Life 1984

Li Yunhai wanted to find a few influential people to comment and promote Su Wan'er.

Chen Meilin laughed and said, "Brother, if you ask me, it's better to look for yourself than anyone else!"

"Myself?" Li Yunhai asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Chen Meilin said: "Brother, you are the most influential businessman, no doubt about it! What you say is more effective than what others say, and more people are willing to believe it."

Li Yunhai seemed to be thinking about something.

Isn't it?
It is better to ask for yourself than for others.

Moreover, Li Yunhai's fame and status are truly unparalleled!
So, Li Yunhai, who has always been low-key, suddenly made a high-profile appearance in Suzhou.

He even took the initiative to accept interviews from local media reporters.

During the interview, Li Yunhai repeatedly mentioned Su Waner's paintings.

He commented from a buyer's perspective:

"Su Wan'er's works are unique in style, full of poetry and dreamy colors, which make people feel a profound artistic enjoyment. Especially the landscape paintings of the Jiangnan water towns, which are free and unrestrained in brushwork and full of interest, skillfully combining tradition with modernity, showing the painter's unique artistic style and ideological realm."

When a person becomes rich enough, everything he says will be regarded as golden rules.

When you are successful, everything you say is the truth.

If you think about it carefully, all the textbook knowledge, principles, rules, and even laws that we have learned since childhood were all written by successful people.

When the rulers only respected Confucianism, Confucianism was what students all over the world had to study and take exams on. If you didn't study it, you couldn't take the exams and you couldn't get ahead.

Therefore, you can’t learn whatever you want to learn, but you can learn what successful people ask you to learn. Everyone is framed by such a container.

The emperor loved thin waists, and women all over the country followed suit. Some even starved to death, and before they died they were still showing off that they had the thinnest waists.

Men in the upper class liked lotus feet, and girls would have their feet bound as soon as they were born. They completely ignored the pain and instead took pride in their small feet.

The influence of successful people is extraordinary.

The same laws apply to hype.

Capital likes a beautiful woman and makes her a star, and then countless fans will like her, spend money on her, and go crazy for her, not knowing that she is just an ordinary woman, who may not be as pretty as her female fans and does not have much talent and acting skills.

Antique dealers speculate on coins this year, stamps next year, and Yuan Datou the year after. Whatever they speculate on, the price of these things will soar, and countless people will follow the trend. Once the antique dealers change their taste, the people at the bottom will always take over.

The same trick applies to stocks.

Smart people create knowledge, instill it in others, control others' minds, and enslave others' bodies.

Ordinary people can only passively accept it and enjoy it.

Li Yunhai is undoubtedly the most successful Chinese businessman.

What he said played a decisive role.

Countless people believe in him as the God of Business.

Everyone went from looking down on him and being jealous of him to envying him, learning from him, and wanting to be like him!

Li Yunhai said that Su Waner's paintings are very good!

So everyone thought that Su Waner's paintings were really good!

I told the antique dealers that the 1982 Monkey Stamps were the most valuable! The wrong editions were even more valuable! Everyone believed it and rushed to buy and collect them.

Until no one believed these words anymore, the sky-high price of the 1982 Monkey Stamp collapsed.

Top art dealer Gagosian said: Picasso's paintings are the most abstract. The more abstract, the more beautiful and the more valuable!

Then collectors all over the world began to collect Picasso's paintings, and the prices continued to rise.

Everyone knows that the one who starts something makes the most money.

The person who hypes up the concept is the smartest person.

Li Yunhai has now also begun to hype the concept that "Su Waner's paintings have the most oriental aesthetics."

The nation is the world's.

In Li Yunhai's opinion, Su Wan'er's ink and color paintings and detailed paintings of ladies are the most representative paintings of oriental imagery in the world, and the paintings that are most representative of the colors of the Jiangnan water town!
When this concept became popular, Su Wan'er became a representative painter of Chinese painting.

Li Yunhai's public remarks are more effective than the various opinions expressed by other critics.

That evening, Suzhou TV broadcast an interview with Li Yunhai.

This was Li Yunhai's first public appearance and recording of a TV interview program.

Soon, Li Yunhai's phone rang.

Jinling TV called and wanted to conduct an exclusive interview with Li Yunhai.

Li Yunhai was just about to promote Su Waner!

So I agreed readily.

The next day, people from Jinling TV came to Gusu and interviewed Li Yunhai at Nanyuan Hotel.

Jinling TV Station, which is the predecessor of Jiangsu Satellite TV.

The visit still revolved around the purpose and significance of Li Yunhai's visit to Suzhou.

Li Yunhai said that he came here for tourism and was deeply attracted and astounded by the artistic works of Su Wan'er, a painter from the Suzhou Wumen School of Painting. So he spent one million yuan to buy all of Su Wan'er's works on display.

He also gave very high comments on these works.

In order to improve the show effect, he also invited his favorite painter Su Waner to the scene.

Su Wan'er is gentle and beautiful, with long straight black hair that reaches her waist. She wears a simple and low-key silk cheongsam that shows off her beautiful figure. She is dignified and elegant, as graceful as a flower, showing a charming temperament.

Her graceful posture and elegant conversation make people deeply fascinated.

In the interview, Su Waner thanked Li Yunhai for his love for her works. At the same time, she announced that an exhibition would be held the day after tomorrow in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the Jinling Provincial Library. Collectors and calligraphy and painting enthusiasts were welcome to visit. At the same time, she reminded everyone: Tickets to the exhibition are free!

This interview will be broadcast on the evening news.

The evening news, which is the provincial news broadcast after the CCTV news broadcast, reports on major events happening throughout the province.

With Li Yunhai's status and position, he is fully qualified to be on this show.

While Li Yunhai was doing publicity, Chen Meilin was also busy.

Chen Meilin made a trip to Jinling.

She signed a contract with the Su Provincial Library to rent a venue for the exhibition and paid the rental fees.

Afterwards, she contacted Sihai Group's printing center in Jinling to produce advertisements, banners, roll-up banners, brochures, sign-in books, etc.

After the production is completed, Chen Meilin also has to arrange people to decorate the exhibition hall.

Because of time constraints, Chen Meilin did not rush back to Suzhou, but stayed at Jinling Hotel.

Jinling Hotel is the first five-star hotel in Jiangsu Province. It was commonly known as the 37-story building at the time and was a local landmark throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

After Chen Meilin settled in, she called Li Yunhai to report her itinerary and work progress.

Li Yunhai told her to be careful, protect herself, and not to open the door if anyone knocked at night. No matter what happened, it would not be too late to talk about it the next day.

Feeling Li Yunhai's deep concern, Chen Meilin felt warm in her heart.

When Chen Meilin kept following him, Li Yunhai always felt that she was too annoying.

But when she left, Li Yunhai missed her chattering and her clinginess.

Fortunately, Gong Li is here.

Gong Li will stay with him until he leaves Jiangsu Province.

This is also a rare sweet time for the two of them.

Every night, they can sleep in each other's arms and warm each other with love.

The day before the exhibition.

Li Yunhai borrowed two trucks from Li Juan's Sanjiang Company to transport all the framed paintings to Jinling City. He, Su Wan'er, Gong Li and others also took the truck to Jinling at the same time.

After the paintings arrived in Jinling, Li Yunhai and Chen Meilin arranged for people to hang them up for exhibition.

That day, they were busy until 10:30 in the evening before they finished their work.

Normally, an art exhibition only requires no more than a hundred works.

But the exhibition hall of the provincial library is very large.

For an ordinary painter, it is enough to rent half of the area for the exhibition.

But Chen Meilin rented the entire exhibition hall.

Therefore, more than two hundred works are needed to fill the exhibition hall.

Arranging an exhibition is also an art.

It’s too full, it looks crowded, and the work doesn’t stand out.

There are too few of them, so it seems empty and there is nothing to see.

The size of the painting is also very important.

There cannot be too few large works, but there cannot be too many either.

Only by interspersing and embellishing each other can the beauty of the exhibition be revealed.

This was Su Waner's first art exhibition in the true sense.

She personally directed the hanging and exhibition of the paintings.

After finishing, she stood in the brightly lit exhibition hall and looked through all the works in the halls from beginning to end.

The work is magical.

A piece of unframed rice paper is wrinkled and the work looks just average.

After being mounted, framed and hung on the wall, the work immediately becomes smooth and standardized, and also looks high-end.

Su Wan'er covered her mouth gently, somewhat unable to believe it!
Although she had dreamed of holding an art exhibition one day, she never expected it to come true so soon!
What a surprise for her!

This is undoubtedly the first highlight moment in her life!
A painter’s greatest wish is to hold an art exhibition!

And the person who helped her achieve all this was Li Yunhai.

Li Yunhai stood beside her and asked in a gentle voice, "How is it? Is there anything else that needs to be changed?"

Su Wan'er said softly, "That's great! Mr. Li, thank you so much! You helped me realize my dream!"

Li Yunhai said: "This is a win-win exhibition. By the way, you promised me that all your paintings in the future will be distributed by me. I will be your exclusive agent, and your paintings can only be sold by me."

Su Wan'er smiled and said, "I can't think of any reason to refuse."

Li Yunhai looked at the time and said, "Go back and have a rest. We will officially start tomorrow and we still have a lot of work to do."

The group returned to Jinling Hotel to rest and no further information was given.

the next morning.

Li Yunhai and others got up early.

They had breakfast together and went to the provincial library.

All publicity and exhibition work has been completed.

Because Li Yunhai participated in the preparation of the exhibition, and he publicly mentioned Su Waner's paintings twice in a row, this exhibition caused quite a stir in the local area.

Leaders in charge of culture in the provincial government, Jinling, Suzhou and other places all came to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The opening ceremony was short and lively.

Chen Meilin was creative and made a promotional poster that was more than two meters high, printing Su Waner's photo and her paintings on it.

This huge poster is posted on the wall of the lobby at the entrance of the library.

Su Wan'er in the poster is beautiful, graceful and extremely attractive.

Many people who come to the library to borrow books will become very interested when they see the huge posters and then go to visit.

The exhibition is free of charge and anyone can enter and visit.

After ten o'clock in the morning, there was an endless stream of people coming in to visit.

Many citizens did not visit the library before, but after seeing the news, they would rush to take a look.

The exhibition hall was almost packed with people.

In order to prevent malicious or accidental damage to the paintings, several staff members are arranged in each exhibition hall to facilitate the introduction and explanation of the paintings to visitors.

Everyone who enters the door must sign in at the front desk.

This makes it easier to count the number of exhibitors every day.

However, what Li Yunhai and his colleagues did not expect was that the exhibition was well received but not popular.

The exhibition hall was packed with visitors, but no one bought the paintings.

The main purpose of holding an art exhibition is to promote painters and their works.

But if someone offers to buy it, that would be the greatest respect and reward for the painter and his work.

When Su Wan'er saw this phenomenon, she had some thoughts but didn't say them out loud.

It doesn’t matter whether these paintings can be sold in the end or how many paintings can be sold.

Li Yunhai was not in a hurry either.

Su Waner's works are limited in number.

It is impossible for a painter to paint all day long.

She needs inspiration and entrepreneurial passion to create a work of art.

Similar ideas, almost the same things, what’s the difference between that and copying on an assembly line?
Therefore, Su Waner does not have many works.

Li Yunhai also plans to organize a global tour for Su Waner.

He would rather not sell these works unless they can be sold at a high price.

At noon, most of the visitors in the exhibition hall were gone.

Li Yunhai and the others also want to eat.

Just as they were about to go out for dinner, a middle-aged man wearing a Tang suit with a string of beads on his hand came over and asked, "How much is this painting?"

When Chen Meilin heard someone asking about the price, she was very happy and said, "Which one do you like? The price of each painting here is different."

The man in the Tang suit pointed to a painting hanging on the wall over there. It was an eight-foot landscape painting and one of the largest paintings in the whole venue.

Chen Meilin said: "That beautiful landscape painting is priced at 85 yuan."

"What?" The man in the Tang suit jumped up as if a needle had pierced his buttocks, making an exaggerated hoarse sound, "Oh, don't scare me! 85? What currency?"

Chen Meilin said: "85 yuan, of course it's RMB. Sir, this is the fruit of Miss Su's hard work, and it is also the painting that Miss Su is most satisfied with-"

"No matter how beautiful it is, it's just a painting! How can it be so expensive? I think it's 85 yuan, I can still consider it." The man in the Tang suit shook his head repeatedly, "You are ripping me off! How can this thing be worth 85? Even the painter who painted this picture is probably not worth so much money!"

Li Yunhai raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Comrade, if you want to buy it, buy it. If you can't afford it, leave. Why are you making personal attacks?"

The man in the Tang suit groaned, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "Boy, who are you looking down on? Look at me, I look so stylish and fashionable! How can I not afford this little thing?"

Li Yunhai said: "I think you just can't afford it. I look down on you!"

The man in the Tang suit waved his hand and shouted, "I must buy this painting today, so that you won't look down on me! Wait - why should I be provoked by you? I can buy it if I want to, and I can buy it if I don't want to! It has nothing to do with you! I think this painter is pretty, where is she? If she is willing to go out for dinner and drinks with me, I can consider buying her paintings!"

Li Yunhai pointed at the door and shouted in a deep voice: "Get lost! People like you are actually worthy of coming to an art exhibition! You are really tarnishing the word art!" (End of this chapter)