Chapter 74: Billionaire’s part-time job

It was past ten o'clock the next morning that Xia Donghai and his wife returned to the company.

Seeing Fan Wubing come out of his daughter's room, the couple's expressions were a bit wonderful.

"Cough, I'm drinking too much, Sister Xiaoxue takes care of me." Fan Wubing quickly cleared it up to avoid any misunderstandings.

"Aren't you very good at drinking? Why did you get drunk all day?" Xia Donghai didn't believe Fan Wubing's words very much.

Xia Xue naturally couldn't let her parents think randomly, so she explained, "In order to shoot MV, he specially drank a bottle of half-old Baifen, and he drank it on an empty stomach, so you can think of the consequences."

Oh, Xia Donghai nodded, and then he felt relieved. A bottle of half-old Bai Fen can kill a cow. As long as he gets his stomach, he will be powerless even if he is determined. He is not afraid of this kid having any trouble.

"What mv shot?" Feng Xiaonan asked curiously.

Xia Xue told the story of the two of them filming Fan Wubing's new song together, and finally said, "I guess it should be done today, right? Teacher Liu is an impatient person. I think he will definitely not sleep until he finishes it."

The recording engineer's surname is Liu, and everyone calls him Teacher Liu. As for the full name, few people remember it, so the accountant probably knows it.

While speaking, Teacher Liu ran over and saw that everyone was there, he smiled and said, "Old Xia, Xiaonan, haha, Xiaoxue and Mr. Fan are also here! The plate of the new song has been made, let's see the effect together?"

"That's a must-see." Xia Donghai ended up stuffing the ld disc in Teacher Liu's hand into the player, and then waited for the screen to appear.

Teacher Liu's post-processing was very successful, and the whole picture was very beautiful. In addition, Fan Wubing and Xia Xue's performances were relatively innocent, and Fan Wubing naturally had a relatively good grasp of the song, so the overall effect was basically impossible to find any problems.

While everyone was enjoying the music and the picture, Fan Wubing focused on the ld disc brought by Teacher Liu, and could not let go for a long time.

ld is translated into Chinese as laser discs and laser discs. They are very popular double-sided video discs for TV, movies and karaoke from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. I believe that many friends who were keen on singing karaoke at that time had some impression of this kind of thing.

The ld format product was first launched in 1978 and was originally named Discovision. In 1980, Japan's Pioneer Company acquired most of the copyrights of the format, officially named laserdisc, and launched the first ld player VP-1000 in the US market. Since then, Pioneer Company has been the most important support manufacturer of the ld format.

In fact, if it weren't for seeing the ld discs that Teacher Liu brought today, Fan Wubing would have basically no impression of this thing. Although he had learned about the performance and price of ld when he was domestically produced by Karaoke, he would have long since lost his memory of this aspect over the years.

ld's disc diameter is 30 cm. In the early days, it used analogue recording audio and video, and later used analogue video and digital audio. Because the disc space is large, there is no compression technology, so the picture is very realistic. ld's storage method adopts double-sided storage method and has two-sided playback technology, which is the only DVD media in the world that can be played on both sides.

However, ld appeared early and fell behind early. At the beginning, Pioneer Company claimed that their main target was families, but because of the high price and inconvenience, it was finally replaced by later vcd and DVD.

In the past, Fan Wubing only saw the ld's big album when singing karaoke. The price of that kind of thing is often more than 100 yuan. How much does the monthly income of ordinary people at that time? It is inevitable that this thing has not become popular among Chinese families, and the consumption is too high.

Although it is expensive, the image quality that can be provided is close to that of radio and television. Because it is a contactless relationship, there is no problem that the video will become worse if it is used for too much video tape.

Laser discs are not popular in North America and mainland China, but are very popular in Japan and Hong Kong. They are mainly used for the production of karaoke discs, followed by ordinary movie discs.

Due to the simulation storage, the laser disc does not have the mosaics like DVD or other problems caused by signal digitization, and the effect is quite good. Therefore, a few enthusiasts still regarded it as a collection until later.

It is also because of these special technical factors that ld has no pirated version, which is also the biggest reason why ld is not popular in mainland China.

"This thing is good, but unfortunately the possibility of localization is too small." Fan Wubing thought of the pirated vcd and DVD discs that cost two yuan each later, so he understood that this kind of thing could only be appreciated as a collectible.

I guess domestic DVD players should come out too? The technical threshold of this thing is very low, so I don’t mind doing it casually. Anyway, I am integrating low-voltage electrical resources, and talents from all aspects have to win over, and I don’t have to worry about accumulating more electronic factories. As for the source of the discs, let’s leave them to the pirated merchants to work.

Fan Wubing was pondering about VCD, but Xia Donghai grabbed his shoulder and shook it.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Fan Wubing, who was awakened, looked at Xia Donghai in surprise and asked.

Xia Donghai said a little disappointedly, "You can't wake up if you don't shake it! Boss, how about discussing with you?"

"What's the matter?" Fan Wubing raised his head and asked, then frowned and said, "Please don't shake it, okay? I can't stand it. Now I see that people are all ghosts."

"Uh, I'm so cool." Xia Donghai hurriedly put his hand back, and then said to Fan Wubing, "We went to a friend's place the day before yesterday. He is now a director of CCTV and is in charge of a column, probably for interviews about charity activities. They are going to hold a charity performance with Shanghai TV station recently. After listening to your songs, I suddenly thought that you can also sing a song and give our company a good reputation?"

Charity performance? Fan Wubing thought to himself that someone is actually engaged in such an event now?

You should know that this is 1991! Although there are some invisible wealthy people, the competition between public ownership and private ownership has not yet been divided into a high or low position. Now, will this kind of activity be carried out a little ahead of the times?

At least everyone's minds are the same, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong!

A charity performance, which seems to be a product of the bourgeois era, can be held openly? Fan Wubing feels that this matter is a bit interesting.

"It is said that it was done in the name of the United Front Work Department, so some of the wealthy people from Hong Kong and Taiwan have come, as well as some local rich people, heavyweight officials, and singers who can participate are all the best names now." Feng Xiaonan explained to Fan Wubing next to him.

When Fan Wubing heard this, he felt that such an event was meaningless. Such a charity performance was nothing more than begging for some money from others and holding a party to pay for it. Those half-popular singers and celebrities, especially those female celebrities who are somewhat beautiful, took advantage of this opportunity to hang up a kid. If they could catch a golden beetle, it would be the best. At the least, they should be familiar with the nobles.

"It doesn't mean to me to participate in such an event." Fan Wubing said with a frown.

This is not Fan Wubing's big talk. Now his status, status and value are a world-class rich man. Although he is relatively low-key, in the world's top rich man circle, everyone still knows that there is such a person. When he returned to China, he was not disgusting to watch these unfamiliar people pretending and holding postures here. How could he feel like singing at such a party? That would be a self-deprecating person!

"It's all for the company-" Xia Donghai saw that Fan Wubing seemed to have no interest in this, so he encouraged him vigorously, "Although we all know that you are very rich, you can sacrifice for the company's development."

"It seems that I shouldn't do this, right?" Fan Wubing immediately refused. "You couple are company executives. How to develop and make money in the company are all things you should consider. I have transferred a lot of start-up funds to you. The rest of the matter will not be allowed to be handled by my boss, right?"

"Isn't this a matter of rushing to power-" Xia Donghai said, lingering Fan Wubing with a silence, "This satellite has not yet entered the sky, and the resources are still empty. We don't have much appeal now! It's really a waste of resources to put your boss and don't use such high-quality resources! Anyway, you just fooled it for a while, right? I heard that the ratings of Shanghai TV are very high, maybe you will become a star in an instant!"

"Why am I a star?" Fan Wubing smiled bitterly when he heard this, "You should be low-key in life, do you know? If I am remembered, it will be much more troublesome to do things in the future!"

"Boss, can I make a word?" Teacher Liu suddenly raised his hand and asked.

"What?" Fan Wubing turned his head and asked.

Teacher Liu smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Actually, you have already shown your face. I have sent the single we made in the morning to Shanghai TV. They watched it very much and have arranged the Golden Songs recommendation column. It is time and it should have been broadcast live."

Ah?! Fan Wubing was stunned. He was originally planning to entertain himself, but who knew that when Xia Xue was encouraged, he turned into an mtv. Now it is better. It has been on the screen before it was officially released!

Teacher Liu looked at Fan Wubing a little nervously, wondering if the boss would be furious and fired himself directly.

Fan Wubing sighed under the gaze of everyone, "Oh, since you're already like this, then let's throw it away! When was your charity party scheduled? I have to dress up two decent clothes for myself? Since I'm already famous, I can't lose anyone anymore!"

"Xiaoxue, you'll accompany Mr. Fan to the party together. I think you'll cooperate well." Xia Donghai did not forget to bring his daughter.

Well, that's fine. Fan Wubing nodded, thinking that at least someone he knew would not be too depressed to participate.

Feng Xiaonan handed the invitation letter for the party to Fan Wubing. The time and place above were written very specifically, so there were no need to worry about making mistakes. There were three more invitation letters, and the family of three must be present. As for the entourage, they could not enter the venue, which was also for safety reasons.

"Okay, I'll go back to the hotel first if it's okay." Fan Wubing waved his hand and suddenly asked when he was out, "Where has Wuzhi's small machine gone?"

"That Japanese?" Xia Xue asked, and when she saw Fan Wubing nodding, she replied, "When you were drunk yesterday, he came over to see it, and then went back to the hotel first."

Oh, Fan Wubing thought that this guy was conscious and didn't stay here to harass him.

After Fan Wubing left, Xia Donghai asked Teacher Liu, "Old Liu, have you really sent the disc to the TV station?"

"Not that fast? I'm helping you drive the ducks on the shelves." Teacher Liu said with a smile.

After Fan Wubing returned to the hotel, he saw Wu Zhi Xiaoji, and immediately called several of his financial experts and called them to come for a meeting.

"Boss, is there anything important to have a meeting?" Wu Zhixiaoji, a hardcore fan of Fan Wubing, felt a little strange, so he asked.
Chapter completed!