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Chapter 349, Shameless! (Subscribe)

On January 23, 1977, Sam was in the 20th Century Fox headquarters building in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Zhao Mancang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the scenery outside, and rubbed his temples.

Twentieth Century Fox has another moth.

The reason is very simple, that is, the Jurassic Park project is too profitable, more profitable than the bank's money printing machine.

Even though a lot of the profits were divided up by upstream toy factories and other units, the profits left for 20th Century Fox were still very substantial.

In addition, Zhao Mancang does not often stay in Hollywood, especially in the last one or two years, he has been keeping an eye on Beijiang City, and has spent much less time with Sam.

This caused some termites to jump out.

There are three termites in total, all of whom are senior executives of 20th Century Fox.

They thought they could hide their deeds and no one would know what they had done, but they did not know that Zhao Mancang had always been worried about these senior executives, so he had set up a lot of surveillance.

Coupled with the audits of third-party accounting firms, private detectives, etc., these people have nowhere to escape.

Since they chose to embezzle, Zhao Mancang would not be merciful.

Just let the police arrest them, let the court try these three people at lightning speed, and then send them to prison.

This prison is not Shawshank Prison, but a prison where escape is impossible.

Besides, the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" has already been released. Now, all the major prisons in North America are very afraid that the prisoners will escape again, so they manage the prisons very strictly.

After the three termites entered prison, they soon experienced what despair was.

Being kind to the enemy is being cruel to yourself. Zhao Mancang is very kind to his own people, but he will never be soft on his enemies.

At the executive meeting just now, Zhao Mancang lost his temper and said directly that he would make those three parasites suffer a fate worse than death in prison.

This is what will happen to anyone who dares to take action.

After tidying up the workplace, Zhao Mancang returned to his office to reflect carefully.

It's time for 20th Century Fox to be quiet for a while.

So, the next day, a piece of news made the front page headline of the New York Times Post: The film rights of Jurassic Park were temporarily transferred to MGM.

When this news came out, the whole Hollywood was shocked.

No one expected that something like this would happen to 20th Century Fox. This was their lifeblood, and it was actually taken away by MGM?
A day later, MGM announced that the new film project Jurassic World was officially launched. It is a new story about dinosaurs. There will be more different dinosaurs appearing and exploring the mysterious dinosaur world.

Wow, this news is really unexpected.

But for movie fans, this is huge good news.

It's been a few years since we saw a dinosaur movie since the third Jurassic Park movie was released.

Of course, behemoth movies are not easy to shoot. The key is the huge investment, and whether the cost can be recovered is a huge problem.

A group of executives from 20th Century Fox collectively broke down.

Their resentment towards the three termites deepened, and they also understood more clearly that their boss was willing to do this to punish them.

Of course, they believed that their boss must have a secret deal with the boss behind MGM, otherwise he would not do this.

But isn’t the boss afraid that he will never get the copyright back?
Haha, of course the executives don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. For Zhao Mancang, it doesn’t matter who the copyright of Jurassic Park is given to.

Since 20th Century Fox has made enough money, why not let others take this position? Who told them not to cherish it?
Zhao Mancang came to Universal Pictures and called a meeting of executives to listen to work reports.

1976 has become the past. Looking forward to 1977, perhaps it will be an even more different year.

After finishing the work with the four giants in Hollywood, Zhao Mancang went to the Robot Computer Company again, then went to Wanjia Supermarket, Mario Airlines, etc., and finally went to New York.

It was not until February 6 that he left New York and returned to Hong Kong Island.

This year's Spring Festival was spent in Hong Kong Island, and what's interesting is that Lin Wan and Liu Baochan actually got to celebrate the New Year together.

The children didn't have any thoughts about it. After all, Lin Wan and Liu Baochan recognized each other as sisters and had a very close relationship.

Zhao Huijun has grown up now. She noticed something, but she didn't say anything.

Although she didn't say it, she was still very angry behind the scenes. She found her mother Lin Wan to talk about this matter and cursed and spit on Zhao Mancang.

Lin Wan was happy and asked Zhao Huijun not to scold her father. No matter what, he was still her father.

"He is not my father. I don't have such a father."

Hearing her words, Lin Wan felt both relieved and helpless.

Although Zhao Mancang is not her biological father, he has raised her for so many years, so how can he not be her father?
More responsible than his biological father.

What Zhao Mancang felt sorry for was only Lin Wan, not Zhao Huijun.

So everyone has the right to scold Zhao Mancang, but Zhao Huijun has no right to do so, even if she is scolding him on behalf of her mother Lin Wan.

"Think about it yourself. From childhood to adulthood, has he ever wronged you? Has he ever let you go hungry? After you grew up, did he even find someone to write songs for you and help you release an album?"

Lin Wan persuaded Zhao Huijun in turn.

The mother and daughter were talking about this matter, and Lin Wan also talked about polygamy, which had just been abolished in Hong Kong a few years ago.

Polygamy is still a very common phenomenon in Hong Kong Island. Lin Wan had never thought about this before, but now that it happened to her, she was very angry and shocked.

Over the years, she gradually accepted it.

Life is like that. If you can't resist it, what else can you do but accept it?

Maybe some people will commit suicide because of this, but those are young people in later generations. Many people of this era are very tolerant.

Living is better than anything else!
Zhao Mancang spent this Spring Festival in fear and trepidation.

Liu Baochan tried her best to please Lin Wan, while the latter was relatively "accepting".

Lin Wan was somewhat embarrassed in front of the children, especially since Zhao Mancang was also at home, which made her feel even more uncomfortable.

The most carefree ones should be the three children Zhao Yuechan, Zhao Leyong and Zhao Linlin.

Among them, Zhao Yuechan was the child born by Lin Wan at the end of January 1974, while the twins Zhao Leyong and Zhao Linlin were born at the end of February 1975.

The three little ones were all very healthy and could walk now. With the older children like Zhao Siyu teasing them, the living room was very lively. Zhao Mancang took turns holding Zhao Yuechan and the other three children, using them as shields.

But no matter what, this Spring Festival has passed.

After the Spring Festival of 1978, Zhao Mancang returned to Beijiang City. Lin Wan and Liu Baochan took turns to accompany him in Beijiang.

At this time, the city of Beijiang has undergone tremendous changes.

After garment factories, toy factories and other businesses came into production one after another, the population of Beijiang City increased dramatically.

In addition, a Beijiang winery is also under construction.

This winery is very large, employing thousands of workers.

Although the number of workers in the winery is far less than that in garment factories and toy factories, Zhao Mancang believes that its influence will definitely not be too bad.

"Leader, the population of our Beijiang City is almost over one million. If we continue on the current trend, it will definitely exceed one million before the end of this year."

In the office, Hong Xuanji was reporting to Zhao Mancang.

The latter just nodded when he heard this.

No one knows the population growth of the entire Beijiang City better than Zhao Mancang.

Nowadays, there are many educated young people in rural areas across the country, definitely tens of millions.

Although in this time and space, due to Zhao Mancang, the number of people going to the countryside is far less than in the original time and space.

Because Zhao Mancang built many factories, such as the upstream supplier of Wanjia Supermarket, as well as Tenglong Factory and other units, the population in the Shaya Laboratory area alone is already hundreds of thousands.

Therefore, the population size of educated youth who went to the countryside was not as large as in the original time and space, but it was not small either.

What Zhao Mancang needs to do now is to siphon as many of these educated young people as possible to develop in Beijiang City.

There are at least tens of millions of these educated young people, and such a large-scale population migration is undoubtedly a very important task.

Zhao Mancang also knew that it was impossible to move so many people here at once, so he would gradually build factories and slowly attract people.

"The second phase of Meiziba Airport is almost complete. The second runway has passed the test and will be put into use this month."

"Also, our expressway now directly connects to Baiyun City. A section of the road, over 200 kilometers long, has been fully opened and will be officially open to traffic in May or June of this year."

When Zhao Mancang heard Hong Xuanji's report on the two important modes of transportation, airports and highways, he nodded slightly and suddenly asked:
"By the way, what is the current shipping capacity of the Beijiang River?"

Beijiang River is a very important transportation route because inland waterway shipping is definitely the cheapest mode of transportation. Although it is slow, it can definitely play a very important role in transporting coal, oil and other materials.

After Hong Xuanji finished his report, Zhao Mancang suddenly thought of something, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

The canal construction is still not going well.

Such a project is too large and is not suitable to be carried out at this time because productivity is not advanced enough. By then, too much manpower will definitely be needed to carry out such a project, which will be a waste of effort.

Forget it, I'll just submit the plan when the time comes and let those experts worry about it.

After Hong Xuanji finished his report, Zhao Mancang took a helicopter and began patrolling the entire Beijiang City.

Why take a helicopter?
Because several major roads in Beijiang City are still under construction, asphalt is being paved and straight roads are being changed. In short, it is quite busy.

If you come by car, you won't be able to see it all in one day.

Zhao Mancang just wanted to take a look at the current urban construction situation in Beijiang City, and he didn’t want to do anything else.

So far, the Central Avenue has been completely built, and the buildings on both sides of the avenue are also under construction, including museums, office buildings, government buildings, scientific research institutions, etc.

Several other avenues are also under construction, and along the banks of the Beijiang River, embankments and riverside avenues have been built, as well as office buildings and residential communities next to the avenues.

The office buildings near Yanjiang Avenue should be the most concentrated road in Beijiang City in the future, except for Central Avenue.

But now this place is still a wasteland.

As the helicopter continued to move forward, clothing factories, toy factories, wineries, etc. became visible. If we continued forward, we would reach the film and television base.

At present, the major enterprises in Beijiang City are concentrated in these places.

After finishing the inspection, Zhao Mancang stayed in the Beijiang City for a few days. After writing the canal plan, he took a plane from Meiziba Airport and headed straight to Nanyuan Airport in Beijing.

The earthquake at the end of July last year caused problems with the runway of Nanyuan Airport. By the end of March 1978, the runway had been repaired.

The plane landed smoothly on the runway of Nanyuan Airport. After Zhao Mancang got off the plane, he didn't even have time to rest, and went straight to the office in Lingjing Hutong.

He submitted the canal plan, thinking it would please the leaders.

But for some reason, several leaders were unhappy, even a little angry.

A leader raised an objection on the spot: the investment is too large, and it is unknown when the investment can be recovered, so such a plan should not be proposed.

Was the Grand Canal good in history?

Of course it is very good, it will benefit future generations and connect the north and the south.

But for the Sui Dynasty at that time, it was an accelerator of the dynasty's destruction.

At this time, investing in the canal would cost at least hundreds of billions of RMB, but it would be extremely difficult to recover the investment cost.

On the contrary, investment in other areas, such as the previous 43 Project and investment in fertilizer plants, is visible to the naked eye.

Fertilizer plants can drive the development of agriculture, which is definitely a positive cycle, and the investment is not that large.

But what about the canal? Once you decide to invest, there is no turning back. But how easy is it to recover the cost?
After the canal was opened, the Beijiang City was connected to Dongting Lake, the Yangtze River, the Ganjiang River and other waters, but how to recover such a huge investment?

It’s difficult!
Upon hearing his leader's objection, Zhao Mancang remained silent.

He knew the plan was difficult, but he didn't expect it to be this difficult.

Seeing that the leaders opposed it, Zhao Mancang had no choice but to accept it.

"But, Mancang, if you are willing to invest, we will definitely not object."

Suddenly, a leader made this suggestion with a smile. For a moment, Zhao Mancang was stunned.

I never thought that someone could be so shameless!
(End of this chapter)