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Chapter 388 What, do you need a return on investment?

In the end, Shazhu still couldn't defeat Yi Zhonghai and could only take the meal ticket in his hand.

If the steel rolling mill could have a hot search ranking of the day, then the top one today would definitely be the topic of "The Return of the King Yi Zhonghai".

…………

At the same time, an unexpected guest came to Yang Yi's office.

A girl in her twenties who looked exactly like Wang Yanni went up to Yang Yi and took his arm when she saw him.

“Dad, I’m here to see you!

How about it, are you surprised or surprised? "

Yang Yi was speechless and looked at his daughter Yang Yuanyuan.

“You’re a girl in your twenties, why are you still so unstable!

She has the same pretty face as your mother, but you can’t imitate her calm and majestic personality!

Tell me, which drama do you want me to invest in this time? "

Daughter Yang Yuanyuan graduated from the directing major of the Forty-Nine City Film Academy two years ago and has now become... a director's assistant at Huaguo Television.

"Dad, can't I just come to see you?"

"Haha, I don't believe it. Please invite Director Yang in quickly. I don't have time to play tricks with you here."

"Director Yang, please come in. My dad doesn't like me at all."

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman who looked to be in her early fifties walked in.

"Hello, Mr. Yang, my name is Yang Jie. We were a family five hundred years ago."

"Hello Director Yang, I would like to thank you for taking care of my daughter these past two years."

"Yuanyuan is such a cute and smart girl, I fell in love with her from the first moment I saw her.

It’s not about me taking care of her, she herself works very hard. "

After complimenting each other a lot.

"Mr. Yang, I wonder if you have heard Yuanyuan talk about it. Now I am preparing to film "Journey to the West"."

Yang Yi nodded.

"Have."

"Now our "Journey to the West" crew has been filming since last year. The casting work has been completed, the costumes and props are all in place, and three episodes of the finished product have been completed.

The problem now is... there is still a relatively large gap in this funding. "

Having said this, Director Yang showed a hint of embarrassment on his face.

Although she didn't explain clearly, Yang Yi knew it very well.

The person in front of me spent all the 3 million funds allocated by the station in just three episodes.

As a result, the station sent a working team down to investigate the use of funds by her crew.

However, the result of the investigation is - there was no random spending!

An investigation even found that because of insufficient funds, Director Yang often used his meager salary to open a small kitchen for the main actors.

There is no problem in the investigation, but considering the cost of filming an episode of 1 million, Huaguo TV can only issue such an order - follow-up filming will be self-funded!

There is really no way around this.

Today's TV stations themselves are not as wealthy as they will be in the future. If all Taiwan's funds for a year were spent on a TV series, then no other work would be possible.

In fact, before the filming of "Journey to the West" started, Yang Yi notified Yu Haitang, who was in Hong Kong, asking her to participate in this project.

Not for anything else, just to make up for my regrets - the original 30-episode drama was eventually cut to 25 episodes, and it was filmed intermittently for six years before finally meeting the audience in its entirety!

However, when Yu Haitang came up to negotiate, the TV station did not show any appreciation. “We don’t need any outside investment!”

Well, this reply at that time also fully proved a truth - the deal I was rushing into was definitely not a good deal.

But now...

"Director Yang, before your crew was preparing for the show last year, my person in charge at Xiangjiang Film and Television Entertainment Company, Yu Haitang, should have contacted the leaders of your station.

However, you flatly rejected our investment at that time. "

Director Yang Jie has also heard of this matter.

"Mr. Yang, today is different from the past. At that time, even we ourselves did not expect that the three million funds would be insufficient."

"But Director Yang, as far as I know, your so-called insufficient funds should mean that now that three episodes have been filmed, there is not a penny left of the three million, right?

When you left the crew this time, you were probably instructed by your station to return to Sijiu City to raise funds, right?

Because filming the Four Great Classics was originally a political task that your station had to complete. "

Director Yang didn't even tell Yang Yuanyuan about this matter.

Now that Yang Yi had revealed it all at once, she was also shocked.

But thinking about Mr. Yang, who had great hands and eyes, she didn't wonder why he knew the inside story.

Yang Yuanyuan was speechless at the side.

I originally thought that this time it was just a simple introduction, but I didn't expect that director Yang Jie was now planning to "show up with nothing".

Isn't this... just treating my father as the enemy?

After all, she was her own daughter. After figuring this out, her expression suddenly turned bad.

Director Yang obviously also noticed the change in the atmosphere of the scene.

"Mr. Yang, I didn't mean to hide anything from you, just... just..."

Well, at this time, everyone in the film and television industry is still very simple.

It's not like more than 20 years later, directors who haven't even written the script dare to attract coal bosses to invest tens or even hundreds of millions.

Seeing Director Yang's face turn red to the color of pig's liver, Yang Yi also knew that the initiative in the negotiation had now completely passed to his own hands.

"Director Yang, you have used 3 million in funds for three episodes now, so the next 27 episodes will require an investment of 27 million, right?"

"No, no, no, Mr. Yang, you misunderstood.

In fact, we have already spent the initial three million on clothing and props.

The bulk is actually these, and there is no need to continue to invest in it.

The next investment is mainly personnel salaries, as well as the cost of the crew traveling to various locations across the country. I estimate that it would take about five million more to film the remaining twenty-seven episodes. "

Well, Yang Yi admits that he is a complete layman when it comes to investing in movies and TV series.

So, he turned his attention to his daughter Yang Yuanyuan.

After getting a nod of approval from his daughter, Yang Yi continued to speak to Director Yang Jie.

"Director Yang, if I give this investment, what kind of return can your TV station give me?"

(End of this chapter)