The plane landed at Guangzhou/zhou Airport. After Kang Jianfei negotiated with CCTV to invest in "Journey to the West", he took Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin to Guangzhou/zhou.

Why did Zhang Mingmin go along with Kang Jianfei?

The answer is very simple. Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records. The former specializes in Mandarin songs, while the latter is for Zhang Mingmin songs.

The year when Kang Jianfeifei arrived in Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who worked in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition, but was attracted by Hong Kong Eternal Records.

Deng Bingheng, the boss of Yongheng Records, was also a whimsical person. At that time, Hong Kong was already the world of Cantonese songs. He saw that Taiwan’s campus folk songs were very popular and believed that singing Mandarin songs in Hong Kong should be more promising.

So, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a Mandarin folk song "The Road in the Countryside", which was self-evident, and his mother didn't even recognize him.

Later, when the Sino-British negotiations happened, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity to take advantage, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to create a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.

Needless to say, who Huang Zhan is, everyone knows him. Wang Fuling is also a top composer in Hong Kong and also Chen Xunqi's mentor. Chen Xunqi's music knowledge was learned from Wang Fuling.

The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart", which was released in 1982 and was still extremely frustrating. It was not until Huang Yihe accidentally heard this song that she invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 1983 Spring Festival Gala. "My Chinese Heart" was well-known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.

As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not very famous in Hong Kong. Even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself still doesn't know that "My Chinese Heart" has become popular in the mainland.

Although "My Chinese Heart" sold over one million records in mainland China, Zhang Mingmin didn't get much money, and the songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling did not receive any royalties.

What made Zhang Mingmin even more desperate was that since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, Eternal Records, which has been taking good care of him, directly refrigerated it because Eternal Records needs the Taiwanese record market and dare not release records for Zhang Mingmin, a left-wing singer.

So Zhang Mingmin has been doing a very miserable life in the past two years. He is very popular in the mainland but cannot make money. He can't make records when he returns to Hong Kong, so he can only sing on the stage. Sometimes he also needs to work and earn money to support himself.

Now that Kang Jianfei sent out an invitation letter, Zhang Mingmin seemed to have caught a life-saving straw. Without thinking, he agreed to join Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records.

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There are few people taking planes in the mainland, and there are not many at the beginning of the first lunar month. Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin and Li Ningyu were simply chartered flights.

After walking to the airport hall, he gradually became a little popular. Kang Jianfei was recognized in three instants.

"Zhang Mingmin!"

"Li Ningyu!"

"Michael!"

Most of the people in the hall surrounded him because "The Royal Sister" was popular in the mainland. In the film, Kang Jianfei, the second male lead, was well-known, but only know that Kang Jianfei's role is Michael.

The mainland has not yet formed a trend of star-chasing, but when encountering famous stars in the country, the people will still rush up excitedly. This has nothing to do with chasing stars or not, but the Chinese people’s own talent attack - watching.

Now Kang Jianfei, Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin are watched, and few people need to sign the autographs. They all surround them and pointed at them. Only those who are more brave will take the initiative to chat.

Fortunately, there were not many people in the airport hall, and only twenty were watching them. Kang Jianfei quickly led the two of them out of the siege.

"Lingyu, how do you feel like being a big star?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile after getting in the car.

"It's that way, I don't feel anything." Li Ning Yuyan said insincerely. There are still various news reports about her in her bag, which are specially collected, cut and pasted onto her notebook.

Zhang Ming said sensitively: "It's too easy to become famous in the mainland. After participating in the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I would be recognized wherever I went to the mainland."

From a certain perspective, what Zhang Mingmin said is the fact that the mainland in the 1980s and 1990s was indeed very famous and very good at making money, but the premise is that you must have vision, mind, and relationships. At this time, many civil servants or factory workers in the agency could earn several times their salary as long as they went into business, but few people were willing to throw away their jobs and work alone.

The more you want to become famous, it depends on relationships. For example, Mao Aming, the number one singer in the music industry, had a singer who sang better and was more qualified than her. As a result, an old lady appreciated Mao Aming and squeezed another singer's way, allowing Mao Aming to participate in international competitions and perform. After winning the award, she became famous. The female singer who sang better than Mao Aming became a housewife who had difficulty in going to school twenty years later.

The most important reason why Zhang Mingmin is famous is that he encountered a good song. Otherwise, with his appearance and singing skills, he would never be famous in his life.

Xiongfei Records is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou Records Company. The company's address is also close to each other. The company rents a house from the former Guangzhou Records Factory. Now the company has no equipment, and "Dream Water Town" is still recorded in the recording studio of Guangzhou Records Company.

The person who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Liang Yong, the former driver of Ye Zipei. Now this person has also gone to Xiongfei Records to work, and his salary has doubled.

The car drove past a bustling street, and the song "Water Town in Dream" came from the side of the street. Liang Yong turned on the on-board radio station, and the same "Water Town in Dream" was played inside.

There is a kind of song that doesn't even require much publicity, and it can make people remember it so that this song is played all over the streets.

For example, Lin Huixian's "Thousands of Songs", such as Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Water Town in Dreams" is also such a song. In another time and space, when "Water Town in Dreams" first came out in the 1990s, it took a long time for TV, radio, streets, alleys, karaoke, and even schools and factories. You can hear this song wherever you go.

Now there are platforms for the Spring Festival Gala to promote and sales through the China Record Corporation. "Water Town in Dreams" can definitely be said to have blossomed across the country overnight.

When the Chinese record company published "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was called China Records at that time, and did not carry out corporate reforms. Although local record companies and record factories at various places at the provincial and municipal levels belonged to China Records in name, their management of each other was very chaotic.

So "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released. The sales volume on paper exceeded 1 million copies. Including the number concealed by local record agencies, the sales volume of that record was at least 2 million copies, and it may even be sold for more than 3 million copies.

Now that the record company's corporate system reform has been much smoother, the phenomenon of concealing the reimbursement of the reimbursement has been curbed. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

You heard it right. 50,000 sales in Hong Kong are platinum records. Many singers have been unavailable for their entire lives. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 in the first day in mainland China.

Due to the delay in publicity, many people did not know that "Water Town in Dream" had already released tapes on the first day. The sales of single-day records on the second day of the first lunar month soared to 160,000 copies, and the sales of single-day records in the third day of the first lunar month fell again to 110,000 copies.

In just three days, most of the first 400,000 pieces of inventory in "Dream Water Town" were sold. Supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country were in a hurry, and factories are now in a hurry to irrigate.

Nowadays, the price of genuine tapes in mainland China is so scary. A radio is only more than 100 yuan, and a movie ticket costs 5 cents, but a box of genuine tapes costs 5 yuan.

You heard it right. At this time, workers generally earn only a few dozen yuan a month, and it costs 5 yuan a box of tape to buy it. Maybe you will think the price is outrageous, but it is actually a matter of value.

Twenty years later, I don’t like a tape that I bought a box and I would throw it aside after listening to it for a few days. But now, tapes are like furniture and electrical appliances, and are items worth keeping for a long time. Basically, I can listen to it for several years by buying a box.

In just three days, Xiongfei Records Company had more than 500,000 yuan in accounting, and Kang Jianfei promised to share the profits of Li Ningyu1.

It is profit sharing, not royalty sharing for record sales, that is, Xiongfei Records Company earns 500,000 yuan, so Li Ningyu can personally get 5,000 yuan.

It’s not that Kang Jianfei, the capitalist, is too unfair, but that Xiongfei Records Company has a very abnormal form. It is nominally a subsidiary of China Records Corporation. A few percent of the profits are directly transferred by the previous two companies, and various ways are needed to connect the relationship. I really don’t dare to give singers too much money.

Moreover, even if the profit sharing of 1 is a big number that can make people jealous of the general salary in the mainland.

Nowadays, it is the era when tens of thousands of households can be reported. Li Ningyu became half a tens of millions of households in three days. I wonder how eye-catching the news was when it was spread.

Since he had to visit each other these days, Ye Zipei was not in the company. When Kang Jianfei brought two singers to Xiongfei Records Company, there were only two liaison officers working here, and they answered calls from time to time, recorded and counted information from all over the country.

Kang Jianfei wanted to get a contract for Zhang Mingmin to sign, and then counted 1,000 yuan to Li Ningyu, saying, "There will be a month or two to share the record. You can take this amount of money as pocket money first, buy something to go home to visit your parents."

Now I am using the third set of RMB, with a maximum denomination of only 10 yuan. If you throw it out, it will be a thick stack.

Li Ningyu took the envelope excitedly and pulled out a stack of dark money. She had never seen so much money since she was a child. She swallowed her saliva and said, "This... is too much, why do I always feel uneasy, as if I had stolen money."

This was the first time Kang Jianfei saw a singer who thought he had received too much money. He smiled and said, "Just take it, but don't talk about it everywhere. If someone asks, you only get a few hundred yuan."

"I know, I won't talk nonsense." Li Ningyu nodded seriously in a cute and serious manner.

The faster the money comes these days, the more likely it is to be jealous. Maybe one day it will be reported. Li Ningyu's father is an old worker in the factory, and his annual salary is only over 1,000 yuan. You can imagine how much the 1,000 yuan she has.

Kang Jianfei thought the girl was cute and smiled and said, "Okay, wait for Sister Pei to arrange a job for you. You will go back to Shanghai/hai to celebrate the New Year with your family tomorrow."
Chapter completed!