Chapter 294: Toyota? I don't like it! Is this a good enough reason?
Liu Yun scored eight goals in the first five rounds of the Premier League and temporarily topped the scorer charts. The old lieutenant of the Dream Theater has naturally become the target of many international brands.
Liu Yun's agent during his time in Coventry was Goodman. Although teammate Ibrahimovic suggested a few days ago that Liu Yun pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in liquidated damages and change to a more influential international-level agent, Liu Yun thought that the clothes were not as good as new and the people were not as good as before, so he still let Goodman be his agent.
On this day, Goodman came to Liu Yun's house. He had an endorsement contract in his hand.
Goodman asked straight to the point: "Liu, Toyota has quoted $1.6 million a year, and I hope you can become the spokesperson of Toyota." That's the highest price of any endorsement contract you'll ever have. What do you think? β
Goodman didn't expect that Liu Yun didn't even think about it for 1 second, and blurted out directly: "No!" I would never endorse Toyota. β
Goodman asked, "Liu, why?" Such an offer... No Premier League player would say no! β
Liu Yun sat on the sofa: "Goodman, I think you should know that the Japanese invaded my motherland 70 years ago. β
Goodman was stunned for a moment: "Liu, if you talk about history, the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, the Napoleonic War, World War I, World War II... Britain had many enemies, and even the United States was once an enemy of Britain. Did the British no longer have any business dealings with the United States, Germany, France, and Russia? History is history, and the past is the past. There is no need to be so γγγγγ When I was having dinner with your family a few days ago, your daughter taught me a Chinese word - hypocrisy. β
Liu Yun shook his head: "Hypocrisy? Goodman, this is anything but hypocritical. I saw a news story in which German Chancellor Brandt knelt down in front of a monument to Polish Jews to apologize. The British could do business with the Germans. Because they have already admitted historical errors. But... Japanese people? To this day, the Japanese people are still paying homage to those executioners in the essence pot! β
Liu Yun paused and said, "Also, Goodman." Toyota is an automobile manufacturing enterprise. During World War II, Volkswagen made armored cars for Hitler, BMW made infantry motorcycles, Mercedes-Benz made tanks... In the event of a war in the future, the large automobile enterprises will certainly be transformed into military industrial enterprises and become the country's military industrial giants. I'm also a Chinese veteran, and perhaps my views seem naΓ―ve to some. But I will never make money for the potential threat of the Motherland! β
Goodman shook his head: "Liu, I still can't agree with you. This is the era of global economic integration. These ideas of yours may still be the populist (harmonious) ideas of half a century ago. β
Liu Yun said with a smile: "I don't have much culture, and I don't know what the people are brittle and the people are not brittle." Other people have other people's freedom, to use or not to use, to endorse or not to endorse the Japanese brand is someone else's business, I will not stand on the moral high ground to kidnap them. But I myself will never endorse any Chinese brand. If I have to ask for a reason - I don't like it! That's good enough for me to dislike that, right? β
Goodman asked, "You don't like it?" Liu, with all due respect, you should not have been born when the Japanese invaded your homeland. That war should have nothing to do with you personally. β
Liu Yun took a sip of the black tea that Isabella had prepared for him and said, "It has nothing to do with me, but it has something to do with my ancestors." When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that there was a turret built by the Japanese in that town in my hometown. Below the turret is hundreds of acres of budding rice land. The common people worked in the bud rice field, and the Japanese soldiers had nothing to do, and they took 38 big poles and shot the people in the bud rice field. β
Goodman asked, "Why?" β
Liu Yun replied, "Why?" Just for fun! Take pleasure in taking the lives of others! Those ordinary people will starve to death if they don't farm, and they have to be on guard against bullets flying down from the turrets at all times. It can be said that life is better than death! If I speak for Toyota, in my own opinion, I will forget the suffering of my ancestors! We have a saying in China, that forgetting history is betrayal! β
Goodman nodded, "Okay, Liu." I'll reply to Toyota and reject their endorsement contract. Liu.... With this decision, you will lose a full $1.6 million! β
Neither Goodman nor Liu Yun could have imagined that Liu Yun's rejection of Toyota's endorsement contract would actually help enhance Liu Yun's commercial value.
The reason why Liu Yun now has such a high commercial value is because he has a huge fan base in China. If Liu Yun accepts the endorsement contract of the Japanese state-owned enterprises, those keyboard warriors in China who take pleasure in black people will encourage a group of netizens to drown Liu Yun with spit!
refused Toyota's high-priced endorsement contract, and when this matter spread to China, Liu Yun would immediately be regarded as a hero again by netizens.
There are some things in this world that you can hardly say are right or wrong.
After a short break, Liu Yun returned to Manchester United's Carrington training base.
At the training base, Ibrahimovic has already started training with the team. In the intra-team confrontation, he scored two goals.
Manchester United will travel to Southampton in the sixth round of the Premier League, and if nothing else, Mourinho intends to make his first start for the 'LIL' pair.
Ibrahimovic is characterised by his explosiveness and speed, as well as his dribbling. As an olfactory striker, he can always be where he is needed.
Ibrahimovic is one of the most physical players in the world. With a height of 1.92 meters, he is the only one who can cultivate the skills under his feet to the point of superbness. Ibrahimovic's superiority relied more on his feints and constant change of direction. There are hardly any flaws from a technical point of view.
Coupled with the old lieutenant Liu Yun, who has first-class dribbling, shooting skills, and awareness, and Lukaku, the "LIL" combination is bound to become a nightmare for the backline of all Premier League teams.
Liu Yun finished training, took a shower in the bathroom at the training base with his teammates, and returned to the locker room to change clothes.
Liu Yun is in a good mood today. While changing clothes, he hummed an old song from the 90s of the last century: "My home is on the high slope of the loess, and the wind blows from the slope. Whether it's the southeast wind or the northwest wind, it's my song, my song. My ancestors have left me for generations, leaving me to sing as far as the eye can see. and the Yellow River around meγγγγγ β
Liu Yun's song is actually not very good, and it is out of tune.
Lukaku's guy actually secretly recorded Liu Yun singing with his mobile phone and posted it on Facebook.
Who would have thought that this video was transmitted from Facebook to Huaguo's splash Weibo, and immediately exploded Weibo and WeChat circle of friends.
In the 90s of the last century, the songs of the northwest wind blew a whirlwind in the Chinese pop music scene. It is an unprecedented peak of development of original songs in mainland China. A group of truly representative works and powerful singers have emerged. As the name suggests, the style of the work is based on the traditional culture of the inland northwest region, singing the loess plot.
"Loess High Slope" is one of the representative works of Northwest Wind songs.
Countless post-80s generations grew up listening to this song. However, in recent years, the Chinese music scene has been occupied by small fresh meat. It seems that the Chinese music scene no longer needs a voice, only brushing your face. As long as you're good-looking, it doesn't matter if you don't sing. Powerful post-production can help you spell out a good song almost word by word. No matter how much packaging and hype, anyone dares to call themselves powerful singers.
For example, the prince who is not good at English and "I won't be easy to take a dog", has no voice, no singing skills, and relies on a girly face, but can still gather a large number of fans as a singer.
Liu Yun, as an inspirational idol of today's Chinese youth, sang the song "Loess High Slope", which immediately ignited the nostalgia of the post-70s and post-80s.
In just a few hours, the video of Liu Yun singing was reposted more than 5 million times on Splash Weibo.
It is said that there is no separation between style and style, and Liu Yun, the old lieutenant of Dream Theater, has set off a nostalgic wind in the Chinese music sceneγγγγγ