Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 430: Tempted Cameron

The Ludong Peninsula in May has already brought with it the slightest hint of summer heat, but compared with the capital, the weather here is still quite pleasant. Fang Mingyuan, Lin Lian, and Chen Zhong were walking in the Ludong Peninsula at this time.

The streets of Weijiang City at the tip of the peninsula.

Fang Mingyuan accompanied Cameron and Gower, who had finished shooting the promotional film in Yazhou, to Hong Kong to meet with Yu Qiuxia. Gower and Yu Qiuxia discussed many issues on how to enter the Chinese market in the future and how to further expand cooperation between the two parties.

The matter was discussed many times. In this meeting, Gower formally reached an agreement with Kumho Group on behalf of Kingfisher Film Company. Kingfisher Film Company invested US$50 million and the two parties jointly produced the next movie "Jurassic".

Park", but unlike "Terminator 2", where the copyright belongs to Kingfisher Film Company, the copyright of "Jurassic Park" will belong to Kumho Group. Moreover, the two parties have also discussed training personnel and exchanging technology between the two parties in the future.

In other aspects, a series of previous agreements were reached. In the next few years, the film companies affiliated to the Kumho Group will successively send teams of hundreds of people to the Jade Bird Film Company for study.

Moreover, after Yu Qiuxia's insistence, Gower agreed that the future premiere of "Terminator 2" will be held simultaneously in Hong Kong and the United States, and both countries will officially screen "Terminator 2" at the same time. This move,

For those Asian "Terminator" fans, it was undoubtedly good news and became the front page headline of the entertainment section of the Hong Kong newspaper the next day.

While in Hong Kong, although Cameron still had not made up his mind, he discussed with Fang Mingyuan many times the problems that would need to be considered once "Titanic" was put into filming, including how to realistically recreate the Titanic.

The original style.

Cameron proposed that in order to recreate the style of the Titanic, it would be best to convene relevant scientists, historians, photographers and extremely experienced sailors to find the wreckage of the Titanic and conduct physical photography to enhance the "

The historical authenticity of the Titanic movie.

His request was not beyond Fang Mingyuan's expectations. In his previous life, Cameron persuaded Twentieth Century Fox to rent the largest deep-sea research vessel in the world at the time, the Russian "Mstislav Kelti"

The "School" used two submarines on the ship that can dive to the bottom of four thousand meters, the depth where the Titanic wreckage is located. Cameron used these advanced submarine equipment to photograph the Titanic wreckage. Through remotely operated underwater vehicles, he even

You can enter the wreckage of the Titanic and take pictures of places that have never been visited since the sinking of the Titanic. Since the special camera on the submersible can only film for 12 minutes at a time, each dive must be carefully planned.

Cameron organized a total of twelve dives and obtained a large amount of precious information.

Fang Mingyuan naturally strongly supported Cameron's idea, and "generously" said that this expense could be reimbursed to Cameron from outside the general budget.

Fang Mingyuan also proposed that Cameron find a way to find the Titanic's manufacturing shipyard to see if he could obtain the Titanic's manufacturing blueprint. Because he remembered that he later watched the TV introduction of Cameron's filming of "Titanic".

During the highlights of "Titanic", the host at the time once mentioned that it was not long before Cameron announced that he would film "Titanic" that the shipyard that built the Titanic opened its private files, and Cameron and the others were able to

I saw the blueprints for the Titanic that I originally thought were gone.

It is precisely because of this nearly century-old blueprint that Cameron's art direction team was able to rearrange the various objects inside the ship according to the originals. Before this, no movie had detailed props.

It has reached this point. It is precisely because of this meticulousness that the audience really believes that the Titanic really looked like this. Of course, it is precisely because of this meticulousness that the total budget of the movie was

So high.

Fang Mingyuan could see that Cameron was really tempted.

After seeing off Gore and Cameron, Fang Mingyuan headed north. Entrusted by Qiuxia, he stopped by Weijiang to take a look at the construction of the wharf belonging to Guo's Shipping Group Company that had just begun.

The capital of Eastern Province arrived at Fang Mingyuan in Weijiang. Since it was getting late, he did not go to the dock construction site. Instead, he planned to visit the cityscape of Weijiang first and have something to eat on the way.

Weijiang is only a hundred nautical miles away from the mainland of South Korea, and is also very close to the mainland of Japan and the Beijing-Tianjin region of China. Controlling a port here can affect several surrounding countries, including China's import and export trade countries in the future.

The annual transportation volume of Korea and Japan, which are at the forefront, must be extremely considerable. Moreover, there have been frequent maritime exchanges between Weijiang and Korea since a long time ago. In 1990, Weijiang opened the first China-Korea route.

Although the shipping capacity of a sea route is still very small, it marks that the private trade between China and South Korea has ended the long-term situation of re-export by a third party. Fang Mingyuan knows that with the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in the future,

It will also become a bridgehead for economic and trade exchanges between South Korea and China.

Here in Weijiang, many stores selling Korean products have appeared, and Koreans can sometimes be seen shopping and playing on the streets. Although the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries has not yet been reached, people-to-people exchanges have gradually grown in scale.

"Mingyuan, you said that the Japanese established diplomatic relations with us in the 1970s. Why have the Koreans delayed it until now and still haven't established diplomatic relations with our country?" Lin Lian asked in surprise. Since South Korea and China are so close to each other,

, China's reform and opening up has been implemented for many years, and Americans have already established diplomatic relations with China. It should be said that there should be no obstacles for Koreans to establish diplomatic relations with China. Why has it been delayed until now?

"The reasons for this are complicated." Fang Mingyuan thought for a while and said, "The main reason is that when our country resisted U.S. aggression and aided Korea, the South Korean army was relatively weak among the U.S. coalition forces. Of course, everyone picked the weak ones first, so

The South Korean army was beaten very hard. Moreover, because of our country’s dispatch of troops, South Korea’s dream of unifying the Korean peninsula came to nothing, so it naturally had no good impressions of us. At that time, the United Nations believed that our volunteer troops entering North Korea were invading South Korea and interfering.

South Korea's internal affairs! Moreover, South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and we have established diplomatic relations with North Korea. In this case, if South Korea wants to establish diplomatic relations with us, it must break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan. And if we want to establish diplomatic relations with South Korea, we cannot go around North Korea. So.

This matter has been dragged out like this.”

In fact, later generations analyzed why the Koreans delayed establishing diplomatic relations with China until the 1990s. In fact, this was related to the international situation.

The reason why the Koreans established diplomatic relations with China so late was because of course they resisted U.S. aggression and aided Korea. The enmity between the two countries was also because before the 1990s, South Korea, one of the four Asian tigers, had a rapid economic development and could not even look down on the country.

China has not yet reformed and opened up. Otherwise, if South Korea has already established diplomatic relations with the Japanese country that once brutally colonized North Korea for decades, what is the war between China and South Korea?

In the 1990s, with the further opening up of China's market, China's economy began to take off, but the economies of the four Asian tigers began to face bottlenecks - because the domestic market was small and the population was limited, the development of the four tigers could basically be called

It is an export-oriented economy, and the goods produced are supplied to the international market in large quantities. The result of this development model is that there is insufficient follow-up power for economic development. Once the international market undergoes major fluctuations, trade protectionism in various countries begins to rise, and the economy begins to sink.

stagnation.

However, Hong Kong, one of the Four Little Dragons, has a smaller territory than South Korea and a narrower market. However, it has not yet returned to China. It has received support from the Chinese government in many aspects. It is backed by a city of 9.6 million square kilometers and a population of one billion.

A large market can provide it with ample room for development; on the one hand, Taiwan is a key support target of the United States; on the other hand, it can also benefit from China's economic development; as for Singapore, due to its geographical advantages, it can further develop

.Only South Korea cannot rely on the benefits of China's economic development, nor does it have geographical advantages. There is also a Japanese country nearby. It wants to rely on the United States, but the United States' attention has been attracted to the Middle East at this time, and it is temporarily unable to take care of East Asia.

Therefore, South Korea's economy has stagnated and even has a downward trend.

Under such circumstances, in order to prevent South Korea's economic decline and to benefit from China's economic development, South Korea had to give up its original position and move closer to China. To put it bluntly, it was to protect itself!

On the side of the Chinese government, due to the obvious decline of the Soviet Union, the military threat to China has been greatly reduced, and even no longer poses a threat in a short period of time. At the same time, the Soviet Union's support for North Korea has also been greatly weakened, and North Korea's economy

Being in trouble, this backbone naturally became less strong. And by 1992, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it was already too busy to take care of itself, let alone North Korea. At this time, the Chinese government established diplomatic relations with South Korea and was no longer afraid of North Korea's threat to sever diplomatic relations.

The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea was a matter of course.

Of course, although Dongfang Mingyuan knew this in his heart, he could not tell Lin Lian and the others, so he could only explain it vaguely.

However, this explanation is enough for Lin Lian, who does not care much about political relations between countries.

A few people turned around a street corner and suddenly saw a clutter of people on the street in front of them, and then a large number of vendors pushing carts or tricycles, running towards them like frightened birds and beasts...

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