Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Sitting in the conference room were Yang Ye, Qiu Bojun, Duan Yongping, several experts hired by the company, as well as Shenzhen's current mayor Li and several officials.

Kingsoft is very famous in Shenzhen today. The game consoles they produce are sold all over the world and are extremely popular.

It not only provides a large amount of tax revenue for Shenzhen and solves a large number of employment problems, but is also one of Shenzhen’s business cards to the outside world.

Therefore, the municipal government attached great importance to Kingsoft. When they heard that Kingsoft had invented a new technological product, they came to visit with great interest.

A handsome-looking young man put a CD into the projector.

He operated it for a few times, and the scene of the movie "Huang Feihong" suddenly appeared on the TV.

Immediately afterwards, the majestic theme song sounded; "Facing the waves with pride, the blood is as hot as the red sunlight..."

The young man immediately stepped back, but Yang Ye looked at him again.

Lei Bush finally showed up.

Mayor Li looked at the clear images on TV and exclaimed, "It's amazing."

Mayor Li was very happy because most of the technological products in recent decades were invented by Europe, America and Japan.

I have never heard of any amazing technological products invented by the Chinese.

Even though China's computer technology is relatively advanced now, it is only following the path of Europe and the United States.

This VCD is my first time.

Breakthrough from zero!

Duan Yongping introduced the principle of VCD to the mayor:
The C-CUBE digital compression chip invented by Chinese-American Sun Yansheng is the heart of VCD. This chip can convert television signals into digital signals.

If the digital signal is compressed onto a CD and made into a player, it can play moving images.

Before that, Sony invented the CD, but it was only audio, and VCD had an overwhelming advantage over CD.

There is no doubt that once this VCD is launched on the market, it will be a revolution in computer multimedia in the field of home appliances and will create a very large industry.

More importantly, it will promote the development of the software industry.

Qiu Bojun proudly said: "We have applied for an international patent to the international patent organization PCT, and the next step will be to go to Paris to participate in the International Radio and Television Exhibition.

After those international manufacturers have seen our products, we will invite them to jointly formulate international standards for VCDs."

As for VCD, it is impossible to develop a monopoly on it without relying on the international giants.

Otherwise, if they unite and come up with their own set of standards, it will be very troublesome and will cause product confusion, incompatibility and many other problems on the market.

In the original time and space, although Wan Yan produced the world's first VCD, the international standard was jointly formulated by the four major appliance companies: Philips, Sony, Panasonic, and JVC.

Wan Yan originally wanted to produce encrypted CDs that could only be read on its own machines, but was also jointly opposed by the four major companies.

From the consumer's perspective, this objection makes sense.

If there are no international standards, machines produced by each company can only read its own discs, which will cause great trouble to consumers.

For example, if I bought a certain CD, but it can only be read on a certain CD player, wouldn’t that be really frustrating?

What's even more ridiculous is that due to copyright issues of the movie, maybe a certain company does not have the copyright for this movie. So if I want to watch this movie, I have to buy another DVD player?

It’s just like those video websites in later generations. Each one has a different film library. If you want to watch a lot of videos, you have to become a member of several websites. What the hell is this?

Of course, there are risks in unifying international standards and not producing encrypted discs, and that is... it will lead to serious piracy problems.

Wan Yan's VCD was still late. When he was making it, others were also making it. The product of the Japanese giant JVC was only about half a year later than his.

VCD is a brand new product. It takes some time for people to know it and understand what it is.

In order to let ordinary people know what VCD is, Wan Yan spent a lot of money, did a lot of promotion, and spent more than a year.

Taking advantage of this period, the four major international companies launched their own VCD products, and South Korea's Samsung also took the opportunity to enter the market.

Wan Yan was essentially doing something for someone else. In 1995, she sold 600 million VCDs in the Chinese market.

Foreign manufacturers have a market share of 94%, and eight of the top ten VCD brands are from abroad.

However, in 1996, hundreds of domestic manufacturers followed suit, and after a fierce battle, they quickly overtook the market and took back the market.

In this bloody "Battle of a Hundred Factories", Wan Yan had nothing to do with it at all.

Wanyan's market share was a pitiful 0.1%, with a total sales of units. After working for several years, all the work was in vain.

Yang Ye launched VCD two years earlier than the Japanese giant JVC, whose VCD project might not even have been approved.

Yang Ye created a time difference. He wanted to seize the market at the fastest speed with a thunderous attitude while the four major international companies had not yet reacted.

When Wan Yan was promoting VCD, he faced a fatal problem: he did not have the audio and video copyright. Although he produced VCD, he had no discs to sell.

At that time, no one in the market could produce CDs, so people’s first reaction when they saw VCDs was... where to buy CDs?
One year after Wanyan VCD was launched, there were only more than 50 kinds of karaoke discs on the market, and not a single movie disc.

By the time Wan Yan had spent a lot of time and effort purchasing the copyrights of 11 audio and video companies in Guangzhou and started producing various CDs, it was too late.

Copyright is what Yang Ye has the most of. When launching VCDs, a large number of karaoke, movie, TV series and game discs will be launched one after another, filling up the entire market.

……

In the following meeting, Yang Ye first elaborated on the prospects of VCD.

"The VHS video recorder invented by Japan's JVC is now widely used in Europe and the United States. The image quality of this product is slightly worse than that of our VCD, but the difference is not big.

However, VCRs are already very popular in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan, so they should not have a strong motivation to switch to VCDs.

Therefore, our main market is in Asia, especially in China, which is a vacant market for video recorders, and VCD can fill this gap! "

“The main problem now is that most users don’t know what VCD is, so it takes a lot of time and money to promote it.

But our time is very tight because those overseas big manufacturers have also noticed this C-CUBE technology and are developing this product.

We must take the initiative and quickly occupy the market before the overseas big manufacturers launch their products, catching them off guard..."

Faced with such an epoch-making technological product, Mayor Li promised on the spot that he would do his best to provide policy support.

For example, tax incentives can be provided within two years to help companies capture the market as quickly as possible.

This item is the most important. The production cost of VCD is not low. The material price of each unit is more than 2,000 yuan. Wanyan doubled the price at that time and sold it for more than 5,000 yuan per unit.

At this price, the profit is not very high, but consumers think this thing is too expensive. After buying it, there are no discs to play, so they would rather buy a mature VCR.

Thanks to the government's tax reduction policy, Yang Ye's VCD could be sold at a lower price. After negotiation, the price of Kingsoft VCD was 3998 yuan.

After other companies followed suit, Kingsoft VCD had already achieved scale and reduced costs, and the price could be further reduced.

After two or three years, the cost will be reduced by at least half, and it won’t matter if there is no tax support.

Moreover, VCD was just a transitional product. By 1999, its price had dropped to around 1000 yuan per unit.

It still didn't sell well because DVDs were becoming more popular. After Yang Ye discussed with Kingsoft, they started to split into three groups.

Duan Yongping led a team to the Paris International Radio and Television Exhibition to introduce VCD to the world, and then worked with the four major international companies to formulate international standards.

Qiu Bojun is responsible for sales channels in China and Southeast Asia and formulates sales plans.

Due to the hot sales of the previous Palm Elf, Qiu Bojun has accumulated a certain amount of resources.

Yang Ye personally served as the spokesperson, shot commercials, and was responsible for promotion.

Before the end of the year, the publicity will be fully launched on all major television and newspaper media across the country. This year, the winning bidder for CCTV advertising must be Kingsoft VCD.

……

After deciding on the Jinshan VCD deal, Yang Ye stayed in Shenzhen for another week.

After accompanying Yang Xi to play in Guangzhou for two days, Yang Ye used the excuse of being busy with work to leave Yang Xi in the hotel and got her a set of "The Legend of the Jin Yong" which was still in testing to help her pass the time.

Then, Yang Ye went to accompany his women.

He Qing and Fu Yiwei have been pregnant for several months and are about to give birth.

Yang Ye must visit, take care of, and show his concern.

It’s a pity that the Queen’s belly is not moving. Maybe it’s because she is too old and it’s not easy for her to get pregnant. After all, she is already 40 years old.

It seems that I need to do more exercise with her after returning to Hong Kong.

In a room, Yang Ye, He Qing and Fu Yiwei, two pregnant women, were sitting at a table playing poker.

The bet is that whoever wins will sleep with Yang Ye tonight. If Yang Ye wins, he will sleep alone.

As Yang Ye dealt the cards, he said, "This game is called Landlord Fighting. Each player is dealt 17 cards, with three cards left at the bottom. The dealer calls first to decide whether to be the landlord. The landlord can take three more cards. The remaining two people are peasants, and the peasants can unite to deal with the landlord. Whoever finishes playing all the cards first wins..."

The popular game of "Dou Dizhu" has not yet been invented, so Yang Ye must explain the rules to them first.

He Qing and Fu Yiwei had never played this before, but after playing a few times, they found it more and more interesting.

"Call the landlord!"

“Robbing the landowner!”

"Don't grab it!"

"I'll grab it!"

Yang Ye became the landlord, but he had a bad hand and even the gods couldn't save him.

"I blow up!"

"I'll explode too!"

Yang Ye said with a sad face: "I can't afford it!"

"A 4, we win, haha!"

"Great, great, both wives are gambling queens."

He Qing tilted her head and said with a smile: "Aren't you the God of Gamblers? Why do you always lose?"

"Because I don't want to sleep alone!"

"Hahaha!"

He Qing and Fu Yiwei had slept with Yang Ye a long time ago, and they had no sense of shame. The three of them had a lot of fun.

When she was in the United States, He Qing witnessed the listing of United Artists Pictures and Yang Ye's daughter Yang Xi becoming a billionaire. She then made up her mind to give birth to a son for Yang Ye.

Although Fu Yiwei did not go to the United States, she had the same idea. In her opinion, giving Yang Ye a son was a hundred times better than marrying an ordinary person.

The three of them played for a while, and the two women found the game more and more fun. It was much more interesting than the poker games they had played before.

Fu Yiwei couldn't help but ask, "Hubby, how did you come up with this Landlord game? It's so interesting!"

Yang Ye said: "I went to Wuhan two years ago, and I saw the locals there playing a game called Run Fast with playing cards. It was quite interesting, but it was played by four people, and there were only three of us, so I improved it a little bit and it became like this."

He Qing thought Yang Ye was amazing. He could come up with such an interesting way to play poker with just a few changes. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "Hubby, you are such a genius!"

Yang Ye enjoyed it very much. He went over and kissed her fair cheek. After that, he felt that he couldn't favor one over the other, so he kissed Fu Yiwei again.

After playing for a while, Liu Xiaoqing came up with a box containing the dishes she brought from the hotel.

The four of them sat together to eat. Yang Ye ate a little and then put down his chopsticks.

Liu Xiaoqing asked curiously, "You eat so little?"

"I have to go back to have dinner with my daughter later, so I can't eat too much."

Liu Xiaoqing smiled and said, "You love your daughter so much!"

Yang Ye said as a matter of course: "My own flesh and blood, if I don't love him, who will?"

Then he turned to He Qing and Fu Yiwei and said, "I am not partial to one person over another. Xiaoqing, Xiaoyi, if you give birth to children for me, I will not treat any of you unfairly."

The two women were very pleased to hear this. Following Yang Ye without any status and even bearing children for him, wasn't this what they wanted?

Yang Ye finished his meal with the pregnant woman, then stood up and said, "I'm leaving first, I'll come back later!"

Liu Xiaoqing said, "I'll go with you!"

Yang Ye nodded: "Okay!"

The two went out, got in a car, and drove to the hotel where Yang Xi was staying.

Liu Xiaoqing sat with Yang Ye and suddenly said, "Liu Xiaoli is getting a divorce recently. When I was on the phone with her, she complained to me."

Yang Ye was stunned for a moment, then he held her hand and said calmly: "Xiao Qing, you have worked hard these years."

Liu Xiaoqing was a woman with a talent for networking, and she had the financial support of Yang Ye. Although she herself did not know how to produce TV dramas, she brought together a group of domestic performing talents, and several of her works were very popular.

Yang Ye was very satisfied with her work, and even more satisfied that she was so dedicated in pimping for him!

Seeing that Yang Ye did not continue Liu Xiaoli's topic, but spoke softly to her with words of gratitude, Liu Xiaoqing felt warm in his heart and said, "It is only with the stage you provide me that I can show my strengths."

Yang Ye smiled faintly and said, "I'll give you a reward. Just tell me what you want."

Liu Xiaoqing tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Anything is fine?"

"As long as I can do it, there's nothing I can do if I can't."

"I... also want to have a child with you!" (End of this chapter)