Hong Kong drama begins with Liang Kun

Chapter 182 Charlie's Phone

Since karaoke originated from an island country, the song materials are basically Japanese songs.

This has led to the fact that people in other countries or regions do not recognize this entertainment method so much, so it is difficult to become popular among these people.

However, this is only a problem caused by the language barrier, and it does not mean that this kind of entertainment is only suitable for islanders and not for people from other countries.

In fact, no matter which country people are in, they all like karaoke as an entertainment method. Otherwise, in the next few decades, this entertainment method will not become a popular entertainment activity. When I just started walking, I almost always went to ktv to have fun.

So what Li Qiankun has to do now is to seize the market opportunity, and then let the world officially enter the era of ktv entertainment by producing more MTV songs suitable for the locals.

Li Qiankun owns a company like Qiankun Films, so it is easy for him to shoot MTV.

What's more, the mtv material used in karaoke is actually just to show some pictures for customers, and it doesn't need to be as exquisite as the mtv of those songs released on the market.

After all, when customers sing in the future, most of their attention will be focused on the lyrics. As long as the picture can bring customers a certain artistic conception, it does not need to be too complicated.

As for what kind of artistic conception will be produced when these pictures are presented to customers, this will vary from person to person. After all, everyone thinks of different things when singing, so they see those common pictures. emotions can also vary greatly.

This point can actually be seen in many mtvs of later generations. Many folk songs that are not popular, especially those that have only been released in some areas, naturally cannot spend more money to produce mtv. In the end, they can only use This is a relatively cheap way to shoot some pictures of my hometown, and then add music and lyrics to form a complete mtv.

Although this kind of mtv is not aesthetically pleasing, nor storytelling and interesting, it is enough to be used as accompaniment in karaoke.

So Li Qiankun sent two groups of people to shoot in different places, one of them was a group shooting urban street scenes, and their main activities were in Hong Kong.

The other group took the shooting of scenery pictures as the main task, and the places they went to were naturally various tourist attractions and various places of interest.

Li Qiankun's financial support for the second group is also the highest. He not only asked this group to shoot local tourist attractions in Xiangjiang, but also asked them to go to the mainland, where several of the most famous tourist attractions were also filmed.

In addition, clips of some movies produced by Qiankun Films can also be made into future MTV screens, especially some episodes of movies such as Play Back To School and Prison Storm, which can be fully integrated with movie clips , it is bound to be able to bring more sense of substitution to customers in the future...

At the same time, Li Qiankun also started to renovate the eight shops he bought recently.

Each of these eight shops is about 600 square meters, and they are located in North Point, Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Sham Shui Po, and Western District.

As for the style of decoration, Li Qiankun specially found a professional decoration company to carry out the decoration. Generally speaking, the style is similar to those chain-operated KTV venues in later generations.

Of course, with these eight chain-operated karaoke establishments, Li Qiankun will naturally re-establish a special karaoke chain operation company, which will be responsible for the management and operation of all future direct sales and franchise stores.

And the name of this company is Qiankun Karaoke Co., Ltd. All franchise stores will use Qiankun as the name of karaoke stores in the future.

After more than a month of sorting out, most of the preparatory work for karaoke has been completed, and even the decoration work has come to an end.

And Wu Sen on Treasure Island was also very helpful, and finally closed Wu Dun's case as an infighting between gangsters, and Li Qiankun, Ding Yao and others were not involved at all.

So in this way, Ding Yao can finally officially return to Baodao and start her new life path.

Now Ding Yao has killed Wu Dun in name, and holds the distribution rights of Qiankun Films' works in Baodao.

So this is also one of the important chips for Ding Yao to claim credit in front of Lei Gong.

And in order for Ding Yao to ascend to the position smoothly, Li Qiankun also gave him a bigger gift.

On the first day of returning to Treasure Island, Li Qiankun took Ding Yao to an empty shop in Taipei City.

This shop is located on the third floor of a building in the city center, with a total area of ​​more than 1000 square meters.

After walking into the empty shop, Ding Yao asked in surprise: "Brother Kun, why did you bring me here? Could it be that you want to give this place to me?"

"No, I know you are not such a vulgar woman." Li Qiankun shook his head and denied.

Ding Yao curled her lips and said coquettishly, "Actually, people can be vulgar once in a while."

Li Qiankun hugged Ding Yao from behind, pointed to the shop in front of him and said, "Actually, I still have a lot of shops like this in Baodao. I just bought one in Taipei and one in Kaohsiung before, but recently , I have purchased thousands of square meters of shops in New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Taoyuan and Keelung, you should know what I want to do, right?"

Ding Yao turned her head to look at Li Qiankun, and asked with a happy smile on her face, "Brother Kun, do you want to drive Qiankun Karaoke to Treasure Island?"

"That's right, you are still the smartest." Li Qiankun turned Ding Yao over, and then used his index finger to lightly touch the tip of Ding Yao's nose, looking at Ding Yao with a doting look.

The smile on Ding Yao's face was even bigger, and he looked at Li Qiankun with strong admiration in his eyes: "Brother Kun, you are really a business genius. It is really my luck to know you in this life."

"You are also the one with the most moves and the best moves among the girls I met." Li Qiankun looked at Ding Yao with a smirk.

Ding Yao was stunned at first, but then he understood the meaning of Li Qiankun's words, and directly cast a blank stare at Li Qiankun to express his feelings...

Li Qiankun laughed a few times, then hugged Ding Yao, who was about to avoid him, and comforted him: "Ayao, listen to me, I will hand over all these karaokes to the Sanlian Gang in the future. Let’s see, as for the middleman, it’s up to you to be the middleman.”

When Ding Yao heard this, her expression immediately became happy. After all, Ding Yao is eager to claim credit in front of Lei Gong, and the important bargaining chip for claiming credit is how much benefit she can bring to the Poisonous Snake Hall.

Now that the distribution rights of Qiankun Films' works in Baodao have been obtained, if Ding Yao can still bring so many night show rights to the Sanlian Gang, her status in the Sanlian Gang and her importance in Lei Gong's eyes The degree is tantamount to going to a new level.

"Brother Kun, are you doing so much for me?" Ding Yao asked with a flash of light in his eyes.

Li Qiankun nodded without hesitation and replied: "Of course it is for you, you are my favorite woman."

After hearing this, Ding Yao threw herself into Li Qiankun's arms, and hugged Li Qiankun tightly with both hands at the same time...

Today, if Ding Yao wants to make a name for himself, he naturally needs to find a big brother who can cover him as a backer.

And Li Qiankun is naturally her most favorite object at present, and although Wu Dun's death has passed, the gun that Ding Yao shot Wu Dun was picked up by Wu Sen at that time.
And the relationship between Wu Sen and Li Qiankun is so special, if the gun was not disposed of by Wu Sen in the end, but kept for a rainy day, I am afraid that Ding Yao's murder charges will still be exposed...

Therefore, whether it is because of Li Qiankun's influence or Li Qiankun's connections, Ding Yao has no choice but to completely depend on Li Qiankun at this time.

With Li Qiankun's support, Ding Yao also successfully won the position of the head of the Poisonous Snake Hall and became a pivotal role in the Sanlian Gang.

And those who competed with Ding Yao for the position of hall master before were also eliminated by Ding Yao, realizing the complete unification of the poisonous snake hall.

In fact, Ding Yao, as the younger sister of the former hall master, would have won the support of many people if she was the hall master.

Now with the backing of Li Qiankun, Ding Yao's methods are even tougher. Ding Yao, who was bullied everywhere because he didn't have a younger brother around him who can fight, now has Li Qiankun who specializes in fighting under his own door. The dozen or so younger brothers who can fight have been found to help, which is completely different...

And after Ding Yao became the hall master, he did not forget what he promised Li Qiankun at the beginning.

So just a few days later, Ding Yao took Li Qiankun to meet the person in charge of the cultural department.

The person in charge weighs about two hundred catties. Judging from his size, he must be a guy with a big appetite.

But to Li Qiankun's surprise, in the end he only gave the other party a house of 120 square meters, and the highest person in charge of the cultural department of Baodao fell, and he also got a lot of promises from the other party.

So a week after the meeting, Liang Jiahui's ban was successfully lifted, and the Prison Situation series starring Liang Jiahui was successfully released on Taiwan...

In order to thank Li Qiankun for his kindness, Liang Jiahui also signed a five-year contract with Qiankun Films, and has since become an actor under Qiankun Films.

Time gradually came to October, and all the karaoke direct-sale stores under Li Qiankun's name had been renovated, and they were only waiting for the equipment to be installed before they could officially open for business.

It's just that this kind of equipment can't be made in Xiangjiang, and it must be customized in the island country.

Traditional jukeboxes still use video tapes, and each tape can play up to 60 minutes, so if this kind of video tape is used as the carrier of karaoke songs, I am afraid that each tape can carry up to 20 songs, which obviously cannot satisfy most customers. demand.

And if customers want more styles of songs, they have to change the tapes again. In this way, not only will there be a lot of unnecessary troubles in the work procedure, but also the risk of damage to equipment and video tapes will be increased.

What's more, most of the customers who consume in karaoke are in a state of drunkenness. It may not be an easy task for these people to complete the operation of worse video tapes.

In addition, different customers have different preferences for songs. The songs that some people like are on this tape, and the songs that the next person likes to sing are on another tape. It is equivalent to changing the video tape differently, and the customer experience will definitely be greatly reduced.

Therefore, before the official opening of karaoke, Li Qiankun must find a way to solve the disadvantages of the video tape.

After some investigation, Li Qiankun found that laser discs already existed in this era, but the cost of making movies and music works with this kind of discs was too high, and the people in the market did not popularize this kind of discs. Therefore, videotapes have always been used as the main film carrier in the market. As for music albums, they are naturally more popular vinyl record players. As for the more advanced laser discs, they have always been Later generations will not be able to achieve the level of popularity like video recorders and record players.

But what Li Qiankun needs now is the carrier of karaoke songs, not to sell the works, so whether it is the cost or whether the equipment is popular, it is not a problem for him, as long as the capacity of the video tape is too small and the number of songs is not enough This shortcoming is Li Qiankun's best choice.

The capacity of laser discs is enough to put all the songs of a karaoke on one disc. In the future, customers only need to use the remote control to cut songs, and there is no need to change discs.

So in this way, the last obstacle hindering the great development of karaoke can be regarded as solved.

So Li Qiankun immediately contacted a technology company in the island country, and handed over the purchase of equipment and the production of the CD to the other party.

This kind of large order is a very important business for any company, so the other party has specially formed a temporary team to take charge of this business.
In the end, Li Qiankun had to pay 150 million Hong Kong dollars for each set of equipment and the production of the video disc, plus the expenses incurred by the two teams sent out to take charge of the filming. The cost of each karaoke store is indeed very high.

So after the official opening in the future, Li Qiankun must use various marketing activities to quickly earn back these costs...

Just when Li Qiankun had been busy with his karaoke business, Charlie suddenly called him.

This made Li Qiankun a little confused. After all, Li Qiankun usually called Charlie when he had something to do, and Charlie rarely called Li Qiankun on his own initiative.

So after picking up the phone, Li Qiankun's expression was very solemn, and he listened carefully to what Charlie had to say on the other end of the phone.

What Charlie wanted to say this time seemed to be very important, so he didn't plan to say anything more on the phone, but invited Li Qiankun to have dinner together at a high-end restaurant in Central...

Li Qiankun came to the restaurant according to the agreed time,
None of the waiters here are face-blind. They will rank the distinguished guests who have been here to judge whether the guests are identities and financially strong.

And when Li Qiankun came to such a restaurant before, he either brought a big star like Wang Zuzhen or a beautiful woman like Ding Yao, so the waiter actually recognized Li Qiankun's face a long time ago, and silently held it in his heart. Labeled Li Qiankun as a distinguished guest...

Charlie was sitting at a dining table, and there were no other customers or service staff within ten meters.

Such an occasion is very suitable for talking about private matters, so Charlie must have called Li Qiankun over this time, and the things to be discussed will definitely not be things that can be publicized with great fanfare...

(End of this chapter)