I started to become more self-disciplined at the age of 30

Chapter 34. The foreigners are coming, and the fifty-year-old woman is guarding the country's border! Can the Shanghai anchor turn the tide?

Jiang Chen and Han Qing returned to the rental house together, and went back to their respective rooms to wash up and rest.

The two of them have almost the same schedule.

Han Qing followed Jiang Chen in changing her schedule these past two days, getting enough sleep and feeling much more energetic during the day. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that she has found her life goal.

Jiang Chen had just finished washing up when he received a call from Zhao Haitang: "Jiang Chen, hello, I'm Zhao Haitang."

While wiping the water off his hair, Jiang Chen said, "Hello, Mr. Zhao."

Zhao Haitang said quickly: "Jiang Chen, I have something to discuss with you."

Jiang Chen: "Mr. Zhao, go ahead. If you want me to stay, then you don't need to say it."

Zhao Haitang was silent for a moment. She had wanted to give it a try, but Jiang Chen blocked her way and immediately started talking about Liu Yujie and Zhang Zhiqiang's plans: "No! I know you want to go around and I can't keep you. I want to discuss something else with you."

"Just now, the owners of several bars next door came to me and wanted to invite you to perform in the field in front of the bar. If you sing new songs, the appearance fee is 550,000 yuan. If you don't sing new songs, the appearance fee is 250,000 yuan."

Zhao Haitang raised the appearance fee for the reward and punishment a little more and continued, "They promised to spend money and resources in the next two days to promote your performance throughout the Magic City and attract as many people as possible."

Jiang Chen put the towel aside and said, "Mr. Zhao, I don't mind performing outdoors. It's the same live show anyway. But I want to make it clear to you that I only agree to let Pu Yuexi perform at your place for seven days. After seven days, I will leave! So, whether it is performing in your bar or outside your bar, I don't care. I have performed at your place for three days, and there are four days left, and my performance at your place will be over by then."

After hearing what Jiang Chen said, Zhao Haitang felt a little warm in his heart.

There was a feeling that Jiang Chen had given himself to her, so she immediately said, "Well, starting tomorrow, when you come, you can perform a live show outdoors at the door, how about that?"

Jiang Chen: “Sure!”

Zhao Haitang: "Thank you for supporting me, Jiang Chen, are you and Han Qing in a relationship?"

Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, then denied it: "No, we are just ordinary friends with the same interests!"

Zhao Haitang's smile became even brighter: "Okay, I understand. I will fight for a higher appearance fee for you, which is worthy of you."

Jiang Chen: "Five hundred and fifty thousand is already high enough."

Jiang Chen is not a newbie who knows nothing. He knows that a performance fee of 550,000 is already very high in the field of internet celebrities. Apart from the top anchors with tens of millions of fans, first- and second-tier anchors with millions of fans can be easily found.

Some young actors and actresses in the entertainment industry who have just debuted have appearance fees of only a few hundred thousand yuan.

Of course, they won’t be performing new songs.

Although Jiang Chen was confident that his songs were good and his singing skills were not weak, he was ultimately just a new anchor with only a few thousand fans. The appearance fee of 550,000 was indeed very high.

Zhao Haitang: "No, you deserve a higher price, which is worthy of your work and ability! Don't worry about it, I will fight for it for you. I heard Yuexi say that you go to bed on time at ten o'clock. Are you getting ready for bed now?"

Jiang Chen: "Well, I just finished taking a shower and was about to clean up and lie down to sleep."

Zhao Haitang: "You've really started to take care of your health!"

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I'm thirty years old now, not any younger anymore."

Zhao Haitang was speechless after hearing this. She was about to turn 30, so she said in a complicated tone, "Yes, I'm not getting any younger. Then I won't disturb you. I'll contact them to confirm the performance tomorrow. Let them start spending money to attract traffic now."

"I believe that you will be famous all over the Demon City this time."

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Thank you!" After that, both parties said goodbye. Jiang Chen hung up the phone and started brushing his teeth and washing his face.

Zhao Haitang called Zhang Zhiqiang directly. She knew that Zhang Zhiqiang had more say because Zhang Zhiqiang's bar was wholly owned by himself, and the assets and interpersonal relationships behind him were also stronger. Although Liu Yujie also had strong connections, he did not have many shares in the bar and did not have much say.

The call was quickly connected, and Zhao Haitang got straight to the point: "Mr. Zhang, Jiang Chen agreed to live broadcast the performance outdoors tomorrow."

Zhang Zhiqiang immediately said excitedly, "Great! I was just discussing with Mr. Liu how to promote it. We plan to raise 3 million yuan to attract traffic on DouYue. Tomorrow we will invite two local outdoor anchors from Shanghai to come here to live broadcast and attract traffic. It will definitely be a big hit and spread throughout Shanghai."

Zhao Haitang: "Then you can discuss it. I promised Jiang Chen that if there is a new song, the appearance fee will be 600,000 per show, and if there is no new song, the appearance fee will be 300,000 per show. Is this okay?"

Zhang Zhiqiang was silent for a moment, then asked speechlessly: "Why is it so high? Is it Jiang Chen's request?"

Zhao Haitang told the truth: "No, it was my request. I think Jiang Chen is more valuable. Moreover, Jiang Chen has confirmed that he will leave after performing for four more days. At the beginning, he promised me to come to save the show, and my request was to perform for a week. After a week, the singers I invited from Beijing can go to work."

Zhang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "Do you regret it now?"

A bar singer invited by Beijing?

He is just an underground singer and not that great. If he had a future, he wouldn't have come south to sing in bars in Shanghai. He would have more opportunities to succeed if he continued to move north.

Zhao Haitang remained silent. She never dreamed that after asking Pu Yuexi to find someone to take over for a week, Pu Yuexi would be able to find someone as great as Jiang Chen.

If Zhao Haitang had known Jiang Chen's ability earlier, he would not have gone to Beijing to look for him. He would have directly signed Jiang Chen with a high salary and a long-term contract, giving Jiang Chen whatever he wanted.

But now, she felt a little regretful, but also understood that even if she had wanted to sign Jiang Chen for a long term, Jiang Chen would not agree. However, performing for ten or eight more days should not be a big problem, and now it was impossible to keep Jiang Chen for a few more days.

The singer from Beijing called her just now and said he had booked a flight to Shanghai for tomorrow night and would be able to come to work the day after tomorrow.

However, Zhao Haitang asked her to rest for two days before coming back, as she did not want to delay Jiang Chen's performance.

Zhang Zhiqiang knew that Zhao Haitang was definitely regretting it at this moment, and he also felt a sense of urgency in his heart, because Jiang Chen only had four days left to perform.

Zhang Zhiqiang also felt that the high performance fee was acceptable, and he nodded to Liu Yujie, Li Jian and others beside him to confirm. After all, they had all watched Jiang Chen's performance live for two days and absolutely recognized Jiang Chen's ability, especially with the release of excellent new songs, which was definitely very attractive.

Then Zhang Zhiqiang said to Zhao Haitang, "Okay, the performance fee is set. We'll give you Haitang a favor! The performance will start on time at 7:30 tomorrow afternoon. Now we will go to the unit in our jurisdiction to apply for the performance. It should be approved tomorrow, and we will start to set up the venue tomorrow morning."

"The hype and promotion can start now."

Zhao Haitang: "Okay, you pay the money and I'll cooperate."

Liu Yujie's voice rang out: "I will start contacting professionals now."

……

When Jiang Chen was lying on the bed to rest at half past nine, he picked up his phone and watched the Broken Knife Competition, the Cow Hoof Repair Competition, and the Foreigner Hide-and-Seek Competition as usual.

Then at 9:50, I looked at my DouYue account out of curiosity, and found that the number of followers had suddenly skyrocketed to more than 15,000. An increase of 8,000 or 9,000 in just one afternoon?
Jiang Chen suddenly became interested and was about to log into Penguin Music to check the download data of a few songs.

Suddenly a local news popped up.

"A new generation of singing kings competes for supremacy, foreign masters come to attack, and a fifty-year-old woman guards the country's gate! A super original singing anchor appears in Shanghai, can he turn the tide?"

This title!
Jiang Chen's heart beat faster as he watched.

(End of this chapter)