The Era of Hard Work

Taking advantage of the enthusiasm brought by the concert, Qingzhao County advertised through a set and Taidong TV Station, announcing that the Qingzhao Cultural Tourism Festival will be held in April this year. The Cultural Tourism Bureau contacted major travel agencies inside and outside the province to open a new According to the tourist routes, start cooperation negotiations.

In Lujia Village, Li Yanyan, who is in charge of the tourism and culture company, also led a team to participate.

This kind of thing, planned as a whole, is often more attractive.

At present, other supporting facilities around Lujia Village are not yet complete. To impress tourists and attract people, they mainly play three cards. One is the ancient village folk culture tour, and the other is that it is far beyond Quannan Furong Street in terms of scale and category, and it is opened in Quannan The famous food street, the third is further publicity and promotion.

The third and most important work is "Country Love".

The TV series can be popular, so it goes without saying that Lujia Village is the filming location, and it can also make sequels to continue to build momentum.

But the release of "Country Love" encountered some difficulties.

A set is not so good.

The new year is coming soon, Zhao Laogen participated in the latest rehearsal for the Spring Festival Gala, and flew from the capital to Quannan to find Lu Dong.

Not only TV dramas, but also the big stage that Lu Dong proposed.

Sitting in the reception room, Zhao Laogen looked down from a high position through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, as if overlooking the entire university city, and said, "Mr. Lu, you will enjoy it. This place is really good. Stand tall and see far away! Wait until my When the company develops, it has to follow Mr. Lu's example and use such a building as its office."

"Mr. Zhao must be able to get what he wants soon." Lu Dong responded casually, and then asked, "How are the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala?"

Zhao Laogen took a sip of tea and said, "Don't mention it. In the first ten days of January, a program that was carefully prepared was killed. At that time, I couldn't sleep all night. I revised the script to find my feelings. I was so worried that I lost my hair. I went back to the Liaodong countryside to look for inspiration, and tossed and tossed until the 20th of the twelfth lunar month before I finally got a result, but fortunately, I officially passed the director’s team’s inspection yesterday.”

The live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala is open to audiences all over the country. It is conceivable that the pressure is great. Lu Dong nodded: "It is not easy to be on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala."

"Who says it's not." Zhao Laogen felt an indescribable tiredness: "After a few more years of tossing around, I won't go, and I will be the boss of my company safely."

He took advantage of the opportunity to turn the topic to the direction he wanted to talk about: "Once this person becomes the boss of the company, he has more things to think about, and it is difficult to concentrate on the performance. My show this year was banned. How much does it matter?" It doesn't matter, the company's affairs have distracted a lot of attention."

Knowing that he hadn't finished speaking, Lu Dong didn't interrupt, and just waited for him to continue.

Zhao Laogen put down his teacup and said, "Mr. Lu, you told me at the time that you wanted to set up a theater to promote green duo. Love of folk culture. During this time, apart from rehearsals, I also had people do a survey, planning to open theaters in Fengtian and Beijing, and set up performance theaters like the Lujia Village Custom Theater that directly face front-line audiences!"

Lu Dong knew very well that this would happen sooner or later. At the beginning, he just told Zhao Laogen what he had done before, as the capital to attract him to cooperate with Lujia Village.

"This is a good thing, Teacher Zhao." Lu Dong said with a smile: "You are the leader of the literary and art circles, and you should be responsible for the promotion of our folk culture."

Zhao Laogen smiled cheerfully: "It's not easy to promote folk culture. Just like Mr. Lu's hometown, Lujia Village, he spent a lot of money on the promotion of folk culture, right? On my side, it's okay to say that Fengtian has both land and theaters. It’s easy to do, but it’s troublesome in the capital, every inch of land and every inch of gold is under the feet of the emperor, and tens of millions of dollars can be thrown in without a sound being heard.”

He glanced at Lu Dong, and asked directly: "I want to open a big theater in the capital next to the Forbidden City. The scale is as large as possible, and the investment is a bit high. I wonder if Mr. Lu is interested?"

From the perspective of purely doing business, Lu Dong is definitely interested. After ten years from now, I dare not say it elsewhere. In the northern region, Zhao Laogen is definitely a gold-lettered signboard, with a strong ability to attract money.

But the social environment determines that when doing business, we must not only consider economic benefits, but also consider more things.

It’s okay to cooperate with Zhao Laogen in the TV series in the early stage, and then it will be pulled down after two episodes, but at the level of the capital, it seems a bit risky to be involved too deeply with Zhao Laogen.

The water in the capital city was too deep, so Lu Dong didn't even think about going to the water in the capital city.

If one is not handled well, it will really drown.

Lu Dong smiled wryly: "Mr. Zhao, if you say a few months in advance, or delay it by two years, I will definitely invest. We have to deepen the cooperation no matter what we say."

Zhao Laogen didn't doubt Lu Dong's words, because through the cooperation of "Country Love", it can be seen that Lu Dong and Lujia Village are really sincere in cooperation.

Both sides can be said to be mutually beneficial.

Laogen Media took advantage of the various conveniences brought about by the economic strength of Lu Dong and Lujia Village and local policy advantages, and Lujia Village borrowed his fame.

Lu Dong and Lu's village are quite honest in their work, not to mention other things, just in terms of remuneration, as long as it should be given, there will be no discount at all.

This is very rare.

"Mr. Lu's funds are a bit tight?" Zhao Laogen asked tentatively.

"For Lu's Catering and Lu's Village, the capital chain will be relatively tight in the next two years." Lu Dong will continue to cooperate with Zhao Laogen in "Country Love" in a short time.

He briefly explained: "Some time ago, Mr. Zhao was doing the post-production of "Country Love" here in Quannan. You should have heard about it. Lu's Catering and Lujia Village jointly won the leader in the logistics industry in Taidong Province. In terms of logistics, the transaction volume is as high as nearly 300 million, and investment and integration are required in the follow-up, and the current liquidity is quite tight.”

Lu Dong didn't say any more about the other little money spent.

Hundreds of millions of funds are still astronomical for Zhao Laogen today.

Zhao Laogen nodded: "Understand, understand, the company is large, there are many places to spend money, and the landlord's family has no food left." He was more or less regretful: "It's not easy to find a good partner like Mr. Lu. !"

Lu Dong changed the subject and asked, "Mr. Zhao, is the post-production of "Country Love" coming to an end soon? How is the talk with the set?"

Mentioning this, Zhao Laogen no longer smiled: "It is estimated that all the post-production can be completed in February. If it is not necessary to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, it can be completed almost this month. I brought the sample to Beijing, and gave it to a TV drama department. Some people have seen it, what do you say? People think it is good, but it is very difficult to get on the 8:00 p.m. set, I suggest trying the 8 set, and we are still talking about it.”

Lu Dong nodded: "It's really more difficult if it's not produced by their TV drama production center or participated in the investment."

"Yes, that's what happened." Zhao Laogen didn't mean to give up easily: "Be patient and wait, anyway, there is something to talk about!"

Lu Dong understands that this is not something that can be done in a hurry, so he has to calm down: "Well, I have a lot of commercial cooperation with a set here, and I will go to Guan Gong in the next year, which may be helpful to some extent."

Zhao Laogen thought for a while: "It's okay, more people will work harder." He reminded again: "Mr. Lu, no matter whether you buy one set or eight sets, the related expenses will not be high, or even none. You You have to be mentally prepared!"

Lu Dong smiled: "I understand, after all, it is not an ordinary media unit."

As the New Year approached, Zhao Laogen stayed in Qingzhao for a day, and then took his apprentices northward.

Before leaving, Li Wenyue had already negotiated with Laogen Media that all those who performed at the Lujia Village Folk Theater before the tenth day of the lunar new year would come back.

From the tenth day to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Lujia Village will hold another big event, including official fairs, folk performances, fireworks shows, and more.

The highlight of this is the festival of lanterns and pretend play on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Qingzhao folk "playing" has a long history, various forms, great momentum, quite local atmosphere, especially during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, the playing activities are unprecedentedly active.

Such as carrying cores, dry boats, dragon lanterns, lion and leopard dances, stilts, Yangko teams, gong and drum teams, etc., all have their own characteristics.

In addition, the participation of the villagers is high, from children aged seven or eight to the elderly in their seventies and eighties can participate in it.

In the early years, Qingzhao's cosplay was relatively prosperous, and almost every village could do it. Even in the early 1990s, there were two or three villages in a town.

However, in recent years, the pace of life has been accelerating, and more and more people are working outside the home. Earning money has become the theme of the whole society, and it is almost impossible to see people playing around. Even Qingzhao County only arranges some lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In Moquan Park.

If you want to dress up and play, you must first have money. The purchase of various clothing and equipment is a considerable expense.

Now that Lujia Village engages in folk tourism, it is natural to pick up the folk culture that has been completely forgotten by the younger generation.

Young people won't do this kind of thing, like Lu Dong's generation, they are all caught blind.

People of Lu Jianguo's generation are actually very proficient.

The second grandfather Lu Dong has researched these things, but he is old enough to write and draw, and it is difficult to teach others in battle.

Therefore, this important task fell on Lu Jianren.

Lu Jianren was originally the captain of the village gongs and drums team. He was in charge of forming the "playing" team and served as the captain of the playing team.

As Chinese New Year approaches, every household has a lot of work to do. It is not easy to recruit people to train. The village branch has a subsidy of 30 yuan per person per day. The people involved are not limited to Lujia Village, and those from nearby villages who are willing to come to earn pocket money are also welcome.

From the beginning of the new year, Lu Jianren has been busy, signing up to count people, assigning corner jobs, taking people out to purchase clothing and equipment, and arresting personnel for training.

Very busy.

Some college students in the village who went home on vacation were all requisitioned by him for statistical work.

Lu Dong and Song Na ran around the network of contacts, and after visiting the key people in person, there was basically nothing to do, and they also came to the village to help.

In this kind of thing, sometimes the focus is on participating and having fun.