Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 853 Celebration Banquet, the end of "Red Tower" (4k)

After reading the news about "Parasite", Zhou Mo called his assistant again.

"Since Director Zhang is not here, we can just show some of the daily shooting videos from when he was on the set..."

Halfway through the conversation, Zhou Mo specifically reminded: "Just shoot normal content, not those that deliberately shock people in front of the camera."

When the assistant heard this, some of Zhang Yimou's famous scenes instantly came to his mind, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He didn't quite understand why someone with Director Zhang's personality would be so...acting when he came in contact with the camera?
He shared his thoughts with Zhou Mo.

"Director Zhou, Director Zhang's state was completely different from usual when they knew they were being filmed."

"What's the difference?"

"Very... um, lively."

The assistant wanted to say "let's play" directly, but when the words came to his lips, he felt it was disrespectful, so he changed to an adjective.

I didn’t expect that after I said it, it would feel even weirder.

Zhou Mo didn't even raise his head, and his tone was calm from beginning to end.

"You mean to say he's stuffy and hot-tempered? Stay calm. That's just the kind of person he is."

The assistant couldn't help but blurt out the word "a plant".

Okay.

You are more direct than I am.

Only then did Zhou Mo look at his assistant.

"You've seen Zhang Yimou's interview video. Can that be called an interview? That's called acting. Surprised and reciting big lines, what else can you call that if not sultry?
Directors are human beings, not gods. They are not mysterious. Everyone has his or her own private personality. It’s just that you don’t know it because you are not familiar with him or her. ”

The assistant was speechless, as if this was the fact.

Who would have thought that this domineering director actually likes to eat gummy bears?

This may be the contrast.

Zhou Mo suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the way his assistant looked at him.

"Were you just thinking something impolite?"

"No, absolutely not."

"you swear!"

"I swear."

"...Okay, then please bring me a bag of candy, thank you."

"Ah."

……

The celebration banquet for "Red Tower" has begun.

Everyone in the entire crew who didn't have any schedule came.

The purchase volume of three billion broke the limits of many people's imagination.

Many movies cannot achieve this number.

Especially since it's a TV series.

"If there are works like Zhulou every year, who would still make movies? The cost is high, the risk is big, and the level of promoting people is not as good as that of TV dramas."

"If I can film another TV series like 'Zhu Lou', I would be willing to win the Best Actor award."

Beside Zhou Mo, the crew members were laughing and joking.

Among the crowd, Huang, Chen, Liu and Deng laughed the happiest, and even the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes were revealed through laughter.

These four people benefited the most from the drama "Zhu Lou".

As core characters in the middle and late stages of "Zhu Lou", Zhou Mo arranged enough highlight moments for each of them.

Even though the results for three of them were not very good, it did not affect their image in the minds of the audience and fans.

In the middle and late part of "Red Mansion", the plot between the prince and the other three princes is as follows:
The emperor's reform policies had achieved sufficient results in the country in the later period, but the resistance in some regions was still very strong.

For example, Jiangnan.

So the emperor sent the prince on another tour and asked him to implement the court's policies in the Jiangnan region.

After the prince arrived in Jiangnan, he vigorously implemented policies and soon achieved remarkable results.

But soon, news reached the court that the prince had killed too many people in Jiangnan, which aroused public resentment and led many people to rebel, causing chaos in the Jiangnan region.

Before the court could digest this news, two more pieces of news came.

One story said that the prince was preparing for a rebellion in the Jiangnan region and mobilizing troops.

The other was a message that the prince took the initiative to send back to the court, saying that there was a rebellion in Jiangnan and the situation was urgent. He had no choice but to send troops to suppress it first, and then apologize to the emperor.

The two pieces of news each have their own reasons and evidence. The capital and Jiangnan are thousands of miles apart, making it impossible to judge.

But the real situation was that when the prince was implementing policies in Jiangnan, local forces pretended to obey his orders but actually disobeyed them. They not only dragged their feet but also sent people to stop him.

Upon seeing this, the prince simply followed the example of Emperor Shizu (Prince Fu) and did his old trick of “There are bandits rebelling and killing gentry? Quickly dispatch troops to help me suppress them” (historical prototype: the slave rebellion in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty).

Thanks to this trick, the prince was able to advance policies quickly.

However, the gentry are not fools, and this is not the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, so they will not allow you to continue "suppressing bandits" like this.

So, the gentry really gathered together a group of armed forces to see if they could kill the prince.

Since you said there are bandits, why don’t we just act like bandits for real?

Anyway, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is easily soluble in water. Although you, the prince, are not the emperor yet, you are not much different!

Little did they know that what the prince was waiting for was for them to unite their armed forces.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in "Zhu Lou" are stronger and tougher with each generation.

The emperor wanted to complete the reform in one generation and implement it throughout the country. The emperor retired thought that the emperor was too hasty and should take a gentle approach; while the crown prince thought that the emperor was too gentle and should find an opportunity to accomplish the goal in one go.

The current situation in Jiangnan is a godsend opportunity for the prince to "achieve success in one battle."

Under normal circumstances, you haven't done anything wrong on the surface, so I don't have the opportunity to deal with you.

Now that you have finally gathered all your private soldiers, family soldiers, guards, and canal workers, I might as well take them all away to you in one go, and I can implement my strategy however I want later.

The styles of the three generations of the emperor cannot actually be directly divided into superior and inferior ones. It can only be said that their efficiency and risks are different.

Although the style of the emperor emeritus is slow in efficiency, it has a high safety factor.

The prince is highly efficient, but also highly dangerous.

This danger comes not only from the armed forces of the gentry, but also from people from all walks of life who have ambitions to take the throne of the crown prince.

For example, the third prince.

As mentioned earlier, the third prince completed the reform of the Lianghuai salt tax without bloodshed.

The ability to accomplish this feat was related to the Third Prince himself and his supporters.

The third prince was born to the imperial concubine, who was from Jiangnan and was the representative of the Jiangnan forces.

Now, the prince is "running rampant" and "killing innocent people indiscriminately" in the Jiangnan region, so he can take this opportunity to keep the prince in Jiangnan forever.

The Third Prince spent a lot of money to send a batch of people and equipment to the gentry in Jiangnan, asking them to be cautious and make full preparations before taking action. The Crown Prince was heavily guarded, and if he failed once, there would be no second time.

Speaking of the grudge between the third prince and the crown prince, it can actually be traced back to the previous generation.

The emperor once wanted to make the third prince the crown prince, not only because he favored the imperial concubine more, but also because the queen was powerful, the third prince was more like him, and the crown prince had been in poor health since childhood.

The Queen is kind to the Crown Prince because he is her own son, but she is very strict and cold to other people.

Because the emperor wanted to replace the crown prince, the queen hated the imperial concubine and the third prince so much that she even tried to murder the imperial concubine. Although she didn't succeed completely, she did save the imperial concubine many years of life. (Adapted prototype: Lady Qi of Liu Bang's Lu family)

Both the Crown Prince and the Third Prince are very filial, so the conflict between them is completely irreconcilable.

The fact was exactly as the Third Prince had thought. His men succeeded in attacking the Prince's army only once, and they never had another chance.

However, with just one chance, his men successfully hit the prince, causing him to be seriously injured and fall into a coma on the spot.

When the news reached the capital, the emperor was furious and the third prince almost laughed out loud.

But soon he couldn't laugh anymore.

Someone passed the information to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, telling the whole story of the Third Prince's plot against the Crown Prince.

When the Jinyiwei saw the news, they ran to the palace immediately.

After hearing the report from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the emperor was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

These are the two things he is most afraid of hearing in his life.

One is the father and son killing each other, and the other is the brothers fighting each other.

Today's emperor has everything, but he is afraid of being recorded in history books with the two titles mentioned above.

He is not Li Shimin yet, and does not have Li Shimin's almost invincible achievements.

If I were to be labeled with these two titles, my reputation would drop significantly even if my reforms were successful.

Under all these thoughts, the emperor actually fell into a coma.

For a moment, the entire palace was in chaos. Although Chief Steward Dai tried to block the news as soon as the emperor fell into a coma, no matter how hard he tried to block the news, he had to call the imperial physician, notify the grand secretary on duty in the cabinet, and also contact the imperial guards and grand secretary in the palace.

Such a huge movement could not possibly go unnoticed.

At this time, the prince, who had been offline for more than ten episodes, came online again.

This time he appeared, he vowed to take back everything he had lost.

It turned out that the letter from the Embroidered Uniform Guard reporting the third prince was sent by him.

In the past dozen or so episodes, he was not unknown, but endured on the part of the emperor emeritus, constantly accumulating strength, and quietly waiting for his opportunity.

As for what this opportunity is, as mentioned in the previous article, the struggles between the princes will become more and more serious and fierce as the court reforms deepen, and will eventually reach the point where they will face each other with swords.

Not only did he know about the Third Prince's plan to keep the Crown Prince in Jiangnan, he also went out of his way to help him avoid some investigations.

Now, the prince's life or death is uncertain in Jiangnan, the third prince was imprisoned that night, and the emperor was vomiting blood and unconscious. One letter dealt with three people. It was a good opportunity for him to take back the throne.

If you miss this opportunity, you will miss this shop too.

The prince was very excited and wanted to lead his troops to attack the imperial city immediately.

Some of his staff advised him to stay calm, as the emperor's condition was still unknown and his coma might just be a smokescreen to confuse the various forces in the capital.

The prince said, "I am very calm. Do you think I don't know that the emperor might be fishing? But what can I do?"
I am a prince, not an emperor emeritus, and I do not have the legal right to directly inherit the throne. Even if the crown prince and the third prince are all dead, including the emperor, the throne will be inherited by the emperor's other princes, not me.

Therefore, if you want to ascend to the throne, you can only sit on that position directly.

Using conspiracy can gain certain advantages, but it is absolutely impossible to win without fighting.

As for the Emperor, he might be throwing a smokescreen, but it also means he is using himself as bait.

Since you are using yourself as bait, there is a possibility that you will be swallowed by the fish!
The prince's words convinced everyone, and this time he used all his strength in order to attack the emperor's bedroom in one fell swoop.

With his order, the Prince's Mansion began to operate in full swing, and some previously hidden information was completely revealed at this moment.

In addition to the hundreds of death warriors under his command, there was also a team of imperial guards in the palace, and even a general in charge of the palace gate was his man.

This number is a force that cannot be ignored.

Even Li Shimin, when he was fighting with his brothers at Xuanwu Gate, the number of troops he could directly control might not reach this number.

The prince moved very quickly and set out with his soldiers in the middle of the night. With the help of his insiders in the palace, he had a smooth journey and did not encounter any obstacles at all.

But the more relaxed he felt, the more something felt wrong.

wrong.

Very wrong.

Even if he had an accomplice in the palace, things shouldn't have been so smooth.

However, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. Now even if he finds a problem, he cannot stop. He cannot even have the slightest sign of abnormality and must stride forward.

Just like that, after walking through two more doors, the prince stopped.

A group of soldiers stood in front of them, led by the Fourth Prince who was supposed to appear in the northern border to fight against the Russians.

In an instant, the prince understood everything.

The emperor was indeed fishing, and he indeed took the bait.

However, he has no regrets.

Rebellion... No, to be precise, at that time, the throne itself was a matter of life and death.

If you succeed, the whole world will be yours.

If you fail, it's fair to pay the price with your life.

The prince accepted that he was one step behind, but he did not completely lose hope.

He didn't feel that he had completely lost the chance of winning.

Sometimes, the situation can be reversed in just a moment.

The deployment of troops in the palace is subject to rules and records.

The prince didn’t know how many people the Fourth Prince had under his command, but it was definitely not far more than him.

Otherwise he would definitely find out.

So, he still has a chance.

As long as someone can break into the emperor's bedroom, it is no longer up to the emperor to decide whether his death is fake or real.

A moment later, the fourth prince walked into the emperor's bedroom, covered in smoke.

The prince's guess was correct. He indeed did not have many people under his command. The total number was even less than the hundreds or thousands of people under the prince's command.

But there was one thing the prince didn't understand: there was a difference between a professional soldier and a death squad.

In a one-on-one fight, a professional soldier may not be able to defeat a death squad.

But once the numbers increase, the so-called death squads and rangers are all vulnerable in front of professional soldiers.

People who have not personally experienced the battle may be able to guess this, but they definitely have no concrete knowledge.

So, the result of the battle between the two sides was that he won.

After the fourth prince entered the bedroom, he saw the emperor with a pale face but a pair of bright eyes.

(End of this chapter)