Chapter 307: Bloodclaw Island Pictures Co., Ltd
In the port of Nantes in early September, a unique movie premiere appeared in front of thousands of noble merchants in an unheard of form, this form of artistic entertainment that has never been seen in the world of Contès, like a huge powder keg that was ignited, instantly detonated the entire port of Nantes, and then spread to the Emerald Province and even the entire Cold Stone Empire at a terrifying speed.
At the request of those aristocratic businessmen, "A Chinese Ghost Demon" was continuously replayed that night, and none of the aristocratic businessmen were willing to give up and leave, although they even memorized the plot in the end, but they still stood feverishly in the cold wind of the dock, and enjoyed it over and over again, so that many people got up the next day and had a serious cold.
Then, these aristocratic businessmen who were conquered by the charm of the movie returned to their respective territories and towns unsatisfactorily, they were like free propagandists, praising and boasting about what they saw that night, and one duke even said categorically that if you haven't watched this "A Chinese Ghost Demon", then your life is simply incomplete.
In this case, the entire Emerald Province fell into a frenzy, at the banquets of the nobles of all sizes, at various business gatherings, in taverns, mansions, in the streets, in the upper classes, in the people, everyone was discussing this hot topic with great interest, and it is no exaggeration to say that if a nobleman said that he did not know anything about the movie at the banquet, he would immediately be regarded as a dumpling bun by the people around him.
As a result, there was no need for Lin Taiping and Baron Michael to publicize it at all, and thousands of people automatically flocked to the port of Nantes, so that the port of Nantes, which was originally only a medium-sized town, poured in more than 100,000 people in one go, and suddenly became more than a vegetable market, and even the utility room of the hotel was rented out, and it was a high price of a gold coin a day.
Baron Michael, who was smiling, woke up from a dream just by receiving the income city tax. In the face of the surging crowd, he waved his hand very high-spirited, saying that from today, "A Chinese Ghost Demon" will be screened at the pier of Nantes Port for a month, and anyone can go to the pier to enjoy the movie...... Of course, the premise is that you are willing to spend a gold coin on a ticket.
A gold coin, for the wealthy Emerald Province, is it still money?
The fanatical crowd from afar didn't care at all, especially those wealthy aristocrats, who opened their wallets with blushing faces and panting. They all said that as long as they could see "A Chinese Ghost Girl", money was not a problem at all, and the only daughter of the Governor of Gray Mountain waved her hand and directly smashed a golden ticket worth 50,000 yuan, asking for the movie to be chartered that night.
In this case, the first screening of the same night, which sold 10,000 tickets, was a large pier after the renovation, and suddenly became crowded and dense. It's like a huge can of sardines, and some viewers who bought tickets but couldn't find a place to stand simply jumped into the shallow water in a hurry, and just endured the cold and watched for more than an hour.
And that's just the beginning. From morning to night, from late night to early morning, there was always an endless queue of people outside the dock, and many people even dragged their families to wait outside with dry food, and the dozen or so demons in charge of management were busy for three whole days without closing their eyes. Tickets were sold until they were foaming at the mouth and their paws were cramping.
What is called a gold coin rain, this is called a gold coin rain!
In line with the principle that a copper coin is also money, Lin Taiping directly waved his hand. Decided to let the blood sickle go to the dock screening room to sell melon seeds, bread, tea and eggs, the blood sickle was extremely dissatisfied with this order, and roared angrily: "No, never, as the noble heir of the Nicholas family, I will never do such a degrading thing!"
Well, that's what you said, don't regret it!
Lin Taiping touched his chin with a smile, and directly let Lilu go, and how much she could earn was hers, and then only six hours later, the blood sickle suddenly rushed in with tears streaming down his face, and directly hugged his thigh and cried: "My lord, I just thought about it, our family was born as a bread seller in the early years, please let me go......"
Well, just from this example, you can see how high the profit of the movie is, and in the end, Lin Taiping and Baron Michael don't have to do anything, they just sit in the baron's mansion drinking coffee, watching a large box of gold coins move in like flowing water, and they don't even have time to calculate how much they have earned.
Fortunately, several staff members in the Baron's Mansion were quite industrious, and they kept calculating the accounts from morning to night, and after six hours of calculation, finally someone with a bloodshot face was so excited that he seemed to have goat epilepsy, and rushed over with the account schedule: "Lord Baron, Mr. Lin, we have just counted, and the box office revenue in the past ten days is a total of ......"
Poof! Just glanced at the red numbers on the accounts, Baron Michael spurted blood and coffee, and immediately had the urge to faint directly, and the head of Mondo next to him almost threw away the Red Flame Sword, and was stunned for ten minutes, and then grabbed the staff member with a distorted face, and said viciously: "Damn, are you sure you didn't miscalculate?"
Think about it, it can make Commander Mondo, who has always paid attention to his image, so fanatical, you can see how amazing the numbers on that account are, the poor staff wiped his head full of cold sweat, looked at the accounts very seriously, and finally stammered: "No, we really don't...... Wait, it seems like a real miscalculation, I missed a zero!"
This time, Baron Michael did not squirt blood and coffee, but even squirted out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, Lin Taiping kindly handed over a wooden stick, and said with sympathy on his face: "Then what, if you still feel unbelievable, maybe you can put a stick on your head?"
Bang bang, Baron Michael really smashed more than a dozen sticks on his head, and then pounced on him with a bloody face and a fanatical face, hugging Lin Taiping tightly and not letting go: "Lin, dear Lin, you are simply the messenger of wealth given to me by the gods, what are you waiting for, I will go to my uncle tomorrow to help promote "A Chinese Ghost Demon" to other provinces." ”
That's right, compared to the Emerald Province, the entire Cold Stone Empire is the real big market, thinking that those golden coins are waiting to be harvested by himself, Baron Michael is almost crazy with excitement, as long as this situation continues for a few more months, he will become the richest person in the entire Emerald Province, and his uncle will no longer have to worry about the damn shortage of funds.
"Good, I'm looking forward to your action. Lin Taiping agreed, and then took out a new magic contract from his arms. "So, how about we officially set up a film company, I've already thought of the name, it's called Bloodclaw Island Pictures, do you have any opinions?"
Baron Michael blinked in confusion, and then nodded desperately without hesitation, no matter what the company is, as long as there is money to be made, not to mention that according to this magic contract, he and his uncle have a total of forty percent of the shares. What an incredible amount of wealth that would be.
"No, forty-one percent to be exact. Lin Taiping corrected with a smile, "In fact, there is still one percent of the shares, which I plan to give to Commander Mondo, you know that Commander Mondo has been working hard recently...... Uh, Captain Mondo, what's that expression on your face?"
What is the expression? Captain Mondo was stunned at first. Immediately after that, even the people with armor and red flame demon swords trembled all over his body, and after about two seconds, he suddenly pounced on him with tears in his eyes, and said with a convulsive face: "My lord." I was wrong, I was really wrong, I almost hurt you before, woo woo. From today onwards, I am your man, no, no, no. You don't have to treat me like a human being, you can do whatever you want me to do!"
"Ah, this is your share. Lin Taiping patted Captain Mondo on the shoulder to express comfort, paused and said thoughtfully, "But, I really have something to ask you for help with next, in fact, I am planning to shoot a new movie, so I need a suitable filming location, I need a lot of extras, and I also need a very big ......."
No problem, no problem at all, Commander Mondo immediately pulled out his long sword murderously, gritted his teeth and said that he would definitely serve, not to mention what kind of filming location and extras, even if your old man asked me to charter the entire Pearl Island chain for filming, I would take someone to kill him without saying a word.
In fact, Baron Michael next to him was even more fanatical, and the moment he heard the words of the new movie, he immediately thought of thousands of gold coins, thousands of beauties, thousands of ...... Okay, no matter what it is, the important thing is that "A Chinese Ghost Demon" has already made a lot of money to this kind of Cheng dù, if it is a new movie that is more exciting than "A Chinese Ghost Demon", wouldn't it directly make everyone make money?
"Of course, I think the box office of the new movie will be even more amazing. Lin Taiping touched his chin very happily, revealing eight snow-white shiny teeth, "However, I still have a big problem now, in order to shoot a new movie, I need more demons to join, because relying on the blood scythe alone is no longer enough." ”
This is true, the new movie needs more actors, more staff, more funds and props, just a dozen demons in the blood scythe is really difficult to deal with, in this case, more demons must be recruited to join Bloodclaw Island, and even the illusions that are specifically responsible for creating illusions and setting up scenes need to add dozens more to barely enough.
In fact, there is a more important hidden meaning, the recent development of Bloodclaw Island is very fast, which will inevitably attract the covetousness of those who are greedy, even if there is now Baron Michael and the Governor of Gray Mountain as backers, Lin Taiping has always felt that it is a very stupid thing to pin his hopes on others.
Therefore, Bloodclaw Island must become more powerful, so powerful that people will crack their teeth when they bite it, and among the thousands of islands in the Pearl Island Chain, there are a large number of demons and dark creatures hidden, if they can all be gathered together to form a powerful demon army, then ......
"This is easy to do!" Baron Michael didn't understand the deep meaning, and directly patted his chest and said, "Lin, there should be a lot of demons hidden in the pearl island chain, you just send someone to recruit them, I will ask my uncle to pardon one of their crimes, if any demon is not interested and refuses to join, I will let Captain Mondo take the fleet over and directly blast it to the point that there is no scum left." ”
That is, that is, Commander Mondo pulled out his long sword murderously, saying that he was happy to be the backing, in fact, in the past period of time, he had learned a lot of rumors of demons, it is said that in the few islands on the edge of the pearl island chain, there are indeed many demons lurking there, and now it is time to drive the battleship to go there for a turn.
"Well, that's what I thought. Lin Taiping took a sip of tea with great satisfaction, then took out the colorful flyer that had been prepared long ago from his arms, and put it on the table with a smile, "In fact, I have even written the recruitment notice, maybe you will be interested in taking a look?"
So fast? Baron Michael and Captain Mondo looked at each other, craned their necks in unison, and then waited until they saw the words on the recruitment notice, and the two of them suddenly had strange faces, and couldn't help coughing lightly.
"Uh, dear Lin, excuse me...... What is called, three insurances and one housing fund?" (to be continued......)