"Xiao Liang! Where did you get so many jokes?" Han Chui was full of admiration for Liang Liang's ability to tell so many witty jokes.
"I figured it out myself! Want to learn?" Liang Liang boasted shamelessly.
"I want to learn!"
"Hehehe! I won't teach you!"
"Why would I laugh if I didn't teach you? If you don't teach me, I'll just secretly memorize it myself and tell others about it in the future." You have your trap, I have my ladder to get through walls.
"That's a good method. Take your time to memorize it! It'll be enough for you to remember for over ten years."
"Ah! Just how much of this stuff is in your head?"
"Not many! But not too few either. If I only tell three jokes a year, you won't remember them all by the time you die."
Han Chui ran to the side and started counting on his fingers, figuring out how many of Liang Liang's three jokes he would remember by the time he died.
Seeing Han Chui fiddling with his fingers to the side, Xiao Yu kicked him in exasperation.
Liang Liang was busy recording an album, so of course she didn't have time to teach Han Chui to tell jokes.
"Stop with the nonsense, have you memorized the concert schedule?"
"I've got it! I promise I'll remember it perfectly."
"Don't brag! When we hold our own concert in the future, if you make a mistake in any crucial step, I'll send you back home to farm."
"Don't worry, I guarantee it won't go wrong!" Han Chui assured him confidently.
The concert is over, but the album recording has to continue.
A week later, the album "No Place to Hide" was successfully recorded.
Post-production will be handled by Pacific Audio-Visual Company, and the album is expected to be released around May Day.
After the album recording was completed, Jinmeng Company transferred Liang Liang's share of the profits to him in the form of a check.
The dividends transferred from Xianggang amounted to 2.2 to 2.3 million Chinese dollars, bringing Liang Liang's net worth to over 5 million.
It sounds like a lot, but it's actually not that much.
If Liang Liang wants to do something he wants to do, he needs at least this much money.
After the album recording was completed and all the money was settled, Liang Liang prepared to take the band back to the north.
Before his departure, Liu Wen took him to see a small disc pressing factory built by Pacific Investment.
Liang Liang was somewhat surprised to see this disc pressing factory.
"Could these devices have been purchased from Wanyan Electronics?"
"We bought these from them; we plan to use them to produce CDs."
"When will Wan Yan Electronics' VCD player be available on the market?"
"It will be listed in June! Our Pacific and Guangzhou four major audio-visual companies will undertake the CD production task of Wan Yan Electronics."
"Hmm? So Wan Yan Electronics didn't buy music copyrights from you?"
"No! Mr. Jiang did suggest buying the copyright, but I didn't agree. If we sell the copyright to them, what will we be able to transfer?"
There seems to be a mistake here. In her previous life, Jiang Wanmeng spent over a million yuan to buy the copyrights of many songs and then created and marketed her own music.
However, things are clearly different in this life. Wan Yan Electronics did not purchase the song copyrights, produce its own songs, or promote them. Instead, it partnered with Pacific Limited to entrust the promotion to an audio-visual company.
Does this mean that Wan Yan Electronics will not fail in this lifetime?
Back then, Wan Yan Electronics purchased the copyrights themselves, produced the DVDs themselves, and promoted the DVD players. This consumed far too much of their energy, resulting in them not having enough production capacity when the market opened up. As a result, they were unable to seize the market in time and ended up benefiting others.
Now that Wan Yan Electronics has outsourced the production of CDs to audio-visual companies, it has significantly saved its own energy, allowing them to focus on their own production.
"When you have time, tell Jiang Wanmeng that if he wants to make Wanyan Electronics bigger and better, he should apply for a patent for his DVD player. He absolutely must apply for one. If he doesn't, he'll be doing all the work for someone else, and Wanyan Electronics might end up dead."
Wan Yan Electronics died because it lacked patents. Others could produce DVD players without paying a penny, and he could only watch helplessly as they used his inventions to destroy them.
"Xiao Liang! Do you have any good ideas about the production and sale of these CDs?"
Liang Liang pondered for a moment: "President Liu! CDs are the future direction of audio storage media development, but although they look complicated, their technical content is much lower than that of cassette tapes. In other words, when they become popular, the barrier to piracy will be very low, and audio companies will face fierce competition."
The only advantage Liang Liang has in this life compared to his previous one is that piracy is much less prevalent in this industry.
Although pirated audio-visual products also appeared on the streets, they were not as ubiquitous as in the previous life.
Liang Liang calculated that the ratio of genuine to pirated copies was roughly 40/60.
Genuine products account for a higher proportion than pirated products.
This may be related to the environment, or it may be related to the selling price.
Because the price difference between pirated and genuine audio-visual products, taking audio tapes as an example, is less than two yuan.
In terms of quality, genuine products are naturally far superior and have preservation and collection value.
Therefore, many consumers still choose to buy genuine products when purchasing, since the difference of less than two yuan is not insurmountable.
This resulted in sales of legitimate audio-visual products and pirated products being almost neck and neck.
A popular, genuine audio-visual product can sell hundreds of millions of copies in mainland China.
This is why Liang Liang was dissatisfied with the fact that the mainland version of their first album, "Hometown," only sold 1.5 million copies.
With genuine products even outselling pirated ones, how can you possibly have the nerve to look up at the sky when you only have 1.5 million in sales?
"There's nothing we can do about it. With so many people in our country, there are bound to be some with low moral standards. There's nothing we can do about it!" Liu Wen sighed.
"Actually, you can also secretly make pirated copies! Just find a reliable person to get them and sell them wholesale at the audio-visual wholesale market, and that's it."
Piracy means you don't have to pay as much tax, and even if the products have some flaws, they don't need to be destroyed and can still enter the market.
"You're always coming up with terrible ideas!"
"Hehe! I was just saying it casually. Whether you listen or not is none of my business. I don't make CDs."
With things settled in Guangzhou, Liang Liang and the Blue Shark Band returned to Lianwan City on March 14th.
After returning home, Liang Liang gathered the members of the Blue Shark band together and had Liu Yuyong and Wang Fan accompany Han Chui to the bank to cash the check issued by Pacific Company, and then deposited it under five different names.
Two million two hundred thousand, and four hundred thousand for each of the five titles.
When the passbooks were handed out to everyone, every member of the Blue Shark Band was all smiles, even the usually taciturn Xiao Yu was grinning from ear to ear.
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