous now, but the domestic market doesn't seem to be very big, and I heard that the development of Zhongguancun is not very good......," Chen Jiahua said worriedly.

"Not now, doesn't mean it won't work in the future." Wu Tian said, "The golden age of domestic computers is coming soon, and the scale of this market will be beyond imagination!" ”

In fact, it is still too early to say that the golden age of domestic computers is still early, and the most popular time for real domestic computer sales should be from the late nineties to the beginning of the two thousand years, and in recent years, computers have been more assembled in government agencies and education systems. However, in comparison, there is no doubt that the past few years have been an era of huge profits, and the profits of a single machine are quite high. The profit from selling one is even much higher than buying ten in the future. It is not an exaggeration to call it a golden age.

Chen Jiahua was still a little hesitant. Although Chen Jiahua did not believe in Wu Tian's "prophecy", it was just because the plan made by Wu Tian was too huge, and the scale of investment required made him really difficult to accept.

Wu Tian plans to invest in a computer manufacturing company in China and establish an IT brand. In order to complete this plan in China, it will inevitably involve a lot of technical problems, and Wu Tian does not want to be led by Lao Mi in the future, so this guy actually requires the manufacturing technology of relevant parts to be mastered in his own hands. Forming a complete set of all PC-related production technologies!

But Chen Jiahua roughly calculated, except for some companies that really can't swallow it, if you want to complete Wu Tian's plan, you will have to invest at least nearly a billion US dollars to barely complete it, which is too expensive.

"Lao Chen, the current investment amount is indeed a bit high, but the return in the future is not small. You can also see how fast Microsoft's performance has grown in the past two years, and the domestic market will definitely grow much faster than the market in the United States. What would it be? Wu Tianchun said inductively.

"One for everyone? How is that possible? Chen Jiahua was stunned.

"What's impossible?" Wu Tian smiled and stretched out his hand to geek. He said, "Well, if you make a computer so big and so thin, do you think it's possible?" ”

"Uh, how can a computer be that small?" Chen Jiahua was stunned again and said.

Wu Tian smiled silently, what he just compared was just the size of an ordinary notebook, Chen Jiahua thought it was incredible, not to mention that when the era of smart phones arrived, everyone would have a high-tech product that could surf the Internet, play games, send emails, work, etc., and all the functions that the current computer has, and even the functions that could not be realized, would be even more impossible for him to think!

But it's no wonder that Chen Jiahua's vision can't be so long-term, you must know that the current computer is indeed too bulky, and when it comes to laptops, they have not yet officially come out, and now they can only be called portable PCs, and the most advanced ones are also big guys weighing more than ten pounds. It will take another two or three years for the first laptop to come out before IBM develops the ThinkPad and enters a new era.

Of course, Wu Tian will not let go of this opportunity, although before IBM launches the product, we are not able to directly develop this thing - after all, IBM is the leader of the industry, and everything is based on others, and all non-IBM personal computers must be called IBM compatible machines, and this limelight cannot be stolen from others for the time being. However, Wu Tian doesn't mind being the first manufacturer to launch an IBM notebook compatible machine, and he has made a lot of money if he does a good job.

"If computers can really be made that small, the size of the market will indeed be very large, and some families will probably have several ...... per family," Chen Jiahua said with a frown.

Since he started an investment company with Wu Tian, according to Wu Tian's requirements, most of the company's funds have been invested in the IT industry, but after more than a year, he has made a lot of profits, and Mr. Chen's understanding of the IT industry is also much thorough. Therefore, if it is really as Wu Tian described, the scale and development prospects of this industry are indeed immeasurable......

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"Xiaotian, I have no objection to entering this industry, but we don't need to acquire so many upstream manufacturers, right?" Chen Jiahua said, "We can completely follow the example of Compaq, use parts from other manufacturers for assembly, only sell finished products, and only engage in branding, so that the risk is much smaller......

Wu Tian shook his head slightly, in fact, the way of thinking that Chen Jiahua said was quite in line with the rules. The computer industry is different from other industries, and this industry has a fairly wide openness in a certain way, which has to mention IBM. When IBM ushered in the PC era, one of the most important decisions was open standards. All manufacturers are allowed to produce compatible accessories and complete machines that comply with IBM standards. It has greatly promoted the prosperity and development of personal computers. And this also means that IBM has given up a lot of market space. It allows other manufacturers to easily assemble products with compatible accessories, and Compaq is one of them.

With a start-up capital of only $30 million, Compaq assembled an IBM-compatible machine entirely from compatible accessories, arguably without any technical problems, and was quite clever enough to buy the only patent that allowed them to compile the BIOS. It can be said that Compaq entered this large market without any risk and grew at a rather astonishing rate.

However, because of the lack of core technology, Compaq finally sunset in the new standard era.

The same manufacturer also has Lenovo, which has just transformed from an agent this year to produce its own brand products. However, Lenovo's fate is much luckier than Compaq, because with the support of the official background, Lenovo even finally swallowed the mythical IBM-PC division, but what it got was only the right to use a brand, as well as some international marketing channels, but the real technology is really limited - because the overly generous IBM has lost the right to set standards, and those spare parts manufacturers who relied on IBM to start have grown up and formed their own alliances to develop new standards for various components. The core technology patents have long had little to do with IBM......

Wu Tian said: "The current PC market is all using IBM compatible standards, and there are many products that do not have patent fees. However, this compatible standard is now free for IBM, but once that day comes, IBM is no longer a standard maker, or in the field of related components, there are other standards that have been formulated, we can't participate in it, we will inevitably be stuck, and a large amount of profits will be taken away by others. ”

For this, Wu Tian has a deep understanding, not only in the IT industry, domestic manufacturers are very painful in many technical fields, although after 20 years, the country has finally cultivated some international brands, but those so-called international brands, but every time a product is sold, they have to pay patent royalties to the relevant upstream manufacturers, and even some products domestic manufacturers make money, not as much as foreign patent companies!

If you want to change the situation in the future, you must start acting now, because many core technology patents in later generations have been researched and laid the foundation in the past few years.

Although Wu Tian does not think that he can change the name of China's manufacturing power in the future to a technological power by relying on his own strength, at least Wu Tian hopes that the country will not be stuck by people in most of the technical fields, so that he can master a part of it, with fewer restrictions and more initiative......

"Well, what you said makes sense......" Chen Jiahua hesitated for a while again, but after all, he still didn't say the answer that Wu Tian wanted, and only said, "Xiaotian, let me think about it first, okay?" This plan is too big, and the huge amount of money involved is one thing, but the key is ...... Don't get the government's attention, but you're in trouble......"

Wu Tian nodded, Chen Jiahua's concerns were also taken for granted, after all, Chen Jiahua was a native of the United States!

People in China have always had a kind of self-inflicted mentality, believing that all ethnic Chinese should love the motherland, but they do not think that the motherland in the minds of a considerable number of ethnic Chinese is not China. It's like they don't necessarily think that all the blacks in the United States love Africa, they don't think it's their "motherland".

However, although a considerable number of Chinese people who have grown up in the United States for several generations believe that the United States is their motherland, the mainstream of the United States does not necessarily accept them, and it is common for Chinese people to be excluded, discriminated against, and bullied in the United States.

This is exactly the case with Chen Jiahua, who is a Chinese American who has done business in China, and is definitely a person who is specially "cared for" by the government. If it weren't for the fact that a large part of the companies involved in Tianhua Investment are small companies that are not well-known, and the amount of funds of some large companies in which it participates is not very large, I am afraid that it would have been strictly monitored by the CIA long ago.

And once Chen Jiahua touches some more sensitive technical fields, he is afraid that the special treatment of being monitored will be enjoyed immediately!

There is a more important question, Wu Tian's meaning is obvious, the purpose of controlling those technology companies is still to serve domestic companies, even if they don't talk about technology export, I'm afraid they have to let go of the patent issue, as for helping domestic companies to cultivate some technology research and development talents, it is even more necessary, this is to touch the "minefield"!

As a Chinese national, even if he is a Chinese who has some feelings for the motherland, it is too normal for Chen Jiahua to worry about himself.

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"Merry Christmas!" Wu Tianchao's Chen Lili, who had just entered the door, said with a smile.

"Why did you only come today?" Chen Lili said to Wu Tian complainingly.

There is also a tall Christmas tree in the Chen family's living room, which is quite beautifully decorated, but the lights on it are turned off, after all, Christmas Eve is yesterday.

Originally, Wu Tian planned to wait until the Spring Festival to come to the United States, after all, there were too many things a year ago, and many problems were rushed together. But when he didn't want to be in Mingzhu City, he received an invitation call from Chen Lili, hoping that Wu Tian would go to the United States for Christmas. Anyway, the problem on Mingzhu's side has been almost arranged, and Wu Tian accepted it with great enthusiasm, but he didn't want to calculate the wrong time, and it was already Christmas Day when he flew to the United States.

Although more than ten years later, Christmas is also quite popular in China, but in a considerable sense, it is purely an excuse for merchants to have one more promotion, at least below the second-tier cities, basically except for the big promotion in shopping malls, don't want to feel any Christmas atmosphere at all, even if some people will engage in some Christmas pies, it is purely a pastime for some young people.

Although Wu Tian was born in the provincial capital in his last life, when Christmas was popular in China, his age and figure were no longer suitable for joining in this kind of excitement, not to mention Comrade Fan Xiaojian at this time, it is forgivable for the wrong time for the ticket.

"It's late, but the gift is still the same." Wu Tian smiled, and Fan Xiaojian, who was on the side, hurriedly handed a beautifully decorated small box to Wu Tian.

"What kind of gift?" Chen Lili happily took the box and said, "Can you open it?" ”

Wu Tian smiled and nodded, Chen Lili opened the package excitedly, but saw that it was a small jewelry box, opened the jewelry box, but saw a crystal clear green gem lying inside.

"What is this? Emerald? Chen Lili curiously picked up the green gem, but saw that as soon as the gem left the box, it was illuminated by the light, which made it even more crystal clear, and it was even more verdant, which made people can't help but put it down.

"It's called Jadeite, right? It's so beautiful, it's rare to see it......" Chen Jiahua also came up and looked at it twice, and said with a smile.

"Emerald?" Chen Lili said suspiciously, obviously she had never heard of this kind of gem.

It is no wonder that the value of jadeite today is not as exaggerated as that of later generations, and the main market for this thing is China, and there are not many foreigners playing jadeite, and some people even think that this is a gemstone. However, Wu Tian is quite clear about what the value of this thing will rise in the future, for example, this imperial green in Chen Lili's hand, don't look at the small size, the future worth will be millions!

The reason why the value of jadeite can reach such a high level is largely caused by speculation, and more importantly, this speculation is not only because of the speculation of businessmen, but also because of the government of the only place of origin!

Although it is not yet the time for the jade craze to rise, not long ago, Wu Tian still arranged a small task for Song Zhuyi, asking him to inspect the jade market, let him familiarize himself with the market situation first, so as to assign him tasks in the future, and help himself choose some New Year's gifts by the way, this jade is just one of them......

[Sadly, yesterday's network failure, today a total of 18,000, ask for a monthly pass, come to some power......]

[Bow and thank you for the monthly pass of the compromise, kiss a lot!] (To be continued......)