Thanks to the 24 million marks from Schmidt, Haiyun's total revenue in 1997 was outstanding, with the company's final net income reaching over 420 million.

This is an unprecedented achievement, and one that Liang Liang is quite satisfied with.

One must take things one step at a time. The day he left home, he only had a few dozen yuan given to him by his mother. Now, his annual income is several hundred million yuan. All in all, it has only taken four and a half years.

In another four and a half years, I should have a net worth of several billion.

This reminded Liang Liang of one of Lao Cui's songs: It's not that I don't understand, it's just that the world changes so fast.

Just like last year, Liang Liang went home on the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and went home with Xu Mei.

Xiaoqian and Xiaoyao watched Liang Liang and Xu Mei get into the car and go home, pouting behind their backs with envy and jealousy.

I regret not living in Yahe.

Xu Mei, on the other hand, made faces at the two of them with a smug look on her face.

Seeing these three women, Liang Liang felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Xu Mei is still a budding flower, untouched by wind and rain. Xiao Qian and Xiao Yao are confused about their relationship with him. All three women are deeply in love with him, which is a very troublesome situation.

I'm 21 this year, and in a few years I'll have to start thinking about getting married. How should I handle this?

It's impossible to marry them both, but leaving one of them behind feels like a waste of my heart.

It is clear that soft-hearted people are unlikely to achieve anything significant.

Should we devise some scheme to get them to leave?

For example, encouraging a wealthy young man to pursue two of them until they fall in love?

Or rather, create some conflict to make them leave on their own...

Pshaw! How did this turn into something so ruthless?

Wouldn't doing that make you a bad person? You should still have a conscience.

Without conscience, how are you any different from a beast?

Oh well, I'm only twenty-one this year, it's not time to think about marriage yet. I'll wait until I'm twenty-five.

Liang Liang bought another car, and drove one each to his home, one for Ban Ya and one for Huo Long.

After dropping Liang Liang off at home, they drove another car back to Lianwan.

Liang Liang from Liangshuiwan always sees some changes every time he comes back. For example, this time, before he even entered the territory of Pingshan Village, he saw a giant guitar-shaped structure, about 20 or 30 meters tall, standing on the side of the road.

This immediately reminded him of the big guitar in the movie "City of Rock".

The dirt road from Gaobao Township to Liangshuiwan Village has been widened, paved, and turned into a painted road.

Moreover, all the paths in the village have been paved with cement, and the car tires make a pleasant rustling sound as they roll over the road.

This was built with investment from the municipal government. Pingshan Village has officially become an economic development zone in the city, and Liangshui Bay is the core of the development zone.

Last year, this small mountain village generated nearly 100 million yuan in economic benefits and achieved a net profit of over 10 million yuan.

Liangshuiwan Village is already the richest village in Yahe.

"How were your guitar factory's profits last year?" Liang Liang asked after his younger brother finished his introduction.

It was the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and he and Liang Feng were in the courtyard of the guitar factory.

The yard has changed now. The eastern half, where timber was stored, has been cleared out and factory buildings are being constructed around it.

"Last year, we produced a total of 80,000 guitars, with a profit of about 10 million. I felt that the production scale was a bit small, so I cleared out this half of the yard and prepared to turn it into a factory. If this yard is turned into a factory, the guitar production capacity can reach 150,000."

Liang Liang nodded. His younger brother, though silent, also had his own plans.

"So you put all this timber in the orchard?"

"Yes! They've all been moved there."

This resulted in a considerable amount of timber being piled up in the orchard.

"We need to send more people to keep an eye on things, so that thieves don't get the benefits, and we also need to guard against theft by our own guards."

You can't see into someone's heart; even people from the same village aren't necessarily all good people.

"Brother! You've been in the city for too long, and it seems like people have become a bit shady. Although there are a few petty thieves here, most people are good."

Hmm? Am I really that gloomy?

Why don't I feel anything at all?

"Let me tell you about our village!"

“Our village now has eight guitar manufacturing plants, including ours. However, apart from ours, the other seven are all workshops. They can produce about 20,000 guitars a year. Other families are also trying to produce other related products. Every village in Pingshan has families involved in this industry, with more than 3,000 people employed.”

This scale is not enough. Only when tens of thousands of people are working in this industry here will this place resemble a real economic development zone.

After leaving the guitar factory, Liang Liang went home, drove his car, called two friends at a small shop, and then headed towards Nan Dashan.

He wanted to go to the film and television city to see what the film and television industry was like now.

He spent a long time at the film studio before going on tour in the Northwest, but he never came back after the tour started in August.

Ten minutes later, his car stopped in front of the film studio gate.

He was very satisfied that the dirt road connecting the film studio to the national highway had been paved.

Across the main road from the entrance of the film studio, what used to be a field has now been transformed into a row of makeshift houses.

Grocery stores, snack bars, amusement arcades...

It's showing signs of developing into a commercial street.

Even among farmers, many have a keen eye; some have discovered the business opportunities here and started scrambling to acquire land.

His film studio is located in Daobei, extending four miles from here to the foot of Nan Dashan. As for the east-west length, it is currently marked as five miles. If it is not enough in the future, it can be extended in both directions, all the way to the border of Heidao Township.

That's enough. Let the villagers in Daonan have some small benefits, and he won't get involved.

As for his relatives opening a small shop here…

People are selfish, and Liang Liang is no saint. It's only natural that he would think of his family and relatives first when good things happen.

However, after thinking about it, I realized that all my relatives are currently engaged in guitar-related businesses, so I doubt anyone would be interested in opening a shop here.

Thus, his idea of ​​acquiring a piece of land for his relatives here was thwarted.

At this time last year, all you could see from here was Yangcheng Street, which was surrounded by yellow earth and some sand and tiles.

Standing here now, the scenery is different. Yangcheng Street still stands, with the Qin Palace on the left and the modern city on the right.

Further east, about a mile away from these three sites, on a small river, there are two construction sites that have recently started construction. Those are the Qingming Scroll and the Jiangnan Water Town, which will be completed in two years.

A snow city is still being built in the northwest, right next to the Nan Da Mountain.

Once these three venues are operational, the scale of Pingshan Film City will be sufficient, and most movies will be able to be filmed there.

Then we can build a location suitable for filming science fiction movies.