Chapter 754: A National Treasure
To have a real film and television media empire, film companies, invisible control of cinemas and TV networks are indispensable, once the three elements are combined, they will no longer be controlled by others!
Of course, it would have been nice if there had been another newspaper group, but the financial group has already made efforts to invest in the computer industry, and in a few years the Internet will be formed, and this newspaper group will be like that, and for the time being, there will be a television network that has the best film in the United States and enough influence.
But since there is no shortage of money, this media empire will simply give it all the money, and next year it will already put the acquisition of a newspaper group of reasonable size on the investment agenda, and it will be sold in seven or eight years.
Although the United Television Network, which has been bought by the five major television networks in the United States, can only rank fourth or fifth in terms of scale and influence, as long as there is sufficient financial support, it is only a matter of time before the ranking moves forward and the market share increases.
For the development of television networks, news is one, plus what variety shows, TV dramas, movie replays, special features, and documentaries......
All of them are indispensable.
The specific operation was handed over to professionals, and Zhang Nan made a few suggestions, recommending several TV series ideas that hit the ratings in the 90s, such as "Friends", "Seinfeld", "Everyone Loves Raymond", "The X-Files Series", "Sex and the City", ......
It doesn't matter if you can't remember the plot, just come up with a few plots to dictate to a group of professional screenwriters, and then it's a matter for professionals.
Like "Friends", there are hundreds of levels, season after season for more than ten years, with ideas, if those screenwriters can't make up a reason, then they should really be pulled out and buried!
As for documentaries, variety shows, etc., engage in some wild survival, Jedi treasure hunting, warehouse Taobao......
Lao Mei loves adventure, and there will be a hunting psychology similar to Huaxia's "Treasure Hunt", if this can't be popular, then it's called unreasonable!
To be honest, Zhang Nan had some ideas at the beginning to make his bodyguard Paul a superstar in shows like "Survival in the Wilderness".
Who made this guy of the right age, his appearance and figure worthy of the audience, and he is still an all-round player on land, sea and air, and his background resume is even more popular with the American people.
But Paul didn't want to shoot TV, and he wanted to be a bodyguard.
No way.
Then find someone, it's simple to praise people, and people with similar conditions are exaggerating to grab a lot of them within the "joint forces", and it's no problem to find three or five.
Let the professionals choose, and find a guy named Bell as the protagonist, which will probably be pretending to be trying to survive in the Nevada desert.
Bel?
It's not that "Bei Ye", the British Bei Ye will only be 15 years old, and he will almost have nothing to do in the future.
Let's do some series of documentaries such as "Fishing Life and Death", "Alaska Fishing War", and "Far North Wasteland", which are 108,000 miles away from ordinary people's lives. Coupled with the creativity of current affairs commentary talk shows, let the TV network play freely, if the advertising expenses and ratings of the United TV Network can't skyrocket, then it's a hell of a life!
In the eyes of the people of the TV network, the new general boss is definitely a genius among geniuses!
Although it is just a few first-class ideas, I feel that the big boss is not a TV producer, which is a big loss for the TV industry!
The loss is good, if it weren't for the boss, it would be a job grab!
I was really heartbroken for my casual media empire, and I talked for more than ten hours a whole day, my mouth was dry, and I had to answer a bunch of questions from more than a dozen editors and producers.
If it weren't for the hoarseness of his throat, he would have planned to throw "Prison Break" out, anyway, that film doesn't need any computer special effects, and it can be filmed in this era.
It's enough to think about this bunch of ideas, and professionals think about it with divergent thinking, which is enough to use for more than ten years.
As for the future......
I don't have so much effort to fiddle with the TV, and tens of thousands of employees are not good mallets!
The script and creativity are immediately filed in the professional association, plus patents or something, and the other four major TV networks have a headache: even if they are unlucky, they will meet a guy like Zhang Nan, if they don't open their brains again in the next ten years, the United TV Network will be able to rank up the boss if they are not careful.
As for this, Zhang Nan's attention is not on any TV network, all because the big plate in front of him is attractive enough.
Chariz Theron didn't have a class today, but he also saw the big copper plate, and the first thing he said was: "Brother Allen, this thing is bigger than the small animal plate you bought in Xiangjiang!"
As soon as he heard this, Henry's mind was relieved: it seems that it was really right, and the boss definitely likes this old thing.
Guan Xingquan and Xiang Weirong also came to see the strangeness, looking at this plate is really big enough!
Xiang Weirong glanced at it a few times and said, "The fourth one, it seems that you have a relationship with the plate." ”
The first one spent a huge amount of money in Shanghai to ask two tomb robbers to buy it, the second one dug it in Xiqin, and the third one bought it in Xiangjiang, plus the one in front of me just happened to be able to make a table of mahjong!
Guan Xingquan on the side interjected: "I look at this grade of copper plates, even if the Palace Museum and the National Museum can't make up four, it's rare!"
Anan, look at when?"
Zhang Nan didn't answer first, but asked Henry: "How much did you and that producer spend?"
That's right, Guan Xingquan reacted and explored the path first, although it was impossible for Henry to understand the dialect.
"An old privately rented warehouse that has expired its storage period, which has not been opened for 30 years, uses the rules of the guys who dig through the warehouse to pick up garbage.
Blind judgment is completely legal, because the warehouse is large enough and old enough, and the TV station participated in the bidding and spent 5,000 yuan to win it.
This cost is still for the sake of photorealism, in fact, there is also another old warehouse for posing photos.
According to the unwritten rules of the TV station, if the physical value of the discovery does not exceed 5 times the cost, the film crew can buy it out of their own pockets if they like it.
The producer of this plate paid 10,000 US dollars, and I have already given him the money, and I also said hello, and added 35% of the filming funds to the program team in the first half of next year, anyway, the first two episodes of the program worked well, and it was supposed to increase about 20% of the funding......"
This kind of program group does not get a dead salary, what title, pre- and post-program advertising, and invisible advertising income will be paid by these program groups.
The more money you have, the more likely the show is to be successful, the more room for producers to operate, and the more practical benefits there are.
The small person in charge below gives gifts to the leader all over the world, and it is even more appropriate to do what he likes.
Speaking of this, Henry felt the need to add something, and said, "By the way, boss, there are many stone statues in that warehouse, all of which are for the warehouse of Yun TV in New York, if you are interested, you can pick and choose."
I haven't seen the picture yet, it looks like an oriental artwork, but I can't figure out what it is for the time being......"
Zhang Nan saw that there seemed to be an inscription on the copper plate, and he didn't listen carefully, so he said casually: "Ten thousand?
Dog's day, the real forest is big, there are all kinds of birds! Go back and ask Brother Guan to get 300,000 cash, 100,000 rewards to the program group, and 200,000 yours. ”
Upon hearing this, Henry DeBoson smiled: not only did he please the big boss, but $200,000 was not a small amount for him.
Now is not the year when CEOs of large companies get sky-high salaries, and these 200,000 are really a windfall!
Even if he knew that this big copper guy was valuable, but the rules of the subordinate TV network were there, and the producer and Henry didn't dare to take it to the auction house privately.
The producer is because of the rules, and for Henry, it is not just the rules, you must know that not only the entire TV network, but even "Columbia Stars" is the private property of the boss, who dares to embezzle the boss's property in private......
Unless you don't wear a goof, once you let the boss know, it is estimated that being thrown into the Atlantic Ocean to feed the fish can be regarded as a good ending!
Zhang Nan, the boss, is not a typical Wall Street financier, those old brand giants eat people and don't spit out bones, but Zhang Nan may be even more ruthless, and there is a private army in his hand that those financiers basically can't take out!
Don't say anything about "joint forces", dare to open so many mines in the world, and the property of this boss is something you can take advantage of at will?
The world is the same, all the people who are engaged in engineering are powerful, and those who are engaged in mines are even more upgraded versions of engineering, or the kind of direct ascension 6.0!
What is 6.0?
Zhang Nan knew that Henry didn't know, but it wasn't the point.
The key is not to think about the money of the black mine boss, otherwise you will casually know how powerful the mine boss is!
At this time, Zhang Nan asked again: "What else do you say is in the warehouse?"
"And some stone statues, boss. The experts involved in the filming of the show mainly focus on Western old goods, miscellaneous, and have participated in warehouse auctions for several years, but they are not familiar with Oriental cultural relics, and there is a 50-year-old Ford ......"
"Where's the thing?" I said the stone statues. ”
Henry was obviously talking in vain, but he could only explain it honestly.
"If you're free, how can you not be free! After lunch, we'll leave. ”
Oriental stone statue, what kind of expert is that......
Zhang Nan didn't know what to say, but he couldn't help but scold: many of his friends who were good at Chinese cultural relics and old goods in his previous life couldn't recognize a silver coin of Alexander the Great.
It's also normal, there is a world of difference between domestic and foreign cultural research, not to mention that the program team is "rummaging through warehouses", and the expert is probably more adept at judging how much a box of brand-new denim shirts and an old Harley-Davidson motorcycle from the 60s is worth rather than studying antiques.
Perhaps the discovery of an oak cabinet from the beginning of this century in a warehouse would be a super-big discovery in the eyes of that expert.
What stone statue was put aside for the time being, Zhang Nan finally thought of what Guan Boss had just asked, and replied to Guan Xingquan in Chinese and English: "A typical artifact of the middle and late Shang Dynasty has a history of at least 3,000 years. ”
Guan Boss and Xiang Weirong were not shocked and had seen a lot. But Henri Deborsen, who understood, looked surprised!
"Boss, this thing is 3,000 years old, it's so well preserved!"
Unbelievable, he thought it was a bronze vessel of three to five hundred years at most, but it turned out to be 3,000 years old!
Zhang Nan smiled: For Americans like Henry, 3,000 years ago, their ancestors were probably still playing in the woods of north-central Europe!
"There seems to be an inscription on the inner edge of this copper plate, let me take a look. Charlie, help me get a bottle of mineral water and a clean towel. ”
Wet the towel and wring it out, wipe it on the inside of the plate, and you will be clear.
"Xu Wangguang uses his good gold to cast his Guangding...... I don't know the last eight words.
This is followed by the following: children and grandchildren, and the generations are like.
The Shang Dynasty bronze has an 18-character inscription, and it also explains the source, rare, rare!"
This time it was Zhang Nan's turn to be surprised, and he already knew the origin of the copper plate.
"Xu Guo, where is it?"
Hearing his brother-in-law's question, Zhang Nan said: "It should be in the Jianghuai area, and Xu Guo was still on that side during the Shang Dynasty."
I think that there should be one in the Jiangnan Provincial Museum, it should be a few years ago, probably dug up in Wenling, Jiangnan Province in 1984, but these six little copper birds are missing. ”
When Boss Guan heard this, he smiled and said, "That's interesting, we are absolute Southern barbarians in the Shang Dynasty, can we do this thing?"
Guan Laoda was born in Jiaojiang, which is the seat of the Taizhou-Zhou regional government, and Wenling also belongs to Taizhou, which is still very close to Jiaojiang.
"Don't talk nonsense, Brother Guan, I know that you are half of Taizhou. The identity of the unearthed bronze dragon plate is confusing, and there are no other relics unearthed at the time of unearthing.
Of course, the level of bronze craftsmanship in Wenling in the middle and late Shang Dynasty was not high, but it was also good to migrate in ancient times.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Xu was in the Jianghuai region, and I speculate that these two plates may be sister vessels, which belong to the national treasures of Xu State.
This plate may have fled to Wenling with the children of the princes of Xu State after the fall of the Xu State.
By the way, the State of Xu was destroyed by the State of Wu, and the State of Wu and the State of Yue were enemies, and it was normal to flee to the State of Yue.
In other words, things were seized by the Wu State, and after the destruction of Wu, they came to the Yue Land, which is all possible. ”
At this point, Guan Xingquan didn't seem to be able to laugh, seemed to think for a while, and said: "I heard that there seems to be an ancient city site called "Xu Yan Wang City" over there in Wenling, is it that Xu Kingdom?"
"Yes, about the Xu Yan Wangcheng you mentioned, the earliest records are from the Song Dynasty, and there are also records from the Ming Dynasty, and I seem to have seen it when I looked at some historical materials in Taizhou.
However, some experts believe that the site should be the site of the Dongou Kingdom in the early Western Han Dynasty, not the royal city of the Xu Kingdom.
The state of Xu, a vassal state from the Xia Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Ruomu, the son of Boyi, was the founding monarch of the Xu State, and the capital was Xucheng (now Sihong County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province)
During the reign of King Jing of Zhou, the Xu Kingdom perished, and there were more than 40 monarchs and more than 1,600 years of enjoyment.
According to the records of "Yuanhe Surname Compilation" and "Tongzhi Clan Strategy", the Xu family is the descendant of Gaotao. Yu Shifeng Boyi's son Ying Ruomu was in Xu State.
During the Xia Yu period, Bo Yi was meritorious in assisting in water control, and his son Ruomu was sealed in Xu (now the area north of Tancheng, Shandong) and built the Xu State. Subsequently, in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the Xu State was one of the vassal states. Starting from Gongdan of Zhou, among the generations of King Cheng of Zhou and King Kang of Zhou, the wars between Western Zhou and Xu were the most frequent