The plane landed at Guangzhou/Zhou Airport, and after Kang Jianfei negotiated with CCTV about investing in "Journey to the West", he took Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin to Guangzhou/Zhou.

Why will Zhang Mingmin follow Kang Jianfei all the way?

The answer is very simple, Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records, the former specializes in Chinese songs, and the latter produces Cantonese songs for Zhang Mingmin.

In the year when Kang Jian flew to Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who worked in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition, and was favored by Hong Kong Eternal Records.

Deng Bingheng, the boss of Eternal Records, was also a whimsical person, and at that time Hong Kong was already the world of Cantonese songs, he saw that Taiwan's campus folk songs were very popular, and thought that singing Chinese songs in Hong Kong should be more promising.

So, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a Chinese ballad "Country Road", and the result was self-evident, and he threw himself on the street so that his mother didn't know him.

Later, during the Sino-British negotiations, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity to take advantage of, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to compose a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.

Needless to say, everyone knows who Huang Zhan is, Wang Fuling is also a first-class composer in Hong Kong, and Chen Xunqi's mentor, Chen Xunqi's music knowledge was learned from Wang Fuling.

The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart", which was released in 1982 and still hit the streets. It wasn't until Huang Yihe overheard this song that he invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 83 Spring Festival Gala, and "My Chinese Heart" was well-known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.

As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not very famous in Hong Kong, and even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself still does not know that "My Chinese Heart" has become popular in the mainland.

Although "My Chinese Heart" has sold more than one million records in the mainland, Zhang Mingmin really didn't get a few dollars, and songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling didn't get any royalties.

What made Zhang Mingmin even more desperate was that. Since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, the Eternal Record Company, which has been taking good care of him, has directly refrigerated it, because Eternal Records needs the Taiwanese record market, and he does not dare to release records for Zhang Mingmin, a leftist singer.

So Zhang Mingmin has been very miserable in the past two years, he is very popular in the mainland but can't make money, and when he returns to Hong Kong, he can't release records, so he can only run around and sing, and sometimes he needs to work to make money to support himself.

Now that Kang Jianfei has sent out an invitation letter, Zhang Mingmin seems to have grasped a life-saving straw. Without even thinking about it, he agreed to join Hung Fei Records and Popular Records.

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There are very few people in the mainland who take planes, and there are even fewer at the beginning of the first month, and Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin, and Li Ningyu are simply chartered flights.

It was only when he walked into the airport hall that he gradually gained a little popularity, and Kang Jianfei was recognized in three instants.

"Zhang Mingmin!"

"Li Ningyu!"

"Michael!"

More than half of the people in the hall gathered around. Because of the popularity of "Royal Senior Sister" in the mainland, Kang Jianfei, the second male lead in the film, is well-known. However, I only know that the role played by Kang Jianfei is called Michael.

The mainland has not yet formed a trend of chasing stars. But when encountering a famous big star in the country, the common people will still rush forward excitedly. This has nothing to do with chasing stars or not, but the Chinese's own talent - onlookers.

Now Kang Jianfei, Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin are being watched, and there are few who want to sign autographs, they all revolve around them to point fingers, and the bold ones take the initiative to chat and chat.

Fortunately, there are not many people in the airport hall. There were only about twenty onlookers watching them, and Kang Jianfei quickly led the two of them out of the encirclement.

"Lingyu, how does it feel to be a big star?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile after getting into the car.

"That's it, I don't feel anything." Li Ningyu said insincerely. She still has all kinds of news reports about herself in her bag, which she has specially collected and cut out and pasted in her notebook.

Zhang Ming sensitively said: "It's too easy to become famous in the mainland, after I participated in the Spring Festival Gala in 83, I will be recognized wherever I go to the mainland." ”

From a certain point of view, what Zhang Mingmin said is the truth, the mainland in the 80s and 90s was indeed very famous and profitable, but the premise is that you have vision, brains, and connections. At this time, many government civil servants or factory workers could earn several times their wages as long as they went to the sea, but few of them were willing to throw away their iron jobs and work alone.

If you want to be famous, it depends more on relationships, such as Mao Aming, the first sister in the music world, there was a singer who sang better and was more qualified than her, but an old lady appreciated Mao Aming and squeezed the path of another singer, letting Mao Aming go to international competitions and perform, and became famous in one fell swoop after winning the award. The female singer who sang better than Mao Amin became a housewife who had difficulty in providing for her daughter's schooling twenty years later.

The most important reason why Zhang Mingmin can become famous is that he has encountered a good song, otherwise with his appearance and singing skills, he will never want to be famous for the rest of his life.

Xiongfei Records is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou/Zhou Records, and the company's address is also next to each other, renting the house of the former Guangzhou/Zhou Record Factory. Now the company has no equipment, and "Dream Water Town" is still recorded in the recording studio of Guangzhou/Zhou Records.

The person who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Ye Zipei's former driver Liang Yong, and now this person also went to Xiongfei Records to work, and his salary has doubled directly.

The car drove through a bustling street, and the song of "Dream Water Town" came from the side of the street, and Liang Yong turned on the car radio, which also played "Dream Water Town".

There is a song that doesn't even need much publicity to make people memorable, so much so that it's played all over the streets.

For example, Lin Huixian's "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que", such as Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Dream Water Town" is also such a song. In another time and space, when "Dream Water Town" first came out in the 90s, for a long time on TV, radio, streets, karaoke, and even schools and factories, you could hear this song wherever you went.

Now that there is a platform for the Spring Festival Gala to do publicity, and a channel for sales from China Record Corporation, "Dream Water Town" can definitely be said to have blossomed across the country overnight.

When China Record Company released "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was still called China Record Society at that time, and there was no company system reform. Local record societies and record studios at the provincial and municipal levels, although nominally belonging to China Record Societies, are very chaotic in their management of each other.

So "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released, and the sales on paper only exceeded 1 million copies. Counting the number of reports concealed by local record companies, the sales of that record were at least 2 million or more, and it may even have sold more than 3 million copies.

And now, after the reform of the record company's corporate system, the distribution and publicity are much smoother, and the phenomenon of concealing sales has also been curbed, and "Dream Water Town" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

You heard it right, 50,000 copies sold in Hong Kong are platinum records, and many singers are desperate to get it in their lifetime, and "Dream Water Town" sold 140,000 on the first day in the mainland.

Due to the lag in publicity, many people did not know that "Dream Water Town" had been released on tape on the first day. Single-day record sales on the second day of the first lunar month soared to 160,000 copies, and only fell back to 110,000 single-day sales on the third day of the first lunar month.

In just three days, the first batch of 400,000 pieces of inventory of "Dream Water Town" was sold, and most of the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country were in an emergency, and now the factory is expediting the irrigation.

And now the price of genuine tapes in the mainland is terrifying. A radio is just over 100, and a movie ticket costs 5 cents. But a genuine cassette tape costs 5 dollars.

You heard it right. At this time, the average monthly salary of workers was only a few dozen yuan, and a box of tapes cost 5 yuan to buy. You may think that the price is outrageous, but it is actually a matter of values.

Twenty years later, I didn't like it when I bought a box, and I threw it aside after listening to it for a few days. But today's tapes are like furniture and electrical appliances in people's eyes. It is worth keeping for a long time, and you can basically listen to it for years after buying a box.

Excluding the China Record Corporation, Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company, as well as supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country, it took only three days. Xiongfei Records has more than 500,000 yuan in the account, and Kang Jianfei promised Li Ningyu a 1% profit share at that time.

is a profit share, not a royalty share from record sales, that is, if Xiongfei Records has an account of 500,000 yuan, then Li Ningyu can personally get 5,000 yuan.

It's not that Kang Jianfei, a capitalist, is too black-hearted, but the form of Xiongfei Records is very deformed, nominally a branch of Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company, which is a subsidiary of China Record Corporation, and several percent of the profits are directly taken away by the previous two companies, and they still need various ways to get through the relationship, so they really don't dare to give too much money to the singer.

And even a 1% profit share is a big figure for the general wage in the mainland.

Now is the era when 10,000 households can see the newspaper, Li Ningyu became half a 10,000 yuan household in three days, and I don't know how eye-catching the road is when the news comes out.

Because he has to walk around these days, Ye Zipei is not in the company. When Kang Jianfei came to Xiongfei Records with the two singers, there were only two liaison officers working here, making phone calls from time to time, recording and counting information from all over the country.

Kang Jianfei asked for a contract for Zhang Mingmin to initial, then counted 1,000 yuan to Li Ningyu, and said: "It will take a month or two for the record to be divided, you can use this money as pocket money first, buy something and go home to visit your parents." ”

Now it is still the third set of RMB, and the maximum denomination is only 10 yuan, and 1,000 yuan is a thick stack.

Li Ningyu took the envelope quite excitedly, and pulled out a stack of swarthy tickets, she had never seen so much money since she was a child, swallowed her saliva and said, "This ...... That's too much, why do I always feel unsure, like stolen money. ”

It was the first time Kang Jianfei saw the singer think that he got too much money, he smiled and said: "You just take it, but don't go around and say it, if someone asks, they will say that you only get a few hundred yuan." ”

"I know the truth, and I won't talk nonsense." Li Ningyu nodded seriously rather cutely.

The faster the money comes these days, the easier it is to attract jealousy, and maybe it will be reported one day. Li Ningyu's father is an old worker in the factory, and his annual salary is just over 1,000 yuan, and the 1,000 yuan in her hand can be imagined to weigh it.

Kang Jian Feiyue felt that this girl was cute, and said with a smile: "Okay, wait for Sister Pei to arrange a job for you, and tomorrow you will go back to Shang/Hai to celebrate the New Year with your family." ”

Li Ningyu originally had a very bad impression of Kang Jianfei, but now that she has completely changed, and even has an inexplicable admiration, she carefully put away the money, looked up at Kang Jianfei and smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Mr. Kang." (To be continued......)