Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 174 National Poverty Alleviation Bureau
Sure enough, after the concert, Wang Mengting and her company did not make a penny.

This is the way human society today punishes the spread of free entertainment.

Although the video of Wang Mengting's concert has reached 150 billion views on the Internet, the song on-demand volume has reached 900 billion.

But it’s useless, the video platform and the song platform will not give them a penny.

It's a very simple truth. In today's abnormal environment where every Internet entertainment product has been sold to sky-high prices, everyone is competing with each other to see who is more expensive than the other.

Being free will be targeted by the entire spiritual and cultural world, because you are disrupting the market, and the price of disrupting the market is that you cannot even receive the minimum living security.

No one would have thought that Wang Mengting, a famous A-list star and a commoner goddess, has actually been targeted by the National Poverty Alleviation Bureau...

The National Poverty Alleviation Bureau is a point-to-point poverty alleviation department established for mentally poor people with an annual income of less than 20 yuan.

The reason why they are spiritual poor is because in the interstellar era, with the extreme expansion of productivity and material comparison being curbed, material poor no longer exist.

On the contrary, the prices of various entertainment Internet products have skyrocketed, and people's desire to compare has shifted from the real world to the virtual world.

There is no price control bureau in the virtual world, so prices are directly out of control. A lot of people make their mobile phones really become a brick.

Not to mention anything else, many people will go bankrupt just by watching short videos on their mobile phones.

Not to mention long videos, they are even more expensive.

In this case, the National Poverty Alleviation Administration returned to the scene.

When they learned that Wang Mengting, a front-line star, was on the poverty alleviation list of the National Poverty Alleviation Bureau, they happened to have some relevant resources on hand, so the poverty alleviation staff specially came to Wang Mengting's home to visit.

"Hello, we are from the National Poverty Alleviation Bureau. Is Miss Wang Mengting here?"

Wang Mengting actually has a house, but because she feels that her home is deserted, she has always lived with her parents.

When they heard it was from the Poverty Alleviation Bureau, Wang Mengting's parents almost knelt down in front of him.

"Master Qingtian, you are here, but hurry up and drag this girl out. Our family will be destitute by her..."

"Eat poor?"

The poverty alleviation workers looked at each other and wondered: "But isn't the food provided for free?"

"..."

"Don't listen to this old guy's nonsense. What we are saying is that this girl is actually chewing on the old man. It's too much. She can obviously make money that we can't make in dozens of lifetimes, but she wants to chew on the old man. What do you mean? Are we angry?"

"Because of this girl, our family's TV set has not been able to afford a complete TV series for several years. We can only watch free channels at 12 o'clock on Saturdays and Sundays every day, but those dramas are not good at all, and we want to I can’t afford to watch it.”

"Yes, yes, it's all this wild girl's fault. A few years ago, we were able to watch short videos and watch TV series with Super Super VIP, which made the neighbors envious."

The two elders sang and sang together, making the two poverty alleviation workers stunned.

Just watch short videos?TV series super super super VIP?

Damn it, we want it too!
The two poverty alleviation workers were so envious that they almost slammed the door and left. Help, help us, we are the poor here.

But that’s just what I think about it.

Now Wang Mengting's parents can't even talk about opening a TV series called Super Super VIP with a revenue of 5000 million yuan a year.

I can’t even afford to buy an episode of a popular TV series.

The poor family can only eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day and travel around the mountains and rivers, but mobile phones, TVs, computers and other Internet-connected products have all become bricks.

"Ahem, we probably already know your situation, so we came to see Miss Wang Mengting. We have a project on hand right now, and Miss Wang Mengting just meets the requirements, so we made a special trip to visit you." I heard that the Poverty Alleviation Bureau was coming to "send money." The parents quickly entered the house and pulled out Wang Mengting, who slept after eating and ate after sleeping.

"Signed."

The mother took the poverty alleviation project plan handed over by the poverty alleviation staff and photographed it on the table in front of the sleepy Wang Mengting.

Wang Mengting was startled and looked down at the contract.

Before even looking at what she was asked to do, the series of zeros at the end of the reward for completing the task scared Wang Mengting awake.

"One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand..."

Wang Mengting counted with her fingers until she was completely stunned at the end.

"One hundred million?"

In the first few years after she became an A-list star, she only made a few hundred million in total.

The Poverty Alleviation Bureau gave her [-] million at once, but it was okay.

But it’s nothing. The appearance fees for her as a local A-list star and a common goddess should have been so expensive, but she has always performed for free.

Seemingly aware of Wang Mengting's concerns, the staff of the Poverty Alleviation Bureau said: "In view of your special situation, your concert video is free. This money is specially allocated by the National Poverty Alleviation Bureau. And all you have to do is go There’s a concert in the Republic of Quillak.”

"Ah? What about those lizard people? No, no, how dangerous it is!"

Only then did my mother see the venue of the concert, the National Center for the Performing Arts in the capital of the Republic of Quillak, and she suddenly became anxious.

Although the relationship between the two parties is very good at the official level, they have even decided to form an alliance.

However, at the civil level, because the shapes of the two sides are very different, and the lizard people do not conform to human aesthetics, the communication among the people has been sluggish and even full of hostility.

After all, this world is a world based on appearance.

Although the Alpha people had hostile contact at the beginning, as the two sides became more and more in-depth civil exchanges and each other's thoughts became equal, of course, the most important thing is that the appearance of rabbits makes humans naturally have a higher degree of favorability towards them. , so now there are basically no ethnic conflicts.

On the other hand, Quillac was obviously the first advanced civilization to come into contact with it, and at that time, Quillac could easily crush humans to death, but it still chose to have friendly contact.

There was no conflict between the two parties. On the contrary, various non-governmental exchanges and official exchanges continued. If they were from other better-looking races, they would become good friends directly.

But the appearance of the lizard people still put the people on both sides at bay after all.

"The Republic of Quillak has established an alliance with the Human Complex, and the official and private exchanges between the two sides will only become more frequent in the future. Moreover, the other party's high-level officials also attach great importance to this civil cultural exchange and will send a large number of police to protect them. In addition, we Agents will also participate in the escort, so please rest assured in terms of safety."

said the poverty alleviation worker.

The words have come to this point, and the mother still objected for no reason. Let's take a look at Wang Mengting, who uses their salary to make short videos every day...

He seemed to be aware of the unkind look his mother was looking at him.

After all, it has always been her dream to sing on a wider stage.

The abnormal domestic cultural market makes it either very expensive or completely free, with no middle value.

But now the state pays for it, and the concert is free.

There was no reason not to sign the welfare package from the Poverty Alleviation Bureau. Wang Mengting immediately took a pen and signed her name on the contract.

(End of this chapter)