Zhao Mingyang didn't want to offend Zhao Hongtu easily. After all, you didn't know whether he was a lunatic or not, but you couldn't cooperate with him, so you gave him a planning suggestion.
Zhao Hongtu is now at a crossroads, Zhao Mingyang just pointed him in the direction, which is very important to Zhao Hongtu.
He has been wandering at this crossroads for a long time. He kept asking for directions. Some people just ignored him without answering. Some people pointed him in the wrong direction. Zhao Mingyang was equivalent to telling him how to go, which road to go straight and turn left.
Almost there.
This is what Zhao Hongtu wanted, and Zhao Mingyang told him how to do it.
Zhao Mingyang returned to the room and went to sleep directly. He actually saw through it. This was a competition of utilization value. There was nothing mysterious, it was just a more concentrated division of power.
At six o'clock the next day, Zhao Mingyang got up, took a shower, put on the clothes they gave him, combed his hair, put on his glasses, went out, and went to the restaurant for breakfast.
Yesterday, it was said that the ancestor worship ceremony would start at seven o'clock in the morning. When Zhao Mingyang arrived around seven o'clock, there were still people who did not come. In fact, it started around eight o'clock, but he was asked to come early so as not to be late.
Of course, there are still many people who will be late or unable to get up the next day. These people are basically irrelevant.
The important core layer is here. Zhao Mingyang and Zhao Hongtu are standing on the left and right. A middle-aged man delivers a speech on the stage. The old man who sat in the seat for a while yesterday is also there, but he doesn't say much.
I'm in a wheelchair today.
After the speech, the old man was pushed away by his juniors. Zhao Mingyang also came to the stage to introduce himself. A brief introduction, no nonsense, and the people in the audience just remembered Zhao Mingyang's message. Teacher Fuda, the rest are all.
Not disclosed.
Zhao Mingyang was also invited to write a blessing for the new year. After all, in the eyes of many people, teachers are equal to good handwriting, just like those who study computers must be able to repair computers.
At this time, Zhao Mingyang also understood why Wu Zhonghua asked him to practice writing, just to give everyone a correct understanding.
If Zhao Mingyang is asked to write calligraphy and Zhao Mingyang's handwriting is bad, everyone will be disappointed. If people want to think that Zhao Mingyang is a university teacher, then his writing must be good.
This is why Zhao Mingyang was asked to write. There may be someone here who can write better than Zhao Mingyang, but without the identity of a teacher, Zhao Mingyang is mixed with the identity of a scholar.
There are also scholars here, but they have not entered the inner circle, and those who have entered the inner circle are too old, so they just showed up and left early. To put it bluntly, the possibility of losing their minds is greater.
Some people also want to give Zhao Mingyang a chance to perform. If Zhao Mingyang writes poorly, he will make a fool of himself and be embarrassed.
Fortunately, Zhao Mingyang practiced. Anyway, there was no problem in writing the four words "peace and health". Zhao Mingyang wrote these four words on paper with a brush because many people here are pursuing peace and health.
The ancestor worship ceremony lasted for more than three hours, and there were various ceremonies. Zhao Hongtu followed Zhao Mingyang all the time, which made Zhao Mingyang speechless. It seemed that they were very familiar and Zhao Hongtu was following Zhao Mingyang.
Zhao Hongtu's enthusiasm and performance have made it obvious at a glance that he is Zhao Mingyang's man.
When the ancestor worship ceremony was over, it was time to eat and drink again, but this time the person sitting at the main seat was replaced by another person. The old man from before did not come due to health reasons.
There is another rule here, that is, if there is a wedding or funeral for the children of the Zhao family, everyone who can be present should try to be there, just to have a closer relationship.
Zhao Mingyang calculated, good guys, if you contribute this year, you will get a million. This is still a small amount. It depends on whether others are invited or not. Although they all have to be present, everyone knows that there is a sense of boundary and will not invite them.
A person with no social connections.
And the contribution money here starts at 10,000 yuan, and the contribution money for people in Zhao Mingyang's circle all starts at 100,000 yuan. This is what Zhao Hongtu told Zhao Mingyang.
Sometimes a millionaire is not enough for a year, and it may reach the level of tens of millions. In this way, everyone has a fixed amount of funds circulating every year, so few people ask for loans, which is also a potential guarantee.
Ordinary people don't have so many relatives and friends to live with, and they receive gifts from others. If the other party has nothing to do with weddings or funerals, then the gifts are a kind of relationship maintenance fee, and it's not easy to do things with you, right?
Anyway, this is a very huge network of relationships. What Zhao Mingyang wants is this network of relationships. Zhao Mingyang will try his best to do it in the future. If someone has something to do before the gifts arrive, Zhao Mingyang can at most contribute some money. If everyone goes to participate,
Three hundred and sixty-five days in a year are not enough.
With so many people, it is enough to participate in the housework of a few core people, but for others, Zhao Mingyang also goes to pay tribute. If he is just a member, he is not short of the money. He just treats it as maintenance, and no one can do it.
It’s hard to explain what a person is capable of.
At the end of the ancestor worship ceremony, there was a family meeting. Some family rules, family culture, and things not to be done were discussed. Everyone should unite and help each other, etc.
At the end of another day, Zhao Mingyang went on stage and gave three speeches. What he said were all false and empty words. He knew it, and the people in the audience knew it, but the signal was that Zhao Mingyang was in the inner circle.
A large number of people gathered around Zhao Mingyang to add WeChat messages and write down Zhao Mingyang's mobile phone number. Zhao Mingyang never refused anyone who came. After adding Zhao Mingyang, Zhao Hongtu invited Zhao Mingyang to dinner.
Zhao Mingyang could also see that, except for the group of people in the inner circle, the rest of the people were very taboo and awed towards Zhao Hongtu. Everyone probably knew what he did, so with Zhao Hongtu by his side, Zhao Mingyang was able to reduce the burden of many things.
Necessary courtesy.
Also because of Zhao Hongtu, Zhao Mingyang's status here is higher. Everyone knows that Zhao Mingyang is an extraordinary person, otherwise Zhao Hongtu would not behave like this.
Zhao Mingyang knew that Zhao Hongtu was obviously showing off to others. When they had dinner together in the evening, Zhao Mingyang said directly: 'Hongtu, this is boring. I have said everything I can, and it is useless for you to follow me.'
"Uncle Mingyang, I don't really think you have great wisdom and ability. I just admire you. By the way, I want to ask you something. My boy and that girl are both going to middle school this year.
I'm about to go to high school again. I want to find a way out for my children. Please help me. How can I leave a way out for them both? Don't worry, I will definitely do what you said.
But there is always an emergency. I want to ask you something shamelessly. In the future, I mean the future. If something happens to me, please ask Uncle Mingyang to protect my family, just once.
"
When Zhao Mingyang heard this, he knew that Zhao Hongtu was still afraid of something, mainly because he was afraid that someone would kill him before the ten-year plan was completed.
And he has a lot of enemies. He didn't get to this position just by sitting down and chatting with others.
Zhao Hongtu definitely didn't say this to Zhao Mingyang alone. He must have said this to many people. He was betting on a promise. If something happened in the future, would someone really protect his family?
He is betting on this, what if there is someone who keeps his promise?
"I can't make a promise to you. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. I don't want to go to the Palace of Hell with broken promises. If you really want to give your child a guarantee, then you can set up a charity fund in the name of your child.
Help some people in need.
You must really do charity and help the people who need to be helped. It will be more effective than asking anyone else.
The reason you are so afraid is simply because you have too many enemies. There is no solution to this problem. Unless you have been strong, unless you can make people change their view of you, this is impossible because what you have done cannot be corrected.
It's fixed.
Life is not a game. There is really no chance to start over again. There is no right or wrong in your life. The accountability begins with your parents’ generation. There is no need for that. It is all in the past.
The only thing you have now is to let those who can easily deal with you not deal with you, so that you have the experience and time to protect what you can protect. This cup of tea is good, thank you for your hospitality, and I will say goodbye."
Zhao Mingyang stood up and left. Zhao Hongtu didn't speak. Zhao Mingyang always gave him some real advice.
"Thank you Uncle Mingyang. If you need me in the future, just ask. I, Zhao Hongtu, will do my best to help you."
"Don't talk about that. At this point, if something happens, no one can help anyone. We are almost at the same level. The most you can tell me is that you can protect yourself. Let me give you one last suggestion.
Get rid of your unrealistic ideas. You and I cannot participate in the so-called great changes. Only by not participating can we live longer. If you are still Chinese, your heart of dedication to the country is stronger than anything you can do."
Zhao Hongtu looked at Zhao Mingyang's leaving figure and wondered what Zhao Mingyang's words meant.
At the last sentence, Zhao Hongtu was trying to figure it out. He seemed to have understood something again. In Zhao Hongtu's eyes, Zhao Mingyang was a really wise man. He had given up some of his previous ideas. They were indeed unrealistic. In the great changes, he also
It’s just a drop in the ocean. I really thought too much before.
Zhao Mingyang didn't want to get too close to Zhao Hongtu. Zhao Hongtu's fear was the fear accumulated from what he had done over time.
He will only become more and more afraid, because his children are getting older and older, and every danger to him represents a danger to his family.
Back in Shanghai, Zhao Mingyang and Ning Dongsheng had a private meal. Ning Dongsheng and Zhao Mingyang talked about the current situation of the company.
At present, the company needs a good work to prove it, because the entertainment company must finally have the confidence to negotiate cooperation with Party A. Currently, their company does not have good film and television works or good music works, so the company must make some money.
Invest in your work.
But now it’s hard to find good works, and I’m afraid that they will turn out to be bad films.
Zhao Mingyang roughly understood what Ning Dongsheng meant, which was that Ning Dongsheng wanted to list Daotian Entertainment, but it has been unable to increase the stock price by relying on traffic. It can only be done if there is a guarantee of works. For example, if several good works are produced in a row, investors will be attracted to Daotian.
Entertainment with confidence.
After entertainment companies go public, they rely on the blessing of stars and works. They have stars, but not works.
Zhao Mingyang suddenly thought of something. He thought of a TV series he watched in his previous life. That TV series was a hit. The reason why it was a hit is that many people may not know one thing. That TV series had a team from Hong Kong Entertainment, such as
Photography, soundtrack, etc.
So there are many scenes and plots that everyone enjoys watching. The reason is that there are shadows of Hong Kong films. In recent years, Hong Kong film directors rarely shoot movies on Hong Kong Island, and they all go to the mainland to shoot.
But there is one thing that cannot be avoided. Hong Kong movies have a rating system, so the scale of creation will be larger. Domestic movies currently do not have a rating system, so the scale of creation must be biased toward family fun and suitable for all ages.
Therefore, when many Hong Kong directors go to the mainland to shoot films, they are easily blocked. They may have a hard time getting reviewed, and the films they make are neither fish nor fowl.
If we just make Hong Kong films, it will be difficult to have a mainland market. This is no joke, because in the past, people watched pirated unabridged versions or genuine ones bought on the platform. At that time, they didn’t think about this, but later on, they encountered Hong Kong films.
This is a problem. There were no cuts in the Hong Kong version. When it was released in the Mainland, the editing was so confusing that the plot just didn’t match up.
Nowadays, if you watch Hong Kong movies from the past on many platforms, you can no longer watch them all, and many of them have been deleted.
Therefore, a group of Hong Kong film directors filmed directly in the mainland, followed the mainland's review standards, and gave up the Hong Kong Island market. The main Hong Kong Island market is indeed too small. A movie with tens of millions can have a good box office, and domestically it is billions.
So they want a bigger market to get more revenue.
But there is a big problem with this, that is, there is a high chance of a bad movie, the story is not good enough, and the director cannot judge the preferences of the mainland audience and the review standards.
In the mainland market, only mainland directors can produce relatively good works.
The main reason is my background. This is my inherent advantage. I can exclude movies that are more likely to resonate with mainlanders, and I know better the criteria for review.
So Ning Dongsheng is stuck in this area. The schedules of all the top-ranked directors in the Mainland are full, usually three to five years later.
Zhao Mingyang thought for a while and felt that he was fine, so he might as well go do something interesting.
"Wait for me, I'm going to come up with a script, give me a few days." Zhao Mingyang left after saying that.
After he returned, he really polished the script of a movie. A three-hour movie could make more than three movies.
Zhao Mingyang named the script "Double Biao", and a few days later, he showed the first draft of the script to Ning Dongsheng.
Ning Dongsheng initially thought that Zhao Mingyang was joking or making a spur-of-the-moment decision, and didn't really expect anything.
But when he saw the script, he was completely immersed in the plot within a short while. The plot was so good.
Shuangbiao tells a story that happened on Hong Kong Island in the late 1980s. At that time, Hong Kong Island had not yet returned to China, so it was more suitable for mainland review standards.
The main story tells the story of how a little man named Liu Huaqiang who made a living by selling fish on Hong Kong Island in the last century gradually became the Emperor of Kowloon on Hong Kong Island.
Ning Dongsheng likes this story so much. There are so many bright spots in Liu Huaqiang, such as how he was forced to change step by step. He was originally a fish seller and supported his younger brothers and sisters in their studies by selling fish, and his younger brothers and sisters also
They all strived to achieve their goals. My younger brother Liu Huasheng was admitted to the University of Hong Kong, and my younger sister Liu Hualan was also admitted to City University.
Originally, this family's life was heading towards the rising sun, but on New Year's Eve in 1988, everything changed.
At the end of 1988, brothers Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu, the administrators of the Kowloon wet market, led a group of people to inspect the wet market as usual and told Liu Huaqiang that they would re-draw lots to allocate stalls after the new year.
For Liu Huaqiang, this stall is the lifeblood of the entire family. If this stall disappears, what will happen to the tuition fees of his younger brothers and sisters?
He couldn't lose this stall. Zhang Xiaolong's younger brother Zhang Xiaohu gave Liu Huaqiang a hint. Big Brother, yes, it was Big Brother. It was listed on Hong Kong Island in 1987. It was a symbol of wealth and status. As long as he bought Zhang Xiaolong a
If you are a big brother, then this stall still belongs to Liu Huaqiang.
Liu Huaqiang understood that this was extortion, and he openly asked him for a favor. These two people grew up with him. They used to be neighbors, and they usually took care of them, but they were still like this. For the first time
Let Liu Huaqiang know how the bottom class has any right to speak.
He went to the mall to see the price of mobile phones. He couldn't afford it. He couldn't afford it. It was too expensive. He might have to spend all his savings accumulated over the years and ask someone to borrow money to buy it.
He couldn't live the rest of his life, so he thought about it and finally bought a BB machine for Zhang Xiaolong. The price was not too expensive and it was economical to use.
As a result, Liu Huaqiang took the newly purchased BB machine and gave it to Zhang Xiaohu. On New Year's Eve, Liu Huaqiang bought some watermelons to go with some seafood and went to Zhang Xiaolong to ask about the stall. Zhang Xiaolong never responded.
When he arrived at Zhang Xiaolong's house, a room full of people were playing mahjong. Liu Huaqiang saw the elder brother in front of Zhang Xiaolong. He felt something was wrong and asked about the stall. He was ridiculed by the Zhang brothers for a while and even told him to die.
Heart, it is impossible to give him the stall.
Liu Huaqiang wanted to get his BB machine back, but Zhang Xiaohu gave it to him, but his hand slipped and he accidentally dropped it, breaking the machine into pieces.
Liu Huaqiang's emotions could no longer be suppressed for a moment. He attacked Zhang Xiaohu with his fists, but was beaten violently by a group of people in the room.
This group of people also called the police and reported that Liu Huaqiang had broken into the house and robbed him. It was on this night that Liu Huaqiang met his nobleman Qi Tongwei.
Qi Tongwei is an ordinary detective with no money and no background. He worked his way up step by step. When he learned about Liu Huaqiang's experience, he had mixed feelings in his heart because he knew this feeling. He had been like this before.
Originally he could stand taller, but because he refused the pursuit of a girl, he was assigned to be a little detective here.
Qi Tongwei knew that Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu relied on the background of police chief Xu Liangping to dare to be lawless, collect protection fees in the area, and finally hand them over to Xu Liangping.
Behind Xu Liangping were those British guys. Those British guys were so greedy that they made the entire Hong Kong Island people and gods angry.
On New Year's Eve, Liu Huasheng and Liu Hualan were waiting for their elder brother at the door of the police station. On this night, Qi Tongwei and Liu Huaqiang's family met. The young and ignorant Liu Hualan was convinced at first sight that she fell in love with this humane detective Qi Tongwei.
When leaving, Qi Tongwei told Liu Huaqiang to read more and gave him two books, one was Sun Tzu's Art of War and the other was Thirty-Six Strategies. These two books eventually made Liu Huaqiang the Emperor of Kowloon.
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Ning Dongsheng feels that Shuang Biao is more like the story of two heroes, the story of Liu Huaqiang from a small fishmonger to the Emperor of Kowloon, and the story of Qi Tongwei from a young detective to a Chinese detective.
This story is very interesting and telling, and is very suitable for adapting to the big screen, especially the story line of the three brothers and sisters of the Liu family. Liu Hualan eventually became the Queen of Mongkok, Liu Huasheng finally went to self-destruction, and even the little dragons and tigers are very vivid, like this
The script is so good.
Ning Dongsheng especially likes the role of the sister-in-law, and it is really hard not to like the role of Liu Shuting.
If this was made into a movie, it could be made into three parts: upper, middle and lower. Each part could be shot for three hours. It can be said that there will be no peeing in the whole process.
This drama can just show what the situation was like on Hong Kong Island at that time, so it was very suitable for filming.
"Mr. Zhao, would it be better to change Liu Huaqiang's name?" Ning Dongsheng said.
"Then let's change the name to Gao Huaqiang. How about this script? I think Meng Xiaoxian is suitable to play Liu Shuting.
Everyone else in the company can use it. Find Du Qifeng as the director, he is very good at shooting this type of style.
The male protagonists are Wu Zhengyu and Liang Jiahui, and they are responsible for their acting skills." Zhao Mingyang said.
