In later generations, under the background of the whole people's condemnation of Xiao Xianrou, a hit drama with all old drama bones was born - "In the Name of the People". But among the many old drama bones, only one of the fire is Secretary Dakang.

Although Secretary Dakang has beautiful hands, thin waist, long legs, and European-style double eyelids, coupled with the superb acting skills of Mr. Wu Gang, at the same time, because of the truth of this character, he was able to stand out from many old actors.

And the truth of Secretary Dakang lies in the responsibility of the person in the play, when all the staff are fighting corruption and corruption, they still don't listen to things outside the window, and they are only for the chicken!

Chicken farts should be said to be the highest goal pursued by cadres in an era.

The TV series "Qiao's Courtyard" should be said to be a product born in this background.

Qiaojia Courtyard is located in Qi County, Shanxi, is a national key cultural relics protection unit, it was by relying on the national teacher's movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High", it became popular all of a sudden, and once became a business card of Qi County and even Shanxi.

However, after entering the new century, this business card has been declining year after year due to its income, and if it does not help, it is very likely to close its doors. The local leaders were very anxious and thought of a lot of ways, such as increasing advertising efforts, sponsoring celebrity concerts, and naming various activities, etc., but the results were small and dying.

At the beginning of the year, a young county magistrate came to Qi County to take office, and the first goal proposed by the county magistrate after taking office was to revitalize the Qiao family compound.

And the young county magistrate obviously came prepared, and pointed out sharply that the Qiao family compound became popular by relying on the national teacher's movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High", and to save the Qiao family compound, you have to play the cultural card and take the road of film and television, otherwise there is only a dead end.

Why did the local government fully support the filming of "Wuji" and "Seven Swords" in various places. There is only one purpose, which is to improve the local popularity with the help of film and television works, so as to vigorously develop the tourism industry, so as to improve the chicken fart.

Only when people can come in, things can be sold, investment can be attracted, chickens can be increased, people's lives can be improved, and national rejuvenation can be realized.

According to the ideas put forward by the young county magistrate, the local government quickly reached a consensus and determined the plan to invest in the filming of TV on "Qiao's Compound".

At the same time, the five-one standard was proposed: formulate first-class copywriting, invite first-class directors, shoot a first-class TV series, and go to CCTV to form a first-class cultural tourism brand.

First-class copywriter invited Zhu Xiuhai, a famous writer and screenwriter who had created works such as "Through Death", "Black and Red Snow", "Rough Waves", and "Loud Military Song", to write the script.

The first-class director must be Hu Mei, the famous CCTV TV drama female director who has directed the hit drama "Yongzheng Dynasty" and this year's TV drama ratings champion "The Emperor of Han Wu".

With these two first-class, there can be a first-class TV series, a set of CCTV, and create a first-class cultural tourism brand.

This plan of the young county magistrate was echoed by another young businessman at the same time. This gentleman, the second generation of coal, young and golden, studied abroad, and has just entered the investment bank. may be due to the fact that the ancestor once served as the Baotou shopkeeper of the Jin Shang Da Shengkui, and has the inheritance of this cultural gene, when all the coal bosses squandered everywhere, but they couldn't understand the gold mine of the cultural industry, this gentleman resolutely took out 30 million to invest in this Jin Shang TV series.

The script was completed, the director was in place, and the crew was prepared, but when it came to choosing the leading actor, there were disagreements. The reason is that the male protagonist of this drama is the soul of the whole drama. Although the name of this drama is "Qiao's Courtyard", it actually tells the life of Qiao Zhiyong, the most representative character of Qiao's ancestors.

The role requires the actor to act from the age of nineteen to eighty-nine, the acting requirements are particularly high, and the actor's age cannot be too big. For example, Chen Baoguo in "Mansion Gate", when he played Bai Jingqi, he acted from the age of eighteen to the age of 100, but Chen Baoguo was already in his forties when he filmed this TV series, and when he played Bai Jingqi at the age of eighteen or nineteen and twenty, there were obvious traces of pretending to be tender, which made people play.

Therefore, when director Hu Mei was filming "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty", in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, he used the childhood Liu Che, the young Liu Che and the young Liu Che as a foreshadowing, instead of jumping from the childhood Bai Jingqi to Chen Baoguo's version of Bai Jingqi, who is full of pleats and pretending to be tender, as in "Mansion Gate".

Of course, Chen Baoguo is nearly fifty years old at this time, and it is obviously not suitable to play Qiao Zhiyong, who is from nineteen to eighty-nine. So director Hu Mei thought of another actor with outstanding acting skills in her eyes, the Mandarin actor Chen Pancake, who had just won the Feitian Award and the Golden Eagle Award for "Ten Years of Marriage".

And the screenwriter of this drama recommended another actor who had worked with him, the actor of "Military Song Loud and Bright", known as "Little Jiang Wen", also from Mandarin actor Sun Honglei.

Compared with Uncle Pancake who is a double emperor, Sun Honglei, who once won the highest award for Chinese drama - the Plum Blossom Award, and won the Best Actor Award at the 10th Beijing University Student Film Festival with the movie "Zhou Yu's Train" starring Gong Li, is obviously a little worse in terms of popularity.

But the name "Xiao Jiang Wen" is not called in vain, there is absolutely no problem with acting skills, and the two are of the same age, both are thirty-four or five, which is the most golden age for an actor, and Director Hu Mei is difficult to choose for a while.

At this time, producer Meng Fanyao also introduced an actor, and Director Hu Mei was obviously taken aback when he heard the actor's name, because this actor is the double actor of the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Rooster Award, because he has starred in "Wuji" and "Seven Swords", two big-budget movies by big directors, his name has frequently appeared in the newspapers in the past year.

In a word, red is purple.

Although as a double actor, and director Hu Mei has also watched some of the films He Xin has acted in, it should be said that there is no need to worry about acting skills. And He Xin is very popular, if Uncle Pancake and King Yan can only be regarded as the second and third lines in the circle, then the current He Xin has already entered the ranks of the first line.

Generally speaking, when the director selects actors, whether they are popular or not is a very important consideration, because this directly determines the ratings.

It's just that He Xin is a little younger in age than the previous two, only twenty-four years old, ten years younger than Uncle Pancake, and eleven years younger than King Yan. It is definitely no problem to play Qiao Zhiyong when he is young, but when he is middle-aged and old, he is still a little unreliable.

But more importantly, director Hu Mei does not have a good impression of the double actor. The reason is that when CCTV filmed "Proof of Memory", Yang Yang, the director who was also in the CCTV TV drama production center, first fell in love with He Xin, who was just beginning to emerge at that time.

At that time, Director Yang Yang may have said so, after all, it is a CCTV drama, if you don't shoot it, there will be a lot of people waiting in the back. may mean that the speaker has no intention of listening to the heart, and since then, the name He Xin has left an unruly impression in Director Hu Mei's heart.

As a child of a compound and a female director who graduated from Nortel's 78-level director class, Director Hu Mei has always been known for being vigorous and tough, otherwise it would be difficult for a female director to gain a foothold in the circle.

It is because of this character, coupled with ability, that she has directed many films independently since 84. Of course, although her achievements are not as good as her classmates such as Zhuang Zhuang, Kai Ge, He Ping, Ziniu and others, she may not be as good as her female classmate Li Shaohong and Peng Xiaolian, who just won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director.

But since entering CCTV in the mid-90s and moving to the small screen, he has successively directed TV series such as "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Loyalty", "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty", "Camphor Tree", etc., all of which have achieved a bumper harvest of awards and ratings.

In a word, Director Hu also has a temper.

Therefore, Director Hu Mei was a little uninterested in the double actor recommended by the producer from the beginning. But the producer represents the will of the investor, and the producer of this drama, Meng Fanyao, is also a veteran in the field of TV dramas.

He has served as the producer of a big production such as the 95 version of "Water Margin", and at the same time, as a planner and producer, he has produced word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "The Years of Burning Passion", "Tsing Yi" and "Migrant Workers", and has been rated as "Top Ten Producers in the Country" many times.

As a representative of the investor, Meng Fanyao naturally wants to push He Xin. The reason is very simple, of course, there is a perennial red face, but the most important thing is red. Red represents ratings and returns on investment.

And as the planner and chief producer of "Qiao's Courtyard", Meng Fanyao also has a great say in casting.

In desperation, director Hu Mei had to agree to meet the double actor first.