Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 352, Sakura Tunnel (Subscribe)
In early July 1977, at a late-night snack stall on a busy street in Mong Kok, Hong Kong Island.

Today is the fourth day that Raven Albert and Monica Yameyer have been in Hong Kong Island. They have already appreciated the prosperity and beauty of the city of Hong Kong Island, but what makes them linger the most is not the beautiful city scenery, but the delicious food.

Compared with the original time and space, there are more people running over from the other side of the mainland to Hong Kong Island in this time and space.

And it was only 1977, but the population size was already around five million, breaking through the population limit faster than in the original time and space.

The more people from the mainland there are, the greater the impact on Hong Kong Island will be.

The most important thing is that those gangs have been eliminated. Although to a certain extent this has led to fewer entertainment venues here, the positive impact is greater.

Because there are no gangsters around, many small vendors operate in a fixed planned area, making it easier to make money.

After all, under the management of the Hong Kong government, everyone is actively exploring new cuisines, and the pursuit of sanitary environment, food quality, etc. is more in place.

Good hygiene, clean and delicious food will naturally attract more customers, so the boss, waiters, etc. will be more proactive. After all, no one can resist money.

This is also one of the reasons why wages in Hong Kong Island are rising so fast.

In the late 1950s, when Zhao Mancang came to Hong Kong Island, the salary level in Hong Kong Island was very low, only a few hundred dollars.

But now in 1977, it has exceeded 5,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Newspapers used to cost one or two cents a copy, but now they cost one dollar and fifty cents a copy, which is extremely expensive.

Even so, the small bookstore, Xuyan Bookstore, located opposite the Typhoon Shelter in Mong Kok, Hong Kong Island, is still open for business as usual. Newspapers, books, etc. are still selling well, and they also sell some celebrity posters, which are also best-sellers.

After having supper at a food stall, Raven Albert and Monica Yameyer strolled through small shops and stalls. Half an hour later, they were carrying several bags in their hands.

Here are some street snacks they bought, as well as some travel souvenirs, such as beautiful handicrafts carved from wood, and some porcelain bowls and so on.

Because it was so beautiful, they couldn't help but empty their wallets and buy it.

Handicrafts like these are actually products produced in the city of Beijiang in the mainland.

Zhao Mancang has thought of many ways to develop Beijiang City, so this kind of handicraft factory is indispensable.

An ordinary piece of wood can become a very beautiful handicraft after some processing. It originally had no value, but now it can be sold for HK$288.

There are also some very hard bamboo heads, which are found deep in the bamboo forests of deep mountains and old forests. Generally speaking, if there are no accidents, these bamboos will continue to grow until the bamboo forest blooms, and then the entire bamboo forest dies.

But if someone manages them now, they will not only be able to produce delicious bamboo shoot snacks, but also be able to cut down the bamboos. Most of the bamboo will be turned into paper, and a small part will flow into factories to be processed into handicrafts.

So from bamboo planting to bamboo shoots, paper, handicrafts, etc., there are many people involved in this entire process, including farmers, logging workers, transport drivers, factory workers, handicraft sales, etc. This is a very mature industrial chain.

In Beijiang City, several towns such as Xiniu Town have been transformed into very distinctive bamboo forest towns.

These so-called bamboo towns not only provide bamboo shoots, paper, industrial products and other products, they also provide rice dumpling leaves, which can be used not only during the Dragon Boat Festival, but also in many breakfast shops.

These bamboo shoots are also a source of food for the Giant Panda Zoo.

Yes, if Beijiang City wants to develop, it must have a zoo, and it must be the largest zoo, the kind that will make many tourists unable to move after coming here.

Giant pandas are only found in China, and even only in Sichuan. These iron-eating beasts cannot be found anywhere else.

This round, chubby and cute animal is very attractive to foreigners.

There are other animals as well, and Zhao Mancang will also have people make arrangements.

Once Beijiang City is built, it will have endless appeal to many people.

On Zijinshan Avenue, Zhao Mancang personally went to the scene to direct everyone to plant ginkgo trees. He wanted to make this street an extremely beautiful ginkgo street.

Once autumn comes and the ginkgo leaves turn yellow, this street and the surrounding areas will become a sea of ​​yellow.

There are also maple leaf streets and other colorful autumn scenery, which Zhao Mancang has already arranged.

In addition, extremely beautiful scenery will be arranged on many hills and streets to beautify the city.

"Very good. After planting, you must water and fertilize them regularly and pay close attention to their growth. If any unexpected situation occurs, you must notify us in time."

After completing the planting task, Zhao Mancang gave instructions to the person in charge of street plants.

There are many streets in Beijiang City, and each street has different plant managers. They are all urban beautifiers and hardworking little bees.

Such city streets have a very different view from Manhattan.

It is difficult to see green on the streets in Manhattan, but in the City of Beijiang, greenery can be seen everywhere.

Even in the central business district, according to Zhao Mancang's plan, many trees will be planted on the streets here. At the same time, the distance between each skyscraper will not be very close, and it will definitely not be as dense as Manhattan.

It is impossible for Zhao Mancang to completely replicate the steel forest of Manhattan for the movie Spider-Man and sacrifice everything just for the filming of the movie. That is impossible.

Soon, the ginkgo streets, maple forest streets, bougainvillea streets, sycamore avenues, cherry blossom tunnels, jacaranda avenues, etc. were all planted.

After planting, Zhao Mancang immediately started using technology and hard work.

Or give these plants some fertilizer to make them grow faster.

For example, ginkgo trees have many branches cut off when they are transplanted, so they must be strengthened in time.

Because the reform and opening up would begin in 1977 or 1980, Zhao Mancang had to take action to attract tourists from all over the country to come here to play, do business, work, and live.

In other words, starting from 1979, the city of Beijiang had to embark on the fast track of explosive population growth.

It is not like now, where the whole city seems to have many people and many engineering projects, but in fact, the total population barely exceeds one million.

However, there are only a few people who actually live in Beijiang City and have local household registration. Even those who work in garment factories, toy factories, handicraft factories, paper mills, etc., do not have local household registration. Many of these people are just educated youth who went to the countryside.

If you want to keep these people, you must use some means.

Coercive measures are definitely not advisable, and Zhao Mancang would not do so.

So it is either the beautiful scenery or the delicious food that keeps them here. Of course, the best way to keep them here is to implement policies to attract talents and let them get married and have children here.

However, as for the talent attraction policy, it is not appropriate to announce it now, and the higher-ups will not support it. As I have said before, it all depends on Zhao Mancang himself. The higher-ups will only list Beijiang City as a model city.

In mid-July, Zhao Mancang went to Sam's Club.

The movie Transformers was a huge success in the global market, sending the box office of the movie skyrocketing.

As of now, the box office of the movie has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars in the Sam region alone, and including other regions in the world, the total box office has exceeded 2.4 billion US dollars.

It seems that the US dollar has become a currency like the Japanese yen and has become very worthless.

When Zhao Mancang saw the box office, he was stunned.

The changes in this space and time are completely different from the original space and time.

"Could it be that there really hasn't been any clues found about the Super Dollar yet?"

For a moment, Zhao Mancang couldn't help but wonder if he had hidden it too well or if he was just incredibly lucky. It was a miracle that so many super US dollars were printed every year, and the Federal Reserve and other relevant departments and units hadn't discovered it yet.

You should know that the Super Dollar Factory was established in the small town of Osis in southern Africa after Zhao Mancang asked Xiong Licheng to organize a team and recruit a large number of talents in Hong Kong Island after mid-January 1971.

The printing volume is at least 30 to 50 billion US dollars every year, and in other years it can be as high as 10 billion US dollars.

After nearly seven years, the amount of super US dollars circulating in the global market has exceeded 50 billion US dollars.

This scale is already very large considering the global base currency market of more than 300 billion to nearly 400 billion US dollars.

There are so many super US dollars, and they have not been discovered at all. Zhao Mancang really doesn’t know what to say.

The box office of Transformers has once again reached a new high and is about to break the previous box office champion in film history. This is a great thing for the entire Hollywood.

It’s just that film companies like Warner Bros. are really jealous.

They are all very envious and want to have such a high-grossing movie.

Seeing that this movie was able to get such a high box office, and that Hong Kong Island Film Company had also been able to get high box office before, Jack and others, the major shareholder of Warner Bros. Pictures, were not so skeptical.

After all, the cinema giants did this, and it was hard not for Jack and others to suspect that this was a deliberate suppression by the cinema giants.

Now it seems that perhaps it was not intentional suppression, but simply the lack of film quality and publicity, which is why the box office of film companies such as Warner Bros. is neither high nor low.

After Zhao Mancang reflected on it, he called Xiong Licheng, who was far away in the small town of Osis in southern Africa. After giving him some instructions, he hung up the phone.

If he could continue to conceal the matter of Super Dollar, then the Super Dollar Factory would continue to bring him more benefits.

Although companies such as Robot Computer Company and the Big Four in Hollywood can also make a lot of money, in comparison, Super Dollar Factory is better and can make huge profits without any investment.

In Paramount's headquarters office building, Zhao Mancang sat in the main seat, listening to the management's work report with a gloomy look in his eyes.

This summer, Paramount released a movie: "Champion"!
This is a story about a young general from a great Eastern country.

Stories like this are actually very standard Hollywood movie stories, very simple and crude.

The movie "Champion" is also very awesome, and the box office after its release is also very good. It has been released for a week now, and the box office has exceeded 600 million US dollars, which is definitely a high-grossing movie.

Several years ago, Paramount has been releasing "The Great Qin Empire" and "The Rise of Myriad Nations" and other "popular science films". In addition, the rise of kung fu movies in the past decade has also made many people on Sam's side like Chinese and understand the history of the great Eastern country.

With five thousand years of history of rise and fall, there are so many stories to explore in depth.

Therefore, with such a strong foundation, the emergence of "Champion Marquis" will naturally not be bad at the box office.

After all, the movie itself is not very difficult to understand. The main storyline is relatively simple and not so abrupt or difficult to understand.

Of course, entertainment is the most important thing. This is a movie, not history, so big scenes are naturally indispensable during the filming process, but the selling points must be highlighted, otherwise not so many audiences will be willing to buy it.

"Very good, you've done a great job. We need to delve deeper into this. We can continue to develop large-scale films that use a large number of Chinese actors."

Zhao Mancang concluded:

"We have shot so many films about Eastern powers in the past, which have earned us a lot of box office revenue. We must unswervingly follow this path in the future. There are still many elements that can be explored in depth, such as mythological films and supernatural films."

There was a monk named Fahai in Jinshan Temple outside Hangzhou City, and the story of the Legend of the White Snake could be adapted into a film.

Many ancient behemoths in the Classic of Mountains and Seas can also be brought to the big screen, but the stories must be filmed in a way that conforms to reality and mythology in order to attract audiences to buy tickets to watch.

Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods, etc. are all very good works based on stories, and they do not require copyright.

Of course, whether these stories can be developed well is a question mark.

Paramount executives have naturally studied what Zhao Mancang mentioned, but many parts cannot be filmed now, or the technology itself is still a little lacking.

If you're just throwing money at it, that's fine, but if the investment in a film is too large, there's a huge risk of recovering the cost.

But Paramount doesn't want to share any risks. Their executives just want to make big money and gain more profits.

(End of this chapter)