In Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Yao, the production director of the Beijing Film Studio, held a telegram from his superiors.
She said to photographer Zhang San: "Xiao Zhang, our vacation has been ruined again."
Qin Yao just complained helplessly that her job was a hard life.
She is a woman who, at the age of twenty-two, has won the position of production director of the Beijing Film Studio.
Although he is in charge of documentaries, he does not have much power and has to travel around the world.
Among her colleagues, some were filming monkeys in Nanyang, some were filming penguins in Antarctica, and some were filming dissections in hospitals.
She specializes in making humanities documentaries, which is already a good job.
At such a young age, she was able to reach the middle level of a Beijing film studio, except for her own abilities.
She was also the first editor-in-chief of Yanhuang Daily, the first female maid of the Imperial Ministry of Rites, and the daughter of Zhou Lingyin.
Her family has too many connections and resources in the imperial media field, so she can get twice the result with half the effort.
Qin Yao had people rush to bring the documentary film of Tang Wang Su Sheng's coronation back to the empire for preservation.
She sent someone to the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty to apply for a documentary filming permit.
She and the others came to the hotel to discuss how to shoot the documentary.
They discussed until late at night before deciding on the basic shooting structure.
Qin Yao waved her hand and said: "Documentaries are usually added to a movie in theaters. If you buy tickets for other movies, you will get documentary movie tickets as a gift.
In order to prevent the audience from getting up and leaving, we didn’t even watch the documentary.
You have to make documentaries that attract the audience.”
There was something Qin Yao didn't say, so the empire spent money to shoot a documentary.
The purpose is to disseminate knowledge for the common people to understand and guide their thinking.
The documentary is not attractive, and no audience is willing to watch it. How can it guide people's thoughts? This is a failure.
Qin Yao said decisively: "What is most attractive is of course the truth.
Documentaries need to be shot realistically, but they don’t need to be too realistic.
We want to photograph different groups in each vassal country, but we must capture the typical ones and photograph the most successful person.
I will use my connections to contact newspapers in the empire and personnel stationed in various countries to seek typical figures from them."
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Qin Yao looked at the entourage sent by the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty.
These people were nominally helping them, but in fact, in addition to learning shooting techniques, they also had the purpose of monitoring them.
Fortunately, Qin Yao's purpose was just to shoot a documentary and had no other purpose. She was not afraid of these people's surveillance.
The original name of Dawang Town near Chang'an has disappeared with the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The reason for its current name is that most of the immigrants here have the surname Wang.
Tian Damao, the mayor of Dawang Town, came to the home of Wang Tieniu, a local tycoon who was about to be interviewed.
He saw two Yi women with black hair and blue eyes lying on the rocking chair, feeding them fresh cucumbers.
When Wang Tieniu saw the arrival of the mayor Tian Damao, he immediately stood up to greet him.
"Mayor Tian, you are such a busy man, why did you come to my place?
The imperial court has already issued an official document stating that field taxes and miscellaneous fees will not be paid until next year's autumn harvest.
I have paid the cost of purchasing the land to the government.
Mayor Tian doesn’t need to come to my house often to collect taxes, I will pay the land tax on time in accordance with the court’s policy.”
Wang Tieniu knew that Mayor Tian's main task now was to collect land taxes.
The collection of field taxes just before winter was entirely due to him.
He was just lucky. Who would have thought that if he just bought 3,000 acres of land, he would buy it next to Chang'an.
Who still grows food near Chang'an?
Just grow some fruits and vegetables and sell them in the city, and you will definitely make a fortune.
Through the relationship with his comrades, he learned about the glass greenhouses that the empire had been promoting.
The cost of building a glass greenhouse is higher, but he can bear the cost.
A greenhouse was built and a trial of growing cucumbers was successful.
He now earns hundreds of taels of silver coins a day, and Wang Tieniu was also shocked by the income from the greenhouse.
When he gets this income, the town wants him to pay land tax.
He took advantage of the imperfect policy and refused to pay the land tax on the pretext of not having the autumn harvest.
Even if the land tax he has to pay is not used to expand production, it is just placed in the bank, and the annual interest is as high as thousands of taels of silver coins.
Mayor Tian Damao saw Wang Tieniu's wary eyes.
He smiled and said: "Tieniu, I'm not here today to urge you to pay the land tax.
Your deeds have been known to reporters from the Empire, and they are about to interview you about making a documentary.
I don't know what a documentary is, but I know the energy of a journalist.
What he wrote could be seen by the king of Tang Dynasty.
You have to think carefully about what you should say and what you shouldn't say."
Wang Tieniu was just a militiaman who came to Europe to fight with the empire.
While maintaining local order, he purged the local rebellious nobles.
The empire looked down upon the captured wealth at all, and it was divided up between those who did it and the local garrison.
Within a few months, Wang Tieniu had received eight thousand taels of silver coins.
For him, this was an astronomical event.
Among his companions, some chose to remit money to their families, while others chose to go to the casino and lose all their money.
Wang Tieniu's thinking was very traditional. He directly saved his money and planned to buy land locally and become a big landowner.
His knowledge is not too high, but he also knows the influence of journalists.
"Mayor Tian, I am not one of those bachelors who have nothing.
I have three thousand acres of land in the town. I can run away, but the land cannot.
I definitely know what to say and what not to say."
When Tian Damao heard what Wang Tieniu said, he felt slightly relieved.
If this thing is not done well, what will really happen?
His official career will be over, and he will definitely be sent to the sea to guard an uninhabited island.
Qin Yao and his party took a car and arrived at Dawang Town, not far from Chang'an.
She chose Wang Tieniu as a model because she wanted to promote the idea that immigrants embraced new agricultural technologies, that Tang agriculture was very stable overall, and that farmers could make a fortune.
The broadcast of this documentary will definitely eliminate the wariness in the hearts of farmers.
Let them desire and be willing to immigrate.
The people of the empire have a very strong sense of local culture.
We must let them break the fear in their hearts to facilitate the flow of people.
The vehicle Qin Yao was riding in had just stopped at the gate of Dawang Town.
She saw the mayor who tidied up neatly and led the villagers to greet him at the entrance of the village.
When Qin Yao saw this situation, she frowned and said to the officials accompanying Tang Guo: "This state is not good.
We need to shoot real rural scenes, let them do what they usually do and what they still do now, and strive to show reality."
Qin Yao knows that no one can show his true self in front of the camera, and there will definitely be some traces of acting.
She can only strive for perfect shooting results.
The accompanying officials from Tang State immediately stepped forward and said a few words.
The villagers then dispersed and went home to tidy up their fields and prepare for spring plowing.
Qin Yao and his party came to Wang Tieniu's home.
This is an ordinary wooden house with pigs, chickens and ducks raised in the yard.
Wang Tieniu was sweeping the floor in the yard. When he saw Qin Yao and his party arriving, he smiled honestly.
Qin Yao took the initiative to step forward. She first identified herself and then requested: "We are going to shoot a documentary to record Mr. Wang Tieniu's daily work.
We will give Mr. Wang Tieniu a reward and hope that Mr. Wang Tieniu can cooperate."
Wang Tieniu asked honestly: "Will your documentary be broadcast in Chang'an?"
Qin Yao answered with a smile: "This is a documentary we shot together with the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty. It will be shown in major cities in the Tang Dynasty."
When Wang Tieniu heard this answer, he said directly: "In this case, I don't want a penny, and I will fully cooperate with you in the filming."
With his unique vision, he noticed the profits of greenhouses.
Of course Wang Tieniu can also realize that after he succeeds, many people will follow suit.
At that time, you must have something unique to sell the product.
If you can afford cucumbers and other vegetables in winter, you must be a noble family.
These people are very rich, they don't care about price, but they care about health.
He can convey in the documentary that he grows vegetables in a healthy way.
In this way, he will surely be recognized by his superiors, and he will not need to be afraid of competition.
Qin Yao looked at the cunning look in Wang Tieniu's eyes, and she didn't care at all.
No matter what Wang Tieniu thinks, her goal is to make a good documentary.
After Wang Tieniu agreed to cooperate, they headed to the location of the vegetable greenhouse.
Qin Yao gave Wang Tieniu a script on the way.
"Mr. Wang Tieniu, just follow your usual habits. If you don't know what to say, you can refer to this script."
Wang Tieniu lowered his head and struggled for a long time before saying: "This, this, I can't read."
Qin Yao had no choice but to open the script and teach Wang Tieniu.
Documentaries do not have scripts, and there are no ups and downs in what is filmed. Bland things cannot attract people at all.
They soon arrived at the vegetable greenhouse, whose glass exterior shone in the sun.
At this time of year, people here in the Tang Dynasty already need to wear sweaters.
They walked into the vegetable greenhouse, and the heat wave blew on their faces.
Qin Yao sneezed involuntarily and ordered the camera crew to start filming.
Wang Tieniu entered the glass greenhouse and prepared to shoot a documentary.
The film crew first shot the long shot, then they went to the nearby hill to take an overall shot of the vegetable greenhouse covering an area of 50 acres.
The huge glass box sparkles in the sun, and the scene is beautiful.
After finishing the long-range shooting, we entered the vegetable greenhouse and started shooting.
Wang Tieniu introduced at the side: "This is my vegetable greenhouse, and cucumbers are grown here.
I planted ten acres of cucumbers, ten acres of leeks, ten acres of eggplants, ten acres of long beans, and ten acres of celery.
A large amount of fresh vegetables are harvested every day, which is sought after by Chang'an City.
It can bring me at least three to five hundred taels of silver every day."
When Qin Yao heard about this profit, she was a little envious.
Her monthly salary is only thirty-six taels of silver coins.
His monthly salary is not as much as what Wang Tieniu earns in one day.
While they were filming the vegetable greenhouse, Wang Tieniu inadvertently chatted with people from the same village in front of the camera.
"Xiaoguang, you can only earn a hard-earned penny by guarding your more than 500 acres of land.
Now that the country's policies are good, if you follow me and work in vegetable greenhouses, you will definitely make a fortune.
Our agriculture in the Tang Dynasty has great potential, each family has hundreds of acres of land, and there is still so much land that no one cares about. It makes me feel sad to see it."
Qin Yao listened to this line. It was obvious that Wang Tieniu, an official of the Tang Dynasty, wanted to attract new immigrants through the documentary.
This sentence was indeed in line with the facts, so Qin Yao did not interrupt.
The filming process of the documentary was very hard. They stayed in Dawang Town for half a month and finally recorded the situation in the grassroots villages of the Tang Dynasty.
These original films will be shipped to the Empire, where professional editors will edit the finished film according to the needs of the Empire.
Qin Yao also made a copy of the film and gave it to Tang Guo.
They taught the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty to edit the most simple documentary with no technical content.
After Qin Yao finished her work, she checked the messages sent by her friends.
There are many things worth photographing in various European countries.
As for the two countries in the Middle East, they are really too far away.
There are a large number of nomadic tribes in both countries, and the national governance is not strong. Except for big cities, the security of other places is not guaranteed.
Qin Yao read a new piece of news. A large amount of coal and iron mines were discovered in the Lorraine area in the northeast of Chu State.
As long as anyone in the empire has a little knowledge, everyone knows what the huge reserves of coal and iron mines mean to an emerging country?
If the Chu State had coal and iron mines, they could build a coal-iron complex and produce a large amount of steel.
There is no doubt about the role that steel plays in a country.
The development of industry is inseparable from the output and quality of steel.
Qin Yao immediately took the team and took a boat from the port of Tang State to Liming Port of Chu State.
The Mediterranean Sea was calm and the passenger ship soon arrived at Port of Dawn.
This port on the Mediterranean coast at the southern tip of Chu State has now become the busiest port in Chu State.
A large amount of supplies transported from the Suez Canal are all gathered at Port of Dawn.
Qin Yao's filming team arrived in Changping, Chu State, and they immediately contacted the authorities of the motherland.
After obtaining permission from the Chu State, he was still accompanied by Chu State officials and headed to the Lorraine mining area.
When Qin Yao arrived at the mining area, he found that most of the mining areas were tightly defended by the Chu army.
In the mining area, several gunshots can be heard from time to time.
The screams caused by the whip hitting people would occasionally be heard loudly.
Qin Yao was preparing to approach the mining area officially designated by Chu State.
He saw several dark-looking black men fleeing from the mining area in a panic.
Then there was a burst of gunfire like exploding beans, and all the black men fell to the ground.
Qin Yao heard the gatekeeper of the mining area muttering in a low voice: "The gas explosion next door caused the entire mine to collapse, and there was a gap in the defenders' defense, so these slaves were allowed to escape."
When Qin Yao saw this situation, he knew that the Chu State's mining areas used black slaves to mine.
The Chu State wanted to gain a competitive advantage in the industrial field to offset the impact of the empire's industrial scale.
They can only find ways to reduce costs in all aspects.
Qin Yao ignored this matter. The empire would use slaves as labor dispatch in certain dangerous projects.
Countries such as Chu State, which have just been founded, want to develop rapidly and cannot do without oppression.
If you don’t want to exploit your own people, you must exploit foreigners.
Qin Yao led people to turn on the camera and film the situation in the mining area of Chu State.
This mining area feels clean and tidy. There is a layer of coal dust on the faces of the coal miners. They greet people with a smile, showing a few white teeth.
A large number of construction machinery are used in the mining area, and massive amounts of coal are transported out by mining cars on rails.
Qin Yao did not leave, she was in this mining area, filming the coal mine working scenes that Chu State was willing to report and the world was willing to watch.