Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye said that the B2C and C2C e-commerce models can reach a trillion-dollar scale.

Ma Yun not only didn't think Yang Ye was bragging, but was particularly excited.

Ma Yun had been to the United States and knew that people there bought things directly with credit cards.

Among the “three gold projects” promoted by the country, there is also a gold card project.

In Ma Yun’s opinion, in the future, Chinese people will mainly use electronic payment to buy things, just swipe the card and get it done without the need for cash.

So he thinks e-commerce will be a huge opportunity.

He certainly didn't know that in the future Chinese people would buy things not by swiping credit cards but by scanning QR codes.

But it’s not a big deal, because I really don’t need cash anymore.

However, given that electronic payment has not yet taken shape, the two discussed it and decided to take it step by step.

Start with B2B, act according to the circumstances, and gradually advance to B2C and C2C.

Later, the two named their e-commerce company Alibaba, which is pronounced as 1688, meaning "prosperity all the way".

Hangzhou Telecom is in the process of acquiring China Yellow Pages. Yang Ye's idea is to let Ma Yun withdraw directly and devote all her energy to Alibaba. Ma Yun agrees.

Yang Ye directly invested 1000 million RMB in Ma Yun, accounting for 40% of the shares, and said that he would introduce a financial person to him to serve as the company's CFO, and would not interfere with other matters.

Ma Yun knew that it was inevitable that Yang Ye would send financial personnel over, as that was 10 million.

Of course, this is just the beginning. If we want to build Alibaba, this amount of money is not enough and we will need several more rounds of financing.

In every round of financing, Yang Ye had to invest money, and each time he invested more and more. If he invested 10 million this time, he would have to invest 100 million next time.

Otherwise, the shares will be diluted to nothing.

But it was worth the money. Not only did it bring huge profits after success, but it also prevented that Japanese guy Masayoshi Son from taking advantage of it.

When China's Internet was in its infancy, there was no money to be found in the country and no one believed in it, which led to several major Internet companies being invested by foreign consortiums.

After these companies succeeded, the conglomerates made a lot of money.

Yang Ye thought, let me earn this money!
Over the years, Yang Ye has made a lot of money in the country, more than ten billion yuan every year, which he cannot spend.

He never took the money back to Hong Kong and it remained in the mainland.

Half of the money went to the Yang Charity Foundation managed by Chen Yulian, which donated money everywhere to build schools and support poor students.

Recently, he instructed Chen Yulian to start building earthquake-resistant teaching buildings for primary and secondary schools in the southwest and northwest regions located in the earthquake zones.

His other half is lying in the bank. He is too lazy to buy stocks and he doesn't even look down on that crap A-share market.

With the advent of the Internet age, this money finally came in handy.

Saohu, Sina, Zhuchang, Goose Farm... Yang Ye wants to be the financial sponsor of all of them.

……

They talked for too long, and when Yang Ye and Wang Fei arrived at the ice rink, it was already closed.

It was closed just in time, and there were so many people that I was recognized and couldn't skate at all.

Yang Ye used some connections and managed to get the ice rink open to them.

The moonlight was beautiful tonight. On the quiet lake, Wang Fei, wearing ice skates, gracefully circled half a circle. Then, he rested his hands on his knees and said to Yang Ye with a smile, "Come and chase me!"

Yang Ye had never skated before, and couldn't get used to it for a while. He stood up with difficulty and said to Wang Fei: "If I catch up with you, can we have some fun?"

Wang Fei asked: "What does hey hey hey mean?"

Yang Ye told Fei Yuqing's joke again, and Wang Fei laughed until his stomach hurt. He lost his balance and fell on the ice.

(PS: You must watch Wu Yao Wang’s video to see this joke. It’s not funny when written out, so I’ll just omit it. If you haven’t seen it, go search for it. If it’s not funny, you can kill me!)
Yang Ye teased, "Aren't you a master?"

As he wanted to help her, he forgot that he was a rookie. He didn't stand firmly and fell on the ice with a plop.

Yang Ye laughed at himself, but Wang Fei said, "Don't move, I'll pull you!"

"Ok?"

"You are a novice. If you stand up rashly, you will fall again!"

Wang Fei's tone was filled with concern, fearing that Yang Ye might get hurt.

She climbed up from the ice, slid to Yang Ye's side, took his hand, gently helped him up, and said: "Slowly..."

This series of actions made Yang Ye's heart warm. He supported Wang Fei, slowly stood up, held her in his arms, and kissed her.

Although he was not skilled at the beginning, Yang Ye's ability to control his limbs was unmatched by ordinary people, and he quickly learned how to skate.

Under the moonlight, two figures, holding hands, gliding freely...

From far above the lake, two people's voices could be heard: "You are a monster, aren't you? How come you learn so quickly?"

"Am I now better than my teacher?"

"You wish for that, but it's still a long way to go. Come and catch up with me!"

"If I catch up with you, I will make you... "

……

After Yang Ye and Wang Fei's duet "Because of Love" was listed on BJ Radio, it quickly became popular across the country and was sung everywhere, becoming the most requested duet love song in major KTVs and nightclubs.

Coupled with the song "As Wish" sung at the Spring Festival Gala, Wang Fei truly entered thousands of households in the mainland and reached the peak of his career.

Before this, she mainly relied on niche and unconventional music to lead the music trend, and was enthusiastically loved by music enthusiasts.

To the general public, her songs are not really popular.

Yang Ye is very generous to women. As long as they let him have sex with them, he will give them money and resources.

Most people's resources and money are limited, but Yang Ye's are almost unlimited.

As long as he likes a girl, she will surely gain both fame and wealth.

Therefore, countless girls flocked to him, hoping to climb into his bed.

Now, another girl like this sat in front of Yang Ye.

The girl is dark and thin, and she doesn't wear any makeup. Although she is not particularly good-looking, she has a quiet temperament.

When men see her, they will think she is a very pure girl.

This girl is the famous Beijing celebrity and one of the “Four Dan Actresses” in the mainland entertainment industry, Xu Jinglei.

She sat in a chair, drinking coffee, and looking at Yang Ye quietly.

Yang Ye didn't look at her, but listened carefully to several men promoting their scripts there.

These men are Zhang Yibai, Zhang Yang, Diao Yinan, Cai Shangjun and Meng Jinghui.

The five of them shared similar interests and came together to stage many avant-garde dramas, becoming somewhat famous in the circle.

In Yang Ye's second "Asian Rising Star Director" program, their film script "Love Spicy Hot Pot" was favored by Yang Ye.

Yang Ye had nothing else to do, so he called them over to meet him. These people, along with Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye and others, were collectively referred to as the "Sixth Generation Directors" in later generations.

The main difference between the sixth-generation directors and the fifth-generation directors is that the fifth-generation directors were guaranteed jobs after graduation and basically all came from major state-owned film studios.

At that time, China was mainly rural, and they shot a large number of films with rural themes.

The sixth generation of directors mainly entered film academies in the late 1980s and were not guaranteed jobs after graduation.

They mainly worked on their own, raised their own money, and shot a large number of independent films.

Because they do not comply with national filming and distribution regulations, many films are shot secretly and are banned.

For example, Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" and Wang Xiaoshuai's "The Bicycle Thief", the films shot by Zhang Yuan and Lou Ye are basically banned films.

Especially Lou Ye, his movies must be naked and have sex, otherwise he feels uncomfortable.

He once wanted to film a scene where Zhang Songwen raped Ma Siyou, but Zhang Songwen couldn't accept it and refused to film it.

He then compromised and asked Zhang Songwen to catch Song Jia's nephew. Zhang Songwen could accept this and caught her.

China began to urbanize in the 1990s, and the sixth generation of directors shifted their perspective from rural areas to cities.

Of course, they mainly shoot the urban-rural fringe areas and the little people living there.

Even when shooting in big cities, they like to shoot some urban villages.

Not showing the glamorous side of China is one of the reasons why their works are often banned.

For example, the reason why "The Bicycle Thief" was banned was that it filmed too many alleys and did not capture the modern side of the capital.

Since they are very poor and cannot get investment, their films are often very simple, with no set construction and post-production, all of which are shot on location.

Sometimes they don’t even have a professional camera and just use a handheld DV to shoot.

There is basically no art design or costume design, so the finished films often look very rough.

However, this allowed them to inadvertently use their cameras to record the true appearance of China at that time.

If you want to know what China was like at the turn of the century, those urban-rural fringe areas and urban villages were like.

If you go watch those movies you can see it clearly, without any embellishment.

Yang Ye looked at the script of "Love Spicy Hot Pot" and asked, "It mixes the emotions of men and women of different ages together and makes a movie, so it's called Spicy Hot Pot, right?"

"Yes, yes!" Five people nodded together.

The movie "Love Spicy Hotpot" tells the stories of five lovers in total.

There is the gap between the passionate love of young people and the ordinary and dull life of young couples after marriage and the fantasy world.

When people reach middle age and face the test of love again, they end up on the road to divorce, while the elderly who are entering the twilight of their lives bask in the beauty of sunset love.

The most impressive part is the scene where Gao Yuanyuan plays the middle school student's first love, which is so pure.

The story is very short. A middle school boy liked his classmate Gao Yuanyuan very much, so he secretly recorded Gao Yuanyuan's voice with a tape recorder on different occasions.

For example, he played a song called "Duck" by Elva Hsiao for Gao Yuanyuan, and then asked Gao Yuanyuan: "Do you like this song?"

Gao Yuanyuan said: “I like it!”

He recorded this sentence, and after returning home at night, he added his own words before this sentence, composing them into a tape, thus completing his fantasy.

The synthesized sound became a conversation between him and Gao Yuanyuan.

"I like you, do you like me?"

"Like it!"

He recorded the collected voices of Gao Yuanyuan into a tape and used it as a love letter to express his feelings.

In the tape, he said to Gao Yuanyuan, if you like me, wear the white dress I gave you.

Gao Yuanyuan fell asleep while listening to the tape, and was discovered by her mother, who handed it over to the teacher.

The teacher called the boy's parents and he was severely scolded. All his tapes and other things were thrown away.

The boy felt very aggrieved. If you don’t agree, then don’t agree. Why leave it to the teacher?
Gao Yuanyuan also felt very aggrieved. I didn’t do it on purpose, so why are you ignoring me?

The next day, Gao Yuanyuan passed by the campus wearing a white dress, and the boys smiled.

The first time Yang Ye watched this movie in his previous life was when he was in middle school. After watching it, he never forgot it for many years.

When I saw Gao Yuanyuan, I thought of her innocent face in "Love Spicy Hot Pot" and her bell-like laughter.

So in this "Asian Rising Star Director Program", Yang Ye fell in love with this script at first sight.

While I was in Beijing, I met with Director Zhang Yang and several of his brothers.

These five are all talented in the film and television industry, especially Diao Yinan, who later won the Golden Bear Award.

Zhang Yibai is good at making youth films, Zhang Yang later made good films such as "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots", and Meng Jinghui is a big name in the domestic drama industry.

Yang Ye asked casually: "How did you come up with the idea of ​​making a movie like this?"

Zhang Yang said: "One day, I passed by a street garden and saw couples of elderly people dancing ballroom dance. I was touched by their expressions of happiness and joy.

Watching these old people, I came up with the idea of ​​creating a movie, and then I discussed it with them and wrote this script. "

Yang Ye nodded and said, "You want to license the Rolling Stones' songs, that's no problem, but as for inviting me to make a guest appearance, I'm not free for the time being.

But I will come to Beijing again in July, and you guys should not have finished filming by then, so I can make a cameo appearance for you."

When the five people heard this, they were all delighted.

Yang Ye thought, I took Gao Yuanyuan away, I wonder who they will ask to play this role, will it be Xu Jinglei?

He glanced at Xu Jinglei who was sitting quietly beside him, and felt a little disillusioned.

This was a dream Yang Ye had once had. Yang Ye did not want this dream to be shattered, so he quickly said, "I have a candidate for the role of He Ling. I wonder if you have seen the advertisement for Qingzui lozenges, and have you heard of the Qingzui girl?"

Zhang Yang's eyes lit up and he said, "I've heard of it!"

Yang Ye nodded and said, "This girl is called Gao Yuanyuan. She is now an artist of our company. She..."

Yang Ye slapped his head and said, "She has to go to film with me, and she won't be back until someday."

Zhang Yang said: "If you can come back in July, there will be no delay. We also need to make preparations in advance."

"That's fine, that's settled then."

He then looked at another script called "Love to the End" and said, "This TV series can also be invested in!"

"Love Is Not Blind" is the first idol drama in mainland China, and it was also created by these five people.

After the show was broadcast, it brought fame to Xu Jinglei, Li Yapeng, Liao Fan, Wang Xuebin and others.

It was considered a star-making machine at the time, and it also had a certain influence on a generation's outlook on love.

Yang Ye felt that these five people were very talented, so he sincerely wanted to recruit them and invested in their scripts without hesitation.

If nothing unexpected happens, the mainland film market will be opened ahead of schedule, and the five of them are all available. (End of this chapter)