Episode 216: Dear Uncle Man
"Hee-yi, Park Jin-young wants to discuss the creation of retro-style songs with you, are you interested in meeting him?"
Li Xiuman smiled and walked out from behind the desk in the office and sat on the sofa opposite Zheng Xiyi, Zheng Xiyi shook his head and said, "Forget it, no need, how dare I discuss any songwriting with the president of JYP, it's just a casual play, Uncle Man, you can help me refuse." ”
Li Xiuman nodded, "I guess you won't go either, I'll take care of this matter, don't worry." ”
Zheng Xiyi looked left and right with some trepidation, Li Xiuman didn't know why, Zheng Xiyi looked at Li Xiuman burdenfully and asked, "That's it? You called me here just to ask about this?" ”
Li Xiuman understood and laughed out loud, waved his hand again and again: "Of course not, how can you call Xiyi over just for such a little thing, there is indeed something to ask you, but I have to think about how to ask first." ”
Zheng Xiyi was even more panicked, what is the situation, and you have to consider the way of asking, could it be that Yu Yongzhen told Li Xiuman after his brain was opened?
After waiting anxiously for half a minute, Li Xiuman raised his head, "Xiyi, what do you think if we hold an all-staff meeting of trainees of several major idol brokerage companies every six months?"
“MO?”
Jung Hee-yi was thinking about how to convince Lee so-man that he really had nothing to do with Kim Tae-yeon, but he was asked such an unrelated question, and he was really stopped by Lee so-man.
"Uncle Man, you just want to ask me this?"
Li Xiuman frowned, and looked Zheng Xiyi up and down, "Could it be that Xiyi, you have had some scandal recently?" It seems that he is afraid that I will ask you other questions." ”
Zheng Xiyi shook his head while wiping his sweat and said, "No! Absolutely not! I've been busy practicing with those children recently, how to have a scandal, Uncle Man thinks too much." ”
Li Xiu thought about it with his hand against his chin, and really couldn't remember what major events had been related to Zheng Xiyi recently, so he had to throw it aside first, but secretly wrote down in his heart that after a while, he must ask the secretary to inquire about what Zheng Xiyi has done in the company recently.
"Then what do Xiyi think about my question just now?"
Zheng Xiyi looked at Li Xiuman, and then at Lin Xiyin, who was sitting on the side but pretending not to exist, and asked curiously: "Why do you want to ask me about this kind of company operation, Uncle Man, there are many planners in the company, my sister is in charge of the trainee room, and Director Jin Yingmin is also very strong in operation, so why can't you ask me?"
Li Xiuman waved his hand, "This is just soliciting opinions, and I'm a little unsure of my idea, so everyone related to this matter will ask." ”
Zheng Xiyi pointed at himself, "What do I have to do with this?"
Lee so-man smiled and said, "Because of you, this all-staff meeting was a success, and several presidents who came to visit were greatly shaken, and President Park Jin-young proposed to jointly hold an internal performance similar to the S.M all-staff meeting with us when he left, and the trainees of the two companies performed separately, which can be regarded as a kind of internal audition." I just thought about it, and JYP has probably the fewest trainees among several companies, so if we really want to co-organize, it would be fair to bring DSP, YG, and JYP together, so as not to favor one over the other. ”
Zheng Xiyi gave a thumbs up, Li Xiuman thought he was going to praise his good ideas, but Zheng Xiyi said: "Wow, Uncle Man, you really deserve to be a top student in Seoul, you can even use such a high-level four-word word, and you use it so appropriately." ”
Li Xiuman smiled and pointed at Zheng Xiyi, "Don't open the topic, just say whatever you want." There are only three of us in this house, one is your own sister, and I am your uncle, can I still settle accounts with you because of what you said?"
Zheng Xiyi pointed at Lin Xiyin, "Uncle Man, you have a lot, even if I say something wrong, I won't be physically punished, my sister may not be." ”
Li Xiuman shook his head and said: "I can control everyone else, but I really can't control Director Lin Xiyin, she wants to beat you as a sister instead of a director, what can I do." ”
Zheng Xiyi said to Li Xiuman with a sad and angry face: "Uncle Man, you just said that one is a sister and the other is an uncle, why don't you turn your face and don't recognize it, Uncle Man, you can't do this, talking doesn't count." ”
Li Xiuman was just about to explain, but Lin Xiyin said coldly, "Uncle Man, you have been pulled away from the topic by him." ”
Li Xiuman stroked his forehead speechlessly, and kept reminding himself not to let Zheng Xiyi ramble around, who knew that in the end, the topic was still ripped away, it was really impossible to prevent it.
Lin Xiyin really wanted to be an invisible person without speaking, but he didn't expect that such a shrewd person as Li Xiuman was also fooled by Zheng Xiyi, and if he didn't remind him, he was afraid that this building would not know where to go.
Zheng Xiyi glanced at Lin Xiyin, but today he greatly offended Lin Witch, and now he didn't dare to play a temper with Lin Xiyin, so he still dealt with Li Xiuman first.
"Uncle Man, I haven't thought much about this, but I think that since Uncle Man, you have already thought of holding a trainee conference with various idol brokerage companies, it at least shows that Uncle Man has an idea about this conference in your heart, but you haven't completely thought it through. Uncle Man, you have already come up with a new project, how to make it a reality should be the business of other staff, as a director, you can't finish everyone's work, and the company won't pay you so many salaries. ”
Li Xiuman has been the leader of S.M for more than ten years, and this truth naturally does not need to be taught by Zheng Xiyi, but the leaders of the older generation have this problem, and they must bow down to everything, while they are tired to death and scold their subordinates for not doing their work well, although they know that it is not a good thing to do all the work under them, which is not conducive to the development of the company, but these people just can't help it, Li Xiuman is also such a leader.
"Eh, Xiyi, I understand what you said, but I don't think much about it and I feel uneasy, and now I don't have a specific job anyway, so I'll do this first. ”
Zheng Xiyi looked at Li Xiuman, who was a little weak, and he remembered that Li Xiuman would not officially return to S.M until the shareholders' meeting and council meeting after the year.
"Isn't this about to be the New Year, after the New Year's shareholders' meeting, I'm afraid that Uncle Man, you won't be able to be idle if you want to. ”
Li Xiuman shook his head slowly: "I thought a lot before I came back this time, and I saw and heard a lot after I came back, especially today I chatted with President Li Haoyan of DSP, who has been forcibly asked to retire by the doctor." Looking at his today, thinking about my tomorrow, I finally made up my mind that I would not have any requirements at the shareholders' meeting after the year, and if I could avoid prison when the case was resolved, I would go home more to accompany the old woman in my family. ”
Zheng Xiyi is really puzzled this time, is Li Xiuman showing weakness or is he telling the truth? Although the history he knows is not like this, Li Xiuman will have to be entangled with Kim Yingmin for at least four or five years, but what if history has become different from before? In his previous life, he didn't have such a troublemaker.
He glanced at Lin Xiyin, and Lin Xiyin also looked at him with puzzled eyes, obviously it was the first time he heard Li Xiuman say this.
Zheng Xiyi didn't delve into the truth, anyway, he didn't plan to have much say in S.M in the past two years, everything will wait for TVXQ and Han Geng to split, then is the best time to do it.
"Uncle Man is right, after all, he has worked hard for so many years, so it is better to enjoy life and accompany Aunt Man by the way. ”
Li Xiuman seemed to be recalling something, the expression on his face was a little dazed, and it took a few minutes before he woke up, "Oh, you see, I'm really talking about wandering my mind now, I'm old, I'm really old." Xiyi, let's not talk about this for now, as for handing it over to the people below to do it, it will be after today, you can tell me your thoughts first. ”
Zheng Xiyi saw that he couldn't escape, so he had to bow his head and think for a moment, of course the trainee all-hands meeting of several major idol brokerage companies is not a bad thing, although there are pros and cons, but in fact, the pros still outweigh the disadvantages, but Zheng Xiyi needs to consider how to answer carefully to avoid exposing too much information to Li Xiuman.
It is no longer the first ten years, and the major brokerage companies are closed to the country, and they can't wait for their artists and trainees to get along with other brokerage companies. What's more, in two years, smartphones will fully occupy the market, SNS platforms, IM software will reach the pinnacle of the throne, and it is simply impossible to stick to their trainees and not go out to communicate with others.
At that time, the main reason why trainees and artists were not allowed to get acquainted with each other and even asked to be hostile to each other was that the social atmosphere was conservative, and it was not easy to find a good seedling and persuade parents to send their children to do IDOL.
After 98 years of economic crisis and the baptism of a new cultural founding policy, South Korean parents are not as resistant to doing IDOL as before, and even families like Choi so-young and Choi Si-won are not opposed to their children doing IDOL, which shows that Korean folk customs are slowly changing. S.M's routine public selection every weekend is almost around the small yellow building, and since the source of trainees is no longer a problem, there is no point in blocking it again. While there is still the possibility of good seedlings being pried away, Zheng believes that even without this joint conference, Zheng Xiyi would have been pried away, at least Zheng Xiyi has seen scouts from other companies talk to children waiting in line for public selection outside the company over the weekend.