Chapter 701: Big Waves
"Mr. Zhou Xiao, something happened to Tang Min and Zhao Jiamin." Zhou Xiao, who was filming the night scene of the ama in the Tokyo studio, got the news a little later that day.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"They were harassed by local thugs." Said the staff.
"Harassment!? How's the two of them!? Zhou Xiao's heart immediately became nervous, but he couldn't let these two girls be hurt.
"They're fine, but Ye Xuanchen was beaten very badly." The staff said.
"Ye Xuanchen? Who? Ah, the photographer. Zhou Xiao even forgot who this Ye Xuanchen was, and only remembered it by reasoning and having only a little impression.
"Yes, he was beaten badly." Said the staff.
"Where are they now?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"The three girls are in the police station, Ye Xuanchen has been sent to the hospital, and he has protected the three girls." The staff said.
"Is Ye Xuanchen's injury serious?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Fortunately, it should be fine to rest for two or three days."
"What about the beaters?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"It's also been taken into custody by the police." The staff said.
"By the way, what is the mental state of the members? Can it continue? Zhou Xiao asked.
"There should be no problem, and they don't have any hatred for it." The staff said.
"I know, let's do it, I don't have much time lately, let Uncle Inoue deal with this matter, don't let those people go, of course, I have to reward Ye Xuanchen well, and let Uncle Inoue do a good job of the psychological work of the two members in the past. Don't worry them too much. Zhou Xiaodao.
The next morning, Japan's major television stations reported on the attack on two Chinese girls who were hitchhikers.
Originally, Zhou Xiao's plan was not announced, but was ready to surprise the audience when it was ready to be broadcast. But because of this sudden incident, the whole project was inadvertently announced.
In fact, there was not much attention paid to the project itself, but the fact that two Chinese girls were attacked by the Japanese stabbed a hornet's nest.
For the Chinese, the Japanese naturally have a psychological advantage, and in their view, China lags behind Japan in all places, especially in civilization.
Outcome. It would be too embarrassing for the self-proclaimed Japanese to do such an uncivilized thing.
For a while, the Internet was full of voices that made the three men apologize.
This also makes this project to some extent a fire before it is broadcast.
Strictly speaking, this kind of thing is definitely not a bad thing for Zhou Xiao's side.
Although some people were beaten, the attention and news that followed were not covered. Although the project has not been broadcast for a single episode, the two girls' hitchhiker car plan has relied on a news to let most of the audience know them.
From this aspect, this matter is indeed a good thing, but for those who want to deal with Zhou Xiao. The same event. Even if it is a good thing for Zhou Xiao, they can take advantage of it.
The first to strike was Masako Hamada.
On the evening of two days after the incident was reported, Masako Hamada said on his radio program: "The timing of this incident is really interesting, don't you think it's a coincidence that this kind of thing happened when the program was about to be broadcast? And, you know, it was only one photographer at AZX who was injured from the start?
The injury of a small employee was exchanged for the popularity of the entire project, and the media all over Japan promoted him. This is the ...... Earned, Zhou Xiao's talent in publicity...... Better than Yasuto Akimoto. ”
Masako Hamada does not have any evidence. It's been speculation all along, but that's the crux of this kind of thing.
As an entertainer and public figure with considerable influence in Japan, his existence has a large number of followers, and his words, there are quite a few people who will not consider the truth and purpose at all but will not hesitate to believe it!
More importantly, whether Japanese or Chinese, many people are easy to believe after listening to negative words, but these people often ignore the truth behind them, for them, since you have this scandal, you must have done this, and whatever you do later, it is just your pale explanation.
The most important thing is that although there is no evidence for the point put forward by Hamada Masako, it will feel very reasonable when you look left and right, for Zhou Xiao's side, this matter does bring considerable benefits, if you only look at the results, they do have a reason to do so.
As a result, just one sentence from Masako Hamada made the public opinion of the whole of Japan instantly become subtle.
Of course, Zhou Xiao's control of the Japanese TV will not say much, but the Japanese TV and Zhou Xiao's side control many media other than the media, especially the online media, there are more discussions and speculations about this matter, and there are many malicious speculations in it.
After analyzing it, the technical staff on the AZX side found that many of these things were sent out in some places regularly, and the other party was also very careful to hide themselves, making it difficult for the company to catch them through technical means.
Zhou Xiao naturally would not sit still, and for several days, the company began to publish evidence, announcing the physical condition of the injured Ye Xuanchen, etc., trying to save the company's image that had been suspected.
Masako Hamada is just the beginning, and after him, the evaluation on the Internet began to change in a more subtle direction under the manipulation of people with good intentions.
"In fact, this practice is very common in China, the country itself is a collection of lies and liars, Zhou Xiao must have found Chinese staff to come up with such a thing."
"What a powerful genius Zhou Xiao is, he was so amazing when he first debuted, but look at what he has done in the past few years, when he revolves around AKB, especially after more and more contact with Chinese? A morning drama, I see what he means is to make a big commercial for AKB48, and there are these promotional methods. It's just outrageous......"
From his debut in 2000 to the present, Zhou Xiao has never been attacked so fiercely, he and his things. Not to mention AKB, a very closely linked group, even actors such as Maki Horikita, and music groups such as the head of the biological unit have been greatly affected!
The forces dominated by conservatives, various showbiz people, critics and reporters opened fire one after another, and the AZX side was quite caught off guard.
The characteristic of these attacks is the almost complete non-use of a definite affirmative tone. Reviews and reports that always begin with "speculate", "supposedly", "estimated". If AZX wants to defend the truth, it can't sue a few people in court.
AZX had no choice but to vent his anger on the three Japanese men who beat Ye Xuanchen, and the three of them were already guilty of intentional injury, and they were also deliberately hurting public figures. The charge of causing a huge impact was prosecuted. Zhou Xiao hired a big lawyer here, and tried to sue these three guys until they were sentenced and their families went bankrupt!
In fact, Zhou Xiao's side is not completely powerless to fight back, except for the incident, like Ri TV, Deguang and Fu, etc., have a good relationship with Zhou Xiao, and almost all the forces on the same chariot have issued their voices in support of Zhou Xiao and AZX.
But the most important thing is that those who originally had a good cooperation with Zhou Xiao. But the relationship is not good enough to be as good as Zhou Xiao and Deguang Kazufu.
For example, Genesys, such as Fujidai. For example, LDH.
Among these forces, some of them showed an attitude of being more inclined to AZX, such as LDH, Hiro and Ai Hui's Matsuura Katsuto and the two of them also had a meal with Zhou Xiao to suggest ways for Zhou Xiao, but this in itself shows that this is only limited to their own tendencies and does not represent their company, so LDH and Ai Hui have not made any other moves on this matter.
Zhou Xiao estimated that it was not completely impossible to let them make a move, but on the other hand, they would definitely ask for some benefits and would not go all out to help him like Yasushi Akimoto and Kazuo Tokumitsu, regardless of the return.
As for Genesis and Fujitai, even if it is Iijima Sanzhi, who has always had a good cooperation with Zhou Xiao, Zhou Xiao feels that it is already very good that they can not fall into the ground, and on the other hand, if they come over to help him, they may worry Zhou Xiao a little more.
God knows if their help harbored any evil intentions.
The silence of these forces and the media is the main reason why Zhou Xiao is in a weak position, he and his AZX, at this time, showed the "original form", this original form is that when you can make money for others, and cooperation can help others obtain benefits, there will be many people and many company forces around you, but when you can't provide everything, but may make people fall into a bad quagmire, those who stay by your side are only real friends and comrades-in-arms.
Zhou Xiao doesn't blame Jennisy and Fujitai and other forces, what kind of relationship and what kind of performance, ask yourself, if this happened to Jennis, he probably wouldn't have made a move, with his careful thinking in his previous life, it would be good not to fall into the ground.
It's as if he's worried about Denis in turn.
Zhou Xiao, who was troubled by these attacks, actually didn't do much related work himself, his mind was focused on the filming of AKB and morning dramas, especially the later work used up a lot of his time.
Not doing relevant work does not mean that he is not aware of the situation he is facing, the voice of the outside world is getting louder and louder, Zhou Xiao seems to have become a bad man who does not hesitate to let his staff be beaten and put his members in danger in order to make the project popular.
The AKB girls didn't even believe in the slightest.
What has Zhou Xiao done from 2005 to the present, the girls themselves know best, and he will put the girls in danger in order to become popular? The members knew that this was impossible, even if these two people were Chinese girls who had just joined the AKB group.
But the key to Zhou Xiao's characteristic is only known to the girls of AKB, not to the outside world, to Zhao Jiamin and Tang Min, not to Ye Xuanchen, and not to the Chinese media.
The outside world doesn't know, so that the outside public opinion has a lot of dark speculations about Zhou Xiao.
The three people who were hitchhiking didn't know, so they also had some small whispers about Zhou Xiao.
The Chinese media don't know...... But of course, the Chinese media was on Zhou Xiao's side, so the Chinese media fried the pot.
In fact, when the news first broke out, the Chinese media had already gone crazy once, and the harassment of two Chinese girls in Japan was simply the most unbearable thing for the Chinese people, and half of China's online media were shocked by this news. Although it was only a small harassment, the news generated much more discussion and attention in China than in Japan.
If it weren't for China, there would be no behind-the-scenes driver of this news. Maybe the bombing on China's side will be even more severe.
Most ordinary Chinese people don't know exactly what happened, but most people don't need to know, they just need to know that Zhou Xiao, the Chinese who gave Chinese people a long face outside, and the Chinese girls in his idol group were bullied in Japan, and no one cares about the reason and reason.
There is a lot of solidarity on China's side, but a very important issue is. Do these solidarities work?
It's useful, but it's not useful to Zhou Xiao, but to those who are against him.
"Look, I said Zhou Xiao is still Chinese, right? No matter how much he did. How many Japanese things have been created, he is Chinese in his bones, so when something really happens, this group of Chinese fellows will jump out to support him. ”
"Don't support Zhou Xiao anymore. In the past, we thought that Zhou Xiao was a thorough Japanese who grew up in Japan. Now it seems that he is still Chinese in his bones! ”
This kind of comment has a bad heart, although it is inconvenient for public figures on TV to say, but there are as many such comments as there are on the Internet.
Obviously, this is also Zhou Xiao's guide to the opponent's move.
Zhou Xiao fell into a dilemma, although there were many people helping him, although there were also many public opinion inclined to him.
But the opposing forces are a common ideological form in a country. In Japan, where the conservative trend is prevalent, it is self-evident what a huge force this is!
In fact, Zhou Xiao is not completely without a way to deal with it.
Shortly after it came out. He received a call from a big man.
It's really a big shot, Yoshihiko Noda, the current Prime Minister of Japan.
Although he has not been able to do it for too long, even if it is only for a day, he is still the prime minister.
The other party's request was something that Zhou Xiao could never agree.
"If Mr. Zhou Xiao is willing to join our party, we are willing to immediately use state organs to refute rumors and restore Mr. Zhou Xiao's right to reputation.
And in the future, if Mr. Zhou is interested, with Mr. Zhou's image and status, entering the political arena will definitely be twice the result with half the effort......"
If it weren't for the Prime Minister's phone call, it would be too outrageous, Zhou Xiao really wanted to scold this product and then hang up the phone......
After politely saying that he needed to think about it, Zhou Xiao hung up the other party's phone after greetings, as for consideration? Thinking about your sister, don't you think I don't have enough to do?
The predicament also proves that real people don't think so much about helping you, even if they themselves know that helping you to speak may hurt your image, and may even affect their future, but they will never stop because of this, because you have protected them for seven years, and for them, this time they can finally help you do something in turn.
On the AKB radio program, the people who appeared on this day were Minami Takahashi, Yuko Oshima, and Rino Shihara.
Under the deliberate guidance of the three of them, the topic quickly turned to the problems encountered by the two Chinese girls this time, as well as Zhou Xiao.
Yuko said: "I think there is one thing that everyone should admit first, that is, if you want to say that the person who knows Zhou Xiao's brother best in all of Japan must be a member of our AKB." ”
"Yes, we have been working with Brother Zhou Xiao for six or seven years." Finger Hara said from the side.
"Judging from what we know about Brother Zhou Xiao, I can guarantee that he is definitely not the kind of person who will put the members in danger for the sake of publicity, his love for AKB and idols is incomparable to anyone, no matter what we say outside, we only recognize the part we see in our eyes, that is, Brother Zhou Xiao has countless hearts for us in the past few years."
"Yes, there is no better producer in the world, boss and brother!"
The three girls spoke very plainly but sincerely in the show, and after the three girls finished the show, a more touching scene appeared.
There are more than 200 girls in the entire AKB Group, and almost all of them have posted their articles on social media!
Some people recalled the past and said two or three things about Zhou Xiao and her to prove how much he cared about them.
Some have just entered AKB and really don't have much memory with Zhou Xiao, so they are simply lyrical and express their admiration for Zhou Xiao.
Some people even said angrily: "I really don't know what those people think, has Brother Zhou Xiao done less in recent years?" I'm sure he'd rather get hurt himself than risk us in the slightest! ”
The influence of an AKB member saying this will not be very large, and perhaps some people will laugh at her for being brainwashed by Zhou Xiao.
But the influence of more than 200 girls speaking out together on the Internet is huge.
Takahashi Nan said on the Internet: "I can guarantee that we say that these things are definitely not required by the operating company, and there is only one reason why we say these things on the Internet now, that is, Brother Zhou Xiao is really a good person, he is worthy of us doing this, although we are just girls, just a group of idols who sing and dance, if someone wants to hurt him, we will fight for Brother Zhou Xiao!" ”
There's nothing more exciting in the world.
The AKB girls were completely spontaneous, and the entire network, Zhou Xiao and the conservatives opposite, both stopped temporarily.
No one would have thought that a group of simple girls, a group of girls who don't even seem to be very good at singing and dancing, could make such a firm and powerful voice at this time! (To be continued......)