Chapter 248: Competition
Wang Ye said goodbye, and Liu Rong got up and sent him out the door.
When the two were saying goodbye, a pair of young men and women came from a distance, and there was only Liu Rong's office at this end of the corridor.
When the two young men and women saw that Liu Rong was talking to Wang Ye, they stood a little farther away and did not come.
Wang Ye said goodbye to Liu Rong and walked towards the stairs, smiling and nodding to the young man and woman as he passed by them.
These two people are in their early 20s, and they are younger than Wang Ye. The boys are tall and handsome, the girls are pretty and cute, and they should be the children of rich families when they look at their clothes.
Because Wang Ye glanced over, he saw the Richard Miller watch on the boy's wrist, the Cartier's iconic leopard head diamond pendant necklace around the girl's neck, and the crocodile platinum bag on the hand.
The two also nodded to Wang Ye amicably, and waited until Wang Ye walked away before walking towards Liu Rong.
"Uncle Liu, who is that young man?" the girl asked Liu Rong curiously.
"Oh, he's ...... Ye Wang. Liu Rong almost said Wang Ye's name in passing, but fortunately remembered Wang Ye's request just now.
"Ye Wang?" The girl frowned and thought about it, Xiangjiang doesn't seem to have this person, she is surnamed Ye, but apart from her family, Xiangjiang has no other big family surnamed Ye.
"Ye Zi, don't guess, I guess Ye Wang should be from the mainland, it's normal that you haven't heard of it. The boy next to him said with a smile.
"Bah~?Cousin, how do you know that he is from the mainland?" Ye Zi asked in surprise.
"I vaguely heard him talking to Uncle Liu just now, and his accent is very standard Mandarin, so ......," my cousin explained with a smile.
"Haha, Liu Zhi, you're right, Ye Wang is indeed from the mainland. He also signed up for this year's MBA, International Business Administration class, just like you. Liu Rong explained, and then let Liu Zhi and Ye Zi into the office.
Liu Zhi and Ye Zi are cousins, both families are wealthy families in Xiangjiang, and their respective fathers and Liu Rong are also world friends, so the two call Uncle Liu Rong.
Because Xiangjiang is relatively small, it is a city, so they basically have a relationship with each other.
"People from the mainland also come to study at the University of Hong Kong Business School? Liu Zhi said.
"Oh, Ye Wang is an executive of a large company in Pengcheng, but he struggled on his own. Liu Rong explained briefly.
"Wow, so powerful? I think Ye Wang is very handsome and capable, and he will get to know him well after school starts, hehe." Ye Zijiao said with a smile.
When Liu Zhi heard this, he felt a little uncomfortable, not for anything else, don't young people like to compare. My cousin said that others were handsome and capable, so it was inevitable that they would taste it in their hearts.
He said sourly: "Isn't he just a working boy, when he graduates, I will simply recruit him to my company and give him a million annual salary, I don't believe he is not impressed!"
Liu Rong smiled and did not say anything.
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On the way back to Pengcheng by car, Wang Ye received a call from his sister Wang Xiaofei.
"Xiaoye, have you been in Pengcheng recently, are you busy with work?"
Wang Xiaofei also knew that Wang Ye was busy with affairs and flew around at any time, so he asked him if he was in Pengcheng first.
"It's okay, it's not particularly busy, this section is in Pengcheng, I didn't go out, what's wrong, sister?" Wang Ye replied.
"Xiao Ni recently had a concert in Pengcheng, if you have time, go and cheer for it, they are not easy to do music, it seems that the tickets for the concert are not selling well. Wang Xiaofei said euphemistically.
She lives with Yanni and of course knows the situation.
Although Yan Ni is not very old, she is still well-known in the domestic cello performance circle.
He is a national first-class performer, a lecturer at the School of Music of Modu University, a visiting professor at the High School Attached to Music, and a cellist of the Modu Symphony Orchestra.
He is a talented cellist.
But there is no market for pure music, and the cello is not as popular as the piano, although many people can't understand it, they will also go to a piano recital from time to time.
As for cello recitals, very few people go to them.
This concert, which is more crucial, is a performance between Yan Ni and another cellist in the magic city to compete for the position of chief cellist of the magic city symphony orchestra.
Don't think that there is no competition for musicians or teachers, they are also very competitive.
The evaluation of professional titles requires competition, the status in the circle needs competition, and even the order of appearance of a concert is also exquisite.
Just like the title of the principal cellist of this symphony orchestra, it means a lot of things, and if you can get this title, then you will have enough confidence to say that you are the number one cellist in the magic capital.
In this way, whether it is to evaluate the title in the future, or to perform abroad or something, the treatment will be different.
Yan Ni and another competitor, Liu Mu, have similar conditions and equal strength, otherwise it would be impossible to compete.
It is also difficult for the leaders of the group to choose, and in the end they can only say that the choice is left to the audience and the market makes the choice.
Although the symphony orchestra is an elegant art, no matter how elegant it is, it still has to eat, and the salaries of so many people in the orchestra have to be paid every month.
Although there is a subsidy in the city, the subsidy is only the basic salary, and if you want to get more, what do you rely on? Of course, it depends on one concert after another.
Although the symphony orchestra is relatively niche, and the audience for a concert is estimated to be only two or three hundred, the ticket price is not low, and it can still earn a lot of money.
In the first half of this year, the troupe planned four concerts, one in each of the four first-tier cities, including the capital, the magic capital, Yangcheng and Pengcheng.
It just happened that by the way, the competition for the principal cello in the troupe was decided, and for four concerts, Yan Ni and the competitor Liu Mu each played two concerts, and then looked at the ticket sales.
The winner who sells more votes is fair and reasonable, and Tong Suo is not bullied.
After all, Liu Mu is a little older, and she knows some ways better than Yan Ni, she preemptively selected the Demon Capital Field and Yangcheng Field, and left the Capital Field and Pengcheng Field to Yan Ni.
The magic capital is the base camp, of course, the attendance rate will be higher, and she can also pull some relatives, friends, students and the like to cheer up.
The reason why Yangcheng was chosen instead of the capital is that there is no way, after all, it is impossible to choose the two best markets in the capital magic capital, it is too bullying, and the regiment will not agree.
So you can only choose one more in Yangcheng Pengcheng, in comparison, Yangcheng is of course better than Pengcheng.
To be honest, young people listen to symphony, and most listeners are still a little older.
There are more people like Yangcheng, and Pengcheng is a city dominated by young people, so Liu Mu chose Yangcheng.
Now that the three performances have ended, Liu Mu's two performances have been completed, and Yan Ni's capital concert has also ended, leaving the Pengcheng concert.
In the magic capital recital, Liu Mu really worked hard, and also launched all her relationships, relatives and friends have promoted it many times.
Of course, she can't buy all the tickets by herself and give them away, and then come to cheer her up. It works great, but it's financially unaffordable.
The price of tickets for this kind of concert is really not low.
Take the Magic City Concert as an example, it is held in the Magic City Concert Hall, the concert hall of 600 people, the starting price of tickets is 240 yuan, and then it is 360 yuan, 580 yuan, 1160 yuan, 3680 yuan!
The lowest two seats of 240 yuan and 360 yuan account for about 40%, and this kind of seat is also the best to sell, and in most cases it can be sold for about the same.
But a few notches up the next few gears, it's harder to sell, unless you're playing a very well-known symphony orchestra.
Like the "Staatskapelle Dresden" and the "Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra", if these two are performed, it goes without saying that they will be full!
Even many celebrities and rich people who never listen to concerts will come to cheer one after another, nothing else, these two symphony orchestras are too famous.
But like the Magic City Symphony Orchestra, there are not many people who come to cheer, and the listeners who come to listen are real music lovers, and this kind of person obviously won't spend too much money to sell more expensive tickets.
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With Liu Mu's hard work, the attendance rate has increased to 70%, which is already a very good result. Of the 600 tickets, more than 400 were sold, although almost 100 of them were bought by herself and given away.
Yan Ni's concert at the Capital Concert Hall was a normal situation, and the concert hall of 500 people sold more than 40% of the tickets, of course, all of which were relatively low-priced tickets, with an audience of 220 people.
Liu Mu's Yangcheng concert was similar, with an attendance rate of less than 40% and 200 people attended.
At the end of the three concerts, Liu Mu was very happy, she felt that she was nine out of ten. In the city of Pengcheng, although the concert hall is beautifully built and large, with 800 seats, the attendance rate of concerts has always been unsatisfactory.
It is estimated that it would be good to have an attendance rate of 20 or 30 percent this time. If Yan Ni wants to catch up, she needs to have more than 50% attendance, which is obviously impossible!
Yan Ni herself is aware of this problem, so her mood is not very good these days, and Wang Xiaofei asked her what the situation was after seeing it.
It is rare to find someone to talk about the grievances in her heart, so Yan Ni told Wang Xiaofei one by one.
If it is a fair competition, then if you lose, you will lose, but Liu Mu obviously won this time, and the attendance rate of the magic capital is obviously problematic, how can it be so high as 70%!
Yan Ni is not stupid, of course she knows what is going on.
When Wang Xiaofei heard this, she smiled: "Isn't there another Pengcheng concert, that's our home field!"
Yan Ni didn't react for a while, she rarely went to Pengcheng, and she didn't have any relatives and friends there, how could she say that it was her home field.
"Have you forgotten which city my brother Wang Ye opened the company in?" Wang Xiaofei said with a smile.
"Ah, yes, Wang Ye is in Pengcheng. Yan Ni suddenly realized.
But she immediately said embarrassedly: "That's not good, the tickets are so expensive, how can you ......"
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