The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 665 Premiere
July 7, 10:12 noon, Tsinghua University, outside the west gate.

Safety tips were circulated on the radio, and dozens of security guards, police officers, volunteers and other staff were on duty at the tourist passage to maintain order at the school gate.

The line waiting to enter the school has stretched more than ten meters away. Most of them are adults with children, and some young girls, holding parasols, all standing consciously within the cordon.

July is summer vacation, but Tsinghua University allows tourists to visit and experience the heritage and atmosphere of China's top institution of learning.

开放时间为，每天上午8:00至11:00，下午13:00至16:00。

A handsome uncle in the crowd who looked very similar to Ti Lung looked at his son who was full of fighting spirit and gave him some advice.

"You will be entering your third year of high school after the summer vacation. Relax and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Your mom has already arranged everything for you. Although we have a strong background, you still have to study hard and take the exams seriously. You have to go through the process again."

"Dad, don't worry, I will adjust my mentality."

My son looked at the gate of Tsinghua University with surging emotions, and imagined that he would enroll here next year and become a pillar of the country.

As if he remembered something, he suddenly felt confused. His mother only went shopping with her girlfriends every day. She was just a vase. When did she have such great energy?

"That's not right. Who did my mom bribe? Dad, I couldn't have been picked up by you. Could it be that I have a powerful biological father? Please tell me."

"Hey!" The handsome uncle saw that he was not behaving properly, so he raised his hand and was about to slap him.

The son dodged and begged for mercy: "I'm wrong, Dad. Mom has been deceived. We can't do anything illegal."

"Don't worry, it's your mother."

The old father patted his shoulder, his expression suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth: "Let her arrange it, the key is to use my private money to help you arrange it, tell me the truth, is it you who told the secret!"

"I didn't, it wasn't me, you are wrongly accusing me!"

The eldest son quickly denied it and changed the subject skillfully: "So who did my mother take care of?"

"Avalokitesvara!" The handsome uncle glanced at him and said, "Just tell me if it's hard or not."

Good old boy: “.”

Just at this moment, there was a commotion at the door and several black business cars drove into the campus.

The handsome uncle turned his head and looked puzzled: "Who is this? Why is there a camera car following behind?"

There is a short-haired young girl on the right, quietly paying attention to the handsome uncle's tall and strong son. Seeing this, she hurried to show off herself.

"Uncle, these should be the crew of "Chinese Partners". They are coming to the school today to hold the premiere. I heard that Yu Minhong, Xu Xiaoping, Feng Lun, Zhang Chaoyang and other business leaders will come to attend."

"Chinese Partners?"

The handsome uncle was stunned for a moment, then he remembered the entertainment news he had read recently and asked, "Is it the entrepreneurial movie starring Lu Yuan?"

"correct."

Around five in the afternoon, the venue was set up and Lu Yuan and others rushed to Tsinghua University.

The area of ​​Tsinghua campus is much larger than that of Peking University opposite. Students have to catch the school bus to go to the classroom in the morning. If they can't catch the school bus on campus, it will take about 15 minutes to ride a bicycle.

It's more like a small town than a school.

There was still some time before the premiere, and Lu Yuan and the other two didn't want to stay in the lounge, so they decided to walk around the campus.

Tsinghua University was founded in 1911 and developed on the site of several Qing Dynasty royal gardens.

The campus is full of ancient buildings with a heavy sense of history, the elegant and simple I-shaped Hall, the beautiful Jinchun Pavilion, and the grand and solemn Second School Gate.
The grass and trees were lush, the cicadas were singing melodiously, the willows on the river bank were dancing in the wind, the lotus buds in the Spring Garden were about to bloom, and from time to time, summer students staying on campus would ride their bicycles, ringing their bells, and hurried past the few people.

Tong Dawei looked at the graduation slogans that had not yet been taken down on the main road of the campus: "This year's college entrance examination results have come out."

"You can check your scores a long time ago. They are usually released in late June."

Huang Xiaoming answered and then asked: "By the way, how did you two do in the college entrance examination that year?"

Tong Dawei waved his hand: "I can't do it. I'm a poor student. My total score is not even as high as my dad's blood pressure."

"Junior brother, what about you?" Huang Xiaoming asked Lu Yuan.

He held his phone to take a photo without looking back: "As for me, I was hesitating between Peking University and Tsinghua University. Peking University was okay, Tsinghua University was not bad either. Later, I felt that people should not be too selfish and should not take all the benefits for themselves. They should leave opportunities for others, so I settled for the second best and applied for Beijing Film Academy."

"Wow, you are really great." Huang Xiaoming looked at Tong Dawei with a fake expression: "Look, this guy debuted later than us, but he is more popular than us. There is a reason."

"Indeed!" Tong Dawei agreed with a smile.

Lu Yuan was about to defend himself when he heard applause from behind him.

He looked back and saw the three leaders of New Oriental, Yu Minhong, Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang, slowly approaching him.

Yu Minhong clapped her hands and said, "Teacher Lu, great minds think alike. I thought the same way back then, but unfortunately I didn't look good enough, so I had to choose Peking University with great reluctance. Otherwise, I would have been in the entertainment industry."

Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei exchanged glances. Okay, another shameless guy, bah, birds of a feather!
In order to film "Chinese Partners", the three of them knew the growth trajectories of Yu Minhong, Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang very well.

Not to mention Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang for now, Yu Minhong took the college entrance examination three times.

I only got 33 points in the English test for the first time and was ultimately rejected.

In his second college entrance examination in 1979, his English score improved to 55 points, but it still did not reach the admission line, and he ultimately failed by 5 points.

The third college entrance examination was in 1980. After hard work and guidance from her teachers, Yu Minhong's English score reached 95 points and she was successfully admitted to Peking University.

It's still difficult, not as easy as he said, Huang Xiaoming complained in his heart.

"Mr. Yu, I've heard a lot about you." Lu Yuan shook hands with him.

Yu Minhong laughed heartily: "Teacher Lu, I watched some footage online. I don't understand acting, but I can feel that you acted very well. It's just that why is the character of Cheng Dongqing a bit cowardly?"

Xu Xiaoping added: "Old Yu, when you were in college you were not only a coward, but also quite wretched."

"Hahaha!" Yu Minhong laughed.

Lu Yuan turned his gaze to Xu Xiaoping. As far as he knew, Yu Minhong and Xu Xiaoping did not have a very good relationship because of their disagreements at New Oriental.

Chen Kexin must have put a lot of thought into inviting both of them to the premiere this time.

While shaking hands with the other party, Lu Yuan joked: "Boss Xu, are you not angry about Director Chen changing the script anymore?"

"How could that be? As a professional, he must have a better grasp of the script than I do." Xu Xiaoping expressed his understanding, and his smiling face made it impossible to tell what he was really thinking.

Lu Yuan chatted with him: "What are you busy with recently?"

"Last month was graduation season, and I went to various universities to hold seminars and provide guidance to graduates on finding employment. I found that many Chinese graduates have no career plans at all."

"Oh?"

"They always say they want to take the civil service exam and join state-owned enterprises, but this idea is too naive. Some people also want to join foreign companies and large private companies, but for newcomers, it is easy to encounter bottlenecks in large companies."

"So what do you suggest?"

"I told them to start small companies instead, and they should be small companies that state-owned enterprises are unwilling to get involved in, such as finance, communications, education, training, medical care, elderly care, e-commerce, and entertainment."

Business people are like this, they like to teach others, they are good at talking and they will never stop.

Lu Yuan felt a headache after listening to this, but he was too lazy to refute some of his views that were out of touch with reality and not in line with the trend of the times.

Seeing this, Yu Minhong came to the rescue: "Old Xu, are you addicted to holding symposiums? It is the times that made us what we are today. If it were this era, do you think you would have the chance to stand at the height you are at today?"

"The same goes for investment." Xu Xiaoping paused.

After Yu Minhong's reminder, I realized that actor is just a label for the young man in front of me.

The other party's apparent wealth is no less than his.

As for the hidden others.

Ordinary people may be misled by Lu Yuan’s business layout and the mysterious equity information, but people in their circle basically know some of the inside story.

It’s just that they themselves don’t want to make it public, and they tacitly agree not to expose it.

In fact, Yu Minhong herself was not willing to attend the premiere of "Chinese Partners". She came here just for Lu Yuan's sake. New Oriental has been in a quagmire in the past two years, and its market value has been falling year after year, currently only 100 billion.

Not to mention PPS, with Yuanfang Media's terrifying annual profit, if it chooses to go public, a valuation of tens of billions will be a no-brainer.

Xu Xiaoping changed his partner and continued to instill his business ideas into the eager-to-learn Huang Xiaoming.

Lu Yuan chatted with Yu Minhong, while the short and strong Wang Qiang went to find Tong Dawei.

It was just a coincidence that Lu Yuan and the other two happened to play each other in the play.

As the group walked towards the concert hall, Lu Yuan keenly noticed that there was a burly middle-aged man hanging behind them.

Seeing him looking back frequently, Yu Minhong said frankly: "That's my bodyguard."

"I was wondering why I always felt like someone was watching me." Lu Yuan laughed.

"I encountered kidnapping several times in the early years, but luckily I survived." Yu Minhong laughed at herself: "So now I am much more timid."

When New Oriental was founded, there was no payment method such as mobile phone transfer.

Therefore, every weekend, a large amount of cash would be piled up in the company's finance office.

Yu Minhong was worried, so she would take the money back home every week and deposit it back in the bank the next day when it opened.

Over time, it attracted the attention of criminals.

A man named Zhang Bei and a group of robbers broke into Yu Minhong's home and looted everything.

Afterwards, Zhang Bei's men injected Yu Minhong with an anesthetic used on large animals.

A normal person will die within a few hours after being injected.

But Yu Minhong was lucky and woke up an hour later. When the robbers found out that Yu Minhong had woken up, they wanted to kill him.

However, he was stopped by the leader Zhang Bei, who asked his subordinates to spare his life and then left with his men.

Later, when the money was all gone, Zhang Bei resorted to the same old trick again.

But after experiencing the last incident, Yu Minhong became defensive and hired bodyguards to follow her.

Yu Minhong said: "Luckily I had bodyguards that time, otherwise I would have been kidnapped a second time. Unfortunately, there were not enough bodyguards, so they still escaped. This group of people later planned several kidnappings, robberies, and murders. Their methods were extremely cruel. After being arrested, they were sentenced to death."

"I read in some tabloids that Zhang Bei knew you."

Yu Minhong smiled and said, "Is it about 30,000 yuan?"

"Yes." Lu Yuan nodded.

There are rumors online that Yu Minhong used to rent a site for her school from a resort owned by Zhang Bei.

At that time, he paid a one-time advance of 200,000 yuan, but at the end of the lease, there was still 30,000 yuan left in the rent. He asked his employees to ask for it back, but Zhang Bei had already spent all the money.

Yu Minhong knew that Zhang Bei had just been released from prison and had little money, so she didn't care. Zhang Bei released him because he remembered his kindness.

"Come on, this ungrateful bastard wouldn't appreciate my kindness. If he really had a conscience, he wouldn't kidnap me. He just hoped that I wouldn't call the police and at the same time he wanted to use me as a regular ATM."

Yu Minhong sighed: "Too much money is not a good thing. The happiest time for me was when I had my first 10,000 yuan."

Lu Yuan pursed his lips. He didn't know why rich people liked to reminisce about the time when they had no money. Why did this face look so annoying?

Oh, he's rich too, that's fine.

Seeing that he didn't believe her, Yu Minhong raised her voice and said, "I'm telling the truth. I still remember it. At that time, I was a teacher at Peking University and my monthly salary was less than 50 yuan. Not long after I graduated from Peking University, I received about 10 yuan in tuition fees. My wife and I counted them at home at least times. At that time, there were no large-denomination banknotes. They were all yuan each."

"Mr. Yu is right."

At 7 o'clock in the evening, "Chinese Partners" held its premiere at the Meng Minwei Concert Hall of Tsinghua University.

Many "entrepreneurial bigwigs" including Li Kaifu, Yu Minhong, Xu Xiaoping, Wang Qiang, Feng Lun, Zhang Chaoyang, and Li Guoqin gathered together.

This is the most luxurious “big boss group movie watching” in history.

Because of the appearance of this group of people, actresses such as Zhang Ziyi, Fan Binbin, and Li Binbin appeared one after another, competing with each other for beauty and forming a beautiful landscape.

In addition, there are Han Sanping, Huang Bo, Liu Shishi, Wen Muye, Cao Baoping, Deng Chao, Chen Kexin's wife Wu Junru and his daughter.
The red carpet at the premiere was star-studded.

The Mong Man Wai Concert Hall can accommodate nearly 600 spectators. It is not too large. Except for people from the entertainment industry who attended the concert, the rest were students.

With the final appearance of Lu Yuan, Huang Xiaoming and others, the red carpet ceremony came to an end.

When Lu Yuan stepped into the concert hall, the students in the back row could not hide their excitement and talked in low voices, creating a buzzing atmosphere.

When he arrived at his seat in the front row, he found that Han Sanping was next to him on the left, and Cao Baoping and Wen Muye were on the right.

Han Sanping had a very sour look on his face, as if someone owed him money.

Lu Yuan probably knew the reason, so he tactfully avoided the issue and started chatting with Cao Baoping instead.

During the filming of "The Cliff", Wen Muye found his senior brother Cao Baoping to do the preliminary preparations for the filming of "The Sun Also Rises", including casting and location selection.

Cao Baoping has a long face, a crew cut, and looks like a boiled egg.

He asked about the progress of the filming preparations: "Brother, how is the selection of actors going?"

"Kino and I have made a list and will email it to you later, but we are not sure about a few roles yet." Cao Baoping answered truthfully.

"How about this, release them, send interview notices to suitable actors, and select them one by one."

"Okay." Cao Baoping had no objection. Even if Lu Yuan didn't say anything, he was prepared to do so.

When Wen Muye came to his house with the script of "Burning Sun", he felt as if they had met too late and agreed without hesitation, without even asking for the director's fee.

During these two months, Tong Wen Muye worked day and night to finalize the shooting plan and cast.

As Lu Yuan delved into more details, Han Sanping beside him coughed dryly from time to time.

"cough!"

The guy thought about it and consoled him, "Boss Han, even if the domestic box office fails, we can still go abroad. Has Man of Tai Chi been released in North America yet?"

It would have been better if he didn't ask, because when he asked, Han Sanping's face turned black.

Keanu is great as an actor, but nobody really watched his directorial debut.

No one was interested in the domestic premiere, and I thought the feedback from the overseas market would be better, but it ended up being a complete flop as well.

Under the current circumstances, the show's estimated loss will be as high as 2 million.

After "Fuchun Mountain", "Hero of Tai Chi", which he strongly advocated for investment, failed again. If this continues, his reputation will be ruined.

Now he only has "The Crossing" as his last trump card, but he is no longer confident.

“Why is it so difficult for Chinese and foreign co-productions?”

Lu Yuan said bluntly: "It's because of the unfamiliar climate. If we want to make a movie, our people have to be in the leading position. How can a foreigner like Keanu make a good kung fu movie?"

"Then you come and take the photo!" Han Sanping was obsessed.

Lu Yuan just thought he was joking.

However, a zombie movie that I dreamed about a few years ago came to my mind, but it is obviously impossible for it to be released in the country.

Even Han Sanping, who was at the peak of his power, couldn't show up, let alone he was about to retire.

It's almost the same if it's broadcast on PPS.

Han Sanping wanted to continue, and the lights in the venue dimmed.

On the big screen, the feature film of "Chinese Partners" began to be shown.

(End of this chapter)