Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

Brother Wu of Bamboo Society comes and goes in a hurry.

After the helicopters left, Lin Zhengying looked around, then held an umbrella and said wordlessly, "Director, us?"

Zhao Donghuai had already asked the field assistant and others to take away the camera, and said calmly, "What does it have to do with us? Do whatever you need to do, shoot the movie."

After filming the aviation scene, it was time to shoot outside the airport. There were more than one scene outside the airport. The first time was when Lan Jieying and He Qing arrived by plane and were deceived by the uncle played by Zhang Guorong.

Then Lin Zhengying flew over to find her daughter and rescued her. She found Ah Rong in the area, started a fight, beat up Ah Rong and his accomplices, and then chased Ah Rong, causing Ah Rong to jump off an overpass and into the street, where he was hit by a car and died.

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after a while.

The crew of Hurricane Rescue filmed the scene smoothly. The scenes involving Lan Jieying and He Qing were completed in two official shootings. When Lin Zhengying came on stage to shoot the scene chasing Zhang Guorong, something unexpected happened.

Ah Wing ran all the way from the airport and onto the overpass. Ah Ying grabbed the car and chased her. Ah Wing jumped off the bridge. He first jumped to a parked truck below, got out of the car, and was hit by another car.

The stand-in failed to jump continuously. He stepped on the front windshield when jumping out of the truck, and injured his sprained foot when he landed. He could not continue and could only shout "Ka".

The piece of glass was not completely damaged, there were some dents and cracks.

Cars and everything else are all rented from Wanwan.

The work was temporarily suspended. The person from the car rental company came forward and said calmly, "A piece of windshield costs 3,000 Hong Kong dollars. Let's record it."

As soon as he said this, a clerk came out and cursed, "Poujie, don't think I don't know anything. A relative of mine works in a glass shop in Wanwan. The maximum cost of a windshield is 2,000 Hong Kong dollars." At cost.”

The people at the car rental company were not happy, "Oh shit, the ex-factory price is shared by our Taoyuan distributor, and it's still one thousand Hong Kong dollars per piece. Why don't you go directly to the manufacturer and buy one piece? Three thousand is three thousand."

"Let's go to the glass shop to get the goods, at least more than 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a piece!"

"You have such a big crew, but you still lack money for a piece of glass? You can't afford to film any movies."

The field manager was furious and wanted to say something. Zhao Donghuai, who was carrying a handheld camera, said, "Okay, let's calculate it at 3,000."

Seeing the situation, he didn't say much more.

The person from the car rental company smiled and nodded, "The boss is very generous. I wish you a smooth start."

Zhao Donghuai didn't say anything more and walked back to try again. Was the substitute's sprained foot injured? Just change it to another one. There is no shortage of dragon and tiger martial arts masters in Hong Kong in this era.

While walking, another flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

Auto glass seems to have a lot of potential.

He recalled the story of a wealthy man in southern Fujian Province who made his fortune from glass. In 1983, he contracted a small glass factory and started making glass for water meters like the "water meter" in the mainland. It was only in 1985 that the industry was transferred to automobiles. Glass.

There seems to be a little story here that I don’t know whether it is true or not. The rich man Cao was riding in a car and was scolded by the driver not to break the glass. It cost several thousand yuan. He was a glass maker himself and was surprised how it could be so expensive.

I went back to check it out and researched it, and it was a big mistake.

A car windshield that cost less than 200 yuan could be sold for three to four thousand yuan on the market. This was 1983!

Don't think that a piece of glass was so expensive in 1983 that no one could afford it. It can be said that there were very few private cars for mainland drivers in this era... and they were not sold to private cars.

Truck drivers in the 1960s and 1970s, taxi drivers in the early 1980s, and car drivers, ordinary people simply cannot apply for this kind of job.

At that time, many cars in the mainland were imported, including smuggled cars. However, in terms of production technology, it was difficult for mainland glass factories to produce automotive glass. Even if they were produced, it was far inferior to international standards. Car glass was almost monopolized by island glass.

Domestic products on the island are so expensive, costing less than 200 yuan, and can be sold to you 15 to 20 times. This is the profit from bank robbery, and official cars and smuggled cars are the big customers.

That wealthy man from southern Fujian Province, Cao, imported various international equipment for glass production and produced the first piece of car glass that followed international standards. For example, the front windshield was priced at 2,000 yuan a piece, and demand exceeded supply.

In the early days, due to limitations such as production capacity and company distribution channels, it was not too fast to make a fortune.

After all, if a township enterprise starts out, even if it imports foreign production lines and production techniques, it will still take time to slowly make money and expand its operations if it wants to spread its products nationwide.

But he did it, becoming the king of Chinese car glass, and selling it to Europe and the United States in the future. Even at Amei’s house, a piece of glass for 30 US dollars can be sold for more than 200 US dollars at a retailer. This layer of distribution makes too much profit. Run to play direct sales.

Later, it was sued by Amei and Dana, and more than 100 million were spent on a protracted anti-dumping case.

The batch of waste paper Zhao Donghuai bought last time from Amei, as well as the more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars transferred from the sale of industrial air purifiers, have already arrived!

That thing was done before Hurricane Rescue was officially formed, and now Hurricane Rescue is almost finished! There are only a few location scenes left.

"If I build a glass factory from scratch, it will be too slow... I still want to win the Shaw Brothers Cinema chain! I must raise enough money before April 1985 to have a chance to snatch it from Pan Disheng."

“Originally, I thought I would take advantage of this Wanwan filming trip to visit Wanwan’s industrial air purifier manufacturer, buy some goods and transfer them to make money.”

"But car glass, windshield? The guy at the car rental company said that the factory price is only 1,000 Hong Kong dollars a piece, which is a discount of 400 RMB. Now the island country's glass monopolized by the mainland sells for 3,000 to 4,000 RMB!"

What is this concept? In 1983, the black market price was only 4 cents per Hong Kong dollar.

This is more profitable than an industrial purifier!

Also, the ex-factory price sold to distributors in Benbei, Taoyuan, Wan and other places is HK$1,000. Distributors in cities and counties sell to glass shops one after another and increase the price, and the stores sell to retail buyers at additional prices.

Belongs to the foundation of the entire industry in society.

In the era of Internet big data in later generations, various large platforms are still mature, killing sellers and buyers, and then reporting "losses every year"... and all the money disappears.

After filming today's scene, after the crew moved to Taoyuan Airport, Zhao Donghuai left the trivial matters to Lin Zhengying and Cheng Xiaodong. He thought about it and first contacted an industrial air purifier manufacturer. The ex-factory price is more than 2,000 knives, but after adding The tax is over 3,000 dollars.

Ship it back to the mainland and sell it for 10,000 U.S. dollars, with a net profit of more than 200%, a profit!

For car windshields, in 1983, the largest glass company in Benwan, Benbo Group, had just put into operation its first flat float glass factory for a few months. It still cooperated with Niu Buluo and obtained the most advanced technology from Niu Buluo.

Float automotive glass is generally the most advanced windshield technology in the world.

He tried to talk on the phone and mentioned that he might purchase a large amount of goods worth tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. They were very decisive. After calculating the tax, it was directly equivalent to 750 Hong Kong dollars per piece, which is equivalent to 300 RMB per piece.

If he buys goods worth 10 million Hong Kong dollars, has the windshield shipped back to the mainland and the island country at the same price, and sells it for 3,000 to 4,000 yuan a piece, this theoretically turns it into 100 million Hong Kong dollars!

The problem is that it is easy to earn RMB, but it is difficult to convert it into Hong Kong dollars.

You can't just find car owners who need windshields, sell them piece by piece, and ask them to pay in Hong Kong dollars. That's nonsense. They're basically public cars.

Find one distributor in each province, and then find one distributor at the provincial level and then find one at the city and county level? That will reduce profits step by step, but it will still make more money than industrial air purifiers.