Chapter 301 The Year of Awakening
Shanghai Mingyue Records Company is recording records. This is not a Mandarin record, but an English record.
Lin Zixuan and Li Jinhui stood outside and listened. Huang Liushuang's voice was not outstanding, and he barely met the standards after vocal training.
Anyway, it's not about holding a concert or performing in a grand theater, it's enough to just make a movie.
After leaving the United States, Huang Liushuang did not come to Shanghai directly, but went to Guangdong.
Her ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong. She has never come back since her grandfather's generation went to the United States to hunt for gold, but her letter exchanges have never been cut off and she still has relatives in her hometown.
Returning to the hometown to worship ancestors and reunite with relatives is a matter of course.
Huang Liushuang's family supports her choice. Instead of starring in those unhealthy movies in Hollywood, it is better to return to China to develop.
She stayed in her hometown in Taishan for a month before rushing to Shanghai. At that time, the Zhejiang and Fengtian armies were fighting fiercely in Shanghai.
During this period, she learned about the political situation in China and the information about the film industry.
Li Minwei's Hong Kong Minxin Film Company has a studio in Guangzhou and has filmed a large number of short films and documentaries, which is quite well-known in Guangdong and Hong Kong.
But in Huang Liushuang's eyes, this scale is only equivalent to the last Hollywood film company.
She found out that Li Minwei was planning to move the film company to Shanghai.
Shanghai is the center of Chinese films, equivalent to Hollywood in the United States, among which Lin Zixuan's star film company is equivalent to Paramount in Hollywood, and is a leading company in the Chinese film industry.
This strengthened her determination to join Lin Zixuan.
Lin Zixuan arranged for Huang Liushuang to conduct vocal training for a period of time, practice the songs well, and then release records.
The plot of "The Voice of Music" is not complicated and it is not difficult to shoot. The focus is on music.
He is planning to release the records first and go to Europe and the United States. Compared with movies that can only be screened in cinemas, songs are easier to spread, and phonographs are more popular in Western families.
When Westerners accept the song and promote the movie, they will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort.
This made Lin Zixuan realize that recording English records is also a way to make money.
Unfortunately, he didn't listen to foreign songs very much in later generations. He only remembered some country songs and movie soundtracks, such as Carpenter's "Yesterday Reappearance" and Celine Dion's "My Heart Eternal".
As for Britney and Avril, these are not his products.
He searched in his mind. There were only a few dozen complete English songs, and there were only a dozen suitable for this era, which was enough to record a few English records.
Moreover, every poem is guaranteed to be a classic.
So he discussed with Li Jinhui's plan to create an English Golden Melody. This plan made Li Jinhui extremely excited.
As a musician, being able to produce a record that is popular all over the world is a great honor, and it is also a breakthrough for the Chinese record industry.
Although it is an English song, it is written and sung by Chinese people, which means that Chinese music has entered the world.
Li Jinhui trusts Lin Zixuan very much. The set of records "The Voice of Music" has proved Lin Zixuan's talent in creating English songs. This set of records is divided into three, with a total of fifteen songs.
Every capital is catchy and I believe it will be widely circulated in Western society.
Mingyue Records Company attaches great importance to the first English record that entered the Western society and is definitely striving for excellence. It also signed agreements with various foreign companies in Shanghai.
The only drawback is that Huang Liushuang's singing is not perfect enough and has flaws. After all, she has not received systematic training.
Li Jinhui couldn't wait for this English Golden Song plan.
This time, he had to choose a suitable singer and form a high-level band to attract a group of like-minded musicians to join, striving to integrate Chinese and Western music and create classic records.
Lin Zixuan didn't care about these trivial matters, he was only responsible for lyrics and music.
In later generations, he liked Carpenter's country-style music, and the Irish Mystery Gardens band.
Think about writing down these songs, recording them into records, and listening to them occasionally is also a kind of enjoyment.
Of course, the most important thing is to make money from foreigners. You can use this funds in domestic charity. You will always lack money when doing charity. If you can make a little money, you will make a little money.
He has donated a lot of money these days, and Vientiane Bookstore has to buy books at half price and fight a price war with Commercial Press.
Coupled with the impact of the May 30th Massacre, film companies were paused for two months. The number of films this year has dropped sharply, and cinemas closed down, with no profits, compared with last year's income, less than half.
Not only Lin Zixuan, but most of the businessmen in Shanghai are like this.
Workers strike, businessmen strike, and in that kind of enthusiasm, this is what Chinese people should do.
During the general strike, in order to make more than 100,000 workers without financial resources make up for their livelihoods, Shanghai businessmen also donated money and materials to solve the worries of the strikers.
By the end of the year, the negotiations on the May 30th Massacre had the latest progress.
On December 1925, Fei Xindun, Director of the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau, wrote a letter to Jiangsu Foreign Affairs Negotiator Xu Yuan.
"Most of the judgments of the members are not attributed to the arresting house. However, the chief inspector of the Laozha arresting house, Mai Gaoyun, has resigned from his post as a department office. The Bureau of the Ministry of Industry decided to approve the case in order to resolve the case as soon as possible. However, he expressed his gratitude for the past achievements of the two staff. The Bureau of Industry of Industry also wanted to express regret for the victims of May 30s and presented a check of 75,000 yuan as a payment for the victims of the victims."
****The perpetrator resigned and was not held criminally responsible, which made all sectors of Shanghai society extremely dissatisfied.
On December 29, the Beiyang government ordered Jiangsu negotiators to return the check, saying that they would not recognize the result.
At this point, the negotiations on the May 30th Case that lasted for half a year ended with the failure of the Beiyang government's diplomacy.
This is the best example of a weak country without diplomacy.
Especially after the Shanghai negotiations broke down, the Beiyang government almost lost its voice to deal with the incident, and how to close the case became an internal affairs of Western countries.
When Lin Zixuan asked the Wanxiang Book Company to compile the 1925 yearbook, he focused on the May 30th Massacre.
You must record the names of each victim in detail, record the incident and the reactions of all parties.
This is the painful memory of this country. Although things have passed, they must be remembered forever in history.
At the beginning of the yearbook, Lin Zixuan wrote four words "The Year of Awakening".
He believes that the May Fourth Movement is the year when intellectuals awaken, and the May 30th Movement is the year when Chinese people awaken.
However, this negotiation was not a complete defeat, and it also won a lot of rights and interests for the Chinese.
For example, the negotiations on the public concession to return the trial committee and the board of directors of the Ministry of Works and the board of directors of the Ministry of Works were successively launched, opening a precedent for Chinese people to participate in the management of the public concession.
Although the Public Directors Bureau of the French Concession has Chinese directors, Chinese directors were not allowed to attend board meetings in the past, and they had no right to speak or suggest, and were just obedient executors.
After this incident, the Public and Directors Bureau allowed Chinese directors to attend board meetings.
This shows that the Chinese have a greater say in the concession.
Chapter completed!