Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

After being polite to each other, Cao Zhiqiang thought that the other party would sign the contract on behalf of his daughter. Unexpectedly, the other party smiled mysteriously, then shook his head and told Cao Zhiqiang to wait a moment. She would go out and come back later. Signing.

Cao Zhiqiang thought that the other party was going to the toilet, so he kindly told her how to go to the toilet. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Nakano just smiled at Cao Zhiqiang again, then stood up and left without saying anything.

Cao Zhiqiang didn't care about this. Anyway, after the signing here, he would deal with the remaining matters at hand and return to China.

By the way, he still has something important to do today, which is to go to Warner Bros. Pioneer to record an English song with his good friend Masashi Sada.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang had told Nobuo Tomioka a long time ago that he wanted to try English songs and did not want to be limited to the Japanese song market.

After all, when Cao Zhiqiang chose to cooperate with Warner, it was not only because of Endo Minoru's recommendation, but also because of Warner's influence in the European and American music circles.

Probably because he was stunned by Cao Zhiqiang's talent, when Nobuo Tomioka heard that Cao Zhiqiang could also sing English songs, he didn't think there was any problem at all.

However, Tomioka Nobuo mentioned to Cao Zhiqiang that Masashi Sada had been very restless recently and wanted to collaborate with Cao Zhiqiang once, and asked Cao Zhiqiang if he would agree.

As for Japanese songs, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't want to continue releasing them for the time being. After all, the six Japanese songs he has released are still in the chart-dominating stage, firmly holding the top six positions on the Oricon weekly chart.

Even Nakamori Akina's "Unbreakable" has always been at the No. 7 position, motionless.

The top seven places on the Oricon weekly list are all occupied by Chi-Chiang Tsao and Akina Nakamori, and so far, there is no sign of decline.

This situation is actually very hateful.

If Cao Zhiqiang releases a Japanese song again at this time, not only will he be hated by people, but he will also be fighting against himself, which is so boring.

After all, he is an outsider, so he will be fine. If he does his best, and really holds the top ten in the Oricon weekly rankings, and does not give other people a chance, haha, then he will probably not be so easy to talk to. .

Once public outrage arouses, even Yoshinaga Sayuri may not be able to save him.

In fact, it was Nobuo Tomioka who first told Cao Zhiqiang that it was best not to release Japanese songs recently, so as not to gain too much limelight and make others jealous.

Although Cao Zhiqiang is still jealous of others, it is still within the tolerable range.

But if Cao Zhiqiang doesn't stop and continues to release songs unscrupulously without giving other singers a way to survive, the consequences will be unpredictable.

It was precisely because of Nobuo Tomioka's persuasion, and because Cao Zhiqiang himself didn't want to get things done, that he agreed not to release Japanese songs for the time being until the popularity of his six songs subsided.

Just because you don’t record Japanese songs doesn’t mean you can’t record songs in other languages.

Chinese songs are certainly good, but the current market for Chinese songs is still too small.

Yes, the so-called Chinese music scene is mainly inland at this time. As for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, they are actually different markets.

For example, the Hong Kong music scene, which is currently the most popular, is actually a market for Cantonese songs.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he is proficient in four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean, but he does not know Cantonese.

It can’t be said that I can’t, I can only say that I am not proficient in it, but I still understand some simple common vocabulary.

In other words, if you want to record Chinese songs, I’m afraid you can only go to the inland market and Baodao.

On the Baodao side, Cao Zhiqiang did not consider it for the time being. After all, the issue was too sensitive.

Is it the inland market? He is already very famous and has his own record company. Even if he wants to record songs, he doesn't need Japan's Warner, he can just use his own Huaxia Audio and Video.

However, Cao Zhiqiang now feels that the name Huaxia Audio and Video is not quite right and can easily lead to ambiguity, so he has decided to change the name after returning.

He wanted to change it to Huaxia Records, so that it would be much clearer, and you would know it was about music.

Anyway, changing the name is not complicated now. After all, private company registration has just been opened in China. Even if someone registers a company, no one will set up a record company. Naturally, he does not have to worry about someone registering the trademark in advance and can change it at any time.

But when it comes to trademark registration, Cao Zhiqiang thinks that after returning to China this time, he will need to register more companies, especially more well-known trademarks.

It's not that Cao Zhiqiang wants to sell the trademark for fun, but he thinks that if he wants to expand his responsibilities in the future, he won't have to worry about the trademark with a good name being registered.

In short, if we want to discuss the scale of the music scene at this time, English songs from European and American cultural circles are the first to be recommended, followed by Japanese songs.

As for Chinese songs, or Mandarin songs, they probably wouldn’t even be ranked No. 3, and would only be ranked fourth or fifth.

The so-called scale of the music scene not only depends on the number of people you have, but the key is your economic indicators.

Needless to say, the current European and American cultural circles are indeed the regions with the strongest economic strength, bar none.

Secondly, there is Japan, which has the second strongest economy.

In other words, the soft power of music must be based on the economy.

Only when the economic strength of a country or region is strong enough can it overflow with more cultural strength, such as music strength.

Why was it that in the 90s, when it came to popular music, the United States was the first place to look, followed by Japan?
Aren’t these two countries the strongest economically?

As for the Hong Kong music scene, I'm sorry, but in fact, from a global perspective, it's not up to par at all.

In fact, most of the songs in Xiangjiang music at this time were copied from Europe, America and Japan.

Many Hong Kong pop songs that the Chinese people have become familiar with are actually plagiarized from European, American and Japanese songs.

As for examples, there are countless, so I won’t mention them.

This situation has led to Chinese people often having an inferiority complex and feeling that when it comes to music, it has to be European, American and Japanese, especially Japan.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the reason why music in Europe, America, Japan and other countries is good is because they developed earlier, so they took a step ahead.

If we talk about it further, when Japan was weak, it came to Datang to copy its music.

Even during the Qing Dynasty, Japanese music was very low-level at the beginning. However, it was later that the country was founded earlier and introduced a lot of Western music early. Combined with its own cultural characteristics, it gradually cultivated a large number of powerful musicians.

Even if it’s our country, it won’t work at this time, but if you get to the 21st century, when our country’s economic strength becomes stronger, we will still be able to produce many popular and good songs.

For example, "In the World", "The Lonely Warrior", "Wishful", "The Nameless Man", etc., no matter the melody, lyrics, meaning, and background, they are no worse than English songs and Japanese songs.

To put it bluntly, the so-called culture is nothing more than having enough food and clothing and knowing honor and disgrace.

Just look at our country. Whenever the country enters a prosperous era, various famous articles emerge in endlessly.

Tang poetry and Song lyrics are all like this.

But when a country enters troubled times or its strength weakens, its cultural soft power will also weaken.

Of course, literary and artistic things do not entirely depend on the strength of the country. Sometimes, some special people can also bring about great changes.

When Cao Zhiqiang started, he just wanted to make quick money by plagiarizing some poems and songs.

But as his own economic strength has changed, his ideas have changed.

He felt that in this era, perhaps he could properly guide the domestic social environment by relying on the famous songs in his mind.

The overwhelming sound will only make people fall.But if it is a voice of anger, it will be deafening.

After all, whether it is singing or writing, the essence is to arouse the resonance of others.

It's just that the direction of this resonance is different.

In short, as for Chinese songs, Cao Zhiqiang plans to record them with his own record company after returning to China. Moreover, he has also ordered the most advanced recording equipment in Tokyo and has already shipped it to China.

He is releasing songs here in Japan. He cannot release Japanese songs for the time being, and he does not know Cantonese songs. The market for Korean songs is too small at the moment and it is difficult to enter, so he can only release English songs first.

In fact, as for English songs, he had written hundreds of them in advance, and they were all registered with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Not only did he register the English songs with WIPO, he also re-registered them with WIPO along with the Japanese songs he had previously registered with the Japan Music Copyright Society.

WIPO is the most authoritative organization in the intellectual property field, and the Japanese Music Copyright Association also has to listen to them, so registering with WIPO is definitely a good idea.

Of course, thanks to this being in Tokyo, WIPO has a liaison office here and you can register through the liaison office.

If we were in China, there would be no such thing.

It’s not that China has not joined WIPO. In fact, China has already joined this organization, but the specific implementation intensity is different.

When China joins WIPO, it only becomes a member of this organization. However, after joining, whether to implement the system therein is actually a matter of two opinions.

After all, domestic technology is lagging behind at this time, and there is generally no concept of patents. After all, this hinders the diffusion of domestic technology from a certain perspective.

Therefore, when China joins this organization, it mainly uses this platform to purchase advanced technologies from other countries, or to spy on the advanced technologies of other countries, but it has no intention of strictly implementing it itself.

Even advanced technology is like this, not to mention copyright and trademark rights.

But Japan is different. This country can be said to have included all the projects in WIPO at this time and strictly implemented them.

Therefore, here in Japan, you can easily register copyrights for songs, articles, etc., and they are valid worldwide, and you can get maximum patent protection.

In the future, if someone else plagiarizes Cao Zhiqiang's songs, even if they just copy a certain melody, Cao Zhiqiang can sue the other party for infringement as long as he is willing.

Of course, whether you want to file a lawsuit requires a detailed analysis of the specific situation. After all, WIPO only gives you a certification to prove that the copyright belongs to you and that you are the original author. But if you really want to file a lawsuit, the person who advocates it will have to pay, and Even if you pay to file a lawsuit, it often requires a detailed analysis of the specific situation.

In most cases, you won't win a lawsuit. Even if you win, it's usually very difficult to enforce. It's troublesome anyway.

If this were not the case, the musicians in Xiangjiang would not blatantly plagiarize Japanese songs, or they would just sue if they were right.

After registering the song, Cao Zhiqiang also took the time to go to the hospital to meet Masashi Sada under the arrangement of Nobuo Tomioka.

Knowing that Masashi Sada had been recovering well recently and wanted to cooperate with Cao Zhiqiang, Cao Zhiqiang agreed.

After all, no matter what, Cao Zhiqiang was able to come to Japan thanks to Masashi Sada.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang planned to collaborate with him and start a band for fun.

Unfortunately, halfway through, Masashi Sada was suddenly hospitalized due to physical reasons, resulting in missing the opportunity to collaborate.

Now that Masashi Sada has almost recovered, the doctor has agreed to carry out appropriate activities and record songs, but he is not allowed to hold concerts.

After all, holding a concert is a physical job, which is different from recording songs in a recording studio.

Yesterday, when Cao Zhiqiang was resting at the Imperial Hotel, he had a phone call with Masashi Sada and made an appointment to record a song at Warner Bros. today.

Well, after signing the contract with Mrs. Nakano, I’ll go directly to Masashi Sada. It’s better to finish the song recording as soon as possible.

Just when Cao Zhiqiang was still thinking about his head, the office door was suddenly pushed open.

Then, before Cao Zhiqiang could raise his head, a system prompt suddenly appeared in his ears, and subtitles suddenly appeared in front of his eyes:
[Ding, a high-quality woman who meets the storage conditions has been detected within ten meters of you. 】

[Target locked—Nakano Yuri! 】

[Excuse me, do you want to bind Yuri Nakano to become your love angel reserve? 】

After seeing this, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned. He did not make a choice immediately, but quickly raised his head and looked at the door.

What he saw was a short-haired girl wearing a gray sportswear and a cheerful smile on her face.

"Tianhai Youxi?" Cao Zhiqiang subconsciously said.

Tianhai Youxi was stunned for a moment, but she quickly realized that Tianhai Youxi was the stage name given to her by Cao Zhiqiang.

Thinking of this, Amami Yuki smiled and bowed lightly to Cao Zhiqiang, then raised his head and said with a smile: "Hello, I am Nakano Yuri, and I am Amami Yuki!"

Just then, Tianhai Yuxi's mother came in and said to Cao Zhiqiang with a smile on her face: "Mr. Morinaka, I think it is best for my daughter to sign the contract in person. What do you think?"

Cao Zhiqiang blinked and was about to speak when the system suddenly gave a warning, saying that there were still ten seconds left in the countdown. If he didn't make a choice, he would be deemed to have given up.

Upon hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang immediately chose to bind.

After binding, the system screen in front of me immediately changed, and a column called "Love Angel Characters" appeared.

Cao Zhiqiang, who was already familiar with the process, quickly clicked to expand.

Immediately afterwards, the column of [Love Angel Characters] automatically expanded:

[Name: Nakano Yuri]

[Comprehensive score: 91 points]

[Favourability: 82 points]

[Current total love fund: 212 billion US dollars]

[Any love fund that you normally consume for Nakano Yuri, your personal account will receive one-tenth of the love fund consumption as a reward. 】

Seeing this, Cao Zhiqiang was directly shocked.

It’s not that I’m shocked at how the $212 billion figure is calculated.

But that favorability score is actually 82 points?
You know, according to the definition of this system, the range of 70-89 is the liking stage.

Nakano Yuri, no, Amami Yuki's favorability towards him actually has 82 points?
Doesn't this mean that she already likes him?
This cannot be faked, the numbers given by the system are absolutely true!

So far, this is the first time that Cao Zhiqiang's favorability has exceeded 70 points among all the girls bound to the system since he had this "cashback of love" ability.

And the score reached a high of 82 points immediately, which shows that the other party likes me very much.

But strictly speaking, he only met her a handful of times, and he didn't perform any mysterious operations on him.

He hasn't done anything yet, and she already likes him?
Was it really love at first sight? (End of chapter)