What is a movie? People were not interested in seeing him for this kind of novelty, so from the morning to the evening, before the movie was about to start, only a dozen tickets were sold.

Aithea said to Liu Xie: "I saw that there is no Your Majesty, the ticket price is too expensive, so there are few people watching." ”

Liu Xie smiled: "It doesn't matter, the first batch of viewers plus those viewers who watched the palace for free last night, they are living advertisements." ”

Althea asked, "Aren't the people in the palace allowed to watch tonight's movie?" ”

Liu Xie said: "Of course, if you and I want to see it, you need to buy a ticket." ”

"Huh?" Aithea looked regretful, but then she turned her worries into joy and said, "It's okay, it's only 50 yuan, I can still afford it." ”

"No, no," Liu Xie said, "We are VIP seats, and we need to be accompanied by guards, so if we look at it, a ticket is one or two silver." ”

"Huh? That's too expensive, right? ”

"Ai Concubine," Liu Xie said, "Your Baicheng Palace is so luxurious, and it is inlaid with gold and precious stones everywhere, can't you even afford a tael of silver?" ”

"Not really," said Athea, "for the royal family, a mere tael of silver is nothing, but it costs a tael just to watch a movie, and I don't think it's worth it." ”

"Do you want to see it?"

"Of course you have to see it!"

Liu Xie said: "I will come out of this silver tonight." ”

"No, Your Majesty," said Athea, "a mere tael of silver, which I don't care about, but of course I'll come with it." ”

"Haha, okay!"

After dinner, Aithea took Liu Xie to the temporary theater early, and waited for the movie to start, Liu Xie laughed secretly in his heart: This black and white movie has no special effects, and this Aisia actually watched it with relish.

However, for this era, movies are a new thing, and it is inevitable that people in this era will be addicted.

A movie will be finished soon, and Althea is still unsatisfied, looking at Liu Xie with a blank eye, Liu Xie smiled and said: "The water flows for a long time, let's continue tomorrow." ”

Althea sighed and said, "Okay then. ”

And the audience who bought tickets to watch the movie were reluctant to leave after watching it, and it seemed that they were completely conquered by the movie. Liu Xie saw such a scene and said in his heart: It seems that the output of this movie in the future is indeed a very good method.

Under the leadership of Athea, the palace began to build a formal cinema not far from the palace, and planned to use the cinema to make money, and it will continue to be promoted in the future.

However, the temporary open-air cinema at the entrance of the palace continues to sell tickets for movies.

More than a dozen tickets were sold on the first day, but the 500 tickets sold out on the second day. Even the tickets for the VIP seats were sold out, and Aithia said to Liu Xie: "It's okay now, the VIP seats are gone, I can't see the movie at night!" Your Majesty, I won't do it! ”

Liu Xie smiled and said: "Hey, it's rare that you like watching movies so much, otherwise, I will use a little privilege, and after the movie ends in the evening, I will take the projector to the dormitory and show it to you alone, how about it?" ”

"Really?" Althea smiled, "That's great! ”

After saying that, he kissed Liu Xie fiercely on the face. Liu Xie also can't stand this Althea, not only beautiful, but also coquettish, no wonder the little dictionary will rank her second in the group of flowers.

Liu Xie hugged her in his arms and said, "You little goblin, I really can't stand you." ”

Aithea said coquettishly: "Then you will let me watch at least one movie every day." ”

"Okay, I promise you."

"Your Majesty, you are so good."

"Oh my God, Athea, a little movie can buy you."

"Well, I'm so good at buying!"

Liu Xie said again: "Let's run a royal film industry, this will be very profitable, and it can also make extra money for our Baicheng royal family." ”

Aithea said: "But I don't feel like I can make much, just talk about today's movie ticket income, 500 chapter movie tickets, and 25 taels of silver." ”

"You," Liu Xie said with a smile, "This is an open-air theater, which can only be shown at night, and after the theater is completed, it can be screened day and night, 10 halls, each hall is 250 taels a day, and ten halls are 2500 taels, which is a day's income." Of course, this is a full seat, we can conservatively calculate it according to the half-seat rate, that is, more than 1200 taels, how much is it in a year, have you calculated? ”

Aithea snapped her fingers and began to count, Liu Xie smiled and said, "Don't count it, it's 400,000 taels." ”

"Oh my God, so many!"

"Uh-huh, of course, this algorithm is more idealistic, let's be more conservative, according to half, that is 200,000 taels!"

200,000 taels of silver, equivalent to 40 million RMB today.

The reason why Liu Xie calculated like this is also because he has his ideas, first of all, in this era, there is no TV, there is no Internet, so there will be much more movies to watch than in the era before he was reborn! Therefore, the annual income of 200,000 taels can be regarded as a conservative algorithm.

Liu Xie continued: "And it's not just the income from movie tickets, but also related peripherals, such as peripherals related to movie content, figurines or something......"

Seeing Athea's bewildered look, he said: "In short, the movie-related industry flickers higher incomes. ”

"Your Majesty, it's really too late for you to come."

"Haha, in fact, it's only been three years since the movie was born. It used to be silent films, but now it can be watched with sound, and in less than a year, color movies will come out. ”

"Are there any more colored ones?"

Liu Xie said: "Of course, the world is colored, and of course future movies should also be colored." And ......"

"And what's wrong?"

"And soon, something more advanced than a movie will be born."

"What could it be?"

"TV! But it may take decades to do so. ”

"What is TV?"

Liu Xie briefly introduced to her what TV is, and introduced to her that after TV, there will be a cassette recorder, a computer and other things that will only exist in the future.

Althea was full of hope for the future and said, "Thank you to the gods and Buddhas for allowing me to live in this era. ”

The two of them stood on the balcony of the palace and saw that the open-air movie in the square had started, but unfortunately the angle was wrong, so although the curtain could not be seen on the second floor, Aithea looked anxiously below, Liu Xie smiled and said, "What are you anxious about?" I've promised you that I'll just show it to you alone at night. ”

"I'm not in a hurry," said Althea, pretending to be indifferent, and then pointed to the people climbing on a few big trees not far away, "I see that they don't buy tickets!" ”

(End of chapter)