The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 384 Why No One Dares to Touch Zhang Chen

At this time in China, because of the release of "The Promise" in mid-December and the follow-up of "A One Man's Journey", the film and television companies that had been watching Zhang Chen's reaction for a while were certain of one thing.

Zhang Chen didn't take what he said seriously at all.

Come to think of it, he should be in the United States right now as a shareholder of his listed company. How could he have the time to care about their trivial matters?
If it weren't for this reason, how could "The Promise" have earned over 100 million yuan at the box office in just over a week?

"A Solo Journey" was in a worse situation, because it was an art film, and except for the Morning Glory Cinema, all the major theaters gave it more screenings, while other theaters only gave it some screenings out of respect for the great director Zhang Yimou.

But that was all. The box office data for three days barely exceeded 10 million.

This result is not as good as "A Chinese Odyssey" directed by a Hong Kong director. This movie was released on the same day as "A One Man's Journey", but its box office was 500 million higher than the latter.

Many people are spreading the rumor, mainly because the male and female protagonists of the film are Zhang Yi and Fan Bingbing from the Morning Light series, otherwise it would be impossible for the film to get more than 30% of the screenings in the Morning Light Cinema Chain.

However, the quality of this movie is just so-so. Even with the favoritism of Morning Light Cinemas, the box office data will not be very good.

However, when it comes to the quality of movies, the most discussed movie on the Internet is "The Promise"

"Damn it, I was deceived by Director Chen's lofty ambitions. I thought he was so confident in saying that the box office would exceed Zhang Chen's, but he ended up feeding me shit like this?"

"You think it's not good? I think the pictures in the movie are beautiful."

"I don't understand this movie anyway. Is there anyone who understands it and can explain it to me?"

"I came from an era when movie tickets only cost a few cents. I've seen bad movies, but I've never seen one as bad as The Promise!"

"They built a city, invited Xie, who has a tainted reputation, to play the role, and directed the film by a Palme d'Or winner, but this is the result?"

"Mad, give me back my money!"

"Is it really that bad? After all, it's a film by a director who won the Palme d'Or, right?"

"Is it really that bad? I don't believe it! I'll comment after I've seen it."

"Why doesn't Zhang Chen ban this kind of crappy movie from entering the market?"

"Zhang Chen is not a god. Any movie with the Dragon Mark can be shown in the Morning Light Cinema Line. Besides, he can't hinder people from other cinema lines, right?"

"Didn't he want to cut ties with the Golden Rooster Awards? Now these directors are so blatantly releasing their films. Does this mean that these films will not participate in the Golden Rooster Awards, or is Zhang Chen just talking?"

"How can he care about such a small matter in China? I guess he just threw a smoke bomb in China and then went to the United States to be his Hollywood shareholder."

Many netizens initially simply criticized the quality of certain movies on the Internet.

As these people chatted, they inevitably talked about the announcement that Zhang Chen asked Chenguang Group to release some time ago.

A group of people came out of nowhere and started to hype up this topic, saying openly and secretly that Zhang Chen might have done this in order to make the domestic film market sluggish so that Hollywood giants such as Disney, which he had just joined, could seize the Chinese market.

Perhaps the most common issue that haters bring up about Zhang Chen is his stance.

Some people thought a long time ago that the reason why Zhang Chen was able to gain a foothold in the world music scene was because he signed a contract similar to a sale or promised other benefits to Warner Records.

Otherwise it would be impossible to explain how a teenager could become a world superstar in just a few years.

These people will selectively ignore the reasons why Zhang Chen can stand at the top of the world music scene. In addition to the initial support from Warner, it is more due to his years of continuous practice and his endless hits.

Even after he donated $2 million, people still bring it up.

These people think that Zhang Chen, a yellow-skinned person, is not as good as those in the Western world.

What a shame, this is the same idea no matter what era it is.

Now that Zhang Chen has won the Palme d'Or, these people are showing signs of reappearing.

After Zhang Chen issued the announcement related to the Golden Rooster, these people began to get restless.

While Zhang Chen was busy with the listing of his company in the United States, these people began to stir up public emotions and used some specious remarks to publicly discredit Zhang Chen's image.

The tricks are still the same old ones.

1. Zhang Chen was able to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival because he secretly joined the Western camp.

2. Zhang Chen used the market dominance of Morning Glory Cinemas to suppress directors and producers in Hong Kong who refused to submit to him. His goal was to create a gap in the mainland film market so that Hollywood films could occupy a better schedule. The "Harry Potter" series was Zhang Chen's initial attempt.

3. Zhang Chen transferred the money he earned in China to foreign countries, otherwise he would not have been a shareholder of two listed companies.

These people took advantage of the privacy of the Internet to spread these seemingly reasonable reasons, which made many people half-believe and half-doubtful.

Could it be that Zhang Chen is really a banana person, yellow on the outside but white on the inside?

"You're finally back. These days people on the Internet are almost portraying you as a traitor!" Liu Yifei hurriedly pulled Zhang Chen towards the study, "Hurry up!"

"You want it already after not seeing me for a few days?" Zhang Chen stretched out his hand and pinched someone's face. "You have to wait until I take a shower, right?"

"Oh my!" Liu Yifei slapped Zhang Chen's mischievous hand away in annoyance. "You've almost become as black as an African, and you still have the mind to think about these things? Why aren't you in a hurry at all!"

"Why should we rush about this? Remember when someone slandered me before, who stood up in the end?"

"Before?" Liu Yifei was stunned, then she realized, "The time on Baidu?"

"Correct!"

"It seems...it seems to be someone from above?" Liu Yifei asked uncertainly.

"So why are you in such a hurry?" Zhang Chen smiled and picked up Liu Yifei and walked towards the room, "Let me check if I have gained weight recently."

Liu Yifei had just finished listening to Zhang Chen's explanation. Before she could calm down from her anxiety, she heard that Zhang Chen was going to "check" her body. Her legs immediately began to flutter: "Let me go, you bastard!"

"What are you thinking? I just want to see how you are doing lately." Zhang Chen said innocently, "If you are not in good health recently, you won't be able to sing with me on the Spring Festival Gala, okay?"

"No, no!" Liu Yifei said anxiously, "Then check it out quickly!"

Zhang Chen chuckled. He knew her reserve, and she also knew his bad intentions.

The two of them each gave the other an excuse, and they understood each other tacitly.

Zhang Chen kicked the door.

boom!
For newly-united couples, it is bound to take a long time to communicate with each other after a long separation.

This made those who were waiting to meet Zhang Chen very anxious.

"Didn't they say that Zhang Chen's plane had landed for a while? Why can't we contact him?" A man over 50 was sitting in his office, looking at his secretary with some blame.

"Leader, the propaganda department has asked what we should do."

"What else can we do?" The leader looked at his secretary unhappily, "That guy doesn't care about his own reputation. Can we just watch him get smeared?"

"But." The secretary hesitated, "Don't we really need to investigate Zhang Chen's overseas assets?" "Investigate?" The leader pointed at his secretary with his hand, "What bad things did Zhang Chen do that require someone to investigate him?"

"But his wealth now is really too much, it's a bit abnormal."

"What?" The leader smiled coldly, "Are you jealous?"

"No, no!" The secretary shook his head quickly. "I just think it's strange. Various signs show that Zhang Chen's wealth is not just as simple as being a shareholder of three listed companies."

"As long as his heart is towards the country, it doesn't matter how many listed companies he is a shareholder of."

“But over there at the entrance of the movie”

"Those people are so shabby themselves, they can't blame Zhang Chen for trying to intimidate them."

"But now it seems that Zhang Chen has let them go?"

"Let them go?" The leader laughed. "He's waiting for us to give him justice. If we don't give him an explanation, do you believe he will have an even more violent reaction?"

"He is so strong, isn't he afraid of other people's gossip?"

"He has a clean background, has invested over 10 billion in the country, and is a role model for private enterprises in terms of taxation. Tell me, what is he afraid of?"

"Afraid." The secretary didn't dare to continue.

"That's enough!" The leader waved his hand, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. The power this kid can leverage is not as simple as you think."

Seeing that the leader did not explain, the secretary accepted the task and left.

Why did the leader explain to his secretary? First, he was a subordinate, so he could tell if he wanted to, and not say anything if he didn’t want to. Second, his secretary’s rank was indeed not high enough.

These people are very clear about things that those people of lower level don’t understand.

After the establishment of the Chenguang Group, Zhang Chen would donate a fleet of vehicles to the capital's hat department every year for various reasons.

It is pure support hat work, without any requirements.

This is one of the reasons why the security team around Zhang Chen can always find the most elite personnel in the country.

In addition, the foreign affairs department has benefited from Zhang Chen, a world superstar. Whenever they visit other countries, they can always get closer to the other country's leaders by mentioning Zhang Chen's name.

It’s not that the other party’s leader himself is a fan of Zhang Chen, but that doesn’t mean their people are not fans of Zhang Chen.

No head of state dares to ignore the influence of a superstar who has a huge fan base all over the world.

If we add that this superstar himself possesses enormous wealth and is the founder and manager of an international charitable foundation, then some poor countries would not dare to take it lightly.

Even in developed areas, the fans Zhang Chen has accumulated since his debut have gradually become staff in key positions in these places, and this influence is slowly fermenting.

The prince on the other side of the desert even said that as long as Zhang Chen was willing to hold a concert there, they would be willing to spend $10 billion to build a super-large stadium and invite Zhang Chen to be the first person to use the stadium.

It can be said that when people from the foreign affairs department go out, if they take the hardcover signed album obtained from Zhang Chen's aunt, when they face the other party's foreign affairs department, they can always get some seemingly insignificant but indeed real preferential conditions in the negotiations.

Speaking of this, it is said that Zhang Chen's aunt doesn't have many of Zhang Chen's autographed albums left, so she has to ask her aunt to hurry up. It seems that over the years, she is the only one who can get this kind of autographed album from Zhang Chen that is obviously different from the ones on the market.

The other is the construction outlet.

Zhang Chen is really willing to spend money on this.

Over the years, Zhang Chen has built more than 40 real estate projects in at least a dozen developed cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou.

It's just that this guy didn't play by the pre-sale system, which caused some people to gossip.

But this does not prevent some people from treating Zhang Chen, the God of Wealth, differently.

People who work in construction will naturally be involved in banking.

Banks really like people like Zhang Chen who have abundant cash flow, huge assets and are willing to invest.

Not to mention the domestic situation, just the money Zhang Chen earns from abroad is no less than 10 billion US dollars in foreign exchange settlement every year.

Although there were not so many in the early years, the country's foreign exchange was also tight in the early years, and the US dollars that Zhang Chen converted into RMB solved many urgent needs.

It is said that when Soros attacked, the foreign exchange earned by Zhang Chen was partly responsible for the attack.

So you want to take care of Zhang Chen’s overseas assets?
These people will get angry with whoever tries to take care of it.

In addition, I don’t know how many people have been promoted because of Zhang Chen’s investment in their local area.

Take Shu for example this year. Zhang Chen went to Shu on his own and invested no less than 30 billion yuan without attaching any conditions.

Although he was not brought in by the patriarch, he was actually sitting in that position when Zhang Chen invested. How can it not be counted as something he did?
So, to be honest, the person who is most anxious about the negative news about Zhang Chen in the past two days is not Zhang Chen himself, but other powerful people.

After all, even in a few hundred years, there may not be a young man like Zhang Chen who has a clean background, is willing to spend money, and has enough reputation in the world.

Moreover, during this period they have also found out the information of many accounts that posted such remarks.

Unsurprisingly, the IP addresses of these accounts all come from overseas, with some also coming from Hong Kong Island.

It goes without saying that this is a divisive tactic by foreign forces.

If we really touch Zhang Chen's nerves at this time, which are already sensitive because of the Golden Rooster Awards, wouldn't we be playing into those people's hands?

Zhang Chen didn't show up because he was waiting for them to express their opinions.

The leader shook his head, somewhat disdainful of those who wanted to make a fuss about this matter.

This is the main reason why this matter was not resolved immediately.

But fortunately, the ending is good.

At seven o'clock that evening when Zhang Chen was still examining Liu Yifei, Spoon Station released a short message.

There is not much content, and people who don’t understand it will just think it is useless news.

But those who knew the inside story were shocked.

【According to the decision of the XXX Department, XXX and XXX are dismissed from their posts. The competent department urges its subordinate departments to hold every award ceremony in accordance with the principles of openness, fairness and justice.】

"Hiss—" Someone said angrily, "The world has changed!"

　Let me explain why the protagonist did those things. It seems that many people think that doing so only has some superficial benefits.

　　You don't really think that giving an album as a gift is just giving an album?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)