Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 382 If there is no road, I will build a road myself

Director Li said it lightly, guaranteeing that he would get the quota of a film studio. When outsiders heard this, they would think he was bragging and talking about big things.

But in fact, he is not bragging, he is really confident.

Because for Director Li, it is just setting up a film studio. Although it is difficult, it is not necessarily a difficult task.

The main problem here lies in the word "roots"!

Hongguang Machinery Factory is an enterprise directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy. Its foundation is different from other ordinary state-owned enterprises. If we want to compare it, it is similar to the central enterprises of later generations.

Of course, the central enterprises of later generations were all truly powerful large enterprises, which were somewhat different from the enterprises directly under the ministries and commissions of this period.

During this period, the enterprises directly under the ministries and commissions were not necessarily better than the state-owned enterprises under ordinary local governments. The reasons for this are very complicated, so I will not go into details.

In any case, Hongguang Machinery Factory is an enterprise directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy. At this period, the Ministry of Metallurgy actually had a good relationship with the Ministry of Culture. This can be inferred from the good relationship between Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang.

Or it can be said that whether it is Secretary Dong or Director Li of Hongguang Machinery Factory, these people can actually be regarded as disciples of Uncle Xu. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are from the Xu family.

And Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang, the top leader named Xuan, are close friends, so it is only normal that the people from the Ministry of Metallurgy have a good relationship with the people from the Ministry of Culture.

Otherwise, how could it be so easy to grant Hongguang Machinery Factory a publishing license?

Do you really think publishing houses in this period were so easy to approve?

There is also Huaxia Audio and Video Company. Without the friendship with the cultural department, who would have approved it so easily?

Therefore, it may be difficult for others to ask for a film studio license, but if Director Li and Secretary Dong ask for it and use Cao Zhiqiang as an excuse, then it may not be difficult.

In fact, Director Li did not tell Cao Zhiqiang something, that is, his name, Cao Zhiqiang. In fact, he had already been registered with the cultural department, and he was a relatively concerned person.

There is no other reason than that when Cao Zhiqiang established that publishing house, it was Uncle Wang himself who gave the order.

Generally, to establish a publishing house, there is no need for a big Buddha like Uncle Wang to come forward. Once such a big Buddha appears, the people below will automatically remember every name spoken by this big Buddha.

Therefore, although Cao Zhiqiang may not be aware of it yet, in fact, those who are truly thoughtful have long understood who is behind Cao Zhiqiang.

Why did Director Liu, who was affiliated with the Arts Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, take the initiative to ask Cao Zhiqiang for help?

Do you really think that he is just giving Xu Qingdong face and doing Xu Qingdong a favor?

In fact, his real purpose is to make friends with Cao Zhiqiang through this, and he is a drunkard who does not care about drinking.

When it comes to friendship, you need to move around more and owe more favors.

If you move around more, you will owe more favors. If you pay more favors, friendship will naturally develop.

As a Beijing official, Director Liu naturally understands these principles.

It's just that there are only a few people who can really know the relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and Uncle Wang and Uncle Xu.

For example, Yu Yuanyuan's father Yu Deshui has a good relationship with Cao Zhiqiang, but it is not clear who is behind Cao Zhiqiang.

The reason why Director Liu knew this was by chance.

After all, he is the leader of the Ministry of Culture, so it is normal for him to accidentally know some inside information.

In short, other directors may not be able to build a film studio, but Director Li is really 70% sure.

Unfortunately, Cao Zhiqiang did not know these details and the inside story, so he was actually deeply suspicious of Factory Director Li's words, thinking that the other party was bragging, or was perfunctory.

You know, Cao Zhiqiang originally told Director Li that he wanted to set up a film studio. He just wanted Director Li to be mentally prepared, but he never thought that he would be able to do it.

After all, in Cao Zhiqiang's opinion, it is much more difficult to get a quota in a film studio than in a publishing house. A director of a state-owned enterprise may not be that capable.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang's real target is his real thigh, which is Uncle Xu.

He planned to ask Uncle Xu for help just like he did when he opened his own publishing house.

As long as Uncle Xu is willing to help, then this matter can be solved 80% of the time

Even though Uncle Xu has now retreated to the second line, his connections and prestige are still there.

We have our own national conditions here. In many cases, position does not determine everything. Talent is the most important.

"General!"

Cao Zhiqiang dropped a horse with a bang.

"Damn it, Uncle Xu, you lost!"

"Nonsense!" Uncle Xu's eyes widened, "It's still early!"

After saying that, Uncle Xu moved his general a step to the side to avoid Cao Zhiqiang's bad horse.

"Fight to the death!" Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Get out of the car! General again!"

After moving his car sideways, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Uncle Xu and said, "Uncle Xu, don't hold on!"

"Hmph!" Uncle Xu tilted his taxi up and stood between Cao Zhiqiang's car and his general.

Cao Zhiqiang sighed: "Why bother? Why bother?"

After speaking, Cao Zhiqiang shook his head.

That's right, Uncle Xu is really struggling to his death at this time.

Because even if the opponent has a sergeant and is blocked between his car and the opponent's general, you only need to use your own car to eat the opponent's sergeant in the middle, and you can still continue to fight.

And when the time comes, unless Uncle Xu takes two steps in a row, it will be a decisive blow.

In fact, the winner should have been decided as early as when Cao Zhiqiang fell on the horse, and the last two steps were not necessary at all.

But Uncle Xu still insisted on leaving and would not admit defeat until the last step.

Although Cao Zhiqiang really admired this man's courage to refuse to admit defeat, it was really unnecessary.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang finally understood. Who said the old man was good at chess?

Obviously not as good as young people.

Cao Zhiqiang did not have the chess skills provided by the system, and he had never studied chess carefully in his previous life. He only joined the school's chess club when he was in elementary school and junior high school.

Just this, he can kill Uncle Xu so much that he loses more than he wins.

It can be seen from this that although Uncle Xu has a high official position, his level of playing chess is just that.

No wonder he can't even beat the fool in chess.

It is estimated that he was able to win chess before simply because others allowed him to.

But once he meets people like himself and Silly Zhu who refuse to give in, his true level is exposed.

Of course, my own level is also the same, so I can fight back and forth with the other party.

If your chess skills are far superior to those of your opponent, then there is no point in playing.

In addition, Uncle Xu has actually taken a back seat now and has a lot of time to study chess, so his progress is also very obvious.

Just like now, Cao Zhiqiang can no longer easily win chess. After playing five games, he can only win three games. This is still a situation of not giving up.

"Uncle Xu." Cao Zhiqiang did not take his own car and eat the other's taxi. Instead, he raised his head and said with a smile, "How about if you agree to my small request, I will let you go?"

"Hmph!" Uncle Xu curled his lips, raised his head and looked at Cao Zhiqiang, "I knew your kid had no good intentions with me. If you could hold it in until now, you can still calm down."

"Hahaha." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head, "That's not true. I wanted to say it at first, but you are getting better and better at chess. I have to concentrate and play and forget about it.

Now that I have the advantage, I remember the real thing."

"Hmph!" Uncle Xu continued to look down at the chess game, "If you play chess, just play chess. Don't expect me to use other things as a trade."

"Why don't you listen to what I want first?"

"Do not listen!"

"I want to open a movie studio."

"Nothing...huh?"

Uncle Xu was stunned, suddenly raised his head, frowned and looked at the smiling Cao Zhiqiang: "Film studio?"

"Yes, a film studio." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "To be precise, it's a film studio.

I am going to ask you to do me a favor, let me, no, let our Hongguang Machinery Factory open a state-owned film studio."

Uncle Xu frowned and said: "Don't you already have a publishing house? Do you also have an audio-visual company? I heard that you are also building a convenience kiosk recently?

There are so many projects that you haven’t figured out yet, so you want to start a film studio again?

Xiao Cao, I'm not telling you, it's good to be aggressive, but you can't bite off more than you can chew.

We still have to take it one step at a time and do the things we have at hand first, and don’t aim too high!”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "What you said is correct, but there is another saying: those who can work harder."

After a brief pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "With the release of my book "Journey to Jianghu", the publishing house has now reorganized its funds and has fully staffed. It is completely on the right track. It only needs to follow the steps and it can run normally without me.

I just need to ask about the publishing house from time to time, hold meetings and go through the motions, occasionally write some articles, or occasionally write a book and publish it.

The convenience kiosk project doesn’t need me even more. This project is mainly about policy and funding issues. I have solved these two problems. The rest of the specific implementation only needs to be watched by Director Li, and I don’t need it.

So, my main focus now is on releasing records."

"Ah, I know this." Uncle Xu chuckled, "Your song called Red Flag is fluttering, it's very nice and contagious. Of course, the songs you sang with me before are also very good. It seems that you

As expected, he is very talented in poetry and poetry, hehehe."

"Where." Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, "Poetry can indeed move people's hearts, but what moves people's hearts even more is the pictures.

Therefore, I just cooperated with CCTV on a program called Advertising, have you heard of it?"

"Of course." Uncle Xu smiled slightly.

"Your widely publicized column is good.

The first program, I remember, was your short film about the waving red flag. It was well shot, and it especially complemented your singing. It was very inspiring.

Although most of the subsequent programs are short films such as sketches, they are all charity projects.

For example, asking everyone not to litter, respecting the elderly and caring for the young, etc. are also very good movies."

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Uncle Xu, simple poetry can only touch some literary and artistic young people, but it has little effect on the general public.

Popular songs are more powerful, but they are still lacking.

But things like TV movies with pictures and sounds are more resonant, better known to the public, and can subtly change their behaviors and thoughts.

This is the power of the media.

If you sing well, you can act. I am pretty good at singing, but I also want to make some achievements in movies, and I don’t want to be subject to too many restrictions, so I want to set up my own movie studio and raise my own funds to make movies.

Don't worry, I only want a quota in a movie studio and a sign.

After the film studio is established, I don’t want a penny from the government.

All expenses in the film studio will be taken care of by me.

Of course, I will also strictly abide by domestic regulations and make films that comply with the regulations and will never make shoddy films.

Furthermore, the Hongguang Machinery Factory where I work originally had an art troupe, and many of the people in it are not currently engaged in business.

Once I rely on the cultural troupe of our factory as the basis, I will spend some money to set up the film factory, and these artistic workers will have a place to play again.

As time passes, the world changes.

Today is the era of film and television.

If we don't keep up with the trend, those Peking operas, dance dramas, and allegro will probably be lost.

Although the art troupe in our factory is not very famous, the factory is the place where I was born and raised. My parents are both from the factory, so I have feelings for it.

Therefore, since I have the ability now, I want to start from the side and start by changing the machinery factory.

Once the people from the art troupe are assigned to the newly established film factory, the machinery factory will also have a lot less burden, don't you think?

What's more, you know that if you don't do it, it's enough, but if you do, do it the best!

When I wrote a book, it attracted thousands of readers, and it immediately became the best-selling poetry collection and the best-selling book.

When I sing, I can also fill the streets with thousands of people, and I can sing from all over the country.

By the same token, if I set up my own film studio and spend my own money to make movies, how will the quality be any worse?

Maybe, I can become an industry leader and force other domestic film studios to pay attention to details and quality and stop shoddy production.

It's inappropriate for me to say that our domestic films are now too far behind those of foreign countries.

Not to mention foreign countries, even Hong Kong and Taiwan, our movies cannot compare.

There are many problems here, and I won’t go into others. However, the majority of film practitioners eat from a big pot, have no pressure, only think about plagiarism, and do not pay attention to quality and innovation. This is also a big problem.

Therefore, I want to open, no, I want Hongguang Machinery Factory to open a film studio, and then I will be the contractor to run it, so I will pay for it all.

I want everyone to take a look at what kind of changes a film studio with a contract operation model can bring about.

Uncle Xu, you also hope that I can go further and create a new glory again, right?"

Uncle Xu laughed: "Returning new glory, have you ever created old glory?"

"Of course!" Cao Zhiqiang said.

"I'm not bragging, but the "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes" I published is currently the best-selling popular book in China, bar none!

Although the first album I released only had tens of thousands copies, it was still a bestseller.

Moreover, my second music album has been produced and will be released soon. It will definitely be a hit once again.

I have so many successes ahead of me, haven’t I ever been brilliant?

And I am not short of money now. I dare not say more than one or two million. One or two million is nothing.

I have talent, money and heart, so why can’t I achieve greater success in movies?”

"Then you can just find a film studio to make movies." Uncle Xu said with a smile, "Why do you want to set up a film studio by yourself? Do you know how difficult and troublesome it is to set up a film studio?"

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head: "When I go to other film studios to make movies, I have to be controlled by others. I have suffered a lot."

"Suffering a lot?" Uncle Xu asked with a smile, "How can anyone suffer a lot?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "To be honest, I once wrote a script and planned to hire Beijing Film Academy to film it. I also sent over 100,000 yuan in advance, but Beijing Film Academy actually said that it could not film it for the time being and that it would have to be queued up. It would be next year at the earliest.

Only then can I take pictures.

How can I wait for this, so I wanted to refund the money, but they said that the fastest refund would be at the end of the year.

You see, other people have the final say on their territory, and even if I pay them, I still have to suffer.

So I thought, I might as well set up my own film studio where I have the final say, just like my Hongguang Publishing House.

In this way, I can do what I want to do without anyone making things difficult for me.

When encountering difficulties, I shrink back, avoid them, and tolerate them. These are not my style.

Face difficulties and never give up, that is my style.

Lu Xun once said that there is no road in the world, but when more people walk, there will be a road.

But I have to say, if there is no road, I will build a road myself.

Whether I asked you for a publishing house or now a film studio, I want to build my own path.

Others don't understand why I give up easy things for difficult things, but you can definitely understand my painstaking efforts, right?"

Uncle Xu laughed: "Okay, that's good, it's interesting, but it's not enough."

Cao Zhiqiang blinked: "Otherwise, the college entrance examination is about to take place. If my college entrance examination results can enter the top ten in the city, will you agree to my request and help me get a place in the film studio?"

"Among the top ten in the city for college entrance examination results?" Uncle Xu smiled and squinted his eyes, "You sound pretty good, are you sure?"

"No." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head with a smile, "That's why I made this bet with you. If I'm sure, it's not a bet, it's blackmailing you."

"That's it." Uncle Xu smiled, "By the way, what was your score in the preliminary exam?"

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "I forgot how many points I scored. I just remember that I ranked 26th in the city's preliminaries."

"Oh, twenty-sixth in the city, not bad." Uncle Xu nodded with a smile, "This result is very good. As long as you perform normally, you will be admitted to university. No wonder you dare to say you are in the top ten.

But the most difficult thing about exams is to make quick progress, so the top ten and the top thirty are completely different concepts, you should know this, right?"

"It's clear, of course it's clear." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "That's why I want to make this difficult bet with you."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang said seriously: "Uncle Xu, the current bet is this.

If my college entrance examination scores rank among the top ten in the city, you will give me a place in a film studio.

If I don't get the top ten scores in the city in the college entrance examination, then the film studio's proposal will naturally be invalidated, how about that?"

Uncle Xu touched his chin, thought for a while, and nodded with a smile: "Since you said so, okay, I agree, then so be it."

"General!"

Cao Zhiqiang suddenly picked up his car, ate the opponent's taxi, and threatened the opponent's general head-on.

"Uncle Xu, are you out of moves this time?"

"You, you..." Uncle Xu looked at the chessboard and was stunned, "Didn't you agree to let me go?"

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "That was the previous proposal. You didn't agree, so... you won't regret it, right?"

Uncle Xu was stunned for a moment, then pointed his finger at Cao Zhiqiang with a wry smile: "You, you, you are such a naughty little one, such a little naughty one!"

(End of chapter)