"So, you mean you want your brother to join Start Records as an artist?" In the hotel, after listening to Lin Junfeng's purpose, Chen Qiming couldn't help but ask: "Your family has many industries in Singapore, many of which have entertainment investment, why did you choose to send him to our company?" ”。

Lin Junfeng explained: "Brother Qiming, you are the most talented singer in the current Chinese music scene.

And your starting point records have a lot of creative talents, and I don't think there is a better record label than starting point records.

In addition, my little brother's greatest wish is to be on the same stage with you. ”

Chen Qiming nodded and accepted the reason.

However, he didn't agree at the first time, but muttered a little, and then looked at Lin Junjie: "Your current age is actually not suitable for your debut immediately, my suggestion is that you study systematically for a few years."

So, even if I sign you, you may not have the opportunity to make your debut in a few years, but you will have to do a lot of training in the company.

You have to think about it, you know, the training in our company is very hard.

Jay Chou you know! He trained hard at the company for more than a year before his debut. ”

"I can endure hardship." Lin Junjie looked resolute.

"Okay, then you find time to go to Treasure Island, I will notify the company to sign a contract with you, and I will also find someone to train you."

Now that Lin Junjie has confirmed that he wants to join his company, Chen Qiming will definitely not turn him away.

After all, Lin Junjie's grades in his dream are still very good.

Moreover, he also has a good creative ability, which is very much in line with the original style of the starting point record.

With Chen Qiming's consent, Lin Junjie was very happy and assured: "Brother Qiming, don't worry, I will definitely work hard to complete the company's learning tasks." ”

"Work hard!" Chen Qiming patted him on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

For Lin Junjie, Chen Qiming does not attach great importance to it at present.

If he wants to make his debut, he will have to wait a few more years.

There is no way, the company is currently mainly promoting Jay Chou and Tao Zhe.

Before their popularity status is officially consolidated, the company does not have much resources to continue to praise Lin Junjie.

So, even if he joins the company, he has to wait.

The two brothers stayed with Chen Qiming for more than an hour before leaving.

When they left, Chen Qiming received another call from Jet Li.

Jet Li called to apologize.

In March, Jet Li contacted Chen Qiming and asked him to help him get through Hollywood, and he wanted to enter Hollywood.

At that time, Chen Qiming agreed and contacted Paramount Pictures for him.

Paramount, for part, also agreed to let Jet Li audition for a new project that Paramount was about to make.

As a result, Jet Li has now accepted the invitation of Golden Harvest's project "Super Agent", and obviously can't go to that crew.

Jet Li was introduced by Chen Qiming, and now he suddenly doesn't go to the audition, which will obviously make Paramount think that the person introduced by Chen Qiming is unreliable.

That's why Jet Li specially called to apologize.

In addition, Jet Li's apology has another meaning.

As we all know, the current relationship between Pacific Entertainment and companies such as Golden Harvest is antagonistic.

Just like the New Art City and Golden Harvest in the 80s.

The film projects of both sides will basically be opponents in the same schedule.

Now, Jet Li suddenly joined Golden Harvest's camp to shoot movies, which seems to have some flavor of helping Golden Harvest deal with Pacific Entertainment.

Although Chen Qiming and Jet Li do not have a particularly good relationship, they are also friends.

He was clearly upset about it.

"Don't worry, I'm an actor, I understand you very well, you don't have to take it to heart."

In the face of Jet Li's apology, Chen Qiming said that he understood him very well.

Chen Qiming is an actor, and he knows very well that an actor can't help himself.

Especially Jet Li is currently a freelance actor, which company's movies he plays is a very normal thing in itself.

That being said, though.

But Chen Qiming has already decided in his heart that he will not introduce the film to Jet Li in the future.

This kind of thankless work, whoever loves to do it will do it.

……

In late June, Chen Qiming has been flying around the world.

The venue of the concert, the organizers, and the number of performances in various places have all been resolved.

In July, tickets for his "97 Global Tour Concert" this year will officially go on sale.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was July.

On July 1, Hong Kong, a wanderer who had left the arms of his mother for many years, officially returned to the embrace of the motherland.

On this day, the whole country celebrates.

All over the country, firecrackers rang out everywhere, and news about Hong Kong's return dominated all the headlines.

That night, after the handover ceremony, a large-scale theatrical performance party was held at the Hong Kong Bauhinia Cultural Square.

Chen Qiming, Lin Zixiang, Ye Qianwen, Faye Wong, Andy Lau and other four heavenly kings all appeared on the stage to celebrate the return of the wanderer.

That night, Chen Qiming sang a total of three songs.

Sing "Chinese" with Andy Lau.

sang "Departure" and "Friends" soloist.

At the end of the show, Chen Qiming also participated in the subsequent cocktail party with a group of Hong Kong stars, and took a group photo with many bigwigs who can only be seen on the news.

Not to mention, Chen Qiming's influence is really great now.

In his conversations with these beings, he learned that many of these people often listen to their own songs.

Among them, there was a big guy who sang a few words on the spot, Chen Qiming's heart was too soft.

The return became the biggest event in early July.

It's all about this everywhere, some people are confused, some people are happy......

……

"The attention of this show is really too great, and all the songs you sang at the show have entered the top of the radio broadcast charts around the world.

"Chinese" is currently ranked first on more than a dozen radio stations, and this song has swept the entire continent. ”

Li Xiaowen rushed into Chen Qiming's office with a data sheet.

Chen Qiming took the data and looked at it.

Sure enough, all the classic songs sung by the stars on the night of the first day once again entered the top of dozens of radio stations in Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Guangxi because of the huge attention of this party.

Among them, the data of "Chinese" is the best, followed by Lin Zixiang's "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", and then Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Walk Once".

The major lists, counting down in rows, are all songs sung that night.

"As a result of this wave of exposure, your previous record sales have all risen sharply this week.

In particular, "Hello, Friend" received 200,000 orders at this week's Cantonese Audiovisual Ordering Festival. ”

Li Xiaowen excitedly pulled out an order form from it.

The so-called audio-visual ordering festival is a very distinctive audio-visual festival in Guangdong.

Every July, merchants from all over the world gather here.

Some of these merchants came from Sichuan and Yunnan in the southwest, but also from the three eastern provinces.

They all gathered here to dig up records.

In the 90s, Guangdong was the music center of China, and the capital was inferior.

There are not only a large number of pop singers in Guangdong, such as Mao Ning, Yang Yuying, Li Chunbo, Lin Yilun and so on.

In addition to Guangdong singers, the records of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers entered the mainland, and Guangdong was also the first stop.

Most of the records of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers are valued by these merchants at the Guangdong ordering festival, and then they are ordered and sold all over the country.

However, in recent years, the order festival has become more and more stretched.

In the first few years, popular singers like Chen Qiming started with millions of orders on the order festival.

However, as piracy has become more and more rampant in recent years, many pirate businessmen have pirated the records directly when they were still being released in Hong Kong and Taiwan for the sake of profit, and then sent them to all parts of the country.

The rampant piracy has also made the order volume of the order festival in the past two years lower and lower.

This time, "Hello, Friend" was able to get an order of 200,000 at one time, which is obviously an amazing record.

"Damn those pirates in the mainland, if it weren't for them, your total record sales would have doubled." Li Xiaowen hates piracy so much.

The same is true for Chen Qiming.

Piracy in the mainland is definitely the most rampant.

All singers, including Chen Qiming, have been more or less affected by their record sales in the mainland.

Chen Qiming, in particular, is the most popular among pirates.

No matter how the starting point record hits, if you destroy a factory today, a new one will be built next door tomorrow.

It's also to blame Chen Qiming's record for being too popular.

He is the most popular of all Hong Kong star singers, and he is also in the mainland.

Because of his popularity, these pirates targeted him and desperately slaughtered him.

His latest album "Hello, Friend", according to incomplete statistics, has at least tens of millions of pirated copies on the mainland market.

As for the sales of genuine copies, the total sales in the mainland are only more than 2.7 million copies.

More than 2.7 million, which seems to be a lot, has occupied the forefront of Chen Qiming's record sales in all regions.

But you must know that Chen Qiming's previous records have never sold less than 3.5 million copies in the mainland.

With the popularity of this record in the market, it has only received 2.7 million yuan in the mainland, so you can imagine how big the impact of piracy is.

"I am handling immigration here, and I should officially settle in Hong Kong at the end of the year, and I will strive to synchronize the future record distribution with Hong Kong and Taiwan.

At that time, the impact of piracy should be much reduced. ”

Chen Qiming is definitely the Hong Kong and Taiwan singer who has been hit the hardest by piracy.

Among them, in addition to being the most popular, there is also a reason for the household registration problem.

Records of Treasure Island singers released on the mainland generally have a review period.

This review period can be as short as one or two months, as long as six months or a year.

Even if Chen Qiming has a good relationship with the mainland and can open an acceleration channel, he cannot release records simultaneously with other regions.

And for piracy.

If you slow down for a day, you will be hit by a huge shock.

Every time, Chen Qiming's record has only been released in Hong Kong and Taiwan for a month, and the mainland has not yet been officially released, and pirated copies have already appeared on the market.

Coupled with the fact that piracy is cheap, naturally, the sales of genuine copies will decline sharply.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, Chen Qiming is working hard to settle in Hong Kong.

Settling in Hong Kong is still of great benefit to him.

In addition to the fact that the records can be directly released in the mainland in the future, commercial investment will be of great benefit.

Li Xiaowen thought of the benefits of settling in Hong Kong, and couldn't help but nod, "This is indeed a good way." ”

"But ......" paused, she asked: "You immigrated to Hong Kong, ...... on the treasure island?"

"It's okay, I've already opened up a good relationship." Chen Qiming waved his hand and said.

In fact, if he could, he didn't want to settle in Hong Kong.

But there is no way, the stall is big, sometimes there is a lot to consider, and immigrating to Hong Kong is undoubtedly the most beneficial for him.

……

In July, Hong Kong's return to the motherland was undoubtedly celebrated by the whole world.

But with that came a crisis.

The economic crisis is coming.

On July 2, 1997, Thailand announced that it would abandon the fixed exchange rate system and implement a floating exchange rate system, which directly triggered a financial turmoil throughout Southeast Asia.

On the same day, the exchange rate of the Thai baht against the US dollar fell by 17%, and foreign exchange and other financial markets were in chaos.

Under the influence of the fluctuation of the Thai baht, the Philippine peso, the Indonesian rupiah, and the Malaysian ringgit have become the targets of international speculators.

Although the storm has not yet affected Hong Kong, it has also affected Hong Kong.

The biggest impact is the rise in prices and the fact that citizens are not spending.

The market, which had been relatively prosperous, suddenly became sluggish.

Among them, the entertainment industry is also one of them.

Entering the middle of July, fewer people are buying records, and fewer people are going to the cinema to watch movies.

Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in Thailand, the entire Southeast Asian film market, including Hong Kong, has been in a downturn in the following weeks.

Within a few weeks, all the films released were released at a loss.

The same is true for Chen Qiming's Pacific Cinema Line.

"The Birth of a Word", which was just released in the past few weeks, was originally well received, but it was released for three weeks and only received less than 3 million Hong Kong dollars.

In addition, Chen Qiming's Peacebird clothing company has also been affected to a certain extent.

In July's sales reports in Southeast Asia, Peacebird's clothing and sports shoes revenue was 30% lower than that of the previous month.

The same is true for record sales.

Chen Qiming's album, which was originally a hot seller in the market again because of the return party, suddenly fell again after the financial turmoil.

To be honest, Chen Qiming himself can't do anything about this.

Even if Chen Qiming knew that this round of financial turmoil would affect Hong Kong, Hong Kong was still one of the protagonists in the fight against this financial turmoil.

But he couldn't help it.

This is a financial war, and he is involved in it as a person who doesn't know much about finance, and the only end is to be eaten to the point that there is no blood left.

Therefore, after the financial turmoil began, Chen Qiming only did one thing, and that was to collect funds.

He sold off all his personal stocks and some industries that could be affected.

This includes a 2.5 percent stake in TVB.

In addition, he also collected all the company's funds into an investment company, which was used to control the company.

I don't know if I don't close it, as soon as I put it away, Chen Qiming himself was taken aback.

His current personal funds have reached a staggering $120 million.

And that's not even counting the market value of its properties.

If the market value of his companies is included, he is worth at least $500 million.

Among them, the market value of Peacebird Clothing Company is the highest.

At present, Peacebird has achieved the position of the top clothing company in Southeast Asia, with a market value of 360 million US dollars.

Although it is only the market capitalization, in terms of liquidity, the liquidity of several companies under Chen Qiming is not low.

At present, several of his companies have at least $100 million in liquidity.

If converted into RMB, this means that Chen Qiming currently has at least 1.4 billion RMB at his disposal.

Of course, some money can't be moved too much, and moving it will affect the company's operation.

However, even so, it is terrifying.

Chen Qiming didn't expect that he would accumulate such a large amount of capital in just five years.

(End of chapter)