Although in 1995, the most powerful animation production company in China can only be undoubtedly the Jiji Animation Studio led by Meng Zhe, but it is still the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio that dominates the entire animation industry in China.

Many television stations, including CCTV, also have animation production departments, but the old and large-scale Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio still brings together most of China's animation production talents, and if you go all out, you can easily produce 5,000 minutes or more of animation every year...... As we all know, Chinese cartoons use the format of more than ten minutes per episode, so with the opening and ending credits that can be used multiple times in one production, 5000 minutes is more than 500 episodes of domestic cartoons!

The problem is that this is only theoretical data – in fact, from 1993 to 1995, the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio shot about 500 minutes of animation a year.

During this period, the cartoons produced by the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio accounted for about 80% of the total source of cartoons in China.

So the problem comes, from CCTV to provincial TV stations to county and city TV stations in China, there are hundreds of TV stations in large and small sizes!

Even if there is no children's channel in this era, even if every TV station in this era only inserts one or two episodes of cartoons for children at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, such as "Big Windmill" and "Animation City", even if a cartoon can be repeated on multiple TV stations...... But even if it is only the core CCTV, it needs close to 4,000 minutes of cartoons every year!

Therefore, the mere 500-minute animation produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio every year can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in the face of this huge market.

Therefore, in this era, it is natural that a large number of foreign cartoons, especially those of Yuben, appear on TV - after all, in this era, radio and television still have restrictions on foreign animations.

To say that the radio and television of this era is indeed quite enlightened, for example, in 92 and 93, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio produced a gangster-themed cartoon "Special Team" with animals as the protagonist, which is a rare cartoon in domestic cartoons in this era with a plot that is not inferior.

Of course, in fact, many episodes of animation made by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio are actually quite good, for example, "Mutual Baby" is wrong...... is "Gourd Baby", such as "Shuke and Beta" written by the fairy tale king Zheng Yuanjie...... But if you pay a little attention, you will find that Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio is more of a single-episode animated feature film than a multi-episode animated film in the serial mode.

To say, it doesn't matter if you like to make single-episode cartoons, isn't Ghibli also only making animated films and not getting involved in TV animation? Aren't there all kinds of truth in the animated films made by Ghibli?

But the biggest difference between Shangmei Film and Ghibli is that Ghibli is more commercial than Shangmei Film in this era, so in order to ensure that they recover their funds and make profits, they will try to preach the truth in the twists and turns of the story and exquisite pictures, and the goal is to focus on the animated film market from beginning to end.

Shangmei Film is different, if you do it seriously, it was not until 1999 that Shangmei Film finally opened its mind to try to enter the commercial animated film market and made the commercial animated film "Baolian Lantern".

found Jiang Wen, Liang Tian, Chen Peisi and others to do dubbing, and found Zhang Xinzhe and Coco Li in the opening and ending area of the record "Baolian Lantern", which received a box office data of 29 million after its release, and successfully killed the American animated film "Mulan", which was released at the same time but only received a box office of more than 10 million in the Chinese market.

The number one box office figure of this domestic animated film was not broken by the 33 million of "Fengyunjue" until 2008 - considering the price change, in fact, the box office revenue of "Fengyunjue" may not be better than that of "Baolian Lantern".

Therefore, after Meng Zhe figured out the script of the animated movie, he first thought of finding Meiying to discuss cooperation.

But Meng Zhe also knew that if he ran to Shangmei Film with a draft script like this, he would definitely make money from the animated movie he made...... If you can't say more than three words, you will be served tea and sent away.

Even if people are still in a big pot rice system, if they can't make people feel that the animated movies they make can really make a lot of money, fools are willing to invest in cooperation?

During this period, although because of the emergence of the 5155 Project, Shangmei Film has received some financial allocations, but it is still said that it is still tight, and it is likely that it will lose a lot of money, and it is probably unwilling to do it.

Therefore, Meng Zhe must find a way to make the people of Shangmei Film believe that the animated movies made can indeed make real money.

So, with this idea, Meng Zhe found Yoshida's and asked Yoshida to help him collect the box office data of the TV animation that had been produced in the theatrical version of the animated film. After Yoshida patted his chest and promised that he would complete the task, Meng Zhe found people to do market research on the streets of several large cities in "Anime Boy", computer networks, and printed forms...... While Meng Zhe was busy with these things, Kong Lan finally flew back from the other side of the ocean, and after completing the investigation of Blizzard, she successfully exchanged 5% of the equity of Wild Lan Entertainment Software Company for the same proportion of Blizzard Entertainment equity.

This result is already ideal for Meng Zhe, and the good news is not limited to this - Bian Xiaochun and others of Crazy Lan Entertainment Software have completed the work of sinicization and interface modification of ICQ, and produced the first version of QQ software that Meng Zhe wanted.

Originally, Meng Zhe planned to assign the operation of QQ to Wild Lan Entertainment Software, but now that he has exchanged shares with Blizzard...... With the idea of never letting Blizzard take advantage of us, Meng Zhe temporarily assigned the operation of QQ to the network maintainers responsible for maintaining the starting point Chinese network and hao123.

Later, Meng Zhe simply went to register a leather bag company called 'Shengteng Network'...... Others, including Kong Lan, didn't understand why Meng Zhe had such a strange name as Sheng Teng.

"Uh, is this one? Be...... I hope that this country will be able to meet again and soar to the sky like a dragon. ”

Meng Zhe replied, of course he wouldn't tell everyone that he just gave such a name to remember Shanda and Tencent, who were robbed by him.

"Heh, Brother Xiao Zhe, you are becoming more and more connotative."

Kong Lan nodded with satisfaction, and then took over the work of pulling investment for the animated film "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day".

In Kong Lan's words, it is: "Brother Xiao Zhe, your talent is wasted in this kind of place, just go and draw your favorite comics and make up your favorite stories...... Leave these trivial things to my sister and I'll do it! ”

And after Kong Lan took over, the first thing he did was to send money to Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio - it was really to send money to Shangmei Film, Kong Lan found a deputy director of Shangmei Film, and entrusted part of the storyboard animation production of the third season of "Sword of Immortals" and "i-am-legend" to Shangmei Film Production.

Meng Zhe was somewhat puzzled by Sister Lan's move, because although Jiji Animation was producing two cartoons at the same time, there was not much pressure to produce a cartoon of about 1,000 minutes a year at the current scale of Jiji Animation.

In other words, Gigi Animation can produce about 50 episodes of more than 20-minute TV animation every year, and it can be scheduled for a full year according to the model of one episode per week.

"Oh, it's simple...... What you want must be given first. ”

After Meng Zhe asked why, Kong Lan replied with a smile, in Kong Lan's opinion, this is just a small means to take a little money to get a big one.

"Shangmeiying, which used to be the best in the group, is now seriously underworked, so even if they don't talk about the sudden rise of Jiji Animation, they will be a little unhappy in their hearts. If you talk about cooperation directly, even if you come up with various survey data, people may not be willing to let go of their knots. So, we need to do some foreshadowing work in advance. Seeing that Meng Zhe still didn't understand, Kong Lan continued to explain: "Let them also participate in the production, and share the glory of being welcomed by the whole of China and successfully entering the international TV animation projection market...... Brother Xiao Zhe, don't you think that after this connection, they will subconsciously think that our Jiji Animation and their Shangmei Movie are friends or even family? ”

When Kong Lan said this, Meng Zhe finally suddenly realized and was amazed by Kong Lan's methods - Sister Lan's micro breasts! Sister Lan rippling!

With this bond of friendship at the bottom, and then taking out the survey data of those animated films, the probability of success of pulling Shangmei Film on the thief ship is really much higher!

So, Meng Zhe, who felt that he really couldn't play these things, obediently pulled a group of screenwriters and Guan Yingluo, whom he had ordered, and went away behind closed doors to improve the script of "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day".

Meng Zhe's original sketch script that took a whole night to drum up has now been enriched or modified a lot of things, such as Meng Zhe's setting of arranging two evildoers for the third master of the fox and concealing and bullying his subordinates, which was greatly changed at the suggestion of Guan Yingluo after reading the draft script.

Guan Yingluo, who has finished the book "The Emperor of Qin" in the light novel magazine, after reading the draft script of "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day", thinks that Meng Zhe arranges two subordinates for the third master of the fox It is very good, but she thinks that it would be more interesting if one of those two subordinates could be replaced by the demon clan.

"If you can show the feeling that the demon is more affectionate than people like the butterfly demon Caiyi in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", in order to repay her gratitude without complaint or regret, and exchange her position for ten years of Yangshou...... It's perfect! ”

Guan Yingluo, who proposed the revision, said to Meng Zhe that the reason why Guan Yingluo knew the storyline of the Sword and Fairy Generation so early was because Meng Zhe asked someone to get the traditional version of the Sword and Fairy Generation game in memory of him, and was seen by Guan Yingluo when he played it at a certain time.

Then, Meng Zhe's laptop was unceremoniously occupied by Guan Yingluo for a total of two days and three nights for a whole weekend.

When Guan Yingluo, whose eyes were red, returned the laptop to Meng Zhe, Meng Zhe seized the opportunity to cancel her sentimental crying nose with a good meal, while Guan Yingluo resolutely refused to admit that her eyes were red from crying, but just staying up all night to stay up red.

When Meng Zhe elaborated on the difference between staying up late and crying red eyes, the crazy Guan Yingluo directly knocked Meng Zhe to the ground, and then the little girl rode on Meng Zhe's stomach and glared at Meng Zhe with red eyes, and said fiercely: "I didn't cry!" Who would cry when they play a game?! ”

"Uh-huh, no crying, no crying! I read it wrong! Meng Zhe nodded hurriedly.

Hey, even if Guan Yingluo has been playing the game for two or three days, his body is a little weak, but Meng Zhe is still not an opponent.

So this kind of Guan Yingluo's crazy and arrogant situation, Meng Zhe felt that he still followed Guan Yingluo's words to be safer, and when he thought of the unlucky guy who was almost smashed by Guan Yingluo's 'bird egg' when he was kidnapped last year, Meng Zhe couldn't help but feel a little painful. What's more, it is still the same situation where Guan Yingluo pushed Meng Zhe down, landed on the ground and rode on his stomach...... Well, the place where Meng Zhe was pushed down was actually not the ground, but the sofa in his editor-in-chief's office that could be used as a bedman, because Guan Yingluo was actually still measured even if she was crazy.

"I said Yingluo, you can't always be so violent and discordant! Honest, loyal and kind me, you can say that if you bully, you will bully, and if you want to push down, you can push down, but other male compatriots Kemu has such a good temper as me! Hum...... When you can't get married in the future, you will slowly regret not being at the beginning! ”

From the not too big 'peaks', Meng Zhe, who looked up at Guan Yingluo's face, couldn't help but complain like this, and his eyes were slightly evil and weird - did the good thing of being 'pushed down' by a girl actually happen to me?

It's just that Meng Zhe regretted this complaining joke as soon as he said it - counting it, Meng Zhe has known Guan Yingluo for more than two years, if Meng Zhe just regarded Guan Yingluo as an ordinary friend with a different surname at the beginning, then the weight of Guan Yingluo in Meng Zhe's heart after getting along in the past two years has actually reached the level of confidant.

Meng Zhe is very aware of the fact that Guan Yingluo likes him, and he also knows that he also appreciates or likes Guan Yingluo in his heart, but he has always carefully maintained the relationship between the two between friends and lovers, and sensibly did not let himself do anything further.

But now that Meng Zhe said this, there is some ambiguity in it, bullying or something, pushing down or something...... In this case, it is almost a joke.

Sure enough, after listening to Meng Zhe's words, Guan Yingluo's face turned red at first, but then she thought of the Jiang sisters, so her eyes became a little gloomy: "If you can't get married, you can't get married!" Big deal, I'll be single for the rest of my life! ”

If Meng Zhe still remembered, he would definitely find that the answer given by Guan Yingluo this time was not the same as the answer he gave when he unintentionally said similar words almost half a year ago.

In this way, the atmosphere between the two became awkward, and in the end, Guan Yingluo stood up generously and stretched out her hand to pull Meng Zhe up.

In order to resolve this embarrassment, Meng Zhe took the initiative to take out the draft script of "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day" to Guan Yingluo, and Guan Yingluo really read it seriously, and also put forward her revision suggestions very seriously...... So, Meng Zhe, who is good at learning from everyone, accepted Guan Yingluo's suggestion from the advice after a little thought, and took the initiative to invite Guan Yingluo to join the screenwriting team of "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day".

(To be continued)