Chapter 314
What Mr. Zhao said is true.
In order to combat piracy, many production companies do indeed cooperate with pirates.
Because ordinary people have low spending power these days, they still feel that a movie ticket costs ten yuan.
After all, a disc can only play a movie for about two hours at most, and once it's finished, that's it.
Unlike buying a bolt of cloth or a few pounds of pork, which can last for a while.
Ten dollars was worth more than you might imagine in the 1990s.
A genuine DVD sells for ten yuan, and at most tens of thousands of DVDs can be sold.
However, a pirated disc, which sells for five yuan, can generate at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of copies.
This astonishing numerical concept is entirely two-dimensional.
However, if you cooperate with pirate dealers, the manufacturer directly sends the original to these so-called middlemen and shares the profits with them. In the end, the money you can get is actually more than you would make selling genuine products.
It's quite ironic, really.
But there's nothing we can do; that's just how the market environment is right now—chaotic and disorganized.
Hong Kong businessmen are all about making money. They don't care if it's pirated or genuine, as long as they make money.
Ji Wanmei had never heard of such a thing before.
But then she thought again, it was only the beginning of 1990, Hong Kong had not yet returned to China, and many of the regulatory systems there were indeed very chaotic.
Many publishers and capital channels are monopolized by organized crime.
It's not surprising at all that they would do such things without any moral boundaries.
Ji Wanmei understood immediately. She took a large duffel bag that her underling had found, walked back to the warehouse, and said to Lei Tingjun, "This Zhao Si does have some connections. He should have some channels with businessmen in Hong Kong."
Lei Tingjun hesitated for a moment, then turned to look.
I saw that chubby Zhao Si standing by the roadside stone, one leg raised and stepping on the stone, a cigarette in his hand and a mobile phone in his other hand, talking on the phone.
Indeed, his behavior was similar to that of the gangsters and business owners he had met before.
Lei Tingjun withdrew his gaze and turned back: "We just need to focus on getting the goods; we don't need to get involved with these people."
If Lei Tingjun had come alone, he would likely have become friends with Zhao Si.
After all, connections are essential for anyone doing business.
Even Zhao Yingda, who has been in the real estate industry for so many years, has never been able to get in touch with Hong Kong businessmen.
From the very beginning, the practice of speculating on land and doing real estate business was learned from Hong Kong.
Zhao Yingda's company started in Pingdong and has done quite well locally.
However, once you get to the coastal areas, it's all the domain of Hong Kong real estate developers, and Fangyuan Construction is often forced to make ends meet by the local bullies.
I heard that one of the two projects I recently finalized in Wenzhou is going to fall through.
It was because a Hong Kong businessman intervened and took away their business.
After Lei Tingjun started his own company, his relationship with Zhao Yingda, which started as one of gratitude for Zhao's mentorship, gradually evolved into friendship.
Occasionally, when Zhao Yingda returned from a business trip, he would ask Lei Tingjun to have a drink with him.
During meals and drinks, business matters naturally come up.
When Zhao Yingda learned that Lei Tingjun was going to take over the unfinished development project in the western district of Pingdong City, he advised him not to take it.
I'm afraid he'll end up with a bad investment.
Later, seeing that Leitingjun was doing a pretty good job, Zhao Yingda thought for a moment and decided to let Fangyuan Construction join in as well.
The cooperation model is investment.
To put it bluntly, they want to invest some money before Thunder Army's development project is completed, so they can share in the profits later.
However, the Thunder team already has loans, funds, workers, and technology in place, so they are not short of funds.
However, Zhao Yingda can be considered, in a sense, the first benefactor Lei Tingjun encountered on his entrepreneurial journey.
Lei Tingjun still intended to give Zhao Yingda face and offer some of his business to discuss cooperation.
When Lei Tingjun returns, he will meet with the people sent by Fangyuan Construction to discuss investment.
This time, when he came with Ji Wanmei, he encountered a small business owner who resold goods from Hong Kong merchants. Lei Tingjun sized up Zhao Si.
He's a good man and often travels between Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
However, at present, Lei Tingjun's business does not involve electronic products, so he has no intention of getting to know this person better.
Moreover, upon their first meeting, Zhao Si told Ji Wanmei that she was suited to be a movie star, which greatly displeased Lei Tingjun.
In order to protect Ji Wanmei, Lei Tingjun only planned to have the two of them pretend to be an ordinary young couple who were planning to open a DVD store.
We don't intend to cause any unnecessary trouble.
Ji Wanmei nodded in agreement when she heard Lei Tingjun say that; she thought so too.
Based on her experience from her previous life, even ten or twenty years later, the waters of Hong Kong businessmen are still very deep.
They are just getting started in Pingdong City and East China. It is important to consolidate their foundation and not get involved in unnecessary disputes.
She lowered her head and continued to select the products they needed from the pile of goods in the warehouse with Lei Tingji.
Ji Wanmei had originally prepared 10,000 yuan as payment for the goods.
Finally, she and Lei Tingjun rummaged through Zhao Si's warehouse, even looking at foreign English versions and European minority language DVDs, but in the end they couldn't even find anything worth five thousand yuan.
Moreover, since they were buying in large quantities, they even negotiated with Zhao Si to lower the price.
Zhao Si was quite straightforward; he knew that this kind of business was always a give-and-take transaction, and it was impossible to make all the money out of someone's pocket on the first order.
You need to ensure your downstream customers also make money so that they will continue to do business with you in the future.
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