Chapter 12: Entertainment Empire
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The road of money is going smoothly, and about the famous road, Zhou Ming is also planning these days after returning to Haiping's hometown.
"The Sims" has been playing for so long, and what the essence of fame (prestige) is, Zhou Ming has a faint understanding of some thoroughness.
The so-called name is the synthesis of the cognition, opinion, emotion, sense and other memory information that people establish in their minds about a thing or a person.
If a thing or a person occupies a large proportion and weight in people's minds, then it means that the thing or person is more famous.
Like a disaster (such as a great earthquake), a great man, even if a long time has passed, in people's hearts (especially in the hearts of those who witnessed it), the disaster or this great man will still remain deeply in people's memories and will be indelible.
The size of this memory weight, if analyzed according to the reputation value calculation formula of "The Sims", can be divided into ten grades, from 1 to 10.
1 means preliminary, 5 means profound, and 10 means indelible...... Therefore, Zhou Ming guessed that in each copy of "The Sims", on the head of each NPC, he could get reputation points, which were about 1-10 points.
Since this law has been discovered, in any copy, Zhou Ming wants to increase his popularity, and he can find many corresponding methods, as long as he expands his influence, so that more people can "know" and "understand" him, "worship" and "believe" him, and have different values of prestige points in the account.
This conversion is approximately: know = 1 point, know = 2 points, worship = 5 points, faith = 10 points
Therefore, realizing this, what Zhou Ming needs to do is to let more than 10 million people know and understand him, more than 100 million people admire and worship him, and more than 100,000 people fanatically believe in him in the copy of "Shengshi Huazhang...... As long as he can do these things, the score of the reputation of the copy of "Shengshi Huazhang" alone is enough for him to clear this copy.
In fact, there is a simple and crude method that Zhou Ming can adopt, that is, religion, as long as he pretends to be a god stick, creates a demagogic religion, brainwashes the believers who join this religion, and develops into a "fanatical believer" with a degree of faith, the number of such fanatical believers, as long as it reaches 1 million, he can also make up enough points to clear the customs.
On the one hand, it was out of disdain for such a thing as religion; on the other hand, it was almost impossible to develop millions of fanatical followers within the territory of the Great Zhou State so that it could be done quietly and without attracting the attention of the ruling class.
So, back to the beginning of the question, what method should Zhou Ming take to let millions of people know, understand, worship, and believe in him in this ancient society with backward transportation conditions, slow information exchange, and infrequent population flow?
Embark on the upper route, be a great poet and a great writer, and become a superstar idol in the hearts of countless dignitaries and literati?
This road can be walked, but in this world, how many dignitaries and dignitaries are there? How many literati and artists are there? Among the nearly 100 million people in the Great Zhou Kingdom, the total number of these people does not exceed 100,000? Can they contribute 1 million prestige points?
The answer is obviously no, the system is fair, even the Ming Emperor and the Queen of Heaven of the Great Zhou Kingdom worship themselves fanatically, and these two also contribute at most 20 prestige points.
It is still necessary to take the mass line!
If you want to increase your personal prestige as much as possible, you must also have a certain degree of popularity among the middle and lower classes of the Great Zhou Kingdom, which accounts for more than 95% of the population.
Therefore, for these two classes, Zhou Ming has created a set of plans.
The first set of plans, mainly aimed at the upper class, Zhou Ming called the "Zihua Book House" plan.
That is, within the scope of 1,877 counties in 355 counties in 10 prefectures of the Great Zhou Kingdom, we will strive to open a "Zihua Book House" in all counties with a population of more than 50,000, in all cities with a population of more than 20,000, and within a certain radius, where the number of literate people exceeds 500.
Zihua Bookstore, which sounds like a bookstore that sells books, what is its main business scope?
Zhou Ming smiled, Zihua Bookstore, in addition to selling those boring subsets of scriptures and histories, the main business is "Story Club", "Zihua Anthology", and the highlight - "Comics".
"Story Club", which specializes in collecting and sorting out all kinds of folklore stories, short and medium novels, as well as some jokes, jokes, etc., is somewhat similar to the "Reader" magazine in Zhou Ming's world.
"Zihua Anthology" is a publishing platform for poetry and songs, article strategy, with a literary nature, as long as anyone thinks that their works are good, they can publish some excellent poems and wonderful articles on it.
"Comics" is a new thing that has never appeared in this time and space, although it is only spread in some small areas, but its popularity still surprises Zhou Ming very much, but it is also reasonable that in his world, comics have grown from scratch, from a niche hobby to unprecedented prosperity, and developed into magazines, novels, Poetry and other cultural products that cannot be replaced by cultural content, but it took only thirty or fifty years to derive a rich and colorful two-dimensional culture, and establish an empire of otaku creatures, which shows how strong and vigorous its vitality is.
In this time and space, Zhou Ming's development of comics is a little too advanced and not quite in line with the law of development, but so what?
He just put the "comics" this kind of cultural products that will appear sooner or later, hundreds of years in advance, but the earlier in advance, the more mature the development, a few years later, waiting for this world, into the high-tech era of television and computers, there are so many comic works as the foundation, people's spiritual life, I don't know how much richer, he, the originator of the comic industry, I don't know how much worship and worship of the house creatures will be harvested, think about it, it's an exciting thing.
And Zhou Ming's "Zihua Book House" plan, which took the upper route, compared with the "Deyun Club Plan" that he formulated, which almost completely went to the middle and lower levels, I am afraid that I don't know how many steps I have to be conservative, I don't know how many eggs I have to tear off, and I don't know how many times I have to be serious.
Zhou Ming actually wanted to establish a "Deyun Society" in all large cities with a population of more than 50,000 in the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and build a large-scale theatrical performance venue that can accommodate more than 3,000 people at most...... The boldness of the plan, the absurdity of the assumption, and the jaw-dropping.
Not only that, in the "Deyun Club" of this institute, Zhou Ming also wants to gather all the folk artists in the Great Zhou Kingdom who are either telling stories in restaurants, or singing on the streets, or have special talents, and recruit them into the "Deyun Club" to make a large-scale literary and artistic performance center integrating storytelling, blowing, playing and singing, ventriloquism, juggling and magic and other performance projects.
Even, according to the need, in the later stage, Deyun Club may also add new performance elements such as cross talk, sketches, pop music, opera, etc...... Anyway, as long as you can think of it, as long as it can entertain the public, as long as it is a performance project that can enrich people's spiritual life, it is possible to join in.
And Zhou Ming's ultimate purpose in doing this is to build an entertainment empire that belongs to him in this time and space, in this prosperous era, and to create an entertainment empire that can influence almost all the general public and earn a large number of prestige points.
In the room, under the bright whale oil lamp, facing the two plans in front of him, Zhou Ming said to himself:
"The two plans, the steps are a bit big, or first go to the upper route, the unit input cost is lower, easier to achieve the 'Zihua Bookstore' plan, widely spread out, just a bookstore, as long as the book supply channels are done, any city, just in the city of the commercial street, find a store of thirty or fifty square meters......"
"As for the 'Deyun Club' plan, the unit input cost is too great, and I don't know if it is feasible to operate, let's start a pilot in Haiping County, if this pilot is a big success, it means that it is possible to spread it to the whole country, besides, the urban population of the Great Zhou Kingdom, at most 10 million, more than 50,000 people in large cities, at most about 100, open a hundred Deyun Club, theoretically, it will not cost too much money......"