Chapter 142 You need to be hard on yourself
ps: Plot change, today's chapter.∷
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January 30, 1979, at 6:00 am.
It was still early, and the city had just woken up from sleep. The ATV building was brightly lit. Hundreds of staff were stuck at their posts and worked hard. From time to time, staff members were excited and jogging all the way to transmit video tapes, copy film, files and other programs.
Guan Fei stood in the broadcasting hall, looking up at a large-screen color TV hanging above.
On the TV, it is shown a huge airport. Through the star and striped flags flying on the airport flagpole, we can know that this is in the United States. The sky is clear around the airport, and the cameras are located outside the airport, inside the waiting hall, and on the runway, there are crowds of people. Guards who strictly guard the blockade line are waving the national flags of China and the United States everywhere.
An ATV reporter was interviewing an American official with a microphone in his hand.
Suddenly, a commotion came from the crowd, "Here is here! Come!"
The camera lens rotates quickly and turns around at the sky.
The sky is dark blue and the sky is as clear as the sky. At the end of the intersection of heaven and earth, a little white light spot is expanding rapidly, and it can be seen clearly.
The plane, this is a 747 passenger plane.
The cameraman took a close-up shot, trying to maximize the image. When the plane adjusted its posture, the red national flag logo on the side of the fuselage could be vaguely seen.
"Really true!"
A huge cheer suddenly burst out in the studio. Whether from the mainland or the local staff, they couldn't help but jump up, hugging their colleagues tightly, and burst into tears in their eyes.
At this moment, there were also bursts of cheers outside the building, which seemed particularly clear in the morning covered by night.
At this historic moment, all citizens of Hong Kong Island are watching special reports on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States through ATV's morning news program.
Although it is impossible to broadcast live, all the video data is transmitted through microwaves, and it is transmitted back one by one, with inevitable delays. In fact, Chief No. 1 arrived in Washington last night. At this time, the meeting with National Security Assistant Brzezinski was probably over and he was resting. But for millions of people who witnessed this scene with their own eyes, the impact in their minds is still strong.
Two great powers that are hostile to each other and countries with sharp political views suddenly gave up their hostility for thirty years and got together.
Looking at the special plane slowly landing on the screen, after the hatch opened, he appeared in the hatch with his wife, and waved to the welcome team of China and the United States. The cheers inside and outside the studio reached a peak in an instant. The huge waves of sound fluctuated violently in the studio, howling like a strong wind over the entire city, resounding through the sky.
Guan Fei looked at the screen, smiled and head No. 1 who walked down the gangway, turned around, and whispered to Zhou Xiaoshan and others who were still excited behind him, who could not control themselves, "Let's go! It's time for us to set off!"
"Ah? Are you leaving now?" Zhou Xiaoshan served as Guan Fei's guard for many years, and he was still used to keeping enough vigilance around him. Although he was extremely excited at this moment, he quickly heard what he said. He looked up at the screen in surprise and reluctance, and said in embarrassment.
"Yes..." Guan Fei's eyes slowly passed by the ecstatic staff, and he said calmly, "The curtain of history has been opened. And our history is still waiting for us to open with our own hands. It is time to go back at this time."
This is the third historical event he has experienced since he came to this era.
All the staff in the studio were still in irresistible joy. Guan Fei took Zhou Xiaoshan, Pan Meifeng, Li Qing and more than ten people and quietly left the studio.
Instead of taking the elevator to the ground floor, they followed the stairs and followed the steps one by one, looking at everything around them nostalgically along the way.
When passing the second floor office area, Guan Fei paused slightly and looked through the glass door for a few seconds.
There are still not many people in the TV series production center. After receiving the script handed over by Guan Fei, the production center was divided into several filming crews. At this time, they were filming a new TV series in mainland China to make up for the gap after the filming of "The Legend of Qin". After the high-intensity training of "The Legend of Qin", under the guidance of Guan Fei, several directors and screenwriters have mastered the plot arrangement, camera grasp, scene scheduling, and action design of shooting new martial arts.
Of course, because the contact time is short, it is impossible to absorb it immediately. But the batch of scripts left by Fei to them, giving them time to slowly ponder. Although the quality of the TV series produced will inevitably decline, it will not be too outrageous.
After all, they have been in this industry for more than ten or twenty years and have already possessed their own style. I believe that after absorbing what they learned from Guan Fei and integrating it into their own style, they will produce works that are not inferior to Guan Fei or even better than him.
The animation section in another area is completely opposite to the TV production center of two or three kittens. It is crowded with people, and every position is full of people.
There are twelve groups there, seven of which are using assembly line operations to intensively produce the subsequent episodes of "Transformers", each group is responsible for one episode.
Before Guan Fei, he had already drawn outlines of the subsequent plot and sketched dozens of main images for each episode. Within the production team, different painters were arranged to draw characters, scene designs, and fill them separately to achieve the fullness of the main pictures given by Guan Fei and expand them into a cartoon that can play an episode of twenty-five minutes.
Under the dispatch of the chief planner, each painter focuses on his own part of the content. The composition is drawn separately and taken into the negatives by the technical department, and then overlaps different negatives to form a complete animation picture.
Through this kind of workflow, a group can complete an episode every week.
Seven groups can just ensure the progress requirements for the TV station to play one episode every day.
In order to cooperate with their work, post-production, editing and dubbing staff are busy all day long to keep up with the daily broadcast progress.
The other five groups conducted "Ship Time and Space Fortress" and "Swallowing the Starry Sky" based on the story outline and map provided by Guan Fei.
Unlike "Transformers", "The Fortress of Time" belongs to Japanese and American animations. "Devouring the Stars" is an authentic domestic animation, adapted from a fantasy novel of the same name developed thirty years later. Its content has both science fiction elements and certain shadows of ancient Chinese mythology. It is an animation that is more suitable for adaptation and can be more easily accepted by Asian audiences. In this era, it will become another pioneering work that leads the era.
Guan Fei's eyes turned to the innermost location of the office area, which was different. More than a dozen staff members were wearing suits and timbers of hair. Each of them had an independent office with a glass compartment, and their manners were calm, looking like a senior white-collar worker.
This is the business department.
It is with their efforts that ATV's advertising revenue has been rising steadily, successfully achieving the goal of turning losses into profits. Through operations, it has sent sample belts to Asian cultural coverage areas such as Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. With the influence of Hong Kong's cultural center status, and more importantly, the high quality of the program has been successfully promoted "Transformers" and "The Legend of Qin". In addition to Taiwan's ideology and resolute rejection, more than a dozen South Korean, Japanese and Southeast Asian TV stations have proposed to introduce them, and it has now reached the stage of substantial contact.
Guan Fei took a last look, smiled slightly, and walked down quickly. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the building, he heard a "ga" sound, and a luxury car suddenly braked and stopped under the steps.
Before the car stopped, Lin Xiuliang was anxious to push the door open, jumped out of it, raised his head, and saw Guan Fei and his group coming out of the building.
"Chairman..." He took two steps at a time and ran up, "Although he knew you were leaving, it was too sudden. Even the TV colleagues didn't have time to hold a farewell party for you..."
His expression is complicated.
Guan Fei has too much influence on the TV station. It can be said that ATV can rise again, and most of the credit is his. He snatched the British from the hands of the TV station, rented equipment, enriched personnel, wrote scripts, and even starred in person. He has almost completed the most popular animations, news, TV series, and variety shows on the TV station.
It was him who took advantage of the opportunity of the TV station's re-broadcasting and held a board meeting to force the remaining British shareholders to either agree to increase their capital or endure the further dilution of their shares. Therefore, he forced several shareholders to take out real money and help the TV station pay off their debts against his will, thus removing the last dark cloud shrouded on ATV.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that without Guan Fei, it is hard to say whether the TV station can survive without half of the ratings quickly among the three stations.
It is no exaggeration to say that ATV can be without Lin Xiuliang, but Guan Fei must be without him!
ATV is ATV that belongs to Guan Fei alone!
As long as Guan Fei was there, Lin Xiuliang could only lie in his shadow, following the other party's baton, and the rest of the TV station only listened to him.
But at this moment, Guan Fei took the initiative to return, which made Lin Xiuliang reluctantly, and seemed to be watching a mountain that could be relied on to leave. He could not resist the various difficulties that may be faced in the future in the operation of the TV station, the difficulties made by the Hong Kong government, and the interference of British shareholders.
Guan Fei smiled and held his hand: "There is no way, there are still many things over there, I have to go back. I will come back often in the future, not life and death, so it's better to be exempted from drinking parties. Mr. Lin, after I leave, the TV station will depend on you. I have handed over a letter of attorney to lawyer Liu Zhengying. When I was not in Hong Kong, Mao Xiuliang was my full agent. Don't worry, I told him that he would never interfere in his daily business operations, but just listen to your report regularly and then handed it over to me. Now that the communication is so developed, if there are any changes in major matters, you or Mao Xiuliang can call me and send a fax, so that it won't be misleading. If I need to take action, I can come back within two or three days with a call! So, next, the TV station will ask everything!"
"Okay, okay! Don't worry, I will follow the plan you set, and I will actively report to Mr. Mao Xiuliang if there is anything, and I will not act arbitrarily!" Lin Xiuliang felt relieved when he heard his arrangement in an orderly manner. He held his hand happily and said tactfully.
He looked up at the building happily, looking proud. From now on, he finally became the owner of this place!
Since there was no prior notice, most people didn't know when Guan Fei left.
The only cars of Lin Xiuliang, Shang Chengli, Qi Lei and others who were riding in a convoy to the border between Hong Kong and Guangdong were Lin Xiuliang, Shang Chengli, Qi Lei and others.
"Xiaoshan, do you want to leave when you go back with me?" Guan Fei looked at Zhou Xiaoshan next to him and asked with concern.
When he came to this era, the first thing he encountered was that he was still young and planned to go to the hill where he joined the People's Army.
To him, Xiaoshan is one of the people he cares most about in this world. In order to protect him, he was transferred to the guard and kept by his side at any time. Over the years, seeing the innocent and childish little hills that only ran around behind him grew up day by day, it was a great comfort for him.
This time, not only Xiaoshan was there, but also Pan Meifeng, who wanted to see the situation of the military division with his own eyes, and five or six former guard squad soldiers who were rotating back to the military division.
"I'm a little reluctant to let it go." Zhou Xiaoshan, who was already slightly fat, still had no concealment in front of him like before, and honestly admitted, "After all, Hong Kong is so prosperous, there are so many fun things, and good things from the whole world can be bought here as long as you have money. But..., I think I should go back! Because we are not just envious of the prosperity of Hong Kong, but we should strive to build our place like Hong Kong, no, it is more prosperous than it!"
"Hahahaha!" Guan Fei was in a happy mood and laughed loudly. He could see that Xiaoshan's words were from the heart and were not false, but he still wanted to tease him: "You are not trying to please me, so you said that, right?"
Pan Meifeng sat in front of the co-pilot and tried her best to wink at Zhou Xiaoshan.
Zhou Xiaoshan didn't look at her, and said seriously: "No! What I said is true! If you asked me to go back for a month or two, I might be unhappy. But through this incident, I suddenly realized that I was too naive before, thinking that the outside world was so beautiful that I could succeed as long as I had the ability. The facts taught me that the outside world was no more gentle than the jungle. In fact, it was more cruel and more prey on the weak! This time we were able to successfully grab a large piece of fat from the British population. It was not that we were capable, but because we had a strong backing behind us, and the British had to give in.
If you want to do things, someone must protect you.
Even a street vendor who makes a living knows how to find a big brother to rely on. If he believes that hard work will be rewarded, he may be bankrupt by extortion hooligans in minutes.
But the mountains fall and the sea wither.
It is better to seek yourself than to seek others.
The few things we did this time seemed to be very smooth, but in fact they were shocking. As long as the domestic support for us is slightly reduced, it will definitely fail.
The reason why we help us in China is because what we want to do is in line with domestic interests. In the future, we face more, bigger and more complex situations, or when it is inconvenient to express our opinions in China, I cannot guarantee that this backing will continue to help us unswervingly and resist the covetousness of others.
Hong Kong is still China's land, and it is so difficult to do things. If you want to develop your career to the whole world, how much resistance should you have?
Commander, I have secretly complained about you before, why do you hold on to the military division? At that time, I felt that if you let go of the other side and devote yourself to the cause of Hong Kong, we will definitely do bigger and develop faster, and the whole world will be our amusement park.
But after this series of things, I don’t think so anymore.
On the contrary, I think we are not strong enough. The plate in Hong Kong is too big, too big to exceed the upper limit we can bear.
When the foundation that supports our career has not been laid more firmly and has a greater say, it is already difficult to protect existing interests, let alone expand again.
Therefore, although I am reluctant to let go of the prosperity of Hong Kong, I am willing to go back to the military division with you to build our foundation more solid. After walking in many places, I suddenly felt a strong feeling that the military division is our home and our true strong backing!
As long as the base is there, even if we are bleeding from the outside, at least we still have a place to go back!"
Guan Fei listened to his constant talk and suddenly realized that the little brother in front of him was really mature and had grown up to be his right-hand man!
Chapter completed!