"How is Zhang Jingying?"

Zhang Yuan asked with a smile.

"This..." Li Tao, the director of Shanghai TV Station, looked embarrassed.

The rest of the people present also lowered their heads.

These three words were like a huge stone, weighing heavily on the shoulders of several people.

"It's not impossible, but can she come?"

The reason why Director Li was so hesitant and the others looked so embarrassed was because Zhang Jingying, the new female singer who just won the third place in "Super Girl 2005", actually has a close relationship with Shanghai TV.

Because before participating in "Super Girl", Zhang Jingying was eliminated from "My Style My Show 2005" on Shanghai TV...

Shanghai TV has been doing this for a long time. Zhang Jie also failed to become popular after winning the Shanghai talent show, but he became popular after going to Mango TV.

The show was eliminated early on our channel, but became very popular on Mango TV, which made people in Shanghai very unhappy.

The key point is that "My Style My Show" is completely inferior to "Super Girl". Doesn't this prove that the people in our Shanghai TV station are incompetent?
"If there is anything that cannot be brought, I can find it if you are willing."

The reason why Zhang Yuan is so confident is that Zhang Jingying has just signed a contract with Huayi and Hurray Century and became Huayi's contracted singer.

The reason why Huayou Century exists is that Huayi Music sold 51% of its shares to Huayou in the early days.

Later, Huayou almost merged with Light Media because Light Media wanted to go public at that time.

This incident scared the Wang brothers. After Huayi went public, they quickly bought back all the shares held by Huayou.

Because of this, there is some conflict between Guangguang and Huayi.

This is one of the reasons why Liu Qianqian was able to get support from Guangguang when she was being completely suppressed by Huayi.

Of course, the main reason is still the relationship with Boss Chen.

Boss Chen made great efforts to finally enable Guangxian to go public.

Later, Stephen Chow switched from Huayi to Guangguang, and the two companies are old rivals.

Given the relationship between Zhang Yuan and Hua Yi, he said that if he could help his fellow student Zhang Jingying find a show to appear on, both Wang and Wang would be very happy.

The people from Shanghai TV thought about it again and again, and finally gritted their teeth and did it!
There’s nothing we can do, Jane Zhang is famous.

And Zhang Yuan knows that this person will become even more popular next year.

Because the two Wang brothers regarded her as the signature of Huayi Music, all the theme songs of Huayi's movies and the theme songs of the TV series from Big Beard's side would be sung by her.

Zhang Yuan also likes her very much, but this girl, who is also considered to be one of the top love-brains in the Chinese entertainment industry, met the wrong person. Not only did she get stood up on the bed and kicked out by a scumbag for more than ten years, but he also cheated her of all her money.

And judging from Miss Zhang's later behavior, she was basically brainwashed and trained, with IUDs inserted wherever she needed them, and nails inserted wherever she needed them.

"Okay, then I'll help contact these star mentors." Seeing that they agreed, Zhang Yuan decided on a general plan.

“Also, like ordinary singing shows, there has to be a jury system.”

“It would be best if these judges could have some third-rate artists who could be permanent residents of the show.”

“The emphasis needs to be on the emotional connection between these judges and some of the contestants.”

"Using this as a starting point, we created some dramatic conflicts."

"What do you mean?" the director asked puzzledly.

The old veteran Cao Kefan standing by pursed his lips and said nothing.

But he saw everything and clearly realized that Zhang Yuan, who was originally hired as a consultant, had already taken control of the overall situation.

"That is, each judge needs to set preferences, and when the preferred contestant is eliminated, it will naturally cause conflicts with other judges or contestants."

"This can become the highlight of the show."

"Just like how Ke Yimin, as a judge in Super Girl, repeatedly caused controversy, even though she was criticized, the audience still loved watching it."

"Many people even come here to watch Ke Yimin compete with other contestants."

"Of course, this person must have problems with his brain and personality, but we can intervene manually by designing the script and arranging a fixed plot for the judges."

“Don’t wait for the breaking point to appear, but trigger it artificially through design!”

clap clap clap...

"Okay, well said."

Coincidentally, the door of the conference room opened at this moment, and SMG President Li Ruigang appeared outside the door.

He walked in with a smile on his face, and while shaking hands with Zhang Yuan, he glanced at everyone present.

"It seems that there is no place for me to use my skills..."

"Haha, that's fine, this is better."

Mr. Li was in a meeting just now. He is very busy and the people he meets are either city leaders or senior executives of overseas companies.

After finally finishing my work, I rushed here immediately.

He attached great importance to this new talent show. After all, he had to give an explanation to the station and also prove the ability of the newly established SMG.

The reason why he asked Zhang Yuan to be a consultant was to break the old trend in the station.

Among the four major TV stations in later generations, Shanghai's Tomato TV was the one with the most serious internal friction. The internal fighting was to the extent that the hosts from Shanghai disappeared from the station.

Later, there was even an incident where a group of famous and senior hosts on the station were "wiped out" and had their positions collectively revoked for attending a birthday party for a tainted businessman.

In that incident, the "Large Intestine Immortal" Cao Kefan, who was originally sitting in the conference room, also went there, but received the news at the last minute and returned temporarily.

But there is a problem. Who told him not to go?

Who was it that posted the photos and videos of the hosts and businessmen at the banquet online afterwards?

And why didn't he notify or stop other colleagues who were about to attend the banquet?

These are all bloody struggles.

This shows how deep and complicated the thoughts of these people in Shanghai are.

Li Ruigang hurried here because he was worried that young man Zhang Yuan would not be able to get a word in in front of these old guys.

But when I got there, I saw that it was not the case at all.

He thought to himself, people with ability can succeed anywhere.

After Li Ruigang smiled and nodded to everyone, Director Li, who was originally sitting in the main seat, gave his seat to him. Only then did he straighten his suit and sit down steadily.

Zhang Yuan glanced at this person and thought that the Demon City was different. The style of these leaders was completely different from that of the Imperial Capital. Perhaps this was what the people of the Demon City called "accent".

"The reason why I invited Zhang Yuan here is to provide some new ideas for our programs."

"This is the sentence that impressed me the most when he talked to me before."

"That's right, the most important thing about reality shows is not the real people, but the show."

"We must firmly grasp this key point and make the program outstanding."

"Um... where were you talking about?"

The director went over everything from the beginning, especially the star mentor project proposed by Zhang Yuan and the candidates who had been roughly decided on as mentors.

"Liu Dehua..." Even Li Ruigang was startled by the name.

After hearing the condition of using the program to promote the movie, Mr. Li not only had no objection, but became more optimistic about Zhang Yuan.

OK!

Mutual benefit is the long-term solution.

Everyone benefits and makes money, so he feels more reassured about Zhang Yuan's motives in helping Modu TV.

I can’t say anything else, but the way people in Shanghai make money together is indeed bigger than in other places.

Take the fact that Tesla was allocated valuable land in Shanghai at a very low price to build a factory. At that time, many people criticized it and even labeled it as worshipping foreigners and selling out the country.

But later everyone knew that this was a strategic-level investment attraction, which not only revitalized the domestic upstream and downstream electric vehicle markets, but also firmly bound the Beacon Country to the track of research and development of electric vehicles.

Since then, domestic electric vehicle companies have not been squeezed out by Tesla, but have made great progress and even started to take the lead in global market share.

Compared to the situation in the capital where people are stronger than others, the situation in Shanghai is more rational. Whoever can make money is the boss.

"Sun Honglei, Wu Jing, Meng Guangmei, Zhang Liangying, and Liu Dehua..." Li Ruigang stroked his chin and pondered for a while.

No matter how he thought about it, he felt that with these stars alone, the program would become popular even before it was aired once the advertisements were released!

"Can you really find all these people?"

"I have contacted a few people just now, and there should be no problem." Zhang Yuan replied confidently.

"If someone can't come temporarily, I can also help find someone of the same level to replace him," he added.

"Okay." Mr. Li was very satisfied: "Then let's do it."

"We need to be quick. This is our Magic City TV station's turnaround battle. We must win it."

"We can't let Mango TV dominate the talent show field!"

"By the way, has the name of this program been decided?" Li Ruigang turned to look at the director.

"There are several alternatives."

"A man should strengthen himself."

"Miracle boy."

"The ultimate showdown between stylish men."

“Stop, stop, stop…” Li Ruigang waved his hand: “Even I can tell that it’s either an imitation of Mango TV or it’s too tacky.”

"You might as well just call it 'Super Boy'."

"This name has been registered by Mango TV..." the director replied dimly.

Zhang Yuan covered his face and said, "So you really thought about using this name... Can we still have some shame?"

"The name must be loud and clear so that people can remember it as soon as they hear it." Zhang Yuan said helplessly: "Why not call it "Come on! Good Man"?

"Okay, I think it's good, much better than those things of yours!" Li Ruigang slammed the table.

"It sounds like a slogan, yes..." The other people present also nodded in agreement. "That's it, everyone, hurry up and implement it, and then go away."

After that, everyone started to pack up their things and went about their own business.

Zhang Yuan came to Cao Kefan and several female hosts around him, chatted for a few words, and exchanged phone numbers with each other.

If you come to Shanghai to do a show or promotion in the future, you will probably run into each other again, so it is better to establish a good relationship in advance and get to know each other better.

The three female hosts even took a photo with him.

"Zhang Yuan, come here for a moment. I have something to say to you." Li Ruigang had been waiting for him. Seeing that he had almost finished his work, he called out to him.

"Okay, I just happen to have something to talk to you about." Zhang Yuan followed him to the office.

"From a close distance, he looks better than the average male celebrity." After he left, several female hosts commented.

"Not only his image, but also his attitude is good. Many popular artists have extremely bad attitudes, but he doesn't. He is very friendly."

"He was very gentle when we talked in private, but he was quite domineering when he proposed the proposal just now."

"Yes, and I didn't expect that he is so young, but has such a wide network of contacts in the entertainment industry and knows so many famous artists..."

"You know so many famous artists?" At the same time, in the office, Mr. Li, who was sitting opposite Zhang Yuan, asked the same question.

"They are all people I knew at work before." Zhang Yuan did not pretend to be profound, but spoke the truth.

Li Ruigang sat in the office chair, tapping the armrests with his fingers.

"In fact, we have another program in the planning stage, but the investment and guest recruitment situation is not going well."

"And guest recruitment will affect investment, investment will affect program production costs, which in turn will affect guest recruitment."

“Those two points are difficult to deal with.”

Zhang Yuan raised his eyebrows almost calmly. He probably guessed what the show was.

"Since you know a lot of celebrities, is it possible for you to help our station recruit some heavyweight guests to attract investment and other guests?"

Mr. Li thought of this when he saw the list of mentors that Zhang Yuan had chosen for the reality show.

"What show?"

"We want to organize a dance talent show." Li Ruigang said in an orderly manner.

As expected, my guess was correct... Zhang Yuan thought to himself.

"You want to imitate BBC's Dancing with the Stars," Zhang Yuan said bluntly.

“Hahahaha… You are really extraordinary. You can see through it at a glance.” Mr. Li laughed and said, “I like your straightforwardness.”

“Yeah, we were trying to imitate Dancing With the Stars.”

In fact, this is not uncommon.

"Super Girl" is imitating "American Idol".

And "Happy Dictionary" is imitating "How to Make a Millionaire".

Early domestic variety shows and reality shows were basically copies of European and American programs.

Li Ruigang did not shy away from this and was surprised that Zhang Yuan was so knowledgeable that he could see the essence of the problem at a glance.

The program that Shanghai TV wanted to produce was the future "Dancing with the Stars".

However, "Dancing with the Stars" had difficulty in attracting investment in the early stages, and despite SMG's promotion for a long time, few stars were willing to participate in the dance program.

After all, there are no successful cases of this type in China, and most actors and artists are not good at dancing and are afraid of making a fool of themselves.

After facing this situation, Li Ruigang even said some angry words.

"Well, if they don't come, we can do it ourselves."

"Our host is also a star in Shanghai!"

But that is to say, if we let the hosts from Shanghai TV perform, they will not be familiar to the audiences from other places and can only make a small splash locally, which is not very meaningful.

That's why he set his sights on Zhang Yuan.

"We can use those celebrity judges mentioned by 'Go! Good Man' a while ago, but Brother Hua is very busy and probably won't be able to come."

"As for the rest... I think it would be better to start with Hong Kong and Taiwan first, and then attract mainland stars to participate."

"Oh, this is an interesting idea." Li Ruigang nodded. This guy always comes up with new ideas for me.

"Since we are going to do it, we have to do it on a large scale." Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "Let me go to Hong Kong in a few days to discuss it with Emperor Entertainment Group."

"Emperor Entertainment?" Li Ruigang was stunned.

"Do you know anyone from the Emperor?"

"I can give it a try."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Mr. Li replied happily.

"By the way, what did you want to talk to me about?"

This guy was also very smart. He finished talking about his own problem first and then saw how Zhang Yuan would react.

After he said that he would help, he also offered to help Zhang Yuan.

It’s still the same principle, mutual benefit, Shanghai only cooperates with valuable people.

"This is what happened." Zhang Yuan took out a project plan and a hard drive from his backpack.

“I opened an animation company with a friend.”

"We are now producing an animation for children."

“That’s the first three episodes.”

"I want to ask Mr. Li if your Shanghai TV station is interested in cartoons."

"Animation?" Li Ruigang thought to himself that this kid really does everything.

As long as there is money to be made, he will do whatever he wants.

He smiled.

Young people like this are energetic.

"We have the budget and schedule for the animation."

"How about this, the first three episodes will be a free trial. If you are satisfied, we can discuss long-term cooperation."

Zhang Yuan had previously told Huang Weimin that he would help him find a market for his animations.

They have set their sights on the resources of Shanghai TV.

The coal boss is so rich, why can he only linger on the periphery of the entertainment industry?

Because although they have money, they don't have the resources to support actors.

If actors want to make a living, they have to rely on resources from advertisements, TV dramas, movies, variety shows, and reality shows.

A bitch is ruthless, an actor is ruthless.

People will only be willing to hang out with you if you can become famous, succeed, and make money.

Once you have the resources in your hands, recruiting soldiers is a natural and logical thing and it is very easy.

He dared to invest in the animation company because it was connected to the broadcasting resources of Shanghai TV.

"Okay, I'll let the people below arrange it."

Seeing that he had arranged it so well and even had a pilot episode, Li Ruigang had no reason to refuse.

And he didn't take the animation seriously.

After all, compared to variety shows and reality shows, animation has almost no ability to attract investment.

The most important thing for a TV station is advertising revenue.

Li Ruigang attaches so much importance to reality shows because they can bring in a large number of sponsors and brands.

What he thought was that even if the broadcast effect was average, he would ask the station to buy some animations to broadcast, as a reward for Zhang Yuan's help in planning the program for the station.

Anyway, the budget belongs to the station, but the favor is his, so it's a good deal no matter how you calculate it.

After chatting with Mr. Li for a while, he was pulled by Modu TV to have dinner together.

The dinner was held next to the Bund. As everyone was toasting each other, Li Ruigang patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder and pointed across the river outside the window.

"See those buildings there?"

"The new residential complex that opened last month is called Tangcheng Yipin."

Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up, what a great place!

“11 per square meter, the smallest unit is almost 450 square meters.”

Zhang Yuan: …

Damn, the housing prices in Shanghai are really expensive!

The smallest house costs more than 40 million, otherwise how can it be known as the most luxurious house in China.

This house is fully furnished, and the developer's decoration standard is more than RMB 10,000 per square meter.

Their decoration standards are higher than the unit prices of most contemporary properties.

The largest unit in this community is over 1200 square meters, with a higher unit price, and the total price reaches a staggering 1.5 million!
If you think of the 05 million in 1.5, you will understand what that means.

However, Zhang Yuan remembered that although this real estate project had a huge fanfare, after it was launched, because the unit price was too shocking, less than a handful of units were sold.

It was not until four years later that the developer could no longer hold on and slashed the price by half that all the units were sold out.

"One day I'll buy the biggest and most expensive house and invite Mr. Li to my house." Zhang Yuan smiled and clinked glasses with Li Ruigang.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to send the invitation."

Li Ruigang just thought it was a joke among young people.

But what he didn't know was that Zhang Yuan wasn't joking at all... (End of this chapter)