The latest issue of "Ming Pao Weekly" was released, and Summer is the cover character.

At the same time, there is a sentence above, "The poor and sour martial artist in the past and today's charity rich man, exclusively reveals the history of making a fortune in summer!"

Hong Kong people are the most practical and like money the most.

They respectfully called Li Jiacheng "Li Chaoren", respectfully called He Hongshen the "Gambling King", respectfully called Bao Yugang the "Ship King", respectfully called Zheng Yutong the "Jewelry King". Even those who sell sesame oil can be respected as "Oil King" as long as they are on a little scale, which shows their respect and desire for wealth.

Therefore, after seeing this report in Ming Pao Weekly, citizens bought it and circulated it, wanting to see how summer got rich, especially when he got so much money, he could donate 250 million charity funds.

"Mr. Cha, our issue of Ming Pao Weekly has a total of 100,000 copies. It was sold out as soon as it was launched on the market." The person in charge of Ming Pao Weekly reported to Jin Yong happily.

Jin Yong smiled slightly, the result was not beyond his expectations, "Okay, please print another hundred thousand copies."

"Yes." The person in charge nodded, "Mr. Cha, I didn't expect Mr. Xia to attract everyone's attention so much. With his news, you really don't have to worry about sales."

Ming Pao Weekly has also held several exclusive interviews for summer, and the sales volume is very good each time, about 20% or 30% higher than usual.

Jin Yong also smiled and nodded, "Because this child is so legendary, and his experiences are more bizarre than Li Ka-shing, Ho Hongshen, and Shao Yifu, so they naturally attract attention."

The person in charge smiled in agreement.

He also felt that Li Ka-shing, Ho Hongshen, Shao Yifu, Zheng Yutong... The experiences of these legendary Hong Kong tycoons are not as dramatic as Xia Tian.

The main reason is that he is too young and has risen too fast. At the age of twenty, a year, and a net worth of 500 million Hong Kong dollars, he feels incredible no matter how he hears it, but it is indeed happening in front of him. No wonder everyone is so fascinated by him.

...

After this report was published, the experience of making a fortune in the stock market and futures in the summer became a household name overnight.

While people envy each other, they also rush to imitate and invest in the stock market, hoping to make a fortune like summer.

Originally, since the Hong Kong stock market had an accident, trading in Evergrande Financial Holdings has been a bit deserted recently. Many investors have become frightened, fearing that they will encounter unreliable investment companies, so many have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, and some have even withdrawn their funds.

However, after this report was published, when Xia Tian made a fortune in investing in stock market futures, these people could no longer sit still. They dispelled their doubts and reinvested their efforts in stock market futures.

This also made the Hong Kong stock market prosperous again. The Hang Seng Index rose again and again, which seemed endless, and also made people vaguely see hope of becoming rich, so the investment became more enjoyable.

...

Xia Tian didn't know that because of his own reasons, the Hong Kong stock market had fallen into a low period. He didn't know that because of his own reasons, the Hong Kong stock market was once again full of passion. He is still busy preparing for the "first original song competition".

There are many things that need to be asked about in the competition venue, competition judges, competition system, competition publicity, etc. The slogan of summer is, "Either do it, do it the best you want to do it!" Under his strict requirements, all preparations are in an orderly manner.

At noon, Fulinmen Restaurant.

In summer, a special banquet was held here to invite a group of Hong Kong musicians.

Huang Zhan, Gu Jiahui, Li Xiaotian, Lu Guozhan, Cai Guoquan, Chen Yangqi, Teddy Robin, Lu Guanting, Luo Wen, Xu Xiaofeng, Mei Yanfang and others made a big table.

"Uncle Zhan, you are here, please, please!"

"Sister Xiaofeng, welcome!"

"Hello, Mr. Lu, I've been well-known for a long time."

"Amei, you are here, please sit down, please sit down."

...

In summer, he warmly welcomed all the musicians. After everyone arrived and sat down, he announced the banquet.

Abalone, bird's nest, shark fin, grouper... all kinds of delicacies are delivered together, making these musicians satisfied.

To be honest, although they are all top musicians in Hong Kong, their joys and sorrows are uneven.

For example, Huang Zhan has a lot of income because he has opened an advertising company and has participated in filming, etc., so he is considered a little rich man. For example, although Lu Guozhan wrote a thousand lyrics, he did not make much money. He only made a living and still lives in the tenement building.

(Tenhwa is a kind of old building in Hong Kong. It was usually built in the 5060s. It is usually four or five stories high and has no elevators. The rent is several hundred yuan cheaper than buildings with elevators in the same area.)

So everyone had a great time and enjoyable meal.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Xia Tian smiled, "I'm here today to thank you for your support for the 'Original Song Contest' event! Thank you everyone!"

"Mr. Xia, don't say that. Promoting the development of original music is also the long-cherished wish of us Hong Kong musicians." Lu Guozhan said with a smile, "It's a pity that our ability is meager and is not enough to promote such a big reform. Fortunately, you are here now, so we will certainly support it."

Lu Guozhan is a well-known lyricist in Hong Kong. He has a high attainment in lyrics, as famous as Huang Zhan, and is known as "Hong Kong Erzhan". His representative works include "Whenever Changes", "Little Li's Flying Knife", "The Great Wall Never Falls", etc. It is worth mentioning that Luo Jialiang and Guo Jinan were both discovered by him.

In 1983, Lu Guozhan was moved by the flood of love songs in the Hong Kong music industry and launched the "Non-Love Song Movement" to call on musicians to create more theme songs, such as inspirational, philosophical, family affection, etc. He himself created classic works such as "Small Town" and "Mantis and Me". However, under the principles of market taste and business, the non-Love Song Movement ended in vain, which wasted all efforts of Lu Guozhan.

Therefore, when Lu Guozhan saw that Xia Tian advocated original music, he was very excited and responded immediately.

"Thank you Mr. Lu for your support." Xia Tian smiled, "With everyone's support, I also have the confidence to organize the original song competition well and persevere in the process."

Hearing him say this, everyone here smiled and applauded.

Many of them are lyricists and songwriters. Promoting originality is equivalent to increasing their job opportunities. Of course, they are very welcome.

"Do you have any suggestions for this event?" Xia Tian asked with a smile again.

"A Tian, ​​this is a good thing, and we all agree with this." Huang Zhan expressed his opinion, "With your promotion, we also believe that this event can be held forever."

Everyone here nodded.

250 million Hong Kong dollars, if you save some money, it will be enough for fifty years.

"But even if the event can be held, it is still a matter of whether original music can flourish. The key is whether fans can accept it, and the other is whether musicians can persist." Huang Zhan said again.

"If the audience cannot accept original music, then the lack of a market for original music will not survive. The income of musicians cannot be guaranteed. The income of musicians cannot be guaranteed. Even if they have discovered very good musicians, it is useless to not be able to keep them."

After hearing what he said, everyone present nodded in agreement.

At this stage, Hong Kong record companies are popular to cover Japanese songs. Alan Tam, Zhang Guorong, and Mei Yeon-fang are all competing to cover them. In one of Alan Tam's records, six of the ten songs are covered by Japanese songs; Zhang Guorong's famous song "MONICA" is a cover; Mei Yeon-fang's famous song "Red Temptation" is also a cover Japanese song.

The copyright of Japanese songs is cheap, so I took them to find someone to fill in the lyrics. One lyrics is only a few thousand Hong Kong dollars. Then a "new song" was released in this way.

To be honest, Japanese pop music is indeed much more developed than Hong Kong. In addition, Hong Kong people at that time had little knowledge and had basically never seen any big world, so I still listened to these processed "second-hand songs".

Because such records are cheap to produce, the copyright fee for the song is only a little bit, but it can sell hundreds of thousands or even more than one million copies. It can also be popular with celebrities and be loved by the audience. Therefore, almost all major record companies are making such records. This also leads to the fact that local musicians in Hong Kong cannot increase the price, and their works are not as popular as Japanese musicians.

Because local works are not as popular as Japanese songs, major record companies are more willing to buy Japanese songs to cover them, which has also reduced the income of Hong Kong musicians again, causing talents to wither and even lack of excellent works. This has formed a vicious cycle.

That's why Huang Zhan asked this question. There is no problem with holding the event, but how to reverse the taste of fans and how to get enough rewards from musicians is the key to whether this sport can succeed.

Xia Tian nodded, feeling that Huang Zhan’s opinion was very good.

"Uncle Zhan said it well. In fact, I have been considering this issue recently." He smiled slightly, "I think the first thing I should solve is the remuneration problem of musicians. Because the taste of fans is difficult to change in the short term, we can only change slowly and subtly. Moreover, first solve the remuneration problem of musicians, relieve everyone's worries, and make everyone more motivated to create good music, which will also help change the taste of fans."

"Okay, then I'll tell you my idea." Xia Tian said later, "When I first started Tianxia Records, I told Mr. Luo Dayou that I don't expect this record company to make money. I still have this idea now, and there has been no change, so I will give back all the profits of the record company, except for the necessary expenses required for operation, to the musicians."

"I wonder what everyone thinks about me?" Xia Tian smiled and said.

"Mr. Xia, can you really do this?" Lu Guanting asked in surprise.
Chapter completed!