1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 284 Zixiao Palace Listening to a Lecture~
Just after finishing the publication of "Detective Di Renjie" in the summer, Zun Long and the crew of "The Last Generation" returned from Northeast China.

After all, Puyi spent the second half of his life being reformed there, and even served as a puppet in the "Manchukuo" for a period of time.

The Forbidden City captured the first half of his life, and that side captured the second half.

Yongchun and Dalian both need to be visited for filming.

After the crew came back, Xia Tian met them at Maxim's.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was in charge of composing the music, complained to Xia Tian: "Xia-san, you don't know, it's very scary there!"

The "there" he mentioned was the "Manchuria Film Association" where he composed and recorded music, which is now the Changchun Film Studio.

It is said that the layout and conditions there are still preserved from the original "Manchukuo" period.

The only difference is that a bronze statue of the teacher was erected in the factory, while all other parts are intact and have been preserved from the past to the present.

It even made Ryuichi Sakamoto feel like time and space were intertwined!

He said: "I was playing the piano and recording there, and it seemed like I could see the ghost of Captain Amakasu everywhere, which gave me some chills!"

Sakamoto is not only the composer of the crew, but also one of the actors, playing the role of Amakasu, a Japanese officer in the puppet Manchukuo~
This devil committed suicide by taking poison there in history.

Now, playing him in the place where he lived and committed suicide makes Ryuichi Sakamoto feel uneasy.

Xia Tian patted his shoulder and clinked glasses with him: "What's there to be afraid of? After all, the statue of the teacher is there..."

"That's what you said."

……

Xia Tian is still in contact with his friends in Yanjing, and plans to find some college students majoring in fine arts to help color his comic book "Journey to the West".

Then Brother Liu from Yanjing Audio and Video Company - good news came from the delivery room, he got promoted!
Before he was promoted, he paid off the "balance payment" for the summer.

A tape was released in November last year, and it has only been 11 months since then, and all 4 million copies have been sold out!

Two million plates will be consumed in the north and southeast coast alone!
According to statistics from Yanjing alone, more than 400,000 discs were sold!
The population of Yanjing is just over 10 million this year! How many young people can there be?
Four hundred thousand copies sold! Horrible!!!
Everyone inside Yenching Culture, Arts and Audio-Visual Publishing House was stunned!

And Xia Tian’s total share reached 390 million RMB!

Xia Tian: What should I do? What should I do with so much money? ! I am worried! Can't I buy two plots of land? !

Xiaoxu and Zhang Li are now numbed by the shock and have no feeling anymore.

Milan was quite excited, and he started teaching that night - people, people, many, one, from, you, cluster, and...

Xiao Xu took a look and said, "If you don't pull her (Milan) apart, she can suck for more than a minute. She's more powerful than a leech!"

Zhang Li handed over a handkerchief: "Wipe your mouth, your saliva is dripping~"

……

On March 3, Xia Tian went to the Capital Airport to pick up the plane. Old Pai Luo was here again!

This time, he brought several publishing contracts and some accounts that needed Xia Tian to review.

The publishing contract is for some English novels I wrote when I had nothing to do in the summers of the past two years.

Except for a few fresh and romantic stories, most of them are horror and suspense stories.

Although most of what Xia Tian wrote are medium and short stories, experienced book lovers are able to detect fragments and subtle clues from those medium and short stories, and then connect them into a whole!

That’s right, these stories all take place within the same worldview!
In short, although she is not a best-selling author, Charlotte has a group of loyal fans in the United States!
Therefore, his stories have never had trouble being published.

However, now the royalties and profits are no longer worth mentioning to Xia Tian, ​​and the profits from US stocks are the real big part.

Old Pai Luo was a little worried because the number was a bit too large, so he came here to ask Xia Tian to reassure him.

Of course, as Xia Tian’s agent, he also made investments and thus became a wealthy man!
Old Palo brought a lot of gifts for summer, filling two large suitcases!
Oh, yes! The suitcase with wheels and a trolley was something I suddenly remembered when I went to the south two years ago in the summer. I wrote to Old Palo and asked him to register a patent there.

Although I don’t have a factory to produce products, there are several companies that can collect patent fees every year!
Several large luggage brands in the United States have already paid ~
That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in income every year!
And you can keep collecting money for the next 20 years.

The more trolley suitcases you buy in the future, the more you will collect!
It's really delicious~
Xia Tian: "You came just in time! I have an air fryer here. Take the principle and drawings back and apply for a patent. Let's see if anyone buys it~"

Old Palo: "Xia Tian, ​​I feel that I am becoming less and less capable of managing all of this. I think you should find a professional manager and set up a company!"

To be honest, old Palo is already very busy with publishing matters alone.

With all these patents in operation, he, an engineering student, would have his brain boiling!

"Dear old Palo, wait a little longer. In two or three years, I will go to the United States. By then, everything will be on track. Before that, you just keep busy. If things don't work out, hire a few people and start a small company first~" Old Palo soon stopped thinking about work. Since Xia Tian had produced two novellas and five short stories in English, there was no need to urge him anymore.

The rest of the time is spent eating, drinking and having fun!

First, have two bowls of stewed pork and fire cakes! Then go eat mutton hotpot, roast duck, and noodles with soybean paste...

He has made up his mind that when he leaves this time, he will bring back a set of copper stove hot pots from China and eat hot pot at home!

Xia Tian suggested to him: "Then you have to bring a lot of hot pot base. Forget about the dipping sauce. You can prepare it yourself at home. If you don't have sesame paste, peanut butter should be fine, right?"

Xia Tian changed his mind and realized that there might not be beef or mutton rolls sold in the United States.

So I found a technician from Shougang overnight and drew a blueprint - hand-shaved frozen meat rolls!

Roll up the meat and freeze it, put it on top and press it, then it will become thin meat rolls suitable for hot pot!
Lao Pai Luo: Why do I feel that you care more about food than writing novels? !
Xia Tian: ...You are ungrateful!

I arranged to have a concert with Lao Pai Luo in the summer. When I got home in the evening, I suddenly heard music playing at home, and it was a very exciting "Disco"!
This is not the "Hedong Warriors" that was popular last year, but a disco song brought by Old Peloton from the United States. One of the small gifts~
Lao Pai Luo also brought some movie posters and toys for Dachun!
Xia Tian saw Milan leading Xiao Xu and Zhang Li to dance and exercise to the music - they want to strengthen their physical fitness! Compete with Xia Tian!
Xia Tian: You little thing, I didn’t even use any skills~
However, listening to dynamic disco, Xia Tian couldn't help but think of this recent popular trend.

Should I try to create a “Chinese disco” myself?

Nowadays, all the disco music is in foreign languages. As for those in dance halls and skating rinks, I have to fill this gap myself!

He found Manager Li Yang, an old acquaintance of the Yanjing Audio and Video Company, and asked him about the new leader.

"Not bad! 36 years old, ambitious..."

Now I understand, we can indeed talk about it!

Even though Brother Liu was promoted, his later leaders also respected Teacher Jinghongke very much!
"We can split it too! We can talk too!"

Don't bother two people with one thing. It's better to do what you are familiar with. Let's just stick to the original.

As long as we can maintain the previous share, it will be fine.

I started tinkering in my study in the summer - it would be nice to have a set of electronic music equipment~
On April 4, Xia Tian started trying to record songs. The main problem was that it was hard to arrange the music!
Xia Tian even specially invited some top students from the music conservatory to help him with the music.

If you can't find a proper official band, they won't help you record disco music - most people are still more concerned about their reputation nowadays.

So we can only invite those who are younger and more rebellious!

And because I needed to debug the electronic music effects myself, the progress was not very fast at the beginning.

I even plan to "adjust" the tone in the summer, imitating the "electronic voice" of Zhang Qiang, the "disco queen" of the original time and space, and then mixing some of Justin Bieber's tone to add some metallic texture!
I don’t know what happened, but the news of recording the song leaked!

On April 4, the newspaper reported that Xia Tian was preparing a new music album! And it was the very popular and controversial Disco!
Wow, this is so lively!

People in the music industry also stood at attention!
In the past, many people were dissatisfied because Xia Tian always came up with some "unconventional" music genres.

This time he actually "committed the crime against the wind"!
However, Xia Tian is no longer the rising star he once was, and most of those musicians are just making indirect accusations.

Xia Tian now has a wide network of contacts. Although he is busy adjusting the electronic music effects and has no time to argue with them, he still has many friends who speak up for him in the newspapers.

Xia Tian: Thanks to my family and friends! I guess I am a powerful figure now?! The teacher is always right, I have made so many friends!

Xia Tian collected the newspapers of the past few days, "checked the war reports", and then wrote an article.

I won't scold anyone this time - I'm no longer the vanguard who charges into battle. I'm now Brother Song Jiang, the timely rain. I can't jump into people's faces to attack them anymore. It's embarrassing~
What Xia Tian writes is “popular science article”!
"Last year, a new music craze emerged in our area. But I found that neither the young people who liked him nor the conservatives who disparaged him knew the origin of this music craze.

I just happened to know a little bit about it, so I'll share it with you guys as a casual chat."

"The full name of 'Hollyhood East' is 'Hollyhood East Stars', which is translated into Hong Kong as 'Hollyhood Oriental Stars Ball'.

Because Hollywood in the United States is transliterated as "Hollywood" in Cantonese-speaking areas such as Hong Kong, it is abbreviated as "Hodong". It was produced by the Hong Kong Feishi Face Company in 85. It is a representative work of young Hong Kong music producers who love electronic music... It was introduced to the mainland by the China Sing Guangdong Provincial Company. "

"The full name of "Master Mix" is "Master Mix". It is named "Master Mix" because it is similar to the Cantonese word "Mengshi". It is also produced by Hong Kong Feishi Face Company. It was introduced to the mainland by Guangdong Pacific Audio and Video Company last year."

“The word ‘Disco’ is short for ‘Discotheque’, which originally meant a dance hall for people to dance. It originated in France in the early 20s.”

"In the 60s, with the update of music equipment, dance halls only needed a record player to complete the work of the original band, and they could also get a variety of different music at any time, which was both economical and affordable."

"Therefore, major dance halls in Europe and the United States no longer hired bands to provide accompaniment, but instead hired a record player to provide dance music by playing records. Gradually, people also called this dance music played by records disco."

“DISCO is also a musical style, a type of electronic music…

I recently thought that the disco music heard in the mainland is all in foreign languages. So I plan to make some Chinese disco music so that the audience can have their own dance music to listen to..."

At this time of summer, there is a masterly demeanor of calmness and ease.

The dispute is not mentioned at all, as if it has no meaning. No! It is as if there is no dispute at all!
Xia Tian: You guys can make noise downstairs, but keep it low and don’t disturb other people.
When those music industry insiders read this article, they will feel like they have a herniated intestine!
(End of this chapter)