Chapter 138: Iron Striking Requires Its Own Hardness
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January 30, '79, six o'clock in the morning.
It's still early, and the city has just woken up from its slumber. The ATV building is already brightly lit. Hundreds of staff members stick to their posts and work hard. From time to time, there are staff members with excited faces, trotting all the way to deliver various materials required for the program, such as videotapes, copy films, and documents.
Guan Fei stood in the broadcast hall, looking up at a large-screen color TV hanging above.
On TV, a huge airport is shown. Through the star-striped flagpole at the airport, you can know that this is in the United States. The sky around the airport is clear, as far as the camera can see, outside the airport, in the waiting hall, and on the runway, there are crowded crowds, guards guarding the blockade line, and waving the national flags of China and the United States everywhere.
An ATV reporter, holding a microphone, interviews a U.S. official.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd: "It's coming!" Here it comes! ”
The camera lens quickly turns and turns to the sky.
The sky is blue, the sky is like a wash, and at the end of the intersection of heaven and earth, a little white point of light is rapidly expanding, and its outline can be seen clearly.
Airplane, this is a 747 airliner.
The cameraman shot in close-ups, trying to maximize the image, and the red flag logo on the side of the fuselage was faintly visible as the plane adjusted its attitude.
"Really, really!"
A huge cheer suddenly erupted in the studio hall, and the staff, whether from the mainland or the local area, couldn't help but jump up, hugging their colleagues tightly, and tears of excitement in their eyes.
At this moment, outside the building, there were also bursts of cheers, which were particularly clear in the early morning of the night.
At this historic moment, all citizens of Hong Kong Island are watching a special report on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States through ATV's morning news program.
Although it is not possible to broadcast live, all the video data is transmitted through microwaves, and it is inevitable that there will be delays. In fact, Chief One arrived in Washington last night, and at this time it is estimated that the talks with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski have ended and are resting. But for the millions of people who witnessed this scene through their TV screens, the impact in their minds was still strong.
Two great powers hostile to each other and countries with sharply opposing political views suddenly gave up their 30 years of hostility and came together.
Looking at the special plane slowly landing on the screen, after the hatch opened, the No. 1 leader who appeared at the hatch with his wife and waved to the welcoming Chinese and American teams, the cheers inside and outside the studio reached their peak in an instant. Huge waves of sound vibrated violently in the studio, howling like a fierce wind over the entire city, resounding in the sky.
Guan Fei looked at the screen, smiled and walked down the gangway from the gangway, turned around, and whispered to Zhou Xiaoshan and the others who were still in excitement behind him and couldn't control themselves: "Let's go!" It's time for us to go! ”
"Huh? Is this leaving? Zhou Xiaoshan has served as Guan Fei's guard for many years, and he is still habitually vigilant by his side, although he is very excited at the moment, he quickly heard what he said, looked up at the screen with some surprise and reluctance, and said in embarrassment.
"Yes......" Guan Fei's gaze slowly swept over the ecstatic staff, his heart was like water, and he said calmly, "The curtain of history has been opened." And the history that belongs to us is still waiting for us to open it with our own hands. It's the right time to go back. ”
This is the third historical event he has experienced since he came to this era.
All the staff in the studio still fell into irrepressible joy, Guan Fei took Zhou Xiaoshan, Pan Meifeng, Li Qing and more than ten other people, and quietly left the studio hall.
Instead of taking the elevator to the ground floor, they went down the stairs one step at a time, looking at everything around them with nostalgia along the way.
When passing the office area on the second floor, Guan Fei paused slightly and looked through the glass door for a few seconds.
There are still not many people in the TV drama production center, and after getting the script handed over by Guan Fei, the production center is divided into several film crews, and at this time they are filming a new TV series in the mainland to make up for the gap after the filming of "Xun Qin". After the high-intensity training of "Xun Qin", under the guidance of Guan Fei, several directors and screenwriters have mastered the plot arrangement, lens grasp, scene scheduling, and action design of filming new martial arts.
Of course, because of the short exposure time, it is impossible to say that it is fully absorbed immediately. But about the batch of scripts left by Fei, give them time to ponder slowly, although the quality of the TV series will inevitably decline, it will not be too outrageous.
After all, they have also been in this industry for more than ten or twenty years, and they already have their own style. I believe that after absorbing what they have learned from Guan Fei and integrating it into their own style, they will make works that are not inferior to Guan Fei, or even better than him.
In the other area, the animation department is diametrically opposed to the TV production center where there are two or three kittens, and it is crowded with people, and every seat is full of people.
There are a dozen teams there, seven of which are working on an assembly line for the Transformers follow-up, each responsible for one episode.
Before Guan Fei, he had already pulled out the outline of the follow-up plot, and sketched dozens of backbone pictures for each episode of animation. Within the production team, different artists are arranged to draw characters, scene design, and fill in respectively, so as to plump them up according to the main drawings and plot development given by Guan Fei, and expand them into cartoons that can play 25-minute episodes.
Under the direction of the chief planner, each artist focuses on his or her own part of the content. The composition is drawn individually, taken into negatives by the technical department, and then overlapped by different negatives to form a complete animated picture.
With this kind of underwater work, a group can complete one episode per week.
Seven groups, just enough to ensure the progress requirement of the TV station to broadcast one episode a day.
In order to cooperate with their work, post-production, editing, and dubbing personnel are also busy all day long to keep up with the daily broadcast progress.
The other five groups are based on the story outline and map provided by Guan Fei, respectively, "Macross Fortress" and "Devouring the Starry Sky".
Unlike "Transformers" and "Macross Fortress", which belong to Japanese and American animations, "Devouring the Starry Sky" is an authentic domestic animation, adapted from the fantasy novel of the same name developed thirty years later. Its content has both science fiction elements, and there is a certain shadow of ancient Chinese mythology, it is a more suitable animation for adaptation, which can be more easily accepted by Asian audiences, and it will become another pioneering masterpiece that leads the times in this era.
Guan Fei's gaze turned to the innermost part of the office area, where the situation was different. More than a dozen staff members wore suits and leather shoes, and their hair was combed neatly. Each of them has a glass cubicle in the ** office, and they look at ease in their manners, like a senior white-collar worker.
This is the business department.
It is thanks to their efforts that ATV's advertising revenue has been rising steadily, and the goal of turning the TV station into a profit has been successfully achieved. And through the operation, the sample tape was sent to Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other Asian cultural coverage areas, with the help of the influence of Hong Kong's cultural center status, and more importantly, the high quality of the program, successfully promoted "Transformers" and "Xun Qin". In addition to Taiwan's resolute rejection based on ideology, more than a dozen South Korean, Japanese, and Southeast Asian television stations have proposed to introduce them, and they have now reached the stage of substantive contact.
Guan Fei took one last look, smiled slightly, walked down quickly, and as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the building, he heard a sharp "quack" sound, and a luxury car braked sharply and stopped under the steps.
Before the car could stop, Lin Xiuliang couldn't wait to push open the door, jumped out of it, raised his head, and saw Guan Fei and his party coming out of the building.
"Chairman......" He took three steps and two steps, and ran up, "Although I know that you are leaving, but this is too sudden, and the TV station colleagues have not had time to hold a send-off cocktail party for you......"
His expression was complicated.
Guan Fei's influence on the TV station is too great, and it can be said that ATV can re-emerge, and most of the credit goes to him. snatching the hands of the British people of the TV station, renting equipment, enriching the staff, writing scripts, and even starring in person, almost all of the most popular animations, news, TV dramas, and variety shows on the TV station are completed by him.
It was he who took advantage of the well-received resumption of the TV station to convene a board of directors and force the remaining British shareholders to either agree to the capital increase or endure further dilution of their shares. As a result, several shareholders were forced to come up with real money to help the TV station pay off its debts against their will, thus removing the last dark cloud hanging over ATV's head.
Clear-eyed people know that without Guan Fei, let alone the TV station, which quickly grabbed more than half of the ratings among the three channels, it is difficult to say whether it can survive.
It is no exaggeration to say that ATV can do without him Lin Xiuliang, but it must not be without Guan Fei!
ATV is an ATV that belongs to Guan Fei alone!
As long as Guan Fei is here, Lin Xiuliang can only lie in his shadow and follow the other party's baton, while the rest of the TV station only listens to him.
But at this moment, Guan Fei took the initiative to return, but Lin Xiuliang was reluctant, as if he was watching a mountain that he could rely on. In the future, he may face all kinds of difficulties in the operation of TV stations, the difficulties of the Hong Kong government, and the obstruction of British shareholders.
Guan Fei smiled and held his hand: "No way, there are still a lot of things over there, I have to go back." I'll come back often in the future, and it's not a parting of life and death, so it's better to skip the wine party or something. Mr. Lin, after I leave, the TV station will depend on you. I have given a power of attorney to Mr. Liu Zhengying, and when I am not in Hong Kong, Mao Xiuliang will be my sole agent. Don't worry, I told him that he would never interfere in his business, but only listen to your report once a regular time and then pass it on to me. Now that communication is so developed, if there is a change involving major matters, you or Mao Xiuliang can call me or send a fax, and there will be no mistakes. If I need to help, I can be back in two or three days with a phone call! So, next, the TV station will do everything, please! ”
"Good, good! Don't worry, I will follow the plan you set, and I will actively report to Mr. Mao Xiuliang if there is something, and I will not be arbitrary! Lin Xiuliang listened to his well-organized arrangement, and was greatly relieved, happily held his hand, and said very interestingly.
He happily looked up at the building, looking triumphant. From now on, he is finally the owner of this place!
Because there was no prior notice, most people didn't know about it when Guan Fei left.
The convoy with them and his party drove to the border of Hong Kong and Guangdong, and only a few people such as Lin Xiuliang, Shang Chengli, and Qi Lei were in their cars.
"Xiaoshan, come back with me, are you reluctant?" Sitting in the same car with Zhou Xiaoshan, Guan Fei looked at Zhou Xiaoshan beside him and asked with concern.
When he came to this era, the first thing he encountered was Xiaoshan, who was still immature at that time and planned to join the People's Army.
For him, Xiaoshan is one of the people he cares about the most in this world. In order to protect him, he was transferred to a guard and kept with him at all times. For so many years, it was a great comfort for him to watch the innocent and naïve hill who would only run around behind his ass grow up day by day.
This time, not only Xiaoshan went back with him, but also Pan Meifeng, who wanted to see the situation of the military division with her own eyes. and five or six former guard squad fighters who returned to the military sub-district in rotation.
"It's a little reluctant." Zhou Xiaoshan, who was already a little fat, still did not hide anything in front of him as before, and honestly admitted, "After all, Hong Kong is so prosperous, there are so many interesting things, and the good things in the world can be bought here as long as there is money." But ......, I think I should go back! Because we are not only envious of the prosperity of Hong Kong, but should strive to build our place into the same as Hong Kong, no, it should be more prosperous than it! ”
"Hahahaha!" Guan Fei was in a happy mood and laughed loudly. He could see that Xiaoshan's words were from the heart and not false, but he still wanted to tease him: "You didn't say that just to please me, did you?" ”
Pan Meifeng sat in front of the co-pilot, trying to glance at Zhou Xiaoshan.
Zhou Xiaoshan didn't look at her, and said, "No!" What I'm saying is true! If you had asked me to go back when I had just arrived in Hong Kong for a month or two, I would probably still be unhappy. But through this incident, I suddenly realized that I was too naïve before, thinking that the outside world is so beautiful that as long as I have the ability, I can achieve success. The facts taught me that the outside world is no more gentle than the jungle, in fact, it is more cruel and predatory! This time we were able to successfully snatch a large piece of fat from the British population, not because we were very capable, but because we had a strong backing behind us, and the British had to back down.
If you want to do something, you have to have a cover.
Even if he is a street vendor who makes a living, he knows how to find a big brother to rely on. If he believes that hard work pays off, then he can be bankrupted by extortion hooligans in a matter of minutes.
But the mountains are falling, and the sea is dry.
Better do it than wish it done.
This time, we did a few things that seemed to be going well, but in fact they were frightening. In any of these links, as long as the domestic support for us is slightly reduced, it is bound to fail.
The reason why China is helping us is because what we want to do happens to be in line with domestic interests. And in the future, when we are faced with more, bigger, and more complex situations, or when it is inconvenient for China to express its position, I dare not guarantee that this backing will always be unwavering in helping us resist the covetousness of others.
Hong Kong is still the land of China, and it is so difficult to do things, if you want to develop your career to the world, how much resistance should there be?
Commander, I used to secretly complain to you before, why did you cling to the military division. At that time, I thought that if you let go of that side and devote yourself to the cause of Hong Kong, we will definitely do bigger and develop faster, and the whole world will be our playground.
But after all this series of events, I don't think so.
On the contrary, I don't think we're physically strong enough. Now the plate in Hong Kong is too big, too big to be able to afford it.
At a time when the foundation that underpins our business is not more solid and has a greater say, it is enough to keep the existing interests, let alone expand again.
Therefore, although I am reluctant to see the prosperity of Hong Kong, I am willing to return to the military sub-district with you to lay a more solid foundation. After walking a lot of places, I suddenly have a strong feeling, that is, the military division is our home, and our real strong backing!
As long as the base is there, even if we bump into the head outside, at least, we still have a place to go back! ”
Guan Fei listened to him talk endlessly, and suddenly found that the little brother in front of him, he was really mature, and he had grown up enough to be his right-hand man!
After listening to Xiaoshan's words, Guan Fei didn't say anything, hugged him in his arms, and patted him on the back vigorously.