Chapter 216: The Meaning of Patronage
It's April soon, and it's already late spring.
The academy is full of life, and everywhere you go, you can see green. Individual evergreen tree species begin to lose their leaves at this time, the most eye-catching is the camphor tree, a large area under the tree is a large area of fallen leaves, some withered yellow, some gray yellow.
But as soon as you look up, you will find that on the branches of the camphor tree, layer after layer of new green leaves, how vigorous, how ostentatious, how dazzling.
It's spring, after all.
The varsity soccer league has been going on for quite some time now. This year's biennial inter-school competition is held. Very high level.
Because I showed my skills on the field last year, I was pulled into the school football team two or three months ago. However, because of the Youth Book House and the platform, and because I wanted to study medical books quietly, I only promised the coach to train once a week. The coach was not satisfied, but agreed.
Because, just like that, I am still the main player of the football team.
I don't want to say too much about the football game, my performance on the football field is undoubtedly quite good.
I always feel that this person has to have a certain talent to do something. For example, playing football, physical fitness can be trained, but a person's physical coordination ability and the accuracy of judging the direction of the ball cannot be trained.
Our college's football team has overcome all the obstacles to qualify for the group stage and advance to the top four, and I'm not going to say anything.
Many college students know me because of last year's competition, and this year, under the "halo" of the Youth Book House and the tutoring service contact platform, I almost made them worship.
I'm not going to say much about that.
I would like to say that I sponsored this tournament in the name of Youth Book House and the Tutoring Service Liaison Platform for College Students.
When I participated in the training, I learned from the coach's mouth that this kind of inter-school football league is not sponsored by the provincial sports association or the provincial education department, but is purely a nearly non-governmental competition organized by more than a dozen universities in the area where the provincial government is located.
Hosts are often overwhelmed by funding.
You must know that this kind of activity is often not done by the presidents or deans of the universities, but basically the subordinate departments of the school are in charge, for example, our college, which is the responsibility of the Youth League Committee.
As soon as I learned about this information, I immediately thought of sponsorship.
If you walk to the football field, you will see the red banners around you, with the words "Youth Book House" and "College Student Tutoring Service Contact Platform". The one in front of the rostrum is the most eye-catching, with the words "This league is exclusively sponsored by the 'Youth Book House' and the 'College Student Tutoring Service Liaison Platform'".
When I got the group together to talk about it, almost no one agreed. In everyone's opinion, sponsorship is of little significance.
"This kind of sponsorship, if there is less, people can't look down on it, and if there are more, we can't afford to sponsor it." Xu Zhengping spoke everyone's mind.
"Since it's sponsored, it's not a matter of a few hundred dollars." I say.
"How much are you going to sponsor, Kimdae?" Cao Shuigen said.
"The youth bookstore is out of 2,000, and the platform is out of 2,000."
"Four thousand? You're too, bah, you're too rich. Xu Zhengping almost exclaimed.
"Is it worth it?" Chu Huoyu asked.
"yes, is it worth it?" Cao Shuigen agreed.
Ding Ying and Ai Zhenzi have been silent.
"I want to take the opportunity to sign and sell books." I speak my mind.
"Signing books?" Everyone looked at me.
"The main thing is to take the opportunity to promote the platform." I went on with my thoughts.
"Does the platform still need publicity? It's been done so well. No matter how much propaganda it is promoted, we all have to go to tutorial classes. Xu Zhengping said.
"You misunderstood," I said, "I don't worry about my parents right now, but about college students who are willing to take tutoring classes." At this point, I estimate that our academy is saturated. ”
"That means you want to encourage students from other universities to join our platform." Ding Ying said.
"Agitation sounds uncomfortable, but that's what it means." I glanced at Ding Ying, "As the influence of our platform continues to expand, as more and more people understand our platform, the demand of parents will increase, and then it will inevitably lead to a situation where there are more monks and less porridge." ”
"That's why you thought of sponsoring." Ai Sadako said.
"Attracting more people's attention in the name of sponsorship is bound to spark more people's interest. Football is very cohesive, once the game is played, there will be a lot of fans coming to watch, and our advertising effect will come out. ”
"But you've sponsored too much! The advertising effect simply cannot be so large. Xu Zhengping was still worried.
"I think, you can try." Ding Ying said.
I looked at Ding Ying, but Ding Ying turned her eyes away.
"I agree with that." Ai Sadako said. Ai Sadako's eyes were full of encouragement. "Zheng Qihang always sends troops out of the box, and what he thinks always makes sense."
Chu Huoyu didn't speak. If she doesn't speak, that's support.
"Then it's decided." I say.
"I advise you to be cautious, Jin Dae," Cao Shuigen said, "after all, this investment is almost all your money." ”
"Thank you, brother, for the reminder. Just take a gamble. ”
I remember when I went to the leader of the Youth League Committee of the academy that hosted the league to express my intention, the leader of the Youth League Committee was almost grateful.
It's never been a student sponsoring a school.
"How can that be?" The leader of the Youth League Committee said, "This is a good thing. To tell you the truth, I'm wondering where to get this money. I've been there several times to increase the amount of this year's bonus, but I haven't approved it. ”
"Is such a big college still worried about this kind of funding?" I don't understand.
"Heck, you don't know, the expenses of the academy this year are particularly large, and the dean is saving money. Besides, this kind of league, the dean doesn't pay attention to it. Oh, whatever, don't say, how much are you going to sponsor us? ”
"Four thousand, is it enough?" I held out four fingers.
"Four thousand," the leader of the Youth League Committee widened, "enough enough." Zheng Qihang, you won't joke with me, will you? ”
The leaders of the Youth League Committee turned from excitement to skepticism.
"I've brought the cash," I said, gesturing to my bag.
As the saying goes, when I take other people's money, I am soft-hearted, and the leaders of the Youth League Committee accept all the requests made to me after receiving the 4,000 yuan.
Then again, what's the requirement?
Hanging banners, playing the name of "Youth Book House" and the platform, and allowing us to set up some publicity on the rostrum during the competition, sign and sell books, doesn't it have no impact on the competition at all? What should not be promised? Fools should not admit it.
At first, people seemed to pay too much attention to the event, and there was no interest in what sponsorship, what bookstore, what platform, and our few staff members on the rostrum almost forgot their duties.
But with the development of the tournament, as our college football team continues to advance, in fact, as my performance on the field becomes more and more prominent, I have become more and more people's attention, sponsorship, youth bookstore, and tutoring service contact platform have become more and more topics of most interest to people.
It seems that everywhere I go, I hear this kind of talk.
There were a lot of people who walked to the podium as if they were attractive, and the propaganda points we set up on the podium were often crowded.
Leaflets, Xu Zhengping has been printed several times.
In the last game, the championship and runner-up match, the team of the First Clinical College of the School of Medicine against the team of the Aviation University.
There are people inside and outside the football field, and people inside and out. Crowded.
All you see are people.
Teams from more than a dozen schools are there.
Fans from more than a dozen schools came.
The security guards came, and so did the police.
The pomp and circumstance is unprecedented.
I asked Xu Zhengping and Cao Shuigen to arrange for people to move most of the books in the Youth Book House behind the rostrum. All the staff of the Tutoring Service Liaison Platform are on standby at the podium.
The game started on time.
The game also ended on time.
In one word, intense.
You can imagine how I did on the field. Those who know me well can fully imagine how I behaved. I described it in last year's intramural football league, and I also described the football games of class 1 (1) and class (2) when I was a senior student at Hua'an Railway Middle School.
In short, I used my wisdom, I used the innate understanding of football given to me by God, to play the level, to kick the feeling, thus saving the defeat and making the Academy team win the championship in the end.
This is called desire to promote and suppress.
Sensational, except that sensational is still sensational.
Applause, except applause and applause.
Then, you must have thought, yes, signing books.
I think people must be crazy. It seems that everyone has lost their minds. More than ten years later, I listened to the so-called Thanksgiving Meeting, where the person who made the report tried every way to render a touching scene and then called on parents to buy books. Parents flocked to the market, not thinking about money at all.
But I wasn't the only one who didn't pay for it. I know these parents are crazy and have lost their minds. The speech at the Thanksgiving Presentation was similar to my kicking performance, but the nature was completely different.
I'm kind.
I imagined that the book signing scene might be a bit grand, but I never expected it to be so grand and unprecedented.
It lasted almost an hour.
The pen was out of oil, the fingers holding the pen were sore, the table in front of me was crushed, and the stacks of books were missing.
I think that Xu Zhengping and they kept taking and delivering books, they must have been so tired that their backs and legs hurt, and their faces were full of beads of sweat; Chu Huoyu and Ding Ying were busy collecting money and looking for money, they must have been dizzy, they had found the wrong money no less than a dozen times, and they always heard people say, Hey, you are looking for more money.
Ai Zhenzi and Cao Shuigen, who were standing to my left and right, must have been busy enough, and they were not idle, busy taking the books that had already been paid for and placing them on the table in front of me, and then giving away the books I had signed.
Anyway, when I signed the last book, straightened up, and said "game over", everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The coach of the college football team has sent players to urge me several times, and the celebration banquet arranged by the school Youth League Committee is waiting for me.
I asked Xu Zhengping and Cao Shuigen to clean up the mess, and then asked Chu Huoyu to arrange for everyone to eat in a small restaurant to treat everyone.
"Hey, I said Jin Dae, don't get drunk over there, don't come to toast us. Remember last year? You can't tell the difference between east and west. Xu Zhengping said.
"Don't worry, I'll be back. You are my true brothers and sisters. ”