Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

"So, you mean you want your brother to join Qidian Records as an artist?" In the hotel, after hearing Lin Junfeng's purpose, Chen Qiming couldn't help but ask: "Your family has many industries in Singapore, including entertainment investments. Why did you choose to send him to our company?".

Lin Junfeng explained: "Brother Qiming, you are the most talented singer in the current Chinese music scene.

And your Qidian Records has recruited many creative talents. I think there is no better record company than Qidian Records.

In addition, my little brother’s biggest wish is to be on the same stage with you. "

Chen Qiming nodded and accepted this reason.

However, he did not agree immediately, but pondered for a while, and then looked at JJ Lin: "You are actually not suitable for debuting at your current age. My suggestion is that you study systematically for a few years.

Therefore, even if I sign you, you may not have the opportunity to debut within a few years, but you will have to undergo a lot of training in the company.

You have to think carefully. You must know that the training in our company is very difficult.

Jay Chou, you know! He trained hard in the company for more than a year before his debut. "

"I can endure hardship." JJ Lin looked determined.

"OK, then you find time to go to Baodao. I will notify the company there to sign a contract with you, and I will also find someone to train you."

Now that JJ Lin has confirmed that he will join his company, Chen Qiming will definitely not turn him away.

After all, JJ Lin's performance in the dream is still very good.

Moreover, he also has good creative ability, which is very consistent with the original style of Qidian Records.

With Chen Qiming's agreement, Lin JJ was very happy and promised: "Brother Qiming, don't worry, I will definitely work hard to complete the company's learning tasks."

"Work hard!" Chen Qiming patted him on the shoulder to encourage him.

For JJ Lin, Chen Qiming does not pay special attention to him yet.

If he wants to make a debut, he will have to wait a few more years.

There is no way, the company is currently mainly promoting Jay Chou and Tao Zhe.

Before their popularity status is officially stabilized, the company does not have many resources to continue to promote JJ Lin.

Therefore, even if he joins the company, he has to wait.

The two brothers JJ Lin stayed with Chen Qiming for more than an hour before leaving.

After they left, Chen Qiming received another call from Jet Li.

Jet Li called to apologize.

In March, Jet Li contacted Chen Qiming and asked him to help open up connections in Hollywood. He wanted to enter Hollywood.

At that time, Chen Qiming agreed and contacted Paramount Pictures.

Paramount also agreed to let Jet Li audition for a new project that Paramount was about to produce.

As a result, Jet Li has now accepted an invitation from Golden Harvest's project "Super Agent" and obviously cannot go to that crew.

Jet Li was introduced by Chen Qiming, and now he suddenly doesn't audition. This will obviously make Paramount think that the person introduced by Chen Qiming is unreliable.

That's why Jet Li called specifically to apologize.

In addition, Jet Li's apology has another meaning.

As we all know, the current relationship between Pacific Entertainment and companies such as Golden Harvest is antagonistic.

Just like New Art City and Golden Harvest in the 1980s.

The film projects of both parties will basically be rivals in the same schedule.

Now, Jet Li suddenly joins Golden Harvest's camp to film movies, which seems to be helping Golden Harvest deal with Pacific Entertainment.

Although the relationship between Chen Qiming and Jet Li is not particularly good, they can still be considered friends.

He was obviously very sorry about this.

"Don't worry, I'm an actor. I understand you very well. You don't have to take it to heart."

Faced with Jet Li's apology, Chen Qiming expressed that he understood him very much.

Chen Qiming is an actor, and he knows very well that actors cannot help themselves.

In particular, Jet Li is currently a freelance actor. Which company's movie he stars in is a very normal thing.

However, that being said.

But in his heart, Chen Qiming has decided not to introduce movies to Jet Li in the future.

This kind of thankless thing can be done by anyone who loves it.

……

In late June, Chen Qiming has been flying around the world.

The concert venue issues, organizers, and venue issues in various locations have all been resolved.

In July, his this year's "97 Global Tour Concert" will officially start selling tickets.

Time passed and July came in a blink of an eye.

On July 1st, Hong Kong, a wanderer who had been away from the motherland for many years, officially returned to the motherland.

On this day, the whole country celebrates.

Firecrackers were going off all over the country, and news about Hong Kong's return dominated all news headlines.

That night, after the handover ceremony, a grand theatrical performance was held at Bauhinia Cultural Plaza in Hong Kong.

Chen Qiming, Lin Zixiang, Michelle Yeh, Faye Wong, Andy Lau and other four kings all appeared on stage to celebrate the return of the wanderer.

That night, Chen Qiming sang a total of three songs.

Singing "Chinese" with Andy Lau.

He sang "Departure" and "Friends" solo.

After the performance, Chen Qiming also participated in the cocktail reception afterwards with a group of Hong Kong celebrities. At the reception, he also took photos with many big shots who could only be seen in the news.

Not to mention, Chen Qiming's influence is really huge now.

During conversations with these beings, he learned that many of these people actually often listened to his songs.

Among them, one of the big guys even sang a few lines about Chen Qiming's heart being too soft on the spot.

Returning became the biggest thing in early July.

There are topics about this everywhere, some are confused, some are happy...

……

“The attention of this performance is really huge, and all the songs you performed at the performance have entered the top of the radio playlists in various places.

"Chinese" is currently ranked No. 1 on more than a dozen radio stations, and this song has become popular throughout the continent. "

Li Xiaowen rushed into Chen Qiming's office holding a data sheet.

Chen Qiming took a look at the data.

Sure enough, all the classic songs sung by the stars on the 1st night once again reached the top of dozens of radio charts in Hong Kong, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc. due to the huge attention of this party.

Among them, "The Chinese" has the best data, followed by Lin Zixiang's "A Man Should Be Strong", and then there is Ye Qianwen's "A Chic Walk".

Counting down the major charts, the top twenty are all songs that were sung that night.

"Affected by this wave of exposure, the sales of several of your previous records have experienced a surge this week.

Especially "Hello, Friend", which received an order volume of 200,000 copies during this week's Guangdong Audio and Video Ordering Festival. "

Li Xiaowen pulled out an order form from it with excitement on her face.

The so-called audio and video ordering festival is a very unique audio and video festival in Guangdong.

Every July, businessmen from all over the world gather here.

Some of these merchants come from Sichuan and Yunnan in the southwest, as well as merchants from the three eastern provinces.

The purpose of their gathering here is to buy records.

In the 1990s, Guangdong was the music center of the country, and even the capital city was lagging behind.

Not only are there a large number of local pop singers from Guangdong, such as Mao Ning, Yang Yuying, Li Chunbo, Lin Yilun and so on.

In addition to Guangdong singers, Guangdong is also the first stop for Hong Kong and Taiwan singers’ records to enter the mainland.

Most of the records of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers are valued by these businessmen at Guangdong's ordering festival, and then they are ordered and then sold all over the country. However, in recent years, the ordering festival has become more and more awkward.

In the first few years, for popular singers like Chen Qiming, the order quantity at the ordering festival always started at one million.

However, as piracy has become more and more rampant in recent years, many pirate businessmen, for profit, directly pirated records while they were still being released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and then shipped them to all parts of the country.

The rampant piracy has also caused the order volume during the ordering festivals in the past two years to become increasingly low.

This time, "Hello, Friend" was able to obtain an order quantity of 200,000 at one time, which is obviously an amazing achievement.

"Those pirates in the Mainland are really damned. If it weren't for them, your total record sales might have doubled." Li Xiaowen hated piracy.

The same goes for Chen Qiming.

Piracy is definitely the most rampant in the Mainland.

The record sales of all singers including Chen Qiming in the mainland have been greatly affected to some extent.

Especially Chen Qiming, his records are the most popular among pirates.

No matter how hard Qidian Records hits, if a factory is destroyed today, a new one will be built next door tomorrow.

It’s also no wonder that Chen Qiming’s records are so popular.

He is the most popular among all Hong Kong singers, including in the Mainland.

Because of his popularity, these pirates set their sights on him and tried to steal his money.

His latest album "Hello, Friend", according to incomplete statistics, has at least tens of millions of pirated copies in the mainland market.

As for genuine sales, the total sales in the mainland are only over 2.7 million copies.

More than 2.7 million yuan, which seems like a lot, has already occupied the forefront of sales of Chen Qiming's records in all regions.

But you must know that the sales of Chen Qiming's previous albums in the mainland have never been less than 3.5 million.

Considering how popular this album is in the market, it has only received 2.7 million yuan in the Mainland. You can imagine how much it was affected by piracy.

"I am in the process of immigration here and should officially settle in Hong Kong by the end of the year. At that time, I will try to synchronize my future record releases in the mainland and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

By then the impact of piracy should be reduced a lot. "

Chen Qiming is definitely the Hong Kong and Taiwan singer who has been hardest hit by piracy.

Among them, in addition to being the most popular, another reason is the household registration issue.

Records released by Baodao singers in the mainland usually have a review period.

This review period can be as short as one or two months, or as long as half a year or one year.

Even if Chen Qiming has a good relationship with the mainland and can open an accelerated channel, he still cannot release records simultaneously with other regions.

As for piracy.

If you are slow for one day, you will be greatly impacted.

Every time, Chen Qiming's record has just been released in Hong Kong and Taiwan for a few months. Before it is officially released in the mainland, pirated copies have already appeared on the market.

In addition, pirated copies are cheap, so naturally, the sales of genuine copies will drop significantly.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, Chen Qiming is working hard to settle in Hong Kong.

Settling in Hong Kong will be of great benefit to him.

In addition to the direct and simultaneous release of records in the mainland, there will be great benefits in terms of commercial investment and so on.

Li Xiaowen thought of the benefits of settling in Hong Kong and couldn't help but nod, "This is indeed a good idea."

"But..." After a pause, she asked: "You immigrated to Hong Kong, over to Treasure Island..."

"It doesn't matter, I have already established the relationship." Chen Qiming waved his hand and said.

In fact, if possible, he would not want to settle in Hong Kong.

But there is no other way. The business is getting bigger and sometimes there are a lot of considerations to be made. It is undoubtedly the most beneficial thing for him to immigrate to Hong Kong.

……

In July, the return of Hong Kong was undoubtedly celebrated by everyone.

But with the return comes a crisis.

The economic crisis is coming.

On July 1997, 7, Thailand announced that it would abandon the fixed exchange rate system and implement a floating exchange rate system. This move directly triggered a financial turmoil throughout Southeast Asia.

On that day, the exchange rate of the Thai baht against the US dollar fell by 17%, and the foreign exchange and other financial markets were in chaos.

Affected by the fluctuation of the Thai baht, the Philippine peso, Indonesian rupiah, and Malaysian ringgit have become the targets of international speculators.

Although this storm has not affected Hong Kong yet, it has also affected Hong Kong.

The biggest impact is that prices rise and citizens stop spending.

The market that was originally prosperous suddenly became depressed.

Among them, the entertainment industry is also one of them.

As we enter mid-July, fewer people are buying records and going to movie theaters.

Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in Thailand, the entire Southeast Asian film market, including Hong Kong, has been in a downturn in the following weeks.

Within a few weeks, all the movies that had been released were exiting at a loss.

The same is true for Chen Qiming's Pacific Cinemas.

"The Birth of a Prefix" was just released in the past few weeks. It was originally well-received and only earned less than HK$3 million in three weeks of release.

In addition, Chen Qiming’s Peacebird Clothing Company has also been affected to a certain extent.

In July's sales report for various Southeast Asian regions, Peacebird's clothing and sports shoe revenue was 30% lower than last month.

In addition, the same is true for record sales.

Chen Qiming's record album was once again a hot seller in the market because of his comeback party. After the financial crisis, sales suddenly dropped again.

To be honest, Chen Qiming himself couldn't do anything about it.

Even though Chen Qiming knew that this financial crisis would affect Hong Kong, Hong Kong was still one of the protagonists in fighting this financial crisis.

But there was nothing he could do.

This is a financial war, and he, a person who doesn’t know much about finance, gets involved, and the only outcome is that he will be eaten until his blood is left.

Therefore, after the financial crisis began, Chen Qiming only did one thing, and that was to collect funds.

He sold off all the stocks he personally owned and some industries that might be affected.

This includes a 2.5% stake in TVB.

In addition, he also collected all the company's funds into an investment company, and used this investment company to control its affiliated companies.

You wouldn't know if you didn't close it. Once you closed it, Chen Qiming himself was shocked.

His current personal funds have reached an astonishing US$1.2 million.

This does not include the market value of its industries.

If you include the market value of his companies, he is worth at least US$500 million.

Among them, Peacebird Clothing Company has the highest market value.

Currently, Peacebird has achieved the position of the top apparel company in Southeast Asia, with a market value of US$3.6 million.

Although it is only market value, in terms of liquidity, the liquidity of several companies owned by Chen Qiming is not low.

Several of his companies currently have at least US$100 million in liquidity.

If converted into RMB, this means that Chen Qiming currently has at least 1.4 billion RMB to use.

Of course, some money cannot be moved too much, otherwise it will affect the company's operation.

However, even so, it is terrifying.

Chen Qiming also didn't expect that he would accumulate such a large amount of capital in just five years.

(End of this chapter)