Although Liang Guangyuan mixed up more miserably, in the list drawn up by Chen Lei, it was already considered a big coffee position, and in comparison, the other few in the list were standard salted fish.

Of course, they are all salted fish with potential.

Chen Lei bought a bottle of wind oil essence, and took Daisuke Nakata around for the past two days, and finally flickered into the six or seven potential salted fish with ideals, talents, and willingness to generate electricity for love.

Two days later, Liang Guangyuan also called, saying that he was willing to join Chen Lei's team, but hoped to sign only a short-term contract until the end of the filming of the first season of "Shooting the Condor", and then decide whether to renew the contract according to the situation.

Of course, Chen Lei can meet this small request.

After all, after the filming of the first season, if it is completed, everyone will naturally continue to shoot, if it doesn't work, then either you dump me, or I dump you, and only sign a short-term contract, which will save everyone from tearing up at that time.

These people include Song Xingzhou, Nakata Daisuke, and Liang Guangyuan, and Chen Lei signed a formal labor contract with them in the name of "Thunder Culture and Entertainment Co., Ltd."

Song Xingzhou's younger sister Song Xiaomeng has been following her brother to eat in the crew, and at this time, her brother sold himself to Chen Lei, so she naturally had to come over.

Chen Lei arranged for her to be a personal assistant, and there is nothing specific to do for the time being, just be responsible for selling cuteness.

A team of the Salted Fish Alliance has been temporarily formed, and Song Xingzhou's small studio is crowded with so many people at once.

Although the conditions are a little simple, everyone is full of enthusiasm and hope for the big pie that Chen Lei painted.

In particular, Chen Lei said: "We are all pioneers in exporting Chinese culture to the world. This sentence made everyone's blood boil, and even goosebumps rose.

As a pioneer who can export Chinese culture to the world, many people feel that even if they really generate electricity for love, it is worth fighting for it.

However, it is said that it is for love to generate electricity, in fact, Chen Lei's treatment for everyone is still very high, on the basis of their original salary, it has increased by 1.5 times to 3 times, and they have been counting money since the first day of signing the contract.

After the small team ran in together for a week, most of them were sent by Chen Lei to Hollywood for investigation and study.

Liang Guangyuan was appointed by Chen Lei as the head of the delegation and Song Xingzhou as the deputy head because of his relevant study abroad and work experience.

Many companies in Hollywood have corresponding reception, inspection and study business, Chen Lei has already arranged it, after the delegation arrives, there is a special person responsible for reception.

After the inspection group left, Chen Lei's book cash was directly reduced by more than half.

Chen Lei has accumulated more than two million hard-earned money in the past few months, and it is still a bit painful to lose so much all of a sudden. In addition to the cost of supporting the delegation, Chen Lei rented an office space near the West Third Ring Road that could accommodate twenty or thirty people.

Qin Run and several people under him were already completely doing things for Chen Lei. When the venue here is rented, they officially move in and start working, and begin to warm up for the film and television of "Condor Shooting" through various channels, and do some market research and other work.

It seems that a very small and all-salted fish team has not only emptied Chen Lei's pitiful family foundation, but also owed some of the rent, decoration and hardware costs.

Originally, Chen Lei thought that he had walked very steadily step by step, but he didn't expect to be pulled a little.

Song Xiaomeng suddenly had a whim, ran to Panjiayuan to buy a statue of Guan Gong and came back, put it in the company, and went over to say goodbye every day when there was nothing to do, saying that it could make money.

Seeing this, Qin Run smiled and said, if you can make money by worshipping, then it is estimated that the current world has already exploded in inflation.

But anyway, she is in the company, and for the time being, except for doing chores, helping Chen Lei send and receive documents, and then arranging the itinerary, there is not much to do, so Chen Lei will go by her.

The so-called assistant who has something to do is in the legend, and there is no such thing as nothing.

Chen Lei's mind is now full of thinking about how to get money, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't bear the rich woman's happy ball, Chen Lei would have wanted to tear up the small advertisement for a child.

In fact, Chen Lei said that he was short of money, but he was not really lacking, "Shooting the Condor" is now popular on the Internet, and the songs he wrote often rushed to the top of the charts, with at least six figures coming in every month.

It's just that this amount of money is still too little for Chen Lei at this stage.

Since Chen Lei became popular, there have been invitations to various programs and commercial performances, Chen Lei couldn't see it very well before, and now he also instructed Song Xiaomeng to help him pick up a few.

In the past half a month, Chen Lei has been walking everywhere and has appeared in several shows, and he has just got a little bad money.

After discussion, Song Ye said that when "Shooting the Condor" officially started filming, he could come up with 20 million to 50 million funds to invest in it.

No matter how many words you have, it's not that you can't get it, but in that case, you will have to slow down or even stop the pace of expansion of the national flavor concept, which is a bit more than worth the loss, and Chen Lei himself did not agree.

The production mode of "Shooting the Condor" has never been seen before in China, and it is difficult to directly estimate the accurate production cost.

If you refer to the original world American drama standards, "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones" are known for their high production costs, and their first season production costs are probably around 50 million to 60 million US dollars.

However, "Game of Thrones" uses a lot of special effects, while "House of Cards" does not have many money-burning scenes, but the high salary accounts for a large proportion.

And whether it is the fantasy theme of "Game of Thrones" or the reality theme of "House of Cards", the salary of the screenwriter team of these two American dramas is also a large part of the production cost.

"Condor Shooting" does not have as many special effects scenes as "Game of Thrones", and it does not plan to invite some actors with scary salaries like "House of Cards", and even the screenwriting team is Chen Lei himself.

In this way, Chen Lei estimates that even if the ultra-high production standards exceed several times that of today's Chinese TV dramas, the cost of the first season will not be as high and scary as that of American dramas.

The production cost of "Shooting the Condor" is mainly concentrated in the exquisite costumes, a large number of real scenes to be built, and the use of few but fine special effects, etc., 5 million RMB for a single episode, 50 million RMB for a season is more than enough.

The gap beyond this part needs Chen Lei to figure out his own way.

After the delegation left, Chen Lei became busier, in addition to the company's internal affairs, he was also busy with all kinds of sponsorship and negotiation cooperation, if there was a suitable notice, he had to go to the cave to make extra money.

In addition to this, I also have to find time to date Tong Yao.

Since the anchor plucked up the courage to kiss Chen Lei's cheek that night, he became shy and shy, and at most agreed to let Chen Lei pull a small hand when dating, and further, frank and in-depth communication, he was not ready for the time being.

The days passed day by day, and by mid-November, the long-awaited Chinese song competition finally began.