Many people in the Hong Kong film industry know that Li Zuyong, the big boss of Yonghua, in addition to smoking two mouthfuls of hibiscus cream, also has three hobbies - smoking, drinking, and ......

Bah!

Wrong.

These three hobbies are: diamonds, studs, and crystal lamps.

Let's not talk about diamonds and studs, just the crystal lamp, in the sales world of Xiangjiang, there is a story about Li Zuyong.

The beginning of the story begins with the former tallest building in Hong Kong in Central, a lighting shop in the Sultan Building.

Because Li Zuyong likes to collect crystal lamps, he is very familiar with the owner of this shop. Every time the store buys new goods, the boss has to make a phone call to Li Zuyong.

Once Li Zuyong wore an old robe and ran to the store to look at the lighting, but it happened that the boss was not in the store, and the new guy didn't know the uncle.

As a result, the guy saw Li Zuyong's shabby dress, and he didn't like it, so he pulled him impatiently: "This is very expensive, don't touch it, touch it randomly, if it is broken, will you pay it or will I accompany you?"

Li Zuyong was naturally furious, took out a business card and slapped it on the glass cabinet, and shouted: "Heh, send me all the things hanging and placing in your store, big and small!"

Li Zuyong snorted coldly, seeing that the guy's face was extremely ugly, he finally had a bad breath in his heart, and immediately raised his eyebrows and walked away.

End of story.

So all the way down, Li Zuyong has saved a lot of crystal lamps, and when Yonghua shoots some western-style house sets, he doesn't need to borrow and rent lamps, just go directly to Li Zuyong's house to pick them up.

Therefore, this story has become one of the jokes of many Xiangjiang bosses instructing their own clerks.

However, this smile, I don't know if it is to laugh at the salesman's eyes and not know people, or to laugh at Li Zuyong to save face, but he didn't want to give the salesman a large amount of income for nothing.

The crystal lamps in this store were all sold out at once, and I am afraid that the commission will be soft.

As for stud, one of the three hobbies, there is nothing to say, but it should be mentioned that the reason why Li Zuyong met Zhang Shankun was when he went to the club to play stud, and met at the card table.

And the last diamond, Yang Qiu heard Li Zuyong's secretary A Chen mention it.

It is said that after Li Zuyong smoked hibiscus paste at home, he would often spread a piece of silk cloth on the bed in an interest, and then pour all the diamonds on the silk cloth, counting them one by one.

This is the so-called double stimulation of the art of ice and fire.

It can be seen from this that Li Zuyong's three hobbies plus smoking hibiscus cream are all money-consuming things, plus opening the set to make movies, it costs money like water.

If you can spend money, you must also be able to open source, otherwise you will be like a tree without roots, which will wither and die sooner or later.

But what about Li Zuyong's income? There is only Yonghua alone.

Then let's take a look at how much money Yonghua has made in the movies he has made in recent years.

In 1948, Yonghua was founded and made two movies, namely "The Soul of the Nation" and "The Secret History of the Qing Palace".

In the 49th year that Yang Qiu entered Yonghua, everyone knows what happened in this year, Yonghua was divided and infighting, and his vitality was greatly damaged, and even half of the filming of "The Fall of the Son" was burned by Li Zuyong himself.

Although Yonghua released eight movies this year, the money earned back was basically wasted.

After 50 years, Yonghua did not recover at all, and made a movie throughout the year. As for entering the 51st year, listening to Erye, the first movie of the year has just started......

For a small company like Yang Qiu, only about a dozen people have been signed, excluding the extra remuneration, just the salary, it will cost nearly 8,000 yuan every month.

What's more, Yonghua's kind of large company with nearly 200 people!

Yonghua sat there and did not move, and the monthly labor cost alone was a large amount.

In this situation, even if you have a mountain of gold at home, you can't hold it.

The little money that the Li family used to save when they were in the magic capital has slowly been consumed, and the checks signed by Li Zuyong now are already difficult to cash, and even Yonghua's labor costs have begun to delay.

"Some time ago, even Lu Yuanliang resigned. Erqi said with some indignation.

"Director Lu?" Yang Qiu was stunned for a while, and asked in surprise, "Why did he resign?"

"Ha, it's not that you're short of money!"

It turned out that some time ago, Lu Yuanliang saw that Yonghua was not doing well, so he thought that Fa'er would open source the company.

He is the director of Yonghua Studio, and the open-source method is in front of him.

We said a long time ago that Li Zuyong has a very strict control over Yonghua, and the middle and lower-level employees basically don't give you extra money to go out, and they are all kept in captivity in the company, and even the best and largest Yonghua studio in Xiangjiang is only for personal use.

So Lu Yuanliang's method is to rent out the empty Yonghua studio and shoot for others.

Such a good set, I use it once a year, and it's too wasteful to be there.

Lu Yuanliang's idea is naturally excellent, and now the average rent for each drama in Xiangjiang is basically about 25,000 Hong Kong dollars, even if he only shoots two dramas a month, one studio can get 50,000 yuan, and Yonghua's two studios add up, and he can earn 100,000 yuan a month.

This money can at least support the wages of the vast majority of Yonghua workers.

In addition, other companies rent this land, so they have to hire helpers, and by the way, they can also increase the additional income of the workers.

Kill more than one stone!

It can be seen that this suggestion is excellent for Yonghua.

But through the previous crystal lamp incident, we know that Li Zuyong is a person with an excellent face to the outside world.

So when Lu Yuanliang reported this plan to Li Zuyong, what was provoked was Li Zuyong's anger: "Are you demolishing my platform, where will I lose my face?"

……

The company's money is gone, what face do you need?!

When Lu Yuanliang was in the magic capital, he worked with Zhang Shankun in Xinhua, and he was already dissatisfied with Li Zuyong's exclusion of Zhang Shankun; at this time, seeing that Li Zuyong was like this, he suddenly knew that Li Zuyong was not a real entrepreneur, so he became disheartened.

Then, he just left.

"Hey——, things are not people. Yang Qiu let out a long sigh and suddenly asked, "By the way, where is Director Lu going now?"

Er Di took off his pipe and cleaned up the ashes, thought about it and said casually: "I heard that there was a recording studio on Fengde Road, and he was originally engaged in recording, but now he has returned to his profession." ”

"Oh......"

Listening to Er Qi's words, Yang Qiu nodded thoughtfully.

"Brother, brother, it's all ready. When Yang Qiu was stunned, Hu Jinquan ran over again.

"Are you sure?"

Hu Jinquan nodded and responded, "Sure." ”

"Okay, tell everyone to get ready, let's start shooting!"

"Good!"

Yang Qiu lowered his head, looked at the ignorant Jiang Zhannian, and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhanian, have you memorized the lines? ”

Jiang Zhannian glanced at his mother cautiously, and when he saw that he glanced at him encouragingly, he replied, "Okay." ”

"Then let's go. ”

Yang Qiu dragged Jiang Zhannian with one hand and walked to the corridor where he was about to shoot, and saw Liang Daren carefully sorting out the bakery uniform on his body, so he smiled and said, "What's wrong? You won't forget how to perform, right?"

"! Even if you forget me, you won't forget. Liang Daren hated and said angrily: "You are amazing, ask me to film, I have to post 3,000 Hong Kong dollars upside down." ”

"This is called product placement, if you don't want to, I can remove it for you, and 3,000 is still a friendship price, I have lost it. ”

"Friendship price, are you still losing?" Liang Daren's eyes widened.

"Uh-huh! yes. Yang Qiu nodded, picked up a bottle of soda next to him and said, "Look at Pepsi, as soon as we found the door, they agreed, and the price of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars was not returned." ”

"Twenty thousand? are they crazy?!"

"Well, it's possible. ”

Pepsi's reputation and sales are now being hung by Coca-Cola all over the world, and the leadership above is indeed going crazy and is advertising all over the world.

They have deep expectations for the influence of Yang Qiu, the No. 1 box office director in Hong Kong, throughout Southeast Asia.

Speaking of product placement, many Chinese may not be comfortable now, and few people have responded positively, except for Liang Daren, who participated in it for the sake of face, and everyone else has little interest.

Yang Qiu has the most, and because this is a modern drama, he has attracted a lot of clothing sponsorship from a garment factory, but the money is very small.

There is a long way to go in this product placement road!

After teasing Liang Daren, Yang Qiu turned sideways slightly, looked at Cao Dahua, who was dressed in a police uniform, and said, "Inspector Cao, I'm bothering you again this time." ”

"Ha, don't bother, just make a cameo. ”

"Then I'll thank you in advance, oh, by the way, what are you going to do on the set?"

"...... on the set" Cao Dahua's face was bitter, and he shook his head and said helplessly: "Now fix Shed B and deal with it, Shed A...... I'll talk about that later. ”

"Well, if you have any difficulties, don't forget to say anything if I can help. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. ”

Seeing that Cao Dahua was a little interested, Yang Qiu didn't dare to ask any more, turned to Hu Jinquan and said, "Jinquan, let's get ready to start." ”

"Good!"

Hu Jinquan responded, and immediately waved his arms and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Everyone prepare, everyone prepares, audition, ready to audition!"