After asking about the relevant procedures for applying for the World Science Fiction Convention, Fang Yan and others took a car and drove from the New York Science Fiction Museum to the hotel.
Mike sat in the passenger seat, half turned around, and said excitedly:
"Teacher Fang, I think your "Three-Body Problem" is now stable."
"Why do you see it?"
Fang Yan showed a playful smile.
"When the Hugo Awards just ended, there were many newspaper reporters and science fiction magazine editors trying to get close to me."
Mike's words had the flavor of a Beijing movie, saying that they were secretly trying to find out the "Dark Forest Theory" from their own mouths.
Fang Yan asked: "Then did you say it?"
"How is that possible! Teacher Fang, you know me well. I have a very strict reputation!"
Mike made a zipper motion towards his mouth. Although he did not disclose it to the outside world, he criticized the participating science fiction writers, editors of science fiction magazines, and members of the World Science Fiction Association for their attitudes towards the "Dark Forest Theory". "The Three-Body Problem" "How could it not be successful?"
What’s more, there are Isaac Asimov and Heinlein who spared no effort in promoting it!
“The greater the expectations, the greater the pressure.”
Fang Yan shook his head and laughed: "They really put me on the fire to roast."
Lin Qingxia laughed and joked: "Real gold is not afraid of fire. Are you afraid of being roasted by fire?"
Fang Yan was greatly surprised, "I didn't expect Qingxia that you would joke like this. I always thought you were so dignified and serious..."
Lin Qingxia's eyes flashed with a cunning look, "No, this is the real me. If you don't believe me, you can ask Lijun and Xiaoqi."
Fang Yan smiled and said nothing, and then Mike suddenly asked: "When you return to Los Angeles tomorrow, do you want to continue to stay in the previous hotel?"
Lin Qingxia raised her hand and said that the cost of the hotel was too high, and she was going to entrust Golden Harvest or the crew to rent a cheaper apartment or house nearby the Fox Plaza Building to live in during the filming of "Die Hard".
Fang Yan asked: "What about before renting a house?"
Lin Qingxia showed a wry smile: "I can only stay in the hotel temporarily, and I will move out after renting a house."
"In my opinion, it doesn't need to be so troublesome." Mike said, "You might as well live in Teacher Fang's house!"
"This...isn't this convenient?"
Lin Qingxia sighed, panicked and surprised. She didn't expect Fang Yan to have a house in the United States!
But what was even more unexpected was that he learned from Mike’s carefree mouth that Fangyan not only owns real estate in Los Angeles, but also has apartment buildings in San Francisco, New York, and even near the University of Iowa, renting them almost free of charge to people participating in the "International Writing" "Project" domestic and foreign writers.
"It's just a small investment while doing charity."
Fang Yan raised his hand as if it was not worth mentioning.
"This investment is still small!?"
Lin Qingxia blurted out, but when she thought that Fang Yan could get Fox to offer "US$5 million + 8% of the global box office share" with just a "Die Hard" script, it suddenly seemed more reasonable. My heart gradually returned to calm.
"Of course, Teacher Fang, he is now..."
Just as Mike was about to open his mouth, Fang Yan winked and said in a faint tone: "I don't know who just said that he had a tight tongue."
"Hey."
Seeing Mike immediately cover his mouth, Lin Qingxia realized that everything she just heard was just the tip of the iceberg revealed in dialect.
"Ahem."
Fang Yan cleared his throat and changed the subject: "I have some spare rooms in the house there, if you don't mind..."
"How could I dislike it? On the contrary, I am going to cause you trouble."
Lin Qingxia originally thought that Fang Yan's house was empty, but she didn't expect that it would be the "staff dormitory" of the foundation.
"You have met Ruoxue before."
Fang Yan explained simply, "I will introduce the other 'Li Zhi' to you when you meet."
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"Ding dong, ding dong."
The doorbell rang again and again. After Fang Yan returned to Los Angeles, he led Lin Qingxia to his single-family villa.
Lin Qingxia looked back and forth, looking at the green lawn on the left and the sparkling swimming pool on the right, feeling very strange.
“I originally lived in San Francisco.”
Fang Yan smiled and said, "Last year, when the market was good, I sold that house and bought a new one here."
While the two were chatting, Li Zhi ran over in her slippers and opened the door:
"Teacher Fang!"
Then his eyes fell on Lin Qingxia, and he couldn't help but scream, "Lin...Lin Qingxia!"
Bai Ruoxue walked out of the study room and greeted her with a smile, "The guest Teacher Fang said on the phone she was going to bring turns out to be Sister Qingxia!"
Lin Qingxia and Bai Ruoxue said hello, focusing more on Li Zhi. The thin branches bear fruit, enchanting and charming, especially those seductive eyes, staring straight at Fang Yan. There was a vague feeling of unusualness.
Fang Yan introduced the two of them to each other, and Li Zhi's eyes were filled with excitement:
"Sister Qingxia, you are so beautiful. You are even more beautiful in person than in photos or on the screen."
"No way."
Lin Qingxia said half-jokingly: "Standing with you, I lose my confidence. How can there be such a beautiful person?"
Then he glanced at Fang Yan and said, "If I hadn't known that you and Ruoxue were his assistants, I would have thought he was playing a trick on hiding the beauty in the golden house!"
Hearing this, Li Zhi immediately blushed with embarrassment, and saw Bai Ruoxue roll her eyes helplessly:
"Sister Qingxia, if you want to make fun of Teacher Fang, don't involve me and Li Zhi!"
"Ahem, let's not stand outside chatting. Let's go in quickly."
Fang Yan said as he walked: "She will graduate this year. She wants to return to Hong Kong to be an actress and is planning to sign up for TVB's Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant."
"Really!?"
Lin Qingxia raised her eyebrows and marveled, praising that with Li Zhi's qualifications, she could compete for the title of Miss Hong Kong Champion.
Bai Ruoxue asked Sister Lin Qingxia as her senior to guide Li Zhi if she had the chance. "How am I qualified to guide others? If I have to ask, I should ask you, Teacher Fang." Lin Qingxia was surprised.
Fang Yan asked: "You are wrong in saying this. Haven't you also participated in the Miss Hong Kong contest?"
Lin Qingxia was puzzled: "No, although I think the Miss Hong Kong pageant is interesting, I have never participated in it."
"Sister Qingxia!"
Li Zhi reminded that she once sang on stage with Zhong Zhentao during the 1982 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant finals.
"If you didn't tell me, I almost forgot." Lin Qingxia suddenly woke up with a startle, "Why do you remember so clearly?"
Li Zhi said that she moved to Hong Kong with her father in 1981. The 1982 Miss Hong Kong pageant was the first one she watched, so her memory was still fresh in her mind.
"No wonder you signed up for TVB's Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant this year."
Lin Qingxia couldn't help but wonder, based on Dialect's relationship with Run Run Shaw and Fang Yihua, wouldn't the Miss Hong Kong pageant be a natural success for her?
"Relationships are often just a stepping stone. Whether you can advance or win the championship depends on your own ability."
Fang Yan said: "Otherwise, when the rankings are announced, everyone will laugh. Not only will it harm Li Zhi, but it will also damage the reputation accumulated by the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant."
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"Yes...I was mistaken..."
Lin Qingxia blushed with shame, then looked at Li Zhi's adoring look, softened her heart, and agreed to help, "But I have something to say first. Although I have been on stage in the Miss Hong Kong competition, I have never participated in a formal event. There are not many places that can guide you in beauty pageants.”
Fang Yan then asked Li Zhi to help Lin Qingxia carry her luggage to the room prepared for her.
Watching them go upstairs, Bai Ruoxue excitedly reported on the investment situation:
"Teacher Fang, it is just as you expected. Although Japan has successively cut interest rates in response to the appreciation of the yen, the yen still appreciates, and the rise in the property and stock markets is really exaggerated. It is no longer rising, but skyrocketing. ! ”
"This is just the beginning."
Fang Yan smiled. Originally, according to Japan's plan, when interest rates were lowered, people who saved money would use their money to invest in real industries such as factories to help relieve some pressure on the manufacturing industry. However, with the appreciation of the yen, export-oriented industries The profits of Japan's manufacturing industry are too low, and the rate of return on investment in real industries is also too low. Bank interest rates and even interest rates on U.S. debt continue to fall. The only investments that can be made right now are the stock market and real estate.
Manufacturing companies naturally took bank loans and speculated in the financial market. Hanwa Industrial, Yamaichi Securities, Sharp Trading, Ito Corporation, Mitsubishi Trust, and Nippon Trust suddenly emerged, causing trouble in Tokyo and making huge profits. It was called "Six Ghosts Haunting Tokyo".
This was an important turning point in Japan's bubble economy. Since then, Japanese companies, large and small, have been obsessed with the "six ghosts", speculating wildly, speculating wildly on foreign exchange, making steel, building cars, machine tools, and doing whatever else. The real economy has turned from reality to reality!
Coupled with Japan's love of gambling and its love of gambling on the country's fortunes, the financial bubble began to inflate in 1986.
They are now standing on the cusp of the storm. Even pigs can fly. The speculation team formed by Bai Ruoxue starts speculating in foreign exchange at eight o'clock every morning, often until midnight. The scope of foreign exchange speculation has also expanded from Tokyo to New York, coming in and out every day. The amount paid was tens of millions of dollars.
The only fly in the ointment is that the Japanese securities market has not launched Nikkei 225 Index futures, otherwise you can still speculate in futures.
(PS: On September 3, 1986, the Singapore Exchange took the lead in launching the Nikkei 225 Index futures. In September 1988, the Osaka Exchange officially listed the Nikkei 225 Index futures, which once became the world's largest stock index futures in terms of trading volume.)
After listening to Bai Ruoxue's report on foreign exchange speculation results, the smile at the corner of her mouth grew more and more:
"You should also pay attention to your health and don't be too tired."
"Teacher Fang, don't worry, I will pay attention."
Bai Ruoxue took a sip of coffee and showed a bright smile.
Fang Yan then flipped through the documents, "Where are the U.S. stocks? How are the sales going?"
"Except for the Coca-Cola, Nike, and Wal-Mart stocks that you specifically asked to keep, all others have been cleared."
Bai Ruoxue said that due to the promotion of programmatic trading at the beginning of the year, the U.S. stock market experienced multiple one-day plummets. But fortunately, there was good news about the tax reform plan, and the S&P 500 index soared by 40%. The various stocks they held It also fell first and then rose, selling at high levels.
While the two were talking in the living room, Lin Qingxia packed her luggage and came downstairs with Li Zhi.
“I didn’t expect him to know so much about investing.”
"Sister Qingxia, you don't know, Teacher Fang is amazing at investing!"
Li Zhi's eyebrows were dancing with joy.
Lin Qingxia refreshed her understanding of Fang Yan, "Doesn't it sound like he is at least a multi-millionaire?"
"Pfft!"
Li Zhiyan smiled and said that the best-selling book "Midnight Bell" published by Fang Yan last year alone had brought him 140 million yen in royalties, plus "Artificial Intelligence", "Guns" ", Viruses and Steel" and other books have already topped the list of the world's literary richest people.
His eyes flashed with admiration, "Of course, compared with Teacher Fang's investments, it's just a drop in the bucket."
"A drop in the bucket..."
Lin Qingxia paused and stopped at the top of the stairs, looking at Fang Yan's profile in disbelief. I don't know how many surprises you have in store!
A strong sense of curiosity arose in my heart, and I was ready to continue my temporary stay to observe the unknown side of dialects in person.
However, Dialect did not give her too many opportunities. During the day, she was busy participating in the casting of actors with John McTiernan, Joe Silver and others, and passed round after round of auditions to determine the role of "Wonder Woman" Linda Carter will play the heroine, and "Professor Snape" will play the villain.
As for the black policeman and driver boy in "Die Hard", Samuel L. Right now, people in Hollywood are nothing more than humble walk-ons.
Life was not good, and they wanted to act in movies, but they were hit by obstacles everywhere. They had to perform TV series on the small screen to make ends meet, or play some extremely small roles in movies. When they learned that Dialect had decided to let them play important supporting roles. , these two black guys were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.
"Next, do your best."
Fang Yan patted the two of them on the shoulders. After 10 years of this casting, Fox would have to at least double the money allocated to hire it.
Immediately afterwards, He Guanchang was asked to sign two more film contracts with Forest Whitaker in the name of Golden Harvest North America Branch.
"Fang Sheng, I know you want to take advantage of his low salary and sign a few more movies, so that you can save more money when filming in the future, but even if he is included in the sequel to "Die Hard" Isn’t it too much to sign three movies in a row?”
He Guanshang and Cheng Long looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
"Wrong, this is not for Die Hard."
Fang Yan said, "'Die Hard' only lets you break into Hollywood. If you want to gain a foothold, you need new masterpieces."
He Guanchang was surprised at first, and then overjoyed. What he was happy about was that Fang Yan had already planned and had a blueprint for Cheng Long and Jiahe to establish themselves in Hollywood.
"It's just an immature idea."
Dialect is also making an emergency response. In the future filming of "Rush Hour", Forest Whitaker will be used to replace Chris Tucker.
Seeing his understatement, Lin Qingxia was not surprised. These days, especially at night, he was either focusing on the conception and creation of works such as "The Three-Body Problem", or staring at the Bloomberg terminal and sitting in person. , using the phone to remotely command Bai Ruoxue and others to speculate in foreign exchange.
Just when I was thinking about it, Cheng Long's exclamation came from my ears:
"Fang Sheng is going to Japan soon?" (End of Chapter)