China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

After landing in Beijing and returning to the company, Wu Guohua and other employees applauded to celebrate the boss's proud honor.

Lu Ping'an made a brief speech and then went directly to work.

Wu Guohua came over with a stack of documents, but the first thing Lu Ping'an asked was: "How many times have you conducted self-examinations on taxation?"

In August 2003, just last month, Liu Xiaoqing, who was suspected of tax evasion, was released from prison after being detained for more than 400 days. Jiang Wen picked her up alone.

Zhuo Wei exposed her release photos, and Liu Xiaoqing suddenly became the focus of domestic entertainment in August.

What follows is the tax self-examination of each company, and the same is true for Xingchen Film and Television.

"I checked three times, and the third time I found Director Li from the tax bureau."

Lu Ping'an nodded when he heard this. Director Li was a friend of Uncle Liao and the original owner's father.

He asked again: "How is the situation?"

Wu Guohua: "I can get a tax refund of about 4 million next year."

"Damn, that's too much."

Lu Pingan laughed, but he was willing to see this situation.

Taxation is an obligation, so paying more is not a big problem.

Wu Guohua initially suggested that, like other companies, we should use other channels to avoid taxes reasonably.

Lu Pingping refused directly.

He had dinner with Director Li and knew that the so-called reasonableness was actually ambiguous.

So just hand it over, there is nothing to hesitate about.

"How is the situation here at "Goddess Dragon"?"

After the tax questions, the TV series followed.

Wu Guohua took out the document and let Lu Pingping read and sign it.

Lu Ping'an glanced at the data and signed his name with a smile.

"Dragon Goddess" has now started its third round of broadcasting, and various local TV stations have purchased it in large quantities.

The price of the series has also increased from 80,000 per episode at the beginning to the current wholesale price of 2,000 episodes, but it really cannot support the large volume.

There are currently hundreds of TV stations across the country, and 24 channels will successively broadcast it in September.

Lu Ping'an finally understood why the goddess dragon was Dong Xuan's half-life.

At present, the total cost of purchasing and promoting "Dragon" is about 8.5 million yuan, but the revenue has already reached 26 million yuan, of which advertising revenue accounts for more than half.

There will be scattered income of several million in the next two to three years.

The TV drama market is really broad.

After talking about the TV series, we talked about some recent announcements and advertisements.

Among the advertising invitations, there is a public service announcement from CCTV. If you accept it, you can go and talk about it in a few days.

Lu Pingan selected a few announcements that were not easy to promote, and then expressed his position on the advertising:

"I still have to go to CCTV for invitations to public service announcements. Forget about the rest, I'm busy."

Although you can make money by shooting ordinary advertisements, you will not be short of money for a safe journey. What you are short of is time. If there are ordinary advertising golden fingers, there will be no reward, unless it is like a short film, so I refuse it directly.

Public service announcements are acceptable, as they can increase your reputation and contribute to society.

Then comes the Huabiao Awards, which will be held in Beijing in a few days. The nominations have been announced, but the award information is uncharacteristically not announced in advance like previous years. Therefore, Lu Pingan and "Source Code" won four nominations. Exactly which awards will be received is still a mystery.

After signing a circle and confirming a lot of things, after Wu Guohua left, Lu Ping'an looked at the 600-square-meter office and couldn't help but think, this place is still a bit small now.

Now the company has about 50 employees.

This is only for the Xingchen headquarters. If you add the special effects team, the animation team who will return from Bashu next year, and various equipment, 600 square meters will obviously not be enough.

Let's build one, the money is enough. The building itself doesn't cost much, the main thing is the land.

Before the money came out from the stock market earlier, Lu Ping'an had discussed this matter with Uncle Liao.

The current transaction price of land in Beijing this year is more than 700 million. The land outside Xizhimen is 190,000 square meters. It seems to be used to build a school.

Of course, Lu Ping An couldn't use it so much. Even if he could use it, he could definitely afford 700 million.

Now that Lu Ping'an has subtracted the funds prepared for Batman, the money he can actually use can reach up to about 1.2 billion yuan.

Buying land in a good location is not a big problem. Once you have the land and you can get a loan, the situation will be very good.

Of course, the money will be used in many other places.

Xiang Guoqiang is already in operation.

For example, there is the possibility of investing in mainland theater companies and Golden Harvest, investing in Qidian.com, which was just established, and investing in the paparazzi studio that Feng Ke and Zhuo Wei are planning to establish.

But after all, it actually doesn’t cost much.

The rest will be invested in the stock market again.

Therefore, if you have sufficient funds, you can build buildings on better land.

Lu Ping'an looked at the capital outside the window and began to imagine.

If the land is suitable, you can build one office building, and you can also build a shopping mall below the building depending on the situation. There will definitely be your own cinema in the shopping mall, or you can just build two buildings, one as an office building and the other as a hotel.

Just as he was thinking more and more outrageously, Wu Guohua knocked on the door and came in: "Anita Mui has announced her condition."

Just now, Aunt Mei revealed that she is suffering from cancer. This news will become the biggest news in Hong Kong entertainment and even the East Asian entertainment industry throughout September.

But in the public video, Aunt Mei still said that she had a benign tumor.

Who would have thought that she only had less than four months left to live.

In fact, Lu Ping'an also thought about whether to intervene.

But he was not familiar with Aunt Mei, and Aunt Mei's situation was a bit complicated. She had been ill a long time ago, and like Guorong, she had been passively treated.

But the good news is that because Guorong is still alive, some things seem to have changed.

Mei Gu has no liver metastasis now, and the radiotherapy she chose earlier has been changed to chemotherapy.

Negativity becomes positive.

So it’s really hard to say what the future will be like.

Lu Pingan called Guorong.

Guorong said that the problem was not big, Aunt Mei was very obedient, and if her hair fell out, it would be cured.

Lu Pingping felt relieved knowing that Guorong could withstand it completely.

At noon, Feng Ke and Zhuo Wei came to the company.

In name, I came here to do a "Grand Slam interview" with Lu Pingan, but in fact, I came to talk about setting up a studio.

Lu Pingan introduced Xiang Guoqiang to him.

Xiang Guoqiang will later use the name of "Small Target Venture Capital" to inject capital into Feng Ke's studio.

In the future, Feng Ke and Zhuo Wei will be Lu Ping'an's people.

Small Target Venture Capital will also participate in all venture capital projects in the future, and Xiang Guoqiang is Lu Ping An’s white glove.

We all had dinner together at noon. After dinner, Lu Pingping took a detour to his fried chicken restaurant.

Now he has 12 fried chicken restaurants in the capital. Cold chain transportation and a central kitchen have been built. The name has also been fixed as "Burger King". The logo is a golden H. In the future, Burger King will have to change its name when it comes to China.

When I came to Nortel's first store, there was a good flow of people inside during lunch time.

Li Chenggong said that after Lu Ping An gave us five secret recipes, the reputation of the fried chicken restaurant was far different from that of the local chickens and dogs on the market.

In addition, Lu Ping An has also imported a lot of related equipment from the United States this year. Now the fried chicken restaurants in Beijing are on the same level as KFC and McDonald's.

Lu Ping'an glanced at Liu Shui, "Hey guys, there are 12 stores, and there are about 3 to 4 million a month during the summer vacation."

Really a cash cow!

"Hygiene must still be given top priority. Food safety is extremely important. We would rather make less money but also ensure quality."

"Don't worry, boss. If I really did what others did, my monthly turnover would have already exceeded 5 million."

"Yeah, well done."

Lu Ping'an was very satisfied. At this time, Li Chenggong said again: "Boss, I want to make an advertisement."

Li Chenggong talked about the current situation. Burger King has a good reputation because it has a unique taste and is a "foreign brand", but so far Burger King has not done any advertising.

In addition, Burger King already has its own unique competitiveness, such as five iconic flavors that are regarded as classics. The meat source has also been stabilized. It is time to start comprehensive expansion. First, win the capital, and then expand to regional areas. In second- and third-tier cities, we should seize the low-end consumer market as soon as possible and start a cross-border battle with KFC. You will be the big one, and I will be the small one. We will come to a rural area to surround the city.

This is the Wallace model.

Lu Ping'an thinks it's feasible: "You can give me a plan for the rest of the ads first. The ads in my movie will be available for next summer vacation, no problem."

"The plan is also to start attracting investment next year." Li Chenggong answered with a smile.

"Okay, do your best, and tell me if you need anything."

"Don't worry, boss!"

In the afternoon, Lu Ping'an met with Beidian, Uncle Liao, Han Sanpin and others, and then went to the Sixth Princess for an interview.

At night, Lu Pingan returned to the courtyard, took a shower, changed clothes, walked out of the back door, crossed the alley in two or three steps, and entered a new back door.

After entering the door, he arrived at his own private kitchen restaurant, whose name is simply "private kitchen restaurant".

This is a guild hall connected by three courtyards.

The first one was purchased from the beginning, and the next two were purchased in the first half of the year and have now been renovated.

There are three courtyards, 6 private rooms, two rest areas, and three tea rooms. The decoration is very exquisite, and the 4 million decoration money is not wasted.

The employees in the club were shocked at first when they saw someone suddenly coming in from the back door. Fortunately, the person in charge, Xu Siyang, knew Lu Ping'an.

After seeing Lu Ping'an, he happily said hello: "Boss, you are here."

"Well, you did a good job, thank you for your hard work."

Lu Ping An expressed encouragement.

Xu Siyang was introduced by Uncle Liao. He is 42 years old. He is down-to-earth and has strong execution ability. He also likes working in this kind of store.

Less work, more money, and you can meet celebrities from all over the world.

Most people can't find this kind of job.

The rest of the employees looked excited when they knew it was their boss, the great director Lu Ping'an.

Lu Ping'an greets everyone one by one.

After a brief chat, Lu Pingan reached out for the menu.

Tonight was the first meal at the private restaurant. Lu Ping'an made an appointment with a group of friends for a party.

From now on, Lu Ping An's small gatherings for business and entertainment will be held here, with good privacy and safety.

This is the nature of a private restaurant. Whether it is profitable or not is not important. What is important is the environment.

After looking at the menu, it was pretty good, with both Chinese and Western options. Looking at the drinks, Xu Siyang took him to the wine cellar.

There are all kinds of expensive wines, both Chinese and Western, which cost Lu Ping An 1.5 million US dollars. The most expensive one costs 1.6 million yuan, and the value will increase in the future.

Lu Pingan doesn't understand wine, but Watts does. Lu Pingan is also willing to spend money. He has an account of more than 200 million U.S. dollars. Spending one or two million to decorate the appearance is just a trivial matter.

I believe that as soon as the knowledgeable person comes in and sees the various red wines with a unit price of not less than 10,000 US dollars, this small private kitchen will instantly become a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger.

Sure enough, after Mr. Zhou and others arrived, they took a tour and said, "It's not bad, it's very exquisite."

But when they saw the wine stored in the wine cellar and certified it by Mr. Zhou, they all couldn't sit still.

Do you have this wine too?

Is this true?

Can I drink this?

I want a bottle of 1.6 million yuan? !

This bottle also costs 100,000? !

Oh my god, this wine cellar alone is as good as ten apartments in the capital.

On Monday, Wei Baoqiang and the others seemed to have entered the Grand View Garden, and the three views were strongly impacted.

Lu Ping'an also opened a bottle generously and gave one to everyone. Of course it was not the most expensive one, but it was not cheap either.

So everyone was enjoying themselves tonight, and the food was good, and the environment was elegant. Everyone said that the wine was stored here and would be drunk later.

Lu Ping An opens a card for everyone. It doesn't matter whether they make money or not. The circle of friends is the most important.