Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 1025 Maria's Troubles and Opportunities

The news that Jing Rong won the Berlin Golden Bear was not only widely reported in China, but also caused a sensation in Europe.

With its fame, the European screening rights were sold for over 600 million.

Among them, Ying Guo was sold at a high price of 210 million US dollars.

Chu Xiangqian knew that it must be Nata who deliberately raised the price, artificially causing other European film producers to pay at least 20% to 30% more.

Fortunately, Nata said confidently that it would not be difficult to earn back 240 million US dollars by releasing the film in Yingguo.

Europeans and Americans of this era were more curious about China, a country with 5,000 years of history, than Europeans were decades later.

Of course, the Chinese civilization history began with the Xia Dynasty, and it dates back about 4200 years.

If we count from the Western Zhou Dynasty, which had an exact chronology, the history of Chinese civilization is 2861 years.

But this does not prevent Europeans from being curious about, or even yearning for, this ancient civilization.

Once they fall in love with China's culture, Europeans and Americans are often more obsessed with it than the Chinese themselves.

A Chinese film that won the Golden Bear is indeed very attractive to Europeans, attracting them to go to the cinema to see what the movie is like.

In addition, after the release of "Mei Guo", although the total box office was not very high, it was a purely Chinese film that could sell 5 million US dollars in box office in more than 1400 months.

It is also a shot in the arm for European film producers.

Later, the film was also sold in South America for 200 million US dollars. What Chu Xiangqian did not expect was that the people from Polar Bear actually came to him on their own initiative, hoping to promote the film to Polar Bear and several red countries.

It’s just that polar bears, like China, are short of foreign exchange, so they are only willing to exchange resources.

Chu Xiangqian naturally didn't want to go through so much trouble, so he directly asked to use antiques from China or Europe to exchange for foreign currency from himself first.

Then use this foreign exchange to purchase copyrights.

When the Polar Bear film producer heard that Chu Xiangqian was willing to take antiques from China, he agreed without hesitation.

At this time, due to the confrontation between the East and the West, there was very little communication between the polar bears.

The prices of the Chinese antiques I have are lower than those in Europe.

It can even be said that apart from being stored in warehouses gathering dust, basically no one buys or sells them.

As for European antiques, Chu Xiangqian also understood in his heart that even though the polar bears were fighting so fiercely with Europe and the United States.

In fact, they themselves have always considered themselves part of Europe.

That is why the oil paintings by famous European painters attract so many wealthy polar bears to buy them.

By the same token, many wealthy people in China after the new millennium are also fascinated by European and American culture.

Unfortunately, neither Europe nor the United States recognizes that polar bears belong to Europe.

What surprised Chu Xiangqian was that the Polar Bear's film producer even tried to ask if he was also interested in antiques from Japan and South Korea.

Now Chu Xiangqian became even more motivated.

Things like small notebooks were quite expensive in those days, after all, the Japanese economy had taken off.

Those who have money in their hands will naturally think of purchasing cultural relics to preserve their value.

By the way, it is also a means to make yourself and your company famous.

But in the 1970s and early 1980s, few people were willing to buy South Korean products.

If Chu Xiangqian asked Polar Bear to buy the product at this time, the price would be almost the same as the price of cabbage.

But what if South Korea’s cultural relics were preserved after the new millennium?

For an artifact that was purchased for $1 at the time, Chu Xiangqian dared to offer a price of $500 million.

Moreover, it only takes a few hypes in the European and American media to easily provoke the inferiority complex of the arrogant Korean people to the point that they would rather be ripped off than not buy it back.

Of course, if this method is used frequently, people will no longer be fools.

However, it is inevitable to raise the overall price of Han Guo’s antiques.

However, after Chu Xiangqian got the first batch of more than 600 Korean and Japanese antiques.

Suddenly I couldn't laugh or cry.

Japanese things are easy to recognize. Although Chinese characters are used frequently, Japanese-style artifacts are still easy to recognize due to culture and customs.

However, most of them still imitate the styles of the Tang and Song dynasties.

But everything from Goryeo is in Chinese characters.

Chu Xiangqian thought to himself that it seemed that the ancestors of South Korea had made a lot of efforts to prove their origins hundreds or thousands of years ago in order to prove that they were a vassal state of the Celestial Empire.

Among these more than 200 Goryeo antiques, more than 130 can be said to be cultural relics lost from the Celestial Empire.

However, there are many seals of princes and ministers from the Goryeo and Joseon periods printed on it, so the inheritance is clear and definite.

If it were put on display, I wonder if Han Guoren would become even more angry and want to buy it back and hide it.

This is to prevent these cultural relics from becoming direct evidence internationally of how respectful their ancestors were to the Celestial Empire.

Even groveling.

Since at least half of these more than 600 cultural relics are from the Celestial Empire and fell into the hands of Japan and South Korea.

Chu Xiangqian pretended not to know and urged the film producer named Pushkin to collect more similar cultural relics.

By the way, Karina and her boss Olga also helped me collect similar antiques.

As long as you give money, it’s foreign currency.

There are indeed many people in the Polar Bear group of this era who don't care at all whether the cultural relics they sell are from China, Japan, or Korea.

All Chu Xiangqian had to pay was the screening rights of a movie within Polar Bear.

If it weren't for Pushkin, Chu Xiangqian himself would never have thought that the film could be shown in Polar Bear and other red countries.

It can be said that these cultural relics were a pleasant surprise in his eyes.

Moreover, after the transaction with Pushkin, Chu Xiangqian casually suggested that in the future they could continue to exchange cultural relics with textiles such as shirts.

It immediately attracted the guy's interest.

This also made Chu Xiangqian realize that the polar bear, which had been in confrontation with the West for many years and only focused on heavy industry, was already experiencing a shortage of light industrial products.

No wonder more than ten years later, there was an example of a Chinese businessman exchanging a train load of shirts for an airplane.

However, this also indirectly shows that China's technology has indeed lagged far behind Europe, the United States and the polar bears for a long time.

At the same time, its position in international trade is also at a disadvantage.

Of course, everything has its pros and cons.

This also illustrates China's huge advantage in labor resources.

Only in this way can so much capital be attracted into China.
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After finishing his official business, Chu Xiangqian planned to take his wife and children to travel in Europe for a while.

Jingrong was eager to return to the capital.

As a mother, Xue Jinglan really loves her precious son.

I know that this guy wants to go back early, simply because he wants to accept all kinds of praise and honors from domestic film and television industry practitioners and officials.

In addition, Jingrong's grandfather is now one of the bigwigs in Beijing, so Chu Xiangqian can't say anything to ask Jingrong to go back early. The new movie "Mom Love Me Again" has also been filmed and edited. Of course, this kid wants to strike while the iron is hot and is eager to release this movie.

Xue Jinglan had no mood to travel now, so she could only fly back with Jingrong.

Chu Xiangqian could only send the mother and son on a private plane back to Beijing.

Moreover, before leaving, Chu Xiangqian repeatedly told Jingrong to mention to reporters as much as possible before the film was released that the script came from a folk tale.

The script was also written by Chu Xiangqian, a middle-aged man who lost his mother when he was young.

Lest anyone suspect him of being an 18-year-old boy, a rich young man who grew up in a honeypot.

I don't have the experience or the mindset to write this kind of script or shoot this kind of movie about the search for maternal love.

Jing Rong naturally nodded obediently in agreement.

After seeing off Xue Jinglan and her son, Chu Xiangqian took Jingyu and Jingxing with him.

Margaret and Nata, who were all fine, spent more than a month traveling to several major cities in Europe and some of the most famous tourist attractions.

As for the issue of the two children going to school, Chu Xiangqian didn't care at all.

The children of the Chu family have been promoted to level 5 since childhood.

Both his physical fitness and intellectual development are far superior to other children.

The schoolwork is really not a burden to them.

It can be said that letting children go to school from an early age is more to prevent them from having too few peers and becoming withdrawn.

And this month, the little girl Jingyu and the boy Jingxing had a lot of fun.

But for Margaret and Nata, it was a mixture of pain and joy.

The two women also gained a new understanding of Chu Xiangqian's body that seemed to never know what tiredness was, and his anger that could never be concealed.

After finally finishing the trip, the two women had planned to invite Jingyu to London to play for a while, but Chu Xiangqian dragged them both into a fierce game.

There was no attempt to keep them, and they sent Chu Xiangqian and Jingyu, father and daughter, on a plane back to Hong Kong Island.

As the plane took off, Nata hesitated for a few seconds and whispered to Margaret, “Peggy, I heard Eve Zheng mention it.

It seems that the sisters Linda and Alyssa have been keeping a large number of Indian girls in India all year round.

Should we learn from them?"

Although Margaret was exhausted both physically and mentally by Chu Xiangqian during this month.

But if she were asked to take the initiative to find a woman for Chu Xiangqian, he would rather be tired and rest for a few more days than learn from Linda and her sister.

Although Margaret explicitly refused, Nata still began to look for beautiful girls in the Yingguo film and television circle in private.

After all, Nata was getting older and older, and she knew in her heart that her appeal to Chu Xiangqian would become less and less.

In fact, doing this, like Linda and Alyssa, is all to keep Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian stayed in Hong Kong Island for a month, spending time with women like Hong Kong student Feifei, as well as children like Jingfu, Jingshun and Jinglin.

He flew to Beijing again and attended the premiere of Jing Rong's new movie.

So they had to fly to Los Angeles again to watch Charlie Will and Taylor personally go to Baki for a week to visit and perform.

Then a crew of more than a dozen people stayed behind and spent two months filming and more than a month editing the documentary for an internal preview.

As expected, Jing Rong's new movie caused quite a stir after it was released in Beijing and Hong Kong.

But even though Jing Rong was obedient, he repeatedly stated in front of reporters many times, following his father Chu Xiangqian's words, that the script of this movie was adapted from a folk tale.

It is inevitable that some people in the media will doubt whether this movie was made by him.

However, no one suspected that he had hired a gunman.

Instead, it implies that this film, "Mom, Love Me Again", is just like "That Mountain, That Dog, That Man", and is controlled by the father Chu Xiangqian behind the scenes.

In order to make his own son famous, the father and son created this work together.

This is actually true to a certain extent.

So Jingrong himself doesn't care.

Moreover, it is detrimental to the father's reputation to serve as a ghost for his son.

But it is also more easily accepted by the public than hiring outsiders to act as gunmen.

Besides, the script itself was provided by Chu Xiangqian. When answering reporters' questions, Jing Rong also said that he did receive a lot of advice from his father.

In this way, the voices of accusation will gradually become fewer.
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When Chu Xiangqian got off the plane, he saw Maria Tucker and Brooke, whose faces were full of anticipation and admiration, standing by the car on the tarmac, waving at him.

Almost eight months have passed since Boji devoted herself to Chu Xiangqian.

The little girl had long since gone from being afraid of being with Chu Xiangqian in the beginning to thinking about the sweetness and tenderness of their time together all day long.

As soon as she saw Chu Xiangqian walking down the plane, Bo Ji couldn't help but run forward.

She threw herself into his arms, hugged Chu Xiangqian's neck tightly with her hands, stood on tiptoe and kissed him.

Chu Xiangqian actually likes this new love who has a delicate and gentle body very much.

After all, over the years, the only girls he really liked were Yu Bevan and Brooke.

Although Maria was envious, she was after all a middle-aged woman over 40.

In addition, her identity as the Los Angeles District Attorney prevented her from being too intimate with Chu Xiangqian, a married man, in public.

However, when Maria returned to the Beverly Hills villa she bought last year, she immediately turned into a female werewolf.

Pulling Chu forward meant constant demands and sparring.

It can be seen how much anger this woman has accumulated over the past six months.

But this also indirectly helped Brooke.

Otherwise, Bo Ji alone can't deal with this beast Chu Xiangqian.

After everything calmed down, Brooke was still so tired that she fell asleep.

Maria, a grown woman, still had the strength to accompany Chu Xiangqian to wash up.

However, after washing up, Maria said, "Honey, do you know Barry Sidman?"

Chu Xiangqian was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Maria saw Chu Xiangqian shaking his head, and a trace of worry flashed in her eyes.

If Chu Xiangqian knew who this person was, it would be much easier to ask him for help in finding evidence of Barry's crime.

Maria sighed and continued, “In the past few years, a gang has been using small private planes to fly low across the Gulf of Mexico from South America.

Large quantities of flour are shipped into several states south of the country.”

When Chu Xiangqian heard this, he thought of Pablo.

But he showed no sign of it and continued to listen to Maria talking about her troubles.

(End of this chapter)