In the Haidian Theater, there was a wave of applause. The latest Lunar New Year drama of "Happy Twist" came to a close. The main creative staff stood in a row on the stage hand in hand to greet the audience.
The Mahua team has risen rapidly and is already one of the top private companies in Beijing.
Private drama troupes make all their hard-earned money. The audience can come if they like it, and stop if they don't. Unlike the humanities and art theaters, which have established institutions such as Guohua, they have funding, and rehearsing the drama is a target task, and what they are doing is art.
Free tickets, I don’t care if the box office is good or not.
And the level of force is so high that even the four-character princes get into it.
"I feel that Mahua's dramas are getting better and better!"
After the curtain call, the audience lined up to appear. Yin Yin didn't like crowding, so she sat for a while and said, "Maybe I have found my own style, and I am becoming more and more relaxed."
"They call it Rong Ge."
"What is Rong Ge?"
"To put it simply, it is to ride on the popularity and integrate the hot topics of the year into the jokes. Everyone will smile knowingly after listening to it."
"Isn't this bad?"
"I can't say it's good or bad. It's easy to create this way and has quick results. I'm afraid they'll just get confused over time... There's no one left, let's go!"
Yao Yuan stood up and took Yinyin out without going backstage to meet the creator.
Objectively speaking, "Happy Twist" has two brushes in drama creation and performance, but it has been popular for film and television dramas for a long time. For example, when "Red Cliff" was criticized by the whole country, the new drama promptly added "cute"
Meng, stand up!"
It was even more obvious when I entered the film industry. "Charlotte" and "The Killer Is Not So Calm" all followed this path, and the decline in creativity was visible to the naked eye.
Without him, it would be too easy to make a movie in China.
It's just getting dark and it's time for dinner. After leaving Haidian Theater and walking east, you will find a street called "Zhichun Road".
Many places in the capital are named after "li", which originates from the old times. In the past, 25 houses were divided into one li, and it has been inherited, like Yangliu Beili in "I Love My Home".
Zhichun Road got its name because of "Zhichunli".
This road is between the North Third Ring Road and the North Fourth Ring Road, and belongs to the Zhongguancun area. To the south is Renmin University, to the east is Beihang, to the north is Zhongguancun Street, and beyond is the famous Wudaokou, the center of the universe.
Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. are all nearby.
The two of them had a meal of old BJ's Zhizi barbecue. The so-called Zhizi is a round plate made of iron bars nailed one by one, with a copper pot underneath and a charcoal fire inside.
The vegetables, meat, and seasonings are all mixed together and grilled together, a bit like stir-frying.
He also eats every penny and eats it with force.
Wen Chi means that the chef is afraid that you will ruin it by cooking it yourself, so he will bake it in the back kitchen and serve it to you directly, and it will look clean. Wu Chi means that the chef will bake it by himself, and the grill will be messy and full of everything.
Yinyin is a very particular person, so she treated Yao Yuan to a meal.
I also ordered cucumber strips, cilantro, fried steamed bun slices and sesame sauce biscuits. Yao Yuan felt like he was becoming more authentic.
"It tastes delicious this way. It's my first time eating it."
"Didn't you go to school in the capital?"
"I've never tasted that. All I eat is wrapped lettuce and perilla leaves."
"Then eat more, even better with some sesame seeds."
Yinyin gave him a sesame seed cake, paused, and asked, "Hey, when are your parents coming?"
"We have to wait for them to go on winter vacation. Are you anxious?"
"Why should I be anxious? I'm not anxious at all. My dad also has to take leave. February 17th this year is New Year's Eve, and there's still more than a month left..."
Yinyin pretended not to care, but her acting skills were a bit poor. Seeing Yao Yuan's playful eyes, she couldn't help but hit him a few times.
"Hey, 40!"
“Another 40!”
"This time it's 80!"
Yao Yuan held her hand, stopped the fight, and said, "Okay, let's eat quickly and take you somewhere later."
"where to?"
"It's not far, just walk."
After finishing the meal at a fast pace, I left the barbecue restaurant and continued walking eastward, passing by an old hotel - Jade Palace Hotel. In 2019, it was acquired by JD.com for 2.7 billion and turned into JD.com Technology Building.
As we walked further, we passed the Linghang Technology Building, which later became the office of Tencent Video.
Continuing walking, I saw the AVIC Plaza, which will be the headquarters of ByteDance.
After passing the AVIC Plaza, Yao Yuan stopped. Yinyin looked up following his gaze. Under the night, above the city, a 23-story building rose from the ground and said: "Yingshi Building? Do you want to buy it?"
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"How about it?"
Wow!
Yinyin blinked, pulled him and ran: "Go in and have a look!"
She was more excited than he was. She stretched out her long legs and ran through the gate. The security guard stood up and asked, "Excuse me, what can I do?"
"We're here to buy the building!"
security guard:???
Yingshi Building has 23 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, with a construction area of 40,000 square meters. It was completed in 2006. It includes two office buildings, apartments, and shopping malls. This building is one of them.
The two of them got in and were kicked out again.
Na Yin Yin was also very satisfied and asked downstairs: "I see that some floors have been rented out, what should I do?"
"Let's buy an empty building. Brother Dong and I have discussed it. We can buy at least 20 floors, plus the naming rights of the building. If it works, it will be called 99 Network Building in the future and will be leased to us by Maiwo Mall."
"Why rent?"
"Because it is financed by the mall, we are two companies, and they are the same anyway. Except for this, Brother Dong is looking for another building in Zhongguancun as their own office space."
"At least two buildings?"
"At least two! In addition, there are some residential buildings, which can be used for real estate investment, employee dormitories, and to trap funds, killing three birds with one stone."
Yinyin thought today was a daily date, but it turned out there was a little show.
Others engage in romance, buy flowers, give gifts, and watch fireworks. Boss Yao engages in romance and takes his girlfriend to see the building!
There are several places in Beijing where Internet giants gather together, such as Wudaokou, Zhongguancun, Xierqi, Wangjing, etc. Zhichun Road is also one of them. There is no other reason why they are stationed nearby: it is next to various universities and research institutes.
, easy to recruit talents.
For example, ByteDance started on Zhichun Road. After it grew bigger, it bought buildings everywhere, but never moved out. And if you go further along the Yingshi Building, next to Beihang University, you can also see an office building of SF Express
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Starting a family and establishing a career is imprinted in the DNA of Chinese people.
For things like buying a house, even if we put aside factors such as real estate speculation and investment, we still have a deep obsession.
The same goes for running a business. Yao Yuan likes Tuanjie Lake very much, but he still pursues his own building. Of course, he will leave some business in Tuanjie Lake. After all, he has worked there for several years and bought many residences.
staff dorm.
As for Maiwo Mall, both he and Liu Qiangdong think it is better to place the headquarters in the suburbs. First, it can be close to the logistics center. Second, there will be more people in the future, and they can buy land in the suburbs and build it themselves.
The city center is not such a big place.
But it is also good to leave some office buildings in the city center, and this one in Zhongguancun is considered transitional.
…………
Yinyin likes that Boss Yao is capable, so she will be more enthusiastic than usual when she goes home at night.
Early the next morning, Yao Yuan got up with a sore back, had breakfast, and went to the company to read the news:
“On January 9, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released the company’s first-generation smartphone, the iPhone, in San Francisco, USA!”
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I finally reached 1 million words. It took more than 6 months. It can’t compare to those tentacle monsters, but it is the fastest I have reached since writing a book... There will be five updates tomorrow.)