When the time entered November, for Li Qian's studio, everything began to slowly get on the right track.

The management of the company began to become stricter and more formal, and although there were still a few people, the atmosphere of the whole studio was very different from what it had been a while before, and everyone was starting to get busy, but everything was starting to be in order.

As the general manager of the studio, Qi Jie began to lead people to collect information one after another, promoting one thing after another, the studio's work plan and breakthrough direction in 97, the contact information and management of all domestic film and television dramas that have been filmed, produced or approved this year and their production teams, the release negotiation strategy of the album produced by the studio in the future, Liao Liao's new album planning, He Runqing's new album planning, musicians, The artist signing plan even includes the newcomer discovery and training plan that only existed in Li Qian's mind before, and did not mention Qi Jie, etc.

Of course, the price of this is that Qi Jie is unknowingly starting to become what everyone calls "President Qi", and Duan Yuguo, the manager of the internal logistics department, soon became the "Duan Yan King" in the mouth of the only few employees in the studio.

After communicating with Hua Records and obtaining the understanding and consent of the other party, at the beginning of November, Li Jinlong officially took up his post in Li Qian's studio, temporarily serving as the artist manager of the studio, and then concurrently serving as the manager of the production department.

So, after his matchmaking, Li Qian took the time to meet a lot of people in the interval between helping Wuxing Wusu adjust and rehearse, including arrangers, musicians, and musicians who specialize in writing lyrics and songs. There are even singers who are looking for opportunities everywhere. Ultimately. Li Qian signed two arrangers, a professional recording engineer, and an agent named Sun Meimei.

Of course, the two arrangers and the professional recording engineer can directly join the studio's upcoming production department. Especially the two arrangers, Li Qian found out after chatting with them that they not only have solid basic skills, but also are people with ideas. Over the years, I have been in the circle by taking on private work all the way, and I have experienced a lot of tempering, and I belong to the kind that can come in handy at any time.

And the agent named Sun Meimei, to be honest, signed her mainly because of her all-round identity.

She graduated from the Huaxia Conservatory of Music, which is considered to be a singing opera, and her musical foundation is extremely solid, but after graduation, she did not do this profession. Instead, he chose to be an underground singer, just. She has been in the underground music industry for many years, and she has never been given any good opportunities. Forced by life, in addition to running underground performances, she usually takes on some arranging work, of course, she also writes songs, submits, and has also been adopted, and later she simply went to make harmonies for some singers, so until she was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, she herself felt that she needed to change, so she began to change careers to be an agent.

Of course, her agent career was also unsuccessful, bringing a newcomer and helping him release an album, which was not a hit, but she was finally on the right track, but before the second step of the plan she carefully built for that person began to be implemented, people suddenly announced that they would terminate her contract, kicked her out directly, and joined a famous agent, so she lost her job again.

When Li Jinlong introduced her to Li Qian, she was spending her days in depression, taking over the work of arranging music to support herself, and at the same time hesitating and not knowing where to go. Li Jinlong confessed that there is a little friendship between the two, of course, it is not the kind of friendship between men and women, but when Li Jinlong was a producer at Hua Records, he was very optimistic about her and wanted to discover and sign her, so for a time, the relationship between the two was very good, but later, his plan was not approved by Hua Songs, so the matter was put on hold.

But even so, the two have often corresponded since then, and Li Jinlong seems to appreciate her musical talent, so in the first album released by Wuxing Wusu, two songs were arranged by Sun Meimei.

Later, when Li Jinlong recommended her, Li Qian also deliberately found out the two songs and listened to them, and also thought that although Sun Meimei's arrangement was not too brilliant, she still had a lot of ideas.

Eventually, after an interview, Li Qian decided to hire her as the assistant manager of the artist department.

Even, if nothing else, if she can indeed show a certain ability, then in the future, once Li Jinlong really transfers to the production manager, she will take over as the manager of the artist department.

In Li Qian's view, at the beginning of the studio's creation, the specific division of labor must not be so detailed, and it is impossible to recruit all kinds of talents in great detail, so in this period, there is a special need for some generalists. Like now, with the existence of such a person as Sun Meimei, the studio is equivalent to one more arranger, an agent, a songwriter, and a harmonic voice with a considerable level.

With the addition of Sun Meimei and the two arrangers, plus Li Qian and Li Jinlong, as well as a professional recording engineer, the company's shelf in the music sector, even if it is basically built, can at least achieve initial self-sufficiency, and the first task that Li Qian threw at them was to prepare for Liao Liao's new album -

Collect good songs, try to arrange music, try to record samples.

Moreover, the plan to expand the studio, which was proposed by Qi Jie and finally approved by Li Qian, will begin at the end of November - Qi Jie will hire two to five staff members and start trying to make her own channels.

The first is the business channel, of course, mainly those domestic TV stations, film and television companies and entertainment companies, whose goal is, of course, to help the studio receive the work of film and television drama soundtracks.

The second is the distribution channel of the album, of course, this is close to impossible in Li Qian's opinion, and, in his plan, this is not the focus of the studio's development in the past two years, so his advice to Qi Jie is to give priority to business development, and strive to help the studio receive the soundtracks of three or two film and television dramas next year to open up the channel in this regard.

Well, by the way, since I saw it in the bar that day, after a few days, Zhou Ye began to run to the studio, and he didn't say anything about inviting songs or anything, but he was in a hurry if he had nothing to do, and Li Qian was not in a hurry if he was not there. and Li Jinlong, they set up a relationship. Not to mention. In a few moments, he and the newly signed people in the studio were all in a hot fight.

In mid-November, Li Qian finally decided to give him a song called "The Crooked Moon".

Zhou Ye himself was extremely pleasantly surprised, and he also liked this song quite a lot, but after he took the work back, Times Records seemed to think that this song was really a bit "earthy", although it should be regarded as a good ballad. But they are afraid that such a song will not be liked by the market, but after all, this is Li Qian's work, so in the end, they still agreed to adopt it, but when they sent someone to quote, although the attitude was very polite, but the meaning of the words was that they still hoped to get other works from Li Qian, and for this song "The Crooked Moon". Their offer also seems quite picky.

In the end, the song was sold by Li Qian at the second-lowest price in history. Just 300,000!

The price of Li Qian's works is naturally very famous in the circle, so for Li Qian to be willing to sell a song for 300,000 yuan, Zhou Ye of course subconsciously understood that it was Li Qian's appreciation of himself, so he was willing to suffer a loss in terms of price - and in fact, it is indeed the case, Li Qian does appreciate him very much, at least he is unwilling to let him go too far on the road of urban love songs, so he is willing to come up with a folk song that was once popular all over the world in another time and space to suppress him.

Then, well, whether Wang Jinglu called back or stayed on Saturday and weekend, she said that she could afford to study, and basically she could understand what the professors said, but according to her, many people who went to this special training class complained that they were sleepy in listening, because the teachers were always talking about how women in ancient times should eat, how to dress, what tone to use when speaking, and so on.

In this November, Li Qian was in class, in interviews, in meetings, and helping Wuxing Wusu adjust his singing style, so busy that his feet barely touched the ground, while Wang Jinglu was locked up in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Arts to study, and the two could only see each other on weekends, while Zhou Ye got "The Crooked Moon" After that, they were satisfied and happily went back to practice songs, Li Jinlong and they were working hard to collect songs and work hard for Liao Liao's new album, Duan Yuguo continued to keep a straight face and be the annoying person, while Qi Jie went to the newspaper to publish advertisements and began to prepare for a new round of recruitment and interviews in the studio.

In short, hectic and thriving.

And at the end of this month, Li Qian suddenly received a call from Xie Mingyuan, and after a few months, the two made an appointment with a restaurant, and finally had a second official meeting with each other.

The place where the two met was a French restaurant, the environment was very good, and the business was exceptionally good.

Xie Mingyuan seems to be a regular customer here, after the two met, Li Qian found that he and the manager and waiter here seemed to know each other, the two of them ordered their own food, waiting for the meal, and were chatting casually, the owner of this store even ran over in person, and gave Xie Mingyuan a big hug as soon as they met.

The two spoke in French, Li Qian couldn't understand, so he looked at the cat on the other party's shoulder - it should be a different species, the coat was dark and shiny, but the eyes were blue and blue, and it looked like a god.

Well, Li Qian's first thought when he saw it was that he wanted to take a picture of it, and not just a photo, he really wanted to take a picture of this cat in one of his movies.

Of course, he looked at the cat, and the cat looked at him without giving in, and licked his tongue at him and meowed.

Xie Mingyuan finished greeting the man, and solemnly introduced the two people, Li Qian only then knew that his name was Kittenly, French, painter, wandering poet, after coming to China, he hated that the French dishes in Shuntianfu were too inauthentic, so he opened a French restaurant, originally he was a chef himself, who thought that the business was getting better and better, and soon he was too busy as a chef, so he had to recruit another person, and he changed careers to be the boss.

Of course, living in China for many years has made him fluent in Mandarin, and after hugging Li Qian affectionately, he calls himself "Lao Kai" and introduces his Chinese name as "Li Kai".

Everyone chatted for a while, and just as the dishes ordered by Li Qian and Xie Ming began to be served, he said goodbye and left, and quickly sent the waiter to bring a bottle of red wine, saying that it was his treasure.

Li Qian was really not used to eating foreign food, but I have to say that the French food here is actually quite appetizing, especially the pan-fried foie gras and sirloin steak, which made him eat extremely beautifully.

After meals. The two shook their wine glasses. Continue the rambling chit-chat.

Of course. As we chatted, the topic gradually turned to the music industry.

Xie Mingyuan asked about the operation of the studio, and finally nodded and said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, you have entered the music industry single-handedly, it has been more than a year, and you have already made such great achievements now, which is really not easy." If I had been replaced, I would have been unable to do it. I have to admire this!"

Li Qian thanked him for his compliment, but then passed by lightly.

Then, Xie Mingyuan directly turned the topic to the expected topic, "As far as I know, Liao Liao's contract with Changsheng Records is about to expire, how about it, it's settled?"

This is not a secret in the first place, and there is still a month to go. In fact, when Liao Liao comes back from the commercial performance this time, I am afraid that even Changsheng Records will think that their contract with Liao Liao has ended. And Liao Liao will not sign the contract for the time being, but he will officially go to Li Qian's studio to start preparing for her new album a year, so Li Qian naturally has no need to hide it.

So he nodded and said, "It's settled, right? The two of us make music, it's more compatible, and we're willing to continue to work together, so since I opened a studio, then she'll come over." ”

Xie Mingyuan nodded with a smile and said, "How about it, your studio definitely doesn't have its own distribution channels, Liao Liao's new album, leave it to us to do the distribution, right?"

Li Qian smiled and said, "Of course you can, but you have to give the price to a higher point." ”

Xie Mingyuan smiled when he heard this, paused for a moment, and then said: "I won't hide it from you, to tell you the truth, the price I gave you is really not high!"

Although he had already guessed a little, Li Qian was really a little surprised by Xie Mingyuan's simple admission, and couldn't help but smile and ask, "Why?"

Xie Mingyuan smiled and said: "You, plus Liao Liao, of course, is a guarantee of big sales, logically speaking, if you want to rush to release Liao Liao's new album, there are not thirty, but there are twenty, but I can assure you that all companies will not give you too high a price, at least, they will not give you that degree that satisfies you!"

When Li Qian heard this, he smiled but didn't say anything, just looked at him.

Seeing this, Xie Ming slowly continued: "In fact, although the price we can give is not high, it is certainly not the lowest. And, you know, Sony's distribution channels can't even be compared to Huage and Cinda, let alone other companies, so although our price is not high, if you sign it to me, in the end, your studio will definitely get the highest share, which I can also guarantee!"

After a pause, he smiled and said, "As for the reason you asked, you know it, I just know, I won't show it to shame." In a word, you are a newcomer, and you have no channels of your own at all, so, if you don't kill you, who will we kill?"

When Li Qian heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

Although Xie Mingyuan's words are not polite, he is really frank.

However, the new studio has no distribution channels at all, and it has Liao Liao's new album in his hand, which is enough for people to take a bite of the cake, so the industry tacitly united to reduce the price, which is also something I have already guessed, isn't it?

The law of this world is like this, if you are a newcomer and have just entered a circle, you must first suffer a little loss and learn the rules of survival in this circle by the way - new recruit eggs, new eggs, new people in the industry, as well as new studios, new record labels, a new store, etc., etc., the principle is the same.

It's just that he knows this in his heart, but Li Qian is not used to Xie Mingyuan's aggressive momentum of talking and doing things. So, after a pause, he smiled and said, "Since Mr. Xie has said it so clearly, then I really have to think about it." Perhaps, I should find a time to ask Mr. Watanabe out for dinner and talk to him?"

When Xie Mingyuan heard this, the expression on his face suddenly froze.

After a while, a strange smile appeared on his face and said, "It's useless, although Watanabe has always wanted to take back some power, but on the ground in China, it still has to be said by the Chinese." ”

With this sentence, Li Qian knew that the infighting between Watanabe Kazuichi and Xie Mingyuan, at least until now, was still Xie Mingyuan's advantage.

So, after taking a slow sip of red wine, he nodded and said, "You can send someone to talk about it later, but if the price you give is too unpleasant, I won't agree." ”

"Of course!" Xie Mingyuan heard this, with a triumphant smile on his face, raised his cup, touched it with Li Qian, and said with a smile: "Cooperation, naturally it is a win-win situation......!" I wish us a happy cooperation!"

Li Qian smiled, and after clinking glasses with him, while drinking, he couldn't help but think of what Qi Jie said a few days ago.

At that time, she was in her office, and she had just rejected her plan to hire six people to run the distribution, so she said to herself very seriously: "Although I have disappointed you, although I am still a newcomer in distribution and sales, I am willing to try, I am not afraid of failure, so let me try! You are responsible for making good music, and I am responsible for being a good businessman! Because we really can't live without our own channels!"

So in the end, I approved her recruitment plan, but the quota was reduced.

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The car stopped downstairs, Li Qian turned off the fire, pulled out the key, but sat in the car and didn't get out of the car for a long time.

After I don't know how long, he slowly exhaled a breath and muttered, "Channel, channel...... Then give it a try!"

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There are really few recommended votes recently.,Big Monday.,Is it okay to ask for a few recommendation tickets?(To be continued......)