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"As the provincial TV stations in mainland China have successively launched stars in recent years, the TV industry will enter a period of quite vigorous development. This is the best opportunity for the rise of the Jinshu department. After all, the threshold of China's domestic TV field is much lower than that of movies. The demand is far beyond. However, other capitals will certainly not let go of this opportunity. If the Jinshu department wants to stand out from the crowd, it needs to have sufficient competitiveness. What should the core competitiveness of the Jinshu department be? It seems that the key is the professionalization of each link of the film and television project from incubation, production to marketing, distribution, and the formation of an entire mature industrial chain."

"You have to remember, this is business."

"Any business wants to succeed, the core is high-quality products, but in addition to this, while ensuring that the product is good enough, you also need to reduce costs as much as possible in the production process, and become as famous as possible in the marketing process. The ultimate goal Is to get more benefits."

"Perhaps you are thinking about how to do it. Can I teach you more instead of these broad concepts?"

"Of course I know what to do, because I walked up from the bottom step by step. Even though the film and television entertainment environment in the United States is very different from that in China, it is unavoidable that since it is a business, it will inevitably lead to the same goal. However, I did not Time teaches you, I only want results."

"If you have the intention, you can learn the operation methods of any professional field based on your current position and the resources available to the Westeros system. Again, I only look at the results. I'm done. Will give you enough returns, definitely more than you think. Because of various regulatory restrictions in China, most companies in the Jinshu system and the Westeros system cannot hold too many shares. I hope these shares will be more Those who do what you do take it away. Of course, if you don’t do it well, you still don’t have anything. I am a person who admires the rewards when you pay.

In the study in the mansion on the west side of the West Lake.

Simon didn't have time to communicate with each other. Basically, he communicated directly with several senior officials in the Jinshu department, and many of them were still talking about Simon.

So to the end, Simon once again turned over a document that Lin Su had previously sent in, and then said, "The last thing is about "Dragon Babu". This is a novel I like very much, in fact, Mr. Jin Yong’s great I like some of the works very much. Therefore, in addition to business, I hope that this project will be my personal hobby and be made into a real work of art. It just so happens that this project is a tripartite collaboration between Hong Kong TVB and CCTV in the Mainland, so It cannot be regarded as a pure business, but has more special meaning. Therefore, doing the best does not conflict with my hope."

"Since it is my personal hobby, let alone how many resources CCTV and tvb can provide, I will personally give a budget of 15 million US dollars."

When Simon said so, Wu Shanlin and Luo Qun, who were sitting on the opposite sofa, were a bit speechless.

15 million U.S. dollars, which translates into 1.2 billion yuan.

"Eight Dragons" is expected to be about forty episodes. The "Water Margin" that CCTV has been producing in recent years is a national drama with a budget of less than 60 million yuan.Moreover, the $15 million that my boss just said was just the investment of the Jinshu family, and the resources that CCTV and tvb can give are not counted.

After spending money like this, it is obvious that my boss really does not intend to recover the cost.

Simon finished speaking, gave some people some time to digest, handed the document in his hand to Wu Shanlin, and continued, "Therefore, there is no need to worry about the production, and it will be no problem to complete it in two to three years, just like CCTV's four masterpieces Choose the best actors and the best behind-the-scenes team. Finally, there is this. I personally donate a set of digital cameras and corresponding post-production equipment. The core is the latest digital video camera developed by Sony, with film-level resolution. , In fact, it’s only about 800 pixels in the vertical direction. The picture quality needs to be compensated by the lens and other hardware, but it is far beyond the current picture quality standard for TV drama shooting.

Regarding the various historical epics of the past, and even the later CCTV Jin Yong series, Simon's biggest regret is the picture quality.All kinds of scenes with beautiful mountains, rivers, beautiful scenery and tough guys are greatly compromised because of the rough picture quality.

Especially the Jin Yong series of CCTV.

If Big Beard Zhang was able to shoot with movie-quality picture quality, there would be room for all kinds of "women who came out of the dust" to be a demon.

Therefore, what Simon wants this time is one step.

The use of CCTV can mobilize the huge resources of the country, the mature professional production team in Hong Kong and the generous funds of the Jinshu department, and achieve the ultimate in one go. There was no Jin Yong drama before and no Jin Yong drama since.

To achieve this goal, the first thing is image quality.

The first 1080p film-level digital video camera was born in 2000. It was mainly developed by Sony specifically for the shooting of "Star Wars" at the request of George Lucas. In fact, the major electronics giants have already had enough technology. accumulation.This time, the great success of Tinkobayer's -ca series stimulated the rapid development of digital camera technology in advance. With the increase of investment by various electronics giants, Sony has launched a 2 million-pixel-level 1080p professional three years in advance. digital camera.

Of course, the current picture quality of this Sony camera still has a big gap with the film, and the actual pixels are not down to 1080p. It needs to be processed by a technical process to get the corresponding effect.But this is an absolute leap for the current 420p TV shooting.

Although TV broadcasts in this era must be compressed, shooting with 1080p quality will not be out of date even after 20 or 30 years. This is also the fundamental premise for Simon to achieve'one step in place'.

In order to achieve this goal, Simon donated three sets of Sony’s latest digital camcorders, together with various matching lenses and storage accessories, as well as the corresponding post-production equipment. The total value reached 1.8 million US dollars, which is close to 15 million RMB is enough to shoot two or three low-cost TV series in China at this time.

Let the people on the opposite side check the list of equipment that will be shipped to China in the near future. Simon asked, "Yes, on the CCTV side, have you contacted Zhang and how does he reply?"

Of course this is Big Beard.

Zhang Da Huo is still in the system at this time and is currently the chief producer of "Water Margin".

Fortunately, the filming of "Water Margin" has come to an end. The most indispensable person on CCTV is the producer. Invite the other party in advance. As long as Mr. Zhang is not stupid, he knows the significance of this errand is no less than that of "Water Margin ".

Simon still hopes that Zhang Dazhu will be the helm of "Dragon Babu" and even the follow-up Jin Yong series.

Simon once had a hard time understanding the outside world's provocation and even abuse of Zhang Da Huo's Jin Yong series. Back then, whether as an insider or an ordinary audience, Simon thought that Zhang's Jin Yong series was definitely the best version, none of them.As for touting the Hong Kong version of the 1990s, it is not aesthetic, but sentimental.

Just like a certain historical allusion that Zhu Yuanzhang never forgets about a bowl of'Jade White Jade Soup' before his fortune, because of the lack of film and television content at that time, some would become classics.

Wu Shanlin heard Simon ask about Big Beard Zhang, and hurriedly said, "Zhang has already agreed, boss, we have been meeting all this time, and he is very much looking forward to meeting with the boss, but unfortunately he was not invited this time."

"It's fine if you agree, this time it's fine, there will be opportunities in the future. In addition, if the other party is willing, you can pull him into Jinshu Media."

Wu Shanlin said, "In fact, Zhang already has this intention, boss, if this is the case, I will talk to the other party about this when I go back?"

"can."

So until ten o'clock in the morning, everyone who should have met had already met, and Simon officially set off for China.Lin Su stayed, expecting to return to North America after the Lantern Festival with his family.

After the Boeing 767 took off, Simon began to learn another thing in the cabin office.

Or the'Westero effect'.

It can be considered a coincidence again. The day after Simon arrived in China, on February 4th, Hanbao Steel, ranked 14th in South Korea and also the second largest steel giant in South Korea, suddenly declared bankruptcy, and the South Korean stock market plummeted. It spread to Japan, Singapore and other countries, causing the stock market in Southeast Asia to fluctuate and fall.

The main reason for the collapse of Hanbao Steel and even the Hanbao chaebol who controlled more enterprises behind the scenes was debt.

For its own rapid expansion, Hanbao Iron & Steel Co. has madly promoted the construction of 10 million-ton steel plants with its own funds in the past few years. The other 98 funds come from various banks, insurance and other financial institutions in Korea and abroad. Let’s leave aside how many violations there are. After all, financial institutions that are slightly more normal should not provide a company with a 50-fold leveraged loan. As a result, Hanbao Steel’s capital chain broke, which led to the collapse of the entire Hanbao Chaebol.

These days, South Korea is also celebrating the New Year, but the South Korean government is in distress.

In order to avoid a chain reaction from the collapse of the Hanbao Chaebol with a total debt of more than 5.5 trillion yuan (equivalent to USD 7 billion), the South Korean government had to urgently provide 1 trillion won (approximately US$1.2 billion) in bailout funds to fill the financial loopholes for the Hanbao Chaebol , So as to avoid systemic financial risks in the Korean economy.

The wind rises from Qingping.

The economic boom in Southeast Asia that began in the 1980s inevitably led to excessive investment in all walks of life. These investments not only consumed the wealth brought by the country’s economic growth, but also caused investors to borrow heavily from the international market, which in turn consumed The income generated by the seemingly booming export business.

All this eventually led to huge debt problems hidden in the entire Southeast Asia region.

Borrowing debts need to be repaid after all.

The unsatisfactory result is first the bankruptcy of the enterprise. After the bankruptcy of the enterprise, if the huge debt cannot be repaid due to lack of remedy, it will cause problems in the capital chain of banks and other financial institutions, and eventually go bankrupt.

If the physical industry is an organ, financial institutions are the blood vessels connecting a country's economy.If a single organ has a problem, as long as it is repaired in time, or even removed, it is not necessarily life-threatening.However, once the bloodline completely collapses, it will definitely be difficult to survive.

In the Hanbao Iron and Steel incident, the South Korean government used decisive assistance to limit the negative impact before financial institutions, that is, the blood of a country.

However, once the debt scale is too large, even the government cannot save it. The result will be a large-scale bankruptcy of financial institutions. The impact will be transmitted overseas. A large amount of international debt cannot be repaid. The rating agency will lower the credit rating of a country. Coordinating with the currency sell-off, a country’s currency will depreciate sharply, and national wealth will directly evaporate.

This is the economic crisis.

In fact, it is not only South Korea. Thailand, which was the outbreak point of the Southeast Asian financial crisis, has also begun to experience small-scale debt defaults in recent months. It is only because the scale is far less than that of Hanbao Steel that it has not attracted much attention.

During the more than ten-hour flight, Simon read a huge pile of analysis data on the economic conditions of Southeast Asia, but did not do anything. He remained on the sidelines.

Three billion US dollars of funds have been thrown to Soros, and Cersei Capital also has its own layout. If the general direction is correct, Simon will not be lazy to delve into the details.

This time, Simon's main target is South Korea.

In fact, Japan is even more attractive.

However, on the one hand, Japan is too large to eat. On the other hand, the Japanese economy is actually far less open than the outside world imagined, or even quite closed, which is really hard to eat.

South Korea is different.

After the upcoming crisis, the Korean economy will be forced to open its doors to the world.Moreover, South Korea's current dp volume of about US$600 billion is basically within the appetite of the Westeros system.

Most importantly, compared to other countries in Southeast Asia, South Korea has many industries that Simon is very fond of. The two major goals that have been locked in advance include electronics and entertainment. After the investigation and research in recent months, combined with the information in memory , There are two more specific items, shipbuilding and construction.

South Korea has now reached the world's top level in the field of shipbuilding and construction, and the key is that it has considerable cost advantages. Investment in these two fields will have considerable returns in the future.

As for the electronics field, this is a fairly broad concept.

Because Simon hopes that through the manipulation of the Westeros system, it will cut off South Korea's development of the entire industry chain in the electronics field and only serve as a component supplier for the Westeros system.

In this regard, the old apple was simply a problem for raising tigers.

Of course Simon will never make this mistake again.

For example, Samsung, this time, semiconductors and LCD screens can only choose one, even if it is a single semiconductor field, Samsung can only choose one of them, and will not let it develop in an all-round way.

The final entertainment industry, of course, will be fully suppressed. Music, film and television, and games are not let go.

After all, this is the area that Simon is most familiar with.

Moreover, Simon needs a bridgehead for the entertainment industry in Greater China. Growth in China takes time. Japan is still too closed, and South Korea is just right.Controlling audio-visual entertainment, on the one hand, is the pacifier, on the other hand, it is also public opinion.As for playing with thighs occasionally, just by the way.

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