1980 My literary era

The fourth day of our visit to Xiangjiang.

In the evening, Zhang Qi appeared in the hotel again and hugged Lin Weimin excitedly.

"It's done! It's done for the people!"

Lin Weimin finally broke away from his embrace, "Did Shao Yifu agree?"

"Three million! Three million!"

Zhang Qi stretched out his fingers and was so excited that he almost shouted.

"Calm down! Calm down! This total is only more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars."

"Enough! Enough! With this money, there is no problem in establishing the foundation!"

Lin Weimin couldn't help but said: "Look at your achievements. After all, we are a foundation working hard for the country, and we have only raised such a few figures. Why are you excited?"

Zhang Qi was ridiculed by Lin Weimin and didn't take it seriously at all.

Without Lin Weimin, there would be no donations.

The foundation's fundraising work is inseparable from Lin Weimin's support from beginning to end. He can be said to take the greatest credit.

"When will we meet Huo Guantai?" Lin Weimin asked.

"I'll call tomorrow and try to make an appointment as soon as possible."

Jin Yong has Yang Mengdai, and Shao Yifu has Jin Yongdai.

Here at Huo Guantai, people from relevant departments have already helped to introduce him. It was not easy to trouble others, so Zhang Qi could only make an appointment by himself. He probably wouldn't be able to see anyone for a few days.

"Then I can't wait any longer." Lin Weimin said.

"You can wait for my good news in Yanjing then!" After Zhang Qi finished speaking, he said to Lin Weimin: "By the way, Shao Yifu wants to meet you."

"see me?"

Only then did Zhang Qi explain today's specific situation to Lin Weimin.

He and Jin Yong went to the golf course and met Shao Yifu. With Jin Yong's face, Shao Yifu happily agreed to donate one million Hong Kong dollars on the spot.

Zhang Qi was already satisfied, but he thought of what Lin Weimin had said to him before, and felt that he could try to bargain, so he told Shao Yifu what Lin Weimin had said.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yifu immediately showed interest and promised Zhang Qi that if he could really promote cooperation between TVB and CCTV, he could donate three million.

Lin Weimin glanced at Zhang Qi helplessly, "I dare you to sell me out!"

"I'm following what you said. Good brother, we've reached this point, you won't stop helping us, right?"

Zhang Qi's expression of "Don't get rid of me, I'm a scoundrel" made Lin Weimin feel helpless.

"Help! We must help!"

"Good brother! I knew you would definitely help. I asked about it just now. You have free time tomorrow, and you just happen to go meet Shao Yifu with me."

Lin Weimin looked at Zhang Qi and gritted his teeth: "You are really my good brother!"

"Good brother!" Zhang Qi hugged Lin Weimin again.

Lin Weimin broke away again, "I'll accompany you to see Shao Yifu. Please solve this problem for me first!"

Zhang Qi took the note from Lin Weimin's hand and asked, "What is this?"

"Help people buy things!"

Zhang Qi looked at the content on the note and felt his scalp numb, "Isn't this a bit much?"

"I'm just worried. I've helped you so much, so you can't help me even with this small favor, right? My good brother!"

When Lin Weimin said these words, he felt a sense of pleasure that a great revenge had been avenged.

When he came to Xiangjiang this time, not only his colleagues in the editorial department, but also colleagues in other editorial rooms did not let him go.

Everyone knew that Lin Weimin had foreign exchange in his hands, and he directly exchanged RMB for him at the market price, and even the postage was taken into consideration for him.

Lin Weimin knew for the first time that the strength of so many colleagues in the company should not be underestimated.

Lin Weimin originally planned to consign the goods, but his colleagues also paid for it anyway, which was a bit troublesome.

It's better this time. With Zhang Qi here, the problem is solved.

Zhang Qi looked at the content on the note again, mustered up the courage and said, "Okay, I will help you solve this matter."

The next morning, Lin Weimin and Zhang Qi came to the TVB headquarters located at No. 77 Broadcasting Road, Kowloon Tong. In addition to TVB, there are also four radio and television stations including Hong Kong Radio, Commercial Radio, Asia Television and Jiayi TV. Therefore, it is also known by Hong Kong people. It is jokingly called "Wutai Mountain".

Lan Jieying, a first-generation female star of TVB, was known as "the most beautiful Wutai Mountain" when she debuted. This is Wutai Mountain.

The space in Wutai Mountain is limited, and the TVB headquarters can only be squeezed into a small mountain col next to Radio Television Hong Kong. The entire headquarters has only one administrative building. It is known as the TV City, but the scale is really shabby.

It is also somewhat unimaginable that a TV station that lives in such an office building has occupied the top spot in the Hong Kong TV industry for decades.

After Lin Weimin and Zhang Qi entered the administrative building and reported their names, they were led to the elevator by the front desk. They helped press the elevator button and sat on the top floor.

I came to the office door and knocked on the door. The person who opened the door was a charming lady in her forties.

Lin Weimin bought several Xiangjiang gossip tabloids in the past two days and recognized at a glance that this was Shao Yifu's second wife Fang Yihua.

Fang Yihua was not married to Shao Yifu at this time, but he was already an indispensable assistant to Shao Yifu.

"You two, please come in!"

Shao Yifu has a pale face and is slightly thin. He is nearly seventy years old, but he is in good spirits.

Seeing that Lin Weimin was very enthusiastic, he spoke Mandarin with a hint of Shanghai flavor.

"Hello, Mr. Lin!"

"Hello, Mr. Shao!"

The two parties sat on the sofa, and Fang Yihua brought several cups of coffee.

After the greetings, Shao Yifu said: "Yesterday, Mr. Zhang told me that Mr. Lin can help our TVB contact CCTV for cooperation. I wonder how sure we are of this matter?"

It was probably after the 1990s that Shao Yifu, or TVB, really started to attach importance to domestic cooperation, but the process was extremely difficult.

At the beginning, we could only cooperate with domestic companies to sell copyrights. It took two thousand years for the cooperation to deepen.

At that time, TVB began to penetrate into the mainland through CCTV. China International Television Corporation, a subsidiary of CCTV, signed an agreement with Infinity TV. The latter bundled CCTV's fourth program with five programs including TVB and Movie Channel, and sent them overseas using its own rented satellites. , enabling CCTV programs to be launched in the United States, Canada and other countries. As a courtesy, CCTV should provide channels for TVB broadcasts in the mainland.

But unfortunately, due to the very strict domestic requirements for overseas TV landing, TVB has never been able to touch the core business of the TV station such as content production and advertising operations.

As for the co-production of TV series, it didn't start until 2003, and it was still in cooperation with CCTV. Originally there was going to be a cross-strait co-production of "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", but due to the epidemic that year, the plan had to be canceled.

It was delayed again and again, and it was not until 2006 that the co-production mode was restarted.

Yesterday, Zhang Qi told Shao Yifu what Lin Weimin said in front of him, and Shao Yifu immediately became interested.

In recent years, Hong Kong's ZY Film Company has collaborated with mainland studios on martial arts films, which have become very popular. Several films have been well-received and box office hits, and Shao Yifu has seen it all.

Now that the mainland is reforming and opening up, the atmosphere is gradually liberalizing. If we can cooperate in filming and make use of the colorful real scenes and cheap labor in the mainland, we can save a lot of money for TVB.

In the evening, he and Fang Yihua calculated carefully. In the past two years, TVB TV stations have produced more than 700 hours of TV series each year. Calculated according to the length of domestic TV series, it exceeds a thousand episodes.

More than half of them are costume films. If these costume films can be moved to the mainland, not only can they eliminate the shortcomings of TVB's "fake scenery", but they can also save an expense, and the scale of this expense is likely to be in the tens of millions. of.

After hearing Shao Yifu's question, Lin Weimin said: "I dare not deceive Mr. Shao. I only have a three-point certainty at most."

Shao Yifu's expression did not change when he heard this. He is a businessman and never believes people who talk big words. On the contrary, he is more willing to believe those who are cautious in their words and deeds.

"Then where does Mr. Lin's three-point confidence come from?"

Lin Weimin said: "Because the works have been adapted by CCTV one after another, I am relatively familiar with several leaders of CCTV. Nowadays, our mainland TV drama industry is not mature enough, with only more than 500 episodes produced annually. I asked before However, this number will be half of your company's annual production.

Therefore, objectively speaking, domestic TV stations have the need and necessity to cooperate with wireless TV stations.

However, TVB is located in Xiangjiang, and CCTV is a national television station. If the two companies want to cooperate smoothly, they need to obtain the consent of the competent authorities above CCTV.

My personal advice can only go as far as the leadership of CCTV, so I say it is three points sure! "

Shao Yifu has been in shopping malls for a long time, and he can tell at a glance what Lin Weimin said. His words were sincere and not half false.

He nodded and said: "Mr. Lin is right. In that case, let's leave this matter to Mr. Lin!"

Lin Weimin smiled and said: "Mr. Shao donated generously for the China Literature Foundation, and what I did is insignificant."

He didn't expect to respond to Shao Yifu's questions so easily. Just as he was about to say thank you, he heard Shao Yifu say again: "I had known that Mr. Lin was an outstanding writer in the mainland and was already famous overseas at a young age. Your "Lover" " was published in "Sing Tao Daily", and my assistant, Ms. Fang, chased it from beginning to end."

Shao Yifu was referring to Fang Yihua. Lin Weimin looked at her and saw Fang Yihua looking a little shy and said, "Mr. Lin is so talented and admirable!"

Lin Weimin nodded to Fang Yihua, "Thank you for your appreciation."

Fang Yihua continued: "Mr. Lin, your "Farewell My Concubine" is very popular in Hong Kong. I wonder if you are interested in adapting it into a TV series?"

Lin Weimin was slightly surprised. He laughed and said: "Miss Fang, the length of "Farewell My Concubine" is difficult to adapt to a TV series."

Hearing the rejection in Lin Weimin's words, Fang Yihua smiled and continued: "Mr. Lin mentioned before that Infinite would cooperate with China Central Television in the Mainland. If this can be facilitated through Mr. Lin's works, it will be a good story!"

Fang Yihua came to Shao Yifu at the age of 18. After thirty years of hard work, she is now a powerful woman in Shaw Brothers Pictures and TVB.

This should be because they are afraid that they will not try their best to promote cooperation, so they deliberately give themselves a hard time.

Lin Weimin glanced at Fang Yihua, then at Shao Yifu, and said solemnly: "Okay! Since Mr. Shao and Miss Fang trust me so much, I will try my best to facilitate this matter."

Shao Yifu smiled and said: "Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Lin!"

"That's right!" Lin Weimin suddenly looked at Shao Yifu with a serious expression: "Mr. Shao, my screenwriting fee is very expensive, so I need to increase my budget."

Shao Yifu laughed and said: "I will definitely add more! I will definitely add more!"