Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0345: A Dream of Red Mansions in Zhongguancun
"How can the prices abroad be the same as those in China? Where can I get 3,000 RMB for 1,000 USD? If you can, I will do it with you. What is the price on the black market?"
The clerk pressed the Power button to turn off the power.
"Comrade, it's not right for you to talk like that. Aren't you self-employed? You keep talking about the black market. Don't you know that's illegal? Don't you know that's stealing from the country?
I think your idea is very dangerous. You need to receive some ideological education. Also, do you know much about the black market? It seems that you go there often. Just wait, don't run away, don't run away. I will report it to the police now and let them arrest you."
"Where are you from? What are you doing here?"
"I'm not from anywhere, I just came in to take a look around, why can't I take a look around here?"
"I see you're not here to wander around, you're here to cause trouble, right? I'm telling you, look at it but don't move around, this thing is expensive."
"Okay, okay, okay, I won't move. I won't move. Let's see how it goes."
"Look, don't move, don't move." The clerk warned with concern.
Nan Yi didn't want to pick a fight with the clerk, and he was tired of seeing it. He did that before simply because he knew the clerk wouldn't let him touch the computer, so he was just being reckless.
I have to say that the profit from selling computers is really high. The port price of this IBM PC/XT is less than 20,000 yuan, and it is 40,000 yuan here, so it's a 50-50 profit.
Nan Yi looked in the store for a while, then walked out.
The famous Electronics Street is still a dirt road today. It is very narrow and there are wheat fields on both sides of the road. There are not too many shops and companies here, and all the companies and shops are basically related to HUST and the Institute of Computing Technology.
There is only one except one, and that is Zhang Xuanlong’s Yinshan.
At that time, Zhongguancun enterprises were either acting as agents or reselling approval documents. The agency business was not first-hand agency, but rather an agent of an agent, an agent of an agent of an agent.
For example, the store that Nan Yi visited just now is not an official agent of IBM at all. It may just be a small dealer. IBM will not even look at the domestic market at this moment. At most, it can only sell a few units a year.
At that time, the only company doing relatively well in Zhongguancun was Weihai. This company was established in the end of 1982 and has an output value of more than 20 million to date. As for how much profit it has made, Nan Yi is not too sure.
The nature of a company like Weihai is too complicated. Their expenses cannot be estimated using the common sense of a company. If the expenses are not clear, the profits cannot be estimated.
There is also a company called Lai Hai, which is also doing well. This company was established on the May Fourth Youth Day this year. Its slogan is "transformation of scientific and technological achievements", but its specific business is trade.
At that time, what was most needed for the PC business was an import license, that is, an approval document. Lai Hai’s main business was reselling such approval documents.
Private enterprises could not get approval documents to import computers from abroad, but state-owned enterprises did, and they were of no use to them. So Luo Hai went to state-owned enterprises to buy approval documents and sell computers.
This approach brings the highest profits and puts you at the high end of the Zhongguancun food chain.
This practice has also caused Lai Hai to be criticized, but it does not affect Lai Hai's completion of their original capital accumulation.
It can be said that at that time, all the companies in Zhongguancun were under the guise of technology, industry and trade, but what they were actually doing were trade, industry and technology activities. It can even be said that there was only "trade" and no "industry and technology" at all.
They are all the same, all traffickers of various kinds.
Nan Yi walked around the entire electronics street but didn't see any sign of 360. It was possible that Zhang Xuanlong didn't bring his 360 company to Zhongguancun at this time.
After strolling along the electronics street, Nan Yi returned to the entrance of the Institute of Computing Technology.
It was almost time to get off work and Liu Meiliang's stall had already been closed. Nan Yi looked at his watch and sat on the backpack rack of his bicycle waiting.
After waiting for more than an hour, middle-aged and elderly people, both men and women, came out of the Computing Institute carrying briefcases.
First, a skinny middle-aged man floated past Nan Yi's eyes, and then an equally skinny middle-aged woman floated past.
The middle-aged man looks handsome and elegant, and looks like a scientific research talent. The middle-aged woman looks very ordinary. If you don’t know her background, no one would think she is a scientific research talent.
One of these two people is called Ni Guangnan and the other is called Huang Jinyi. Nan Yi just wanted to see what kind of people they were and what first impression they made on him. He wanted to make an assessment and see whether he should throw his money into the water to see what happens.
Nan Yi currently knows nothing about chips and hardware. He has to first look at the person and make sure he is reliable; then he can learn some related knowledge on his own. At least he has to figure out where the difficulty of these two things lies, which links are more expensive, and where his money will be spent.
After staring at the two of them for a while and forming a preliminary impression, Nan Yi rode his bike deep into the alley.
As soon as I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw Wang Lu and three or five others coming out in a group.
"Nan Batian, why are you here?" Wang Lu saw Nan Yi pushing a 28-inch bicycle, smoking a cigarette and asking with sidelong glances.
"Oh, I guess this is really your point. Have you forgotten whose house this is?"
“Does it matter whose house this is?”
"Okay, it's not important. Where are you going? To eat?" Nan Yi was too lazy to talk more with Wang Li, so he skipped the question about the house and asked.
"No, we guys have been drinking since noon and have food in our stomachs. This guy is from the crew of Dream of the Red Chamber. The crew is staying at the Old Summer Palace Guesthouse, and we are planning to go there for a visit." Wang Li pointed at a person next to him and said.
"Oh." Nan Yi immediately became interested when he heard it, "Then I'll go with you to see, how do we get there?"
"Take a taxi. "
The group took a taxi to the Yuanmingyuan Guesthouse.
The guesthouse is very old, with four floors and a small courtyard. It is located behind the Dashuifa.
When Nan Yi and his friends arrived, it was bustling inside. Many girls, dressed up gorgeously, were practicing martial arts and body shape training at the entrance of the guesthouse.
It's no wonder that Wang Qi has quite a good network of contacts in the literary and art circles. He gets to know one person through another, and he actually knows several people in the crew of the Dream of Red Mansions.
Nan Yi also saw a few old scholars standing next to the girls. If he was not mistaken, these should be Redologists from the Redology Society.
There were two people whose photos Nan Yi had seen, one was Cao Yu, the author of "Thunderstorm", and the other was Shen Congwen, the author of "Border Town".
Nan Yi and his group were not qualified to meet these old scholars, but the chief director of "Dream of Red Mansions" was quite friendly. He greeted Nan Yi and his group who came to watch the fun one by one. Nan Yi also learned that the chief director of "Dream of Red Mansions" was called Cheng Yin.
But that's not right. He vaguely remembered that the director of "Dream of Red Mansions" seemed to be surnamed Wang.
His question was soon answered. After a while, a middle-aged man named Wang Xilin, who was also a director, came over.
After Wang Lu and the others started talking in a flurry, Nan Yi listened casually and finally figured out the problem.
It turned out that Wang Xilin visited the BBC in the United States last year and found that the Americans had adapted some famous works, such as Shakespeare's works, into the screen. He then came up with the idea of adapting the four great classics into the screen.
The current TV drama market in the mainland is not mature. Only single dramas have been released, and no TV series have been filmed. Therefore, Wang Fulin only has such an idea.
Later, when Wang Xilin was chatting with the director of the Imperial Television Station, he mentioned his idea and unexpectedly got the director's support.
The director of Chaoting TV asked him, if he were allowed to shoot a film, which one would he choose?
Wang Xilin said without hesitation: "A Dream of Red Mansions."
Because in his mind, he felt that "Journey to the West" needed special effects, "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had fighting scenes, and in comparison, "Dream of Red Mansions" was the simplest indoor play.
In this way, the Imperial TV Station gave the important task of filming "Dream of Red Mansions" to Wang Fulin.
Wang Xilin only glanced at "Dream of the Red Chamber" when he was young, but he had never read the entire book, let alone conducted in-depth research.
Before filming Dream of the Red Chamber, he took out the original novel and read it again. After reading it, he was dumbfounded. He felt that there was a big difference between his own reading taste and that of Dream of the Red Chamber.
After all, casual reading and thorough research and shooting are two completely different concepts.
Wang Xilin was unsure, so he asked the Chaoting TV station to find an experienced and capable director to shoot the film with him, and the leader agreed.
So, Wang Xilin began to seek external assistance.
The first person he thought of was director Fan Cen, who had filmed the Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions". The Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" was once deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Lin Daiyu played by Wang Wenjuan was unanimously recognized and liked by everyone.
However, after Fan Cen came, he stayed for a few days and left without saying anything. It is estimated that he did not have much confidence in the filming of the TV series.
So, Wang Fulin once again found the great director Cheng Yin of the Beijing Film Studio and asked him to shoot with him. Cheng Yin agreed, and Cheng Yin became the chief director.
However, what Nan Yi didn’t know was that director Cheng Yin would die of myocardial infarction before the filming of Dream of Red Mansions started. After all these twists and turns, Wang Fulin is still the chief director of Dream of Red Mansions.
"I'm telling you, I'm a little regretful about asking for this job. In order to make myself feel at ease and not to disappoint this masterpiece, I put forward a condition to my leader: give me a year off from work to study Dream of the Red Chamber and not to participate in any other work.
These actors have not yet decided on which roles they will play, so I organized a study class for them, where they practiced while listening to the master explain the original work, analyze and study the roles;
After a while, we will let them choose their own roles and make skits to see which role they are most suitable for. "
Everyone formed a circle and listened to director Wang Fulin's speech.
Nan Yi's ears pricked up, but his eyes were roaming around the actors' faces, "This is Lin Daiyu, this is Xue Baochai, this is Wang Xifeng, and this is... oh, Shi Xiangyun."
Nan Yi could recognize several young characters, but he couldn't recognize some older ones. He was only a young boy when he watched this TV show. Who would pay attention to older characters like Lady Jia and Mrs. Wang?
