The popularity of the film market made the veterans of the Second Group of Arts happy and worried. What is happy is that the movies are very popular. Now that the local area is renovating and building cinemas, the film company will not worry about the market when it is established; what is worried is that the ticket price is now set too low, only 5 cents per bill, so I am afraid that even the book cannot be collected. After the film company is established, it may not be so easy to increase the ticket price.

However, no matter how worried it is, Bi Hao has considered the ticket price in the future. What should be done now must continue to do. On the one hand, the work of cutting sports videos is still continuing; on the other hand, the film company's construction plan is also being edited.

According to Zhang Yuanqian's plan, the company's address should be located in Shanghai, because the East China government will sooner or later move to Beijing, and Qingdao will be restored to an ordinary city, at most it will be the title of an old revolutionary base. Shanghai is China's economic and fashion center, so it is best to set up a film and television base in Shanghai; secondly, it is necessary to set up a film and television base, which can be located in the suburbs of Shanghai or the surrounding county towns, which is convenient for work and can also be enclosed a piece of land first. After all, the land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will definitely appreciate in the future, but the investment in the construction of the film and television base can be greatly improved, and it can be gradually expanded in several steps; thirdly, it is necessary to establish a film and television school. Of course, the conditions for establishing a film and television school are not yet mature now. After all, film companies are just starting out, but it can first open an artist training class to teach students' performance, teach them while studying, and experiment.

Also, we set up a film and television equipment factory to produce film and television equipment by ourselves. Because the film and television industry will definitely become an emerging industry in China in the future, and film and television equipment will also be a huge market. Therefore, it is necessary to enter this market as soon as possible and seize the opportunity. Now the Art Group II has already developed a cutting machine and made a player and record machine play together. This is an innovation. However, even if we want to produce film and television equipment by ourselves, of course, we must do it in a systematic way. First of all, we must introduce foreign technology, first imitate, and then develop new film and television equipment by ourselves.

Because of the huge investment this time, Zhang Yuanqian also believes that he can set up his own cinemas in big cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin and Qingdao. These cinemas can either buy land to build or rent venues to renovate. Although the investment is a little larger, he can also grab land. When the land appreciates, the land in big cities in big cities will definitely appreciate in the future. In addition, the ability to operate cinemas is also a considerable income, and the East China government will definitely set up other film companies in the future, so that movies produced by other film companies can also make money by operating cinemas.

Of course, the main business of film companies is still in filming movies. Judging from the current situation, as long as you shoot a movie, you can basically make money, because there are too few entertainment activities in this era, and the new entertainment method of films can also be quickly accepted by the public. Therefore, after the establishment of the film company, you should try to make as many movies as possible in the short term to ensure that there are enough movies to play in the cinema and keep the people fresh in the movies.

According to Zhang Yuanqian's plan, after the film company is established, at least three shooting teams must be set up to start filming movies. There are too many preparations for the first year, and the time is estimated to be limited, and there may be insufficient experience. Therefore, we only plan to shoot one movie, and at least two movies will be filmed every year in the next two years, striving to shoot 5 movies in two years. In this way, at least 15 movies can be filmed in three years, which can ensure that there are enough movies in the cinema.

In order to reduce the intensity of work, the time of the movie can be kept at about 1 hour, and the plot and scene should be as simple as possible. The main reason is that the current experience in filming movies and technical conditions are limited, so things that are too complicated cannot be driven away for a while, so it is better to do it simply first.

In terms of the content of the movie, don’t do anything that has depth and content, which is what the people like to see, and it is lively and funny. Now, making movies is not the time to do art, so make sure to survive first. Of course, if the government has needs, it can also be based on the needs of the government, which is invested by the government.

Several screenwriters believed that they could start with drama stories, folk legends, and four masterpieces to find some easy-to-shoot clip stories. Zhang Yuanqian thought this suggestion was good, so she asked several screenwriters to write a few scripts immediately.

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At this moment, news came from Shanghai that Yuan Shikai expressed his intention to surrender to the East China Government, hoping to negotiate with the East China Government on this.

It turned out that in the last assault, although Yuan's army broke through the Deyou Army's defense line for a while, it failed in the end and failed to completely break the deadlock on the battlefield. The battlefield is still the two armies' positions that cannot be held back.

Yuan Shikai consumed a lot of financial, manpower and material resources for this assault.

Of course, although the Deyou army defended its defense line in battle, it also found that there were still many problems with this defense line, such as insufficient depth of the position and insufficient reserve troops. At the same time, the Deyou army lost a total of more than 60,000 troops in this battle. Therefore, after the war, the Deyou army recruited more than 100,000 troops to supplement the defense line, because there is no good way now, so we can only pile up people. In addition, the soldiers who returned to the team recovered from injury, the Deyou army invested about 380,000 troops on the defense line.

The Yuan army suffered about 25,000 casualties. Although it was much less than the Deyou army, most of the casualties were elite troops. Moreover, the Yuan army's troops were originally less than the Deyou army. Now the Deyou army has increased its troops, and Yuan Shikai can only increase its troops by more than 60,000, making the total strength of the Yuan army reach 250,000, and keeping about 70% of the Deyou army and maintaining the balance of the front line.

Of course, Yuan Shikai knew that compared with manpower and material resources, he would definitely not be able to fight against the Deyou court. He maintained 250,000 troops on the front line. With the deaths and the troops stationed in other places, the actual total strength of Yuan's army in this war was 300,000, far exceeding the First Southern War. Moreover, this was the ultimate force he could afford. After all, Yuan Shikai's current population is only more than 35 million.

The East China Government was just established in Shandong, and its population size was similar to that of Yuan Shikai now, but the army was always controlled within 200,000. By the time the Far East War began, the East China Government had actually avoided the Henan base and occupied some Hebei and Hubei areas, with a total population of more than 45 million. Therefore, it was possible to invest nearly 400,000 troops in the Far East War, not to mention that the social economy and industrial levels of both sides were not on the same level.

Of course, Yuan Shikai was somewhat unwilling to accept it. After all, this assault was only a little short of success. Therefore, after more than three months of rest, Yuan Shikai tried to launch another assault. However, at this time, Deyou's army strengthened its defense and expanded the depth of the defense line. Although the number of Yuan's army increased, they were all new recruits, their combat effectiveness decreased, and the ammunition was not as sufficient as the last war. As a result, after three days of fighting, Yuan's army was injured and busy, but there was almost no progress. So Yuan Shikai decisively stopped the attack and completely gave up.

The continuous wars not only caused Yuan Shikai to lose a large amount of troops, but also exhausted the finances. Now the taxes in the areas under his rule have increased to nearly three times that of before the war. Not to mention the farmers, even the landlords and gentry, industrial manufacturers, were a little troubled. In some places, there have been even civil unrest.

Yuan Shikai also realized that he was unsustainable now, and Yang Du, Xu Shichang and others advised Yuan Shikai to consider submitting to the East China Government.

In fact, it was Yuan Shikai's plan to surrender to the East China Government, but he originally wanted to successfully defeat the Deyou Army, increase the bargaining chips for negotiations with the East China Government, and gain the greatest benefit for himself. But now it seems that this wish is not achieved. Moreover, he can still fight with the Deyou Army and occupy most of the Hunan Province. There is still some capital to negotiate with the East China Government. If the situation collapses and he goes to the East China Government again, he will be asking for help from the East China Government, and how can he talk to the East China Government!

So Yuan Shikai discussed with his confidant aide for three days, and finally Zhao Bingjun came forward to contact the Shanghai side and conveyed his intention to surrender to the East China government.

In fact, this ending was also expected by the East China Government, and the plan to march southward and unify the whole country by the five giants of the East China Government negotiated, and put pressure on Yuan Shikai to force him to surrender as the beginning of march southward and unify the whole country.

So the East China Government immediately instructed Shanghai to reply to Yuan Shikai, welcomed his request for submission, and expressed that the conditions for submission did not affect the general principles of the East China Government, everything would be easy to discuss.

After receiving a reply from the East China Government, Yuan Shikai was happy and worried. In fact, the content of this reply was basically in Yuan Shikai's expectation. Yuan Shikai knew very well what the general principles of the East China Government were. It was their land system, which was the basis for the establishment of the East China Government and could never be discussed.

But this is also one of the biggest obstacles for Yuan Shikai to join the East China Government. Now, Yuan Shikai and others have been south for 5 years and have purchased industries in the south. The largest industry is of course land. Most of the people of Yuan Shikai's group, such as Xu Shichang, Zhao Bingzhong, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, etc., and Yuan Shikai's relatives, have purchased a large amount of land in the south at this time. Once they join the East China Government, all the land must be handed over and redistributed by the East China Government. The wealth of these people will be greatly reduced.
Chapter completed!