Chapter 79: Rolling in Wealth (Seeking Collections and Follow-up Reads)

By this time, Wu Feng's wealth began to expand rapidly.

Whether it was Jiang Tiansheng or Han Bin, they both paid in cash on the spot when purchasing Premium A-Grade Goods clothing and sneakers.

They did not go through Hong Kong's financial institutions; all transactions were conducted at sea.

Among these, Wu Feng used Hong Kong Dollars to settle the material costs for the Premium A-Grade Goods, which served as an account for the Mainland side, while the remaining profits were kept in cash.

Still the same saying: having read many novels about being reborn in Hong Kong, he knew that Hong Kong's financial institutions were not reliable, especially those with British capital ties, which required extra vigilance.

The output of the Mainland factories was immense; if not for the slight shortage in material supply, a single day's production could likely match the output of a small Hong Kong garment factory for half a month.

Yet even so, his monthly earnings were around 20 million Hong Kong Dollars!

As for the factory workers' wages, benefits, and funds for factory expansion, these were provided by the profits from selling waste paper, which were quite abundant.

Currently, he had an income of nearly 4 million RMB every month just from transporting waste paper to Mainland paper mills.

This income was basically deposited into the bank, and he would simply withdraw it when needed.

At Wu Feng's request, the garment and sneaker factories in the Mainland began expanding again; this time, he planned to recruit three thousand employees in one go, expanding the production scale by more than three times.

This time, he directly allocated a quota of 1,500 spots for retired soldiers.

At the same time, he did not forget to call his mother and uncle, asking them to discuss with the local Agricultural Committee and county government to hire a batch of employees directly from his hometown to enter the factory, starting with one hundred people to test the waters.

By this time, he already had enough strength and confidence to give back to his relatives and the local people in his hometown.

One must know that as the Mainland factories operated at full capacity, the upstream raw material suppliers, along with all the living service facilities surrounding the factories, quickly formed a sound industrial chain.

Or rather, the number of raw material factories and local people benefiting from this was not small.

Meanwhile, Wu Feng entrusted the local government and military contacts with whom he had good relations, hoping they could provide talent in integrated circuits, as he intended to offer high salaries to set up an Arcade Machine production factory.

That's right, the *A Better Tomorrow* Arcade Machine had already become a hit throughout the Hong Kong and Macau regions.

Especially when the newspapers publicized that the *A Better Tomorrow* Arcade Machine was researched and produced by a Hong Kong company, it directly earned a wave of goodwill and popularity in Hong Kong.

In just over a month, hundreds of Arcade Machines were sold alone!

The profit reached several million, absolutely qualifying as a money-printing machine that laid golden eggs.

Unfortunately, the output was still too low; even the demand within Hong Kong itself could not be met.

If not for Wu Feng's firm demand to distribute about fifty units to Macau, how could it have triggered a gaming craze in the Hong Kong and Macau regions?

By the time Taiwan businessmen heard the news and rushed over to purchase, they brought back some very bad news.

The *Contra* Arcade Machine had already become a hit in the game arcades over in Taiwan.

*A Better Tomorrow* could only be considered a game of the same type, and it was only with the support of the *A Better Tomorrow* film that Taiwan businessmen were attracted to come and purchase it, but it was impossible for it to dominate the market alone.

Damn it, just because production capacity was insufficient to rush to Taiwan to stock the market in the first instance, *Contra* ended up becoming a hit first; that was a huge market.

It was estimated that the Taiwan market alone could accommodate ten to twenty thousand *A Better Tomorrow* Arcade Machines.

What was that? That was profit measured in the hundreds of millions.

At this time, Taiwan's economy was in a period of high-speed development; it was one of the Four Asian Tigers, and its purchasing power was absolutely astonishing.

Wu Feng used these figures to convince the boss of VTech.

Once the Mainland factory was built, he would immediately authorize it to produce Arcade Machine motherboards, and it would be enough for VTech to share in the profits from the Arcade Machine motherboards.

As long as the output increased, that too would be a dazzling gold mine!

Recently, Wu Feng had been busy with these matters; as long as the foundation was laid thoroughly, he would be able to lie back and make money in the future.

It wasn't until Lei of the Golden Princess circuit called that he finally freed himself from the trivial matters.

This guy called to invite Wu Feng to attend the celebration party held internally by Cinema City.

Wu Feng readily agreed and soon received the invitation sent by Cinema City.

In fact, he had long known that Cinema City would do something like this.

After all, he was now considered a Big Brother in the film industry and also a Newspaper Tycoon, so he was quite well-informed.

The senior management of Cinema City had received guidance at the beginning of the year and had happily taken the two films, *Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing* and *The Isle of Fantasy*, to participate in film festivals in Europe and America.

The result was naturally quite smooth; these two films were, just as Wu Feng had said, very well-received at the film festivals.

Although they did not participate in the main competition section, they still easily sold the copyrights for both Europe and America.

Added together, it actually exceeded two million US Dollars, which made the senior management of Cinema City very happy.

After hearing this, Wu Feng privately scolded Cinema City for being useless; to sell such good films for so little money was truly wasting good things.

When he gave the guidance initially, he had made it very clear that these two films had a certain audience among white people in Europe and America, which was to say, they were of the standard of mainstream films.

As long as the promotion was effective, even re-releasing them in European and American cinemas could achieve decent box office results.

If it were him, failing to sell the two films for five million US Dollars would be a dereliction of duty!

Of course, he also understood the mentality of the film sales staff at Cinema City; they could never get excited when dealing with European and American foreigners.

The longer Wu Feng stayed in Hong Kong, the more he realized that this situation among Hong Kong people was very serious.

By the time he arrived at the hotel where the celebration party was held and saw Lei and the senior management of Cinema City, they were all beaming with joy and high spirits, as if they had accomplished something great.

"Wusheng, this time it's all thanks to your reminder!"

Lei took the initiative to step forward and greet him, saying enthusiastically: "I didn't expect that two films like these could actually be sold in Europe and America. It's a pity that Cinema City doesn't have many films of this type in its library!"

"Cinema City has so many directors, just find someone to shoot them!"

Wu Feng said dismissively: "As long as you grasp the preferences of certain audiences in Europe and America, it is relatively easy to sell films. Besides, now is also a good time!"

Lei was a bit confused and didn't know what the 'good time' in Wu Feng's words meant.

Wu Feng certainly wouldn't say it explicitly; the United States was currently quite polite to the Chinese.

For some things, as long as one is bold enough to do them, one might just get a very good result.

Unfortunately, the Mainland itself didn't have much foreign exchange to toss around, and as for Hong Kong, he didn't know how many people could realize this point.

"By the way, is the script for *A Better Tomorrow 2* ready?"

He didn't want to think too much about those international affairs, so he changed the subject and said: "If it's ready, start filming immediately. I'm waiting for the film to be released so I can launch the second Arcade Game!"

"Wusheng, I never expected the *A Better Tomorrow* Arcade Machine to be so popular!"

Speaking of this, Lei was very regretful, saying gloomily: "If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn't have given you the adaptation rights for the other aspects of the *A Better Tomorrow* film series no matter what!"

"Hehe, it's too late for Lei to regret it now!"

Wu Feng chuckled, not caring at all about Lei's terrible mood, and said leisurely: "This time, I have opened up a quite profitable path for Lei; you can't just burn bridges after crossing the river, right?"

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