1990My Entertainment System

Chapter 139 93 years have passed…

From a business perspective, Xia Tian's biggest takeaway from the year was the tightening of monetary policy.

The one-year deposit interest rate is 10.98%, which is close to 11%!

No investment or startup can compare to this steady 11% profit!
The value of soft girls has decreased, but land prices in development zones across the country are very cheap.

My friends did this quite a lot during the summer.

Zhang Li's Fengming Real Estate has also acquired several plots of land...

House prices in Yanjing have dropped by 30% this year, but fortunately, the market is still small and the impact is not significant.

It's worth mentioning that Zhongguancun has truly taken off, with the earliest batch of high-tech companies in China either being established there or about to be established there.

As internet companies grow and rents in Zhongguancun remain high, they will expand outwards when they can no longer accommodate everyone, and the Northwest will prosper!
Therefore, developing residential and office buildings in Haiding District has great potential.

In 1990, the average monthly salary in Beijing was around 200 yuan, while the housing price was 1,200 yuan per square meter. This meant that you could buy one square meter if you didn't eat or drink for six months.

In 1995, the average monthly salary in Yanjing was around 700 yuan. Although housing prices had reached 3,000 yuan per square meter, it would take four and a half months to buy one square meter.

By the turn of the century, the average monthly salary in Yanjing was 1,300 yuan, while housing prices had only risen slightly to 4,000 yuan per square meter. One square meter could be bought in three months.

In 2005, the average salary in Yanjing was 2,700 yuan, while the housing price was 5,000 yuan. After two months, one could afford to buy a square meter of housing and still have some pocket money left.
This calculation shows that over the next ten years, housing prices will rise at a slower pace than income growth, resulting in a relative decline in value. Houses are indeed becoming less and less valuable.

That's a bit counterintuitive.

However, this anomaly only lasted until 05. What happened after that is well-known.

Therefore, Fengming is now being prevented from focusing his main business on residential real estate development during the summer.
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It's worth mentioning that Er Mao's family also suffered a major blow this year, with inflation reaching a terrifying 4734.91%!

It might take a whole trolley to carry the money for just one loaf of bread!
At this time, Er Mao began a major brain drain, and the family fortune he inherited from Mao Xiong's father began to disperse.
In order to survive, a large number of top talents have been poached by Western countries.
This group of experts from the Second Rank provided tremendous assistance in military equipment development...

That year, the United States urgently needed to get out of the quagmire of the Gulf War and economic recession and wanted to find new sources of economic growth.

Therefore, Meilian Zong Laoke proposed the information superhighway strategy.

A large number of American internet businesses will benefit from this.

The Internet age is about to begin!

Roll up your sleeves and get to work! From now on, let's fight alongside each other!
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I won't go into the Hong Kong films mentioned this year, but it's worth mentioning King Hu's "Painted Skin: The Yin-Yang King".

They originally wanted Xia Tian to star in this film, but she happened to be in the US celebrating Peggy's birthday at the time.
Summer knew the outcome of this film; it was a terrible one.

However, Director Hu is a close friend and benefactor to him despite their age difference, so Xia Tian naturally couldn't stand idly by.

So they provided investment!
So what if I have to pay? I can afford to pay a few million.

Director Hu was considered one of the most prominent Chinese directors at the time, but his old-fashioned style was somewhat difficult to compete with the highly commercialized Hong Kong films.

Previously, when filming "Swordsman 1" was halfway through, I had a falling out with Tsui Hark for a similar reason.

Firstly, the style; secondly, the shooting style—it's too slow, too meticulous, and we simply can't keep up with the deadlines, plus the costs are too high.

This film has this problem, but the style is fine.

Style is a matter of personal preference. As long as the film is good, some people will still like films with a profound artistic conception and highly artistic visuals and colors.

However, the original timeline film ran out of money, resulting in a rushed and unsatisfying ending. Moreover, the investors heavily edited the film, making the second half a complete mess.

The beginning is in Director Hu's style, slowly unfolding the story with a traditional cultivation of immortality feel, but the latter part directly turns into a Hong Kong ghost story.

Summer invested the money and didn't care about the returns—he was prepared to lose it all.

They also helped find Wu Ma, Lin Jiu, Liu Xun, and Lao Wang (Joey Wong), but Director Hu still chose Adam Cheng from the original timeline as the male lead.

Back in November, Director Hu and his team filmed in places like Yanjing and Wutai Mountain, and it's not completely finished yet.

Filming on location like this would definitely be costly and time-consuming. Let him film to his heart's content.

In the original timeline, he also went through a struggle before deciding to move towards commercial interests, hoping to make money to film "The Blood and Tears History of Chinese Laborers".

As a result, the film flopped spectacularly, grossing less than two million yuan, which completely knocked him out.

He died of a heart attack not long after, and a little over a month after his funeral, his close friend Li Heizi (Li Hanxiang) also died of a heart attack.

These two were mentors to Xia Tian on his film journey, so we can't just let them disappear!
Even if "Painted Skin: The Yin-Yang King" loses money, we can just spend a few million more to make "The Blood and Tears of Chinese Laborers"!

This kind of film is very meaningful!
It's worth mentioning that this film was also the last ghost movie starring Joey Wong. After that, she actively transformed her image, and the era of Joey Wong as a ghost came to an end.

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There weren't many noteworthy films from mainland China this year, except for "The Blue Kite"?
It's the one where they just blew Tian Zhuangzhuang out of the car.

The cast is also quite familiar: Lü Liping, Pu Cunxi, Li Xuejian, Zhang Fengyi, Guo Baochang...

No wonder he's Tian Zhuangzhuang, he has such a strong network of connections!

In addition, there was a banned film called "Yanjing Bastards," which was about a rock singer.

The main cast includes Lao Cui, Fairy Fei Hong, Zang Tianshuo, Dou Wei...

(Unfortunately, Yu Feihong's scenes were cut.)

This shows that mainland Chinese films have indeed declined significantly in the past two years, with very few noteworthy productions.

In terms of TV dramas, "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Justice Bao" are both extremely popular.

There's also the drama "Tang Minghuang" starring my old classmate Lin Fangbing, which she filmed. She gained nearly 50 pounds for the role!
One TV series worth mentioning is "Seven Heroes and Five Gallants," which is also set on the island and stars Jiao Enjun and Sun Xing.

The story is naturally about Zhan Zhao, the Imperial Cat, and Bai Yutang, the White-haired Rat, and can be considered a spin-off of the Bao Qingtian IP.

However, Xia Tian had read the original novel of "The Three Heroes and Five Gallants".

The original story is particularly outrageous. The second male lead, Jinmaoshu, is arguably the most popular character to die in the shortest time!

Originally, after the Five Rats joined Kaifeng Prefecture, given Bai Yutang's arrogant temperament, he and Zhan Zhao would have had a dramatic, Tom Jerry-esque cat-and-mouse battle of love and hate.

To everyone's great surprise, Bai Yutang died in the very next chapter!
He broke into Chongxiao Tower at night, stepped on a trap, fell into a copper net formation, and was left completely mangled. Then, a bunch of nameless extras shot him into a bloody pulp with arrows, and his corpse was even put into jars.
This process, which could easily fill dozens of chapters, ended up with absolutely nothing.

One second a popular character, the next a piece of meat in a jar.
Actually, a "storybook" is just an outline that a storyteller uses when telling a story.

Because it is an "outline," it must leave room for the storyteller to elaborate and develop the story, so it cannot be written in too much detail.

It basically tells you that the Golden-haired Rat broke into the Sky Tower at night, fell into a trap, and died. The rest is up to you.
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As for domestic animation, it seems there's only one: "Chinese Zodiac".

Oh, and there's also "Blue-skinned Mouse and Big-faced Cat"~
There were quite a few imported animations, including Ultraman, Fist of the North Star (which was quickly banned due to its gore and graphic content), and Sailor Moon. Milan even planned to have Xiao Xu and Zhang Li cosplay as characters in the name of the moon to eliminate summer!

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The music industry, on the other hand, has developed very well.

We won't talk about Hong Kong and Taiwan, there are too many of them.

Speaking of inland songs, there's Sun Nan's "What Will I Leave You," and Gan Ping's "Big Brother, How Are You?"—the one Shen Teng sings to Uncle Teng in "Pegasus," oh, big brother, big brother, how are you?
She also has a song called "A Damp Heart" and a song by Fu Disheng called "Many Hands Make Light Work".

There are also covers of "Heart Rain," Lin Yilun's "Love Bird," Tian Zhen's "A Big Tree," La Ying's "Seeing Flowers Through the Fog," and Han Lei's "Wandering Around"...

The mainland music scene has developed rapidly this year, with mainland singers emerging one after another, breaking the long-standing dominance of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers in the audio-visual consumption market.

Chen Lin released his first album, "Your Tenderness I Will Never Understand"; Gao Linsheng released his signature song, "The One Who Cares About You Is Me"; Lin Yilun's "Love Bird" soared throughout China, sung by countless lovers...

Moreover, Zhang Peiren, a musician from the island, founded Magic Stone Records, but no one expected that the once wildly popular Magic Stone Three would later either become immortals or go mad.

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In any case, time will not stand still; we can only move forward and embrace the unknown tomorrow!
In 1994, it arrived!
(End of this chapter)