As the owner of the film company, Lin Zixuan made a decision, and this matter was settled.

Everyone is very excited, a film investment of 200,000 yuan, this is definitely a record in the Chinese film industry.

200,000 oceans is nothing in the hands of warlords, and it is the same in foreign foreign banks.

In 1923, HSBC spent 10 million taels of silver to build an office building in Shanghai, which shows that it was wealthy.

But compared to the lives of the people in this era, this number is too large.

The average monthly salary of an ordinary worker in Shanghai is less than 30 yuan, and a worker can earn less than 200,000 silver dollars in his lifetime.

In China's film industry, the investment in a silent film is only a few thousand, most of the sound films are tens of thousands, and the investment in a film is more than 50,000 yuan, and only star film companies dare to try.

This news is sure to cause a sensation when it gets out.

Lin Zixuan is well aware of the current situation of Chinese films.

200,000 to shoot a movie, he will be considered crazy, or considered a loser.

But it's a good publicity stunt.

Anyway, he just claimed to have invested 200,000 yuan, and the money was not spent by then, and it was still in his pocket.

He was stimulated by "Gone with the Wind" and wanted to try to shoot Chinese-style blockbusters, Chinese actors are not paid well, and they can spend huge sums of money to shoot naval battle scenes and make a large-scale war epic movie.

This will be a benchmark for Chinese films.

Moreover, he can also show Japan's ambitions for aggression against China through this film, even if it is not profitable, it is worth it.

The creation of the script was naturally in charge of Lin Zixuan. However, he will only write an outline.

In the later "First Sino-Japanese Sea Battle", Deng Shichang's experience is used as a clue to tell the process of the creation of the Chinese Navy.

Year 1877. A group of young students boarded the ship with the dream of becoming a strong country and went to England to enter the Royal Naval College.

There they boarded the latest warships. Learn the most advanced knowledge, and personally sail back to the motherland in the ironclad giant ship purchased by the Qing government with a lot of money.

There, too, a group of Japanese students, with the ambition of a strong country, sailed to the far east on a warship purchased by the Japanese government, and the young Japanese emperor was waiting for them.

This is where the contest between the two countries begins.

The Qing government was rotten, and although Guangxu wanted to change the law to become stronger, it was Cixi who was in power, and the change failed.

The Emperor of Japan implemented the Meiji Restoration and established a constitutional monarchy. Make Japan strong.

Aggressive ambitions finally led Japan to wage war for the First Sino-Japanese War, in which the Japanese army invaded China and carried out a massacre that exterminated the entire city at Arthur.

At this time, the Summer Palace in Beijing was full of joyful songs, and the 60th birthday ceremony of the Empress Dowager Cixi was in full swing.

The specific storyline is the responsibility of the company's screenwriters, and a lot of historical records have to be consulted.

What Lin Zixuan cares about is not the storyline, nor the fierce naval battle, or the national hero Deng Shichang, who wants to tell the truth about Japan's invasion of China through the Japanese emperor in the movie.

Japan is a small country. Resources are insufficient, and if you want to strengthen yourself, you have to invade your neighbors.

This is the truth about the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the Japanese invasion of China in the future.

It's a very simple truth, but unfortunately many people don't understand it. In particular, those international students who have returned from studying in Japan believe that Japan is a friendly neighbor and will not invade China.

Or rather, they don't want to believe it in their hearts.

Lin Zixuan wanted to use this film to remind the Chinese. A strong Japan looks at a weakened China, will it not be moved?

Of course. He doesn't write this plot into the script, but adds it at the end. He didn't want the Japanese to get in the way.

It is foreseeable that as long as the star film company announces the plan to shoot "Jiawu Fengyun", it will attract great attention from the Japanese and use various means to prevent the filming of the movie.

In this case, it is inevitable that the movie script will be leaked, and the Japanese spy agency will even infiltrate the company.

Japanese espionage in China has been around for a long time.

In 1914, Kotaro Munakata, a Japanese, established the Oriental News Agency, Japan's first news agency in China, in Shanghai.

This news agency was nominally founded by Japanese non-governmental figures, but in fact it is a Japanese agency responsible for collecting Chinese intelligence.

Kotaro Munakata came to China in 1884 and traveled through the nine northern provinces to gather intelligence based at the Lezendo Pharmacy in Hankow.

In 1890, he assisted Arao Seiki in establishing the Nissin Institute of Trade in Shanghai, where he served as a student supervisor, and at the same time was commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of the Navy to engage in intelligence work in China.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, he served as a translator for the Japanese army, and risked his life to infiltrate Weihaiwei Military Port to reconnoiter Chinese naval intelligence.

And successfully escaped after exposing his whereabouts, and made great contributions, for which he was received by the Japanese emperor exceptionally.

If Lin Zixuan wrote the plot that was unfavorable to Japan in the script, the Japanese would definitely do their best to prevent the filming of the movie, and even resorted to violent means, so he put it in his mind for the time being.

He would publish a less intense script with a story that was acceptable to the Japanese.

In China, filming China's history and eulogizing China's national heroes is not easy for the Japanese to stop.

But when it comes to actual shooting, it doesn't necessarily follow the script.

For example, in the Lushun Massacre, Japan made careful arrangements to cover up the truth.

In June 1894, the Japanese Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy jointly issued an order strictly prohibiting all newspapers in Japan from publishing military news, so as not to leak the Japanese army's attempt to invade China.

After the Lushun massacre, Britain's Central News Agency and Reuters were successively bribed by the Japanese not to send relevant information.

Only the British newspaper The Times and the American newspaper Le Monde published a small amount of news.

Lin Zixuan needs to take great risks to show this atrocity on the movie, but as long as the Chinese can see the true face of the Japanese, it is enough.

He found Zheng Zhengqiu and Hong Shen and told them what he thought.

His intentions could not be concealed from the director, and the director was needed to carry it out, shooting the rest of the film first, and the footage of the Lushun Massacre and the speech of the Japanese emperor had to be secretly filmed by a trusted person.

They need to come up with a proper solution.

After the movie is released, it will be too late for the Japanese to make trouble.

After listening to Lin Zixuan's words, Zheng Zhengqiu and Hong Shen became serious, and they realized that this film was not a simple naval battle, nor was it to praise national heroes, but to expose the atrocities of Japan's aggression against China.

Lin Zixuan and the two have been friends for many years, and they know that they both have patriotic feelings and are trustworthy.

Zheng Zhengqiu thought that he would adopt the strategy of repairing the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark, and shoot two films, one for dealing with the Japanese and the other for the final screening.

He was in Ming, filming the part of the naval battle; Hong Shen is in the dark, filming the scene of the Lushun massacre.

Zheng Zhengqiu was used to attract the attention of the Japanese and ensure that Hong Shen's shooting was not affected.

The trio consulted for a long time and formulated a set of strategies to mobilize all the company's resources to ensure the smooth progress of the film.

Afterwards, Lin Zixuan sighed with emotion, filming a movie like a spy war movie, this is China at this time.

If you want to make trouble, let's make it known to everyone.

On the second day, the news that the Shanghai Star Film Company invested 200,000 yuan to shoot the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle made the headlines of major newspapers. (To be continued.) )