Chapter 19 Don't be impatient, there will be something interesting to come.
Of course, Jing Xiaoqiang would not work for an airline company as a free and easy stewardess or makeup artist.
He knew that within a few years of this seemingly simple life, he would become a complete waste.
When he was a special commissioner of the Broadway Makeup Artists Guild, he saw countless makeup artists who had gone to waste.
After all, this job is easy to become a proficient oil seller as practice makes perfect.
If you don't have any special pursuits, just follow those routines repeatedly.
Gradually, I lost my sense of accomplishment and motivation to move forward.
Jing Xiaoqiang wants to make money easily, not to be a good-for-nothing.
Combined with what he saw and heard at Pingjing Drama Academy in his previous life , he regarded this more as a means of picking up girls.
It was only with Sister Fang's reminder that I realized there was potential in this business.
I smiled and explained that I was mainly collaborating with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the female leader was still not satisfied.
All the attention was on the familiar yet unfamiliar face of the beauty in the mirror.
In fact, it was only about half an hour, and more and more flight attendants and office staff who heard the news gathered outside to witness this collectively shocked scene!
The leader who was close to fifty years old had turned into an elegant and quiet young woman...
Jing Xiaoqiang even used some theatrical makeup techniques to reduce the age difference and create an almost miraculous difference in appearance.
This immediately caused a huge sensation in the airline’s office building!
The leader, who is usually decisive and efficient, seemed a little embarrassed to see people.
The tone used when driving subordinates away is much gentler.
While the female leader was receiving a lot of crazy praise, Jing Xiaoqiang of course got a training contract.
As a non-staff specially hired trainer, I come to do training once a month. Anyway, there is no certificate required these days. I will try it out for half a year first, and it costs 500 yuan each time.
Although the total contract amount is only 3,000 yuan, many people's monthly salary these days is far less than 500 yuan.
The most important thing is to help him get on board a giant airline, which brings so many benefits.
When Sister Fang took him to sign the contract, Jing Xiaoqiang responded to her proposal: "If possible, you should invite that female leader to join us, and we will open this store together, and it will be opened in the area of the Conservatory of Music and the Academy of Drama. I can give you the address of a very famous cosmetics store in New York, and I can also give you a list of many brands and products. According to what Lu Xi said, HK should also be able to buy it, but how to get it in is your business. It is completely legal to import and pay taxes, and we can also make a lot of money, because this is the only one in the country, and no one is running this thing, but the high-end market will always be there, right?"
In fact, Jing Xiaoqiang has never done serious business. He has always been hanging around in Broadway theaters and is not familiar with anything outside of his profession.
So her business skills are not as good as Sister Fang’s, but her reminders are very on point.
Sister Fang nodded repeatedly and said with satisfaction that she would make contacts and arrangements and try to get the matter done within August.
I also want to take the opportunity to fly to Hong Kong to observe what the cosmetics stores there are like.
Jing Xiaoqiang spoke very convincingly, but that was the Citi Cosmetics Store more than ten years later. Currently, the HK template may still be more reliable.
The two of them had a very good discussion and agreed that Sister Fang would be responsible for raising money and purchasing goods, while Jing Xiaoqiang would be responsible for opening the store and selling them.
It was not until Jing Xiaoqiang took the airline bus back to the city that she smiled and teased: "Be nice to our Xiaoxi. There are many people chasing her, but her parents are both soldiers and have high standards. I am your introducer..."
Jing Xiaoqiang wanted to say thank you for your meddling, but if it weren't for Lu Xi's incident, he really wouldn't be able to start this cosmetics store business.
So I could only smile and say nothing.
To be honest, after coming to Shanghai from his hometown in the southwest, Jing Xiaoqiang had never thought about how to make a lot of money other than singing.
But when I tried to think back, when I was in college, the richest people in the stage design major were probably the makeup students.
Especially in Pingjing, various important meetings are held every 365 days.
On TV, if a leader does not wear makeup, no matter how high-ranking he is in a province or city, he will look like an ordinary person and unbearable.
Only people in the industry know that no matter how big the event is, Brick TV is only responsible for the makeup on stage.
Therefore, makeup students have been following their seniors and teachers since they started school, constantly doing makeup for various conferences, which can be considered as practice.
The drama academy, music school, symphony orchestra and so on are all concentrated here.
Shanghai is a well-known fashionable and stylish place, so there is definitely a market for high-end cosmetics, of course, provided that it does not violate any regulations or laws.
Having worked at Citibank for decades, the idea of not getting involved in lawsuits or hiring lawyers has become deeply ingrained in me.
On the way back to the city, Jing Xiaoqiang finally figured out how to do this business.
He got off at the Civil Aviation Station of the fixed ticketing company and then took a bus back to the symphony orchestra. He never thought about buying a car.
It is really that the cost-effectiveness of buying a car these days is too low.
Two hundred thousand!
Buy a junk car for going out.
Wouldn’t it be nice to use the money to buy an apartment?
Keep it for ten or twenty years and then sell it at a skyrocketing price, and live the rest of your life in ease and comfort.
Today, when Jing Xiaoqiang heard the driver bragging about various luxury cars, he really wanted to complain.
Having experienced the consumption level in North America where one can buy a car with just one month's salary, it is really hard for Jing Xiaoqiang to have the desire to buy a car.
He loves driving though.
However, Lu Xi's suggestion is quite reliable. The symphony orchestra rehearsal hall is almost a triangle with the nearby drama academy and music college, both of which are one or two kilometers away.
If I buy a bicycle and get admitted to the drama academy, I can come here and sing every day.
Plus you can go to the gym or the cosmetics store without having to delay anything.
Looking at this progress, buying a house next year is not a dream!
If you fail the exam, then devote yourself completely to the business of making money.
This is the significance of coming to Shanghai. You will definitely not find such money-making opportunities in the southwest now.
So Jing Xiaoqiang really bought a second-hand bicycle, and then began to expand his scope of activities, looking for a suitable store in the triangle area of the drama academy, the music academy and the symphony orchestra.
During this period, the manager of the dance hall came to ask about recording a second tape.
Just like the excitement of every first-time entrepreneur, Jing Xiaoqiang said absentmindedly, "Let's wait and see, there's no rush."
He really wants to make money, but he must not get involved in some systematic money.
For example, being an airline's personal makeup artist, or being a gigantic singer and making a lot of money.
Once you enter this system and get settled down, you become an inseparable grasshopper.
What fun is there in a life where you have no control over your life?
As a result, while he was waiting, the tape of "Robert, Prince of Love Songs" happened to become a hot seller!
The Chinese market is too big, even if copyright is not a concern, in this era when the planned economy has not yet fully shifted to the market.
Music tapes are usually distributed across the country through audio-visual distribution channels, namely bookstores.
This tape, which basically had no official authorization, was quickly distributed. With the main songs "Lambada" and "Gangnam Style" as the most popular disco music, and more than a dozen English soft rock songs, it seemed very high-end.
As disco music is becoming popular in China, most people are only familiar with the melody, but do not understand or care what is being sung.
An instant hit!
You should know that the record for domestic music tape sales was set in these few years.
Earlier, before 1985, there were not so many tape recorders. Later, after 1992 or 1993, CD players slowly began to occupy the market.
Add to that the explosion of the spiritual entertainment void that has plagued the country’s billions of people for quite some time…
A single tape could sell millions or even tens of millions of copies!
Because there is no other form of entertainment these days, being able to listen to new songs on your own recorder is already the sound of nature!
The sales of pirated tapes can even exceed 100 million!
So when Lu Xi came back to Jing Xiaoqiang with lots of bags, the cassette with the photo of "Robert, Prince of Love Songs" from behind as the cover had sold 200,000 copies across the country in less than half a month!
Naturally, those bastards at the audio-visual publishing house tried their best to reprint and copy the copies!
Rushing towards stocking up a million!
A box of tapes costs only a few dollars, just imagine how much money each link can make.
Huang Xuerong and her friends all saw this tape from their classmates and friends, and they were surprised to bring it back to show Jing Xiaoqiang: "Even if it was burned to ashes, I can still tell that the back is you! And these three songs are definitely yours!"
My bandmates were immediately envious!
They have been immersed in musical instruments for at least ten years, and their greatest dream in life may be to release a solo album.
As a result, Jing Xiaoqiang had completed the task in less than a month.
Jing Xiaoqiang himself smiled bitterly.
Didn't he have the same feeling in his previous life?
If he was not dissatisfied with this artistic creation environment, why would he leave his hometown for decades to pursue the highest stage?
As a result, it is now very easy, even if it is an infringement or even if it is not so serious.
The manager of the dance hall also came over immediately after hearing the news: "Yes, yes, I told you it will definitely sell well, so hurry up and strike while the iron is hot and release another album of covers of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs. The best-selling ones now are all covers, and you have your own characteristics..."
So he postponed it for a while. Jing Xiaoqiang, who knew his own value, smiled and said, "Okay, but I have to pay more..."
In fact, he knew this legend. In his previous life, Pingjing made a tape of covers of foreign disco songs, the one that sang "The Girl Under the Streetlight". It cost 5,000 yuan to record one tape. However, a few years ago, this amount of money could have bought a courtyard house!
Now, we should at least be able to buy a kitchen and toilet.
