I saw that the editor-in-chief Gao was interested, but he slowed down the speed of his speech. "Hong Kong's film companies have funds and manpower, but they lack relationships, lack of market channels, coupled with the restrictive policies of the Ministry of Culture, they need collaborators, and they don't care what the relationship between your magazine and the ministry is, how influential it is, what they value is your network resources in the ministry, the project resources you can master, which itself is the capital that you have accumulated for decades, isn't it?"www.biquge.info They do the market, the next step is to promote the movie, the company, and the actors, and they need a propaganda position, right? They want to expand the mainland market, they want to open up all kinds of joints, and they also need people who know the way to help them operate, right? Therefore, there will be no problems on the film company's side, the best of both worlds, and you can open as high as possible. ”

On the other hand, although it is said that the ministry and the magazine have been separated from the system, which is the general trend, everyone understands that the cultural industry is an industry that spends money, and it is an industry that cannot pursue short-term benefits but needs long-term investment. If you don't use the funds of the ministry and raise your own funds, but what you do is a major event in the cultural exchanges between Beijing and Hong Kong, and it is a political achievement for the leaders of the ministry, how can the ministry not give you a preferential policy and the right to monopolize the market?

"The film industry will definitely grow explosively in the next few years, and Hong Kong people know this better than us. That's why I said, four or five years is enough time for you to turn around. In the first year, with the help of foreign capital and the Hong Kong team, a brand of a trendy film magazine was erected, and the current magazine number was used to achieve marketization as soon as possible. Next year, with the return of Hong Kong, a Beijing-Hong Kong Film Festival will be set up to expand its influence. In the third year, I controlled the right to approve several joint venture films, and held a few good books in my hands. In the fourth year, there is a certain amount of funds, integrating theaters and cinemas in the cultural system, controlling the projection terminals, Lao Gao, these things are done, and it is difficult for you to make a profit. ”

After I finished saying this in one breath, the cigarette in the hand of the editor-in-chief Gao didn't take a puff, and burned through the filter, he didn't know whether he was excited, or he was burned by the smoke, and he jumped up all of a sudden.

"Lao Chang, a word to wake up the dreamer, you are not a mortal, it seems that I have been burning incense and worshiping the Buddha for the past two years, it turned out that it was you who begged for it, this four-step plan is really clever, I can't do these few things, I have been mixed in the ministry for decades, don't say it, although my temple is not big, but there are deep cows, ghosts, snakes and gods inside, those three aunts and six aunts who are stuffed in, it is time for them to come out and make some contributions to the magazine. Editor-in-Chief Gao excitedly paced in the office.

"Lao Chang, you will be the noble person of our magazine from today onwards, no, you are a consultant, the chief consultant, but I am now short of funds, and I can't give you a salary in the short term, but you can rest assured, I, if you send charcoal in the snow, I will not forget my original intention, the matter is done, I will double the compensation for you." ”

I smiled and hurriedly interjected: "Editor-in-Chief Gao, you just have this heart, this is not successful, mainly because you are not with me." Let's be a gentleman's friend, don't be polite, you still introduce me to the Red Mansion, if this matter is not solved, there is a problem with the film, and our plan to turn over is a castle in the air. ”

"Yes, yes, you're right, I'll tell you about it carefully. Editor-in-Chief Gao took out two packets of Chinese from the office drawer, put them on the coffee table, and spoke slowly while recalling them seriously.

When Editor-in-Chief Gao came to the Red Mansion, the magazine had already moved in for two years. When he first arrived, he really wanted to clean up all the rooms on the second to fourth floors and increase the office space, so that everyone didn't have to be tied together. But the old man of the magazine told him a few things and dispelled his idea.

One thing is that there were a lot of ghosts, snakes, and gods in this old building during the ten years of turmoil, most of them were locked up on the third or fourth floor, and some people committed suicide when they couldn't survive the torture. In the early eighties, the Red Mansion could not find a janitor, and even if it was recruited, he would resign after a month at most. Later, it wasn't until 88 years that an old Zhang Tou, who had a very bad ear, came and worked steadily until now.

The second thing is that when the magazine first moved in, it was cleaned up on the second floor, and there were more than a dozen people working on it. At that time, the efficiency of the magazine was not bad, and there were often cases of working overtime at night to catch up with the manuscript, and when I was tired, I took a nap on it. People who work on the second floor often have nightmares, and they don't feel anything at first, but after a long time, everyone finds that the dream scenes are all in the Red Mansion, and everyone's dreams are very similar to each other: bumping into female ghosts with capes in different places. The people on the second floor were a little scared and moved down to the first floor one after another.

The third thing is that around 90 or 91 years, there was a broken mirror case in the Red Mansion that shocked the city of Beijing. A female intern of a magazine committed suicide by locking the door in the bathroom on the second floor, breaking the mirror on the wall, and using the fragments of the mirror to cut the carotid artery. Everyone speculated that she committed suicide due to relationship problems, but after that, many people saw this intern in the bathroom mirror of the Red Mansion. Sometimes you turn on the faucet, look down and wash your face, and when you look up again, a woman with a bloody face will appear in the mirror. Sometimes, when you're in the bathroom, you suddenly feel someone staring at you coldly behind you, and when you look back, there's nothing, but someone still sees the woman in the mirror.

In short, the more this story spread, the more people in the magazine were panicked, and then they simply took off the mirrors in the bathroom, which was considered peaceful.

However, the editor-in-chief Gao was still very energetic to get to the bottom of it, so he simply ran to the library in his spare time, and went to the archives of the ministry to do some research, and slowly figured out the origin of the Red House after a few months.

The building was built in about 1931, it was originally a private residence of a warlord, the warlord fell in 35 years, and the house fell into the hands of the Hu family, a rice merchant in Beijing, and the Hu family fled to the south in 37 years, and the Red Mansion was occupied by the Japanese gendarmerie, and after liberation, it was used as the office of the central government.

If you want to talk about the murder in this old mansion, there is another story that has to be told. At the end of March and 6, the house was handed over to Xu Weibang, a famous film director in the Republic of China. Xu Weibang is the originator of Chinese horror thriller films, and at the beginning of the third century, his classic "Singing in the Middle of the Night" was sweeping the country, and his next film chose the Red Chamber as the filming location.

However, after the July 7 Incident, Japan's war of aggression against China broke out, and Beiping was occupied. When Beiping fell, Xu Weibang happened to be in Shanghai, and then rushed to Wuhan and escaped, while more than a dozen other members of the crew were trapped in Beiping and had been living in the Red Mansion.

I don't know if Xu Weibang's movies have always had anti-Japanese feelings and became a thorn in the side of the Japanese, or the crew was originally a dark line planted by the government of the Republic of China in Beiping, at the end of 37, the Japanese military police raided the Red Mansion, arrested more than a dozen people, and later all of them were secretly executed, and the Red Mansion also became the headquarters of the Japanese military police until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

The execution of the crew members by the Japanese military police was very secret and did not appear in the newspapers, but the old residents in the alley at that time were very impressed by this incident, but most of them were spread in the market in the form of legendary stories, for example, a martial arts master once came to the Red Mansion to rescue an actress and killed four devils with his bare hands. There are also famous Peking Opera actors in the capital who went to the gendarmerie to mediate, and performed a big drama in the Red Chamber for three days and three nights, and finally the gendarmerie released three people, etc., and the editor-in-chief Gao did not know the authenticity of this matter.

When Producer Lin found him and proposed to rent the Red Mansion to make a movie, Editor-in-Chief Gao was reluctant in his heart, rent is one thing, after all, the magazine moved too much, and he had to move back after the filming was over. Coincidentally, the afternoon before Producer Lin came to him, Editor-in-Chief Gao took a nap in his office.

I felt like I had come out of the office in a daze, the corridor was full of props and equipment for filming, and many people were busy around the hall, as if a scene was about to start. But the staff who shoot the movie are not wearing the current clothes, all the costumes of the Republic of China, and the furnishings of the hall are also very different from the current ones, but there is a new luxury. It's even more wrong to look at the photographic equipment, although the machine is new, but it is clearly antique-level equipment.

Editor-in-chief Gao was surprised, and two staff members came next to him, and couldn't help but say, put on a set of robes and coats for him, and pressed him on the chair, while dusting his face, he said: "Where did you go, let's look around, your scene will start filming soon." Editor-in-Chief Gao was thinking about asking a few questions, the staff picked up a paint box, smeared some plasma-like liquid on his face, and then pushed him to the middle of the hall, behind the camera, a middle-aged man wearing a neat costume and a pipe in his mouth, nodded to him, and said, "Pay attention to the lights, the fourteenth, start." ”

Two dazzling pillars of light were projected from obliquely above, shaking so that Gao couldn't open his eyes, everything around him was hazy, and he could no longer hear any sound on the huge set.

When Editor-in-Chief Gao woke up, he was lying on his desk, and the sun's slanting sun hit him.

After this strange dream, Producer Lin appeared, which made Editor-in-Chief Gao feel that all this was providence in the dark, and without thinking about it anymore, he hurriedly signed an agreement with Producer Lin to rent out the Red Mansion.

When I came out of the office of the editor-in-chief Gao, he kept sending me to the mouth of the alley, holding my hand, and repeatedly admonishing: "Lao Chang, on the side of Producer Lin and the film company, if you help me do the work, they must feel the sincerity of my cooperation, and I will write a report to the ministry tomorrow." ”

I smiled at him and shook his hand heavily, "Don't worry, Editor-in-Chief Gao, what I want to express to them is your background and mobility, and I believe that progress will be made soon." ”

When I returned to the Red Mansion, I was not in a hurry to match the affairs of the magazine and the film company, but seriously watched the rivalry between Cheng Manlin and the actor on the set.

(There are people who are good at hiding, or they can ward off the cold, or they can go to great hunger, or they can live forever.) With his heart and ignorance, Shen Yiyi has nothing to do, and he has nothing to do. You can't be confused by all worries, and you can't get death. It is to know the body with the body of the big body, the body knows the gods, and the body knows the truth, which is the capital of the auspicious people. --"The Book of Transformation") (To be continued.) )