Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 358 I remembered
Moreover, the medium- and long-range passenger aircraft happened to be launched at a very opportune time, namely during the Bear Air Exercise.

At that time, the relationship between Europe and the United States and the mainland was still in an ambiguous stage. When the "Fat Bear" military exercise was held, it completely terrified Europe and the United States.

The US military deployed 500,000 troops, 9000-15000 tanks, including new T-72 and T-80 tanks, as well as 2000 armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles for this exercise.

It has more than 1000 fighter jets and the Baltic Fleet of the Navy.

Moreover, it simulated 141 nuclear strikes without any script, allowing the user to make decisions based on the battlefield situation.

Armored assault groups, airborne operations, amphibious landings, and precision missile strikes.

Furthermore, they went so far as to invite military observers from Europe and the United States to watch a simulated eight-day occupation of the entire territory of Sandezi.

It's important to know that this was the peak of the "fat bear" (referring to the US dollar). In 81, the defense budget accounted for 12% of GDP, reaching a staggering 1550 billion rubles. At that time, the exchange rate of the ruble was 100:60, meaning 100 US dollars could be exchanged for 60 rubles.

With a standing army of 365.8 million, European and American countries entered a state of first-level combat readiness, and of course, we also staged a drill later.

The ruble was so valuable at that time mainly because the Russians discovered large amounts of oil in Siberia, followed by the impact of the Fourth Middle East War, and then the Iran-Iraq War.

At this time, Fat Bear was establishing territory all over the world, and he was an aggressive player, directly venturing into South America, the backyard of America.

Of course, in the late 80s, oil prices fell, but the bears had invested too much in various aspects, so there was no way for them to recover.

In addition, the aid given to other subordinates was too much. Our southern country, the third-in-command, received too much aid from the fat bear during this period.

Of course, this timing is very advantageous for Li Song. He believes that he can easily obtain flight permits and airworthiness certificates for the subsequent general-purpose helicopters and B-type transport aircraft.

Even cars and motorcycles can open up the European and American markets.

Because at this time, the West needed the interior!
Historically, during this period, the Amerindians sold us everything, but unfortunately we were too poor to afford it.

Of course, the main reason is that the mainland did not expect that Fat Bear would actually collapse. It can be said that Fat Bear collapsed. What is most unbelievable is that Fat Bear's group of henchmen were once his subordinates.

Li Song has many other good things to offer, which he will bring out after the Fat Bear military exercise. They are already prepared, including a bomber optimized based on the Backfire M3 and an optimized White Swan bomber.

Li Song's optimizations include reserving sufficient upgrade space and addressing shortcomings.

This will be used as a basis for future upgrades into a stealth bomber.

Later on, it was upgraded to become a platform for air-launched hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicles.

In the afternoon, Li Song returned to Guangzhou by private jet. On the plane, he pondered the semiconductor industry. The most crucial components of semiconductors are chips and lithography machines, as well as software and other fundamental technologies such as displays.
"Semiconductors!" Semiconductors are also the foundation of the Internet and even the intelligent era.

Once the chips are manufactured, they will have another way to make money in Europe and America. Not to mention the uses of embedded chips.

Then they used dual-core and quad-core processors to manufacture personal computers and made a fortune from computers.

Then they developed video games, and made another fortune.

However, progress in the semiconductor sector is relatively slow.

At that time, the profit margins for mobile phones and computers were quite substantial. IBM's first personal computer, launched during this period, was priced at $1565.

Li Song is also paying attention to another issue, namely blue LEDs, since current computer screens do not have blue light.

Research on blue LEDs actually began in 1971, but it was never very good, with poor brightness.

Li Song searched through second-hand platforms and found that blue LEDs had two directions at this time: the mainstream was refined new ones, and the other was gallium nitride. Gallium nitride was abandoned by everyone in the late 70s.

However, P-type gallium nitride is very difficult to manufacture, and even Bell Labs and RCA have stopped manufacturing it.

In fact, by this time, the technology for blue LEDs was already in place, whether it was the weather deposition method or the dual heterostructure.

The theory of two heterogeneous structures was proposed by Alferov and Klemmer in 1963.

That is, gallium nitride and aluminum gallium nitride sandwich indium gallium nitride in the middle.

This also forms the basis for ultra-thin displays and is the prelude to LED lighting.

Because blue LEDs are the most difficult to manufacture.
Only red, yellow, and blue light can form a white light source.

This is also the basis for color.

Li Song knew about this blue LED; the little notebook won the Nobel Prize.

In addition, Li Song also knew about a relatively simple Nobel Prize: graphene tape.

However, this direction is not suitable for me. In fact, although tape graphene sounds a bit ridiculous, it is of great help to graphene research.

Because there was no such material before this.

If you research something first, you'll be far ahead of others.

Li Song himself knew his own character; he was only cut out to be a secondhand dealer.

I don't have the energy to do research in the lab; otherwise, a single project could consume half my life.

All I need to do is provide the technology and then pay someone to research it.

After several attempts to test the bounty conditions for the blue LED, Li Song finally triggered them.

To develop something that doesn't yet exist, you need to trigger keywords. For example, for certain drugs, you can offer a reward simply by providing the molecular formula.

Some high-tech technologies require triggering key technologies, such as blue LEDs, gallium nitride, epitaxial vapor deposition, and dual heterostructure LEDs.

Then the bounty system was triggered.

The bounty technology was also in line with 1981 standards, and Li Song didn't hesitate at all when offered $1200 million.

Li Song chuckled to himself, thankfully he had read quite a few time-travel novels in his previous life.

"Sildenafil citrate!" As Li Song disembarked in Guangzhou, he suddenly remembered the name of the little pill he had been thinking about.

"And tadalafil!"

"Dapoxetine hydrochloride!" Li Song suddenly remembered the names of several drugs.

Li Song heard a place name, Baiyun Mountain, and Jin Ge, which seemed to be the name of the domestically produced generic version of this drug.

So Li Song quickly offered a reward on a second-hand platform. What had previously failed to achieve was now successful. Moreover, the three drugs only required $150 million, provided they met the outdated production technology of 1981.

Thinking of these three medications, Li Song finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Li Song had been keeping this matter in mind all along, because the income from this drug was too substantial.

Li Song looked at some data: only 100 million units are sold in mainland China every year!

This doesn't even include other countries in the world!
Actually, these little blue pills have more side effects when used by people of East Asian descent!

This is more suitable for the physique of Westerners!

Therefore, Westerners will use it in larger quantities!

Li Song felt as if he had fulfilled a wish, mainly because he had been thinking about this matter for a long time.

After getting off the plane in Guangzhou, Li Song first went to the Electronics Research Institute.

Then I arrived at the motorcycle factory!
BMW currently produces 150,000 motorcycles per month.

The production volume of models 125 and 150 is still 100,000 vehicles.

The remaining 50,000 vehicles are three types of motorcycles: 250cc, 400cc, and 500cc!

There are two production lines for 250, and two production lines for 400 and 500!
Li Song, the motorcycle enthusiast, has no plans to expand any further!
The production quantities of other motorcycle models that follow will be very small.

The motorcycle market is large, but most of it is the low-end market.

Li Song held a small meeting at the motorcycle factory, mainly to listen to some work reports, and then it was time for him to sign off on things like that!

The next day, Li Song arrived at the outboard motor manufacturing plant, which he planned to use to build yachts.

The yacht market is now targeting low- to mid-range customers, specifically small and medium-sized yachts.

Large and superyachts are not within our current capabilities. Moreover, the profit margins for large and superyachts are far lower than those for small and medium-sized yachts, because the market for small and medium-sized yachts is much larger.

Moreover, things need to be done step by step, starting with small and medium-sized yachts.

I listened to some work and technical reports, and then some documents.

Li Song spends a lot of time at these factories, so he doesn't have many things to deal with!
Then we went to the car factory.

The car factory mainly produces two types of minivans and the Panda airplane.

Panda Aircraft is currently conducting technical training, primarily for technicians and workers from other authorized factories.

Wednesday, April 22, 1981.

Li Song has returned to Hong Kong Island!
With only two days left until the release of the film "The Golden City," Hong Kong Island is currently conducting its promotional campaign!
The propaganda campaign in Hong Kong broke the little book's defenses, and protests were useless!

However, Benjamin publicly called for a boycott of Jinling Films in some newspapers.

These newspapers were all biased, and then these people got scolded.

They were criticized by the TV station and by other newspapers!

After returning to Hong Kong Island, Li Song called Liu Jiale and Tian Jiahui.

The main thing is to see if there's anything going on between the two of them!
"Boss, there's a TV interview program about Jinling Cinema. Do you have time?"

"Some actors from Jinling Cinema happen to be back for publicity," Liu Jiale asked as soon as Li Song made the call.

"Time and place!"

"It's in the Phoenix TV studio, and the recording is this afternoon!" Liu Jiale quickly replied when Li Song asked this question.

Li Song himself is a big name in terms of popularity, being the youngest tycoon in Hong Kong.

Moreover, he owns so many businesses, including a private jet!

Liu Jiale was eager for Li Song to be interviewed by Phoenix TV more often.

But Li Song is the boss, so there's usually nothing he can do!

It was only because of the Jinling Films incident that Liu Jiale spoke up.

Li Song never planned to do a big promotional campaign for this movie.

Otherwise, all the actors in the film would have to participate in the promotional activities.

Li Song then went to Phoenix TV!
Jinling Films is a co-production between Phoenix Television and mainland China.

However, Phoenix TV only interviewed a portion of the artists this time, because others still have filming plans in mainland China, and those who don't have filming plans for the time being are just showing their faces to increase their exposure, as well as for endorsements.

When Li Song was going to endorse a car factory last time, Liu Jiale made detailed plans for the matter, because endorsement contracts are also divided into different tiers.

Get these people back to sign some endorsement contracts and do some interviews as well.

Li Song came directly to Phoenix TV for lunch.

"boss!!"

"boss!"

"Mr. Li!"

"Mr. Li!" Li Song appeared in the cafeteria, and everyone greeted him.

Li Song nodded in greeting!

"Mr. Li, thank you for your kindness!" Li Song didn't expect that Uncle Jiu was also eating here, and the other party came up to thank him directly.

"The footage is good!" Li Song nodded.

"Thank you, Mr. Li!" Uncle Jiu was extremely excited after receiving Li Song's affirmation.

Then Liu Jiale appeared, and the others wisely refrained from disturbing the two.

"Those little notebooks are shameless! Our movies don't have a single exaggerated element!"

“The Japanese are being very unfriendly to Phoenix TV right now,” Liu Jiale said after sitting down.

"Ok!"

“Xiao Benzi is bad at heart, unlike San Dezi and the others!” Li Song nodded.

Then the two of them started eating.

"Boss, Ah Long and the others will be in Guigang on the 26th. Jiahe also wants you to participate in a promotional event."

"no problem!"

"Another reason is that someone wants to acquire the adaptation rights to National Treasure and wants to film a sequel to National Treasure!"

"You talk to them first and see what price they offer."

"Yes, Golden Harvest definitely wants to discuss their next film."

"Um!!"

The two talked about business while eating!
After finishing his meal, Li Song went backstage at the studio.

Here, Li Song met Qi Meizhen, Qian Xiaohao, and Zhao Yazhi!
Today we're interviewing these three people!

The three of them mainly came back to sign endorsement contracts!

"Mr. Li!"

"Mr. Li!" The three men quickly stood up to greet Li Song when they saw him appear in the dressing room.

"Sit down!" Li Song gestured for the three of them to sit down.
"Thank you for your consideration, Mr. Li." However, the three people did not sit down, but instead came closer, with Qian Xiaohao directly clasping his hands in a fist salute.

Qian Xiaohao was originally with Shaw Brothers, but he switched to Phoenix TV after it was established!

For this, they even had to pay some penalty fees, but fortunately, all of it was paid by Phoenix TV!

At Phoenix TV, Qian Xiaohao felt he made the right choice, because he earned more money there!
First of all, the benefits and compensation are excellent, and the boss is very generous.

In addition, I was able to secure an endorsement contract. This time, I got an endorsement contract for BMW minivans, worth HK$200,000 per year, for a five-year term!

That means you can get one million Hong Kong dollars in one go.

Although being a spokesperson requires participating in at least five marketing events each year, as well as shooting print and media advertisements.

This is a million Hong Kong dollars; I never imagined I could earn so much money so quickly.

"You've done a good job, that's why I'm giving you this opportunity!" Li Song nodded.

Qi Meizhen and Zhao Yazhi also have endorsement contracts.

Qi Meizhen's endorsement fee is HK$100,000 per year because she is a newcomer!
Zhao Yazhi's ranking is higher because she already had a high level of fame before joining Phoenix TV.

Previously, when I worked at TVB, there was simply no way to turn that fame into money!

Because at TVB, actors who shoot commercials only receive a basic salary.

The TV station took the lion's share!
"Thank you for your kindness, boss!" the two quickly thanked him as well.

Because Phoenix TV really treats its artists very well.

It's nothing like TVB.

While putting on makeup, Li Song reviewed today's interview plan. Because Li Song's appearance was rather sudden, the entire interview plan had to be redone!

(End of this chapter)