Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 282: Planning on the North American Continent, Celebration Banquet, and Restricted Export of Cutting-Edge Equipment
In early July 1965, a meeting was being held at the headquarters of Warner Bros. Pictures.

The atmosphere in the conference room was not very good at this time, and it could even be said to be very depressing, because in the first half of this year, their Warner Bros. Pictures still had not found a way out, but Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures had all emerged from the market downturn and began to improve.

Movies like "The Godfather", "The Emperor of Chicago", "Chinese Boxing Gym", "Home Alone" and so on were the most popular movies in the market last year and the first half of this year, without a doubt, because these movies had very hot box office.

Take the recently released movie "Escape from the Past" for example. It is a very standard popcorn movie, but because it is one of the road movies, coupled with the funny plot settings along the way, as well as very beautiful scenery, sharp fighting style Chinese martial arts elements, and beautiful girls that make people shine, etc., the box office of this movie exploded on the spot.

"The Runaways" is a good movie produced by Universal Pictures. It has been released for less than half a month, and the box office has exceeded 1.2 US dollars. No one can guarantee where its box office will end.

But one thing everyone can confirm is that this movie is likely to break the previous box office record. Before this, Sam's highest box office record was "Gone with the Wind" released in 1939, when the first round of the movie box office was 50 million US dollars.

Fifty million US dollars nearly thirty years ago is not comparable to what it is today in 1965.

The most recent movie box office record is "The Sound of Music" produced by 20th Century Fox. This movie broke the box office record of 150 million US dollars and reached an unprecedented 167 billion US dollars.

The movie "The Runaways" has already earned 120 million U.S. dollars in just less than half a month, so you can imagine the sensation it caused.

As we all know, cultural industries all have a head effect. The higher the box office of a movie, the more sensation it causes on a wider scale and the more likely it is to attract passers-by to the cinema.

Therefore, this movie is likely to reach a box office record of 200 million US dollars.

"Everyone, tell me, what should we do next?"

As the largest shareholder of Warner Bros., Jack is also worried about the development of this company. Now Paramount and other three companies take turns to compete in the market. No matter whether it is a popular period or a non-popular period, the movies of these three companies can cause a sensation in the market and get high box office results.

Why can't other film companies do the same?
Warner Bros. Studios has tried before. They tried very hard and even wanted to imitate, but it was all in vain. The movie was a complete flop and didn't make any waves at all.

"We have no other options now. We have tried everything. According to the screenwriters we recruited, the top screenwriters from Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures are all very secretive and have never been contacted by the outside world."

Darren Campbell, president of Warner Bros. Pictures, said solemnly:

"They even suspected that the scripts for these high-grossing films weren't written by outside screenwriters, but by the owners of giants like Paramount. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been completely cut off from them."

"Apart from the script, are there no other factors? Are the screenwriters in our company all idiots? It's been a year, and they can't write a good script?" Jack frowned and said angrily when he heard this.

The big boss got angry, and everyone else could only keep their heads down and remain silent. Dean Gibson, the head of the screenwriting department, had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak in defense:

"Boss, the reality is that we've done our best. We've analyzed all the top-grossing movies released in the past year. We've disassembled all the elements and rewritten them to make sense."

When Jack heard this, he became even angrier and slammed the table angrily:

"Fuck, Dean Gibson, what else can you do besides making excuses? The company pays you such a high salary every month, and this is how you do your job?"

Jack was so murderous that he wanted to eat the other person alive.

What a bunch of rotten people who only know how to make excuses. There is really no hope for them.

He glanced around the entire conference room, and no one, including Darren Campbell, dared to look Jack in the eye.

After a deadly look, Jack suddenly said coldly:

"From now on, all of you in the screenwriting department will have your salaries cut. Unless you can come up with better ideas and better movie scripts, don't even think about getting your current high salaries."

"Second, Darren, after this meeting, immediately contact the reporters and hold a press conference. We're calling for scripts from the public, offering a $5 million reward. As long as the film script is strong enough, we'll give the bonus."

"Third, go poach people from Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures. Whether it's martial arts actors, screenwriters, directors, producers, etc., bring their entire team over to me. Money is not a problem. As long as they're willing to come, everything will be easy."

At this moment, Jack was like a crazy gambler. He needed to give it a try, otherwise the stock price of Warner Bros. would soon plummet.

Therefore, if the stock price does not rise again, then he, as a major shareholder, will not be able to sit back and relax.

Jack was reluctant to sell his shares in Warner Bros. if he could help it.

Right after Jack announced the decision, Darren Campbell, Dean Gibson and others in the conference room were all stunned, because they did not expect the major shareholder to be so generous.

It's just a pity for the screenwriter department. They have clearly contributed to the company, but ended up becoming the company's sacrifice.

Darren Campbell took action quickly, and a large number of media reporters gathered at the door of Warner Bros. Studios. The huge amount of $5 million shocked the reporters on the scene and they were stunned.

Five million US dollars is not a small amount of money in this era. Is Warner Bros. really willing to spend so much money to buy a movie script?

The outside world does not know, but with a prize of five million US dollars, many people are attracted to it.

You should know that the world-famous Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn's salary was only 110 million US dollars, and Elizabeth Taylor's salary was 125 million US dollars. This is already the ceiling level and is in a class of its own.

After all, many movies may not have such high box office revenue. Now Warner Bros. is so generous that they spend five million US dollars just for a movie script?
For a time, screenwriters all over the United States were excited. Everyone was eager to start working immediately and write the movie script that Warner Bros. wanted. However, no one was a fool. If a film company was really willing to spend so much money to buy a movie script, then this script must be very awesome.

But everyone knows that this is just Jack's publicity method. The principle of spending a fortune on horse bones is applicable all over the world, and Jack, the major shareholder, is not an idiot. On the contrary, he is a smart man. He knows how to maximize profits and how to promote.

Nine years ago, he successfully acquired shares of Warner Bros. by setting up a black market and became the largest individual shareholder.

So the five million dollars was just a publicity stunt, but he was the only one who knew about it. Even Darren Campbell and other management members didn't know about it and thought he was really crazy.

Therefore, everyone believed that Warner Bros. was really willing to spend so much money to buy a movie script, which led many people to participate.

Zhao Mancang also saw the news. He was inspecting Universal Pictures at the time, so he was slightly surprised after hearing the news, but he quickly put it out of his mind.

The reason why Warner Bros. did this must be that they were stimulated by Paramount and other film companies. Who doesn't want to make money?

In today's sluggish film market, most movie fans are unwilling to buy tickets to go to the cinema, but instead stay at home and watch free TV series comfortably.

For most people, TV series are no different from movies, so this forces movies to move towards high-quality production. Otherwise, no one would want to see shoddy movies like before.

After all, there are not so many suckers, and people are not fools. It is stupid to use the hard-earned US dollars to buy expensive movie tickets and go into the cinema to watch a movie.

Nowadays, the price of a movie ticket is fifty cents, which is not very expensive, but not cheap either. Because many people spend hundreds or thousands of yuan to buy a TV, they must want to get enough money back.

A ticket was only fifty cents, and if the box office was over 100 million, that means more than half of the people in the United States had seen this movie.

However, fifty cents is just the price of those bad movies. The ticket price for big movies with a large number of stars is directly doubled, one US dollar per ticket. This is also the reason why movies like "The Godfather" can break 100 million US dollars. Otherwise, how could it be possible to break 100 million with a ticket price of fifty cents alone?
Zhao Mancang stayed in Los Angeles for a few days. When he left, the movie "The Escape Plan" had successfully exceeded 160 million US dollars and was only one step away from breaking the box office record of "The Sound of Music".

Many people were very excited, after all, such a scene is rare.

The continuous breakthroughs in the box office have made many people excited. The box office in the United States is less than 200 million. In other words, 80% of the people in the United States have seen this movie.

Of course this is impossible, because many children and elderly people will not go to the movies, and they will not understand or be able to see them.

Therefore, a big part of the reason why the movie broke so many records at the box office is that many people loved the movie so much that they watched it over and over again.

Many people start with two views, and four, five, and six views are very common.

Just like when Wolf Warrior 2 was released, the box office exceeded billion RMB in one go. Do you really think that hundreds of millions of people have seen it?

The reality is that many people watched it at least twice, especially those who had been abroad. Most of them watched it at least three times, because at that time, this movie really made these people who had been abroad feel the same way.

On Wall Street in New York, in a skyscraper on the bustling street, Zhao Mancang came to the office of Mayflower Media Group to see the development situation there.

"Boss, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Silicon Valley Journal have all seen varying degrees of price increases. The Silicon Valley Journal, in particular, has seen a surge in popularity thanks to Fairchild Semiconductor's development of a lithography machine."

Listening to the work report of the person in charge, Zhao Mancang's expression remained unchanged and there was no ripple in his heart.

The increased sales of these newspapers was just icing on the cake for him. After all, although the media company's profits were good, its scale was still too small.

Therefore, when there is no greater profit point, the development of the media group is naturally limited, and the help it can provide to Zhao Mancang is minimal.

He took away $800 million from Fairchild Semiconductor because the price of a projection lithography machine was over $100 million, which was not comparable to Mayflower Media Group.

Of course, Mayflower Media Group is no pushover. Over the past six months, the group has grown rapidly and has become one of the top ten media giants in the United States.

Many capital giants on Wall Street have wanted to invest in Mayflower Media Group, but they have all been politely rejected.

After all, there are many financial giants such as the Wolf of Wall Street behind the Mayflower Media Group, and it itself is not short of money.

Just look, Zhao Mancang took away 150 million US dollars from their group account.

Although this amount of money is far from comparable to the $800 million that Fairchild Semiconductor received, it is still a considerable amount.

However, when it comes to profits, it still goes to Robot Computer Company, because the Apple system developed by this company is the best.

Robot Computer Company announced the Apple system at the beginning of last year. With this super-advanced system, the large-scale integrated circuit computer can perform operations at a speed of 1.2 million times per second, which is a fatal blow to other computer peers around the world.

Especially IBM, they have been defeated and beaten to the point where they have no temper left.

Last May, after several rounds of negotiations, IBM lost the order for the Apollo moon landing program. The S/360 system in which they invested fifty dollars was completely wasted, and they did not recover much of the cost.

On the contrary, Robot Computer Company became more famous after this incident.

In other words, Robot Computer Company is not listed. Otherwise, according to the current market conditions, its stock price would definitely skyrocket.

IBM has completely fallen into disrepair, especially with the wolves of Wall Street adding insult to injury, causing the company's stock price to fall even faster.

Robot Computer Company relies on the sale of mainframe computers. With a selling price of US$3.2 million per unit, its monthly revenue exceeds US$3.5 billion, which is even more impressive than IBM in the original time and space.

However, Zhao Mancang was not in a hurry to take money from this company because he was planning a big plan.

Despite a monthly revenue of $3.5 billion and a monthly profit of more than $500 million, this money is still not enough to acquire farms in Sam.

The four most notorious grain giants in the world in later generations rose to prominence at this point in time, so Zhao Mancang also got involved.

As early as last year, that is, in 1964, Zhao Mancang had already acquired shares of the three major grain giants, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill, through the black market, and quietly entered the village without disturbing anyone.

In addition, he also provided financial subsidies to allow Stephen Farm Group to acquire farms on a large scale and continue to expand.

And these plans require massive financial support.

So the Robot Computer Company seems to be very profitable, but most of the money it earns is invested by Zhao Mancang. Otherwise, the company's book funds would have skyrocketed long ago.

The monthly profit exceeds 500 million US dollars, which means more than 6 billion US dollars a year. This is a huge amount of money. Of course, it is safer to make money from money.

Zhao Mancang left Mayflower Media Group and spent time inspecting financial companies such as The Wolf of Wall Street before returning to Los Angeles.

Universal Pictures' movie "The Runaways" has not yet been released, but a celebration party has already begun because the box office of the movie has exceeded 180 million US dollars, reaching an unprecedented record.

And it's not time for it to be taken off the screen yet, and it's still able to rake in millions of dollars in box office revenue every day. Of course, the cinemas are reluctant to take it off the screen.

Even though the movie hasn't even been released yet, Universal Pictures has already held a celebration party.

In the largest movie theater in Hollywood, Universal Pictures, with its deep pockets, booked the theater for today's celebration banquet.

Many celebrities are here today, almost all the celebrities that can be named in the United States are here, including the five giants including Warner Bros., MGM, Disney, Columbia, and United Artists.

They didn't want to come, but they had to. Who knew if the big boss behind Universal Studios would show up at such a party?

If this really happens, then if they let this big boss also acquire their film company, would there be a chance for it to be revived?
However, to their disappointment, Zhao Mancang did not come to join in the fun. There were so many stars, producers, directors, etc., all of whom were in the spotlight all year round, but he was not suitable to appear in the spotlight.

It’s not that he’s afraid of being discovered, but he doesn’t want to.

Few capitalists are willing to appear in front of the camera. If there are any, it must be for some reason, and this purpose is most likely for money or other purposes.

But even so, there are still very few big capitalists who would do this.

"Didn't your boss come to the party today?"

Jack wore a nice suit and made himself look very handsome, but he couldn't look handsome in front of Jaden Hernandez, president of Universal Pictures.

"I'm sorry, Jack, but the boss's whereabouts are not something I, a wage earner, can decide. I don't know if he will attend, but what do you want to talk to him about?"

After all, the other party is a major shareholder of one of the eight major Hollywood giants, and their identities are different. Jaden Hernandez asked politely. However, Jack did not say anything. He did not want Jaden Hernandez to notice his intentions, so he did not say it.

The next day, Paramount's new movie "Monster" was released. The name of this movie makes it look like a bad movie, but in this era, this kind of movie name is not considered a bad movie.

"How was the attendance at 'Monster'? What was the box office?"

Early the next morning, Jack returned to the Warner Bros. office and immediately started asking questions. If you didn't know, you might think that the movie "Monster" was produced by their company.

"Boss, this movie's attendance is incredibly high. Cinemas in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago are all 100% full. Ordinary moviegoers already have a strong faith in Paramount Pictures' films, and they've even shown the trailer on TV."

Darren Campbell said solemnly:

"So far, the information we have collected is that the box office of this movie is 5.7 million US dollars, but we don't have detailed data on the exact amount."

"From the current perspective, this movie is another one that will break the 100 million box office. The films of Paramount and the other three are really too strong. Other Hollywood film companies..."

"Also, the $5 million offer we announced a few days ago for a movie script has caused quite a stir across the US. However, so far, we haven't received a single high-quality movie script. Many scripts seem quite mediocre."

Snapped!
Upon hearing this, Jack slammed his desk fiercely. How should he break this situation?
It's July now, which happens to be the summer vacation. If there is no way to get good box office results during the summer vacation, then this year will probably be over. In other words, the failure fate of Warner Bros. Pictures is already doomed.

"Paramount and the other three still haven't relented, right?"

Suddenly, Jack asked another question. Because he was jealous of the box office of Paramount and other film companies, Jack asked Darren Campbell to ask Paramount and others whether they could accept the investment of their Warner Bros. Pictures?
The result was, of course, rejection.

Later, Jack came up with another idea, which was to spend money to buy investment shares. For example, if the investment in the movie "Monster" was 10 million US dollars, then Warner Bros. Pictures would pay a premium to buy shares.

Normally, 40% of the shares would be worth 4 million US dollars, but Warner Bros. was willing to pay 8 million to buy it, which means that they had to pay the other party 4 million US dollars in order to get the investment share of the movie "Monster".

But unexpectedly, I was rejected.

Because the president of Paramount Pictures is not a fool. He can make money on his own, so why should he share it with others?

As for investment risks?
Haha, what can we do without risks?

With an investment of 10 million US dollars, there is a high probability that the box office will reach more than 100 million US dollars. After splitting the profits 50-50 with the cinema, Paramount can get 50 million US dollars.

In other words, if Warner Bros. took away 40% of the shares, the $50 million profit would have to be shared with the other party with 40%, which is $20 million.

It seems that Warner Bros. Pictures spent 8 million US dollars, but they took back 20 million US dollars, which is still a net profit of 12 million US dollars.

That would be a huge loss for Paramount.

Jack's ambitions were obviously more than that, so he repeatedly asked Darren Campbell to continue to raise the price, even to a high price of 12 million US dollars to acquire Paramount Pictures' latest film script "Wushuang"!
This "Wushuang" is the counterfeit currency group "Wushuang" in later generations. However, the counterfeit currencies in the movie scripts are similar, and the technical details of the counterfeit currencies will definitely not be the same as those in later generations.

The US dollars of this era have anti-counterfeiting measures, but they are definitely not as good as those in later generations.

"Wushuang" focuses more on the plot arrangement. It is a bit like a gangster movie, except that its plot arrangement is more compact and the style is more different.

This film will also be filmed in many places, such as Hong Kong Island, Paris, London, Tokyo, etc.

There's even a follow-up movie script called "Money Laundering" that has already been released. In short, Paramount Pictures is determined to continue making gangster movies this time.

There are many extensions of gangster movies, including drug trafficking, money laundering, underground arms trade, pornography, gambling, etc. All of these are due to interests, so whether it is "The Godfather" or "Wushuang", in fact all movies point to the word money.

And because of money, all kinds of monsters will appear, violent conflicts and exaggerated fighting scenes, gun battles, etc., these are all gossip films to another extent.

In other words, they are all box office hits.

Since it was a hit movie, Jack's thoughts were normal.

"No, they still refused!"

Darren Campbell lowered his head and didn't dare look at Jack, because he knew he didn't do well enough, but there was nothing he could do. Many things were not something he could decide.

Whether it is contacting Paramount Pictures or investing in 20th Century Fox's films, the initiative is actually in the hands of others.

Who would be willing to give up a profitable business?
If it is a business that does not make money, then even if the three giants like Paramount throw out the movie script, probably no one will be willing to invest.

Because not every script produced by film companies like Paramount makes money. After all, in addition to releasing movies like "The Godfather", "The Emperor of Chicago" and "Monster", they also release some relatively ordinary movies.

It is now very obvious that Paramount is the representative of gangster film companies, 20th Century Fox is dominated by kung fu films and musicals, and Universal Pictures' films are very different, with all kinds of genres.

20th Century Fox's current box office hits include "Chinese Boxing Gym," "The Sound of Music," "Southern Fist," and "Enter the Dragon."

Not to mention "Southern Fist", which is purely a movie about boxing. The protagonist is still Sam. The story line is similar to "Chinese Boxing Gym", and it can be said to be a sister film.

"Enter the Dragon" is different. It tells the story of Sam's Ranch cowboys and Chinese kung fu boys in Los Angeles, California in the 18th century. Those who understand the things of that era will understand.

However, "Enter the Dragon" still uses the perspective of the gangs, covering it with a layer of skin, rather than directly and nakedly talking about the confrontation and destruction of peace.

After all, the big boss behind 20th Century Fox is Zhao Mancang, and he will not allow the conflict between the Chinese and different ethnic groups such as white people and black people to happen again.

Last time, a martial artist was provoked and caused a big trouble. It cost a lot of money to settle the incident with California Governor Pat Brown and suppress it.

You have to know that there are quite a few Chinese people in Los Angeles now, and there are tens of thousands of martial artists. Once these people explode, the whole of California will be in chaos.

Han Zi once said that knights use force to disrupt prohibitions, and Confucianists use literature to disrupt laws. This is no joke. If tens of thousands of dragon and tiger martial artists cause trouble, it will only be more terrifying.

Therefore, these aggressive stuntmen must be restrained. If they really like fighting, let them vent their anger during the filming process, or they will be fined until they are heartbroken.

"Doesn't Universal Pictures have a Spartacus movie? Is it possible to buy the rights and make it ourselves?"

Jack made another suggestion. As the big boss, he was more competent than the president Darren Campbell. At least he knew how to come up with more ideas to boost Warner Bros. Pictures.

"Boss, that's impossible. I heard they've already started working on the second part, and are even writing an Eastern version of Spartacus."

Darren Campbell said helplessly, "In fact, the screenwriter department has also considered this idea. Western movies are very popular now. Maybe we can shoot it by writing a version of the movie script like this."

The so-called western movies are actually a confrontation between Chinese and white guys in terms of hand and foot skills. There are indeed many factions of Chinese martial arts, such as Shaolin and Wudang, and there are countless kinds of unique skills.

But there are martial arts in the West too, such as Barton's technique, ancient Greek fighting techniques, Scandinavian fighting techniques, German swordsmanship, Cork Kingdom stick techniques, etc. Aren't these all brilliant Western martial arts culture?

However, these were all filmed by Western films such as "Chinese Boxing Gym" and "Southern Fist", and they were all defined by them. If Warner Bros. wanted to learn from them, it would naturally not be so easy.

You have to pay copyright fees.

Otherwise, don't borrow so much, otherwise you will be entangled in lawsuits and it will be a big trouble.

"Write, let them write, my money can't be wasted." Jack rubbed his aching temple. Now the news from all sides is very bad, he must find a way.

It would be too much to rely solely on subordinates.

At this moment, a man walked in from outside. Jack immediately stood up and asked the other party if he had any good news.
"Yes, Boss, I just spent $100,000 and got a piece of news from Universal Pictures. The movie they are about to shoot is called 'Jaws'. The specific plot is still unknown, but through the name 'Jaws', we can also get a general idea of ​​it."

"Fuck, one hundred thousand dollars just to buy the title of a movie script?"

Jack's eyes widened immediately, but the man was helpless. "Boss, I don't want to either, but the other party is very alert and doesn't want to have too much contact with me, so I don't even know who he is."

Darren Campbell, who was listening to the conversation between the two, was now observing their conversation intently, and considered himself an outsider.

Wow, I threw out $100,000 in cash, and all you know is the name of a movie script, but you still don’t know who the other party is?

Can it be more fantastical?
Even movies don’t dare to shoot like this, it’s really weird!

But there was no way out. The situation was stronger than him, so Jack could only accept it and let the other party continue to keep an eye on Universal Pictures. Once there was any latest development, they must be informed.

Soon, as time went by, news about "Jaws" also came out, but it was really just an ordinary flop movie, and Jack and others couldn't see anything special about it.

Even those within Universal Pictures were not optimistic about the film's box office success.

Jack no longer paid full attention to this movie, because "Monster" became a big hit again. In less than half a month, the box office successfully exceeded 80 million US dollars.

This is another movie that has grossed over 100 million US dollars, and Hollywood giants like Jack are all jealous.

Why?
why?
How can it be?

Paramount Pictures is planning to shoot the next film "Wushuang", which has already started shooting in the neighboring Maple Leaf Country.

The next film, "Money Laundering", is in the planning stage. The specific details have not been announced yet, but I believe this movie will definitely not disappoint.

All in all, the three Hollywood giants, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures, are really making a lot of money. Only half of this year has passed, and each of these three companies has at least three movies with a box office of over 100 million yuan, and the profits are simply amazing.

In contrast, Warner Bros., United Artists, Columbia, MGM and Disney are in the same boat, except for Disney which is relatively better.

Disney performed the best, but its total box office in the first half of this year was only 120 million US dollars, which is not as high as the box office of a movie from the three giants including Paramount.

What an irony!
They are obviously the eight giants in Hollywood, but now the three Paramount companies are the only ones leading the way, while the other five have been beaten and completely abandoned by the market.

The Hollywood market has basically taken shape, but giants such as Warner Bros. are not satisfied with the current situation, so they will try every possible effort, even to destroy the current market.

If it is impossible to find a breakthrough within the legal and reasonable scope of business operations, there will definitely be people who will make crazy attempts or take risks for the sake of profit.

Zhao Mancang was not sure whether these things would happen, and he couldn't care less. He had been with Sam for almost a month, and it was time to go back.

When he came to Sam, he had already purchased a lot of equipment, ores, food and other materials. For example, many rare metal ores or rare earths that were restricted from export were shipped out, and the customs turned a blind eye.

In Sam's country where capital is everywhere, talking about rules and regulations is all nonsense. Using money to pave the way is better than anything else.

Anyway, this is not the first time Zhao Mancang has come here, and he is very familiar with the rules here. He went from hating the rules at the beginning to recognizing the rules, understanding the rules, and using the rules to becoming the rules.

Spending so much money every year to support so many legislators and officials certainly cannot be wasted. These people are still needed at critical moments.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang rarely takes on the role of a transport worker now. For example, if grain and minerals need to be transported in large quantities, he tries to let Nolinasun Ocean Shipping Company do the transportation.

He owns so many companies, what's the purpose of making money? It's just to make things easier for himself.

Of course, Zhao Mancang will personally use the system space to transport some very critical core technologies, equipment, high-end industrial machine tool mother tools, or high-end optical testing instruments and equipment, etc.

In early August, he returned to Hong Kong Island, Kwai Chung Pier. The warehouse here was not enough recently because there were too many things. All the machinery and equipment were placed in the warehouse, but there was still not enough space. Zhao Mancang could only continue to wait until they emptied the warehouse and put more things in.

There are still many devices in the system space that need to be released and cannot be stored in the space forever.

After staying in Hong Kong for nearly a week, Zhao Mancang finally returned to Beijing.

At the Beijing Suburban Base Airport, Gu Haidong personally came to greet him. The moment he saw him get off the plane, he said excitedly:

"Mancang, you're amazing! How did you do it? Where did you transport all that high-end equipment? You have no idea how excited those people are."

Zhao Mancang smiled and asked, "How excited can I be? It's just some equipment. It's not like we haven't brought it back before."

Those devices are different. For example, the optical detection instruments and equipment in the production equipment of quartz lenses are invincible for those scientific research institutes.

In fact, in 1958, our China Building Materials Research Institute had successfully developed quartz glass and quartz lenses, which can be used in cutting-edge industries such as aerospace.

Previously, the state-owned 338 Factory had developed a scope for the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, but only produced six scopes and then sealed them as reserve technology.

The Type 63 automatic rifle was also mentioned to have developed a special scope, the most important lens of which was the quartz lens, but it encountered production problems: there were not enough production equipment.

The production of quartz lenses can barely supply aerospace and scientific research institutes, but if the Type 63 automatic rifle wants such a scope, with a country of more than six million soldiers and tens of millions of militiamen, the demand for scopes will be absolutely terrifying.

Therefore, the existing quartz lens production equipment is simply not sufficient to support the market. The most critical part is the optical testing equipment, which is too difficult to obtain and currently can only rely on imports.

Anything involving imports requires foreign exchange, and the Foreign Exchange Department manages it very strictly.

(End of this chapter)