Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 368 Arrangements at the end of the year

With Robert Shaye, Wang Xu seemed to be freed from the endless complicated affairs all of a sudden. It turns out that professional producers are not just talking about it.

He was obviously a foreigner, could not speak Chinese, and had to rely on translators wherever he went, but it didn't take long to smooth everything out and finalize contracts with all parties.

Whether it was the actors from Chou Country or the team from Xiangjiang, it seemed that he just made a few phone calls and got it done quickly.

As for the Imperial Capital side, they were fully cooperative. The two managers of the studio were ordered to run around in circles by Robert Shaye. The entire team was like a sports car running at full power, running all the way onto the highway.

Robert Shaye also lamented to Wang Xu several times that the team at Huaxia is really easy to use, fast, and strong in execution. The various special effects requirements explained by Wang Xu are quickly taking shape.

Wang Xu feels relieved, and Robert Shaye feels the same way. Wang Xu's script has been detailed down to every storyboard. The effects required for various special effects seem to have been in Wang Xu's mind for a long time. Wang Xu claims to be well-prepared. Let foreigners learn a Chinese idiom.

Wang Xu had other work, so Robert quickly made various plans. The team would meet after the Spring Festival next year and wrap up in May. The shooting time was only scheduled for three months.

This was done according to Wang Xu's existing shooting plan, and he still left a lot of money. He knew the director, and there would definitely be additional ideas bursting out during the shooting.

Everything went smoothly. New Line secured an investment of US$500 million and obtained half of the box office share of Ugly Country. The other half was divided equally between New Line and Wang Xu. The film copyright still belonged to Wang Xu's studio.

Golden Harvest also made 500 million US dollars, but it only had [-]% of the box office in Asia, with New Line and Wang Xu sharing [-]/[-].

As for other markets, it is divided equally among the three companies.

As for Diying, they invested a total of 100 million yuan, which was packaged and distributed with Wang Xu.

Wang Xu basically does not need to continue to invest. Wang Xu’s script, the salary of the two leading actors, plus the previous investment in software, hardware, development of new special effects, production of Two Streets, etc. are all converted into The total investment is calculated as USD 500 million.

In general, the box office that Wang Xu can allocate is not much, but Wang Xu has newly opened a WX men's clothing brand and a WF women's clothing brand as mid-range clothing under Wang Chao Apparel.

We sell clothes, glasses, etc. for the male and female protagonists together. We have prepared 20 sets in the initial stage, including black windbreakers, black leather pants and vests. The price of each set is more than 500 US dollars, but the materials are all made of chemical fiber. They are very handsome, but they lack The special texture of leather jackets is just a matter of selling in quantity.

And only with the Wangchao label, it is truly authentic, a real leather jacket, and the price of a set is more than 20000 US dollars.

Only this can 100% restore the effect in the movie. However, Wang Xu didn't prepare much of this kind of goods. There were only dozens of sets in one city. Such expensive things can be earned with tears.

There are millions of T-shirts printed with various matrix logos.

This matter did not start now, but after Wang Xu planned to make this movie and commercialize it, Wang Xu told Tang Yun to start preparations.

Tang Yun had almost lost patience with Wang Xu's slow-tempered personality. How could he not use chicken feathers as arrows this time and start arranging stores all over the world early? He didn't believe it. With Wang Xu's fashionable and cool clothes , still can’t be sold.

Initially, the clothing will be sold as peripherals in movie theaters, and Tang Yun will also open specialty stores in the two central cities of Los Angeles and New York. In other cities, the most famous department store, Macy's, will handle the counter operations. .

This model is of course not as good as the completely exclusive model of later generations, but first of all, the pure specialty store model is not that popular in this era. Traditional department stores are still extremely competitive, and Chinese people still have priority when shopping in shopping malls. The tradition of big department stores.

Until ten years later, Macy's department store was still the number one in clothing sales in the United States, and then it was slowly replaced by new types of specialty stores. Urban comprehensive commercial complexes full of specialty stores gradually replaced traditional department stores and became The new preferred business model.

Wang Xu is not worried. There will be no problem in making changes at that time. This time, he was selected by Macy’s to become the first Chinese partner, thanks to the introduction of Robert Shaye. In addition, Wang Xu and Wang Fei are famous and popular. The name of a rock singer is what makes this trip possible.

In other words, people came here for this kind of advertising effect. This year, Wang Fei's new English album has become very popular in the ugly country, and MTV TV station has long dominated the song list.

Although Wang Xu only has two songs in it, he still seduces the hearts of countless boys and girls with his handsome appearance.

Therefore, taking advantage of the couple's growing popularity, Tang Yun's ambitions are also expanding crazily. Especially since she opened Wangchao stores in Xiangjiang and Xiaori, she has already set her sights on the world.

It is enough for Huaxia to stabilize a few top-level specialty stores. If you open too many, it will not make money at all. Their clothes are too expensive. Even WX and WF, which are a lower grade, seem to be out of touch with the masses.

But if you put it overseas, there will be no problem. Wang Chaogui should be the one to sell a set for thousands or tens of thousands.

WX and WF are completely high-end clothing that can be sold in large quantities.

The main focus is youth, fashion, and a bit rebellious. The sales targets are young people from middle-class families. The clothing is generally priced at [-] to [-] dollars. This is definitely not cheap for Western young people, but it is not considered cheap either. Expensive price.

This is Tang Yun's ambition, and Wang Xu is naturally indispensable. Support is enough. He doesn't even need a loan, he just needs to continue investing the money he saved before.

It was nothing more than finding some processing factories, and the processing factories were in Suzhou. Zhou Feng helped the Suzhou Office in Beijing directly bring in several garment manufacturing companies to get orders.

This era is in a period of transition from processing with supplied materials to all-round OEM. Both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises are facing the same dilemma.

The development of private enterprises in Suzhou is actually not very strong. Since the rapid development of Zhou Feng's family's company, the government of Suzhou seems to have started to understand.

They did not pursue foreign companies as they did in history, but gave more support to local state-owned and private enterprises.

Since Xiangxuehai obtained the compressor technology and received support from the government, it can be said that it has immediately entered the fast lane, creating a super-standard development path of being able to start production within three months, making a profit immediately after starting production, and immediately building the second phase.

Moreover, Xiangxuehai established a research institute in cooperation with Shuimu. According to the contract, it began to invest part of its profits in research on improvement and expansion plans based on existing compressor products.

Although the time is still short and no results have been seen yet, and it is still in the research and development process, even if it is just to expand the power and add some automation control research, it can be enough to bring a visible future to Xiangxuehai.

Therefore, if you give me some information here, it’s actually Gusu’s traditional strength, so you shouldn’t hurry up.

Tang Yun visited several companies in Suzhou and finally chose the one with the most standardized management. Originally, she couldn't see anything else, but the standardized management could still be seen.

When Wang Xu usually chats with everyone, he also talks more or less about what various advanced factories should look like.

This is the advantage of the time traveler. If you ask him how he can do that, he doesn't know, but he really knows what an advanced enterprise looks like, and he knows what things cannot be faked.

The same is true for garment manufacturing, assembly line specifications, raw logistics management, inspection of finished products, and the mental outlook of personnel. These differences show the differences between companies.

A million-level order is not small, and the cost of these clothes is not high. Wang Xu provides unified styles and unified quality inspection standards. This is Tang Yun's own ability. He has been studying management courses and goes there frequently. Shuimuceng class.

In the name of Sister Wang Xu, any teacher would give her three portions of thin noodles to attend the class. Is that even a big deal?In fact, Wang Jinghua often uses Wang Xu's name, basically just saying hello. This is the importance of connections.

To say who among these people knows Wang Xu's power best, the first choice should be Senior Brother Yuzhuo, and the second one is Wang Jinghua.

As for Wang Fei, she doesn't care. How much power belongs to her man. She enjoys that kind of privilege and knows more deeply where the privilege comes from. This is enough.

In any case, the addition of Robert Shaye freed Wang Xu from all kinds of tedious matters and allowed him to focus on the real movie.

For example, when it comes to selecting actors, the film is already famous in both China and Hong Kong. The tripartite cooperation between Mainland China, Hollywood and Hong Kong is a big gimmick.

Although such a medium-invested movie with an investment of 1500 million US dollars is not outstanding in ugly countries.It will not cause any impact in Hollywood, but for Hong Kong, where a movie exceeding [-] million Hong Kong dollars is considered a big investment, it is explosive news.

Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu from Mainland China have already confirmed their roles. Jiang Wen can be considered the second male lead, while Jiang Wu is just an ordinary NPC. He hasn't graduated yet, so he just needs to show his face.

Liu Xiaoqing also plays a minor role, a pure cameo.Instead, John Travolta was chosen, and Zhang Guorong was chosen as the third male lead, plus Wang Fei as the female lead.

In fact, the main characters have all returned to their positions, and the rest actually don't have many important roles. The more important ones are the four members of the team, one of whom is the main character who failed at the beginning.

Even so, there are still some second-tier actors in Xiangjiang who are frequently looking for connections with Jiahe. Of course, Wang Fei's friends are also being searched by their friends, thinking that they can know some inside information.

However, fortunately, people who have a good relationship with Wang Fei are of high status and cannot be approached by ordinary people, so those who can come are generally of high status.It was not because they wanted to play a role, but because they wanted to hear gossip. As a result, Wang Fei chatted with Sister Mei for a long time in the evening.

Wang Xuze and Zhang Guorong chatted for a long time, one at home and the other in the office, but they talked about gossip.

Then all kinds of gossip were passed back like this. Wang Xu was really all-inclusive about these things, and he just said it. It was not a confidential project.

Jiahe, on the other hand, knows how to build momentum. Xiangjiang has been mastering the game for a long time. How could he not take advantage of the situation? The pace of Jiahe's listing has accelerated a bit without you noticing.

As a result, not long after the news of the three-party cooperation was released, the name of Wang Xu and Wang Fei once again resounded throughout Hong Kong.

As the saying goes, if you sit at home, your reputation comes from heaven. The young couple is really low-key, but their true strength does not allow it.

What else can I do, just make some money with tears in my eyes.

It's almost the end of December, and the Imperial Capital once again invited Wang Fei to this year's New Year's Day party, also with five little ones.

As for the Spring Festival Gala, it is Xia Shi who is unstoppable. Now Wang Fei's background can be said to be extraordinary.It will give some face from top to bottom. This is not the credit of a few papers, but the bonus brought by the supercomputing project.

At least this is the case recently. Supercomputing projects have been settled in four companies established by Great Wall, Inspur, Tongfang and Founder. The first two were originally the leaders of Huaxia Computer, especially Great Wall, which is a company under the Ministry of Electronics Industry and is of the same lineage. A pure state-owned enterprise.

At that time, Great Wall 0520 could be said to have fired the first shot of China's computer production, but unfortunately, this company has always insisted on state-owned assets and invested a lot of money in technology research.

It was the first computer company in China to break through the limitations of BIOS. Later, it successively broke through the technical limitations of various peripherals including hard drives, power supplies, motherboards, etc., and even made it possible to produce only CPUs nationwide, and then was stopped by famous manufacturers around the world. The price war has been put away.

It can be said that Great Wall died a bit tragically at that time, especially in the field of hard disks. It was the only manufacturer in China to produce hard disks. Unfortunately, the hard disk technology it worked hard to develop was not enough, resulting in low prices. In the beginning, it could still survive on government orders.

Later, the international situation changed and policies were adjusted. He paid 4000 yuan a piece, while Seagate sold it on the market for 800 yuan. So it died immediately, and the second-generation hard drive under development also came to nothing.

At this time, it is popular to reflect, and once we reflect, we also reflect on the system. It is purely state-owned and purely domestic. What is the country?

In addition, the personality of his boss is not as greedy as the leader of a certain computing company, and he seems to be easier to talk to. His personality makes the entire company less wolfish.

Don't think this is a good thing because the company is relatively gentle. In the national environment of the 90s, wolfishness was really a necessity for survival. At that time, Huawei could really make an appointment with a friend for an order.

A certain computing company relied on this wolfishness and used various tricks to turn the company into a private company, and then aggressively internationalized it. As a company, it can be said that it has developed much better than the Great Wall.

But for China, that is really a matter of opinion. When it acquired IBM PC, it was quite popular with the public and received high praise from the whole country.But looking back now, it may not be a ploy to shift the focus of assets outward.

The Great Wall is gradually dying. Now, except for the power supply, it is still somewhat famous. For other things, it is not even considered third-rate.

However, in Wang Xu's view, Great Wall is actually one of the few IT companies that can invest real money in research and development, and it is also one of the few companies that Wang Xu can praise. There are actually many such companies at the moment, such as Kingsoft, ZTE and Huawei.

It’s just that at that time, everyone was crossing the river in the dark, and no one knew where the road was. But the problem with the Great Wall actually lies in decision-making and mentality.

They spread their funding too thinly and didn't focus enough.

In addition to the CPU, they almost grabbed everything from the chassis to the monitor. The result was that nothing was really done well. Except for the power supply, which was the initial breakthrough, nothing else could reach the high level of the industry.

In the past two years, they even made a bunch of supporting software and wanted to make a free operating system. They spent a lot of money, but the results were not good.

Great Wall wanted too quickly to realize nationwide localization, but the result was a collapse of overall efficiency, which was a fate.

For example, ZTE and Huawei both focus on the field of switches and conduct intensive research. Even if they are pirated, they have to compete with the highest level. Instead, they have found a bright road.

The first batch of supercomputing technology licensees were Tongfang and Inspur, and half a year later, the second batch was chosen by Founder and Great Wall. In fact, the Computing Institute also came, and they also coveted this technology. Their connections were not small, so they were convinced. Many people from the Water and Wood Management Committee.

However, Wang Xu directly voted for the Great Wall, which caused a hidden loss for the Institute of Computing Technology. For this reason, his peers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences scolded Wang Xu a lot, and Wang Xu was not annoyed and invited several leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to eat. After finishing the meal, he twisted his mouth.

Wang Xu didn't say anything, he just talked about some capital operation methods and the ownership of certain land. As for what happened next, it really had nothing to do with Wang Xu.

Really, what kind of evil thoughts could the handsome Wang Xu have? The pure and flawless Dong Si Wang Er is so white.

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