National Tide 1980.

Chapter 998 Love is priceless
It was hard to survive until the end of March, and the cherry blossom season in Tokyo was ushered in. The affairs of Tangong Restaurant were finally about to come to an end.

Until this time, Ning Weimin's suppressed mood finally bloomed like a flower, and he felt that he had a little autonomy in time.

However, when he saw that the cherry blossom trees in Tokyo were full of rose-colored buds that were about to bloom, the biggest feeling in his heart was not the yearning for pink cherry blossoms.

It was full of guilt towards Keiko Matsumoto.

Because on the surface, it seems that he accommodated Matsumoto Keiko in his busy schedule and was forced to meet with her frequently.

But to be honest, since ancient times, there is no way to release men's anxiety and relieve stress better than "playing poker".

In fact, Ning Weimin needed this kind of meeting far more than Matsumoto Keiko, and benefited the most from it.

Especially in the recent period, it seems that because of being too busy and Yali Mountain, Ning Weimin's desire has become extremely strong, and he has become more and more impatient.

So much so that his love for Keiko Matsumoto turned into a fire that could scald each other.

When the two of them were together, he often couldn't wait for Keiko Matsumoto to enter the state, and then started talking nonsense.

Once impulsive, they often ignore it and fall into their own desires without realizing it.

Sometimes it is inevitable that there will be violent and extreme actions, which are basically equivalent to violations.

Only when he is fully satisfied can he come to his senses and realize how much he has gone too far.

He often regrets that he hurt the other party and left a painful mark on Qingzi.

Conversely, how did Keiko Matsumoto treat him?
Just like Qingzi said, she loves him so much!
Therefore, he didn't blame Ning Weimin for being abnormal, and tolerated him very considerately.

Not only did he try his best to comfort his spirit and body every time.

Instead, he endured the tension and discomfort, even endured the pain, and sent him to the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss.

Even for those things that Ning Weimin asked casually, Matsumoto Keiko did his best.

In about a week, the relevant price list of the music production company was handed over to Ning Weimin.

The production company that submitted the quotation is called "Alido", which is a medium-sized music production company based in the Japanese market under the umbrella of Columbia.

The only album "Flowers in the Water of Love" released by Keiko Matsumoto in 1980 was produced by this company.

Therefore, the price given by this company cannot be said to be favorable enough, but it is very professional and detailed.

Whether it is recording studio usage fees, band performance fees, or lyrics, composition, arrangement, singing, recording, mixing, mastering, packaging, meals, etc., etc., there are details.

Ning Weimin did some calculations. He brought his own singers instead of hiring famous artists, and the band fee could also be included in the arrangement fee.

Then, if the main billing standard is [-] yen for an arrangement, [-] yen for mixing, [-] yen for one hour in the recording studio, and only [-] yen for three hours.

It costs about 20 yen to record a song.

In other words, the two albums of Zhang Qiang and Cui Jian have a total of less than 400 songs, and they only stop at [-] million yen.

Including the rehearsal fee, the maximum is 600 million!

Once the price was calculated, Ning Weimin himself was shocked!

Why only 600 million yen?

It is actually equivalent to a fee of about [-] to [-] RMB?

Even according to the black market price, it is less than 30 RMB, how could it be similar to that in China.

Naturally, Ning Weimin thought that he had made a mistake.

But then I calculated it several times, but I couldn't find any faults in the calculation.

After consulting Matsumoto Keiko carefully, Ning Weimin finally understood what was going on.

Dare to love for nothing else, because the Japanese music industry is too developed, and the overall level is far superior to that in China.

Not only is it the leader of the entire Asian trend, but its maturity has reached the point of industrialization of music.

Therefore, there are many related practitioners, and the experience in making pop music is extremely rich.

For example, there are only two tracks of synthetic electronic music in China, but there are only six tracks of drum recordings here.

The so-called professional talents in our country, if they want to work here, they may not even know how to use a microphone.

On the other hand, if a few people stay up all night in China, put it here, maybe one person can easily handle it in a few hours.

That's such a big difference.

In addition, many audio equipment are produced by local Japanese companies, such as Yamaha and Sharp.

So the equipment that is expensive and scarce in China is the price of cabbage here, and the 24-track music recording equipment that can shock the jaws of Chinese people is nothing at all.

As for the most expensive place in Japanese music production, it is actually music royalties and copyright royalties.

But Ning Weimin didn't need to spend a lot of money on this aspect.

In this way, the final result is that for Ning Weimin and the others, Japanese music productions are cheap and beautiful.

Thanks to Keiko Matsumoto, he was able to grab the wool of the developed countries.

Especially looking at it the other way around, there is another most important issue, the capacity of the market is not the same.

If Japan can sell millions of music albums, it is already a ground-breaking platinum album.

In fact, Keiko Matsumoto's only album sold 10,000+ copies, and Ryoko Ishida's album "Blue Yokohama", which was popular in Asia, only sold 150 million copies.

Momoe Yamaguchi's debut album sold only 44.

In the eight years since his debut, all eight music albums in his acting career have sold a total of 620 million copies.

This is the first Showa singer in Japan whose album sales exceeded [-] million.

Therefore, this has led to the production of any music album in Japan, which has to rigorously calculate the minimum sales figures that can pay back.

Because it is really possible to lose money.

And if this million is to be placed in the interior of the republic, it would be too ordinary.

In this era, a new singer who is not well-known in China must sell 60 copies before a second album will be released.

The famous "stars", even a little bit famous, have a passing mark of millions.

Like Cui Jian's album released last year, it fell into the sand because it didn't sell enough 60 yuan.

But with his sales volume of hundreds of thousands, it would be a best-selling album in Japan, which would definitely make a lot of money for the publishing company.

For example, Zhang Qiang's first domestic album debuted at 200 million, which can be called double platinum, which is really nothing in China.

At the beginning, Ning Weimin was trapped by insufficient funds, so he focused on stability and set this relatively conservative figure.

Later, after several additional issuances, Zhang Qiang's first album has sold 350 million yuan, and the full market potential has not yet been discovered.

To start with the actual market demand, at least it should be able to catch up with Wang Jieshi and Xie Lisi, and the sales volume of 500 million is not a problem.

If such achievements are placed in contemporary Japan, it must be said that Japan has finally given birth to a peerless singer who dominates the music scene.

Not to mention that there will be no one to come after, and there will be no one before.

So when he really learned the inside story, Ning Weimin was overjoyed.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what he had done was really beautiful, and the price-performance ratio was too high.

That is tantamount to engaging in music smuggling in an aboveboard manner, even legally.

Well, this way must work. In the future, he will produce albums in Japan, record master tapes, and return to China for mass production.

Low price, high-end quality.

How can it be the turn of those gangsters from Hong Kong and Canada who chase after the little Japanese ass as apprentices, and go to the mainland to make troubles and get ripped off!

He remembered that in the original history, Cui Jian's "Rock and Roll on the New Long March Road" should have been produced in 1989 by several domestic audio-visual publishing houses and a record company in Hong Kong City, and recorded in Hong Kong City.

It is said that the production cost is as high as one million, and what can be played is a set of 24-track equipment.

Looking at it now, isn't such a sum of money ridiculous?

This price is too much of a gimmick, Hong Kong counselors really dare to open their teeth.

Reporting expenses like this is purely treating mainlanders as laymen.

Annoyed or not?
Hateful or not?
In addition, Keiko Matsumoto also sorted out the clues for Ning Weimin about Qu Xiao's mother contacting the hospital.

Matsumoto Keiko had probably appointed someone from his own office to run this matter, because it was absolutely impossible to do it alone.

During this period of time, Ning Weimin frequently checked the Yellow Pages and made phone calls, but he also ran into a wall, and he still didn't understand where the problem was.

Thanks to Keiko Matsumoto, he figured out what was going on.

Dare to feel that the medical system in Japan is quite different from that in China.

Japan's medical system adopts three types of medical systems: national, public, and private.

The country has comprehensive national medical and research institutions, and local governments set up public hospitals.

Then there are the largest number of private hospitals all over the country, especially in the community, most of which are specialized clinics.

The entire Japanese society goes to clinics near their homes for minor illnesses, that is, private hospitals.

If the clinic thinks that your disease needs further detailed examination or surgery, the doctor in the clinic will write a referral letter for you, and then go to a large hospital for treatment and surgery.

What's more, the doctors in these small clinics are quite professional, which is different from domestic ones.

Many private hospitals and clinics such as internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery are inherited from generations, and most of the deans are doctors of medicine.

Moreover, doctors in non-national hospitals in Japan are allowed to work part-time. Therefore, the specialists in many clinics are famous medical experts and professors of medicine, rather than interns who have just graduated from medical universities.

So to put it bluntly, seeing a serious illness in Japan is not something you can just see, and it has nothing to do with money. You must first have a letter of introduction.

Then make an appointment with a big hospital with a letter of introduction before going to a big hospital for consultation. This is the normal procedure.

Matsumoto Keiko has already greeted the director of a private hospital, and is willing to conduct a first visit for Qu Xiao's mother and issue a letter of introduction for her.

If surgery is really necessary, I am sure to make an appointment for her to go to a well-known surgeon and expert in a specialized hospital for surgery.

So what Ning Weimin has to do now is to bring people over from the capital.

In addition, in addition to the treatment fee, there is an additional financial expenditure. It is necessary to hire a professional medical translator who is proficient in Chinese to accompany him throughout the diagnosis and treatment process.

This is also a rigid regulation of the government. In order to avoid disputes caused by language problems when foreigners see a doctor, such an interpreter is needed as a guarantee for communication between doctors and patients.

To be honest, if it weren't for Matsumoto Keiko, it would be almost impossible for Ning Weimin to deal with such a trivial matter in such a short period of time.

To put it bluntly, when he agreed at the beginning, he didn't want to understand his weight, and he was a little ignorant.

How can such a matter of human life and heaven be based on good intentions?"

If he couldn't make it, he was almost delayed, and it was a mess.

It's all right now, thanks to Keiko Matsumoto, it's not too long to wait, and we can arrange for Qu Xiao's family to come over.

If he could really save someone's life, of course it would be Shengzao's seventh-level pagoda, and it would be considered the fate of his acquaintance with Qu Xiao.

But that's not all.

Keiko Matsumoto actually took the initiative to ask about the opening time of Tangong Restaurant.

Said that he was willing to come forward, and invited some friends in the circle to come and support Ning Weimin.

Of course Ning Weimin is very welcome.

Not to mention, Atsumi Kiyoshi and Abeka Chieko are big stars recognized by both China and Japan.

There is indeed a lineup to be invited.

And the people from the embassy also said that they would come, and they would be pleasantly surprised and kind to be accompanied by the Tora brothers and sisters in the movie "The Story of Tora".

Not to mention that there is an actress like Matsumoto Keiko to add luster to herself.

The lineup of literary and artistic friends is no worse than when it first opened in China.

All in all, Ning Weimin has seen and remembered Matsumoto Keiko's dedication and dedication, and is deeply grateful.

The joy is, "Hold the hand of the son, what more can the husband ask for."

What is worrying is that friendship is priceless, and I am ashamed of myself.

He really didn't know how to repay, so that he could be worthy of such love.

(End of this chapter)