Chapter Five Hundred and Twelve: Nineteen Eighty-Four(1/2)
(The two chapters merge, more than 5,000 words, today I will update 10,000 words for the book friend of the head "Crow Claw Scar".)
It was already January 1984, and the winter vacation was approaching in a blink of an eye. Huang Han wondered how to use this time to publish another cassette?
This time I will bring to Chengwen Pavilion, Qian Aiguo and Zhang Chunmei.
Unexpectedly, when Huang Daozhou went to Shanghai to visit a major customer of the hydraulic component factory, he also discussed cooperation with Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House, which was not very ideal.
People refused to give a publication number at all, but offered to pay Huang Han and others to record. They could pay a high price, but they wouldn't be able to get a commission based on sales.
It should be that the album "Prayer of the Heart" is too popular and has brought sequelae. Most of the cadres and employees of Shanghai Audio and Video Press believe that the profits that should have been obtained by the unit were divided by a private person, and they all guessed how much benefits the person in charge had received.
It is also possible that the leader above made a statement, and the branch dared not act rashly.
It would definitely be boring if there is no share! Huang Han was not interested and directly refused the suggestion of cooperating with the tape on the long-distance phone.
However, the other party did not give up and actually sent two people to Sanshui County to have an interview with Huang Han.
Of course, they had to receive politely when they came to the door. Huang Han arranged for them to move into the hotel.
After dinner, Huang Han accompanied them to take a bath. Huang Daozhou was on a business trip, and sales were the top priority. There were many customers in the hydraulic components factory, and large users always had to visit them in person to deepen their relationship.
Yangzhou’s three knives are famous nationwide, including pedicure knives. The hotel bathrooms not only have pedicure services, but also have back rubbing, foot pinching and massage services.
It was still early this time, no one did foot massage or foot massage. In the mid-to-late 1990s, the reason why this project suddenly exploded was actually the derivative of that kind of service...
Later, I gradually became disconnected from that type. Foot massage is no longer gray, and most of them are serious health care.
"Things turned out to be a hotel" bath area is completely different from other bathrooms in Sanshui County. There is no special place for rubbing the back in other bathrooms. They often start rubbing by sitting by the pool or on the small stool brought by the back rub.
The hotel bathroom has four special back rubbed beds, so customers can lie down and rub their backs comfortably, and the degree of enjoyment is of course different.
The four back rubers not only provide back rub services, but also provide massage and massage to others.
The back rub workers have a basic salary of 30 yuan every month. One of their main sources of income is to get a commission for back rubbing.
The price of rubbing the back in other bathrooms is 1 cents, but the price of the bathroom in hotels is 50 cents. However, there are regulations that the time for rubbing a back is no less than twenty minutes, rubbing, knocking, pushing, kneading, pinching, and shampooing.
The commission of the back rubbing worker is 20%, which means that one back rubbing will get one cent.
Winter is the peak season, and the commission for back rubbing workers can reach about two yuan a day. With the guaranteed salary, it is about ninety yuan a month, which is equivalent to double the general salary of Sanshui County, which is enough to motivate enthusiasm.
The basic salary of Paotang is 6 yuan higher. The source of their bonus is tea and water fees. A cup of tea costs one cent. There must be five cents worth of tea, and five cents are profits.
This five cents are all bonuses for the Hall, and each person can get 10 or 20 yuan a month.
The income of Paotang is not as good as that of a person who rubs his back, which is very reasonable. Paotang does not need to be skilled or strong, but most individuals can adapt to this job.
It is so hard to rub the back. It not only requires some skill, but also physical strength. Most people cannot endure this hardship, so their corresponding income must be high.
The management methods and salary system of hotel bath areas were actually the regulations of most private baths in Sanshui County in later generations. Huang Han believed that it was reasonable and copied.
The two of them who came to negotiate with the Shanghai City Press lived and ate happily. At night, they enjoyed the bathing culture of Yangzhou in the bathroom and were in a comfortable mood.
However, when receiving them, Huang Hanjue said that he would not mention co-publishing the album, but only talked about nothing but work.
The reception was very enthusiastic, but the two felt that Huang Han was not interested in republishing the album.
Huang Han's conversation during reception, coupled with the attitude of the staff in the hotel, hotel and bathing area to treat Huang Han, has long forgotten Huang Han's age and has always communicated equally.
They didn't give up and took the initiative to talk and cooperate with Huang Han. The other party rushed to talk, but Huang Han had to deal with it. He asked for a price all over the place, and listed the fees for more than a dozen people in his team and the rewards he deserved.
The recording of the Shanghai City is calculated based on ten days, with salary, travel expenses, and subsidies of 300 yuan, the recording fee is given to 500 people, and the clothing fee is given to 200 yuan...
In the end, the people agreed that one person would give one person a thousand, chorus, solo, and duet, and a total of twenty people would admit, and 20 people would give two thousand yuan.
Huang Han believes that it is meaningless to just bear the cost of Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House. He has to give some bonus incentives, which should be given 30,000 yuan.
After the two called for instructions the next day, their leader actually agreed.
There is no way. It seems that they are determined to make this album, so let’s talk about cooperation!
Only then did Huang Han play the two original songs he had recorded and several reorganized title songs to the two of them.
These two are experts, and they both looked excited when they heard it. They both thought that it would be unreasonable not to become popular again if this box of albums has these songs.
Since they have recognized their works, we're welcome. Huang Han asked them directly how much money they were willing to pay.
Huang Han also tactfully stated that he could go south to Guangzhou to publish albums. With his popularity, southern audio-visual publishing houses are definitely willing to pay high prices.
The two of them called the leader again for a long-distance call! They swear on the phone that Huang Han's new song and the newly arranged cover songs were so good that they would definitely become popular again.
Since Huang Han's album "Prayer of the Heart" broke the sales record, in order to make use of this popularity again, the leader of the publishing house gritted his teeth and agreed to give Huang Han 50,000 yuan.
Seeing that he could not raise the price again, Huang Han had to step back and asked that the income be excluded from tax, and the contract stated that the other party paid the tax on his behalf.
Alas! Anyway, there is nothing big about the winter vacation, so it is equivalent to taking Lu Yao, Wang Huiling, and Zhang Chunmei to Shanghai to have fun and see the world!
Chengwenge and Qian Aiguo have been to Shanghai City many times and are tired of visiting Nanjing Road. They can be used as guides and bodyguards.
With 80,000 yuan, if you subtract the expenses, you can pay Chengwen Pavilion, Lu Yao and Zhang Chunmei some remuneration, and you can also lose 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.
A group of teenagers went out with Huang Han and ate and played, and could still earn 800 yuan when they returned home. Where can I find such a good thing!
Huang Han sent away the two comrades and asked them to take two Hongtashan Mountains and two bottles of Wuliangye. He made an appointment with them to go to Shanghai City.
The next thing is the most important thing, Huang Han was unsure because he wanted to come forward to persuade Teacher Qiu to go to Shanghai City with him to record the album "The Past Can Only Reminisce" in the past.
Teacher Qiu's attitude was unexpected. She changed too much during this period, and her smile rippled on her face from time to time, especially when she saw Huang Han and Huang Fen.
Teacher Qiu, who has a completely different mood, likes this song so much. It may be that he hasn't been to Shanghai City for decades. He wants to go and see it, but he actually agreed happily.
This caused Huang Han to beat the belly full of sucking and even the draft was useless.
After Teacher Qiu agreed to lead the team, Huang Han found Zhang Chunmei, Lu Yao, Liu Xiaoli, Zhang Qian, Wang Huiling and others and told them the good news. Before that, Chengwenge and Qian Aiguo knew about it.
Of course they were so happy that they would not hesitate if they were going to Shanghai City, not to mention Huang Han took them to the moon.
Zhang Chunmei, Lu Hui, Wang Huiling and others are all girls. How could they make their own decisions and agree to follow Huang Han to Shanghai City, and it took more than a week?
They all went home to seek parental consent.
With the respected teacher Qiu leading the team, this matter has become much easier, and parents are happy.
In order to encourage Lu Yao and Wang Huiling and others to study hard, Huang Han specifically threatened them that if their grades were disqualified when the exam was approaching, they would be disqualified from going to Shanghai City.
The opportunity to go to Shanghai City is too tempting. In order not to lose the chain, Lu Yao and others are really willing to work hard and can pass the content they must memorize.
The day after the exam, Huang Han’s team set off. Due to the large number of people, everyone took a long-distance bus together.
After arriving in Shanghai, there was no need to stay in a guesthouse. Huang Daozhou was on a business trip in Shanghai. He had already asked Chen Chunsong and Tao Jun to arrange and pack up.
Even Teacher Qiu, a total of 17 people, moved into a small western-style building not far from Hongkou Park in Huang Han’s house.
The two comrades who negotiated with Huang Han warmly welcomed Huang Han’s team, and Huang Han didn’t have to worry about contacting the recording studio and the band.
In addition to arranging Lu Yao, Zhang Chunmei sang "When will the Moon Come to the West Tower" and "Only Going to the West Tower", of course, she also sang popular songs. Anyway, the mainland has no awareness of intellectual property protection at this time.
Chengwen Pavilion lead singer "The Clouds of Hometown", Qian Aiguo lead singer "Burning Firebird", Huang Han, Zhang Chunmei, and Lu Yao sang "Meilan Meilan, Meilan, I Love You"...
The recording went smoothly, but it took less than a week and the album "The Past Can Only Reminisce" was successfully recorded.
Huang Han took everyone to play for three days before returning to Sanshui County. After returning home, he snowed heavily for a day and a night. This was the last heavy snow in Huang Han's memory.
Of course, I have to visit my aunt and her family during this time in Shanghai.
Today, Huang Jinglan's family is also rich and lives in a small foreign house.
Huang Jinglan teased: I asked Huang Han for his blessing. Now my home is filled with lights, phones, upstairs, and downstairs. It is definitely the happy communist life described in the book.
She gave birth to five daughters in one breath and always regretted not having a son. Now that the family conditions are better, the family business is even bigger and the family business is even more unwilling to give up.
Huang Jinglan talked to Huang Daozhou and Huang Han about Xu Ruonan's marriage. She wanted to find a son-in-law for the fifth girl.
That is, marrying into a marriage.
Huang Han raised his hands to agree that Shanghai City is a metropolis, which is completely different from rural areas, so whether it is married to a marriage is not very important.
In the early 1980s, too many families in Shanghai had three or five sons, and a family of seven or eight were crowded in a house of 10 to 20 square meters.
There are many young men who can't get married because they don't have a house. Huang Jinglan's family has such good conditions, so it's really not difficult to find a son-in-law. They can be picky and picky, and it may not be impossible to marry into a technical secondary school student.
Huang Han encouraged Huang Jinglan to break the tradition. Didn’t New China advocate equality between men and women? Didn’t it promote women to be able to bear half of the sky? Why do you have to marry a daughter? Why can’t you marry a son?
If families with many sons should communicate with each other. What’s wrong with marrying one or two?
Huang Han's words reached Huang Jinglan's heart, and she was so happy that she couldn't see her teeth.
Xu Ruonan is now a strong woman, and of course he cannot have the traditional concept of "marrying a man and getting dressed and eating".
She promised her mother and uncle not to get married. The first condition she wanted to date her was to marry into a marriage.
US dollars are not easy to deal with. Xu Ruonan has only received more than 17,000 in the past two months.
Just beating a rabbit, you can calculate as much as you can, and there is no need to force it. Huang Han reminded Xu Ruonan to continue to help collect it, and exchange it for a price of less than three yuan.
Xu Ruonan increasingly feels that the reason why the US dollar is difficult to collect is that the RMB is depreciating. After Huang Han raised the purchase price, she stated that it should not be a problem to spend two or three months to collect another RMB of 100,000 yuan.
Huang Han expressed his opinion that he was not afraid of being too much, and it was not a big deal to exceed 100,000 yuan. He called and said when he needed more money.
Everyone who took to Shanghai City to participate in the recording received a basic remuneration of 500 yuan. Zhang Chunmei, Chengwenge, Lu Yao, and Qian Aiguo were all lead singers, and they received a 1,000 yuan.
Teacher Qiu is also the lead singer. She sang "The Past Can Only Recall" for three days, and the recording artist praised her.
Huang Han did not pay her, but gave her a Sony 21-inch color TV.
To be continued...