In a large restaurant near the Chedun Film and Television Base.

"It's our first meeting. I'd like to offer a toast to you all." Zhang Yuan and Cheng Hao were sitting at the main seats. He stood up, holding a glass with some light yellow tea in it.

"I'm sorry, I have to work in the afternoon and can't drink alcohol. I can only drink tea instead." He apologized.

"Hey, it's okay."

"It's enough if the meaning is conveyed."

"We are all friends."

Soon, the strangers at the table became friends.

Chen Wei and Yao Yang were returning to Shanghai for the first time, while Sun Xing had come to the mainland to develop his career a long time ago and had traveled all over the country.

This time, I was able to bring this group of friends from the crew out to play, and they provided food and accommodation, mainly because I had seen what Zhang Yuan did in the crew on a daily basis.

The reason why he can get so many roles is because he has so many friends, and he can make a lot of good friends in almost every crew.

Cheng Hao's original personality was relatively traditional and academic, and he was the kind of good student who paid more attention to his own performance.

But now she also wants to make more connections, especially since Zhang Yuan told her that the film, television and entertainment related industries will also be a blue ocean in the future, and if she wants to become her own boss, connections are essential.

Zhang Yuan understood her thoughts, and that connections do need to be accumulated from small beginnings.

After all, not everyone is like Liu Xixi, who has a godfather outside and a mother inside, and has top-notch resources as soon as she debuts.

In other words, in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, until the past twenty years, there has never been another person with the resources and support like Liu Qianqian.

Many people believe that the boss behind Jingdian is also very powerful and has abundant resources.

But the resources of the person behind Jing Dian are mainly in China, and Boss Chen behind Xixi cannot compare with the person behind Miss Jing in terms of domestic resources, but he is far stronger than the other one in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas.

There are also many rumors that after Liu Xixi and Hua Yi broke up, she was forced to go to the Hong Kong circle to serve the big guys.

The origin of these rumors should be that she attended the event with Yang Shoucheng, Jackie Chan and others. After all, the reputation of these two people in dealing with women is obvious to all.

But in fact, Boss Chen’s resource in Hong Kong is not Yang Shoucheng, but another “Cheng”, that is, Hong Kong Lao Li.

In the late 90s, the country launched the reform of state-owned enterprises, but where does the reform require money?
Where does the money come from?
Go overseas for listing and financing!

In 00, the first local state-owned enterprise in the capital went to the Hong Kong stock market for financing and listing. The company was called Tong Ren Tang.

After listing, Hutchison Whampoa became the second largest shareholder of Tong Ren Tang.

The man behind the scenes was Boss Chen's Jingtai Securities.

With the relationship with Hutchison Whampoa, Yang Shoucheng is nothing compared to Lao Li.

This is just once.

He is behind a large number of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises listed overseas.

Boss Chen was the big middleman of that era!
You can say he is a white glove, but he is much better than the white gloves of Zhao Yanzi's husband.

He can be said to be the white glove born out of the country's economic development.

In a sense, he is working for the country, otherwise how could he have been re-elected as a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party of China for two consecutive terms?

Therefore, after turning down Huayi, Boss Chen used his top overseas financial connections to find an agency for Liu Xixi called WMA William Morris.

This company is recognized as the world's number one brokerage company, no doubt about it!

Chaplin, Elvis, Monroe, Marlon Brando, Stallone, Michael Bay, Mel Gibson, even Jackie Chan and Zhang Ziyi were once members of this company.

Many domestic tabloids said that Liu Xixi later signed with a small foreign company... This is what your small company looks like.

Without the support of WMA, she would not have gotten the super project "Mulan".

WMA's only rival in the world is CAA, the second largest agency in the world.

It has Tom Cruise, Madonna, Justin Bieber, etc.

In China, stars who later signed contracts with or collaborated with CAA include Zhang Yimou, Feng Dao, Ang Lee, Zhao Yanzi, Zhu Bajie and his wife Xiao Longnu, etc.

This is one of the reasons why Liu Qianqian has never worked with the three major domestic directors. The agency behind her is her mortal enemy.

Every time Zhang Yuan thought of Xixi's resources, his eyes would turn red, and he would feel extremely envious even though he had a good relationship with her.

Not to mention her competitors.

Compared with before, Cheng Hao's interactions with these small Hong Kong and Taiwan stars are just to expand her network of contacts. After all, her main network of contacts is in the imperial capital circle.

However, seeing her constantly picking up food for herself and pinching her waist with her fingers while eating, I guess she was pretending to be bringing her friends to play, and her real purpose was to "play" with me.

This meal was a bit tiring.

He kept his hands on the table, holding on tightly.

why?
Zhang Yaoyang is sitting opposite me. What if Brother Crow flips the table?
After dinner, the three tactful people went their separate ways.

They also asked Zhang Yuan where the best nightclub in Shanghai was.

After showing them the way, the three of them set off happily.

"You seem to be very familiar with the nightclubs in Shanghai?" Cheng Hao smiled, his big almond-shaped eyes narrowed into slits with joy.

"Of course I am familiar with it." Zhang Yuan didn't care: "That was invested by my sister Fei."

"Sister Fei?"

"Wang Fei."

Lao Wang himself loves to drink, so he invested in many bars and nightclubs all over the country. Later, he and Li Yapeng opened a high-end nightclub called VIPROOM in Shanghai.

"Oh..." Cheng Hao nodded slightly. Zhang Yuan had mentioned the matter with Wang Fei to her before.

"By the way, sister, regarding those three friends you just brought, I advise you to be cautious in interacting with them." Zhang Yuan said seriously.

Cheng Hao rolled his eyes, then jumped in front of him, pointed at his chest with a sly smile and said, "Does it feel sore here?"

"Fortunately."

"Ok!"

"It's sour, sour, I'm very jealous..." Zhang Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead. Women's hearts are as unpredictable as the sea, and one careless move might lead to the loss of a good chicken.

"What I mean is," Zhang Yuan cleared his throat, "When you first came here, you saw me like this and thought I had taken some contraband, right?"

"Oh, I apologize. I wronged you, isn't that enough?" Cheng Hao shook his arm.

"I don't care about that. What's important is, guess why those two were so sure that I had never eaten it?"

"This..." Cheng Hao frowned and thought for a while, then widened his eyes.

"Yes, it's just as you think. Hong Kong and Taiwan are more chaotic than the mainland."

“Only those who have truly eaten can tell whether others have eaten it or not.”

“So, you can make friends with these people, but don’t get too close to them. Just maintain appropriate contact.”

"I understand." Cheng Hao looked at him with admiration: "You are really smart."

"I'll listen to you."

Then she hooked her arm around his and started walking.

Zhang Yuan led her to the door of a Chinese medicine shop.

"Brother, give me two pounds of wolfberries."

After paying the money, Zhang Yuan took a large bag of wolfberries and simply grabbed a handful and stuffed them into his mouth.

"How can you eat it like this?" Cheng Hao asked puzzledly.

"I've been filming recently and I've been giving myself too much plastic surgery to get used to the role. I have to prepare intensively."

Cheng Hao thought about it, then her cheeks turned red and she gave him a charming look.

Late night, hotel.

"You are a liar!" Cheng Hao shouted weakly.

"Where are you weak?"

She was so angry that she stood up and threw the wolfberries that Zhang Yuan bought at noon into the trash can.

Make up again?

Then she must die in the Magic City!
"Okay, after the rest, it's time to talk about business." Zhang Yuan patted her long white legs.

"You call this a rest?" Cheng Hao pointed at the mess on the ground.

"After a while, I plan to open a brokerage company and let you hold part of the shares." Zhang Yuan said to himself.

"Why do you suddenly want to open an agency? Aren't you too unconventional?" Cheng Hao asked puzzledly.

"Do you believe me?"

"Believe."

"That's it." Zhang Yuan said slowly: "In the beginning, the company will only have one artist. You can practice first and give it a try."

"Of course, I will take care of it, and you will mainly be responsible for business and management matters."

"Just one person, and he still needs business and management?" Cheng Hao became more and more confused.

"Who is this person?" "Did you watch the Golden Horse Awards a while ago?" Zhang Yuan smiled and replied, "The one who won the Best Newcomer Award."

"My name is Wang..."

"Wang Baoqiang." Zhang Yuan reminded Cheng Hao when he saw that he couldn't remember.

"It was just him at first, to get you used to the job."

"And I told you that Sister Hua's contract with Huayi is about to expire, and their conflict will erupt sooner or later."

"When the time comes, Chengtian, where you work, will definitely become Wang Jinghua's partner, because besides Huayi, Chengtian has the most abundant funds."

"When the time comes, there will definitely be unrest within Orange Sky because of the arrival of this big fish."

"Then you can take the opportunity to recruit new people and expand your company's team."

Cheng Hao was stunned after hearing this!

Zhang Yuan's plans are all about his own agency and the largest agency in China.

"A great star was born between heaven and earth, how can he live under others for so long?"

"Let's rebel against him and do it on our own!"

"Will this work? Aren't you afraid of being surrounded by several companies?" Cheng Hao was worried that he was taking too big a step and might end up in trouble.

"Don't worry, these things are indeed complicated, but I will get it done."

Cheng Hao is a generous and bright type, and she has high intelligence and emotional quotient. Even though she has no experience in managing people, she should be able to do well after learning.

Besides, as long as I can hold on, there won’t be any big trouble.

As for Wang Baoqiang...now is the time when goods are of good quality and low price, so it is just right to choose him as your first artist.

In the film and television industry, it is generally composed of these parts.

Agency companies, film and television production companies, distribution and cinema companies.

The status and upper limit of the three are from low to high.

Even in later generations, the upper limit of domestic pure brokerage companies is generally difficult to exceed 50 billion market value.

Film and television production companies can easily break 10 billion, but it is difficult to reach 100 billion.

The strongest are the distribution and cinema companies, the most typical of which is Wanda Pictures. Because it holds a large number of physical assets such as cinemas, its market value easily exceeded 100 billion yuan at its peak.

These three things form a complete industrial chain.

If you want to become a dominant force in the entertainment industry, these three things are indispensable, otherwise you will be constrained everywhere.

He knew that if he relied solely on acting, he would never be able to gain the favor of a company of WMA's level like Liu Qianqian.

And those guys who cooperate with CAA are all backed by capital, or are themselves part of the capital.

If you want to trade with the giant PY, you need capital!

Zhang Yuan is now growing wildly like a reed in the entertainment industry, but without a strong background to support him, he can only start slowly from the lowest end of the industrial chain.

Wang Baoqiang is just the first step, but the structure of the agency is complete, and he wants to sign all the actors of Deyuanshe and Huanle Mahua to the agency!

Doing so will not only allow the brokerage company's valuation to skyrocket instantly, but it can also restrain the flow of personnel in other companies in which it has a stake through the brokerage contract, killing two birds with one stone.

He told Cheng Hao everything.

After Cheng Hao was surprised, his mouth opened wide, and he almost had some bold ideas.

"Have you already figured it out?"

"almost."

"So." Zhang Yuan patted her shoulder and said, "Boss Cheng, you will have a lot of tasks in the future."

Looking at the two lumps on my chest that were shaking left and right after he patted my shoulders.

Well, it is very heavy.

I have spent so much energy on Cheng Hao, so of course I want to develop her body... no, her abilities, to the extreme.

Moreover, this company holds the basic lifeline of his life, so he can only hand it over to someone like her whom he fully trusts.

Besides, they have been working for me day and night, so I have to give them something in return.

"I'm still a little confused." Cheng Hao wondered why Zhang Yuan suddenly arranged everything for him so clearly?
And he even calculated the strength, only assigning one person to himself in the early stage.

"It's so nice to follow you. I don't have to worry about anything." After thinking for a long time, the other person lay in his arms.

"I will try my best."

"Ah."

After they whispered to each other for a while, they chatted for a while.

"By the way, you said you were going to discuss a new drama in Shanghai this time. What is it?"

"It's called 'Fireworks in March'. It's adapted from a novel. They say it's going to start filming at the end of the year." Cheng Hao became serious when he mentioned his work.

"I will meet with the director and screenwriter tomorrow night to discuss the script. We will have to wait and see what happens next."

"Oh..." Zhang Yuan frowned.

"Fireworks in March"?
This movie title sounds so familiar.

"I don't have a night show tomorrow night, how about I go with you?"

"Really!" Cheng Hao responded happily.

Not to mention the daytime work, like other actors, she was "tortured" by Stephen Chow and was in agony.

He is still one of the actors with the least NGs and retakes, but he also feels uncomfortable.

During the filming, Cheng Hao had nothing better to do and was watching from near the crew.

No one knew when, but she and Huang Shengyi fell in love with each other, with bad intentions.

"There's something wrong with the way she looks at Zhang Yuan!"

"There's something wrong with the way she looks at Zhang Yuan!"

They both said the same thing in their hearts.

Zhang Yuan felt a chill down his spine and when he turned around, he was met with two piercing gazes.

"Who the hell did I offend?"

In the evening, I accompanied Cheng Hao to a teahouse.

He found a table for himself, ordered scented tea and snacks, and waited quietly.

Let Cheng Hao go to the private room alone to keep the appointment.

This is her job and career. There is no need for me to interfere. Instead, it is best for me to just quietly accompany her.

He sat in a corner on the first floor of the teahouse.

Recently, thanks to the broadcast of several TV series, he has become a familiar face among the audience.

Like Liu Xixi and others, when she goes out to eat, fans will come up to her and ask for her autograph.

Fortunately, he learned a lot of calligraphy points, so his handwriting is not bad.

But today, I don’t know if it’s because I’m not popular enough or if I lost too much weight in order to fit the role, but no one recognized me anyway.

As a professional actor, Cheng Hao arrived early.

After all, the actors are the second party in front of the crew, so attitude is very important.

Not long after, two people walked in to the teahouse.

Zhang Yuan took a quick look and was then stunned.

One of them is middle-aged and the other is young.

Because he had been in the crew for a long time, Zhang Yuan was able to recognize at a glance that the two people's dress and temperament should be people from the film and television industry.

But none of that matters.

"No wonder it sounds familiar."

"I forgot about that!"

"Fireworks in March", this movie is not very famous.

But the screenwriter of the film is very famous.

Zhang Yuan stared at the younger of the two and observed him carefully.

Of medium build, neither fat nor thin.

A pair of cunning eyes, flashing with cleverness under the background of gold-rimmed glasses.

The face seemed to be smiling but not quite smiling, and it was not very attractive, but it was easy to remember.

This person is the author and screenwriter of the novel "Fireworks in March" and also a notorious celebrity in the entertainment industry in later generations.

Yu Zheng! (End of this chapter)