Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0599: Money Never Falls from the Sky
"You're everywhere, how did you get here?"
Nan Yi didn't tell anyone about the commercial shoot, but he didn't expect Wang Liumang to come here on his own.
"Even if you didn't tell me, I could have smelled it and come here. There are so many big honeys, but you didn't ask me to come and take a look. You are not a good brother."
"You have some money in your pocket, so you can't sit still anymore, right?"
"Forget it, someone has taken over the business. Am I the one who would cheat my buddy?" Wang Lu said without hesitation.
"You are so kind and righteous that you gave away a gold ingot. Who took it?"
The Walkman market was in a vacuum period. Foreign players had not yet entered the market openly, and Lin Guangwei was the only one in China doing the business. Doing the Walkman business at this time could be said to be picking up money while standing. However, Wang Lu actually gave away such a good opportunity to make a fortune.
"You don't know him, don't worry, he's reliable."
"Um."
Nan Yi had nothing to worry about. If the person was unreliable, Lin Guangwei would naturally stop supplying goods. He had already said this in advance.
"It's quite a big scene, and it doesn't look unfamiliar."
"Don't talk nonsense. Who else do you know besides Gong Xue and Yin Tingru?" Nan Yi looked at the girls moving around and suddenly frowned. "Stay here, I'll go take care of something."
Nan Yi quickly walked to the camera and said to Zhang Yimou, "Stop for a moment."
"Any questions?"
"The clothes on my upper body are not good, I need to change them. Lao Zhang , is there any way to make my legs longer?"
"How long?"
"I'm 1.65 meters tall, and I want legs that are 1.2 meters long."
Zhang Yimou bared his teeth and took a breath, "Is that still a human?"
"Don't panic, it's just an exaggeration." Nan Yi walked forward and said, "You and Lao Chen take a break first, I'll go talk to them."
Nan Yi walked over to the protagonists of the advertisements, called Gong Xue to a corner, and lowered his voice to ask, "Are you not wearing the hip-lifting pants I prepared for you?"
"No, my pants are a size too small, and they're tight. If I wear that underneath, it will show."
"As long as it's not obvious, the camera will definitely not be able to capture it."
Gong Xue blushed and said, "Don't worry about that. There are so many people here..."
"I understand." Nan Yi nodded. "I'll let the tailor think of a solution for you guys later. Let's go over there first. I want to tell you guys about the points that need to be changed."
Nan Yi and Gong Xue walked over to the side of several female actors in the commercials and waved to call the art designer Feng Kuazi over.
"Boss Nan."
Feng Kuazi walked to Nan Yi's side.
"Pants, I need to make some changes."
As Nan Yi spoke, he called Xian Mingli who was not far away over.
Xian Mingli is a female worker brought here by Han Guoren. She has the best tailoring skills in Wenchang clothing.
When everyone arrived, Nan Yi first pulled Wu Xuanjuan to his side, grabbed her hair and demonstrated while saying: "Pull your hair back and tie a rubber band at this position; leave a strand on the right side and don't tie it in, just let it hang at the corner of the eye.
Juanjuan, in the last shot, when you turned your head, you lifted your hair with your right hand. Imagine that someone is calling you from behind, and this strand of hair is blocking your view, so you lift it to the side to make it easier for you to see the person.
Wu Xuanjuan nodded, "I understand."
"Okay, Mingli, come here." Nan Yi asked Xian Mingli to get close to him, then he pointed at Wu Xuanjuan's back and said, "This is the contraction point. Pull the upper body of the clothes tighter towards this point to make her thing look more erect."
Nan Yi said, pointing at the hem of the dress, "Cut out an arc from the right to the left, and the length on the right should be just enough not to expose the skin."
"Uncle, how big of an arc do you want?" Xian Mingli asked.
"Lianjuan, don't move. Let me help." Nan Yi stretched out his finger and quickly drew a line at the hem of Wu Lanjuan's clothes. "Just like this arc, add a tassel to the left corner of the pants. You will see how to match the tassel with the clothes and match it with Lanjuan's temperament."
Feng Ku Zi asked, "What do you want to feel?"
"Heroine, elegant."
After Nan Yi finished speaking, he pulled Gong Li in front of him and said, "Smile."
Gong Li followed his words and immediately smiled.
"No, you have to show your teeth."
Gong Li widened his smile, and two small canine teeth popped out from his lips.
"Yes, that's right. In the shot where she turned around, you smiled like that." Nan Yi said, and then said to Feng Kuazi: "Kuzume, change her makeup to a lighter one. She represents youth and vitality."
Yin Tingru has bright white teeth, Gong Xue is mature and elegant, and Zheng Di is heavily made-up. Nan Yi set the tone for the five of them, and then pulled Xian Mingli aside and whispered to him that the issue of the hip-lifting pants must be resolved. If the hips are not lifted, the effect will be far worse.
As soon as the commercial was shot, it was stopped to change the makeup and costumes. Nan Yi whispered to Feng Kuazi again, and the scenery was immediately fine-tuned.
Nan Yi walked around the entire venue and didn't find anything wrong, so he retreated to the side.
"Nan Batian, did you recruit these people?"
"No, I'm only responsible for the final decision... Hey, grandson, don't throw cigarette butts around. If you leave this much, you won't be able to pay for it even if you sell your house."
"It's broad daylight, why are you worrying so much?"
Wang Qi spat with disdain, but still stretched out his toes to crush the cigarette butt on the ground.
"Are you going to continue watching here or leave? I'm leaving. I won't be able to finish filming the commercial today. I don't have time to waste here."
"I'm going with you, where are you going?"
"Back to work."
"It's boring. My buddy is coming over, but you don't even say hello?"
"I have cigarettes and tea in my office. You can drink as much as you want and smoke as much as you like."
"Take a break. You're busy over there, and I'm sitting there stupidly. I'm sick. Give me a ride, and I'll find a place to stay by myself."
Nan Yi said with emotion: "Okay, you are still the one who lives a free and easy life."
"You can do it too. Don't just think about making money all day. That's vulgar."
"I have thousands of people under my command. If I want to live as freely as you, they will all starve with me."
As they talked, the two had already walked to Nan Yi's car. Before getting in, Nan Yi did not forget to remind him: "Don't smoke in the car. You burned a hole in the seat cushion last time. If you change it to a new one, you will lose a Mitsubishi sedan."
"Okay, okay, I'll hold it in for a while." Wang Lu said, getting into the car before Nan Yi, and flipping through Nan Yi's newspapers and magazines as soon as he got in the car, "I say, Nan Batian, you're tired enough, and you didn't forget to read these in the car?"
"How do you know I'm tired? Reading newspapers is my hobby, just like watching porn. I feel happy staying up all night."
"Just step on me." Wang Lu slumped down on the chair, crossed his legs, and said while shaking his legs, "Your car is more comfortable to sit in. I'll get one for you someday."
Nan Yi didn't respond to this topic at all.
There's no way to answer the call. Wang Liumang is a person who will bite his hands if he has a little money in his pocket. He has to get up in the middle of the night to spend it. He will never be able to save enough money to buy the car he has.
After leaving Wang Liumang on the road, Nan Yi went to the Wireless Communications Bureau.
Needless to say, his trip was very smooth. Nan Yi and the director of the Wireless Communications Bureau reached a verbal agreement that 126 pagers would be sold exclusively to Asia Mall for two years.
He helps sell things, not only without asking for any compensation, but even gets paid ten dollars per item. Who wouldn't like this kind of guy?
Nan Yi had made an estimate that in 1986 and 1987, at most tens of thousands of pagers could be sold. It was a good deal to sell tens of thousands of them to deepen the impression of the word "Asia" in the minds of ordinary people.
Besides, Nan Yi wanted to make back the ten dollars he spent by selling pager chains, changing the colors of pagers, and selling good numbers.
Pagers are expensive, so shouldn’t they be equipped with an anti-theft chain worth a hundred dollars?
If a girl uses a black one that doesn’t match her clothes, you can change it to a pink one. It’s not expensive, just add another 500 yuan. Next time you want to change to another color, it only costs 300 yuan.
Nan Yi had never seen any other colors of pagers except black. After buying a pager worth thousands of dollars, it was not nonsense to spend a few hundred more to change it to a favorite color.
The market may not be that big, but it definitely exists.
Sitting in the car, Nan Yi stroked his chin, wondering when he could come back to discuss the matter of the good number.
When his net worth exceeded 20 million Hong Kong dollars and he bought his first pair of Huili shoes, Nan Yi had the idea of hoarding good BP machine numbers. This time, he really wanted to put it into action. Nan Yi wanted to turn the seemingly silly idea into a good business opportunity.
Selling pagers and selecting numbers are two steps. The money for the pagers is settled first, and then the customer’s ID card is obtained for registration on the grounds that valuable goods require real-name registration. The customer’s age and birthday are then learned, and the birthday number is then promoted in a targeted manner.
If the customer doesn't care about his own birthday, then we can sell him matching numbers for his wife or children's birthdays, or matching numbers for special days, lucky numbers, etc.
The first few pages of the number selection book are either 514, 154, 164, or 174. The more unlucky the number, the better. The good numbers are divided into several levels. If the number is less than 4, add 100. If the number contains 6 or 8, add 200. The birthday number is 800, 1,000.
If it is a number like 126-888888 or 126-666666, they will never be sold without a few rounds of hype. There is no need to even think about numbers like 126-123456. Not to mention turning the number into money, it will at least be sold for tens of thousands.
“Do you want to hype up the number?”
Nan Yi already had a vague concept of hype about the "pager universe" in his mind. He planned to hype up the pager numbers and sell them at sky-high prices just like orchids.
"It's a pity that private individuals cannot run paging stations, otherwise I would have come up with all the SP value-added services. Something like loving her, calling her eighteen times a day; cooperating with the radio station to create a pager emotional column...
Forget it, I can’t think about it. It’s just wishful thinking. When the paging stations are released and the mobile phone era comes, I’d better think about how to sell numbers.”
After returning to Yannan Garden, Nan Yi directly called Yang Kaiyan to his office.
"I just went to the Wireless Communications Bureau and a verbal agreement has been reached. Please take some time to go over and sign the formal contract. The paging station will be opened in November, and we can start selling pagers in late October."
Yang Kaiyan asked: "Boss Nan, this is clearly a loss-making business, why are you so enthusiastic?"
"Hey, Chief Yang, show your smartness and don't let me doubt your IQ. Regarding pagers, my minimum goal is for Yaqing Company to earn eight million in two years. I'll give you three days to think about it..." Nan Yi glanced at the calendar and said, "I want to hear your analysis report on Saturday. Now, go out and call Cashier He for me."
Yang Kaiyan stood up blankly, thinking about where the eight million came from. As for the pager, she only thought about the advertising effect and never thought about making money from it.
When He Ping came to the office, Nan Yi asked about the Dragon Boat Festival welfare and quickly let her leave.
After lunch, Nan Yi went to the basketball court in Tiantangjiao, expressed his concern about the training of the Yaqing basketball team, and brought them some gifts - two boxes of soda.
At 2:38:43 p.m., Nan Yi and Han Meili brought some spiritual food - cigarettes - to the construction workers fighting on the front line. They kindly asked them if they had any difficulties and said that no matter what the problem was, Yaqing Company would definitely hold a serious meeting to study and discuss it, and strive to resolve it satisfactorily in the next five-year plan.
At 3:42, Lin Deqing went to Nan Yi's office and discussed with him the issue of promoting spiritual civilization within Yaqing. After the discussion, the two reached a consensus that Yaqing Company should not only promote material civilization, but also spiritual civilization, walking on two legs.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone else got off work and the office fell into silence. Nan Yi could finally devote himself to his work without anyone disturbing him.
In one hour, Nan Yi's efficiency caught up with 60% of the other 7 hours. He not only completed Yaqing's work plan for the day, but also took out 20 minutes to handle Nan's affairs.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, I locked the door and set off for home.
The next day, at 7:30, Nan Yi appeared in the office again. After finishing his work in the most efficient hour and a half, he continued to sit in the office, waiting for others to knock on his office door.
At 9:20, after the people who came to him for business left, Nan Yi left Han Meili a phone number where she could contact him and hurried to the advertising shooting location.
On the way, Nan Yi also saw a rental advertisement for the Changhe Clothing Wholesale Market in the "Beijing Daily".
This advertisement made Nan Yi think again. He thought about talking to Yang Kaiyan some other day to see if he should recruit her cousin into Yaqing Company.
Yang Shanqing is a capable person as he was able to come up with the idea of the clothing wholesale market and put it into action. He should be able to lend a helping hand to Yang Kaiyan. After Nan Yi leaves, it will be easier for Yang Kaiyan to build the "Yang Family Gang".
"I hope Lin Deqing can use his three tricks sooner rather than later, so that I can prune away all the branches and vines of Yaqing before I leave. Yang Kaiyan is still a little naive in personnel struggles."
The car stopped, but Nan Yi did not rush to get out. Instead, he opened the letter written to him by Chen Lu in the car, read it quickly, and immediately wrote a reply.
The pen rustled and moved on the paper, and Nan Yi's body and mind were filled with joy.
Liu Zhen has three pen pals, and he also has one. This is a good start. Next time he will search for people nearby on the Reader magazine and add two new email addresses. He also wants to have three pen pals.
