St. Mark's Basilica stands in Piazza San Marco in the heart of Venice. Founded in 9 AD, it was the largest church in medieval Europe. It has been renovated many times throughout its history, and by the end of the 20th century, St. Mark's Basilica was no longer the old Venetian building it once was.

Walking through the church, Lin Xiaozhi, who has a little knowledge of architectural styles, has seen a variety of buildings in ancient Byzantine style, ancient Roman style, medieval Gothic style and Renaissance Italian style from the large building complex of the church. However, it can be seen that the previous designers of the church are true masters, and in their hands the different architectural styles are combined in a very harmonious and beautiful way, which is incomparable.

"Dangdang......"

In the side hall of the church, there is a beautiful and moving "Wedding March", which is Wagner's "Wedding Cantata". Lin Xiaozhi was pulled by Li Jiaxin to stop, this woman was looking at the side hall with an excited face at this time, where there was a pair of men and women wearing snow-white holy wedding dresses and black suits, and dozens of children holding flowers and wedding dresses, entering the main hall of the church in a neat row.

This is a service launched by St. Mark's Basilica to provide mass baptism to ten groups of 100 couples per day. Of course, even if you are baptized in the church, you must report it to the government department where you live, otherwise it will not have any legal effect at all, but it is more just a feeling. And the church, although it 'doesn't charge a fee,' it does stipulate that 'tithes' must be paid to the Father.

Feeling that Li Jiaxin was holding his right arm a little tighter, Lin Xiaozhi looked up at the side hall and looked, "Do you want to play?" ”

"Hmm" she nodded slightly, looking at the white wedding dress with such eagerness that she didn't even notice that her nails had sunk into the flesh of Lin Xiaozhi's arm. Although the slight tingling sensation in his arm made Lin Xiaozhi a little uncomfortable, he saw that the woman's attention was all taken away by it, and he didn't want to interrupt the vision for the future in her eyes, so he just took her to the church donation next to her to apply for the next group of baptisms.

This + one tax, of course, is not the kind of tax in the Middle Ages, when the Holy See forced the donation of one-tenth of the family property, but if there are couples who want to play, they have to donate 100,000 lira to the church. This money is equivalent to about 60 US dollars and about 500 or 600 Hong Kong dollars.

Lin Xiaozhi had just donated the tax, and handed the sign he received to Li Jiaxin, who was flushed with excitement, and was just about to go to the preparation place next to him under the leadership of a priest to prepare, when he heard two suppressed noises not far from the donation office. At first glance, when he heard that the other party seemed to be using the mainland Mandarin he was familiar with, he couldn't help but say sorry to the priest who was leading them, and the person also stood still, turned around and looked at the place where the noise came from.

"Yimou, are we going to play with this too? Do you want to come to Italy once?"

The one who spoke was a young woman, a standard East Asian with yellow skin and black hair, who seemed to be twenty-four or five years old, slightly younger than Lin Xiaozhi himself. She was dressed in a well-washed dress, but it looked like it was a few years ago, and her long curly hair was casually draped over her shoulders.

When he saw this woman for the first time, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes were bulging, and his mouth grew a lot. He knows this woman, or he is too familiar with him, I am afraid he can't be familiar with it, because this woman named Gong Li is the first actress with international reputation in the mainland since the reform and opening up of New China, and the Chinese media even created a word for her called 'International Gong, her popularity in the Chinese entertainment industry, especially in the mainland entertainment circle, can be said to be known to everyone, which is not an exaggeration.

It's Gong Li, how did she end up here?

Seeing the woman clearly, Lin Xiaozhi was not in a hurry to go over and prepare. Anyway, St. Mark's Basilica only holds baptisms for ten groups a day, and not every couple is willing to spend money on it, so it will take a while to get enough people. And when he saw the ′ people here, Lin Xiaozhi was also interested, and he was a little curious about how Gong Li was here

There was also a man standing with Gong Li, because it was facing away from them, so Lin Xiaozhi couldn't be sure who the other party was. However, it doesn't look very tall, it seems to be shorter than Li Jiaxin, just looking at the background makes him feel a little familiar, but he can't be sure who it is for a while.

However, Lin Xiaozhi soon knew who the other party was.

"Let's go, what's so fun about a foreigner's marriage game, let's go back to the hotel quickly, don't let Manager Tong and them wait too long."

The man opened his mouth and said, his Mandarin is not very standard, there is a strong flavor of northern Shaanxi, Lin Xiaozhi has not followed the anti-Japanese war films in northern Shaanxi before, and he walked a few steps here and immediately heard that this man should be from Shaanxi.

"But Yimou, it's rare for us to come to Venice once, will you play with me once?" Gong Li was still looking at the donation office, as if he had decided that there were no tourists from the mainland, thinking that foreigners could not understand their conversation, so the two of them were talking in mainland Mandarin. But this time, Lin Xiaozhi heard clearly the title of the man in her words, and gossip about International Gong and another big director in the mainland film industry suddenly appeared in his head, and in an instant he finally guessed who this man standing here with Gong Li was.

"Darling"

Li Jiaxin pulled his arm, Lin Xiaozhi came back to his senses and looked at her, made a shushing gesture, and whispered: "It seems that I met an acquaintance, let's wait for a while, a group of baptisms were held over there just now, we are not in a hurry for this meeting"

"Hmm" Li Jiaxin tightened the arm of Lin Xiaozhi who was hugging him, and he had been following Lin Xiaozhi for a while, and noticed that he seemed to like docile women very much, and she usually restrained her little temperament many times, and followed her man.

"Good" Lin Xiaozhi pinched her nose and led her towards the two who were arguing.

"Ali, let's go. What's so fun about wearing a wedding dress......"

The man with his back to them seemed to be a little impatient, and was about to pull Gong Li outside, but the stubbornness of the woman seemed to have risen, and he just stood there and was unwilling to go.

When Lin Xiaozhi and the two of them approached, they heard Gong Li stubbornly say something: "Isn't it sixty-seven dollars, I'm fine." If I beg you, you can accompany me once."

As soon as she said this, the man who was pulling her away immediately turned around, and his face was as gloomy as iron, "More than sixty dollars, do you think I just can't bear this money?" Ali, we are in a foreign country, and we have to pay attention to personal influence. Now the whole world is looking at the mainland with colored glasses, and we came to Venice this time to say that it is estimated that it will be difficult to do things. And you're not ignorant of me...... Let's go back first, it's not good to get out."

As soon as the man turned his face, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes suddenly lit up. As he guessed in his heart, this man is really Zhang Yimou, in the future mainland film industry, Zhang Yimou's three words are synonymous with power, one of the only few big directors in the mainland film industry, although Lin Xiaozhi has never liked his movies, but he has to admit that Lao Mouzi's photography skills are also first-class in the entire world.

Unexpectedly, Lao Mouzi really talked to International Gong, and Lin Xiaozhi was also very surprised. In his previous life, he had heard rumors in the circle that Lao Mouzi had talked to International Gong for a period of time, and he divorced his ex-wife for this reason, but later he didn't know what Lu Dao was for, and the two failed to get together. Looking at their performance, it is only 89 years old and now they have obviously hooked up, but I don't know where the development of Lu Dao has become.

However, after confirming that the other party was Lao Mouzi, Lin Xiaozhi's head turned quickly. After waking up for a year, he buried himself in hardship, and only now has Xinya and him, Lin Xiaozhi is an ambitious man, and power and women are also things he chases. Now that the wealth of more than 100 million yuan cannot satisfy Lin Xiaozhi, after taking Li Jiaxin's stunning colors for the sake of confinement, his ambitions have swelled unprecedentedly. If you have one, you want more, and with 100 million squandering, you start calculating how you can earn billions, tens of billions, or even a fortune that you can't squander in a lifetime.

Before he was reborn, he was just an insider, and he didn't remember a few major financial events, and what Lin Xiaozhi relied on was just the thousands of movies he had watched in his head, as well as the development history of Chinese films that he had studied and watched. In recent years, Hollywood movies have been marching east and west, attacking the whole world. Now he has no ambition and confidence to stop Hollywood from conquering Hong Kong films, and a few years later, as soon as the golden decade of Hong Kong films ends, Hollywood's "Jurassic Park" blows the horn of attack, maybe Hong Kong movies will be defeated.

Hong Kong films can die, but New Asia Film Company can't die. Lin Xiaozhi does not have the idea of carrying the banner of Hong Kong films, which does not mean that he can sit back and watch his film company be defeated by Hollywood for a long time. Therefore, he worked hard to make and invest in films, and when the company just had a little foundation, he did not hesitate to sell part of his shares to tie up Meiya, a distributor with distribution channels throughout Southeast Asia, and he actively expanded overseas distribution channels such as Japan, Europe and even the United States.

After all, Hong Kong is too small, but relying only on Europe, the United States and Japan and other largest box office markets in the future world, Lin Xiaozhi is still a little worried. In his heart, the most suitable future market for himself and Xinya Company is actually the mainland market that will replace Britain and Japan in the future and become the second largest box office in the world. And the special system of the red countries also ensures that Hollywood films cannot unscrupulously enter this second box office market in a short period of time, just as they destroyed the resistance of various countries in Europe.

Even if he is taking precautions, Lin Xiaozhi, who is 89 years old, has already begun to think about how to open the market door for Hong Kong films in the mainland, or for his own film company.

The appearance of Lao Mouzi and International Gong made Lin Xiaozhi's head suddenly turn quickly. Thinking that this year is 89 years, after the mainland storm blows, not to mention Hong Kong now, almost the entire Western society is paying attention to that strange world, the mainland needs friends, and Lin Xiaozhi needs the 'mainland market,'.

"Perhaps, the weight of the fact that I only banned company employees from participating in and making remarks related to the mainland was too light...... Maybe......

A vague thought gradually began to take shape in his head, and Lin Xiaozhi's eyes couldn't help but narrow.