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The next day, Ren Zhengfei took Fang Yan and Han Yuemin to Huawei's factory.

Just as he said, it was a pile of bricks, and it was biased, far away, short and broken, and it was completely incomparable with the "Huawei" of later generations.

After going around in circles and carefully investigating several times, Fangyan did not invest the same huge amount in Huawei as Softbank.

This was because the entire Huawei's founding capital was only 2.1 yuan. Investing one or two million yuan to acquire 8 to 30 percent of the shares was obviously unrealistic and uneconomical. So after careful consultation with Ren Zhengfei, Fang Yan finally agreed to inject yuan into Huawei and hold percent of the shares.

This amount of money is a huge sum of money if it is placed in the mainland today, and it is enough to buy about four courtyard houses in Yanjing.

In addition to investing money, Fang Yan and Han Yuemin will also use their own connections and resources. Just finding a company in Hong Kong to accept Huawei's agency will take Fang Yan a lot of effort. After all, not every company can accept the "goods first, payment later" policy of such a small company.

What's more, the future sale of pagers will become a long-term and important source of profit for Huawei.

After signing the shareholding contract with Ren Zhengfei, Fang Yan packed his luggage and prepared to set off north to Yanjing.

As for Gong Xing, he will first stay in eastern Guangdong for a while to assist Fang Hong in establishing the costume and props studio of Mingkong Film Company, and then go to Shanghai to report to the Shanghai Film Studio on the co-production plan for the second part of "Huang Feihong". These were all discussed with Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng in Hong Kong.

Fangyan took a flight to Yanjing and arrived at the Capital International Airport in less than a day.

After resting at home for a while, I called the Yanjing Television Art Center and informed them in advance that I would visit them in the afternoon.

Lu Xiaowei immediately gathered all the people on duty, including Zheng Xiaolong, Feng Xiaogang, Su Ya, Zhao Baogang, etc.

"Didn't they say that Mr. Fang was transferred to Hong Kong Joint Publishing Company as the chief editor? It's been less than half a year, why is he back?"

"He said on the phone that he returned to Beijing to represent Hong Kong Joint Publishing Company and report to the group headquarters on the situation since taking office."

"Report on your work!"

"Then why don't you go to Sanlian Bookstore Group instead of coming to us first?"

"........."

"Don't make blind guesses. Teacher Fang didn't say anything specific on the phone, but he said he had good news for our Television Art Center."

As soon as Lu Xiaowei said this, the discussion stopped abruptly and the room fell into silence.

But soon, everyone came to their senses and discussed more and more enthusiastically what the good news brought by Fangyan was.

But after discussing it over and over, we couldn't come to a conclusion, so we simply ended the topic and started chatting.

Time passed minute by minute, and at about one o'clock in the afternoon, Fangyan appeared in the office of the Television Art Center.

"What are you talking about?"

"Teacher Fang!?"

Zheng Xiaolong, Feng Xiaogang and others could no longer sit still and rushed to his side.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Fangyan continued to ask about the topic they had just been discussing.

Su Ya replied: "We didn't talk about anything, just Dream of the Red Chamber."

"Has "Dream of Red Mansions" already started airing?" Fangyan seemed to have thought of something.

“Yeah, it’s been on the air for quite some time.”

Lu Xiaowei said that since the broadcast of "Dream of Red Mansions", the average audience rating has been over 75%, and the Xinhua Bookstore's "Dream of Red Mansions" was even sold out at one point. From the literary and art circles to the people, a "Dream of Red Mansions craze" has gradually been set off, and Redology has risen again.

Fang Yan raised his eyebrows, "This is a good thing."

Feng Xiaogang opened his mouth, "But...but..." "But what?"

Fangyan frowned.

Lu Xiaowei said truthfully that although the entire drama of "Dream of Red Mansions" received positive reviews from the audience, it also suffered almost unanimous criticism from the literary and art circles.

Even several organizations, including the China Film News and China and Foreign Television, took the lead in jointly holding a meeting similar to that of a crusade.

38 representatives sat together to review a TV series, and they started by criticizing the male and female protagonists.

I dislike the male protagonist because although he still has his innocence, he is too dull and not elegant enough.

As for Chen Xiaoxu and Zhang Li, they are even worse. Especially the criticism of Chen Xiaoxu by name, which is not only sarcastic and mean, but also petty. It is far from the complexity and depth of the original work and fails to capture the soul of the character at all.

Some people also think that there is a problem with the arrangement of roles. It is obvious that the most important of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling are Daiyu and Chaifeng, but in the end, all the limelight is overshadowed by Wang Xifeng.

"Apart from these, is there anything else?"

Dialects are unmoved.

Su Ya said that amateur enthusiasts of the Dream of the Red Chamber would also write letters and make phone calls to the CCTV to point out many problems with the TV series' scenes, etiquette, etc.

Zheng Xiaolong was surprised. "Teacher Fang, you don't seem surprised at all?"

"We anticipated these issues long before we wrote the script. In fact, the biggest controversy about Dream of the Red Chamber has not yet appeared."

Fangyan waved his hand.

Lu Xiaowei, Su Ya, Zheng Xiaolong and others looked at each other in curiosity.

Fang Yan said that the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" originally prepared two versions. One was to change the last 40 chapters, and the other was to shoot according to the original novel. However, since the drama took 4 years to shoot, the last 40 chapters were not finished, and it cost about 40 or million. Even so, scenes like "Taixu Fantasy Land" only appeared once, and there was really no money to shoot again. Due to financial difficulties, they had to shoot the adapted version of the last chapters.

"That is to say, the finale of Dream of the Red Chamber is not the 'last 40 chapters' written by Gao E."

Everyone was shocked. Even if the high-priced version was not very good, it had at least stood the test of time. However, the ending was not filmed according to the original!

"If this is true, I'm afraid that by the time the show is aired, the criticism of the TV series Dream of the Red Chamber will only become more and more fierce, whether in the literary and art circles or among the folk Redology scholars." Lu Xiaowei sighed, "Who knows, there may be even greater bloodshed than now!"

"There is no other way. Due to funding constraints, we can only film Dream of the Red Chamber to this extent."

Fangyan curled his lips and said that compared with the later TV series and movies of "Dream of Red Mansions", the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" can be regarded as a classic.

"Seven or eight million isn't enough?"

Feng Xiaogang said, "This money is enough for us to make two episodes of "The Judge Advocate of the Song Dynasty"!"

"Cough cough!"

Seeing Lu Xiaowei cough, Fang Yan didn't intend to continue talking about "Dream of Red Mansions" and changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, the good news I want to bring is related to the TV series "The Judge Advocate of the Song Dynasty" that you are filming."

Everyone suddenly became excited, and when they heard that TVB was going to bring the show to Hong Kong for broadcast, they became even more excited and cheered.

"What a pity, the second season of "The Judge Advocate" has not been completed yet, otherwise, it would have been sold to TVB!"

There was a hint of regret in Zheng Xiaolong's tone.

"Don't worry. The best way to buy and sell TV drama copyrights is to calculate the price of each one. If the first one is broadcast in Hong Kong and the ratings are good, the purchase price of the second one can also increase by a few cents, right?" Fang Yan's words immediately touched everyone's heart. (End of this chapter)