"Secondly, Mr. Liang's original intention of holding the music festival was good. But it has always been too petty to make a little fuss, and people must have their own goals when they live in this world. Some people think it's good to live a life in a mess, but more people are fighting to make themselves work hard. In fact, the same is true for doing music festivals, since you want to do it, you must do it best, the biggest, and the strongest. We should not be deterred by the difficulties and setbacks ahead. So I think the company should invest a lot of money to expand our music festival, including advertising, star lineup, to do the best, and if you want to be famous, you should spend a lot of money. ”

After Lin Ming said this, everyone looked at Liang Xiaoyue.

Because of the establishment of the Taomu Music Festival, it is inseparable from Liang Xiaoyue. It can even be said that it is the first music festival in China that he broke through single-handedly. If you want to change, you have to get his consent first.

Only if Liang Xiaoyue is willing, Lin Ming can make changes. Even if the board of directors agrees to Lin Ming's proposal and Liang Xiaoyue opposes it, everyone will respect his choice.

It's his heart's work.

Liang Xiaoyue was silent for a while, shook his head and said: "As the advocate and founder of the Taomu Music Festival, of course I hope that it will get better and better and make it the premier music festival in China." But after thinking about it again, I still can't put the company in, and if Lin Ming donates in his own name, I welcome it. But take the company's money to burn, forget it. Four years ago, we gathered 10 million in our company, and it is not easy to develop to this day. Now as the company grows, it seems that the company is much stronger, but the money spent every month is also flowing out, and there are too many places to use the money, and there is really no need to spend it in such unnecessary places. ”

In fact, when Lin Ming told everyone about the imminent decline of the record market a long time ago and made a way to deal with it, he said that he hoped to make the Taomu Music Festival a golden signboard and an authority in China. This is not only related to the future development direction of Taomu, but also a grand blueprint for Lin Ming's own music empire.

But at that time, including Liang Xiaoyue, they all thought that Lin Ming just wanted to make this music festival a little bigger, until one day Aunt Miyuki Nakajima suddenly sent an email. Lin Ming was whimsical, not only to invite Aunt Meixue over, but also to make a big deal.

You must know that in the list of personnel he invited, like Brother Wu Fly, Andy, which is not the hottest top superstar at present, Zhang Ziqi will have to catch up with them for at least ten years.

And it must be guaranteed that there are high-quality albums like "The First Dream" released every year, and it takes time to precipitate in order to achieve the road of the diva.

The appearance fee of these people will be tens of millions in later generations.

And now.

A few songs down, 2 million to 3 million.

It doesn't seem like much, but for the Taomu company, it is already an unaffordable price. Not to mention Aunt Meixue, just talking about Brother Black Fly and Andy, please come over is 400-6 million, plus other costs of the music festival, the total cost may exceed 10 million. How much do you have to sell for a ticket from 88 yuan to 128 yuan to get back?

Not to mention that they do this music festival, even those stars hold a concert, in fact, it is not profitable. Like at that time, Andy came to the mainland to hold a concert, and a ticket was five or six hundred, and the expensive ones were thousands, but they were all deducted and did not make any money at all. The concert is held entirely to maintain popularity.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Liang Xiaoyue does not support Lin Ming.

But Lin Ming shook his head and said with a smile: "Teacher Liang, can I ask you a question?" ”

"You say."

"Do you have a dream?"

Liang Xiaoyue was surprised: "What are you asking about this?" ”

"You just have to answer me, yes or no."

Liang Xiaoyue pondered for a while and said: "It turns out that I have always wanted to make music, but after I got Peachwood, I wanted to work hard to develop the company while making music." ”

From this point of view, Liang Xiaoyue was not without the influence of Hou Wenhui and Zhao Bin. The original Liang Xiaoyue is a pure artist, he has his feelings and ethics, like Liu He, music is his whole life. But now, he began to have concerns, and he had the fetters and obstacles of the company.

In addition to music, he hopes that the company can develop well and work hard for it.

This is also the main reason why he tried his best to let Lin Ming enter Taomu at the beginning, if he was a pure artist, he would definitely think that art would be tainted by money, and he would not invite Lin Ming in. The two only discuss the art of music, which is the spiritual embodiment of an artist.

Lin Ming said, "Then do you want to hear about my dreams?" ”

"You say."

"My dream is very simple, I want to be a music festival that belongs to all Chinese people, and I want to be a world-class Grammy Award that belongs to Chinese people."

Lin Ming looked at everyone with a smile on his face.

But everyone, all looked at each other.

Even Zhang Ziqi looked at Lin Ming like a fool.

Hou Wenhui smiled and waved his hand: "Lin Ming, it's good for people to have dreams." But a lot of dreams are actually unrealistic, and there is no need to do the impossible thing. A lot of things, it's better to be down-to-earth. ”

Lin Ming looked at him seriously: "Mr. Hou, ask you a question." ”

"You ask."

"A hundred years ago, the cannon opened the door of China, the Chinese were called the sick men of Central Asia, countless foreign invaders came to our country, occupied our land, killed our people, and shared us as a piece of cake. There are even many people of insight who feel that this stormy country is about to be destroyed, and together with the war, they are hiding in Tibet everywhere and making all kinds of pessimistic voices. But you see, now, is our country dead? Have the people become slaves to the country? ”

"That's different."

Hou Wenhui shook his head and said: "Although the country was in turmoil at that time, 40,000 patriotic compatriots fought a bloody war of resistance, united as one, had money to contribute, and made a strong contribution. ”

Lin Ming continued: "Then let me ask you again, thirty years ago, people all over the world were not optimistic about the Chinese man-made atomic bomb. They constantly ridiculed and prevented those patriotic scientific researchers from returning to China. All kinds of knowledge blockades, economic sanctions, and comprehensive suppression of us. International public opinion reports have all pointed the spearhead at our country. However, in the past ten years, with the help of countless scientific researchers, we have built the atomic bomb and successfully detonated it in the desert. Tell me, in the era when the country was so poor and backward, they had no computers, no computer equipment, and they were completely manual and could complete this impossible task. Why can't we? ”

Hou Wenhui was speechless for a while, and hesitated: "After all, it is the strength of the entire country, and it depends on a few of us, so naturally we can't talk about it the same day." What's more, with the strength of Taomu Company, what can you do with the dream you are talking about? ”

Lin Ming asked rhetorically: "Then do you think our country is poor now?" ”

Hou Wenhui thought for a while and said: "In terms of economic development, it is naturally not comparable to the economic development of advanced countries. However, to say that the people live and work in peace and contentment, and everyone has something to eat, at least this cannot be refuted. ”

"I want to ask you, do you think that with the strength of our country, we can start building aircraft carriers now?"

Hou Wenhui was surprised: "Don't be kidding, now the country has no ideas and news reports on this at all." I heard that it costs tens of billions of meters to build an aircraft carrier, and the state finance is only how much a year? There are still so many places to be built, so many places need to be funded, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. ”

Hou Wenhui is not wrong at all, the cost of an aircraft carrier is generally more than 6 billion meters of gold. In 02, one meter of gold is equal to 82 yuan, what is the fiscal revenue of the whole country? About one trillion yuan. Ten ships were built, and the people of the whole country had to return to the primitive society overnight.

Therefore, even if you don't know about national affairs, as long as you know that the state needs all kinds of financial allocations every year, building bridges and roads everywhere, education funds, civil servants' salaries, infrastructure construction, economic development, poverty alleviation and other inputs, you should know that how can the country have the money to build aircraft carriers?

Rear Admiral Zhang Juzuo once shed tears on the show, because the navy burned too much money and could not develop, he was bullied by foreigners and was wronged. It was not until later, when the country's economy became strong and aircraft carriers were built, that the navy straightened its back.

"I don't see it that way." Lin Ming shook his head and said, "I don't know if you have read a news, the year before last, we bought a retired aircraft carrier from Mao State, and in March this year, it was transported to Liancheng Port. Although all the armament on it has been dismantled, and only an empty shell remains, this is a complete aircraft carrier! ”

A full-fledged aircraft carrier?

Hou Wenhui was puzzled: "What's the point of this? ”

"It makes a lot of sense." Lin Ming said solemnly: "This shows that our country is already researching aircraft carriers, and once the economy takes off and there is spare money to develop the navy, aircraft carriers can be built immediately through this foundation." When the time comes, we will gallop across the ocean, strengthen the courage of the navy, and make earth-shaking changes in the pattern of the world's oceans. ”

Hou Wenhui fell silent and did not speak.

Lin Ming continued: "Nothing should only look at the surface, but should see what is inside. Just like the ambition of our country, after years of hard work, we have finally stood on top of the world. If a country can be as powerful as a foreign country, why can't the people have the same honor as a foreigner? Now domestic filmmakers and musicians are proud to win foreign awards. No one cares about the domestic awards, and what Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers actor and actress have no gold content at all in people's eyes. And the Oscars and Grammys are just awards selected by the United States for filmmakers and musicians in their own country, but they can be recognized by countless people around the world as the highest awards for film music, and everyone is eager to win the best film in a foreign language and the best song in a foreign language. But in my opinion, this is actually a kind of inferiority mentality, the Chinese people have been weak for too long, and they always think that foreign countries are good, and they are better than ours. But now that the country is strong, why aren't the people's hearts strong? There are some things that don't need to care about other people's eyes at all, even if we are behind closed doors, entertaining ourselves, and only selecting various domestic music awards, it is a good thing. This at least proves that we are working hard for our own grand ceremony and fighting for our dreams! ”