Under the pressure of Cheng Yu, the wealthy land-rich and anti-rightist Huang Shiren, the script of the program "So He Can Be So Stingy" (tentative title) was finally released.
The reason why it is said to be roughly released is because the overall six-episode script is actually just an outline, and the complete script is actually only the first two episodes.
After Cheng Yu read the script, he felt that it was tailor-made for these six people.
As long as it can be implemented according to the script, or in other words, it just needs the serious cooperation of the three big names in the imperial capital, the effect of the program after it is broadcast should not be too bad.
Therefore, on the one hand, Xu Wanting was urged to continue to squeeze the screenwriters and copywriters under her, and try to perfect the scripts for the remaining four episodes before the year. On the other hand, Cheng Yu also continued to squeeze Xiao Zhang, forcing him to follow his own ideas.
Ask Jiangdong TV for the schedule.
I have to say that Xiao Zhang’s reputation is really great, as well as the concept of the program, and the lineup of guests participating in this program are also very strong, but Xiao Zhang didn’t waste too much time talking about this matter.
It's settled.
However, when Cheng Yu followed up and met Jiangdong TV's deputy director in charge of entertainment programs, the other party was shocked by Cheng Yu's bold schedule request.
Fortunately, after the Spring Festival, Jiangdong TV has no heavyweight variety shows to launch, and the next variety show with a star cast will have to wait until at least April.
Although I was a little surprised by Cheng Yu's radicalness, he still gave me a good schedule.
Nine-thirty pm on Saturday is much better than the time after 10 pm on Friday that Cheng Yu had thought before.
Just because Cheng Yu's schedule was too close, a certain program originally planned to be broadcast by Jiangdong Satellite TV had to be temporarily changed.
Fortunately, that one was the station's own production, and it wasn't quite big enough, so the program's writing and directing team didn't have any major objections to it.
But Jiangdong TV still used this to take advantage of Cheng Yu. The fee they originally promised Xiao Zhang was 50 million, but it was suddenly reduced to 30 million.
Cheng Yu didn't care too much. After all, it was indeed difficult for the TV station to find advertisements in such a short period of time. The advertisements he had found for another program obviously could not keep up with the demand of this program.
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However, Cheng Yu has also reached an agreement with Jiangdong TV. If the ratings of the first two episodes of the program exceed 1 after the broadcast, the cost of the program will increase by 20 million, which means that the deal will still be done with 50 million.
Just because of this negotiation process, Cheng Yu received different amounts of points at three times.
One point is ninety-nine points.
Comes from "additional input whose specific value cannot be measured".
This was obtained suddenly before Cheng Yu met with the deputy director of Jiangdong TV.
Not long after he got it, he was wondering who sent the points, when Xiao Zhang called him and told him that Jiangdong Satellite TV had negotiated the schedule.
Cheng Yu suddenly realized.
Xiao Zhang is obviously a rich second generation who is taller than him. It is obviously unrealistic to expect Xiao Zhang to suck up to Cheng Yu like others, so Cheng Yu doesn't expect to get anything like this from Xiao Zhang.
"Additional input whose specific value cannot be measured".
Unexpectedly, this unexpected harvest came.
After thinking about it carefully, Cheng Yu estimated that Xiao Zhangwei may have really sold out his favors in this matter. Probably Qi also felt that he got along well with Cheng Yu. It was rare to meet someone who didn't take him seriously, regardless of their family background.
Or friends who are very close to each other in terms of status and so on.
Therefore, Xiao Zhang really spared no effort to help.
In fact, Cheng Yu and Xiao Zhang have only met once, and they can barely be regarded as acquaintances, not even friends. Therefore, Xiao Zhang is so devoted to helping, even because of this program.
There was the factor of his investment, but he was actually paving the way for Cheng Yu.
Therefore, the system felt that this was an incident that exceeded the limit of mutual help between acquaintances, so it gave a rating and points, which was reasonable.
Ninety-nine points, almost a perfect score. Of course, this comes from the fact that Xiao Zhang has never worked so hard in his life to help someone he has only met once.
The second point came when Cheng Yu negotiated with the deputy director to determine the amount for purchasing the program.
After confirming 30 million, this was actually almost higher than the program production cost that Cheng Yu and the others were prepared to pay.
With this money, Cheng Yu's first investment in the entertainment industry has been successfully completed and he has successfully made a profit.
According to Xu Wanting's budget, this show is only around 20 million yuan. Since there are no guest expenses, even if the budget is exceeded, it will not be too much.
As a result, Cheng Yu's mind rang several times.
There are three points in total.
Cheng Yu checked it at that time.
Two of these three points were "additional inputs whose specific value cannot be measured", and the remaining one was a stingy success.
Cheng Yu thought about it and realized that his stingy success was obviously related to the purchase price negotiated between Jiangdong TV and himself.
In fact, this is a transaction, but there is a small episode.
Normal sales will certainly not bring any points to Cheng Yu, but due to various requests made by Cheng Yu, the deputy director asked his subordinates and the financial department to conduct a re-calculation, saying that in accordance with Cheng Yu's various conditions
, they can only provide 28 million in program purchase expenses.
Cheng Yu said habitually: "Director, you have reduced the weight a little too much. You can kill half of it in one go."
But in fact, Cheng Yu didn't have much resentment in his heart at the time. After all, he didn't really care about money. What he cared about was whether his system tasks could be completed as soon as possible.
So the deputy director broke it up and crumbled it for Cheng Yu to calculate, saying that because of Cheng Yu's request, although the original program didn't get much advertising, it still had a multi-million contract.
Fortunately, we are a long-term partner, so there will be no breach of contract, but these millions of dollars in income will be wasted.
Then again, if Cheng Yu's program goes according to their previous design, it will be launched in May or June, so there will be enough time to attract investment and discuss advertising.
Due to Cheng Yu's conditions, they almost had to rely on their advertising partners who had cooperated with them for many years to forcefully collect some advertisements.
This will obviously also hurt the TV station's revenue.
Taken together, the deputy director said that their losses actually exceeded 25 million. The reason why they gave a quote of 28 million was entirely because of the sake of Cheng Yu and Xiao Zhang, as well as the fact that they were worried about this program.
Still quite optimistic about the premise.
"We have actually made a lot of concessions. Mr. Cheng, you can't make it difficult for us."
Cheng Yu immediately showed his true colors and said to the deputy director: "You told me, that previous program had millions in advertising revenue, right?"
The other party nodded.
"And since we are long-term partners, the other party will not hold you accountable. In other words, these millions are not lost, but just postponed for a period of time. You can still get them when your original program is broadcast.
Or, if they are long-term partners anyway, you can give them some benefits. My program will always have higher ratings than your original program, right? Ask them if they are willing to do it at the same price and at the same time.
, a program that is more likely to have high ratings? Firstly, you don’t have to lose these millions, and secondly, your problem of insufficient investment has been partially solved. As for the advertising of your own programs in the future, it is better to recruit investment again.
Come and go, at least this can save millions of losses, right?"
The deputy director was stunned. He didn't expect that Cheng Yu could actually settle the accounts like this.
So he left for a while and discussed it with the financial and legal departments. He felt that although Cheng Yu's idea was suspected of being rogue, it still made some sense.
After he came back, he said that he would give Cheng Yu a total of 30 million.
At the same time, they also proposed the subsequent plan to increase program purchase fees if the ratings exceeded 1.
Of course Cheng Yu readily agreed, and they signed the contract for the 30 million yuan first.
The points for this stingy success were an integer of 70 points. Cheng Yu easily thought of it. This was because his investment in this program accounted for 35%. The increase of 2 million fell.
On Cheng Yu's head is 700,000.
According to the algorithm of one point for ten thousand yuan, seventy points is just right.
But for the other two points, Cheng Yu was a little confused.
Later, after leaving the TV station, Cheng Yu thought about it carefully. He estimated that, like Xiao Zhang, these two points would fall on the other two guests participating in the show.
In fact, there are a total of six guests on the show.
The only "additional income that cannot be measured with specific value" that Xiaozhang can give is already there, so it cannot be counted again.
And excluding Cheng Yu himself, the other four people actually joined this show to give Cheng Yu face.
But why are there two transactions instead of four?
Cheng Yu quickly figured it out.
This program falls on Xu Wanting herself. This is a good opportunity for their company to become famous, not to mention that the program has actually helped their company make money so far.
Therefore, Xu Wanting's participation in the show cannot be regarded as giving face, she is still serving herself.
As for Qin Manyuan, because Cheng Yu had successfully obtained ninety-seven points from her when she was in Bao'an, she would naturally not provide Cheng Yu with one more point.
So, Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Dai Yanti each gave Cheng Yu a point.
These are these two points, one is thirty-six points, and the other is eighty-nine points.
Cheng Yu made a simple judgment and estimated that the thirty-six points came from Mr. Carpenter, while the eighty-nine points came from Mr. Dai Yanti.
Because Mr. Carpenter is giving more face to Xiao Zhang. Of course, Cheng Yu himself also has face, so the points will be less.
Naturally, Mr. Dai Yanti mainly gave Cheng Yu face, and Xiao Zhang's face also played a small role, so the points reached almost ninety points.
The last point gained came from Cheng Yu finalizing the final supplementary contract with the deputy director.
Because the 50 million previously negotiated with Xiao Zhang suddenly turned into 30 million, although it was reasonable and well-founded, Taili felt that he had to give Xiao Zhang an explanation, so there was no need to offend anyone.
So the station decided that within two episodes, if the program's ratings exceeded 1, and it was already around the Lantern Festival at that time, the trend of variety shows would usually only be better in the following time periods.
Therefore, although there may be some advertising losses in the first two episodes of the program, before the third episode is aired, the advertising companies they have been cooperating with will definitely see that the number of advertisements in this program is insufficient and will definitely ask to join in.
By then, we will definitely be able to sell another batch of ads.
Of course, this is all based on the program's high ratings.
Therefore, the deputy director said that as long as the ratings exceeded 1, the purchase cost would be increased by 20 million and restored to 50 million, which would be considered as giving Cheng Yu and Xiao Zhang enough face.
But Cheng Yu was obviously not satisfied with this. He proposed that he could pay only 10 million to break 1, but for every 10% increase in ratings, Jiangdong TV would have to pay an additional 3 million.
Calculating it this way, if the ratings reach 1.3, they only need to spend less than 20 million. If it is really higher, it doesn't matter if they give more. After all, the higher the ratings, the higher the advertising costs can be negotiated.
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After another round of calculations, the deputy director finally agreed to Cheng Yu's request on behalf of Jiangdong TV.
Ever since, Cheng Yu once again received two points at the same time.
This amount is still an "additional income whose specific value cannot be measured." There is no doubt that this point can only come from the deputy director himself.
It can be said that if he had not taken the initiative to raise the issue of ratings, even if Cheng Yu had made other bargaining moves, he would not have been able to negotiate back all the 20 million yuan at once.
Therefore, the system will definitely determine that the deputy director is fully considering Cheng Yu's identity and Xiao Zhang's role in this matter.
This is of course additional input whose specific value cannot be measured.
This amount of points is fifty points.
This is also in line with Cheng Yu's prediction, and he and Xiao Zhang each account for half of the effect.
And the other one was naturally a stingy success.
Moreover, it is directly a reward of one hundred points.
This means that after this program is broadcast, Cheng Yu will not only be able to fully recover the 20 million yuan, but also increase his income by at least 3 million yuan.
Only if it exceeds three million, Cheng Yu's share will exceed one million and he can get one hundred points.
Cheng Yu suddenly discovered that this thing actually had the advantage of helping him predict the minimum profit on investment returns.
What an unexpected gain.
In this way, Cheng Yu gained another 444 points.
Fortunately, these points are not added at once, otherwise the number 444 would be really creepy.
Seeing that the points in his mind had been updated to 17238/17447, Cheng Yu felt very satisfied.
After everything was settled, it was already the day before New Year's Eve.
It was the New Year in Wudong. Wei Lan called and asked Cheng Yu and Du Xiaoyu to go home to celebrate the New Year together.
Because of the Chinese New Year, Aunt Zhang has returned to her hometown, and the servants on Du Changfeng and Wei Lan's side have also granted them leave.
So when Cheng Yu and Du Xiaoyu arrived at Du Changfeng's house, it was Wei Lan who cooked the food himself.
As soon as he entered the door, Du Xiaoyu shouted, and Wei Lan hurriedly ran out of the kitchen wearing an apron.
"Oh, hey, this Chinese New Year guy yells and screams as soon as he comes back. I've given the servants a day off, so stop yelling. No one will come out to serve you. Look at Xiao Yu, how nice he is? I don't know.
Soundless."
Cheng Yu hurried forward and handed the things in his hand to Wei Lan: "Mom, happy New Year."
Wei Lan had a smile on his face, but his hands were greasy, and even after wiping them on his apron, they didn't feel any better, so he had to say, "Put them on the table over there. I won't talk to you two."
Yes, the tea is in the refrigerator and there is boiling water on the table. Make yourself a cup of tea. I am still busy in the kitchen."
Looking at Wei Lan's fiery back, Cheng Yu felt a sense of vigilance in his heart for some reason.
Du Xiaoyu also stared in the direction of the kitchen with his mouth open, and shouted loudly: "Mom, you haven't cooked in these years, can you still cook?"
"You kid, what are you talking about? I didn't cook all the meals for you when you were a kid? How could you afford a servant back then?"
Du Xiaoyu curled her lips and said with a sad face: "I feel bad. I didn't like to eat my mother's cooking when I was a child. Now I haven't cooked for more than ten years. I can still ask Aunt Zhang and the others for advice on making soup or something."
.How can we prepare these other dishes?”
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "No, cooking is something you won't forget once you learn it. At most, it's a bit unfamiliar and a little salty."
"What do you know? She's not your real mother-in-law, so you're just flattering her. Besides, she can't hear you now."
Cheng Yu shrugged, walked to the table, put down the things in his hands, opened the refrigerator door next to him, looked inside, took some orange juice, and poured himself a glass.
"What do you want?" Cheng Yu asked Du Xiaoyu.
"Pour me some milk and heat it up in the microwave. The microwave is in the kitchen."
Cheng Yu nodded, took a sip of orange juice, took out another bottle of milk from the refrigerator, poured it into a cup, and carried it to the kitchen.
Seeing Cheng Yu coming over with milk, Wei Lan wiped her hands and took it.
"This child doesn't even know how to pour you a glass of water when she gets home, and asks you to help her warm milk." He said, putting the milk in the microwave.
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm not an outsider."
Wei Lan smiled and said: "That's true."
After that, he returned to the chopping board and was busy cutting eggplants.
Watching Wei Lan cut the eggplant into round slices, and the thickness was quite different, Cheng Yu couldn't help but have a slight headache.
I wanted to tell Wei Lan that the eggplant was best cut with a hob, but I was afraid that it would dampen Wei Lan's enthusiasm, so I held back in the end.
Although his knife skills were poor, he was able to cut it out. Wei Lan poured oil into the pot and turned on the heat.
When Cheng Yu saw it, he felt a headache again.
This oil is a little too little. Eggplant is the oiliest.
Before the oil was hot, Wei Lan directly poured the eggplant in, and proudly said to Cheng Yu: "You know, you can't wait for the oil to be hot, otherwise it will fry everywhere." After that, he started to stir-fry.
Just a little bit of oil was sucked up by the eggplants in the blink of an eye. Wei Lan continued to stir-fry without caring. As a result, Cheng Yu could see with his naked eye that the surface of the eggplants began to turn black.
There was a ding sound, and Cheng Yu almost thought that the system in his brain was going crazy to increase his points again. He took a quick look and found that it was not there. Instead, Wei Lan walked to the microwave oven skillfully and turned it on.
It turns out that the milk has been heated.
Wei Lan had quite a bit of experience in this area. She took a glove and handed it to Cheng Yu, saying, "Handle it carefully, it's hot."
Cheng Yu took the glove and took out the milk. He smelled a paste smell on his nose. Wei Lan was suddenly startled and hurried back to the stove, only to see that the eggplant in the pot was in terrible shape.
Cheng Yu didn't dare to stay any longer. Wei Lan's face was dull and she hurriedly left the kitchen with the milk in hand.
Passing the milk to Du Xiaoyu, Cheng Yu whispered: "It seems I was wrong. The food your mother cooked may be poisonous to death."
Du Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing, and then said with a sad face: "What should we do?"
"Why hasn't your dad come back yet?"
"Expect him? Don't think about it, he can't cook. I've known him for more than 20 years, and I've never seen Mr. Du enter the kitchen."
Cheng Yu touched his forehead and thought he wanted bad food.
But soon he came up with an idea and said, "Hurry up and call your dad and tell him that if your mom keeps doing this, I'm worried that she'll ruin the kitchen. I guess he should have the same idea. After all, he's like your mom."
I have been fighting wits and courage for twenty or thirty years, and I have gained a lot of experience."
Du Xiaoyu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, that makes sense." After that, he took out his cell phone and called Du Changfeng.
After Du Changfeng listened to Du Xiaoyu's words, he pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, let me solve this matter."
Cheng Yu and Du Xiaoyu looked at each other and smiled.
After sitting for a while, Wei Lan came out of the kitchen.
My hands have been thoroughly washed and my apron has been taken off.
She said nonchalantly: "Your father said that he had booked a banquet for us to bring back, but he didn't tell us earlier, which made me busy for a long time."
