1979 Golden Age

Chen Qi continued to be busy and used the last 20 days to achieve the highest level of the Spring Festival Gala.

The early Spring Festival Gala looked rough. The main reason was that there was no funding. CCTV would not approve the money, so the actors brought their own dry food. For example, this year's Spring Festival Gala has historically been open to sponsors. The Kangbas Watch Factory in Shandong directly brought a cart of watches to Beijing and won the first GG of the Spring Festival Gala without spending a penny. The sponsorship fee was just that cart of watches.

Ever since, Combas appeared on the countdown screen, and it has become a tradition since then.

Now that Chen Qi has taken over, the Ministry of Culture needs funds, and there is no such thing as GG sponsoring. He has limited energy, and he doesn't want to take the initiative to find something to do.

Lechunfang.

In the office in the front yard, Chen Qi met Zhang Qiang and her mother.

Zhang Qiang is 17 years old this year. She is a bit more cheerful than when she first met her, and her temperament is as good as the sun.

Her mother smiled apologetically and said: "I have wanted to see you for a long time. This child has been desperate to join your company since she attended the Spring Festival Gala. I have no choice but to beg you with an old face. How are her qualifications? "

"She doesn't go to school?"

"If you don't get good grades, just finish high school."

"Oh, yes, welcome to join Dongfang Company!"

"Huh? Is this enough?"

Her mother was stunned, and Chen Qi smiled and said, "Your daughter is already qualified, otherwise I wouldn't let her go on stage.

It's better to choose a day than to hit it. Just sign the contract today. Let me think about it——"

The disco songs sung by Zhang Qiang were popular throughout the 1980s and were a bit outdated in the 1990s. In 2024, she became popular again due to the retro style and nostalgia.

"The contract is for 8 years, not based on the number of albums. We will create the best music for her. She must fulfill her contractual obligations and comply with all activities arranged by the company. In terms of income-"

"I heard that people abroad charge royalties? Can I share the royalties?" Zhang Qiang said suddenly.

“We don’t even have copyrights in China, so where do we get the royalties?”

"But I heard that Hou Dejian is making an album for Cheng Lin, and I'm giving him one dollar for each album!"

“My fellow Taiwanese compatriots!”

Chen Qi shrugged and said: "Other people charge 10 yuan for a song, I will give you 50 yuan, and I will give you 50 yuan. This is the highest price in the country. But I have made a promise to my singers, as long as the environment is relaxed , I will definitely give you a share of the royalties.”

"Yeah, you have a good reputation. I trust you and I'm willing to sign!" Zhang Qiang said with a smile.

"Then just sign it like this!" her mother also said.

"Okay, you guys come back in the afternoon and we're going to prepare the contract."

Mother and daughter went out.

Chen Qi continued to work. One year passed, and Dongfang Company had to settle accounts, distribute bonuses, distribute new year's goods, and write reports to the leaders as usual. And this reckoning shocked me!

Last year, four movies were released, "Life is Beautiful", "Tai Chi 3", "Happy Ghost" and "The Frog Prince". The total box office share in Hong Kong was 29 million Hong Kong dollars, and US$10.85 million was earned overseas. After turning it over to the country, I kept 280

Ten thousand, and there is still the remaining US$2.2 million.

In mainland China, the money sold to China Film Group was 6.34 million, and the income from selling tapes was 7 million.

Dongchang's current total assets: 13.34 million yuan, 29 million Hong Kong dollars, and 5 million US dollars!

Since he started to earn foreign exchange through exports, he has turned over about 20 million U.S. dollars to the country—he didn’t keep any profits from “Tai Chi 1” and paid it all. In fact, it’s not much, and it’s not as good as the exports of other industries, but the key is to make movies, and a movie maker has to pay 20 million US dollars.

What else does the country have to say? Not to mention getting honors.

"Damn, that's a lot of money!"

"It's a pity that you can only look at it, but you can't take it!"

Chen Qi suddenly felt a bit corrupt, but was repelled by 404 with great righteousness. However, he evaluated it and found that selling tapes was the fastest, the most, and the easiest way to make money. The profit from one tape was 2.5 yuan. Where could he reason?

Currently, those who can release Mandarin albums include Li Lingyu, Fei Xiang, Zhang Mingmin, and the newly signed Zhang Qiang, who still need to expand.

He called the administrative and financial staff at Beijing Film Studio, prepared the money, and summoned everyone to Lechunfang.

The bonuses were distributed one by one, and then they all went to Beijing Film Studio to view the properties.

"Didi!"

Two vans drove into the Beijing Film Studio compound, turned onto a straight cement road, and stopped under two residential buildings.

As soon as the car door opened, more than 20 people came out, including those stationed here, a total of 33 people.

Everyone was extremely excited. Li Lianjie and Ji Chunhua also came back from Hong Kong. Li Lianjie was not a formal employee of Dongchang. Chen Qi used special talent terms to let him live in a separate apartment, but the nature was different from that of a formal employee.

Officially, he can live there for a few lifetimes. He is a temporary resident, but he can also bring his mother to live with him and no one will care about him.

Li Lianjie's thoughts are very confused now. He loves and hates it, but is more afraid of it.

The houses here have been divided, the keys are in hand, the married ones will get one, and the singles will live in one as a dormitory.

Most of them are singles, that is, Liang Xiaosheng, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Junzhao, He Qun, Li Mingfu and others have families, a few other administrative staff have families, and there are a few apartments that Chen Qi took the initiative to give away -

The entire building was only divided into half, so it’s no wonder the people at Beijing Film Studio went crazy.

"Teacher Li! Teacher Li!"

Li Lingyu ran into a room and looked around: "Yeah, your apartment is the same as mine. I'm downstairs."

"It's different. I have my own apartment, and you live with others." Li Jianqun corrected.

"Okay, okay, I know you are a special talent, but Teacher Chen promised me that as long as I sell more than 2 million tapes, he will let me live alone."

"Then work hard!"

Li Jianqun didn't want to pay attention to her, just observing the interior space, as if thinking about how to design it.

Li Lingyu came for this, all kinds of sticky: "Hey Teacher Li, you are so good, help me design it! Oh, we are roommates after all, you are so ruthless!"

Li Jianqun looked at her with his hands on his waist. She was very beautiful, but his mouth was cold as ice: "Teacher Chen, Teacher Liang, and Zhang Yi all asked me for help, I have to do it myself, you are late!

And what are you designing when you live in the dormitory? Just scrape the whitewash, put some putty and go to sleep."

"How can you say such a thing?!"

Li Lingyu was wailing, and the others were all very happy.

Gong Xue walked around the house ten times and was very satisfied. The 70-square-meter cadre house, with no public area and two large balconies, easily beat those large apartments with more than 100 square meters in later generations.

"This balcony is for me to grow flowers!"

"I think it can also be separated into a small study room, you write and I paint."

"I asked Jianqun to help with the design. I must buy the best furniture to make our home beautiful."

"Yeah, buy, buy, buy! Buy whatever you like."

Chen Qi smiled and nodded.

In fact, his requirements for furnishings are not high. He likes modern life, such as clean tap water, no frequent power outages, a water heater, iced drinks and watermelons in summer, and heating in winter. That's enough. He recalled the ambition he made when he first came here: no emptying the urine pot, living in a house where you can poop in the house!

After five years of hard work, it finally came true.

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